The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-03 00:00:00

WALLIS V. SMITH.

Mr. GARk.OI7 spewed cause against the condi,
tiona! ruse obtained by Mr. EkSKINE (early in thi
term, of which we gave a report), to have the ver.
diEt for the Plaintiff set aside.

i'revious to Mr. GARROVI'S argument, the Court
intimated, that the omission or serving 14 days no-
tice on the Defendant, previous to• the commence-
ment of the Raton, as required by the Ad, seemed
to be fatal.

Mr. GAIROW, followed by Mr. PARK and Mr.
WOOD on the same side, argued that, under the Wet
Dock At, and by its language and its spirit-, and
by analogy to the z4.th Geo. 11. referred to in it,
Magistrates, or those acting under them, or persons
sued in an individual capacity, are alone entitled to
such notice, and not the Company or Treasurer,
when nominal Defendant' for the Company. The
Legislature must have intended to distingUish be-
t %Veen Magistrates who perform a public duty without
emolument, and a set of subscribers who, hoWever re.
•spedable, do receive great emolument by their splen.
dit: undertaking. If the section of the statute requir-
ing notice, should be; construed to extend to any
but Magistrates, a most extraordinary indulgence
indeed must be intended for the members of this
Company, viz. limitation to bar an Aaion after
tbref riu-nths, Ind treble. cot:, even in Anions
of CantNft t and if any negligence or spoliation
should take place (when vessels are going out
to the West Indies), in the Thames, if the
clauses of limitation and notice should be strained to
extend to any but Magistrates, or persons acing
unifier them, this q,votsld happen. It was not merely
a suppositious case, but one that happened every day.
The party damaged could not in the usual course
of 'things, hear of the damage from his Consignee
in the West Indies, in a less spare of time than six
months, and he would be barred his anion after
three months.

Mr. ERSKINE, Mr. Grans, and Mr. GILES,

relied on the express words of the Ad.—The

Court postponed giving judgment to a future day,
when we shall report their opinion at large on this
important question.

,MANCHESTEP, MAY r.

A match
,against time took place on Monday
morning Wt.' Mr. Taylor made his appearance
at each place, namely, Worston, Clithero, and
Colne, 8 times that day, which is 160 miles, 120
of which he rode in 12 hours, including time
for refreshments. On Tuesday and Wednesday
he performed seven times etch, and sat his horse
equally as well, and With as much ease as when
he started. His intention was to go 7 times each
day on Thursday and Friday, by which means
he completed the distance of 720 miles (of .the
worst road in the kingdom) in 5 days, and it is
reported that he attended Kettelwell market on
Saturday, which is about, 40 miles from Worston.
Mr. T. rode the second zo miles in one hour anti
4.0 minutes, and upon an average he did not exceed
one hour and 50 minutes on Mom'. ly ; but. since
then, the 'weather being so extremely wet, he has
taken two hours for the distance. Mr. 'Taylor
skewed himself on Thursday morning about six
-o'clock, at Colne; he seemed as well, as usual. In
his last journey on Wednesday, three men endea-
voured to stop him, but they failed in their attempt.
Mr. Taylor completed his journey on Friday even.
ing, at six o'clock .being thirty hours within the
time specified, which was 7zo miles in six days.
The wager was between that Gentleman and Mr.
Whitham, a tanner, in Clietburn, who staked 3001.
against Mr. T.'s 2001.

Yesterday the 3d, 9th, and loth Regiments of
Loyal London Volunteers were brigaded under the
command of Col. KENSINGTON of the third Re-
giment, on Kennington Common ; they mustered
about three o'clock in the afternoon, and after per;
fortniog 'w.arious manctuvres, returned home, and
were dismisstd about eight o'clockin the evening.
'Monday morning,
between five and six o'clock,
the neighbourhood of Maidstone was visited by a
tremendous thunder storm, attended by lightning
and much rain. The. lightning in the south-west
direttion was apparently 'the most vivid ; a tree on
Barming Heath was struck by it, and shivered to
piecei, and several houses greatly damaged in the
adjoining villages.

CENTO I;R0.41 SIbiKSPERRE,

r. 1: ", t 1) TO THE VOi.TINTESS.S OF '7,IIEAT
nY STEPIIEN KEIII2LE,

614 D SFOKEN ET liI.M A 7. NEW-
CASTLE, VV/Tki VERY GREAT SLit;:ESS,

, S,r tin rt f`,(>r your c(7,4n,, unwind your bloody flag ! ,
Look back unto your mighty ancestors ; , •
Go, Volunteers, to your great grandsires' tombs,
ln'voke the spir,t of yoUrlfiaek Prince Edward,
Who on the French ground. play'd a Tragedy,
Making defeat on the full Powers of France
Whiles his most mighty Father on a hill
Stood smiling, to behold his Lion's whelp
Forage in blood of French nobility
0! Noble English ! that could entertain.
With half your Forces the full pride of France",
And let the other half stand laughing by,
Alt out of work, and cold for aaion.—
Pa great in a:1-. as you have been in thought ;
Pa stirring as the times; be fire
switfl fire;
Threaten the Threat'ner, and outface the brow
Of bragging horror shall inferior eyes,
That borrow their behaviours from the great,
Grow great by your example, and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution ;
Shew boldness and aspiring confdence:
What, shall they seek tbe Licr. in his den,
•, • • ,
And fright him there, and make him tremble there?
Oh naver be it sAidl—Forage and run,
To meet displeasure further from the door,
grapple with him ere he come too nigh.
We cannot on the footing of our land,
Send fair-play orders, and make compromise,
insinuation, parly, and base truce:
To arms, Invasive then let them come;
They come like sacrifices is their trim;
And to the fire7ey'd maid of smoaky war,
All hot and bleeding will we offer them !
The mailed Mats shall on his altar sit ,
Up to the ears in blood! -I am on fire
to think this. rich reprisal is so nigh, •
And yet not ours
ReMernber whom you haye to cope withal! ;
A scum of Frenchmen ! Rascals ! Renegades,
Whom their o'er-eloy'd Country vomits forth
To desperate adventure, and assur'd destruEtion.
For what is he they follow ?--Truly, Gentlemen,
A bloody Tyrant- and a Homicide ;
One reis'd in blood, and one in blood establish'd ;
One that :trade means to come by what he hath,
And slaughter'd those that were the means to help him
A base, foul stone; made precious by the soil -
Of Gallia's chair; where he is falsely set ;
One-that hath ever been God's enemy':
.
Tlien if you fight-against God's enemy,
God will in justice ward you as his soldiers!
If you do swear to put a Tyrant down,
You Sleep In peace, the Tyrant being slain :
I f you do fight against your Country's foes,
Your .Country's fate shall 'pay*our pains the hire ;
f you do fight in safeguard of'your wives, ,;1: r. .
Your wives Shall welcome home the conquerors ;'
if you do free youiTchildren from the sword,
ifrour children's ofiiiiclren quits it in your age ;
Then in the name of God, and. all these rights,
Advanceyour standards, draw your willing swords.

Address, from the Officers of the Ist Light Bat-
talion of Irish Militia, to Lieut.-Col. WOOD, of
the 17th Regiment of Foot, on his leaving the
Coriunand of the Bittalion, in consequence of the
i7th Regiment being under orders for Foreign Ser..
v tee.

Loughrea, iStb April, iSq•

Permit us to express, for ourselves and our Companies,
the Unfeigned regret We feel, that the chance of service dz_
prives us of an Officer, under whose command duty became:
pleasure; in whom we found so highly blended the Soldier
and the Gentleman : whom we would hive followed with
confidence in the hour of peril, and whose amiable manners
rendered doubly pleasing our moments of social relaxation.
To hetr of your welfare and prosperity, will ever ittbrd us
the hi.7,hest gratification i and- wheresoever the fate of War
may lead you, be assured you carry with you the sincere re-
gard and respea of
Yvur Much attached and faithful humble Servants,
(Signed) Roil". MtNNETr, Captain,
• Monaghan Light Company.
Four,: (>nELL, Captain,
• Limerick County Light Company.
CFO. Ar KI N' Captain,
South Cork Light Company.
R. MILLER, Captain,
Londonderry Light Company.
Joni BLACKER, Captain,
Armagh Light Company.
114. GALBRAITII, Captain,
Carlow Light Company.
W. CARTER, Captain,
Leitrim Light Company. •
„,
WOOD, 17th Regime/a of Infantry.
•

GENTLEMEN,

Loughrea, Apr!! IS, 130.1„
to o'Clbc.k, 'P. M.
Your most flattering and obliging_ Letter of this diens
been just put into rny hands by- Captain- Minnett. rin
assurance it conveys to me of your good wishes, at this mo-
ment of separation; is more gratifying to my feelings than
have words to express. However the chance of service may-
hereafter dispose of me, I shall never cease to reflect
pride and satisfa&ion on the period in which 1 had the honour
to command the ist Light Battalion of Irish Militia.
With the sincerest respell for you, and for the Corps, ge..
nerally and individually,
1 have the Honour to remain,
GENTLEMEN,
Ycur for ever obliged and atledionate humble Servant,
koBT. WOOD, Lieut.-Col. 17th Infantry.
Catta/e 111 fit ET T, and the Officer:
of the Ist Light Battalion.

PUBLIC - OFFIC )1, BOW - STREET. - Tuesday
came on the hearing of an Information (under the
43;1 of the present Reign, chap. 134), against a
Coal.lVlcrchant and his Carman, for refusing to mea.
*sure a sack of Coals when required by the Purchaser,
before delivery, and for which purpose the Ad di-
rects that .a bushekmeasure shall be taken in , the
cart with the coals. The Carman was adjudged to
forfeit 51. and the seller rl. or be committed to the
House of Correction,

f!LTBL IC OFFICE, HArtoN-GARDEN.—Yesterday
two boys, named Turners and Ivory, were brought
to the Office, apprehended in Liquorpond.street,
Gray's-Inn-lane, by the Officer, charged on suspi_
cion with stealing two horses from a Gentleman's
stables at Hendon, early the same morning. One of
the boys partly confessed the offence. As a num-
ber of more aged lads are .suspeeled to be tonneaed
with them,, they were committed for further ex.-
amination on Saturday next,

AN ACCOUNT OF THE JOURNEY OF LOUIS XVI.
KING OF FRANCE, WITH THE ROYAL FAMILY,
FROM PARIS TO VARENNES, AND OF.THEIR RE.
TURN TO THE CAPITAL, IN JUNE 1791 ; DRAWN
UP 'FROM THE INFORMATIONS OF ONE OF THE
KING'S BODY-GUARDS, BY JOHN DOUGALL.
Louis ha.ving at last resolved to withdraw for a
.time from Paris, seleCted three Gentlemen of his
body-guards to accompany him on the occasion :
these were M. le Comte de Moustier, M. le Che-
valier tie Malden, and M. le Chevalier de Valory.—
He direEled M. de Moustier to repair to the Palace
of the Thuilleries on Thursday the rph of June,
1791 : and in the mean time to inform the two
other Gentlemen of the King's wishes ; as also to
provide for himself and 'them couriers'. jackets of
yellow cloth, round hats, boots, &c. and proper pass-
Torts for leaving Paris.
When all these necessaries were procured, the three
gardes.du.corps were to go together to the palace
on the following Monday, the zest June, between
eight anti nine in the evening, there to receive fur-
ther instruilions.
At the rime appointed, M. de Malden and M. de
Valory went thither, by the gallery of the Louvre,
which extends along the Seine ; but M. de Moustier
took a different way, to a private staircase, which
led to the apartment of the King's first valet-de.
ehambre. There his Majesty was waiting for him,
and quickly opening the door, as soon as he heard
NI. de Meustier coming up, lest he should be
-stopped by the sentinel in tne passage, contiated
him to the apartment of the Queen.
There the three gardes.du.corps having met, the
sing addressed them in this manner :
" .You see, Gentlemen, to what a wretched situ-
ation we ate brought. We rely on your fidelity
and attachment to rescue us from it, and have made
',choice of you for this purpose.
" Our fate is in your hands. Will you or will
you not undertake to deliver us from our present mi-
sery? If you refuse to assist us,we arc utterly undone,"
To such words from their unhappy master, those
Gentlemen could answer only by their tears, and
some broken sentences, in which they endeavoured
to express their joy at the prospeet of a deliverance
so ardently desired by all the French who still re-
tained their duty to their rightful Sovereign, as well
as by every .friend of justice and good order.
Their Majesties thought it best, in order to pre.
vent interruption or discovery on the journey, to
change the names of the three gardes.drs.corps, as.
signing to each that by which he was in future, to
be known.*
To M. de Valory was given a letter for Count
de Fersen, Minister at the Court of France from the
King ofSweden ; and to M. de Moustier two sacs-
ate.truit, or travelling bags, one belonging to the
Queen, and another to the Dauphin. M. de Valory
was directed, at the same time, to leave the Thuil.
leries in the same way by which he had enter-
ed ; whilst M. de Moustier was to go down the
great staircase, crossing what was called the Queen's
Court, to meet -M. de Valory under the first gate-
way leading out to the quay of the bridge called
wont-Royal, opposite to the end of the Palace.
M. de Malden remained with the Royal Family,
and never quitted them until his imprisonment, on
their return to Paris.
Count de Fersen, who VMS waiting on the quay,
no sooner, by a private signal, recognized M. de
Valory, than he took the two gardes.dz-corps in his
carriage to an hotel, where M. de Valory took the
horse that was to carry him the first stage, from
Paris to Eondv ; and M. de Moustier four other
horses,- with which he went to another hotel, where
he put them to a travelling-carriage, of a remarkably
plain and common appearance.
From this last hotel M. tie Moustier proceeded
with the carriage to St. Martin's Gate, where he
was speedily joined by the Royal Family, who had
had come from the court of the Carousel, behind
the palace, in a hired coach,- provided by Count de
Fersen, with M. de Malden mounted behind it.
This happened at half an hour, or perhaps three
quarters, past twelve o'clock.at night.
When the Royal Family had removed into the
traveilinftearriage, the hired coach and horses were
overturned, as if by accident, into a ditch near the
gate, that the coachman might be hindered from go-
ing immediately home, and giving an account of
Oat lie had seen.
Before leaving the gate, the Queen asked M. de
Malden what he thought of the intended journey.
fie answered, that he considered it to be most for.
tunate for them to be already without the wails of
Paris. The King observed, that it might perhaps
be difficult to proceed so far, as to Clatons on the
Marne; nay, that he doubted whether they should
be able to reach that town; but that, after passing
. Chalons, he could foresee no obstacle to their pro.
greys. ,
The Queen informed M. de Moustier, that as
they came out of the palace, they Met M. de la
-Fayette and M. Gouvion ; but that she went a little
to one side, so that these Gentlemen passed the
Royal Family, as Her Majesty believed, without
knowing them. It must also be observed, that in
order to mislead the Public, the Queen and Princess
Elizabeth had lengthened out their airing in the
Buis de Boulogne to a very late hour, and did not
return to the Palace till eight o'clock. It is re-
markable that it had been currently reported in Paris
.for several days, that the King was to make his
escape from Pails very soon. One of the Journals
had even fixed this very day for the attempt.
M. de Valory, as was said, had gone on to Bon-
dy, to have horses ready for the next stage, and also
to deliver to M. le Due de• Choiseul, who was
there expeCting orders, a letter from the King, ac-
. M. de Moustier was called Melchor ; M. de Malden, r,
lean ; and M. de Valory, krancois.

* During the whole way to Varennes, the carriage was
drawn by six horses, and had no more even on the return to
Paris, notwithstanding the crowd of National Guards with
whom it was literally covered.
Very different from this is the
.account so often and so
confidently circulated by-designing and evil-intentioned per-
sons in France. Being sensible that, in order to succeed in
their atrocious schemes, it was necessary to render the un-
fortunate Louis the objcd of the contempt, and even of the
abhorrence, of an uninformed and deluded multitude, these
persons ceased not to propagate the most scandalous, as well
as groundless calumnies, against their devoted Sovereign.
In particular, they asserted, and it hag been but too generally
believed, that had the King been less addicted to the pleasures
of the table, his journey would not have been interrupted,
nor his person recognized. •
M. de Moustier has had the grief to hear similar assertions
from the mouths of persons otherwise worthy of regard ;wind
even of some who, in foreign lands, were the sultring
tims of their zeal fur the cause of the very Monarch whose
character they so unjustly, but unthinkingly, asperged. He
does in the most solemn manner declare, that the account
here given is Most strictly correct.
t The same sentiments were more fully expressed in the
e
Declaration left by his Majesty on the chimney-
Thuilieries, and afterwards made public.
(Is be continued.) imucc the

ixTRAET FROM THE REPORT OF THE MARQUIS OF
WELLESLEY, UPON THE RECENT TRANSACTIONS
IN THE MAHRATTA EMPIRE.
"The predatory States, comprising the Mahratta
Power, have never been united under any regular
form of Confederation, or by any system of Consti-
tutional Laws, that can be compared to any Consti_.
tution in Europe. A vague and indefinite sentiment
of common interest, however, has established a cer-
tain degree of union amongst them, from the period
of their first success, throughout every stage of the
decline of the Mogul Empire. The same indefinite
but acknowledged Confederacy has subsisted be-
tween the Mahrattas, since the entire destruilion of.
the Mogul Empire ; and, together with other causes,
has enabled several of these adventurers' to ere&
States of considerable military-resource, and politi-
cal power.
" The power of the Peishwa has for many years
past beers acknowledged by the rvlahrattas, includ-
ing the Rajah of Berar ; and the Peishwa is univer-
sally acknowledged in India as the Constitutional
Representative of the Maliratta Empire.
" Scindia hag been the Chieftain who has opposed
the constituted authority of the Peishwa ; and with
his confederates, brought on the War which has
proved so disastrous to him and his Allies.
" In reviewing the rapid and brilliant events of ,
the Campaign against the confederate Mahratta
Chieftains, and their French forces, every loyal
Subjed of the British Empire must remark, with the
most zealous emotions of just pride, and national
triumph, that in the course of an extensive and com-
plicated system of military operations, the glorious
success of the British Arms has been uniform in every
part of India. The able and gallant Officers and
Troops of His Majesty's Service, and of the several
Estabiishineuts of the three Presidencies, have been
actuated by equal sentiments of public spirit and
honour, and have co-operated with equal ardour and
success, in an united effort to accomplish the objet
of the Allies.
" From the Bth of P ugust, the day on which Hos-
tilities commenced, to the Ist of November, the
British Army has conquered all the possessions of
Scindia, in Guzerat, the City of Berhampore, in
Candeish, the Province of Cuttack, in Orissa, the
Mahratta Dominions between the Jumna and the
Ganges, the City of Delhi, and the right'bank of
the Jumna ; the City of Agra, and the adjoining
Territory ; has reduced by storm the fortified town
of Ahmidnagur, the Forts of Aly Ghur, Baroach,
and Cuttack ; and by capitulation, after having
opened batteries, the Forts of Ahmidnagur, of
Powanghur, and Champoneer; the Forts of Asseer-
gltur, denominated the key of the Dekan; and the
Fort of Agra, denominated the key of Hindostan ;
and has defeated the Enemy in three general engagt.
ments ; at Delhi, on the I ith September; at Assye,
on the 23d September ; and at Laswaree on the ist
November ; having taken, according to the official
returns on the field of battle in those engagements,
and under the walls of Agra, 260 pieces of ord-
nance, sOOO stand of arms, 215 tumbrils, and s
stand of colours, with a large quantity of stores, •
baggage, camp equipage, and ammunition.
" The official returns of the artillery, snores, dec.
taken from the Enemy, have not yet been received
from Ahmidnagur, Baroach, the Fort of Delhi, Fi-
rozeabad, Champoneer, Powanghur, Jalnahpoor,
Cuttack, Berhampore, and Asseerghur ; .but the
amount of the returns adually received, of ordnance
taken in the several Forts, exclusive of that taken on
the field of battle, is four hundred and forty.five
pieces of ordnance, exclusive! of tumbrils, stores, dee.
making the total number of ordnance, of which re-
turns have been received, captured from the Bth of
August, to the Ist of November, seven hundred and
thirteen.
'' The progress ands result of these successful ope-
rations have restored his Highness,- the Peishwa, to
his sovereign authority at Poona, and cemented our al-
liance (with that Prince; have secured the succession
of the legitimate Heir of the Sovereign Prince of the
Dekan, to the Government of his deceased father,
the late .Nizam ; have protested the British interests
at Hyderabad, from injury ; have confirmed the
stability of the Treaties by which the French were
expelled from the Dekan in 1798 ; and have deli-
vered the aged, venerable, and unfortunate Emperor
of Hitdostan, from misery and ignominy, from indi.
genco and bondage, and from the hands of the
French.
" The atchievementsofGeneralLake and Major_
General Wellesley, combined with the admirable
and exemplary conduit of the Officers and Troops
during this Campaign, more particularly in the sig-
nal and splendid vietorie.s of Delhi, of Assye, and
of Laswaree, must inspire a general sentiment of the
just vigour of our military resoerces, and in the
stahility of our dominion and power. Our uniform
success, in frustrating every advantage of superior
numbers, ofpeelverful artillery, and even of obstinate
resistance, opposed by the Enemy, constitutes a sa- .
risfaetory proof, of the established superiority- of
British discipline, skill, and valour ; and demon-
strates, that the glorious progress of our Arms is
not the accidental result of a temporary or transient
advantage, but the natural and certain effeet of a
permanent cause.
" A confident expeEation may be entertained,
that under the pressure of accumulated defeat, with
aggravated loss of resoures, power, reputation, mi-
litary strength and dominion; in every quartet of
India, the confederate Mahratta Chieftains, Doulut
Rao Scindiah, and the Rajah of Berar, must
speedily be compelled to accede to such terms of
pacification as shall/ be calculated to deprive them
of the means of disturbing our Possessions, and of
'impairing the efficacy and stability of our Alliances.
- " Under such a general pacification, it is reason.
able to expert, that with a considerable augmenta-
tion of the Lustre and glory of the British Arms in
India, will be combined the, accomplishment of a
comprehensive System of Alliance and Political Con-
nedion in Hindostan and the Dekan, calculated to
promote the general tranquillity of India; to secure,
On the most permanent foundations, the interests
and dominion of the British Nation, against the
hostile attempts of any Indian or European Power;

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