The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-11 00:00:00

FOURTH DAY, JULY 8.

Capt. Correa (again examined, Colonel Barry interpreter)
said the message was a letter. O'Meara replied to it, that
General Cook and the English Officers were already acquaint-
ed with the affair. He had said to Capt. Brialey, Whom he
met in the street, that O'Meara was not a man of honour,
because be bad attacked Mr. Gordon on the Almeida; and
not a man of courage, because he had refused his challenge.
Capt. Brialey, at first, defended Mr. O'Meara's conduct, but
ultimately agreed with him.

Mr. Jelin Brigdate knew Mr. Gordon, saw the meeting on
the Almeida, and gave the same account of it as Mr. Gordon
had given. lle,knew by report that Mr. .Got don had subse-
quently challenged Mr. O'Meara, that Mr. O'Meara did not
give any answer to the challenge, and that a meeting did not
take place between them. It was a topic of general conver-
sation. The general opinion after this affair was, that Mr.
O'Meara was a coward.

Sir George Cook authenticated a General Order issued in
consequence of the affray on the Almeida, in which the con-
duct of certain persons attached to the Commissariat was de-
scribed as un-ollicerlike, and subversive of discipline, and
a Court-Martial to investigate the circumstances was ail-
swum( d. The particular occasion of this General Order was
a complaint from Mr. Gordon of the conduct of those parties.
The parties were the Officers of the Commissariat. The im-
pression on the minds of the people there was strung and un-
pleasant. Those reflecting on the subject might have applied
their censure to individuals, lint he did nut know any thing
-of that. lie represented to the Duke of Wellington that he
had received from Mt. Gordon a representation of his having
been assaulted and struck by other persons of the Commissa-
riat. The Duke's answer (read in Court) stated the appeal to
a personal contest to be disgraceful, but that those implicated
did not appear to be ashamed of it, us they made it a boast.—
Sir George had reason to think that the circumstances would
lead to a challenge, and laid injunctions to prevent it. The
injunction was the General Order. The injunction applied
principally to O'Meara.

Mr. O'Meara here ohs, reed that the two ch6llenges were
given to him, the one by a boy in the street, who immediately
ran-away, the other by a porter, who knew not from wham
he receivr,d it. He considered Mr. Gordon as a maniae,'or
in a worse view.

Lieutenant-Colonel Grant then called as evidences to ge-
neral character, Colonel Murray, who knew hint for 4 years;
a letter from Sir H. Vivian ; Colonel Hughes ; and. Lieut.
Dun, who knew him fur 6 years. Colonel Murray gave tes-
timony to a letter written. to him by General Davies, on Col.
Grant's coming from the 17th Dragoons tone 19th Hussars,
giving the highest possible character to Colonel Grant: All
concurred i❑ testimony that Colonel Grant held the very
highest possible character, personally and generally, for tho-
rough honour in all his transacticns, for the utmost gallantry
at the head of his corps, and for the most in illiant courage
is the field. Colonel Vivian, after having himself witnessed
his conduct in the most trying circumstan,es, declared that
" a more honourable man dues nut exist ; that in personal
courage none exceeds, and perhaps few equal him." Colonel
Grant was'procteding-to call several other-Officers, when the
Court expressed themselves perfectly satisfied ; and declared
it quite unnecessary to call mute, unless Colonel Grant in-
sisted upon it. Colonel Grant replied, that he did not by any
means insist, for -that •it was most painful to his feelings to
call any witnesses at all to his character. Here the defence
closed.

• • Mr.; O'Meara-asked till Friday to prepare his reply.
.The Court, after delib.:ration, refused, as Lieut.-Colonel
Grant Lad asked only one day to prepare his defence, and as
such delay was unprecedented, the Duke of Wellington, in
similar circumstames, having -gut but 20 minutes. _ They
indulged Nlr. O'Meara till 10 o'clock next day'; and the Court
-adjourned to-that hour at 1 o'clock.