The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-03 00:00:00

MR. DYCE SOMBRE.

TO Tin BDITOII OP OALIONANI'II 31111111ENOP.a.
8114—Having in vain tried the advice of the Lord
chgecolior, which he gave in the judgment in my
case on tho 20th of April last, wherein his lordship
strongly urges me, by raying, " I strongly recom-
mended Mr. Vyce Sombre in future to act only under
the advice of proper professional advisers," adding,
" that I could not be in better hands than in those of
the gentlemen who then served me," those being
the barristers and the solicitor who have so in-
humanely treated me; but, being pushed to fo:low
the Lord Chancellor's advice, I have continued employ-
ing them, and the probabilities are that I snail still
be obliged to keep the same professions.' gentlemen
until I am fairly out of chancery. But to give to
the public a specimen of the English Chancery Court,
I have only to lay before the readers the following
letters written by the solicitor, and my appeal to tte
lord chancellor, which, for the sake of being listened
to,as I thought I would have been, I had sent through
the president of the Board of Control ; but sorry am
I to say that it has had the same result as my former
letters direct to the lord chancellor have been
treated with, and about which his lord-hip in his
1 said judgment has remarked, that he "never read
them." The perusal of these letters will prove, how-
ever-1. That I have been obliged to employ the
same professional men who had the managem-nt of
my affairs last April, and that too by the advice of the
lord chancellor ; otherwise they have told falsehoods
in my case. A pamphlet of these exposures, how-
ever, is all ready for the public-2. That the solicitor
has kept me off from time to time in not letting my-
self be examined for some time pas', and, when the
Chancery Court has opened its sittings, he has de-
manded of me fresh sums which has been settled ac
cording to agreement between myself and Mr. A. S.
Mahon on his behalf.-3. It will go further to prove
that, whether I write to the Lord Chancellor direct,
I or through an official channel, I have so hearing in
his court excepting through professional men, who
make a job of the affair, and how I shall ever be out
of chancery in this manner, which has moreover de-
baled itself of bee under the pleaof lunacy, in lending
itself to melee out a natural daughter of my fattier •
out of a mistress of his, to be a full sister, upon
the hopes that, as a lunatic, my will will
be invalid, and, in case of my death, she would be-
come a co-heiress to my vast property. Your giving
publication to these letters in your valuable journal
will greatly oblige, sir, your obedient servant,
D. 0. DYCE SOMBRE.
Paris, 31st Dnember.
Gray's-inn, May 4, 1819.
Dear Sir,—l am favoured with your letter of the
Ist inst., applying to me to petition the Lord Chan-
cellor to allow you to come to England fur cleamiert-
tion, and requesting some more copies of affidavits,
&0., to be sent to you. Now, I do not think it
would be prudent so immediately after the Lord
Chancellor has, upon mature consideration, dis-
missed your last petition, for you to present
another petition for examination ; it would
hardly be respectful to his lordship, and I
cannot but think that so untimed a measure would be
productive only of farther disappointment, and injure
you in his lordship's estimation. For these reasons,
do allow me to intreat that, for the present, no fur-
ther petition may be brought under the Lord Chan-
cellor's consideration. lam quite co:ifident that nei-
ther Mr. —, nor either of your other counsel, would
approve of so hazardous a measure. Some time hence,
it may, and I sincerely trust will, be resorted to with
complete succm ; only live quietly for a few mo•iths,
and we shall all be glad to give our best support to
another application uu your behalf to the Lord Caen-
cellor. I will look out the papers you requite, and
transmit them to you as soon as pos-ible. And I re-
main, dear sir, very faithfully yours, &c.
Cslonel Dyce Sombre, &c.

G:ay's Inn, Nov. t, 1819.
Dear Sir,—l have duly received your favour of the
28th of Oztober, and have communicated its contents
to Nlesers. --. The necessary petition to the lord
chancellor shall be pr.•pared kr your signature with
u little delay as possible, and when approved of by
counsel shall be transmitod to you. It may, perhaps,
be necessary that one or two affidavits should be made
to go with the petition to hie lordship ; and, it so,
when I seed the petition to you, I will instruct you
acoordingly.—l remain, dear sir, very faithfully
yours, &c.

D. 0. Dyne Sombre, Esq.
Gray's Inn, N 17,180.
Dear Sir,—Your favour of the 15th inst. reached
me too late yest, rday to enable me by that post to com-
ply with your re qui s t, and send toyou a duplicate of my
former letter addressed to the eare of Messrs. de
Rothschild, and therefore transmit it by this post. At
the same time, I think it right to inform you that my
outlay of money, on account of the petition of
January last, was unavoidably very considerable. In
fact, I find that my expenditure upon that occasion,
in fees to counsel, office copies of affidavits, and other
necessary heavy p Ins:usts, "without taking into
con- ideration the time and labour occupied in
managing the business," much exceeded 250:., and I
therefore feel obliged, before I embark in any farther
expense relating to these affair', to request the
favour of your remitting to me, by an order
on Mr. Larkins, or in &me other way, a sum
on account, not Iss than 230!., and then
the proposed petition shall be forthwith settled by
counsel, and sent for your signature, preciously to its
being presented to the Lord Chancell.,r. In order
that you may be perfectly satisfied of the truth of
what I now ist.te, 1 could wish that, for your greater
satisfaction, you would get some friet.o, or other per-
son, to call here and inspect my disbursement book,
containing moat of the payments as to these matters,
and then be guided, as well by my assertion as by his
report, upon such inspection. lam sorry to be under
the necessity of making this application, but the ur-
gency of the case impels me to make it, and, such
heir g the fact, you will, I hope, not hesitate to give it
your early and favourable attention. And I remain,
dear sir, very faithfully yours, etc.
D. 0. Dyne Sombre, Esq.
My Lord,—l have waled until now to see the re-
sult of my communications with Mr. —, who your
lordship suggested that I should employ as my man
of busir.ess, observing, " that I could not be in better
hands than his." but I am sorry to observe that on my
applyii.g to him to petition your lord-hip for another
examination, and 1 trust a final one, 1 received the
accompanying letter.a copy of which I herewith enclose
for your lordshi?'s perusal. Trusting your for ship
will point out the way how I am to he represented in
your lordship's court, as the solicitor 'till dem• da
payment from me, when award of more than 2,0001.
has been made against me in favour of Mr. Mahon for
settling these bills.
I have the honour, e'c.,
D. 0. DICE SOMBRE.
To the Right Hon. Lord Cnancellor, etc.
Sir,—l think it my duty to bring bef .re you, as
president of the Board of Control, my case for the
Lord Chancellor's act ration, as I have no ether way
felt now to receive "chess. I inchwe a letter for his
lordsbi which 1 beg may he officially forwarded,
sod an answer urged upon. I would not have trou-
bled you if I had nny other source of communication
with his lordship left open to me.
I have the honour, etc.,

THE lONIAN ISLANDS UNDER SIR H. WARD
THREE HUNDRED PERSONS FLOGGED. •

TO THE EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS.

corroboration necessary of the
undeniableSnti—W Sts,—Were
coy
statements in the Athena, Greek newt.
paper, respecting the atrocities perpetrated oz the
unfortunate Cephalonians by the British force, under
the direction of Sir H. Ward, it would be found in the
rem nt arrivals from the lonian Islands. The t,
phl-
lonians, having recovered from the prostratim of
terror, are making known throughout the world the
wrongs and the tortures which they have suffered.
Of the painful details which have just reached
us in the Altai and Patric, first let me make
known the abominable fact that the punishment
of flogging was inflicted on not less than
three hundred individuals ! and such has been
the effect of this hitherto unknown, barbarous, sa.
vage, and disgraceful punishment on the C phalo.
niaus, that the greatest part of this number are said
to have expired from the subsequent effects of the
raw and bloody wounds cut de ply into their backs
by the leather thongs armed with lead which c anti.
tute the military cat-o'-nine-teils! The horror, the
indignation with which I write this is shared by ell
loniane, by every Greek, whose manly cherec.er and
nobility of race is degraded by the application of a
slavish punishment to his brethren, and by the whole
of eastern and of western Europe, where not even the
sufferings of Hungary or the wrongs of Italy can
afford a parallel. And this, sir, is the protection of
England! this the guardianship of British liberty,
under the authority and in the presence of the per.
sonal represents'ive of her Majesty Queen Vietorra!
To say that there have been twenty-ore military
executions, is to say to all those who have had the un-
fortunate experience of such catastrophe., that there
have been at 1• ast a dozen murders ; and, from all
hear, this observation has not been contradicted in
Cephalonia. Hute and indignation, hot blood and
ignorance of language, gestures and passions were
the prevailing causes of these numerous condemna-
tions. What! out of a population of 70,(100—in
riot purely local —mrnflned to one district—where ail
the surrounding neighbourhood to a fala (for now
that is proved) rose against the ri.,t,es, where rot
ooe soldier is reported killed, and the whole origins.
list of atrocities now circumscribes i,sr If to a mu-der-
GU. onslaught on one family, for brigandage, revenge,
and private melice—what !in this surliest " hundred"
as it were of so small an island, to el eye not by judgme, •
of tie regular civil tribunals, but by mertie-lax,
in cold Flood, twer.ty-one p ysens! 'While frt. all
Hui gary, with seven millions in revelt, with ferne,y
fends fatally terminating in bloody revenge on every
bide, Marshal Haynau has not put to death in err
than twelve individuals by trial or by martial law, h:.l
for this is execrat• d throughout the hab.•abl.•
What! I say shall England—or, rather, chat:
authority—have hung and shot twenty-ore, and 1141,-
dered (tn flog on the back in the East it to flirt!. r,
scores by the lash, and shall no inquiry enure, ro .•..
dignation be roused, no execration be burled %cid, et
the perpetrator of these horrible acts! Forbid
justice ! forbid it the honour of the British name'
It is the boast of the present century to have rr.•.-
gated the horrors of war when falling upon the i•
nocent. The ravages of Tilly, the Dragonadr, ;
. .

Papenheim, the fierce forays Of
no longer be to:ereed in civilised Europa. Its

Society, if it cannot restrain the comb iten'i, w.
least see that they fight not like devile,, but 1...
creatures. The swold of justice also with a.v
ing civilisation is no longer wielded to reve,
but to restrain. B.et the vanity of power, and
wildness of uncontrolled will, which from

downwards has inflamed so many
with madness, have named Sir If

to 'foliate the atrocities of savage war!are at.

erutliee of a rer.nge'ul polite a judge. s,
fled with the bloody wounds cf the tligged—rt
. .

fled with the deith of ell who were tried,

Ward proceeds to vengeance agaitAt ire.n•i~:r
ter—the blind vengeance of an angry child or ar.
sensate savage. He pulled down the dwel

of his victime—ot the suspected, who were :n a:!
every case of the iiin..ctut,—and in the spirit :
pant destruction carried away the N.( ry 6W:A s
distance. Tee staple of the lonian Island.. a-

know, Mr. Editor, is olives and currar.•s.
take many yrars befure the tries re r—o!' th
trees have been cut down ; of the lattLr the

'ions uprooted : wh le the wo.:ds, so itupoma
fuel in a country which Las no coal. E
shared the general destruction. The I a--
of the soldiery let loose, hare had t'
. .

sult I dreaded to anticipate—ntuntrotts are OA
rages that have been committed, nor has the have

chc;racter of the priesthood pro:m4d its pmisessor.
I find mention made of one, whose house havirg.

broken open, and his wine casks raved b-. -

. •
soldiery, was afterwards tied to a cr,s* a., a pa:
meat fir " aliowing them to get drunk !'' 0: h..

furniture, Tietnal, tindstock"n-s'gtedta the tia

the catalogue is startling : of family distress, the ,!e
tails are long and painful. In ere village (TroT
three persons (all. ged to hive been quite innocer.•
were treacherously shot, ai,d seven othe:s of the sum.
village flogged; in both instances without trial ore
amination. Iu another village tStmos) two •ne•
were brought out, and expos-d to all the terrors
actual death, the rode having been tied on their nt..li•
and at ths moment of dropping being rel.:Abed ::Jr.,
dead than alive; their crime was, b.cause ti.er
not inform the authorities who of their neighb.

were in possession of arms.
Such is the blind and brutal vengeance of a lir'
Lord High CJmmissioner—of ?Fr. Ward, t'
Nl.l'. for Sheffield! Are we then to seek
the causes of such conduct in the individual me

organiration of the Lord High Cos-roirsioner,

h; constitution of the country which gsr

the power of unrestrained acd arbitrarT irceeed:;;.:
In what I have said above, Mr. Editor, I tr.:•
have shown additional cause for the appointnac

commission of inquiry in the next. session
House of Commons. What has been already i.:rx
to the Cingelese (your colonists) tittle!. Lord Toi:

ton will, 1— doubt—not—squally sntlicient wrong, t.v-
ing been now shown—be concedid to us (an ts.:L-
pendent nation) under Sir H. Ward, and lt: -.•'.

! justice and humanity ultimately vindicated
I scandal cast upon them by the present Loid ;.
Commissioner of the lonisn Islands.

I have the honour t," be your obedient eervaat.
AN lONIAN

Erechtheum Club, S. Jame:a-square,
Jan. 1, 18:10,

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH BETWEEN FDANit: :
EN ..LAND.—The concession signed by Loan Napoleen
the Minister of the Interior, )l. Bemire, granting b.) ••r•-
.1. Brett, Tech., and Co the tight to establish an t.ser..
telegraph line between tisane and Ragland, by • cub in.ir
communication across the Channel, arrived in oar.
Monday. Tee company propose to establish, by nt.a.
the electric telegraph, au instant communication bet*••••
the two countries. The patentee that tete ••••
graph shall, by the aid of a single wire and of two p, •. •
only (the one stationed in France and the other in Ei
be capable of panting, in clear Roman type (on p per . • '
messages of 15 words each, including addresses and
tures, all ready for delivery in one hundred coute:...:
winutee.—Meadard.
FRENCH AWAzows.—An ens. tote among the !a•••
sex inhabiting the commune de Forest. between Lanai,: •
and Odeon okvesnea), tails place on Sunday last, in c.rm•
quince of the intended removal of the cur of the plat,
had endeared I imself to the inhabitants by his kinebo.e
during the late visitation of the sholers. Tine moment .
was knowa that his furniture was being removed.
_ females in the commune assembled, took forcible po,soeen
of the furniture, and replaced it in the house. declaring It
hi,
DEPARTURES Ptm TIIE GOLD REOWNS.—Tbe they would have no other cure than It. Bablere,
who h'-`
great event of yesterday was the departure of the splendid previotudy left the place, taking with him nothing hut has
steamer. Ohio and Crescent City, having on hoard nearly a surplice tad his breviery. On the evening of the I.:intaheit
ta°usand passenger. for the o°'• world of the west. The the new cute arrived, the tumult recommenced with •••.•
flattering accounts of order, freedom, oi prosperity in golden creased violence; the presbytery was bar. leaded, and an e•'••
California, brought by retain eassengers iu the Empire tranai refused to the pastor, who was obliged to let: rt
Ci,y, and confirmed by the well-informed correspondents of asylum at the bout. of the mayor ; sad ss hen he
the Tribune, who write from the very scenes of Ins marvels •o Sunday attempted to enter the church, Pet'
themselves, but added fresh fuel to the burning desire to visit form mise, the passage was &lifftleted, end
the modern El Dorado. end every one who could get e. I was compelled to retire. The whole co Monday Me
Meridiem place aboard rather ship made 'maw to depart. Ric commune continued in a state of great agitation. .ut•i no ser-
IWOWd assembled at either place sus tremendous, and as vice could be performed on Christmas day. The immigrant?,
to noble ships %lowly moved from 'their moorings, of Lenin air were ordered ta the not, but were unable ,o
cant after shout from ten thousand throat., and snow restore order, and confined themselves to drawiu up aP'
storms of waving handkerchiefs, eignalistd their ib.parture. verbal, and forwareing it to the authorities. Limit e
A solitary gun bellowed the last fiery farewell, acid a thou. meat prevailed in the Rue de la Huy. early on 8.• Lurk(
stead Californians were 'training their eyes to watch the morning, by pieces of furniture, crockery, sheets. I,laniets.
slow and woo dispersion of friends whose memories will etc., being thrown from a window on the fifth On
never cease to cheer their tutore year, of toil 141.1 privation going to the Twin, the landlord to his great si.rpfse found
in the great battle of lite. Of those on board the great lying on the Moor and bawling hisilY, a young man histeno
majority are young men, whose Yankee toergy will make in a sheet. All the neighbours hastened to the spot. Inttlt
thew valuable and active membere of society in whatever was some time before any explanation of the late
lend they may locate. They are, mainly, in the very beet nary affair could be given. It at leurr.h. &eared that the
and most eatable class of citizens, and their lons will be young man, a student, had not psi'. for has furniture. 3, .3
seriously felt. Oud ape it and success to them, we 0.. y, in that the upholsterer' threateind !Ake it away ; that tE°
their new and tryinit paths of life. Ten thou-'..e.i hearts greatly exasperated his inultr.m, grisette, who resolved to
are sad 'while memory recalls the at; Ito% hype and he revenged in the moral...l[c on the u p holsterer ;an d that
youth, are strob Mg, and love undying.
to. inv the happy accordingly she c":imly, sewed her lover ti ht in a
' int,eting bb the sequel to the many vat,:ogs of yesterday, sheet, and then set to Work smash and tear eTerrIUD,...
N. Y. Tribune, Deo. 6. throw it out of the

D. 0 .DYtE SOMBRE.
To the Right Hon. the President of
the Board of Control.