The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-14 00:00:00

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Upper Canada, district of Niagara, to wit :—Silvanus Fearns Wrig.
ley, late of the township of Dumfries, in the district of Gore, labourer,
deposed' and saith, that he Is a British subject, that he is enlisted with
Charles Duncombe, and joined him in the London district; that after
Duncombe's men were dispersed, he went with Alfred Luce, another of
Duncombe's men, down to Chippewa, and crossed the Niagara river to
join the Patriots—that he was on board the steam-boat Caroliae with
the said Alfred Luce on their way to Navy Island, at the time sh? was
captured—that he believes said Luce was killed in the engagement•—
that he understood the boat to be the property of the Patriots—that on
the same day she was captured she had taken a six-pounder to the island
from Fort Schlosser on the American shore, with provisions and other
necessaries for Mackenzie's army—that the flag they had on board was a
British flag—that deponent saw the cannon put on board—that the
cannon, as he understood, was the property of the United States—and
that when the boats approached the steamboat, a rifle was fired at them
from the steam-boat—that he then ran forward to the front of the
steam-boat, when he was made prisoner.
SILVANUS FEARN9 WRIGLEY.
The only fire-locks deponent saw on board, were muskets and rifles.

SILVANUS FEARNS WRIGLEY.
Sworn before me at Chippewa, this 30th December, 1837.

WILLIAM HAMILTON MERRIT, J. P.

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WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, Mi.

New York Papers to the ?oth ult., inclusive, have been
received by the New York Packet-ship Gladiator, which
arrived yesterday at Portsmouth, and by the Europe,
whose appearance off Liverpool was announced in the
London Evening Journals of Monday. They bring the
important intelligence, that, on the 14th ult., the insurgents
evacuated Navy Island, upon ascertaining that the Federal
Government was really in earnest respecting the observ-
AU@ of a strict neutrality. Though the island was assailed
by showers of bombs and shells from the Canada shore the
insurgents' loss, in killed and wounded, was so trifling, that
their dislodgment may be attributed to the neutrality of
the frontier inhabitants of the United States, rather than
to any apprehension of the formidable preparations made
for-their capture by the British autho-ities. Hence it is
evident that they were not supported by the sympathies of
on, in a thousand of the people of the Upper Province,
and that the revolt was not the result of a general spirit of
disaffection, but the consequence of a conspiracy of a
knot of mal-contonts acting in concert with
PAPINEAu and his gang. MACK EN ZIE, who had
accompanied his wife to Buffalo, in order to place
her in some safe—asylum, was taken prisoner by the Mar-
shal ; but as bail was tendered for him to the amount re-
quired by law, he was almost instantly set at liberty. He
returned to Navy Island to share the fate cf his associates
in rebellion : thus proving that however deficient he may be
in loya'ty to the Sovereign, and in regard for the best in-
terests of the province, he does not, like PAPINEAU, want
either moral or physical courage. What has since be-
come or him does not appear from the frontier correspon-
dence of the New York Journals.
The principal affair now to be settled between the Go-
vernments of Great Britain and the United States, is the
burning of the Caroline, respecting which several interest-
ing documents will be found in our extracts. We have not
the least doubt but that, should it he proved that Captain
DREWE exceeded his instructions relative to the destroying
of the Caroline, or that in fulfilling them the neutrality of
the United States was violased, our Government will not
hesitate an instant to make every reparation for such
a wrong, demanded by the strict justice of the
case, and sanctioned by the usages of nations. But
in the teeth of such contradictory evidence as we this day
publish from the American Papers, it would be prepos-
terous to attempt the expression of any decided opinion
upon the relati%e merits of the question. Throughout
this very tryins;• business, the United States' Executive
bas exercised its functions in a spirit of goad faith which
will long reflect upon it the highest credit. 'rho tone
of the press, too, is greatly moderated ; and several Journals
that at first • eagerly cried out for a war with England
have had the goad sense, since the d ite of the last arri-
vals,.to acknowledge themselves compl-Aely misinformed
on the Canada insurrection, by their rebel correspondents
and such like informants on the Niagara frontier. One of
the New York journals state distinctly that the Caroline
bad not an American but a British flag raised when she
was attacked and burned by Captain DREW. Owing to a
heavy press of domestic intelligence, we are compelled to
postpone the publication of numerous extracts from the
American papers till to-morrow. Those which we give,
however, include the substance of the really important
news from the United States and Canada.

An interesting debate took place last night in the House
of Commons, on Mr.WAKLEY's motion, to appoint a Select
Committee to inquire into the constitution, practice, and
effects of the Association of the Operative Cotton-spinners
in Glasgow. The LORD ADVOCATE took the opportunity
of explaining his conduct, and the conduct of the Law-
dicers of Scotland, in relation to this subject, and of
vindicating himself from observations made elsewhere.
For what his vindication is worth we leave it to the reader.
The result of the debate was to resolve on appointing a Com-
mittee, on the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE-
FaiER, to inquire into the operation of the Gth of Geo. IV.,
and to inquire generally into the constitution, the proceed-
ings, and extension of Trades' Unions. No person, we pro-
slime, can have any objection to the most extended and far-
searching inTtiry. Properly guided, inquiry leads to accurate
knowledge, which is much to be wished on all subjects--
on combinations of workmen, as well as conspiracies of
Priests, as described by Mr. LUSHINGTON, to palm igno-
rance on the people, and retain them in it. Generally, it
is said, as Mr. SLANEY observed, and we believe with
r tryo, 4404 combinations of workmen are injurious to
dvraer 1 and have " their foundation in popular
k-,"irl mum. , extensive inquiry
may demonstrate the
truth of tbsyr. ssertion ; and we have such a thorough re-
p .
1", litmus on t good sense of the workmen, that it is only
rieLete4A* believe, to convince them of that, to make
theniAtre y eschew combinations. Generally speaking
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