The Sun.
London, England, 1816-06-06 00:00:00

I)F,F,ENCE.

The following Letter has been addressed by K.
Ilerryer, jun. to the President of the Cooneil of
Advocates, on the occasion of his being cited by
the Attorneruencral, M. Belton, before that.
Conned, flit having, in defence of General Cant-
brone, professed principles subversive of the le-
gitimacy of Princes
" M. President —The Council of Discipline
having had the goodness to postpone till tornor..
rOw the decisiou to be taken in cOnsequettce of
the Attontey-General's letter contenting ute,. itt
order to give me time to procure fresh explana-
tinns, I hasten to address hint all, those which
my conscience permits me to satot.it to biro.
" I again declare, that on the trial of General
Cambrone I had reason to think inyiell lree from
ali bl4l”e, since the president 'of the council of
war, and the King's isti.orucy, to- whom alone'
belonged the dist:il:hoe and the right of ekiniing
(tile respect for priOciplei iit case thvy were tin-
lilted in their preseoce,' did nut interrupt toe by
any retioti-k in the Whole course of my plc.ido4s.
.111 axing to -defend a General placed in the
same predicament with GeneralThouut, mid 0011
feting in that General's system of defence li:tving
been udoptell by the authority of the public, Ii
astrY, thin) sanctioned- by a sovereign Judgment,
again-4 which his Majesty hail forbidden all ap-
peal to be 111411 c ; I resortt4 to that syNtem, coo-
fining ftlitlf to develope, hit ati• natot: of my

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"Tit& Attorney-0, feral', however, having sern
in the .I,,nrhal, that i Ma', reprqa: lied Wiili ittving.
reffeselyted as a Ivolihic and trettevolis it,:tion,
that of attacking toe Ki.ig,atl Fiance, friam the
tn,uneut n man had rdinqui4l it the quality of
Frei 'h ,cititen, and of having asserted that .a.
Frenchman who hes riot rkken the oath of alieg,i-
nnee to thi Xing is not bottod to any obedience`
to his njefity.. I unequivocally declare, that t...
never broached such propoAitions, and t‘..lat I con.
side'.-them as nbrotril. 'My language. cannot .be put
in opposition with the conduct I e' !need at the pc-
rind of the usurpation. Being a Royal Volunteer, i ~
might have combated Gen.. Caelone on the road.
from Cannes' to *Paris : the tigitiki of nations put
arms in my hands; but when, alter havint been .a.
prisoner of war,llencral Cambrone of his own ac-
cord returned from li.,M:ilmid , to [,hare the tate.
of General Drouot. ; and 111 ,deliver Itidiself up 'to
the justice of the ii..i.ig ; when lie confided. to niiii
the cave of his deteuce ; when, performing that
A Hered office, I confined myself to set forth in his., ,
vindication the:state-of tweed obedience in whielt
he conceived that a treaty, concluded het ween all
the Powers of Europe, hail placed hint tinder 800.
naparte ; when this defence had been twice crown-
ed with complete success, it cannot subictineatlf
be imputed .to me :Is a crime. that I pleaded his
cause with the real tutu lAdvpentierice which I.
owed to our profession.
'' it it were wished to oblige me now tolicknow.
i ledge, and proclaim that this systeni-of defence
was fallacious/ • . criminalo condemnable, condemnable it wottlit
be requiring a subversion 'of all ideas ; it :would
be passing a Censure on twb verdicts; which it
was -my duty to provoke'; it, wOuld he condem
ning the judges who acquit red General Cambrone
it would be. eOnStituting me die :accuser of my
ener:t ; it tentild be obliging me. to' rob him of
what lie had reeoeired : a counsel ca ht . never be
compelled to betray in so egregious a manner the
Man who has coulided io Link at (MCC his ilonwir
and his life.
'' I fully trust that the 'Members of the Council,
the:pardnws of the privilege's of our order, will
feel the force and itaSlice of these obscrvatiiins ;
. and that they will not think it their deity to coll-
dentn a doctrine %villa') the Judges commis4ioneit
to•appt eciri:e it have listened. to ,with at lent bun.
even with favour.; of, which they better than any
one, were able to apph.hend the right sense,- and
of witielr they !tare adopted the •conelusitias.
" I alit, with profound respect, Mr. President,
eids. .

" May 21, Ma

)ttn. Annat."

A NI El( it; l'A 1) iLitt;.

New York paper, reached its to tire 15th
Now that. Congress is adjourned, their interest is
considerably diminished. The ittsurrectitOl
13 trbatioei was known at New York. Troops
been sent from St. Lucia to'yiell it ; and alrlidirgil.
tranquillity had been svai deerded ne
cessaryto retain the troops. The Carthageniatt
schooner Meteor, eominati,led by the notorious
pirate Mitchell, has 'been -eaptto 1 by the
States brig Boxer, under the voilimand of Captith%
roller., who, after taking ott' 3Q,004 dollars, sem,.
on the prize to New. Oilcans, . I t tt ill be recol-
le,:ted 01;4 Mitchell I .ras' "been aecn..eil by several
of the Aitiericani,' Who escaped-front.Carthsigetti4
of lia%ing,ntrered his"serritevitt carrying.olf front
It pl i'ce, on the approach ot, the. Spaniards, it
.ti onber of the native:s watt Atikertemi
theii effects., whom he after wards landed on a de
sert. island, where he aboutioned them without any
supply of proviiil)lls, Roil I)l.6,c:ceded on pira'
eat cruize, retainint4 ileitis own hand's the \elloic
of their property:
The foleral ticket for Governor and Lienterunt
Governor of New York continues to OpTlity a, de-
Otajority Its tnost of the to,yns tat tt co-untie,.
of that state, King'and TitilietS ate tavouilte
candidates.
The, following article appears in the yolk
papers relative to the reee,it tire in the Catskills
Mountains
.14 CAT:4Krit; MAY ii,,—Dnring the week,
the Carshill Mountains', and •dirt intervening
woods, have been eonat,intly on tire. It is sz,id
it extended as far si*Ooli as I.7l;N:ft and Sullivan
comities, destroFing in its tionse property to to
very, large unimmt. 111 Many instances the
bitants s neighbwititig settlements' have beets
compelled to sally' out to save 'their dwellings
from thstrtsetion. The smoke mod ein,lers from
the fire, together with a thick anti hazy atotoi-
phere, tor it great part of the time obsetveti the
sun. A frik.ndly rain tot Sunday stopved the pro.
gres.s of the tire, awl reitored,the wonted dearness,
of the at,inosphere:'
Another the broke out in the back part of "gas.
saet;usetts on the 24th of Apt il, aided by
the wind and 4110kiglit, destroyed more than 1000
acres of wood, and inateliaily damaged a number
of the adj ieent larrnS.
A zi!.ani,tl ship is said to have been eaptureil
on the Dth by a Carthagonian nrivltteer, having
on hnartl 4W1,000 dedlat;s; and :bound froin Vetts
Cruz to the Ilacatinati. The ritiVateeV Was pro-
bably the 'Aleteor.
The Washingttm, of 7.4 C0111t11(ulore,
Chaitnei.y, had hailed limn i3oston ota tt cruizt:.
Capt. APl:Mtn:ugh had appoiuted to the
command of the stittam .t. P.rtstnonth.

111AY :7.--ln consequence of an uncom-
mon ,cai cit y,,or moury for a tt.::v days pittit, s
inerchantlise helve beeu alluost stns-tetifictt, udid
it be impossible to give a p; ii i_ clicfvut
tV4)111(1 be of any use. Mtn LL beir,
ooty 4111 le in tlemaiill, tlo,re Las being 0 nuiforrn
dere,sion priees out ot degree of depro.•
tion It woul.i be Vail; to ,Ittesttpt ,riving
Witte, other. tiatin the ininoti:. publii.