The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-26 00:00:00

[BRITISH PRESS.]

Spain, under the controul and, aid of France,
and Russia, will not relinquish her ascendancy in
South America without an effort. We stated the
fact in our, Paper of yest6rday, under the date
of accounts from Madrid to the 12th, that two
men of war and three frigates were to leave
Cadiz for Lima on the-15th. If so, where have
the funds been found to prepare this expedi-
tion ? At whose expellee have these , vessels
been fitted out? Will they carry troops, French
or Spanish ? We were all along persuaded that
.the French Cabinet would not easily relinquish
its deep designs on South America and, its com-
merce, and that any attempt made on that coun-
try would, in its object and resources, be entirely
French, though masked by the name of Spain.—
Such an expedition as this, however, can do
nothing : Peru will be in the hands of the In-
dependents, from north to south, and the Royalist
army be annihilated, long before the Cadiz
armament arrives at Callao ; and these vessels
will probably answer no other end than to receive
on board La Serna, the Spanish Victory, and the
remnant of his adherents, who will then evacuate
Peru for ever. Spain and its wretched Govern-
ment may as well acknowledge the independence
of South America at once, for ;he will have to do
so ultimately; these great countries have out-
grown her controul ; it was not in the nature of
things that the degraded Monarchy of Castile
could perpetuate its Asceiklat►cy across thoAtirm-
tic over more than half the New World. The ori-
ginal dominion of Spain in America was acquired
by unheard-of crimes: Cortez, Pizarro, and their
successors, waded knee-deep in massacres and
blood, to conquest, inMexico and Peru. The day of
retribution after centuries of oppression, hui at
length arrived, and Spain has lost that ascendancy
which she acquired by a succession of iniquities and
horrors. No paltry expedition, such as that fit.
ted ont t►nder French directio►► at Cadiz, can
make the slightest impression on these distant
coasts ; it would take fifty thousand regular troops,
assisted by as poWerful a squadron, to again raise
the Royal standard in South America, with any
chance of success. While Great Britain op-
poses itself to any attempt at re-conquest,
except by the arms of Spain, such an expedition,
composed of French or Russian troops, cannot►
and dare not sail ; and the Spanish Cabinet have
' of themselves neither ships, troops, money, nor
credit. Even now, however, the French Ministry
are watching with an anxious eye what effect this
partial ex pedalo:l detached from Cadit may create,
and their future movements will be governed ac.
cordingly. America, we 'are convinced, is beyond
the power of France, or any of the confederates
of the Continent; but if this country does not pre-
vent it by armed menace, the attempt on her in.
dependence will yet be made, preceded probably
by another Vienna Congress. Casa Irujo, the
new Spanish Minister, it appears, is indisposed.
His Ministry will not last long. New changes
have for some days been spoken of in the French
Ministry, by which the Duke de Laval Mantrrro•
rency becomes nominal President of the Council,
but without the porVeuille. Helium), it is said,
again becomes Minister of War, and the Prince
de Polignac takes the Ministry of the Interior.
—This, if it occurs, will be merely a partial
shuffling of Ministers without any change of men,
sures. The long expected ordonnances for dis-
solving the Chamber and appointing the Presi-
dents of the Electoral Colleges, were expected
to appear to-day,. thus giving another blow to
the Charter end the representative Constitution
of France.

General MINA and suite arrived on Monday
last frOm Plymouth, at Hatchett's llotel,•Do►!er.
street, Piecatlitly. . Report statesN that he is
gone out of town on a visit to a Noble
('Morning Paper.)

Mr. MATcugs, late master of the brig Isabella,
has arrived at Carmarthen, after a series of ant.
ferings, owing to a violent storm in October last,
rarely paralleled. Whilst the brig was on her
passage from North America to Carmarthen,
laden with timber, she encountered a tremendous
gale, the sea running mountains high, which car-
ried away both the masts, bouts, and every article
above deck, with two of the crew, leavingthe sur-
vivors on the water-logged hull, without provisions
of any kind, and the raging sea constantly wash-
ing over them. Three of the crew soon died from
exhaustion, and the master and three others re-
mained to,endure the horrors of cold and famine;
they were reduced to the horrid necessity of sub-
sisting upon the dead bodies of their comrades
for five days, till fortunately they were perceived
by a vessel, and taken to St. John's, Newfound-
land, where they recovered their fatigues, and
the Captain of the French war brig La Nantric
gave them a passage to St. Maloel,
‘from whence
they proceeded to Guernsey and Soutlimpton.
The Master speaks in the highest,terms of the
humane and generous treatment they experienced
from the French.—(Hereford Journal.)

SUSSEX WINTER; ASSIZES.

LEWES, Dic. 23.
ROBERY OF THE HASTINGS BANK NOTES.

James Davis, aged 27, was charged on suspicion of having,
on the oth of September, broken open the iron chest in a carrier's
waggon, at Battle, and feloniously stolen therefrom 3001. in
silver coin, 2,3001. in promissory notes of the Hasting Bank,
and two bills of exchange for 1001. and upwards, the property
of Tilden Smith, William Gill, and John Hilder.
The trial excited great interest, and no less than twenty-one
witnesses were examined for the presecution.
James Gilbert, clerk to Messrs. EVerett and Co., bankers, in
London, being sworn, said the notes of Messrs. Tilden, Smith,
and Co. bankers, of 'Hastings, are made payable at the house
of Messrs. Everett, after which they arc returned to Hastings
by waggon. On the 3d of Sept. remembered to have given the
notes in question in a parcel, and the silver in three bags, con.
taining 1001. each, to Joseph Gilbert.
Joseph Gilbert remembered receiving the notes and silver
from James Gilbert, which he took to the waggon in the Spur
Inn yard, Borough, and locked them in an iron chest which is
made for that purpose, in the bed of the woggon, near the fore
part, under four loci* of which he took the keys back to the
banking-house.
- French, the waggoner, sworn...-On the 29th of August
he was going to London with his waggon; saw the prisoner on
Silverhill, and another person with him., 7 miles from Battle ;
they asked him several questions as to where he stopped ; he.
told them at Lamberhurst, eight miles further on, where he
arrived ; but in consequence of his suspicion being awakened,
he reselved to watch his waggon that night, which he did, in
company with some others ; and about one o'clock in the morn-
ing the prisoner and others came round the waggon, and to the
part where the chest was, and thin went away for a short time.
--When they returned, the party watching rushed out and
caught Davis, (who was confined in the cage, but soon after-
wards liberated.) On Friday, Sept. 5, gcithack front London
to Hastings ; there were three large bales of linen on the chest
in the waggon, which would require several persons to move
them. The yard where the waggon stood was inclosed on all
sides by a wall or buildings, and the gates were locked at 12
o'clock.

Island sworn.—He belonged to the yard; when he
got up about five o'clock on the morning after the rob-
bery, lie found the bales thrown from the waggon, and the
tilt of the waggon cut away, and the chest uncovered, the
upper covering or case of it being taken away, but the chest
was locked again after the contents had been stolen. He found
In a waggon a screw-wrench and a lock which had been broken
from the chest. The locks were hampered, so that the proper
keys would not unlock them.
Several keepers of the turnpike-gates were sworn and exa-
mined, whose evidence tended to 'thew that about the time of
the robbery, four men, two on horseback, and two in gigs, drove
to Battle in great haste, and afterwards on the morning of the
robbery returned towards London. None of the witnesses,
however, were able to identify the prisoner.
John Cat, landlord of the White Hart at Buxted, said, the
prisoner came to his house on the 4th of September, with three
others, who asked to take care of their great coats; the prisoner
had none; saw them on the morning of the sth of September,
they went on towards Battle; the prisoner returned to his house
at half-past three o'clock on the following morning, the 6th t'
thinks the coat which the prisoner now has on, is one of the
great coats he had the care of, but cannot swear to it.
Mary Sherwood lives at the White Hart ; saw a man, but
cannot swear it was the prisoner, come about four o'clock, and
asked for breakfast; he inquired for the London coach; he
looked fatigued and dirty. •
Thomas saw the prisoner in custody on the fbnner oc-
casion ; overtook him on the coach ; on accosting him the pri-
soner said, " he could not want him."
Thomas Alderton sworn, said be found a seal which he pro-
duced, and tried a foot mark in the garden behind the yard,
which corresponded with the prisoner's boot.
Henry Funnel said, he sat up with the prisoner when in cus-
tody the first time; be (the prisoner) had a watch and a seal,
which resembled that now produced.
The prisoner's Counsel, Mr. Anor.rutis, observed that
vague as were the circumstances produced in evidence, he did
not find it necessary to reply.
His Lordship, in summing up, said that nothing had been
produced sufficient to convict the priSoner ; but highly cont.
mended the Hastings Bankers for the spirit with which they
had conducted the prosecution, as nothing in a commercial
country was of greater importance than the safe transfer of pro-
perty.
MURDER.

Rebeica 1112Oen was indicted for the wilful murder of James
Thomas Fenner, her ion, aged about two years, by a former
husband, by strangling him with a piece of ferret, at Boxgtove,
on or about the 19th of August.
The case against the prisoner was this :—She had formerly
been married to a man named Fenner, by whom she had
four children, the youngest of whom was the deceaied.
Upon the death of her husband, she and the children was
removed from Sussex to the plate of his residence in Wilt-
shire. Being desirous of going to service, the prisoner's
mother, who liVed near Chichester, agreed to take her
youngest child under her care,. 'and took it accordingly.
The prisoner then went to service, and soon afterwards mar-
ried her present husband, Mitchell. Her mother then, finding
that she was •Provided with. a home,. determined to send the
child to her, suggesting that she was now the pro per person to'
take care of it. Atordingly, the prisoner went to her mother's
house, about the lEhlt of August last; to bring away the child.
In the evening of that day she was seen with her child at a
public house, but soon afterwards it was missing, and from
that time to this had never been heard of. About six weeks
after, however, the mangled remains,of a child .were found in
the neighbourhood, and the prisoner, who was then pregnant,
was apprehended. ' . •
Mr. Low° then called a monthly nurse who had been called
in to sit up' with the prisoner (luting 'the firit night after she
was apprehended, she being extremely ill, and hourly expeet.
ing her accouchement. Tins woman's evidence was oKred for
the purpose of proving a confection on.the.part of the prisoner
that she had strangled the child, but it appearing on the vair
dire that she had told the prisoner that she must tell the whole
truth to the Magistrates, and what followed was in consequence
of this peremptory intimation.
Mr. Justice PARK interposed, and said he could not, under
such circumstances, receive evidence of the supposed confes.
sion.

Mr. LONG said, he was in a condition to prove, that the pri.
soner's child was seen alive in her arms on the Wth of August,
in the evening, and that next day -she 'was at her own house
without the child, and in possession of the child's clothes.
Mr. Justice PAM( said, this wouldniake no difference, unless
it covld be distinctly prom' that the retains of the child found
were those of the prisoner's child.
Mr; LONG said, he certainly could give no direct proof of
this, but front the prisoner's supposed confession, which Ins
Lordship had excluded.
Mr. Justice Palm then directed the Jury to acquit the pri.
soner. Verdict—Not Guilty.
MALICIOUS SHOOTING!.
Edmund ilourke, Esq,, Captain and 'Adjutant of the Susset
Local Militia, was indicted foe feloniously and maliciously
shooting at and wounding William Robins, at Lewes, on the
3d of October last... Arlie particulars of this case have already
been published.]
The pritioner, who had voluntarily surrendered to take his
trial, put in a written paper, in which he stated shortly that
his gun went off accidentally ; that lie hitd-no intention of firing
at the prosecutor; and that he would have paid the prosecu.
tor's bill for, surgical assistance, and have made him a liberal
compensation; but as the prosecutor had determined to prose•
cute him to the death, he was resolved that the case should take
its course.

Mr. Coornber was then examined. He saw nothing of the
commencement of the transaction. After it was over, the
poisoner scented concerned for what had happened, which, he
-said, was merely an accident, and urged the prosecutor to go
along with him IMMedititely to get SurgiCal aid, but the pro-
aecutor positively refused. Severn] witnesses were called to con-
tradict the prosecutor in collateral particulars. It was proved
in his original deposition, he had deposed that Mr. Bourke
first spoke to the two men above-mentioned ; that he then de-
scribed those men as his eonipaniona; and that he had been
seen in their company the day before.
Dr: Blair, of Brighton, deposed that he had examined the
prosecutor's.wound, and in his opinion it could not have been
inflicted by a gun being presented in the 'Ordinary way, by
placing the butt-end ag iaust the fleshy part of the shoulder,
but must have been held loier down, as if -carried in the hand.
_
A great many witnesses were in attendance to give the pri-
soner the highest possible character, for humanity and kind-
ness of disposition, :When
The Counsel for the prosecution interposed, and said he was
Instrueted.ntit to press the case farther.
The !Jury were therefore directed to acquit the prisoner, and
a verdict of Not Guilt was accordingly reCOrded.
Aliso Ili--; WilliaN .hitalirdo: was indicted for feloniously set-
tingtire to and burning a barn and part. of a hay-stack, the
property of Ellivird Cranston, Esq., at East Grinstead, the 9th
April last,—Noe

TREDEGAR ANNUAL CATTLE'-SHOW.

The Exhibition of Cattle, and other 'Rock,
this year, exceeded our most sanguine expecta-
tion, and there cannot be a doubt that Tredtgar,
supported as it is in this most laudable pursuit;
will, without presumption ere long 'compete
with either Smithfield or Bath; for an exhibition
of stock which this year gave universal satisfitc.
tion ; and it is but justice to observe, that al'
though Mr. BERRY'S short-horned heifer did not
succeed in gaining so much weight as the Here-
ford Heifer, belonging to Mr. WHITE, still she
excited astonishment at her wonderful fatness—
the contest between the above animals welt
which should increase the most in one year. The
Hereford won by 2271 b. Thirteen cups have
been offered for the Exhibition next year, in
dition to those given by Sir CHARLES MORRAS ;
and the following subscriptions have already
taken place for defraying the travelling ex'
pences of the short-horned breed, in considera-
tion of their distance from Monmouthshire,
which, it is hoped, will be countenanced by the
short-horned breeders.
thsSairemsCih. abonrst.ohiltnolrnforraedgay,n £lO 10 Capel Hanbury Leigh, 4,3
James HafFenden, Esq. 6 5 Elul. --
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Heifers
approved.rPef rellhoce .
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Cape' Hanbur Leigh, Esq-.,-.lohrif.Tioe°nei, Esq./ 0. licitl;l'n,dritik
Esq. tot sat Sown to an excellent dinner, wt.!' Pr
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'Old Heifer, Ditto, laeld:lillivSTeirli‘C9eatNPC'ltliwil;::.l:9l:l;
Ditto.eullitto.
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Best Two-yearßs
Best awrod.years
Edwards,Old GH7liitPer,SaDtton, a Silvers Cup: wt.)" 1)-1;
Mr. John White.
Best Yearling Bull, Glamorgansbire Breed, a Silver ""
won by Mr. William Evans, Fairwater.
Best Two-years Old Heifer Ditto, a Silver Cup, ire V'
-
Mr. Thomas illapson Smith.
Best Fat Beast, Four-years Old, 1 ton 3 cwt. 141 b., a Siller
Cup, won by Sir Charles Morgan, Bart.
Best Cart Stallion which covered last Season in the County'
a Silver Cup, Won by Mr. Joseph Bowler.
Best Yearling Cart Colt or Filly, a Silver Cup, won by IC'
Jones, Lanthavyrytheret.
Best Ram Lamb, a Silver Cup, won by Mr. .1. P. Collins.
Best Pen of four Ewes. a Silver Cap, won by ditto..
Best Pen of four fat Wethers, a Silver Cup, won by Dile'
H. Leigh, Esq.
won hl
Best Boar, under twelve months old, a silver Cup,
ditto.
Best Fat Pig ,„a Silver Cup, won by Mrs. Ilornfray.
Best Fat Cow, a Silver Cup, won by Charles MoriTn, Den,
Cup by Lord Rodney, for the best Galloway under bye y
Old, won by Thomas Morgan, Lantrisknt.
Cup by R. loiscelles, Esq. for the beat Yoke
shire Oxen under 6 years old, none exllihited.
rs old Gla-.
Cup by Benjamin Hall, Esq. for the best two ye.t
morgan shire 131111, by Mr. Evan David, Rsdyr.
old half-bred:
Cep by Col. Milman, for the best two Years
Colt or Filly, won by Mr. John Milner.
r the. best Cart •
Cup by John Jones, Esq. of Lansanfleld, apar, old, or
Colt, or Filly Cart Horse, or Mare; above Ys- , etition.
under seven, bred in the county of Monmouth— c''",-,;jo old
Cup by Thomas Prothero, Esq. for the best tWo
Steer, won by Mr. Edward Barnes. ,C3T6
Cup by John H. 3loggritlge, Esq. for t:•,, lyst two
old Ram, of the best breed, calculated for the Bill Foos
the county of Monmouth, won by Rees William, 111:",.lcorcli
Cup by Samuel Homfray, Esq. for the best
Bull, won by Samuel Homfray, Esq. two years' old
Cup by Samuel Homfray, Esq. for the bc.,4t Of OlRMOrgall..
Heifer, won by Samuel Homfray, Faq tit ,t;itivated Ferro
Cup by Watkin Hornfray, Esq. for-tne t?" work by
in the county of Monmouth, not less than lilt) acres,
Mr. John D. Collins.
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years
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murieetlld of Turnip',
Cup by Joseph Barley, Esq. for the best
el Homo!,
grown in the county of Monmouth, woo by Sturu
Ells:Siwilereeopsf taankyesbroefedT(tchne Guineasprope
Three Guineas, by R. Lascelles, Esq., to any , ,
y
the. Wharf at l'ell Owently, for the best Fat Pgolliao,
Ewosq.ert.sl_Zbf4j.rchnriaarie)elcierasd'eetilni.aarapmeilorti, John NheV3°3riefihiettsh:e, fiSnaltni rbctigiet:ibabLillll:
have been in the possession of the owner for three in 0
by Thomas Morrice, labourer.
won irbr.oycGlivar
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William
in
iiihnyeeatil,itc,h.lesaLasholiticirrefllireipe,nyl::::y. ;earfio:ngtljiLsferoL,rnae:vie,,:
of the short-horned breed, and Mr. White's yet11111&1)(4::::
Fanny, of the Hereford breed, lxith weighed -wria
1822, and to be weighed again at the present shot tow.,
which t;balt make the greatest increase of weight to 0410 w
nor for 2.f/ guineas each. Decided in tavola of Mr. pi
2.27 pounds. tor
best t,
tialefo-uap-(lie of Turkeys, uinea to
rtkhoeys. Proporeleasttew;
Davies, couple Geese, 271 b. ; 31ary Arnold, cool' of
121 b. ; James James, couple of Fowls, 111 b. 00510.
One Guinea to the Person having the greatos.l,...o
Hives of Bees in 1823. Certificates to be Prodil`c
.10fj
Hyatt Jones.
N.B. The Judges were of opinion that a w/14e.s.lritsto11,
Heifer of Mr. i,eigh possessed considerable
the two-years old Hereford Heifers were 01
quality.—One hundred and six lots were exhibiteu

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Saturday last,om; the ---1120thi,lititet..Leonards,
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DIED- Dairies,
On Tuesday last, at Lisson.grove, Ireort ioick.
et,
C'eoli, younger son of George fluwles, El., of i)""Ivoi, rot °
December 24, aged 10, liarriet, tlauglter °
Esq. of Noble-street, Cheapside. 4h0r...-ftfro
At Louth, on the 6th instant, Mr. .1-• °I:6;010; itv
itilvti 55. The cause of his death was retbcr , tootle in
`it
it
days before, he, with a penknife,- accidentalY.lo notiee":,./i1),
thumb a very slight incision, of which he too 1. vitriolic P.,;61
supposed that whilst he was matting bac of smilrld, „ad
Ito hts
the pungent liquor can in contact with the terulin
wl'to
so violent an inflammation, as in a short time
' • ato'..
the •
patriarcJal age of ninety years and opsn „h„ Li, 1,1 iv
holm, better known by the nickname of AP' to VP' do
retired manner, admitting none, upon „f r
er %ifoit•
threshold of his miserable abode. ArilAr
connexions, and many years a member o -,f sivglo
„lice
tion. Be continued u) the last iu a atare `,1,1 co able
001;
nets." Careless equally of the comforts a•_„„ voi? tor
either eccentrie eboat:°,:tirio„, to cr:cBst4l,le
life, he was seldom known to put himself T,..!irit, „pa !Iv, 6.(
der to attain either. His worn-oat lui,bl-":'ois 50 `V
cculThlwenli,l.ltipigiosigoefeyeyqneaerdUot
ranlittiettirlte‘a,:untr,on.cevaesre,eseolbodif:tuiastitryilayl
jiroblobie:coper.Tiogstifig; ;ov;t4
telsemivelilartemidnesday last (17th inst.),,ralsr A~•b'
dear rats.—(lnverness Journal.)
conununity with Oleo; ; II

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