The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-20 00:00:00

COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPTAIN STEWART.

BOSTON, AuGs 24.—The trial of Captain Stewart was begun
on Thursday last. The number as well as the character' of the
charges is quite formidable. There are twenty-nine specifica-
tions under the charge of, unofficerlike conduct. Most of these
charges are for carrying on a contraband trade with various
ports in Peru, by means of the ship Franklin, or for aiding
such trading operations carried on by other vessels. There
ate seven specifications under the charge of disobedience of
orders, most of which are a repetition of certain specifications
under the first charge. One other is for receiving on board the
Franklin Royalist.spies, officers. and persons liable to punish-
tnent, particularly one Madrid, Director of the Mint. Another
is, of carrying to the Royalists intelligence of a projected ex-
pedition of the Patriot Government of Peru. There are three
specifications under the charge of'neglect of duty, and one under
the charge of oppression and cruelty. This last is for confining
in an unusual'and unnecessary manner, Lieut. Sands, from Oc-
tober 9 to April'l3, without taking steps to bring him to trial.

In consequence of the Anniversary of iltr.l),atil
of Louis XVIII. no French Papers were pub•
fished upon Saturday last. The Eloile, how-
ever, of Saturday and Sunday, has been received,
and extracts from it will be found in another
place. This Journal contains some interesting
news from Greece.

The columns of the Etoilc are filled with a
long 'article in reply to a charge of ignorance and
want of zeal made by the Drapcau Blanc, against
the French Clergy. The Toile promises to an-
swer the Constitutionnel to-morrow in defence of
the same body but on very different charges.

Dutch Papers to the 17th September have been
received. The following are extracts :

VIENNA, SEPT. 8.

The Austrian Observer of this date has accounts from Con-
stantinople of the 23d August, received by express.• It con-
tains also,from the Spectateur Oriental of the 17th August, a
letter from Napoli di Romania, dated August 4, which gives
the particulars, as quoted in the French papers, of the resolu-
tion of the Government of Napoli to seek the protection of
England. The Austrian Observer adds the following,note :,
" In communicating this article of the Oriental Spectatcur,
we content ourselves to-day with assuring, our readers that all
the accounts contained in it are fully confirmed by the letters
which we have ourselves received direct from Napoli di
Romania.

" A new scene in the Greek insurrection has opened. What
could not fail to happen has: happened : the Deputies of the
Philhellenic Committees are at variance with each other, and
with die insurgent Government, in the same manner as the
heady of the Government differ with each other, and with the
Chiefs of the several tribes of the Peloponnesus and the Islands.
Our impartiality commands us, as historians, to wait for some
further information before we atter3! re minutely the va-
rious elements of the present chat,, _ of things. Whether the
mixture of so many •beterogeniZis ingredients—whether the
transferring to Greece of the passions, and consequently
of the errors which party spirit, brings forward in these
times of fermentation in Christian Europe, .have promoted
and served the cause of the Greeks, or whether they have not,
on the contrary, tended to its entire ruin? This is a question
which will not and cannot long remain without solution. As
soon as we ourselves see clear enough to be able to furnish
authentic materials for the history of the day, we shall step
forward boldly and firmly, as we have constantly-done since
the beginning of the troubles in the East,, without regard to a
general diffused system of imposition."
BRUSSELB. SEPT. 11.
It is affirmed that the several Ministerial Departments will
close on the 30th of this month, so as to be able to resume busi-
ness on the 10th October at the Hague.
AMSTERDAM., SEFT. 16.—Exchanges on London, 39. 10.;
two months, 39. 8.
• The same that is in the Etoile of 10th August.

The Madras Government Gazettes to the 21s
March, were received yesterday. They do not

however, contain any further intelligence from
the British Army in the Burmese Empire than
that lately extracted from the Calcutta Journals.

The trial of Mr. CHRISTMAS at the Old Bailey
presents us another instance of the evils of the
stock jobbing System—a system the laws at pre-
sent are unable to controul, and which, in truth,
appears to be entirely beyond the reach of legis-
lative interference. It would be useless to
expatiate upon the immorality and the de-
moralizing effects of a practice which has
escaped the general odium applied to gaming,
although we know nothing in its character which
in the least distinguishes it from that vice; but,

onunttahseveleo nwt roar rs yt
,spitechiaess opfrgopamerbtileins whici'
meriting the higher reprobation. It has now got til°
firm a root to permit us to hope that it will be era;
dicated ; and the circumstance that it is 1°4E...-
upon rather in the character of a commercial sP"
culation than as a gambling transaction, preclal°
the possibility of ever restraining its operatie°'
Mr. CuarrrssAs' trial, however, presents en"
ther ground which deserves remark. We wear'
the tone and nature of the defence he get "P;
in which he has followed the footsteps e`
other persons who have been placed in similar
equivocal situations. But we do not address
to him ; his situation has our oinwit
dtlinearer fk t
ori e
compassion, and it would be cruel to make him
the subject of remark, unless with a view to 501oe
public advantage. -
The whole weight of his defence was thB
frailty of human nature and his misfortunes,
The frailty of human nature cannot be de'
nied, but we nevertheless most strongly protest
against a doctrine far more common than ,
ought to be, whereby this frailty is made the
excuse for all the crimes and vices of mankind"
In cases where the natural passions have bee*
roused, and left to act with unrestrained violence
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upon the mind, this frailty may be admitted
some extenuation fur any crime committed whet'
under their powerful influence, but it fails alt°'
f
gether when a long course of crime has been °
lowed, in spite as it were of returning reas°7
and the still small voice of our natural monitors,:
It fails also where crimes are committed,
can have little to do with the human passions.
The passions seldom interfere with lioneglid;
and this virtue might, and does exist, in °lir'
1,,
where the passions preside with unlimited poce,
It is the indulgence of these passions whichles.,
to poverty, and this poverty sometimes sere°o
a eft
duces dishonesty and fraud. But when
his
is the frailty of human nature to exteeuate t
sow
double departure frorrithe upright course of a ti
man I to cover up a vicious course in the first!
tr 101
stance, and subsequently to-excuse the perpe--a e
.thes
of a crime that we may the longer indulge ,
1 se
passions which have led to its connissioo.
• two
danger of promulgating these doctrines Is
„, *lO
fold. It presents a specious reason to tilde,
fa
are in want of something to palliate their 0% fall
that
pasture from rectitude, and it prevents
cap
tance
contrition from which only true 'Wen the
spring. Under the influence of this 0)4°11?
sjition
unhappy convict rather glories in his rotiiiah
he appears his own eyes riot a degradej
merit
•
but a suffering martyr, not as one who los
$
ed punishment and disgraced his nature,
eller/
one- deserving of compassion, as haviog
only through the violence of his ittur3lbis
sione. It spreads a delusion or° o
epc
mind, and to the reproaches of his COO'Qci big
that
lie only opposes the vain SUM-11SebUt f his
fault was not a fault of the heartere
nature, •- a fault to which all his
0100
isn°fertog
alike subject, but of which it was his
Iris rai 0' s ,
dis•
to be the victim. This alone, in •
inguishes him from the holiest man.

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IN,oi;
E atpEtractmotE)s. , s gjlt
Mr. Mcv the King's .; tto,
off yesterday from the Foreinn-office,.l)o6lAs.
street, with dispatches for Mr. SecretarY
brication of some w belP,
put a hoax, as it
9 DE BEttat.—Wre can""tdoceo
thinking that the account of the sport hitro ity
y this Princess at Dieppe is the matigoarld to
, •Theline iv
is
styled,ant
on wag woo ,opalli ' gig
rid 11 ,/
ness. Considering
the loss of her 1-ni'l°i wit/
the melancholy occasion of his death, 0°0,005
up'on -her oó
of conduct, if justly charged, is bY "°
the e ttic
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calculated to raise her character in
e
tion of mankind. At all eVents, we ba%olo
satisfaction of reflecting that, 110weVer 510055
to the habits of foreigners, no English
Pr ipt
would be likely to act in such a manner,
of o)
the whole must be " the weak inventioooo'
enemy" to her Royal Highness', like 111° r.
less mischief of the reported duel at ilest°t4 05
The MARSHAL "of the liitia's 130c071.0 tilt'
persevering and effective kindnesi to.° lace"
two . - had P 10'
young women, whose misfortuni .
itij P
them Within his, jurisdiction, and vo.t..` viol
RowE, who co-operated, with him in 105,te,,0:0
lent exertions, have justly excited the Byte '
the Public. The Marshal, in particlr, t'ci cor
to. be mentioned with respect, beeanse.le joli;
duct must excite general confidence inlualtio til'olf
and humanity of his character, io " ,ovitY ,
exposes him to see too much of the clei yi col
I ' of
mankind, yet which, without lessenh)4sopt,
demnation of vice, keeps fully aliYe 1115 dit''
with misfortune. .• of •,l
NA-Vy.e Lords Commissionr.soitcp,,,tt,l
Admiralty having pcittsed the minutes of tlieo)lo\l6ejet. :roc
lately held upon 11.1 r. T. C. Roylance,Surgeonberdint...'_ or;
tender Bittern, by which he was adjudged tn, of thgco,'",
said tender, have, under all the circumstanee•„ile coot,
dared him to be relieved from the sentence or L
riVe
rejoin his ship. - 110 gr ill
The Lord Bisnor of BAnnitoocs ,
ssenger 0
me 3 P 3 . TOO
in England.' His Lordship. CO
,►frotll JO'
the Fortitude. • Letters are n tow 1 , to the 4
Ora * - liav
of the 9th August, and from Pen
ole
_.,erocos Aso
By the latter it.appears that tsv,::s.jorso . lot
been poisoned ; and the life of i" ‘.ollecteti,
_l't:s.
attempted by Olson.
. it wig Activer ~.. soppf
Ily 1"
Mr. SIMPSON' was particular
• .
ing the insurgents. ' •