The Sun.
London, England, 1810-09-14 00:00:00

EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROiI- AN OFFICER SERVING

We are happy Jo understand,. that there is a very
-great prospeCt of a saccesstul• herring- fishing on. the
West Coast, and round the Western Isles, almost
all the boats in Loch Dutch have taken, on Wed..
nesday and Thursday se'enighi, abput three cranes a
night ; it is also stated, that herrings of a t errgood
size and quality, have appeared in consideraole shoals
in the Moray Frith.
Major Napier, who commanded tbe sbth regi-
ment at Cot unna, iv hen it charged So gallantly and
drove the French from the. village, is now serving
with Lord Wellington's army as a volunteer,,and had
tw,o horSes wounded under him in the action on the:
batiks of the Coa.

_ •
An ad of the most atrocious.nattire, was lately
.committed in the Island of Sanday, Orkney, a far-
mer having 'had 19 cattle and five 'horses s,abbed in
the course' Of one night. This i. the third lune the
same person has lost his cattle in a similar way.
The verY. first 26;0001. Prize introduced in a Lot-
tery, and the last drawn 20,0001. l'r.qe in the hat
Lottery, were shared and sold by HORNSI3Y and
Co. Stock-brokers, No. 26,-COrnhill ; and St.' Mar-
garct's-hill, Borough.. The ..Nobility,•Gentry, and
the Public are respectfully informed, that Ticke!s
and Shares are'sellitw by`floaNsaY and Co. in great
variety, and on the rowest terms..

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WITH GEN. HILL'S DIVISION, DATED AT SAM-
:ZgDUS, PROVINCE OF BEIRA, AUG. 8, 1810,
• " I shoehraccuse myself with negled of duty,
did I not write to Yott; particularly when an oppor-,
lunacy occurred ofgiving any information respeetiog
the operations of the army. Perhaps you may have.
already heard of a,succ.esstial attack made:by a body.
of the Ist regiment of the PorteguesecavAry, on the'
3d inst. on 11- strong ,foraging party 'of the etietny's,
cavalry, near Castello. Branco:. Those 'Portuguese
were an Outpest of this (cieneral div;sioss,
and Were aboUt three leagues from litehead:quar-
ters of it ; the enemy's Lace consisted of three:of-
ficers and 60 men, the.Porttrguese Of a .Colonel•and-
-00 men ; the enemy made little or no resistance,
haviog received orders to make the L-est of their way
back again.; the. Portnguese -followed them_ up
eloSely, aod. the result was, a number killed.and
wounded, arid fourteen prisortera,- 411 of whom' I
I have seen, and are.now in tl,e camp; the loss,:on.,
our side was three wounded. • .
" It caneat_ be expeded that this small affair
should work any change: in the movements of, the
enemy, or relax his exertions; bat it will have the
necessary and desired effed of aniroattng these
.young soldiers with a still greater ardour, and at the
same time inspiring them with a confidence of their.
military knowledge and petsonal bravery, on which'
alone depends the safety of their country in this Cri-
tical and arduous Cont,:st. The Portuguese troops,
are brought 10 a state "of great ihrledion, most, of
their officers being from Beitish regiments in this
cOunjr,
,and are; to appeatance an excellent body
of men; they are all the flower -of the country,-,":
are taught to be respedful to their officers-steady
on duty--alert-on • their posts,-ancl, clean and neat
about their persons: A person is, induced to pass,
these observations ,With a degree• of wonder, after
what he sees of the slothfulness and inadivityot the
rest of the natives.
". My last letter was written at Portalegre, where
this division was stationed,•to watch the
,moiernents
of a French force near Badajoz. made two.at-
tempts to:bring them to aetiou.,- but without died.
Since that tune they, collected all their force in 'that
quarter, and marched for the Mirth of ,Portugal,
thinking to join the army under Massena, - which
would give him ,the addition. of
„twenty thousand
Men, that were under the command of Regnier, and
which General has profited, by experience, and thinks
it advisable to keep at -a respectful distance.--It was
on the sands of Egypt and the plains of Maida he
felt the irresistible force of the'British bayonet,and
owed his satety.to an. ignominious flight..-...0n Ate
enemy's moving, se moved also; and,JtaVing con-
tinued our march until we
.came to a chain of•motm-
tains which. divides ouedivision from the grand army
4af Lord Wellington, as well as.-the French. division
from ..I.lllisena, .and• taking possession of the only
:pass (through which an army could pass) we halted,
at which place we are now encamped. The enemy
are fcur leagues from us. We arrived at the pass
just 24, hours before the 'enemy .'could. get up, 'so
that we hive proved ourselves superior pedestrians
as well as warriors.
" Our position is now 4 leagues north of Castello
Branco,- in which 'town are our cavalry. - Our force
consists of 4000 English and 8000 Portuguese, ca-
valry 'and infantry, besides artillery. . llt*rters come
in frequently—twoyesterday, and two prisoners,to-
day. I am happy' to seethe Portuguese troopS' so
active; as they
.appear to imitate. the English, we
may expect them to be more powerful .against, the
French than any other foreign troors hitherto op-
posed to them. Our troops are in fine health 'and
spirits ; we have been for some weeks under the
trees, and expect to remain so for some, time longer.
Providence has been good to me, as I have not been
.a day sick since I came 'to this country.".

CORK- ASSIZES.

One. D. Driscoll, a gyrnavin farmer, flying near
the sea coast, ut the' west or his county, was .'found
dead at the-foot ot, a cliff,. a short distance from his
house. Soine r:ircurnitances which, Caine ty the
knowledge, of Mr. Townsend and of Mr. Sotinneri-.
W pt ihe neighbouring Magistrates, induced
them 'to -suppose, th wile knew some-
thing of the manner at least of his- death, andthey
had ner,brought before them.. On herrexamination
on oath, Sc,h stitted, that one CoineliUs Sullivan, i
pet son who was said. to have paid a markrd'sartern-
tion to her, 'had called-At her house abont supper-:
time, on the I 2.th or isth of July last, ancl:told her
husband that there: was a-. large. . wreck stick at the.
foOt of the. ilia ;, inat her husband 'went out with
'Sullivan, and in,6.short time returned' andtold 11:1
that the stick,,was .eery,large,,one—thot Sullivan
"called.6gain early.the next
_morning:: and he aad 'the
deceased went- out together ; that within two boars
'after Sullivan ,called..on her, and found'..ber in bed,
and then-declared
_that y.e had destroyed ber:hus-
; band by thin,A ing him over he cliff, and that, she
was prevented, irynk,making any alarm :or giving
inforatation tor fear Of Sulivan ; that -Sullivan re—,
'ported 'the .tollowing -conversation. to have taken
place between him and the deceased--7 Sullivan re,
marked,to,the deceased -ou the sumnattot the
that if he had .resentment or spleen towards the de.
ceas'Athathe:could destroy Wm ; the deceased Said
lie could have no resentment towards him;- that he
(ought to hiVe mote spite ict Sullivan than Sullivan
tO liim, ontaccyt:int of-his 'wife with whom Sullivan.
appeared 'to be too intimate; on which Sullivan said,
to the-deceased, yon.rogue, is thatiyour language to
_Me ? andau,tbe same time, destroyed the deceased ;
and t hat shortly alter the Interment of her husijarid,..
.Sullivan remarked to- her thatshe,,was in great grief
for her husband, and blamed her ,for it, saying,'" k
and sure.it was to,destroy ,hitn- took: him'out to
which
;did not think he had the
heart to perpetrate the deed, In consecitience of
this in:or-matron," S:ilbvan was taken arid etynnuitted
to gaol, and ortSaturday-last his trial for, the-mur-
der of DriSco-11 came on- before the Chief Baron,
when the widow, M, Driscoil, . was sworn as U. wit
.She pointed out the prisoner, and said slit
bad known him before, her marriage, end, for five or
Six years past. She denied the. ',prisoner's having
ealled.on her husband at night, or in -the moil-fug,
.
iind that-Ler husband dtd.not-go out with Sullt7.
van to her knowledge ; denied his. having gold her
that he.had destroyed her,liaaband.bythrowiog hint
over a Cliff, or that he.had a conversation With' the
deceaSed a little,,betore'' his death; andnshe sitiOrc\
that she'nyer, had any conversation with Sullivan
about 'her hosband'sdeath.

There being no other evidence, Sullivan was Of
conr,e acquitted of/the murder,, but the 'Judge order-
ed Linn to find' Sutheient sureties fur. his ',future gocsd
behaviour. ordei ed, Mary Driscoll. to be in-
diked for perjury, in the gross coutradidion be-
tween what stie .had sworn before. the Magistrate
and. her sweating on the table,- and she:was on Mon-
day triad and sentenced tor transportations
It was mentioned:in Court after the trial, that the:
wretched man (Sullivan)
,:was so • stung with rd-
rnor§e, that he had made iao less
,than. three attempts,
on his own life, and 'had endeavoured to put a I,e-
-riod to a-wretched existence, by hanging himself,
but was pr6ented by the interposition -of his
friends.

GIBBONS• AND BARRY U. 1-IBA.
•

I This was an action,. brought by plaintiffs,against
the defendant for .a libel the damages were laid at
0,000,
' Mr. Qtrirsi_ stated the particulars of the case. •The
plaintiffs, he said, were meritorious and aCtive young
gentlemen, who,,having regularly acquired a know-
ledge of business in some of the most respectable
mercantile houses in this kingdom*, engaged in
'partnership, ,and formed an establishment at COurt-
' masherry,• in the western part et: this county. In
the month. of 06tober last, the -ship Louisa, of
Malta, G. ThoMpson, Captain, was: stranded .'near
that harbour,: with a very valuable cargo. The
Pendant;' being the crrevenue officer of the district, •
was the first applied to by the Captain for assistance,
and'aCted as ..his,,Agent for a few days ; until the
Captain finding rim unacquainted with inercai:ile.
tratisattions, and hearing the high character of the
plaintiff's . for integrity and knowledge .of business,
begged Of them 'to become agents to' the • ves,,4l foe
the benefit, of the Underwriters, and-gave tirti a
regular power.of attorney, to act as such. Detend- •
ant or course was superSeded. ThelCss-of the pro-
fits of the agency, small,as they Were, induced the
defendant to commit what must be considered as a
crime, such as the Gentlemen of the Jury had •,e1.7
doin.seen equalled.. He-caused letters to be written
at different periods after the business of the vessel
had been concluded, and the plaintiffs' had received
the th diks of the Underwriters, :by Isaac Waugh,'
in which lie charged the -plaintiffs with having pro-
. cured the agency of the vessel from the'Capiain, by.
threats—with having made no exertions to sage
part of the cargo--with having Made
vale at the abdiotp7—and with having cut th;te main
beams of ihe vessel, by whiCh she was. totally lot,
and in each letter the' Underwriters wete.clirei:tcd:
to apply to Mr. J. Flea, the defendant, irr turf net'
, particulars. These letters were given by the Under-
writers at Lloyd's
.Cotieehouse, to Air.. Stiee,
.the:
triend and correspondent of the plaintiff's, who -had
no difficulty in persuading them, that .tnee' letters
sik ere false and malicious. An fact, 'so. coorincrd..
were the Underwriters of it, that Shortly alit.; -they,
appointed plaintiff's as. their • general agents. 'on the
western coasts of this country. - "'_ •

Mr. Sugrue proved the partnership .of tie plain-
'tiffs, and 'heir being appointed agents to the vessel
by the, Captain, in consequence of the
,very great
Charatter he had beard of them.
Mr. DOdd proved, that in March he wns applied
to by thelast witness to_ go to Courttnasherry, !ti-
the obaraeter of,a private agent, to the ILlSuiilllCe
Company ; that feeling some repugnancesto engage
in a deception, he liesitated_a white; but• at nisi,
thinking it a praisewor4 anion to discover the
author of
_such villainy, lie consented ; that he re-
ceived the letters signed Isaac-Waugh from-the last
witness, to spew them to defendant as his authority;

(shed by WILL lAM ARMIGER SC R/ PPS, South Moltoti
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