The Sun.
London, England, 1822-10-14 00:00:00

MR. BOWRING.

CORRESPONDENCE RELATIVE TO MR. BOWRING.
COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO lIIS EXCELLENCY
SIR CHARLES STUART, BART., BY MR. BOWRING,, ON
THE SUBJECT OF THE LATTER'S SPOLIATION, ARREST
AND IMPRISONMENT, BY THE AGENTS OF CALAIS.
CALAIS, OCT. 8, 1822.

SIR-1 have to entreat your Excellency's immediate interfer-
ence on my behalf, in a case in which the rights of hospitality,
and the protection of my passport, indorsed by you, have been
grossly and illegally violated.
I visited Paris for n commercial concerns, and left it by
the diligence on Thursday last. On my arrival here, I ob-
tained the indorsement of my passport and license for embarka-
tion. 'When I reached the pier, I was arrested •by the Agents
of Police, and conducted with my baggage to the Mairie, where
I was told that an order from Government had arrived for the
examination of all my papers. I requested the attendance of
the British Consul, which was granted ; my trunk was opened,
my papers were all read and examined, and 15 sealed letters,
with two sealed packets, one of them from the Portuguese
Ambassador at Paris to the Portuguese Minister at London,
bearing the. arms of Portugal, and delivered into my own
hands by IM. D'Oliveira himself, were forcibly taken from me.
I beg leave to premise that, of the contents of all or any of
these letters or packets, lam wholly ignorant—a fact which 1
offered to despose upon oath. Notwithstanding this, my pass-
port was taken from me, and after a detention of two days, I
have been delivered over to the gendarmerie, to be conducted to
Boulogne, and delivered up to the Procurer du Roi without
any legal
.proceeding against me, without the knowledge of
any one circumstance to justify an act so arbitrary and so
attrocious.
I have now to put myself under your powerful protection, and
to solicit your instant interference to rescue my person from
imprisonment, and to uphold the important character of that
Dutton you represent, whose citizens have no longer any pro-
tection from the laws. I have also to entreat that you will
consult with the Minister of his Faithful Majesty, as to the
means of vindicating those diplomatic privileges which have
been so wantonly violated in his person, by the seizure of his
official correspondence.
I have "protested against acts which make your signature of
,no avail for the protection of British subjects; and though I
know of no ground for the appfehension that any part of the
correspondence which was intrusted to me bears a political
character, I have protested against the horrible principle, that
the bearer of a sealed letter, whose contents are unknown to him 4
can be made responsible for those contents. I submit all this
to your Excellency's consideration. My commercial affairs are
dreadfully suffering from this violent detention; it is impossi-
ble to calculate the consequences. I venture, therefore, to hope,
that your Excellency will take instant and effective measures
for my release, and referring to the report of the Britisfi Consul,
I have the honour to he, your Excellency's
Most obedient and most IMmble servant,
(Signed) JOHN BOWRING.
COPY OF A LETTER ADDRESSED TO HIS EXCELLENCY SIR
, CHARLES STUART, BY MR. BLAQUIRE, AND WHICH AC
. COMPANIED THE PRECEDING :---

CALAIS, OCT. 9.
Silt—Should your Excellency be pleased to claim the letters
and papers• which have just been forcibly taken from my friend,
Mr. Ilowring, by the agents of the French police, 1 beg leave
to, mention, that there was a letter of mine amongst the number.
It is addressed to his Excellency Senor Garcia, a Member of
the Peruvian Legation, recently arrived in. England ; and,
though containing nothing which I can have.the smallest wish
to conceal, yet it is my duty solemnly to protest against the
seal being broken by any of the French Authorities, as a mani-
fest violation of law and justice.
In the event, however, of your Excellency's feeling any de-
sire to become acquainted with the contents of the letter thus
claimed, I beg to add, that I have not the least objection to its
being opened by the Representative of my Sovereign, and even
transmitted to his Majesty's Government.

I have thelonour to be,
Your Excellency's most humble and very obedient Servant,
(Signed) EDWARD BLAQUIERE.

[Here follows a letter addressed to Mr. CANNING by Mr,
JEREMY BENTHAM, detailing the circumstances of Mr,
BowRING'S arrest, and requesting the interference of Govern,
ment.]

Foreign Office, Oct. 11, 1822.
Sir,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this
date ; which conveyed to me the first intimation of the circum-
stances to which it relates. A memorandum was indeed left
at the door of my office this morning,, which must have had re-
ference to the same case ; but it was without date or signature,
or particular details.
1 will write to Sir Charles Stewart, with your statement, by
the courier of this evening.
I am, Sir, your most obedient Servant,
(Signed) GEO. CANNING.
Jeremy Bentham, E7.-q. '

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Du-
chess of CLARENCE, accompanied by two of the
Misses FITZCLARENCE and their Royal High-

nesses' suite, embarked at Antwerp soon after
day-light, on the 3d of October, in the Royal
Sovereign yacht, sailed immediately, and ar-
rived in Deptford in the afternoon of Saturday
last. The weather was so favourable the

whole way, that the Ladies were seldom off
deck from day-light till dark. Their Royal High-
nesses were much struck with the scene on the
Thames, so different from that of the Scheldt, for
On the latter river there is hardly a vessel to be
seen. The Duke took a great interest in every
thing that went on board the yacht. The
Duchess's health is much improved since she left

England. On Sunday afternoon they all wen
to Church at Greenivich Hospital, but returne

on board again, and landed from the yacht a
three o'clock on that day, when the customary
honours were paid them ; they set off immediately
for Bushy Park. Sir JAHLEEL BRENTON com-
manded the yacht, in the absence of Captain
AnAM.—( Portsmouth .Telegraph.)
THE POLICE.—A new day police has been
established at Bow-street, and upon a plan
which promises to be of very essential service in
protecting the public from those daring out-
rages and degradations which have lately become
so prevalent in the metropolis. Three parties,
each consisting of eight men, and a conductor,
selected for
.his experience and activity, are to
be thus disposed of :—The first under John
Smith, a very old officer, is to patrol Holborn,
and the adjacent Squares, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
Drury-lane, Covent-garden, and Leicester-
square ; a second, tinder David Herring, the
Strand, Parliament-street, Pall-mall, Piccadilly,
and Oxford-street : and the third, conducted by
Drew, to watch Whitechapel and its neighbour-
hood, and a portion of the Borough of South-
wark. They are to distribute themselves judi-
ciously, and to go on duty at nine in the morning,
and be relieved now, at seven in the evening, by
the night parties, the time of relief to vary ac-
' cording to the length of the days. They went
on duty for the first time on Friday morning last.
We are given to understand that the Admiralty
have issued.directions for suspending all further
reductions among the artificers of 'this Dock-
yard, after the two next discharges, until the en-
suing spring. This measure of prudence and
humanity will gladden the hearts of many fa-
milies, who otherwise would have been com-
pelled to seek employment elsewhere, under all
the rigours of the winter season.—(Hampshire
Chronicle.)
ROBBERY OF THE IPSWICH Ips-
wich Journal announces that the banking firm of
that town have " had 28,0011. of their stolen
property restored to them ;" and adds, that
there is now no doubt of the stolen notes being
traced home, and the conviction of the parties
thereby secured.