The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-06 00:00:00

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was ripe for revolt, and that the money and mean
in abundance to brinf, rebellion to a successful s?sti9
whereas, he had already found that there was neither one'
nor other of the latter, and more, that, so far from there
being only regular troops to contend with, that a handful
of volunteers by themselves had entirely broken and scat-
tered the rebel forces. The only mark of distinction over
his fellow prisoners he begged of Colonel Taylor was an
opportunity of writing to some of his friends in New York,
who were coming on to join him, to dissuade them from
embarking in so hopeless an enterprise. The name of the
French officer alluded to is said to be St. Martine.
(From the llfimtieal Herald, Nov. 15.)
The French officer St. Martine, whom we noticed as
one of the prisoners taken at Odeltown, has been brought
to town, and offers, if he gets his liberty, to deliver Dr.
Robert Nelson, dead or alive, to the authorities. We
very much doubt if this offer will be accepted. He states
that he has been the victim of deceit and treachery—that
he was assured of having under his command an army of
30,000 men, well equipped and brave, instead of which
he found only three or four thousand miserable wretches,
armed to be sure, but the rankest cowards he ever had
any connection with. He deserves the death of a
brigand, and we trust he will meet it. The rebels
were duped by expectations of something great being
effected from the presence of a French General, and he ex-
pected mavellous feats to be performed by men who pre-
tended they were fighting for liberty and life. They de-
ceived each other ; the only tie which bound them together.
was hatred of the British name and British Government ;
and as their objects in life were similar, let them not be
divided in death. The gallows is good enough for them,
and if sufficiently used, will prevent " sympathy" from
foreigners, as well as treason from subjects, for the future.
On Tuesday a body of about sixty rebels, under one
Malhiot, from the district of Quebec, took up a position
on the mountain behind Boucherville, at the mills belong-
ing to Theophile Bruneau, advocate, of this city, who landed
at Champlain from the States on Sunday last, in company
with tlic.t notorious scamp, Van Rensselaer. In Tuesday's
Herald, we inadvertently stated that it was Dr. Bruneau
who had done so, but we were in error, as the Doctor has
not been out of the city since the beginning of the rebellion.
His namesake, the Advocate, has boen taken prisoner by
some of the Beauharnois volunteers, and is confined in the
block-house on the Chateauguay River. Yesterday morn-
ing the rebels on the Boucherville mountain, learning from
one of their scouts that a company of the 66th Regiment
was marching in the neighbourhood, precipitately took to
flight, on Malhiot calling out "Mes braves, sauve qui petit."
They left behind them three pieces of artillery, and about
300 stand of arms.
Yesterday about twenty prisoners arrived in town from
Napierville, among whom are Benjamin Lukin, a notary,
brother to the late Mr. P. Lukin, of this city, and a young
man named Leveque, a clerk in the Sheriff's office, and son
of the late Prothonotary of this city. About a week ago,
he, along with another rebel, was about purchasing a pair
of pistols from Mr. Hall, the gunsmith, but on a friend
of ours, who happened to be present, informing Mr. Hall
who his customers were, be refused to sell them on any
terms.
The honourable reference of Sir George Arthur to, the
.justi-
officers of the United States army on the frontier, is,
fled by their character, and we have no doubt will be
doubly justified by their conduct in the Present 'exigencies.
We do not inte.id in anywise to reflect upor. them by the
comments which we have made upon our frontier relations.
In the vigour, energy, and judgment of Colonel Worth,
of
confidence ;
in particular, we repose the most ur,
and we are well assured that if t!aey were properly sus-
tained by the co•operation of the civil authorities that
there could be no ground for any apprehension of a violated
neutrality.

(From the Vergennes Vermonter.)
THE CANADIAN INSURGENTS—WHO SUP.
PLIED THEM WITH ARMS?
In succeeding columns will be found all the intelligence
we have been able to glean from the Journals respecting
the late insurrectionary movements in the Canadas. It
will be seen that the rising was general and simultaneous,
and that almost every step taken by the insurgents has
been marked by atrocities unjustifiable even if their every
complaint is well grounded and their cause never so righteous.
The insurgents were supplied with arms from the United
States arsenal in this city. Those who have marked the,
apparent anxiety of the President to preserve inviolate our
neutral obligations, will be surprised at this assertion—but
it is true.

It is doubtless remembered by most of our readers that
on the failure of the expedition to Caldwell's Manor,
by Dr. Robert Nelson, the arms, &c., in his possessh
were given up to General Wool, and by him sent to
the Champlain Arsenal. These arms and munitions
thus became, beyond all peradventure, the property of
the United States. During the summer, while the arse-
, nal was under the charge of Lieutenant J. B. Scott, a very
intelligent and active officer, suits were commenced by
individuals pretending to have given arms to the Patriots
before the last invasion of Canada from Vermont for
their recovery. The original bestowment of these arms
having been a direct and palpable violation of law, it might
have been supposed that no one would have had effrontery
enough to claim their restitution. But they were demanded,
and as Lieutenant Scott would not surrender them without
a thorough legal investigation of the matter, he was or-
dered to a post in Arkansas, and a creature named Bogart
appointed to this station in his place.
We have been told that no person not holding a com-
mission in the United States army could be lawfully placed
in command of the Arsenal ; and that, consequently, the
appointment of Bogart was illegal. However this may be,
he is unfit for the station, and wholly incompetent to the
discharge of its duties. With the mental and bodily infir-
mities of second childhood upon him, he is supported by the
public--" a Government pauper"—for his former servile
devotion to the party. We give the creature's character,
because it is possible that the arms above-mentioned were
surrendered to the Canadians in consequence of his igno-
rance of his duties, and not because the Government
wished, just before important elections, to convince the re-
fugees in the fourth Congressional district of Vermont, and
in the northern part of New York, that it was favourable
to the Patriots, and should be supported by their friends.
About four weeks ago, a fellow named Alexander Catlin,
of Burlington, known to have been a tool of the Canadian
leaders last winter, came to the Arsenal, and delivered an
order, purporting to be from " the owners," for the property
placed there last spring by General Wool. If it be asked
how the original " owners" of the property, scattered as they
are from the Superior to the Passamaquoddy, could have all
and severally given an " order" for its return at one time,
we cannot answer, and probably Mr. Bogart could not ;
but he delivered up all the arms and other property in his
possession, amounting to twelve or fourteen heavy loads,,to.
Catlin, under whose direction it was taken to Burlington,
placed in a storehouse by the Lake, and locked up. The
next morning the storehouse was empty, and in a day or two
after the arms were in the hands of the " Patriots on the
frontier.

It must be apparent to everyone that these arms be-
longed to the United States, to whom they were assigned
by Nelson and his associates, not for safe keeping till the
" Patriots" shall recommence hostilities, but as spoils to
victors. The original proprietors forfeited all right to them
when they gave them to the Canadians. if Bogart sur-
rendered them in obedience to orders from Washington,
then the Government hypocritically pretends to maintain
a neutrality, while it is secretly giving every possible as-
sistance to the insurgents. If he, from ignorance, or with
an intention to aid them, gave up the arms, the Executive
is responsible for his acts.
The Champlain arsenal, being on navigable waters, which extend into Canada, and more exposed to attack than
any other belonging to the United States, should in a
time like this be guarded, and under the command of
some one better qualified to superintend it than the dotard
who now stays at it. If the Government nnst support
its army of paupers, let it build a poorhouse in the dis-
trict of Columbia, and in it put those who are incapable. of performing the duties of the various offices which it fills
with its retainers. We do not want them in Vermont.

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