The Sun.
London, England, 1825-06-14 00:00:00

pose here, although, in the absence of other pore
substantial objections, it would form sufficient
ground for protest and reprehension. The
comparisen between this young Gentleman
and Mr. PITT is, to say the least of it,
most unhappy ; but we refrain from further
observation on a point- which could never pro-
duce conviction as to Mr. ARBUTHNOT'S fitness
for the office, in any mind, and is therefore not
worthy of notice. But giving both these new
agents credit for even more abilities than ever
fell to mortal man before, they were obviously
unable to discharge the duties of the office
of General Prize Agents—they could know
nothing of the facts of the case—they could
form no judgment as to who were and who
were not entitled to share, or to what ex-
tent booty was captured. On the other hand,
was Major IVoon a person totally twin.'
formed of the extent of the claims. Did
he derive his information by recital from the
Captors? No! He was one of the Captors
himself; he was present throughout the whole of
the campaign in which the booty was aquircd,
and during all that time acted as Military
.Secre-
tary of the Commander-in-Chiel. lie was there-
fore eminently qualified for the office, the re-
spect of his Commander, and the affection of his
comrades had chosen him to fill.

We trust we have now fully explained to the
country the facts of this oppressive case. Our sole
object has been to repel slander, and to save from
public odium those Gentlemen who have used
their best exertions to forward the interests of
the Army of the Deccan, in which they would
have succeeded, unless thwarted and prevented
by the Trustees. It is some consolation, how-
ever, to them, that their immediate employers
are satisfied it!) their conduct, and that they are
now in possession of the thanks of the whole
Army for their exertions in their behalf. Covered
with a shield like this, and conscious of their
own integrity, they have nothing to fear from
misrepresentations and calumnies, however
exalted the quarter from which they come. Sa-
tisfied with this, they must now leave the fixed
and immutable principles of equity to work
their own end, relying that the public voice will
sooner or later prevail, and call for that justice
that undue private influence alone perverted and
restrained. The wrongsof the Army of the Deccan
of that illustrious band, whose labours and fa-
tigues have done so much for their country, and
added so many !nitre's to its glory and renown,
are now before the country. The beneficial re-
suits that sprung from their victories in the East,
the strength of the British Empire there acquired
by their exertions, and the vast addition of terri-
tory and revenue obtained for the East India
Company by them, are felt and acknowledged on
all hands ; but few were aware of the unworthy
reward their services had met with, the gross
and cruel injustice of which its members have
been the patient and unrepining victims.
For any thing they know to the contrary, their
prize-money never will be distributed. The
Trustees have departed from the conduct their
office pointed out to them, and chose to erect
themselves into Judges, to decide between the
Army and their adversaries ; they have chosen to
abandon the office the warrant of the KING con-
ferred upon them, and in defiance of his authority
to usurp a jurisdiction that warrant expressly re-
serves to his MAJESTY in Council. In conclusion,
we ask, how can they reconcile this conduct with
their actual duties ?—how they can presume, to
appear before the KING, the munificent and gra-
cious Donor of the gift they have dared to with.
hold—that SOVEREIGN whose bounty they have
arrested, and attempted to pervert, and whose
justice and wisdom would give t 6 his faithful
soldiers the spoils they had so gloriously earned.

Letters recvived yesterdny from Paris disclose
another of those atrocious proceedings on the part of Austria,
which that Government appears to resort to periodically as the
best mode of declaring its true principles, and supporting its
estimation with foreign countries. General Devereux, of the
Colombian service, but a British subject, while travelling in
Italy for the restoration of his health, was arrested at Rovigo
on the 13th ult., by order of the Austrian Government, and
sent to Venice, where he has since been confined a close
prisoner- It is not usual, of course, for arbitrary Govern-
ments to give an explanation of those actions it rosy suit them
to resort to, but from some of the persons employed to arrest
Genera/ Devereux, it was understood that it was done " on
account of bis political opinions, and for having made war in
South America on the side of Bolivar." The General, it ap-
pears, had no previous notice before entering. the Austrian
territory of the danger in which he was placed. the papers
were seized, together with some property he had about him,
and these were to be sent to Milan to be examined in the
Emperor's men presence. A Gentleman who came over
from Trieste on. hearing of General Devereux's arrest, in
order to inquire into the cause, and to set about means for
bis liberation, was refused permission to see him. His
place of
confinement was the state ,
prison the ducal palace at Venice.
To add to tne treachery
_of the Austrian Government, it is
pretended by some of their emissaries, that orders had been
to all their ambassadors not to' sign any passport to
isstiet!
permit
Gene. r? 1 Devereux to enter the Austrian territory ;
hunt is
certain that no previous intimation was given
to him of
the danger in which he was placed. He tra_
subject under a pwisport . granted by
yelled as an ,jmerican
the
~incrican Minister at Pariii—a circumstance
Mr. Brown, biy -Imre fortunate for him, in procuring the
which will probo,
~ni et and England in his be-
' 't 1 States •
on aecoont of the violation of their
interference both of thi:
half—the former
a British subject.-
4,;toint of his being n• • safe e•Pn,
duct, and the latter on
(Timci.)