The Sun.
London, England, 1810-12-05 00:00:00

OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Advices have been obtained • from our Imperial
army under General Count li,'ametisky; dated
20. No general or decisive battle had been fought,
and the two armies remained on the same ground.
The Imperial Russian forces are in the best condi-.
"tion; and are in no want at the necessaries of life.—
The Ottoman power, discomfited in every attack,
.and disappointed in all its designs
.by the 'superior'
skill of . the • Russian Commander, is subject to de-
sertion, and. even to rebellion. On the 17th rof
OalOher a dispute 'arose between the Janisiaries and
some of the' auxiliaries, in which about 500 men fell
before it could be suppressed. The universal cry is
peace.:

flag of truce arrived on the silt at the head-
quarters, offering terms, which were not accepted
by the Commander in Chief. On the 3d Oct. a
battle was fought near llabash, in Servia, in which
the Turks were defeated; leaving 3000 .nen dead (Ai
the field ; seven standards were taken. On the
same day a body of Turks, composed of about 5000
men, under an Agar and a Pacha, named B.Wi, sur-
rendered without firing a shot, to General Subaloff.
The Black Sea I.las been deserted entireiy
,by the
Turkish fleet, and th.: Russian Admiral is complete
master, even to the channel of Constantinople. The
Turkish flotilla, riding at Odessa, has been defeated,
and seven vessels taken. It w.ts reported that the,
plague had broken -.out at Constantinople, which
raged furiously; the Grand Seignior has thoughts of
retiring into Asia, and appointing a Counsel to go-
vern his empire ; the Grand Vizier is .very -unpopu-
lar:

By the Gottenbutgli-Mail we have received the
subsequent importdht communication, deeply af-
fecting the interests of this country, and the com-
merce of the Baltic:—

" GOTTENDURGH, Nov. 26.—1 n respeet to the
nenianeo on the part of France to our Court, we
learn, from good authority, that.they COLlplst of the
following
"i. That a Declaration bf War shall be issued
by Sweden against &eat Britain.
" That all British property and colonial pro-
duce, by v. hatever means imported into Sweden,
'shall be confiscated.

" unconditional answer was required from
the Swedish Government, on both these maters; and
the reply Was to be given within five days A-cm their
'delivery, in default of which the French Mintiter
Nas to quit Stockholm."
Sweden transmitted the subsequent ultimatum :
" To the i,t—That a Decldr4tion of War, as re-
quired, shall be issued by the Swedish Government
against Great Britain..

To the 2d—that a limited time shall be allow-
ed for the investigation of the subje4t ;1 and if it
shall be found tliat, Sithst (pent to the 24th,of April,
merchandize from England have been introduced
into Sweden il:tatly, sentence shall be Fonounc-
ed as• respeas' it, according to
,the laws of the
coubtry."

The Konigsberg letters mention, that the utmost
severity is continued with respect to ;Jade; and that
it is presumed that all the ships seized at Pihau will
have their cargoes condemned, and publicly. sold.
The following Letter. from Stockholm, gives a
curious in•tanc:e of French finesse :-
•

" STOCE. HOLM, NOV: 20.—Bernadoue's wife has
been detained by the' French at Elatnburgh, under
pretetwe that the new Clown Prince had not influ-
enced Sweden to conform to the Continental .sys 7
t tem, and other meastirei•ho,tile to Great Britain.---;
This is nothing but a cOntrivance to remove the
odium of the steps to be taken from Bernadotte, by
falsely representing -his unwillingness to resort to
them."

On Friday the 30th ult being St. Andrew's day,
the Grand Lo tge.o! Free Masons of Scotland assem
bled ii‘ Free Mason Hall of -Edinburgh, and elthed
their Office Bearers for' the ensuing, year, as under,
viz. :

His Royal-Highness George Prince of Wales, Grand Mas-
ter Mason, and Patron ot the Order of Scotland:. The
Right Hon. lames Earl of Rosslyn. Acting Grand Master;
the Right Hon. Robert Lord Vis‘Outit Duncan, Acting De-
puty Grand Master ; William Inglis, Esq. Acting Substitute
G rand Master ; Sir. lames Ca-Mulct-Baird, of toughton Hall,
Bart. Senioi Grand Waracii ; Richard Wharton Dutt; Esq. of
Ortown, Junior Grand Wan/en ; sir john tuy, ot Smith
field and Hay Stow;, -Hart. Grand Treasurer;' the Rey John
Lee, Grand Chaplain; William Guthrie and Alexander
Esqs. .G rand Secretaries; • tames: Bartram, Esq.
Grand Clerk.

On account of his, MAJESTY'S 'illness, there was
no public, procession, or couvivial Masonic Meeting,
as is usual on the occasion.

It appears that the divorce sued -for in the Courts
in Scotland by Lady PAGET against her late husband.
Lord PAGET, has ,been obtained, as the Edinburgh
'papers contain tile following notice :
:Married, on the sgth November, by the -Rev. Sir Henry
Moncrief Wellw?od, Bait. one of the :Thrusters of Eiiili•
burgh, his Grace tt.e Mike' of Argyll, to the Right Hon.
Lady Paget. After the cererirony, the Duke and DucheSs
set out for Ros,eneath, his (race's seat in Dumbartonshire.

Accounts have been received from Koningsberg
to the I car- ult. stating, that upwards of forty fresh
seizures had been made in the Prussian ports, and
that all the British goods which had been'put under
sequestration, were confiscated: They also .state,
that some reluctance having been manifested by the
Prussian Government to proceed to, these rigorous
measures, it was signified to it, that a Foreign force
and a legion of Reventle Officers, in case of relosal,
would immediately enter the Prussian territories,'
and caige them to be carried into effect. ,

21IDDLESEX SESSIQXS.

Yesterday Rich. Fonsick was indiled for an as-
sault on Thomas Pentium

The prosecutor and defendant it appeared were
members of the Toiver Hamlets Charitable Sr.rciuty;
and, with the other Member., -"dined together at
the Mermaid tavern at -Hackney, on the Anniversary
Day of the formation of the Society, in August last.
After dinner, the prosecutor feeling himself very
warm, took a bottle of wine from the sable *here
he had dined, and carried it ont into the garden, for
the purpose of hating a cool regale sub legmine
The defendant, however, having been informed of
the circnittistance, sallied out after him ; and haying
upbraidecrhtm with what he termed " a theft," en-
deavoured to possess 'himself of the Bacchanalian
spoil. The prosecutor resisted, determined to keep
irosgession of what he thoUght Iht was justly entitkl
to—when defendant, by a violent exertion,wtenched
the prize from the hands of his antagonist, whom'
he felled to*the ground with a blow of the bottle,
which was broken in pieces, and the prosecutor's head
desperately wounded.

.Fhe fact of the assault was proved by tWo per-
sons who were in the garden at the time.
Mr. GURINBY,•on the part of the defendant, called
five witnesses. They all swore that the parskes bad
a struggle together—ami one of them, of the name
Of Whitfin, fitated that the first blow had been given
'by the prosecutor,

The Jury returned a verdia of. guilty, and lie was
sentenced to pay a fine of 51. . • •
Thomas Ashley was indicted for •an assault on
Luke Severn, oti the 15th of August last.
The , prosecutor; who' -is a respectable trunk-
maker, stated, that as he was returning- from the
country, with a friend, in a one-horse chat e, on the
night of the isth of August last, he stopped at the
Kingsland turnpike, Where he paid toll it struck
12 o'clock as he passed through. When he carne to
the next toll-house, althoughhe ofierad to skew his
ticket, a fresh toll was demanded, on the ground that
it was after twelve o'clock. As he did not wish to
be detained, he agreed to pay the toll a'sLcond time,
When the person who acted fur the toll-keeper,
kept sa. the regular, toll being only 40. Being de•
tertuined to fin() the name of the
;toll-keeper, lie
descended from the chaise for the purpose of exa-
mining the .tiame,oker the toll-house door, wli,tn
the delendanti, wl was a horse patrole employed
by the Trustees of the'Road, and wire, in the begin-
ning of the dispute, had abetted the acting
toU-
keeper in his improper conduct, endeavoured to pre-
vent him. 'The prosecutor ohserved," You are.
.very officious, and,you had better be executin& your
• duty elsewhere—what is your name i"—The de-
fendant answered, "I'll soon let you know who I
am," and immediately-struck at the prosecutor with
his Sabre—one of the blows cut through tile hat 01
the prosecutor, -and it,was a very great miracle his
was not cleft opN, The person who de-
manded the excessive toll had been employed, that
eight by the-regular toll-taker; and has since ab-
sconded.

• This statement was, corroborated by Mr. Ford,
who was in thechaise with the prosecutor, and also
by the watchman, who can up at the time..
Thy defendant was found
.izaitig; and sentenced
to one month's imprisonment in the House of Cor-
rection. The.punisliment was mitigated in conse-
quence of the detendant having been dismissed from
his situation of patioie, which he had held fur five
years.without any deviation fioin propriety.
Robert Anderson was indicted tot on assault on
-- Bartlett.

The defendant is a dealer in old iron, the prose-
ca;or a sweep-chimney. The reside near each of Fier
in Green-court, Gaiden-square. The paviors had
been at work in the court a short time since, and
'having lett some dirt near the prosecutor's dobr,
his wife swept it near to that of the Defendant.
This.was resented by the spouse of the latter, and
the husbands on-leach side werecalled out to support
their respeetive pretensions, when in fhe contention,
all the parties Were bespattered with filth; the old
iron man, not content with sweeping the dirt into
its priitine situation, seized the broom, and-struck
the sweep-chimuey a Violent blow on the ear, which
rendered Linn, who was naturally 'deaf, ten times
deafer he folowed up this•assauft by a challenge,
couched in the following elegant language, which
prosecutor received the next day :-
‘4 You ILL-LOOKING VILLAIN--In consequence of the
very ill-treatment 1 haVe -received troth you and your fa-
mily, I am determined to fight you like a Gattlrina,d! —Why,
you ill-looking son of a bull-b—li, you halt-starved handy-
legged wretch—are lily silk
,stockings to be boiled by-your
(I—.d dirty wife You must !met me next Sunday,- Avail
pistols, at Chalk Farm, " It. 'ANDERSON."
The sweep chimney, however, not being, perhaps,
`,` a man of honour," and reflecting, in Hudibrastic
style, on

•
" The perils which envirrin
" The man who'ineddles with cold iron"
•
took'no notice of this !Jai-like opistle, but corn-
'menced proceedings against his blood-thirsty op-
ponent for the assault ;, which being clearly proved,
the defendant was found guilty, and sentenced to-
pay, a fine oft 01.-

This trial excited. considerable laugtuer—the
parties were of the must ditnihutive• stature and
grotesque appearance. The duellist appeared at the
bar with his head envelolied it) flannel.

Last night's Gazette contains the abstraels of se-
veral Atts of Parliament, which apply to Artificers
'of every description, who shall leave the United
Kingdom, to carry on their trade or calling in any
Foreign Country; . likewise to any person or per-
sons who shall in any way, be instrumental in se.nd-
ing or enticing such Artificers from this country.
The fine, by the star. 23 Geo. 1. chap, 27,,is tool.
sad imprisonment for three months, and till the
fine be paid. By the slat. 23 Geo. U. chap 13,
the fine is tool. and iniplisounient for t elve calen-
dar months, and till.the fine is paid. And the Cap_
fain- of any 'vessel who shall (knowingly) permit
any tools used in the preparation or finishing of the
woollen (*silk manufaaures, to be put on board his
ship or vessel; shall be liable to a penalty of 2001.
By several statutes of his present Majesty, the like
penalties are extended lo'thecottono and iron, and
e eel tranoiaftures..