The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15 1844

1 he is the guest, and will without doubt be an object
of the most sincere sympathy in France." The Con-
, stitutionnel, says " the KING'S journey to Windsor is
accomplished in the midst of the most earnest mani-
festations of British courtesy and politeness. The
English journals exhaust all the forms of praise, and
place no limits to their enthusiasm. They style our
KING the greatest, the most glorious, and the best
Monarch that ever reigned on the earth. These
praises, even if they were less hyperbolical, would
affect the French people if they believed that they
were really addressed to the . person of Louis
PHILIPPE. But France knows too well that their
sole object is the policy of the Ministry. It isithe:disa-
vowel of M. D'Au BIG N Y and the evacuation of Mogadore
that appear to English journalists as the greatest, the
most glorious, and the best thing that could be done."
Every impartial reader must be struck with the bad
taste and ingratitude of such remarks at the time
when the people of England, who care not a straw
for Mogadore or M. D7AUBIGNY, were spontaneously,
and with their usual national, warmth giving the most
decided proofs of their regard for the KING whom the
French people themselves had placed on the throne.
The Siecle surpasses even the Musts' journal in
malice and falsehood. " The visit of the KING to
England," says that journal, " the official demonstra-
tions which await him there, and the earnest con-
gratulations which M. GuizoT will not fail to receive,
are not considered at Paris as a subject of pride and
of triumph for France. There is not a little cause
for atonishment that it should take place at a moment
when the same voices which sing hymns to the praise
of the preservers of a peace humiliating to us, but
profitable to England, overwhelm our seamen with
insult, denounce our admirals as assassins, and ac-
cuse our country of being the abode of meddlers or
thieves. He amongst our princes whose energy has
to the present moment best responded to public opi-
nion in France, has not been himself spared, and it
was considered almost a favour to apply to him the
term of buccaneer, whilst his companions in arms
were styled cowards." The National, of course, is
equally violent, but there is so much same-
ness in the remarks that it is needless
to quote them, and we shall therefore close our ex-
tracts on the subject with the following excellent
article in reply from the Journal des Debats :—" We
had praised the KING for being a humane, liberal,
and pacific Prince. This is what the journal of M.
TRIERS calls gross encomiums, dangerous panegyrics,
provoking formidable polemics. Let us understand
each other clearly. M. TRIERS' journal does not
allow praise, but it permits blame and abuse, more or
less adroitly cloaked. Let it, for instance, meet
with some generous expressions in favour of peace in
a speech of the KING, and it will seize on these words,
so humane, so touching, and so rare in the mouth
of a Prince, to turn them into ridicule and disfigure
them by an insulting commentary. Our eulogiums
had not, however, provoked this discussion, not very
formidable in truth, but not less unbecoming than un-
constitutional, and it is not the only time that M.
TRIERS' journal has attacked the KING. It is well
known that M. TRIERS, in his speeches, in the
Chamber, as in the journals, is partial to this kind of
polemics; it is therefore eulogium, and eulogium
alone, that is prohibited. Formerly the Radical
journals pretended that when some cried Vice le Rui!
others had a right to cry A bas le Roi 1 M. TRIERS'
journal, in that as in many other things, now goes
farther than the Radicals ; it allows itself to blame,
it forbids us to praise ; it is well inclined to have per-
sons cry A bas le Roi I it will not sanction Vice le
Roi ! It authorises us to admire ALEXANDER the
GREAT entering into Babylon, Junius CIESAR, LOUIS
XIV., and NAPOLEON, but to assert that the KING
is humane, liberal, pacific, and that he has not sullied
his reign with any of those crimes which policy has
too long excused, and which the folly of men has
sometimes elevated to the rank of grand actions,
is what M. TRIERS' journal calls gross encomiums.
And we are not to have the right to laugh
at this dynastic and constitutional opposition ! Con-
tinue as you have begun I Advance every day
more in the evil path in which you are ! Ex-
cite passions which you do not feel ! Urge to war
without wishing to have ' war ! Irritate national
susceptibilities, envenom the slightest incidents, for-
get nothing likely to make the country believe that
the peace which it enjoys is a disgrace, that its pros-
perity and happiness are not worth the price which it
pays for them ! Does the KING go to England ? Say
that the honours which are paid him, and the sym-
pathy shown him, far from reacting on France, are a
new proof of the hatred which the English bears for
us. If there is in any London journal, as there often
is in ours, an article unjust, violent, bragging, calum-
nious, give that article as the expression of the general
opinion in England. Does an English sailor take it
into his head to seize on a cigar in a shop without
paying for it, in place of simply allowing the cor-
rectional police to act, say that the English in France
already imgine themselves in a conquered land : de-
scend to that ! Above all, invent dialogues between
M. GUIZOT and Lord ABERDEEN, in is hich M. Gut-
ZOT will sacrifice France, and will represent us as
a nation of disorderly fellows and mad fools ! Blow
the fire, in fact. You would not be the persons to
extinguish it, once that you have lit it up ! Yen
would perhaps be secretly inclined to do so, but you
would not have either the power or the coura,Fo. But,
we repeat it to you, happily you are :lot France !"
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We have given, in another part of the paper, an
official dispatch from Captain BRUAT, describing the
combat at Mahahena, in Otaheite. It appears that the
dispatch had already been published by Captain
BRUAT, in the first number of a journal which he
had established at Passaile, under the title of
l'Ociune Francaise. It will be seen from the report
that the French Captain attributes no blame to the
English missionaries, but, on the contrary, admits
that they did everything they could to pacify the
natives, but without effect. The Constitutionnel,
which first published the dispatch, gives extracts from
private letters blaming the conduct of the Commander of
the Basilisk, an English vessel of war, with other details,
but they are not entitled to credit. M. THIERS and
his correspondents generally see everything done by
the English in a false light. We are, therefore, a
little puzzled to account for the insertion of the fol-
lowing curious paragraph :—" It appears that Com-
mandant BRUAT has had to condemn and punish seve-
ral of our soldiers and sailors, for deserting and join-
ing the Otaheiteans, at the battle of Mahahena. One
of the sailors has been shot. He was probably the
ringleader, for petitions for pardon of the rest have
been presented to the Governor." We are glad
to find that the correspondent of the Constitutionnel
had not discovered one Englishman among the
deserters. It is stated that " the Charte, Uranie,
Reine Blanche, frigates, and the Boussole and Ern-
buscade, sloops of war, have been ordered to quit the
Pacific and return to France." It is not improbable
that M. BRUAT himself may be ordered home. The
Journal des Debats thus expresses surprise at his irre-
gularity in publishing the document in question•:--
" We knew that there was a Moniteur at Paris, in
which the Government inserts under its responsibility
whatever it judges proper ; but we were ignorant, at
least a few days back, that there was in the Society
Islands another Moniteur, in which the agent of the Go-
vernment, under his own responsibility, publishes re-
ports addressed to his superiors. Captain Bruat is at a
distance, he has fought courageously for his country,
and we should be sorry to say anything that might
prove injurious to his personal consideration; but
it will be allowed to us to appreciate the de•
wee of discretion which he exhibits in the exer-
cise of his official functions. We cannot dissemble our
extreme surprise that the King's agent. at Otaheite
has thought it his duty to take on hiniself to publish,
without authorisation, as far at least as we are aware,
reports addressed to his superiors_ and whit.h hi. anvc.rn-

ment alone had the right to dispose of. These are prin-
ciples which it is indispensable to maintain in all their
extent, because they are essential to the regular exercise
of the Executive power. It is impossible that affairs can
be transacted in this way. If the representatives and
delegates of a Government in all parts of the world, if
the Ambassadors, Ministers, Consuls, and Governors of
provinces took it into their heads to make their respec-
tive residences as empires within an empire, every kind
of administration would be at an end, and, the Executive
power would be delivered up to anarchy."

STAB OF MonanonE.--The following is an ex-
tract of a letter received at Lloyd's yesterday from
Gibraltar, dated Oct. 4:—" I have to acquaint you
that her Majesty's ship Scout has returned from Mo-
gadore, where it seems the Kabyles had pillaged all
the goods and other valuables ; but the houses are
not so much damaged as was expected ; that of our
Vice-Consul and three or four others had been beset.
I understand that her Britannic Majesty's Consul-
General at Tangiers has officially announced that the
Governor of Mogadore has written as follows :
That the people of the place had returned to their
dwellings, are settled in security, and that order and
government had been again restored in the town.'
The intelligence brought by. the Scout is so far con-
firmed, that order and the authority of the Sultan are
restored. The inhabitants are returning to their
dwellings, which they find in a perfect state of deso-
lation from the ravages of the Kabyles ; but the majo-
rity of the inhabitants were still absent from the town
when the Scout left."

THE AFFAIR OF MAHAENA.
REPORT ON THE COMBAT OF MAHAENA (APRIL 17,
1844), ADDRESSED TO THE MINISTER OF MARINE BY
THE GOVERNOR OF THE FRENCH POSSESSIONS IN
OCEANIA.

Papaiti, April 22.
Monsieur le Ministre,—l had the honour of inform-
ing you, in my report of March 22, that the insur-
gents had taken refuge at Mahaena. Information
since brought by some agents showed me that their
number was augmenting considerably; they were
reckoned even at 1,500 fighting men. This estima-
tion appeared to me exaggerated, yet the intrench-
ments which they were raising, on a width of 1,800
metres, proved that they were exceedingly numerous.
I neglected no means of preserving peace. Influ-
ential persons applied to the chiefs, and showed them
that such persons as were summoned to appear had
only to come and make their submission at Papaiti to
be amnestied. They at first appeared disposed to re-
turn to us : the chiefs of our party then sent them a
deputation, which was well received; but the female
chief, Teritous, who is always at the head of the op-
position, declared, in the name of all, that they would
not accept any arrangement, and that the multitude
would not disperse. The people of Taiarabou alone
appeared inclined to separate from the insurgents.
The English missionaries, with my authorisation,
made a final attempt, which completely failed. It
then appeared to me absolutely necessary to profit by
the presence of the Charte to strike a blow which
might prove to the natives that not only we had
nothing to fear from their attempts against our esta-
blishments, but that we could reach them in the po-
sitions which they had themselves chosen and forti-
fied. M. Mallet, captain of the Embuscade, received
orders from me to dispatch, by the Clementine, the
second section of the voltigeurs, in garrison at Tara-
vaoa, and twenty-five men of his crew. I took all
necessary measures to set out the moment I learnt
that the schooner, which was to carry this reinforce-
ment, had reached Mahaena. This intelligence ar-
rived on the night of the 11th, and, on the evening of
the 13th, the Phaeton took the Uranie in tow, and,
profiting by the calm, I proceeded with these ves-
sels for Mahaena. Violent and contrary winds hav-
ing got up during the night, the Uranie and the
schooner the Clementine, which had reached us, con-
trived to crowd all sail to gain to windward. I took
with the Phaeton the anchorage of Matavai, thus plac-
ing myself between the insurgents and Papaiti. On
Sunday, the 14th, the wind having fallen, I set out in
the night, having taken as a reinforcement the sec-
tion of voltigeurs embarked on board the Clemen-
tine, and on the 15th I anchored at Mahaena.
The frigate came up on the 16th, and I took its an-
chorage at three hundred and fifty metres in front of
the little bay where I wanted to effect the landing.
On the 17th, at a quater past five in the morning,
all the troops and sailors were assembled on
board the Phaeton, and at day break the landing, di-
rected by Lieutenant Malmanche, the head of my
staff, commenced on a shore defended naturally by
the abrupt point of a mountain, the approaches to
which were commanded by the Uranie and Phaeton.
A hundred men were set on shore. The section of
voltigeurs took possession of a height, and being at-
tacked, they beat off the enemy, which gave way
after some loss. The sea, which was already heavy,
became more so. The landing could only be effected
in whalers, and notwithstanding all the precaution
taken, two boats were thrown on the coast. One man
was drowned, and we had a quantity of cartridges
wetted; but thanks to the devotedness of several men
of the Uranie and the Embuscade, who often ran the
risk of being crushed or drowned, and to the good
direction given by M. Malmanche, every one was
landed at ten o'clock, and the losses were repaired.
I found myself with two mountain howitzers, 45
artillery, 248 seamen sent from the Uranie, the
Charte, the Embuscade, the Meurthe, and the
Phaeton, and 148 infantry—in all 441 men. ' There
were thirteen men who could not land in time, the
Clementine having arrived in the harbour too late.
From the intelligence which I had received, I
knew that the insurgents were to concentrate
their efforts in the intrenchments which they
had dug, and which they considered so much
the more impregnable, that a thousand men de-
fended them. These intrenchments consisted of
three dykes, of six to seven feet in depth, dug parallel
to the sea, on a length of 1,800 metres, and defended
from the fire of the vessels by a glacis. They were
covered by a horizontal roof of bourahau (a wood of
the country), which hindered the defenders from being
seen, giving them an opportunity of taking aim at
their assailants, and hitting them almost hand to hand.
It is true that if the position were once turned, re-
treat became impossible. From this information I
drew out my plan of attack. M. Dollieul, with the
section of the Embuscade, was to defend our rear ;
M. Domezon was to seize on a hill that commanded
the height where the flag floated, which the section
of voltigeurs, commanded by M. Martin, were to
make themselves masters of. The other section was
then to join us. Lieutenant Gout, of the navy, had
orders, with the company of the Uranie, to turn the
redoubts, by placing his men as sharpshooters; and
the bulk of the troops of the line, under Captain
de Brea, with two pieces of artillery, were,
in following the shore, to attack the intrench-
ments on the flank. These arrangements being
made, Captain Nicolai, who filled with great
distinction the functions of Captain of the Staff,
carried to M. de Brea, in command of the line, the
order to advance. At eleven o'clock the movement
commenced. It was then that a petty chief of the
island, who was in my suite, intrepidly carried off,
before tht eyes or the insurgents, and from the midst
of their bullets, the flags which they had planted on
the hill. The fire commenced in the midst of cries'
of " Vive le Roi !" a thousand times repeated) both
by the troops and the vessels in the harbour. The
heights were crowned, and the flank movement com-
menced by Lieutenant Gout. The bulk of the
column marched on the first redoubt) keeping up
a very sharp fire of mtsketree Ac twit as I
learned that the redoubt was turned, I ordered
it to be carried at the bayonet's point, which
was executed with a bravery and energy that do
great honour to our sailors and soldiers, The second
redoubt was Oatfled a little after in the same
Seventy-nine dead bodies found in the intrenchments
attest the determination with which the attack and
detente were carried on. 1 judged it right not to
leave any repose to the insurgents, and gave orders .to
march at once on the third redotibtt The re§istanet
was less abetiiiate here, and after a fire ot but little
duration the defenders took to flight, and easily es-
caped from our. attack) by saving themselves in the
undet*ood which skirts the redoubt on the side of
the river. Here they were for a loteg, time struck by
the balls from the frigate) which added to their heel.
The fire of the sharpshooters continued also sometime
in the Rattle tinderwood) but the lossnsuetained by the
insurgents forced them to retire. ilitlf-fiest font
the fire ceased along the whole line. One hundred
and two ,of insurgents rpmaititdi Qh
,the
fielder betttl. 'ineir guns have been sleeked ; theie
flagea half hundred muskets, and some ammunition,
have fallen into our power. The artillery of the
Uranie, commanded by M. letonard, as I have had the
hoholir, infetehip/Iyotte Recepettey; yfeeentedb
its good caiectioii the insurgents from spreading theta
selves outside the intrenchments. The Clementine,
commanded by M. Boyer, joined her fire to that of
the frigate to amide, the ftigitiees lh thees retreat;.. and
cut off the passage Of the river. The Phaeton, Cap-
tain Afaiggin, iilstired .the safety of our ambulance sta-
tioned at the Pebe 81' Ittfidl43 atid wpichzas at one
period attacked. M. Vesco, surgeon of the ufira'.
there struck with a spent ball. I have to inform
your Excellency that ,the zeal, and eiolicitude of this
Meet *its *orthy of all petiiee. I etti bound also
to mention to your Excellency the cetidtict
Gabrielli de Carpegna; Enselent de Vaisseatti who
speaks the labgtiege, and who fhad brought With ffie)
charged at first with the signals with the harbour,
and afterwards with the care of having the wounded
traneDorted to thg iellete their nutetber
became considerable. M. de Carpegna acquitted him-
self of the task with zeal and devotedness. After
having bivouacked that night in the place where we
landed, I, on the morning of the 18th, during the re-
embathation) seQt Captatte with the reserte,
commanded by M. de la Vaisslere, hnseleetie tit Veils•
seau, and which had landed too late to take part lb
the affair. M. Nicolai visited the field of battle
in every directiblie He had the ammunition and
arms picked up which the night beffirq bad
escaped observation. He destroyed a half-hundred
of canoes and three whalers which lay in a
pond near at hand, and which might prove of
great service to the insurgents. At five °lank
the anchors were weighed, and the same night I
was back at Otaheite. This victory hdii bet been
without lamentable loss on our side. We had fifteen
men killed, of whom two were officers—M. Nau-
sonty, of the navy, and M. Seignette, lieutenant of
artillery ; besides fifty-one wounded, of whom two,
Messrs. Colondre and Debry, were eleven. Every
one did his duty well, but -several made themselves
remarked in a striking manner. I have the honour,
Monsieur le Ministre, to transmit to you the report
of Chef de Batalilem Brea, in command of the troops,
which points out to time the most deserving. From
the manner in which this officer behaved, his name
ought to be placed at the head of the report. I ad-
join a list of names for promotion and decoration,
praying YrJur Excellency to lay them before his
Majesty,, as justly meriting recompense.
I have the honour, &c.,
BRUAT,
Governor of the French Establishments in Oceania.

The Brighton hunting season commenced yester-
day, when the hariers threw off at the Dyke. In fu-
ture their meetings will be on Mondays at Pateham ;
Wednesdays, the Race Ground; and Fridays, at the
Dyke; each day at half-past ten o'clock. A committee
of gentlemen has been formed for the general manage-
ment of the hunt, by whom subserintions are received,--,