The Sun.
London, England, 1809-03-04 00:00:00

FOREA;N „INTELLIGENCE.

I!,,tu.smattao,*Fatt.,-t night a messenger
. t)er(:, arintincing, that a considerable ntiin-
troops,would.pass.througn tins-place,
*;;ins; iron) this coontry, near the Maine,
towards Swabia.
10...--;Last night, at the head-quar-
ters of General Omlinot,,an order was received that
ttie corps belongingio that General should instantly
mire!' to Augsborgi To-morrow morning that
corps is to proceed by regiments on their new desti-
nation.

Pm t2.--The corps under General
QUOINOT is making a movement, apparently to
ward4ltaly.
NA NCY, Fan. 12.—Among the travellers of dis-
e‘v. ho have passed through this place Within
three days, is the Marquis IYALmENAßA,‘Ambas-
s:rd(lr Jahn Spain to Turkey, who is on his return, to
NE,Rlridt: •
PARIS, Fsh. 1 8 .—Lefters from Madrid announce,
that his Majesty the King WEIS preparing to make a
jwrney. to. Talavera de la Retna. A deputation
from Seville has been with the King, in order to
surrender the city to him.
His Majesty has pardoned 6o pevsons who lately
were !min.:ht.:4p the Citadel of Bayonne. The greater •
nomberteloag to the Inquisition; and are returned
to Madrid. .
• At the post4ronst.t.ss an. unusual number of post-
horses hive been ordered, and it is reported they toe-
for Inr M y the. Queen of Spain, who is Atbout
• to repair to her august consort. ,
FRANKFOKT, 14.:----l'lre,articles.which have.
from time to tune appeared in :_the French and Ger-
man Pliers, coticerning',a rupture ot, peace, on the
Contineni, added to the numerous couriers who,
. (w weeks, stave passed daily between Paris
and ,Vienna, have had “e.r.y di,advantageouti 441.14
thee upon the, Austrian paper.grioney; -which *sud.:
deftly tell considerably, and continues to fall. But
here we are tar f:ront considering war as certain, or
even probable. It is 'believed that there do exist
Some differences between the Courts 61 Park and
Vienna but it is hoped that they will be removed
by negotiation. • . •
Nevertheless,. there prevails much nttivity in the
war departments of the States of the Rhenish league
so that in Bavaria, Wirtemberg, -Baden, and Minh-
stadt, orders have been issued, and even executed,
that troops may be ready to march 'on the first
notice. The soldiers who have received leave of
absence have been recalled; and in Westphalia a
body of troops hp.': marched towards,Saxony, in order
. to be put provisionally into eantontnents.
On the left bank of the Rhine the march of
French iroops is •not frequent, except some "batta-
lions which come from Brabant.
Nuts, FEB. i 5.---.111 one of our Papers we read
the fuller.' mg There are reports' of a journey
.which the EMperor of Austria is about to take into
Gidlicia. It is not likely that this jOrirney will take
place, as.the Imperial Court at this nioknene4car-
rying on negAiations 'of the utmost conequence
with.several

. . . .
Ha :tilt)) 11 (4 I!, Fin. 14.-7-The latest Vlenni, letters
are more warlike th.,n the Fortner, They spook of
tip.. formation of armies,. antl.giye the.command of
the army'in Geritrany to.the Archduke Charles. On
the contrary, the. I.%it letters tram Poris ha% e a more
pacific complexion, and theyrweak of new proposals
(.f pace to the English Oovertiment..
1 be Emperor ,ot Russia has added to his othet
rites; th.tt ut Lord-01J4'miatid. •
KONINGSI3I.IItGIf, JAN. 21.-r--According to An esti-
m :to vt.pich has i)eeh pholi,hed here, the Prussian
•army amounts !0 42,000 ttreui of these the: regi4 ,
theht9 6ti the GnArds amount tO 6600, the ,other
*field tegint..ilt, to 30,‘.000, and the hr.o2/atles.of artil-
lery, to litluai—(l-bunkurgh. Correspon4l, 1414:1'.),
Ktr(t'sl4l. Et 1' 3.,--Within .thes!l. two. cittys
15,00U-Spahtsh prihotter, of oar have passed through
thew o
In ti• letter froM St.„ Add era, it is stated that there
are no. louger any.bodies of insurgents to-bo.found
colle&ed on the tnountains of Asturtas.—,-(Publiciste,
Feb.
SrocKnoLmi Ftla. 6.--Aceording to a report,
made by. fildd.Nlarshal .13arOo Toll, the following
letter has beet, rei'.'oived by the Cortimatidant of the
G'utverig Citi/f6rer .
As -under the present
.Circuinstances an attack.
olthis foritess may pefhapti be afte.impted, r beg to.
'tender roy Own services, as viell as those.of my Otli-
cers and men, and reriuest that a' past nnty be assign-
10:,tas, where we can rentler,ourselVes useful fur the
delenCe of the place.

f Junt4:llLow."
His floyal Majcsty has: received the following
rtpOrts
" In consequence ofjeverral repolls„h4viog, been
reeeived,.; stating; that.4itssikin: Cossacks ha& made
their apfmarance in Kutuktige, Znklingeotud other
neighbouring places, have ordered knew expedition
against Kutnienge; under the command of. Lieut.-
Col. Schutzenheint„ coosisting.of 600 •loot of the first
'and third 'brigade, and XBO hordes of the life guard,
with two thiqe,pOtnicit.rs. he corps moves this
dp.y.toWlirdan; in order to reach lititolenge to-mor-
row in three .columns early in the morning. The
object of this expedition was to-ti;sloc,lge the enemy
from the above places, to $31.11 the twit valuable part
of the movable'. property of the inhabitants, and
,destroy' the rest.

f, S. B. PEYRON,''
Adjutant-Gencral, 21)(1 C Q1(11111414gt ut bi 3 it4ajr4ty's;
Troops it Aland,
g 4 ilead.quyters, lanial4, jail- 33'11809."

• •
" m ' The expedition eniioned in my last report,
became the mote necessary, as before the troops put
thenpelVes in motion,, ititellence was received•of
the Ciissfiekv,appsaring iu grearer face, and' one of
our out-posts having been driven in.
" The troops ordered on'that expedition reached
.kumienge on the 29 h of last month, and after they
bad succeeded in hiving the. enemy out 'of the place
Alba its environs, the most valuable part of the pro-
party, of the inhabitants tivas saved,. The object of
the: capitulation having then been,. obtained, the
troops returned to their quarteriin Uhmd. ' •

" L. B. PgraoN."

Elead.quarters, ►amnia, Feb. 8, 18, 9 "

BCTORt MR. JUSTICE MANSFIELD, ANASI.RCIAL

jUiLIES

COURT OF COMIIION PLEAS, MARcit 2.

THOMAS
,V. •
,ROBERTSON.

This was an adion for defamation of charaner.

lEt miy. probably- be recollected by our Readers
that, some time since, in consequence of the cir-
culation of a -.report, that a woman buried in ISlington
chnrch-Yard had been cnurdered,the body wes.taken
up, and a Coroner's Jury was convened to examine
into'. the grouud4 for the prevalent suspicieu, and
from the evidence adduciA before them it appeared
that the 'Oeceased had lived with a Mr. Thomas
(i be present Plaintiff) for a twelvemonth: that dur-
ing, that time, from some cause not in evidence,.she
had miscarried twice; that from the violent shock ,
her constitution had sustained in the latter instance,
after a shosrt illness, she died. That,
,previnukto her
death, she 'lad expressed great apprehensions lest
she should be buried alive; and left particular in-
una lons that her heart should be taken from her body
immediately after her death, and that, as speedily
as possible after that operation, she should be con-
Sieoned to the grave. In compliance with those _in-
._
Jutittions, Mr. Thomas applied toll* Mr, Star, a sur-
geon, to fultinhe lest words of the deceased, who,
not wishing to perform the desired office, 'Suggested •
the equally effetlive mode of piercing her heart with..
a long pin, which lay. the mem at the time he
was called ire-p-td this proposition,: Ap.. Thomas
agreed-, and the pin was inserted in.
'her left side, and on ..the day following she-was
buried. From the' short period-which elapsed
be-
twee:n the tune of her death and 'burial, Some sus-
picions-arose in the- tninds of pasiills in the neigh-
boorhobd, that the-deceased had not died a natural
death, and those reports having also reached the
ears of the mother of the deceased, she, at ,the itlr
stigeticie of Sseveral resoetiable persons in the neigh-
bourhood, required that the body,sbould be 4aken
up, examined, mid removed to the burial.;grouild of
the Tabernacle, in. Tottenham-court-road; and for
this purpose he applied to Meßobertsou (the present
Defendant), For words used.in the vault of Wing-
too church, on opening the coffin of the deceased, by
Mr. Robertson, the present action was brought. The
Coroner's Jury, on that occasion, atter'a minute in-
vestigation of the chcutnstanves here detailed, re-
turned a verdict of--." Died by the Visitation of
God."
To prove the defamatory words used, John
Thompson, the foreman 4f. the Plaintiff, who is a
Jeweller residing in Charter-house-square, was then
called.e stated, that he'lived with the Plaintiff
at the time of the decease of The person who was
buried iu Islington church-yard, in the name.' Of
l'ioc,nas, but who was the wife of another man, the
Plaintiff having turned his own wife send children
out of doors, previous to the deceased corning to re-
sideyttli l,itu. That she was sometitnes'yeated with
much cruelty by the Plaintif, and that, oa her second
miscarriage, although she 'was extremely ill, be
omitted for three' days, to send-for medical aid, That
in consequence of her said last illness she died, hav-
ing left dire6tiens that her heart should
be extrae4ed from her body as already stated. That he
saw the pin inserted•in-her sisde, and saw her buried
gn the ensuing. day, That a short time 'afterwards,
he understood some reports injurious tO his master's
Character were circulated ; and that on 'the day on
;which the body of the deceased was removed from
the grave for the,pureese of examination, he was
present in Islington ,church-yard, on which occasion
.a say large cross/.t Wes assembled,. who were ei-
cessively clamorous in their outcries against .his
master, freapent'ly exclaiming,
,that the deceased
bad ,been murdered. That oh,the body being re-
moved into tiaevaelt, the Defendant Robertson gave
directions ier the coffin to btt, unscrewed, which
order being `corn lied with, Ile polled the sbrowd
aside, 'ancidrew from the body the pin already men 7
tired; and boldiog it up -to ,the assembled crowd,
cried out, " that the deceased had not met with her
death fairly ;" and pointing to a particular. part of
the pin, said,.4. it had been Just se Pr in the poor
thing's body," and a that it Was, a► pity the law
could not puni4 such villains." From those .obser-
vations, the clamour and accusations at' the crowd
became still greater, and the name the Plaintiff
was uttered with great indignity, several of the
multitude crying out that he bad murdered the
.
Dr. Stone, a physician who attended they deceased
in her last illness, 'was then exaMined; -he
.said he
had been called in. to give his advice, about three
days after the miscarriage of the de ceesed ; t hat' he
• felt convinced her death was caused by that. tinter-

ttinatt: circtunstimee, together with up extreme low-
ness and melancholy of sphits, which jrreyed on her
mind, and finally proved fatal.
3/11•._ Star,. surgeon; • also anted,` that be had at-

tended. the clectitied, whose cleaqh. 11)e attributed to

her misearriiigel- but thought if medical aid had bee
applied sooner,' there was a probability that it•tuight
havo been attended with a beneficial effe6t. Ue
likewise stated,' that. be bad been applied to, •to
perform the last' request of the,deceased, and that
'relused • to • 0% trail the heart, - but - iaseriecr Ihe
pin; which ho found on the inantie-piece at' the
time.

Mr. justice MANsylv.in then summed up the
evidence, and expatiated it sonie length on the
character of the 'Plaintiff, whose conduct towards
his wife and family appeared' to have been of the
mosvittlamous and. abominable kind, which, added
to other assertions of his cruelty, in omitting, for
three days to send for proper assiitance for the un-
fortunate deceased, detraBed, in a great measure,
from the unsullied chnruaer he. was endeavouring to.
support by the present action. Witlyiespett to evi-
dence adduced in support of the case, the charge
was only supported by the testimony of Thompson.
appeared rather extraordinary that out of the
tgreat multitude who surrounded the vault at the time
the defamatory words were asserted 46, have been
Uttered, some one or two had not been called to
prove the utterance of words, the objea of which
it was endeavoured to be urged, was to accuse the
Plaintiff of being guilty of murder. ;The Jury would
However take into. their consideration, whether
those words could, by any. means, be construed into
a charge of murder, .or whether they might not al-
lude to same other cause for the death. Of the wo.