The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-15 00:00:00

CANADA.
(From the Montreal Courier of Dee. 19.)
Colonel Prince says in his despatch, of the brigands and
pirates, twenty-one were killed, besides four who were brought
in just at the close and immediately after the engagement, all
of whom I ordered to be shot upon the spot, and which was
dole accordingly.
The greatest exertions are making in Buffalo, as well as
Detroit, in favour of the brigands, and the frontier press
abounds in the grossest misrepresentations of the affair at
Windsor.
A few arrests continue to be made in the city and neigh-
bourhood of Toronto of persons suspected of treasonable
designs.
A public meeting took place at Buffalo on the Bth instant,
for the purpose of memorializing Congress against the Neu-
trality Law of last winter, as oppressive and unconstitutional
in its enactments. It is scarcely necessary to remark that this
is a sympathising movement ; and lax and inefficient as the
proceedings of this winter have proved that same law to be,
still it appears the sympathisers have felt themselves cramped
by it in their operations, and arc, therefore, vociferous for ite
repeal. Congress will probably take quite a different view of
the case, if they have any feeling for the honour of their
country. General Brady and Colonel Worth have proved, by
their recent conduct, that, with a stricter law, they could effec-
tually msr the marauding incursions into this country that are
projected in the United States.
The Court-martial re-assembled on Monday, as we stated,
when the trial of Charles Hunt, N. P., of Napierville, was
entered upon. The case on the part of the Crown was
closed aesterday, at one o'clock. On application, the prisoner
wars allowed to Friday morning to prepare for his defence:
A few days ago letters were received from the neighbour..
hood of Caldtvell's Manor, conveying reports that the patriots
and sympatisers were mustering in large numbers along the
frontier at Champlain, Alburgh, Swanton, St. Alban's, &c. ;
and yesterday the Commander-in-Chief received intelligence
that. a very strorg force was assembled on the other side of
the line opposite Miaaisquoi Bay. After this information
reached town, Major M'Cord was sent off to Laprairie, St.
Pierre, and Charnbly, to order a portion of the troops sta-
tioned at those places to proceed in the direction of the points
where attacks are supposed to be contemplated,
We have at length something to communicate in an authen7
tic shape respecting the proceedinga, or rather- the result of
the Court-martial, as will be seen by the following, which we
borrow from Saturday's Gazette :
The sentence of the Court-martial having been submitted
to his Excellency the Administrator of the Government and
Commander of the Forces, has been approved of in general
orders issued to-day. By this sentence' Edouard Therien and
Louis Lesiege, otherwise called Louis Lesage, dit Laviolette,
have been acquitted. The remaining ten prisoners, Joseph
Narcisse Cardinal, Joseph Duquette, Joseph L'Ecuyer, Jean
Louis Hubert, Jean Marie Hubert, Levie Dueharme, other-
wise called Leandre Ducharme, Joseph Guimoed, Louis Gue-
rin dit. Dussault, otherwise called Blanc Dussault, Antoine
Cote, Francois Maurice Lapailleur, have been sentenced to
death ; six of these, whose names we have not been able to
ascertain, have been recommended for commutation of the
sentence of death, and four left for execution.
(From the Montreal Morning Courier, Dec. 21.)
We invite our readers' attention to the following reply of
his Excellency, Sir George Arthur, to an address presented
to him by the Mayor and Common Council of Toronto; having
for its object, principally, the bringing under his Excellency's
notice the extraordinary assertion in Van Burene; proclama-
tion, " that disturbances had broken out anew in different
parts of the Two Canadae."
"In answer to your inquiry, Whether any facts have come
to my knowledge, or any &reumatances have taken place in
Upper Canada which would warrant the assertion in the pro-
clamation of the President of the United E!ates, that disturb-
ances had broken out anew in diff'rent parts of the Two
Canadas?' I unhesitatingly reply that lam not aware of
any. And so much struck was I with the inaccuracy of this
allegation, that I did not fail to invite the early attention of
her Majesty's Minister at Washington to it, for the purpose
of informing the Government of the United States of the
material mistake into which the President had been
awn ; a mistake certainly of no slight importance, as
furnishing some kind of pretext, however unjustifiable that
pretext may be, for the interference of the chines of the
Union in the affairs of this province, and by consequence,
tending in some degree to lessen the enormous turpitude of
their conduct.
" I seize upon this opportunity again to urge my most anxi-
ous desire, that the spirit of forbearance which has been ob-
served by the Government throughout this tragedy may be fol-
lowed by the whole body of the people, and that whilst the
banditti that have fallen in our hands are made to answer to
the offended laws of the province, you will leave it to your
Queen and to your country to redress there great wrongs
which, I am persuaded, all Europe will assert have been done
to the peaceable inhabitants of Upper Canada, and which, it
is my conviction, the respectable citizens of the United States
must now look upon with abhorrence, and regard as a most
flagrant violation of their own constitutional principles."
(From the Montreal Herald, Dec. 15.)
We are glad to learn that Judges Bedard and Panct have
at last been suspended—not by the neck, as yet—but only
from their seats on the bench. The first-named gentleman
has taken his departure for England, for the purpose of stating
his griefs at the Colonial Office.
era ALLAN M‘Nen.—Another letter was received in town
yesterday, confirming the rumour that ill• Nab was dead.
This account states that he was shot while on his way from
Hamilton to Brantford. We have not seen the letter, but we
understand the writer speaks of having seen the corpse after it
was laid out. If the story is true, we shall probably get all
particulars connected with his death in a few days.—Rochester
Daily Advertiser.
" ASSASSINATION OF SIR ALLAN IteNAII.
" We can no longer doubt the reported death of this
notable personage. In addition to what we have already
published, two letters were received in this city yesterday ;
one by Mr. Slurnan Harris, and the other by Alderman Wood-
bury, mentioning the fact, and briefly stating the particulars
of the assassination, as we gave them yesterday morning.
M'Nab, with a few companions, were passing the dense
Grand Weer Swamp, when he was shot directly through the
temple. He fell from his horse, and, the letters say, died
instantly.
" The persons who were with him only waited to pick up
the dead body, and made off with the utmost dispatch, appre-
hensive, it is supposed, that a large force was secreted in the
deuce cedar brake from whence the fatal bullet was fired.
" Thus have two of the most prominent actors in the Ca-
roline outrage fallen by the hand of the assassin 1 What must
be the feelings of the survivors? And what the awful spirit
which excites to so terrible a revenge?
"We fear that this is but the beginning of like acts. The
conduct of the Colonial Government has been too sanguine
and bloody to calm the troubled waters of rebellion. Despe-
rate men, foiled in open attempts at revolution, are too often
driven to secret acts of revenge."
We have scarce patience to record such cowardly blood-
thirsty acts. Of the murder of Colonel M‘Nab we still en-
tertain doubts : hut, if it prove true, we answer the inquiry of
the Rochester Democrat " What must be the feelings of the
survivors !—thus, retaliation and a scene of blood, insecurity
of life and property on the American side of the lines as well
as in Upper Canada."
Under this state of things, it is not extraordinary that the
following order has been issued by Sir John Colborne :
" Head-quarters, Montreal, Dec. 16, 1838.
" GENERAL ORDER.
" The Commander of the Forces and Administrator of the
Government directs, that no person shall be permitted to pass
the frontier into the United Sates, without a passport either
from Head-quarters, Major-General Sir James M'Donell,
K. C. 8., or signed by Mr. Leelure, the superintendent of
police, and countersigned by the Town Major of Montreal.
" No person will be allowed to enter the provinces from
the United States who cannot give a satisfactory account of
himself, but his Excellency holds officers commanding corps
responsible that this duty is performed without unnecessary
annoyance, and that no person is detained except on sufficient
grounds.

"JOHN EDEN, Dep. Adjt.-General.'
The trials of the persons captured near Prescott continue at
Kingston, and of those implicated in the rebellion in Lower
Caw:a, at Montreal. If the account of the murder of Sir
Allan M'Nab should prove true, we fear there is little hope of
mercy to those who are found guilty.

ADDRESS ON TIIE CANADIANS OF FRENCH ORIGIN, RESIDING IN
THE CITY OF TORONTO, TO lIIS EXCELLENCY SIR GEORGE
ARTHUR, WITH HIS EXCELLENCY'S REPLY THERETO.
" To his Excellency Sir George Arthur, K. C.l-1, Lieutenant..
Governor of the Province of Upper Canada, &c.
" May it please your Excellency,— We, the undersigned
Canadians of French origin, now residing in the city of
Toronto and its environs, beg to assure your Excel-
lency of our devoted attachment to tl e British empire,
and of our determination to maintain its supremacy in
this Province by every means in our power. With
surprise and indignation we have beheld the people
of a neighbouring country, in the midst of profound peace.
trampling on all the usages of nations, and plundering and
murdering our unoffending fellow-subjects- This lawless con-
duct is no longer confined to a few insignificant individuals,
but seems to be shared in by the great mass of the inhabi-
tants of the American frontier counties. We, therefore,
deem it our duty to come forward as a body, and to tender
to your Excellency on behalf of our beloved Queen, our ser-
vices and our lives in vindication of our outraged rights.
" We have enjoyed the blessing of the purest freedom un-
der the British Crown, and gratitude and interest alike impel
us to take up arms in its defence.
" We repose unlimited confidence in your Excellency's ad-
ministration of this province.
" We have have deputed Raymond Babs, Esq., and Mr. Paul
l'Eveque to approach your Excellency on our behalf, and re.
spectfully to declare these our sentiments."

HIS EXCELLENCY'S REPLY.
" Gentlemen_l receive with satisfaction the address yon
have presented to me on behalf of the Canadians of French
origin residing in this city and its environs, assuring -me of
their devoted attachment to the British empire, and of their
determination to maintain. its supremacy in Upper Canada,
by every means within their power.
" This declaration of their sentiments is the more to be
appreciated, as it affords a pleasing contrast to the conduct of
a portion of the Canadians of French origin dwelling in the
fpwer Provgice ; the effects of which, as manifested in two