The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-18 00:00:00

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

Consols for the settlement in October opened
this morning at 810 A, but the transactions done in them were
exceedingly uninteresting. It is now generally believed that
at present the Bank Proprietors do not intend to make any al-
teration either in the amount of their capital stOck.or in its an-
nual interest, and money iS at the same time so scarce that it
has again reached the interest of five per cent. A large quan-
tity of Cash Consols have consequently been sold, and a decline
of one-fourth per cent. has been the result of these operations
Money will continue scarce till the dividends are paid on the
10th proximo, and a considerable sum must also previously be
paid up on foreign' loans.
This is another holiday amongst the Jews, and their absence
is felt in the market for foreign securities. The value of all of
them has been maintained, though the transactions done in them
have not been extensive. The Spanish Bonds are considered
under their value.. The New Prussian Loan is dearer, and so
also is the Chilian. During peace there cannot be a better po-
licy than the investment of surplus capital in foreignloans, for
England draws an interest for such loans from foreign labour,
which at the same time produce wealth in foreign nations, and
render them more worthy of credit for such articles of British
production as their wants or luxuries may require.
The current prices of all foreign securities are as follow :
French * Five per Cent. Dividend from 22d Sept., 92 25 50.
Spanish * Five per Cents. of 1820, Dividend from lit May,
68E
Ditto Five per Cent. Bonds of 1821 (sterling), Dividend from
lseMay, 1;5 54Z.
kussian * Six per Cents. Dividend from lstJuly, 82.
Ditto * Five per Cents. (metall.) Div. from Ist Sept., 801.
Ditto New Five per Cent. (metall.) Dividend from Ist Sept.
87,i 1.
Prussian Five per Cent. Bonds of 1818 (sterling) Dividend
from Ist April, 91.
Ditto of 1822 (sterling) Dividend from Ist July, 88i :1 3
Austri,. Five per Cents. (metall.) I)iv. from Ist Feb. 80.
Neapolitan * Five per Cent. Bonds, Dividend from Ist July,
Danish Five per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Div. from Ist July,
891.
* Ditto Banco Marks, Dividend from Ist July, 86k.
Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend Prom Ist
May, 88'1.
Chilian Six per Cent. Bonds (sterling) Dividend from lst
April, 834- 46 1•
Marked * are subject to the rate of Exchange.
—( Morning Chroliide.)

LONDON BittnoE.—The London-bridge water-
works are pulling down on the Middlesex side, and the other
works, on the Southwark side, are likewise to be removed. The
Company is no more, they having disposed of their interest to
the New River Company, who are actively employed in laying
down pipes to serve the former Company's connections. The
whole of the houses on the Southwark side of the bridge, on the
right-hand side of the High-street, down to the Town Hall, are
to be entirely cleared away, if the new bridge should proceed.
As it will be nearer to Southwark-bridge by a considerable dis-
tance, it will face part of Fishmongers' Rail, according to the
present arrangement, in which case that must come down, with
the whole Of the buildings contiguous to Fish-street-hill, so as
nearly to form a straight line with Gracechurch-street. The
road will be considerably lengthened to avoid the present hill,
and the foot-way would be higher than the balustrades of the
present bridge. The houses on the Middlesex side on Fish-
street-hill will not be pulled down till the new bridge is com-
pleted, and the present bridge will remain till the completion of
the new one. Two premiums are offered by the Committee
for the best approved plans : it is said the sums are 300/.
and 2001.
SCOTTISH MATRIMONIAL FACILITIES.—It IS
related that an English Gentleman, on expressing his surprise
to an old Scotch Magistrate at the facility with which marriage
may be contracted in Scotland, the latter answered, " We don't
find when people are determined to get together, that throwing
impediments in the way of marriage keeps them separate; they
will only dispense more frequently with marriage. You English
are very fond of interfering with every thing, and while you pre-
tend to be a free people, you have such multitudes of petty regu-
Mons that you can hardly turn to the right or left without suf-
fering from them. In`Scotland we leave people more to their
own discretion, and we have no cause to repent it. You do not
find that more imprudent marriages are contracted here, than
in England ; because a marriage can be made at any time, and
in one minute. On the contrary, you will us much more cau-
tious than you are respecting that matter. You will find also,
the almost total absence of seductions effected by promise of
marriage, so frequent with you ; for, in attempting to deceive
, a young woman the deceiver might deceive himself."

General Berton then rose and said—" Gentlemen of the"
Jury—You must have remarked that none of the advocates
have ventured to resume the poinrof the general law on this'
affair, and that it has not been touched Upon 14 any of them'
You have heard nothing but isolated pleadings. Each has de-
fended his client to the best of his power. lam without an ad-
vocate, and 1 cannot undertake to treat the entire of this cause.
One of the advocates said to you yesterday, that the point
should, as I think, have preceded the summing up of the Pre-
sident: no advocate would undertake this task. One of the
advocates told you yesterday that they had not experienced any
resistance on the part of the Authorities of Sauinur—that no one
was arrested: all that is true, because they were obeyed. The-
public Minister has made a general thesis : we ate too circum-,
scribed to contradict it. On the contrary, all concessions for
the interest of each client have been made him, because no per-.
son could determine to plead in that way. The witnesses for
the prosecution have been all received with favour. The de-
nunciators have been encouraged • they have been covered
with praise. The witnesses for the defence have been repuls-:
ed ; they have been pointed at; they have been ihtiniidated ;
and those have been shut out who could contradict the denun-
ciations and the braggadocio of a servant. It is impossible for
inc to speak my thoughts, from my ignorance of judicial pro-.
ceedings ; but 1 think that all that could be done has not been
done for the general interests of the accused. The pleading
has been so circumscribed that no advocate had the power to
express his thoughts. I believe, Gentlemen, that the system'
of the Attorney-General will not triumph in these limits - his
doctrines do not niece success. Blood, and still more blood, is
all that he asks of you. Ah ! Gentlemen of the Jury, will
you open as many graves as they ask you ? They willbe silent;
but they will live among you and will be incessantly before
your eyes; your names will be engraved on each tomb, and to
your wives and children they will ever be a source of terror;
their weakness will persuade them that they are constantly
haunted by the shades of the unfortunate victims whom your
decision is perhaps about to immolate to the fury of the public
accaser. You, Gentlemen must have observed, as well as I,
the fierceness dipicted in his countenance, when he turned to-
wards you to implore your assistance. Vain were the efforts he
made to soften its ferocity. The Attorney-General neglected
no means of impressing on your minds the cruel sentiments
which tilled his own. The act of accusation which he has read
to you would be in itself sufficient to render his name hosribly
celebrated ; and you have seen how he gloried in his detestable
work. M. Mangin, the present Attorney-General of the Coast
of Poitiers, is the cosmopolite of politics (if I may be permitted
to use the expression.) Other triumphs, perhaps, call him to
other countries, and he will abandon you to the contemplation
of your victims. Recall to your minds the times of Corriere
and of Jos. Lebon, and beware of renewing those scenes of hal-
rible memory. I have already had the honour of telling you,
if your conszience demands that blood should be shed, I otfer
you mine. I abandon.my life to you : but spare, I beseech
you, in the name of humanity—in the name of your own glory'
those men who marched along with me ; they were deceived'
and they yielded; then restore them to their families. During
seven months they-have suffered all the horrors of a' rigorous
imprisonment, in a dungeon destitute of that relief which their
families could not supply. Their families and their children
will bless you ; your names will never be forgotten in their
prayers; you will thus rest on your pillows -with more tran-
quillity, and your consciences will be haunted by no agitating
sorrow. I have already told you, gentlemen, that it was ima-
gined there were moral proofs against me, which savoured of
tile baseness of their origin. Efforts have been made to beat
me down and discourage me, but these affronts have not reach-
ed my heart ; I have been made to experience every subaltern
vexation. 1 cannot hesitate to mention to you one among .a
thousand. Such means are certainly used only at Poitiers.
Three times did my gaoler, Champion, taunt me yesterday by
saying—" We have here a turnkey who bears the same name
as you—he is called Berton." I know whence this sneer pro-
ceeds, but I despise it. I shall reply to it as to all other such
taunts, " Go, tell hint who taught you to lisp the language of
insolence, that the name of Berton will be spoieen of with honor
in France and in Europe, when that of Mangin shall be men .
tioned with execration. My children shall bear the name, and
shall always glory in it. Do you forget that the name of the
family of the brave Crillon was Berton ? He was called Louis
de Baillie Berton de Crillon. Here, then, is evidence of my
fame, which the Attorney-General, perhaps, will not recognize.
I call to witness all my companions in arms and in glory.
Something, however, tells me that the shades of the brave
Crillon, and those other heroes without number, who in'
every age laid down their lives for their country, will not re-
fuse to consort with mine. Here is my bosom—strike, gen-
tlemen, and 1 shall die without fear. My soul defies death—
it is undismayed, and smiles at dissolution—it will depart with
content. I look forward with hope, as 1 expect with confidence
to enjoy the eternal rest, the highest reward to man, if mica
can obtain it. But, Gentlemen, though lam silent on my own
behalf, I would be trumpet-tongued for those comrades wino
are placed in the same unhappy situation with me. It is fbr
those unfortunate men, and for them only, that I' implore your
justice and your indulgence. 1 tea that at this moment theme
are many Frenchmen who would envy me this situation ; but
I would not yield the honour to any man. Once more, 1 say,
Igo to meet death with hope and without fear. May I- only
be permitted to express a hope that my death may be useful-
to my fellow-citizens and my country ?"
Goa, Sauge, Fetal, Fredin, Rique, and Ledin then, in-
order, addressed the Court briefly,' protested their innocence,.
and implored the consideration of the Jury. Some of the
witnesses were recalled, and again examined, at the desire of

Berton and Caff6 being Members of the Legion'of Honour,.
were solemnly degraded. They and Fredin and Senechault are
to be executed in the public square of Poitiers. Sauge and,
Jeylin are to be executed in the village of Thouars,