The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-20 00:00:00

EXCHANGE ON LONDON,

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—emirs Authenlique.

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUSSELS, Ace. 17.—Sir Robert Adair will leave Brussels
in a few days, having obtained leave of absence ; he is going
to Paris.

General Evain, taking advantage of the leave of absence
which he has obtained from his Majesty, is gone to Ostend,
whence he will proceed to France, where his private affairs
make his presence necessary.

We learn that General Van Halen has been conveyed from
Madrid to Barcelona • there he embarked for a foreign country.
It is supposed that he has landed at some French port in the
Mediterranean.

The pleadings on the trial at Mons continued yesterday, and
will probably be concluded to-day. Aceordinf, to all appear-
ance, the verdict will be delivered on the following night.
The proceedings have shown that the charges against a great
number of the prisoners are by no means so serious as they
were supposed to be. Many of them, in fact, appeared
to have no fault but impudent curiosity ; others are
the blind instruments of people who did not come forward,
and were urged to commit excesses, which were doubtless to
be condemned, but for which five months' imprisonment seems
to be a sufficient punishment.
Of the 77 prisoners four only appear as instigators, namely
Abts, Winekelmans, M. Coninck, as author and distributor,
and Crickx, as printer of the famous inflammatory pamphlet.
The others are accused of having taken a more or less active
part in the pillage and destruction of several houses.
M. Ravay, who conducted the prosecution, declared in his
final address to the Court, that he gave up the accusation
against ten of the prisoners, who he said ought not to have
been arrested. He thought that with respect to 34 others
there were not sufficient grounds for a sentence of condemna-
tion, but would leave it to the jury to decide; in the cases of
ten others he found circumstances that palliated their offence,
and pressed very slightly the charges against them.
The only persons against whom he seriously pressed the
charge were Abto, as author, and Crickx, as printer of the
pamphlet. He did not find the evidence against Winckel-
mans and Coninck sufficient. He persisted in considering
Abts as the author of the pamphlet, which he looks on as the
sole cause of the disorders, and infers the culpability of. Crickx,
from the mystery he observed in proinoting the inflammatory
publication. He also enforced the accusation against Donies,
who is represented as having taken part in all the riots since
/en and as having, on the sth April last, been very active lc
forming and encauraging bards of plunderer:.
oze tueg, which must excite surprise is that one of the leaders

in those disgusting scenes, who was seen every where, and
recognised especially by M. Schoevarts, jun., has not been ar-
rested, and is not even mentioned in the proceeding as having
absconded. We mean the individual called by the witnesses
the Petit bland, who, they say, seemed to direct every thing.
On the whale, what is the result of all the 'discussions ? It
is that the most guilty are not among the' prisoners secured ;
that neither the Commissaries of Police nor the Mili-
tary Officers did their duty; that the inaction of the
troops is chiefly to be ascribed to the Commandant of the
place, and that if the,acts of pillage were not stopped at the
very commencement, it is because there was no desire to do
so.—Courrier Beige.
Yesterday being settling-day in our Exchange, passed over
without any remarkable failures, notwithstanding the fluctua-
tion in Spanish stock. A speculator, not named, is said to
have paid differences to the amount of 40,000 florins.—Brus-
sels Papers, Aug. 18.