The Sun.
London, England, 1809-08-08 00:00:00

PROCLAMATION.

" SPANIARDS :—The enemy of humanity, Napo-
leon Buona?arte, knows that he cannot conquer
Spain by force of arm,, and ob,erves with pain and
Shaine, that his numerous armies and most warlike
troops find their sepulchre in our peninsula ; and
therefore w attain his unjust ends, he has recourse
to seduCtion and intrigue ; and by dint of bribes and
promises, which lie will never fulfil, endeavours to
sow divisions and discord. For this purpose he avails
himself of infamous emissaries, who pervert the un-
derstanding, stifle public spirit, and create distrust
between the. Supreme Central Junta, which is the
aim at which he ever points because he cannot se-
duce it. There are no means, however detestable
and vile, which he does not employ, his object be-
ing to destroy public tranquility, by means of his
agents ; that the partisans which, to our misfortune,
be has among us, may deliver us into his hands, to
be torn to pieces ; that on us and our families may
be exercised those horrors which are customary
among the swarm of robbers and assassins who com-
pose his armies. Such are his ends, Spaniards ! and
such are his means.

"The Tribunal of Public Safety is incessantly em-
ployed in discovering, punishing, and exterminating
that infamous race of spies, traitors, and bad Spa-
niards, who endeavour to deceive and ruin us.—
None shall be pardoned, and the inexorable sword
of justice shall -be lifted alike against the powerful
and the weak. Already in other parts sortie culprits,
conviaed of treason, have sustained the punishment
due to their crimes. Others, -among whom were
public funttionaries, have been consigned to i mprison-
ment for offences of less magnitude. There are in
the prisons other guilty persons, whose processes are
carrying on with all speed ; and with due aaivity the
evil-disposed, and the friends of Napoleon, will be
delivered over to the punishment they merit. The
most pernicioui of all are those who, to disunite us,
scatter calumnies against the present Government ;
for this is the sure way, by destroying the national
representation, disuniting the provinCes; perplexing
our relations with the Americas and Foreign Courts,
sad introducing anarchy, to make the enemy mas-
ter of the-peninsula, and effea our-destruction. To
avert this evil, which is doubtless the greatest which
can befal a. Spaniard, I have decreed as follows :

.‘ 1. Whoever shall endeavour to sow distrust of
the Supreme Central Junta, and overthrow the ac-
tual Government by popular insurrebions, and other
vile means, is declared guilty of high treasop, ut►-
worthy the name of a Spaniard, and sold to the ty-
rant Napoleon.
" 2. As -such he shall suffer the punishment of
death, and his effects shall be confiscated.
" 3. Whoever shall hold any language with a
view to weaken the hatred we ought to feel towards
the French armies, who are composed of infamous
'robbers and assassins, and some solely to plunder us,
and sacrifice us, shall be instantly arrested, tried, and
sutf-r the punishment he may have incurred.

"4 Whoever denounces criminals of this class to
the Tribunal of Pubic Security shall be competently
rewarded on convietion, and his name shall be con-

cealed.

" 5. The present Proclamation shall'be affixed

at the accustomed places of the town, and inserted in
the periodical Journals.
" The Marquis DE LA RoMANA•"
Corunna, July 10, 1809."

CORUNNA, JULY 16.—0 n-the 13th entered this
harbour trom Gijon, the English frigate Amazon,
Captain Parker. On board was Lieutenant-Colonel
Carrol, who last year arrived here with Field Mar-
shal Doyle, bringing with him 3000 Spanish pri-
soners. This frigate brings from four to 5000 mus-
kets, 1,500,000 cartridges, and more than 37,000
flints, besides 6000 muskets distributed in the As-
turias.
_ _

Yesterday Captain Hotham, of the Defiance, gave
a splendid entertainment on board his vessel to the
Marquis liomana, Colonel Norona, &c. Nineteen
discharges, by way of salute, took place on the ar-
rival and departure of the guests. The healths of
their Majesties George 111. and Ferdinand VII.
were severally drunk with enthusiasm, with every
demonstration of reciprocal regard between ►he two
nations.
JAEN, JULY I.—Vigor, with the greater part of
his forces, is in Talavera ; and one of his divisions,
of nine or 10,000 men, has proceeded to Toledoito
reinforce Sebastiani ; and we know that General
Sols has left Madrid with 5000 infantry and ca-
valry, and many covered waggons, on their way to
Toledo.

We know from good authority, that the enemy
proceeded in great force to Consuegra ;' and that,
according to all accutaicinformation, Sebastiani pos-
sesses there, opposed to our army 24,000 infantry,
and 4006 cavalry. With this superior force, he
would probably be able to gain some advantages
over our army of La Mancha, and strike a tlow
which might paralise it for a time, in order ater-
wards to fall upon Cuesta, after he had crossed the
Tagus. Dispatches, dated the 25th ult. therefore,
say, " In order to avert these evils, General Vale-
gas, in consequence of suggestions made by the Su-
preme Central Junta, which so sedulously watches
for the public welfare, has resolved to draw back his
lineof defence, and will to-morrow transfer his head-
quarters to Moral, and will place two divisions of the
vanguard on Ciudad Real and Valdepenas; and
should the enemy dare to attack our divisions with
forces which could be withstood, which is not to' be
expeaed there, as they know that at the distance of
four or five_ leagues we have the protection of the
Sierra, our army will sustain the shock ; but should
they advance with a larger force, we, without en-
gaging in the battle, can retreat to our first posi-
tions, so advantageous, and which the French have
always respe&ed.
In spite of all this, we cannot be confident con-
cerning the.plans of the enemy. Expert in the ar-
tifices of war, and in concealing his intentions; it
is probable that these manoeuvres are intended
only to effeal, with less obstruCtion, the retreat of
King Joseph, who, we are assured, has returned
to Toledo.

Dispatches, of the 26th, state, that our head-
quarters were transferred to Moral, and the advanc-
ed posts have been transferred to Ciudad Real and
Manzanares, in order, as was said before, to guard
against a surprize from the enemy, and retire into
the Sierra, if attacked by superior forces.
_Ter —(Prn7..2 ~nisbatches of the 27t/t.)—The
enemy having, with a superior force, presented him-
self at the public-house of Quesada, at a little dis-
tance from Manzanares, cur General in Chief Vene-
gas, in order to guard against surprise, transferred
his head-quarters to Santa Elena ; and all the divi-
sions of our army occupy the points which they be-
fore possessed in the Sierra, until the army of Cuesie
slfall have completed the passage of the Tagus,
which is in part effected," the French having, as we
learn, .from good authority, abandoned the right
wing of that river.
It is said, that many Gallo-Spanish families have
left Madrid for Burgos, and that the partisans-of the
Tyrant who remain in the capital are filled with
terror, fearing the dreadful consequences which will
result to them, from the retreat of their proteaers ;
and this appears -probable. Notwithstanding, we
are fully aware of the diabolical artifices practised, to
surprise some of our divisions of the army of La
Mancha, which was frustrated by our retreat.
Many melancholy persons prognosticate ill of these
operations, though nothing has been lost, and our
situation has not been worse than it was a fortnight
ago. Has the enemy then received fresh succours ?
If Vigor had possessed an army superior to our Es-
tremaduran army, would he have abandoned that
province, so important, from its situation, for the
conquest of the Andalusias and Portugal ? And can
his union with Sebastiani, put him in so resp- eetable
a condition, that he can oppose our army, united
with the English and Portuguese ? If he before could
not offer battle to our army, and retired from his ad-
vantageous positions, can he do it now that Cuesta
has redoubled his forces, and that he will be aided
by the army of La Mancha, and by the zealous sup-
port, in men and effeas, and all those who, know-
ing that our situation is more critical than ever, dis-
charge the sacred obligation of assisting their country
in its extreme danger ?
It is said that Empezinado is in the neighbour-
hood of Burgos ; undoubtedly to take an account of
the Frenchified persons, who are anticipating the
march of their dear allies ; and his examinations will
be very interesting. This valiant patriot will be a
terrible scourge to the enemy, if he retreats ; for on
his march there will be many stragglers who cannot
follow with precipitation ; and all these will be the
victims of this intrepid Castilian.

(From Dispatches of the 281.40—0ur head-quar-
ters are transferred to Santa Elena. The Junta of
Defence has been fixed in Real Carolina. The ene-
my has made no movement, and his advanced posts
are beyond Manzanares.

(From Dispatches of the 36th.)-=The army of La
Mancha continues in its position. The towns of
Alinagre and Cuidad Real are free from the enemy.
The Central Junta has granted Venegas the rank/of
Lieutenant-General, in consideration of 'his—great
services. '

SEVILLE. JULY 7.—The Central Junta has no-
minated Don Louis de Ones y Gonzalez, Minister
Plenipotentiary to the United States of America.
From Madrid we learn, that it is repr,rted there,
that a Junta has been nominated to arrange the in-
corporation with the effects of the Crown, of Al the

lands belonging to the clergy, both secular a►,d re-
gular, and to grant pensions to all the clergy, in-
cluding the prelates; but that this- nomina;ion has
been made secretly, as bad consequences are appre-
hended from this measure.

SURREY SESSIONS.

HORSEMONGER-LANE, AUG. 7. •
This day the Court proceeded in discharging the
Insolvent Debtors confined in the King's Bench.
RICHARD MATHEWS was opposed, as an Attor-
ney, under the 34th, section' of the A6t, which de-
prives of the benefit of it such Solicitors or Attor-
nies as shall embezzle or convert to their own use,
.any money oreffeals, the property of their clients,
which they shall recover for them, on the following
grounds :—The prisoner was employed • by a poor
woman, of the name of Trimmer, as next of kin to
a person who had died, having made an irregular
will, to set it aside in the Court of Prerogative,
To etre& this, he employed Mr. Browne, the Proc-
tor, who carried on the proceedings in the Ecclesi-
astical Court, and succeeded in setting the will
aside, by which the poor woman became entitled
to the sum of 4001. This sum, Mr. Browne stated
to the Court, the Prisoner received, by virtue of a
Power of Attorney, from Mrs. Trimmer, and never
paid over any part of it to her, or discharged his
(Mr. Browne's) costs as Proctor, amounting to 861.
having only given him his bond. He also stated;
that the unfortunate woman was afterwards obliged
to go into the workhouse, where she died.
For the Prisoner, it was contended, that the objec-
tion did not lie with Mr. Browne, who was not de-
frauded, having taken a bond for his debt, but-only
with, Mrs. Trimmer, or, she being dead, with her
representatives, to whom alone he was accountable.
It was also contended, that here was no evidence of
conversion ; first, because he had a lien on the mo-
ney so received, in the first instance, for his costs of
suit as her attorney, which had not been settled
nor did it appear that she or any one for her had ever
.demanded the balance) if any, corning-to her.
. The Court was pleased to over-rule both these
objections. By the terms of the A6l, any detaining
creditor might make any objection given- by the
Statute, however it applied to any other creditor;
and this was• clearly such a casd as 'was provided
against,,both by the letter and. spirit of the Statute.
The Prisoner was accordingly remanded.
Edward O'Reilly, formerly a Captain in the War-
wickshire Militia, was opposed, tor not returning
in his schedule the property by which he qualified
to hold his commission. It appeared, however; that
his qualification consisted merely of, a nominal rent
. given him for the purpose, the deeds of which were
-destroyed upon his obtaining his commission. He
was discharged.
Michael Reilly W4S opposed;under the 34th sec-
tion of the Statute, for obtaining merchandise under
false pretences. Mr. Fentum, ironmonger, stated
that the Prisoner, under the name of O'Reilly, and
representing himself as a merchant, .procured-from
him a quantity of ironmongery, to the amount of
1341. for the alleged purpose of sending as a venture,
to Buenos Ayres ; but he afterwards discovered he
had disposed of them to a broker for 1461. He
owned, upon his cross-examination by the Insolvent,
that he had known him personally before that trans-
action, anu tee, ne naa suppilea mrn w u smite
articles for his house at Chelsea, for which he had,
paid. The Court remanded him.

POLICE.