The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-09 00:00:00

THE ILAITE COUNT DE LAS
CASES.

Emmanuel Count de Las Cases, Marquis of
Caussade, traced his issue to a noble family, one
branch of which, established in Spain, produced the
A cry worthy and noted Bishop of Chiapa, Barthelemy
de Las Casas, whose historic and other works have
long placed him in the first degree of literary
eminence. _

At the period, antecedent to the revolution, Las
Cases was an officer of Marine. At the time, how-
er, when the nobles of the country emigrated in
great numbers from France, Las Cases in 1791,
became one of their number. He then made the
campaign of 1792 in the capacity of a simple volun-
teer, and afterwards embarked at Rotterdam, and
finally came to London. While in our metropolis he
sedulously applied himself to the compilation and
arrangement of a large historical and geographical
Atlas (Atka( Historique et Geographique), which he
published under the pseudonym of " Lesage." At
the close of 1779, Las Cases returned to France,
where he for some time carried on the trade of a
bookseller; and in 1804 published in a new form his
" Atlas," which he had subsequently much enlarged
and brought to some degree of perfection.
Warmly attached to Napoleon, he was made by the
latter a Baron of the Empire in 1808, and begged
permission to make, as a volunteer only, the Antwerp
campaign in the following year. After, this expe-
dition, he was appointed Chamberlain to the Emperor,
alul subsequently, a Master of Requests, in the section
of the Marine. some time afterwards he was charged
with a mission into Holland, and in 1811 presided at
the Council for the Liquidation of the Public Debts
in the Illyrian Provinces.

After the disasters of Waterloo, Napoleon having
been compelled a second time to quit France, M. de
Las Cases, solicited permission to accompany him,
as he followed him to St. Helena, with one of his
sous. His society was both a resortrce and a conso-•
lation to the proscribed. Motional ; and during thispe- •
rind he taught the Emperor the English language,
and wrot_e, under his dictation, several historical me-
moirs. For eauses which cannot be examined into or
developed in a memoir of this nature, Las Cases was
arrested,lwith his son, on the!.l7th of November, 1816,
by order of Sir Hudson Lowe, and conveyed
to the Cape of Good Hope, where he suffered
a long captivity. Being conducted from thence into
England, he was cast upon the continent, and wan-
dered about some time escorted as a prisoner. On
'his arrival at Frankfort, liberty was granted him
under the protection of Austria. For two years he
and then returned to France,
sojourned in Belgium,
where he occupied himself in his retreat by putting
in,order the documents which he had brought from
St. Helena. The two first of his Memoirs appeared
in the. January of 1823, and are too well known to
the reading world to need further reference to their
contents.

Allusion was once before made to the conduct of
the Belgian authorities relative to their interference in the
rivalry existing between the English and the Belgian steam-
Tess,'ls at present engaged in the conveyance of
passengers from
Ostend and Antwerp, and we have now received a letter,_a_nbow,
which states that the last English steamer thence, the Rainbow,
suffered considerable annoyance from one of the water-bailiffs
stationed at Antwerp, on her home-bound passage. It appears
that the Rainbow was put on at the regular hour, and was
preparing to start accordingly, when it was announced to the
Captain by the water-bailiff that he could not go at that time,
hot must either to a quarter of an hour before or after, as the
Milian boat had fixed that hour for starting. The repre-
.entation of the injustice of the demand was in vain, and
therefore the Captain at last- determined, at all hazards, to
proceed on hia voyage at the hour fixed, which he did, despite
the threats of the water •badiff and his assistants. This may be
viewed as a ease in ilseit hardly deserving of mention, but when
the principle it involves is seen, it will be acknowledged that,
if not noticed in some qoarter, it mar give rise to other more
tvrious inconveniences, the damage resulting from which.
though perhaps in a certain degree recoverable in a court of
lase, could, properly speaking, never be repaired.
At the expiration of' two years from the introduc -
ti
on of the Penny Postage, 31r. Rowland engagement
with the Government will have expired. That gentleman,
however, will still be retained at his present salary, and will
ilive apartments fitted up in .5.t. Martin's-le-Grand,
The German Journals announce the death of AL de
wie.baitig, a Privy CoUtteellor of the King of Bavaria, at the
age of 80, leaving a widow aged enlv 22, and two sons, one 51
years of age be a former marriage, and the other by his lag mar-
riage,only 11' months old. . .

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