The Sun.
London, England, 1807-06-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PARIS, MAY 28.-,-The Generals, Members of the
Senate, charged by the Emperor with the organ i 'button
of the Conscripts of 1808, have set out to their
respeElive destinations. , The official Journal ob-
serves, " The operations, preparatory to the irvy-
-1608, are carried-'on with a promptitude and re ;‘,l-
- which promise the happiest effeas. The
youth 'have evinced unbounded devotion and c-o-
-fidence. In a number of Cantons the drawinff h.s
been followed by banquets, where the gaiety of Go
Conscripts was particularly remarked. I nu 1.-.
ber of absentees, which was very small last ye r,
has been this year still less. One cause which con-
tributed the most effe&ually to this year's success,
is tile severity exercised by the Tribunals fbr suune.
months past upon agents of corruption of every de-
scription."
The Ship L' Orient,. Capt. JULES CESAR PEES",
having only: 23 men on board, was hailed,son e
14th of this month, off. Antibes, b), the Spartoi
English Frigate. Captain PEEVE suffered four Pin-
naces, sent out by the Enemy, to approach him.—
In the aet of boarding his crew tired upon them, and
almost:every man that presente,i
by the first discharge. All that a&ually boarded
the vessel were sabred in 'the-heat of the adion, one
seaman excepted, and the Pinnaces sunk. Not one
man was killed on board the L'Orieut, in this .affair,
which-does so much honour to Captain PRE YE and
his crew.

On the 23d the Empress came from Mal.mison
to St. Cloud ; and on the:folowing ci:iy the Queen,
her daughter, set out for the waters of BlitiL:f.
with a small retinue: . ~

FROM Tnp TURKISH FRONTIEKS,,
Turks have- had a hlbody action with. the Servims
near Nissa, end obtained a complete, vigor}. The
following is the report publi,ied by the
the subjea

‘‘ On the 22d ult. the Turks attacked the,Servian
camp near Nissa. The attack, though not expect,.
ed, was sustained with the utmost intrepidity, as
the Servians drove the Tut!lts three miles; but the
latter having received numerous reinforcements; re-
newed the attack, when, after a centlid which con-
tinued till night, the Servians were driven nine
miles: Their loss consisted of 4830 killed, 72',3)
wounded, and 800 prisoners:"
In the wean while, it seems that the. impetuosity
of the Turks has been exceedingly prejudici:d to
them in-another gdarter; as appeart from the fol-
lowing report :

" On the evening of the. '2sth of April, a corps
of Servians presented themselves before the little
fortress of Oscuruck. Being observed by some of
the Turkish out-posts, a sortie was made upon the
enemy in the night ; when a nuniber of then latter,
who had approached near the works before the
place, were forced into the ditches. Mmo, the Ser-
vian Commandant,. having afterwards colleed his
people, retreated through a valley, where he effe6t-
ed a junction with the, corps that had been defeated
before Nissa. Mum then concerted measures with
the Commandant of that corps, and made a feint of
retreating together, merely to draw on the Tuits.
This had the desired etteti. Having reached a
second valley, the Servians rnade,a stand to wait fot
,the Enemy, who soon came up, and made a vigor-
ous attack ; immediately after which, the second
carps of Servians made- their app-earance, and fell
upon the Turks, much inferior in number, who
were compelled to retreat, leaving 400 men upon
the field killed arid wounded. They also lost up-
wards or 700 pistols and kanginers, or Turkish
.knives. Time Servians had 170 killed, and 98
wounded."

SEMLIN. MAY 6.—Several French Engineers.
arrived at Saragevo and Trawneck, to form a new
road across Bosnia ; .13Ex.iTa PAM% has obliged them
to defer the.ekectifion of their plan, alledging that
it was necessary for hien to write to the Sublime
Porte.

Saturday,' the new City State Barge was launched
at Westminster-bridge ; 'it is ninety feet long ; at
the head is a figure of Thames ; the stern is deco- •
rated with the City Arms, supported by Neptune and
Amphitrite ; the state-room, which is sufficient. to
accommodate one hundred" persons, is lighted by
twenty mirror windows, and the roof supported by
twenty-two coluMns. The King's Arms, surmount-
ing the state door, are upheld by two Griffins ; the
pannels of the door exhibit allegorical paintings of
Jastice,: Fortitude; Prudence, and Temperance ; the.
'pantie's on each side- bear the arms and insignia of
London and its CHIEF MAGISTRATE, and the whole
Of the ornaments are,richly gilt.
A COurt of Inquiry has been held at Portsmouth
on Thursday, on the Captain of a Line of Battle
Ship there, in consequence of a round robin,- signed
by the Shtp's'Crew, having been sent to the Lords
of the Admiralty. The result has-not transpired.
The Thisbe Frigate, Capt. SHEPHERD, with Ge-
nerals WHITELOCKE and GOWER on board, arrived
off Port Praya, Cape de Verd, on. the 3d of it&
23 days froth Portsmouth. It is supposed she would
reach the River Plata early in May:
On Saturday was performed, at King-street Cha-
pel, Portman-square, a Requiem, for the late Duke
of MONTPENSIER, which was attended by all the
Foreign Princes, and many persons of distinetion.—
High Mass was celebrated by the venerable Bishop
of DIEGENE. The music was composed by Signors
BALDI acid PEREZ, and performed by the Gentlemen
of the Portuguese Ambassador's Chapel. The motet
ck Te ergo qumsumus was admirably sung.by,Messrs.
FITZSIMMONS, DOGHERTY„ and Master SHORT,
accornpanied on the organ by Mr. ANSEL. The
whole service was performed in the most, solemn
and impresSive manner.
A man who lives in King-street, Wapping, and
works on the .River, drinks every day Gs. worth of
brandy and water, and a gallon at ale, without be-
ing intoxicated. He is of extraordinary bulk, and,
from the quantity of fluid he contains, of capacity
also..

Coal-EKCITANGE, JuNE B.—The supply of
Wheat 10-day is rather inconsiderable, and early in
the
,day, it bad, ready sale at about 2s. and 3s. per
quarter advance, but was dull afterwards ; the stip-
.ply of Barley Is :'sliort, and it is rather higher ;
Malt and Beans continue with small variation
there are several fresh arrivals Of Foreign ©tilts, and
the few fine samples from the North Ccuntry are
• Rlnnr nn the terms of last

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COURT OF 3ENCI-1, juNa 6.

ISAAC SC(YTT ,AND

10,:r readers will -recoiled that- we have had fre-
queNt occasion to notice this n6tion, tjrought against-
th - Defendants, as late •Sberitfslof .i\i'ildiesex, for a
iitk return to afLri facias. A Writ had been.isued
against the effects of GeOrge Coltnan, the younger;
El: -which was stated to be the duty of-the De-
fendants to execute Upon his property in the Little
Haymarket Theatre. Upon examination, they found
that Mr.tolman had only.an interest in that Concern
for a term of years, which they considered -pot
gibie, and the' therefore returned the writ, indorsed
nulla Lona. This'return, it was contended, on the
part of the 151ai'n tiff, was false, and- that stich inte-
rest as Air. Colman had; might he taken in execu-
tion, and an attiOn. was .brought against the Sheriffs
in consequence. At the trial, -a verdict was found
fear the Plaintiff and during the last Wm ai-lew
al was moved tor, oft .the tronud 'that brall.the
rises on the hooks, it was decided that an equitable
interest' for a term of years on an estatp was not
the subject of seizure under a writ offerifacius.—
This:point was argued atcdnsiderahle length on-both
bat the decision of the Court was deferred un
tit this term.
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Lcird Etn.ENRORoUG/L in delivering the judgment,
after readmg, the case, said, .the point to be deeided:
was, lithe Plaintiff, under all the circumstances stated,
was ,or \vas .not entitled to recover, and if the
opinion of, the Court should be in the affirmative,
then the verdict 'found for the Plaintiff was to stand ;
but if the negative, then a new trialwas to be
granted. The.question of law arising upon the fads
was short; and it was,-: whether the residuary bene-
fici%l interest of Mr. George Colman, after the satis-
faaion of all the trusts, &c. was liable to be taken
in execution for the debt of the Plaintiff ? or, in other
words, whether-an equitqhle in terest a term of years
could he the subject of -sale underLa writ of fieri
fac'itis ? In order to make any property tangible by
the Sheriff, it was absolutely necessary that it should
'be of such a nature as to be capable of being con-
verted, into money by sale ; but, on the contrary,
in the case before•the -Court, there was not a single
instance to be found in the whole history and, prac-
. tice of Courts of Common Law where it had been
recognized-that such an interest as-that of Mr. Col-
. man, ..an equitable interest in a' term of yeat's
could be saleable, -and that which was not saleable
could not be seizable in satisfaction of the debt of a
creditor. Under: circumstances of- that kind the
Sheri S had t-taed, and could have,no opportunity of
inquiring into,. or means of knowing, the nature of
the interest; ,the legal claims it
„might, be subje& to,
or scarcely any i,i6t belonging to it: he mtist be
totally ignorant of that which belongs to every other
species of property. If authority.were necessary to
decide a point §o plain, the:case_of ShirleTv.Watts,'
(3zAtk. 200.) was amply sufficient. In the ,
ab-
sence, theretbre, of any authority, to say that an
eqtiltable interest was saleable to;ataswer a commou
law suit, the (..):)urt must determine that the return;
of nulla bpna, the Defendant possessing no 'other
property, was -a valid return, and that the verdict
for tile rlaintiff mnst .be set aside, and a new trial
grouted. .