The Sun.
London, England, 1805-03-29 00:00:00

THE HAMPORdit MAIL.

CoNstartrinotitti Feb. t9.-•:.The Weehabirc2
are not yet entirely eiterminated, nor is it prob
that they soon will, while there ate every where so
many of their partizans. According to Letters from
Aleppo, of the gth of January, after a battle be,
tween them and the Pacha of Bagdad, on the Tigris,
they again assembled in considerable numbers on the
Frontiers of Teak and Omour ; upon which flit
Pacha of Bagdad and rise Imaun of Muscat proceed.
ed to Bassau to concert there a plan of operations
against the in4urgents. This meeting was not urn..
known to the latter, for as the Imam) war returning
by sea, he was attacked by Wechabite Sailor+, and
murdered, with so of his retinue. The death of
this Imaun is the more to be lamented, as his suc.
cessor has always shewn himself a secret adherent .•F
the Wechabites. In Romini likewise, the banditti
who were dispersed, have found an opportunity to
coned in a numerous body, and the, Porte has re.
ceived advice, that they have burned and entirely
destroyed the town of Heraclea, and a neighbour.
ing village. Orders have in consequence been sent
to the Pacha of Adrianople, to take the most vigor.
ous measures to exterrnirate these banditti, to enit,
ble him to eff-A which, the Grand Vizier has aerir
to his assistance a considerabie body of Troops with
Artillery and Cavalry.
Fee. 20.—The new Organization of the (Itotrwin
Troops, both by sea and land, is already begun.
and the aCtivity with which it is carried on shows
that the Porte is fully determined to execute it its
such a manner as shall perfectly attain the end pro.
posed. The discontent which this measure °cert.
sinned at first among the populace now begins to
subside.

VIENNA, MARCH r3.—On the 7th instant,
icourier from the Elettior of WIRTEMBIRG ara
rived at the State 'Chancery, and immtotai‘l after
M. 11Az, who is here on the part of the Wirtemb'erg
States, was arrested by the police, and on the 9th
sent off for Stutgardr, under cite escort of two chat.
seers, accompanied by a Commissary of the Police
Their IMPERIAL MAJESTIES, in their intended
j;:utney, will visit Dalmatia, express instructiont
having been sent to the Magistracies through which
they pass, to avoid all such testimonies of respeft
and honour as may be attended with r•xpenee. The
English Ambassador to Constantinople, Mr. Air.
BUTIINoT, is still at Trieste, where he appears to
prolong his stay by orders from his Court. Ile ha*
there received dispatches trom Admiral Nst.,lN,
and has already sent off three couriers !tons
Trieste to London, During the stay. of the
1r tench Emperor at Milan, the French Ambassa.
clur here will make a journey thither.lTALY •
MARCH 4.---Marol)4l jouanArt has
again arrived at Milan fr 1M e'ris. E t ral
PRINCE PALATINE of BAVARIA, who is now as
Naples, lately made a visit on board the English'
ship of the line, the .Excellent, ut 74. guns, qi,z
in the road there.

NArtAts, Fes. 28.—0 n the loth instant th•
French Ambassabr, M. A LQU t r 4, went to F.s,liro,
a small town between IL fleLtil and Naples, to have
a conference with the French General, Sr. CY n, on
public affairs. As M. ALQuitit. was accompanied
by all the French o,licers in the Capital, a report
was immediately-9)f. 1, that h 114 d attic 0.4 f ait.the
papers of the Legation to R=ime, and his departure
occasioned a considerable alarm among the people;
hut his absence was not of long duration, AS Ile re.
turned again on the 23d.

COPENHAGEN, MARCH 16.-•—•Tri the ensuing
Spring a Squadron of 10 small Vessels, the largest
however of which will nor he bigger than a Cur.
vette, will be fitted out ; tho Commander of it is
not appointed, but it is supposed that the choice
will tall on Admiral VLRUGEL, or WISTRRFP.L.D.
The manoeuvres will he performed on the Coast
of Norway. The Baron DR Posse, who was for
some time confined in the Temple at Paris, is ap.
pointed Captain of the Ist Rt,giment of Guards;
and Major Kuril', who has published some very
excellent Maritime Charts, is appointed Adjutant.
General of the Fleet, and Lieutenant. Colonel.
HAGUE, MARCH I6.—The Committees to whor
the Plan of the New Constitution, and the proposi.
tion for an increase of three per cent. on the Tax
on Income are referred, will, it 1$ expeded, mike
their Report on Friday. No doubt is entertained
that the plan of the new Constitution will, in gene.
ral, be accepted.

It is expe-aed that our present Minister at War
will go ,as our Minister to Lisbon, and M. VAN
Glt ASV EL I), who is now here, receive an appoint.
tent at home, M. Vos VAN STENWYCK has Teo
signed his post of Treasurer-General ; and, accord.
ink; to some, GOGEL, or, according to others,
M. VAN STU AL EN, at present a Member of the
Departmental Administration of Holland, a very
able and well informed man, will be his successor.

, PARIS, MARCH 13. TWO hunched and fifty
Commissions, for Privateers to cruize against the
English, have already been issued in the Spanish
Ports. The Fleet fitting out at Cadiz will consist
in the whole of 30 ships of war—among which are
53 ships of the line, and I z large frigates.

Mr. Fl. ELLI 9, a Gentleman well known 1,1 his
literary talents and antiquarian researches, was o
Wednesday last appointed, by the principal Trus..
tees of the British Museum, successor to the si.
tuation held by the late Mr. ASCOUGII.
His Majesty's Ship Awge.ve sailed from Surinam
with 25 Vessels under cntortny on the 27th la.
nuary—passed Barbat\ors on the 641 February--tos
the ist March became very leaky—on the t2th,
made signal of distress, when Capt. VAUGHAN and
the crew quitted the Ship, 444 were all saved by
the boats of the Convoy. Capt. VAUGHAN was
put on board the Lord Fer6es, bound to London.
It blowing hard, sand there being a very heavy sea,
it is supposed the Imogene acron,went down, as she
was fast fitting with water.
The Brig captured by the Artofune t, We»
Ktrrt.Ay, o fGreenock, the r+th November,
i re.captured on the 27th same tnontil, by
810N4t.A
was Spanish
y,
the French Frigate Presides;, on her passage itVIP
NCW•liQrki and citiliCa into a Finch P,str

SUSSEX ASSIZES.
1-10.1131-IAM,
TUB. KING 4.). sI•KYAND oTHp.ll.ft.
Tuts was an lodietment against Mr. Spry, a
Lieutenant of tie Navy,. and the Impress Officer at
Little Hempton, Duke, a Seaman, and William
Nleetin, a Farmer, for it tiot, assault, and false
eomnent, in impressing two parsons from Storting.
ton, who were not .lieble to the Impress Service.
Mr. Seljeant,SUErPAKD called the particular at.
tension of the jury to the circumstances of this
case, . inasmuch as it involved the most serious
consequences to the liberty ,of all persons: in the
same class of life with the persons whom he then
represented. TheDeteeilant, Spry, was an Officer
of the Impress Service, and the case he had to lay
before tleon was that of a wantoo abuse of
power which which had been entrusted to him for the good
and service of his Country, into an engine of private
revenge scup oppression. The poor man who now
stood aa one of the Prosecutors of this Cause, far
another of them was dead, were both labouring men
in husbandry, and one of them, Saavteolit was sup.
posed, had given information against some smug-
glers, particularly against a man of the name of Serie,
and in revenge they had caused him to he impressed,
although there was no more pretence for doing. it,
accortAng to the laws of she Impress Service, than
there was fur impressing array man then in Court. He
was sorry to add, that from circumstances, it appear.
ed, that Lieutenant Spry knew he was aiding in the
gratification of this private malice, and not in the
lair execution of his duty. Fur it would he in cvi.
dente, that after the press-gang had broken into the.
• poor man's . cottage, and carried him and his son
away, the Lieutenant was applied to, and told, that
the persons he, had taken had never been to sea in
their lives. Bat he refused to release them, and di.
rated them. to be sent to Portsmouth. It would be
proved too, that he said to one of them, that it was
as much a theft to take Master Serle's tubs as to
steal a sheep from the field, and that the impressed
man had been paling against Serle, and was R. man
of had character. The Learned Seijeant then elnir
imadverted upon the equal 'security as 106 the law
atfrorded to ,the lowest as well as to the higheSt. It
threw a hedge and a wall round the pour man's hot,
which it was as criminal to deOtroy or break through
without a legal cause, as violating the security of
he prothlese,mansion. The cottager might slopes
Wifely upon his pallet of straw, .as the Peer tires his,
bed of_down. The latch of the cottage door must
)omore be lifted up hostilely, than the folding doors
•f the palace be rudely burst open. , The law re.
• sented.the violation of both in one equal degree.
He paid many encomiums On the naval character,
and although leis instroctions hall'obliged him „to
. state di.ese charges against a Gentleman of that pro.
fession; he declared it would }ire him the greatest
pleasure to hear' them elisproved
Mary Sow ten stated, that she 'was the widow of
Sow ten,and that she had a son by farmer marriage,
of the name of John Mawley. They lived all rage..
titer on Storrington Common. On the a7th of Fe.
brtsary last her husband had gone to hitt it eight
o'clock, when their cottage ware,,surreuraled by eight
or ten people, who boat into it. They dragged her
eon, Mawley, from the chimney corner and hand.
etaed Tr,o of .them. thin Went, up stairs and
brmight down her hitsband,one of them dragged him
• down by the legs, and another by the hair of his
heed, anti then they handcuffed him Also. She saw
the prisr,ner, Duke, there, and W. Meetin was anoe
then of them. There was: 410 amongst them a Man
of the nose of Trevott,who was not in Court. They
dragged her husband down without his clothes, but
upon his eetreaty they allowed him to dress himself
before they handcuffed him. She wenotO the door,
and there stood another man, who told her he was
the master of the people in the house, and that he
had a pistol, and would shoot her if she made a
noise ; they next compelled her husband and son to
go with them. The next day she heardiby a letter
where her husband was ; she immediately sit nut
-to Little Hampton, and found him at the rendezvous
' house a prisoner, and be was sent from thence to
rortsmouth, and did not return for a fortnight and
three days. He was then very ill, and she fetched
him hem; from Arundel in a cart. He died in six
days after he got home. She added, he had not been
at work, for three weeks before he
was
impressed,
baying met with an accident by having been crushed
on the aide by a waggon.
Thomas Broad, Comptroller of the Customs at
Hampton, stated, that Sowten had given information
to them,as few days before he was pressed, against
Serie, and some other reputed smugglers.
Mr. Serjeant Siterrean commented with great
force on this evidence, in his reply ; and after a
very minute summing up, the . Jury found .all the
. Defendants Guilty—findiog the Lieutenant guilty
of the false imprisonment, and not,of the assault.
The Judge immediately pronooeced r sentence,
which was a fine of 501. ors pet:tenant Spry ; three
months Imprisimment on Duke , and twelve menthe
iMpissonment, and a fine of sotah oil Meetin.

WARWICK 4SSI4ES,,MA4teIi ;7,

rOSTER w. 110ELIN.