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DEATH of LIEUT.-COLONEL BRERETON (From the Times.) BRISTOL, THURSDAY, JAN. 13. The labours of the Court-martial on Lieutenant- Colonel Brereton have been brought to a sudden and melanclaoly close. This morning the ill-fated soldier, doubtless actuated by feelings the weight of which the members of the military profession will readily conceive, put a period to his mortal anxieties by his own hand. He shot himself in his house at Bedfield, near Bristol, about the hour of three o'clock. Though the rumour of the event was current at nine o'clock, it seemed so likely to be a fabrication of the time, that we did not lend any serious attention to ir, and proceeded to the Merchant's-hall, expect ing to witness the progress of the investigation. The Court presented the same appearance as here. tofore, the same arrangements for the members, and the •ame crowded assemblage of well dressed per , i n s, male and female. Aftera few minutes before ten, the Deputy Judge- Advocate entered the Hall, and began to arrange his documents. The President, Sir Charles Dalbiac, and the officers composing the tribunal, soon after wards took their places. After the roll of the Court had been read over, The PRESIDENT rose and addressed the Mem bers—Gentlemen, you probably have heal(' the most distress'ng report that is abroad respecting the prisoner, Colonel Brereton—a report which I fear, from his non-appearance here at this hour, is ton true. I have sent the District Surgeon, and the officer acting as Assistant Adjutant-General in Bristol, to ascertain the facts. If you please, p;en tiemen, we will await the report of these indi viduals. The PRESIDENT then directed an orderly serjeant to attend the arrival of these two gentlemen in the ante-chamber. In less than five minutes, Nl.jor M:tcksvorth, the Acting-Assistant Adjutant-General to the officer in command of the district, appeared to make his report. - PRESIDENT—Nave you, Major Mack north, in conformity with my orders, been at the house of Colonel Brereton 9 Major Mackworth—Yes. PREsmENr—llave you seen the Colonel % Ma jor Mark worth—Yes. PII.IDENT—AIive or dead `r Major Mack n'tftrth—Dead. PRESIDENT—GentIemoi, under the unfortunate circumstances which have been laid before the Court, it only remains for me to adjourn the sitting until I receive orders from his Excellency the Commander in -Chief, to whom I shall forward a report. Major Digby Mackworth, sworn by the Deputy Judge Advocate, deposed that he (Major Mack worth) was Acting Assistant Adjutant-General in the Bristol district; that he had seen the body of Colonel Brereton, and that the Colonel was dead. PRESIDENT-Sir Charles Dalbiac. Sir Charles Dalbiac rose and addressed the Court. President and Members of this honourable Court, — I rise by permission of the President to address a few words to you. If the tragical event that has Just been communicated to the Court, be a source of pain to you, gentlemen, how much more deeply must it not affect the individual on whom has devolved the duty of conducting the prosecution ? I assure you, that I rise with a degree of distress and em barrassment such as I never experienced in all my previous life.— (Sir Charles paused for a moment to master his emotiens.) But I have one consola tion,—and a great one,—l declared in my opening address, that I did not entertain the slightest feeling, save that of impartiality, towards the prisoner ; and I now repeat that declaration 9t solemnly as if I were in presence of my God. I did not know, nor did I see Colonel Brereton until the ]7th of November, when I was ordered to investigate the circumstances of the Bristol riots. I may add, that I was sent thither at the might say the command—of my King. I have borne the arms of my Sovereign, I have had the honour of serving him, and if Colonel Brereton had been my brother officer and my friend, instead of being altogether a stranger to me, I could not have departed from my duty, hut must have held the same course towards that friend which I have held to the unfortunate prisoner now no more. The PRESIDENT—I feel called upon to say for Sir Charles Dalbiac, that no proceeding of the kind could have been conducted with less acrimony and more propriety than have been displayed by him. The PRESIDENT then directed the members of the Court to leave their respective addresses until he should have received a communication from the Commander•in-Chief. The COURT adjourned at twenty minutes past ten o'clock. It is said that it will probably meet again on Monday. It is understood that a Court-martial will be held upon Captain Warrington, of the 3d Dragoon Guards, for alleged breach of duty during the riots. PARTICULARS OF THE SUICIDE OF LIEUT COLONEL BRERETON. The report of this tragical event, as we have al ready stated, reached Bristol about nine o'clock this morning, and, 113 may be imagined, it created an in describable sensation throughout the city. It took place at Redfield-lod g e, Lawrence-hill, an exceed ingly neat and pretty cottage, the residence of the unfortunate deceased, and situate about a mile and a , half from Bristol, in the upper Bath-road. Colonel 13rereton, it appears, returned home there last night about eleven o'clock, from Reeve's Hotel, in this city, where he had been stopping during the progress of the Cqurt-martial. He came home in his gig, ac companied by his gardener. There was nothing unusual observed by his domestics in his manner or deportment on that occasion. He retired ro his bed chamber some time after twelve o'clock, but he must j have remained up a considerable time in committing i to writing the reasons which had induced him to perpetrate the fatal deed, for he leftafter him on the table a statement on the subject that occupied nearly half a quire of paper. His pistols had been as usual deposited on the table in his bed-room. He did not undress himself, but merely took off his coat and threw himself on the bed. About a quarter before three o'clock, the housekeeper, hearing the , report of a pistol in Colonel Breretort's bed-room, ; gave the alarm, and the Colonel's footman immedi ately proceeded thither. He there found his un fortunate master stretched on his bed, and life com pletely erinct. The ball had entered in the left side, directly in the region of the heart, which it must have penetrated, for instantaneous death was the result. The pistol was lying on the floor, which as well as the bed, was inundated with blood, in consequence of the profuse hemorrhage from the wound. It was observed yesterday that the unfortunate deceased ap peared more than usually affected by the evidence which was given towards the conclusion of the court- martial. In the written statement which he is re ported to have left behind him, he is said to have at tributed to some particular quarter the immediate cause of his untimely end. He was a widower, and has left two daughters of very tender years to mourn the fate of a good and kind-hearted parent. Colonel Brereton was very respectably connected, and was about fifty-two years of age, thirty-three years of which had been spent in the army. Though n ever present in any remarkable engagement, he had acquired the reputation of being a trustworthy and meritorious officer. He served at the Cape of Good Hope during the government of Lord Charles Somerset. Appointed to the command of a regi meet on the Caffre frontier (reported as being in a state of insubordination), be was intrusted by the Governor with the command of the whole frontier. The officers of his regiment (the 49th, we believi') presented him, through Sir Henry Torrens, with a sword, valued two hundred guineas. He was eight years Inspecting Field-officer of the Bristol district, where he succeeded Colone l p amen, by exchange. In the disastrous occurrences which led to the in vestigation into his conduct, the character of the officer suffered from the benevolence of of the man. Deficient in the great military principle of decision, averse to the shedding of blood, and obliged to seek instructions from a magistracy anxious to shift the burden of responsibility for severe measures from their collective shoulders, he neither discerned with the requisite precision, nor acted with the promptitude which the exigency of the occasion de manded. The censure of thoge who were most bitter in their condemnation of him when living, ex tends no further, now that he has made his fearful and rash appeal from a tribunal of his fellow creatures to the judgment-seat of God. In his private relations, his conduct was un- impeachable. He was distinguished by invariable kind-heartedness to ail ; and when his death was made known in the neighbourhood of his dwelling, a crowd of women and children, many of whom wept him as a benefactor, gathered to his threshold to mourn his loss. His liberality was the more esti mable, as, with respect to fortune, he possessed hut a small private independence. THE INQUEST. The itiquest is not expected to be held until to. morrow, as, the event having occurred in Gloucester shire, it will be necessary to send to Berkeley, about 20 miles distant from Bristol, for Mr. Ellis, the county coroner. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Messayer des Charnbres. The month of December has not been less favour able to the revenue than were those of the previous quarter. The receipts have exceeded the budget e,timate, and are six millions more than they were in 1830, The improvement is still more remarkable when compared with the revenue accounts of England for the last three months. CHAMBER of DEP U TlES—Je.vc Any 10. The discussion of the Bill for regulating the Civil List was proceeded wirh. Article 3, declares that the various properties therein mentioned shall not form part of the flotation of the Crown, hut shall be employed or sold for the brnefit of the Sate. The following is the list of the properties in Paris included in the article ; those items to which an asterisk is prefixed were nor proposed by Govern ment to belong to the state, but were added by the Committee : The greater and lesser hotels Mole, Nos. 58, 60, and 62, rue St. Dominique, valued at 1,000,000 francs. The hotel of the Grand Almonrie, No. 2, rue Bourbon, 200,000 francs. *The hotel of the Grand Veneur, No. 9, Place Vendome, 400,000 francs. *The hotel d'Atigevilliers, rue de l'Oraroire, 350,000 franc.. *The hotel du Chateler, No. 121. rue de Grenelle St. Germain, 560 000 francs. *The hotel de la Montvale des Medailles, rue Guenegaud, 300,000 francs. *The buildings of the Conserva toire de Musique, rue de Faubourg Poissoeniers, 100,000 francs. The gasometer and buildings of the Opera, in the rue Richer, 120,000 francs. The Hotel dcs Grades, rue Neuve du Luxembourg, 650,000 francs. The buildings of the Savonneric at Chaillot, 260,000 franc , -. The marble ware houses and wood yard at ( 160,000 francs. The Salle Favart, rue Favart, 1,000,000 francs. *The Chateau and Park of Bagatelle, in the Bois de Boulogne, 500,000 francs. The Pavilion de Is Maette, situate in the Bois de Boulogne, 330,000 francs. *The ground for the Refuse of Paris in the Forest of Bondy, 25,000 francs. *The wood in the Forest of Bondy, 48,000 francs. Total in Paris, 6,107,000 francs. All these items were adopted in succession, with out any discussion of interest, except that on the article of Salle Favart a conversation took place be tween M. Marmier, M. de Belleyme, and M. Dupin, sine, in which the former wished that theatre to continue annexed to the Civil List, because the Italian company needed support!, and received it at present by being allowed to occupy the theatre at a l lower rent than any other proprietor would be able to grant it at. M. de Belleyme objected to the Civil List having any thing to do with the theatres, remarking that the Salle Ventadour (the Opera Cornique) had cost the Civil List 4,500,000 f. in building, and after some time the Administration was glad to get M. Boursault to purchase it at 2,500,000 f. He, how ever, said that if the Salle Favart were retained, it would be more becoming in the Civil List to give it to the performers of the Opera Comique, an emi nently French entertainment, than to employ it for the advantage of foreigners, who had neither the want of, nor the claim to the support of Govern ment, which might be alleged by the former. M. Dupin sine agreed with the first part of M. Belleyme's observations, and said that the theatres had been ruined by being managed by gentlemen of the Royal Chamber. When the item was put to the vote, M. Marmier was the only Deputy who rose in favour of its being annexed to the Civil List. The following properties were also, without any discussion of interest, declared to be available for the profit of the State : St. Cloud ; the Hotel des Gardes du Corps ; with some other buildings and land, valued at 2,195,700 f. Versailles—The Post-office, Town Library, with a number of other hotels, woods, and land, valued together at 5,813,400 f. Sr. Germain-en-Lave.—The Chateau, with other buildings and lands, valued at 1,339,200 f. Fontainebleau.—An estate, called Grand• Ferrare, valued at 15,000 f. Compeigne.—Some hotels and lands, valued at 138,000 f. . . _ . Strasburg.—(ln addition to the Chateau, already declared to belong to the State.)—The Cour de Baden and Glaciere, valued at .52,000 f. An amendment, proposed by M. Lebastard de Kerguiffinec, declaring that all the above properties should be sold, and the proceeds applied in forming, in every department, an agricultural asylum for the invalid poor, did not meet with a seconder, and could not, therefore, be put to the vote. The ensemble of Article 3 was then adopted. Article 4 relates to the appanage of the house of Orleans. The Bill, as originally presented by Government, provided that this property should form the appanage of the Heir Apparent on his attaining the age of 18 years. The Committee proposed, as an amend ment, to word the article thus:— " 1. There shall also be comprised in the real dotation all the property of every description composing the appa -iage of the Dukedom of Orleans, establi.hed by the edicts of 1661, 1672, and 1692, as well as the lesser forest of Orleans, which originally made part of it, and the whole of which, by the succession of the King, have again be come annexed to the domains of the State. " 2. In the event of there being an indemnity due for additions made to this appanage from the time of its being restored to the house of Orleans until its re-union to the crown dotation, such indemnity shall not be demandable till the end of the present reign. " 3. The property belonging to the Princess Adelaide of Orleans, and not forming part of the appanage, may also be annexed to the dotatiun of the Crown by purchase or barter. ' M. Salverte said, that this article was contrary to the principles which had always governed the laws of appanages in France. These principles were, that whenever any individual possessed of an appan age came to the throne, that appanage was of right and for ever merged in the domains of the State. He therefore proposed that the appanage of Orleans should, with the exception, of the Palais Royal, be declared to belong to the State. M. Mauguin supported the amendment, and re marked that at any rate the small forest of Orleans did not originally form any part of the appanage, and ought in any case to be separated from the Crown. He then entered into a detailed history of the ap panage of Orleans, with a view of proving that as it was only in 1823 that the ordinances of Louis XVIII., by which the domains formerly belonging to the house of Orleans, which had been restored to it in 1814, were confirmed by a law, there was no pretence for allowing the heirs of the late pos sessor to claim hereafter from the Treasury an in demnity for the improvements made in the property between these two periods, M. Dupin (aine) maintained that the real prin ciples of appanage, as established by repeated pre cedents in France, were, that they might be granter! by Sovereigns to younger branches of the Royal Family, under the condition of reverting to the Crown on the failure of heir: male of the grantee. This was the principle to be followed in the present instance; it was to the Crown, and not to the State, that the appanage properly reverted on the Duke of Orleans becoming King. With respect to the in demnity, the non. Deputy maintained that the or dinances of 1814 were in themselves legal, and that the law of 1825 being only confirmatory of them, it was from the former period that the indemnity for improvements made in the property would properly run. in conclusion, he entered into various details, to prove that the small forest of Orleans properly formed part of the appanage. I\l. Portalis said that he did not object to the Palais Royal remaining the property of the King but he thought that so much had already been granted to the Civil List, it was unnecessary to add property amounting to 3,000,000 f. per annum in addition. He, therefore, supported the amendment. A desultory conversation then ensued on the mode of putting the question on the different paragraph,i, in which 11. Vatismenil warmly opposed the second paragraph, on the ground that it was for the judicial authorities, and riot for the Chamber, to decide whe ther an indemnify was due or not; and Grea moved an amendment (which was immediately re jected), declaring? that no indemnity should he al lowed; but ultimately the amendment of M. Sal verte was rejected, and all the paragraphs of the committee adopted, the second of them by but a small majority. The ensemble of the article was then adopted. (From the Messager des Chambres ) Our system of accounts is established upon a plan so perfect, and submitted to such strict superie tendance, that it is almost impossible that the State should be compromised for any sum to a considerable amount. We are enable to assure our readers that every measure has been taken by the Government to prevent the public treasury from suffering to any extent by the misfortunes that have happened to M. Kesner. This gentleman enjoyed the general esteem in the highest degree. Thirty years of faith ful and valuable services had rained him to the post he occupied; his mode of living was without osten tation, and he was distinguished only for his bene volence. A very large personal fortune added to the universal confidence created by his probity evinced on many trying occasions. At the closeof the last year the cash accounts of the treasury were sub mirted to a minute examination, and found perfectly regular; but it appelrs on another partial investiga tion, ordered by the Minister of the Finances in the course of last week, a deficit of 125,000 francs was discovered, for which M. Kesner could not account : this became the signal for the catastrophe which had such an effect upon the Exchange. The inves tigations at the Treasury are still going on, but the amount of the declaration has not yet been precisely ascertained. (From Galignani's illessenger.) From the additional particulars which we have been able to collect respecting the unfortunat e M. Kesner, we learn that in consequence of a deficit of 138,000 francs having been stated by the Court of Accompts to exist in his department, several In spectors-General of the Finances went to him on Monday morning to examine the state of his accounts. He received them w it bout embarrassment, and worked with them for several hours in making up the ac counts, after which he returned immediately. He never, however, made his re-appearance. From a letter addressed by him to the Minister of Finances, and which every examination made tends to con firm, it appears that the deficiency in the public monies does not exceed 1, 800,000 francs, in part of which he has left 120,000 francs in gold in his bureau, and 900,000 francs at a Paris banker's; so that his debt to the State would be less than 1,000,000. As his private fortune was sup posed to amount to 2,000,000 or 3,000,000, this could not account for his disappearance ; and it is therefore conclnded he is very largely in volved with several of the great capitalists, in consequence of Stock Exchange speculations, in which he had indulged to a fatal extent.— The most universal regret is expressed at this me lancholy occurrence, and his uniform urbanity and upright conduct had conciliated the respect and esteem of all who knew him. We learn that the unfortunate man, on retiring to bed on Monday night, at his country-house, attempted to suffocate himself by lighting a pan of charcoal in his bed-room. He was found by his servant yesterday morning in a senseless state, but was restored by immediate bleed ing. He has been placed under arrest and removed to Paris. It appears that the moment his disap pearance was suspected in the office, a number of those who first heard it, not knowing how extensive the defalcation or how serious its consequences might be, immediately speculated for a fall, and made immense sales without even informing the stock-brokers of the ground of their proceedings; but as the parties were all in some measure official indi viduals, political motives were of course assigned to them, and hence arose the multitude of reports which were in circulation during the day. DUTCH AND GERMAN PAPERS. TIIE HAGUE, JAN. B.—The First Chamber has agreed to the Bills determining the extraordinary ex penditure for the year 1832, and providing the ways and means to meet it. The 200th anuiversary of the school at Amster dam is to be celebrated with great solemnity on the 10th instant. Accounts from Dordrecht say, that in the night of the 6th the river was firmly frozen over above and below town. JAN. W.—Accounts from Breda of the 9th say— . " We hear of a great movement among the troops which is to take place this week. The inhabitants of this city have received notice to prepare to receive in quarters double the usual number of men. The battalion of the South Holland militia, now at Al phen,Riel,and in the neighbourhood, will be moved, as is generally affirmed, towards Zevenbergen. We expect above 20,000 men to march through this city, or, as some say, the first division of the army." The Journal de la Hayc says—" Some Dutch Papers have copied an article from the Messager de Gand of Jan. 2, relative to a plan of an arrange- I ment between Holland and Belgium, said to have been proposed by Russia to the Conference of London.' We have reason to believe that the re i port of the 111e:sager de Gand is unfounded." AMSTERDAM JAN. 10. Actual Debt, per cent. 4 0 ,4 to 41 Amort Syndic, 45y per cent 67 to t;8 1 4 Ditto, ditto, per cent. Voluntary Loans, 6 per cent 9l to 92 , 4 Exchange on London.-11 90; 2. months, 11 S 2 5.10th6. WARSAW, DEC. 31.—Count Witt, military Go vernor of Warsaw, has issued a proclamation, con tradicting a false report that the exportation of timber and wheat to foreign countries is prohibited, by which that most lucrative branch of trade in Po land has got into a state of stagnation highly in jurious to many of the inhabitants. The Comman der-in-Chief has therefore ordered public notice to be given, that no such prohibition exists, and that every inhabitant of the kingdom is fully authorised to export timber and wheat as formerly. O ur land owners expect great profits from the exportation of wheat, as we hear that the pri , 7es have risen consi derably in Holland and France. A numerous division of Polish soldiers, who had received permission to return to Poland, arrived at Warsaw yesterday. They are natives of 'Warsaw and the environs. The others proceeded from the frontier direct to their respective hom es , Th e Vistula is frozen over quite hard, and a road is made across it. A great quantity of provisions WWI brought to the city yesterday across the river. BERLIN, JAN. s,—Of the four remainin g p at i ents in the cholera hospital, two have recovered to-day, so that there are now only two left, no new cases having occurred. An amnesty of great length, for the inhabitants of the Grand Duchy of Posen, who took part in the Polish insurrection, has been published. Persons who were actually in the army or civil service, or who received pensions from the State, or stipends at universities, schools, &c., or were guilty of some other crimes, or who being now absent, shall not re turn by the Ist of April, 1532, are excepted.— Prussic/A State Gazette, Jan. 6. FIIANCI. To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE. Paris, Jan. 11, 1832. Stu,--" If France will consent to the re-establish ment of the kingdom of the Pays Bas, and to the restoration of the House of Nassau, then France may have peace with Europe ; but if not, she will have war and invasion—a restoration of the Boor l)ms, and the military occupation of !lie country." These words were uttered by a Foreign Ambas sador at Paris, yesterday—no later than yesterday— and yet to that moment M. Casimir Perier had thought that Ambassador and his Court sincerely attached to France and to the French Revolution ! Maik ye ! France is to consent to the strangling, to the death, of her first-born child—of the first fruits of her Revolution in 1830—and on these c , mditions she is to have peace ! We have come to this. But let us suppose for a moment that Louis Philip, in an hour of fear, avarice, cowardice, and despair, should consent to this re-establishment of the kingdom of the Pays Bas, and should acquiesce in the arrangement which is to place the House of ' Nassau on the throne of Belgium—and let us even go farther, and suppose that France herself—not her Government—not her Deputies—not her poor wretched Peers, who call Charles X. " the King of France".--but that France should herself consent to this restoration in Belgium, and should commit an act of suicide and folly ; well, what then ? - Would this settle the Belgian question ? Now really one is astonished, in spite of one's self, at the folly, blindness, madness,and brutal igno rance of those who govern mankind, and who call themselves Kings, and Ministers, and Ambassadors, and so forth. Would this settle the Belgian ques tion ? No, Count d'Appony, it would do no such thing; it would postpone the revolu ion in Belgium it would arrest it for a day, or a week, or a month, or a year, but it would not settle the question. Will the siege of Brussels be forgotten ? Will the fires, inundations, massacres, and rapine, perpetrated by the Dutch army be forgiven ? Will the destruction of Antwerp be pardoned ? And will the Belgians kiss the chains which they once broke, but which are again to hind them ? Why how stupid—yes, that is the word, stupid—must the Austrian Ambassador be to entertain such opinions, or to dream of such an arrangement. Belgium cannot be permanently re united to Holland. It is out of the nature of thing. She cannot afford an independent expensive Govern ment ; she must, therefore, by one means or other, be re-united to France, and I am sorry that Prince Leopold should have been made the dupe of diplo matic special pleading. But suppose for the moment that the French Go vernment and France—for the former, without the latter, would be a mere cipher—let us suppose that both should consent to the re-establishment of the kingdom of the Pays Bas—and let us be even weak enough to admit that the Belgians, if they did not approve, should, at least, consent to this arrangement —What then ? Would this settle the Polish question ? Would this settle the Italian question ? Would this settle the Spanish and Portuguese Questions ?—and Would this settle the questions which are daily becoming more important in the States of the Ger man Confederation Need I answer these questions with a negative ? I think not. They answer themselves. instead, then, of saying, " that if France will consent to the re-establishment of the kingdom of the Pays Bays, and the restoration of the House of Nassau, then France may have peace with Europe ;" the Ambas sador ought to have said— " If France will consent, 1, to Poland being made a Russian province ; 2, to Belgium being re-united to Holland under the dominion of the House of Nassau ; 3, to Italy being made dependant on Austria ; 4 to the Spanish, and Portuguese, and Polish Refugees being sent home to their respective countries accompanied by gendarmes, and to their being shot by thousands on their arrival; Li, to Don Miguel being defended from Don Pedro, and his threatened expedition ; 6, to Prussia and Austria putting down the liberty of the Press in the Ger man States, and to the establishment of tyranny in Hesse, in Baden, in Saxony, in Brunswick, &c. ; and 7, if France will consent to pay her proportion of the millions of pounds sterling which must be ex pended by the Governments of Europe in carrying this their system into execution;—Then --then what ? Why then France may have peace with Europe until the other Governments shall decide that the moment is arrived to attempt the restoration of the Bourbons in France !! !" This is what the Ambassador should have said Well, then, either Europe must yield to France, or France must make war against Europe. We should prefer the former. We are no lovers of war for the sake of war—anti should, therefore, prefer the independence of Poland, liberty for Italy, eman cipation for Spain and Portugal, freedom for Ger many, and happiness and honour for Belgium and France, without the firing of a gun, or the move ment of a soldier. If the Kings and Governments of Europe knew their true interests, they would gladly embrace, before it be too late, those preserva tive and wholesome measures which now we recom mend; but if they will not do so, their reign will be short—their glory will pass away as a pageant, and in a few years we shall write the history " OF THE LAST OF THE KINGS ! I often pity that poor man, Mr. Peel—who with great natural powers—great love of his country — and strong good sense, is yet bound to a party which thinks it can oppose Reform. If I knew Mr. Peel I should say to him, " Why, my good Sir, you do not evidently know what is going on in Europe, and what is going on in Great Britain. You are a cen tury behind hand. Why, the Reform which Lord Grey now proposes, you will one day weep tears of blood that you did not adopt. Go, Mr. Peel, go to the Peers and the Bishops, and tell them—Yes, vote for the Bill—speak for the Bill—praise the Bill—carry the Bill by a large majority—for if you do not, you will never be asked again your opinions about such matters ; and your mitres and your lawn -leeves will be shown in the British Museum, in three years' time, as one of the curiosities of 1832." And to you, Mr. Hume, let me say, give up your crude notions of keeping British affairs distinct from European politics. You cannot do it. You may as well attempt to make a monopoly of the sun, a. to keep England, the greatest commercial country in the world, without having allies. Liberty is a general good. If Great Britain will not aid in im parting it, why she will be deprived of it. The natural and necessary ally of Great Britain is France ! The people of France were never so disposed as they are at present to make an alliance. It may prevent war ; it may alarm the rest of Europe; it may induce Kings to attend to their true interests; and it may save the present state of society, and of property, in spite of themselves ! An alliance between France and Great Britain may be f o ll owe d by a war in Europe ; but if France And Great Britain shall not be allied, a war in Europe is certain. And do you suppose that the people of Great Britain will make the question of liberty in France a mere affair of pounds, shillings, and pence ? Do you suppose that liberty could triumph in France without producing a correspond ing effect in England ? The Reform Bill is an answer to this interrogation. You would never have had Lords Grey, Brougham, and Althorp, for your Ministers, or such a disfranchising Reform Bill in troduced into Parliament, but fur the French Revo lution of 1830. And on the other hand, can you imagine that, if in consequence of France not having the alliance of Great Britain, she should be invaded by the rest of Europe, and, for the time, be deprived of her freedom—that Great Britain would not after. wards be attacked within by the Tories, and with out by the absolute Governments of Europe? But more than this. Even if you, Mr. Hume, should make the question of an alliance with France a mere commercial affair, I ask do you not suppose, that if Great Britain were honestly and frankly allied to France, the advantages which would result from this alliance merely to your commerce would! very soon outweigh any small, or even large expenditure, which that alliance might entail with it ? Assist then, the cause of this alliance. Aid the Govern ment in carrying it into effect ; and, if there must be war in Europe, let not history record that Great Britain expended millions, and sacrificed tens of thousands of soldiers under Pitt and Wellington, to oppose the cause of freedom in Fiance; but would not lend her aid to the cause of liberty, when it was threatened with attack by Russia, Austria, Prussia, Spain, and Holland. 0. P. Q UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. OX 19RD, JAN. 13.—The Rev. John T. Hawley, A.M., of St. John's College, in this University, to the Rectory of Evztr•ley, Hants; patron, Sir John Cope, of Bramshill Park. The Duke of Bedford has presented the Rev. J. Wing, of B'dford, to the Vicarage of Steventon, Bedfordshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. 0. Marsh. The Rev. Charles Colyear Beaty, B.A. of Clare Hall, Cambridge, has beep appointed Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Portmore. The Rev. A. W. Brown to the Viciraae of Pytchley, Northamptonshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. S. E. Bernard. The Very Rev. the Dean of York has been instituted, by the Lord Bishop of Bath and WeHa, to the Rectory of Kelston, near Boto, o❑ the presentation of Joseph Neeld, Esq. The Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells has instituted the Rev. William Hewlett: Trim, M.A., of East Chinnock, to the Rectory of Sandford Orcas, in the county of Somerset, on the presentation of John Hutchings, Esq. void by the death of the Rev. Thomas Bellamy, the late incumbent. DREADFUL SUICIDE. An inquisition was last night held at the Magpie and Stump, Fetter-lane, before Mr. PAYNE, and a respectable Jury, on the body of Sarah Sykes, a fine young woman, aged 21. William King, the Ward-beadle of Farringdon without, about eleven o'clock the preceding morn ing, was sent for by Mr. Green, baker, of No. 103, Fetter-lane. On his arrival there he was called into the parlour by Mr. and Mrs. Green, who in formed him that they had been robbed by the de ceased, who was servant in the house. After some preliminary conversation, the young woman was re quested to come into the room, and Mrs. Green then asked her if she had not always found her a kind mistress? She replied, " Most certainly 1 have." Mrs. Green then said, " You have been robbing us for some time past, and you know it ;" and the deceased then confessed that she had pur loined three ss. papers of copper, and that she was sorry for having done so. Mr. Green then told her that he was determined she should go before a Ma gistrate, at which she appeared most dreadfully agi tated, and implored forgiveness. Mr. Green ap peared inexorable and determined, and witness then said to her, " Come, you must put on your bonnet, and come with me." On hearing this, after a moment's pause, she darted out of the room like lightning, and flew up stairs. Mr. Green then said to witness, " For God's sake follow her, she means mischief." Witness rushed out of the room after her, but was met in the passage by a fierce dog, which delayed his progress for a few moments, and he was then convinced, by the violent banging of a door up stairs that the deceased had committed some dreadful act. Mrs. Green having called the dog off, they proceeded up stairs together as quick as possible, when, on entering Mrs. Green's bed-room on the second floor, they were horror-struck at beholding the deceased stand tog before the looking-glass, with a dreadful gash in her throat, from which the blood was streaming. Witness ran up to her, and caught her in his arms us she was in the act of falling. He then laid her on the floor, and perceived that she was expiring. By a Juror—When witness told her she must come with him, it was only done to frighten her, as Mr. Green had previously told him that he did not mean to prosecute. The CORONER here observed that the witness had done extremely wrong in frightening the de ceased in the way he had done, when he knew it was not the intention of Mr. Green to prosecute. Mrs. Sophia Green deposed that the deceased had been in her service about seven months. She was a strictly moral girl, and possessed a high spirit; she was a native of Yorkshire. Witness had no cause to suspect her honesty till the day prior to hei death. Mr. Green corroborated the testimony of his wife, and described the deceased as a most excellent servant. The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary In sanity." We hear that the LORD CHANCELLOR has proposed to Lord MILTON to accept a Peerage, under a certain contingency ; and that the Noble Lord declined on several grounds, but principally because he wished to re main in the Commons in order to push his proposed alter ation in the Corn Laws.—Leeds Intelligencer. The motions made in the House of Corn mons by Mr. HUNT, have so much weight, that he na turally finds the greatest difficulty in getting them carried. —Figaro in London. GOLDEN EGGS.—A few days since, Mr. INGLESY YOUNG, a sleight of hand professor, played off the following old trick :—He went with his attendant int,. the market place, at Almwich, Wales, and commenced bargaining for some eggs with an old woman. His at tendant took up one egg after another, and gave them to his master, who tried them successively, and at length broke one which he said he thought was rotten. When ' the shell was broken a golden sovereign dropped out ; that was picked up by him in apparent secrecy. He then ex pressed his willingness to buy the whole ; but the poor woman, who had seen the fill of the sovereign, would not c,,nsent, and, on the professor turning his back, corn. rnenced breaking all her eggs into a basin, but, to her amazement, not one brought forth a single sovereign. Her looks and demeanour it is impossible to describe. We un derstand Mr. Yount; recompensed her for the joke he had played off. The Mail informs us, that Lieutenant-General Lord BLATNEY divulged the secrets of the prison -house, after the following fashion, at a dinner given lately by one of the city Sheriffs :—" Mr. Sheriff, my Lords and Gen tlemen,—As a Lieutenant-General of the forces of his Britannic Majesty, I rise to express my thanks for the ho hour you have done Lord Hill and those serving under him ; and notwithstanding the gratifying manner in which that toast has been received, still I think when I state to you a fact within my own knowledge, you will give an other cheer for that Noble Lord—(Hear)—under whom I have served for a period of thirty-five years, and whose thanks I have received on more occasions than one.— (Hear, hear.) Mr. Sheriff, my Lords and Gentlemen,— Lord Grey, his Majesty's Prime Minister, in furtherance of his system of giving up the country to radicalism— (Cheers)—went to his Majesty, and advised him to disem body his guards; and what did Lord Hill do? Be rsplied, if your Majesty so does, you may as well at the same time sign your abdication.—(Loud cheers.) Yes, his Prime Minister advised his Majesty to dismiss his household troops, and if he had done so, he had given rein to the most unprincipled mob, perhaps, in the world— (Hear, hear)—who would have rushed in and over whelmed the Throne anti destroyed the Constitution.— (Loud cheering.) Lord Hill then took the manly part of going himself at once to the King, and telling him—your Majesty, if you do so, must at the same time accept my resignation, for I never will be a party to such a measure. —(Loud cheers.) It is therefore that I think, when you know this fact, you will not refuse him one cheer more.— (Immense cheering for several minutes.) His Lordship concluded, amid loud cheers, which lasted for a consider able time.—and one universal cheer for Lord Hill responded to the call."—Will this man's name be suffered to remain in the Army List?—Dublin siforniny Register. DEATH OF COLONEL BRERETON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,-It is with deep regret I inform you of the melan— choly death of Colonel Brereton. The unfortunate Colonel' shot himself th;w morning, about three o'clock. On hie. arrival at home 1 ist night his spirits were much de— pressed, and he observed to his housekeeper " Now they have begun to swear falsely against me," and afterwards he said, if you should hear any thing don't be alarmed. This news has created a deep gloom throughout the city ; most persons feel an if they had last a friend. I dare sly the Corporation would have made a strong case against the Colonel, as the questbnn was whether the Colonel was unilty or tire Corporation? I ask, then, what chance could there he for one individual against such a force?— The act is more deeply regretted, because it is well known that sit'..h a body of volunt,er evidence would have come forward as would have been the means of clearing the Colonel, and throwing the blame on those alone who de— serted their duty, and caused such a waste of life and pro— perty. The Colonel was looked up to as a father in the neighbouehood where he resided. Ttse cli irge against the Colonel was that , he had too much humanity ; hail he acted differently, he would have had other charges preferred against him, for he was to be the scape-goat of an inTrficient sell-apuointed junta. Bristol, Jan. 13. A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER. CHOLERA AT NEWCASTLE, GATE.:- HEAD, AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JAN. 12. Tice disease still continues on the decline, both in New castle and Gateshead. Lord Prudhoe, brother of his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, visited this town yesterday, in company With Dr. Blow, an intelligent physician from Alnwick, for the express purpose of seeing the cholera in its most characteristic form, that is in the Woe stage or state of collapse. Astonishing as it may seem to you, they absolutely went to all the hospitals without being able to find one case in that stage. This will convince you of what is now admitted by all parties here, namely, that the disease is much milder than it was sometime ago. This is attributable to two causes; first, the majority of the cases which do occur being treated 1 without delay, wheal the premonitory symptoms of diar &c. appear; and secondly, the greater readiness with which people suffer themselves to be conveyed to the hospitals, where they meet with proper care and attend ance. If Lord Prudhoe and Dr. Blow, instead of coming direct from Alnwick to Newcastle, had called in their way at the village of Newborn, w:rich is five or six miles from this place, they would have seen the cholera in its most millenary form. I have before observed on the ravages which it has committed in the township of Newburn; but the havoc it has produced has been still worse in the village of that name. The cholte-a broke out in the vil lage of Newburn about midnight, on Monday, the 9th of January, or early on Tuesday morning, the 10th. I write to you now on the 12th, and I am informed there have been not less than twelve deaths there, while eight or nine more persons are at present almost in a hopeless state. There are two surgeons, I understand, residing on the spot, of the names of Rowell and Finney, and these gentlemen being at variance, and neither of them probably having seen the malignant cholera, the Board of Health establ:shed on the 10th instant at 'Newborn, as stated in my last letter, have very properly called in Mr. Frost, a very respectable and experienced surgeon of Newcastle, to their assistance. I hope, therefore, the disease in that neighbourhood will be speedily c' ecked. I do not hesitate in declaring that the cholera, from the number of persons seized at the same time in so small a place with the worst symptoms, the blueness, the coldness, the pulseleeness, &c., the complaint has presented at Newburn the most I appalling aspect it has yet done in this neighbourhood. One important fact in reference to these cases deserves par- ,! ticular att ent i on . Al most every person, if not every per- son, attacked, had previously diarrhoea of two or three days' standing, which was neglected. In one case, that of an old man, diarrhea had existed for three months ! This should afford a useful lesson elsewhere. lam glad to inform you that the disease is fast dis ippearing in the township of Byker, there are only 12 or 14 cases remaining. The report for Newcastle this day states that there are 14 new cases, 16 recoveries, 6 deaths, and 79 cases re naining. The Gateshead Board of Health informs us that they have to-day only two new cases and two deaths, while they have two recoveries, and have only 26 cases left under treatment. THE CHOLERA MORBUS. DONCASTER. On the evening of Frid a y, th e 6 t h o f January, two sailors arri ve d ire Doncaster, one aged about thirty, the other about twenty, and stopped for the night at Flint ham's lodging house in Mdrah-gate. From the account of the survivor, (which, however, was liable to suspicion from his giving different statements), they had resided five months at Stockton, which place he had left six weeks ago ; wandering since about the country, and having been at Hull, Leeds, Wakefield, and other places. The two men arrived here apparently in good health, and after eating a hearty supper of fried beef and potatoes retired to rest. At six o'clock next morning, the younger of the two, a stout healthy man in appearance, was seized with purging, and went twice to the privy. He returned to !deli, where he remained until daylight, when he arose not much indisposed ; and after breakfasting on coffee, started with his companion on the way to London, for the purpose, as was said, of joining the India fleet. They arrived at Balbv, one mile and a half from Doncaster. Ther e thew asked alms which were refused at one of the houses, on which the younger man, in much exhiliration of spirits, said to his companion "Jack, we shall have better luck at the next place." No sooner had be uttered these words, than he fell down, as his compa nion believed, dead. In a short time he revived, and took half a cup of milk furnished at a house in the village, He returned to Doncdster, which he reached with great diffi culty in about two hours. At the poor-house there some gin was given him, and his companion carried him on hie shoulders back to Flintham's lodgings, where the patient was attended by four members of the Medical Board of Health, and presented the following appearances :-.Great prostration of strength--the whole surface of the body presenting a leaden hue—no pulse at the wrist—pulsatione of the heart not exceeding twenty in a minute —tongue and breath cold—surface of the body cold and clammy--0 great oppression of breathing—spasmodic cramp over the whole body—insatiable thirst —constant praying for cold water—stuols liquid, without fetor, like rice water psesinif involuntarily —no urine passed —severe vomiting with violent spasms. Stimulants externally and internally were administered, Hot air baths and every other means were employed with' out sucees. , . The man gradually sunk and died at two o'clock in the morning of the Bth. Five hours before death , the patient was lying on his back in a state of apparent asphyxia. No snoring nor rutting —great congestion, especially about the heart and lungs —body of a deep blue tint, as if dipped in a solution of indigo—ten heavy pulse', lions only at the heart within a minute—the chest heavini emanating from the person—breath chill—.tongue pro's in truding from the mouth, and cold as marble. Dated tbo tourr rigid— tim e7l d moisture th esan P pervadinger period the m I' l l 7 n, 9th of January, 1832. andfor t a he he n , : y o y st fpetaol J. BRANSON, Chairman of the Doncagter Medical Board of Health' Doncaster Board of Health, Mansion-house, Jan. 12, 1832, Ten o'clock, A.M. No ease of cholera having yet appeared beyond the on e of the stranger on the 7th instant, the Board will not thin it necessary to issue further reports, unless some new cage should occur. —Doncaster Gazette. GEORGE HOLMES, Mayor. Chairman of the Boatd. A private letter from Paris, dated the I.oth' i instant, costa in s th e f o ll ow i ng passage :—" The Kftw already weary of the toils and anxieties of Royalty : hi ° health appears to suffer much, as well as that of the QUEEN and for some days past his abdication, in favour, same of the Duke Of ORLEAN S (and the Carlists say of 11E14n9 V.), has been publicly talked of as a matter decided upon. SUDDEN DEATII.—An inquest was held ye terday afternoon, at the Adam's Arms, Lower Southantr ton-street, Fitzroy -square, on the body of Mrs. Max o ERSKINE, a fine young lady, aged 27, widow of Vf; EasKiNE, broth e r of Lord ERSKINE. The deceased in Chesterfield -street, and w‘s in the receipt of 801. P e annum. Th e d ecease d ad , d her moth er , a f ter call i ng at house in Fitzroy -street. were caught about half -past , o'clock in the rain. They immediately ran towards helve , but becoming exhausted to:1k refuge in the Adam's Arie Some refreshments were set before them in the parlol o , The deceased, after taking some, fell from her chair on 03 ; door in a stat e o f i nsens ibi l i ty. Medical assistance sent for, but it was too late. She has left a daughte.l'l, who is a ward of Chancery, and when she comes of age he entitled to considerable property...... Verdict, Apopleir