The Sun.
London, England, 1803-02-08 00:00:00

LONDON, FEBRUARY 8, 1803.

YEsiEitnar morning the Trial of Marcus Des.
frard commenced at the New Court-House in the
Borough. The Trial lasted till within a few mi-
nutes of three o'clock this morning, when the
Jury, afret having withdrawn for +o minutes, found
the Prisoner GUILTY ; but recommended him to
Mercy, int- account of his former good charafter
as an Officer.

The Court adjourned till tomorrow at nine
o'clock, when the Trials of the other Prisbners will

commence.

Tuts morning arrived a Mail from Holland,
which brings Hamburgh Papers of the 28th ult.
Letters from Genoa state, that if the English
any - longer refuse to evacuate Malta, a French
Army will march to Naples, and from thence pro-
ceed to further operations ; but this report is evi.
dently undeserving of the least credit.
Digpatches are said to hive been sent to General
BRUNE, at Constantinople, ordering him to re.
quire an explanation of the Porte, with respea to
the favourable disposition manifested by the latter
towards the English.
The Ratification of the EM? POR to the general
Cot/durum of the tieputation of the Empire, is daily
expected at Ratisbon.

The KING of NAPLES is eXpeaed to visit Spain
and England in the course of the year, and to return
to his own dominions by the way of rienna.

Yesterday the Dispatches for Fort St. George,
by the Walpole and Windham, were finally closed at
the East India-House, and delivered to their respec-
tive Pursers.
PASSENGERS PER WALPOLE
Messrs. George Nl4Kenzie, Stewart, and Hugh Scott, Cadets

PASSENGERS PER WINDHAM :
Col. Francis Gowdie, his Lady, and Misses Eliza 'and.Nlil.
liceut (;owdie; Mrs. Jane Duncombe, proceeding to her
Husband ; Miss Camilla Patterson, to her Father ; and
Messrs. John Moncriet; John Elam, and Thos. Mq.can.

Mr. H. -ADDINGTON arrived at his house at
Whitehall on Saturday last. He inhabits the house
lately occupied by Lord GLENaßgvis, as Joint
Paymaster of the Forces.
Lord CHOLMO NUE L Y has no intention of return.
,ing immediately to this country. He means to
spend the whole of the winter in Paris.
Sir 'WILLIAM CURTIS, we are glad
:to learn, has
perfectly recovered from his late indisposition.—
The Bath waters have been of much service to him.
At a meeting of the Com Mon Council of Limerick
held on the 26th ult. it was unanimously resolved
to present the Freedom of that City, in a gold box,
to' the Right Hon. Wt L LIAM WICKIIAI4I.
An augmentation, we understand, has been made
to the Salaries of His Majesty's Equerries, a mea-
sure which it is hoped will be extended to all the
Officers of His Majesty's Stables, in the Depart-
tnent of the Master of the Horse. Nothing can be
more teasonable, when the great advance in the price
of every thing is considered.
The paragraph which was copied from a Jamaica
Paper, stating the death of Dr. BLAIR, proves to
be unfounded, as letters have been received from
that Gentleman dated the rph of December.
Mr. Hu B BAR D, the Curate of Bethnal Green, is,
it is said, appointed the successor of the late Mr.
PE NN ECK in the Living of St. John's, Bermondsey.
Mr.,Hu BB AR!) was many years Curate to Mr. PEN.
NECK in that Parish, and is a Gentleman of distin-
guished poetical abilities.

Mr. BELOR, the translator of HEROOOTUI, is
expeled to succeed Mr. PENNECK at the British
Museum.

In the first or second week of December last the
Ifitazle' sloop of war, Captain DURHAM, on her
passage from Oristan Rey to Gibraltar, met twelve
large French Merchantmen, bound from Marseilles
to Smyrna, with a numerous French factory on board
for that place. The ships were almost solely load-
ed with West India Coffee, to the value of upwards
of half a million sterling ; by which, as Captain
Dualinm, who boarded them, learnt from some of
the people, they expect to clear 300 per cent. by
again shipping it from Smyrna for the London mar-
ket, as Mocca coffee, after being properly sorted
and prepared at Smyrna. He also learnt that they
meant to pursue this honest kind of traffic. in future,
as the most lucrative branch of the Turkey trade.
They also told Captain DURHAM, that, they hod
every reason to believe, that, in three years time,
from the measures which had been taken, they should
completely engross the whole Levant trade, to the
exclusion of the English.
We hope this timely notice will be the means of
preventing the Dealers in Coffee from becoming
the dupes of the system which we have just de--
scribed.

An inhabitant of Brussels, who lately gained a
prize in the Lottery, employed the whole of the
money in purchasing food, which he distributed to
the poor.

, SPECIAL COMMISSION.
NEW SESSIONS.HOLISE, SOuTIIWARk:
MONDAY, /, 1803.
AI: otrr nine o'clock Edquar' Illarcur Dtspard,
was brought into. Court, and
.in about twenty
minutes after, the JudgeS arrived, when the Court
inunediatel,7 proceeded to call over the names of the
persons summoned to be of the Jury.
Colonel Despard rose, and begged that the Court
would grant him permission to say a feW words, in
order to do away from the minds of those who were
to be his Jurors, any unfavodrable impressions
which might haVe been made upon them by those
villainous publiCations that had, at various times
since his arrest, appeared against his charafter.
The Loin) CHIEF JUSTICE interposed, and told
Colonel Despard, that as the Jury was not then
formed, he .could not make chose observations he
was about to address to the Court. He shoUld, at
the proper time, have a full and sufficient opportu-
nity of stating to the Court, any lofts which, he
might conceive to be material to his defence ! at
present he could not do so. ,
Colonel Despard.—" I am sorry far it; my
Lord."
The first person called over was GEO. 1711 It fiZRT,
Esq. who immediately addressed the Lotto CHI Ei
JUSTICE, and stated, that he was one of the Alder-
men of the City of London; that many, important
duties were attached to that office, which must be
negletted if lie was bound to serve on the Jury ; and
that the consequence would ultimately be, that per.
sons could not be found to fill those offices, so neces-
sary to the constitution and privileges of the City i
and the Lord Mayor might not, at times, be able to
form a Court of Aldermen, i'perioris in his situa.
Lion were liable to serve on juries: The only rea_
son why lie had been summoned was, that of his
having a place a short distance from London, to
which he sometimes retired on a summer's evening.
The LOAD CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that the
statement 'made by the worthy Alderman was not
such as he could, consistently with his duty; admit
as a sufficitnt excuse.

Mr. Alt!erman HIBBERT then added, that the
Lord Mayor required his attendance on the follow.
ing day at a Court of Aldermen, and that great in-
convenience night result to the City from his ab-
sence.

The LORD CHI Er Jusrmg-----" That is a matter
of minor importance, compared to the public busi.
ness that must be attended.. to in this Court.—
We cannot run the risk of not having a Jury ;
but, in consequence of the statement you have
made, the Court is • ready to permit you to stand
by ; and in case there should not be enodgh to
form a Jury, you must be ready in Court to answer,
if it should be necessary to call upon you."
Several persons, whose names were, afterwards
called over, .ditl not answer to. the same, and were
ordered to be fined, some zol. and others iol. A
great many were excused from age, infirmity, or
indisposition.
Twenty-five Gentlemen were challenged for the
Prisoner, and nine for the Crown.

ROBERT DENT, Esq. of Bittersea, after having
been sworn the third upon the Jury, and afterwards
hearing that persons of tlt: agc of seventy were
exempted from serving upon the same, addressed the
Court, and said, lie was above that age, and begged
that he might be permitted to retire.

The LORD CHIEF Jostle E said, he should have
made that excuse before he was sworn ; hut as he
was sworn, it was not in the power of the Court
to let him leave the box. The Counsel, however,
on both sides, agreed that they had no objection
that Mr. DaNT should be excthed, and on that ac.
count the Court complied with his request.
The following Gentlemen were at length chosen
as the Jury :

Grant Allen,. Esq.
William Dent, or Battersea, Esq. .
William Davison, of Clapham, Esq.
Gabriel Copland, of Clapham, Esq.
Mr. Williatn Cookson, of Gainsford-street, Southwark.
Mr. John Fartner, of Southwark.
Mr. olio Collinson, of Gravel-lane, Christ Church.
Mr. James Webber, of Surrey-roan, Christ Church.
Mr. Gilbert liandiside, of Green-walk, Christ Church.
Mr. luhn flamer, of Hankside.
Mr. Peter Dobree, of Clapham.
Mr. John Field, of Georgc-street, Lambeth Marsh.
The Witnesses were then all ordered out of
Court.

The principal parts of the Indithuent were read
by Mr. KNArr, and the Pleadings were opened by
Mr. AnBoT, the Junior Counsel on the part of the
Prosecution.

In conformity to the commands of the Court, we
close our account here. A full report will be given
in our Paper, when the Trials are at an end.

Colonel SEBASTIANI'S rernark upon the charaeler
of General STettART, is as presumptuous as it is
rude and impertinent. If he saw General STCUART
at all; .it was probably only for a few minutes, •and
he surely could not, 'from a short interview, be ca-
pable of forming a proper estimate of the General's
talents, upon which he pronounces in so dogmatical
a style.
The praise of the French Aid.de.Camp of Gene.
I'3l STEUART, by SEBASTIAN!, while the General
himself is so invidiously mentioned, savours not a
little of French cvanity, and is something similar to
the attempt in this country, to raise the charatter
of a- foreign Regiment at the expence of our own
brave Soldiery.
We hear, with great concern, of a very severe
accident having happened to Captain
,WEST, of the
Navy. He was fencing with .his Fencing Master,
when the latter making a strong lounge, the foil
broke through the mask, and breaking, the splinter-
ed piece entered ins mouth and penetrated his throat,
lacerating his neck in a very dreat!fal manner. He
has been delirious ever 5 neC, and it is feared the
accident may produce the most serious consequences.
The following singular circum,rance took pl ice
at the late unfortunate fire in Mr. HAtsturoN's
premises : a torrent of melted metal, formed of the
liquified types, took its course into the Temple
Church, and has there formed a complete covering
for the grave of the C'Aq)fitte.l

~~_

PI Yitto Uni, rg s . e.

Aittivaii the Areiror,ANOsisoir, frotii liOndttra;
and the Sisters, hit, froth Newfoundland; with
los of toast and other damage.