The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-27 00:00:00

COLONEL DOYELLAN.

This worthy officer, (better known as "
Charley"), had formed the greatest friendshii
with the jack-boot of the army, together with it,
c4se associate—the white buckskin breeches :
and when the grey overalls and short Welling-
tons were ordered to displace them, he indig-
nantly refused to obey—as far as regarded his
own proper pereon : such innovations he could
not bear ; and, as a proof of his opposition upon
this point, he stuck to his jacks and buckskins
to the day of his death. They, as well as his
favourite powder and pomatum, were along with
him at Talavera, when the shot struck him which
deprised the service of an excellent, though some-
what whimsical officer The Colonel had been
removed from the second battalion to the first.
and fora considerable time had not seen his
favourite men. Previous to the battle of Tala-
vera, Lord Wellington reviewed his whole army
on the plain, in order to shew his ally, the Spa-
nish General Cuesta, a specimen of the British
forces in all the pride of their excellence. As
the Generals rode along the line, which was of
immense•extent, each soldier stood fixed in his
ilace ; each battalion silent and motionless ;
sea-cely the eyelids of the soldiers twinkled,
as the cavalcade of the chiefs and their staff
rode by. All on a sudden, a bustle and
murmur took place in one regiment ; its
line lost its even appearance; and caps and
heads, and hands, and tongues rneved, to the
utter dismay of the officer who was in com-
mand of it. In vain did he endeavour to check
this unseemly conduct in his men, and Lord
"Wellington was himself astonished and exaspe-
rated at the circumstance. The fact is, the irre-
gular regiment was the second battalion of the
48th :—Colonel Denellan ha-epened to be riding
along with the staff, in his stiff buckskins, pow-
dered hair, and square-set cocked hat—his men,
from whom he fled been separated, perceived
their beloved commanding-officer, and every one
murmured to his comrade—. There goes old
Charley !"—" God bless the old boy !"—"Suc-
cess to him !"—. Does not he look well"'"—and
eo on ; bustling and smiling, evidently from an
impulse they could not resist. When this was
known to the Commander-in-Chief he was per-
fectly satisfied ; and all were delighted as old
Charley uncovered, and shook the powder from
his cocked hat in waving a cordial salute to his
worthy soldiers. In a very short time after thiscir-
cumstance the battle of Talavera took place, and
thee: the Colonel shewed that he knew the use of
steel and ball as well as of powder. He was engaged
at the head of his regiment, in the thickest of the
fight : fres several hours he had stood the :ire ot-
the enemy, and drove them from their ground
6equently, during which time he had two horses
shot under him. The presence of the fine old
soldier, like Charles in scarlet, animated his
men, and they fought with the energy of true
courage. His voice, as he gave the word of com-
mand, along the line of his battalion, was like a
match to thy gun. ~ Steady, officers ! cool, mv
men—Reedy, p'sent, fire—that's the way :ny
lacts." Thus old Charley, at a woh.l, sent showers
of well directed bans into the blue :auks before
him ; and in the heat of a well returned fire, was
*Ti cool as on the parade. and as primly capari-
He perceived a few of his men lel! fror

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of musketry at such a distance a
in :.ue him doubtful of being within range—
s. ;urse the fellows," said he, those d—d lon
guic of tl%eirs can shoot at two miles cif!" and
immediately advanced his battalion to such a
proximity cf the ice, that he soon made them shift
their ground. Very rhorllv after this, a dreadful
charge upon the French was made by the guards ;
tut in their purauit the=, went rather fin-, and a rein-
Coreetne.nt ofthe e.temy carne upon t hem. Col. Do-
nelarl instantly advanced to the support of ti,e
threatened regiment at double quick time; but
in this glorious moment the gallat it leader received
a ball in his knee : he beckoned the officer next
in command, Major Middlemore, and, although
suffering the most excruciating torture from the
wound, took off' his hat, and resigned the com-
mand just as if he had been on the parade of a
barrack-yard. His enraged men went on like
lions, taking ample revenge upon their enemies
—and that too with the cold iron. The Colonel,
with his knee broken in a most dangerous man-
ner, was, without loss of time, carried to the rear
by four of his musicians, and piaced on a straw
bed in the town of Talavera : had there been
surgeons to have amputated his limb on the in-
stant, it i 3 supposed he would have survived ;
but this not haying been the case, mortification
took place, and he died on the fourth day after
the battle, surrounded by thousands of dying and
dead. Owing to Cuesta's illiberal opposition to
Lord 'Wellington, he, as well as the rest of the
wounded, were left in the hands of the French ;
as wore also several English surgeons, who re-
mained at the mercy of the enemy. The Colonel,
however, was treated with the greatest respect
and kindness by the French officers. Some of
them remembered seeing him at the head of his
battalion, and warmly praised the veteran's gal-
ls:Lary. His soldier-like appearance, too, com-
manded their regard, and they carried him in a
cloak to the spot on which he had led his regi-
ment so bravely, and there they buried " Old
Charley " with the true honours of a soldier.—
Military Sketch Book.

EXTRAORDINARYDISCOVERY CF A QUAN-
rITT or BASE COIL-About five o'clock on Wednesday
morning, a hedger and ditcher, named Harris, residing in
Holloway, was proceeding to commence his work in one of
's fields, contiguous to Maiden-lane, when he
Mr. Lay cock
observed a portion
. of one of the banks to have been appa-
rently dug up MEC.) the preceding night. Cariosity induced
him to examine the bank more closely, and he found an
aperture, the entrance to which had been filled up with
turf and grass: this being removed, he thrust his arm into
the bank, and, to his astonishment, drew nut a weighty
parcel, carefully packed in brown paper, and sealed, and
en further search found a bunch of picklock skeleton keys,
of all sizes, a phosphorous box, and a dark-lanthorn. On'
opening the parcel it was found to contain twenty smaller
packages of shillings, twenty in each packet ; two parcels
of twenty half-crowns each, and four sovereigns and a half,
the whole of which was afterwards ascertained to be coun-
terfeit. The minor packages were carefully wrapped in
tissue paper, inclosing each piece of metal separately and
distinctly, as if for the purpose of avoiding friction. The
field and embankment were subsequently examined by Wad-
dington, of Hatton-Garden Office, but no further discovery
was made. The nominal value of the counterfeits amounted
to 271. 10s., the whole of which was taken to the Police-
office, and examined by Mr. Powell, the Mint Solicitor,
ami one of the Mint Inspectors, to whom Harris described
the manner in which he had become possessed of it. The
manufacture of the shillings and half-crowns is said to be
of a most superior description, far exceeding any hitherto
seen, and is from quite a different die to that of the late
Vauxhall establishment. Through the whole of Wednes-
day night a strict watch was kept on the field, it being ex-
pected that those who hid so carefully concealed it would
have taken the advantage of night to again remove it, but
no person was seen, and it is more than probable that the
circumstance of the discovery, from being made public in
the neighbourhood of Holloway, had reached their ears.
At present the affair is wreiwed in mystery. The coin and
skeleton keys remain in the possession of Read, sen., the
chief officer of the above establishment.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
(From the Etoile, dated Wednesday, April £5.)

" COSSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 26.—The anxiety
excited by the negotiations of the Russian and Eng-
lish Ministers has riven to the highest pitch. The
Porte, and particularly the Sultan, will not hear
either of the pacification of Greece, or of the inter-
vention of the European Powers on this subject ;
and the irritation of the Musstdrnans has been in-
creased by news of the advantages obtained by the
Greeks, so that it would be easy for the Govern-
ment to send fresh troorq to the theatre of war to
continue the contest. i!ie Reis Effendi, who, how-
ever, rejected every proposal, is accused of having
acted with too much lukewarnmess, and not rejected
them once for all. However this may be, he has
been dismissed, and, as the Franks say, may think
himself happy to have retired so honnurably. His
successor is considered as a true Mussulman.
" It is observed, that the armaments of all kinds
are carries' on with the greatest activity, and the de-
parture of 6,000 new troops for Thessaly is urged
with much diligence. All eyes are turned on Mr.
Canning and M. de Ribeaupierre, and people are not
a little surprised, that these two Ministers, though
they hare frequent conferences together, have hitherto
taken no further steps with respect to the Porte,
though it is said they had agreed to wait till the 20th
of March, to present a new and serious declaration
respecting the silence of the Divan.

" Various inferences are drawn from all this,

Some persons believe that they act thus out of re-
gard for the Minister of a great Power, who is sup-
posed to have much influence over the Porte, and
perhaps preserves some hopes of the acceptance of
the proposals.
" The Porte has just introduced a new system of
taxes which may be sa:l to he almost European.
All the accounts from Greece are unfavourable to

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the Turks.—Augsburg Gazette.
" LEGHORN, APRIL 11.—The Town of Navarino
corvette, built here for the Pacha of Egypt, was
joined on the 11th of March off Porto Ferrajo, by
the Lionel: corvette, built at Marseilles. These two
vessels were seen some days later near Messina. On
the 7th of April the Egyptian brig of war, the
Washington, arrived here from Alexandria. It has
18 guns, and 250 men. It sailed in company with
another brig of war, which was separated from it in
a gale of wind off Candia, and has riot since been
heard of. The Egyptian naval troops wear a white
'iniform, with red sashes, and a red cap with an an-
chor. All this seems the more singular, as the
Turkish seamen, and especially those of the Barbary
States, are clothed in miserable rags of all colours.
" The trade of this city, which severely suffered
in consequence of the events in Greece, has found an
indemnity in the trade with Egypt. Besides the
building of ships, and the supplying with naval
stores, which give life to our dock-yards, the pro-
duce of the rich iron mines of the Isle of Elba
meets with a considerable market in that country,
and even in our marble quarries at Carrara and
Serra Vezza workmen are constantly employed to
execute the numerous orders of Egyptian luxury.—
Augsburg Gazette.
" PARIS, APRIL 24.—The 154th No. of the Bul-
letin des Lou, which is published to-day, contains an
ordinance of the King, dated the 15th of March last,
giving the tables of the population of the kingdom,
which are to be considered as the only authentic
ones, for five years, dating from the Ist of Jan. 1527.
" These tables, made according to the new lists
of the population, dray.'n up officially by the pre-
fects, give that of the whole kingdom, 31,845,428
souls.

" The population of P..ris, stated in the last tables
at about 730,000 souls, is now 890,431. That of
Lyons is above 145,000; that of Bordeaux, above
93,000; that of Marseilles, nearly 116,000.

(From the ConstitutionneL)

" A great number of opposition Illemberi of the
Cliambi,r of Deputies, among whom we remarked
M. Latitte newly elected, and M. B. Cor.stant, were
invited to the lest Court circle. M. de Chatexuhriand,
who had not' efore appeared at the Tuileries since his
dlsmissal from the Ministry, wap preatnt cn this
o,casion."

(From the Quotidienne.)
PARIS, APRIL 23.—The levee, which took place
yei.ter,iay, in the King's apartments, was attended
by more Ann twelve hundred of the nobility and
.zentry. His Royal Highness the Duke, her Royal
Highness the Duchess, and her Royal Highness
Mademoiselle d'Orleans, and the Duke de Chartres,
were present.

This day, before mass, his Majesty gays audience
of leave to Count Hector d'Agoult, plenipotentiary
to the Court of the Netherlands.

The Royal Spanish Bonds experienced, on
'Change to-day, a rise of 2 francs 37fr cents. This
rise has been occasioned by the news received from
Madrid, officially, that the coupon: will he paid at
Paris, and that the drawi7g of the bonds will take
place in the usual way.