The Sun.
London, England, 1817-06-30 00:00:00

PRIVATE, con RESPONDENCE.

PARIS, JUNE 26.—A change has for some time
been expected both in the department of the
'Marine and in. 'that ,of War. The former has
• taken place : M. de Bouchage has quitted the Mi-
tustry of the Marine, and has been replaced by
Marshal GouViOn she St. Cyr, Peer of t'rance, who
occupied the place of Minister of War in ISIS, At
the retarn of the King.. •He is described as being
too determined an opporsent.of ikClar.ke, the pre-
sent Minister of War, for them Both to cow inuelung
in the same Administration., It is believed that one
of two things must happen-,:either that, the Duke.
of Feltre must resign, -and he succeeded by some
tither person ; or that the two deliartments will be
united under M. Gouvion de St. Cyr: .The.rest. of
the Ministry appear at present immovably fixed in
their places. l t is to be wished that the Minis
ters, in the approaching Session of the Chambers,
-would show u true attachment to the charter, in
proposing, of their own accord, its furl and entire
execution, with no restriction either on individual
liberty or the freedom of the press.
NAvLrs, MAv 31.—There were guillotined here,
on the 12th instant, three individuals condemned
to death for great crimes. This was the filet time
that our troops formed .the ordinary guard at such
executions, The battalion of the royal marines
formed a circle round the place; of execution,
'which occurred about soft-set. • When two of the
sualefuctors had nuilet'gone the sentence of the
I,lw, and the :hird was conducting from a new
prison, there arose a tumult among the peo-
ple, some of whom wished to retire, believing
that the execution was closed with the death
•uf the two first sufferers. The crowd in departing
met the third, *and some contusion ensued, which
was increased by the rest of the spectators, who
were ignorant of the obstacle that impeded their
progress ; several voices called out, largo, largo,
room, room, fly, fly. A great number misun-
derstood the, cause of this exclamation, and
every one interpreted it according to his own
fancy. The contusion became general ; some be-
lieved that there was an attempt to resue the pri-
soner, others that there was an insurrection. The
tumult augmented, and the alarm spread to such
an extent as to throw the battalion into disorder.
Some shots were fired by chance, and several
horses running to and fro, without Octets, raised
the confusion to its height. In a few minutes,
however, order was re-established in the guard,
and the execution of the malefactor took place
without any farther confusion. The Austrian pa-
troles, who were on service on that occasion, re-
tn,iitied unmoved.
Gouvion (le St. Cyr, who is now made Ali-
bisrer of Marine, remained Minister of War front
thereturn of the King in 1815, (whom he followed
to Ghent. at the Invasion of Buonaparte) till the
"d of September :in that, year, when, on, the
change of Talleyranil's Ministry, he resigned.
Carnot used to say, tinst Dessaix (who was killed
Sit Italy), Goneion de St. Cyr, and South, were
the hest Generals whom the !revolution had
Pruduced, '

SPANISH MAIN.

Flom MARGAUETT.L.---By the schooner General
Scutt, from St. Thomas, we have late accounts
from this quarter, communicated in a letter front
a Gentleman in this town, who was captured
iu
a Danish vessel, hownd to Laguira, by a part of
Admiral Brion's squadron, for a breach of block-
ade : the letter is dated April 23, at Pompatar,
(the Admiral's bead.quarters.) Brion had con-
cluded to quit Alargaretta and establish him-
self at Goiampeachy, near the month of the
Oroonoko, as the former place was much dis-
tressed far provisions. His whole naval force con-
sists of the brigs Free India», and Free American,
the bell'aoners Decatur and Condor, and one other
small schooner. There were five Americans on
.board this squadron, but they had left it, and
the crews now consist entirely of blacks from St.
Domingo, commanded by French Officers ; they
are in bad order, and under no kind of dis-
cipline, General Bolivar had left Barcelona for
the interior, leaving about 400 men in the castle,
Or fort, and some women and children: A man
;who had escaped from the castle when it was
stormed by the Spaniards, supposes that about
50 men of the garrison made their escape. 80.
liver, it was expected, would have to cut his way
towards the Oroonoko.
The British man of war Brazen, Capt. Stirling,
&Trivet! at Pompatar about the 20th of April, to
demand the release of a Spaniard taken out of an
English schooner, and the restoration of 4,000
dollars taken from him. The Spaniard was given
UP, but Admiral Brion being absent the
money was nut to be had ; though it was sup-
, posed that if he had been there he would have
refused to '.refund any part of it. The sue-
case of the Patriots in Venezuela
,had become
very doubtful, Bolivar having lost much of the
confidence of his Officers, and a great part of his
soldiers, and the .cause was thought to have suf-
fered considerably in thodeprivatiOn of the ser-
vices of General IWGregor.—(l-fow very different
in this representation front the accounts of the
ratriots themselves !)
Notwithstanding that Bolivar' and Brion had
declared Comanii, Lagtiira,' and Porto Cabello
under blockade, it is believed that American or
I.lnglish vessels would not be molested in going
to either, of those ports ;' but the Patriots consi-
der theaanish Covell-Intent hostile towardit them,
slbri seem to know that the Danes have no force in
their Colonies to protect their Flag ; hence they
are r.how'n no favours.

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