Star.
London, England, 1816-06-12 00:00:00

W ES T.I N DIES.

Lord CASTLEREAGH wished to direct the at-
tention of two Honourable Mettib4rs to the notices
which they had given of metions on the subjects con-
nected with our West India Colonies. One of these
stood lor to.oight, and the other for Thursday. They
would both enibtace nearly the same line of argil-
mem, and of coot se the unfortunate event which had
taken place at Btrbedoes. 13ut taushe Ministers to
he put in the situ.ation of giving explanazians .13vfore
they were in possession of official itdermation ? The
-vessel which in,mglit the dispmches was now in the
Channel; they would therJfore be recLieed i,tt a vrry
short time. 1 lei 1 now to triples:l-; tI IA
Gentlemen'who had g:ven.e ir notices to eon,cnt to
their postponement to :he corresponding days next
week. He did not mean by this to avoid inquOirs ;
on the coirtary, he thought that it was most impor•
'. cant that a subject of that nature should undergo the
deepest inves:igation. He only entreated t:ie 1-lon.
Nlenthers t: wait tit: the official dispatches had been
received. Ministers wutild by that time be able to
express their sentiments more decisively, aril the dis-
coss,un would he Treacly facilitated. lie st.ould also
venture to recommettd, that in postponing their no-
tices, they should not suffer themselves tube dragged
into any incidental debate. Such a course at this
moment would, he conceived, be mare advantageous
to all patties.
Mr. ‘VILLERFORCE had no objection to post-
pone his moron; rut as the Noble Lord had said the
dispatches were in the Channel, and would be re•
ceived alinost immediately, he should prefer Itiday
next instead of a day next week.
Lord CrISTLEKEAGH observed, that the lin.
nen:able Gentkmaii tnast be &Mille that even after

the dispatches should hive bee,. received, it wunld
ricluite sonic little (lin:, lot Ministers to sonsider their
cow eras. Wouki Wednesday and Thursday next
week wit the. Hun. Ge.ntlerrsen better than the days
which h.: had mentioned ?

Mr. BA RING hoped that the discussion of a sub.
jest ir. which the safety of our West India Coholies
was involved, would not be put off unless better rea-
sons were adduced. He did not conceive it necessary
to wait Ltje urrival of the offici.il di+patehes. The facts
aloe evident, and the dispatches could not change
their nature so far as to reii.ler a present discu,sion
premature. The Noble .L,r't could to t certainly
doubt the authenticityol theGovernor'sProclammon.
I,ot-el CASTLEREAGII contended, that if the
subject WAS acknowledged to be of such m.ignhude
as to affect the safety of our West India Colonies, it
was the more important that Ministers should nut
enter into it without official information. v
Mr. PtILMER said, that painlul as it was to him
to posti:one a discussion, in which lie considered th4t
the lechngs, and the interests, and site safety, of a
cons;derable portion of the Empire were so deeply
interested, yet he felt himself compelled to yield to a
necessity which he lamented, and to accede to the
wishes of his Majesty's Minister. He agreed with
his Honourable Friend that a great delusion prevailed
upon the subject alluded to, and as thi best remedy
fur delusion was information, he could not but con-
sent to wait for that which was expected.
After a. few words from Mr. W.' tientrltt Mr. BAR-
HAM, Mr. MARIiVATT, Mr. A. Daowte, Mr. PALMER*
and Mr. BROUGHAM, it was agreed that Mr. Wilber.
force's Motion shouli come ou oa the Wedneeday,
and Z•le. Palmer's on Thursday lie'nnight.
CASE Of M. PERRAULT. _ - .

Sir S. I(OMILLY rose to call the attention of the
House to the circumstances under which a person of
the uar:►e of Perrault had been arrested at the Maori.
tius last year, and transported to this country. It had
been charged against him that he was concerned in
an insurrection; but this he wholly denied. Petitions
had bean presented to the Governor, which he, with
several other persons, signed; and some time alter
anonymous pamphlets had been circulated, calling
on the people to ►neet at a certain place' on a partial.
tar d iy, but no such Meeting took place. On the Bth
of September, a troop of soldiers entered his house,
and carried huu away, whether with his wife and all

hie ehilareii. 111 ey were itarehect to the (Mance of
four miles, and on the following day he was sent to
a place 30 miles farther, and detained there eleiirmi
days. Interrogatories were then pit to hit% And ha
was afterwards sent on board his Majesty's ship *the
Minden, and transpotted to England. Bein7 a &Wilt
subject, and having taken the oath of allegiance, his
only consolation was, that he was going to a country
where the laws were always respected, and where
every man was supposed to be innocent Until he was
found guilty by a tt i.kl ()Ellis Peers. Soon alter his
ar-
rival; I.e transmitted a letter to Lord Bathurst, stating
the way in which he had been treated ; and his Lord-
.ship's answer was, that as the peculiar circumstances
of the country had now ceased to operate, instruc-
tions should be given for his trims), and for the Go-,

vet nor to put him upon his trial, in 'order that the
facts of the case might be ascertained ; and, until his
departure, a moderate allowance should be made to

him for his support. Not long after, he.aeldressed a
second letter to Lord Bathurst, requesting to be assu-
red plevioe sly to his departure, that he should betreeted
in a manner more becoming his rank and situation.
•I'oe answer to this letter was, that eaquiries were
then melting to ascertain how far his statement was
correct ; and that ss. a day would Le allowed for his
maintemince ; but as sown as the ship Alexander
could sail, he was to go on board her, and then hit:
allowance would cease. On the Ist of April he waste
again, submitting that sa. were too little for his sup.
pot t, and soliciting some r!dress ; when his Lordship
replied, that he had no further directions to give, nor
could he extend the pay bey. cid the sailing of the
vessel. Tittle were the circumoaners of the case,
as Mr. Perraillt himself had detailed theni to the
Heitoureble He had been e. Captain ice
the French service, and was sent he:e, out as a pri-
soner, but to he at large, on .an allowance of 5. a
day, and without beiiig ahie to speak a word of the
language. He desires to have his C4Fe inquit et] into,
aid is told to go back, and put himself upon his trial.
Nothin' could justify his removal from the ;shill(' by
haarce, but the absolute ganger of his coutiottiog
theme. It wes the arbarery :act of the tinvernor,
against all law, and in defience of all ; and it
WAS impossible to justify settling him to this country.
Why did not the Goveir.or seiol him to the Cape-of
Good Ho e, or the lilt: of B3Ulbon ? Al. that
could be ?old ot him Was, that he had been concerted
in an mom tction, and bore a bad character ; but it
must he reale:ear...red that Character wits given by his
oppressoi s. He, therefore, wished to know what Wm-
oration his Mejetty's Ministers Lad received I,n the
subject ? nothing heti publicly treason e.i which could
justify the detaining hint oae day in cuoody here
:
he only desired,Therelore, that the House should have
copies of the dispatches fram the Mauritias• on this
subject. With this view, therefore, he should move
'neat an huinh!e Adchess be Ferreted to his
Royal Highness the Prince Regent, praying twat there
be LU sefore this i lot-se copies of all ctisroches item
the Mauritius relating to P. L. Perrault."
Mr. GOU 1.13L112 ;4 said, lie most repeat what he
had stated to the Motifs' on a former o:::a3ion, that i
t!te first intimation his Majesty's Ministers had te-
cAved of the treatment of this individual was his ar-
rival in this eturiti y. By the same ship tit it con-
veyed him, an intimation was receive'! tio::4 Governor
Farquhar, that some measures ador.d for the! rugis-
trAtion Of sl had ex,:ite.! discontent and instirrte-.
tian, and ihat Perrault Lai c:,otight this a proper op-
poTtunity for him to carry on oesielis in favcur (if
the gevernoient of Ilonaparte, who had just then
escaped from Elba. Sotae of Ilia insmeents were
taken and coatiiieti ; the rem index, who wine rooie
deluded elear. guilty, were suireted to eo at large, on
givieg prooer security. Thus the only information
that Governmert had received respectint; M. Perrault
was a mere incidental mention of him in those dis.o
patches. As soon as Perrault made any complaint,
a fetter was sent not to the Governor of the Man.
ritius, desiring hint to send home a full account Lf all
that related to this individual; but though it had not
yet beeit coeifirmed by regular dispatvies that M.
Perrault }ma toidergone a itreolar trial in that coun.!
try, their was avery reas,,it tor believing' this to be
the cao., for Government had received accounts to
that effect from pies ins of cted:t who had since ar-,
mind. it certainly would be admitted, that Ministers
would have acted wrung, if, on the mere ex torte,
statement of this individual, they had complied w ith
Iris request, and had recalled the Governor of the
Mauritius, for the sole purpose of enabling M. Per--
rault to bring an action in the Court of King's Bench.
All they could do was to make inquiry, by writing
to the Governor; Government knew that the Mato
ritics was at that time under very peculier circum-
stances ; the garrison was very weak ; it consisted
only of 1,200 men originally ; some of these had
been sent to the East ladies, and 500 were on the
sick list. These were sulficierd grounds for support.
ing the Governor in any fair exercise of his discre.
lion. Inquiry had been made of the Captain of the
ship in which Perrault came- to England. Inde-1
pendently of the very high character which Ciptain
Mackay bore, the assertions of an Officer of that
rank in the navy were entitled to be received without
much distrust; and this Otfi::er taking the allegations
of Perrault, with respect to his passage, charge by
charge, had either denied them altogether, or had
shewn them to• be the grossest misrepresentations.
Instead of being confined, he had the whole range of
the deck, and the same space at night as was allowed
to petty oflieers. Instead of being kept in a state of
starvation, the full allots ance" was given him. The
mcney,he brought on board was placed in the hands
of a Lieutenant, who was ordered to purchase any.
thing at his request ; and what remained was paid
over to him on his arrival in this country, in the pre-
sence of witnesses, with the express view of contra-
dicting any unfounded allegation on his part. He
was sent to this country, rattier than to the Island of
Bourbon, because the latter was in a state of insur-
rection. As to • Madagascar, it would indeed have
been a cause of complaint had be been sent there;
but he bid greater advantages in this country than
he could have found elsewhere, for here he could at
least bring his case before Parliament. At all events
the Governor's statement should be heard before any
conclusion-was come to; and till that statement ar-
rived, he (Mr. Goulburn) felt himself compelled to
oppose the production of the papers that had been
called tor.
Mr. W. TAYLOR stated the opinions of three
officers who were conversant with the facts of the
case, and who reported the character of this

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dual to he that or a notoriotts supporter of tonaparte
that he hurriecrto Bourbon the mordent the news ar-
rived of Bonaparte's escape from Elba. and that hi
was almost immediately arrested for creating a dis-
turbance.
Mr. BARING thought no sufficient reason had
been given t:•-
.y the papers called for should not be
produced. The situation of people in the colonies
WAS such, t!htt leforniatien should be alorded on the
least hint of grievance; they were so far 'from the
seat of Government, and so easily subject to ciprcs.
sloth He considered the present a case of peculiar
hardship. An iniividual had been exposed to the
greatest inconvenience and danger ; he had nor been.
tried where could be tried, and he had been sent
to a count: y where he could not be tried ; there was
quite enotreli before the house to lustily it in feeling
exceedingly jeal ,us of the conduct of tln: Governor of
the Matirithe.
. Mr. BRAND, as a friend of the Governor, re.
greeted the re•ued of these papers. So e‘tahli‘hed
WAS that gentleman's character for mild:ieisl benevo-
lence, :aid reetitu.fc of intentem, that he was con.
vinced he would hay,• grounds 'or justifyieg his con.
duct, though the'str otigest y!tettirds he reloired
in a case like the pres:nt. Ile could see ea reaborx
efia•e;er for withholding the past:- t!ee :ad been
called tor. The erutructihn of 0 err, :vas :see to the
petitioner himself ; and he trusted, ,:leretere, the:
the Hon. Gentlemen consider.thai, with-
draw his opposition.
Lord CASTLAF.REACH thouellt his Nlajesty%
MiniActri could not Wit) pro;;; pvehhe the peers
called for, till they had themselves receised more in-
MittiOrl hn the subi:ct.
Mr. BPOUGFLAM could not see the gt (holds for
reusing the papers that d been call( d for. Though
little eteernutiieation kid leeht made on the suirject,
at least v:e might !rive what had been received.
Menti had been made of the preitioher in a dis-
Ftch front Governor Farquhar, as:d an extract of
thus passage might at least tie g:ver. As to Perrault's
aleged Zocarnissi:in hem) Bonaparte, it was quite ri.
dictileui to suppose, as hail been stated, that at the
very critical tnom.eht, and in all the hurt y t,f thc dc.
parture trom Elha, a &vete!! should have hen sent
oif to the Mauritius. Wieatever pthceedithes might
have been had v. ith ra Tett to M 4 yin, Governer
l'arquhar had no riglit ehatever to sod the peti•
tioner a voy age of days' sail. In this instance,
at least, he laboured under the suspicion of a stretch
of euthor:ty. la :di probability he ineuired, not
::list wes tire proper place of tic.tination tier this in-
dividual, but what ship was ready to seil. If the
man had keen built; of the misdemeanour laid to Itis
charge, the Government here oteehe not to have let
him go at lite:icy ; he was il!tlvCvet, 11. s deteution
was most tuipititiable— As to saying he eas seat
here ia in-del that he might p;aha redress f ern Parlia.
meat, it was quite a niockery. Why did fie apply
to Parliateeat It& redness, bu. because he had Lt.eu
sent here?

Mr. P. MOORE thought the autlanity under
which the C sprain of the M 1,41.11 acted ouplit to he
pi oduced.
Six S. ROMILLY shortly replied. Ila Itelieved
the reason why the papers were ielused e ..tii, becaull.
Nlinisters had no inioimation whatever V. conimuni.
cate. He capiaiated on the trueliy titot (9-, re...Ain ,
of Leming an in./16:11d from his fa firio, arid conatry,
and exposint: him to perish by starvaticin in the
streets, without the existetice of auy information on
Cie nature of his i.fr.nc..f.. It had been contended that
die Gavernor of a foreign C.)!Oay mid a right to send
person: Loa of the Col au) : it. this were the Lase, tl.e
&.3!..veritti's consteLt towards this rin..ll v:as nut iilsgal ;
but 4t least. it was iniportithi. to Vie inhabitants o: the
C•ilonies to know whothsr this were the case Or nut.
Ministers s:ated they had sent out to information,
but dented the petitiiilier the means of subsistence till
that information.. arrived ; so that he was compelled
to return to those of w hone oppression he complained.
Whatever might have been the complexion of the
petitioner's former character, it was no txcuse what- -
ever ter any excess of authority on the part of the
Govermir. Even it be were guilty iit ilt that was
laid to his C:l4rge, that afforded rea ground for de-
priving- hint 'us the advantages of a fair trial and
treat:writ according to the Ltias. .
The House then divided, when there appeared— •
For the Motion, 19-- Against it, 51—Majority, ;;2.
smant. ARMS.
Colonel PALMER rose, pursuant to notice, to
move fur a Committee to nit:lone into tha manage-
ment and expenditure of the Small Aims Depart-
ment of the Urtigance B•iard. The lionourable Co-
-I.niel entered into considerable details on the subject
of his motion, and alieged an unnecessary multipli-
cation of the kind of arms in question, a wasteful ex-
pendittire or the public money to elect Government
Establishments for their inar.ufacture, instead of pur-
chasing them, as formerly, upon contract, a deterio-
ration sit their quality, a discouragement of the trade
by the withdrawing of Government demands, and
the danger of !thing our mannfictuters from want of
employment, and several other Abbas or acts of mis-
nianagerbelit, as the grounds of it. The first manu-
factory of small fire-arms estahlislaal by Government
WAS in Alleu-street, near the Tower. In the year 1808,
that establishment was abandoned fcr the one at
Lewisham. In 1809, a Committee repotted that
,i€9o,oooliad been expended in the erection of huil..ings
and other charges connected with that establi-ihnient.
This same Committee complained of the txpeas-,
and recommended that, on account of the additional
charge that would be required, it should be likewi,:e
abandoned, and that Government again iztould de.
pend up :in private contracts for the necessary supply.
They give this recommendation even while they
con:emplated the sacrifice of the 490,000 alrecly
expended. The lion. Colonel piofessed himself on- .
willing to accuse any individuals, or any Board, cf
wasting uselessly the public money, or perseviring
knowingly in impolitic or unwise measures ; but t.e
I had reason to complain that the Ordnance Board had
1 remained inattentive to the opinion or advice of the
Committee, and had followed the recommendation ui
Arsons who did riot judge so advaqt tgeously for the
public. Initead, therefore, of abandoning the establish-
meat that had previously been created,a, cording to the
advice of the Committee, Government within these
two years had erected another at Waltham Abbey,
grebbeart,
on which £71,000 had been expended. -'this
sum had been wantonly and uselessly thrown away.
He (Col. Palmer) wished to know the particulars of
but no idol-undo.'
Vs expenditure, and its extent,

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*es furnished. Whatever was the expenditure, and
ilarnong wh never' heads distributed, be did not hesi-
fife ter say, than k was eniirely lost to the public..
This manniactnry was established for the fabrication
Of gun barrels alone j and when it wai considered:)
that in the stores of the Tower there were already
420,000 musket barrels, and that 10,000 more could
be made annually there, there would not, he was
sure, appear the least reason for creating at such ex-
pense this additional establishment In the Ordnance
Estimates there was found a sum of £lOO,OOO fur
small arms, which would be deemed extravagant i
when it was considered, that in addition to the arms
that had returned from abroad, we hadalready ma-
nufactured and fit for use, 800,000 stand of small
arms, beside 400,000 barrels, making in all 1,200,000
barrels. This sum of .100,000 might be saved.—
On this subject he would again move for certain ac-,
counts that he had foe mrrly referred to. Adver-
ting to the mode in which the fire arms I..;iven to the
army were fabricated in the public manufactories, he
had to complain of their coality. • He alluded to a

ease th it came tinder his own notice. The arms
oiled cavalry carbines began to be manufactured in
the Government establishments in 1806, and were
put into the hands of the regiment in which he
served s but the locks and other parts of them were
so bad, that they were perfectly useless and unser-
viceable. In 1813, when the lOth Hussars were
Bring en foreign service, he (Colonel rainier) repre•
seined to the Prince Regent the bad state of their
11:111. His representation was attended to, and their
carabines were changed for arms of a similar deno.
mination, which answered. He had to complain
of ann, her instance of abuse or Mismanagement under
the Ordnance Board With regard to small fire arms.
It WAS well known there were two patterns of neus-
kets,• One called the Indian pattern, and the second
the Newland pattern. The first cost only ►EI 16s. the
latter rEP. los. 01 the latter kind, there were 70,000

undistributed. Now the latter kind was either better
or worse than the former a if better, why Hot distri-
.boted ? it worse, why manufactured for a higher
price ? ,The Hon. Colonel' complained of the neglect
that pfevailed in the proving of the barrels, by which
unserviceable arms were frequently allowed to be put
into the hands of the soldier. The common trial was
by 16 drams of shot, whereas it should be 20, being
in the early part of last century 23. If the barrels
now proved were to Le suiljected to a second trial, lie
was sure they .would not stand it. H-! saw I itely an
officer who had gone over the field of Waterloo atter
the battle, and he told him that thousands of the ,
Anusket.barrels mere found burst. In the mill:on of
small tire-arms, there was not one straigt.i barrel to
be f0und....,-(4/au://).—They were all mule crooked
in a greater or le,, degree by the friction used in po.
lishing-them. He conielaiued likewise of the mode
in which the teusket•barrels were browned, by which
circumstance t heir defects were concealed and increased.
He came now to the principal charge against the ord-
nance. The reason alleged fur depriving the trade of
the army supply, and erecting government manufacto-
ries, WAS, that tinder the management of the Ord.
=ace, a much cheaper and a bettet article could be
fabricated than could be had by ptivate contract. The
justness of this defence be very much questioned.—
If arms were purchased from private contractors, the
Boatd would use more diligerce in proving and exa-
mining them than if they were made by persons acting
under its own authority. With regard to cheapness,
the present mode of making arms by public mans-
factories had as little to recommend it. The estab-
lishments were fixed in the neighbourhood of London,
and all the raw materials were consequently at a
great distance, and great expenses in carriage were
necessarily incurred. In a tiJition to this there was to
be added the waste which takes place in every public
establishment, ascompared with these that are watched
vetch the vigilance of private interest. The country
would, therefore, find its advantage in recurring to the
ancient mode of purchase by contract, rather than ma-
nufacturing the article under the authority of a Board.
-It was an injustice to the manufacturers of Birming-
ham, who had extended their establishments, and
thrown additional capital into the trade, tinder
the confidence that Government would continue to
resort to then: for a supply, to deprive them of the
most important branch of their business by the erec-
tion of public manufactories. If they laboured under
this discouragement, they would be forced to emi-
grate and to transfer their. capital, skill, and industry,
tq other countries, where they would enjoy greater
protection. On these grounds, he concluded by
moving for a Committee to inquire into the manage.
ment and expenditure of the small fire-arms depart.
anent of the Ordnance.

Mr..R. WARD asked if the Honourable and Gal.
hnt Colonel was chosen by the manufacturers of
Birmingham as their advocate.? (Hear, hear, from Me
Imaysaron Bencher.)—He (Mr. Ward) understood the
grounds of that cheer ; but he hoped, before he sat
dawn, to change it into one of an opposite kind. The
Board of Ordnance Lad been in correspondence with
the Birmingham manufacturers, and bad rendered
them perfectly satisfied, as Would be attested by
the Members connected with that district if they
were in the House. He therefore knew that the
Moot:fable Colonel did not represent the people of
Birmingham, and it he represented any manufac.
turers, they were those of London. The manufacturers
of Birmingham, he allowed, deserved well of the na-
tion. They had embarked with zeal in the business,
and merited encouragement ; but Government like.
wise deserved s'anepraise who had set them to work.
During the war they had been paid £4,600,000 for
their manufacture by Government. But the Board
of Ordnance were bound to consult the interests of
the country as well 'as the advantage of the Birming-
ham manufacturers ; and it was justified in establish•
ing public manufactories, in order to prevent that
monopoly which they had it in their power to create
against the state. This benefit was reaped from the
conduct of the Ordnance Board, without producing
otherwise any detriment to the private manufacturer.
When it was considered that one thousand stand of
arms had been made daily for some ears past, and
that Government only fabricated 50,000 muskets
annually, the extent to which the private trade was
carried as compared with the supply created by the
state for itself would be. manifest, and all grounds of
complaint would be removed. Would the Honeu-
rableColonet suppress establiduments`that had been
so useful its keeping down the price of arm? pur-
Awed bycontract, merely because the arms that they

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THE EVENING STAR.

LONDON.-

WEDNESDAY, JUNE• 12, 1816.

PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT 'IWELVE O'CLOCK.
Redaeed Oaf 03—Cons..shut—for opetsiaga4ii
4 per Cent. 7814-5 per Cost. Navy shut—floods par.
Otnahim Ms—Do. pay. 23f —Exchequer Bills, 31. dls. Is. pr

Last night we received Hamburgh Gazettes to
the sth, and Brussels to the 10th instant, and this
morning the Frankfort Papers to the 6th. . _

Accounts from Warsaw of the 20th ult. state, that
the Polish frontiers between Prussia and Austria are•
covered with Russian Cossacs, for the purpose of
.preventing the desertion of soldiers, and the introduc-
tion of smuggled goods.
The whole Russian army on the frontiers towards
Turkey has been broken up, and the troops marched
off for the remote Provinces of the Russian Empire.
The German Papers are filled with details respect.
ing the tour of the Emperor of AUSTRIA through the
late Illyrian Provinces. He is every where received
with transports by the people. His return to Vienna
is not expected before the 18th instant.'

A new event in the revolutions of Spanish America
is the hostile appearance of the Buenos Ayres flag in
the seas of Europe. This same flag has already
committed great ravages on Spanish shipping in the
South Seas.

Extract of a letter from Cadiz, dated May 21 :
" A schooner privateer, belonging to the insurgents
of Buenos Ayres, has lately appeared off our coast,
and on the 15th captured a Spanish brig and schooner,
which had lately gone out, ten leagues off this port.
The schooner was afterwards ransomed by the Cap-
tain for 10,000 rials (4100 sterling), and in her the
crews of both have already arrived here. According
to the declarations made by the Captains, at a small
distance from the privateer which captured them was
another ship of 22 guns, which had only been out
from Buenos Ayres 44 days, also on a cruize. The
captured brig was bound to Carril, in Gallicia, with
wine and oil, and the schooner was bound to Saint
Audero with salt. This afternoon the frigate Sabina
came in here from Vera Cruz and Havanna)), with
three and a half million of doUors in coin and ingots."

We have received the Paris Papers of Sunday.—
They contain the conclusion of she trial of the assassins
BONNAIRE and blievou—the former is to be tran-
sported for life, and the latter is to be shot. We
cannot conceive upon what principle the life of the
monster BoNNAIUE has been saved, unless it is in-
tended that his punishment should be the more severe,
by sending him to inhabit the desalts 'of Africa or
America, where he can have no human companion on
whom to commit another foul and unnatural murder.
Not only did he glory in the assassination, in his order
a the day, published afterwards, but all the Members
in the Municipal Council of Conde swore positively
that he announced to them,. after Colonel GORDON
was natued,'that he bad just ordered a spy to be
shot. As for Myron, he added to the crime of

murder that of robbery. and he ought to haVe been
banged at Conde for the latter crime. without being,
permitted. to occupy the time of Soldiers and Men of
fionour at Paris.
COURIER RICTRAORDINARY OF SUNDAY MORNING.
It is now six o'clock in the morning, and the
Members of the Council of War are still deliberating
on the fate of the two assassins, Bonnaire and Mieton.
Mug o'CLocx, A.M.-13onnaire's Aide-de-Camp,

Mieton, is condemned to death ; and Bonnaire is to
be transported for life.

PARIS, JUNE 9.

The Duke of Wellington, the Russian General,
count Woronzow, the Prince of Hesse, who com-
mands the Danish contingent, and all the supeti-,r
Officers of the Allied troops, will be present at the
marriage of the Duke and Duchess de Berri.
Colonels Harvey and Fremantle, Adjutants to
the Duke of Wellington, have also returned to Paris
with his Grace.

We learn from Lyons that the trial of General
Mouton Duvernet will commence about the 20th.
According to the observations of several German
astronomers, the sut.'s disk exhibits at this period six
spots ; one of them is of a considerable size ; it re-
sembles a groupe of small islands lying close toge-
ther, and has at least the breadth of the diameter of
the earth. Another spot is very obscure, and sur-
rounded by a lighter s'iadow.

TRIAL or GENERAL BONNAIRE AND LIEUT. ?AIM roN.

SITTING OF TUE 830 OF JUNE.

M. DEION, the Counsel for Mieton, called upon
the witness Varlet, to prove that the soldiers had
struck Colonel Gordon to the ground, during his
absence. In this, however, the witness was contra-
dicted by three other witnesses, oho distinctly swore
that Colonel Gordon's pockets tyre twice rifled by
Mieton, and their contents carried to Bonnaire, and
that upon his coming back the second time, Colonel
Gordon was still standing on his feet. They added,
that by Mieton's orders be was then knocked down
with the but end of a musket, and then shot. One of
the witnesses had lent Mieton his handkerchief, with
which to bind up Colonel Gordon's eyes—when he
was first introduced to Bonnaire, and finding he was
to he murdered, the witness asked Mieton to return
him his handkerchief. Mieton refused, and was ac-
tually so mean as to pocket the soldier's handkerchief.
The Reporter, in drawing a picture of the atrocity
of the act committed by Bonnaire and Mieton, ob-
served truly, that by the laws of nations, they had
subjected the inhabitants to a general and indiscri-
minate massacre by the Allied troops.
M. CHAVIAU ',At:MIDI then entered upon the de-
fence of his client Bonnaire, but was inte-rupted by
the Court, when he absurdly asserted, that his client
bad acted at Condi fur the best interests of the King.
Oat of She Members of the Court Martial expressed
himselt in terms of just abhorrence and indignation
at the idea of a Chevalier de St. Louis wantonly
breaking his oath and serving Bonaparte. Bonnaire
then desired his Counsel to desist from his defence.
M. Beam then made a speech for Mieton, but he
merely invoked the commutation of the punishment
of death for that of banishment or imprisonment.

At h.U•past eight in the evening the Court retired
to deliberate.

It was yesterday reported that Ministers had re-
ceived unpleastnt news from the West Indies; but
we are inclined to discredit the rumour, as the mo-
tion of Mr. W/LBERFORCE was postponed at the re-
quest of Lord CASTLEKSAGHt because information of
the late events had not come officially to hand.

Yesterday the Dukes of Youx and CUMBERLAND
visited the PRINCE REGENT. •

Yesterday Earl &slalom. had an audience of the
Pntstca REGENT, at Carlton House.
THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE'S affords
us great pleasure to announce the improving state of
health of the Princess CHARLOTTE. Dr. BAILLIE at-
tended her Royal Highness yesterday, and reported
an absence of fever, and that shewas continuing better.
Her Royal Highness had enjoyed another good night,
and was again able to sit up for a short time. The
Duchess of York called, and remained about an hour,
on a visit to Prince Leopold. The Ptince Regent
and all the branches of the Royal Family sent as
usual to make inquiries.
Yesterday. a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Capt. BALSTON was sworn
into the command of the ship PRINCESS AMELIA,
consigned to China direct.
The story of the girl who grows horse-radish in her
stomach, had better be reserved for the next monthly
Agriculiaral Relied. She ought certainly to be taken
out of the hands of the facuisy !
VAUXHANL GARDENS.—In the annals of our amuse-
ments we never remember any thing which so forcibly
attracted the attention of the Town, as Madame SA-
eut's astonishing performances. Each Gala Night,
notwithstanding the wetness of the weather, crowds
of visitors ate sten flocking to witness the exhibition
of this most wonderful Heroine, whose extraot Inary
false has excited such an uncommon sensatien.
BLACKHEATH PEDESTRIAN.—EATON'S perfoynance
on Blackheath yesterday afternoon attracted a greater.
concourse of spectators to view his undertaking than'
has been there since his first starting, and this morn-
ing, soon after nine o'clock, he finished his IB3d mile.
ASCOT RACES.— The sport comment- d yesterday,
and a numerous •1 fashionable assetholage, at an
early hour, grat 'le race-course with their presence.
The contest for King's Plate of 100 guineas lay
between Mr. 6bakell's horse and Mr. Hancock'a
mare, although five others started. It was a most
excellent race, and Mr. Shakell's horse won by halt
a head,. Lord Lowther's Gana afterwards won the
Oatland Stakes, boating the Duke of York's Aladdin.
This race also afforded excellent sport : one of the
heats was a dead one. The Duke of Youst and Sit
JOHN SHELLEY severally won Sweepstakes. The last
race was not over until seven o'clock in the evening.

LIVERPOOL EttetlON, :UNE 10.

THIRD DAT.

Mr. LEYLANTi still declines coming forward
..._ per%
nally, and has done every th;ng in his power to te.
strain the ardour of his friends, but they say truly it is
their own cause, and seem still resolved to persevere ja
the contest. At the close of this day's poll the diu
graceful scenes which took place on Saturday "km
repeated, but with tenfold violence, and I am app.,
hensive more lives have been lost in the contest _

STATE OF THE POLL.
For Mr. CAT4NINri 8 .58• For Mr. LILTI.AND 532.
Majority in favour of Mr. CANNINO 298,

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE,

FALMOU fH, JUNE 9.
Arrived the Doke of Kent packet, with a mail from
Lisbon, in 15 days; the brig Hannah, Moot;, from
London for Quebec and _Montreal, laden with rum,
&c. struck on-the Manacle Rocks about two o'clock
this morning, and instantly tilled with water; the
wind was blowing strong from N.W. and very thick
weather—she soon fell on her beam-end, which cased
the Captain and crew to leave her, at which time shit
was still above water.

PLYMOUTH, JUNE io.
Came in the Susanna!), PERRY, from Memel fa
Dublin.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE
Arrived the Lindsay, TURNER ; and the Chance,
Raw, from the Downs.—Wind \V.

DEAL, JUNE li.

Arrived and sailed for the River the Sum*
EVANS, from Trinidad ; also the GANTNEDZ, trutu
cruize, and remains in the Downs.—Wiud E.

GRAVESEND, JUNE 11.

Arrived the James, POSTLEWA IT E, from Jamaica;
Vier Ge Broeders, NEWLAND, trom Woman]. Soiled
the Albeona, LLOYD, for Rouen; .Teune Colette,
MURTNCE, for Ostend ; Mary, PIM:EON, for Ant-
werp ; Thames, BROWNE, for Hamburg!) ; Riga,
STEPHENSON, and Holland, PorPLEAvELL, fnr Peters.
burgh; Friends, MAR, fur Revel; and Emulous,
A ItTli utt, for,llantzic.

The San Jnze la Constantia, from Cadiz to Cattil,
and San Antonio y la Ma&line, from Cadiz to St.
Andero, were captured on the 15th ult. about ten
leagues W. of Cadiz, by a gallint of six guns, re.
ported to be a ptivaiet-r from Buenos Aytes car.
vet to of 22 guns was in sight). The latttr prize was
ransomed, and returned to Cadiz on the 13th.

The toll3wiug are extracts trotn the American
Newspapers :

" Joseph Bonaparte, Marshal Grouchy, and General Lefebvre
Desnouettes, are mitt' residing in Philadelphia.
" Joseph totiaparte, Ex king of SoMie has removed his eel.
bEsbment from the neighbourheod of New pork to I.anidowa,
on the barks of the Schuylkill, and about four miles front Phila-
delphia. That large and beautiful house is now fitting up for Ls
rtcepzion."
Standard silver has fallen a halfpenny per ounce,
being now at ss. Id. These have been nu sales of
gold within the last few days.
About three o'clock yesterday afternoon, the tide
broke in on the workmen employed at the Regent's,
sewer, Scotland-yard, which occasioned the utmost
confusion and alarm, but happily they succeeded is
escaping from use deluge, which threatened their im-
mediate destruction, and ascended opposite Mr.
DRUMMOND'S banking-house, Charing-Cross, to the
infinite pleasure of a large concourse of spectators,
who assembled on hearing of the circumstance, and
very liberally contributed to a subscription made for
them to drown melancholy during the remainder of
the evening.
TUE LUIYDITES, its the vicinity of Nutinghant,
Irate again resumed their mischievous practices of
frame-breaking. The following is an extract of a
letter from Nottingham, dated Sunday last, on this
unpleasant subject:
.6 1 am sorry to inform you, that the system of frame•hmkitig
recommenced this morning about two o'clock : nineteen lace-
frames were broken at New Radiord, near this town, working
to Waynman; nine of them were his c.w.), the rest belonging LI
different people. The cause assigoel for de-troying these trams
is, that he had just sold nine to the workmen, to Le worked oat
by stopping one-third of the work. There was an armed party,
upwards of thirty, and sentinels placed at eliffere:a avenues,
whilst the work of destruction went forward. '1 here will be
uo
security for property in our bminess, or any other, ut.til tl:e law
is clearly defined, that the county, hundred, or district, shall
make good all property wantonly or malciously destroyedr and
as the system is spreading to so many parts of the kingdum,
vice
are surprised that the Home Secretary of State should not see it
would take away every motive of revenge against personal pro.
perty."
OLD BAILLY..--Yesterday a few cases, of DO Importance, Were
tried.—The Sessions having ended, the It eco 'Dee proceeded to
pass sentence on the following prisoners :—.Jahn
George Wilson, James Moulder, Mathew Marrett, Wm. I'm
love, Samuel Davis, Mary Ann Hunt, lames Warty, Jane
Cross, John Bradley, Francis Riley, Samuel Heal, John Kim
William !Games, James Cooper, John Cooper, sad Wm.
to be transpured fur life.—[When the sentence was pronotauccd
upon the above, they behaved In a very disorderly manner, sane
of them expressed a wish that the Recorder would stick in hit
sea: till they came back :gain i—Archibald, alias Thomas Small,
Henry Dye'2 Robert 1 lenry Dye, Benjamin Hart, and Satrael
Nash, alias tuilter, to be transported for fourteen years.—Nlar-
garet Hill, James Wood, Sarah Bennett, '1 hennas Ceneptc.l,
Sarah Hardy, alias Sullivan, Joseph Irwin, Harriet Collins, alias
Hill, William I latris, William Griffin, Edward Jones, Willie^t
Thompson. Frederick Ga•ktil, John Whaterburn, Ste. to to
transported for seven years.—A great number were semenced
to
various peritils of imprisonment In the House of Ccrrectio-i—
-some to be privately, and others to be publicly whipped, ith.cit
mandate was pet in execution in the Old Bailey Yard. Its
Sessions theta adjourned is Wescluesday, the 10th of lily.
HATTON C•RDEN.--.lf". Hergar,in the employ of MT.HOHP',
a farmer, of Enfield; was charged, on Thursday last, under the
Pedlars' Act, with hawking green tares without a licence. Ca
that day it was suggested to the Magistrate, that the: Wide,
being faml for horses, was exempted under the clause allowing
' victuals to be sold is seggestion the MAgistra:e was iiielined
• to a.!tnit, and the case was ordered to stand over. Yesterday,
however, Mr. Attest attended on behalf of the Office; when tbe
suzgution was Oyer-staled, and the defendant convicted io the
nahy of .£5O.
CORN EXCHANGE, JUNE I4.—There were but few buyers or
Wheat at market this morning, and the trade was heavy ;
samples from Essex, Kent end :=rifrolk, support Monday's price%
but Scotch Wheat is arearly ,unsaleable, our millers not app twist
the quality, especially as it will not keep in conditten its walla
weather. Barley, B-ans, and ad ether articles, are the sante as
on Monday.

IPNDON: Primed by Lavay Kann, Pickett Pace;
kiubbled there, and a• the .s:ar-Office,Topple Dar