The Sun.
London, England, 1809-03-31 00:00:00

DECREE.

cc• His Majesty, considering that the French, in
the unjust and barbarous war which tily wage against
Spain, pay no regard to any principle of the laws of
nations—that they shamelessly violate the most se-
lemn treaties, as has been verified with respect to the
capitulation of Madrid, since, contrary to the stipu-
lations therein made, they imprison, persecute, and
banish peaceable Citizens and respedable Magistrates,
impoiing, at the same time, the most disgraceful
punishments on other unfortunate persons, on the
slightest suspicions and most frivolous pretexts.—
Seeing that they continue every where to defile • the
sanctity of temples, the purity of domestic honour,
• and to trample on
,the rights of humanity—that
acts of the most atrocious kind, and which make
human nature shudder, are daily heard of, such
as the death •of a nun, who threw herself into a well,
to avoid 'the ; brutality of a Frenchman ; the cruel
murder of"A Mother whose breasts were cut oil in
the act of giving Su. k to her son, by those monsters,
who afterwards Babied her infant ; and a number
of other cases equally horrible ; attrocitiea painful
to write, dreadful to read, and degrading to endure;
finally, his .Majesty being convinced, that still
to observe the laws of natural equity' with those
• who respea no 'law whatever, would not br mo-
deration and justice, but the most culpable in-
difference and the basest meanneii, has resulted to
repress and punish those crimes. Calling therefore
all Europe to witness the awful necessity which has
compelled him to resort to the means of retaliation,
by returning on a sant;utuary banditti violence tor
violence, he hereby decrees :

1. That no quarter shall be given to any. French Soldier,
Officer, or,Generat, ho may be nude prisoner in any town
or district,; in which ads, contrary to the laws of war. have
been committed by the enemy, but that such persous shall
be immediately put to the sword. as an example to their
companions, and a satisfaction to outrag t.I .lUlll4lliEy.
11. 'That the present Decree' snail be printed, proclaimed, i
and distributed n the Spanish armies, in order to gs due exc.
;cut ion. You are also .equired to make arrangements for ttto
fulfilment of the acme

The Marquis of Asroaca., Vice•Pretident.
hl.Acris us GARAv.
Done in the Royal M-cazan of seviile, Feb. 7,-18(1.

The Lisbon Gazette also contains a letter from
Mr. ADAIR to Mr. FIIRRIS at Seville, announcing a
peace between Great Britain and the Porte.. The
letter is dated on board the Seakorse, January► 6.
A Note from the Official Gazette Of the Spanish
Government is subjoined, in which it is stated, that
during the negotiation, the French Charge d'Af-
faires presented a remonstrance to the Turkish Go-
vernment, declaring that if Mr.' ADAIR should be
permitted to come to Constantinople, he would im-
mediately leave. that capital.

Dispatches have been received frOm New South
Wales, which bring intelligence down to the middle
of September. Lieutenant-Governor FOVEAtiX ar-
rived on the 28th July, and wok the command of
the place. Mr. Br.IGH, who bad been superseded
by the Officers of the Colony, was living in the State
House under arrest. Lieutenant-Governor FovEAVX
issued the following proclamation .
" JOSEPH FOVEAUX,
" As the Government of this . Colony has been
upwards of six months out of the hands of WI LLIA
&ion, Egg: and as the circumstances attending his
suspension • have been fully submitted to his Ma-
jesty's Ministers, who 'alone are competent to de-
cide, Lieutenant-GovernOr FoveAux conceives it to
be beyond his authority, to judge
.between Captain
Bt.tcts and the Office' s whoin he tbund in the actual
command of the Colony. . •
Its assuming the Administration of the Govern-
ment until his Majesty's pleasure t. 111 be known,
Lieutenant-Governor Foveaux i determined to
adopt such tneasures as he deeMs to be most effec-
tual for the preservation at' the
Public tranquility,
and the security of public and private property, and
'
to follow in the discharge of the arduous duties im-
posed on him a system of the strictest: economy, and
the most impartial justice between persons of e%.cry
description.
" All reports, communications, and other corre-
spondence, relative to" public buiiness, are to be
transmitted to JAMES FINUOANS, Esq. who is ap-
pointed Secretary.
" July 30, I Sge." "GOD SAVE THB KING."
There is little news of any interest in the Sydney
Gazettes,

A up. vs.—Several persons who have been prisoners,
in the Colony having obuuded themselves into the
Courts of Ju#ice in the character of CounsellerS and
Advocate, orders have been issued by Lieut..Gover-
notFovertox, forbidding any person from presuming
to interfere With causes pending before the Courts
Without a special licence from him fur that purpose;
and apprising those who have been Cenvids, that a
disobedience of this injunction will be punisi4d in
the most exemplary manner.
Tire Dundee, CUMUINGS, bound from' hence to
Prince o 1 Wales Island, was lost at the extreme et
Hunter's River on the 15th instant. Two Sem%
who had joined the ship at Penang, ware drowned..
The rest of (ha crow were saved.

AA' HISTORICAL RECIPE:44h

OF THE
CA\n OF 11UONAPARTE IN ITAL Y,
IN Tint YEARS 170 AND 1797•

ENTRANCE Or THE FRENCH INTO TIIE Tyaot, AND
THIN. PRECIPITATE RETREAT OF WURMSI.II, wilt)
ABANDONS BASSANO TO THROW HIMSELF INTO
/MANTUA (CONTINUED).

Wuastsma had entered Italy with glory; his first
steps had been signalized by a viaory. He bad dei.
feated an enemy far Superior in force—but WWI ti
grieve to say, his army is about to give us the most
deplorable examples of cowardice mid corruption':
arid it will be most clearly demonstrated that 13119.,
NAPARTE, who attributes all his success to his
bravery and his talents, ought, in justice, to attri-
bute the greatest part of it to those shameful means
which great men never allow theinselves to employ,
•and which prove nothing but the baseness and
'cowardice of his adversaries.

WURMEEK had conceived a vast plan, the execu-
tion of which would have been a. terrible blow to
the army of Iit)ONAi'ARTE. ,'He had received intel-
ligence that the Directory had ordered' him to open
a passage into
,the Tyrol by the way of Inspruck,
and thui Make s favourable diversion for the army
of wheal the Archduke CitARLES was
severely harrassing on the Banks of the Rhine.—
Now what did Wuttusaa determined to facili-
tate this passage, conceiving that it was the most
feasible moda,of surrounding and defeating him.

In pursuance of this plan,,. he ordered two-thirds
of his army to march by Valsbgaua to 4450n0....:.-
The remaitiing third had orders to 'occupy Alla, on
the high road front Verona. to Trent. This corps
was instro.ted, on its first rencootre With the
.French, to mike a vigorous resistance, `then to re.
treat slowly towards the 'German Tyrol, harrassing
the enemy, however, from day to day, by partial at-
tacks, in order to make him pay dearly far every foot
.ot ground which was yielded to him. Once ar-
riv,A in the German Tyrol, this body was to form a
junction with a considerable corps, composed of
troops of the line, and of brave Tyrolese Chasieurs,
risen en. masse for the defence of their country,
while WURMSER himself would follow the Frenc
army, to harrass it a difficult country, and oh-
struCt its march in every possible mode.
The very day on 'which two-thirds of the Aus-
trian army, in consequence of Woaressa's scheme,
marched for Bassano, BUONAPARTE also put him-
self in motion for Alla,• but with a very different •
design from that of gaining Insprudk.
That third Of the Austrian army which had taken
the route of Alla„ was encamped on 'those IT101.111.•
tains, in most admirable positions. The nature of
the ground enabled them to check for many days, the
,khole of the enemy's army, had it been more nu..
merons than it malty. was. And yet-L.who' would
believe it ?—in despite of these fortnidable positions,
• the Austrians were dislodged and put to flight with
a facility and a. rapidity .absolutely inconceivable !
The number of prisoners was great beyond belief,-
. prisdners top, who surrendered themselves up in a
base and cowardly manner, and without attempting
the least defence.* In less than a week the whole
Italian Tyrol was evacuated, and BOONAPARTB
figand himself in presence of WURMSBR at Bassano.
The Austrian Generallad no conception of tbis;----
Two days before he had sent one of his divisions,
under the command of Bum d'O'rr, to Verona, by.
'the way of Vicenza, which it passed on the morn-

" 1 present the Reader with an anecdote highly worthy of
preservation. I had it from the Marquis GlA.stint'Ami, an
inhabitant of Vicenza, a iron respetted fa his grey hairs, and

far more respeClable for his probity anti his virtpeis It was
told to him by the person to whom it happened* &Colonel
of a Battalion of the division of MASSIINA, who* with sea
then, took prisonersinoo Austrians without any resistance.
This man, a tew days, afterwards, entered Vicenza, and
teak up Ida quarteis at the palace of the Marquis Gto I r
n t AN i ; while at dinner with him, he gavp him the
lag account, which, from It's 'naivete, is entitled to pedal
credit,
1. What would you say, Monsieur Le Nlargnis, if I AUNT.
cd you, that with sou oimy men I had taken 3;203 Austrians
in the Tyrol 1 'Tis a rear 1a l; I give you my honour,
hearken."

While our Division was marching towartts,Ktvetedo, Ge-
ncral MassLsi.% ordered me to take tfive hundred men, and
proceed to dislodge. tits en, my from a height, which gave him
an immense advantage- over us. But, Citizen General, said
1, cal) you seriously mean that wiih such a hatlllitll;—ile cut
me short.—Obey- without hesitation, said he, and I will an.
slyer for the success. So said, so done advanced to the
foot of the mountain, and I maneuvered as if I meditated an
*ruck:. I entail net discover among the enemy, any sign of
preparing to resist me. I suspeded that this apparent tran-
quility was a snare to draw me 'into An unfavourable shwa.
tion. Upon this I halted, and began to reed upon what,
was best to do. Seeing, howeier, that the enemy still con-
tinued inadive, I detached a Flag Of Truce, with orders to
tell tlic:Austrlan General, that if he preferred sturendeting to
fighting, 'lkt:should Ccrps Icy dewh their arms,

This homid,.and S Itati4-altall 1 say it ? rnakin?,;,
with tny tittle trnot),:ihree thotistod prisOneri, 'poi tine of
whom had fired a shot Pt
The Alarquit Gr.tsrit,4lAN 1, when he related to me this
fsai w!titdi solemn]> averred
tint he -lad, at aunt t,, one NyllA le to what he hitnself had
Leen tolti.
The u dicer who corrananded this detachment was a
• Yittneittnao, Cnativtoryerpienan..

lot or the 7th of September, and proceeded to
Montebello. WURMABB, remained at Rassauo, in
perfea tranquility with the military Chest.
He was within an inch of • being taken:—
‘e• V.VURMSER,". says BUONAPARTE, in his o
Report, "and all the treasure of the army, very
narrowly escaped me. A detachment of my cum~
pany of Guides, who were hard upon him, //of: •
ing pursued him very closely, had two men kilied,
and the commanding-officer wounded." •

Let any one now explain to us how a Gonersl
so skillful and experienced as Wontoxa, could b.
surprized in this Manner, if was not by treason ?
BOOKATARTE had, indeed, made some
marches ; he had passed the most difficult point. o
the Brenta, and his army was halted for the night, at
least two hours' march from Bassano. But what-
ever might-have been the celerity of BUONAYARTE,
there was more than sufficient time to inforlt.
WORMER of his arrival. He who commanded th.
advanced posts, and who was charged with the de-
fence of the difficult defiles of the Brenta, was
bound, in duty, to inform his General of the -ay.
proach•of the enemy. He did not : he must thin
be accused of haviOg betrayed him. But ►he wretch
on whom the reproach of treason most dire,:itly falls,
and whom it was impossible toji.mity, is the Quay=
tCr•filater General, Baron Ds LAufia. Ac had
been informed of the arrival of .the French by one of
the most distinguished Nobles of Bissatkp; this;
person had learned it from the peasants of ;be neigh-
bouring villages, who came to him trim very
complaining-most bitterly of tie barbarous trunt-,
ment which they and their, wives had suffered trawl.-
the soldiers of iitioNAPART., tie
intelligence of too much importance not to be im-
mediately conveyed to the derieral. •

He hastened, then, at 'break' of day to 'Flead.
quarter). He was about to enter, when he' „n :t,
Baron Da LAUEII, Who, with an air of the 11.0-t
perfea tranquility, asked what brought hint
so early, " What brought we," replied the Noble!,
man,' "r is the danirr with which you are menaced.
The French army is arrived; yours will be lost.' I
am going to acquaint the General, who is certainly
ignorant of it." General Lnuatt absolutely torh.d
him to advance, and brutally told him not to meddie
.with what did not concern him. You supp,:se,
perhaps, that LAVEk was desirous of 'laying him-
self the merit of giving this imelligence to 11:s
Commander. He tank tiopotici of it He loiterod
to the last moment,.and the old General was n t
informed of the arrival of the French, till he wa3
in ',the' utmost danger of falling into their hands. A

few hours before, there was sufficient time to pass
the Piave, and to fall back upon the Ftloul butv
surprised as he was, he had 'no other nteasore to
take, but to throw himself into Mantua. This he
did, carrying with him the military chest, tto the
great mortification of BUONAPARTE.

Ln, be continued.)

4GRICbL77.IR4L REPORT.

The lands in general never worked mareJtindly.
for Spring Corn sowing, than through the whole of
the mouth, which has proved a mare than usually
busy one, as much of the early sown Beans 311 d
Pease have been ploughed up, and re-tsown. Thc!
tender Barley soils in Norfolk and Suffolk have
dressed, though late, very kindly for the Seed.; and
so havethe heavier ones ib other parts for Oats also.
The chief part of the extensive tra& that WM' dr..
luged by the flood in Lineolnshire, Cambridgeshire,
&c. continues inundated, so that mote than tuo,utio
acres, destinedfereoft corn crops, must remainiun-
prodtretive for the present year, and probably-fin.
many seasons to come. The Wheat Plants have
benefited much by the dry weather in the 'Omer,
and the genial. showers in the latter 'part of the:
audrith ; they have been less touched in. every dis-
Wet by the slag, or wire worm; than is useetll at this
season of the year. Hemp has ben sown to a
large extent in the Fen Courqies, and the expo eled
bounty of 5 s.'per bushel on Flax Seed has alre.ely
brought in sufficient quantities of it to reduce the
price of that article from twenty-five to ?.i3
per hogshead, and to insure a sufficiency for t.l,;:i
demand .of Ireland. The Flop Plantatious,
careful cultivation, push. their bine strongly to tip!
pole. The prices of 'Corn at Mark4ane h‘aviitiiceharii:r.(et
but little, except in Qats, which are lower: that of
Wheat is kept steady by foreign imports, v
daily arriving, under the connivance al the French
Government. The Turnip crops have:ll4d out bet,
ter than wasexpecled; and the young Ay-Grasses
and Clovers, promise an early and-plentiful
blots Of Spring Seed. The MeadoWs and Lay-Pas-
tures are likewise forward enough in many
countries, to receive. fattening stock id ready.
Meat Markets have had erfarther rise in priate
and Veal, the former fetching 7s; and the latter tk
per stone by the carcase, in Smithfield. Mutton is
more plentiful. Lamb, 'and Pig 'Pork, continue at
last month's prices. Horses of all kinds are atNicer,
particularly those fit to remount 911 r light i;lvoiry.
The Wool Markets are lower, partieulaily for fitro
Fleeces of the short kinds, owing to large importa-
tions of Merino Wool; ceoligoed from several p6rtii
in Spain.

Yesterday morning, shout one o'clock, a dread.
int tire broke out at the Crooked Billet public.house,
Johnson's Change, Robetuary-lane„ which, aller
threatening destruelion to the wholes aright. iurbooti,
entitely consumed that and two adjoining liengea,
besides damaging some others. Not withitanditift
the exertions of the Whitechapel Volunteers, v.e
tte informed several poor people have severely
term' iii their property.

4
RO2!E CIRCUIT.

K 11 N T Z 1 11,1ilcu 29.

CIVIL SIDE.

BEFORE THE Cillit IARON AND A SPECIAL JURY.

THE LING V. 110. MAS DALTON AND ()TILERS.
41 .his was an information against the Defendants,
- for, assaultiti, and oh,,!rtkeliit EXeise Offieeni.
T1101.113S Hayward, Officer of 'Excise at Dartford,
said, omt tbe ;>3d: of September last, himself, John
FeyclOn,„ an 4 E4ward Shepherd, who weep also
Officers iif Excise, went, to Swanky, to seart;ll the
• house tifJohn Turner and William Pope for contra-
band goods. They , then went to another public-
house :to survey it, and Pope came in and asked, for
ti: ass of ale, which N% given him. A woman
next' came, in, and d•-••:d them for informers, and said
4sion, wr4s,-,not fit to live. Whey they left the
hehic,, these, were several, 111(7111_ On OW opposite side

of the load.. T. Dalton, the I.);:fendani; was one,
titi:i hie. called the fyituesS a squint-eyed son of a
avid threltened to giye•him a thump or two on the
head. The woman was hooting; Feydon said he
thoUght her deranged, and threatened to charge a
constable with.the nian. The witness and the offi-
''4tt,a:stdod*under a. tree, when several stones were
fliroWn-at them. The witness and the Officers re-
tired,, but they were followed by a mob of .abuut
twenty, who hooted them and threw stones at then).
Some said, d----41 the dogs, drive them out, The
wittw,s gave Shepherd a pistol, and soon after re-
ceived a violent blottoon the leg, on which Shep-
herd fired his pistol. He soon after was knocked
• down, and he saw several people beating him about
the head with sticks. Not long after this, when
the witness had run to the assistance of Shepherd,
be was himself knocked down by Dalton. He
got up and presented a pistol at him, but Dalton
!awaked him down a second time, and endeavoured
to ;wrench the, pistol from him ; when Dalton
, knocked him down .a third time,
,he said, d—n
you, yes. I'll knock your brains out. ' The
witness was then rolled over the hedge into afield
by 'D,llton anal another, alid,had the pistol-wrenched
`out of his hand. He then got up, when Dalton
struck him tuidcr the right jaw, and loosened some
• of his teeth. He said to. Dalton, " You have broke
my jaw bone." Tawhich he replied, " D—n year
e, es, VII break the other for pct.'? The mob, in
the lane desired Dallonlo charge a constable with
the witness. Dalton then collared him, and dragg.ed,
him into the lane, where the mob had hold .of the
other two Officers. The mob consisted of near.
ly 4U people, and they were dragged to the house of
Ellis, the Copstable,whenTurner gave charge of them. •
Feydon and Shepherd, the two other Officers, gave
nearly the Same adcount of the transatlion' and on
cross-examination denied that they had fired the
pistol before they were assaulted themselves.. •
Mr. MAn Y A'XT, for the Defendants, called a great
!natty witnesses, who contradiavd the .officers, 4nd ,
stated that they were the aggressors, and gate the
provocation, and:that they fired their pistol before
the mob spewed' any symptoms of hostility against
them. The Jury expressed their satisfadion of the
Defendants case before all ,the witnesses were call-
ed:—.Not • ,

CROWN LSiDE;

Rol6l Clarke was convitted under 'Lad
Ellen-
bo Ad, far cutting and wounding John Ash-
crown, with intent to prevent his lawful apprehension
as,n deserter.
Athdtiwn stnted, that he was in the marines,
and'was employed hy his cprps ,to keep a look-out
atter deserters.'., On the, 22d of December last he
was on Larkhdd, Cemmon, where he met the Pri-
soner, whom h e suspe6led to he a deserter. He ac-
costed 'him, and asked him if he would go into a.
public-house tri drink the Prisoner refused, and
went on .hks way. The witness being pretty certain
'be was ,adescrter, werit.rmo the hOus!,,4 and got wan
of the name of Wel tP join .him in the pursuit.—
The Prisoner had goi foiward.abont half antile, and
bad gone :ono ~a little hay.:l.. kkttness desired
him to come out, -oly,erving, it was of no uge to
skulk. The Prisoner did cuint; out, 310 defended
himself with his stick ; had,a. Set:to, and it was
not until the Prisoner had surrendered, that he found
lie was wounded ; but finding: himself blood', he
discovered that he had,received a large cut across the
ribs with a sharp instrument, and which. it appeared
afterwards had been done by the Prisoner', knife.
It .was also-proved that the Prisoner was, a deserter
• from the 43d regiment.,
The Prisoner put in a written defence,, in which
t lie stAed lie had served honourably: at Trafalgar and
in Holland, in both which ,servie.es, he , bad'. been
wounded; that when the Prosecutor, and, the other
MI6 Pursued,' he thought they were thievev and
meant to rob him, and that he went into the. hovel
with the 44900. to conceal his money in his shoe.
T.'re Jury fopud

51111.EWSBURY, I 1 MICU • 29.

, The COITUDI',6OO for holding -the Ault* far this:
County, wart.op,tted on Thursday evening last, be-
fore Mr. Serj,,ant WILLIAM'S, tilt; ,pressure of. DOA-
nees at 11,:refotd having preventert both the Judge,
from reaching this place Lid Friday morning. The
bpsiness at icasi Priels commenced soon Alter, be-
fore Mr. Baron WOOD; when the following
teresting cause was brought on.

JoNits v. omits'',
This was an aaion brought by the Plaintiffagainst
the Defendant for tte- sedukStion of his dingtiter;
and the lierendant had pleaded, first, that' he was
pot gui!ti-,:falld also, that be had leave and licence
frotritlie elaintity to debauch his datizhter.
Mr;DAuNoy; hi a most eloquent speech, nom-
Evented on the infatitous plea set 'up by the lkfaid
. ant,, and stated the Jiary, that the Plaintiff bad.
• been an inn-keeper at Market Drayton, in [hitt noun.
ty, and that the Defendant was at this tirne a Lieu-
vmant. in the 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons.,
Th3L witch tlie-DeNadant first beo.Al6- acquainted
wilh'the Plaid-Mrs 'family, -he WaS a- Captain in. the
ShrOpshirc... VBlbureers;Ahat the came
with,, the Regiment on pertnanent duty' tri-hlarket
Diiiitton;and the heLld-quartais were at the Plaintiff's
1100 e ; that the Defendant while there paid ig,reff(
attrutsou to the daughter of the Plaintiff', and-made'
her offtis of Marriage; bUt that she Most prudent-