Star. — 1815-07-25 (London, England)

TIIENIS. 10CLES, who sought an asylum from his enemy, the son of XERXE*."  The reports respecting the destination of BONAPA ILTE are varinns. The Tower, Sheerness, umbarton Castle, Fort George, have each been named as his iuturtr place of residence in this country.— Others have ddermissed that he .shall be sent to St. Helena, and have already appointed a frigate to con vey him thither : while some. from the direction of Mr. PEGLER'S jgurney, conjecture that he is to be surrendered to the Kim; of FILM!. What do these contradictory reports prove ? only that nothing whatever is yet known publicly respecting his 11:-.nre  destiny. For ourselves we shall be slow to believe that the murderer is to be allowed to slip out of the noose ; or that Ministers will forego the hold which they have obtained, and give him even the chance of e:caping justice. There is no country in the world where he can be tried for any of his crimes—sty For the murder of Captain WRlOHT—with the same certainty that the ends of justice shall not be defeated, as in England. Let a special Military Commission be appointed for the purpose. unless a trial at the Old Bailey should be thought preferable, and let application be made to Fouclie to send over the proper witnesses. If any man on earth can find them rOI7CIIE can, and it is now his duty to do so. As to the argument advanced by some casuists, that his case becomes materially changed by his surrender, they have tniAaken the sense of public law on this head. This law requires that before a surrender be pleaded in mitigation of punishment, all ambiguity must be retwived as to its having been truly voluntary. To be within the benefit of the Law of Nations, the surrender must have taken place while the party had yet some alternative between submission and actual destruction, or capture. To the man who, having arms in his bands, throws them down, when he might certainly injure, if not conquer, his assailant, the laws of war, which are part of those of nations, indisputably pant his life ; but if he fight till they are struck out of his hands. he is at the-mercy of his conqueror. If the garrieon of a besieged fortress resist till they are beaten out of the breach in an assault, or till their last barrel of pow. der or provisions is expended, the mere fact of their submission in their extremity does not exempt it from being a surrender at discretion. The principle of the law seems to be this—that the vanquished must always have something to sive, in return for what he claims must be able to say to- his conqueror— " though it was nearly certain, that yen must have finally overcome me, I had a chance, and that I have forgone," or, 44 I might have done you a previous injury, and that 1 have not done." Now it appears from the statements on all sides, that the surrender if BONAPARTE had nothing of this esential character of the voluntary in it. Every new account adds to the certainty, that he could not have escaped, and that he must have known he could not. He was per' fectly blockaded at sea ;lie was hemmed in on shore. —He conceded nothing to his enemies, hut what they must have taken. He tried to stipulate for a sate passage ; it was refused ; and, after that refusal, he surrendered. He attempted to escape, but found he could not even land, at Rochelle. After every failures he threw himself upon the possibility of being received by his conquerors—that is, upon their discretion. There is a way of putting this case, which will, perhaps, riplain it in a few lines. Suppose the KING of FRANCE were to say." You, being in friendship with me, sent your vessels to lay off my coast, and there received a traitor, whom I should have seized—l re quire him back." Does any one suppose that we could justly hold him against such a demand ? And yet, it we could not, it must be, because he is with us not upon terms, but upon discretion. The report was revived list night, and continues this moroing, that the BELLEROMON, Captain