The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-08 00:00:00

" I have identified five of the prisoners to be truly
Cabardians (Creassiins of the Plain)," said Ali Ratan,
otie of the most valorous Avarian cavaliers, advancing in
the midst of the circle; " these miserable deserters served
in the Russian ranks; they are still dressed in the uniform
of the slavish soldiers. I accuse them of treason, fur they
have borne arms against their fathers; I demand that they
may be punished by a sentence of death."
The second accuser, Mohammed Be:, afterwards
appeared. " Amongst the prisoner;," he said, "is a Rus-
sian officer, whose punishment I require. officer,
whose name is Font-Mayer, came last year in cur moun-
tains dressed as a plain soldier, and presented himself to
us as a deserter. We received him with compassion, be-
cause we thought he was unfortunate. He slept in our
tents. He ate our rice and our humys, and subsequently
he returned to Lis people to disclose what he had dis-
covered of our strength and projects. The officer, Font-
Mayer, is a Russian spy. I demand his life as a repara-
tion of his cowardly and odious crime."
Azral-Leng, the third accuser, reproached another
officer, Nicolas Bachanof, for having cheated hint at the
fair of Vladicauease, by giving him gold containing alloy for
the price of two horses which he had sold.
•• We have heard the accusations of Ali.fiaran, of Mc-
hammed Bey, and Azral-Leng, imi artially," said Alendly-
Klian, rising from his seat. •• Let he accused be brought
hither, and, by the Holy Crow, the God of this day, we
swear never to sit down nor to take repose till justice has
been done either on the prisoners or their accusers."
The five Cabardians made prisoners from the Russian
ranks first appeared. They admitted their Circassian
origin, but they successively urged as an excuse that they
had been forced against their will by the Musc)vite autho-
rities to enter and to remain in the Emieror's service.
" The imprisoned bird, when emancipated from its cage,
flies away and regains its native woods," replied the Khan.
Silence reigned in the assembly. The Judges appeared
to be consulting, and the crowd drew off, not to interrupt
their deliberations. Three crashes of the cymbals recalled
the people, and Khan Mendly pronounced the following
decree ;

Praise be to the Holy Crow, who has infused his light
upon justice 1 Wols es do not fight with wolves. Gress-
sians ought not, therefore, to make war upon Circassians.
Ho is a traitor who, to sustain slavery, takes arms
against his free brethren. Let our yatagans fall on the
heads of the Muscovites like hailstone of the storm on a
field destined to destruction. Let them disappear like the
smoke of our hearths, hut at the same time let our justice
punish traitors like the thunder. Death f, r the traitors.
Let them be impaled, to punish their treason."
The offic 2r Fent-Mayer was brought in, but he rofusel to
answer any questions of the Judge,. The Khan then passed
sentence upon him as follows :—." To have bis eyes torn out,
because it was by their means he had found his way to the
tribe ; to have his legs amputated afterwards because they
were those which carried him into the country; to base his
ears stopped up with melted lead, because those cars had
listened to the secrets of the Avarians; to have his tongue
cut out, because he had used it to relate what he had seen
and beard; and, after these acts, to be finally put to death
by being impaled."
When this barbarous sentence was passed, the unfor-
tunate officer lost the self-possession he had hitherto mani-
fested, and his resolution abandoned him. He began to
indulge in threats and impreca,ions, and, in his frenzied
despair, menaced, in the Cabardian language, a speedy
vengeance for the insult to the Emperor committed in his
person.
" Our verdict is just," said the Khan ; then embracing
affectionately Mohammed Bey, " Blessed be your dis-
covery," said he ; " that Russian was really a spy ; le.
him howl, his impaled tongue will soon be turned to ice."
Buchanof, the other officer whom Azral-Long accused
of having given in payment altered money, was the last to
appeir before the terrible Judges. " The gold which I
gave for the horses is the mum with whiA the paymaite
of cur corps d'unnee paid me some days Mon. If it be
not good, as my accuser states, the fault does not rest wi h
rne, and you may convinca yourself that that is mine ,t
,hroughout all the States of my august master the Em-
peror."
" Are you speakieg the truth ?" said the Khan; casting
a suspicious look on the officer, who retained a noble and
immovable countenance.

" I am telling the truth, I call the Holy Virgin and Sr.
Nicholas to witne2r," replied Buchancf. " When a man is
worthy to bear a sword, he seeks not to save h:s life by
a lie."

‘• I suspend the judgment to b 3 awrried a,gi i Ist you,"
said the Khan, " unti the time, may it be near at hand
when your Emperor shall fall into our hands If what
you stEtc be true, you shall be free, and your Emperor
shall be punished; if you are guilty of an untruth, you
shall bo punished, and we shall settle affairs with your EIT.
peror, not like enemies, but like judges."
Four days after that horrible execution, the Russia sen-
tinels at the advanced posts of the line of Tcredt perceived
with horror, on the first break of day, six trees stripped of
the bark and covered with blood, with the impaled bodies
of the victims, disfigured by the convuhions of that horri-
ble punishment, suspended thereto.

THE WEATHER.

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