The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 184

and branch, less, however, by the troops of ALE.
ANDER than the avenging elements of Heaven, BBL.
Nenorrn, after a brief season of irresolution, joined
the Allies, who were then just preparing to enter on
that tremendous campaign, which, at the battle of
Leipsic, destroyed for ever the fortunes of NAPOLEON.
His movements, however, were at first tardy and re-
luctant, and were regarded by some of the Allied
Powers not without distrust; but at Leipsic he
came resolutely into action, and contributed not a
little to the success of that bloody day. On
the termination of the great European struggle, he re-
turned to his adopted country, to which, in conside-
ration of his services, the Allies had annexed Nor-
way ; and devoted his whole time—for, by all ac-
counts, he was a just and beneficent monarch—to
the welfare of his sukiects. , Of all NAPOLEON'S
Marshals, none maintained a higher character for
justice, moderation, and humanity than BERNADOTTE.
-He was not a dashing, brilliant soldier—and nothing
more—like MURAT, LANNES, or NET ;'but was &skilful
and wary strategist, endowed with great foresight, and
as sagacious in his military conceptions, as he was
resolute in the execution of them. Though the EM-
PEROR never liked him, for he was not sufficiently un-
scrupulous as a partisan to suit his views, yet he
did justice to his worth, and placed confidence in
his integrity. BERNADOTTE has been severely
taken to task by the French memoir writers
of the time for the line of conduct he pursued in 1814 ;
-but he was most painfully situated, the interests of
his native country demanding one course of policy—
the interests of his adopted country another; under
such circumstances, being without the power to pre-
serve neutrality, but compelled to take a decided part
in, the great struggle, we do not think he could have
acted otherwise than he did, though we are aware
it may be, alleged against him that the decision he
came to was precisely that which best suited his
own personal interests. At the period of his death
BERNADOTTE must have been nearly eighty years of
age ; and whether we consider him as a soldier or a
sovereign, he was undoubtedly one of the most
reputable of that numerous band of public adven-
turers whom the Revolution called forth from ob,
scurity into the broad glare of notoriety.

The Lords, observing the good old custom of trans-
acting no business on Wednesday, did not meet yester-
day; and the Commons, from the little discussion which
took place, seemed inclined to follow the example.
A new writ was ordered for the borough of Hastings, in
the room of Mr. PLANTA, who had accepted the Chil-
tern Hundreds.

In answer to a question from Mr. TURNER, Sir JAMES
GRAHAM said it was not the intention of the Govern-
ment to introduce a measure to prohibit burials in
churchyards.
The County Coroners' Bill went through Committee,
and was ordered to be read a third time on Wednesday
next. •

The House went into Committee on the Masters' and
Servants' Bill, and after three clauses had been, agreed
to; Sir JAMES GRAILtra said, as he had not had time to
consider the Bill carefully, he thought it would be better
to report progress, with leave to sit again. This motion
Was agreed to, and the House adjourned at Half-past
Seven.

On Tuesday evening last, as we learn from a report in
the Glasgow Argus, one of the most numerous and in-
teresting public meetings of the members and friends of
the Glasgow Emancipation Society that have taken place
in that city for many years, was held in St. John-street
Church, " for the purpose of remonstrating against so
flagrant a violation of the rights of humanity as is in-
volved in the.conduct of the authorities of South Caro-
lina, in sentencing JOHN BROWN to be hanged for the
crime of aiding the escape of a female slave." The case
of this ill-starred young man is—as regards the conduct
of those who convicted him—the most disgraceful we
ever remember to have heard of, even in the just, tole-
rant, and enlightened country of Lynch-law. He was
tried, it may be recollected, at New Orleans some three
or four months since, for having assisted a poor defence-
less female slave to escape from the intolerable tyranny
of her master; and for this act, so highly creditable to
his humanity, he was sentenced by one Judge O'NEILL
to be hanged! In passing on him this awful sentence,
the judge—compared with whom our own SCROGGS and
JEFFRIES are prodigies of discretion and clemency—
took the opportunity of reminding him that he had
sinned grievously, not only against the laws of eon,
but, what this judicial functionary seemed to think of
far more consequence, against the laws of man; and
conjured him, in a strain of the most impious and sicken-
ing cant, to make the best use of the short time allotted
him on earth, by reading the Bible with attention, and
humbly and reverently imploring pardon of his RE-
DEEMER. Conceive the daring effrontery of a man whO
publicly in a court of justice could recommend his
victim to peruse a work, scarce a line in which
but tended to convince - him of his own inno-
cence, and the atrocious inhumanity of *is judge ?
What says our SAVIOUR, in one of the most impressive
chapters in Holy Writ ? "Blessed are the merciful, for
they shall obtain mercy 1" And this is the volume which
the man O'lsTnzu. -conjures his, destined victim to study
with attention, in order that he may store his mind with
the wholeaome precepts it contains ! Where—we think
we hear our readers asking—where did this public bur-
lesque On all reason, all justice, all humanity, take place ?
Was 'it among the half-savage squatters of the back-
woods of America, in some town just redeemed from the
forest, where Lynch-law is the only law known and re
spected ? Was it in an uncivihsed locality like thii
that the trial and condemnation of JOHN BROWN oc-
curred ? Par otherwise. It was in one of the most
populous, flourishing, and intelligent cities in the Tinite4
Statei—viz., New. Orleans, whose wealthy inhabitants
pique themselves on their superior refinement—their
morality—their civilisationand GOD knows how many
Valuable qualities besides !It was here—in broad day-
light—in an open court of justice—and in the year
1843 that a man was publicly sentenced to be hanged
for the commission of an act which, iu Europe, woul
have won for hint the esteem and admiration of his fel

DEATH

OF THE

KING OF SWEDEN.

The following communication, announcing the death
of the King of SWEDEN, has just been received:—
" HA NIBURGH (via Hull), MARCH 16.

"A bulletin was affixed on 'Change to-day, .announc!
ing the arrival of an express from Stockholni, with the
intelligence that. his Majesty'CusaLEs JOHN had ceased
to exist. He died on the Bth inst., at fonr o'clock in the
morning. His son and _heir assumed forthwith the
Royal authority, nnder the style of OSCAR the SECOND ;
and announced his intention orcontinning the govern
meat of Sweden and Norway in the footsteps of his late
father. The most perfect order existed up to the period
of the departure of the express, nor was the slightest
interruption to public tranquillity expected." Theintel2
ligpnce of the event caused no sensation in Hamburgh;
where it had been already looked for by post daily for

some time past."

Another of the distinguished soldiers of the Revo-
lution and the Empire has just passed. aWay from
earth. BERNADOTTE is dead—the only one,of the roy-
alties of NAPOLEON'S creation who survived the
crash of the Imperial dynasty. It may be remem-
bered that it was chiefly by BUONAPARTE'S
influence—
exerted most unwillingly, if we may believe Bon-
ElENNE—that this illustrious soldier of fortune was
made Crown Prince of Sweden ; and his own politic
and sagacious conduct, during the campaign of 1814,
enabled him afterwards to *grasp the Swedish sceptre.
. BERNADOTTE was originally, we believe, likelllllRA.T,
The son of a French inn-keeper, and on the breaking
out of the Revolution in 1789 he held a sergeant's corn-
roission in the Guards. Being a man of an ambitious,
enterprising character, he, of course, joined the pa-
triotic party—distinguished himself in many Of the
campaigns on the frontier—and, 'on the memOr-
Able Eighteenth of Brumaire, when NAPOLEON up-
set the corrupt, worn-out Directory,- and. es.
taidished the Consulate, he was specially applied
to by that triumphant soldier, who was anxious to
secure his co-operation. But BERNADOTTE, who
had a great reSpect for the laws, and was unwilling
to have them set aside by military ;power, and who
was, moreover, doulitful of the result, refused to mix
himself Alp with the movement; and it is well 'known
that if the Ancients, or'the. Couneil of Five Hundred,
had ordered him to arrest the intriguing NAPOLEON, he
*mil have dOne so without hesitation. No order,
lo‘vever, of the sort Was issued, and in the Mean-
itime the great chief of the conspiracy had obtained
!from him a .promise that he would. not interfere of his
(fern accord=a promise which was scrupulously,
though somewhat reluctantly, fulfilled. During the
Consulate, BERNADOTTE was actively engaged in the
campaigns of that period ; and on the establishment of
the Empire was created a Marshal, and soon after-
wards Prince of PORTE Coavo, -the name of a petty
Italian principality, where he had greatly distin-
guished himself in action: He served the EMPEROR
Taithfully diming the farnonsAnstrian campaign, when
he C Oplmanded a Saxon division of the army; but having
isSum. a somewhat inflated bulletin after the victory
of lirag_vara, in which he ascribed the day's; suc-
cess in a bTreat degree to the skill and valour of his
own troops, NAPOLEON took umbrage, and issued a
counter-bull. 9131 n, which reflected severely on BERNA-
DOTTE, who s 'Willy after returned to Paris, and lived
in coinparatie, t• retirement, until his elevation to the
dignity of Cr lawn Prince of Sweden. When the
disasters in R ussia took place, and the. finest army
that the world bad ever known was destroyed root

low-citizens ? How the jury who tried and the judge
who condemned JOHN BRO*NT, can reconcile his murder
'.-LfOrniurder it is, if not in a legal at least in a moral
sense—to their consciences, we cannot for the life of us
understand ; and still less can we understand how an
enlightened community like that of New Orleans coup

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,avd sanctioned such a deliberate atrocity by their ap-
prOval. Shame on all parties ooncerned in this black
deeda deed which should brand their names with in-
famy, and fill their breasts with remorse to the last hour
Of their lives ! America has much—very much to an-
swer for; outraging, as she is continually doing, the first
principles of Justice and humanity. Repudiatoror, to
speak in plain English-swindler as she is, slave-owner
too, and consequently murderer c,n a wholesale scale,
she has done more injury to the democratic principle
throughout Europe than she will be able to repair by
centuries of enlightened legislation. It is to her that
despots point exultingly in justification of the doctrines
_ •

of Absolutism ; and from her mischievous example they
derive their strongest arguments against the further
spread of Freedom.

Madrid Papers, of the 12th, have been received. Ac-
cording to the Castellano, the unfortunate Botirr had
made important disclosures which : compromise certain
individuals at Madrid, and promised more, on condition
that his life should be spared. RONCALI, however, rejected
the proposition, and refused even tosee him. On the: same
day on which the horrid scene took pike at Alicant, a
Somewhat similar tragedy was enacted at Lugo, where the
partizan Chief CA STROVILA it, and three of his companions,
were shot by. order of one of her MAJESTY'S superior offi-
cers. Acconnts from Carthagena state that the insurgents"
had signified their willingness to *adroit the QuEEN's
troops on a promise of their lives 'being spared, and on
condition that none but the Qtrgizei troops should
Onter. To this proposition it was replied, that on the
first point Oe'ordeys Of the Government would be carried
into execution; and on the second, that the National
Gudrd; which
,formed the advanced guard, would enter
at the head of the division.

The English and French Consuls had left Carthagena
for Escombrera, with the intention of saving the lives
of those that might fall into the hands of RONCALL
The Three-pet Cents: were done at 31i for eash, and
32f at 60days, and the Five per Cents. at 221 for cash,
and 23, at 60 days.

Most of the Paris papers of Monday publish the do-
cnments relative to Otaheite, which have been laid be-
fore the House of Commons. The
from satisfying the y, oteourse, are far-
Opposition party, who complain that
they are only garbled extracts, put forth, to mislead the
pnblic, but such absurd remarks really deserve no
notice. On Monday the Chamber of Deputies resolved,
almost unanimously, to take' into consideration the
motions of 'MM. BEAUMONT and LACROSSE, for the
prevention afraud, bribery, and corruption at elections.
The ,debate on the Secret Service. Money Bill then com-
menced. We find no domestic intelligence of interest in
these papers. , The Journal des Debats, however, has a
long article on the affairs of. Greece, which throw some
new light on the manoeuvres of Russia in that quarter.

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THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH •21, 1844.