The Sun.
London, England, 1812-04-21 00:00:00

FRENCH P4PERS.

PARIS, APRIL 14.—Letfers from Valladolid of
he 4th ofsiVlarch, mention, that the town of 'Soria,
having been attacked on two points by about 5000
brigands of the bands of Duran,' Amor, Vesura, the
Empecinado, and Montijo, who attempted to take
it by storm, a few cannon-shot were quite sufficient
to disper.ge them. The brigands lost about 30 men,
and' had 160 wounded. , The garrison had only
eight wounded. The General in Chief has testified
his satislaaion to Mojor St. Hilaire, Commandant
in that province.
We learn from Cadiz, that General Soult has
beaten the army, of Murcia, and taken possession of
the towns of Murcia and Orihuela. On the 20th
of March the remains of the insurgent army arrived
at Cadiz. General La Carrera was killed.

ST. PETERSBURGH, MARCH 14.—Count Charles
de Levenhielm, Aide-de-Camp to the King of Swe-
den, lately arrived here; he was present at the re-
view,Which took place at the (lose of last month.—
Two other Swedish Officers have since` arrived."
MUNICH,-APRIL 3.—Accounts from Vienna men-
tion, that the Russian General, Prince Bagration,
has arrived on the frontiers of Gallicia with a
corps de armee. Count .I\l"ovosilzoff is still at
Vi-
enna ; but iris believed that he, wilt soon depart for
St. Petersburgh.
MADRID, MARCH 20.--.-HiS-Majesty's birth-day
was Yesterday celebrated with solemnity. - Dis-
charges of artillery announced this fête at day-
break. The King . received in the morning the
chief public functionaries, and the nobility. in the
evening all the city was illuminated, and there
was a masked ball at the theatre de los Calms del
Peral.. The Municipality of Madrid celebrated this
day by aasof beneficence. His—Majesty made a
great number of promotions in the Royal Order of
Spain„and appointed Don Cipriani Palafok, Gentle-
man of the Chamber ; the Marquis d'likapa, Major
Dorno of the Household ; and Don Antonio Rote,
Master of the ceremonies,

In the vicinity of Aldea del Fresno, General Ca-
pitaine has surprised and almost intirely destroyed
,the band of Fermin, who escaped alone.

Mustc.--!-A very numerous and elegant audience
attended the Hanover-square Rooms last nigh:, at
the sixth performance of the Vocal Concerts, wider
the directidn of the KNYVETTii aid the VAUGHANS.
The Chief Vocal Performers were the KNvvaTTs;
the VAUGHANS, SALE, jun. and TRXiMEZZANI.
the first air rrRAMEZZANI displayed great flexibility of
voice in a Polonese Bravura. • The Maltese Ma-
riners, a new Hymn, composed by Mr. COOKR, was
deservedly applauded. Mrs. VAUGHAN, in this ati,
sang." Angels, ever bright" a very interesting
manner. The Glee " Chief of tlie-tvindyillorven,"
so honourable: to the genius of 1)r. CALLCOTT, ex-
cited 'great applause, and again ativ..rkened strtang feel-
ings of regret on the present situation of the meri-
torious and unfortunate Cotnposer. The first act
concluded with the grand air and
.chorus " Glory
The most prominent parts
to God," from Joskuq.,
of the second at'l were a Gies- COoxe, well sup-
ported by. the VAUGHANS, K.N.YVETT, and W.
ELLIOT ; an air of PORTOGALLO, by TRANIRZZANI,I
and the admire 4 Glee, " When Sarrno tun'd the
raptured strain," by DANBY, admirably givetr 'by
W. KNYVBTT, VAUGHAN, and SALE, jun. - Ii is but
jthitice to the lair to say, that_ he'aoly follows the
manly an 4tfetted style of his fa:her. The Concert
was agreeably di.ersitied by' instrumental pieces
front MARTINI, BACH, and BEETUOVM

.. Li iIP it vi O Rt:

etitiftt OF KING'S BENCH, APR IL :a.

LIBEL AGAINST THE TRANSPORT BOARD.

THE KING V. LOVELL.

Daniel. Lovell, Piop,rietor of the Newspaper,
called The Statesman, was brought up to plead, to
an Indictment filed stgainsthim bythe Atiorney-Get,:s
neral, for a false, soindalous, and malicious
inserted in -The Statesman, calcnlated to vilify and
traduce; he Transport 8 .aret, and•to hold them up
to hai fed and indignation both at home aiid 'abroad.
The Libel, w hich was in the shape of a Letter front
a COrrespondtrit, began by alluding to the situations
of our MAO, tonate Coontiyinen who are detained as
Plisotiers in 'France, and to account. for their pro
iraoed detention, went on to give a pretended de-
scripCori of the tryalment of French Prisoners
of 'War in this country, by the Commissioners
'of the Tr.,nsport f3.9,rd. These Commission-
ers, the libel stated, had Ole card. of providing
food and cloathing for the French prisoners, and
thio-gh their hands also came iite remittant:es made
to-t hem front France. These,remit'ances the Coma
tnissionersonstead of iminediaielrappropriating to
the use uf the prisoners for whirm they were intend-
ed, weie in the hahii of withholding for ind4nite
periods, a..d emnloy,ig in speculations in the funds,
for their ws,n pr. va! - benefit. The poor prisoners
at the ditferen! dt-eo:s, they were freduee"ly, in the
us : of putting on what was termed halt portions,
hereby producing a siving, at each ditl,s! of about
three hundred pounds a dal:, which c,hvy themselves,
and their einp!oyers, pocketed: lii this manner
tl.ey defrauded Ole poor prisoners out of large sums
to the amount of several hundred thousand pounds,
yearly. Whether the higher departments of Go-
vernment, or the Admiralty, joined' in, or were
aware of these praffices, the Writer of the Letter
did not pretend to know, but it seemed likely they
did, from the anxiety whiCh was shewn to increase
the number or French prisoners in this country, by
bringing them from Spain, instead of exchanging-
them for Spanish prisoners in the possession of the
French. While such practices, however prevailed,
it was in rain •for those who had relatives detained
in France to expea that they should be permitted
to return to this.countt.Y,

Mr. Lovell being called upon to plead Guilty or,
Not Guilty to.the Inforination,

Mr. READER, as Counsel for him, craved impar.
lance till the first day Of nett Term. This, he he- -
lieved, he was entitled to by the, proC-tice of the
Court; and in the mean time his .client would-try
to set himself right with the public and with'the
Atioiney-General. He felt great concern for the
offence into which he had ignorantly fallen, in hay-
leg been the the instrument by which publicity had
been given.to a libel, such as.‘hat now read, and of
the existence of which he had not even been aware, .
till after it had appeared in print. The defendant
was unfortunately-at present a prisoner in Newgate,
and of course was unable to superintend his own
affairs. It might not be proper, however, for hint
(Mr. ItaapEtt) to say more at present. '
Imparlance was granted till the first day of next
Term, .and the defendant was remanded into the
custody whence be had been brought.
CRIMINAL ,INFORMATION.
Mr. kTTORNEY-GENERAL moved to file a crimi. -
nal information against Fleet, the Editor of the
Brighton. Herald, for a most. gross libel on the cha-
ratter of Miss, a daughter of Lord
The part was now read which contained the libel, :-
and which was published in the newspaper by the
defendant ; it was as follows :—" A faux pas has
been lately discovered it high life, by which two '
noble families have been made miserable. The
young Gentleman has offered honourable reparation,
but his father, a Noble Earl, has refused to con-
sent ; and the father of the Lady insists ~on
marriage." That Miss S--- was the Lady
glanced at in this paragraph, he had an afficia.,
vii, in which it was stated what 'Mr. Freer said :
the affidavit was by a G:•niletnan, who stated, that
having occasion to see Mr. Fleet at his office, he
asked him it he had heard of the discovery- between
Capt. W.-and Meas 8— ? When he replied, No.
When Mr. Fleeradded, it was certainly so, and that
his father, the Earl of —, had threatened to cut
him off
,with a shilling, if he married her. 'Lie
Lady had sworn to her innocence, and the Court
would ask if Capt. W. had made any affidavit ;
had not, and he would tell the Court why. Capt.,
W. had certainly :done Wriong, ter .hn seeing itie
paragtaph, he had gone to th:mtfice of Flee., and
he refusing to give up the author, he had certainly
given him a good horsewhipping. A. a lawyer, he
was bound to say it was wrung,; but as a man, be
could not so much blame him for, the assault. Fleet
had inditted Capt. W.,and in this ca,e the Atiorney
General 'said., he thought it not advi,able to ask .fOr
any affidavit froM that Gentlernati.-- Rale il'isi
granted.

The Blues and Stafford 'Militia !lava received
routes from Windsor, .in consequence .of the late
riots and disturbances in our thaouta:lufing towns.
The Royal Blues marched yesterday .and today, and
the '<Jog's Own Stafford tomorrow. They are to
proteed to the Eastern District, in'ordur to be sta.
tionedzs cir':umstanees tnay require. Tilree,huo<
dred of the 29th Foot are to do duty in areir room at
Windsor.

We learn . by the proyiecial Papers received yes-
terday, that there has been some further rioting at
Manchester and Carlisle, but we are bapt y to-add,
that all is again tranquil at.thr,sl places, and the nt.,
er,ssary precautions haVe been stak-qt to pi eventr all
further mischief. _ At Sheffield every thing remains
quiet, and the apprehensions entertained ofdis of -
ances on Saturday have proved u.,foutided.—At
Stockport and at Cheshire all is geict. Manchester
is pertettly orderly,—ln Corowall the ruiners have
returned to their work,' and_ we cannot' find from
the Yorkshire Papers any confirmation of. the
,ac-
counts circulated some days since, of arms having
been seized in Huddersfield. •In short, we are sure
we shall not be disappointed in our exi:ettations that
the proverbial good sense of the people will convince
them that the destruction of wachinrry cannot
amend the market for out ntanutactores-, but must
render Clem more_ unworthy of competition with
the mantliadulei of other countries; and that WI
dissatisfaction iltstead of remov-
ing or altuvWting the calamity of scarcity.

tiIPERfiL I),4pLiIImEA7I.

HOUSE OF PEEFiS:

DIONDAY,' APtilL 20.
Royal As.enigiven by -CoMmiscion tO
auras
Earl of Wellcnton's Annuity . t.he Hon-
il"s Mahogany, the Irish Svirits Exportation, the
r cal Militia Amendment, the Irish- Militia Farni-
"s arid S Idiers‘ Bill, the Thames Navigation, and
to several other Bills.
The• Lords ,Conimissioners were,
,r he LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl Of LIVER-
) °()L, and Lord WALEINGHAM.
The Irish , Grain Exportation, the Coffee Duty
4 egulatioo, and Blachford's Divorce Bills, seve-
-1.114 passed- through Committees of the whole
1
°ruse, and were reported.
"'he LORD CrIANCELLOR, with reference to the
tan mentioned Bill, adverted to the Clause regoired
(1 be proposed by one of their Lordships' Orders for
proh;k• •
Mg—
the Intern3arriage pf the Adulterer with
1e Divorced Female, and to afford, an .opportunity
0,
this being proposed, if it should be deemed pro-
on the occasion of the third reading of the
e observed -that some interval should be allowed
efOre thit staae took place.
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