The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-06 00:00:00

CLEAR OF ALL DUTIES.

To be viewed at the Tobiteco Ground, Itt.therhithe ; and
the King's ‘Varelninse and Cellars, Custont-1 louse ; On Friday
the 7th, Saturday the Bth, Monday the Ruh, and Tuesday
the 1 ith Instant; from Ten in the morning to Three in the
afternoon. .

N.B. Goods bought at this Sale roust he• paid for at• the
Receiver of Fines and Forfeitures Office, custoni.:House, out
or before Saturday, the -2911 r instant ; or the Deposits wade
thereon will absolutely hiconie forfeited.
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Catalogues to be had at the King's Warehourse, Ctislom
House, On Thurtday; the tith instant, price One ,Shilling

the plaintiff. It appeared that property to a
considerable amount, belonging to a person in the
West Indies, had been attached in the city. The
defendant's wife, who is pow in France, gave
authority to a Solicitor to defend the action and
put in bail to the attachment, and he accordingly
now brought forward the ANDREWS
examined them at considerable length as to their
validity, which they established fully to the
satisfaction of the Lord Mayor ;. but it appeared.
that they had no knowledge whatever of the
plaintiff,. nor any authority from him to put in
bail. They had come fOrward solely to -oblige
the defendant's Solicitor; on his promising to.
bear them harmless. They neither knew the
defendant nor his connexions.—Mr. ANDREWS, in
a long speech, contended that this bail was inad-
missible; and he -contended, that where the'bail
came without the knowledge or authority of the.
principal it could not be received.—The Solicitor
put in a letter from the defendant's wife,
authorising him to defend the action: and to pro-
cure 'bail. This he answered was a proper au-
thority.—The Loan MAYOR was inclined to de-
cide according to the generald.practice. of the
Court, which was favourable to the admission of
such bail.; but at the request of the professional
Gentlemen on both sides, his Lordship postponed
the case for a further hearing, when COunsel will
attend on both sides to argue the point at length.
BUONAPARTE'S BUST. '

BOW-STREET.—A most singular case came on
yesterday before It. BIRNIE, Esq. " Dr.. Burton
procured a warrant to search the ,douse of Count
Bertrand for a bust of the late Emperor Buona-
parte ;• and just at the moment when the officer
arrived with the warrant, Sir Robert Wilson
happened to call upon the Count, and entreated
the officer not to proceed until he had accomr
panied the Count to Mr. BIRNIE, to have the
matter investigated. The officer consented, and
the whole party went to the office, when it was
stated on the part of Count Bertrand, that he
was one of the Executors of Napoleon's will,
and had been desired not to let any one touch
the body of the deceased. It had been judged
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necessary, however, that a mask or bust of him
should be taken before he was interred, and,

for that purpose, Automachi, the Italian, and
Dr. Burton, were. engaged. After it had
been completed, Dr. Burton had applied to the
Count for the bust, who replied, that it was
not his to give, as it belonged to the Em-
peror's family ; but the Countess promised to
do all she could to procure him a copy of it,
meantime, the Count would write to Napoleon's
relatives for leave to do so. Not satisfied with

this, the • Doctor procured a warrant to search
the Count's house. Dr. 13., on the other hand,
stated that he got permission from the Governor
of St. Helena.to take:the bust, and that he pro-
cure&the material and modelled it himself alone,
which no one.else_could do, and left it with the
Countess. When he called for it again, he was
informed that it was packed zip and nailed dorm
ready to•take to England, therefore he could not
have U.-7n% BraNtE discharged the warrant,
with this memorandum, that no property belong-
ing to Dr. B._ was found, and that the property
in question.belonged. to the executors.

PARIS, Auo. 29.—(Extract of a Private Let-
ter.)--" A ludicrous, though a painful, scene,
to one of the chief actors, took place a few days
ago at the Jardin des 'Plantes. A gymnotus elec-
tricus, or electric eel, had arrived, alive and in
good - health, from Surinam. 'The savans and
naturalists were all in motionand hastened to
the garden of plants to see with their own eyes,
and touch with their own hands, this living elec-
trical machine. The greater number were satis:-
tied with a single touch and consequent shock;
but one unfortunate Doctor, either urged by a
greater zeal for science, Or governed by a more
itvatiablo curiosity, resolved to try the utmost
extent of the animal's powers, and seized it with
both his hands, but had quickly reason to repent
his temerity, for he immediately felt a rapidly
repeated series of the most violent and succes-
sively increasing shocks,_ which forced him to
caper about in the most extraordinary manner,
and to utter: the -moss piercing
.screams from the
agony that he felt. 11 e then fell into convutsionS,
in consequence of which his muscles became so
contracted, Or from some strange 'property in the
fish, it became. impossible to detach the animal
from his grasp. In this situation he remained a.
considerable time, and would in all probability
have expired under the :agony of his sensations,
if some one of the persotts present had not sup,-
' gestoll the plunging cif iris hands in water, when
the eel. immediately dropped off. He (the
Doctor) has been ever since most dangerously
ill." •

It will easily be conceived that the approach
of George the Fourth [Mist be rega-rded as an
event of no small importance to that king-
dom. In the King's absence from his Bri:
tish possessions, a Commission of Lords his=
(ices will be appointed, according to the prece=
dents established informer reigns, to exercise the
functions of Royalty-here: Who the individuals
are that will be Comprehended in this• Commi-
ssion we have not yet heard, but it cannot be
doubted that those will be named who are most
distinguished for birth and talents, as to-them
will be confided the exercise of some of the

highest powers of the Crown. They will be en-
abled to decide in• cases of life and death, and
the most valued prerogative of the Crown, that
of extending Mercy to- the condemned, will be
entrusted to their hands.. The seal to be used
by the Commission is now preparing, and in a
very few days we expect to be enabled to an-
nounce the completion of 'the whole of the ne-
cessary arrangements.

{NEW TimES.l
At length the tedious proceedings of the Co-
roner's Inquest on Honey appear to be drawing
to a close. " Mr. Adolphus stated last night, that
he should call only five more witnesses. We
continue to abstain frOin remarking "upon the
evidence.

[MORNING HERALD.]
We have received adVices from several of the
West India Islands to the latter end of July,
which state that the seas in those parts continue
to be thronged with privateers, under the flai.Of
`Artigas; which commit depredations on vessels of
every description. Some of these cruizers mount
'as many as 22 guns, with bpWards of 200 men,
and they obstruct commerce about the Islands 'to
a serious extent. Some English and French
ships of War are stationed in the neighbourhood
'of the Islands to protect the interests of the two
nations; but notwithstanding the vigilance used-
by them, the pirates ffnd means to carry on their
depredations. St. Batholomew's seems to be the
island to which the chief part of the prizes are
carried. Three vessels, laden, with coffee and
sugar, were captured and sent into the Five
islands about the 21st July, condemned, and
sold. The Spanish brig of war Maipo, bound
from Lima to Cadiz, was taken in June, to
the southward of Rio Janeiro, by a privateer
under the Buenos-Ayrean flag.

[MORNING CHRONICLE.
The manner in which the Ministerial Writers
would render the military altogether indepen-
dent of the civil power, by allowing them to act.
against the people without the authority of a
Magistrate, and under the pretext of. self-de-
fence, to commit dreadful .carnage by way of
sacrificing to what
.Mr. Blades and his friends
call. their just resentment, must awaken the
least reflecting minds to the progress we have
been making of late 'years towards a military
despotism. The Riot Act, which passed on
the accession of the present Hanoverian Fa-
mily, when a majority of the aristocracy, and
a great "body of the Clergy of the Church
of England were Jacobites, and when, con-
sequently, dangers 'and difficulties of all kinds
perpetually beset the Government, was generally
considered a measure incompatible with a free
.Government, 'which ought to be repealed with
the dangers. that it was framed to meet. To vest
Magistrates with the power of calling troops to
their aid instead of the posse comitatets, was justly
viewed by the enlightened and independent men
of former days, as having a necessary ttmdency
to' produce a contempt: for public feeling and
opinion, on which every free Government must
rest for the execution of the laws. Thus Lord
Bathurgt, in a speech delivered by him in the
House. Of Lords, observed, " There is a very great
difference between a Magistrate's being assisted
by the posse of the country, and his having a
Doily of regular' troops always at his command.
In the first case, he must, in all his measures,
- pursue justice and 'equity ; he must even study
the humoUr and inclinations, and court the affec-
tions of the people, because upon them only can
he depend for- the execution of his orders as a
Magistrate, and even for his safety and protec-
tion as a private man ; but when a Civil Magis-
trate knows that he has a large body of regular
well disciplined 'troops at command, he deS-
Oise's
.both the inclinations and the interest of the
people."