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The Ist Itegiiiiiiit of •Lsfe Gulrdi left lEnig -his COURT Ott CHANCERY, AUGUST t/.
bridge Bariack.s thii morning, and proceeded to those at ibikaiii Tim taiktion assuteattbe COMPANY, nt THE
of Rumford.. The Town duty will now be divided MAME OF arttsiscat AND SON.
between the td Life Guards and that excellent corpk, This was an application for leave to plove a debt
the Royal Horse Casuals, who hate taken possession of £lOOO under the vim:hilton, the proof of which
of Hyde Park tarlracks far that purpose. the• Commissioners had refused td receive. It ap-
Captain Anciiitithmtu, of the Royal Scots, whti loit Peered that Atkidson had given a bond to the Lon-
his arm at the site of St. Sebastian's, is son to the don Assurance Company, in the name of himself
Captain of that name, who commanded the Harbour and son, who *as then under age; and for this bond
of Minorca during the last war. He has another son they gave him credit as a broker. The proof of the
in the British service as Midshipman on' board the debt was resisted, od the ground of his son's being a
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AJAX, 74, a most gallant deserving young Officer. minor. .
There is an order from the Home Secretary of The LORD CHANCEiIdi said, he had no hesitation
State, for the permanent non-commissioned officers in saying that this was 11-proveable debt.
and drummers of the Local Militia, to raise volun- Ex PARTE WARING IN *in MATTER OF BRICKWOOD.
teers for the regular Militia of their respective coun- Messrs. Brickwood, it appeared, prior to their
ties. They are to give ten guineas bounty, and two bankruptcy, hid granted their acceptances (to the
guineas are "allowed for expenses. amount of £24,000/ to the house of Messrs. Bracken
COURTS MARTIAL.--Lieutenant WHITE, of the . and Co. for which they received, as security, short
Artillery Driver Corps, has been found guilty of ob- , bills, the balance of a cash account, and the mort-
Wiling quarters as a Major of Cavalry at the house of gage of an estate, to an amount considerably greater
a priest at Lamego, in Portugal, and whilst there
than that for which they were liable by their Steep-
causing the uncle of the priest to be imprisoned, taking [antes ; only one of which had been taken up at the
time the failure of their house occurred. Under these
away silver spoons, destroying the furniture and
kicking the servants of the house. ', circumstances, his Lordship had formerly made an
Lieutenant STEITZ, of the 60th Regirnent,has been
order, directing the appropriation of part of the se-
tried at the Cape Good Hope for selling sheep be.
curities to the defraying so much of the acceptances
longing to Goverment, to different colanial farmers;
as had been made good—and also directing that the
for having embezzled several barrels of flour ;—for
residue should be paid over to the estate of Messrs.
Bracken and Co. who had also become banloupts,
employing soldieri to tan skins of the Government
for the benefit of their creditors. With this ordet
sheep, and making them into trowsers, selling the fat
the holders of the acceptances (of whom the petitioner
and exchanging it for soap, arc. Scc.
.is one) were dissatisfied ; and the Court was now
Deputy Assistant Commissary-General BERARD prayed to order chat the short bills, &c. so delivered
has been tried at Lisbon on charges of defrauding as a security by Messrs. Bracken, should be retained
Government in purchases and supplies of stores, to for the benefit of Messrs. Brickwood's creditors.—
the amount in one instance of iC20,000 or thereabouts, Mr. Leach argued the case at considerable length :
in another instance £26,862. 12s. he contended, that Messrs. Brickwood, in receiving
PRIVATE LE ITER. those securities, acted as trustees—that they took them
" Head-quarters, Lezaca, August 3, 1813. for the purpose of insuring the payment of their ac-
" I am happy to inform you that Souvr has cont.. ceptances.—and they ought not no to be separated
pletely failed in his attempt to relieve Pamplona, be- from their estate.
side suffering the disgrace of three defeats in different
battles, and the loss of nearly 15,000 men, baggage, I The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that this was a
&c.—On the 26th ult. partly by surprise, he forced .case of the utmost importance. His own feeling was
hostile to the prayer of the petition ; but he could not
the pass of Maya, with an immense army, and pushed .
on by our right towards Pamplona ; of course it be- i decide a question of so much magnitude on a motion
came a race between us, (such marching I never had
, of. this kind : it ought to come before him by bill,
before), and a trial of skill between the Generals.— I when every point would be properly discussed. If
Lord WELLINGTON succeeded, and threw his army
I the prayer of the petition were granted, it would ma-
bttween the French and Pamplona, occupying a terially affect the decisions which had taken place in
strong position, as did the enemy. lbankruptcy cases for several years past. He would,
,4 On the 28th, I had the Leasure of witnessin i therefore, decline entering into the subject now, with
British valour and constancy defeat French inapetuo-
the understanding, that it should be brought before
g ; him on the first cause day in the next sittings, then
Say : four times did they storm a hill occupied by
our fourth division (already weakened by severe fight-
to be solemnly argued.
ing the preceding day), and with such determination, SUSSEX ASSIZES, LEWES, AUGUST 16. . ,
that I am sure none other than British troops could HOLMES V. MOLINEUX, ESQ. M.P.
have maintained their position. Luckily for us we ' Tn this action it appeared, that the Plaintiff was
had them on that hill ; for if it had been lost, Pain. the Mayor and Returning Officer for the Borough of
plona would have been delivered, our right turned, Arundel, at the last General Election for that 80.
and the army cut off from the Vittoria road. The rough ; that the Defendant was a candidate there,
slaughter was immense. You may guess what the I and returned, withoutoppositien,to Parliament. The
French lost, charging, in great numbers, four times , Plaintiff's claim was for one moiety of the expense of
up a steep hill, and being driven back every time. ; the Hustings and of the return ; the Defendant ob-
The 4th division, you may with truth say, did cover ' jetted that by law he could not be called on for more
themselves with glory.—On the 29th, we had little or I than one-third of the expense of the hustings, there
no fighting. being three candidates ; and that, as to the return,
" On the 30th, Lord WELLINGTON attacked them.l the plaintiff was bound to make it, without any re-
I had got up early in the morning, expecting a battle, ' muneration from the defendant.
and with great difficulty ascended a mountain, about On the former point it did not appear, in fact, that
one mile and a half in front of Pamplona, which gave , there were three candidates, or that the expense of
me a view of both armies already engaged • the 6th erecting the hustings exceeded those of any former
division was attacking a village called Cerolea, at the I election, always paid for by the candidates.
bottom of a mountain occupied by the French columns,
To the latter objection, a letter from the Defeo-
and after some sharp-work, drove them out of it; I got
dant to the Plaintiff was read, in which the defendant
down the hill as fast as I could, and kept close up to
stated, that "he should be very ready to pay his
Captain Cairns's brigade of artillery, belonging to the
i " share of the charge of the return, in the same man-
6th division, who opened upon them a dreadful fire.— share
as was usual in other Boroughs in that part of
Mind, when Capt. Cairns began, three French columns I
were not above 200 yards from our gun ssengaged with " the county." The Plaintiff then satisfactorily
our infantry : I was about 100 yards on one side of I proved, that the demand made by him was coml.
CAIRNS' guns, so that I could see plainly the effect of derably less than the usual charge of a return for
our fire ; for one hour the French stood exposed to five other Boroughs.
pieces of artillery playing upon them with spherical The Court remarked, that, after the letter, it was
shellsthem falling down by dozens, such gaps not a handsome defence to the action, and directed
in their lines ; at last they moved off slowly, and in the Jury to find for the Plaintiff, which they did.
capital order, and in about one hour all were off except THE KING V. BREEDS.
2500, who laid down their arms, being surrounded. This was an information filed by his Majesty's At-
Certainly they behaved well on this occasion ; their torney General against the Defendant, an inhabitant
dead which I saw in the village and on the hill were of the town of Hastings, in this county, and others,
very numerous, as I got up their hill to see what effect for .an assault, or riot, and obstructing the Commis.
the shells had had. I cannot give you any account of i sioners of the Income Tax in the execution of their
General Hugs battle, a great way to our left ;—he i duty. The case made out on the part of the prose-
was too strongly attacked at first, and it was ne- , cution was, that a great many of the inhabitants of
cessary to reinforce him. From the 31st of July Hastings, chiefly being fishermen, were surcharged
to the 2d August, we have been driving Sputa. back by the Surveyor of the Income Tax on the amount
with great loss, over the passes of the Pyrennees..... of their income. On the day of appeal upwards of
Yesterday, as we marched to this place, the road was sixty of them assembled at the public house, and were
strewed with their bodies, the villages full of their - very clamorous, and Mr. Challin, the Sorveyor of
wounded ; in several houses I saw them lying on the the district, stated, that at length they burst into the
same spots where they had been placed, their wounds room, and Mr. Breeds at their head. Mr. Breeds
dressed, but few were alive. Some of our soldiers then used very abusive language, and told the Com-
were there too; they were dressed as well or better missioners that their notices of appeal were illegal,
than their enemies. They have behaved very well and rot worth a farthing. The Surveyor also stated,
to those few wounded prisoners of our's whom they that he considered himself in bodily danger, and was
took. SOULT has fled into France, some say; others, in fear of being thrown out of the window, as some
that he is wandering in the mountains. We are about of them called out to throw him out of the window.
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