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posing that none of Colonel Bradlee s friends would advise him to publish this correspont a ce. It was im possible to riled the letters which d written with- 1 oat seeing that the writer was labouring under an extra vagant delusion which he would not further characterise. Sette r person, however, was found to give Colonel Bradley such ill-starred advice; and the consequence was, that he had addressed a letter to the Duke of Wpl lington, detailing all the facts stated in tie creme pondenee he had just read, and repeating all the charges therein made against General Fuller. Now, he would venture to say, though he had had no communication with his Grace the Duke of Wellington on the subject, that his Grace would have been the last man in the world to publish that letter. It was, howevers pub lished in the Morning Chronicle, accompanied by comments upon it by some person with the same tor tuous imagination as Colonel Bradley himself. Here the Learned Counsel read a long passage from the Chronicle of February 15, 1826, reiterating the former accusations against General Fuller. In this publication, which was the last he should trouble them with, he changed General Conran, Sir Harry Torrens, and some other officers of rank, amongst whom General Fuller was included, with conduct derogatory to their cha racters as officers and gentlemen. There could be no doubt that any one of the paragraphs he had read was libellous; that they were of the most galling and irri tating nature; and that it required great forbearance— he might even say great compassion—towards the writer, to refrain from seeking some explanation for the indignant feelings which such atrocious calumnies were calculated to excite. If these charges had been made by Colonel Bradley alone, the General might have let them pass unnoticed, under the idea that the author of them was labouring under infirmity of mind; but when he found that there was another person weak enough and foolish enough to hand such charges to the world, it became his duty to purge himself of such accusations in the most effectual mode in his power. The General applied to the Court of King's Bench for a criminal information against the author of these accu- SAIIOIII, declaring in his affidavit that there was not the slightest ground for them whatever. He would present himself in the witness box before them, and would swear that the commission was signed, as it purported to be, in 1814, and would answer any questions that might be put to him upon it. Robert Henry Knight, a clerk to Cox and Green Mood, was then called to prove the letters written to General Fuller to be in Colonel Bradley's hand writing. Ile underwent a long crossiexamination from Colonel Bradley, for the purpose of showing that there had been no notification to Messrs. Cox and Greenwood of the commission which it was said that General Fuller had granted io Colonel Arthyr in 1814, to act as Go vernor of Honduras. The Editor of the Morning Chronicle proved that he received from Colonel Bradley the letters from Colonel Bradley to the Duke of Wellington, which appeared in the Morning Chronicle on the sth and 15th of Feb. and on the sch of March, 1827. and that he had published them by Colonel Bradley's desile. General Fs ancis Faller—l am a General in his Ma jesty's army. In 1814 I was the Commander of the forces in Jamaica; the settlement of Honduras is one of its dependencies. In 1814 I granted a commission to Colonel Arthur to command the troops there. This is the commission which I granted, and by virtue of which Colonel Arthur commanded the troops at Honduras.— He corresponded continually with me as Commander of the troops there. I never saw the defendant to my knowledge before to-day. The witness then said. that he had received from Colonel Bradley the different letters, of which we have given the substance in the At torney General's speech. Cross-examined by Colonel Bradley—l am now in the 50th year of my ieryice in the army. I don't know whether my first appointment waz notified in general orders. It was gaaetted, and I suppose. notified to my regiment. I don't recollect whether I got my commission before I joined my regiment; it was left, I think, for me at my agent's. I have not got the commission in Court which I received as Commander in Chief of the forces in Jamaica. Colonel Brad!ey here offered to put in a copy of it, but Was not allowed by the Lord Chief Justice. • Witness—l have got my commission here. both as a General and a Lieutenant General.—(The commissions, by desire of Colonel Bradley, were put in and read).—l was in full pay in Jsnuary, 1813, when I received my commission as Lieutenant General. I now re ceive an allowance. I could not go on the parade at the Horse Guards now and command the troops, without a letter of service. I suppose that I could not have been appointed Commander of the farces at Jamaica, had I been only a civilian. I suc ceeded General Morrison in Jamaica in June, 1813, He put my name into the general orders as his successor. I think I heard them read. The General Officer is obliged to send all the general orders home. The Act ing Adjutant-General is the person who generally sends them home. Major Arthur arrived in Jamaica in April 1814. He had no staff appointment under my corn-' mind. I d n't think he was Deputy Quartermaster. (hoer .1. He was Major of the 7th West India Regi ment at that time. He might have exchanged at that time into the Yolk Ch .sseurs. Not one man of the 7th West India Regiment was at Honduras at the time he went them. I conferred no rank upon hint when I made him Command int of Honduras. I did not see. Major Arthur in . June, 1822; in Paris. In the Army List for Jute, 1822. 1 saw my death inset ted. I was told that it originated from a conversation Ir:tween Major Arthur and Col met Gardner. In July, 1820, I was at Versailles. I did not then see Genital Torrens or Gen. Conran at Paris. I conclude that Major Arthur's corn mis•ion was copied by my secretary (tom a book in the office. I understand that such commissions are usually given by the Commanders MA:l;mi in Jamaica. The body of Colonel Arthur's commission is written either by the vile or wife's sister of Major Hall, my military secretary. Major Hall wrote an indifferent hand him• self, and he got his wife or wife's sister to write for him. That commission was brought me in the morning. never transacted business in the afternoon. It was to Major Arthur by my secretary. He thanked me for it in the usual manner. He left Jamaica shortly atter receiving it, to take the command at Honduras. I know C..lonel Smith, of the Royal Artillery. 1 hate not gone w ith him to Norwood to visit Colonel At thu•'. children. I believe no fees were paid on this commis• sion of Colonel Atthur's. I have no doubt but it was entered in the s@ctetatt's book at Jamaica. It may be called a commissi, n, or a lett. rof service. I showed these letters to Lord Palmerston ; but I do not recollect hearing him call this commission a letter ot service. Colonel Bradles—Have you seen that be called it so in the newspapers? . . Lord TIINTILUDtiI-11 he did. it would not beevidence. The ATTuRNEY Gar:mom—What it he did 1 there are so many foolish things published in the newspapers 'now a-days. 1 . —Witness.—lf Major Anhur had not had an express commission from his Molest!, I should not have given him the commission which I did. Tbat commission was notified at home. not by myself, bui . by my military secretary.. It might, °tit might not, be notified in ge neral otcletiii at Jamaica. I know nothing of this order book of the6oth Rest. (looking at one produced). Colonel I3:adley.—/lere's a letter, my Lord, of Gen. Fuller, printed by order of Parliament. May I pot it in ? . Lord TINTERDIN.—Ask him if it is his handwriting? The ATTORNLY Gamum..—lt is a printed paper, my Lord. Lord TINTERDIN.--Thtn it cannot be received. The witness continued.—At the time I gave that commission I did not publi.h it in the Jamaica Gazelle. I consider that I had perfect power to grant a commis sion for the benefit of the public service. I had no spe- cial authority from the Crown to grant Col. Arthur's commission. I had no warrant to do it, except from my commission as Commander in Chief. That com• mission 1 have mislaid. Colonel Bradley then commenced his defence, by a statement of the manner in which he had been sent by General Conran, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica, to command a wing of his regiment, the 2d West India, which was stationed in February, 1818, in Honduras. During the whole of that year, he was on the very best terms with Colonel Arthur; and it was not till 1819 that he had any difference with that officer. He then detailed, at very great length, the causes and circum stances, and consequences, of his quatsel with that offi cer, contending that Colonel Arthur, after he had been reduced to half pay, had no right to be considered as Military Commandant of Honduras; that Gen. Fuller had given bim no c•mmtssion in 1814 to act as such ; and that even if he h td, General Fuller had no power to confer it. In the course of his address to the Jury, lie introduced into it matter so irrelevant to the issue to be tried, that . Lord TZNTERDXN was obliged repeatedly to interrupt him.—On his attacking the conduct of several parties who were not before the Court, Lord TINTERDEN said, that though he lamented the misfortunes which had befallen the defendant, he could not allow him to injure absent parties by making state ments to their disadvantage. The defendant had accused General Fuller of signing at Paris a commission which purported to have been signed at Jamaica in 1814. Any thing that bore upon proof of that accu sation might be admitted in evidence ; but the effect of the commission issued to colonel Arthur, and the authority of General Fuller to issue it, were not points at all connected with the present issue. Colonel Bradley still persisted in pressing these points on the attention of the Jury, s; hen Lord TaiTiRDRN said that he had a painful duty to perform, but perform it he would. Into the points which Colonel Bradley was discussing, the Jory could not inquire, and what they could not inquire into he ought not to allow to be discussed. Colonel Bradley-1f I :hew that, after Cu!. Arthur was reduced to half pay, he acted as Lieutenant Colo nel, and never mentioned thit he had such a commis sion as is now pretended, is it not a proof that such a commission was never in existence? Lord TINTERDZN—If you were misled into the pub lication of these letters, and if you published them under a mistaken impression, that is not a matter of defence here, but may be submitted to the Court if you are hereafter called up for judgment. Colonelßradley—lf I am not permitted to go into this narration, my mouth is stopped. Lord Taarraanta--Mind, I do not stop you from saying any thing which you way have to urge in de fence •f these letters. Colciel Bradley—lf I had Colonel Arthur in the box I would ask him, Did you write certain letters?'' and if he said " Yes," I should like to know whether I ought to believe him or General Fuller? Lord TaNTERDEN—Why, if Colonel Arthur should be wrong, is General Fuller to be accused of conspi racy and forgery ? Colonel Bradley, notwithstanding these checks, pro- ceeded, as before, to contend that General Fuller had no authority under the Act of Parliament to grant a commission to Colonel Arthur to act as Commandant at Honduras. Lord TENTRRDitIL Will not allow you to say that. In a cause in which yon were a party, that question was solemnly decided against you by the Court of King's Bench. Colonel Bradley—l merely state this in 'explanation of my case. Lord TENTERDEN-But if, in doing so, you state something to be law, and state it wrongly, I am bound to interfere.. Colonel Bradley then proceeded in the course of his address to attack Sir Henry Torrens very severely. Lord TENTICHDEN—I have a great anxiety, Colonel Bradley, to treat you as a Gentleman and an unfortu. sate man, who has been misled. But I cannot allow other men to be censured, who are not before the Court. Thai is an important part of the duty of a Judge. It you do not yield to advice, you must to authority. Colonel Bradley then proceeded to say, that he would call Sir H. Torrens and General Conran, and would prove from their mouths that they had been at Parrs, and had seen General Fuller, on the subject of this com mission. He likewise stated that he would call a variety of other witnesses to other points, which Lord TANTER DIM, on hearing, told him that he would not allow to beat all examined into. Mr. Coleman, a clerk in the War office, and Sir H. Torrens, were then examined by the defendant; but as most of the questions put to them related to the validity of General Fuller's commission to Colonel Arthur, Lord TIINTERDLN told them not to answer them. Notwith standing this intimation was repeated to the different witnesses, subsequently called, at least 50 times in the course of the day, Colonel Bradley pressed the same que.tions upon them all in turn. General Smith, Colonel Gardner, and Captain Webb, wese then called on their subpixnas, but did not answer. Mr. Marshall and Mr. Martin, clerks in Lord Pal merston's office ; Mr. Raven, cies k to the Solicitors for the Treasury ; Lord Palmerston, Secretary at War; Mr. Wright, a merchant at Honduras; General Pyne, a commandant and superintendent at the sante place ; and Mr. Hay, Cider Secretary for the Colonies,who attended for Mr. Huskisson, whom the defendant had subrcenaed, were then examined by the defendant. There was nothing in their evidence which tended to prove that the conamissicn in question was a fabricated commission, but much to prove directly the reverse. Oil putting to one of them his usual question about ' legality of General Fuller's commission, Lotd Timmins' expressed his surprise that a gen tleman, who, from his rank in the army, must be sup posed to hare some sease and understanding. should so obstinately persist in putting questions which the Court had so repeatedly declared to be inadmissible. Colonel Fteemantle, Colonel Breretos, and General Conran ware then called as witnesses, but did nut appear. The Duke of Wellington was then examined, and in reply to questions from the defendant, said t h at he did THE 14.1V14:NING STAR. LONDON. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1827. STOCK RXCIIANGK, TWELVII O'CLOCK. The information front the East, in the Gazette de France received yesterday, and particularly that part which states that the embargo bad been taken off the shipping at Constantinople, is entirely dis credited in the City this morning ; and it is also stated, as a posi tive fact, that Government are not in possession of any official accounts from Constantinople later than the 11th of November. In consequence of which, the Consol market opened rather heavy this morning, and Consols which left off yesterday at •4a II foe the Account, opened at 841, and continue at the same price at present, with little doing. In the Foreign market nothing is doing. CITY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. The Cansol market remains steady, with little doing, and hat been fluctuating this morning between 84a and 841. Comb at present may be quoted at 84J 4. PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 2051 India Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 831 j Ditto Bonds 73 74 3 per Ct. Cons. Shut. South Sea Stock 31 per Cent. 901 Old Annuities Se per Cent. tied. We 1 1 21000 Excheq. Bins 443 47 4 per Ct. New Shut. 2500 Ditto 46 47 4 per Cent. Scrip XlOO and .4100 Ditto 41 47 4 per Cent. 1826, 1011 Commercial Long Ann. 18 15.16 Consols for Acct. 841 I FOREIGN FUNDS, TWO O'CLOCK. Colombian Bond., 6 p Ct. Slex Bds. 1823,6 p C. 471 Ditto 8d5,1824 Do Am 471 48 4 7i Do. Ace. 28 271 Pontos. Bds. 5 p C. 711 1 Greek Bonds, S p Ct. Russ.Bds.trit2, 6p C. 911 91 Do. Dd5.1845 , Sp Ct. 18 Do Acct. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SHARKS, TWO O'CLOCK. SHAM TAM 100 85 117/ 35 so 991 981 100 so 181 18 50 5 Is ao a 100 23 40 35 18 17 Anglo Mexican Brazilian Colombian General Mining A SW. Hibernian Mexican United Mexican An Express has arrived from Paris tbis forenoon, bringing the Gazette de France, dated yesterday. The following is an extract: They write us from Constantinople of the 24th No vember, as follows: " The Ambassadors of the Allied Powers (des Pais settees signatairesduTraiti du &h July) have had with the Reis Effendi a conference, which lasted five hours, but the result is not known; but for these eight days past the embargo has been taken off from ships of all na tions, and it is believed the intentions of the Porte are pacific. " Our news from Smyrna are of the 15th; every thing remains quiet in that town." The above confirms the news received yesterday ; and private letters state, that there is every hope that affairs will be settled amicably. An Italian Messenger arrived this morning at the Colonial Office, in Downing•street, with dispatches from Sir FIDIDIRICIC ADAM, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Isles. The dispatchcs are dated the 6th of December; but although they bring no intelligence from Constantinople, they mention, in very gratifying terms, that the Consuls and Christians in the Turkish ports of the Levant enjoy the most perfect tranquillity. Our accounts from Toulon this morning state, that all the vessels of war in that port were fitting out for sea, with the exception of those of the largest class. The 13reslaw, the Provence, and the Scipio, were re pairing. Three bomb vessels were ready for sea, and the bombadiers were about to embark. By accounts from Lyons, we learn that - the Day of ALGIERS had refused the terms of peace offered by the French Government. These letters also mention the establishment of camps at Cages and at Hyeres. It seems the Day is making very active preparations to repel any attacks the French may think fit to make. We have advices from Bucharest to the 27th ult. The Tartars dispatched by the SULTAN with letters and fir mans for the &MASK= of Sdistria, had art iced there. The place was tranquil at the date of thete accounts, although a considerable sensation bad beemproduced by the intelligence from Constantinople. The Authorities of Wallachia had issued orders that no person should be permitted to quit the Province. The PACHA of Silistria had sent , considerable reinforcements of Turkish troops to the fortress of Braila, ea .the, Walachian territory. Firmans had been circulated over the Bulgarian province, in which the Musinhoett were directed to arm themselves for the defence of th e religion cf the Prophet threatened by the Infiiels. Th e communication between Bulgaria and Walachia had been broken off, and no Christian •as suffered to leu t the Turkish territory upon pain of losing his head. Ny, regret to find by these accounts, that the plague h a d made its appearance in Bucharest for the three 4 71 precediog the departure of the advice'. The accounts from Vienna this morning are to th e 12th inst. The Archduke FERDINAND D'E re, brothn. in•law to the Empalme, was reported to have he el appointed to the command of the Army of Observation about to be formed in Hungary. Count Tour?, attached to the Russian Ellbissy at Conttaninnpie, had arrived at Vienna on the let of the present month, - - By advice' from Ancona, dated to the 22d u l t , we learn that Count CAPO d'lsrata still remained at that port ; nor do they give us any idea of when he would depart for Greece. By the Countess of Dunmore we have this morning received accounts from China. In she latest Pekin Gs. /rites there is nothing new respecting the war in Tattaiy, The Pekin Blard of Revenue states that upwards of $O,OOO Tartar and Chinese troops are to be conveyed to the Mahornmedan regions to extirpate the lebels.—. A Tartar Officer, buying horses for Kivang-se, having smuggled some salt, an affray took place, in which he knocked a waterman overboard, and drowned him, The Governor and TSEANGI Kane united together to let the Officer off, on he buying a wax to suffer for him, which he did for a few hundred dollars. Toes. a )urage the coasting vessels to take the rice up to Tees. tsin, two tenths of the duty on other goods had been remitted. A proclamation had been posted OR the Coosoo Home of the Hong merchants at Canton, by the New Froppo, forbidding any commerce of the Hong merchants with those who defrauded the Imperial revenue. • The following are extracts Isom the German Paces received this morning : CORFU, Nov. 14. The letters from the islands give us no news from Navarin or from any other ports of the Mores. Seme of them, however, state that an Ottoman squadnn of thirty-four men of war had artiveJ at Suds, in the island of Candia, the crews of which are not very expert seamen. It is not known whether the squadron came from till Dardanelles, or whether it was formed previously to the battle of Navarin, of Turkish men of was whisk 4efn in •arious ports. The melancholy news of the death of Lord Guildford, Chancellor of the lonian University, has excited uni. maid regret here. Our literature has lost in him one of its most ardent patrons, England one of its most learned Peers, society one of its most generous and upright members, and the inconsolable youth of Greece an affectionate father and benefactor.—Gezetta Pinto*. tese. Dec. 7. TRIESTE, Not. 29. The Mover of this date says—" We learn by a vessel from Zante, which left it on the 9th instant, that the squadrons of the Allied Powers had sailed from Navarin, without leaving a single vessel to cruise before the port ; that the Turkish transports, as well as those of other nations, have remained un damaged in Navarin, and had landed their cargoes of corn ; that besides these transports, nine Egyptian corvettes and frigates, but in very bad condition, re• mained at Navarin ; and that several ships, laden with . corn, had sailed from Zinte to Navarin and Pains. Through the same channel we receive the unpleasant news, that the Captain of an English packet boar, who had arrived at Zante from the Archipelar, had stated, that 12 merchantmen, coming from the west, had been stopped by Greek pirates, and carried into Carabusa (their chief depot near the isle of Csndia), and that piracy was daily increasing. not think that the defendant bad been dismiued from the army without investigation. He had seeQ %within objectionable to she defendant's character as an officer for CIO last twenty years, except his conduct to Colonel Arthur. He could not say that when he was is com mand he had ever i,sued a commission like that of Gt.. neral Fuller to Colonel Arthur, but he had appointed many officers to special services without an instrument half so foimal. His Grace then entered into an expla- nAtion of the reasons why he did not think it tight to, re-open at the Horse Guards the investigation into Mr. Bradley's conduct. Colonel Bradley.—How did General Fuller get ac cess to my communications at the Horse Guards? The Duke of Wellington.—When I first got this let ter from Mr. Bradley, I thought I ought to keep it secret. I communicated it to nobody, till I heard that it had been published in all the newspapers. I was ask ed by one of the parties libelled whether I had ever re ceived such a letter : but till it was determined that you should be prosecuted, I never showed it to any body. Colonel Bradley.-1 requested your Grace, as Com mander in Chief, to order General Conran and General Smitii to attend this day in Court : may I ask whether your Grace has done so? The Duke of Wellington.-1 cannot summon officers of the army to attend here: that is a power belonging to this Court. All I can do is to give them permission to attend, and that I did to the officers you mentioned. Several other questions were asked of Grace, but none of them weie material. _ _ The ATTORNIT Gu=ns[., in reply, said, that this case was one calculated, as they might see, to excite deep compassion. Not one word that Colonel Bradley had si.oken, nor one witness that he had called, had the least bt aring on the question at issue in the cause. The Jury said they would save his Lordship the trou ble of summing up, and returned a verdict, finding the defendant DECCNISCI 1. 1' The accounts hitherto received from all the Turkish sea ports are of a satisfactory natute; the Turks have not in any instance committed any acts of violence to. wards the Christians by way of reprisals.--Frank(ort Papers, Dec. 11. An article dated Washington, Nov. 22, says—" The approach of the sessions of a new Congress is indicated by the arrival of Members of Congress horn the mcst distant parts of the Union ; from these arrivals we an eicirate a very full Assembly, which opens on the first Monday in December. We anticipate some gratifica tion from the perusal of the President's Message and its accompanying documents; for we believe that the prin cipal developements will be of the character to disap point the expectations, and falsify the predictions, of some of those dealers in figures, who have atempted to convince the people that the course of Cite present Ad• ministration has led to the crippling of our Commerce and the exhaustion of our Treasury." Letters, we understand, ate in town from Sr. Peters burgh, of a recent date, but canal(' nothing of im portance. Accounts have been received of his Excellency the Right Hon. STEPHEN Luiseteopou. A Dutch ship spoke the Heald, on the 7th of September round the Cape, and only a month's sail from his Excellency's Government of Madras. The Trustees of Rugby School have elected the Rev. Tolman' Mumma, A.M. late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. ala Dow of Linehan, near Staines, to succeed Dr. Woos.'" as Held Master of Rugby School in July next. A Messenger arrived at the Foreign Office yesterday from Paris. He brought despatches from Vienna, which mention the actual departure of Don Miourc from that city on the sth inst. His Royal Highness may be expected in London in a few days, as it was calculated he would not be much more than a fortn ight on his Journey, including his stay at Paris. At the date of the above dispatches, no official intelligrrice had reached Vienna from Coastantinople later than 11th The Countess of Essax had a card•party yesterday evening, at her bane in Hill-street, Berkelereguare. The Right Hon. CHARLES WYNN and WILMOT lion ' you. Esq. - had dinner parties on Saturday. Sir Gamma WARRRNDIR, Bart. entertained a distin oohed patty to dinner on Sunda* at his home in Seymour-Om