The Sun.
London, England, 1815-02-04 00:00:00

SP. Nbll AMERICA.

CAuTuAceNA, Dec. 23.---.Ey -yesterday's post
letter Was receited from Popayen, stating, that
O•le combined armies of Buenos Ayres and Chili,
under the conitnand of General fleigrado, had en-
tirely defeated the royalist army of Lima, under
• General Pestlela, near Cizuro, in Upper Peru.,--
After the-engagement, Major. General Tamil, the
second in command, retreated to Lima, where
the people of the town and iti environs, on re,.
ceiving the aCCCiUIit3 of the defeat of the army,
tevolted. General Tacon immediately for
Quito, where .his_ family wags, and had • only time
to remove them to -Gtadyaquil 'for as "
eon mis the
events in Lima were known, the people followed
the esaiiiple of this last city, so that th.. Whole
province of Petit is now become independent.—
Almscat, the Viceroy of Lima, and Torriaoi
Mantes, the Cape.-Gen. of Quito, emhaiked for:
Guayaquil, the only ttiwn iu Ycru iu possession of
the royalist party.
CueAcoa,, 0;;T. 28.—T1me schooner_ Elizabeth,
from La Guvra, has brought intelli,genee.of -the
recapture of •Cntmunt by time it,myalists, undrr site
active Bores, "ho catered that city on the I tith
inst. just. after 'Outing •the: lodependants; with
considerable loss: It is added, that the victots•
stlevcd,little mefcy to the inhabitants, in revenge
for having, during' the short lime they were in,
in posst2ssion of the 'town, put to death all the
Spaniards .and Creoles attached to their party,-7
it is greatly to be lamented that this savage war-
fare still continues. •

DERPEN ATE • RoBEcERY..—Mr. Satnacl Srrlith, of,
Paradise-row, Bethnal Green, .was
_disturbed on
Tuesday morning last by a noise in the lower
part of the house, and observed his shop door
open ; he took a loaded idunderbuss from his bed-
room and went down stairs, when twonten rushed.
oat of .the shop ; he instantly. fired,.when one .of
:them fell, but got up 'again and run out at the
street-door. Mr. Smith was again loading,
,when a third raffia!). came .out of the par-
lour and struck him, a violent hlo.V On the
bead, which [nought' .him to the, ground and
stunned bins; In rite mean time the flintily got
up ; tliey tom-RI him in, the.pa.ssage covered with
blood, having been stabbed with- some sharp
instrument. The robbers -unfortunately escaped
with their wounded companion. The carpet in
the parlour was taken up and tilled with valuable
articles. .The Police Officers have not yet disco-
vered the robbers. Mr. Smith is declared out of
danger. . .

On Friday; the 3d instant,. John Houghton,. the
driver of the hackney-coach, No. 324, was con-
victed by the Conimissioners of hackney-coaches
in the full penalty of twenty shillings,., for misbe-
haviour att the6-27th at. January, in -endeavouring
to extort more than his fare'lroin two. Ladies,
by follov.ing them into a shop M Piccadilly, and
alarming them after they bad paid him Ii is. legal
fare. The same day, the drivers of rour.other
hackney-coaches were convicted by the Commis-
sioners in the full penalty, for bejug absent from
their coaches at the Foundling stand -in Guilford-
street, on the 31st of January.
. Between four and five o'clock .this,.morning,-
a,dreadful fire broke wit in the cloth Manufactory
of dr. .aufiare, Calne. Engines were imme-
diately procured, but from want of practice they
did little or no .service and,M a short time the
buildings, .with a large quantity of wood and im-
plements, were totally clestroyed:.----(Buth
Feb. 2.)

LAVv JX42AExcE.

COURT OF FE u. S.

Onespecial nrgtiment lasted the whole morn-
illy; which was on An aleerage loss on a policY cif
containing; neither interest nor enter
tainment to any but a Jegal reader.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

kIATTON-GAION..

CHAEGiI 4') F S G G kr/an/11dt Seeirelt,
of Piccadilly, dealer.in lace, appeared to a sO!':
mons, on an information, at the suit of the.r.c7
cise Otlce. chat!...ing her with. having in her pv,-.
session a quantity of smuggled goods.—Eivo“l
Hart said he w,-;s 'an .Excise Officer, and I,a, i 4
received information that %the dd-endant "
suatnity of smuggled goods•in her possession, "E
a house of her's, in. Charlotte-street, Portlaod-
place, which house was to be let, and only a we)"
man- servant in it for the purpose of shewing
he went there, on thel3th of -October last, 11"7
der pretence of taking the house. He inquired
who bird the .lettiog ,of the house," and was
formed that Mrs. Search had. After some for
thcr conversation with the sch ant, he inforMea
her that he was an EKcie Officer, and came. 0"
search the house. There. Was: a room on the tit',
tic, the door of which WaS locked, he called for
the key,_ and was inforthed Mrs. Search had .it ;
consequence of which he forced open the drew,
where he found a quantity of cards with Irl'
S,rareh'S address, and,, ;Among other 'thing's, he
found logr remnants of silk crape's, amounting"(/
,yards and 'an half, and the foreign silk to 3
yards and-an half, valued at 3/. 16s, Mrs. Search
denied any knowledge of articles being
her house; she had not lived there since 24th cst
Jane, since when the hotts'Z had been' let until
within a few days of the seizure. 3'h:!
Crates were of opinion, that; according to Act "
Parliament, it must be knowingly in the posse''
sion of this there was no 'prod; cousequentlf
they should acquit the defendant.