The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-25 00:00:00

1 LIU,' EPT LETI'I,,ItS

VR'N GENERAL TUOUVENOT, G-iVERNbIi OF BISCAY;

TO THIS MARSHAL DUKE OF DALMATIA.

No.'l.

St. Sebastian, July to, ato.

‘...` My Lord Marshal,
" General Dumoustier left Vitoria on the- 7th
inst, with the light horse guards, directing his March
towards, Ne,tosa, through Vaiwaseda. Dispatches
which I have just received from General Avril, do
not contain • any thing new On the position of the
enemy.. A division of the 'banditti entered Durango
the very next day it had been quitted by its garri-
son. All the corps of Jobbers- that had been
dispersed are again in motion in the principaiity
of Bi,cay, and many youog men in the three 'pro-
vinces have forsaken their towns. - Is is my opinion
that the insurgents and the English intendlo gain
a footing at Santona. Vitoria and Bilooar are quiet
as weitas St. Sebastian.

•
" I am, with much respe&,
" The General Governor of Biscay,
" THOUVENOT."

No. 11,

.! St. Sebastian, July u.

"The Council of Legeurcio has informed we that
1;300 insurgents landed yesterday at 134.-.rmeo: lan
ignorant Whether they are disiina trona those who,
it has been ascertained, landed at Santona : or whether
the latter, compelled to re-embark, proceeded against
Bertneo. I have not a single man whom I can put
in motion, and General Avril is in the same plight.
Nevertheless I. have communicated this intelligence
to him well as to Generals Boyer and Dorsenne.
I have also directed General Avril to use the utmost
diligence to make it known to Generals Baguet ar.d
Durnoustier. In these three days many young men
have lett Their towns and villages in this part of the
country, according to the report of the Alcades, yet
the public traccpulity has not
.experienced the least
interrupion. The hAnditti •tif, Navarre multiply
daily they exact cf;yritributions from 'villages, re..
i;:e custom-house duties on the frontiers; com-
pel young men.. to enlist under:their banners, and, in
a word, give laW to Navarte. Last night they called
on the Arcade • and another inhabitant of Ataun, a
village of this province begdering on Navarre. I
have in sight several English frigates to the'north
of Cape Machichago.

'7 I am, &c.

" THOU VENOT."

No. 111.

s 6 St. Sebastian,

" My Lord Marshal,

The frigates hover on the coast; with troops
readyto disembark and destroy successi.ely allihe bat-
ter:es on the coast. In day time they keep between
Uretrico and Deva. I have sent the Captain of .arttl-
kry (Ditch) to Guetaria, with five and twenty men
to teinforce the garrison ; he has orders to f rtity
himself in the tower of St. Antonio, an'excellent
post in whch he cannot be fotced.
I have wtitten to the Commandant of Toloso
to direct the Commandant of the Itnperial Guard to
send irnmi,diatcly, if he can, all the troops -which
can be spared ft oni the service oft he road to Guetaria,
in order to secure that position, and to fall after-
wards in a boly on the enemy as soon as his forces
are known. I have sent to Bilboa in a boat, a trusty
tnatincr, to know what was going forward on the
coaid, and at Bilboa. .

On the loth of the present month be touched
at Bermeo, whilst the enemy was disembarking ; he.
saw all their nrivements,and the captured the com 7
parry of.Firmin, which was conducted on board the
frigate, where, it is said, they- were put in
irons. He left his bark at Bermeo, and went over
laud over to Bilboa ;be has to-day delivered me an-
swers to my letters, having since returned once
more to Bermeo, in the bark which had brought
him back to St. Sebastian.

" He has seen in Bermeo, part of the troops
which had disembarked. The others follow the
the coasts, supported by the frigates to destroy the
batteries. The Alcade- of Bermeo has assisted him
in his mission.

" English have taken in all the ports on the
coast all the barks and coasting vessels whibli they
have found, and have every where destroyed the
signal posts. The troops did not remain long on
land, but they disembarked again at day-break on
the following day. It Nyas said in Bermeo that the
troops which occupied that place were those which
had landed at Santona 2 that they were well -equip-
pied, aird that ttiere were among them some French
and may Geirnaris:
" The mariner whom I sent to Billaoa has found'
all the through which 'he passed perk:6lly
•
zeaceable; tire.inhabitants talked of the disembark-
ment, but none expressed a wish to ibis the troops
boded. . •
6' My troops here donut amount to 300 men able
to carry arms, so that it is impossitile for me to send
any forces against the enemy. It is painful in such
circumstances ,-.ot to have a singlesoldier dispose-
able, and to see the enemy destroying aft the de-
fences of the coast as if they were taking a walk for
their pleasure. Among the vessels of war which
are in sight, one appears to :be a two-decker.—
The public mind has been a. little agitated in all
those parts, but -nothing has been done. m dis-
turb the public peace.
" I am, with, respea, &c. &c.
. ‘‘ TnouvENOT."

No. IV.

" St. Sebastian,

" My Lord Marshal,
" Samuel Stephens, an Irishman by birth, de-
puty quarter-mast& is the Irish regiment in the ser-
vice of France, who has been taken prisoner at
}lushly', has been forced to serve as a mariner on
board the frigate, the Driade, one of the six which
form the English squadron cruizing on these coasts,
and served in the troops which were disembarked
yesterday at, Uratrito. This deserter appears to
have come hence to St. Sebastian, where he arrived
to-day. He has related to me wht follows : 18

Officers, and-endeavouring rescue the other
lOneri while being cOnVged the Cotnpter.
It appeared in eViderice,..that as the prosecutrix,
Mary'Jackson, was passing through ,Bartholomew's
Hospital on Sunday evening' about half ,past six
o'clockirshe was assaulted by the prisoner Truman,
in company with the prisoner Holbrook; that Till-
man struck her two violent blows on the breast, and
:snatching' her watch which was by her Side, im-
mediately:made off ; ,the prosecutrix recovering- from
her blows, pursued the prisoner, crying stopAbief
:—that. tA o. persons passing by, atthe , time; secured
the prisoner, and the watch was found ikwar the
,place where the prisoner was taken ; he eras con-
,veyed to the nearest public-house, and an officer
,sent for, to- t ake.him into custody. On the'officers
'coming out of the public-.house, they were assailed
with sticks and knives, by a "Lige gang, and a most
desperate scuffle eriaed,,and the officers with great
difficulty put therprisouer into a hackney coach to
convey him to the Compter, but on the, way :the
gang cut the traces and the reins of the horses, and
endeavoured again to rescue the prisoner. The
.officets, however, being reinforced by two or three
,more, Sranton,,one of the officers, rushed through
The' mob to the coach door, with a brace of pistols,
and v,ith great resointion, threatened 'to shoot the
,prisoner, or any one who should approach to-tescue
.After sa violent contest ,they succeeded :in
,placing I he. prisoner, in ?not her, coach, and; by, tnairt
tairiing a running fie,lit with the gang, succeeded at
last in ledging,him in the Couipter, the gang, from
11154 nunines, having the effronterY to puriue them
to the very doors of the prison. Three of, the of-
ficers were scverely hean, and one of them receiv-
edawdund.witb-,a knife ; several, Gentle.men2who
encleavoured to assist the officer's, had their clotheS
cut to pieces.

• ..It, was impossible, from the .weakness.of - the of-
,fiders' party, and the strength_of the gang
,(being
upwards of 30), to. secure any of them at the
.time,
but. the officers yesterday morning apprehended the
:other prisoners, Holbrook and Wyatt, two well
known characters, whom they had marked with
others during the whole of the affray.
'Mks Jackson swore 'to I-Llbrook as being, the
person who was with Truman, at the time of the
robbery ; and the officers posi.twely. swore to both
him and Wyatt, as being some of the most desperate.
,of the gang:

The Alderman fully committed Truman, and- re-
manded the other two for further examination
this .day.

Bow-STkEET.-Yesterday Benjamin' Bennett wi-rs
brought by Charles Humphreys to the 3boe Offi6!,
who said he apprehended him Saturday night
about twelve o'clock, in Drury-lane, an well. know
ing him to be a pickpocket, and suspeaing him fo
be there for the purpose of felony, he took him_ into
custody. On searching himheifound,oko valuable
potliet handkerchiefs, and two pawnbroker's dupli-
cates, for °theta that had been pledged in tile course
of Saturday.
Mr...READ, the Sitting Magkstrate,.convi6ed.the
prisoner as a reputed thief, under the Police Ait.
. William Cross, of Grith-steet, -Westminster, was.
charged with 'harbouring and 'con'cealing
Bassam and Thomas -Levy,. desttriers fronthis Ma-
jesty's Royal Marines. •

. .
_ William Ba,;sam, one of the- dinerter; *as 'ad-
mitted an evidence, and stated, that he was a pri-'
vate in the Woolwich Division _of.. Royal Marines,
and that on the 14th day of last July, he, in corn 7
pany with Thomas Lear,another• pi irate in the same
division, deserted from Woolwich ; they went in
their regimentals and side arms to the house of the
prisoner, where they were concealed until Monday,
the 16th day of the same month ; the prisoner
knew they had deserted, and gave him limold coat
and a pair of breeches belonging 'to theprisoner.-r.,
Thomas Lear had also pow' the prisoner an old
coat and a pair, df breeches. The prisoner supplied
them with vieluals and drink, for which they did
not pay, but paid for the liquor which they had. -
The prisOner denied the 'charge.

The Magistrate convicted him in the penalty of
201. .and in default of payment in four days, to be
committed for months.

UNION-HA.I.L.-r-Yesterday, Ann Rutter, a wo-
man who keeps- a house of ill•fame in Artillery-
place, St. George's-fields, was brought before the
Magistrates under the following circumstances :
Some time since a daughter of Mr. Branscomb,.
who keeps the Surrey 'Theatre, quitted her father's
house, and for several days eluded all the search
which was made for her ; after some time, however,
Mr. Branscomb was informed that the child, who is
only 1 t years of age, had been seen at the house. of
tie prisoner; he immediately applied at Union-hall
on the subject, and Goff was ordered to go and search
Mrs. Rutter'S house. The child, however, was not
to be found; but the officer took Mrs. Rutter and
three girls, whom he fOund living in her house, the
eldest of whom did not appear to be more than four-
teen, into custody. These girls who, it was prov-
ed, lived by prostitution, and presented a shocking
spectacle of vice and disease, stated, that the child
in questibn had 'slept two night at Mrs. Rutter's
houe, after which time she left it, and they had
since, seen her in several, parts of the town in a most
deplorable situation. Mrs. Rutter, in her defence,
stated, that tie child was brought home by' one of
the girls who li%ed in her house, by whom she was
found walking the streets destitute of lodging, and
that she had kept her two days out of humanity.—
Under these circumstances the Magistrate said he
could do nothing more with respect to the child,.
but would hold Mrs. Rutter to bail for keeping a
disorderly. house, and site 'not being able • to_ procure
bail, was committed to the House of COrrection.

Benjamin Parsons, a salesman of hay and straw,
was convicted before the Sittini, Magistrates, of
having delivered to Messrs. Addis, Johnson, and
Addis, of Southwark, twenty-six trusses of one load
of clover which. were.under• fifty-six pounds weight
each, as required by the statute ; be was fined in
the full penalty of 61. tus. being at the rate of ss.
per truss. The salesman has it. in his power to re-
cover from the grower of the clover.