The Sun.
London, England, 1810-01-23 00:00:00

OXFORD; JA&, it.

PlO,ltE

Ceisria, 'bee. afiee-You may expe& me to say
-Pornething of politics ; but the truth is, that it is
difficult, in such a shifting scene as Spain displays,
to point out env thing which the events of the next
day may not contradict ; and with the wide field
which is extended where politics begin to be' a topic
9f correspondence, it is difficult to fix on any obe
Jed which will appear equally interesting to the
reader and the writer. There is, in the national
.charader of Spain, one trait, which 'is equally to
be found in all classes of society ; originating, I sus-
Pet, in the indolence which a fine cliniate and
luxurious soil produce : this trait is the want of
combination, the absence of arrangement. The
Spaniards are brave, acute, patient, and faithful ;
but all their charaeteristics are insulated ; all their
exertions are individual; they have no idea of com-
bining together in private, or in public, in such a
way as that the separate talents of different persons
Tay be all usefully employed, all differently em-
ployed, all employed conformably to their different
Capacities, and yet all be so occupied as that the con-
centration of their several exertions may tend to the
tame end. The Germans rnsy be said to combine
too much, and the Spaniards not at all. In my
Judgment, the English have attained the proper me-
dium, but certainly, from the Government to the
peasantry all the Spaniards are alike deficient on this
point, and to this deficiency their reverses may all be
ascribed. If a commander embarks on an. expedi-
tion, as that to Algiers a few years ago, it is not im-
probable that the powder would be embarked in one
ship and the ball in another, and one being lest, the
other would be useless : nor would it be unlikely in
their army, that they should deliver to the soldiers
ball-cartridges for 'a review, and blank cartridges for
a battle ; for I have seen errors as egregious com-
mitted, though not that precise one. Now 'lathing
is more certain,- than that the whole Spanish nation
is roused to madness against France; not a man is
lo be found who would not willingly and joyfully
Plunge a dagger into the breast of a Frenchman
Wheuever he met one • but there is no Government,
that is, no ruling mind, to concentrate this univer-
sal feeling ; whatever is done by Spaniards is indivi-
dual effort, not combined exertion ; and hence,w ben-
ever they have attempted military operations on a
great scale, they have been uniformly unsuccess- f' TO THE INHABITANTS OF GALLICIA,
ful : they have only chosen the wrong means of . " You must perceive now, at least, that the
is arfare ; and whenever their. armies are dispersed,• country is in danger; and for my
.part I have given' .
and their strong towns taken (events ,which I antici- up all dependence upon the Government under
Pate), France will be so far from having conquered which we are at present placed. I have been neceas- MANSION-HOUSE.-Thornas Cooper, it porter, late
.
Spain, that a warfare of the most destructive species 14 ing in my applications, not only for money but in the service of Mr. Dyston, furrier, of Leadenhall-
street, was yesterday . brought before the LORD
for Fleece and the most secure for Spain, will corn- 'arms, and to none of them have I received the
. ,
7nence ; then will begin those sorts of cortfliCis in l slightest answer ; but on the contrary they seem to .. , ,
MAYOR and fully committed to take his trial for
steatingten fully monkeys' skins from the ware-
which individual exertion is every thing, and when .li have given offence. Under these circumstances, it
house of his employer.
combination is unnecessary. From the defiles and 4 remains for you to ad for yourselves ; and what I
raounteios, where they will remain concealed till I would recommend is, that you - form in your own 1 fiATTON-GARDEN.-Yesterday Thomas Williams,
tappnrtunitiee offer, the Spaniards will harass and i kingdom of• Gallicia a separate Junta, to he em-1 a labouring man, was fully. committed for trial, hay-
massacre the French in detail—they will prevent all i powered to ad in the name of the inhabitants, who ing been charged by W.Wigmore, a fellow-labourer,
intercourse between ' one town and another, they shall be authoriSed to raise money by contributions,' who.stated that ho and the prisoner slept in one room
will stop cultivation on the plains, and perhaps, from the people, to defray the expencee that may : at
.Richmond, in Surrey, in July last, and that the
after years of centlid, drive the French, as they did be inevitably incurred in procuring arms, supplies, ; prisoner stole some of his clothes, which he pledged
formerly the Moors, from their soil. Every local I and other necessaries." i at Hamersmith for 2.03. and afterwards sold the do-
circumstance is in favour of the Spaniards in this 1p
kind of warfare : the roads are passable only for
This address was accompanied by an invitation to licate for 20S, to another lateeirer. He then went
1 all persons. within the space .of three days, to give to Woolwich, where he concealed himself till last
-
, their advice on the means of levying money in the i 'Thursday,
Mules, but no wheel carriages can travel to the in-
I way, most productive, and least inconvenient to the
terior ; the wallies between these mountains yield MAILEOROUGH-STREET.--Ye.sterilay e charge of
almost spontaneously all that a Spaniard requites ; I inhabitants. M. Tavanera, a Member of the former assault and seduction was preferred by a smart inane
the climate is so fine that the peasantry scarce want 1 Provincial Junta, and who was lately in London, I
tua-rnaker against Thomas Hewett, a clerk to a face
habitations ;
.and the flocks of sheep will supply 1 among others, delivered in his project, which was i for in Portland-street. The complainant • stated,
them with skins for covering without manufactures. i immediately adopted. By this plan Gallicia was to i that she had sweethearted with the defendant for
There are no villages or lone houses in Spain; all Ibe divided into districts, and each district was to several months, but she never admitted any very
the eeople live in towns, which are at a great dis- i chose a representative to assist at the General As. i great liberties, until a fortnight ago, when he pro,
l seinbl
tauce from each other, without a house betweete yto be convened at Corunna, under the . mised her marriage, and the wedding-day was ap-
7'•_ them, and the fields are consequently uncultivated, I name of the Junta de S&l,sidios del Regnu de Gal- pointed. Having
.gained his purpose, he refused to
• except in the vicinity of these towns ; and to this licia. M. Tavanera was himself appointed the marry ,her, because he had been told of her having
s.. may be added, that the Spaniards are of all men , Deputy for the mercantile interest at Corunna ; and had a little boy at Gloucester two years ago. The
":.the most frugal and moderate in their subsistence ; a
.t
,this Junta commenced its functionsa.few days be- I complainant -was so exasperated, that she was de-
bauch of grapes, or a melon with garlic, suffices; ' fore the gentleman to whom we have alluded left (ermined to perplex him, and he moved his lode-
and they want no drink but water. , Every. Spaniard that port. In this short interval they had proceeded ings, but she followed him, and he shut the door in
at all times carries his gun in the country, and they., so far as to vote,a levy of 20,000 men, to be instantly her face. This was the assault complained of, and
are good marksmen. Their animosity to the French raised for the defence of Gallicia, and they had put- the lady having admitted that she said she would
is inflamed to madness, and their rage and fury, and st chased 10,000 stand of arms, which from the ne- never let her paramour rest, the , case was dis-
revengeful passions, which have already formed - glect of the Government had remained in the hat- charged.
them into small parties, for the express purpose of boor undisposed of for two months.
exterminating Frenchmen; will burn with increased
t
ardour, as the enemy continue their depredations.—
I have said enough to shew you my opinion on the
state of Spain ultimately ; at present,. the defeat of I
Areisaga has given a gloom to the prospe&s of the
privileged orders ; these may be swept away ; but
the Spanish_ people, the peasantry, and the cultiva-
tors will remain, and will ultimately triumph.

ttCONb MATION.

Monday, the first day of Lent Term, the follow-
ing Gentlemen were admitted to degrees :
DOCTOR in CiV IL Lnw.—Mr. R.H. Cresswell, of Tri,

►SUN OFFICE,,

pity.
BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW—Mr. T. Symons, of Wad-
ham.
MASTERS OF ARTS —Rev. C. G.Wade, of Merton ;' Rev.
j. Heath, of Sr. john's ; Rev. J . Mayo, of Pembroke.
BACHELORS OF ARTS—Mr. H. C. O'Donnoghue, of St.
Edmund Hall ; Mr. G. Dav, of Merton ' • Mr. H. C. Cot..
ton, of Merton ; Mr. I. P. Border, of Merton ; Mr. K.
Preseut, of Brazen-nose; Mr.S. Hall, of Brazen-nose; Mr.
R. Garden, of Brazen-nose.
BACHELOR AND DOCTOR IN Div INlTY.—yesterday
Rev. I. Oritlith, of Wadham.
BACHELOR IN CIVIL. LAw —Rev. M. Cove, of Trinity.
hall, Cambridge, incorporated of Magdalen-hall.
BACHELOR OF ARTS.—Mr. I. Fletcher, of Queen's.

The Rev. William Howley, Regius Professor of
Divinity, and Canon of Christ Church, has been ap-
pointed in Convocation one of the Delegates of the
University Press, in the place of the Bishop of St.
Asaph.

• CAMBRIDGE, JAN. ig.—The Rev. John Toplis,
M.A. and Messrs. Thomas Beevor and George Cor-
nelius Gorham, B.A. of Queen's College, are eletled
Fellows of that Society.
The Rev. John Eyre, Reaor of Babworth, Not-
tinghamshire, and one of the Residentiaries of York
Cathedral, is appointed Archdeacon of Nottingham,
vacant by the death of Sir R. Kaye.

We stop the Press to announce the following in;.
telligence, which fully confirms all our previous
statements respecting the important subject to which

HALF-PAST TWO O'CLOCK.

By a Gentleman who has just arrived from the I
North of Spain, after the short voyage of rive days,
we-have been favoured with the following import- I
ant information on the proceedings in the North- ;
eastern extremity of the country.
The Conde de Norona, whosd energy and pa-
trintistn we hare often mentioned, has been super-
seded in the command of the Kingdom of Gallicia,
by an officer named De Castro, from Seville, who .1
has been appointed Captain-GencrA by the Central
Junta. It is understood that the Conde de Norona
has been removed by his own desire, and he has
1 since been nominwed to undertake an active duty
in the army of the leit, under .the orders of the
Duke del Porcine. Shortly before he quitted his
station, he issued a Proclamation, in which he ex-
pressed himself in the following terms :----'

The Dublin Evening Post, of Thursday last,
states, that the Catholic Laity of England have re-
solved, in opposition to their Clergy, to make an
offer- of the Veto to his Majesty ; but that the Edi-
tor, " on the contrary, has reason to believe, and
sufficient authority to state, that the Catholics of
Ireland would rather see all the Penal La ws re-enztat-
ed, than procure emancipations at such a price."—
He adds, that " A general Meeting of Roman Ca-
tholics, to consider this subjeel, N't ;7-s to be held iii
Dublin on Monday, when it was thought an addi-
tion to their Petition, and a strong remonstrance,
would be adopted."
" On the subject of thcs. Veto (says the same
Paper), there was on Wednesday a Meeting, in
Francis-street Chapel, of the „Catholic Clergy and
ParAioners of that Parish ; when they resolved to
write to Mr. GRATTAN, and to convene another
meeting for Friday ; and a requisition was signed,
calling on all the Catholic Clergy of Dublin to meet
on Tuesday."
The same Paper also states, that an English Ba-
ronet, a Member of the House of Commons, has
prepared a Bill, waking it imperative on the•
lb-
man Catholic Bishops, whenever a vacancy occurs,
to return to the Office of the Sedetary of State a
list of candidates, from which 2ny oljeetionable per-
son is to be struck out, and the vacancy to be filled
by one of the approved candidate's.
Private letters state, that Buonaparte has become
in the greatest degree peevish and irascible. A short
time since, Mart, his Secretary of State, on some
trifling occasion gave him offence, when he struck
and repeatedly kicked him, overturned the table by
which he stood, and scattered his papers about the
room. It is said at Paris, that the destined bride
of Napoleon was no other than the widowed Ex-
Queen of Etruria, a Bourbon, and sister to Ferdinand
the With. •
An alarming fire broke out\ on Saturday night, at
a house called the Grotto, near Stoke, Bucks, which
was inhabited •by Mr. Pynn, a clergyman, and his
family. The fire was occasioned by a servant maid
setting fire to the bed furniture whilst putting a
child to bed. Such was the rapidity of the flames,
that the family had great difficulty in escaping, and
the house was burnt to the groun'd in less than half
an hour. Two ricks aud,a torn vver4 also•dwroyeki.

FALLS FROM THE MoNumENT.—Three instances
of this kind have happened in the last 60 years.
June 25, 1750, about four o'clock in the after-
noon, a man, supposed to be a weaver fell from the
top ; he struck the pedestal, and pitched on a post
which laid open his scull, and he was otherwise most
terribly shattered.
Second, 1788, July 7, Thomas Craddock, a baker
threw himself over the north side • he cleared the
'pedestal and the iron rails, but fell just outside of
them, near to the N. \V. corner.
Third, 1 s to, 'Jan. tB, Lyon Levy, a Jew, fell
from the gallery, on the east side ; he struck the
pedestal, but cleared the rails, and fell one yard out
side, near to the S.E; corner.
The fall from the top of the gallery inclosure to
the ground, is about 175 feet.
The extreme height of the Monument is 202 feet.
The gallery is 32, feet below the top of the vase; it
leaves 170 feet for the height of the floor of the gal-
lery, to which add five feet for the height of its in-
'closure, it makes 176 feet fall.

On Thursday night, about eight o'clock, Mr. 1
Thomas Pratt, fariner and corn-dealer, of Shipton,
was stopped between Newbold and Treddington, on
his return home from Stratford, by a footpad, who
rushed from the road-side and knocked him off his
horse, by striking him several times with a hedge-
stake, or heavy bludgeon. The villain then knelt
upon Mr. Pratt's breait, arid totik trorn him a pocket-
• book, containing Stratford bank-hills to the amount
of 901. Mr. Pratt was found lying upon the ground
about a quarter of an hour afterwards, very much
cut and bruised about the head, two of his doubh:.
, teeth having been knocked out by the blows. The
robber was a stout lusty man.

A few days since three valuable horses were
stoien out ut the tields belonging to Mr. Dailet,_at
Lower Merton, in Surrey.

sconAA7r):

COURT OF SESSION-FIRST DIVISiOif.i

GAME CASE.

EARL OF HOPETOIIS V. N4'iGliT.
The game laws are held to interest so large aria
respectable a part of the community, that we ititaz,
gine it will be accept able to our Readers to receive
some account of the following Case, decided by the
Judges of the first Chamber of the Court of St:.ssion
on Tuesday last. _ _ . .

Mr. Wight, farmer at Ormiston, the property of
the Earl of Hopetoun, situated in the county of
atddington, having been in the practice of shoot-
ing game on his farm, without the permission of hi 3
landlord, was prosecuted by the Earl and the Pro-
curator-fiscal of the county, in an action before the
Sheriff, concluding that the Defender should bd
found liable In the penalty prescribed by the Act
1621. c. 31. against such persons as hunt or hawk
without being possessed of " plough of land in
heritage." The Sheriff, in respect that the De!eg.
der had been guilty of A contravention of the sta-
L tute, found him liable in the penalties thereof and

In expenses.
This judgment having been broue,.,lit before the
Supreme Court, by advocation, was affirmed by Lord
Armadale; as Ordinary.
When the Lord Ordinary's interlocutor Was
brought under the consideration of the other Judges,
it was pleaded for Mr. Wight-Ist, that the Ace
of 1621 is now obsolete, and that it never was in-
tended to apply to shooting ; and, 2diy, that, if it
should so apply, he was a qualified person; as hold-
ing a perpetual lease of his farm: He maintained;
that as his lease was renewable from 1 9 to 19 years,
for ever, it was the same as the absolute property,
and there was no difference betwixt such a lease
and a- feu ; and as the latter undoubtedly affords a
qualification to kill game, the former should also
have the same effe&.
(Jo the part of the Earl it was answered, that
the first point had been laid at rest by the decisioti
of the Second Chamber, in the case of Trotter
against.M`Ewan, (July 2, 1809,) where it was fotiod
that the A& of 1621 was still a subsisting statute,
and that, under the term hunting, this Att
understood to comprehend shooting. As to the se-
cond point, it was contended, that, according to the
Defender's own admission, he was merely a tenant,
and as no two words have more distinct meanings
than heritor and tenant, it was evidently contrary
both to the common understanding of the country;
and to the spirit and terms of the statute, that the
Defender should describe his lease as heri•age to
the etre& of affording him a qualiateStion to 1(11
game ; and the duration of the defender's lease,
could make no difference on the case ; however
long'the lease, he was only a. tenant, and hi; right
could only extend to the fruits of the ground. lie
could not prevent the landlord from claiming any
mines or minerals which might be discovered oti
the farm ; and, as the latter was entitled to vote as
a freeholder and commissioner of supply, in respea
I of the property, he alone was the heritor in thecyt
1 of the law. The right. of a feuer, -on the contrary,
is a feudal right of property, and entitles hit. not
only to thelruits, but to the substance of the sod.•
The Court unanimously adhered to the .interlo-
cutor of the Lord Ordinary. ,
It is thus settled, that no tenant, whatever may
be the endurance of his lease, is entitled to be, con-
sidered as a qualified person, so as to shoot g<ime
even on his own farm, without the permission of
his landlord.

KING'S THEATRE.--We understand the terma
demanded by Mr. DES HAYES, .were for himself
14001. and for his dresses. 1501. For Madame Dos
HAYES 9001. and for her dresses 1251. making toa
getherfor the season 25751 To this Mr. TAYLOR
agreed, only stipulating ' that they should deduCt
a term in proportion to the nights they had been
.absent. Six nights had then passed—Teis waa
agreed to—but Mr. DES HAY-es said, that a new
dance must be prepared for biro, as he couA not
come forward without preparation. Time mtlit be
allowed them for repetition, without any further
THE LAW'S DELAY.—It mayossibl be in the
deduction: To this Mr. TAYLOR replied, that the
p y I
necessity for this arose from tbeir having been en-
recolledion of some persons still living, that in an
gaged in a pecuniary speculation elsewhere) and
early period of the last century, viz. some eighty
that he was ready to pay from the very night that
years ago,. there lived in Ireland a Gentleman name
Mr. Des HAYES was disposed to come forward.—
ed BURTON, who kept a banking-house in Dublin,
Thus it went on till now that thirteen nights are
and another in Clout-net, whose credit was so emi-
past—but at length we understand the matter is ar-
Dent, that it became proverbial in Ireland, where,
ranged, and the appointment of. M. and Mad. DEI
when the goodness of the security was described, it
HAYES are at the rate of 25751. for the season, with
'Nei usual to say it was " as good as Ben Burton."
a benefit. •
It happened, however, in the chapter of casualties Madame BALSASIINI) we learn, is arrived at Rote
ever attendant on human affairs, that honest BEN
terdam on her way to England.
BURTON failed, and his affairs were thrown into the
Three troops of horse artillery will embark at
hands of trustees. "7 he glorious uncertainty of the
lain" rendered this trust an hereditary concern, and Portsmouth, in a few days, for Portugal.
Liverpool alone imported) during the last year,
for seventy-four years the business had been in-
from Ireland, to the emount of 1,889,4181. 15s. Od
volved in litigation. It was not until the last spring
During the evening of Sunday se'pnight, after
r that the subject was brought to a final issue in
much cold on Saturday, a heavy fall of snow 1:1,-•
Chancery, when the descendants Hallste first trustees
gan, and lasted the whole of Monday, in and
paid to the posterity of the orig editors their
near Edinburgh ; the snow lying from I s to 9.0
reapedive dividends upon the claims of their fore-
inches deep.
fathers; which dividends, as the whole produce of
On Wednesday, the toth instant, were landed in
Mr. BURTON'S assets were thrown into the funds,
' Arklow Bay, from the Francis and Mary, Captain
had accumulated very considerably ; insomuch that
WITHERS, afine flock of South-down sheep, corn-
ea•
one Gentleman, named FITZPATRICK, the heredi-
signed from Liverpool to the Rev. BATE Dir);_.E'P.
'wry legatee, for an original s im of 9791. received
and liberally imported by that Gentleman far tale.
as leis dividend upwards of 60001. " Better la‘e improvement of the Mountain breed of Omen in the ,
than never." county of Wexford.--Wexford Journal.
We are concerned to state, that a very singular Sir RICHARD STRACHAN, 'we understand, is nvp
circumstance occurred on Tuesday morning last, pointed to the Command in the Baltic,
in this city (Dublin).—A report similar to the Brigadier-General A. CAMPBELL being recovered
firtig of a cannon was heard in the premises of of the wounds he received at the battle of. Talci,,
Mrs. Maguire, an eminent cotton-manufadurer, in vera, is arrived at Portsmouth, to take his pae3 tae
.Ardee-street, in the. Liberty. The family was then in the Clyde frigate, Commodore °TEN, 1.4- Lis..
in bed; they immediately arose, and to their great bon, from whence he will proceed to th.:. army ye-
astonishment, found that the roof of the ware-room, i der Lord WELLINGTON, to re3uriae the commatid of
adjoining to which were. de;:osited Trail) goods to his brigade. The Clyde takes a great quantity of
the amount of upwards of 50001. lad been corn- dollars to Lisbon.
pletely blown up, the walls of the building ma- The Admiralty Sessions, for the trials of offencea
terially injured, and a large parcel of cotton-wool, committed on the high Seas, which stood adjourned
and several other articles already on fire. On fur- ' for January ee, met yesterday at the Old ilaileyaea
ther examination it was discovered, that a kind of The anchor appeared suspended, in the usual farm,
internal machine had been placed in the ware-room over the Judge, Sir W. SCOTT, and the customary
by some evil-minded villains. It was composed of preparation was made for the, arraignment of pri.,
pitch, tar, old iron, and gun-powder, closely tied soners ; but the proceedings were uniMportant.—
up in a piece of sail-cloth. Flom the damage done, The Court did not remain sitting longer than halt an
the quantity of power must have been consider- . hour.
1 ,
i able. Notwithstanding to snidest researches, the There is a boy at Hooten Pagnell, of the name o(
[ villains are as yet amdiKan tn
ered.--(Freaaties Howden, only 15 years of age, who stand Nix feet
i Journal. ; 034 inch high, and is stout in proportion'