The Sun.
London, England, 1833-11-05 00:00:00

CUNNINGHAM V. FONULANQUE.

This was an action on special assumpsit, and a
verdict given for the plaintiffs, with damages
641. Os. 6d. The plaintiffs were printers, and the
defendant the publisher of the Examiner newspaper.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved for a rule to
show cause why there should not be a ❑onsuit
entered, or a new trial granted, on the ground that
the evidence was improperly received, and that the
verdicr was against evidence, and against the di-
rection of the Learned Judge.—Rule granted.

CHOLERA—AIRDRIE.--About eight clays
ago, this scourge of humanity, so alarming and so fad in
its results, made its appearance at Airdrie Toll, and has
continued to progress towards the town, and to carry off
its daily victims ever since. The deaths up to this date
amount to thirteen, out of a population contained in a few
scattered houses in the detached district referred to. As
yet we have not heard of a single recovery, so that we are
led to believe that the malignity of the disease on this oc-
casion is much greater than when it raged here in 1832.
Fever has also been very prevalent of late in the town, but
we are happy to add, that its virulence is now much
abated.— Scottish Guardian.

The following account of the new Spanish
Minister, M. Xavier de Burgos, is given in a letter from
Paris :—" I❑ consequence of the evacuation of Spain by
the French army in 1823, M. Xavier de Burgos took
refuge in France, and established himself as a merchant in
the city ~f Marseilles. He was unfortunate in trade, and
became a bankrupt. Shortly afterwards he returned to
his own country, and obtained an employment under the
Government of King Ferdinand. I❑ the year 1824 he
was despatched into France in the capacity of Commis-
sioner of the Sinking Fund, in order to assist M. Aguado
in his "*"*"" manceovres for the negotiation of a
Spanish loan in France, Belgium, Holland, and Germany.
While in Paris on that occasion M. Burgos became the
champion of Spanish financial credit, and replied through
ether journals to the attacks made upon it by the liberal
press, which represented the contemplated operations as
calculated to cheat capitalists of their property. On his
arrival in Paris M. Burgos was miserably por. His first
step, however, placed:lso,ooo francs (6,0000 in his
pocket. (It had reference to the affair called Guebhard's
Loan.) A Spanish Priest of the name of Minano, also a
partisan of the French, and who bad been a secretary of
Marshal Soult's in Spain, was his principal agent in this
movement. Through him a Spanish journal was esta-
blished at Bayonne, and afterwards at St. Sebastian, with
(it has never been doubted) the sole view of supporting
his financial speculations. The nomination of M. Burgos
to the Ministry of the Interior has been represented as a
mere compliance with the will of the King. This is not
the fact. It was the result of an intrigue between M.
(a celebrated Spanish capitalist), who had been attached
as a sort of secretary to Marshal Soult's staff in Andalusia,
Minano, and the Minister (Soffit), with a view to the
effecting of a great financial speculation, which will develop
itself about the Ist of January next."

Died, on Wednesday last, in Portsea, in his
76th year, of a cancer in the forehead, John Daw, a
veteran warrior. This extraordinary roan entered the
63d regiment of foot in his 17th year, then in America,
commanded by General Leslie, and continued in it for five
years, during which be served in sixteen engagements, and
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4,000 English were engaged by 17,000 Americans. The
regiment to which Daw belonged entered the field 550
strong, thirty-two of whom only came out. During the
action Daw received three wounds, one in hie leg, one in
his arm, and a musket ball in the forehead, (near the spot
where the cancer has proved fatal,) and was left amongst
the slain for some time. His brother, who was in the
same regiment, and had escaped without a wound, after
the battle went in search of him, and finding life still re-
maining, took him on his back, and carried him to the
English quarters. After his recovery he was sent to
England, and placed with the Veteran Corps at Fort
Cumberland. In 1793, Daw was again called to engage
in a sanguinary conflict. The Veteran Corps bad partly
the charge of the convicts at Fort Cumberland, twenty-
seven of whom seized arms and got on board a small vessel,
and escaped undiscovered, until they had nearly reached
the mouth of Langston Harbour, when au officer and ten
men, amongst whom was Daw, were sent in pursuit. As
they approached the fugitives, a brisk firing commenc,d,
and was kept up for some time, but on hoarding, consider.
able resistance was given ; eventually the veterans succeeded
in capturing them, but in the conflict two were killed and
three severely wounded. Daw again escaped. Subse-
quently he has remained an out pensioner of Chelsea,
and has been employed as a labourer in Mr. Orange's dru
establishment at Portsea. He retained his faculties to
the last.