The Sun.
London, England, 1831-05-04 00:00:00

;ustify themselves by the circumstances in which they ate
ilaced.

The High Military Tribunal will decide in the case of
Colonel Borremans on Tuesday the 3d of May.
We find in a Journal the following letter from the Re-
4ent to General Van Halen :
" General,—l would have replied sooner to your letter
if the 22d instant, had I not been hindered by other af-
'airs of much greater importance. You express your sur-
wise that I should have thought, and that the Council of
‘linisters should have participated in my error, that you
were only an honorary General, enjoying a pension for
-e s vices pet formed.
" This error you say is great, for you would never have
weepted such a sinecure, and in support of your assertions
you produce documents to prove that your relations,
vith the national Government, from the first (lay of its
nsta!lation, have been of a snore honourable nature. I
have examine' these documents, and I find in them that
n the 24th of September, 1830, you were appointed
Commander-in-Chief of the active forces of Belgium.
That on the 30th of the same month, you were appointed
Commander-in-Chief of the military force of South
Brabant, which, according to my notion, was restrictin.:
the extent of your commend. That the Burgher Guard,
:sroperly so called, shall remain under its own chiefs ; this
(hen was the withdrawing them from your command.
" On the sth of Oct., 1830, you were named Lieuten-
ant. General, and employed with a salary of 10,000 francs,
and the assurance of a pension of 5,000 francs to your
widow.

•• Lastly, on the 26th of January, you ask to be em-
ployed, and on the 9th of February you are assmed by the
Provisional Government, that considering the relations of
Belgium with the neighbouring Powers, the want of a
superior officer was not felt.
" From all this, General, I concTude that the time of your
active service was only tight or nine days—that is to say,
from the 24th of September to the sth of October ; and
that all your relations with the National Government
since that time consist only in an application to be em-
ployed, which you made on the 26th of January.
"According to this, General, my error is very pardonable;
however, as you are unemployed, and receive a salary from
the Treasury, I reserve to myself the right of employin g
you when I shall think it necessary for the good of the
service; unless, ictleed, you should still have the inten-
tion of going to Poland, as you have asked, and I have
granted you permission to do.
(Signed) " SURLET DE CHOKIER."

The General replied, in substance, to the request, on
the 27th instant, that in the situation in which he found
himself, after having been imprisoned—treated as a cri-
minal—after having borne a most rigid examination, and
seeing that no account is made of these circumstances, it
would be improper for him to quit Belgium, and that lie
would remain there in presence of the Government, to
contemplate as one of the thousandicissitudes of human for-
tune, the disgrace which the Government throws upon him.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

This week the English arrivals of Corn are again moderate,
but there is another very large fleet of foreigners, chiefly with
Wheat and Flour. The weather being very seasonable, together
with a large quantity of Foreign Wheat for sale, causes extreme
dullness in the Wheat trade, and though the factors:appear un-
willing to take less prices, they will be compelled to do so before
they can make sales. In other kinds of Grain there is no varia.
tion, but the sales of all are very heavy to-day.