The Sun. — London, England, 1816-06-10 00:00:00

PUNCH PAPERS. l'Aurs, Suva 5.---They speak or , creation of Morsuals of Fr:lnce, which is to take place on the inarriage,Of the Duke and Duchess of Belli ; and state also the ironies of General Officer's an whom the ehoiee of the King most fail—they are to the-number of four. Thu Amhass;idor from England to the Court of. Naples is at Paris, and will soon repair to his destination. The Duke of Wellington gave g magnificent Pre on the 4th of June, at Carnbray, in honour of the birth-day of - the king of England. His ' Grace itninedlatcly,aftet set oat for Pacist tthere be is expected this evening. COURT-MARTIAL/of the FIRST MILITARY DTVlstriii. Yesterday carne on the trial of General li•on naire, ex-commanthnt of Conti& and his aid-de- Camp Mielton the former, charged with f.aving ordered or authorized the death of Colonel !to-- 'tert Gordon, in violation of the law of nations, and disregarding the sacred character of the flag of truce with which he was invested ; and the lat ter with having taken an active part ;n the sunr4 der. The Court was composed of Major-Generals the Duke tie Maille, Count de la . Feronnaye, Count de Macarthy, Colonel the Marquis de Ma . heyssie, Viscount Pons, Captain Count de Ver gennes, and Captain Degray. Mr. Chtiveau La garde, who acted as defender of the late amen of France, was the plieoners# counsel. The whole of the first day was occupied by the reading of documents lord written evidence. The papers first read were two memorials, addressed to the Minister at War by two brothers of the de. ceased, Lieutenant James Gordon of the artillery, and Lieutenant . Gordon of the Dutch naval ser vice, charging tire prisoner with the murder of their brother. On the 4th of August, General tionnaire, the ,prisoner, of whom the Minister • at War had in consequencealemanded en *cutout of his conduct, transmitted a report, in which he asserted that Colonel Gordon had obset vett none of the forms requisite ;It flags of trove. He was taken for a crimp, wishing to introduce himself 'by stealth loco Conti ; " The troops," headded, " were indignant, and demanded an order for his being shot. Jr became necessary to calm the effervescenoe of the exasp,rafed soldiery. He was a man then just/j/ consideral . es a traitor. were the reasons for which this man, who had placed himself without the law, was shoLiv The depositions of three witnesses examined by order of the Prefect were next read. They stated, that when the uolortunate Gordo, made his ap .pearancie at Conde he was in unifOrtn, wearitig a blue great coat. He was arrested, and brought . before General Bonnaire, alto, after having read bis papers, and torn a psrt of them, said, " It was you who played the traitor in such and such an affair." He then tore off his epaulettes, his cross of St. Louis, his fienr de lib, and gave or. tiers for his being shot. One of the witnesses, on bring asked whether the deceased was regahrly tried by a military commission, replied, that Gen. Bonnaire, after conversing a moment With Gor don, cursed him to, be shot by a battalion which had come from Paris. It watt further stated in these depositions, that when Gordon WAS arrest- Bonnaire at first thought of releasing him, and firing upon hint a gun loaded with chain-shot, when he had got a little distance. However, on secotol thoughts, he said, "could he not be placed in a safe prison 7" upon which Mielton replied, " the safest way is to shoot him instantly." This horrible advice was taken, and Gordon received one shot in the belly, and two in the breast. his executioners divided among them 1,200 fr. which I re h a d /upon his person. . Theimblic Order issued on the occasion by petal lionnaire was as follows :— g f One of the traitors who deserted the French army on the larb and 17th of June, made his appearance before the fortress as a crimp and a spy, the bearer of incendiary proclamations (viz. copies of that of Cambray): he has undergone the fate. which he deserved. ileit was read the report of a Court of In itptiry summoned at Lille on the'prisoner, They „gave it as their opinion, that even supposing Cul. Gordon was a traitor and a spy, General Eon naire had exceeded his powers, which did not ex tend, to life and death. They recommended there. fore That Bonnaire, Mielton, and those of the soldiers who had treated ColOnel Gordon inhu manly before shooting him, should he brought to trial before a Court. Martial. The next document read' was a letter from the Prince of Orange to the Mike of Feltrk : it con tained the following passage " Colonel Gordon did not set about making the summons with proper caution. A detachment and a trumpeter were given him at my advanced posts near,---; but instead of taking them 'with him, and approaching the fortress with the trumpeter, fee left them at Fresnes. From thence be proceeded quite alone. Oo his arrival at the first posts of the enemy, tie announced himself, earl was iatrodoced within the works by the or• tiers of General Bonnaire, who spoke to him. lie Was very ill received in the first instance ; then be was struck with fists ; anti, iu fine, was shot without sentence of a Court-martial, or the least appearance of trial. From an examination taken at Conde, it ap- Peared that when the unfortunate Gordon was aware of the fate preparing for him, Inc invoked French humanity and honour. General Bounaire r There is nothing of interest in our Foreign Ar rivals to-day. The last letters frOni the Doke of WELLINGTON, which are of tt very recent date, were Written at Frankfort. We Understand, not withstamling the daily rumours of danger arising morn an unsettled state of things on the Continent, his Grace states that all matters wear a verylavotnahle aspect in that quarter. His Grace was expected to remove to Paris very soon it+, order to be present at the Miirhige of the Duke of DEM. It is ndria that the Duke of WELLINGTON had desired the Duchess, who has been some time indisposed, to join rtin? at Paris, to witness the ceremonies on the above-mentioned occasion. The closing of the Ports of the Island of Cuba to foreign trade, a circumstance to which we have already allside(r, appears in a great measure con firmed by the following extract " CAM 7, MAY 17:---It is now placed, beyond donirt. that General CirxillEOnS, whit through mistake was stated to hare died, but who in fact lately left this place for the Ha vaimah, as Captain• General of the Island of Cuba, is the bearer of a peremptory order from the Spanish Government to shut all the ports of,said Island against foreign trade, and it would be po"sible to state many reasons why It will be strictly complied with against British vessels." Panrcass ,CupatmorTE.---!We .re happy to say that her Royal Highness the Princess CIIARF.OTTU was better yesterday than on Saturday : she en joyed a good night's rest, but she is troubled with a cough. Prince L801'61.1) is constant in his attendance upon her. On Saturday he went to Carlton-house, and saw the REGRNT, previofis to the Court. Yesterday he rode out on horseback for about an hour. The Puttirce,ltgoatur called on Friday afternoon at Camelford-horse. The Royal Family do not call, as no visitors are ad mitted to her Royal Highness's chamber. It is the Order of the medical attendants that her noyal Highness should be kept very quiet. The inquir ers at camelford-houte have been exceedingly nu merous, including the Archbishops of CANTOR BURY and YORK, Lord gLIANBOROUGII, the Stakitza of the House of Commons, and all the principal Nobility and Gentry in town. Among our domestic News there is nothing which so much attracts the public attention as the Election at Liverpool. Nor ia thisAnrpris ing when we consider the high character of the Candidate, the dread and desperation of the Par,ty opposed to him, and the populonsness and im portance of the place—we had almost said—con tested ; but the place disturbed • is the proper phrase. TO the proceedings at Liverpool, therefore, do we devote a considerable portion of our impres sion t hi s (l i ly. In our first page will be found the accounts of the gather btisiness. What fultow3 gatl►t`r from t'arions authentic communications received this waning. It will be seen that when convinced that setting up another Candidate was utterly hopeless; anti could only compromise the welfare of the town, without, effecting the return of its Representative, the little of respectability which belonged to the Opposition formally withdrew from the contest. But this prudent and decent course woald not suit the maliguants of the Faction. What fur nishes K column of excellent jesting to the /Mm- Hg Chronicle, viz. the probability of some pretty rioting and a few murders, seems to have filed &hutted spirits at Liverpool, and the 1101) have found a nrls -leader of celebrity worthy of such an (Ace. Liverpool, like other places, feels at this, mo ment the temporary stagnation anti distress which our• great political revolution has caused, and the state of mind of the tower orders, in consequence of this, was too auspicious to the wicked to he suffered to repose, without beitig excite,/ and called into action. Hence the mere gob, Without One man of respectahility or common reputation to head them, have been stimulated and let loose upon Liverpool,- to follow the invariable bent ()revery lawless mob, and wreck their senseless veageauce .. .upon all that is higher or better titan themselves. flow much those have. to answer who are guilty of this anti-social crime, we shall not say, but simply state the fact, that the peace of a very po pitons town has been broken, awl witch of dan ger loomed, by the riotous assemblages of a Party without aim, and witlmnt expectation, unless, indeed, , confusion be- their object, ati: inarchl their Wish. At the doge of the Nll on Saturday, vrhen the numbers were, Po; Mr. CANNL:CO sso For Mr. LEYLAND, or rather, for the phantom' of Mr. r.r.7r.asa Wild) irersonal violence ensued. Mr. CA , NNING' anti his Friends were momt infamously assawited, anti from the Halting.; to Mr. I3ovroN's a son of running fight was k'pt np by the lawleMs wretches, egg ed on to this tittnalt. We rejoice to say, that though several persons were hurt, Mr. CANNING Rlld his Friends escaped all injury. Some windows were broke., Theta Hawing ADDRESS- wa delivered from the home of Colonel Bolton, by the lUglit Hon. GaOIICF: CANNING, At the close of the first day's poll, Friday evening., June 7:--- OICKTIAMCN,--of all the con,testM elect ion I in which you 1111V6 Watt caned to. bear 3 part, and certainly of all those of which f hare ever heard, the circumstance!. of the Present are the most extraordinary. A battle vithout an antago nist; and a surrender without a cessation of boatilitics.—(4- planae,) " GentlmerP, in most struggles, it has been sufficient for him who carne into the add, that he had nobody to oppose 1114. But this has not been my fortune on the vresent C:lSitill. "Of the Gentleman whose name is thug unwarrantably put forward against his OWII desire, I beg nut to he Understood as meaning to speak with the slightest disrespret. Of the Gen tlemen who constituted himself the representativeof the non juring Candidate, I meat Mr. Aimphertl, I have to say, that his conduct appears to me to have been, in all that have seen of it, not only exempt front blame, lant entitled to the Praise of fairness, honour, stud liberality. But who they me that; after the abjuration of the principal, and after, the abdi cation of the substitute, have put themsetres in array against the declared seuse, of all parties, to rex and harass the. popu lation of this great town, and ivho hazard thus, for sao object and to tie end, all the results. which may arise from-the fer mentation which they haveexcited, it behaves toe Hof ttscon ' jee:ure; nor will I characterize thew proceedings with the epithet that I think they deserve..s(Applattse.) 4, . Our first victory, has beers from want of a combatant next less been, over the emacknowledged Itepresenta tire of the combatant whom our adversaries could not bring forword. • And having defeated the Represtatative who wool*, not tight, we have now to fight the .self-caostitut e d substitutes, wile have thrnst themselves in the place which be hecnrin ugly abandoned.— (Applause.) " Gentle:nen, in this ft uitless.and unnecessary contest, we have, however, obtained a. victory that might put to ii'ght the most solistantial antagonist. I am assored, that the ma jority which we possess on this day is tinxampled for a first day's in any cnntest for Liverpooi.—(Applause.) We have polled, tleottemert, 250 : , --there have polled for my an tagonist---I beg pardon-•-I should rather say, in spite of my entrtgottist-159; the result it a majority all in our favour. (Applaitte.) 4, Gentlemen, I told von on our first meeting, that I alionld no doubt be catechised sufficiently when I met my antagonists face to face. That meeting has taken place this day ; and I informed the Gentlemen, who, in moving and seconding this fruitless norninatiim, thought proper to arraign my public I continct,.that if they would do me the honour to accompany me home this evening, they should have whatever' advantage they might fancy they could derive from hearing my answer's to all that they had alleged against me.—(Applause.) " I do not blame them, Gentlemen, if they have not availed themselves of my offer; they must consider the contest at an end: and I am perfectly satisfied that their attacks were not directed against ate, with any personal hostility ; hut were only intended to influence your ittirrages,—(Applattse.) " Gentlemen, if there were any truth—(truth, I mean, in argument,)—in the grounds which were stated, for inducing you to reject me on the present occasion, I will venture to say, that. the admission of them would tend to a complete change in the Constitution. " Gentleman, It was contended, that any man holding ogee ---especially high and responsible office—was unfit, for that very reason, to become the representative of the people. --,((;lira of Nu ! No !)—I slate the argument,- Gentlemen, only fur the purpose of answering it; of expressing, Moult nsiteii feebler language, the just and eruphaf'," Teti. Ulla') which it has rectived yon unaiiiinon d (Applause.) " Gentleaner, if there be troth in this doctrine of ours" , tersaries, I have read the Constiintion wrong; for I hared , ways thought that it was rine great practical security forth. continuance of that freedom which we happily enjoy, ;Inds which we shoirld enjoy the name only, if it were not emir died in the Constitution of the country—l hare considered it - always, I say, as one great security, that, though !here be a weittentlaw which circumscribes , the choice of the Crown it the selection of its Ministers, yet that, since England bet been what it is, the Sovereign fiat alar , ,ys looked fur his misters among.thit Members of the two Ilouses of Parliament (Applause.) " Is it possible, Gentlemen, that persons of so acute en. dersfandings as those who were arrayed against trie to-days should not see, that if a Minister ought not to he a represcit tatite—a representative, I mean, of a great c»iinity--tht converse would be equally true, that the Crown oug ht not to choose a Member of Parliament fOr its Minister? And wbat' Gentlemen, would be the consequence?, ; Th a t the House Cl Lords, the hereditary Counsellors of the CroWn , and heredi tary representatives of the great 1118.511 of the property.of tb. oon kingdom ;—that the House of Commons, eolitaitling a seise' tip!), through various channels, and for carious qualifications, of all that is most distinguished in talents, in property, an d in consideration-, among the Commons of the country i -411A5 these two bodies of u►eu,—neccssaeily, from their constitir tion f the flower of the kingdom,—should be absolutely es: eluded from the management of the affairs of the State, and that the Crown should be driven to look for its serrset, b fr ad wu d a' ee n li Q i U ie g d, ti t m h w e r w ep h r o es t e o litat uld i n o u n t o t) f ljta tlat in, P °lo4 l :lne ' lti ' llwus4el::cll.lll and shouts of applause.) to " I take for granted,. Gentlemen, that I do n o in j ustice the argen.eret of my adversaries, when assume that it I meant to exclude Members of the House of Peers, ca" 3ll / with those of the other House of Parliament, front offict,-" If, intlted„ they intend a distinetion between the 'wa g ' s; candidates, to be sure, autt would confine the great. offices of state to Peers, p low' they are fur popular favour , mid nice adjusters of the balance of th e C ons tit u ti o n !—(APP I ' LLISe , ) " But there is another view which. th ese Gentlenien 10" of otlice, as if it we re something its itself dish o nourable , " 1 ' 1" thing which did out imply or convey distinction, bllt 3bir bite degradation and - contamination. When they lime''' ., that a man holds office--or, still snore, when straining faculties for ridicule and invective to-the utmost pitch, ° lt! riersinuate that he seeks it--=they think that they have sal t The , blow is struek —the work is done.—lle it so. llut Id us see how far these Gentlemen are consistent in their 11' vilerneut of office. is there no oceniion on which they tl' e° of it in another strain, and represent it in another NO: Call they he the same- persons Wh o m . r o u may hare bc3(`' ors former occasions de.claiiiiing against those laws by ' aid' a' proportion of our fellow-subjects are excluded PII3 office ? They think, and, though. I differ front many a 1" 0 ' w comen, in this opinion, I think with them, that th en ° disqualifications should be removed—l have thine T 9 bes t i ; procure the removal of them. In this I am consisi cnt : ; e think ineligibility to office a grievance, because I thil,h '11:11 an honourable occupation.' But what is the creed a un rersaries ? They ought, in consistency, to consider tochi 'neli ee gihility as a privilege , rather than a privation. Is it tl danger of )eing (byroad' ? Is it ant !I!osi the btot : a c a ß v h ew u a i f :c reQ e G ani c t Lf dt t i c i 's o e e4 n i l i i t u e a t n m a :i y i l i a t e ' o s tn re s tr ai nt , my appeal p p t p o t:l a t a e l ti n t : e o e tii b i t" b daf t li e, cr e rtie s id r iy, s oi • ngto a l nmandite,prionropacrotitfogiciicettei:pta part t po lw ihma C yv i m sn i og s r t ae it er i ce i e t ig i p o it n idito i ti Z t ' s : L t l i t4 l ::::; t e io t i t i r accept it, unless I could astign sufficient public reasons mind, c i o n u m ntr y y ow 'h i a l s , I co conceive, insuperable r is.e services of every man according to the measure of his au' e ties. Of that mea l ire tie is not himself the propet ju d ' and the call of the S o ve re i g n i s kiaramount where Oise 'll' oo° justifiable motive far a refuSal.- , -(Applause.) Gentlemen, whatever diffi c ulti e s I may hove frit 0" 'ld met occasions, when (f or ip s t ance ) a t our first ineetisgi Ic ta ciw t liotstitcolittics li in acceptan c e. The , : i , you that I had twice declined office in the conceit oft ill)13 ,1 —public reasons I bare none fur declining office 1101' an) motives . of personal feeling, if th en I h a d any, have long 1 . )5 ) wholly at an end.-qt.ottil and continued Amara itiV iallie :at " Gentlemen, the nix material charge against behaves me to meet it fairly--is on the score of toy ab' e r: front you, for the last eighteen mouths, any}the which I held during a part of that interval at Lisbon. " With respect to the cause of my departure, arid of 11 1 solicitations to my friends here to'accept nip resignation supply toy place, if they could not consistently with the teceit sof ,the town indulge mein the temporary al,, , ence , are all apprised of the facts, and I have to thank yot , a ll P : your ind uVence. I know, Gentlemen, that you believe 1.;-- when I say, upon my honour, that Joy departure Ira"' 12;1'g land originated not in the sli g ht est d egree i n any v i e w t° tom appointment which, indeed, was in c id en t a lly cast d e: me after my private arrang ements bad beets made• o rnament that I learnt the Prince Regent . of Portur irs d eter ruination not to return last year t o hi s E uro pean dowi lli I resigned. It is false, Gentl e m en , as 1 am told is ass ert that I continued is,. public capacity to the period of ! 717 leaving Lisbon. Of the seventeen months or theresbl4s! which I passed to Portugal, the last six .months I Wa' a4 i Ps ; sate an individual as an y among you, an d it w as n 0 fa ult 1 , mine that I amstiot much sooner supers e ded: it was iu I , A month of April, last year, that lent in my• (Applause.)-4 remained there, according to nil aril d:, nal intention, c o nn ec t e d w i t h no pu bli c c haracter , to charging no public duty—and ereceiving, in coristsquenc‘o the public pay.—(Loud Applause. Nor c I imagine 0 mistake (if mistake be the true name) could have arisen to my continuing in a public character, unless it were, th a i, being settled in Lisbon, I did continue, long after the CS ration of my public character, to receive such of . 1 1 1 c `' u tlx trynten as happened t o c o m e recommended to me, will' it civilityas the means of a private individual could (Loud Applause.) anif " Gentlemen, I am not aware that there have been other objections s urged against me which Are not enn)l . tior under outvor other of these two beads : the ques tion of 0 t ,, 11 as it is now held by me; and the question of the office i, I htld at Lisbon. " The question which you have to decidelis--vrbetber Ycni will now countenance nUoctrine hitherto unknown to .111° C onstitution of this country ;—the doctrine, that a man eor nut serve at once the people and the Crown. We l' a ", tti f : ways lout (meaning by we those who bold the principles viljl4 A. Bst brought on and me togetlier);--wc bit ea;* he—T tatt;sheil merely th'at a talimiri stint should be direct ninth him in the air. Tie (lid not order his evil's sination, hitt did nothing to prevent it. After reading these doetithents the Court Ad journed. The dial, it k stiryot ea; will lust. four days. • GREIIMILE. JUNP.,l.—Three stays ! , 10,4/ alirrther Chief, !Milted Tnbar6, whom the gendahnes hail been in pursuit of, havine been at last discovered in a house where he bad concealed Itibistlt, and from which he emiettronted in eseape by the root, was shot with a tonsket-halt. lie was a pefsorr importance, from, his influence over the pea santry of the emir/mums, tvhorn the disaffecteir are incessantly urislemlivg . , tLeir worn-osir, phrases about tithes, the rettsrn of fetulality, anti a litiritriTil , other vulgar taro:. RoMP., MAY 2'2 .—(Ertrart of a Letter.)—Tbere Iter rte e searing distnrhacs in the vicinity of go. logna on the Bth, 9th, and 10th „inst. The pea= sanity, having assert/I)l4dr° the number of some thousands oil the ringinit of the tocsin, laid waste nil the fields rr f rice, under pretence that they in fected the air. It is only ahO,ltt 15 years since the cultivation of rice wits introchiced into this part f>f Italy. It is a culture attended with great inconveniences ; hut such acts of violtnce a le extremely reprehensible at a period when so great a dearth prevails in Italy. RTAILS. Mintirrn—l rtnnye,"_4l . DiffifirT, 2WO lrforit. Thti-1 Lis- bon, 3 fluilatid, tiattri;urgh, i'butteftburgir. titter ()I TIM PAY AT r, STOCKS ELVE ALOCC. Funk `Rack, 923 9221 t Tacna %tad( 3 pet Cent. 1tei1.... ,11231 M Imfia Ponds, ..... par, IR. pr. 3 per Cent. Can 5........ shut Each. Is. pr. 4 per Cent; SI Ontuittru (..r Payment, 931 pr. A per Cent. N. Ann...,.. shut, Cut*. fur Arceaut, 6-1 i; Rank Mini— , 16 13-latlfs; to.t.t. —Average Price of Hrovert crr !tirrterrrrtrtet citgar. Cferispnteti from the Returns »Kyle in the week ending the 644 day of June, ISM, is 545.9 ii. Istr cwt. HIGH WATER AT LONDON DG TO , NIC/ICEOW. Morning, Cinintites after 3. J Evening, 51 minutes after 3. THE SUN. 'MUSI►t I)lCetv,... VALIM NI A 1;11KAT LONDON,, .lUNE 10,