The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-08 00:00:00

FROM PAWS PAPERS.

PARIS, APR IL 22. -By Dispatches from the
French Commissary of Commerce at the Canaries,
dated from Teneriffe, we have received a Copy of
the Articles of Capitulation made at Goree, the ,
conquest of which from the English We formerly
announced. It appears that four Vessels arrived
from Cayenne at Senegal, in the course of January,
and which being reinforced by the Privateer My
Uncle Thomas, of Rochefort, determined General
Be &NcooT, the Governor of Senegal, to attempt
the capture of that Island by a coup de main, parti-
co!arly as he understood there was but a weak gar-
rison in it. The whole expedition was placed on.
der the command of Serjeant GOUFFE, of the 46th
Regiment of the Line, who commanded the Detach-
ment from the Garrison of Senegal. The Officer
who commanded the Privateer took possession of
the Fort which commands the Town, and GOUFFE
having reached the foot of the North Battery,
where the English Garrison had taken refuge,
threatened to storm it, and with the weak Detach-
ment he headed, forced the English Colonel to ca-
pitulate.
APR IL 25.—Admiral GRAVINA, who has been
appointed by the KING of SPAIN to the French
Ennbassy, is the person who commanded the Spanish
Fleet during its long stay at Brest.
Letters from Venice, of the beginning of this
month, inform us, that at the end of December, a
Marquis. DE LA MAISONFORT, arrived there, who
!lee: eerved in the A:L;iy of the Princes, and was
their Agent at Petersburgh, during the war be-
tween Russia and France. This Emigrant came in
the suite of the Russian Prince Doncortotrsei, who
-went to Florence. MAISONFORT gave out, at
first, that he was waiting his return, and after.
wards said, that he intended to go shortly to France.
He took the name of DEBOURG, and occasoinally
that of DECOURT. He held the most disrespe&ful
language respetling the aEtual state of affairs, and
the French Government, towards which Country he
gave proofs of the most violent hatred. The arrest
Of Pico EGRU affeded him exceedingly. Some days
after the news of that event reached Venice, he was
at dinner with the Russian Consul, who proposed
to drink to the health of the FIRST CoNsue.—
MAISONFORT was highly offended, and abused,
with considerable violence and vulgarity, the cha-
rader of the FIRST CONSUL. The dinner party
was overwhelmed with sorprize. The Count of
BISSINGEN, the Imperial Commissary at Venice,
informed of those circumstances, gave orders to
MAISONFORT to quit Venice, and to retire to Udi-
na, where he is detained as a Prisoner on Parole.
Count BJSSINGEN has ordered a bookseller to be
prosecuted, for exposing to sale a libellous pamphlet
w,ttich has been published some years ago against
the ,FtitsT CONSUL.
Th,e friends and emissaries of England openly ex-
press Oeir detestation of France, in the Coffee.
houses at:l other public places. The Imperial
Commissary ,has given the striEtest orders, that in
all public platers) the respell due to friendly na_
tions, to Governlinenrs, and to Governors, be religi-
ously observed. kje has made the proprietors of
such houses responsiNe for any infrattion of those
orders, 2nd any attenOt on their parts to conceal
such infraftion will be ce
Ansidered as an aggravated

offence.
The news of the arrest klf the Conspirators on the
right hank of the Rhine, has produced a great el.-
fed at Venice ; it has discov-ered the extent of the
conspiracy ; it has increased tke indignation and
contempt of all honest and reasonable men, against
the authors and abettors of such a crime ; it has
silenced weak minds, vague opinions, N-Id ridiculous
hopes; it has blasted the attempt of those abandon-.
ed and cowardly men, who think all meaos legal,
provided they tend to the ruin of their country.
MUNICH, APRIL I 9.—The Prisoners detained
in the New Tower, as having been concerned in
the conspiracy of the English Minister against the
Government of France, lately underwent their first
examination. The Clergy who are implicated in it,
will not be allowed, considering the nature of their
offence, to claim the usual privilege of being tried
by the Tribunals of Exception, but they will be
compelled to appear before the Ordinary Courts.—
One of the offenders, Mr. LINDEMANN, the Director
of the Post, is, properly speaking, in the service of
the Prince de DE LA TOUR and TAXIS, and he has
claimed the interposition of that Prince; but the
ELECTOR has given for answer, that as Mr. LIN.
DEMANN was guilty, or, at least, has been suspeCted
of a crime committed in his Highness's capital, a
crime little short of high treason, he is not entitled
to claim a privileged jurisdiaion.
MADRID, MARCH 20.—His Catholic Majesty.
has appointed the Lieutenant-General Don ALvA.:
REZ DI FARIO, Chief of the Supreme Council of
War, in the room of the Marquis of CASTELLAR,
appointed Captain of the Royal Guard of fialber.
diers.
By a Royal Dispatch, the same liberties and fran.
chises have been granted to the Ports of the Isle
Porto Rico, which are enjoyed by the other Ports
of that class.
All the privileges successively granted to the Isle
of Cuba, have been at the same time extended to the
Isle of Porto Rico. .

COPENHAGEN, APR IL 7.—The monument ereca-
ed here to the memory of the warriors who fell
in the battle of the 2d of April, ISo , consists
of an artificial Mount, of- an oval form, sixteen
feet high, sixty long, and forty broad, is sur-
rounded by wrought stones, on each of which is
the name of an Officer who fell in this glorious
combat, and of the-ship' on board of which lie
was killed. At the foot of this Mount are
pla-ted an equal number of poplars. A path leads
to ,tie summit, from which is seen the coast off
which the engagement took place. On the side of
the monttrn:!nt which fronts the east is an obelisk of
Hark marble, s'ith%thia inscription---" They died
for their Country, April 2, Isol ;" and under-
''The gratitude of iheir Fellow Citizens raised to
them this mowument.''On a iablet of white marble,
placed on a pedestal, is sculptured a crown of laurel;,
oak aid cypress, intertwined, with these words-+
•'
The crown which his Ccuc gieves nerver fades
the tomb
of.
the -Warrior *who has died f;r it;
sakes''

I,A if/ EL i'l,./Z•i-.

COURT OF KING'S Bt,ICII, MAY 7

GENERAL .PICTON.

Mr. EAsKiNP, on the part of rrosecurinn, u
the suit of thr Gtrfial Pift;n, some 91 the
particulars of whic!; we st :tcci a fora,--
applied to the Court fc.)r a Writ ifillantiamur, dirceied
to certain persons in the of rini to exa.
mine wirnes.es.on the part of the prosecution.

The usual .4111.1,ivit being read; Colin grariel
a rule to sitew cause.

THE KING 1/. ALEX. DAvibsoN, JOH:
PARsONs, AND THO:.IAS HOPPING.
•
The Gentleman -who :Toms as the firsir Defer,-
dant, is too well known in the es
and the scenes of business, to require any notice
here. The second Defendmir is a tarot gr 4—
zier, who has conduced extensively to the improve_
men: of Agriculture, and is well known, to most of
the Societies instituted with thttt 61,jeti. The 14-:
Defendant, Mr. Hopping, is an Atterney at IL
chester. These persons had been ;tied and convict..
ed before Baron GRAHAM, Oil If
tionunder the Bribery Act. The cause was heard
at the. assizes for Somerse !shire. The offence was
committed in the Eletlion for B ronsrt
chester, where the Right of F.leClion is in the 11:tiliiT,
capital Burgesses, and leleteiefets not re • t‘e
aims. The share was, that they gave or procured
to be given, 301. to a man named j-unt eetwA-,:s,
and to thirty_fi..e other persons, and Chat they ob-
tained grouted, and erected various dwellings, to
efF.Ct their purpose, contt ary to the provisions of
the Aa in that ease trade arid provided. After the
Notes of tilt'. Learned Judge, made at tie tied,
had been read by Mr. Justiee LE BeAt\tc, Aid !iv its
were produced on the behalf of John White leart,ons,
from W. Dickenson, Esq. Mecoher for Soni-t-Pt-
shire, Dr. Parry, F. R. S. and f;004 various ,ilem-
berssof the Bath Society of Agriculture, depose
ing to the virtuous and in rat Labits of this Defend-
ant, and to the injury his fortune had received from
his zeal for the improvement of Agricul are.
Messrs. ERSKINE and ALLEN• then solicited tl c
attention of the Court on the behalf of Alex. 1)
son, Esq. and Mr. JEKYLL on the part of John White
Parsons. They felt extremely the embarrassment
addressing the .Court on such an cut-don ; their
personal friendship for Mr. Dtvieisnn ttlttt Lee
duced them, at another time, to indulge :heir reelinga
in apologizing for his conduct ; under the prey: it cir-
cumstances it would be improper. The Court would,
however, recolled the charaCter of Olt-bit-Id. on whose
evidence the fate of these persons had depended : it
will likewise bear in mind, that the punishment
now to be inflicted is not the only one they may be
called upon to suffer, because, for this very olenee,
prosecutions may be commenced in another form.
and heavy penalties may be exacted. It is tie ettid.s,
of the English Law to temper jo,ti,:•. with htimanity.
Persons of fortune and education. ;:ecustomed in
early life to a sense of duty to the;r Country, and
to the sacred institutions of Public Law, would feel
much more distress from the cenvf'aion of their own
errors, and keen the injurt to Own renutation,
than from any personal afflitlion they ;night endure
under the sentence to he pronounced against them :
even the impressive and awful manner in which chit
sentence is accustomed to he kitiverea by the Learn..
ed Judge whose painful dozy it is to pronounce lt, it
at this moment a source of extreme anxiety to the
Defendants. .

No Counsel appearing for Mr. Hopping, and'he
having declined to address the Court,
The 'ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that although
the extent of the charges, .of which these Defend..
ants were guilty, did not appear upon the record,
yet, that there was not only bribery, but conspiracy
with which they were chargeable ; and in the in-
stance of the latter Defendant, Mr., Hopping, the
subornation of perjury., The ATTORNItIi• GENER
observed,that whatever doubt might exist in the most
sceptical mind, they must be completely removed.by
the bouses ereded for the purpose of this eledior,
paid for by the money of Mr. Davidson, ,alitah
were psermanent monuments of the guilt 0.1 !hese
Defendants. . It was said, that these persons•might
be liable to penalties, and , that the punishment
should be tnizigated in the expectations of prosece-
dons for this porpose ; their Lordships would, how..
ever, examine the case as it appears upon the record,
and would not, id the view of these remote contin.
gencies, incident to such charges, admit the Country
to-be deprived of that justice which is due to it.—
He was diposed, to allow to Mr. Davidson aki the
liberalitv.of feeling to which Jte was entitled kaat
with, regard ,to this Gentleman, .he trusted
.tlaeir
Lordships would consider thai he was a in .n of gr-at
wealth, that he 'had expended considerable rums
on this occasion, and that a fine of 5001. or roool.
would be a trifle to a man of such a fortune. With'
resped to Mr. John White Parsonsr numerous.alffi.
davits had bet-,-a_produced in his favour, and heasad
himself deposed,'.that he neither expeded or desir-
ed any pecuniary compensation. He did not
lessen the weight of these affidavits, which appeared
to be from persons of. respedability, but the testi-
mony was the less to be regarded, because his cha.
ratter seemed to have been misunderstood; he was
a jobber in voters as well as a jobber in cattle, a.-..l
while he was promoting the Agriculture of his Coun-
try, he was sacrificing its political liberty and inde-
pendence, by which the benefits of science and in.,.
provement could alone be secured. The aggravation
in the Crime of Mr. Hopping was the greater, be.
cause he was a Minister of the. Law ; and he seemed
to have added to the enormity with which the
others were chargeable, the crime of the, suborna.
tion a)f Perjury. - With these observations he should
submit the Defendants to the decision of, the Court,
and the justice of their,Country.
Mr. DALLAS, who was also concerned .for the
prosecution, -declined detaining the Court, after
what had fallen from the ATTORNRY-GENERAL.
Lord ELLE NBOROUGH.—"- Let them be' corn-
; mitted to the King's Bench Prison, and be brought
up again on Friday next." •

Thursday morning last, a woman' was found_fl:at-
ing in the River Thames, ne:CrCk;x'b Quay.

ST. DOMINGO.

(Coat need jr9m our Paper of Saturday.)

We spent the night there, a laborious and pain. .1
ful night indeed, when we were occupied in draw-
ing
up a list of those liable to contribution We
have been assisted by expert men, and who have
pointed cut to us sources where we
.never could
have drawn from : at four o'clock in the morning
the list was completed. Letters to every person
liable to contribution were written, stating their
respeCtive assessments, and the day commenced
with sending them. Presently the deposits in the
Treasury began, and did not cease till night, every
one running about to procure his sum, and to get
rid of the fear of being shot.
Several claims were brought into Council, and
the whole day, and even the greatest part of the
night, was employed in raking into consideration
the legality of these claim,. Some were allowed,
but the greatest part rejected. The eagerness with
which the money was orposited, pacified in some
manner the fury of this brute, and he was good
enough to allow the time for this money to be col-
Jested. You feel very well, that in colleaing in
a place like the Cape, 800,coo hetes, French money,
on 270 individuals liable to contribution, a great
many must he found incompetent, and tnerelore a
million was laid on the ts hole, in order to cover the
deficiency. Nevertheless we found ir, and that
was all.
The General applied yesterday at the Treasury
to know if the sum was nonle up, and was answer_
ed, " very near." " said he, " to-mor-
row noon the President of the Notables, shall give
a list to NERALT (another brute, Commander of the
town), of .hose that have not complied, that he
may send them to the losette," (We place of exc.
cuticn.)
The noise of ;hese transaaions will no doubt •
reach France, and do great harm to M. ROCHAM.
BEAU ; but Ile has in different instances explained
himself, that (to make use of his own expressiop)
he does not care a d—n for what is said of him in
France. The honest men will unanimously blame
him, and the Republicans will applaud him, and as
for me, I am inclined to believe that the latter class,
though riot the most numerous, is the most in con:
sideration, and therefore he will be approved of.
The town is evacuating very fast, and this recent
business detains here more than 300 persons who
bad their effeas on board, and could not get out,
owing to the embargo : among the number is —,
who is going to Porto Plata ; with all his serVants
and baggage. He had been rated at isoo dollars.
It was a fortunate thing for him that' l. was of the
Assembly : I reduced it to 400 dollars. A number
of people were, like him, embarked and ready to go,
but were called back by this fatal requisition, and
obliged to fetch back the bags with dubloons they
were going to carry with them, and empty them in
the Treasury, in exchange for paper. In the course
of one month none will remain but those who can-
eicr; leave their houses ; among the number am I,
God grant that I derive no harm from it.
Port-au.frince is entirely evacuated. General LA
VALETTE, who was Commander there, has been
treating with DESSAL iN Ea for three days, to whom
he has sold all he left in the Government stores, as
provisions and ammunition. He put on board a
Schooner all the gold and silver he could get to-
gether, and went away with such Troops as refused
to remain : a certain outnher of them arrived at the
Mule ; we do not know where the rest are gone to.
DESSAL i NES has made his entry at Port-su,Prince ;
the bells ringing, the great guns saluting, • and the
Te Drum sung, &c. The Cayes have undergone
the same fate ; so that nothing is left the Erench
but the Mole and the Cape.
Some dour has been brought in here, which only
serves to prolong our agony. It is to be presumed,.
that when DESSAL INES has settled himself a little
in his new Government, he will brig his Troops
together to meet General Ron HMS B E AU, and it will
be here that the conclusion of the tragedy will take
place. You see, my dear Sir, by all these details,
that our situation here is very critical, and that a
great many dangers are still hanging over our
heads; we will, notwithstanding, be obliged to
it' stand the consequence, there being no way open to
extricate ourselves. It is not rightly known what
is become of the four ships that were at Port-au.
Prince, two of which belong to Capt.— of your
Port. Some days ago came in from the Cayes, a
French Brig, under a flag of truce, having on board
a cargo of sick, but would not receive her. She
went away again, we do not know where to.