The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-17 00:00:00

FRENCH l'A FEM.

PERMANENT COUNCIL OF WAR OF THE FIRST MILI-
TARY DIVISION, MARCH IL
TRIAL OF ADMIRAL LINOIS AND COLONEL ROVER.

The Council met this thy at 11 o'clock, in the Audi-
ence Hall of the First Chamber of the Assize Court, in
the Palace of Justice.

The accused being introduced, the President, Lt. Gen.
Count Lauriston said The Permanent Council of
War, specially appointed to try Ilear-Admiral Linois and
Colonel Boyer, is now ; I enjoin the audience
to keep protinnol silence ; the Judge Advocate will read
the indictment, and the documents in sllpport of the pro-
secution and the defence ; the tet of the law is laid up.
on the table."

The Judge-Advocate then proceeded to read the docu-
ments, which were very voluminous, and occupied the
Court till six in the afternoon. They show, in substance,
that on the :24th of March, the Count de la La Chatre,
Ambassador from the King of France at London, sent
orders to ,itlinind Linois to preserve Guadeloupe for the
King. On the 2d of May, Linois acknowledges the re-
ceipt of this letter, and promises fidelity to the King.
On the 18th of June, Col. Boyer, second in command,
caused the drums to beat, and the tri-coloured flag to be
hoisted at Point-a-l'etre and Basseterre, marched to the
Government-house, and gave orders to arrest the princi-
pal Members of the colonial Government, intending to
take the Government o•n himself, and to supersede Linois,
unless the latter should join. Linois at first declared his
intention to resign.
On the 19th, Linois joined the revolters, and published
a Proclamation in behalf of Buonaparte, refusing the as-
sistance tendered to him by the English Admiral Dur-
ham, and Count Vaugiraud, Governor of Martinique, for
the maintenance of the King's authority.—These facts
were noticed in letters from M. De Guillermy, Intend-
ant of Guadeloupe, addressed to Count De Blacas and
other Ministers, far the King's information.
For the prisoners, it was alledged in defence, that they
were loyal and well-disposed towards the King ; but
were drawn away by the irresistible impulse of the peo-
ple of the colony, and the soldiery of thu garrison, who
had been inflamed by the arrival of the advice-boat
L'Agile, bearing the tri.coloured flag, and the intelli-
gence of Buonaparte's triumphal entrance into Paris, and
the universal recognition of his authority throughout
France ; the retreat of the King•. his dismissal of his at-
tendants, and other indications of his having abandoned
his Throne and Kingdom altogether. The vessel beat-
ing this intelligence had been taken or stopped by the
English cruisers in the West Indies ; but subsequently,
by a fatal indulence, allowed to proceed to her destina-
tion, where the intelligence brought by her produced the
calamitous effects to which Linois and Boyer- were
obliged to submit. The offers of assistance from Admi-
ral Durham and Sir John Leith were refused, he..ituse
the inhabitants were extremely hostile to the English ;
and Count Illacas had sent special instructions not to ad-
mit any fresh threes whatsoever into the colony without
express orders firom the King, with the Countersign of.
Blacas D'Aulps.
The Captain of L'Aglve deposed, that, being chased,
by two English shim he delivered to a fisherman two
letters for Admiral Linois : he is sure they arrived safe.
14c was shortly after detained by a frigate, and taken to
Admiral Durham, at the Saintes, who 'inhibited ail cow.
munieation between him and the land, and obliged Met
to give up his dispatches. They were conducting hint
Martinique, when the Admiral gave orders to release
'tim. He made sail for Guadeloupe, where he arrived
-,a the 15th. Governor Linois, seeing his tri-coloured
'ockade, re.'eivod hilt badly, and parted from him sale.
uptly, without opening his dispatches. Shortly after
set Ofllcer came and oonducted him on board his vue,l,

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