The Sun.
London, England, 1831-03-18 00:00:00

MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.
&41t'vrous state of the weather has kept back the vessels,
als in c,nsequenee are small. The Wheat trade is
,44Y, but not altered in price Barley for malting main-
ic,ir't_quo:ations. Beans and Pease are unvaried. Oats
'tition; fully support the terms of Monday. In Hour

ARRIVALS.
Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. Flour.
, ..... 1, 0 qrs 810 qrs. 1 qrs. 735 sacks.

7,430

- br Is.

SAIITI.IFIELD MARKET.
l~bdki.s Market which exhibited a limited supply through.
Ilikiv4nci of meat met with a somewhat brisk sale, Veal
it lie of from 4d. to 6d. per stone; Beef, Mutton, and
,onday's prices. Mulch Cows, which were also in
he l fully supported their last week's prices, an use-
tlet orns, with her small calf, producing from 211. to 23/.
PER STONE OF I3LBS• TO SINK THE OFFALS.
,rte s. d. to S. d. s. d. tot. d.
.1,44.5 ts ..... 2 6 2 8 Large Lambs
ti,NS,ty ditto 210 3 4 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 0
Oxen... 3 8 4 2 Large coarse Calves 310 4 6
SheeSze• .... 4 2 4 61 Prime small ditto 5 6 6 0
.. .... :3 0 3 4; Large hogs 3lO
1,,,,„tY ditto 3 2 4 2, Small Porkers 4 4 410
1,47,„"ed ditto 4 6 5 21 Suckling Calves 12s to36s. eadr
'vv ethers 5 2 5 61 Quarter old Pigs Its to 18s. each.
4,BtIPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT.
3774' 1 Sheep. 1 I
Calves. Pigs.
1 3,410 1 125 l3O

w-
ATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
s. d. to s. d. s. toe. d.
.. ............ 2 4 4 0 Veal 3 4 5 t
.•.. 2 8 4 6 Pork 3 4 410

CgiT - MARKETS.—(TWO 'O'CLOCK.)
siltZ7,here has been an increase of business in the Sugar
,14,111 n the last two days, the refiners as well as the gro-
AtteTeen uchasers. The sck of Suas beg low has
Ift). much being done as was expectedg,r butin prices are
Low brown Berbice fetch 465., and low brown to
%:!31aica from 475. to 51s. Fine qualities are very scarce.
L'14,1,14 for Foreign Sugars is steady. The purchases of
all have been large, at from 1355. to :335. per cwt. for
',ions, and from 355. to 365. for middling to good de-
Igh,r Prices may be quoted generally from Is. to is. rd. per
!,1110: Mauritius Sugarsar are steady. In refined goods there
Og;:10ing, but are firm.
tti',r,E there is less activity than for some time past.
lace East India may be quoted Is per cwt. cheaper. There
~144,44. St. Domingo at 40s. per cwt. Jamaica and Dutch
1,,,J Prices.
Lt'roof Leewards are not obtained under Is. 10,3/2d. per
tlst,e of the finest sorts of Jamaicas are in demand for
&4),For low Brandy there is a good demand for exporta-
,a.ke;_, first mark, is at ss. Id. to ss. 2d. ; second ditto
t 14° 4s. &1., and third mark from 3.5. Gd. to 4s. 4d. per
EdTRADE—Since the last sale Teas have been in
''',tl,l;l Hops there is little doing in bags and pockets, ex-
,r.,.11,,v0;me trade, at a reduction of from 3s. to 4s. per
Vie 410j,5.
riee'RODUCE.—Thedemand for Tallow has increased,
's now from 48s. 6d. to 495. per cwt. Hemp, of
NOWth, is at W. 10s. ; ditto, this year's, 39!. 10s. per ton.
I.Nti:_"--The Cotton market is steady. The demand for
I,lpes active.
tt., it is a very good demand for
inejican Furls.Racoon realize from 4s. to ss. fid. per
Ott
""6. Otter, from 255. to 345.; Bear, 51s. to 80s. ; Cross
,et to 26s :34:1 Th bli sl tl- t h te u caes a ey,a ic a os
tlstZet3swas p afforded, went off briskly at advanced prices
41S MAJESTY'S SHIP THETIS.

1,
"1-4 TIA Len the CAPTAIN, 0 F Fl-
and CRE IV of IL M. S. THE TI S.
PORTEIMOUTII, MARCH 17.
4)t,tliTt opened this day at nine o'clock. The first
1q- 474 Was Lieut. Hamilton, of the net* who
When the Captain asked the master if they
rt alter the course of the ship a point or two, the
/rdtt4..Plied in the affirmative,! and accordingly it
4i
itt;ltP,,tleei a master in the navy, was next examined,
epq,bc.:', he knew of a current on that coast, running
t ibtt '0 S.W., but did not inform the Captain or
1,114,44'1ae he considered that they knew more of the
did ; that he (Mr. Trounce) would have
atlees for the same current if he had been master
11:44cIPI: and that, considering the course of the ship,
, 44 sounded when near Cape Frio.
tt,f Ceach, the boatswain, was called, and gave an
;N the shipwreck,and of his own duties performed
O4.FC. •
tv It seems, from the evidence of this witness,
t•
yaA
frothe chief means of saving the greater part of
t o,i, 41 a watery grave.
14117 quarter-master was then called, and corm-
ge other witnesses' evidence with regard to the
teti ship's course, &c., which had been debited at
lthlvtl? length by the several witnesses.
fitness was called, and swore that at five and
itf the
Captain,kppt hr away from N.E
th. to E.N.E. by
and corroborated e greater part of
'la' evid • '
Ot ence. The Court then adjourned till the

MEATH ASSIZES.

,k;ll;.,l'AcE, in a speech of three hours, defended
c,, 1(4,`-'ollrtenay, against the prosecution of Miss
,ti
a conspiracy, as noticed in our paper a few
';,ttar The following were the concluding sentences
,Nl.lled Gentleman's appeal:—
,'"oi`tnen of the Jury,—l implore of you not to
ittkt::Alieit a confidence in the swearing of any hu-
e,ed e, when placed in a relative position with the
t st
, by the prisoners. PI ice not implicit con-
!11 %a:IY human being when brought forward to
.:. ei;d. Own case, where their fortunes, their lives,
,:ste 4racterg, are in Jeopardy. There is one eir-
';'i, I ,tif my life to which I cannot recur without
It c'aY say of repentance, of pain, and of sor-
.? th 4 60, d difficult to overcome. When I look
',lstl 11 circumstances connected with that event,
Ltll,,,°°k around here to-day, and see his Lord-
'iitt sncb before toe, and two poor unfortunate
11e,tiL:sat bar charged with emspiracy, it brings to
;fed ", with all the force of bitter regret, the
,:,th u,Pon that occasion—an act which I shall re-
!l "test hour of my life. I was at one time
)i'''ch has side, and his Lordship, who is now on
II 'lf I,.°efore me, was Counsel at the other. A
,t'ip;lgll rank and station in life was accused of a
t,' poor peasant was his accuser ;he was
i. itik'Piracy, and I was retained as Counsel on
'Allißliftagle. Pi.rson accused was no less a personage than
1,.11,1tte, Yof the church. He was of imposing. mein
,11 ---"Ile came into Court to support his own
eta;°'N ,Pols of the Lord God were put into his
1, it4ti-c, his eyes to Heaven, to appeal to that God
'tLkt Le ,'4nctity, whom he was going to blaspheme,
\ i,,,ltt,i' about to swear was true. The solemnity
''Nl,ll 41 taking that oath, which he knew to be
Yi) tit,"°ce you to exclaim at once that he was in-
,kykt ttc:::).li c the oath, accompanying it with. an appeal
olitie 1, ,4e was innocent of the charge imputed to
obiltlyt4(n.ier ; yet he swore what was false. I
4 .brief, exclaiming that he who made the
tty, vile conspirator. The unfortunate man was
t Witit'd suffered an ignominious punishment.—
h,"\ ;111,4'14" burst into tears, and every individual
1/411t,ti..a." deeply affected.)—Mr.. Wallace,. after an
Vl:iti '4vour to overcome his feelings, begged
40 so affected, and concluded by giving, with
'lke, the case of his clients into their hands."

ASSIZES.-(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

LANCASTER, MARCH 16.

John. Hallocal, aged 20, James Anderton. aged IS,
Peter Kenyon, aged 19, John Greenhalgh, aged 30, and
Robert Grayson, aged 23, who were all colliers in the
employment of Lord Balcarras, were arraigned upon two
indictments charging them with having, at Adlington,
on the sth day of January last, burgiariously entered
the dwelling-house of Roger Leigh, with intent to
ravish Rachel and Alice, the wife and daughter of the said
Roger Leigh'; and in other counts it was alleged that they
had carnally known these two women, by force and against
their will. The prisoners pleaded Not Guilty.
There were two otherindictruents charging the prisoners
with burglary in the house of the said Roger Leigh, and
with breaking some weaving looms, his property, and to
those the prisoners also pleaded Not Guilty,"and they were
put upon their trial on the first indictment.
Mr. STA RKIE (with whom was Mr. COWLEY) having
stated the facts in support oft he indictment for the rape,
called—

Roger Leigh—l am a weaver. I live in Adlington, in
a cottage, which is ore of a row of six, and the row less
than three-quarters of a mile from any other house, and from
the high-road leading froin Bolton to Chorley. I first went
to live in the cottage on the 3d of January last. My fa-
mily consisted of myself, my wife, and daughter. The
house consists of a kitchen and a room above it, between
which there is a communication by a flight of steps, and
then a hole in the floor. On the sth of January we all
went to bed about ten o'clock at night. The door of the
lower room was then fastened with a staple, and in the
course of the night, I think about twelve o'clock, I was
awakened by the door being forced open. I then heard
the loom props pulled down. I heard stones come through
the windows of the lower room at first, and afterwards
through the windows of the upper room. One of the
stones cut my wife above the eye. A person called out
three times from the kitchen, Roger, we are unioning ;
will you be allnion ?" But I made no answer. I asked my
mistress to set some water on the fire, that I might scald
them. A man offered to conic up through a hole in the
room, and I took a spade full of burning coals, and threw
them on him. I afterwards threw three spadefulls of fire
on them, but that (lid not drive them away.—
The people below said, " Let's not be managed
with him; crash (rush) upon him." They then took a scythe
which was in the kitchen, and cut at me who was stand-
ing at the hole. The scythe broke, and they threw that
and the pole into the room. I took the scythe pole in my
hand and struck at one of them. One of them took a
basket and put it over his head and got through the hole
in the floor into the room where we were all in bed to-
gether. We had but one bed. After the first man got
into the room three others followed. They then broke a
winding wle el and some pots, and pulled down the fire-
grate which was in the room. It was quite dark, and I
laid hold of my daughter, thinking it was my wife, to
rescue her. At that time two persons had hold of my
daughter and threw her on the bed, and I got hold of her
legs to keep her from harm, but two or three men forced
her from me, and one of them said " Bobby White," took
me by the throat and struck me three times, and again
went to my daughter. I was lying on the bed with
my daughter, and the men. My wife and all the
men went down into the kitchen. I followed, and I
saw a man dragging her by the feet through the kitchen
to the third cottage door, which is occupied by a per-
son named Pennington. I ran towards them to
rescue her, and the man ran across the fields pur-
sued by me, but I could not catch him. I could
hear the voices of other men at the bottom of
the field, but could not distinguish what they said.
Whilst the men were in the upper room I heard my wife
shriked (scream), but, as it was dark, I could not see
what any one was doing to her. My wife, daughter and
I all shriked " murder." I think the men remained in the
house from an hour and a half to two hours. I heard my
wife beg her life many times. The first time I heard her
beg for her life was about twenty minutes after the men
first broke the windows. I never to my knowledge saw
more than four men in the upper room. In the afternoon
of thet day, between one and two o'clock, some men called
at my house, but I did not take any particular notice of
them. One of them had a white hat on, and two of them
peeped into the upper room. I think Anderton was one
of them, but I cannot say that any of the other prisoners
were among those men. I know an ale-house called the
White Bear, and the men went by Pennington's cottage,
which is about a quarter of a mile from the White Bear.
Cross-examined—l cannot pretend to swear that any of
the prisoners was among those men. I think Anderton
was one of them, but I would rather not swear to him.
The men were abont an hour in the kitchen before they
c ime up stairs. During all the time the men were in the
upper room I was on the hell with my daughter, who was
on the opposite side of the room from my wife. When
my wife was going down to the kitchen I saw one man
following her; the other three men had left the room a
minute before. I know the hour the men went away be-
cause I immediately went to Pennington's house, and Pen-
nington told me it was two o'clock. I know Ellen
Hughes, who is an old woman living in a cottage near
me, but I did not see her that night. I see her every
day, and it is likely that within two or three days
after this business I spoke to her about coming to Lan-
caster, and said, " Well, Ellen, what spirits for Lan-
caster ?" She answered, " Very poor ones ;" but I did not
tell her that my daughter had not been raped that night ;
Ellen Hughes pretended to say that the woman had not
been meddled with ; that she had looked at my daughter,
and knew she had not; but I said that it was impossible
for her to tell. I did not say to her or to any body else
that I would hang two or three of the lads, and then go
to London. Ido not think I know Thomas Thompson
a labourer, at Blackrod. Scares of men came to my
house next morning, but I did not say to any of them that
" I had some drunken lads here; they got my (laughter
down, and I believe they would have used my wife the
same way only she would not let them." I never in my
life said that nor any thing of the kind. On the Sunday
night that I was coming to Lancaster, I called at the Duke
of York public-house in Choi ley; I did not say that " if
any body would give me five sovereigns I would not
appear against the lads." I have been confined in
the New Bailey at Manchester for three months for neg-
lecting my weaving. I was confined in Preston House of
Correction for being loose (deserting) from my wife. I
am sure that I was never in prison at any other time.
Re-examined—I was discharged from Preston at the
Sessions. The men meddled with the women about a
minute after they got into the upper room.
Witness upon leaving the box said, "My Lord, have
mercy upon the men, they are young."
Reamed Leigh, the wife of last witness, corroborated his
statement and preyed that violence had been done to her
person by two of the men, one of whom was taller than
the other, and that this was done against her will.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE-If the felony charged were
robbing the house I should say the fifth man in the kitchen
was aiding and abetting them; but when I look at the
evidence and see the conduct of the prisoners in entering
the house commenced by breaking the looms of tho furni-
ture, I cannot tell the Jury that there is sufficient evidence
to sustain an indictment charging them with entering the
house.

Other evidence was adduced, after which the Jury found
the prisoners Not Guilty.
A similar verdict was taken upon the other indictment
for a rape upon Alice Leigh.
_ _

John Ashton, a man of respectable appearance, and
stated to be a book-keeper in a canal warehouse at Wigan,
was indicted for having, on the 26th of July last, used a
certain instrument to procure the abortion of Sarah Mor-
ris, who was pregnant by the prisoner.
The (let tils of the case are-unfit for publication, but it
having appeared that the prosecutrix was never, in fact,
pregnant, his Lordship said if the Jury thought the
woman had never been pregnant, they ought to acquit the
prisoner; and the Jury accordingly returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
The business on the civil side was concluded this day.

ROYAL BON MOT--The Duke of OR-
LEANS (father of the present King of the French), lived
on terms of great intimacy with the Duke of QUEENS-
BERRY ; their intercourse was made the subject of a lion
mot by the Prince of Wales (GEORGE IV.) A sufficient
knowledge of the French language was not among the at-
tainments of the Duke of QUEENSBERRY, who yet valued
himself en this as on every other accomplishment. He
happened to speak before the Prince of his being on par-
ticularly good terms with the Duke of ORLEANS. 64 I
understand that, on the contrary, you never agree," said
the Prince. " Your Royal Highness," replied the Duke,
" is misinformed : we never had the slightest difference."
" That is strange," rejoined the Prince, " for they say you
never speak to him without giving him bad language."
The publication of " The Standard Novels"
has commenced auspiciously with " The Pilot," by the
,‘ Walter Scott of America." The handsome size of the
volumes, and the clearness and beauty of the type and
embellishments, give this publication an air very superior
to the great majority of works published in a periodical
series ; and the lovers of romance must rejoice in the ex-
pectation held out to them by this popular undertaking,
of obtaining their favourite stories for the first time at a
price within the reach of all.

LITERATURE.

HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PE-
NINSULA.
VOL. 111.-LONDON, IS3I.

To those who desire to glean a just notion
of the character, tendency, &c. of the memorable
Peninsular war ; of the indomitable prowess of
the British soldier, and of the skill, presence of
mind, perseverance, and heroism of the British
Commander ; in a word, to those who would
wish to know how British soldiers fight, and
British officers command—to all such we would
recommend the perusal of Colonel Napier's
book. Though penned in a professedly learned
spirit, by a military man whose service and love
of tactics are at least on a par with his enthu-
siasm, it is neither burthened with techni-
calities, nor mystified by a pedantic osten- '
tation of science. On the contrary, the style is
remarkable for its simplicity and manliness,
and the description of battles, blending the
seientific.with the ornamental, is characterised by
an energy, and even a picturesque power of effect, li
that strongly rivet the attention. There are few
finer things in the records of military literature
than the details of the battle of Albuera, with its
startling reverses, and its unforeseen, triumphant
termination. Colonel Napier writes, we should
conceive, pretty much as he fights, that is to
say with strength, earnestness, and determination.
Sincerity breathes in every page—the sincerity
that results from the conviction of a good cause,
and the knowledge that he is merely stating, not
burdening with ornament, the plain, unadulte-
rated truth. Where he condemns, he condemns
with candour, and we may add severity ; where
he praises it is with equal heartiness. Here and
there we fancy we can detect a lurking
spirit of partizanship ; but the alloy is
trifling and of no moment. Were we col-
lecting or arranging an extensive library, we
should make a point of placing Colonel Napier's
Narrative of the Peninsular War by the side of
Ctesar's Commentaries, and as military histo-
rians, or rather Journalists, we know not to which
of the two we should assign the preference. Et
vitula to (lignus et hic ; both are equally worthy
to be held in remembrance as military annalists.
In precision and fulness of detail, however, the
modern is superior to the ancient ; in energy too
he is superior, but in classic elegance inferior.

ATTEMPTS IN VERSE. By J. Joys
LONDON. 1831.

We must confess, we anticipate no very speedy
or extensive sale for this volume, the most
valuable portion of which proceeds from the pen
of its Editor, R. Southey, Esq., Doctor, Poet
Laureat, and so forth. It contains the productions
of an elderly gentleman named Jones, a poet,
from inclination, and a footman from necessity,
who some time since transmitted his manuscript
effusions to Mr. Southey, who chanced to be
residing in his neighbourhood, near Harrowgate.
The laureate, struck with the good feeling and
candid and unaffected nature that these effu-
sions, together with the letter that introduced
them,- evinced, at once agreed to the task of su-
perintending them for publication, but fearful
that if left to stand alone on their own merits, they
might sink, wisely interspersed throughout the
volumes desultory but animated notices of those
among our uneducated poets whose names are
now forgotten. Among these is a sketch of
Taylor, the water poet, which is full of interest,
and which we suspect will form the redeeming
feature in the volume. Mr. Jones's share of the
work we shall dismiss with the remark that his
poems, under the circumstances, are clever and
readable, but deficient in nerve, character, and
polish. Homeliness is the chief feature.