The Sun.
London, England, 1807-06-02 00:00:00

G,EtiT ILI
,BERFSk'ORD'S

ur readers will not he inse"..isible to any of the
citcilmstauces, however trivial, which. a, e connetied
with au event that has restored to the United King-
d.Otn the services of 'one of its bravest. Officers,.and
.
we feel no common gratification in I‘,:f!iiiig it in our.
pOwer to give them publicity. Immediately on the
Surrender of the Briti,:i troops at &leans Ayres, the
Spaniards, fearful of a-. fresh attack on the place,
detached their prisoners, under a strong guard,. to.
the interier—someaccounts say 200, others xOOO,
miles up the: Country. Notwithstiiiding the vigi-
lance with • which they were guarded,,. General..
13EtzEsyottn and- COlonel PACs forind Means to
Make their escape, mid after encOutttering many
dangers and •ditliculties, they siicdeded in` reach-
big' the shore, wherb .tWd Spanish.boatinen, for a
reward of 1000 dollars, consented to put them -cm
board a Vessel.in the river; which coir-reyed thens• in
safety to Monte Video: • The pursuit being closely
follthVed up, the bciatriieti were dikoVoteit 'to" have
aided the escape ; and, it is said, were •-•talteti and.
hanged.- Other accounts -say; - that, the Master of
a Portuguese- vessel being 'suspected - teptiornoting
their design,-was seized by the Spaniards, and thrown
int6Aronl: •

.Colonel .P.tko remained- at Monte Video, from
~,whenve.iie,was dispatched with 100 men againq a
branisk.fOrt, fell by assault,, with the loss of
one British -scildier only. GenerallßEßEFonn left
Monte. Video, on the ?3d
.of.. last Mardh, .at which
tulle uo accounts had reached .that place of the re-
capture of Buenos Ayres, though the arrival of Gen.
C.RAVVORD, &O. was hourly expected. It is said
th.at Abe Spaniards in general were well affected to
the British nation.
In the Diomede, which bronglit..home General
1341tEsFoRn, the following Qtheers came home pas-
sengers from Monte Video ;,--ivlajor COTTON, Of the
17th Dragoons,;Capt. HEWITT, of the3Bth,
ROGERS, Qf the. 400.,1 -regiment,: and Capt. CARNt-
euEL,,of the Royal Artill ry.' . .

• On Sunday ,R be !PRINC.ESS 4,-.utis,eVclt:::ned a
numerous party,ro dinner-;
Lord and Lady 'MAT:IviSBUKY., LiohL:ST.
Lord WIN 01 ELf;EA, Lord and, Lady. NEwA4K,liord
and Lady,Fri-m4Lus-,-Lady PEMBRp;;.F.,,' and Mr.
PAGEL.- • ' _

BEHAUSEN, the. Swedish Ambassador, will
not leave town. as soon as has been expec-te4 ;:hp„is
likely to continue for soine.timelotigey in this Cqun-
tr)4 :

The was no Court pf Aldermen held to-day,l3,ut
the Lord May or, ordered • Broad: to remain a the s,arwle,
price as last week,
Tt•tE TnEATItg.7-r-' the Tragedy of Kin
,g,iLear,
which was revived a. few nights ago at Covent Gar-
den Theatre; for
.the,l4enefit of Mr? CooKE, was re-
presented there again last night, and he yesurned his
performance of the venerable monarch. Upon the
whole, he gave a very respedable outline .of the
part, and had, some touches of feeling that were very
effediye. . The charader of Edgar was admirably
sustained by. Mr. C. KEMBLE indeed we consider
him, upon the•whOle, as the best Edgar that we
have:seen. His scenes with Cordclia were marked
by delicacy, tenderness,.and pathos, and the assum-
ed madness was given with original spirit, and great
variety of expression. 'Miss SMITH, in Cordelia,
was at times rather: too energetic for the softness
and delicacy of the part,
,but in many passages she
was affeding and impressive.
Mrs. WIGNELL, formerly so much admired on the
London Stage as Miss RauNToN and Mrs: MERRY,
has again entered • into the matrimonial state, with
Mr. liVAttittN, the Proprietor of the Theatre at Phi-
ladelphia. Mr. WARRIIN is an Aetor of repute in
characters of a moral and sententious kind, and is
very much reSpeded in private life.
Mrs. SIDDONS has closed her engagement for this
season at Covent-garden, and is gone to perform for
three weeks at Liverpool. She was to make her
first, appearance there last night in the charader of
hotella. The part of Biron was to be performed by
Mr. RAE, Who was last year the serious hero of the
Haymarket. Mrs_ SIDDONS this summer takes leave'
of all Provincial Theatres.

Mrs. 11. JOHNSON is to perform Letitia Hardy,
in The Belle's Stratagem, this evening at Chelten:
ham. A \ Gentleman, named THOMPSON, has, it
seems, smuch improved the pleasures of the place by
throwing open some beautiful plantations as a morn-,
ing.promenade, The same Gentleman has erected
some. additional baths. Three ,new wells have' re-
cently been discovered, so that Cheltenham bids fair
to rise into very high distinaion as a watering place.
-Considerable repairs and_ improvements are going
on at Vauxhall Gardens.; the opening bf the Gar-,
dens are delayed, owing to their not l?eing complete.
The report of C4TALANI'S dinner, it seems, was
what the soi-clisant wits denominate a hoax. It
will, however, be as difficult to discover wit as
liberality in such attempts to wound the feelings of
a person asp unotfending in her condu& as extraordi-
nary for her talents. She was too much indisposed
for company when she was assailed by this stroke of
humour.

Mr. PAULCS woond began to assume so very
alarming an aspe& that his Surgeon was obliged to
resort to an Operation, the effeCts of which promise
a favourable issue.

A seizure of 'English goods has recently taker
place at Rotterdam, on board a vessel arrived there
from- England. The,property► confiscated is said to.
have been considerable. '

The Swiss Regiment De Meuron is now at Ports-
mouth. If it can be completed in time, it is in-
tended that it should proceed with Lord CATHCART.
In this case, their, Colonel will command in the
Expedition as a General Officer.

We understand that 'almost all the paper mills in
Scotland are idle, on account of. the journeymen
having struck work for an increase of wages. They
got an advance of f.).s. per week about this time last
year, and now they retrise to work without a further
rise of 3s. per week.. It was recommended to them
by their masters to apply to the Civil Magistrates,
who would sanction their claim, if tli6y could spew
cause why it should be so ;. but this they declined,
trusting to carry their demands,by compillsion ; and
they have chosen a season for it when they think
they can subsist, themselves by being employed as
laboure'rs.

A Gentleman's servant in Great Russell-street,
Bloomsbury, robbed the house of n great quantity
of plate, such as tankards, waiters, goblets, &c. fait
Saturdeiv.nicht. 2nd h:l3 nut since been heard. of:

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REPOAT.

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THE V.:ECji}V.T NVILLIA,NSS.
,Cin the suggestion oz Sir VI(.ItY,.9IIiBS, ttie
mjts.on, both , sides were read, ht:t,t ;hose on 11;a
pied of the prosecutiOn having already , been detailed'
belare,Oie, public, we shall only state so much of.
th'etii as may be rendered necessarY, in order to gi;
a complete view of tbe ease,
The affidavit of Kemys, Es q. Stated, that he
was foreinati of the Grand Jury for the County of
Monmouth, and that on .Mortelay, the 16th of
March hth,, the ,Defetidant, an Attorney of the'
Court; preferred ;an indiament against Buttray, a
Sheriff's Offieer„ for extorting money from a person.
whom he had arrested; but before the witnesses
were examined, the o:rand:Jury adjourned nntil :Se7.
yen o'clock in the evening, giving the Defendant
notice ; bat when that ,henr,,arrived, upon inquirng
for Mr. Williams, they i'oend that he had dismissed
his witnesses, and no more business being under con- -
sideration, the Jury returned that indictment as no
bill,' and were dis Missed by Mr. Baron THOMP3O,-.
The affidavit of Mr. Charles Tomes, ..C,lerk, of
the Indian:cuts, set 11.)z-th.a conversation between the
Deponent and, the Defendant., in whi4h the laNt r
Said, 'tblit he' had been shamefully used with res2e:lt.t.
to the indittment which had been prefers by hite.
that he and his witnesses hid attended upOn the 1,7:
rysfrom tbe,,,titne of giving in.. the bill, until'
o'ctloCk in the evening, and fi.irther, that
bad been'informed, that they would'not
proceed with bOsiness until ten the, next mot ;IL ;
yet that they 'had 'sent at eveil o'cdo'Ck
night,. and desired ,his immediate attendance, bat
that his
.vyiipeaes were sent, home, and that'd he
d' ju Granry ,then, wept to the: Judge's, lOdging; and
were discharg-ed.. He addeLL, that he had no don bt,b;•t
that the Jury aced thus tp,clefe-at 'the ohjea of the ,
indigmeni ; that it was a most disgraceful and biack-
guard trausadticfna :that he \Kt:And:punish the authors
of it, :He colieluded-lly,saying, lb-at he
'did not .cave who Heard, Lino and that an_Attorney
of.the,Mime of Philpo,t was at the tx;troin -of it.
The-affidavit of Jiimes'Bower.-„Eiq. siuted that
the Defendant, alluding to the 'Goind Jury, said,
hat there never ;vas tuch 1 serof,blsckguards, Mr;
Howells 1:-A-d the. Defendant make use of this. exe
preSsion nooknow -if -it is in.my power to
punish the (_;-ransi-Jury, but if it will certainly
do it. I thought they came here as Gentlemen, but
they behaved like a set of blackgnards:" Mr. Black, •
more was present when the Defendant 'observed;
that lft would 'mike 'the Jury. know what they had
been ''abOuf., for there' never was a more blackguard
pi,oceeeiitr, ." • ' •
• The fol Towing testimony Was then read against
the Rtilfor Cri-rnitnal Information
The affidavit of Mr Williams denied that he had '
ever received information that the Grand/Jury would
proceed with business at seven o'clock, but, on the
contrary,'that he was fdldthat nothing would be done
until the next morning, and he therefore dismissed
his witnesses, and desired them to attend the succeed-
ing day. In consequence of beiee infbaned that he
had some enemies on the Jiiry, the Defendant deter=
ruined to be prepared, but at seven o'clock be wac.'
sent for, when/all his witnesses were gone; and the
Defendant was told afterwards by Mr: Houghton; one
of the Jury, that previous to his being sent for, one of-
the Grand Jury observed, " Now is the time to send
for Williams; I believe there are enough of us here
to get rid cif his bill." ',On the day following the dis-
charge of Grand Jury, Mr. Williams proposed to.
some late members of it, while they were at 'break-
fast, to proceed.with the indiament ; but they re-
fused, telling him thet he should have been prepared
before. This affidavit also set forth a letter, written
by a Mr. Philpot to a Gentleman. named Stokes,' in
which the Defendant was termeda viper; and it I'4-
commended the person to whom it was addressed to
apply to Sir R.. Salusbury, and other Gentlemen, to
defeat the objest of the .indiament. It concluded
by requestingdMr. Stokes to burn this letter. The
affidavit admitted that the Defendant had said, that
the condutt of the Jury was tnost disgraceful and
blackguard.
The, affidavits of Mr. Stoughton,, Mr. J. Howel,
John Jones, J. Rudd, S. Tyler, W. Gwyllin and Sa-
rah Watkins, corroborated the fans contained in the
affidavit of the Defendant.
Lord ELLENBOROUGH" It has occured to us on
consideration Of the case, that this rule should he dis-
charged, with costs tube paid by Williams, and that
there should be no indidtment preferred against him:
The Defendant admitS that the language he used
was improper, and his conclua culpable ; but, at the
same time, I do not like to go into the condu& of
'others. That is the opinion of the Court ; but if
the Counsel think they can alter that opinion, they
may proceed with their arguments."
The Counsel on both, sides expressed their satis-
faetion.—Rule discharged.