The Sun.
London, England, 1809-12-11 00:00:00

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Mr. Serjearit BEST, avho would be examined as a , army, and for Gerona, and .the French are stated to
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witness upon this trial. In opening this- case to the I have taken such a position es to cut off General
Jury, he said, it was hisintention to avoid as much as 1 BLAKE from, all communication with Gerona. The '
possible all reference to points of . a-political nature :It
accounts from the Tyrol state, that the gillant Inlia- ,
the veneration he felt for the virtues of the father, I bitarnS still continue in arm's against their oppressors.
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would would induce him to spare, as far as he' could; 1 ' • •
i ' This morning we received Spanish Papers to the
the feelings of the sons of an illustrious fauallyee-:. 1 , - -
22d November,buttheir contents are very unim-
He would steer his little bark 'in safety, if he could, I
portant. Private letters however state, that the
from the dangers of Scylla and Charybdis, without ;
giving a ' Cardinal BOURBON, has been placed at the head of
pang to any one, ,more than was necessary
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i- the Government, and that he haS ordered a number
obtaieing justice for his Client, -
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Mr. ALLEY then proceeded to state, that his, ; . .
.Client, Colonel WARDLE, was an 'high-minded, An Austrian Messenger, arrived at, Dover on Sa- .
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prok,. and honourable man, whose btewshadbeen ', turday in a flag of truce from ,France. - .It is proba- '
decked'with laurel for his patriotism, and who, as a . rale thathe brings over an order of recall for Prince
soldier; had fought the battles of his country when- . .STattativtaktio. . .
rebellion reared its head. - He then adverted to the t :.'-‘ ' ----"'s•—• .
•- • - , Tb e- r e folloWin is a extract of a letter, dated
Defendants= in- this case, and -having', shortly ex.... t, •• ' ‘-. .." • °
, , FLUS BING' 6,-e•The evacuation takes
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'patiated upon their conduet, ' he. proceeded to - DEC.
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~ 1 , place the first fair wind. The-great bacon at Flush-
mete what he considered. to be. .the law of i ins is destroyed, and mines are laid under the Dock
gngland with resped to .a conspiracy, the crime i gates to blow:then-I up& , The arsenal will,be set tire
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with which the present Defendants were. charged ; , to at the moment of our departure. •
\ ; " Some thousands of sailors are on shore, who are
upon- this point. he -quoted the opinions of Lord ; employed in' the grand work of destruction. It is
'Mai aiid7l,ralt-fa,Nsrtee..ta-:rfaving—established 1 surprising with what alarcrity they labour. It is a
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what becsonceived to be-the law.of the case, he ihens I scene of which no one who. has not
,witnessed their
-..- .. . • . , ,p.awera can form an idea. The 4asdn•is a prodigiotra.`'.
stated to the Jury the nature of the evidence which j weirk of art, -and held the whole-of the French fleet
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he should lay.befOre them, in order to shew ihat the previonsto our arriyal.,
guiltycrime w
Defendants were -.of the ith which i
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_.." There will not be a. single .gun left to send us ;
- - ferewell.shot' at. ourdeparture."
they were charged, . and he said that unless he had '
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,grossly misconceived the law of the Case-, 'or unless i Dr. POPE, of.Staines, 'attended the Princess Ama-
lie was completely 'deceived as to the evidence which i•, 'LIA. during•her long indisposition. Fier complaint is a
he should lay before the Court,- 'he• should be able ,I, continual pail-tin-11er side, and was considered as a
liver complaint:- Upon-heritorirl -Highness's retort"
to. bring home the Charge' to the Defendants in.so
. to Windsor, Sir F. MILIVAN, Doctors HEBERDEN
clear -a-manner, as to leave no doubt in the mind of 1 and SAUNDERS were called in and consulted, and
any person whatever of their guilt. Mr. ALLEY i thought her Royk Highness's complaint was an
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then went at large into a detail of the various trans- - • . „ • , .
aCliOns which had taken place between Colonel . ' The next accounts from the Indian Seas will, We
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I trust, communicate the capture 'of two more of the
WARDLE, Mrs. CLARKE, and Mr. \Villain% , . ! enemy's -cliai4ers in that hemisphere, as we learn by
(In thiF hasty sketch we have not time to giVe an accurate the tollovvine•letter, that two of them which bad
detail of the Learned Gentleman's Speech .; we are'merely : escaped from the Mauritius had been chased by x ,
endeavouring -to gratify the curiosity of our Readers, by de- , Brit,sh line of battle ship and a frigate :
scribing the general outline of the proceedings.] ; • • " CAPE' OP GOOD HOPE, SEPT. 17.—Although the
• Mauritius is strictly blockaded by our squadron, we
Having, as We have.already stated, adverted to the '
lg, . learn' by in 'American sent in here, that the Beilorre
whole of the transaCtions between these parties, he French frigate, 'and 'the Laurel (late English sloe')
proceeded to comment upon the evidence given en . of War); had made their escape from Port Louis, ,
the former trial; which he said was the foundation ~ latit were tot-innately observed: by our look-out fit- .
gates, and. when the Arner;ca-n left te fleet, the
of the present ludiament: Mr. ALLEY then alluded Raisonabteand Boa • '
Boadicea were in chaser of them,
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to the pledge supposed to have been given by Col..- By the-Bombay Gazettes We find, that notwith-
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WarioCe in the letter which'he.addresSed to the ' standing. the
.very strict- blockade of the Mariiiuso
' the Bellone French frigate and the Laurel sloop of
Public immediately after the former - trial; that war, lately captured from us, had'contrived to es'
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pledge, Mr. ALLEY said, had i.s...en completely mis- - cape out of Port ,Louis. They were, however, di"
understood ; 'ire had 'not pledged himself to indict: covered by our look-out ft idates, and -the; Raison eat',
of 64 guns, and the Boadicea frigate, were sereiii
theseparties for perjury; he had only promised to.. pur,suit. of them. •
bring them to justice, and by the proceedings of ! • Loss ':,F THE. Asia EasT-IrantamaN.—We are
this clay he had redeemed his pledge. ' . 1 happy to find, by the report of Capt. rrttEYIAN•
intang;.::. that the crew of this slop (which was lost
, It might be said, that the Defendants would be
on the Ist .of June on the Gillingham Sand, in ilia
deprived of 'justice by the present mode of proceed- East Indies), were all saved. 'Very little of the
,irig, because they. were courteated together in one ; cargo was saved, , -
inctichnent, and could not'ghe 'evidelite tor one, arl go.,
Saturday an In Haman was launched at Mr. 3
TA.ER'S Dock, Deptford. On the preceding daY,,
other. But he would obviate that' objection, by new 74, 'called the Rodney, was launched iron! the -
reading' over the, testimony given by them on the ' yard of Mr. B/ERNARD, et the same place.• - .
former trial,
.andineking it a part of the proceedings , THE TnEATßfi.—There was a very scanty andi-
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in the present case. He would also bring before the eo
et,ce in the Pit, on. Saturday last, at Covent-(vale{ .
Theatre. Toe Play was The Exilg, and thc F-,ice
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Jury Mr. F. Wright'a Bill in Chancery, in which ' 274-e. Portrait of Cervantes. Tile two. fitst act, or
he had made his own statement. - . a . ttre.former, were heard with as Much attention .ti '-ve
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The Learned. Counsel then adverted to the cola- ever observed in a Theatre, and the-second ad
ii„..,. then .concluded amidst great applause. Tee-hosti,e party
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neetien ',hich. had for years subsisted-between N :poured it to the Pit, and it u+ as very' soot!
Wright and Mrs. Clarke. He appeared constantly :. nearly filled. Time row, as it is called, i • thee be'
to act as her' agent,.. and was upon all occasions her '; P and did not cease till some tune p, after the
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final dropping otehe curtain. Many of the part!
ware the 0.. P. insignia, and several placards %veil
hoisted. The' inscriptions were much the same '45
usual, but one; alluding to the private baee9i
was of a very indecent nature. One of the
0. P. . standards Was more elegant than any fora
mer produaion -of. the - same kind: It was corn'
posed of thin silk, and ",The publid voice is the sta-
. ketne Law" ,was inscribed upon it in gold letters'
Many serious skirmisties took place in-the Pit be-
t Ween the 0. P. pariy and the Peace-otficers, the
laiter-.atrerupting to seize the most conspicuous of '
the former, some of whom appeared with false
noses, Barristers wigs, and other, lueicrous ali-
pendages. There were two persons in the Pit, why;
though in female habits, were generally,considerea.
as males, by their masculine proportions, aeci tlic':
aetive part which they took in the disturbances.

voucher,
Mr. ALLEY asserted, and said he would prove be-
yond all poSsibility of doubt, that Colonel WARDLE
had never ordered the furniture for 'Mrs. CLARKE'S
house, or made himself 'responsible 'for it. He then
alluded to Major Donn,,, would-be called as a wit-
ness upon, this occasion, and 'who; be said, had been
deprivedi of a very lucrative situationin consequence
of the testimony which it, was _supposed he would
.give on this trial, The testimony given 'by Mrs.
CLARKE and Mr. WRIGHT would not only be con-
tradiaed by Col.' Wiittor...n, Majcir Dun' D, and other
respe&able witnesies,. but he would shew' that•.the
:testimony of CLAR'KE and WRIGHT was inconsistent ,
with each other.
On Saturday_ fourteen prisoners were tried at the
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Okl Bailey,
two of whom were capitally convicted'
. • Mr. ALLEY having gone through all the fa6ts of viz: Elizabeth, ITare, for ferOniously .being at large
the casei and made such observations upon them as befOre the expiration of the term of fourteen' years,
-occurretrfo him, concluded a 'very long speech by for which she had been ordered to be transported in
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some very .strong observations on the conduct of
Alexander Harvey on the King's highway, and talc'
the Defendants, and by a warm panegyric upon the ing from his person, against. his will, a silver 'wale!),
public and -Private virtu,...a of his client, Colonel •
, his property.
Michael Haggerty was convicted of perjury, in
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evidence on behalf ot. Sullivan and Fitzgerald, trial'
He then proceeded to call his witneeses. , in SepteMber lait for a rape.
The early hour •at which this paper is put to press, John lialy;a watchman;wastried for robbing An'?e
'Wilcok the wife of. a seainati on' board one of 1115.
• renderS it impossible for us to, give an account 0f...
MAjesiY'S ships of a bUndle containing Bank notes
the remainder of the proceedings,- but "our readers to 'a conSi:ierable amount, and other-property, He
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may rely upon an ample and accurate detail of them. was acquitted of the capital_ part of the indic6nel_ltf..'
to=morrow. The Dukcs of YORK and,kENT, Lord but found guilty of being an accessary after' the 1",0
fence., The poor woman excited great sympathy'
MOIRA, Mr. TIERNEY, and ,several other'
:the
Court by 1d sivl2s ac
ler modest etneanour. le
guished persons were in Court. t companied t)y, two intant children.
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CORN-EXCHANGE, DEC. it.--There are , COnsi:
derable supplies of Whet arrived this day. F
"Last Dutch Papers to the 3d instant, reached in, the forenoon some tine samples were. nearly
at
Town. We are sorry to say that the 'accounts they last prices ;' but afterwards the general sales wer-or..
contain from Catalonia lead us althOst to despair of reduttiCn in prices of about Ns. and 3•;• Peva-Jo':
the Safety of Gerona. The French army is staled
• • .-.ter 03arley. and Malt supported, last prices ;, trot
Peas likewise ; Beans rather lower; there ire
,itoe
to have carried the town of Hasialiech, in 'which- many freSh arrivalsand that trade at
. there was a depot of provisions' for Gene.ral &feta% variation; prices of Flour as our last.

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