The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-18 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

PERMANENT COUNT IT. (H WAR OF THE FIRST MILI-
TARY DIVISION. A/ %RCN 6.
TRIAL OF ADMIRAL LINOIS AND COLONEL DOVER.

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

The accused hein!, introduced, the President, Lt. Gen.
Count Lauriston said—" The Permanent Council of
War, specially appointed to try Rear-Admiral Limos and
Colonel Boyer, is now assembled ; I enjoin the audience
to keep profound silence; the Judge AdvJcate will read
the indictment, and the documents in support of the pro-
secution and the defence ; the text of the law is laid up-
on the table."

The al nklKe-Advocate then proceeded to read the docu-
ments, wEich wt re 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 Admiral Linois to preserve Goudaloupe fim the
King. On the 2d of May, Liuois 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-Petre and Basseterre, marched to the
Government-house, and gave orders to arrest the princi-
pal Members of the colonial Government, intending to
tale the Government on himself, and to supersede Linois,
unlee the latter should juin. 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 Vangimud, Governor of Martinique, fn
the maintenance of the King's authority.—These &cot
were notiiied in letters from M. De Guillermo, Intend-
ant of Guatialoupe, addressed to Count De Maces and
other Ministers, tbr the Kings 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 the garrison, who
had been inflamed by the arrival of the advice-boat
L'Agile, beating the tri-coloured flag, and the intelli-
gence of nuommarte'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 bear-
ing this intelligence had been taken or stopped by the
English cruizers in the West Indies ; but subsequently,
by a fittal indulgence, allowed to proceed to her destina-
tion, where the intelligence brought by her pnaluved the
calamitous effects to which Linois and Rover were
obliged to submit. The offers of assistance from Admi-
ral Durham and Sir John Leith were refused, because
the inhabitants were extremely hostile to the English ;
and Count 'Hams had sent special instructions not to ad-
mit any fresh threes whatsoever into the colony without
express orders from the King, with the countersign of
Maras D'Aulps.
The Captain of L'Agive deposed, that, Leing chased,
by two English ships, he delivered to a fisherman two
letters Jim Admiral Linois : he is sure they arrived sate.
lie was shortly after detained by a frig-Ae, and taken to
Admiral Durham, at the Stintes, who prehibited all corn-
'munication between hint and the land, and obliged Lim
to give up his dispatches. They were conducting him to
Martinique, when the Admiral gave (inlets to releaao
him. He made sail for Gnadaloupe, where he arrived
on the 15th. Governor Limbs, seeing his tri-coloured
cockade, received him badly, and parted from him ab-
ruptly, without opening his dispatches. Shortly after
an Officer came and conducted hint on board his.vessel,

MARCH 18,

without losing sight of him, and gave him orders to quit
the road in two hours. He made rnil thr Martinique.
On his arrival there he was thrown into prison, with all
his crew. His twson thr going to Martinique was, that
Admiral Linois roused to give him any orders, or even
soy advice.
The instructions of M. Blacas to M. Linois were then
read, dated Ghent, April 18, desiring, " that n.) new
three shnuhl be allowed to laud at Gaadaloupe ; and that
the authority should not be resigned to any one, without
au express order from the King, countersigned Blaeas
D'Aulps.

The benefit of the King's Declaration of Amnesty
was also claimed for the prisners.
Upon these points the lawyers for the prosecution de-
scanted and disputed at great length, in continued Sit-
tii;g, till half-past six o'clock in the evening of the Bth
instant, when the farther proceedings were adjourned to
ten in the morning of the 9th.
In the Sitting of the 9th inst. M. Moreau de Joanne,
(fonnerlyAide-:.le-Comp to Gen. Ours St. Cyr, when that
(;,:need onoi Governor of Guyanne), gave an account of
the events which occurred before the I tlth of June at
Goudaloupe. It was on the Kith that an attempt was
made to hoist the tri-coloured flag on the hid of Fleur
d'Epine. In the eveninfr of tlw 17th alarming rumours
were spread respecting the public tranquility, anti the
personal safi•ty of the Admiral. In the evening he went
to Adjutant Commander Boyer, but could not see him;
but was apprised that a detachment of horse had set out
fhr Hasse Terre. M. Boyer was encamped during the
night at Beau Soleil. The population had flown to arms.
M. Boyer,—during the 18th, all was tranquil at Point-
a-Petre. In the evening only, the troubles broke out.
M. Moreau only spoke to the report ; he could not at-
tend to circumstances.—Other officers deposed to the
same effect ; and the Court adjourned.
The trial closed on the 11th day; when the Admiral
was unanimously acquittal, and set at liberty. Boyer
wits as unanimously found guilty, and sentenced to stif-
fer death ; which sentence was announced to him that
night, in the prison of the Conciergerie.
PARIS, Msncii 9.—The autograph of the testament
of Louis XV I. which was found in the national archival,
was presented to the King on Saturday, by M. Delome,
the new archivist.

The inal.,nillicent theatre of St. Charles, at Naples, has
been reduced to ashes. There was in the theatre a leaden
cistern, in which the oil far the use of the house was
kept: the wind blew a siatrk from a lamp to the interior
of the cistern, which in an instant was-converted into a
dreadful volume of flame, exhifiiting a striking resem-
blance to an eruption of Vesuvius. It is impossible to
calculate the consequences (.f the combustion, had not
prompt and efficacious means been employed to extinguish
and arrest the progress of the flames. The Austrian
troops, conummdcd by Count Nugent, who set the ex-
ample, were of e.eential service, and strenuously second-
el the exertions of the Neapolitan troops .and the infra-
bitanta. The King and Prince Leopoitk di• brayed the
greatest coolness and intrepidity 4 they remautad close to
the flamea, and dill not depart till the dewier was over.
The royal palace, very near to the place where the fire
happened, was saved, apparently by t miracle, frten total
destruction. The flames consumed every titMg, and
ashes now indicate the snot on which stood the largest
anti most beautiful theatre in Europe. The persons who
were in the building lea' time to save themselves from
the fury of the flames.
F►:a. .21.—A Society having manifested an
intention to place in a public situation a bust in
bronze of the Pope, his Holiness refused this homage,
saying', " After my death, if the people regret me."