The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-22 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Their Royal Highnesses the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess
Alice, walked in the pleasure-grounds adjacent to the
Castle this morning.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester
visited the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary
Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz yesterday,
at Cambridge House,
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
attended kt: Baron Knesebeck, went to Richmond
yesterday morning, and enjoyed the sport of shoot-
ing, returning to Cambridge Rouse in the afternoon.
The Ecclesiastical Commission for England sat
yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall-place.
The Commissioners present were the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of
Winchester, the Bishop of Hereford, the Bishop of
Llandaff, and: the Dean of Westminster.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town on
Monday afternoon for his seat, Betchworth, Surrey.

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subscription honour of Admiral Dupetit Thouars, at
its sitting
held on the 18 h t Hist
At the appointed ho •
called on M
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Thomas, of the Natioa 4 who gave an account of the
financial position of the subscription. It appeared from
his explanation
that the public protest of which the
disavowal of Admiral Dupetit Thouars was the object,
found an echo in all the important towns of France.
Three Paris and 75 provincial journals published a list
of the citizens who had contributed to that manifesta-
tion. According to the average of the subscription, it
appeared that 175,000 persons joined in the expression
of the same sentiment. It must not be forgotten that this
French protest produced an effect even in foreign countries.
We do not speak of Algiers, Oran, or Blidah ; but sub-
scription lists have reached the National from London, Ca-
diz, St. Sebastian, New Orleans, and St. Louis, in the
United States, Nice, Geneva, and Gex. M. Thomas added
that, with respect to the National, the full amount
received by it was 19,685 f. sc. We owe a debt of
gratitude to M. Goudehaux, who has had the kindness
to open an account for the subscription, and to allow an
interest of 4 per cent. on the deposits. This sum of
19,684 f. sc. is composed of partial subscriptions ad-
dressed directly to the National, and of remittances
which some provincial journals forwarded. There still
remain 32 journals which have not forwarded the sub-
scriptions received by them. As far as it could be ascer-
tained, the total amount of the subscriptions received
exceeds 30,000 t. This explanation produced no discus-
sion. A n ember observed that it would be necessary to
write to the provincial journals to forward their sub-
scriptions to the Treasurer. The delegates who were
appointed to wait upon Admiral Dupetit Thouars having
been called on to give an account of their mission, one of
them read the following report ;
" Gentlemen,—Before you would take any decision rela-
tive to the employment of the funds produced by the sub-
scription, you considered it advisable to hold a communica-
tion with Admiral Dupetit Thouars relative to the sword
of honour you were authorised to offer him. We waited
upon the Admiral as your delegates, and we wish to
render an account of our interview. We explained to
Admiral Dupetit Thouars the sentiments which had in-
spired the public manifestation in which 175,000 citizens
had joined. The subscribers wished to honour in his
person the entire navy which had taken part in that
contest in which the French flag was opposed to the
insolent pretensions of England. They particularly
protested against the act of cowardice committed by the
Ministry disavowing, by order of the London Cabinet, a
general officer who had fulfilled his duty. Public
opinion, excited by that act, had hastened to extend its
hand to the person attacked ; because it was considered
necessary to prove to our armies by land and sea
who are eh:regret with defending the honour and
dignity of France, that esteem, consideration, and a
just popularity are the rewards secured in our
Country to those who on all occasions recollect that
our first sentiment ought to be the love of country,
and that the devotion which it inspires ought to pre-
cede all others. After having expressed to the Admiral
the sense of the manifestation which he had witnessed in
his person, because he alone had been the object of the
disavowal accompanied by calumnies, we asked him
whether he would accept a sword of honour, or whether
the committee should employ the funds for another pur-
pose? Admiral Dupetit Thouars, who experienced on
receiving us an emotion which he did not conceal, told
us that he was profoundly affected at our proceeding,
that he felt strongly how honourable it was to him per-
sonnally, and that the approbation of his fellow-citizens
was assuredly the most legitimate ambition and the most
agreeable recompense for any man called on to serve his
country; but he prayed us to consider that the imperative
duties of discipline would not permit him to explain him-
self as to a political manifestation, nor to receive, with-
out the permission of his superiors, a mark of public ap-
probation. Placed, as he was, in the royal navy he could
not, without a violation of military law, depart from that
reserve imposed upon him either to blame or topraise an act
of the Government; neither, consequently, could he ac-
cept any recompense which would imply, on his part, an
adhesion to a political demonstration. We were bound to
respect a determination supported by motives in which
Admiral Dupetit Thouars believed his professional posi-
tion involved. We could not, moreover, without an
abuse, refer in this place to the confidential conversa-
tion in wri;ch we were enabled to learn the true and
honourable sentiments of the Admiral. But we may
say, that ever occupied with the fate of the brave men
whom he commandt d, he spoke with a warm interest
of all those who had fallen in the expedition against
Otaheite. We then asked him what ould, according
to his idea, be the best mode of employing the funds
subscribed ? To which he repiied that he could not be-
lieve that he was under an illusion when he considered
the homage of which he was the object was intended to
extend to all the seamen who had served worthily in those
distant seas, and that assuredly it would be to respond
to the wishes of the subscribers to expend the amount
subscribed to relieve the wounded seamen or the wives
and children of those who had died in the performance
of their duty. We regret that we cannot be more ex-
plicit in a report intended for publicity, but we believe
we can affirm, gentlemen, that the mission with which
we were charged has impressed us with a profound
conviction that public opinion was not deceived
when it wished to do honour to a general officer devoted
to the glory of his country, a determined enemy of the
foreign foe, jealous of our interest., and well determined
not to commit any act by which it might be tarnished.
Your delegates propose to you, therefore, to declare the
subscription closed; to make public the motives of Ad-
miral Dupetit 'Thouars' refusal--motives exclusively
connected with military discipline; and, in fine, that the
funds of the subscription should be allocated in procur-
ing relief for the wounded seamen or the widows and
children of those who fell in the expedition to Otaheite.
" DEGOUSEE.

" JULES BASTIDE.
" ARMAND MARRAST."

After a short deliberation the Committee adopted the
resolutions proposed by the delegates. It determined
that this decision and the motives on which it was
founded should be rendered public, and it proceeded im-