The Sun. — London, England, 1824-10-29 00:00:00

"FILE I,ONDov DA 1 14 Extracts from the Morning , Papers ) Oct. 29. i i i ~ [MORNING POST.] It is not difficult, we think, to foresee the de- Shun of the Coort , of King's Bench on the sub ject, of Police Reports, now under, their Lord ship's consideration. In the abstract, perhaps, •that decision may appear to those who judge it abstractly, as somewhat too strict ; but if viewed practically, the settlement of the point will, in our opinion, be a salutary restraint and a great public good. Supposing it be established that an action will lie . for avparte, incorrect, or unfair reports, does it follow that in all such cases ac tions will be instituted ? We are certain nut. No man will thrust himself into a law suit or drag his aggressor into legal toils, unless the injury be severe or important, and damages or other repa ration apparent as the result, sufficient to com pensate for the trouble and expense incurred by entering on and prosecuting the proceeding. The apprehension, however, that this remedy is open to the public, cannot fail to check, or at least re- gulate the extravagance of reports,and rendereffect subservient 'to correctness, There is, at the same time, one specks of reports which we think ought to be sternly discounteilanced. At present, a per- sou who has malevolent spite to gratify against his neighbour, may, by making the most unfound-. ed application to a Magistrate, albeit the appli cation he scouted by the latter asr illegal, irre • trievahly blast the character and corrode the hap-. • piness through life or an innocent and roost de serving family. The ex party allegations go forth • to an ill-natured world, and are sure to find readier acceptance than the sound and general pririciples on which they are rejected by the Bench. What redress can a man have in cases of this sort ? None whatever. In line, while the use of Police Reporting is sustained, its abuse requires to be prevented. [NEW TIMES.] On the 26th of June lust an - Order was issued suspending the issuing of Half-pay to Officers in the Army who had taken Holy Orders. It was immediately afterwards perceived that if this order were to have a retrospective effect it would operate with great hardship, and indeed with injustice, on individuals who had acted 'on the faith of existing regulations, which regarded the half-pay as a compensation for past services, and had (some of them with the express approbation of superior authority) entered upon a profession for which they were fully qualified. The Lords of the Treasury therefore have taken the order into further consideration, and have de cided, as the justice of the case required, that no half-pay should be issued subsequently to the 25th of December next to Officers who may here after enter into Holy Orders; but that the Melt* sure shall not be retrospective. We understand that in point of fact there are not more, than 24 Officers who will be benefitted by this construc tion of the Order ; but the Government were not to look to the extent of the application ; they, were to regard the equity of the-principle, which they have done, in the present instance, with a fair and liberal regard to the circumstances of the case. [IMITISIt PRESS.] Last night we received the Paris Papers of Tuesday ; those of Monday reached us in the course of the day. They are in mourning, on account of the interment of the late. King. with the details of whiCh they are filled. The Minis ters have enjoyed a respite of several days, owing to this solemnity. When the intestine war is re newea, we may expect it to be proportionably fierce and violent, after this compulsory truce.— The only subject vt hid) has in any degree prawn off the attention of the journalists from the splen did and imposing ceremony of the Royal inhu mation, is the private correspondence from Paris which has lately appeared* in the British Press. It is quoted in nearly ull the papers. The Con stitutionnel has an article which we give in our extracts in another column. The Courier Fran cais, in reference to the letter we published con cerning the present employment of M. De. liege, the lute Secretary of the Commission of Censorship, observes, that though the fact of • the malicious selections inserted every evening in the Etoile, was known in Paris to be the work of some Ministerial Agent, the public Were ignorant of his name until our cor respondent revealed it. The news from Greece in these Papers is conflicting. it 1 , 4 pretended that on the 19th ult. the Capita!' Paella obtained a victory over the Greeks, and captured thirty vesseli from 'the m ; but there is great reason to luipe and believe, that these successes of the Mussulmans are- groundless in fact. Probably the Turkish bulletin was fabricated according to some approved precedents, to grace the arrival of the new Vizier. The Constitationnel, publishes a letter, dated from Tinos, the 10th of September, confirming the former accounts of the entire defeat of the combined fleets of Turkey and Egypt. [vs e ris Es.] The papers and letters brought by the Jamaica packet, and which are dated up to the 13th ult., were' delivered yesterday. They contain little intelligence from Colombia and Peru. The head. quarters of Bolivar had been removed from Truxillo to Pativilca, a place about 70 miles to the north of Lima, and his advanced guard had, penetruted as far us Pasco, within a few miles of that'city. Cantarac, the Spanish General, who by the last accounts was moving on Lima with a considerable force froni the southward, had, re treated' on hearing of Bolivar's advance, not feeling himself sufficiently strong to place the fate 'of Peru on the issue of a battle This circumstance had left Lima open to Bolivar, 118 so few troops remained in the city that he could take possessinn,of it whenever he pleased, though, it is not a military position. it might . he inexpe'dient for alto to do so, until also able to regain passegsion of the. fort revs of Ca! lao„w as will be recollected, was lost early io the year through the treachery of the black troops. 'no s port, by the latest accounts, was closely block ailed by the Peruvian squadron. Cantarac, it is stated, was exposed to considerable difficulties in his retreat, owing to the activity and talent of General Miller, a British officer in the Colom bian service, commanding a small corps of ca valry and guerillas, who harassed the rear of the Spanish General, and cut off the straggling parties of his troops. If these accounts can be de pended on, affairs are obviously in a favourable train for the success of Bolivar and the inde pendence of Peru. ['rut: PUBLIC LEDGER.] Yesterday letters were received from Constan tinople, dated the 26th, and from Smyrna the 20th of the same month. The former are rather barren of. news, not so much, perhaps, from want of matter, as from the reluctance of the writers to expose the reverses of the Turks. They take no notice of the conspiracy we mentioned on Wednesday ; but it would be extremely ha. zardous to infer, from this omission, that the rumour is unfounded. The account came from a house of the very first respectability at Odessa, and was merely a transcript of a letter from the Turkish capital, written two days later than the advices brought by yester day's Mail. The latter, however, mention the dismissal' of the Grand Vivier, and several high Officers of the l'orte; and state, besides, that the only son of the Sultan was delivered up to the Janissaries, who had the insolence to demand from their Sovereign this concession ; and the power, it seems, to enforce it. One of the letters states, that his Majesty's ship the Me.. diva had been run ashore to prevent 'her from sinking, having received much damage in her bottom from a hidden rock. When she struck, she wns on her way to the Dardanelles, to take Lord Strangford on board, in order to convey his Lordship to Venice. ' The letters from Smyrna confirm the news of the de feat of the combined Turkish and Egyptian squadrons. The engagement took place. near Broadroun, which is in the neighbourhood of Rhodes, and appears to have been decisive. ieveral ships, belonging to the combined fleet, fell a prey to the fire of the Greeks ; and; from its subsequent movements being involved in mystery, it is probable that it is doomed to• sus tain farther reverses, as it seems that it was pur sued in its flight by the victorious Greeks. One effect of this defeat has been the total dispersion of the troops, who had been assembled at Scala Nuova, for the purpose of attacking Samos. kIORNING HERALD.) The Lord ayor and some of the Aldermen, it appears, have taken great offence that the County MagistrateS, by whom Mr: Fauntleroy was apprehended and examined, should at last have committed him as a City prisoner, which proves, they say, that he ought to have been re ferred to them in the first instance. This they are. stated -to look upon as a grievous breach of the City privileges : and if it had not been for the fear of prejudicing the pri soner's case before trial (with the merits of which it does not seem to us that it could have much to do), we are not quite sure that Mr. Con mint might not himself have been brought before Go g and Magog, anti consigned to the Place of Little Ease, a woeful dungeon under the steps of Guildhall, kept in terroreni, from the days of Whittington, for the reception of unruly appren tices. To be serious, it may be highly proper, for aught we know, that the separate jurisdic tions of the City and County, as long as they exist, should be religiously observed ; and we believe it is the practice of the Magistrates, both of the one and the other, when the venue of an I I offence is distinctly ascertained, to hand the offender over to the proper local authority.— That is, if a pickpocket brought to Batton- Garden has been caught on the south side of Holborn, he is transferred tq rand a shoplifter to th e ea st of Petticoat-lane is consigned to Worship-street or Whitechapel. But the case in question was by no m' , aus of this obvious nature. The person accused was found in Berners,,We L et. It was there that the alleged o ff e nc e s were supposed to have been committed. It was from that spot that fresh charges, if any, were likely to arise. It was there that the books and other documents were kept ;' and if at last the compl e tion of the offence appeared to have taken place in Threadneedle-street, that was a inure technical nicety, which probably would not present itself till the formal winding-up of the case, and could not have justified the prisoner's transmission to the City Authorities. — Besides, if it was right to have done so, why did not the Bank solicitor (who must live with the fear and reverence of the mace always before his eyes) require it to be done ? On the contrary, the Bank, who are the prosecutors, apply, in the first instance, as it was natural they should, to the county Magistrates, and call upon him to carry on all the subsequent proceedings. To suppose that there can be any thing like an esprit de corps among 'Magistrates, which can in duce any one to covet the investigation of a painful and important case like this—to imagine that any one would wish to incur the risk, the odium, and responsibility of such a matter, would lie only to confirm the old adage, that there is no accounting for tastes. We apprehend, therefore, that upon reconsidering the matter, no privilege will appear to have been violated, and that the Corporation appetite on the approaching Lord Mayor's Day will not have been ut all deranged by this imaginary indignity. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] 1 . 0 our examination of the doctrines advanced by the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, in the important case which they are about to decide, we have, we flatter ourselves, demon strated to every unprejudiced mind, that all the reasons which exist for the publicity of the_ proceedings of Courts of Law apply with much greater force to the. '.Police Courts.--- %r 0 shnwt d. the functions of the inferior Magistrate, in examining evidence 14nd deter milling whether a person suspected of crime should be, dismissed or committed for trial, iwere of a judicial, and riot ministerial nature,j that no judicial acts ought to be perfprmett iu secret, because the only effective security we can have for-good conduct in Judges, is the controul of public opinion, and that this controul is far more necessary in Police Courts than in the higher tribunals—first, because the Judges are less respectable ; and, secondly, because they are not, like the Judges, controuled by a Jury. We demonstrated, in' like manner, that the opinion of the Judges that the • partial pub lication of evidence created such a prejudice against a prisoner as •prevented a fair trial, and . thereby defeated the ends of justice, was unsupported even by a shadow of argument. We called for the production of a single case, the verdict in which could be attributed to on im proper impression created , by • the previous publi cation of evidence. We observed, that if Juries could not fail to be influenced by previous statements of evidence, the statement of a skilful advocate, in opening a case to a Jury, in -which the evidence is Often mixed up in a perplexingly ingenious manner, with the infe rences of the advocate, to answer which state ment, except in the case-of high treason, the aid of professional skill is not allowed, is a thou sand times more' likely to create nn improper prejudice. So much importance is attached to the efforts of Counsel in trials.—so firm is the persuasion that Juries may , -be carried off their feet - by them,—that it was stated by the Attorney General in Parliament, that in civil cases defend ants very generally call no evidence, through fear of the effect of a reply. Now, though we every day see first-rate Counsel employed to give highly wrought views of the evidence to be adduced against a poor prisoner, who has no one to say a word in his favour, and though a certain Counsel has the satisfaction of knowing thot his eloquence succeeded in bringing innocence to the gallows (for as it is difficulty overcome that constitutes the value of the triumph, we suppose a Barrister would feel as proud in effecting the conviction of innocence as the acquittal or guilt, and more proud in effecting either the conviction of innocence or the acquittal of guilt, than the ' acquittal - of innocence and , the con viction of guilt),---though we every day see Counsel so employed, we never heard that a single Judge raised his voice against this, but have always understood on the contrary, that the Judges opposed themselves to the innovation of allowing Counsel to prisoners, who might be able to destroy the unfavourable impression created against them. ANCIENT COINS. Last week there was discovered in this town, an earthen' jar, containing a great nuMber of coins, in a high state of preservation. This jar was found at a depth of about a foot from the surface of the ground, close by the Grey Friars' Church -y ard. A well-grounded apprehension Exchequer, or the " Lord of the Manc Manor". t that' on which the coins were discovered, would lay claim to the treasure, had well nigh deprived the world of the knowledge of the useful discovery altogether. The Lord of the Manor, however, is quite indifferent whether they go to the cru• cible or to the cabinet or the antiquarian. We cannot venture to , say so much for the Exchequer —diet is, if they can lay their hands upon them. But this will be no easy matter, for we have found boys in the street disposing of them for so much (3d. we believe) per coin. A Gentleman of our acquaintance has, however, with the most laud able anxiety for their preservation, contrived to secure a considerable number of these coins.— These we 'have seen. By far the greater number belong to the reign of Edwards, and have been coined in London, Lincoln, Canterbury, fins. tol, Cambridge, Durham, York, &c. Ther e are none yet discovered of a later age than an Ed ward's ; and from the circurristance of a few Scotch coins of Alexander, David, and Robert, among the number, we hare reason to believe that, these coins must be of the reigns of Edward 1., I and 111., who were the contemporaries of Scot tish-Kings of the former names. Pinkerton tells us, that there is no certainty of there being an older Scottish silver penny (and these are all silver pennies) than of Alexander If., who began his reign in 1214, and the reigns of Alexander If., David 11., and Robert ill., with those of their contemporaries, Edward T., If., and 111., extended from that date down till about the year 1400. This circumstance lends us to sup pose that those coins are from -120 to to 610 years old. There is a great number of them stilt to brush up and examine, which, when done, may enable the intelligent possessor of them still further to clear up their coinage and antiquity. It is suppos. ed that the jar contained upwards of 3,000 of these silver pennies ; but from the breaking of the vessel before they were observed, and carting away the mould in which they were found, many of theta must have been lost, This discovery is highly useful in many respects ; and we will en deavour to illustrate their value and antiquity to the best of our ability, when more of them are found and properly arranged. We may here again recur to th e do n "- o f t h e E xc h e quer and the Lords of the manor, and mention that thJse claims have quashed for ever the knowledge of many similar discoveries`made or late years in this quarter. W e know that n few months ago, i an ()Id woma n f oun d a large h orn n the hollow trunk of a tr ee i n the remote di s t r i c t of A r isaig, filled with a nc i ent co i ns —but from the fear of being d e p r i ve d of them, she doled them out at a trifle each,thus have they been lost. Some and Years ago, a like treasure, to an unknown amount was discovered in the old Castle of Urquhart, and were instantly sent to the crucible, or other wise disposed of, for the same reason. We can. not help regretting this. We ma y mention, at the same time that th e Exchequer very liberally returned to Mr. Naughton the gold rod found some months ago near the Druid's temple at Lem —(Averness Courier) DARING Rommtv.—The premises of Mr. Green. of No. 7 ' Regent -street, Vauxhall-road, was entered about 7 o'clock on Wednesd a y even ing, and a quantity of li nen stolen therefrom, consisting of shirts 404 various other articles. Numerous roberies of this description hove lately been commit.. ties firths neighbourhood. Three well-known characters were seen lurking about the spot at the time. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Bow-STREET.—Yesterday Mr. George Berry (and not Perry, as stated by mistake in a former report) appeared a second time, to answer to two informations exhibited against him• by Mr. Bradfield, coal-merchant .the first one charging him with having refused to measure a. sack of coals, when call ed upon so to do ; and the second with neglecting to cause a bushel measure to be carried in a conspicuous part of his w aggon. Mr. HARMER, for the defendant; said that he had an objec tion in point of form to the informations, which must inevita bly be fatal. The 114th section of the Act, in which this offence (refusing to measure) was set out, had these words— " coals brought from any ship, lighter, barge, or other craft, or from any wharf, warehouse; or other place within the port of 'London, or within the City of Westminster or the Liberties thereof, or within /5 miles of the Royal Exchange ;" and it then went on to fix the penalty for .refusing to measure such coals. Now, Mr. Bradfield had set forth very carefully where the coals were brought to, namely, to the Workhouse of Saint Clement Danes; but he had wholly omitted to mention where they came from. This he contended was absolutely necessary, in order to she* that the Magistrates had jurisdiction ; for the coals in question might, for any thing that appeared in the in formation, have been brought straight from Guildford, in ,Surrey, or from the Land's End, and in that case the Magis trates of course could not act. _ , • _ _ • Mr. Bradfield—But suppose I can prove where they were brought from, that will be sufficient. Mr. HARMER—No, indeed; it g will not : 'you must set it forth in the information before the Magistrates can proceed. Mr. Bradfield—Come, come, Harmer, you will not get over me with your legal quibbles. I say that my information is good ; and besides, I mean to contend broadly, that it is not necessary for me under that Act of Parliament, to bring an in formation at all. If I. come, here with a plain and Ample case, supported by evidence, the Magistrates are bound to con vict. Those who are daily and hourly offending against the law constantly get off by a mere dirty quirk of law, and I say, it is a shame that it should be so. If I had set forth the place the coals were brought from, you would have called upon me to prove by a witness that they did come from that identicarplace, which I could not have done. - _ _ _ Sir It. Br RNIE—No ; I should have, received the vendor's ticket as evidence of that fact. _ _ _ Mr. Bradfield—Theni am to be defeated merely for leaving out a few unnecessary words. The case itself is the most plain and most simple in the world, and yet 1 am not to be allowed to go on with it. Sir It. BIRNIE—I certainly think the objection fatal,because every information ought to set forth and describe the offence in such a manner as to spew that it is within the Act pf Parlia ment, and that the Magistrates have jurisdiction : otherwise they might do wrong in proceeding upon it. Mr. Bradfield—Then the most gross frauds my be commit ted, and not punished. Mr. IlanMEß—What would the Magistrates think, if they knew that there is not one word of truth in the whole cbarges that you have thought proper to bring here ? Mr. HARMER beggedi that although the information was in fact dismissed, he might he allowed to call Mr. Fletcher the master of St. Clement's workhouse.. This was done, and Mr. Fletcher stated, that when the coals were brought from Mr. Berry's, Mr. Bradfield made his appearance, and i nsisted upon it that witness should desire the to ms to be re.measured. This he did ; they were measured,, and found to contain the fall quantity. Mr. HAnstEn—Now Mr. Bradfield, what think you'? Mr. Bradfield turned upon Mr. Fletcher, and in a voice of thunder declared that it was not so, for that some of the sacks were not measured. Mr. Fletcher—Those that you pointed out yourself were, Mr. Bradfield., Mr. flArtmcn—The information is dismissed, and there is an end of it. Mr. Bradfield-0, but I have not done with you yet, iler. mer ; I have plenty to say of and.to you. Mr. flArtmrn—But 1 have done with you, though. Mr. Bradfield—Btit there is a second information. Mr. HARMER—The same objection applies to both. Both informations were dismissed. MARLBOROUGA-STREET. —On 'Wednesday afternoon, about four o'clock, information was given to Mr. (Nlei.:Art.r, the Magistrate, that a lady of respectability, residing in the neigh: hourhood ofthe office, had been proceeding wit some of her children towards Hyde-park, for the purpose of taking a walk, and that when passing through,Grosvenor-square she was beset by two Irishwomen, who importuned her in. so urgent and, indeed, violent a manner for charity,.. that the lady became quite alarmed, and to avoid their following her and their con tinued solicitations, she was compelled to relinquish her walk and return home. The lady, it appeared, had been frequently before annoyed by the same women, but never in so threatening a manner as on this occasion. Mr. CoxariT immediately. dispatched . Westeott. Ballard, and Valentine, to take these women into custody, and it was no easy task they were deputed to perform ; for as soon as the officers came up with them, and endeavoured to secure them, the women, who are very powerfnl, made such a desperate re sistance, throwing themselves on the pavement, kicking, biting, anti clawing to such a degree, that it required all the strength of the three officers to force them into a hackn4-coach, and take one to St. James's, and the, other to St. Ann's watch. house, where they remained for the night. • Yesterday they were broUght before the Magistrate, and gave their names Mary Kinsley' and Johanna Williams. The officers stated, that when they got into Grosvenor-square they found the prisoner Kinsley sitting on the steps of a hall. door, with one child, about five years old, standing an one side of her, howling in a frightful manner, and making most hideous faces, affecting to cry ; and what had all the appearance of another Child lay stretched across the prisoner's hip : upon lifting up this latter, - however, it was found to be a child got up for stage effect, consisting of nothing more •substantial than a bundle of old rags and several pieces of flannel wrapped round. The other prisoner was engag ed o n i tso imposterstol c ie ie r e el eh o t o : m t ah l r i a e ttdir s co q unp u looar a tli r iics e yeis following and totwiffliaoetoerihtoci tormentingisf: two eve ry women, body that but passed inuirty, wi to give her test money. in atinifid4notswtmiceeneYfldo' were eat l ede- w n to be the n g t r o e s i t audacious vagrants: they had been several ritnes relieved ' by the Society, in order to keep thethe T m h , e if g s g s i i s l t ) r le a , te ou o t r o d f eretl that stre 'they should be committed for one month each to the House of Correction. Mrs. Riviere complained that there was an error in .the state ment which appeared respecting her application at this office : the fact, slte.said, was, that the bill which Mr. Riviere com plained of having paid for dresses, &c., was not for two'montlis, as stated, butter twelve, and that for almost the whoib of 'his family ; and although her daughter frequented balls, Ste., she did not herself hire any rooms for the purpose. The illsgistrate said, that although,the bill, had something t h e appearance of a tailor's hilt in . point , of length, he under stood it was for 12 months; bat th i s was n mistake which could easily be corrected, if Mrs. Riviere wished. Air.,. Riviera said she should like to see it corrected. Us to sr-tfat.r..—Yeaterday a man of respectable appearance who gave his name William Healey, was brought before Al. SWAHEY, Esq. in the custody of Recd, the constable of Clap ham, charged with having committed the,following novel scheme of fraud : Thomas Sutton, the landlord of the White Hart Inn at Mitcham, stated, that some time in the month of August last the prisoner came to his house, and inquired whetiler. Mr. Hines'ercoacii had passed on for Brighton. He was Informed that it was expected to call in half an hour. Upon hearing this the prisoner handed him a paper parcel, tied up with red tape, and sealed with wax. The outside of the parcel had written upon it=- For Thomas Attree, Esq. Attorney, at Brighton .£ll 3 6 Per favour of Mr. Hines - 10 o 0 £1 8 0 The prisoner then said that the parcel contained title-deeds, &C. of great importance, and intimated, that if he (the wit ness) would pay over to him the little balance, as above, Mr. Hines, the proprietor of the coach, would repay him again. Mr. Sutton knowing the respectability of the Cientleman to whom the parcel was • directed, did not hesitate to advance the sum of 11. 3s. tit. to the prisoner, who upon receiving it went away. Ifines's Brighton Coach coming up soon after wards, the above-mentioned parcel was given into the care of Monk, the driver, to whom the circumstance w as r e l a t ed , and that person paid Mr. Sutton back the, sum which he had just before advanced to the prisoner. On the arrival of the coach in Brighton, the said parcel was taken to Mr. Attree's house, who, on opening it, ascer t a ine d that it _ contained a few old covered books And some brown paper, That Gen tleman returned 'the paper, with its inclosures, to the White - Hart, whence it had been forwarded. The fraud which had been played. off •by . the prisoner' was then detected, and the landlord and the coachman each shared in the loss of the money. Every inquiry after the prisoner was subsequently made, but no trace could! be:discovered of him until Wvl:. inesday morning last, when be made. his appearance at Mr. iffittee's Booking Office, at ClaphaM. On that occasion the !prisoner presented a bill and parcel to the clerk; directed to J. H. Newton, Esq. The bill he requested might he perused. It was as follows: To J. H. Newton, Esq. To drawing. up and executing the Agreement of Lease 11 2 0 Executing Title-deeds at Eltham, and obtaining Sig natures to same . . 112 6 13 Cash on account 3 0 0 Balance due 014 This bill having been read by the Clerk in the Office, the prisoner said, that the parcel contained papers of the utmo st consequence, and was to be immediately for warded by coach to Mr. Newton; then adverting to the bill, the prisoner observed, "There is a trifling balance coming to me, and I will thank you to let me have it, and Mr. Newton will settle the matter with Mr. Hines." The Clerk having a recollection of the trick which had been played off at the White Elan is themonth of August last, at once suspected the prisoner to have been th e man, an d accordingly sent off for Reed the constable, into whose charge he was given. The above parcel, directed for Mr. Newton, was now Pre" duced, unopened, when the Magistrate proceeded to e xamine the contents, which contained the greasy covers of two old books, together with some dirty brown paper. The MAGISTRATE observed, that the former charge agai o the prisoner was a felony ; the latter, however, did not a mount to that offence, as no money had been given to the prisoner. The prisoner was then asked if he had any thing to urge in his defence. He replied, that he did not wish to enter into any explanation at present.—He was then remanded until next week, in order to have the attendance of Air. Hines, and llion l6 the driver of the coach. Reed, the Constable, said, that he had no doubt, sent charges against the prisoner obtair. ed publicity, many ca 3e/ of a similar description would be preferred against him. Mr. Agree, to whom the parcel was directed in august last, , it appeared, has now in his possession three or four parcels_oonr the same kind that were conveyed to him by different Lon n d _ coaches. That-Gentleman is also expec ted to attend on the co examination of the prisoner. if the pre, OLD BAILEY. EXTENSIVE BURGLARY IN CORNWALL TERRAce. Yesterday, Henry Ferris, aged 18, was indicted for burg for payment of 5801., four sovereigns, &c., lariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Thomas Lindsay Holland, and stealing therein two bills of exchange, hi s prOpertY• , The prosecutor„ Mr. Holland, is a gentleman residing in Corn lived with l him as e, servant from the middle of February do wn t'to the end of July last. On the evening of the Bth of Se p tember wa.l-terrac in the Regent's-park , and the pr i so ner had last, Mr. Holland's house was entered, and robbed of proPe rt Y in bills of exchange, bonds, and other property siderable amount. The robbery was discovered on the saw! evening, and appeared to have been committed by snt w ilf ri P, e L. son, Who had got from the area-steps, through the . 1 "".: into the dinning-room, where Mr. Holland had a scrutoire, U" which he kept his papers. As none of the servants could s whether the window was open or shut, on the last °coon that they entered the dinning-room, the charge of burglary upon not be established. The prisoner was, however, tried upo_n, a count charging him with privately stealing in a dwelling-hos' which is generally included in every indictment for burg larY: The evidence to substantiate that count was entirely eircn stantiaL The robbery took place between half-PoserB an called o'clock in the evening. At half-past eight, the pris it upon the wife of Mr. Holland's coachman, with whom, ila wT, as her husband, he was unacquainted, to inquire whether he wa s in. He was informed by the wife, that her husband was ge t l i r , out with thecarriage, and would not return 0112 o'clock atal :0 He returned again shortly afterwards, put the same Ve st ' s ot (0 a very the coachman's coachman's wife, and received the same answer. It all e ., d , s that the coachman lived in an apartment over Mr. 110 1, ,a . u n ~s house. There were visible proofs in the dining-room, t i t t he stables, and that these stables are contiguous to Mr. 801 l t a he robber bad entered it by the window from the area. - w ept morning of the Bth of Sept. Mr. Holland's housemaid had!. ~ the area clean out ; on the morning of the 9th she found 1 . 1 . :,,`, ,a button top without a shank. She gave it to her mistress, who consigned it to the care of Staples the officer. misty °nitro morning, the prisoner, who lodged withßrown , 0 , bee s mitted the robbery; ren.street, went out. On his return he told her that he him .„ informed that Mr. Holland's house had been robbed the . lZ, ceiling evening ; that it was suspected that some of the ser dc 7 o , or that some erson who knew the premises well, l r him. pl ea was much surprised at the request, self up to Mr. Holland, in order his 1 had rnl - examined it, nd wild ° guil of it. He then and that it was intention to give beep proceeded to shave the _,,,,id i w l "em I o ed S an ta d p f l o es on tl d ie o h ffi at c a er b c t : ton e ionntoute.h n ou th r e :is: piecebut g w ay ss e , u ,,, P . ba t id ' wn is et k o — , o - f ai ih i e t gonerwithout any preliminary notice, asked him for his coat. t l l:, coat was broken off by the shank. He did not Men,t ta i I d ol to cover which he had made to the prisoner, but desir e " - 1 4 go with him to Mr. Holland's. Avhii s t h e wa s in sro bbery S taes custody, he was asked if he knew that there had been . o , he in that gentleman's house; and he replied that he du i ' swo rn had been told of it by his Landlady's daughter. This 'lwo to be false both by die landlady and her daughter. l'h _„e, , l a top found in the area was found to fit the shank on the Pi e . :ith coat exactly, and the impress on that button was the sa. gilt, button top found in ' the area a smualle , „ Tre ble that on the other buttons of the coat, namely, ' the ' h a nk 0 ' J, B." A button-maker who was called said, to shank the the button a part of the button top still remained ; and in Just where the shank fitted on to . it. On being 1° he PO coincidence, he said it was very extraordinarY; , s obs lost the button on the night before in the own it h o West London Theatre, h and e could not conce ive d ow travelled so far the as Regent's-park. On being s ai n to nent he had been on the evening of the Bth, he gave a 5 ` 3 t 8 bs that he had been with a friend from a to 8 o'clock, that a r , g irl carried an umbrella howhichhad borrowed Ito 'lll me, he be 01 in Honover S , quare, and, that he had stayed with ~ „ ow e his o'clock. He did not, however, call any witnesses " N n ove• presence either at the West London Theatre, or in, ~ square,.. or at the . place where he had been with his frier.l,p_e_ tinder these circumstances the case was left to ther,lturivs4 After deliberating for three quarters of an hour, theY t en ded a . verdict of. Gui',y against the but recounn prisoner; him to mercy on account fif yo h: , a lea , Mr. Justice PARE told o them m t hat he should with 8 1. ,. e ,:i . tut sure transmit their recommendation to the proper q u ' - e iksile' he could not hold out to them strong hopes of its b w . • 00 cessful, as mercy was seldom extended to individuals spit, guilty of robbing their masters, either whilst they ware' service, or after they had left it. The Judgea then left the Court. ..............-...............r..--. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—( fPrindsor, .7„,,Jeci Eliza Mule, in the service of On Sunday evening last a young woman, 1. 11 : R N Egerton ' - 'd t o _Esq. of Langley, endeavoured to Put I I ," I:, to her existence by drowning herself. uvilay some . disappointment in love, her swain i l( , ) , l ' ca ust ' f rig acted up to his promises, is the allegeyerf or this rash act, On Sunday she becomes° too low-spirited, as to alarm her fellow-seryalqster, communicated the circumstance to their the and in the evening she was se n t Unt lar the auk. at e n jobr i, bet of a man, to her parents, residing The person left her within a few yara i ( "s a nti threw herself into a mill-stream, parents' house, when she immediately can P; p i at the tack h er Colebrook; the man who conduct ed Langley followed, and after a la pse of a nd. 15 e minutes, succeeded in bringing h e r to land. o And: usual restorative was applied w i t h s uccog , she is now living with her parents. _ On Wednesd ••••••••••••••••••••••+ • of all, the 27th I n s t . ,H. t Q ueen hl • the, ON 10i tr. Alderman Venables, of a son. a Crest m, to . Sara . h, second daughter Icars. , K. ItIARRIED. On Wednesday, the 27th inst., A. M. _Pri_n.o, of yr C r esc ent, Nbnones. nu holl / i On Wednesday, the 27th i st the Rev. Thonlas''-rirlesi Fellow of Catherine Ilnall,"Carnbrklge, to Lout* e daughter et' the Rev. Dawson \Var.:Tit, vicar of Edmonton. N• Di". afllctloo, Or' Yesterday, the 28th inst., of a pszalytic o f iv* Middleton, of the Strand. Esq ., On Sunday, the 24th inst., Philip Matravers, • fIP . ) ire, vidence-row, Hackney. briust 44. ' -- wet On Saturday, the 23d inst., at March, Cal" - f• ly•P zabeth Ann, the wife of John King Farlow, Eq.) Holborn. —......."—=-"" 5111 1 Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORBsTr 11116:. OFFICE, No. 112, Strand , b y J. B. CAuiri•-•