The Sun.
London, England, 1802-01-07 00:00:00

(COPY----ANSWER.)

• sot, •'• Aherdeen, De" cesilet 25, 18ot.
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lam much 'honoured 'arid high(}' gratified with the senti-
ments you have boen pleased to express in your Letter of the
23d, and in the very flattering manner they .apply to the
Corps of Volurit6ers`which I have the Honour to Command.
Many of the Individuals who compose the Battalion have
the honour to be personally known to you. Their situation
in lite, their charaeler, rioti principles, are such as have of to Government the best pledge, and to me a degree of
confidence which it has been invariably' tny pride and plea-
sure tocheriSh and maintain; . .

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We have always experienced froth you,, Sir, that unrerriiii-
ting and kind attention,Which-has made our public duty feel
light, and-which, joined to•this` last testimony of your flat-
tering approbation, will le.ave upon our minds an impression
of gratitude, respea, and obligation, Which no lapse of time
will be able to efface. .

Witlimuch Tosffea, - • • •
i.havelltelionoUr to be,
SIRJ
Your•most obviient humble Servant;
(Signed) T. BANNERMAN,
Lieut. Col. Commandant,
R. A. V.

Major-General HAY,,
Conimanding the islorthern,
District, Aberdeen.

.Monday morning as a young woman was crossing
the fields leading front Stepney to Whitechapel
Church, she . was, accosted by two women, who
began telling, a lamentiaile tale of distress, observ.
ing that their husbands were On. board. the fleet
in the Mediterranean, and that being out of all
employment, and their children feduced_eVen to
Want a morsel of bread, therefore assured her the
smallest relief would be thankfully received The
Lady, thinking the, story to be real, pulled out
her purse, containing. two 7s. pieces. and half-a.'
crown, when the Sturdy beggars snatched it from
her hands,. and immediately made oft towards Rat.,
cliff-highway, and,• got clear. out, of fight before
anyone; came up.

Sunday..rnorning, between one and two o'clock
a fire broke out in a tin-shop, behind the Neptune's
Coffee-housey Liverpool, and under the office of
Mr. Ferguson, Printer, both of which premises
were totally destroyed, •though we are happy to
say withUut commuoicating to the stables of the,
B}ack HorSe and, rainbow, Which immediately ad_
'joined. Mr. Ferguson's loss, of which but II small
part was insured, amounts to neat :4901, 0
The Clara, Willems, from.Pctersburgh to Am.
sterdam, is lost at BCrnholm. , •

PuuLic
.OFFICE, SHADlVELL.—Yesterday two
persbns of the names of Doyle and. Brewer were
fully committed for trial from this Office, being
Charged by a Gentleman in the city with knocking
him clown in Red Lion-street, Goodman's-fields,'
about seven o'clock in the evening, on Stinday the
17th ult. and robbing him of a watch.
James Salmon was examined on suspicion of rob.
Ding a Gentleman hear the Half-way House,. Step.
ney,' of abont ph in Cash,' besides his watch., Se.
-veral othCr Charges of felonies were exhibited.
--a,ainst him, but owing to the great number of rob.
,beries that:have lately been committed, he was re-
m-And-cid for farther examination on Saturday next,

FOREIGN' INTELLIGENCE.

FRONTIERS OF RUSSIA, D&c.

TUE .ENiP EROR has communicated to the Direr -
ing Senate, the following Ukase :

" I have learned to my extreme sorrowohat on
occasion of the frequent'Aresin the city of Casan,
a Citizen of that place, on whom suspicions had
fallen,. was arrested and examined, and as he did,
not confess, a confession was extorted from him by
tbe rack; and he tvls delivered over to justice.—
During the course of the legal investigation,- where
it was possible, he retratted the confession so ex-
torted, and asserted his innocence ; but cruelty and
prejudice did not listen to his voice, but condemned
him to public punishment. During the execution
of the sentence, when he could. no longer save him-
felf by a false declaration, he appealed to GOD to
witness his innocence, in the presence of,all the peo-
ple, and died in asserting it. So crying an-aa of
cruelty, so oppressive an abuse of confided power,
and the violation of the laws.in so essential and im.
portant an oblea,- induced Me to wish to be satis-
fied of the truth of this occurrence, by a circdm-
ktantial examination on the_ spot, and for that pur-
pose I dispatched express to Casan, my Adjutant,
Colonel ALDEDYfiL, with instruuions minutely to
examine all the circumstances of the case with his

known impartiality.:—His report,
igrotinded do ocu-
- -Lir demonstration, has, to. my extreme grief, nor only
~confirmed the accounts I had received, but assures
me that such inhuman and illegal measures' have
been frequently adopted by that Government. I
lay this report,. and all the proofs on which it is
hounded, in the original, before the Direfting Senate;
and recommend to them immediately to enter
upon the examination of them; and to try with the
utmost severity of the laws, all those who, upon
this occasion, shall be found guilty of an abuse of
power, either in giving such orders, or in the exe-
cution of them, or of manifest partiality ; to have
. no respea to the person of 'any man, and to pro..
ceed to the suspension of the parties from their of-
fices ; to propose candidates for the places which de-
pend upon our confirmation,- and to fill the remain-
der according to the established order, with descry.
ing persons of rank. The Direaing Senate sensible
Of the impottance of this abuse, and to what degree
it violates the first principles of the administration
of justiee,' and is Subversive of all civil rights, will
not neglea.to inculcate generally, in the strietest
manner, that no one, in any respea, either among
the superior or inferior officers of justice, shall order,
permit, or put in execution, punishments under
threats, or the terrors of an insupportable and cruel
infliaion ; that the Ministers of Justice, to whom
the revision of criminal proceedings lawfully be-
longs, shall take the, personal examinations of the ac-
cused, according to legal principles ; that there be
no • partial infliction during the examination ; and,
lastly, that all punishments by torture
_shall be for
ever rooted out of the minds of the people; as a
disgrace and .a reproach to mankind."