The Sun.
London, England, 1804-05-05 00:00:00

t.r,er titer brings infamy on -his name for ever.
t'at -.ndividual is Ai r. who arrived here
with the Army, and with a very considerable capi,
tat, as4sted by a very skilful brotfter ; he transaet-
rd a ta•t deal of bu-iness with Government, in
which he had made a great deal of money ; but un.
fortunately his business led.him to concerns with
some Staff Officers and Generals, who had drawn
from him the essence of all his toil. Those Officers
having incurred the disgrace of the General
havi'ng been sent away with indignity, the
hatred of the General after their departure fell upon
him, whom he thought. to be their most intimate
friend, when in fad he had been their sport and viaim.
- and were then put in prison', and this,
morning the General gave orders to have them shot'
at eight o'clock, in case they had not: paid their
sum. said plainly' that he would 'not pay
one tiol,ar ro that damned General : that he would
Luker he shot. This man is about 6o years of
age, and has always lived in the most independent
manner, an old bachelor, unattached to life by any.
ntimental afEcaion, assuming even a
,kind of
Ct n;ei.vn in society,.excusable on acrount of
,his old
age anti ancient habits. , His" friends nevertheless
liherated him against his own will, and were o4lig_
el tv (Ira,: him from prison ; he would not stir from
it-, and wished to be shot ; he was extremely angry
ihuse who had caused the sum unposed on him_
to be i.i.
As to Mr -, he was scarcely known,by any
vi-on, but
,those employed by Government, not
,nl.; in town those real friends, the organs of
;tic Ad attachment, he did hot find people so
tai;.:l to release him as Mr. ; lie arrlird-to
11. e Assembly of the Notables, and whilst'this Ay
sinbly.,,called a Meeting of a certain number of
Merchants to cimmoniFate tis them the deplorable
siluaskn :of thtir. fellow-citizen, poor - was
led to the place of execution,. notwithstandinK
the certain assurance of General Rocx4mß AU,
that it at suA an hour the sum-was culleat.d, he

would or,ion
T!‘,-7.-9fficer; hearer of, that suspension, was wait.
in fl the result of the endeaiours of the Assembly
of 'Notables in fav,,ur of they had succeeded
io raising the sum, by each of them contributing
thereto ; and when they went to inform the General
of tiwir success, the unfortunate man did nut exist
any More.. Form to yourself an idea of the sensation
this awful catastrophe excited in the 'minds of the
rub.ie ! Every one was trembling, for fear that a
sec:4ld list -snouid be made our, and that the same
means should be einplo)ed, to extort from them the
last ti,llar they,vobsessed. The Council of Notables
resolved to wait on General ROCHAMB EAU, and to
ask ':-tire explanation with respeet to his final in.
tic answered, with a torrent of cdises
against the Merchants of the Cape—" who, he
" were hat Egotists, and from whom he had
not rec?ived the ;east offer of assistance : that he
stood 'to ~ted of eight hundred thousand livres to pay
the Troops, and that he wood have them in the
eour;e rf t w ;:;e twent 1 -four hours, should he sacri-
fice half the Cape."
It was propsed to him to leave to the Notables
the' care 1,, taising the loan of this assessment, ac_
cording to the known or suppotied faculties of the
Pulsiic, to which consented. -The COtrncil of Not-
ables called to its assistance twelve' of the most en-
ed Citizens of every class to inake the sub-
flit ,n,

Two days previous to this rumour, I was elefled
to replace 'one of the Notables, who went home to
France; and the Con,titu;ion riot alloying me (at
least at St. Domingo) to refuse such election, I was
oliiigfti to accept of it. But as I was not yet re-
ceived as such, I was only called as an assistant to
that Assembly. I moat be there again this even-
ing, to aid and assist in the completing of the sub-
k'iv-ision of the roan tax. The Assembly had al.
ready agreed to a decision, whereby it was resolved,
that the Maters of Vessels and Foreigners should
be put en,er contribution, as being the most pro_.
vided ,with cash to dispose of. This resolution was
sent to the General, to obtain his approbation. Ge-
neral ROCHAMBEAU sent them to hell, saying,
'6 11...;0t their resolution, it is money I want."—
' But, General, be so good as to take into your con-
sidcration the a-Ica:Aires employed to raise the sum."
1-k then took th:t paper,-and wrote at the foot', -" I
want Soo,doo byres to-morrow evening."
(To be cwinued.).

PUBLIC-OFFICE,. MARLBOROUGH.STREET.
Yestertby a Coachman,'• in the service of Lady
Wake, charged a respeOable livery.itable keeper, at
the West . End of the Town,• with committing an-
assault upon him, in consequence of some altercation
+i:l, they- had abQut'a haft of-horses, which it was
expected her Ladyship would buy frOm the keeper of
Cie livery stables.. It appears that a custom prevails
airlog the grooms and coachmen of persons of for.
rune, of demanding a sum of money from the seller
of a horse, for their recommendation of it to 'their.
master or mistress. This demand is too frequently
complied with, on account of the smallness of the
sum which is demanded. In other instances, where
the seller wishes to take advantage of the want
of knowledge in the buyer, he will not scruple
to give a greater premium to the servant. The
Deteodant , that in the present case he could
prove that .the horses were sound, and yet he said,
that the co'achthan demanded so high. a fee as tot.
berme he would give a favourable opinion of them
to his mistress. When next saw do. coachwan.
.snore angry' words passed between them, and the
Defendant said that the. complainant gave him the
lie; upon which-he told him that.if he would repeat
:..tech language, he would knock him down. The
words w ere repeated, and he confessed that he was
as good as his word, and knocked the man down
immediate!). _ _ _