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FRENCH PA.PERS. CHAMBER of DEP If TIES—SITTING OP' JAIN. 6. At the opening of the sitting M. Mauguin stated, that he much regretted having been prevented by indisposition from attending the preceding sitting, but could not allow the present opportunity to pass without protesting against the manner in which a Minister of the Crown bad made use of mere formality at the bottom of an official docu ment, as affording a serious argument in support of his system. The Hon. Deputy added, that neither he nor any other Member of the Municipal Committees had the slightest recollection of having observed the words in question when they signed the document, and therefore protested against those words being, considered as any thing more than a matter of form. 11. Bugeaud wished to speak on some point which, he said, was personal to the majority of the Chamber; but the Chamber, apparently worn out with these repeated personal discussions, refused to hear him, and passed to the order of the day, which was the continuation of the discussion on the Bill for regulating the Civil List. M. de Schonen (the Reporter) summed up the general discussion. He recapitulated the labours of the Com mittee, in seeking for and examining every document which appeared necessary to elucidate the question on which it had to decide, and after combatting the arguments of the several orators who bad opposed the Bill as amended by the Committee, repeated his conviction of its expe diency, and called on the Chamber to adopt it. The discussion of the articles was then proceeded with. Article 1, after a short and perfectly uninteresting discussion on the form of wording, was adopted in the following terms The Civil List to be enjoyed by the King during his reign, shall, in conformity with Article 19 of the Charter, be com posed of a real and personal dotation, and of a fixed annual sum." The 2d Article, as proposed by Government, was in the following terms:— " The real dotation shall consist of the Louvre, the Tuile ries, with their dependencies, the Elysee Bourbon, the cha teaux , houses, buildings, manufactories, lands, meadows, farms, woods, and forests, composing the domains of Versailles, Manly, Saint Cloud, Meudon, Saint Germain-en-Laye, Rambouillet, Compiegne, Fontainebleau, Strasburg, Bordeaux, Pau, and others, described in the law of the lit of June, 1791 ; the Se natus Consultus of the 30th of January, 1810 ; the Ist of May, 1512; the 14th of April, 1813; by the laws of the Bth of No vember, 1814 ; the 15th of January, 1815 ; and the various other laws relating to the acquisitions and exchanges of the Royal estates." The Committee had proposed merely to state in the article, that the real dotation to the Crown should consist of all the properties comprised in the various laws and decrees pirticularly specified, and then to except from it in a schedule the properties which it proposed should be severed from the domains of the Crown, and given up to the State. These excepted properties, comprising Baga telle, the Chateau of St. Germain, Bordeaux, and Stras burg, several edifices in Paris, St. Cloud, and Versailles, and portions of wood at Rambouillet, Fontainebleau, and Compiegne, were valued on the whole at 182,000,000 f. M. Salverte proposed, as an amendment, that the second article should consist of the three following paragraphs:— I. The real dotations shall consist of the Chateau of the Tuileries and its dependencies, the Hotel of the Garde Meuble, the chateaux and domains of Fontainebleau, St. Cloud, and Meudon, with the houses, buildings, lands, meadows, farms, woods, and forests thereunto belonging. 2. The Palace of the Louvre and its dependencies shall re main the property of the State, together with the library, mu seums, pictures, statues, sculpture, and other monuments of the Arts therein contained. The Louvre, as the Palace of the Arts, shall he placed under the administration of the Minister of the Interior. 3. All the other domains, which have been formerly com_ prised in the dotation to the Crown, as well as the personal effects of every description which are to be found in or about the same, shall remain the domains of the nation, and be used or sold for the benefit of the State. The ancient appanage of the Dukedom of Orleans,consti tuted in 1661, 1672, and 1692, together with the lesser forest of Orleans, which originally formed part of it, shall continue to form part of the domains of the nation, to which it reverted on the Kirg's accession to the crown. M. Mauguin supported the amendment of M. Salverte, and urged the necessity of relieving the civil list from the charge of domains which it was admitted now cost more to keep them up than they produced, but which if sold for the benefit of the State, and converted in such part as might be proper to agricultural purposes, would produce to the nation not only a capital of from 120 to 150 millions, but an annual revenue of seven or eight millions arising from the increased taxes and duties, which would become pay able in consequence of their being brought into cultivation and disposed of in parcels. M. Dopiu, sine, combated the views of M. Mauguin, and maintained, that even if the forests of St. Germain, Fontainebleau, and others, were not to remain annexed to the Crown domains, they ought not at any rate to be sold or destroyed, since they were not only valuable as orna• merits to the country. but, as timber, were highly im portant to the nation, since they supplied the foundations of the naval power of the country. M. de Schonen said, that he was far from wishing to defend the administration of Woods and Forests under Charles X., but he protested against any argument being drawn from it to apply to the present administration, which, he said, was on a totally different footing, and re gulated with a proper regard for economy and produc tiveness. M. Montalivrt (Minister of Public Instruction) opposed the amendment of M. Salverte, and contended that the domains in question ought to remain attached to the Crown. He referred to the Civil List of the King of Eng land, which, he said, after a short and becoming (con rrnable) discussion—(Laughter and murmurs from the extremities), had been fixed by the House of Com mons at 13,528,000 francs—a larger amount than had ever been asked for by Government. He then re minded the Chamber, that in England the Civil List sup plied the personal expences of the King, as every extra ex pense, even the repairs of a Royal Palace, were provided for by separate grants ; whereas in France every thing was charged upon the Civil List. The completion of the Louvre alone would, he said, if proceeded with, cost 50,000,000 of francs. The King of England, he added, also possessed other properties in Scotland, Ireland, and the colonies, the particulars of which he (the Minister) had not been able to obtain with precision, but which were es• tirnated by the English in Paris, whom he had consulted, at 10,000,000 of francs per annum. M. Salverte maintained that none of the arguments ad duced had sufficient force to shake his conviction of the necessity of his amendment. M. Lameth opposed the amendment, arguing that fo rests such as those in question could only belong to a Sove reign, or some one of equal property, since no one else could afford to buy them. In concluaion, he contended that it was the interest of all the unfortunate individuals who were relieved by the King's benevolence, that the domains of the Crown should be preserved undiminished ; " for," added the Hon. Deputy, " during forty years I have known the King in prosperity and adversity, and I can assure you that he will never possess superfluities while there ex ists an individual in want of necessaries."—(Applause.) A discussion then ensued on the mode of deliberation to be adopted. M. Odillon Barrot suggested that it would be both most convenient and most in accordance with the prin ciple, that, by the deposition of the late King, all the property of the Crown had, ipso facto, become merged in the domains of the State, to vote separately each item which it was proposed to grant to the present King as part of his Civil List. This suggestion was adopted, and the article, as origi nally proposed by Government, which contains the enu meration of the items to be granted, was taken as the basis of the discussion. The first item was the Louvre and its dependencies. The second paragraph of M. Salverte's amendment, which annexes the Louvre and the collections relating to the fine arts to the domains of the State, was re-read by the President. Delaborde contended that the Civil List was alone competent to afford proper protection to the arts. The Hon. Deputy maintained that the public works constructed under the direction of the Civil List had always been bet ter and more rapidly done than those which were under the management of Government. He therefore opposed the amendment. M. Dubois supported it, and maintained that the Go vernment, being under the inspection and controul of the Chamber, was more properly entitled to the direction of works of national interest than the Civil List. The Minister of Commerce contended that the King was the proper person to protect the arts, and thereupon opposed the amendment. He added that several collec tions of great value and interest had been lost to the na tion, owing to the Civil List not being voted, and the Government not daring to take upon itself the responsi bility of purchasing them. The amendment was rejected by a considerable majority. The Louvre with its dependencies was then declared to form part of the dotation of the Crown, as were also the palaces of the Tuileries and the Elysee-Bourbon, and the chateaux of Versailles, Marly, St. Cloud, and Meudon, with their depenAncies. M. Mauguinl4hed the domain of Versailles to be sepa rated from. the `ptitteau, but the proposition was rejected. The doigainMySt. Germain was also granted to the :d' 11,4 Crown ; the question of the chateau was reserved for con sideration at another period of the discussion. On the domain of Rambouillet being put to the vote, the decision of the Chamber being doubtful in two epreuves, the ballot was dernanded. The following was the result of the scrutiny : Against granting the domain to the Crown 165 In favour of it Majority against the grant -8 Adjourned. SITTING OF JAN. 7. At one o'clock M. Girod de l'Ain, the President, took the Chair. The Chamber having adjourned the discussion of the Civil List until Monday, M. Parent was called to the tri bune to present a report on M. Roger's motion relative to marriages between brothers and sisters in law, and vice versa, and between uncles and nieces, and aunts and nephews. M. Parent said that the Commission appointed to exa mine that important question was unanimously of opinion that it was necessary to modify the 162 d and 164th Ar ticles of the Civil Code, which prohibited such marriages. The Commission, however, was divided on the nature of the modifications to be introduced. Before the revolution of 1789, when the clergy were solely invested with the religious and civil authority, the Church condemned mar riages between relations of every degree ; but the Court of Rome could give dispensations for unions even between brothers and sisters in law. Those marriages, he said, have nothing contrary to public manners ; they are even in those of the French society; they are tolerated in seve ral Christian countries, and no good reason could be ad duced to condemn in France what is allowed in other countries. The prohibition, at any rate, should not be so absolute as it was in the Civil Code. The Reporter then asserted that such marriages were just, useful, and neces sary. He afterwards examined the reasons given by the partisans of the absolute repeal of the 162 d and 164th Articles of the Civil Code, who had put forward, as an objection to their partial repeal, the necessity under which the parties would be to reveal now and then scandalous domestic transactions in order to obtain dispensation from the Government. 51. Parent, however, stated that, after examining the question most attentively, they had decided that it might be inconvenient to abrogate those articles entirely ; that the system of dispensation should be intro duced into the law; but that the Government should not deliver any except for the most urgent motives. They consequently proposed to word M. Roger's proposition as follows : " The Government is authorised, whenever the case will appear sufficiently urgent, to raise the prohibition contained in the 162 d and I64th Articles of the Civil Code against marriages between brothers and sisters in law, uncles and nieces, and aunts and nephews; but such dispensations are never to be granted when one of the parties shall have been divorced." After the Chamber had decided that the proposition de served its consideration, the sitting closed. PROTEST OF THE DEPUTIES OF FRANCE AGAINST THE USE OF THE WORDS " SUBJECTS" AND " KING OF FRANCE" BY THE MINISTERS OF LOUIS PHILIP. The members of the Chamber of Deputies who assisted with grief at the sittings of the 4th and sth of January, 1832, in which the Ministers of the King reproduced and endeavoured to justify the double expression of " King of France," and of " subjects of the King," attested by the Moniteur—expressions which were struck out from our charter of 1830 as irreconcileable with the principle of the national sovereignty--ow e to themselves and to their country to protest solemnly against those expression., which tend to alter the new public French right. The President of the Chamber not having put to the vote the suppression of these words in the proces-verbal, and the Chamber not having therefore voted relative to this sup pression, which would tend to give a legal and parlia mentary character to the present protest, the undersigned have recourse to the only way left open to them, that of publishing their sentiment., and hereby protest, in the pre sence of France, against the expressions of which the Mi nisters have made use, and against all the consequences which may hereafter be drawn from them Allier, Audry de Puyraveau, Auguis, Bacot, Basterreche, Baudet, Dulary, Baudet Lafarge, Bavoux, Beausejour, Bernard (Cote du Nord), Bertrand (General), Beslay fils, Blaque Belair, Boudet, Bousquet, Briqueville, Brosse, Bryas, Cabanon, Cabet, Chaigneaux, Charpentier, Clauzel (Marechal), Clerc Lasalle, Coloines, Comte, Corcelles, Cordier, Cormenin, Conderc, Coulmann, Couturier, De gouve Denuncques, Demarcay (General), Desaix, Dubois Ayme, Duboise (Ardeche), Dubois (Loire Infer.), Duchaf fault, Ducluzeaux, Dulong, Dupont (de l'Eure), Duris Dufresne, Escanier, Eschasseriauz, Faure Dare, Faure (Hautes Alpes), Fiot, Gauthier d'llauteserve, Gautier de Rummy, Gavarte, Genoux, Girardin, Girod Pouzol, Glais Bizoin, Grammont, Grea, Guillemaut, Havin, Heram bault (d'), Hernoux, Jousselin, Junyen, Kcechlin, La boissiere, Lafayette (Georges), Lafitte, Lamarque (Ge neral), Larabit, Las Cases pore, Laurence, Lebastard de Kerguifinec, Legendre, Legrande, Lenouvel, Levaillant, Ludre (de), Luminais, Luneau, Loyer, Mallye, Marche geay, Marschal, Mauguin, Meilheurat, Milory, Mornay (Laguette), Nicod, Odillon Barrot, Pages, Perin, Perot, Petou, Podenos, Pons (Vaucluse), Portalis, Pourrat, Poux (Thierry), Proust, Raynaud, Realier Dumas, Renouvier, Resnier, Robert (Ardennes), Robineau, Roger, Rousshile, Sade (de), Salverte, Sans, Saubat, Subervic (General) Sul picy, Taillandier, Tardieu, Tessiere, Teulon, 'Fhevenin, Thiars (General), Thouret, Thouvenel, Toupot de Bevaux, Tracy, Tueux, Vidal, Voyer d'Argenson. " My health not having permitted me to be present at the sittings of yesterday and to-day, I pray my colleagues to have the goodness to receive my adhesion to their protest against the two expressions which I regard as an attack on the revolution of July. " L AFAYETTE. " Paris, Jan. 5, 1832." " The undersigned, absent from the sittings of the 4th and sth instant, adhere without reserve to the protest of their colleagues:— " FELIX REAL " KERMORIAL " MERILHOU " JOLY "J. BERNARD " General SEMELE. " Paris , Jan. 6,1832." PARIS, JAN. 7. (From the Times Private Correspondent.) The Perier Ministry has received its death-blow. Every event proves it to be equally incapable and powerless. Dis content and revolt break out in every point of the terri tory. The maledictions of the suffering and irritated po pulation are no longer confined to the Ministry, the pnblic censure takes a higher aim. The Crown is affected by the unpopularity of the system of the Government. But in the midst of this alarming state of things, what do you think the Ministers do? They haughtily assert that every thing is going on well, and fancy that the remedy for evil is to deny its existence. The following scene, the truth of which I can warrant, will give you some idea of our situation : On his visit to Lyons, the Duke of Orleans was sur prised and alarmed at the little enthusiasm which he ex perienced in the course of his journey. In some places dissatisfaction was even manifested by signs more obvious than mere silence. He wrote a letter to his father, in which he expressed his apprehensions. The King is warmly attached to the system of the Ilth of March. He regards it as his workmanship, and loves it as his own offspring; but when there is danger, he is willing to compromise. Ile sent for M. Perier. " I have bad news to tell you. My name is getting unpopular, and the people cry Down with the Ministry.' Is your system right ? I begin to have doubts." The Minister, with an indignant air.— " There is my portfolio (throwing it on the table). You may take it. They call for my head, and you may give it them; but do not believe that it will fall alone! It is not I alone : you also are the object of their spite. But whence comes your information? It is false. None but revolutionary journals speak in that way. I have the whole country on my side. The wicked press wishes to ruin us; but patience! . . . None but a jacohin could give you this information." _ . To have an idea of this scene, it would be necessary to have seen M. Perier. His contracted visage—his harsh voice anger—nay, almost fury. The astonished King, thus urgently and repeatedly called upon to tell from whom he had received his information, drew from his pocket the Prince's letter, and handed it to the Minister. "Ah !" exclaimed lie, in a paroxysm of rage, " the Duke of Or leans ! why refer to him ? He is surrounded by anarchists and revolutionists. I know it long. I have made his conduct be observed. I well know his good disposition, and do justice to it, but he is led astray, and will ruin every thing." M. Perier all this time kept walking with rapid strides about the King's cabinet. " Yes, yes : he cannot remain here ! he will ruin every thing ! We must save him from bad principles." In fact, since this the Minister has been planning the sending of the young Prince to Algiers. The expedition of Oran and African glory are the subjects dwelt upon, and it is very possible that the Minister, to make his reign more peaceable, will get the Prince removed from France, as he already has several times removed him from the pa ternal roof. This influence of the Minister over the King must be astonishing to those who do not know its cause. The truth is, the object of Louis Philip and of M. Perier is one and the same—nimely, the re-establishment of the system of the restoration and its aristocracy. When M. Perier entered the Ministry he brought with him elements of power and permanency which few Ali- I sisters could possess. He was the King's choice and the Chamber's favourite. For this he was indebted to the op position he made to the ablest men of the Restoration, his popularity. and reputation, more or less well founded, for ability. Besides, his speeches and apologies had obtained for him a great character of frankness. On this account he was chosen. The name of M. Perier was to the Camarillo and the Doctrinaire party a fine deception, upon which they could long work to their advantage. It was in fact known, that under the appear ance of liberality, M. Perier concealed a secret attachment to those antiquated doctrines which France can no longer endure. The Doctrinaire party put him forward with the view of afterwards overturning him, and putting up M. De Cazes, who is much better informed and more capable, M. De Cares would in the first instance have occasioned alarm : it was therefore necessary that a popular man should smooth the way for him. But M. Perier has gone to work too hastily, and per haps his Ministerial life will not last long enough to en able his friends to profit by his death. He is now fairly seen through, and ca❑ hide nothing behind him. Liberal principles were attributed to him ; but who can be deceived now, after his speech in the Chamber of De puties, and more particularly in the Chamber of Peers on the Peerage question. Much has been Said of his talents, and yet it was his want of foresight that caused the disturbances at Lyons The disclosures of M. Bouvier Dumolard, who was Prefect of that city during the events, deeply engage the public attention, M. Perier wished to sacrifice the Prefect to save himself. M. Bouvier Dumolard has taken a severe revenge. In this affair even the moral character of M. Perier has been seriously implicated. It will therefore be no longer in his power to boast of his frankness. He asserted in the Chili:ober that the Prefect bad made no report from the llth to the 25th of October ; but the Prefect proved that the Minister had concealed a report dated the 15th ; and the brigading of the workmen ! What an example did he give of his good faith, when be vindicated the police from the charge of hiring them. There is one thing nothing is known in England, nor any where else; nor, perhaps, even in Constantinople ; and that is, the manner in which the police is managed in France. For the maintenance of order, the Government has a powerful army—the National Guard, the Veterans—in a word, there is no want of sol diers. You would suppose, then, that the Ministry might be content. By no means : they have not enough. They must pay men collected from the dregs of the working glasses, and turn them against citizens whom they choose to call disturbers of tranquillity. You may be passing through a street, going quietly about your business; that matters little. A police agent happens to fancy you an enemy of public order (that is the consecrated phrase), and insti gates some workmen to fall upon you and knock you down. If you go to complain, instead of being listened to, you may be thrown into prison, and a Procureur-General, named Persil, would be quite ready to prosecute you. This `"wicked system has been disclosed in a court of jus tice, and proved by a solemn investigation. France blushes at the discovery ; cries of indignation are raised on every side. The ministerial papers alone remain silent. They have not even ventured to report the trial. But M. Perier displayed more boldness in the Chamber. He maintained that the police, of which he is really the chief, had nothing to do with the regimenting of the workmen, and when he was asked how it happened that no one had been punished—that even several of those who committed the assaults had received rewards—that neither the workmen, nor the agents who were the authors of the disorders, had been prosecuted,—how do you suppose he replied? He made his centres vote, and stifled the dis cussion. Nevertheless, this affair has been a severe stroke to the Ministry. On the other hand, the King has great diffi culty in putting up with M. Perier, whose character is disagreeable to him. I repeat, the Ministry has received its death-blow. Its agony has begun. THE TRADE WITH RUSSIA. ALTERATION IN THE LATE TARIFF. The following important official information was re ceived yesterday, relative to the trade carried on with Russia. Extract of a letter received by the Governor of the Russian Company, dated St. Petersburgh, 9 (21) Dec. 1831 : " It is with the greatest satisfaction I have now to an nounce to you, for the information of the Court of A. , - sistants of the Russia Company, that I have received the intelligence from a quarter en which I have every reason to place the greatest reliance, that the objectionable clause in the Ukase of the 11th November, ordering an increase of 12i per cent. on the duties for goods lying in the Cum turn-houses, imported in 1831, has been rescinded, and that the alteration has been confirmed by his Imperial Majesty. ‘' 1 trust in my next to be enabled to state that this act of common justice has been officially published, and that the import trade, which has been at a complete stand ever since the receipt of the Ukase, has again resumed its wonted course.—l have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) " C. MOBERLY." " St. Petersburgh, Dec. 12 (21), 1831. " have much pleasure in informing you that his Imperial Majesty signed a Ukase to the Minister of Finance on the 7th instant (0.5.), revoking the retro active clause of the late tariff, a translation of which I have now the honour to hand you annexed. " No publication by authority has yet been made of the existence of this document, but, as the Custom-house allow goods to be cleared and retired at the former rates, there can be no longer any doubt of its beiug issued to the Government departments. " This prompt and decided act of justice has given sa tisfaction to all classes, the Russian Nobility and gentry, not immediately interested in it, having strongly expressed their opinion against the measure, as tending to involve the credit anti honour of this country. " The apprehensions lately entertained of measures being in agitation for the abolition of the class of merchants called Foreign Guests, I am happy to inform you, were without foundation, the subject not having even been pro posed. An additional tax has been ordered to be levied upon Russian merchants, written up in any of the towns of the interior, and carrying on their trade either in Petersburgh or Moscow, but in no way affecting Foreign Guests.—l have the honour to be, &c. (Signed) " C. MOBERLY. " To the Governor of the Russian Company." TRANSLATION. " TO THE 3IINISTER. OF FINANCE. " Perceiving, from the representations handed to us, that the additional per centage duty ordained, by the Ukase of the llth November last, to be collected from the date of the receival of the said Ukase on all goods lying uncleared in the different Custom-houses, may occasion unforeseen losses to the merchants, and lead to difficulties in the settlement of their accounts, we have judged it right, under these circumstances, and further to evince our good will and unceasing anxiety to promote the prosperity of trade, to ordain— " That all goods imported at the different Custom houses antecedent to the receipt of the said Ukase of the I 1 th of November last, and now in bond, be exempted from the additional 12 . 1 1 per cent. on the duties ; and, should it already have been paid by any merchants, that the amount he restored to them. " The Minister of Finance will take the necessary steps for the fulfilment of this order. (Signed) " NICHOLAS. " St. Petersburgh, Dec. 7 (0. S.), 1831." The information gave much satisfaction to the merchants, and others interested in the trade with Russia, yesterday afternoon. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 9. His HONOUR this morning resumed his sittings in bankruptcy. THE EARL OF EGRIMONT AGAINST WATERS ---INJUNCTION• Mr. JACOB made an application to the Court for an in junction ex-parte to restrain the defendant in this case from removing certain articles from the house in which he resided, under the following circumstances the year 1817, the Earl of Egremont granted a lease of certain premises to the defendant, which expired on the 29th of September last. A notice to quit was served upon the defendant, which, from some circumstance that was not mentioned to the Court, he appeared never to have com plied with, being i❑ possession at the present time. He had, however, in direct violation of au agreement entered into for a lease of th premises, moved several articles from the estate, and on the 23d of December last, he threatened to take away certain gates, slabs, and a variety of other fixtures mentioned in the proceedings, to the great detriment of the property. The facts were supported by the affidavit of Mr. Benson, a solicitor, and as Mr. Jacob was proceeding to read it, His HONOITIL said quite sufficient bad been stated to justify the interference of the Court, and accordingly granted the injunction. The LORD CHANCELLOR has, we are sorry to learn, been confined at Brougham-hall with a slight attack of English cholera, from which it is satisfactory to know that he is so far recovered as to be able to leave that place on his journey to town by easy stages. lie is to sleep at the Cock at Eton to -night, and is expected in town to-tnerrow, COURT-MARTIAL ON COL. BRERETON. (From the Times.) BRISTOL, MONDAY, ./„, le. 9. The Merchants'-hall having been appropriated for the holding of the Court-martial, and ten o'clock being the hour fixed' upon for its opening, before that period the hall was approached by numbers of persons anxious for admis sion. The reporters for the various Papers were at once admitted, and the most prompt and polite attentio❑ paid to them. They were informed that it was the wish of the Court to afford them every accommodation, and that the Chamberlain of Bristol had promised to erect a sepa rate box for them, where they might be free from pressure and intrusion ; that nevertheless that promise remains still unperformed, but that as exertion would be made to have it ready by to-morrow. The upper part of the room was occupied by benches filled with ladies, whose appearance and manners were in the highest degree prepossessing. The table for the Court ran down the centre of the room, and there were two other tables at the sides, near the President's end, one for the defendant (Colonel Brere ton), his Counsel (Mr. Earle), and his solicitor (Mr. T. M. Evans); the other for papers, &c., connected with the prosecution. A barrier was erected at the lower end of the room, to keep out the crowd, which was very numerous, and, in deed, the whole interest of the community here seems ex clusively directed to the proceedings of this Court, the trials before the Judges being now matters of minor con sideration. A few minutes after eleven o'clock the members of the Court took their places, and the list was read over. Colonel Brereton was then ordered into Court. On his arrival the King's warrant for holding the court-martial was read by Captain Thompson, the acting Deputy Judge Advocate. It was addressed to the Right Hon. Robert Grant, Judge Advocate General, whose warrant, appointing Captain Thompson, was then also react. The list of the officers composing the Court was then read to the prisoner, who said he had no objection to make to any of them. The President was then sworn according to the usual form. The four Major-Generals were similarly sworn, and the other officers, six Colonels, and four Lieutenant- Colonels, according to their respective ranks. The PRESIDENT then administered the oath to the Judge Advocate. The Court being thus fully formed, The PAYMENT addressed them to this effect :—He said, when he saw the Court then assembled, and knew how it was composed, he felt it was unnecessary for him to occupy their time with any preliminary observations, as he would take it for granted that they all would discharge their minds of every thing which they might have read or heard as connected with the transactions they now had to investigate ; and he was equally sure they would exa mine and inquire into the subject without prejudice, and with the strictest impartiality. They were all so well ac quainted with the ordinary proceedings of courts-martial, that it was needless for him to offer any remarks upon this topic. The prosecutor would simply make his statement, and adduce his evidence, which would be cross-examined by Colonel Brereton. After this be would ask as a favour, that if any member of the Court bad a question to pro pose, be would put it in writing, and forward it to the Judge Advocate, who would ask the witnesses. They would then at once proceed to business. The JUDGE ADVOCATE then read the following charges, to which Colonel Brereton respectively pleaded " Not Guilty :" . . 1. For that he, Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, having, on the 29th of October, 1831, and on the two following days, the com mand of the troops in the city of Bristol, with directions (duly authorised) to be in communication with the Magistrates of the city, and to arrange with them for the disposal of the said troops, in the event of the services of the said troops being required ; and great disturbance and riot prevailing in the said city on the said 29th of October, by reason whereof the said troops were, in the afternoon of that day, called out by the Magistrates of the city ; and the Riot Act having been repeatedly read, the said Lieutenant-Colonel was, several times during the evening, di rected by the said Magistrates to use force for the dispersion of the rioters, and the restoration or maintenance of the public peace; nevertheless he, the said Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, did not act with any vigour or effect in execution of such direc tions of the said Magistrates, but for the most part declined, or neglected to comply with the same, and conducted himself in a feeble and temporizing manner, calculated only to encourage the rioters in their ♦iolent proceedings. 2. For that on Sunday, the 30th of October, 1831, when the Magistrates for Bristol had required the attendance of troops in Queen-square, to save the Mansion-house, which was violently attacked by a large body of rioters, and when, in consequence of such requisition, one troop of the 3d Dragoon Guards, and one troop of the 14th Light Dragoons, were some time in the forenoon of the day assembled in Queen-square, under the per_ sonal command of him, Lieut.-Colonei Brereton, he, the said Lieutenant-Colonel, shortly afterwards directed the said troop of the 14th Light Dragoons to withdraw to their quarters at Fisher's stables, adjoining to College-green, in the said city, on the plea that their presence only exasperated the populace ; by which proceeding the said Lieutenant-Colonel improperly weakened the force assembled as aforesaid in Queen-square; and for that afterwards, about noon of the same day, the said Lieutenant-Colonel ordered the whole of the squadron of the 14th Light Dragoons, then quartered in the said city, including the troop so withdrawn from Queen-square as aforesaid, to move from Bristol to Reynsham, a distance of about five miles, con. trary to the declared wishes and opinions of the said Magis_ trates, and in violation of the duty wherewith he was intrusted, of guarding the peace of the city ; the said city being then in so disturbed and riotous a state that the whole of the troops ought to have been stationed where their services might have been made available at the shortest notice. 3. For that he, Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, stated to the said Magistrates, or some of them, as a reason for moving the said squadron as aforesaid from Bristol to Keynsham, on the said Sunday, that the men and horses of the said squadron wers in so jaded and exhausted a state that they were equal to little or no execution (or words to that effect) ; whereas both the said men and horses were at the time of their removal as afforesaid in an efficient state, and fit for any duty that might be required of them. 4. For that he, Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, in the after noon of the said Sunday, repeatedly refused, in positive terms, to comply with the directions and entreaties of the said Ma gistrates, requiring him to recall the said squadron from Keynsham, and to employ" the troops under his command to ; check the tumult and riot in the said city, which were then in ; creasing in an alarming manner, several of the public buildings having been attacked and broken into by the rioters, with every prospect of a still further extension of outrage, and of a wide destruction of houses and property. 5. For that about four o'clock in the afternoon of the said Sunday, when the rioters, after having broken into the Bride well of the said city, and released the prisoners therein, and set the Bridewell on fire, were proceeding, as it appeared, to the gaol to attack and break into the same; and when the said Magistrates peremptorily required him (Lieutenant-Colonel Bereton) to employ the force under his command in protecting the - said gaol, and putting down the rioters (or to that effect), he, the said Lieutenant-Colonel, refused or declined complying with such requisitions ; and the said Lieutenant-Colonel, al though he afterwards sent a detachment of the 3d Dragoon Guards to the said gaol, did however give positive orders to Cornet Kelson, commanding the same, on no account whatever to use force ; and that he was only to go to the gaol and come back (or words to that effect). In conformity with which orders the said detachment proceeded to the front of the said gaol, and returned therefrom immediately, without having otherwise in- ' terrupted or interfered with the rioters, and this notwithstand ing that when the said detachment arrived at the said gaol the rioters had broken into the same, and had released and were releasing the prisoners, and were also preparing to set fire to the Governor's house, within the said gaol, which house was in fact fired and destroyed by the rioters shortly after the de parture of the said detachment from the front of the said gaol. 6. For that, about seven or eight o'clock in the evening of the said Sunday, when the Bishop's Palace in Bristol had been attacked by the rioters, and the Magistrates had thereupon re quired the attendance of the troops to save the said Palace ; and when after the said rioters had broken in the gates of the said Palace-court, and had also forced the main door of the Palace itself, he, Lieut.-Colonel Brereton, with a detachment of the 3d Dragoon Guards, under his immediate and personal command, within t entered the t the a s in a d e ; a e a e c r e t - h c e o l u, e sr he, e a , n t d h efor medsaid i e s u u t c e h n a d n e t t - a c c o h l mn o n e el remained in the said Palace-court wholly inactive, with the said detachment, during the commission of various acts of outrage by the rioters, under his own eyes, he, the said Lieutenant-Co lonel refusing or omitting to comply with the application of cer tain of the Bishop's servants, as well as of certain constables and other persons there present, to afford them assistance, in order to check the outrages of the rioters, and to save the said Palace, and the property therein contained : and, on the con trary, thereof, he, the said Lieutenant-Colonel, gave most pe remptory orders to the said detachment not to use any violence to the rioters, or to that effect, and passively permitted certain of the rioters returning out of the said Palace, laden with its plunder, to escape, and at the same time released, or caused to be released, certain of the said rioters who had been appre hended in or about the said Palace, in the act of committing outrages, or carrying off plunder, and whom the persons appre hending them had consigned or offered to consign to the cus tody of the said detachment. 7. For that he, Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, about the hour of eight or nine o'clock on the said Sunday evening, at a time when the Mansion-house of the said city was in flames, and when he, the said Lieutenant-Colonel was in the immediate and personal command of a detachment of the 3d Dragoon Guards, formed in Queen-square, in which square the Mansion.house then stood, did, nevertheless, make no attempt whatever to ar rest the progress of such fire ; nor did he give any order, or make any provision with the said detachment of Dragoon Guards, to prevent the committing of further outrages, or the firing of other houses and buildings by the rioters : but, on the contrary thereof, after remaining near the said Mansion-house for about ten minutes, he, the said Lieutenant-Colonel, marched off with the !aid detachment, or with the greater part thereof, which he ordered to return to its quarters ; thereby leaving, throughout the whole evening and night, Queen-square, afore said, and its inhabitants, unprotected, and entirely under the dominion of the rioters ; in consequence whereof the houses and buildings composing two entire sides of the said square, in cluding the Mansion-house, the Customhouse, and the Excise. office, in the course of the said night, were set on fire by the rioters, and reduced to ashes. S. For that he, Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, on the arrival in Bristol of the Doddington troop of Yeomanry Cavalry under the command of Captain Cothington, about eleven o'clock on the said Sunday evening, which arrival was reported to the said Lieutenant-Colonel by the said Captain in person, neglected or omitted to avail himself (as in his capacity of commanding of_ ficer of the troops in Bristol it was his duty to do) of the services of the said troop of Yeomanry Cavalry, or even to give any dis tinct or sufficient orders for retaining the same in the city, al though numerous houses and buildings in different parts of the city were then on fire, and although further conflagrations were threatened and expected. . 9. For that he, Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, having received from the Mayor of Bristol a certain letter, dated twelve o'clock, Sunday night, October 30, 1831, to the following effect—That he, the said Lieutenant-Colonel, was to consider himself fully authorised to take whatever steps, and to give whatever orders, he, as the military commander of the troops in the said city, might think fit to restore and preserve, as far as possible, the public peace, did, nevertheless, for the space of nearly four hours after he had received the said letter, which was soon after the date thereof, neglect to take any steps, or to give any orders to, or make any attempt whatever with, the troops under his command, for the purposes in the said letter mentioned; but, on the contrary thereof, he, the said Lieutenant-Colonel retired to his bed, and remained there for several hours together during the night of the said Sunday, the 30th, or morning of Monday, the 31st of October, at a time when the rioters, without check or controul, were committing acts of gross outrage, tumult, and destruction, in various parts of the said city. 10. For that he, Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, when he was afterwards, about four o'clock in the morning of Monday, the 31st of October, called out of bed by a Magistrate of the said city, and desired by him to march troops instantly to Queen's square, which was in danger of being entirely destroyed by fire, manifested great reluctance to comply with such desire, he, the said Lieutenant-Colonel, stating that the troops would be of no use, for that the horses would not stand such a fire, or other words to that effect. 11. For that he, Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, at various times, and on various occasions during the said Zth, 30th, and 31st days of October, when it was his duty to resist and put down the rioters, weakly yielded to or temporised with them, frequently shaking hands with them, addressing them fami liarly, and even using to them language which reflected on the conduct of a portion of the troops under his command, and which was calculated to add to the irritation of the rioters, and at the same time to augment their confidence in their own strength and power. Such conduct as aforesaid, on the part of the said Lieutenant- Colonel Brereton, evincing great want of the vigour and deci. sion necessary for the duties in which he was engaged, being highly disgraceful to his character as an officer, and prejudicial to good order and military discipline, and tending to destroy the confidence of the troops in their officers, and to reflect dis honour on his Majesty's service. A very long list of the witnesses summoned at both sides was then read over, together with a letter from Co lonel Brereton, requiring summonses for his witnesses; and also desiring that he should not be prohibited during the trial from summoning other witnesses, whose testi mony was now collecting by his solicitor. This request was acceded to. _ _ The JUDGE-ADVOCATE read that part of the Act of Parliament, referring to witnesses upon courts-martial, exempting them from arrest, and making them liable to attachment in case of non-attendance, or refusal to be sworn. The PRESIDENT directed all persons who were sum moned as witnesses to withdraw until their names were called ; and Colonel Brereton was told, that if any persons whom he intended to summon were now in Court, he should make them withdraw, or otherwise he might be precluded from the benefit of their testimony. Notice was then given that the attendance of all wit nesses, except the municipal authorities of the city, would not be required this day. Major-General Sir CHARLES D'ALBIAC, the prosecutor, then commenced his address.—He said, " Mr. President, and the other Members of this honourable Court," and continued that he appeared before them there at the suit of the King, as the prosecutor of the prisoner at their bar. It would be unnecessary for him to occupy their time in expatiating on the nature of the charges against Colonel Brereton, and would therefore content himself with saying that amongst those charges there were some which bore upon their face every character of culpability, indeed such as he would say was unprecedented and unheard-of in the case of a British officer. Neither would it be necessary for him to detain the Court by observing on the great objects of this most important trial. The Bristol riots with their disgraceful consequences had been the theme of discussion in every public and private society throughout the king dom. They had been canvassed by all, while some ascribed the events which had occurred to one cause, and some to others. Some there were who attributed all the blame to civil authorities ; others there were who declared the blame imputable to the military alone. All, however, agreed that in some quarter or other there was great cul pability. These circumstances, joined with the important circumstances of the case itself, had fixed upon these pro ceedings the attention of the entire public, as well as of the army. The intensity of this interest was such as bad rarely attached to any occurrence that ever came under the cognizance of a military tribunal. This was also kept alive by another circumstance, i. e. that never was there a case, the leading facts and circumstances of which were less distinctly known or understood, and yet there never was a case in which the public had a right to a fuller in vestigation. He would Bay that the course of this trial must bring before the Court questions which incidentally involved a matter of the highest consideration,—he meant that due concert and co-operation between the civil and military bodies on occasions of riots or disturbances, which required for their suppression the aid of the military arm. Questions of this kind must constantly arise in this discussion, and certainly questions more momentous could not be raised. They affected both the military and moral conduct of the soldier, and they still more strongly affected the preservation of peace and property,:and,indeed, touched upon every subject that was dear to civilized society. Nor could such events, even with reference to military duty alone, be deemed by the Court as of light moment. Up to the present moment, it might be said that the Bristol riots had been left with out any examination. The conduct of Colonel Brereton had, indeed, been submitted to a preliminary investigation before a Court of Inquiry, of which he (Sir C. D'Albiac) had the honour to be President. The functions of such a tribunal were rather like those of a Grand Jury ; they were private, and their object was simply to ascertain whether there was sufficient cause for particular inquiry, and for exposing an officer of rank to the trouble and dis grace of a trial like the present. The person inculpated was not allowed to be present, except through the in dulgence of the Court. To the Court of Inquiry thus held he was anxious to allude, as his duty as President on that occasion had obliged him to exclude the Public Press from taking minutes of the proceedicgs—a course which, though commented severely on by some, be had the satisfaction to say, had received the sanction of superior authority. It was proper he should tell the Court that this trial would impose upon them no ordinary weight of labour and anxiety. The evidence would be very heavy, more from the number of per. sons to be examined than from the nature of the evi dence to be adduced; nothing, however, should be want ing on his part to endeavour at such a classification as would render it simple and perspicuous. It was neces sary also to say that the evidence would refer to the space of threeNvhole nights and two days of almost perpetual riot and alarm : occasional discrepancies in the evidence as to the time and subordinate circumstances must therefore occur. He, however, anticipated no difficulty in recon ciling these minor differences with the great features of the events that had taken place ; nor had he any idea that the evidence on any of the charges would be invalidated by such slight differences as might appear in the testimony of par ticular persons. It would be presumptuous in him to at tempt to tell a Court constituted as this was, that the duty of its members was to confine themselves simply to what came judicially before them, and to found their determine tion simply upon the evidence that should be adduced. That evidence it would he their duty well to weigh and consider, and in arriving at their determination, they would have to go through a long and desultory course of testi mony, which would be found by the Court a task particu larly arduous. If too that were felt so by the Court, com posed as it was of officers distinguished in rank, and of ac knowledged judgment and discretion in the service, how must it be f e l t b y the individual who bad thrown' upon him the painful duty of sustaining this prosecution ? Most ardently would he have wished that this duty had fallen upon some one more competent to its discharge than he was, and so powerful had this feeling been with hint, that he had often considered within himself whether his Majesty's service would not receive great benefit by his soliciting an exemption from the task he was then endeavouring to fulfil. He was, however, withheld from doing that by the same principle which had governed his conduct during a long professional career —namely, the principle that it was his duty not to shrink from the per formance of any duty imposed upon him by his King. He was deeply sensible, however, that through want of skill, he might fail to press home guilt upon the prisoner, and then perhaps be accessary to his escape. If that were the case, he hoped it would be attributed to a want of power on his part, and not to any lack of zeal for the ho- .) ` , ..7 I flour of the army or the service of his King. S t iehl' dulgetice as this he would expect from this Court as 0 , front the clem-ncy of his King. One circumstance' must dwell a little upon—i. e., that he came into 11 Court without the slightest tinge of prejudice or partial! towards the prisoner. This bolt had devolved upon solely on account of having presided over the Cour t Inquiry. To him Colonel Brereton had been previO' unknown ; and from the moment he had received IA Hill's command to preside, he had withdrawn his strt tion from everything which might tend to inculpate' prisoner, whether in private conversation or through' medium of the press. The Gallant General then into a long and elaborate account of the various OA with the evidence he should adduce in support o f the Time will not allow us to notice this, nor indeed bre permitted us to give more than a very brief outline of ' opening speech, which was delivered throughout in of the highest and most gentlemanly feeling. The first evidence handed in was documentary, con.., ing of 11 l e tt ers e i t h er rece i ve d b y t h e pr i soner or wr i t by him to the different authorities at the Horse Guards' They were admitted by Colonel Brereton, The Ist was a letter of th e 24th o f O c t o b er, d a t e d f ro ') 1 Horse Guards, addressed to Colonel Brereton. It anno'' I the arrival of three troops of dragoons to obey the command' the Magistrates of Bristol, and directedthe Colonel to put 1 self in communication with them. 2d. A letter from Colonel Brereton to the Quarter-Mae General of the Forces, dated 25th October, acknowledgissl ceipt, and that he was in communication with the Magistrate 3d. A copy of a letter, dated Horse Guards, 28th Oct' 1831, to Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, from Lord Fitzro/ merset, Military Secretary to Lord Hill, desiring Colonel 1 reton to report the next day if there was any disturbance 01 public peace at Bristol, and the circumstances attending disturbance. 4th. A letter from Colonel Brereton, dated Bristol, October, 1831, five o'clock, p. m., to Lord Fitzroy Some acknowledging the former letter ; and said, that by desire 01 Magistrates he brought the troops into town ; that on the proach of Sir C. Wetherell there was some hissing ; but the mob was not so great as might be expected ; that about o'clock some stones were thrown on a prisoner being take gaol, but that no rescue was effected. sth. Letter from prisoner of same date, half-past five ee l p. m., addressed to Lord Willoughby Gordon, Quarter-10 General—nearly a repetition of the f ormer l e tt er to L or d , roy Somerset. 6th. Copy of a letter from Colonel Brereton, dated 13 1 ' district, Oct. 31, IE3I, half-past 4, p. m., addressed to 1 - Fitzroy Somerset. It stated in continuation, that about o'clock the Mayor again called for the assistance of the 0 0 and that they arrived time enough to save the Mansion-h' from being burned; that the mob afterwards became fur'' and the 14th were obliged to fire, and one man was killed. on Sunday morning the mob again assaulted, and the 14th fired, killing one, and wounding three or four more ; that it , considered advisable to remove the 14th ; expressed fear' the night would not pass over quietly, and that a strong m il' force was absolutely necessary. 7th. Letter from Colonel Brereton to Lord Fitzroy Some dated Bristol, 31st of October, 1831, stating, that after hi , letter the mob went to the work of devastation without military being able to resist, and there being in fact no' force. It then gave a list of the fires ; stated that the 14th' ordered again in ; another troop on the march from Glouce and part of the Bedminster yeomanry, had joined ; that Cal' Codrington's troop had come in about twelve o'clock the before, but not finding a Magistrate on the spot, they marched back again. Bth. A letter from Colonel Brereton to Lord Fitzroy S° s set, dated Bristol, Ist of November, 1831, with an en cle - signed "T. Pearson, Major-General," addressed nIY Colonel," and presumed to mean Lieutenant-Colonel Brer o The letter said that the removal of the 14th Dragoens ws on his own opinion merely. The enclosure was to the e • that he did not hesitate to say the continuance of that force would have endangered the safety of the small boa' troops, from the fury of the countless thousands of the citi , and would also have made the loss of private property ge l' that it unfortunately was. 9th. A letter from Colonel Brereton, dated Bristol, 1 4 °' 1831, to the Deputy.Adjutant-General, acknowledged the ceipt of a letter of the day before, stating that he had all himself of the recruiting service, GO in number, and 64 I sioners, who were stationed in the ruins of the city gaol. 10th. A copy of a letter from Lord Fitzroy Somerse t Colonel Brereton, dated Horse Guards, October 31, 1831, ing receipt of prisoner's letters of the 29th and 30th of Oct° which were laid before Lord Melbourne, who ordered 0 cession of force. Lord Melbourne would not, without fuel evidence before him, observe further than that the remo'' two thirds of the small force at his disposal appeared highly prudent. 11th. A letter from Colonel Brereton to Lord Fitzroy S$ set, dated Bristol, Nov. 3, 1831 : it was in answer to that graph relating to Lord Melbourne's disapproval of sending', the 14th Dr agoons. I t went to defend t h e l i ne of condi'', pursued, stating that his situation was unenviable, as hells , an inadequate force, and no aid whatever from the magise , Mr. Serjeant Ludlow, the town-clerk of Bristol, then called and examined on the first charge only, AI was read. Question —You are, I believe, the town-clerk of the of Bristol ? Answer—l am. Were you personally known to Lieutenant-Colonel Br ton previously to the 29th of October last ?—Not at 1, Were you at the Mansion-house on Saturday e ve the 28th of October last ?—I was there from twelve o'e; at noon, till after twelve at night. Was there a riotous and tumultuous assembly in the mediate vicinity of the Mansion-house that evenilll There was an assembly, and, in my opinion, riotous tumultuous. Were the troops called out on that occasion, and whom w ere t h ey commanded ? , They were called and I pres ume , th ey were commanded by C o l one l Bret, 'Was Was pr oc l amat i on made on that occasion, as require' the Riot A c t ?--I believe it was; b ut cannot pos e swear to the fact. Did you hear, or do you know of any orders that given upon that occasion to Lieutenant-Colonel Brete; for repelli ng t h e tumult and dispersing the rioters ? know that orders were given ; but I think it woo' better if I were to state the facts as they occurred 0 , time. I k now that orders were given to Lieute! Colonel Brereton at the Mansion-house, upon his strf' to clear the streets, to disperse the mob, and get the quiet as soon as he could. Were the rioters promptly and effectually disperse compliance with the orders for that purpose then $ to Lieut.-Colonel Brereton ?—ln my opinion 00 promptly and effectually as they might and ough' have been. For how long a period did riot or tumult, or diet: ance, continue, after Lieut.-Colonel Brereton was ore to disperse the rioters? —That state continued from to time, until after twelve o'clock, when I left the 1". lion-house. • Be pleased to relate to the Court any further ;nil tion y ou p ossess, arising from your personal knowl touching the conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Brereton, on (I night, with reference to the charge now under conar, t' tion ?—When Colonel Brereton and the troops eat? '" the Mansion -house door, the people on the outside engaged in battering the front door. They had bat ° in one of the windows on the ground-floor, an d soli them had entered into the dining-room. The imme: effect of the arrival of the troops was to remove them' the front of the Mansion-house, but they did not 4 , draw far. I repeatedly noticed that after the people withdrawn from the streets, while the soldiers were f ing, they returned again to the front and very door of Mansion-house immediately after the troops bad pal A great many a t ones were t h rown at the windows, and indications of tumult and violence did not app e ar te to decrease materially. Colonel Brereton oceasict went down stairs, and returned. He said they (the people) appeared to be very good hurne° and he had no doubt he could walk them by merely walking the horses about. Just before occasions two of the soldiers of the 14th bad been bro i in wounded, one of them very seriously. I asked Cci i j Brereton on one of these occasions if he thought were symptoms of the good humour of the peopl e ow,- doors. I said also that the mob appeared increasing 11 _, than lesseni ng , an d certainly intimated to him that it w; be desirable to get the city quiet at that time at 01 " Cannot tell exactly what Colonel Brereton's answers tr, but the effect of them w as t o i n d uce me to as k him wile, .' he had any secret instructions from the War-offiee- Horse Guards, to prevent him from attending to the'" • rections of the Magistrates. He said, my direction °. to attend to the order of the Magistrates. I then said!, Mayo r an d severa l M ag i strates being in the dining-5 " Your directions are immediately to clear the 90 and get th e c i ty qu i et as soon as you can, " or words to , effect certainly. S ome sort o f cava l ry movement i made by the troops into the interior of the square le, the people had co ll ec t e d. Th at was ra i led off, and troops went in and drove them out, and after that l people went into the courts in front of the houses. also again occasionally came in front of the Mane' house, and conti nue d i n part t h e same sort of coo p which prevailed in the early part of the evening. short, they were not effectually dispersed. Late io evening, probably eleven o'clock, an officer, I believe e, 4th Drag oons , came i nto t h e Mansion-house. Ca,: Brereton was in the room at the time. The officer s ti that his troops were receiving considerabl e annoyane l one of the stieets near the Mansion 'house, the situate which he described. He said the lamps had been put: that it was quite dark, and the people, when fullowe i the soldiers, retreated into some boats or barges co were lying in the river, from which they annoyed, - troops, where of course they could not follow. BC ~, '~~..= NA ar.