The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-21 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1026.

SPLENDID ENTERTAINMENT.

We insert with peculiar pleasure the following descrip-
tion of a splendid entertainment, given at 'Limerick, by
Mr. DICKSON, to the inhabitants, of that city. It .dernOn-•
strates the beneficial effects. of a resident gentry inter-
mingling with the community, Who, were they generally
to follow the example of Mr. DICKSON would soon cause
party animosity to subside, and render Ireland, what is so
desirable, a happy and a prosperous. country

(From the Limerick Evening Post.)
Mr. Samuel Dickson's splendid Soiree, on the night of Toes-
day list, was attended by all the beauty, fashion, and respectability
of our city. The con-4ny began to assemble abont nine o'clock,
and by half-past ten, nokithstanding the tempestuOus'state of the
weather, on that evening„, the elegant mansion of the exhilirating
host was crowded. So eager were the votaries of Terpsichore to
commence their sprightly, pleasures, that a young lady, equally
distinguished for her eisviability and accomplishments, conde-
scendingly acquiesced w4b their wishes to touch the keys of a
grand piano-flute, and instantly several quadrille sets, who
were already formed, aiiid awaitin!, the band's arrival, were
put in motion on the " light fantastic .toe." In a short
time the hand appeared in the temporary orchestra pre-
pared for them; but the fair performer still continued at the
instrument, and seemed to enrapture, not only the dancers, but all
present, by her brilliant execution. The emotions excited shoring
this set, gave a charm and zest to the fascinations of the evening.
Celebrated as our City is for the unrivalled personal charms of its
women, as well as for their elegance and high mental attainments,
they never shone with snore brilliancy than on Tuesday. Dancing
Was continued with unabated vivacity until near two o'clock,
when the:sapper rooms were thrown open to nearly 800 ladies and
gentlemen, where the style and splendour of the arrangements
were only equalled by the immense profusion of every delicacy, that
taste could procure, or ,hospitality furnish. Some finely executed
songs ensued, and wit and sentiment gave life and spirit to the
hour. After supper, dancing was resumed, and continued to
an advanced hour next morning, when every soul quitted the fee-
. tire scene, delighted with the various entertainments of the
night. .We have heard, and for the cheerfulness and gaiety
of our city, we hope we have been correctly informed, that the
'entertainment, of which we have been giving a brief account, is
but the first of u series, which are to succeed during the winter—
' a number of families, of the first respectability, having taken the
impulse so' elegantly given by Mr. Dickson. In concluding this
article, we may venture to say, that, whether we contemplate
Mr. Dickson as a gentleman, (and a bachelor toe), possessing an
abundant fortune, which he might, were lie so disposed, dissipate
elsewhere instead of spending it usefully, and elegantly in his tur
five city; or, as a member of the community, employing his
time and applying his purse to ameliorate the condition of the
humble orders of society, he is, beyond all doubt, a most promi-
nent and valuable citizen of Limerick.

!he kind, The rule of the court was, to ascertain the number of
vacancitis for military offices every year, and to fill them up. He
knew o the regulation by which a third attain was appointed
to ever? King's Regiment in India, and be approved of it ; but
then th 4 King's regiments bad no medical staff, which the Com-
pany hail..
Mr. !Roam thought it would be wise tO follow the example of
the Kirtg's regiments with respect to the *ogler of medical of-
ficers to each. Noy economy in this relpeet would be wholly
misplactql. He knew of one case in which he was the only me-
dical officer attending a hotly of 8,000
Mr. NiTtoaaat uid, the deficiency of militaVy officers slid not
arise frOm the want of officers in India, bur had been caused by.

the number taken from each corps, to fill up stiff appointmensa,—
But to prevent inconvenience from this rause, a regulation had
been made, by which only a certain number could be taken from
each caps, to be'plared on the stall:
Col.ll3att.av bore testimony to the real with which the Hon.
Propritor (Mr. Hume) had discharged his duties as a medical
man, addition to several others which at that time devolved
on him, while doing the medical duty of five corps. •
Pr. fitt.ctuttsT adverted to the medical schtool for the instinc-
thin ()illative aasistants, established by Lord koshirst, and asked
wh!telr it was still kept up or knocked on the head ?
The'CHAIRMAN could assure the hounnrable proprietor, that.it
t been knocked on the head, but was going on, and likely
•e of great service in India.
MUTINY AT BARIiAeXPORS.

had Tic
to pro,

Huai r now roseto submit a, motion on a subject arising
rlthe proceeding of the last two days. It had been stated,
tpe of the reasons .assigeed for the omission of the name.of
4 Paget from the vote of tbanks, was his conduct with respect,
tjaffairat Barrackpore. He (Mr. Hume) would not say who
4 fault; but he was an=ions to have snob information as
show where the blame, if ant, should be attached. The
inember then moved the following :
iit there be laid before this Court, a copy of the proceedings
committee, appointed in Calcutta, to inquire cud report on
etiny of the native troops at Barrack pore, in November, 1824.
opy of the General Orders of the Bengal Cloverinitent of the
November, (No. SB5 of 1824), respecting the mutiny of
th Regiment of Native lafantrY ttt Barraekpore.
return of the number of Mnfineers that were banged, and
(umber whose sentences were commuted to labour on the

A kipy of any dispatch, containing the orders of the Court of
Diregors to the Bengal Government, respecting the 'mutiny at
llarrilckpore, and the mutineers who had been placed on the roads
to Latour, and respecting the Native Commissioned Officers of the
47th ;Regiment, who had been dismissed by orders of Government
of th* 4th of November, 1824.
Sic C. Rotuma supported the motion, and contended at some
length that it would be gross injustice to the native troops, and
even Ito the Government of India, and,the Commander-in-Chief,
to suffer the affair to pas. over without inquiry. 'the conduct
towaida the unfortunate troops was most unjustifiable. Of this
he wtuld give one instance. When the first discharge was made,
and the unfortunate native troops were flying. in all directions,
they '!,vere pursued and butchered in cold blood. One poor na-
tive, not belonging to the troops, alarmed at the slaughter of his
countrymen, tied from the spot, and took shelter in a tree. He
was seen by two of our soldiers, who both aimed their muskets at
Min.! Au officer, who witnessed the scene, called out to the men
not in tire, but before his words could be heard, one of the mus-
ket. iwent off, and the native fell from the tree wounded. , When
the tioldiers came up, he called out in a supplicating tone, and
said in the Hindostanee, "I am not a seepoy, I am gardener to
the treat man" (the Governor-General), and that turned out to
he the fact. The Hon. Baronet then went on to say, that if he
were spared, he would newer desist, year after year, and month
sfte9 month, from pressing the necessity of inquiry, until the whole
of this horrible affair was fully investigated.
r. NV', I:pv.o
The CH.iirtitAw objected 1,1~1601110u. 4/n*4ol4lld.
be 4movived, beert already discussed and ittreided, and the *MUM'
the affair was buried in oblivion the better for the int/reit of the

Corppany.
Captain Maxylat.n supported the motion.
Colonel flpat.t.tz contended, that the inquiry and the courts-
marilal which had already taken place, were quite .ti iciest to
ansi•er all the purposes of justice.

Dr. Gtt.ctia.isTsupPoried the motion.
Mr. TaA NT 'apposed it.
Nil.. }lust): replied; after which the Court divided, when there
appeared
roc the Resolution, 6 Against them, 26 I Majority, 20•

sl.`aptain Nintristo gnve notice, that M the neat quarterly
meeting he would submit a motion for papers, to show the
mode in which business was conducted at corn. of the hoards

in India.

Mr. /lusts gave notice, that at the next Qututerly Court he
weidd submit a motion on the subject of the Air at Barrackpore,
who (as the Court refused Arial information on the subject) he
would feel it necessary u lay before theta all the information re-
specting it which he had collected front private sources.—The
Court then adjourned.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

! (From th(Jiturnal du Debate of Monday.)
PARIS, DEC. 17.--We return to the affairs of Portugal-.-tithe
English' policy. , Whence, is derived to Plgland that prosperity,
that sovereign power, which it proclaims? Ito owes them to its
respect for the works of time and the rights of liberty. It owes
them tO its genius, to its laws, and to France—to France, such
as it has been made by a system as much without greatness as
without nationality—to France, which its guides efface, in order
to escape the shocks of. fortune and the efforts of time ; which they
lessen, in order to remain great in the public debasement ; which
they fear, instead of understanding, respecting., and tendering re-
spectable and beneficial to all States, which they exhaust in build-
ing monasteries and overturning schools, Which they torment at
pleasure, both in its liking and its institutions, while it requires
only to live at peace under the shade of the laws ; where, in
short, they are only occupied in proscribing conscience as a fetter,
thought as a danger, talent as a competition, history as a prow,-
tation, speaking as hostility, where they would wish .to create no.
thing but silence—the only praise of which they are ambitious.

16.1w:in beats- mmirnfully at the sight of the- warlike pro-
ceedings which agitate the banks of the Thames—of the troops
on their march—of,thine ensigns spread—of that public burst—
of those acclamations which come from Westminster, the ancient
temple of i'oglish Aristocracy, to go end echo in. the barrack,,its,
the port, in the city. Great Britain may he unanimous in ap-,
plaudiog these preparations which are not hostile to her; this
noise of arms, which will not be turned against her, interests
net her glory. Iler soldiers may quit with enthuaiasto the shore*
of their country, for they know whither they are led, and what
they are about to do; they I:now they are about to .extend the
power of their country by propagating its laws ; they knuw.tbey
are about to fight for a cause, which is that of the blood- flowing
in their veins—of the air they breathe—of the earth which has
fed them ; they know they are about to render to a people, sleep-
ing for three hundred years in the bonds of a mortal Government,
the benefits of the happy alliance of the ancient and the new
order of things, Monarchy tempered by public power—Aristo-
craoy strong and tree—the people ennobled by altering in power.
These are the things which speak to the soul, .which everybody
hears in Great •Britain, for which an army may be ardent; as
great bodies are ardent for religion, libetty, glory, country.
During the reviews and embarkation, of London, what are our
soldiers doing nu theatre taf their victories? Whet are they doing?
They support order-in Barcelona during the execution of that man,
who was convicted by an assessor, of having defended himself iu
1823, against the Royeliet Volunteers who wanted to assassi-
nate him. They maintain order throughout the Peninsula in
1826—during the murder at Valencia, of that schoolmaster,
who was gravely suspected of heterodoxy—as they maintained
order in 1925, when an Ultra-Royalist Genet al, who had too vigor-
ously fought for the absolute King, was put to death ; and a General,
tint little Royalist, but who had fought like a furious lion for Spain
and Don Ferdinand; they maintain order, while the police in-
vents new categories of prescriptions, inclining with the poignardi
of the multitude the enlightened and rich classes; while near
Cadiz, sixty citizens are condemned to death, guilty of a crime six
years old, conaecrated by the support of Europe, before which
august heads bent and proffered their oaths, and, in fact, the faith
of capitulations, placed under the guarantee of French honour,
covered with inviolable amnesty. This is the task which the
Grenadiers of Trocadero have performed, for the last three year*,
as the reward of their victories. Anti now, that to this dreadful
peace, to this vest silence, which was only disturbed by the
hymns of the populace drawn by degrees from its lethargy, to
dance around the fatal hurdle, succeed the clangour of arms,
now that the cannon growls around. them, to what senti-
ments do they dare to yield. If the war, spreading its furies,
should reach them, what would lie their course?-.-who their
enemies, their allies? What their aims, their colours? They knew
nothings ex“lit that, 14itlatil to tht‘k.lvai.,,*•re their
eiplltte, the white sag. shall call them, • there they would go end
die. They would to-day assist those whom they timsbt ptter-
day ; whom their victory has destroyed, whom, however, their
presence protects; whose French feelings, generous ideas, instruc-
tion, and rank they love. Or they would mire more cover with
their battalions thine, monks who murder, that populace which
robs, that carnarilla which only knows how to deceive and hate its
benefactors. They would fight new battles to prevent the effects
of those temperate institutions which our invasion had promised—
to maintain the proscription on the head of that rare, but enlight-
ened people, of those secular priests, the best ornament of the
Spanish Clergy—of these titles of Castile, noble in blood and
heart, of that humiliated or fugitive greatness. They would agaiu
see wheeling about in their lines, that Trappiste, the Drom-major,
on horseback, as one of the promoters of the war calla him, seats
himself at the table of our Generals ; the bandit of Sierra loaded
with murders, rises superior to the will of our Princes, those re-
gencies which we have installed at theitrice of our blood, that
Chief of Cstpuchina who need only raise his finger to decide on
the safety or the murder of Generals covered by our treaties? in
spite of the eft'nrts of the Ministry to lay asleep the.public foresight,
the doubts, the solicitudea of our army are also the doubts and soli,
cititdes of all France. This is the alternative given by tatting. We
must either preserve the same allies, or change then). To preserve
them is to produce the most horrible consequence ; to change
them—but for what? To offer on the other side of tire Pyrenees
the shade of the French Charter, the body which is here trouble-
some to us, and to remain alone with our tardy code, exposed
to enmity and diadaiu between the Liberals, who will hence-
forth consider it insuffittient, and the Absolutists, who
will always consider it tou much. A Court which will call itself
.betrayed, a King who will think himself a prisoner ? We know
very well that if the Portuguese Royalists, as, some papers call
them in France, that is those who wish neither their King, nor
his legitimate heirs, nor his acts, had been able, less fintunate
than whet was lately the Army of the Faith, to perish, at the
first blow, in a rash enterprise. The French Minister was safe.'
In that centred all his hopea. Ile would easily have determined
the Cebinet of. Madrid to humble itself before irritated England.
The Cabinet of St. James's would have been contented with the
abasement of the Spanish Monarchy, because it prefers, as a
means of authority, diplomacy to war, as well as it knows how to
; prefer war to humiliation; and, satisfied with seeing order reign
in the Peninsula—that is to say, absolute power in Spain, liberty
in Portugal, we should have hastened, for Woof new minatory's,
' quietly to evacuate the monarchy of Philip, the Fifth, to leave it
man by man, so shut Europe might not perceive it, leaving the
future (thatie,- the• British Cabinet) .to make what is could pf the
order of things established by our arms. But the insortertion is
powerful. The English army appears to he almost alone in line,
until the higher classes have tune to prepare to organise thetuselvea
behind its Hags. The unfortunate lowest) of the allies of our siliel
solves all the difficulty of the problem. Roughly taught by expe-
rience, after being long in vain named by, our loyal intimations,
r the Ministry is now desireus of proceeding at once; and for
that purpose we see hint declate, in the English Jour-
' nal% that it was his firm purpose for this long time
Rut this design cannot be accomplished ;in the
present circumstances, without saying this to Europe—' We
' have- prolonged the occupation Ho far molter* Mkt hut little
utility in Spain, and no danger to ouraelves. Now that some
dangers threaten us, we remove ourselves.' And as so candid
an address is. nut dens/ with skilful and experienced Statesmen,
this declaration would be- covered with the pretext, that Ferdi-
nand, not having fillfilled his engagements, bee melted to hove
. any right to French protection. But will not the world demand
whence it arises that we have awaited all these storms before we
could perceive the ingratitude of the Spanish Cabinet, or the
misery of its people? Why have We not sooner expressed our ye-
seutment? Now can the invasion of Portugal be a more deasive
; act than the promises of Prince the Generalissimo despised, his cepi-
tulations infringed, his glory denied, his advice mistrusted ; terror,
t anarchy, put in possession of power; blood shed in torrents; a
greatoution effaced from the. rank of civilised_
belt, w,,,'tilicebre.
impossible to defend. ourselves from the suspieiim of a putillani.
nom desertion. It is unfortunate for to that we are obliged to
I draw mush eontequences from the victories of the Dauphin and
his virtues; but, in the present eitnetion,
taioly to submit to it. France would thus have a chalice fur a
time, at least, of preserving its repose, We cannot demand all
t once
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I evacuate it at the first sight oleo English uniTorin. It worth] br
, worthy of the Ministry to heveearried on affairs in such a Waythat
we should be obliged to - retire and conceal ourselves behind the