The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-15 00:00:00

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CHANGES.
The Earl O'Neill from Dublin ; Mrs. William Villiers
Surtees, at Leamington, from Harrogate ; Lieutenant- Colonel
Probert and Major Mackenzie, at the Royal Hotel, from the
lonian Islands ; Major and Mrs. Warren, in Green-street,
Park-lane, from Paris ; Lieut. Willett, in Cockspur-street,
from the Mediterranean; Colonel and Mrs. Desvignes, in
Jermyn-street, from Paris ; Colonel and Mrs. Duncan, in
Half Moon-street, from Germany ; Captain Crompton, in
St. James's-street, from Lisbon ; Captain John Beckett, in
St. James's-place, from the Netherlands ; Colonel Alexis
Rourjot, in Albermarle-street, from Vienna; Captain Mil-
burn, in Cockspur-street, from Dublin; Mr. George Drum-
'fond, in Wilton-crescent, from a tour.

DEPARTURES.
Major and Mrs. Moody, for Clifton; Major and Mrs.
Pergust ;on, for Bath; Captain Scott, for Hounslow; Colonel
Mrs. Brace, for Woburn ; Major Onslow, for Bath ; Captain
Pitzmau rice, for Liverpool ; Captain Wilkinson, for Dover;
Major IL Mier, for Paris ; Colonel and Mrs. Hale, for Brigh-
ton ; Ca stain Farquhar, for Canterbury ; Major and Mrs.
Francis Stephenson, for Bath ; Captain Adair, for Canter-
bury;
Lieut. Ashton, R. N., for the Mediterranean.

The Duke and Duchess of St. Alban's will leave
tronsvrick Terrace, Brighton, to-morrow, for Stratton-
street, Piccadilly.
, Duke of Devonshire spent some hours yester-
maY in inspecting the collection of Egyptian Antiquities now
exhibiting at Exeter Hall.
The Duke of Cleveland paid a visit last week to the
Is..ep of Durham at Auckland Castle.
~., The Duchess of Gordon, on her return from the
,Z"tinerrt, where her Grace has proceeded for the winter
i s expected to repair to Huntley Lodge.
• Lord ;Ind Lady Rolle were sponsors at the christen-
thc• infant son of Sir Edward S. Prideaux, Bart., at
iuleoutli. After the ceremony the party proceeded to
et°e, where a numerous party were invited by Lord and
tad Rolle.
""rd Ossillston, M.P., who has been on visits to
e ,Duke and Duchess of Northumberland, at Alnwick
Castle,
and Sir Charles Monk, at Belsay Castle, has left
..e residence oi' the Hon. Baronet for London.
bMr. and La .dy Louisa Rabett have returned to town
rr° Shillinglee Park, Sussex, the seat of her Ladyship's
other, the Eai i of Winterton.
Countess Se.:bastiani will have a diplomatic soiree
t
Nilorrow evenin.w, in Manchester-square.
The Earl and, Countess of Warwick and the young
Lord Brooke hav•.e arrived at Warwick Castle, from Wor-
it'g• Lady Ca ruling Neeld has been on a visit to the
arl and Counte: ss.
aThe Countes s of Jersey and her eldest daughter,
dY Sarah Villi.ers, arrived in Berkeley-square on Sun-
t.Y, at ,sight P.M., from Walmer Castle, where her Lady-
E.!la Paid a short visit en route from the Continent. The
arl and, Countess will leave town in the course of the
0-7ek for- Middleton Park, where Prince Esterhazy and
'tiers of ' the corps diplomutique are expected to assemble.
Vise( suntess Deerhurst is expected soon at the Earl
0, Cove atrY 's hou.se, in Piccadilly, being in a delicate statet
fh s eal t 1 ; and her Ladyship will not probably leave town
Sezi note until after Christmas.
t The
_Earl of Aberdeen and his family are expected
° arri, 'e at Argyll House, early next week, from Haddo.
tichard and Lady Acton, daughter of the
fru" cr., klberg, arrived at the Clarendon Hotel yesterday,
lenham Park, Shropshire.
C 1 Sir I !,dmund and Lady Hartopp arrived at the
a'endc .n Hotel on Saturday, from Staffordshire.
The Marquis Graham and his noble bride will
lease
Clarendon Hotel to-day on a visiting tour.
,t1.4-40rd Gardner left Bute House, South Audley-
P4elP, tt , join a shooting party at Lord Suffield's, Glenton
fro,", orwich, where the Earl of Chesterfield arrived
Nie wmarket.
111 e Earl of Aleath is making a Continental tour.
1,0; .e Mon. T. Barnewall and his bride, the niece of
e 044,
'l'4"; DuLlsany, is gone on a wedding-visit to Turvey House,
tAw,` Y of Dublin, the seat of his father, Lord Trimles-
Mr. Barnewall is his Lordship's only son. From
eY Home the bridal visitors will proceed to Dunsany
si e, Meath, the residence of Lord Dunsany.
oce4 r Augustus and Lady Clifford and family will
Utitil'Y the Duke of Devonshire's mansion at Kemptown
ti 'e meeting of Parliament. Lord Newborough,
f 0 aie ow. P erceval, of the Guards, and a party, have been
earn g the sports of the field at his Lordship's seat, in
earn ,
was
The late Lord Stowell, when Sir William Scott,
admit ;Teat sight-seer, confining himself to those of_ls.
at on, .nee, of which he is said to have found in London,
and the same time, no less than 700.
Cll4. a rci Suffield is entertaining a shooting party at
t'ore t°tr Park, Norfolk. The Earl of Chesterfield and
Ga rdner have been of the party.
LA.R.I.RIAGE OF THE KING OF NAPLES.—It was
b•so liza that the King of Naples would come in his own
iTwo tt to conduct to his capital the future Queen of the
tertl() S jellies ; but his Majesty's uncle, the Prince de Sa-
'fg who was to have returned to Naples this week with
ateb ily, has deferred his journey, in consequence of des-
ebn .1 I which, it is said, have decided him to remain till
I,,it't4t ua
rirY•f Hence it is concluded that the King, in consi-
q existing circumstances, will have his marriage
'0 Young Archduchess celebrated by proxy, and that
—4e) ' !le will be chosen to perform the office.—Swabian
'4l try,

OBSERVATIONS ON COLONEL

FLINTER'S LETTER.

At the present moment, the current of public feeling is
running very strongly against General Rodil, and in favour
of Colonel hinter—possibly with good cause ; but justice
requires that sentence should not be passed without FULL
information as to facts, and I think that information is not
before the public.

I am free to admit, that, as far as we are at present
acquainted with Me circumstances, appearances are rather
against the General. lam not competent to bear any evi-
dence as to the ski 1 or gallantry of the Colonel, who may be
eminent for both ; but there are points in his letter, which
require elucidation.

The whole question turns on the degree in which ALMA-
DEN was defensible—since, it is clear, that if the post was
of such strength, that it might have been maintained for two
or three days, we have no evidence that General Rodil
might not, in that time, have been enabled to surround
Gomez, by bringing up his different divisions from Cordova,
&c., while the rebel chief was besieging the town.
Before noticing the various points in Colonel F.'s letter
in detail, I am here to observe, that the general tenor of
it is not satisfactory. It enumerates all the disadvantages of
his position, as if to make out a case before hand to justify
surrender, and terminates with an expressed resolution of
perishing in the ruins, which was but ill borne out by a sur-
render within thirty hours !—after a loss, not stated, but
probably small.
Now, to particulars :
The Colonel's first statement is, that he has " no provi-
sions." The reply is obvious. Why did he not collect a
supply, by means of his cavalry ?
The second—that he has " little ammunition." Now,
the accounts of the capture state that Gomez " took pos-
session of the warlike stores," implying a tolerable stock of
" materiel." But, if deficient, why did not the Colonel
apply to General Rodil for a supply ?
Thirdly—He is in " an open town, commanded by hills
within musket shot," and cuts trenches and erects barri-
cades. Now, without adverting to the very little loss which
musketry could inflict from any " hill"—for, unless a mole-
hill, it must be at a tolerable distance—l ask, why did not
Colonel Flinter retire to the " FORTRESS," in which Fuente
shut himself up, and employ his troops and the inhabitants
in strengthening THAT, instead of wasting his time in at-
tempting to effect what all military men know to be int-
practicable—viz., make an " open town" into a fortress,
capable of being defended by one thousand men against
thirteen ?

Finally—Why did not Colonel F. report to his General,
that the town could not be defended forty-eight hours ?
He had known the position of Gomez fr three days—why
did he not inform General Rodil of it ? Why did be not
inform him of the commencement of the actual attack on
his out-posts ? Finally, why did he not demand reinforce-
ments, or permission to retire from a position, which he
was able to state, on his own inspection and responsibility,
it was impossible to retain ?

It has been said that he maintained himself " thirty hours
of the forty-eight required." But no officer need be told,
that thirty hours may be wholly insufficient to effect a
movement, which in forty-eight would be easily accom-
plished—the eighteen hours wanting, might have brought
up Espinosa or Batron.
SCRUTATOR.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1836

a passive than an active part, intercession from very high
quarters is said to have been made, which have been an-
swered by the assurance that his exile, which is as tolerable
as possible, will not be for life. But should Prince Radzevill
be pardoned, the same favour can be the less refused to
his companions in misfortune, because he performed in the
revolution a part more active indeed, but subordinate. On
the other hand, it is said that all intercessions in favour of
Prince Czartoryski have failed, which cannot excite surprise,
in spite of all the generosity of the Emperor, since this man,
ever since the last catastrophe, continues in foreign coun-
tries to prove himself an inveterate enemy to Russia, and
may still be considered as the entire and chief support of
tr~ie discontented and the emigrants.—Swabian Mercury,
Nov. 9.

In consequence of the late heavy rains, the Rhone,
in France, has risen to a height which has not been wit-
nessed since ISI2. A very considerable injury has been
done to houses and property lying upon some parts of its
banks, at Lyons and other places, by the overflow. At
Paris, too, the Seine had overflowed its banks ; but, by
thci last accounts, the waters were receding in both streams.
Late on Monday night the servants of a house in
Cheltenham informed the Rev. J. Williams, of Aber-
pergwm, who was lodging there, that two men were se-
creted in the out-house. Mr. Williams went out unarmed
and seized one of the fellows, when the other fell upon him
and struck him to the gronnd ; both of the ruffians then bru-
tally ill-used the Rev. Gentleman, and the servants of the
house, through fear, did not come to his assistance. Both
escaped.

ANECDOTE OF MALIBRAN.—A young English
singer in the chorus of the Italian Opera in Paris,-not hav-
ing the means to follow the company to London, resolved
upon taking a benefit concert, Malibran having promised
to sing for her. By chance, on the evening fixed for her
concert, Madame Malibran was summoned to the Duke of
Orleans' party. The beneficiare, uneasy and alarmed, re-
quested the audience to be patient. Eleven o'clock had
struck, and Malibran came. After singing several romances,
she took the lady aside, and said, " I promised you my
evening, you know : well, I have contrived to make a double
harvest of it. Before I came here I sang for you at the
Duke of Orleans', and here are the 100 crowns he has
sent you."—Musical World.

We have to record another instance of " accidental
death" resulting from the exposed state of the shaft of a
steam-engine. A day or two ago, a girl named Eliza Clegg,
aged 16, whilst employed cleaning her winding frame, inad-
vertently went to the back part of her frame, where she had
no occasion to go, and in the act of stooping down, her
clothes were caught by a shaft which was revolving in one
corner of the room. She was carried round the shaft se-
veral times in that position ; three girls who were in the
room gave an alarm, and the engine was stopped. Her
clothes were so tightly wrapped round the shaft, that they
were obliged to be cut before she could be cut down. She
became insensible, and at length delirious ; the only words
she made use of were, " leave loose," which she repeated
several times. She died in two hours after the accident.—
Manchester Guardian.

Mrs. Gunning, an English lady resident in Paris,
was lately an applicant to the Commissary of Police under
rather unusual circumstances. She possessed a parrot, in
her estimation, of infinite value. This bird, brought up by
her from its infancy with maternal affection, attained un-
der her care an advanced age, without having yet arrived
at years of discretion, for one fine day this native of the
East ungratefully and most unwisely deserted its kind mis-
tress. An exact description of the fugitive was imme-
diately published, and presently information reached Mrs.
Gunning that her beloved favourite was in the hands of a
currier named Boyard. He denied all knowledge of the
parrot, but the devoted affection of the lady was not to be
thus baffled. She had him brought before the Commissary,
where the parrot-loving currier thought it expedient to
change his ground—he now acknowledged himself the
finder of a bird which bore all the external marks of
Mrs. Gunning's parrot, but the lady frankly admitted
it could not be hers, for whereas the object of her affec-
tions spoke English, would reply to her questions in the
kindest manner, and sing " God save the King" if required ;
the animal now produced not only replied to her endearing
appeals in the rudest terms, but sullenly refused to utter a
single word of anything except French ; as to singing " God
save the King,' he was too good a subject of Louis Phi-
lippe to do anything of the sort ; in short, he was a French
parrot. Mrs. Gunning had no remedy, and to all appear-
ance Boyard was innocent. It was, however, a most re-
markable coincidence that on .the day she lost her parrot he
should have found another exactly alike in all external fea-
tures, and a witness was produced who swore that at the
time Mrs. Gunning called on him for her parrot, he had one
concealed which exactly answered to the description. Still
Boyard was acquitted, for the evidence went only to the
bird's exterior, and not to those higher qualities which the
lady so greatly prized..

Two precognitions, of rather a singular nature, are
at present in progress before the authorities in Banffshire.
The law against some journeymen house-painters for paint-
ing a part of the body of one of their fellow-workmen,
bright green ; and the other against a blacksmith for steal-
ing an article of no less weight than an iron plough.—
Aberdeen Herald.

About two months ago a hawker exchanged a shawl with
a country wife who resides some miles south from
Forfar. The matron soon made the discovery, no extraor-
dinary thing, that she had got hold of the worst end of the
bargain, and that her shawl had seen service to an extent
which she never calculated on. To be revenged, sooner or
later, upon the " false loon," became her fixed resolve.
Accordingly, about ten days ago, while she was turning over
the ashes of a large turf fire, " nursing her wrath to keep it
warm," the packman paid her another visit. Shawls of
divers complexions were immediately laid before the of-
fended customer, who, after some hesitation, took up one,
and under the pretence of seeing it better at the fireside,
inspected there, and then returned it to the owner, desiring
him to be gone for a cheat and a rascal, and that she would
never purchase another article from him again. The
hawker, observing the altered countenance of the wife, took
the hint—bundled up and left ; but be had gone but a little
way whe❑ his movements attracted the attention of a num-
ber of boys, who ran after him, crying, " look at this!"
The merchant, being not in the best of humour, turned
round, and reproached them for their annoyance—adding,
" did they never see a packman before ?" " Ow, aye," said
one of the urchins, " we have seen pack merchants mony
times, but we never saw ain gauin by steam before !" The
cause which attracted the boys is explained in a moment.
The vindictive wife had placed a bit of live peat into a fold
of the shawl, which being put on the top of the pack, and
exposed to a breeze of wind, caused the smoke which the
boys imagined to be steam.—Montrose Paper.
Saturday last, a farmer from Rhosilly brought a quan-
tity of malting barley to Swansea market for sale, which
was purchased by Mr. Glasbrook, of Llangavelach, and
conveyed to his malt-house. On the same evening, when
the barley was being emptied into the cistern, Mr. Glas-
brook's son observed a " shot-bag " dropping heavy from
one of the sacks, and he immediately examined and weighed
it, conceiving that the barley was paid for according to
weight, and he found it to contain fourteen and a half pounds
weight of silver, principally in half-crown pieces. The
farmer returned home quite unconscious of having parted
with his hoard, but having had a restless night he awoke
early, and exclaimed like Shylock, " There is some ill a
brewing towards my rest, for I did dream of money bags
to-night. He went to his granary, and then discovered he
had sold his treasure for corn. He immediately mounted
his horse, and having about 18 miles to gallop, he reached
Mr. Glasbrook's houSe on Sunday morning, in a state of
great agitation and anxiety, when his bag of silver was res-
tored to him with a hearty good laugh, at his novel mode of
securing his money.—Cambrian.

NEWLY-INVENTED CANNON.—We CANNON.—We yesterday had
the opportunity of examining at Chalk Farm the model of
a newly-invented cannon, which appears likely to realise a
most extraordinary improvement in these formidable en-
gines of war. The inventor, Mr. Steibel, a Swiss engineer,
attended in person, and explained the principles on which
his discovery rested, and gave several practical examples,
which were satisfactory as to his full success. The main
improvement which he has effected is, that the cannon, in-
stead of being loaded at the mouth, and the cartridge
rammed home, according. to the present fashion, is loaded
at the breach, and the cartridge is replaced by the hand of
one man the instant after a discharge takes place. The in-
creased rapidity is therefore self-evident. A secondary ad-
vantage derived from the plan is, that, as the breach is de-
tached for an instant from the barrel, a stream of air passes
through the gun at each discharge, and the circumstance of the
piece becoming overheated, by which artillery is now so often
useless after a hard day's work, is by this simple contrivance
effectually prevented. However the invention may serve
when applied to cannon of a large calibre, we cannot pre-
tend to say ; but its success is absolute on the reduced size
of the model, and it is impossible to imagine -a more perfect
or rapid practice than it exhibits. The principle is much
the same as that of the Fusil Robert, for which a patent
has been taken out in France ; but Mr. Steible's plan is
more simple and more certain ; and we have no doubt but
that one day it will be generally adopted. The use of
match, powder, and touchhole, is dispensed with, and the
result is accomplished by means of a spring-lock and de-
tonator. It must also be observed that one-third less pow-
der is necessary for each charge, and one-third of the usual
labour employed in working a piece is dispensed with. Mr.
Steibel says that he has applied the same principle to the
simultaneous loading and discharging of a battery of ten
pieces of cannon with equal success ; but he did not ex-
hibit this compound machine, and his experiments were yes-
terday confined to the model of his single gun.—Moriting
Paper.