The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-20 00:00:00

ARMY OF PORTUGAL.

"'On the 13th of December the Duke of Ragusa_
considered it expedient to dispatch. General Mont-
brun, with three divisions of infantry, a division of
cavalry; and 30 pieces of artillery, to march by Al-
barite upon Valencia, and reinforce Marshal-Sachet.
The march of General Mont: run having been un-
fortunately retarded by counter-orders, this General
only arrived at Almansa on the 1 ith of January.—
Valencia was taken Gem Mont brun continued his
march towards Alicant, defeating several indulgent
corps. On the 25th he arrived on the Tagus, to
rejoin the Army.
" The Duke of Ragusa wishing -to relieve the
garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo, and leviraual that for.
tress, set out from Toledo the beginning of January,
with four division§ of his army, taking the direc-
tion of Valladolid : • but Ciudad Rodrigo had been
intested by the English since the gth. Lord Wel-
lington, wishing to make a diversion in favour of
Valencia, passed the Agueda. The redoubt and
convent which delen'ed the approaches to the town
were Surprised ; and, it appears; the town was
taken on the lgth, the breach having been prado-
cable. By a culpable negligence of the Governor
of Salamanca, the garrison of Ciudad Rodrigo had
been without communication for two months. •Ori•
ginally 1,400 stionge-it was reduced by sicknes;,
and the surprise of the Convent, to 900 meet. The
General of Brigade Barrie was GeAtroor. We are_
not yet sufficiently acquainted with the details of
this event to form an opinion of it.
"The Duke of Ragdsa having arrived at Sala-
manca with four divisions of his army, two divisions
drawn from the army of the North, and Bonnet's
division, which he withdrew from the Asturias,. in-
dependently 9f the division which he had lett on the
•Dgus, marched towards the English to give them
battle; but Lord Wellington had already recrossed
the Agueda, destroyed the bridges, .and- re-entered
Portugal, after performing this coup-de-main." -
Tire Moniteur of the 11 th, contains the usual
monthly reports from the armies in Spain (the de-
teiis of .whieh we are precluded from entering upon
by want of room). According to theM, • more
than 40,000 English muskets were -found in Va-
lencia, the disartniug of the militia -of which pro-
vince is rapidly carrying into effect, and the whole
suhje& to the Emperor of the French.—Under the
headvof " Army of the South," an account is given
of the proceedings against Tarifa ; and the- failure
there is ateribtred to the fosses-. not having „been
sounded, and 'the confirm,' rains, which rendered
the arrival of provisions irtieossible.
Under the title di Catalonia, there is a long re-
port fromeGeneral Dec:leo, in which he sayS, that
having been info' med the enemy had assembled the
greatest part of his forces in- the vicinity of Tarra-
gona, and' with the assistance of the English, in-
tending' to insult that fortress, he marched, against
and defeated them, ,iith the loss 4'2000 men
in killed, wounded, and prisoners, and all their ar-
t diet e.
PAU, .FEB. 4.—General Blake ate; (?ei here on the
3d. The first column of prisoner, composed of
600 officers of -the geirison of • Valencia, has also
arrived.

MADRID, JAN. 30.7—The small corps of insur-
gents commended by- General-Alalii, since the oc-
cupation of Valencia, has been shut in Aiicant.
T!ie greatest consternation prevails in that
.town, the
inhabitants fly in great numbers. It appearS the
garrison consi,ts of only 2000 men, and.thlt Ge-
neral Freyre, with some troops, is in Requiaa.—
The French have pushe.l their reconnoissances nearly
to the walls of Alicant.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—Right Hon. Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH and Hon. Justice BAILEY.
Northamptonshire—Saturday, Feb. 29, at' Northampton.
L utlandshire— Friday, March 6, at Oakham.
Lincolnshire—Feb. 7, at the Cast e of Lincoln.
City of Linoln—Same day, at the Guildhall, Lincoln.
Nottinghatrishire-- Friday, 13th, at Nottingham.
Town of Nottingham -Same clay, at,t he Town Hall.
Derbyshire—Thursday, 19th, at Derby.
Lei-::estershire—Monday, 23d, at the Castle of Leicester.
Borough of Leicester—Same day, at the Borough Hall.
City..of Coventry—Monday, 3ath, at Coventry.
Warwickshire—Same day, at Warwick.

CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 14.—0 n Monday the Jlev. J.
S. Hewitt, M. A. and the Rev. Cook, M. A. of
Clare Hall were admitted Senior FeAows of that
Society ; the Rev. W. Key Rseve, M. A. was ele6l-
- into Mr..Diggon's Foundation ; and the Rev. 3.
Horner, B. A. was elected a Fellow on Mr. Free-
man's Foundation. The Rev. .1. B. Buckland, M. A.
Mathematical Leaurer of Si,lney Sussex College,
was yesterdu elected a Fourn 'Fellow of that
Society. Thursday the. electiort of a fellow of Sid-
ney Sussex ColL-ge, on the I?oundation of Leonard
Stitith, Esq. vane oti,at a Cburt of Assistants of tlr
-Fishitiongers C.,topany, London. -There_ were only
two candidates, the Rev. Edward Smedley, jun. of
Trinity College, and the Rev,
votes were—for-the Rev. Edward Smedley, 22 ;
the Rev. -- Clarke, .t2—upon which Mr.,Sriftd-
ley was dcclated duly elected.
On Tuesday, an -inquest was held at Otley, in
Yorkshire, on the body of a Gentleman wliose.name
we forbear to mention, and who, on
.the preceding
Sunday, had put a period to his existence by a pis-
tol. It appeared that he first came to Orley in Apil
last, 'had tlivided.the intermediate time between that
;place,
‘Harrowgate, and Thorparch, visiting each
alteinately.. He 'pointedly avoided all society, and
devote-cl the whole of his titne,to 'deeds of charity,
never suffering a -day-to- pays without distributing
from brie to fifty pounds in the course cf the 'ln-Orn-
. ing„ On the Sabbath he generally confined himself
fn the house, avoiding religiously every secular put-
suit. On the-Friday, bet Ore his death, he came front
Thorp-arch to Orley. On his arrival, the pe4le at
the ino observed a considerable change in him, his
spirits were more depresYed. Verdi • -Lunacy .
Heleft a particular requeit to be buried in the church
7yard at Kit by Ove.rblow, and he was. there interred
on-Wednesday last. -
Orders have be.en issued to. ballot for the LoCal
Militia for the county of Middlesex. The number
required for the county is ten thousand, bet weec the
ages of 16( and 30.

OLD BAILEr.

The Sessions commenced yesterday- before Mr.
jus.tice HEATH, Mr. Justice BAILEY, and Baron

WOOD.

Edward Proaar was indi6led for that he, being
a bankrupt-did feloniously and wilfully conceal a
part of his personal estate, of I he value ot more than
01. and thereby defiauded -his creditors. It ap,
peered. by the statement of the opening Coun,,el;
that the prisorvkl had the management of the co tch.v.
horses at the Deli Savage Inn, Ludgate-hill, and in
Purthaing corn, '&e. he been.rne a dealer and dup.
'oat), and a docket was.struck against him. At the
time of his bankruptcy, he had two horses/at grass
at Chiswick, which was a secret to Lis assignees ;
bat after the settlement of hi; affairs he ontra6ted
for the sale of the two horses, for 70 guineas,' and
represented them its the property of Mr. Cook,
merchant, in London.

On evidence being adduced in .support of as _
prosecution, it was not satistadorily proved that 11)e
two horses were w.4th more than 201. although
a guard, formerly belonging to the Salisbury coach,
vhlued them at 161. each'; but he acknowledged he
sold them some time past, and that one of them
had been fired.

Mr. Justice HEATH -observed, that ;t would
be•going too far to convict the plisoner, without
stlonger pool' that the horses were worth 52:01., as
that was nede,sary to support .the in fitta~ent.--o
Aot

J. Sutton was indieted for, fogging and uttering an
order for the payment of' 1601. at the banking-house
of Messrs. Davidson and Cu. with intent to defraud
a Mr. Jackson.

Mr. KNAPP) for the, prosecution, stated the case
to the Jury in substance as follows. The pi isoncy,
who was the prosecutor's brother-in-law, sent a
man named FThrey, with the .check in question,
from a public-house in Charles--street; St. JameStse
square, to get cash at Messrs. Davidson'` banking.
house, whilst he waited his return in the street.--.
Mr. Holloway, a clerk, deteCted the forgery, and
accompanied the bearer of the forged instrument to_
the prisoner,. who returned to the banking-house.—
The prisoner observed, he had received the check
from Mr. Jackson, on the preceding night, when
he (Mr. J.) had been sacrificing at the shrine of
Bacchus, which-accounted. for the loose manner in
which the check was written. The--prisoner ob-
served, he would immediately procur,:-,1 Mr. Jack
son another check, which should ly sa--
tisfy the bonkers, and he was allowcti ;
and he soon after returned with another forged
check, pOrporting to be • the, hand-writing of the
prosecutor. ;The second forge=ry was also discover-
ed; alai the prisoner was delivered into the hands of

Mr. KNAPP proceeded to call• witnesQes, and Fa-
brey, who was the tno.st important evidence, was
absent when called upon his recogoizances, and the
prisoner was a quitted.

He was arraigned on another inditiment, cliarg.
ing him with forging the second check, and-Mr.
Holloway, the banker's clerk, proved die uttering;
but on the prosecutor's being called, he had lost the
forged check, which had been intrusted to tris care,
and front this defect the prisoner was 'again ac-
quitted. •

- Henry Overton was charged with.steating in the
dwelling-iiouse of his master, M. Wassell, pawn-
bioker in Fleet-street, a 201. note, and four bottles
of wine, in his dwelling-house. The prisoner ma=
naged the business altogether, and in him was placed
the- most implicit confidence. Some wino was
missed, and he was suspected, and it was found in
his trunk. Thenote was found in his drawers in
searching for the. wine but, although the rosecu-
ior identified it, he-had never missed it, nor seen it
from the sth,of NoVember, when lie put•it into the
till, until the 2d of February, when the wine was
found. Under these circumstances, the prtswiee.
was convicted of stealing the wine.
TlzomasTomkins was capitally conviaed of stealing
plate, in, the dwelling house of his master,• Mr.
Strong, of Russell-square.
,Illary Weedon, a girl of. 16 years of age, charged
with haying stolen caps, and sundry other articles,
to the value of 51. the property of Charles- Robin-
son, a stationer, in. Red Lion-street, Holborn, was
found guilty of stealing under the value of 40s. but
in Consequence of the youth of the prisoner, and the
excellent charaaer she had received, was'recom-
mended as a fit object for the lenity of the Court.
Wm. Melts, charged with having stolen a coat,.
waistcoat, and other ariicleq, from the house of a
person named Green, in which he was a lodger,
was found Guilty of stealing under the value of 40$.