Star. — London, England, 1816-06-10 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STIR: Stn,.•-in the first attack which the Editor Or the .hero made upon State Lotteries. (on his comment litton tho,Budget) lie designated them as an ;Milos: tion ti forroded hi fraud, suppo'rted by dishonesty. ..e and the fertile and necessary parent of crimes," and without condescending to support his assertions by argument or deduction, he seemed to take it for granted, (either from ignorance or from arrogance) that the Public would give credit to those assertions, from the mere circumstance of their appearing in the columns of his paper. The unqualified and unwar► rantahle language he then made use of necessarily inferred, or it Wetted nothing, that the Govern ment, and the Lottery Contractors, were reciprocally connected for the purpose of theating - the Public, in order that the profits of their fellow roguery might redound to their mutual advantage. This meinieg, as every fairly thinking man must see, is the only one that can be given to the above words ; but the -Editor of the limes thought proper, in his paper of -last Saturday, to follow up and explain his assertions by a sort of commentary, which commentary is a complete allowance and corroboration of the mean ing which I have.given to those assertions. He tells tits that no other game of chance is so completely fraudulent, and that, if any public gambler attempted to carry on any scheme, equally fraudulent, be would be hooted out, of the Most desperate and dissolute, soeiity in this metropolis; and then, under the shield of an assumed position. 'further says, that all pub fishers of vihat are called Lottery Puffs. ought to be 4 sentenced to Brideweli. In his commentary on the assertion. that Lotteries are a supported by dish°- . testy," he goes as it were to the right about, and even covertly labours to do away the imputation ut 'dishonesty, which the first part of his dictum had thrown aeon the Contractors and Venders of Lotte ries, and fixes all the blame of dishonesty in their support, t heir ' foundation being a lread y diszussed) upon the unfortunate and rascally purchasers !—he tells us, that the shoproan roes his till, (though it is not quite clear how a man can be said to rob his own property) and the apprentice defraud's his master, to buy a ticket or share in the Lottery, and that if none but persor.s oh strict honour were to lay out their money in that way, the offices would be soon shut up, and Lowly bills would cease to disgrace tho statute book." Now, Sir, you will see by this, that the sa gacious Gentleman attempts no argument, and sup ports his 'asses ti.sns by no proof whatever, that his positions stand perfectly insulated of any attempt at discussion ; and that they are the results of that ex unite vanity which supposes all the. world equally predisposed to think as highly of our Wends as we thick of them ourselves. la short, Sir, having, as be thinks, disposed of the origin and process of Lot teries, or, if I may so say, of - their parents and fos terers, he proceeds to develope their pro-eny, and these, he say's, are vice and crime, though all the resuscitatory powers of his infuriated and bombastic declamation will never succeed in giving exigence to the still born rice and crime which Lotteries now-a days produce; and at most, he will only succeed in raising their ghosts. He says, Lotteries call on the young and thoughtless, not to depend on honest labour, but to indulge in the golden dreams of sud den and unmerited fortune; that they stifle habits of_ industry in their birth, and laugh to scorn prudence, Ind submission to the will of Providence." The young and thoughtless will alwaysindulge In dreams , of future good fortune, whether. Lotteries shall exist or on, and whether their expectations of prosperity -Ise. realised or not; is of very little consequence to the morals of the country ; in tact, the contrary-doctrine reminds os of the old song. it Lanus all be unhappy together," whether the good fortune *of many suc cessful adventurers in the Lottery be merited or not, 1 presume not to know, not having sufficient discern. anent to discriminate, nor sufficient assurance to de. gide epon. The prate of the next assertion carries absurdity, still further, viz.—That Lotteries render men discontented Avid) that state of life to which it has pleased GOD to call them ; so that, because a Oran purchasers share of a Lottery Ticket, he is to be .:used of provoking the anger of Divine Provi dence, and of calling in question the justice of its decrees ; and the Government which disposes of, and the Contractor who bargains for, and the retail ven der, and the purchaser of a State Lottery Ticket or Share, are thus to be held up to public infamy, con. tempt, and detestation, because their sentiments and their consciences are composed of different materials from those of the asserter of these groundless and un tenable positions. The same gentleman, in his great seal to contribute to public information, puts us in possession of a very valuable piece of information, of which we were not before aware, viz- , .-When Lot teries are concerned, fraud and filly pass unsuspected in cloak of patriotism ; now by this, I understand the w iter to mean, either that the venders of Lot tery Tickets, _or the purchasers of them, assume to themselves aportion of patriotism in every share that is sold and bought ; and that they endeavour to de ceive each other into a belief, that mere disinterested love of country is the Mourn mobile of their contract. —But, Sir, did the most extravagant puff that ever attempted to increase the sale of a .Lottery, ever contain such an insinuation ? or, did the greatest hy pocrite in moralsever attempt such an expedient to • excuse his adventuring ? Did any' man of common stmase ever suppose his friend had purchased a share to evince his patriotism f Did any man of most delicate feelings and greatest ingenuity at excuses, ever apply the balsam of patriotism to heal a conscience seared by the sight of a Lottery Ticket ? or did the public ever suppose that public spirit was all that influenced the keepers of Lottery Offices ? Lord .North, whose reputation for the management of finance, was uni versally and meritoriously high, was a warm advo cate tor the existence of Lotteries, when pruned of their excrescences; those excrescences exist no longer, and even if instances of misery which have arisen from , adventuring in Lotteries could be produced, who will say that the minds and intellects of the sufferers -seem not of that class, whose misfortunes their own -imprudence would have inevitably produced. if no Lotteries bad been in existence/ The prance that morals are in dangett -is the specious pretence of by. pnctites, to enhance emir own worth ; and, in return tor the 'Wet:nation which we have bad fain the Taw, I gill put its Proprietor in possession of an inditipotable fact, Via. if Frond and folly, pass diAusrecurd in the cloak of morality? The Lem- Alt Vtietebdels stigmatized al being tele' fall #lllll other gums, and carrying fraud on the vett t if them ;' bat bow does this app ear ? the y hold out lit view no fact that does not exist ; they assert the ,bability or the possibility of no contingency that may, pot happen. It is true that, no game of chance Is fair, but *here the chances are equal, and that the fact of the effice-keeper deriving a profit from the sale of a ticket or share, evinces his duplicity ; it might be as well contended, that every purchaser of an article of life is cheated, when he gives more to the retailer of it than such retailer gave to the wholesale dater. In no species of gambling, where the expenses of main taining the gambling establishment, tall exclusively on one party, are the chances equal, or are they so held out to be. The Lotteries are not attended whh! the consequences that result fr om private R ambling I ; the fortune of the adventurer is so slowly decided,' ,that his reason is never overturned by that short but continued and rapid torrent of success which renders even the strong minded man extravagantly profuse and lavish of the sums he ventures neither; on d.e contrary, is he by a continued and quick succession' of ill'fortune, ever driven to desperation, or induced. to forfeit his reputation, and risk his last shilling.— These are the evils ot gambling, and where these do not exist, (and I affirm they do not exist in. adven tering in the State Lotteries) no more blame, and no more stain, can be attached to the character of the man who adventures his property in thus courting the smiles of lortOnes than to the character of the mer chant. the manufacturer, or the trader. who invests his property in a fluttuating concerne and risks bia capital on the profits of mercantile speculations. It is ante, however, to have done, with such miserable sophistry, and I shall only observe, that the Editor of the Times, after telling us that Mn Pitt doubted of the tendency of Lotteries in 1786, (when evils arising from them were in existence) professes With his usual flip pancy, in the year 1816,, (when a few- or ,no evils arising from them do exist) that he entertains no doubt whatever of their immoral, pernicious, and horrible tendency, and concludes his animadversions with the old dove tailed question arid answer examination of the late Mr. Whitbread. the truth of the evidence of which Ido n r distinctly deny. To conclude —it may be safely affirmed, that one halt of those who cry out against Lotteries, are not ac quainted with their nature, and is deceived asao their effects ; and that the other half is interested ; many of that other half, very nearly interested indeed in their suppression. and without meaning to impute imprnper motives for the conduct of any man, I af. firm it to be a tact, 4 4 that a member of the House of Columons, who has stood forward amongst the oppo nents of State Lotteries, is himself the patron and trustee of a Private Lottery, to the Tickets of which his name is signed, and which Tickets will be in cif% column in a few days; and, persons conversant in mercantiie transactions,well know that many houses are now in possession of Foreign Lottery Tickets, anxious for their circulation and disposal of in this country, which would be the immediate result df the suppres sion of this branch of the finance.—Your's, June 7, 1511. PUBLICUS. FRENCH ?APSES. PARIS. JUNE E. Accounts from Grenuble, of the Ist instant, men tion, that by a general order the state of siege in which the department had been placed was raised. 'the greatest tranquillity continued, and the disarm ing was successfully pursued. 'frVe learn from Brussels, that Generals Excelmans and Fressinet hid at last left that city, after a long residence. Some other French refugees bad Aso re ceived orders to quit Brussels. GRENOBLE, JUNE 1. Three days ago another chief, named Tabs* whom the gendarmes bad been in pursuit of, having been at last discovered in a house where he had con cealed himself, and from which be endeavoured to escape by the roof, was shot with a musket•balL He was a person of importance, from his influence over the peasantry of the communes, whom the diaf• tined are incessantly misleading by their worn•out phrases about tithes, the return of feudality, and a hundred other vulgar tales. ROMB, MAY se. (EXTRACT OF A LITTRIL) 44 There were serious disturbances in the vicinity of Bologna on the Bth, 9th, and 10th instant. The peasantry having assembled to the number ef some thousands on the ringing of the tocsin, laid waste all. the fields of rice, under the pretence that they iafec. ted the air. It is only about fifteen years since the cultivation of rice was intridaced into this part of Italy. It is a culture attended with great inconve niences; but such acts of violence are extremely re. prehensible, at •ir pctiod when so great a dearth pre vails in Italy.." . * COURT wacrut OF THE FIRST MILITARY •-• •• DIVISION. Yesterday apse on the trial of General Bonnaire,' Ex•comatiiidhift'* C,ondei and his Aid-de-camp, Mie teemer Awed with having ordered or authorized the death of Colonel Robert. Gordon, in violatioird the law of nations, and disregarding the sacred character of the flag of truce with which be was iovestoia •end-the latter with having taken an active past Indio murder. Thc Couit was composed of Major. Generals thei Duke do Willi, Count de la Feronnaye, Count -de' Macbeth% Colonel the Marquis de Maleyssie, Vis connt.PoOs; Count de Vergennes, and Cap tain Degretyv -Mr. Chaveau Lagarde, who acted as defender of the late Queen of France, was the pri soners' emus& The whole of the first day was occupied by the. reading •of documents and written evidence. The papers first re4d were two memorials addressed to the' Minister at War, by two brothers of the deceased,' ' Lieutenant James Gordon of the Artillery, and Lieu tenant Gordou of the Dutch Naval Service, charging , the prisoners with -the murder .of their brother. On the 4th of August, General Bonaire, the prisoner, of whom the Minister of War had.in consequence demanded an account of his conducts tonsmitted a Report, in which •hensserted, that Coked Gordon bad observed none of the forms requisite is lags of truce. He was taken forfors seducer,•wishing to intro duce himself by stealth into Conde. 4, The troops." be added, 1 4 wasindigsantond itetatutifiedno vrcter for his being shot. k Immune ascseswo-cplat die effer‘seattee tithe altsiterated saklorp •He , wan It. l elan theAjoi4.oinitlirfd a: a seeker. &A , were the T uscans for Which this man, who had,placed himself .withoueilre law, was shot.' The depositions of three witnesses, examined by order bf the Prefect, were next read. They stated, that when the unfortunate Gordon made his appear ance at Condi, he was in uniform, wearing a bine great coat. He was arrested, and brought before General Bonnaise, who, after hutting read his pa pers, and torn a part of them, said—" It was you who played the traitor in such and such an affair." — He then tore of his epaulettes, his cross of St. Louis, his fleur delis, and gave orders for his being , shot.-1 One of the witnesses, on being asked Whether the de ceased was regularly tried by a military commission, replied, that General Bonnaire, after conversing a moment with Gordon, caused him to be shot by a battalion which had come from Paris. It was fur ther stated in these depositions, that when Gordon was arrested, liounaire at first thought of releasing him, and firing upon him a gun loaded with chain shot when he got a little distance. However, on se cond thoughts, he said, " could he not he placed in a safe prison ?" Upon which Mielton replied, 46 the safest way is to shoot him instantly." This horrible advice was taken, and Gordon recei. ved one shot in the belly, and two in the breast. His executioners divided among them 1,200 fr. which "he bad upon his person. The public Order issued on the occasion by Gene ral Bonnaire was as follows : " One of the traitors who deserted the French ar my on the 16th and 17th of June made his appear ance before the fortress as a seducer and a spy—the bearer of incendiary Proclamations (viz. copies of that'of Cambray) : he has undergone , the fate which he deserved." Kest was read the Report of a Court of Inquiry, summoned at Lille on the prisoner. They gave it albeit. opinion, that even supposing Colonel Gordon was a traitor and a spy, General Bonnaire had ex ceeded his powers, which did not extend to life and death. They recommended, therefore, that Doonaire, Mielton, and those of the soldiers who had treated Colonel. Gordon inhumanly before shOoting , him, should be brought to trial before a Court Martial. The next document read was a letter from the I Prince of Oringe to the Duke of Feltre: it contained the following passage: 44 Colonel Gordon did not set about making the summons with proper caution. A detachment and a trumpeter were given him at my advanct.d posts, near —; but instead of taking them with him, and approaching the fortress with the trumpeter, I.e left them at Fresnes. From thence he proceeded quite alone. On his arrival at the first posts of the enemy, he announced himself, and was introduced within the works by the orders of General Bonnaire, who spoke to him. He was very ill received in the first instance, then he was struck with fists, and, in fine, was shot, without sentence of a Court Martial, or the least ap pearance of trial." From an examination taken at Conde, it appeared that when the unfortunate Gordon was aware of the fate preparing for him, he-invoked French humanity and honour. General Bonnaire wished merely that a cannon-shot should be fired upon him in the air. He did not order his assassination, but did nothing to prevent it. After reading these documents the Court adjourned. The trial, it is supposed, will last four days. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1816. POLICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT TWELVE O'CLOCK* Seduced U} SS—Cons. shut—for opening 64 pa Cerra 7811—S per era. Navy shut—Boods par Is. pr. Omelets NH —Do. pay. 231—Eubequer BUI, Is. dis. as. pr. ••=IM.MI.• We have received the Paris Papers of Thursday. They contain the first day's Report oldie Trial of Ge. neral BONNAIRE, and one Murvrotr, an Aide-de-Camp, for the assassination in perfect cold blood of Colonel GORDON, an Englishman by birth, although in the service of the Kum of FRANCE.. This horrible crime was accompanied with circumstances of barbarity scarcely ever paralleled in any . other country than that of modern France. BONNAIRR, in March 1815, after BONAPARTE'S landing at Cannes, was one of the first to offer his services to the KING, who , entrusted' him with the command of the important fortress of Conde.. BONNAIRE, as a matter of course, declared for the Usurper afterwaeds ; and when the glorious battle of Waterloo had confounded the hopes of all traitors but those of Monsieur BONNAIRE, the unfor tunate Colonel GORDON was sent in to summons the place to :mender, in the name of Louts XVIII. the lawful Sovereign. He delivered his message, and it is not alleged by the cowardly Jacobin ruffians who murdered him, that he conducted himself in any way unbecoming a 'Soldier and a Gentleman.— BONNAIRI and MIELTON, with their own hands, tore his epaulets, his Cross of St. Louis, and other deco. rations, from his person, and one or other ordered a soldier who was near, to kill him, by striking him in the loins with the butt end of a musket, a mode of assassination quite familiar to the brigands who corn posed BONAPARTeS armies: this 'did not succeed, however, for poor GORDON was still able to rise and supplicate for French humanity and justice I As if such scoundrels as BONNAIRE and MELTON knew' any thing of justice and humanity 1 He was then din. patched by a discharge of musketry. BONNAIRR and Mu:row then rifled the pockets of their victim of 1,200 francs, and like is true thieves, who rob upon i n stinct," :hared the money. This trial will occupy three slays longer, and we shall not be surprized to learn, that the Council of War has acquitted thew desperadoes. The brothers of the deceased, who seem to have acted with becoming spirit,in damning the trial of the assassitd by the sonspetest Authorities. will, in case of acqr.igala wt OM, tic the sake- of European justice and humanitir, tiring theta tolrial before a not h er 11 bunal. We lament to see that the generous and lightened CuaVaao Laoartne, who &Tended the l ett Queen of France, is one of the Counsel Tor th ese Qui creants.—We s.ty we lament to see this pr o ith rio4 bf talent, because, with all due respect for rh o l ee , tude justly allowed to legal advisers, in assutigni t h e defence of a cause, there are, occasionally, caseiti t such atrocity, and crimes committed se reVoni n i t4 huritan nature, that the Advocates for the crlinia l l insensibly become polluted in all pure and can att minds, by the association of their nathei with % t a t et the guilty. We are at'a loss to conceive what defence N s NAIRE can make—he admits that he summoned t o COOtt. Martial on Colonel Gonons ; that he to e o advice bUt that of MIELTON, his Aide-de-Camp, wiy , by the bye, seems to have been the more humane et the two ; for BONNAIRE says, that it was his intentiol to dismiss poor Gounou, and when he was (kit t y paces off to fire upon him unawares, with two 1) 4, 1 of cannon, loaded with grape-shot l Nftetvow, b ox . ever, carried h; point, which was to murder th r i : victim on the . spot. In this case, as in all Jacobi Councils, whether of state or of war, the :errant we t occasionally master, and MIELTON seems to have had BONNAIRE under his command. COURIER EXTRAORDIXARY 07 THURSDAY MORNING. Letters from St. Petenburgh announce, that CoR Noailles, the new French Ambassador,has preset.% his Credentials to the Emperor Alexander. This is the day appointed for the trial of t h e ma i m Didier, at Grenoble. Count Boanay, the French Ambassador to Berlin, has presented his letters of credence to the King of Prussia. The new English Ambassador to Naples has at. rived at Paris, on his way to the place of his desti. nation. The Duke of Wellington gave, on the 4th of June, at Cambray, a grand entertainment, in honour of jai ; -Sovereign's Birth.day. His Grace was to set out for Paris immediately afterwards, where he was es. pected :his evening. Arrangements are made to se. ceive him at the Hotel de la Regniere. By the Charleston Papers of the llth May, which we received to-day, we regret to learn, that the con. dhion of the British prisoners at Carthagena, in New Spain, continues from bad to worse. About the !►ha of March eleven British and American subjects, (chiefly Misters of vessels) bloke out of prison, nine got on board of the boats of the British brig Fortes. ter, which waited to receive them; but the other two were killed. The Americans steak highly of the h.a. mane conduct of Capt. HENRY, of the Forrester. Saturday his Royal Highness the PitiNce REGINT held a Court at Carlton House, which was attended by the Archbishop of CANTERSERY, the Loan Cass mum, and the Ministers. EDWARD 'THORNTON, Esq. Envoy Extraordinirt and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Sweden, had an audience of the Puns Reossx, and took leave of his Royal Highness previous to his leaving England for Sweden. Monsieur de NEFF= was introduced to the hum' REGENT by Lord Viscount CASTLEREAGH, upon his arrival in England as Minister from the Court of Wirtemberg. His Excellency had a private audi. ease to deliver his credentials, and was most gra. ciously received. Count BettomunceN, the late , Wirtemherg ter, had an audience of the PRINCE REGENT to take .leave previous to his leaving England. The Duke.of Yoax visited the NIKE Liza: 1.. yesterday. The LORD CHANCELLOR and Count MUNSTER had audiences of the PRINCE REGENT yesterday. Yesterday Divine Service was performed at the Queen's Palace, by the Chaplain in Waitiag. lithe evening her MAJESTY, Princesses ELIZABETH and MARY, aftei partaking of an early dinner, left the Palace for Windsor. PRINCESS CHARLOTTR-aer Royal Highness con tinues to be attended by Dr. BAILLIR, Surgeon Kee, and Mr. WALKER. PRINCE LEOPOLD is constant in his affectionate attendance upon his Royal Consort; ' he has only left Camelford-House twice since he dined with the Duke of GLoucesten on Thursday evening. Saturday afternoon he went to Carlton-House, and saw the ARGENT, previous to his holding a Coen, when he reported fully to his Royal Highness the state of his Royal Daughter's health. Yesterday his Serene Highness rode out on horseback for about sa hour, attended by Sir ROBERT GARDINER. The PRINCR RS.GENT called on Friday 'afternoon, on horse back, at C.imelford-House. The Royal Family do not call, as no visitors 'are admitted to her Itiyal Highness's Chamber; the Royal Family, ho wever, are lenstantly sending with the most anxious and affec tionate enquiries. It is the Medical eventlealee' orders, that her Royal Highness should be kept heel quiet. The following Bulletin respecting the PriP ceis CHARLOTTE'S health was issued yesterday: " CAIKELFORD-HOUSE, SUNDAT No* 4 4 The PRINCES/ has bad a good night's rest. The Petit il somewhat abated. Her Royal Highness appears rdreskati ill sleep; but she bas still a very irritable Cough." • THE PARKS. —Yesterday the weather was wet sad unfavourable to promenade, consequently the Park du nut afford the usual display of Sunday suit , . • 7 The Editor of the Manchester Herald is justly , iv dignant at the false reports contained in the Lonclo2 Prints, of riots hving taken place in that neighbour' hoed. He says, a there bas been no such thiog—all is quiet. • iron' J.. - 1 The Lady Holland , DEANHAMI sailed maica the 13th April. Captain Plural ssc tome!! that being in want of stock, he sent his be { I ° ll l rposeso' of procuring some at the Havanno but on as it was sufficiently near the Fort, tb• ' he . a ; 1 waved their hands for the boats to return 4.0 at mum time pointing their nitiskidr. : sr, al 1 4 ° di