The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-26 00:00:00

OF MICHAEL BYRNE.

It had been stated that a person named Michael
Byrne, one of those charged with being concerned
in the murder of Thomas Hanlon, was apprehended
in Carlow, where he was detained until some of the
officers, connected with the police establishment of
Dublin, should take charge of him. Mr. Cooper and
peace-officer Abbot went down, and returned on
Friday with the person supposed to be Byrne. It
was, however, immediately discovered that a wrong
person had been apprehended. Private information
xvas received on Saturday night, which induced Mr.
Bell, with peace-offieer Lynch and a large party of
police, to go to a lodging-house in Tennis-court, off
Townsend-street, the police party having sur-
romided the house, the peace-officer burst open the
bed-room door, where they heard Byrne was at the
time sleeping, Here Byrne was not to be found ;
but on breaking open a closet door (which they did
with some difficulty), they saw Byrne in his shirt,
jumping from the window. Byrne fell into a heap
of dirt in the yard below, out of which he was
dragged into the bed-room window again. The son
of the owuer of the house, a man named Robert
Roache, told the peace-officer, when Byrne jumped
out of the window, that his name was Patrick
Hughes. The officer took Robert, and his father,
William Roache, into custody. Byrne was removed
to the head police-office, where he was examined by
Mr. Studdert and Major Sin•. lie at once admitted
that his name was Michael Byrne, and that he was
the person for whom the police-officers were looking
and that he kept out of the way in consequence of
hearing of the reward that was offered for his ap-
prehension. He said he had not worked for a fort-
night before the murder of Hanlon, nor since. Ile
admitted also that he had worked with Lee, for
who apprehension a reward bad been also offered.
He stated that he never left the city, and had been
only three nigNs in the lodging house in which he
was apprehended, Byrne was fully committed, and
the two Roaches were he!fl over for further examina-
tion.—Dublin Morning Regis/cr.

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LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1829.

Mr. CLEWES, a King's Messenger, arrived
at the Foreign Office early this morning, with
despatches from the Right Honourable ROBERT
GORDON at Constantinople. These despatches
are dated October 31st, and we understand they
do not contain any intelligence of importance
respecting the movement of the Russian troops
from Adrianople;as stated in the German Papers,
but such was expected to take place immediately.
Mr. CLEWES was also the bearer of despatches
from Lord CowLEY, our Ambassador at
Vienna.

Mr. CONTINI, an Italian messenger, arrived
at the Colonial Office, at seven o'clock this morn-
ing, with despatches from Sir FREDERICK
ADAM, Lord High Commissioner of the lonian
Isles. The despatches are dated Corfu, the
12th instant.

The Aligeineine Zeitung of the 20th instant,
contains the following particulars respecting the
of tirs in the East :
FRONTIERS of WALLACHIA, OCT. 30.
The Porte has at length been induced to issue a
firman to Rudschuk Pacha, to deliver up the fortress

of Ghiurgevo, and to send it to Count Diebitsch, to
be forwarded to General Negry, commander of the
flotilla en the Danube, to whom this instrument was
given to be sent to the Paella, has officially informed
the Divan at Bucharest that he had the firman de-

O❑ the evening of the 10th inst., as
DANisi., the son of a respectable farmer, living in the
neighbourhood of Ystradfellte, Breconshire, was attempt-
ing to cross the river Mellte, which was much swollen by
the rain, he and his horse were carried away by the tor-
rent, and were precipitated down the stupendous water-
fall of Clyn-gwyn ! His body was found half a mile
below the ford, and the horse was found in the river, hav-
ing been carried to a th,tance of nearly four miles from the
fatal spot.

By the Corn returns, published this day, we
find there is no alteration in the duty on Foreign
Wheat, which remains at 30i. Sd. per quarter.
The duty on Foreign Barley has advanced
ls. Gd. per quarter, being at 15s. 4d. per quarter,
and that on Foreign Beans has experienced a
similar rise, being at 14s. per quarter. In none
of the other duties is there any reduction from
the report of last week, Rye being 21s. 3d. per
quarter, Oats 13s. 9d., and Pease 12s. Gd.

Dr. BURROWS has addressed a long letter to
the Editor of the Morning Chronicle, on the
subject of the extraordinary incarceration of Mr.
FREEMAN ANDERDON. In this communica-
tion, the object of which is, of course, to excul-
pate himself, or at least to explain the reasons of
his very premature proceedings with regard to
the supposed lunatic, the Doctor details at
length the reasons which induced him to sign
the certificate complained of. " I unequivo-
cally admit," says Dr. BURROWS, " that medical
examination of a suspected or alleged lunatic
should always precede, where it is possible, his
being placed under restraint. But many cases
must and do occur where that preliminary is
wholly impracticable. The case of Mr. F. AN-
DERDON is precisely one of that description.
The unsettled wandering habits of this gentle-
man presented an insuperable obstacle to an in-

terview with him ; and it was represented to me
that, to preserve him from utter ruin, he must
be placed under restraint by the following even-
ing. Some of the eccentricities in the person

livered to the Pacha by one of his officers, accom- and dress of Mr. I'. A., but by no means all of
pilled by an interpreter ; that the Pacha had re-
ceived it with great respect, and declared himself them, have been described in the police re-
ready to comply with it; adding, however, that he port. But these eccentricities are not con-
must first acquaint his August Sovereign with his fined to external appearances ; and as they are
having received it before he could give up the for- notorious and relevant, I may give publicity to
tress, whence it appears that the Paella still seeks to
them. Although still a young man, this gentle-
gain time and delay the evacuation of the fortress.
SEMLIN, Nov. 4. man has several years estranged himself, without
We have positive information from Turkey, that
any k own cause, from his highly respectable
all the points in dispute between Count Diebitsch , n
and the Turkish Plenipotentiaries at Adrianople are relations and connections ; and shunning all hu-
settled, and that Mustapha Paella, of Scuiaria,who at man association, taken up his aboele in a very
the beginning of last month seemed to think nothing
less than driving the Russian General from Adria- obscure, disreputable part of Lambeth-marsh.
nople, had his warlike ardour cooled by the answer There he resides, in a small,. miserable, dilapi-
of Count Diebitsch, and ended his military excur-
sion at Philippopolis. dated house, with broken windows, and a few
The firmans for the incorporation of six districts iron bars across the lower one. It may be in-
with Servia are said to be issued, Ghiurgevo eva-
cuated, and the first instalment of the indemnity to ferred that he has few visitors ; for neither the
Russian subjects paid.
gate of the fore court nor house door has bell
The accounts from Constantinople are not very
or .knocker. He lives a solitary being, without
favourable. A bitter and dangerous feeling pre-
vails in the people against the Sultan and his coun- . any servant or inmate. His meals he takes at
cillors, and not a night passes without some victim ';
cook-;ho s, where the lower orders resort. No
of fanatic hatred ; the Sultan, too, begins to see ,
the dangers of }-.s. situation, hisguards are reinforced, ' one knows when lie goes out, or will return, or
and receive higher pay. Couriers from London and
can give any account of his movements. Let
Paris to Constantinople pass through here every .
t week, and i t seems that important tiegociations are 4 me ask here, how an interview and medical exa-

urination was to be obtained within twenty-four
hours with such a peculiar character ?"
Granting to its fullest extent the difficulties of
this case, that the Doctor found it next to im-
possible to have an interview with Mr. F. Ax-
DERDON, that the Gentleman was solitary, given
to rambling, averse to society, and especially to
that of strangers ; granting all this—and we
make, we consider, pretty liberal concessions in
doing so—still the still original question returns
in all its force ; upon what principle of justice,
common sense, or expediency can a man be de-
clared a lunatic who has never been visited by a
physician so (2lliciallg designating him ? Is
eccentricity to be considered a sufficient indica-
tion of insanity ? If so, where is the Sai n
Luke's to be found, capable of containing
even one-third of the madmen in Lon-
don ? Is solitude to be " written down " in-
sanity ? Why then is ZIMMERMAN--whose
most popular production was strongly in favour
of that peculiar habit of mind—read, admired,
and rqublished from time to time as a favourite
and sterling author ? But the subject will not
bear consideration. From first to last it is
nothing more nor less than a dangerous inroad on
the privileges of the subject. As such, it must
be put a stop to at once, or Heaven knows where
the evil may terminate. Dr. BURROWS, from
all we have ever heard of him, is an enlightened
and worthy member of society, but were he ten
times more enlightened, ten times worthier than
he is, still as he has wantonly mixed himself
up with the discussion of a great public point,
he must be content to pay the penalty.