The Sun.
London, England, 1818-06-29 00:00:00

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(Not from our Regular Correspondent)
t rots, .1 UYE istS.—Your Readers will recollect the
(hr"'les at Grenoble in l 8 6, which it is unnecessary here to
'ofat:'eterise• General DoNNADIEU, proclaimed the saviour
,
ie Province, was generously recompensed (or his services,
!tratleast for his reports to Government,
a he verified. which were neglected
411.4 eXample had 661 consequences for the neighhouring
ePartMents, a deplorable emulation arose amongst several
):?ol.tserals in the same situation) ; and there is great reason to
• there that it influenced powerfully the events which soon
;ter brought down man., evils on the departmentof the
kione (Lyons`,-at feart, ritrnerous writings which ()Ate, cir-
iated hi France for these six months, demonstrate clearly
!°°agb, that at Lyons, as elsewhere, certain persons first
14°val'ed dangers, and then exaggerated them, in order to give
4 high idea of their zeal and the services they had rendered.
Various causes, which the opposite parties have assigned
t°
these events, have produced personalities, challenges, and
laarreli. The Commandants of Departments, and the nu-
i°"°lls Military men who have been crnelly treated by them
to Publishing their grounds of complaint, only seem to bare
made the matter worse.
General CANnEt, every day receives challenges, which he
has not hitherto thought proper to accept; but this refusal is
Modern and very rare expedient amongst French military
;
leu, amongst whom Peace always helms a most perfect equa-
-I!3', and although scouted by the great
, majority, it never-
. Peless appears to have served as an example to somc of
the►.
few days since, General noNNADIrti was sitting on the
4ottlevard de Gand, at Paris, when M..DEsciwtrs, Colo-
Ile' of the Light Artillery, came up to him, and whispered, in
hit ear, that he had written to hint .ci.r times to demand sa-
tisfaction for the horrible vexations he had made him expe-,
; he repeated to him, in a calm but determined man,
tier lots demand, but General DoNNAni EU refused it in I con-
tettiptunton manner, on which the Colonel lost all patience,
4'o, as the Sarreillant states it, expressed to the General, by
Words and actions, all the rste'roi he entertained for lois per-
, and this in the presence of is great number of military
;lea and others, who gathered round the parties, and ex-
' 'tsedo by loud applause, their approbation of Colonel
?Joule ,
AmpS,
Nutwit%standing all this, the General, who has too high an
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ca of his own dignity, refuses to yield to the intreaties of
'"1 friends, and wipe off hy his sword insults a la Crib, not
t.iert the request of a high personage near the Throne could
Itnidare him to adopt the usual mode of answering the appeal
144,1 Officer of rank. But he went to the King to intreat his
4je'tY to forbid him to tight, and to obtain more respect
rual his brother Olhicers. His Majesty was very reserved in
Lit an •
swer.

Fors' n observed the next day,in prusence of an 'film-
-1)4" of Grenoble, that General 1). was very brave, but that
ating
1144 given proofs of his courage, he would not fight any
~
t'' The Grenohlese would not believe a word of this
circumstance unless it was since the General's return
"41
fOr,' ' 1; the General's residence at Gre-
,.0.4 di.( during
ice fuai;lit very frequently. You arc mistaken, said an
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5.,0,' he never had a single affair of honour in the country
144 ib"nour as you like about that, replied the Grenoblese,
4, was his neighbour, and all the quarter has witnessed,
myself, that he fought very frequeptly—with Isis