The Sun.
London, England, 1840-10-28 00:00:00

CAPTAIN REYNOLDS.

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Obs2rving in The Sun of last evening the re-
marks in the correspondence of Camllus, " It is a de-
cision which has given general satisfaction—it is the
prevailing opinion that the late [LATE] Captain Rey-
halls conducted himself in a meat ungentlemanlike, in-
subordinate manner." These remarks, assuming such
a glaring appearance, and telling so much of malicious
spleen, with a bold lie on the very face of them, has in-
duced me to trouble you with one or two animacher-
slons thereon-.

Camillus must either be wholly ignorant of the pro-
ceedings which are advancing so rapidly for a public
demonstation to sympathise with Captain Reynolds, or
else he must be labouring under•the dupish, maddening,
iAuettce which has saturated those who formed the late
Cou..t-martial. The severity of the tyrant Nero seems
but mildness comp,tred with the petrified feelings and
cruel results of the dcl;berations at Brighton. But 1
would just ask Camillus what he means by " general
satisfaction ?" The whole of the daily press—the weekly
news, both of town and country—to a single voice, express
their utter disgust end perfect astonishment at the
monster-sentence—and well they may. Besides, what
means the meeting to be held tomorrow—the comma
nication of the Fifteen Commercial Travellers in The
Sun last evening, and a hundred other ominous symp-
toms with which Camillus may acquaint himself the first
hour he is liberated from his chains and confinement?
Like the Fifteen Commercial Travellers, there are
hundreds of professionalists and mechanics who are at
this moment anxiously waiting the result of the meet-
ing of to-morrow evening, but snore anxious that such
meeting may be appointed in which they can join to
sympathize with the noble-minded, venerated, but most
cruelly abused patriot, Captain R. A. 11..ynolds, and in
which a fund may established to which they are de-
termined to contribute, in order to show the Court-
martial, the Horse Guards, and all the secret band,
whether they are willing to see such an honourable gen-
tleman cashiered, without at least manifesting their dis-
gust at such unjust, almost contraband proceedings.
, So great is the agitation, which is daily increashig
throughout, the length and breadth of the British em-
pire, on this sentence, that unless some steps be speedily
taken, hostilities may be expected. Sincere attach-
ment to, and sympathy for, this suffering noble-man, is
the theme of hundreds of thousands of voices at this
moment, and also, Sir, of your's sincerely,
City, Wednesday Morning.

STEPHEN.

COURTS-MARTIAL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—In addition to the case of Lieutenant Cruik-
shank (James, 626), noticed in your Journal of the 24th
October, I send you a reference to some other cases it,
the same book where provocation received by the of-
fender was allowed to weigh in mitigation of punishment.
Yours, &c.,

A CIVILIAN.
Davies—page 57—Major Mansorgh, the prosecutor,
was reprehended.
Lloyd—page 132—Provocation admitted in mitigation.
Monaux and others—page 174—Prosecutor dismissed

the regiment.
Upton—page 278—Major Yonge, the prosecutor, re-
prehended, and provocation allowed in mitigation.
Abbott—page 806—Captain Nickson, prosecutor re-
prehended, and provocation allowed in:mitigation.
Buckley—page 756—Cartan, the prosecutor, repre-
hended, and provocation allowed in mitigation.
Mahon—pago 838—Geaghan, the prosecutor, repre.
hended.

Some instructive information may be gained by pe,
rusing the following cases :—Wood—page 753 ; Bail
lie—page 787 ; Haikery and Ring—page 524.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN,

sincerely thank you for the kindness shown,
and public duty performed, in publishing my letter of
the 10th of July last. You added in your remarks
thereon, if but one-half was true which I had written I
had been cruelly treated, and that you readily published
it in order to force on an investigation. Permit me,
Sir, to say that letter contained no untruth, and to in-
form my countrymen, using your own words, it has forced
on an investigation. But few hours had elapsed after
it appeared in your columns when I, with Charles
Hodgson Neasom, my fellow-conspirator so called, had
an interview with J. Hume, Esq., %LP., who told us
he bad paid attention to the affair from the time the at-
tack was made by the police on the people at the
Trades' Hall, Bethnal-green, and to hint, as well as to
yourself, Mr. Editor, he said there appeared to be
something wrong, and that he was anxious to see justice
done towards us. Mr. Neasom and myself then sepa-
rately embodied, in the form of a petition, that which
we had to complain of on the part of the Government
towards us. Our petitions spoke true, plain, and strange
things, at which Mr. Hume stowi amazed, and which I
now fear will never be fully made known to the public.
This gentleman laid our petitions or complaints before
the Secretary of State, Lord Normanby, and the Attor-
ney-General. Mr. Hall, the Magistrate who committed
me to Newgate for trial, and held me to bail in the sum
of 1,0001. for my appearance at the following sessior, to
take my trial, was sent for. Here rough places were
made plain, and crooked things straight, and in the mu!-
titude of their tender mercies, Mr. Editor, they have
stayed the prosecution. But my home they have ruined,
and I and my children driven to want. if I have been
guilty of wrong, sedition, conspiracy, and riot, as charged,
why let me go unpunished? If innocent, for innocent I
am, why have I been so long bunted and harassed, and
for this affair to be wound up by two policemen handing
to me the following notice :
" In the Queen's Bench.

" The Qeeen againstGeorgeEdward Boggis and

Charles Hodgson Neasom.
" Tho record in this case is withdrawn.
" Yours, &c., " FRANCIS HOBLER,
" Solicitor for the prosecution.
"To George Edward Boggis, one of the abovenamed
defendants, and
" To Charles Hodgson Neasom, one of the abovenamed
defendants.
" 19th October, 1840."

130 so kind, ?dr. Editor, as to give insertion to this,
that it may be known to the public how it has ended,
that they m.iy read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest, and
you will oblige, yours respectfully,

GEORGE EDWARD BOGG IS.
126, Brick-lane,late of 4, Fleming-street, Kingsland-road

THE PEOPLE.

A Correspondent has addressed to us the following
etter :

"In your paper of Saturday last (24th instant) you
hive the following sentence, which, as- I do not under-
stand, I trouble you (with many excuses for so doing)
for a solution of :

" If we were fairly represented would 100,0001. a
year have been given to a Queen-Dowager who supports
the party opposed to the people ?'
" I wish to know what in this case is meant by the
term people I'
" I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
"Oct. 25. "ONE OF THE PEOPLE."
[As our Correspondent does not appear to know ex-
Actly to what class he belongs, we will put him on the
way of discovery. The people are the great majority of
the inhabitants of the United Kingdom who are not re-
presented in Parliament, or who have their votes con-
trolled by the aristocrats and the breeches-pocket men.
They are the class that furnish the greatest revenue to
the country, and yet have no voice in the making of its
laws. They are the principal consumers of tea, sugar,
tobacco, spirits, malt, hops, and all other excisable
commodities. They are not peers, nor pensioners,
nor placemen, nor priests, nor queens-dowager,
nor persons born with silver spoons in their
mouths, like Barons Arden and Ellenborough. They
live by their honest industry, and when they cannot live
in this way they come upon the parish, but never upon
the Pension List for relief ; and when drivers by dire
necessity they also sometimes commit offences against
the law. If our Correspondent can say that he is of
this class, then he is one of the people. Perhaps he
wishes also to know who are the " party opposed to the
people... They are the men who, for the last fifty
years, have made laws for their own benefit, who bare
loaded the country with a debt of eight hundred. mil-
lions sterling, and put no small portion of it into their
own pockets ; who have resisted reform in every shape,
till it was forced on them by the people ; who enjoy
pensions of from 1,000/. to 100,0001. a-year for doing
nothing ; who commit daily breaches of the law, but not
from dire necessity ; and who have the utmost disregard
and c9ntempt tor the industrious classes, the people, by
whom they live, and move, and have their being. If
our Correspondent has any qualifications to rank with
this class, then be is not one of the people.]

MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.—The business
paper, as it is called, for the county day on Thursday next
is unusually heavy, there being no less than thirty-three
subjects standing for consideration. The Visiting Justices
of the Prisons are appointed to meet at this Michaelmas
Quarter Session. There are two subjects which excite
very considerable interest among the Magistrates, which
will, it is anticipated, lead to very animateSdiscussion, the
first being a motion to allow the dissemination of Roman
Catholic bocks amongst the prisoners of that persuasion,
to which the Visiting Justices are understood to be strongly
opposed, although they do not object to any Roman
Catholic priest who may attend a prisoner, by his request,
giving him such books as he may think proper. The
other motion is relative to the Hartwell Lunatic Asylum,
considerable difference of opinion existing, it is said,
amongst the Cornmitte of Management as to some recent
' appointments. Five of the Committee, retire, viz. the
Dean of Carlisle, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Laurie, Mr. Tulk,
aid Mr. Sergeant Adorns.
MUNICH, OCT. 20.—For the space of six
months, commencing to-day (unless other ordeis i;hould be
meantime issued), the exportation of horses is strictly pro., j
hibittd. Those who transgress the order are to be pu_
niched by the confiscation of the horses and a fine of twice
their value I 1