The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-10 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

IMPUDENT FRAUD.—CAUTION TO F'ARMERS.—. George
Knight, a man dressed like a farmer, was charged under
the following circumstances :—On Thursday se'nnight
Mr. W. Pinker, of Lessness Heath, nesx Woolwich, sent
his son, aged sixteen, to town, with a quantity of hay to
4.11. On the outskirts of London he met with the
prisoner, who got into conversation with him, and off:red
to dispose of the hay at a commission of 3s. per load. He
then got the unsuspecting lad to leave halt a load of hay
at the stables of Mrs. Martin, Chenie Mews, Tottenham-
court.road, and directed him to drive to London Mews,
Oxford-street, where he would follow with the money,
and sell the rest. The prisoner, however, never followed
him, and it appeared that he had sold the hay to Mrs.
Martin for 1/. 154., and decamped with the money.
The prisoner, who was apprehended from a description
of his person, was fully committed for trial.

QUEEN- SQUARE.

ANOTHER MUTINY IN ST. iIARGARET'S WORKHOUSE.

—Matilda Fellows, Amelia Francis, Ann Titmouse,
Jane Bell, and Mary Ann Moody, inmates of St. Mar-
garet's Workhouse, whose ages vary from ten to fourteen
years, were charged with riotous conduct, and wilfully
breaking upwards of twenty panes of glass. It was stated
that the prisoners were constant'y in the habit of making
a noise in the workhouse, but more especially at night,
when the old women were asleep. Immediately after the
anes had dropped into the arms of Morpheus, the young,
ladies commenced their frolics, and nothing appeared to
give them greater delight than awakening, by their shouts
and vociferation*, the testy old inmates of the ward from
their slumbers, and listening to their threats and complaints,
which were sure to be met with hearty bursts of laughter.
The prisoners were detected as the principal actors in this
sort of entertainment, notwithstanding they had pulled the
bed-clothing over their heads and feigned to be asleep,
when the remainder of the inmates were raised to a per-
pendicular position in their beds in consequence of the con-
tusion. As a punishment for their offence, they were ordered
to be locked up in a bed .room by themselves for the night,
which was immediately put in execution. At an early hour
this morning, the master of the workhouse was
alarmed by a tremendous crash of glass, proceeding from
the room where the girls were confined. He, with others,
instantly repaired thither, and there, to his surprise, dis-
covered nearly every pane of glass demolished. The po!iee
were called in, and the prisoners taken into custody.
When a policeman took hold of Moody, who appeared to
be the most violent, she asked permission to go back for a
piece of bread. He consented; but on her reaching the
loom she dashed her hand through another pine of glass,
and making use of a disgusting expression, said, " Now
that makes four to me."

The girls said they had no dinner the day before, and
were kept on bread and water. One of the girls said she
broke four panes, when she was contradicted by another,
who said she had broken only three, it being herself that
hroke four. They appeared to glory iu their work of
destruction, and were near quarrelling while at the bar
about who broke the greater number of panes.
Mr. GREGORIE convicted the girls in the penalty of
eighteen shillings each for the wilful damage, and in default
of payment sentenced them to six weeks' imprisonment
each in the House of Correction.

RETFORD.—The return of Lord LUMLEY
and G. C. GARDINER, Esq., two staunch Reformers, is
confidently anticipated. Mr. HOULDSWORTII, the other
candidate, has suspended the labours of all his attorneys,
reserving them for a future opportunity! This looks
well ! !—Nottingham Paper.

BERWICKSHIRE REGISTRATION.--The
constituency of this county, including the old freeholders,
amounts to I,o47.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.
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ending on Tuesday, was 2561. 2s. 3d.
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NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.—Lord DUN-
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and his arrival was speedily made known to his friends,
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ANTWERP.

(From the Times.)
ANTWERP, FRIDAY, Dec. 7.

The proceedings of the siege of the citadel now continue
as usual in similar cases : at one moment there appears a
cessation of firing, at another the artillery of all sorts is at
play on both sides, mixed frequently with musquetry.
The zig-zag works of the besiegers approach the citadel
very fast, and of course the firing of the wall pieces ren-
ders the loss of lives much greater than during the former
days. Those works are now described as advanced even
in the rear of the Fort St. Laurent, and to very near the
citadel, close to the ditch of the city, leading from Monte-
bello Fort. The silence of some batteries leads persons to
suppose that their position is about to he altered, but of
this intention there is no means of having a certainty.
Rumours of all kinds are of course current ; the party
spirit prevailing in the neighbourhood spreads those which
are most agreeable to the feelings of its adherents. Hence
some maintain that the French three times attacked Fort
St. Laurent, from which they were repulsed. I have been
assured by those who are well acquainted with the pro-
ceedings, that they have not yet attempted it; although
very near, even on the crest of its glacie.
This siege is of course an object of public curiosity ; and
many idlers of different countries, and some of the un-
fledged Britons, have come hither. The absurdities, or
rather the crudities, of persons who have perhaps learned
tactics in a barrack-room, and diplomacy in a Sunday
newspaper, place them in a ludicrous light. They could
almost challenge Marshal Gerard for not allowing them a
full license to parade the trenches and the batteries at any
hour they choose, and the Commandant of the town is
" no gentleman," because he will not permit them, at a
moment when telescopes from the spire might produce
bombardment of the city, to ascend its most elevated
building. One of the most amusing features of their di-
plomacy is, that they know everything Dutch is good,
and that the Belgians are of course the contrary. They
do not conceal, even in the presence of Frenchmen, their
wishes that the French troops may be cut to pieces. Al-
though their proper place is in the citadel, they cringe to
the French officers for leave to enter the trenches, where
they ought to know that all is obscured as in a ditch.
Their statements may be brought forward hereafter in
England as of eye-witnesses; but one must beware of
trusting to them, for the blue devils haunt them here, and
spoil their paintings. All the British here do not belong
to this category. There are some brilliant exceptions of
officers whose scientific knowledge—whsee personal expe-
rience—whose polished manners command respect, and
to whom, in future campaigns, our country may look
with confidence to maintain her ancient glory. To these
the French behave with politeness, and afford the greatest
facilities consistent with duty and safety.
In the citadel the French shells have produced several
conflagrations, among which, in addition to those men-
tioned in my former letter, were the smaller barrack,
Chasse's house, &c. At 2 o'clock this day a quantity of
shells (150 to 180) blew up in the Dutch magazine of
the bastion of the citadel near the Esplanade, called
d'Alba, which to the soldiers in the trenches had first the
appearance of a firing from the town. The citadel, there-
fore, suffers much in external appearance, and Genet-:,I
Chasse has had his Dutch phlegm roused so as to send on
Wednesday to Marshal Gerard a rude, ill-worded, ill-
arranged, note, to which a very decided reply has been
g.ven. I remit you both those documents, so as to enable
you to form an accurate judgment. Were Ito offer an
opinion, it would simply be that Chasse finds the siege
much more vexatious than he expected, and he threatens
in a most ill-tempered manner, in order to frighten the
inhabitants, who look upon him now as a muzzled tiger,
whose paws are tied; if he does mischief to them, he will
hasten his own ruin.

Some French balls passing over the citadel this morning
fell in the town, damaged some houses, and killed a 1n.,11
22 years old, and a boy, besides having wounded others.
Care is now taken to prevent the recurrence of such un-
fortunate accidents.

The firing of the citadel, in proportion as the French
approach it, becomes more and more murderous. I%V 33
this night on a lofty building, where I could perceive the
triangular movement of the shells, which shows the French
rather close. The wall pieces (biscayens) do much mis-
chief, as from the embrasures each shot from them rn,ty
be now calculated as killing a soldier, and there have been
very many.

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Considerable firing took place this evening towai do
Kiel. It seems expected that the Dutch will make a salty,
in order to blow up a portion of the dike, so as to inun-
date, by the high tide at t o'clock, a portion of the French
works; but arrangements have, I understand, been tnado
to repulse them.

In the river all is quiet ; the Dutch ships of war were
this evening seen at a great distance: some had gone down
the river. The Dutch gun-boats continue in the Scheldt
opposite to the citadel; four are in the peldcrs, near the
Tete de Flandre, The small steam-boat is also their.
The Ere of the Dutch vessels could not yesterday dislotke
the soldiers of General Sebastimi's division from Fort
St. Marie.

The King, Leopold, arrived in this city yesterday eve,
ing : he has examined the different positions of the town
with much care : he drives in a private carriage, without
any parade. Some of the Orangeists have been quite in-
dignant that there should have been music played during
the dinner in the Palace. This is, I believe, a matter o:
military etiquette.

One of the newspapers states, that several guns have
been dismounted in the citadel; the stables were a!so set
on fire; the cries of the animals there have been heard in
the town.

SATURDAY MORNING, 9 O'CLOCK.
During the last two hours the firing has been far more
vehement than before on hoth sides. It is supposed tlta
the Dutch have been enabled to trace the French works.
Plans of the operations have been published in Brussels,
of which no doubt copies have been sent by the river to
the citadel. Fortunately for the French, the progress of
their approaches has enabled them to move some of their
batteries. Those publications, which at first might have
done mischief, are now inocuous.
I have read over the last correspondence between Gen,
cal Chasse and Marshal Gerard, and find that the Dutch
.scheme of delaying every thing to next spring still pre-
vails. But it is now too late. The citadel is invested in
form, and will be taken, cost what it may. If the city
he bombarded, Chasse will be ruined the sooner; so
Dutch delay is a weapon against them. Every prepara-
tion for attacking the citadel from the town is ready, so,
if Chasse attack it, there is no doubt of his speedy capture.
The King does not quit Antwerp until to-morrow.

11 O'CLOCK.

I have been to look at the river, where all is tranquil.
I heard some few shots from Fort St. Marie, as is sup-
posed, boom along the water. They are said to be des
tined to prevent some small craft from coming up the
Scheldt.

I saw the Dive!) and French sentinels converse freely
together at some distance from Fort Austeweel. The
French have erected some strong batteries on the left dike,
which, with Fort St. Marie, will effectually prevent all
communication by the river.
It is asserted, on good authority, that Chasse sent
yesterday all his wounded over to the Tete de Flandres,
which is considered a good proof that he does not intend
to attack the city, as the heavy batteries on the quay will
soon destroy that fort.

1 O'CLOCK.

The firing of the Dutch during the night wounded
and killed 40 French soldiers. It is still sharp on both
•Ides,

'the siege is acknowledged to proceed slowly, but
-surely—en regle.
The French Lave received an addition of 5,000 bombs.

THIRD LETTER OF GENERAL CHASSE.

" CITADEL OF ANTWERP, DEC, 5.
" Monsieur the Marehal,—The calamities which your
aggression calls down on the city of Antwerp during the
negotiations yet going forward to bring about the main-
tenance of peace, appear to require to be realized in their
fullest extent, in consequence of what I am as yet willing
to believe to be the results of the imprudence of your troops,
and not dictated by your will. Notwithstanding my an-
ewer B, of the 30th of November, 1832, to the second
letter which you did me the honour to address to me,
there bas been a fire frequently opened against the citadel
from Fort Montebello, and even from the rampart of the
enceinte of the city at the gate of Beguines. Those are
breaches to the bases of the arrangement which your Ex-
cellency proposed to me, as well as to those which I de-
clared in my reply.

" I believe itthet.,:fore proper to state this to your Ex-
cellency, in order to do all that lies in my power to prevent
a disastrous conflict, the results of which must for ever
devolve on the authors of an aggression, which, under-
taken at a moment when efforts were making to bring the
negotiations of peace to their conclusion, and when there
were but some trifling matters to be decided, compromises
interests so important, and which, although undertaken
with such considerable means against the point which I
occupy, does not seem to hesitate to place under fire a
city, of which its importance, as well as humanity, de-
mand the preservation.
" I am therefore to require from your Excellency, to
t. give an explanatiun on the suhject of those

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breaches which I have the honour to specify. The fort
of Montebello is so far a dependence on the place, that I
cannot abstain from returning all the fire hereafter directed
against me from that fort, as well as from the ramparts of
the enceinte. The inhabitants of Antwerp already know
me too well, and the conduct I have observed since I have
occupied this position, which conduct has been thoroughly
appreciated by their Excellencies the French and English
Commissioners of the Conference, not to be aware to whom
to attribute the calamity which menaces them, if those
provocations oblige me thereunto.
" Receive, M. the Marshal, the assurances of my high
consideration.

" Baron CHASSE, the General of Infantry."

ANSWER OF MARSHAL GERARD TO THE
THIRD LETTER OF GEN. CHASSE.
" HEAD-QUARTERS, NEAR ANTWERP, DEC. 5.

" M. the General,—ln the letter which I had the ho-
nour to write to you in the evening of the 30th of Nov.
in reply to yours of that date, I clearly explained to you
the line of conduct marked down for me by my inst: no-
tions relative to the siege of the citadel of Antwerp. I
do not demand in the name of my Government anything
more than the execution of the treaty of the 15th of Nov.
1831, a treaty signed and guaranteed. To attack the
citadel of Antwerp, which you ought to give up to me, I
now make u,e of no means but those without the enceinte
of the city ; and I quoted to you the examples and the
right which justify my conduct in this respect. By pre.
venting my fire from the interior of the city from being
opened against you, I give the strongest proof of my desire
to spare the city and its population, since the city offers
me means and a spot for attack which would promptly
bring about your destruction. My intention being to
close all communication with you, if, notwithstanding all
your statements, you inhumanly sacrifice the city of Ant-
werp, I am ready to make you feel that your conduct will
not be the less contrary to your own interests than to
humanity, and that you will repent the consequences
thereof.

" Receive the assurances of my consideration.
" Count GERARD,
" The Marshal Commander-in-Chief of the
Army of the North,"

BRUSSELS, SATURDAY NOON.
The operations of the besieging army are pressed with
vigour, and it is but justice to the Dutch garrison to say,
that its defence is made with skill, bravery, and determi-
nation worthy of a much better cause. Whatever may
have been Chasse's motive for the slight resistance he made
to the opening of the works before his citadel, it is now
perfectly evident that his abstinence was not from want of
means, and those too of a powerful kind, to resist and re-
turn the fire of his assailants. The fighting of yesterday
was of the most awful kind. From morning until night
nothing was heard but the roaring of cannons, mortars,
howitzers, and small arms, which were discharged with-
out intermission. The effect of this terrific contest was
soon visible at both side. The number of killed and
wounded was considerable. One account mentions up-
wards of 200 yesterday alone, and another says that the
writer had seen the official return, which makes the total
number of killed to be 65. I should take that to be much
below the actual number, though there is no doubt that
the loss of the French has fallen far below the calculations
that had been made before the commencement of hostili-
ties. The loss to the besieged they, of course, can con-
ceal; but they cannot conceal the destructive effect of the
fire which has been k✓pt upon them for so many days.
From the Fort Montebello it is said that one may see with
the naked eye the havoc that has been made in some
of the works, and in the citadel the effect of the French
bombs is attested by the fires which are almost hourly
visible there, and which it appears require the incessant
labours of the besieged to get under. The great barrack
seems a principal Oject at which the French artillery
direct their skill. It is said that this building is bomb-
, proof—it bad need : yet one would think that even a mass
of solid granite of the same size would soon crumble under
the fire of shot and shell which has rained upon it for
some days past. That it is not all bullet or bomb proof,
however, has been more than once attested by the flames
which have been ob.-erved to proceed from it, and which li
were no doubt kindled by shells from the French batteries.
The most deadly part of the fighting yesterday was in
the vicinity of the Lunette St. Laurent, for the occupa-
tion of which the French troops contended with great
bravery, and were as bravely repulsed by the Dutch.
The cannon in this lunette have all been dismounted or
withdrawn by the Dutch, most probably the former, for
it is hard to conceive that they would not avail them-
selves of such a means of resistance. I mention the with-
drawing, however, because it is confidently stated here,
but I don't believe it. In their attempts to take this
plate, the French have suffered considerably by the con-
stant fire of musketry kept up on them from the ram-
parts. It was expected, as I mentioned yesterday, that
the lunette would he in the possessio❑ of the French in
the course of the night, but no account has yet reached
this that it was so.

We are again told that Ch tsse has sent another messaee,
threatening to fire upon the town, unless the firing on
him was discontinued from Montebello. One of the morn-

ing papers here connects the visit of the King to the city
with this message, and adds that his Majesty's object was,
if possible, to remove the difficulty, and more to avert
the impending cilaraity. I cannot, since the morning-,
trace this report to any good authority beyond that of the
journal in which it has appeared, but I have heard the cir
cumstances out of which it has probably arisen to he
these:—Marshal Gerard wished to increase his force in

the vicinity of the Lunette Montebello, and far that pur-
pose proposed to erect a battery on the counterscarp of
the fortification on the city. This (which I mentioned
in a fainter letter) had been looked upon as a sort of neu-
tral place by the Dutch and Belgians before the arrival of
the French ; and Chasse, when he perceived the intentions
of the Marshal, sent a message to say he would not permit
th• erection of any work on that side without at once
♦isiting it upon the city. Whether the work has been
persev red in, I shall not know until I receive the estafette
from Antwerp, but it is probable it has nor, for the last ac-
counts from the army (12 o'clock last night) say that there
had not been any firing on the town. Up to that time
also the Lunette St. Laurent had not been in our possession.
The courage which the Dutch displayed yesterday in the
two sorties which tl.ey made, give, it is but justice to them
to observe, a complete refutation to some of the reports
which were circulated as to the existence of disaffection in
the garrison. One of these reports said that from the
tower of the cathedral it could be plainly seen that the
officers were obliged to use force to keep the men at their
guns. From what has yet appeared I think this exceed-
ingly improbable. This at least is certain—that by whom-
soever fired, the French officers in the batteries yesterday
bore ample and willing testimony to the excellent manner
in which the guns of the citadel were served.

In the two sorties to which I have alluded, both par-
ties behaved nobly. The first was made on the 6th, near
that well-contes,ed point the Lunette St. Laurent, and was
directed against the batteries in the centre. The sortie was
received by a battalio❑ of the 58th, who, after a sharp in-
terchange of mu'ketry, obliged the enemy to return, but
unfortunately the battalion, in the eagerness of pursuit,
advanced up to the glacis of the Lunette, where it was
exposed to the fire of the citadel, by which many were
killed and wounded. The second sortie was at 11 at night,
and was also directed against the centre batteries. It was
repulsed with equal bravery; but with much less loss to
the besiegers than that of the preceding attempt.
An Order of the Day has been published by order of
the Marshal Commander-in-Chief, in which the highest
encomiums are be,towed on the good order, discipline,
and admirable conduct of all the troops in their march
from the frontier to the citadel, and in the unexampled
zeal and bravery which they have displayed since the
commencement of the operations of the siege. Colonel
Lafaille is the only offrc:•r mentioned by name in this do-
cument, but he is spoken of in very high terms for the
manner in which he placed the troops before the parallel
on the first night, and for the zeal and intelligence dis-
played by him on every occasion since then.
You have already seen that both the Princes have been
baptized as it is called. The Duke of Orleans, it appears,
has had a second escape,—an officer standing by his side
was wounded in the shoulder, and in a moment after a
cannon shot struck the ground about two paces from where
he stood.

The following extracts from the Morning Papers carry
forward the accounts of the siege :
EIGHTH DAY OF THE SIEGE.

BERCHEM, DEC. 7 (EVENING).
For the last 36 hours the defence of the citadel has as-
sumed a most serious aspect. The slight resistance offered
during the first days against our works, the slender fire
kept up against us, and the ease with which the pieces
were dismounted in the batteries on the citadel, make us
now the more sensible of the change which has taken place
in their system of defence. Yesterday at nightfall, about
5 o'clock, three or four companies made a sortie from the
citadel, and kept up a well-directed tire on our workmen.
From an early hour in the morning a smart fusilade was
kept up, and continued throughout the day, from the
Lunette Sr. Laurent (still in the possession of the be-
sieged), by which our troops were much annoyed. We
could distinctly perceive the (Dutch) soldiers coming for-
ward to the parapets, discharging their muskets, and re-