Sunbury American

Gen. Oudinot and the American Consul in Rome.

The house of the American Consul at Rome, Mr. Brown, was entered by French soldiers, and two persons arrested.

It appears, according to the Republic, that Gen. Oudinot had instituted an examination into the affair, on the representation of Mr. Brown.

In the course of this examination it appears that two of Mr. Brown's servants (Italians) had, repeatedly, during the day, insulted the French soldiers in passing. At the time in question, an individual belonging to a large crowd of Italians, which, in defiance of a general order of the day previous, was assembled, to the number of a hundred or a hundred and fifty, at the consul's house, had drawn a poinard upon the guard. A patrol, passing at the time, entered the house, not being apprised of its character, and made a prisoner of the individual in question, and of another, who was recognized as a deserter from the French army. They then withdrew with the prisoners. It was in evidence, upon oath, that the patrol deported themselves without menace, and were uninformed of the character of the premises until they were on the point of retiring.

Gen. Oudinot, in consequence of Mr. Brown's absence, addressed Mr. Cass, expressing the profound regret which he had experienced at the error that had been committed, which had been previously expressed in person to the American Consul and Vice Consul. He also renewed to Mr. Cass the assurance that no one in the French army had harbored the design of disregarding the rights of his country, or questioning the inviolability of domicil of diplomatic functionaries. The two prisoners were also released by the orders of the French General. All that was required to satisfy the Consul appears to have been done by General Oudinot.