The Sun.
London, England, 1826-04-24 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

ST. PETERSI3URGII, Anti!. 5.
Our Journals contain a detailed account of the grand review
before the Winter Palace, on the Anniversary of the entrance of
the Allies into Paris.

By the Order of the Day of the Slat of March, his Majesty an-
nounces to the Russian army, that the late Emperor intended to
give medals to all those who were in that campaign, commemo-
rating the entrance of the troops into Paris, and his Majesty takes
the opportunity of the first anniversary of the 31st of March un-
der his reign, to fulfil the intention of Alexander, by giving the
medals promised.

On the same day his Majesty addressed the following rescript to
the Duke of Wellington

" To our Field Marshal General the Duke of Wellington.
" In order to testify to you my particular esteem for your great
qualities, and for the distinguished services which you have ren-
dered to all Europe, it will be highly agreeable to me if one re-
giment of my army bears your name. On this day the 19th
(31st) of March, on which Paris was taken 12 years ago, and an
ever-memorable contest, in which the good cause indebted to you
for such splendid triumphs, was terminated. I have given orders
that the Smolensk° Regiment of Infantry, formed by Peter the
Great, and one of the most distinguished of my army, which was
formerly under your command in France, shall henceforward be
called the Duke of Wellington's Regiment, as I wish hereby to
give you a proof of toy constant and sincere regard.
(Signed) " NICHOLAS."
The Duke of Wellington, as we understand, leaves us to-mor-
row. He has, during the last few days, visited all the establish-
ments fur education which are under thn especial direction of her
Majesty the Empress Mother.

_
The following extract from a letter which we have
received from an officer at Arracan, deed Nov. 1, giVes a most
!amentable account of the state of the army serving in that coun-
try--a force of 9,000 men, reduced by dreadful disease to less than
2,000 effective men, and 100 officers obliged to leave their regi-
ments, and return to Calcutta. " You can scarcely conceive a
situation in which the acknowledged causes of disease are more
abundant than at this truly designated 'Valley of Death.' A low
swampy country, covered with thick jungle, extends as far as the
eye can reach. Arising almost immediately out of these pestilen-
tial swamps appear the low hills of Arracan, on which the miserable
huts of the officers are built, and beneath which stand the more
miserable habitations of the European soldiers and sepoys. We
had just time to get tinder shelter before the commencement of
the rains, which full in such torrents as baffles all description...—.
To give you, however, some idea of their violence—the average
quantity of rain which fell here, in one month, was 60 inches,
while the usual quantity in Calcutta, where rains are more vio-
lent than in most parts of Hindostan, amounts to but 70
inches for the whole year. With all this additional moisture,
which completely saturated every thing under its influence,
and to such a degree, that the blanket under which I slept ac-
tually went rotten and fell to pieces in a few days, the occa-
sionally powerful heat of the sun excited vegetation to an almost
incredible extent; and this, added to the originally existing
causes of disease, produced sickness to such an extent, that out
of probably 8,000 or 9,000, who first entered Arracan, there
are not 2,000 to lie found who have escaped disease altogether,
exclusive, however, of a corps of Mugs, who are the original in-
habitants, and have remained healthy. There are not above half
that number yet sufficiently recovered to be able to bear the fatigue
of three marches. Several of the regiments have every single
man in the hoipitali and the mortality amongst Europeans has been
dreadful, five or six out of a hundred dying daily ; but amongst
the natives, the scenes of misery, sickness, and death, exceed all
poWers of description. Conceive hundreds of wretches crowded
as thick as they can be in one raised platform or bed-place, each
groaning under the pains of fevers, agues, and dysenterks, with
scarcely a rag to cover them, with scarcely a roof to shelter them
from the torrents of rain which fell for days, perhaps weeks to-
gether, wallowing in all kinds of filth, and inhaling the most in-
supportable stenches—many of them without any one to feed
or attend on them, and many reduced to such a state of emacia-
tion as to be in the strictest literal sense nothing but skin and
bone. Conceive, if you can, all this, and much more, and you
will have but a faint idea indeed of the sufferings of our poor,
brave, unfortunate, but unrepining Sepoya, at this pestilential and
indescribably filthy and miserable place. We are obliged to
throw the carcases into the muddy river which branches in dif-
ferent directions through the town, which is the repository alike
of men, elephants, bullocks, dogs, and all other animals ; some
half eaten by crows and vultures, others swelled and bloated, far
too disgusting to be described. Upwards of 100 officers have
left this place, as the only hope of recovering from sickness here
contracted ; and more than SO have here found their graves."—
( Hampshire Telegraph.)

SENDING BRITISH SUBJECTS BEYOND THE SEA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—We have heard with regret, that several
parishes in London and its vicinity, are desirous
of exercising their authority in a manner not
alone simply illegal, but in the highest degree
unconstitutional, and in direct opposition to the
express words of Magna Cherie and the Habeas
Corpus Act. They' arc, it is said, making prepara-
tions for exiling or banishing from their Land, such
children whose misfortunes have rendered them in-
mates of the poor-house, and in this instance assuming
to themselve s a power positively denied to the King
in Counc.l, and unknown to our laws. I trust,
however, once warned of the dangerous consequences
of such u iwarrantuble proceedings, they will abstain
from so v:olent an act. Magna Charta explicitly de-
clares that no freeman shall be exiled, or in any other-
ways destroyed, unless by the judgment of his peers,
or the law of the land; and by the 36th Ed. I. st. 4,
c. 6., breakers of this charter are to be excommunicat-
ed. Independently, however, of this declaration, the
Habeas Corpus Act, sec. 12., is even more explicit,
and visits on offenders of this description a punish-
ment, certainly severe, but scarcely adequate to the
crime. It makes them subject to an action at law, in
which the Jury arc not allowed to give damages below
500/., and the plaintiff will recover treble costs. It
renders persons acting in the perpetration of this un-
constitutional violence, incapable of holding any office,
and subject to the pains and penalties of a PrLemunire,
which at once crushes them to complete beggary, and
disables them from being pardoned by the King.
I am, &c. K.