The Sun.
London, England, 1823-12-10 00:00:00

TUE ARMY.

The several detachments of Non-Commissioned Officers of
the Line, which have been under instruction, for some time, in
the Improved System, and which were inspected on Monday,
in Hyde Park, by his Royal Highness the Commander-in.
Chief, were ordered, in consequence of their approved profi-
ciency, to proceed yesterday to join their respective Regi-
ments, for the purpose of instructing them in the Improved
System.

The detachments belonging to several Regiments in India,
which have been ordered to prepare for embarkation by the
31st instant, will proceed from the Isle of of Wight and Ports-
mouth, on Friday next, for Chatham, where they will arrive
on the 19th and 20th instant, preparatory to their embark-
ing on board the Berwickshire and Duchess of Athall, for
Bengal ; and the Duke of York, foci Castle Huntley, India.
men, for Bombay..

From the LONDON GAZETTZ of Last Night.
Commission in the Ist Royal Surrey Regiment of
signed b the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Surrey.
William flolme Sumner, Esq. to be Captain.
Commission in the South Shropshire Regiment of Yeomanry
Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Salop.
Thomas Beale, Esq. to be Captain, vice Baxter, resigned.

FALSE EVIDENCE DETECTED.

Two unfortunate &flows, named Henry Bar.
don end John Elgar, who were convicted at the September Old
Bailey Sessions of a highway robbery upon a labourer named
William Thorn, have been, by the exertions of Mr. Sheriff
Lana tr, taken out of the hands of the executioner. Ever since
the conviction of these two men the greatest interest has been
excited in the parish of Malehone, where the robbery was
sworn to have been committed; fur their characters formed the
most marked contrast to the circumstances of the .obbery with
which they were charged, and most important evidence was
brought before the Secretary of State in consequence of the ex-
ertions of Mr. sheriff Laurie.
Thorn bad positively sworn, that on the night of the lath of
September, as he was walking along the Edgware.:road, with.
I3s. lid. or I4s. in his pocket, about eleven o'clock, the psi.
loners passed him twice near the ilop-Poles public-house, and
then 'with a desperate blow knocked him down ; that one of
them knelt upon his chest and held his hands down ; that El..
gar turned the money out of his pockets, and then proposed
to his companion to take him by the heels and throw him into
the Cut, to prevent him from telling talese-it proposal to
which the other would not agree, although urged repeatedly
to put an end to the business in that manner by Eiger,
who swore, that if the least noise or resistance were mad 4
the prosecutor should be killed ; that next morning, at an early
hour, he (Thorn) went to look for his assailants, whose feces he
had clearly seen by the light of a lamp, as well as of themoon,
and observed them drinking in the King's Arms public.house,
In the Edgewarc-road, and that he informed a watchman both
at night and in the morning of the robbery.
The watchman swore that the prosecutor only informed hint
of the robbery in the morning at five o'clock; that there was
dry blood on his face, and that his clothes were spotted with
blood from top to bottom ; that upon being charged with the
robbery in the house, they said nothing bin their to
the watch-house, they declared that they were innocent. welshis
witness heard no noise on the night of the alleged robbery, al-
though his beat was near the Hop-Poles public-house; but the
prosecutor told him the robbers had put their bands upon hie
month.
Four men who had been drinking with the prisoner at the
Devonshire Arms public. house, swore that they did not quit
that houite, until within a quarter or ten minutes to 12, anti that
that house was distant from the hop-Poles public-house three-
quarters ofa mile.
Thorn was then called back, and he said he had sot men-
tioned the robbery to any one on the night it happened, for he
was glad to get out of the way, and that the robbery took
place its nearly as he could recollect, at ,twenty minutes past 1 I
o'clock.
The inhabitants of the parish in which the robbery was said
to have been committed, struck with the nature of the evidence
upon which the two men were convicted, and the improba.
!nifty that a highway robbery could have been committed at so
early an hour of the night, in so public a thoroughfare, without
causing the slightest disturbance, made a representation of their
suspicions in the proper quarter; but Mr. Sheriff Laurie and
Sir Richard Birnie had already engaged in the investigation,
and the whole of the past week has been passed in examining
witnesses, and taking the depositions of respectable persons,
whose testimony contradicts in every material circumstance
the evidence of the prosecutor. Eight depositions were taken
by the Sheriff to the Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment.
A plumber, by whom the prosecutor said he had been paid
the night before some of the money of which he had been
robbed, swore that he had not paid any money to him, and that
he had not seen him for three days.
The landlord of the Swan public-house, Park-street, de-
posed that he had known the prosecutor for some time ; that
the prosecutor was at his house on the night of the 13th of Sep-
tember all the afternoon, till seven o'clock, and had no money,
and said he did not know where to go to get any, and wanted
to borrow lid. !Vont his servants, which they, knowing his
character, would not lend him.
A woman named. Ann King swore that she saw the prose-
cutor on Sunday, the hith of September, and asked hint how
he hurt his face, and he said he had been sleeping among some
straw in the Cut-yard, and that the boatmen belonging to Chu
Paddington Canal had knocked him down, ill treated, and
robbed him.
The landlord of the King's Arms public-house, where the
prisoners were apprehended, deposed, that the prosecutor entail not have seen them from the street as he'swore he had, drinking
in his house, the room in which they sat having no communt-
cation with the front at all ; that the prosecutor's statement was
in that respect false ; that the prosecutor's assertion that he was
not in the house before the prisoners, was also false ; for he had
had a half pint of beer there before they entered.
A man named Fowler deposed, that he had conversed with
Thorn on Saturday, the 4th of October, at Croydon, awl watt assured by him that he hail sworn away the lives of the pri•
boners, and was sorry for it, for now he came to recollect, they
were not the persons who robbed him ; but as it was done, it
could not be undone, and that the prosecutor had told him nos
to say that he haul seen him, nor to mention his name.
The other depositions in favour of the case of the prisoners,
stated that the prosecutor had been in 'l'OOlM-fields prison,
concerning the taking of a gold watch out of a gentleman's car-
riage ; that he took a pair of breeches and a pair of shoes front
a place where lie was permitted to sleep; that he was known
to steal other articles worth IN. fkl., and sell them for
sixpence; and that his name was found on the Marlborough,.
street books, for stealing three brass cocks; and also that lie
was distinguished for living upon his daughter's prostitutien.
Those important depositions were not produced at the trig/,
in consequence of the suddenn dayh which it been it
forward, there being only one for the preparation of their
defence.
Barden had been recommended to mercy by the Jury, in con-
sequence of his interference to save the life of the prosecutor.—
After the additional evidence had been given, the Recorder ex..
pressed himself not xatistied of the innocence of the convicts, an
they had not accounted for their time; but we understand his
Lordship declared that lie did not believe the prosecutor lied been
robbed, although he believed he had been attacked. He declined
giving his sanction to the application for a pardon on the ground
with entire innocence. Under these cireums!ances Mr. Sheriff
Laurie put the depositions into the hands of Sir Benjamin /lob.
house, anti asked whether, if the prisoners had had time to pro.
duce this strong chain of additional evidence upon their trial,they
would not in all probability have been acipiitted. The answer was
in the affirmative, and the Sheriff then argued that they were now,
therefore entitled to stand in the situation of innocent men, as,
had they not been hurried in their defence, they would have
brought forward those persons whose statements were so touch in
their favour. Ile also urged the strong arguments that the pro-
secutor had actually abscondeil, and was no where to be found ;
that he was a lazy, drunken, loose character ; that the public,
condition of the place selected for the robbery, the quictneas
with which it was said to have been effected, and the threat to
throw the prosecutor into the cut, were irreconcileable with the
whole account given by that person,
Yesterday a tree pardon from his Majesty was sent down to
the prisoners, who were immediately liberated.
Mr. Richardson, the UndereSheriff, has called upon the five,
last masters of the prisoners, and been assured that the untln.-
tenate fpllows have always acted with the greatest integrity,
and that they should have received into work immediately
der any one of those in whose service they had been employed.
Mr. Sheriff Laurie has most benevolently pledged himself to
use every exertion to repair the injury they have sustained.
For many years such a detection of a false charge has not been
known in the prison of Newgate.

OLD BAILEY, ('Cats DA y).--7-EtiroardCarstoart
indicted for feloniously forging and uttering, as true, divers
pieces of paper, purporting to be recelptsfor money. The pre«
sent case was for defrauding Win. nester of three and it turned out that 80 expert was the prisoner that he bail
duped many by watching the principal out and then preltenting
himself with a jar, for which he received payment. Thi?,
when searced, was of course found to contain only Water and
soot for Ink.—After hearing the evidence, the Recorder said
the charge would not amount to forgery, but for the pro..
tection of the public be should order the prisoner to be detained.
until the next Sessions, to be tried fur the fiand.

A short time Once, no some labourers were ploughing in a field, about six miles to the South of Chiches-
ter, they perceived the plough strike against some hard sub.
stance, a little below the surface of the earth, which, on being
removed and inspected, proved to be an earthen vessel, eon-
taining is large quantity of silver coins, chiefly e'f Gordian, Phi.
lipp, and Postumus ; the granter part are in good presart•ntinti.

CORN.EXCIIANGFI, Disc. 10.
The arrivals of this week Are—Wheat, 6100 ; Barley, 4700 ;
Oats, 7160 quarters ; Plax, 10,200 Mars. The top pr eof
Flour being unexpectedly established at. Ott. per sack ort,
Monday, has occasioned a brisk demand for 'Wheat, anti this
article is advanced in priee from 2s, to 3s. per quarter, anti
nearly all the serviceable parcels are cleared'off the market
Barley sells very heavy, and is rather lower; livens and Peas
continue to meet dull sale ; good Oats remain at Monday's
prices, but such Mare soft sell at rather lower prices.

T V. LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Extracts from the Morning rapers, Dec. 10.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
There is nothing new from the Continent.
Discontent is every day gathering in Spain, and
will soon front the atrocious tyranny that treads
on that country. All the, high roads and neigh-
bouring passes were full of armed bands, who
will unite on the first occasion, and yet shake
the tyrant on his throne, and carry terror to the
very recesses of his palace. An army of obser-
vation, amounting to 12.,000 men, has, it appears,
been decided on by the French Cabinet, which
will be divided between Bayonne and its neigh-
bourhood, and Perpignan. Ferdinand, it is
dear, has no reliance on the Spaniards ? his
very guards within the palace are Swiss or
French. The municipality of nallid under
the Constitutional system, arrested by orders
of the tyrant, and thing into dungeons, are
to he removed in chains to the gullies at Ceuta.
This is the paternal Government Angouletne's
bayonets restored, and to commemorate which
hs is now celebrating his mock triumphs in Paris.
''rbe roads through Spain were so beset with
armed bands that the French couriers were inter-
terceptvd, and Guilletninot, who was some time
since expected at Bayonne, had been afraid to
leave Madrid. The French troops in the coun-
try will have to act as lens-d'arnies, and maintain
tranquillity by force, if they can do so, over
more than 700 miles of territory. But the win-
ter NI ill probably be a dangerous and a troubled
one, Spain never will lie patiently down under
her ptelient load of wretchedness and tyranny ;
and w hen the contest commences again it will be
one of hatred and extermination.

POUN I. NO cos-rd
The reception experienced by the gallant Mina,
and the hospitable treatment and attention he
continues to receive front the principal Gentlemen
of the neighbourhood in which he resides (in-
cluding naval and military, Officers),
must be as gratifying to the feelings of that dis.
tinguislmd I riot and true Royalist, as it is credi-
table to British generosity and our high national
character. Mina, unlike some of his unworthy
fellow-countrymen in arms, is at once a virtu-
ous and consistent man. Be has contended for
thirteen years against the enemies of his- coun-
trl ; too' fought with Britons for the re-establish-
ment of legitimate' Monarchy in Spain :and,
- can con(idently state, has at this moment
no object, so dear to his heart as
.the adoption of
' safe Untwitution under an hotteSt King. He
i§, not flte :Id vocole of. Revolation.;- whilst, care-
'tufty refusing to lend himself to party, he is an
enthusiastic adrnirer of 'the British Laws, the
British Government, and the British King. Ilis
views of freedom are neither loose nor licentious,
-.ortvinced, as he emphatically expresses himself,
that due order in the State is hull:Tensible IA so-
cial ray. Litmeotin4 the de,4raded state of his
native coninvy,, and admitinik coottition of
this blessed Island, he feels its cupabilitieg, and
would, tinder God, heroine, an instrument in re-
geM.rating pain, and forming her (*tor the model
of Britain, whose Laws and Constitution he pro.
flounces to be the best and most perfect in the
world. - Such is the true character of this Brave
and virtuously distinguished man, and as such is
be eminently deserving the sympathy and atten-
tion he experiences from Britons.

[Tut: Ttrees.]
The Ilsrlmloes paper of September '25 states
that the lion se of Assembly of that Island had
met, and after a conciliatory answer to a com-
municatioe from Lord Bathurst, recommending a
certain con PO.' of ificasurvs in relation to the
Negroes, had adjoerned for four weeks. At a
general meeting of " persons coucerned in the
goverement of slaves," a report and resolutions,
prepared by the Committee of Planters and Cler-
gyinee„proviously appoiuted, were read. Thes.e
documents do not seem to reflect discredit on
the liberality or sincerity of the colonists, although
they do trot fully keep pace with the professed
desires of the Government, much loss n ith the
rapid and sweeping purposes ascribed to the
abolition party. The reporters take nearly the
same ground of observation which was alluded to
some weeks since in this paper, as being dwelt
npon by Mr. Hamden, in his address to the
Council of the Island, where that gentleman ad-
duced arguments against the proposed allotment
of another day in the week, besides Sunday, as
a day of rest or recreation to the Negro, and
supported them by statements respecting the
nature of the soil of Barbadoes, and the supe-
rior care anti indulgence enjoyed by him in that
island beyond most others, which we certainly
have no means of refuting. A. fact is asserted,
which mo,t of our readers may possibly learn with
surprise, namely, that at least a " third part of
44 the week is devoted to the raising food for the
" slave alone." Are we to understand by this that
the time so devoted is exclusive of the hours given up
to the Negro for his own spontaneous occupal
lions l' not, its meaniog is worth very little as
reiclon for withholding sonic further cessation
from labour. It uppears, however, that, ifs Mr.
[Lundell had formerly suggested, the adults of 0,
family are to enjoy successively, not, indeed, so
often as once a week, but once for each individual
in three or roar weeks, a holiday to be disposed
of as he or she may think fit. Some one, though
not every one in the family, will have the privilege
every week. The Sunday markets are to be abo
lished, and the Sabbath Set aside for leisure and re-
instruction. 'll he resolutions for advancing
this object are indicative of good feeling and good
sense. he children are LO be Compe Ile d--the
adults invited and encouraged_ to attend prayer
and lecture on.the Sabbath ; and u strong recom-
mendation is held out to proprietors of estates, to
provide lostisictors and catechists approved by
the parochilit clergy, for the improvement of the
slaves n their moriil and religions duties. This,
perhaps, is, all that can be done at present.

- [New Tutir.q.]
The great feature It the present state of the
Money Market continues to be the abundance of