The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-06 00:00:00

doors, and refuse to allow their houses to
be used as fortes for the defence of the city
against the Prince's forces. The Prince,
however, instead of advancing, commenced to
retreat; his troops yielded up several of the
barricades they possessed, and retired behind
the trees of the Boulevards. Their cowardice
is inconceivable to men who have not witnessed
it. I saw six persons drive a company of Dutch
• from a barricade. Amongst these six were, a
gallant French youth, apparently about 16 years
of age, one of the bravest of the brave ; a Bel-
gian, who displayed the most adventurous valour
during the whole day ; and two brothers, the
eldest of whom, in 1825, obtained the double
first honours of Oxford, and the other a mem-
ber of the Jamaica Assembly. Both these bro-
thers wer# wounded, the latter slightly, but the
former very severely in several places, particularly
by a shot which, at a later period of the day, he
received through the leg at the Place Royal,
whilst leading on the Lourgeois at the Cafe
de l'Amitie, in front of the Park. He was
carried from the field by his brother and an Irish
gentleman to the next hospital ; some of the
vagabonds who were in the rear endeavouring to
rob him, He was afterwards removed from the
hospital to his hotel by the Bourgeois, and al•
most stifled with caresses. Several ladies of
Brussels have continued to visit him during the
procrastinated cure of his wounds, expressing
their gratitude to him for having come express
from Paris to defend them when many of the
leaders of the people had deserted them. Ge-
neral Van Haien called on him to express
his high approval of his conduct and that of
his brother, which last bad been his companion
in his nocturnal expeditions to surprise the
enemy in the Park, and who was introduced by
the General to the Provisionary Government as
one of two brothers who had eminently served
the cause of the people, and well deserved that
medals should be awarded them.

But these acts of bravery were at this period
of the first day almost solitary, and a general de-
Airession lowered over the city. About nine
o'clock an Aide-de-camp of the Prince, and as I
understood a Count, but whose precise title I do
not remember, appeared on horseback at a cor-
ner of a street near the Place Louvain. He
waved a white handkerchief, and called on the
Bourgeois to advance to him. They did so,
principally, the six individuals before mentioned,
who were in advance. Whilst the Aide-de-camp
was stating the message he had received, a rabble
broke in and dragged him off his horse. A t
first I considered they were showing their grati-
fication at his arrival, but I discovered they in-
tended to treat him as a prisoner, and to insult
him. The gentlemen before mentioned (Messrs.
Beaumonts) and several of the Bourgeois de-
fended him at their own imminent hazard; they
dragged off his epaulets, and tore away his
cockade ; still the gallant titan, as he was carried
through the streets, manifested no, particle of
fear, his cheek was unblanched and nu sign of
dread came over him ; occasionally his fine aris-
tocratic face was lightened by a smile of scorn
he cast on his base assailants. All that the
really brave men could do to defend him was
done at their own imminent peril. He was
guarded to a barracks, and it was stated he
would be considered as a prisoner, in retaliation
of a similar detention of one of the delegates
from Brussels. It is due to the Bourgeois
soldiers to flay, that they in no way participated
in the infliction of the insults tits brave man re-
ceived ; it was the skulking cowards who as-
sailed him, and one of them attempted to assail
him with a dagger, which was wrenched out of
his hand by one of the Messrs. 1301110411 t and
a Bourgeois. A most intolerable coward boasted
he had made the Aide-de-camp a prisoner. Ab
welt might Isaac of York have boasted of mak-
ing Ivanhoe a captive to his spear, or Wamba
the witless, that he had vanquished King
Richard with his shield of brawn. The Courier
des Pa/Js-Bas contains a dispute between two
other persons, who also each claim to have made
an officer of rank prisoner. If they allude to
the Aide-de-camp I am referring to, they have
both an equal right to the honour of his capture.
'The truth is, he came with a flag of truce, and
was detained in reprisal ; and, as far as I know,
justly detained, for I have seen the Prince's
troops more than once fire on the white flag of
the Bourgeois.
The detention of the Aide-de-ciunp gave
vi-
gour to the Prince's opponents, for a report was
speedily propagated, that the Dutch had been
beaten, and the Aide-de-camp of the Prince,
"and several officers," made prisoners. Then forth
carne the coward and the dubious man. The
revolutionary party understood well the value of
such rumours. immediately after the event of
the Prince's Aide-de-camp coming in, a consi-
derable, number of -volunteers came forward, and
proceeded with them to the Place lloyale, which
lies on the, opposite side of the Park to the Place
tie Louvain, from which last the Dutch had
been beaten, or rather had most shamefully run
away from absolute fright. Indeed, the face oh
a Dutchman was scarcely discernible during the
whole period of the extraordinary conflicts. At
the Place Royale two young Irishmen, resident
in Brussels (whose names I do not mention for
obvious reasons) distinguished themselves right
valiantly, and made repeated attempts to induce
the Bourgeois to resort to the bayonet ; but I
never saw this course adopted.
The first day of the conflict many of the
townsmen were killed and wounded, became
there was no discipline, and no small portion of
the rabble was intoxicated.

The succeeding day there was some confi-
dence, and the Provisionary. Government pub.
fished a proclamation without any signatures
In the night an expedition was organized to sur-
prise the soldiers in the Pork. 1. NSW the flour-
geois at midnight assembled in the Hotel de
Ville; but they had no stomach for the fight,
and many declared they would not go to the
butchery. The expedition did not succeed
whether rendered abortive by treason or cowardice
I know not. On Saturday all was. gloom ; it
was understood that the city was to be sur-
rendered. The lower class of the citizens were
in great distress from hunger, and 1 saw many
instances of armed Bourgeois asking bread from
the inhabitants, but they demanded nothing else.
On Sunday, the 26th, there was a continued
firing from the Bourgeois into the Park, but the
Dutch being sheltered by a deep hollow, in
which they were lying hid, could not have sus-
tained much lobs: the trees were the greatest
sufferers. Rut many of the Dutch fallen, num-
bers would have remained on the lield, or largo
yam muat have appeared, or tannerou W gg
would have been seen conve Lit' thes "8
Nolte of these tircurradaaappAY took. niae4l4:lle."--;
fore but few must have been kio, I,` 0 e*
Clay, the 27th, when the Park wilts 11
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have been more, but. I veal., ut wl,aL kit
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walked through the whole Park; boiw' t141;t".0

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