The Sun.
London, England, 1817-08-13 00:00:00

QUEBEC MILITIA.

Lately the Hon. Lieut.-Colonel Smith, and the
Officers of the 3d BottaliOn Quebec Militia, gave
a Dinner, at the Union Hotel, in the city of Que-
bet, to Colonel Burns, their late Commanding
Officer, in testimony of their approbation of his
conduct during the interesting period of his com-
mand.

All the Officers appeared in uniform, in honour
of the day, and the colours of the Battalion were
displayed at the head of the great Ball Room, fitted
up for the occasion.
At six o'clock the company sat down to an ele-
gant repast, prepared by Mr. O'Hara, consisting
of the best of every thing that the country and
season could afford.

When the cloth was removed, the following
toasts were Aran!:, with suitable demonstrations of
the sentiments of the company, the band of the
103 d Itel,,iment, with which the corps bad been
politely favoured by Colonel Smelt, striking up
the tunes annexed:—
I. The King—God bless him. God save the King.
2. The Prince Regent. Prince Regent's March.
3. The Queen and Royal Family'. Queen's Birth Day.
4. The Princess Charlotte of and her august con-
sort Prince Leopold ; may this auspicious rnarrizsge prove a
blessing to the nation, Prince Cobourg's March.
5. Duke of York, and the Army. Duke of York's March.
13. Duke of Clarence, and the Navy. Rule Britannia.
7. The Duke of Kettt, the warm and decided friend to the
interests of the British American Colonies. Duke of Kent's
March Bth Regiment.
8. The Duke of Wellington and the Day—being the anni-
versary of the ewer to he remembered battle of Waterloo—a
lesson to usurpers, an assurance to legitimate 4nverument-i,
and a leaf eternal in the wreath of British glory. See the
Conquering Hero comes.
is. His Excellency Sir John Coape Sherbrook, onr highly
respected Governor in Chief, and the example he has given
through life—an'example in every respect worthy of the imi-
tation of all Commanders, both Civil and Military. March
33,1 Regiment.
Colonel Smith then rose, and addressed Co-
lonel Burns its follows •
" Stn,—Being called to this Chair, I should but iniperfect-
ly discharge the duties attached to it, did I not express to
you the high sense we entertain of your merits as AM Otiker,
and of your conduct as a Gentleman. I❑ drinhiog your
health, you tray readily suppose the pleasure is con:hit:I.:11)1y
diminish, t 1 by our regret at your retiring from a .station you
have fillet with so much honour to yourself, and Satisfaction
to the corps. Permit me, sir, to offer you this tribute of one
esteem, and assure yOu, always, of the best wishes and most
grateful remembrance of every Officer of the Thinl Regiment
of Quebec Militia."
10. Lieut.-Colonel Burns, nor late Commanding °Meer.—
March 3tl Battalion Quebec Militia.

This toast being drank with a perfect enthu-
siasm, Colonel Burns rose, under the strongest
emotions of feeling, and returned thanks in the
following words :
" This testimony of your approbation of my conduct, while
I had the honour of being your chief, I receive with heartfelt
gratitude, and the remembrance thereof will remain impressed
on my mind till the last moment of my existence. Such a
distinguished mark of esteem I did not expect, because I was
not aware that had merited it; trot mani'fasted as it now is,
on your part, i consider it as tine of the proudest occurrences
of nv life; end I beg leave to assure you, -Getitlemen, that I
shall always feel a lively interest in any thing, that concerns
the Third Battalion Quebec Militia. The cause of my retire-
ment is being advanced in years, and in a had state of health,
and not from any Inkewarmoess t•twards the Battalion, for
which I always did and ever will entertain the warmest at-
tachment.
" To you, Sir, my thanks arc particularly due,, for the very
handsome manner in which you have conveyed the sentiments
of your brother Officers and your torn."
11. Earl Bathurst, Secretary of State for the Colonies--
under his Lordship's auspices, may the agriculture and com-
merce of this Province be promoted and extended. Speed
the Plough.
12. Our Sister Colonies. Britionc strike borne.
13. The brave Militia of Lower Canada. March, Henry
IVihi.
14. Lieut.-Colonel De Salaberry, and the brave Canadians
at the battle of Chateauguay. Bogle Quick Step.
15. May the Badge on our Colours acquired in the defence
of this Garrison in 1775, stimulate us to ofttaiu additional
honours for the Regiment. MarcliElßattle Pragite.
IG. The Memory of Colonel Scott of the 103 d Regiment,
by whose disinterested anti indefatigable exertions the 31
Battalion:of Quebec Militia, in the exigency of the moment
during the late war, was put into a state for effective service.
In silence.
17. His Majesty's 101 d Relit. may we ever be grateful to the
(-Meets of that Corps for the friendly exertions they afforded
ns in drilling the Battalion during the late war. March toad
Regiment.
18. Colonel Myers, and the Garrison of Quebec. British
Grenadiers.
19. Colonel Comte Dopr4, and Colonel Louis De Salaberry,
and the 011icers of the Ist amid 2d Matt:boos of Quebec Mili-
tia. Sir George Prevost's March.
20. The Memory of Sir Isaac Brock, who fell gloriously at
the Battle of Qneenston in tipper Canada. Solemn Dirge.
To live with fame
The Gods allow to many, but to die
With equal lustre, is a blessing Heaven
Selects from all the choiorst boons of Fate,
And with a sparing hand. on few bestows
21. Our Union with the Mother Country, may it he Eter-
nal, as the means of promoting our best interests. Downfall
of Paris.
22. May the American Arms meet with the same repolse
they eid last war, whenever they attempt to invade our
Country. Yankee Doodle.
23. May the Rose, the Thistle, the Shamrock, and the
Leak, be ever,entwined round the Proud Oak of Old En-
gland. Hearts of Oak. •
24. Lady Sherbrooke, and the Canadian Fair. Copenhagen
Waltz.
25. Lady Milnes, from whose fair band we received our
Colours, to which honour one respected Guest, Colonel Burns,
then a Captain in the Battalion, most materially contributed,
by handsomely raising a Battalion Company, and clothing the
greater part at his own expense.
About eleven o'clock Col. Burns retired amidst
the applauses of the Company, and was followed
soon after lt-y Lieut.-Colonel Smith.
The whole was ccndicted with the
andgreatestwas
propriety, harmony, ani Conviviality,
truly what it was intended by every one of the
Officers, Ft rublic Tribute of Respect, well me-
rited honourable to the object of it, and el-edit-
able to the corps.

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THE SUN.

sot.Em QUIS DICERE 1,51.1.4 A UDEAT.

LONDON,
WEDNESDAY, .4UGLTST 13, 1817.

We received this morning the Paris Papers of
Sunday last. The following are extracts
" Paars, AUG. 10.—Yesterday, before Mass,
their Eminences the Cardinals Perigord and de la
Luzerne presented their Cardinals hats to the
King, who placed them on their heads.
" Cardinal Talleyrand de Perigord afterwards
assisted at Mass in the Royal Chapel.
" The Consistory on the 28th ult. at Rome was
occupied, besides the affairs of the Church in
France, with the ecclesiastical affairs of the Ne-
therlands.

" From Marseilles we learn that a great drought
prevails in that neighbourhood.
" We learn from Lisbon by a recent letter, that
30 of the Conspirators have been condemned.
General Comes Freire has been sentenced to
banishment. '[he fate of Baron Eber is not yet
decided.

" The King of Prussia is expected on the 12th at
Luxernberg, and on the 13th at Ligny.
" They write from Nismes, that the sale of goods
at the fair of Beaucaire was coluiderable, and the
concourse of inhabitants from the neighbouring de-
pArtments increased the population Of the tOVVII ti)
60,000 persons. Colonial produce sold ad tin-
t tgeously, as did also iron ‘fares and silks.
Woollen cloth was lower in price.

Tl3e re wa s

jewellery nt the fair to the amount of about
6,000,000 fralles, of which from 6 to 800,000 vas
sold. The fair WAS generally speaking as good
as could be expected.

" Five English soldiers, who were on guard the
ISO) of June last at one of the gates of Valen-
ciennes, committed a robbery upon an innividual.
They were in consequence condemned to be hang-
ed. According to the orders of the Duke of Wel-
lington, they were on the 3d instant conveyed
without the walls of the town to suffer their
punishment. This melancholy scene was attended
by circumstances not destitute of interest. The
people followed the criminals, invoking, in piteous
accents, the mercy of the Chiefs, and calling out
Pardon, pardon !" Two we executed, and the
other three were pardoned at the moment they were
about to be hanged. At the .news of the pardon
the joy of the numerous spectators was extreme,
and the thanks which the individuals released ad-
dressed to the English General were doubtless less
eloquent than the joy which was thus excited.

" To this event succeeded another inspired by
national delicacy. A man named Dubuisson, an
inhabitant of the town, who yielding to mo-
tives of vile interest, had become the executioner
of the two unfortunate men, became immediately
the object of the execrations of the indigna; o po-
pulace, who threatened him and pelted hit► with
stones. He gained his residence cvith difficulty,
a cord was attached to the door of his house, and
the people, to avenge the national linour, called
for the death of him who for a few pieces of gold
had become an executioner. Dubuisson, in great
alarm, requested to be conveyed to prison for the
sake of security. The wretch was accompanied
by two police agents, who saved him front the
violence of the populace.
" nvE PER CENTS.—•Saturday, CS 1. 73 c.
" MADRID, JOLY 2.9.—A battalion of Walloon
Guards have marched from hence for Salamanca,
atad another of Spanish Guards for the interior of
Old Castile.. • This march of corps, who have been
constantly in garrison either at Madrid or lßarce•
bona, gives rise to a number of conjectures.

" ItasTAnT, AUG. 5.----Quecn Frederica of Swe-
den, and the Princess Sophia her daughter, re-
turned some days since to the Baths of Baden,
with a small suite. They propose to remain there
during the present month.

" SHAFFHAUSEN, AUG. 2.—Mad :me de Kill
der:er was obliged to leave Drmenhofen tie 2801

nit.

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Sloe since: 'Stopped iticces...vcly; at for.
short tine, 'at the village 3 of Cydiliogtn and
ltandegg, and also at Liollenwiti. She was on
the 30th ult. at Stocliach.

" MADE lb, 'JULY 20 —.?surlng• the last fork-
months front 8000 to 9000 troops have sailed
'ilum the port of Cadiz, together with a great
quantity of artillery and ammuniticin, deStined for
our possessions oI South A;nerica. A new ex:-
pedition, coniposed of about 4001) Men, of Which
one-fifth are eavall-y, will sail in a few d2ys. They
will complete the amonnt of force '.:Hch tl;e:
mother country sends to these possessH;ss lor the
inirpose of atteniptiog to recover I)l6'e arithority,
ndepe inland y of these measures, CV. y Merchant
ship sailing froth tile ports of Spain will carry it
certain number of soldiers, according to its tonnage.
These recruits are intended to supply the kisses
which svill be necessarily occasioned by so de-
structive a war.

" The new system of taxation introduced by,
M. de Garay, and sustained by the firintiess and
energy of the King and Ministry, excites the
greatest adMiration in thiS place. rt., ett those ova
whom it falls the heaviest, canacit Withhold their
praise. Without bearing on the nation, and with
Out increasing the expellees of the State, it ai
least doubles its reventie. An opposition is exL
peeted, but it will be of rid avail; as the Minister
had the gciod fortune to begin his operations aR
the time when tire peOple had the greatest con-
fidence in the justice of its King, when the
most flattering intelligence was daily received
from Mexico and Peru, when in spiie of the mos.r.
infamous Piracies, ships daily entered our Ports
richly laden with the produce of Lima, Vera
Cruz, Porto-Bello, Catthagena, Havannah atiA
Manilla, when the most abundant crops werLr
ripening in our Provinces, When Commerce and
Manufactures were resuming their wonted activi:y,
when the most amicable arrangements existed
with Brazil, the United States, England, Ansti is
and Russia, and when the greater part of these
Courts offered their assistance in reducing our
Colonies, and, lastly, when those who should
Clare to oppose openly the wise !mastitis Of Go-
, vermeil( would draw upon themselves the pubiie
detestation.

" By private letters from Not, Granada, dated
itme 10, we learn, that the Royalists have re-

ceircd reinforcements from Spain ; that tiie 'in-
surgents hare been driven from every poc,t, and
that the' General in Chief of the expetli!ion,
indefatigable Morino, again flatters himself will,
the hope of a complete conquest in the cause of
his Christian Alajest y. \V expect the confirma-
tion of, or snore ample de;ails respecting this

news."

The ingenuity of Writer, on butte
sides, has often been the subject of rublie euric-
sity and surprise. Perhaps it leas terer been
more copiously displayed than by The Morrurg
ChroPicre this day, on the subject of Us own report,
that " not very amicable discpssions were on the
tapis among the Cabinets of ,London, Madrid,
and St. Pc;ersburgb." Our Headers will•recoNs.ct

that we positively contradicted this report ost
AUTHOR/TY. As the Chronicle could not deny
that authority, it has ingeniously contrived to
shift the question, and now asserts that, thou
these " not very amicable discussions" may not
exist, yet that there is "a coolness between Eng-
land and Russia ;" and this assertion it affects to
found on the adm'iss'ions of an Evening Paper,
with which it has opened a warfare, in which we

do not intend to take a Nil. But the Chianiee
is not contented with assertions founth:d on at}.:
missions, which admissions may be botlorned
upon mere rumours and conjectures, and pcilfeills
wholly built on the report which we originally
contradicted on authority ; for it actually boast.,
though an Opposition Paper, of the knowledge of

the secret negociations of our Government ; hit
it has this day the following pssage:—" Pre
know that she (Spain) tipplied to us first kit
assistance, as our assistance would have heed
most useful to her ; thatour Gover ninent refustif

to interfere it: the. cwitest ; and there call be t+o►

doubt as to the other Power to which she wuuld
next apoly." We shun not presume to dispute the
know/edge of the •Chrouiele thus eun;i,de:otly tor-
serted ; but we leave otn. Readers Lu reflect on
the probability that a Party Piiper, in perpetual
to ow; Government, should dm, be ablit;

to pouttnite ittto irg CABIZ;ET SECItET4.