The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-16 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BatrssrLs, JAN. 11.—Yesterday all the Ministers met
at the hotel of M. de Meulenaere. General Belliard was
also present, and when the meeting broke up despatches
were sent to our Envoy in London. There was a council
of Ministers in the evening.
JAN. 12.—An English cabinet messenger passed through
here last night. He came from Berlin, and had despatches
both for Sir R. Adair and for the London Conference.
A Prussian cabinet messenger, also from Berlin, passed
through this morning, with despatches for the Conference
at London. He said that he believed he carried the ac-
ceptance of the twenty-four articles by his Prussian
Majesty.
JANUARY 13.—M. de Meulenaere has not accompanied
the King to Ghent, as was reported.
The Chamber of Representatives met yesterday, when
it appeared that there were 39 Members absent without
leave, and only 51 present. The two preceding days there
had not been even enough Members to debate. After the
reading of some petitions, M. F. Merode, complaining
of the negligence of the Members in returning to their
post, made a formal proposal that the Members should
henceforth be paid only for the days of their actual attend-
ance or absence on leave.

His Majesty's answers to the Chamber of Commerce
and other public bodies have given great satisfaction,
A grand dinner was given at the Tow►-hall, when the
King had on his right hand General Belliard and the
Bishop of Ghent, and on his left the Burgomaster and
General 'Mellon. His Majesty afterwards went to the
theatre, where he was welcomed with the most rapturous
acclamations by the crowded and brilliant audience.
On the 12th the King gave priva e audiences to the
Burgomaster and several other persons; then visited
several public establishments, and gave their colours to the
troops. His M ,jesty was to give an entertainment at
five o'clock, and in the evening to go to a grand fete at
the Town-hall.—Brussels Papers, Jan. 14.
Wattsaw, JAN, 3.—An ordinance dated January the
27th, 1831, signed by Prince Paskewitsch and Prince
Gortschaknw, fixed the allowances to be given for their
support for the officers of the Polish army, their widows,
and orphans. The preamble says, " The infatuation of
the Polish army in following the suggestions of agitators,
was the foundation of the disasters that have afflicted the
country. Destined to defend the throne, and preserve
order iu the country, the Polish army violated its oath,
drew its sword against its Sovereign, and thus deprived
itself of the rights granted to it by former ordinances. But
in consideration of the distress of the officers who have not
left the kingdom, but have wholly sukmitted to his Ma-
jesty's clemency, the Emperor has been pleased to grant
them, so long as they are destitute of the means of sub-
sistence, such relief as cin be afforded them without im-
posing new taxes on the country, which has suffered so sc.
verely by their former errors and obstinacy."
General Witt has given notice that from the new year
persons will be allowed to go through the streets till mid-
night without lanterns, and carriages to drive about the
whole night. _ _ _

STOCKHOLM, JAN. 3.—Count Willenstadt was attacked
with a severe fit of illness on Christmas eve, but is getting
better. His Majesty honoured him with a visit on the 29th.

The Norwegian Papers propose a voluntary subscription
towards building and finishing the Royal Palace, for which
the Diet has refused the funds, but which would give em-
ployment to many persons now out of work.
Accounts from Also of the 20th ult. say, that the cho-
lera had again spread there. On the 16th there were two
new cases; on the 17th, twelve; on the 12th, nine (seve-
ral of the higher classes): nine died immediately, and one
recovered.
HAMBURG, JAN. 10.—On the 6th we had nine cholera
patients remaining. There have been since, four new
cases, six recoveries, and five deaths, so that there are only
two remaining.—Hamburg Papers, Jan. 10.
BEKLIN, JAN. S.—There are only two cholera patients
remaining. The passage of English, French, and Russian
couriers to and from London, Paris, and Petersburgh, is
very
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
frequent.—Humbury Papers, Jan. 10.

HAMBURG, JAN. 10.-13734 ; two months, 13 64.
BREMEN,
JA JAN. 6
-6 .
.'4Two months, 612.
BERLIN, N. 7.
PETERSBURGII, DEC. 27.-109-16.
HAMBURG, JAN. 10.--BonsEN HALLE, HA IS-PAST
Two O'CLOCK.—The Stock-market has been inactive
since the commencement of the present year, but prices
today were somewhat firmer ; discount five per cent.
End of January.
Anglo-Danish Loan 3 per Cent. 63
Anglo-Russian Loan
9'2
Hamburg-ltus‘ian Loan
Russian Inscription, 5 per Cent.
Russian Inscription, 1831
Polish Bonds
Austrian Bank Shares llO2
Ditto Metailiques
New Austrian 4 per Cents. 8.57i
76
—Hamburg Reporter.

The publication of yesterday's Observer com-
menced at its usual hour of five o'clock on Sunday morn-
ing, and finished at eight, containing the Coroner's In-
quest on Colonel BRERE'row, which was received at the
Observer Office, by express, from Bristol, and appeared
in the whole of the large publication of the Observer ex-
clusively'. A Monday afternoon edition of the, Observer
is regularly published at four o'clock every Monday after-
noon, admirably adapted for country and foreign circula-
iinn,—The price of the Observer Sevenpence.

INQUEST UPON THE BODY OF COLONEL

THOMAS BRELIETON.

BRISTOL, JAN. 14.
The inquest on the body of this unfortunate gentle-
man was held at his resid, nce this morning, at the
hour of eleven o'clock, before WILLIAM JOYNER
ELLIS, E.g., Coroner for the county of Glouces•er.
The Jury having been sworn, proceeded in the
first instance to view the body. I: was extended cn
the bed,. exactly in the same position in which it
was found at the period of his death.
Colonel Bieraori had taken off his dressing-gown,
waistcoat, and stock, which were laid upon a chair at
the foot of the bed. He had lain down on his back
outside the clothes ; his right arm was extended,
whilst the left, with which he had ob; ionsly com-
mitted the fatal act, was bent toward, his load,
apparently in consequence of a convulsive movement
at the instant of dissolution. The eyes of the deceased
were open, and the expression of the countenance
was fixed and ghastly. There was a wound in the
left side, immediately opposite the heart, from which
there had issued a copious hemorrhage; part of the
shirt was scorched and burnt, apparently from the
firing of the pistol, and it, together with the sheets,
was dyed with blood. The pistol with which the
wound had been inflicted was found upon the floor,
its fellow was placed upon the mantel-piece, and
two or three guns were hung against the wall of the
afar tment.

Mary Anne Pitchforth, the first witness exa-
mined, deposed that she has been housekeeper to
the deceased about sixteen years. The last time she
saw him alive was about two o'clock on Friday
morning. He had not then gone to bed. He had
returned home the previous night about elevi n
o'clock, but he did not retire to his bed-room fir
some hours afterwards. His usual hour of going to
bed was about ten o'clock. Witness left him in the
sitting-room after he came home, and she heats]
him walking about for some time. During the in-
terval he had remained up, the witness was once or
twice in and out of the sitting-room. She saw him
with pen, ink, and paper, and observed hint throw-
ing the papers into the fire. It had been always his
custom to visit his children ere retiring to rest, but
he did not do so on Thursday night. Witness was
that night with the children in the nursery. The
deceased went into his bed-room a little after too
o'clock, and after the lapse of about a quarter of n
hour, she (witness) heard a pistol fired there. Beirg
much frightened by the report of it, she wait d for
a few moments, and then going into the bed-room,
she beheld the deceased lying quite dead, in the
exact position in which the body at present was
upon the bed. Life was completely extinct. The
candle which the Colonel had brought up was burn-
ing in the room at the time. The witness bad lat-
ttehrely
deceased
a eded
fregmre‘avth ffereat tthnee i
de
usually
the manner of
steaily been. He
used to call her several times for things to place
before him. The difference in his manner she
remarked more particularly these last few days
than before. He appeared to be a great deal
worse since his attendance on the Court-martial,
especial on Monday, the first day of its meet-
ing. He returned home that day, apparently
much distracted. Before this period his spirits
had been low, and she had remarked that depression
of spirits ever since the time of the riots. For tl e
last few days he was in the habit of walking through
the room, and knocking the things about. He
would ring the 'bell for witness, and when she came
would speak to her as if he was out of his mind. He
would then tell her that he did not know what he
said. The state of his mind gradually got worse
since Monday last. On Thursday night lie did not
go into the nursery to kiss and bid good night to
his children,—a thing which he never omitted to
do before. When she found her master shot, she
gave the alarm, and sent one of the servants off to
his uncle, Colonel Coghlan, at Bath. There was no
one in the room when the occurrence took place.
(This witness was in tears whilst giving her evi-
dence, and on retiring from the room she fainted.)
James Wilson, the footman of the deceased, de-
posed that he had been in the service of Lieutenant-
Colonel Bret., ton for the last seven years. Saw hint
for the last time when he came home from Bristol
with his gardener at eleven o'clock on Thursday
night. He looked down, and did not give his usual
commands to witness, but entered the house
without speaking to him. He (witness) never
saw his mater afterwards, until he saw him
dead.—(Here the witness burst into tears.) He
(witness) had retired to bed that night a little
after one o'clock. He slept in the kitchen along
with the gardener. About three o'clock in the
morning the housekeeper came down, and awakening
him told him what had occurred. He immediately
went up to his master's bed-room. The candle
was burning on the mantel-piece, and there was
smoke in the room. On looking into the bed, the
curtains of which were drawn, he saw his master
quite dead, in the exact position in which the body
at present was. On going round to the side of the
bed he observed a wound, and in the morning,
when the shutters of the room were opened, he
found the pistol that had been discharged lying on
the floor near the bedside. His master had placed
his watch, comb, and spectacles, on the mantel-
piece, instead of putting them by his bedside, which
was his usual custom. He always had his guns and
pistols loaded in the room, and he usually kept his
pistols on the chair by the bedside. On last Mon-
day night his master was apparently somewhat
cheerful ; on Tuesday night he was rather down in
his spirits ; and on 'Wednesday night he was still
worse. He (witness) cannot speak of any peculiar
change that he observed in his master's manner. On
the last night he came home, as witness has already
stated, lie did not look at him, but held down his
head, as if in trouble. He was always accustomed
to speak to witness before. His pistols were re-
gularly loaded on Thursday night as usual, and he
was always prepared against robbers, of whom there
was much talk in the neighbourhood. The neigh-
bourhood is a remarkably bad one. When witness
saw the pistol which he found on the floor in the
morning, it evidently appeared as if recently dis-
charged. The pistols were loaded with balls and slugs.
The servants that were in the house with witness,
were the gardener, the housekeeper, and a little girl.

Dr. Augustus Lewis Loinsworth examined—ls a
physician, and is surgeon to the forces. Ile knew
Colonel Brereton first about twenty years ago, in
the West Indies. During the last thirteen months
witness has known him intimately, as he has been
his commanding officer in this district. Parted with
the Colonel for the last time on Thursday night, at
a quarter before eleven, at Reeve's Hotel. He
shook hands with witness and another friend, and
got into his gig to go home. Had been with Colo-
nel Brereton from five o'clock that evening until the
hour he mentioned, and had remarked that his man-
ner was very peculiar. Indeed, for the last two
months, from the period of the riots, he had b; en
in a state of extreme agitation, and labouring under
a great degree of excitement. Observed him lat-
terly both speak and do the most inconsistent things,
such as he had never noticed in him before. That
change of mariner, was more particularly observable
on Thursday evening last, during which he gave the
most inconsistent directions to his Counsel, Mr.
Erle. Indeed, so altered was his manner on that
occasion, that the impression on witncss's mind when
he parted from him was, that something unpleasant
would occur before morning. Recollects having
said to Major Ellard, when he parted from him that
night, that, " judging from the strong excitement
under which Colonel Brereton appeared to labour,
something wrong might occur before morning."

By a Juror—When such was the impression of
Witness, wliy did he not prevent Colonel Brereton
from being left alone ?
Witness replied, that aware cf the great avael:-
went which Colonel Brereton bore to his children,
it was his impression that, on his returning home,
their being in the house with him would prevent
him from attempting any thing against himself. Cc-
lonel Brereton had been a Major in the West
India Rangers, and he was the inspecting field-
Aker of the district, Witness was not aware of

his having received any wound or accldent. His
health, latterly, had not b-en good. He suffered
under a visceral complaint, a derangement of the
secretions of the liver, for which witness attended
him, and which complaint was much aggravated by
the state of mind) in which C-rlonel Biereton had
been for the last ten weeks. In fact, at the time of
the riots the Camel was suffering from the effects
of a recent severe liver attack, and he was very unfit
ler making active exertions in such a matter. In-
deed, be had been for the last three months in a
state of feverish excitement. His pulse was high,
les tongue loaded, and he had little or no eppetite.
His habits were always exceedingly temperate.
Witness, referring to the question put by one of
the Jury, why care was not taken of him on Thurs-
dsy night, observed that such was the state of fe-
verish excitement under which Colonel Brereten
laboured on that night, the mete mention of any
such thing would have increased his complaint ten-
fold. His excitement, in fact, on Thursday evening,
was greater than witness had ever before observed
it. The witness was not at the Court-martal, as,
being one of those which were to be called as wit-
nesses, ! e was not allowed to be present. On
Thursday night the deceased wanted his counsel,
Mr. Erie, to propose such things to the Court es a
military man, or any man in his senses, must have
known would not have been acceded to. Cr.lonel
11-ereton, while witness attended him, was not re-
ported ill, as he was still able to attend to his duties.
The deceased has left two daughters only, the eldest
about six, and the second about three years old. He
was au exceedingly fond father, indeed in his ge
vend disposition he was a most kind, benevolent,
and humane man ; and as to his principles of honour,
,f anything, he hail almost too high a sense of it.
From the position in which the body lay, he would
say that the death of the deceased must have been
instantaneous: he could not have struggled a mo-
ment, as the ball must have passed through the heart.
The Jury immediately found the following verdict
—" lied from a pistol wound, inflicted by himself,
while under a temporary detangement."
Toe two orphan girls, who are most interesting
children, were observed looking through the cottage
,vitelow, apparently unconscious of the grievous be-
reavement which they had suffered.
Colomlßrerezon was a native of Ross, in Ireland,
and was about 50 years of age. He had served in
the West Indies, at the Cape of Good Hope, and in
o her quarters of the globe, and in appearance bore
evident marks of the hardships incidental to a mill.-
taiy life. Toe estimation in which he was held by
Iris immediate friends is powerfully evinced by their
deep sorrow for his sad end ; and the sobbings of
his servants, whilst under examination at the inquest,
show how much he was beloved by his household.
Iu a leaf of the Bible used for swearing in the Jury,
were memoranda of his marriage at Marylebone
Church, with Miss Oliva Moss, in 1823; the
b!rths of his children ; and concluded, " 14th of
January, 1829, three o'clock in the morning, my be-
loved wife, Olivia, died at my house, in Clifton-
wood." This obituary drew the attention of some
present to the remarkable coincidence, that they were
then inquiring into the cause of his death on the
very anniversary of her decease ; and it was re-
marked by others, that it was more than probable,
in the aberration of his mind, he had mistaken the
day of the month on which he had committed the
fatal act.