The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-13 00:00:00

bOIiONERS'

,StISPECTE!A 3tUßlliji IN ANGEL COURT.—Last after»
noon an Inquisition was taken at the Golden Lion, King street,
Bt. James's, Upon the body of Mary Rowley, reported to have
been murdered..
James Rowley, husband ,ta the deceased, deposed, that he
lived in Angel-court, King-street i• his wife, the deceased, was
45 years of age; .site,hati been in good health till last Saturdaw
Week; he was In: heti 4bottt the middle of the day when he
heard a scuffle between her ancl.Mary Burns upon the stairs ;
his wife cried out murder, indiaoon after rushed into the
room, followed by the woman Burns,
had kicked her itt
the lower part of thenbdomen, and she fell upon the bed ; he
got up and turned out Burris; his wife complained of the kicks
next day; and then she could not walk, and said the injury she
sustained would, cause her death. 1, • ;„
Cross-exarnined.—There was malice between them before t'
Ottrns would never let hi* wife alone, and frequently said she
would murder her. • •
Several other witnesses deposed to the. Game effect, each
proving that the prisoner and the deceased were always quar-
relling. • :t •
A young.womart,natned Deacon, ,whom it was stated was a
Material witness, was net in attendance, as her brother had
threatened to heather if she attended to give any evidence.
The Jury retired far a conaiderabie :time, and then agreed
to adjourn until lour o'clock this day, and wished that another
Niedteal tientlemAin :might be requested to take amore minute
examination of the body.

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.I 01:,,,11011111•WEST, VaPF.DITION.—w e stated
i, • .
in our last that the rumoor of Captain Parry's
arrival was received at the,Admiralty with some
degree of credit. The following intelligence, we
presume, rests on the same, foundation :---64 \V
have what we,
•• deem good authority for an-
nnuncing, the success of Capt. Parry's expedition.
The intelligence has reached us through a source
as leaves us no worn to.doUlit of its,authenticity.
Capt.. Parry is now, or very lately was at Valpa-
raiso,.W4re he would
,probably rernain ,a short
time to,•reit his ships, and refxesh his
li crews.—
t After . passing 13e ring's Straits, , the possibly
arrived
,at the 546 wick, Isles, .and from thence
may Mare :tfinchet at the Marquesas, on hie
way to,, Vulpareise. We test week sag-,
gesteil the possibility of his making his way over-
land to St. Peters,hurgh, in case qf his, being mil
able to, pass Hehring,'s Straits. Happily there i 4,
now no farther, occasion for relieving ourselves-
Qom our doubts or fears by the consideration of
the various mq4es by which he might be enabled
to return, td this coantry.—(EdinbUrti Literary
Gazettes)
t

. , •
On the 4tb inst. the carriage of the •linke OF
GLQVCESTkit) who. travels under the title of
„ ,
Count %...,ONNAUGHT,I %VtiS. stepped ,on :the road
from Caen to Ilavre by a patrol of gendarmes,
•
who denianied to see his passport,' and which, as
it was in the possession of One
.of his, attendants
Who had ~proceeded onward,., he could not pro-,
duce. • The,gendartnes, mistrusting the explana-
tion ViWell giy. ell to them, and enspecting that
mime dangerous. Personage was endeavouring tti-
Oeceive them by assuming the title of a foreign
Prince, determined to escort the carriage to the
!m it post town;.where, on their arrival, the au-
thorities' lmmediately recognized the illustriogi
I. traveller.—(Paris Piper).
Cuntoue Gast.---On Tuesday a Very curious,'
difficult, .and amusing case, was decided in the Court of
Quarter Sessions .held at Glasgow, arising out of tin
peal trout the decision of the Petty Sessions. The case was
at the Instance of the • road trustees on the fiuthergien
road; insisting upon double toll from a carter upon the
lowing grounds i-,The carter, in passing the toll in Abe morn,
ing, froin Glasgow, paid the metal dues. At that time there
was In die cart (And its whole loaf a country girl coming to make
markets there, anti whohad along with herat the time an empty
jar and mune other articles.of very trifling bulk. in returning, it ,
happened that the carter good naturedly gave his female friend
and her beggage(again his whole toady a ride hack, but in the rhenti
time she had got. her jar filled, and had also with her a few
purchases,. which. made her trifling baggage rather more bulky-
than what it hid been in the morning. The toll-keeper demanded
double toll, insisting that the load was not the same which had
passed in the morning.-frthat in .fact it had been altered,
increased, augmented, was larger, heavir-r titan before—in short,
that the load, animate and inanimate, had been materially
changed from what it was in the morning, which brought it
within the scope of, the tact of Parliament at liable to double toll..
The proprietor of the cart contended that it was the same female
and her baggage which he had in the morning, and which
he again had in , the evening as his whole load; and that in
the interim .he had mm le no alteration in, or addition too
hex person or her load, and cnnsequently was not liable either
for double toll or penalty Which the Act of Parliament might
prescribe; nor could. he in this 'case be made aerotintable for
whet others might have done. The Judges at the Petty Session*
sustained the defence of the owner of the cart. 't‘rorn that
deciSion the road trustees appealed to the quarter Sessions, the
Judges of which sustained the decision ot, the inferior Court,
upon the principle, we believe, that any trifling addition to,
lco in
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ottihpeennabndittngi
Itfarenvitnrgs
etoonttretti74pltilr ol;.;Zirmvelm11:1:11
w4thesicletuwrva.a)not made to pry into or.
male secrets or country giriti cornin;lntnrck'tects?—(4C4'aln-Ceedt°),-iitirept"

CORN E.X.offANGE, Aim. 13.

(iv;ing to the favourable weather, and the expeetation of its
continuing, Wlls:at lias been otltred this morning at a lower
pric*, l)ut there does not seem much disposition to purchasi,,
and the prices of all articles may be mioted the same As oul,
last inarket.day. The arrivals are as follow t—Englith
Wheat, 13570 i Barley, 15U; Oats, 2150; Irish, 005: Plool
5250.

THE LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning PrTers) August 13.

Dim TIMES.
• All the communications trent Portugal,whether
-verbal or written, which haie lately reached us,
represent the political prospects there to be very
far from settled. A few estimable men, and a
still smaller number of wise ones, may be counted
among the sharers hi the counter-revolution, and
among those into whose hands the power of the
state' has fallen in consequence of that event. But
individuals who act with a patty are too often
forced to conduct themselves in subserviency to
its vices, and to be finally stigmatized or de-
stroyed fir those theotigh whose co-operation
they have 'risen. So far as we can judge from
the most authentic intelligence that has been re-
ceived, the faction who now exercise the Govern-
ment of Portugal are charged by, a respectable
and. powerful class of- their countrymen with ty-
rannical acts, and with treacherous intentions ;
while it is broadly affirmed in many quarters,
that the national sentiment is every day rally-
ing round the recollection of the overthrown
fern] of government, and that the army, which
was the engine of its destruction, already
and openly repents of the outrage, and is eager to
display fresh. energy, in a disolution for the se-
cond. time of its own work. The Portuguese
troops which have been so lauded by the Ultras
for enabling the Court of Lisbon to resume its
despotic power, are now described by the best
informed and most trust-worthy of their country-
men, to have been the victims of a dexterous but
corrupt and profligate intrigue. It is stated,
(what was evident at the time) that the people
of Portugal took no .Part in accomplishing the
recent changes. We saw and said that the
people could be charged: with nothing worse
than a passive endurance of. the change :. but
they were in fact surorisedr and under some-
thing like stupefaction.. A fCw public men, in the
confidence of the Allied Courts, were movers
of the conspiracy through prejudice or personal
ambition. French gold is said to. have Set in
action large troops of emissaries-, and• to have
bought over,• as in Spain, some base-minded
leaders of the army. The great body of the
officeri and soldiers were assured, that when
Spain should be conquered, the Portuguese army,.
if it still adhered to the Constitution,- would be
annihilated; a French corps sent to occupy Por-
tugal, the nod's(' Officers dismiised without pay,
and the soldiers packed off to expire in the settle-
ments on the coast of Africa. Under these va-
rious influences, the troops were misled,' and
the 'Constitutional system overturned. A strong
re-action however, already begun to show
Many. Officers have declared their re:
pentance. The soldiers exclaim loudly that they
have been abused and betrayed-4hey display
'without:ceremony the national cockade to their
acquaintances ; and promise, when the proper
day arrives, to throw away that of the restored
Government. The feeling of the people with
"'regard to the effects of the two systems on public
credit, may be judged from' this fact—that un,
der the ancient Government the titulos (vouchers
of the public debt) were not worth ten rees
—were eagerly sought after during the Con-
stitutional system in 182.1, 182,2, and early in
I ficijand are 'now again reduced to their
original value, zero. The King is declared' to
have no voice in the 'Government,. but to be con.
trouled by spies in his words and actions, and in
ltis intercourse with all his subjects. The Inquisi-
tion, it is true, may be looked upon as extinct ; but
short of that accession to tyranny, the nobility,
friars,and priests,deal the cards at theirown plea-
sure. ,Some good men having been retained in the
minor offices, or appointed to them,. have helped
to check the immense number of dismisealsr and
general course of oppressinn and revenge.—
The Constitution which some persons profess to
be now preparing, is meant (says runlbur)° for a
blind to the nation, until after the last trace, of
free institutions shall have been obliterated
among, their Spaniih friends ' • when old despotism
is frankly to re-erect its.standardupon the Tagus,
and the mpnarchial principle to bestride all
Europe from Si. Petersburgh to Cadiz, and from
Lisbon to Constantinople. A revulsion, how-
ever, in Portugal, it is confidently expected, will,
precede that happy day..

[MORNING CHRONICLE:I
Among the extracts from the Paris Papers will
be found the Telegraphic Dispatch respecting
the defection of Ballasteros. (See THE SUN of
yesterday). Should this intelligence be confin-
ed, France will only have gained another traitor.
The French have nil along been deluded by the
notion that the Spanish leaders have more influ-
ence than they actually possess. They entered
Spain in the firm persuasion that the Officers
whom they had purchased would carry over
with them the troops under their command. They
soon, however, found, that the influence ceased
the moment the defection became known. The
complete execution of their scheme of corruption
taught the Cor.Rtitutionalists to know their ene-
mies, who were only formidable when their
character was not completely understood.—The
'French have been mightily disappointed by the
result of the invasion, and would gladly lay hold
of any pretext for measuring back their ground.
One advantage, however, they have certainly de-
rived from the war. They have nine men of war
off Cadiz, and it is understood that they have in
all about seventy ships of war at sea. Their im-
provement in naval discipline during the few
months their ships have been out, is, by the con-
fession of all our naval men who have had an
opportunity of witnessing their operations, very
wonderful indeed. Whatever, therefore, their
army may stiller, and however much their
,finances may feel the enormous expenditure,
they have at all events obtained what England,
under other circumstances, might not have beep
Disposed to connive at, a skilful and efficient
navy. An article dated Augsburgh, from the
Carlsruhe Journal, mentions that England has
lately been negociatmg with Denmark and Swe.
dew. It is time, for if France and the Nether.

farads, and Itussia, should unite their navies,
England might have some cause for apprehension.
It is not forty years since the combined navies
of France and Spain would not allow ours to keep
the sea.

LMORNING ram]
French Papers to the 11th inst. have brought
us intelligence of another defection from the side
of the. Cortes, which, though but lately effected,
had been long, we rather fear, in preparation.—
Ballasteros, says a telegraphic dispatch, " has
made his submission and acknowledged the Re-
gency." This, after the last accounts, which
represented him as offering to treat, can excite
no surprise: and indeed to us who had atten-
tively observed the whole of his conduct since the
commencement of the contest, the news of his
defection is far from unexpected. We doubted the
sincerity of his attachment to the Cadiz Con-
stitution at an early period of the campaign, when
we saw him recross the Ebro without taking up
any position to dispute the passage of that river.
And our suspicions almost amounted to convic-
tion when we found, that instead of seeking to
Maintain himself on the western frontier of Cata-
lonia, and keeping up unbroken communications
with the faithful and heroic Mina, he suffered
the latter to be turned, and retired without
fighting into the Kingdom of Valencia. The
force which he had with him was so consi-
derable, that if it had remained within reach
of a junction with that under Mina, an army
might have been formed at any time in that
quarter, on the left flank of the invaders, of
sufficient power to prevent their progress, or
if they persisted in advancing to out of their
communications and their retreat. After all
that has been done by Mina with comparatively
limited means, can any one think that if he had
commanded about 50,000 men, which such an
union would nearly have produced, his skill,
activity, and enterprise, acting on a grand scale,
would not have changed the whole character
and fate of the war ? This, however,, was pre-
vomited by the desertion of Ballasteros, who did
not even defend the province into which be had
retreated, but continued to fall back as the
enemy approached, destroying, by this apparent
want of confidence in their courage and fidelity,
what the French term " the moral" of his troops.
Instead of collecting and strengthening his army,
Ballasteros parcelled it out into small detach-
ments, which were unable to resist the French
divisions, although when united they might have
been equal in numbers. That some of them
should have been defeated under such circum-
stances, and that their Chief should have availed
himself of those repulses to execute the plan
which he had in contemplation, and to abandon
openly a cause which he had lukewarmly served,
if not secretly betrayed throughouty is not mat-,
ter for astonishment.