The Sun.
London, England, 1814-03-23 00:00:00

SUSSEX ASSIZES.

HORSHAM, MARCH 21. Assizes conuneneect
this morning.

BULL V. ALLEN.

This was an action to recover the sum of 57/;-
formoney advanced and paid lot' Miss- E. Alien,.
the. defendant,. by the plaintiff.--The plaintiff re-
sided at Brighton, as did also Miss Allen, the de-
fendant, where she and sister kept a board=
ing-school. The plaintiff had paid
.the sum in
qUestion t'or goods bought at a sale, which the
defendant had hail. The fact that the, plaintiff
had Paid the money was• not disputed, nor -that
the defendant had had the goods; hut 9t was in-
sisted., for the defendant, that Mr. full had made
a prt;tent of tivetn to 184;,,, 's_LTry Alien, the sister
Of the defendant. The Miss Aliens were described
to he the daughters of the late Dr. A11en,...a rt•
spectsble physician, who being left in rather nar-
row cirenulstances, were obliged to keep a board-
ing-school, and being highly respected, many most
respectable characters hod Made them presents.
The plaintiff had a daughter. at their school„ and
being willing to serve them, bought the goods in
question, and gave them to MrssMary Allen.
To prove this case, Mrs. Brookes, a married
Sister of the Miss -Aliens, stated, that the de-
fendant, Elizabeth , Allen, lid requested the
plaintiff' to take an acknowledgment .for the
amount of, the goods, but that he refused, saying
that he meant them as a present.for Mary.
An old servant also stated, that when a part of
them, a lot of crockery ware, came hOme, Mrs.
Brookes was about to take some of them. ; the
plaiiitiff asked what she.was going to do with it,
as it‘Was Mary's ; she said Mary had given it to
her ; he replied he had given it to Mary, and she
might do as she-pleased with it."--The Jury-fourid
a verdict for the defendant.

• CROWN SIDE.
John Morris was indicted for a highway robbery,
for robbing Henry Page, on the 10[11 of DeCem-
ber last, at Hastings, and taking from him six
pounds in Bank-notes. •
The prosecutor„.Page,. stated, that Thos. Gib-
son and himself were returning from Bexhill,
when they stopped at the Anchor-public-house;
at Hasting, to drink. Gibson was tipsy, awl gave
him his notes to keep, Tire prisoner was driuk--
ing in the s;une room, and after some conversa-
tion, said he tvould go with them ; they agreed,
but .he bad not
.gone far on the road when he
knocked Gibson- out of the cart, and robbed the
witness of the notes. Tie was taken the next
morning.—Verdict, '

, .
HATTON-GARDEN ,—John Munson, apprehended
by John Hutt, the officer, underwent a loni): eka-
ruination yesterday, on a charge- of making art
attenpt.on the life of his wife on Saturday night,
at the White Hart public-house, Battle-briiige,
by stabbing her in the abdomen ti,-ith a clasp-
knife, and inflicting a wound of three lyclits ;liNt
a -quarter deep, of which she now lies in the hos-
pital in a dacigerous state, the wound being sup-
posed to be mortal.—Committed for further exa-
mination. .

INQUEST.—A 6 Inquisition was taken on• Satur-
day at the Harp-house, Newington, on the holy
of Mrs. Martha Nettlcing, who was burnt to death
on the preceding day. The deCeas'ed; who was a
respectable widow', by some accident set tire to.her
clothes on Friday evening. Her shrieks alarmeA
the watchman, who forced. his/ way into the
kitchen, bat the pocir- Woman. was sensci-es:;, and
her clothes reduced to thter.
,She languished
until the next morning in the greatest agouics.—
Verdict, Accidental Death.

T,lie nine principal convicts, Whose crimes are
forgeries, &C,..who are now Newgate under
sentence of: death, were not reported to the
P“INCE REGENT in Connell on Saturday, but are
to be reported to his Royal .Highness at another
Council next Saturday.

LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.

TUESDAY, IWARCII 22.

WAR DEPARTM ENT.

Downing-street, Ofarch 22, 1814.

Dispatches, of which the following are-extracts,
have been this day received, addressed to Earl
Bathurst, by the Marquess of Wellington, dated
Aire, 13th and 14th March, 1814.

Aire, 13th March, 1814.

The excessive bad weather and violent fall'of
rain, in the beginning of the month, having swell-
ed to an extraordinary degree all the rivers, and
rendered it difficult and tedious to -repair the nil-
inerous bridges, which the enemy had destroyed
in their retreat, and the different parts of the army
being without communication with each other, I
was obliged to halt.
_

The-enemy retired after the affair with Lieute-
nant-General Sir Rowland Hill on the 2d, by
both banks of the Adonr, towards Tarbes, pro-
bably with a .view to he joined. by the detach-
ments from Marshal Suehet's army, which left
Catalonia in the last week in February.
In the mean time, I sent on the 7th a detach-
ment, under Major-General Fane, to take‘posSes-
sion of Pau : and another on the Bth, nn 'e Mar-
shal Sir William Beresford, to take possessiOn of

Bourdeaux. •
.1 have the pleastre to inform your Lordship,
that the Marshal arrived there yesterday (the
small force which was there having in the pre-
ceding evening retired across the Garonne), and
that this important city is in our possession.
Lientenant-General Don illanuel, Fvere joined
the army this day, with that part of the 4th army
tinder his immediate command, and I expect that
Major-General Ponsonhy's brigade of cavalry will

join to-morrow.
I from Major-General Fane, who com-
mands Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill's
outposts, that the enemy have this daj collected
a considerable force in the neighbourhbod 'of
Conehez, and I therefore conclude that they have
been joined by the detachment of the army of
Catalonia, which, it is reported, amount 3 to
10,000 men.

Nothing important has occurred at the blockade
of Bayon'ne, or in Catalonia, siiice !'addressed
your Lordship last.

Aire. March 14, 1814.

I enclose Marshal Sir William Beresford's pri-
vate letter to me, written after his arrival at
Bourdeaux, from which you will see that the
Itlayor and people of the town have adopted the
white-cockade, and declared for the-House of
Bourbon.

Marshal Sir W. Beresford's private letter, to
'which Lord Wellington's dispatch refers, is dated
Bourdeaux, 12th March, 1814.
It states, in substance, that he entered the city
on that day ; that he was met a short distance
from the town, by the civil authoritiez and popu-
lation of the place, and was received in the city
with every demonstration of joy.
The magistrates and the city guards took off
the eagles and other badges, and spontaneously
substituted theiwhite cockade, which had been
adopted universally by the people of Bourdeaux.
Eighty four pieces of cannon were found in the
city ; and an hundred boxes of secreted arms had
b-cen produced already.