The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-01 00:00:00

EN OLISF,

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Duke of WELLINGTON had an audience of the
Km on Wednesday, at the Palace at Brighton. His
Grace had the honour of dining with their MAJXSTIES
and the Royal party in the Palace in the evening. The
Noble Duke left Brighton yesterday morning, on his re-
turn to town.

Colonel BENTINCE arrived at the Foreign-office about
four o'clock yesterday afternoon, front Brussels, with
despatches for the Earl of ABERDEEN.
The Duke of WELLINGTON gave a grand dinner last
evening at Apsley-house, Piccadilly, to Prince TALLEY-
RAND, the Ambassador from the King of the FRENCH.
There were present to meet his Excellency the Earls of
Rossl.YN and ABERDEEN, Viscount BERESFORD, Lord
ELLENHOROIIOII, Sir GEORGE MURRAY, the CHANCEL..
LOR or the EXCHEQUER, Mr. HERMES, and Lord FITE.
ROY SOMERSET.

The Ambassador from the Netherlands, the Earl of
ABERDEEN, and Viscount BERESEOR,D, had interviews
with the Duke of WELLINGTON yesterday afternoon, after
the arrival of his Grace from Brighton.
The Spanish Minister and Viscount STNANGEGED tran-
sacted business yester lay afternoon at the Foreign Office.
Monsieur FaLcs:, the Ambassador from the Nether-
lands, and Monsieur OE NIEUAIANN of the Austrian Em-
bassy, had interviews with the Earl of ABICRDICEN on
Wednesday, at the Foreign Office.

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

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As soon as the sun rose, the Peruvian' camp
NU all in motion. Atahualpa wished to dazzle
he strangers by an imposing display of pomp
Ind magnificence. Pizarro, on the other hand,
keeping in his eye the success of Cortez and the
rate of Montezuma, resolved to decide at once
the destiny of Peru, by seizing the person of its
Monarch. A great part of the day was con-
sumed by Atahualpa in preparations to heighten
the splendour of his appearance. At length the
procession was seen approaching by the Spaniards
when their patience was nearly exhausted by
delay. Four harbingers, clothed in uniform,
marched in fremt, to clear the way before the
inca. Next came the Prince himself; borne on a
throne, and covered with plumes of feathers and
ornaments of gold and silver. Some of his
chief courtiers followed in similar state. Bentis
of singers and dancers hovered round the Royal
train ; while troops, amounting, it is said, to
thirty thousand men, accompanied the pageant.
The Spaniards, drawn up in order of battle,
awaited in silence the approach of the Peruvian
procession. When the inca was near .enough
to be addressed, father Valverde, the chaplain to
the expedition, stepped forward and delivered a
speech, in which the most mysterious doctrines
of religion were mixed with the most unwar-
rantable assumptions of political powers, and in
which he exhorted the Peruvian Monarch to
embrace the Christian faith, and to acknowledge
himself the vassal of the king of Spain. This
harangue, of which all that was not unintelligible
was highly offensive, drew from the inca, who
appears not to have apprehended any danger
from the handful of Spaniards whom he saw
before him, a firm and contemptuous reply. The
signal of attack was immediately given. Pizarro,
with a chosen band, rushed forward to seize tls
inca ; and, notwithstanding the zeal with which
the Peruvians sought to defend the person of
their Monarch, the unfortunate Atahualpa was
carried off a prisoner. An immense booty was
found on the field ; and this single stroke of
fortune seemed at once to justify the hopes of
the most ardent imaginations.—Dr. Lardner's
Cabinet Cyclopcedia, Vol. XI.

COUNT GERARD, THE PRESENT
FRENCII MINISTER OF WAR.

This able officer was born in Lorraine, in
1774. He served the early campaigns of
the French Revolution, as Aid-dc.Camp to Ge-
neral Bernadotte, now King of Sweden, and
reached, through his extraordinary valour, the
rank of Brigadier-General, during the Prussian
campaign, in 180 G.
Very soon after this he was made Commander.'
of the Legion of Honour, and placed at the head
of the stafrof the French army in Denmark. Itt.,
1808 he obtained the Danish Order of Danne'
berg. In the campaign of 1809 he distin
guished himself at the combat of Urfar, in frOnt:
of the bridge of Lintz, and particularly at the.
battle of Wagram, in which he commanded the
Saxon Cavalry. His conduct in 1812, at the
battles of Valentina and Moskwa, anti, indeed,
on every occasion, induced Napoleon, who was.
considered the best judge of real military
merit, to give him the command of the division
of General Gudin, who had been killed. At
Frankfort on the Oder, General Gerard,
with a small body of troops, defeated 2,000
Russian cavalry, which attempted fO."' inter-
cept his passage to Berlin. In the 'ciirtipaign
of 1814 he gained reputation at
at Nargis, and especially at Moutereau;;ai which
latter place he took 5,000 Austrians prisoners.
After the restoration of Louis XVIII. Gerard
was sent to Hamburg, on a special mission, to
bring back the French troops, and on his rettnin
to Paris was made a Knight of St. Louis,' litid
received the grand cordon of the Legion of Ho..
nour. When Napoleon returned from Elba,'
and re-ascended the throne, Gerard remained
true to his former master, who appointed him „.
General-in-Chief of the army of the Moselle,
and at the head of that army Gerard carried i4lie
position and village of Ligny, near Gemappcs,
on the 16th of June, 1815, and contributed'
greatly to the defeat of the PrussiatAleneral,
Prince Blucher. His corps next formed a part of
the army of Grouchy, which he manamvred on the
Dyle during the battle of Waterloo, for the purpose"
of preventing a junction between the Prussiaa
troops under Blucher, and the British under the
Duke of Wellington, and in this service he was
wounded. On the retreat of Napoleon he re-
turned to his country seat in France. On the
restoration of the Bourbons, Count Gerard re-
tnained tranquil until the Royal Ortionnanee of
November 12, when the Chamber of Peers were
directed to try the unfortunate Marshal Ney,
Prince of Moskwa, who was executed on the
morning of the 7th December, in his 47th year.
Gerard was so completely overcame at such in-
human conduct on the part of a monarch to-
wards one of his old comrades in arms, who by
the law of nations and of honour was included
in the amnesty, that he wrote a violent pamphlet,
and held up to public meow the eofd-heatted
part which lie stated the Duke of Wellington to
have played in that unfortunate affair, after pro-
mising his interference to the widow of the

valoro—us and most persecuted victim of political
vengeance, whom he allowed to be shot, not-
withstanding hor heartrending supplications,
prostrated upon her knees below him with her
two orphan children. Since then Count Omni
had never been employed by the Bourbons, and
lived in retirement with his wife, the daughter
of the Count de Valence, whom he married
1806.

On the late Ordonnance being isaued by the
infatuated Ex-King, Charles X., and the glori-
oils days of the 27th, 28th, and 29th of July,
which restored liberty to France and caused the
tri-coloured flag once more to wave in his native
country, the one that he had fought under in
his earliest days, Count Gerard immediately
took the oath of allegiance to the Citizen King,
Louis Philippe L, anti, at the suggestion of his
old friend and comrade in arms, the Marquis de
La layette, this Monarch, who well knows how
to appreciate valour and talent, appointed him as
Minister of War, in which situation no doubt
he will do his duty to his Sovereign and restored
country.

Although General Gerard bore the greatest
enmity towards the British nation, in come-
(pence oldie conduct of the Duke of Welling.
ton, it is said that, since the recent events anti
the liberal manner this country has shown itself,
by his Majesty receiving General Baudra►►el (who was sent over here by Philip I.) i►► such
an affable manner, that on his return it caused
that feeling which, no doubt, will be the meant
of promoting more and more the mutual inter-
course between two of the first nations in the
world,