The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-30 00:00:00

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WORCEsTERsuiRE SOCIETY.

The Eighth Anniversary of this Charitable In
stitution was celebrated yesterday at the Albion Tavern, when
Sir ROGEIL tinv;star, hart. was in the chair, supported by
Lord Viscount Deerhurst, M.P. Colonel Davies, ALP.,
The objects for which this Charity was founded are already well
known, and have been forwarded by mast of the Gentlemen of
influence belonging to the county of Worcester. To see the No-
bility and the principal inhabitants of any county forming them-
selves into a Society for the assistance of the poorer individuals
belonging to that portion of the country, is at once interesting
and highly commendable' and we announce with the highest
satisfaction the success of the Worcestershire Society. The
Meeting of last night was not as fully attended as some former
'ones had been, but' the company evinced an unabated desire
to promote the interests of the Charity, and the proceedings
were highly gratifying to the supporters of the institution..-,.
It was announced by the worthy Secretary," Mr. Grave, that
four more boys had been apprentictsi by the Society, and
that those who had already received the bounty of, the Charity
bad proved themselves fully deserving of it.: In the ceurso
of the evening the usual loyal toasts were drank, and on
Prosperity and perpetuity to the Worcestershire Society,"
being proposed, it was tirank with acclamation. The intervals
between the masts were enlivened by some arousing glees and
songs front Messrs. Phillips, Broadhurst, King, -lases, Master
Healey, itc and the evening was spent in thentmost convivi-
ality. The Chairman did not quit the room until a President
and Stewards for the next Anniversary had been appointed,
and every arrangement had .been made likely to benefit the
institution The prospect* ate promising, anti the Mends of
Worcestershire may look for a•brilliarit meeting next year.

Ilottitto CitueritY.—An act of most atrodious
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and from Nortlounp..
cum a livelihood by carrying parcels to
ton,• in which occupation he employs six donkies. Three of
where. they were founitni :hoe tabitetel,r(t)ofrittwinng; iTubethine
them were as usual turned out at night into the thurehlard.
agony. A monster had cut out the tongues a all of them,
huriu7ni.andr:vardetftelhi
Inflicted several stabi
hes, we are happy to say, been discovered 'and apprehended.
When, taken be was nearly covered with blond, and the knife
with which heperpetrateti this act of unparalleled atrocity, was
found upon his person. The monster bad previotiely been in
the'habit of feeding the poor animals; nor does he assign arty
CouoNtit's INQUEST.—An Inquisition WaXtuVeti
In°tPlefmexhitsreetideucitg.noronce of man of Amur: yesterday, at the Turf Tap (Tattersall's); by Mr,.0r1.f., the
classes of society would, in this enlightened age, perhaps, ,he Coroner for Westminster, on the body otarnan unknown, who
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not instances so frequently °courting, died on Tuesday lag in St. Georges licoilitAl''-"Thedmemcd
testimony of the fact. The following'anec- wits observed, on Tuesday afternoon, between four, and tier:dote watt eel to Us by a gentleman who heard the -constr. o'clock, sitting. against the of the letike of Wellington's
Ration t--'I WO old women at a village near Ottery, in ,Devee. *obi", itt picradait appsrendy gone exhausted, Aid: when
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shire, were discussing, with touch earneeres, various knotty slalom to watt unable to answer. Go was carried' to tit.
points of controversy; and, among other topics, on their tieurgets Hospital, when. tome stimulating Medicine
belief is the. existence of reiteite.t. The one was. a little ing immediately atimittisteted, appeared to revive him t
Sceptieal on the subject ; hut her more credulous nsighbonr little. ile teemed. to- bet sensible of whet wax paasing, but
censured her want of faith. and insisted she could bring in vvi.. never spoke, and died' about tan o'clock. lie was appartintly
deuce froin the pulpit to stibstandate her creed. This pray pm.
a labouring man was deteutly dressed, and had upwards of2s.
nattnad impassible ; but tint unbeliever acknowledged she was in money about his person, and part of a buttered roil in his
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willing to submit to such authority, could It be produced.... pottket. The body being opened; grate food was fottntl in the
t, Wily," nuoth hur friend, "do not they say every Sunday at stomach; the Jonas were pastirditteased; anti he had every
ihurch c which was in the beginning, is now, and ever shatll. be appearance of having died from debility and exhausdon. 'der..
world without mai' "--(Southampton County Chronicle.) dict,—" Died by the visitation of God."

PARIS PAPERS.

TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCH.
PARIS, MAY 28.

" FROM THE MAJOR-OENEEAL TO THE MIIIISTEE Or NAIL
" His Royal Highness the Duke d'Axaou-
LEME entered Madrid on the 24th,at nine o'clock
in the morning. General CAUL has caused
Mataro to be occupied. General DON ADIEU
'bas occupied Cellent without resistance."
PA Kis, MAY 27.—The Moniteur of Tuesday
contains an article from Petersburgh, dated the
Ist of May, which states as-certain, that the war
between France and Spain will not cause any
change in the harmony existing between Great
Britain and Russia, and that the latter follow..
ing the example of the Cabinet at St.'James's, is
resolved under all circumstances, to maintain the
strictest neutrality.
An ukase, ordering aconsiderable reduction of
'the Russian army, will speedily -be published ;
• and it is asserted that according to the result of
-the negociations recently carried on between
.11,ussia, Austria, and Prussia, the occurrence only
of one of the three contingencies expressly stipu.
elated at Verona, will induce those three allied
Powers to resume an armed attitude ; in which
case they will concert with England the measures
it may be necessary to adopt.
(From the Journal des Debats of Tuesday. )
NEWS FROM THE ARMY OF SPAIN.

We learn today by a Telegraphic Dispatch the entrance of
the van-guard of the Frtnch tinny into Madrid, on the 23d of
May, in the morning.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Angonleme, *hose head.
quarters were on the same day at Alcovendas, was to diet his
entrance into the capital of Spain on the next day, the 24th.
It appears that, without expecting our troops, and on the
21st, the Royalist General Bessieres attempted, but in vain, to
gain possession of Madrid.
ARM Y OF THE •PYRtNEES.
Head-quarters, Gerona, May 22.

The Constitutional troops are retiring on Barcelona.
Llobera, after his defeat, proceeded to Saint Andreo-da.
Palomar.
Alilans is still at Maiaro. •
Nina, after several marches and cohnter.rhtirchesocems to
wish to return to Cellent.
General Donnatlieu and Baron d'Eroles were at Cala on
the 19th.

General Curial had his head-quarters at Granoiles.
It is announced that the Royalist Chief Miralhes has been
killed in a rencontre in the neighbourhood of Cervera.
IProth'the Pilate, dated the 2ath.l
The Prince d'Eckmutil (Davoust) is dangerously .ill.
A detachment of !Spanish prisoners, escorted by gendar-
merie, arrived at liourdeaux the 22linstatit, and were taken to
the Fort• du Ha.

French Renier dosed on Tuesday for the Account nt 801.
155 c.; Neapolitan, 763 ; Spanish, 43 to
.From the Moniteur qf Treesday.l
TELEGRAPHIC DlSPATCH.—(Tiawsurrrtn PIIOM
ISAYOWN'E, MAY 25.)
"ALCOVENDAS, MAY 23, 10 O'CI.OOM A. M.
" TUE MAJOIt.OI:2,II;TeAt.. TO HIS EXCELLENCY T 111: MI.

rtmerit FOR WAR.
" His Royal Highness the Duke of Angoaleme has been
here minceoyesterday. The advanced vard of the corps of re.
' serve, and a brigade of Obeli's divisien,-entered Madrid this
• morning. The Prine,e Gentralissintoand the rest of the troops
will enter that capital tiurnerrow morning."
ARMY OF THE PYRENEES.-4Tit CORPS.
General Donnadiete was at, Caldit on the lifth ; he had an
interview there with Baron d'Erolea, whose troops were at Vi-
not. They concerted their movement in order to attack Mina,
who, after having marched in severaldirections, seems desirous
of returning to Cellent.
Curial's division was at Oranolles, on the 20th ; L:obera,
after having been beaten by General Donmulieu, retreated to
Nt. Andrea da Palomar.
Milans was still, on the 20th, at fair o'clock in the morning,
at 2Vlataro. Count Curial has directed his troops towards that
• large town, which•is but four leagues from Barcelona.
General Marguerite his acquainted Rear-Admiral Hame.
lin, commander of the ship Co/ame, on a cruise before. Santons,
that he will be before that place, with his troops, on the 21st
or 22d of this month.
MINISTRY. OF THE MARINE AND COLONIES.
EXTRACT FROM A REPORT or DARON,NEINARD DE LA
FARGE, REAR-ADMIRAL.
On board the vessel Jeate Bart, at anchor in the road off
Fort Royal (Martinique), March 12, 1023.
I have the honour to infbrm your Excellency of the arrival
' -at Martinique, on the 11th of March, at nine o'clotk, p. m., of
the ship Jean hart, after a passage of thirty-four days, with.
`out having experienced any untoward circumstance, and with-
out having any of the crew so ill as to require to be sent to
the hospital.
On the 20th of February I came in sight of the island of
Saint Mary, one of the Azores. I continued my course to the
west of those islands, when on the 22d, at half-past two in the
morning, I was informed that there was a ship very near, which
appeared as if' it were watching; us. I immediately came on
dsck, and, with the aid of my night glass, I already thonght it
was a corsair, when n ball fell close to the vessel. I had force
enough to pulverize the aggressor, but whaling to avoid allinis-
take,and to put this madman entirely in the wrong, I only
raised a lantern' at the poop, and manteuvred so as Lb observe
' him at day-light. At six o'clock it was enough to distin-
guish the flags. I hosted those of the Jean Bart, and made
press of sail. At 3 quarters past 11,. I saluted him with blank
'cartridge, fired from the aide 'opposite to his vessel. In a mo..
ment the vessel hoisted a large Spanish flag, which he only kept
up a ehort time, and having Bred a shot at us, he made all pos-
sible sail to avoid me. I continued the pursuit, without any
nark of hostility, till a quarter past one, 'when I ordered a shot
to be fired. He only persisted more obstinately in flying, and
With the assistance of sweetie, succeeded in getting out of the
reach of shot. The pursuit continued with perseverance all
night. We cleared for action, and by the aid of good night
giasses, the vessel was not lost sight of for a 'moment. We
profited so dexterously by all the changes of the wind,
.and
their bad matneuvres, that, turning against them-several feign-
ed tacks they made, we had the satisfaction, on the 23d,'at sun-
rise, to see the vessel under the quarter of the Jean Bart, to
windward, I ordered the French colours to be hoisted at
the sound of music and a volley of musketry: Their vessel
then hoisted the flag of Spanish corsair,- at the sane time en
Iteavouring to get off, and hoisting several small isaibi which its
had not yet spreu4. -Another shot tidied in making them bring,
to, as it had hopes that by means of the breeze which sprung
'up, its swift sailing would secure its escape. I then tried a fire
from two 3f;-pounders on it, the shots from which, though they
went beyond it, did not prevent it from continuing its course.
A third-fired at it went so near it that the ship then allowed
itself to be searched,

krom an crcaminatinn of' the ship's papers* we found that it
is called Nuetra Velo lifariana, 345 tons ; that it is a corsair,
armed with 24 twelve-pounders, having 176 men on board,
and a Cargo for Cadiz, from Vera Cruz and Havannah, con:
aiming nearly of three Millions in specie ; and as much in
vanilla, indigo, cochineal, and other merchandise of small
bulk.

The attack of this corsair during the night, against a ship
whose tlag it could not have known, is an infringement of the
right of nations, if it is not even an act of piracy; it is, to say
the 1, ;;:it of it, an act of hostility against France; and no doubt
but if the Pan hurt had been merely a inorchant vessel, it
would have become the prize of this corsair ! Its arrogance,
'whilst it thought thatit could reckon on its swift sailing, its
hostile conduct till open day, when perceiving a French ship
of the line it only sought to make its escape; its obstioacf in
riot allowing itself to be searched, as long as it thought it might
possibly abuse my moderation ; its false course ; its effort to
accelerate its flight by disembarrassing itself of any thing ,
which might impede it; its armament, anti its 'dispositions for
-attack and defence, • which even existed when it -had been
hoarded; in fine, every thing . has persuaded inc that the
Captain of this corsair, aware of the hostilities agaimft France,,
or at least presuming them to exist, intended to take one of
our ships.
I gave the necessary orders that the corsair might be provi.
.xionally detained, and that it might be brought, with the Jean

It art, iNariiniclue. Sikty Prentlaricn were put Onboard, in ex-
change for 110 Spaniards which have been taken from it. The
seals were strictly put on the hatchviays in presence of the pre-
tended supercargo, who remained in care of it, together with
M. Herbert, midshipman,*to whom I have given the command
of the vessel. An officeeof marines and*lo soldiers have also'
been put on board. as additional security for the inviolability.
of all the property ; nothing whatever has been ',taken out of
the vessel. •
When I notified a'the Spanish captain my reeolution tb take
-the vessel to Martinique, there is no sort of arrangement that
he did not propose to me in conjunction with the self-styled
supercargo (who I have sineelearned is merely an adroit pas-,
'lenges) ; as for instance, to destroy his armament, to land a part
of his crew, and only to leave such a number of men as were
absolutely necessary 1b the navigation of the ship to Cadiz.
He was extending his propositions even still further, when I
put an end to them by potutively informing him that I would
not receive any of them, and that my decision was irrevocable.

[From the CourierFrancais of Tuesday

PA-HIS, MAY 27.--We have not received, either yesterday
or the day before, our correspondence from Perpignan_, which
would have transmitted to us the details of the action between
General Donnadieu and the Constitutional General Rotten.—
We learn through another channel that this engagement was
Much more murderous than General Donnadieu gives reason
'to believe in his report, he not having yet had time to reckon
the number of the killed. The same accounts state, that in
this warm action, in which our troops were exposed for four
hours to the fire of the enemy, the French obtained as the price
of their courage and their efforts, the advantage of keeping
.the
field of battle. No prisoners were made, and the Constitu-
tionalists retreated in good order, into positions as strong as
those from whence they came. By the next courier we shall
learn whether our letters have informed us truly of the result of
this action.
[Pram the Pilate of Tuesday Evening:l
ENVIRONS OF TOLOSA, MLA r 21.-1 n the night of the lath
the garrison on Santona, knowing the desertion of the troops of
Zabala and Long", resolved on a sortie. The Constitu-
tionalists took their measures so well ' that the besiegers, to
their great astonishment, found, themselves surrounded on
every side.—They lost more than six hundred men in killed,
takent or drowned. Some of the leaders, among whom was
Captain Gomez, despairing of pardon, plunged into the river,
where several perished.
The little port of Laredo, which the official bulletins had
represented as of importance, has again fallen, in consequence
of this event, into the hands of the Constitutionalists—all the
coast, as far as Bilboa, is in their power. The people of the
Faith continually lose credit and resources. There has been
for several days at Tolosa a convoy of provisions and munition
for Saragossa, but orders have been received to delay it, as the
roads are not sufficiently safe. •
The corps of General Molitor has received orders to repair
by forced marches to Valencia, to occupy that place at all ha-
zards. It is asserted this movement is to favour the disem-
barkation of some foreign troops who are to be shipped from
A brigade of Preach cavalry is sent from Palencia to Leon to
observe the Portuguese corps of Rego.
The garrison of- Pampeluna made a sortie yesterday, early
in the morning, and surprised the division of the Faith, which
was cut off. The French troops came up, and the action was
severe; and at five in the evening the garrison returned to the
fortress in good order.
On the 19th three ships, with provisions. and munitions of
war, entered St. Sebastian without obstacle.

[From the Journal des Davis of Wednesday.l
GERONA, MAY 22.—General Curial has taken possession of
Mater°, which Milans (lid not even attempt to defend. lie
abandoned the town on the approach'of the French troops, and
continued his retreat to under the walls of Barcelona. The
principal forces of the division of Curial remain at Granolles, in
order to proceed to Barcelona, Vich, or II haircut. General
Donnadieu, on his part, has rendered himself master of Cel.
lent. On his arrival, Mina abandoned it, so that as yet we
have experienced no resistance on this point.
Mina still follows the same system of defence, and seems
Only occupied with the care of avoiding an action. lie cannot
conceal from himself what must be the result. In constquence
of the small number of his troops, he has hitherto succeeded,
by hiding himself in the mountains, and has eluded the re.
searches of our Generals and the ardonr of our soldiers. But
his army, which is fatigued by marches and countermarches in
a difficult country, wants provisions, and is besides pursued by
the French troops. It is believed that Mina is endeavouring
to gain Barcelona. On leaving Cellent he at first feigned a
march on Manresa ; but turning rapidly to the left, lie pro-
ceeded by ()lot on St. Barthemendel-Gruan; and instead of
alkproacbing the little town of Vigne,, which we occupy, he
directed his march on Moya.
Generals Donnadieu and tl'Eroles are in pursuit of the
enemy. They will either overtake him, or, escaping also from
Curiars division, which is not very probable, he will shut him.
self up in Barcelona as Lloberas and Milano; have already done.
Catalonia will then be delivered. We shall be masters of. the
country, and our troops, assembled in a single corps, will form
the siege of Barcelona, where the division of sentiment is al.
ready at its height.