The Sun. — London, England, 1824-09-17 00:00:00

TILE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Pipers, Sept. 17. tbIORNING RRRALD. J Tuesday's Paris Papers arrived last night. In-' telligence ,up to their date had been previously' received ; their contents are only negatively of any interest. It'appears from them that, up to Tuesday morning,Louis XVIII. was still breath ing. His case, however, even on the showing of the bulletins, was utterly hopeless, and his death was approaching rapidly. An express is said to have arrived with intelligence of his death. There is something revolting in the profane presumption with which the Paris Journals notice his ap proaching dissolution. One observes, that he may boldly appear in the presence of God. An other invokes the God of St. Louie to his aid ; and the Archbishop of Paris invites the French to the hope that God may prolong his days twenty-four years more, as he did those of He zekiah, upon the prayers of the people. The worst of their profane mockery is its hypocrisy. There is little doubt that the courtiers are tired of Louis XVIII. already—notwithstanding their pretended admiration of his virtues. They are impatient under the lingering continuance of his life, and hint broadly that he has no more to do in this world. They make him say to the successor, " I must henceforth think of my duties—you of business." It seems almost certain that the next arrival will bring an account of his demise. The following communication, in respect of Iturbide, was furnished to us yesterday by the gentleman who brought us the Mexican Papers, end who came in the Parthian :—" It is certain that Iturbide was fired at and wounded on his landing, and there is every reason to believe that he is since dead. Lieutenant Villemont has hitherto been erroneously stated as the Com mander of the brig Parthian, instead of Captain the Honourable George Barrington, son of the Bishop of Durham."--(lbid.) ETII E TIMES.] Soirw circumstances transpired yesterday,which render the presumption still stronger that hut.- bide's enterprise to - Mexico has terminated in his destruction. It appears that the puma of the Commander of the troops at Soto la Marina is not Garcia, but La Garsa, which, had It been made I known at first, would in itself havo overthrown . the' account of a favourable reception to Itur bide, except for the purpose of betraying biat, , as this-very individual had been one of the most . actiye in bringing about his expulsion from Mexico, and had been, on that account, selected by the Congress for the command on a part of • the coast where previous information had led them to expect that his landing would be attempted. The fact of La - Garsa having been appointed for. that purpose is well known to Mexicans now in this country. Captain. (belch, we have been in formed, received the intelligence of Iturbide's fate, not - .from American Captains, of whom it is liLely•there• was not one In the insignificant and hardly accessible port of Soto la Marina, but ,from boats belonging to the place itself, the people in which gave hint the particulars of the . • fate of Iturbide, and added that they had them selves seen the soldiers returning from his exe cution. We understand that Madame Iturbide, whose situation, if her husband has really fallen in the manner described, must excite general sym pathy, was likely to be placed in circumstances as Consolatory as it was possible, under so severe an a ffiktion. She is, by birth, a Mexican, and of u family residing in a part of the country not far distant from that where Iturbide landed, with whom she would find a secure asylum. [BRITISH PRESS] We are still without the official announcement of the decease of Louis XVIII., though no rea b onable doubt can exist that the King is dead.— Private letters from Paris, dated on Tuesday evening, alum that the fact had taken place at four o'clock on that slay, and that Monsieur was proclaimed King of France that evening, by the style and title of Charles X. The rumours which are circulated respecting the fluctuations of the King's health, do not disturb the public tranquil. lity. The !tellies have advanced, and the fullest confidence seems to be felt that Charles X. will not deviate from the path in which Louis XVIII. bas proceeded. We are strongly inclined to be. lieve that the new King will be disposed to fall into the established system when he has ascended the throne, whatever may. he his feelings at pre. sent. It is consolatory to b e assured th a t t h e peace of Europe will not be atleoted. The Report of the Anti-Slavery Society' is published : it is written, we regret to find, in a tone of considerable asperity towards the Colo.. 'lists. The great object of the Society is to urge his Majesty's Government to interfere, by par liamentary enactments, on behalf of the slaves, on the pretext that no disposition really exists among the planters to ameliorate the condition of the negroes. The case of .the .lute Missionary Smith occupies a prominentstation in this docu ment, and is enlarged upon as a proof of the utt©r absence of all fair dealing in the West In dies towards the friends of the slaves. The ex periment at Trinidad is rather censured than praised, and the reluctance of Mr. Canning to force some general and sweeping measure for the abolition of slavery upon all the Colonies, is somewhat harshly repreSented as inducing the " nation to contract additional guilt, by tile un necessary postponement of those reforms, the moral obligation of which has been unequivo cally admitted."--Vbid.) NEW , TIMES,] ' The adviceilespecting the death of the King of France continue to he of wiregue:and sive character. For , Obvious reasons the ofliCial notification of the eve►►t it delayed; , but.the Pre veiling report is that his Majesty' s _decease took place atfive o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, It even been stated, on private authority, thui in the evening of that day Monsieur, the Icing's brother, was proclaimed king by the style and title'of Charles X. Consols were little, or rather not at all affected by the news from France. A slight improvement indeed was observable in the prices, which closed at g-11 1 - for the Account. In the Foreign Market the chief attention was di rected towards the Mexican Bonds, and an ad vance in the price took place of 4 per cent. hav ing been purchased at 531. This improvement was said to have been occasioned by , accounts of Iturbide having been actually put to death ; but we believe no advices have been received subse quent in date to the information of Capt. Quelch. It will be remembered that Iturbide was shot six weeks ago according to Stock Exchange re port. Spanish Bonds were lower, 10. [MORNING POST.] The Doi Wednesday (which is published! on Tuesday night) has brought us four additional' bulletins, the last of which furnishes un account, of the state of the King at half-past three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. He bad just then re covered from a lethargic fit in which he had re. mained for nearly an hour, and was once more, sensible to surrounding objects. So near, how ever, was his dissolution thought to be, or so hard and painful the last struggle of expiring nature, that the prayers for the agonizing, the object of which, we believe, is to obtain a speedy termina tion of earthly suffering, were put up in his very chamber. Ile is said to have understood what was doing, and to have borne this last trial, the evidence that ail hope was abandoned, and that his death was in some measure prayed for, with the feline firmness and resignation that had marked his deportment throughout. A private letter dated an hour later, and brought by the same express us the Etoite, states informa tion to have been just reeceived by the writer that the King was dead. This is highly probable, but it is not official. Yet if, as it was apprehended in Paris, all expresses were to be stopped the moment the death of the King should be publicly known, the absence of further news is rather confirmatory of the statement. However this may be, it is evident that the possibility of his recovery was not even contemplated, and that every hour which he survives is more than his nearest relatives yen. lured to anticipate. The idea that his death had taken place on Monday morning, and that Bulle tins were issued to conceal the fact for u certain period from the people, seems to lose ground even in Paris, where it was at first generally enter. tained. Indeed, as the event had been secretly expected for a considerable time by the ers, they had it in their power to make every preparation before hand which they might deetit necessary to prevent its being attended with any results dangerous to the public peace, or to the legitimate succession to the throne. The gain of a few hours, or even of a few days, could not, therefore, be a material object, and it is hard to' believe, that the most respectable Physicians in Franco would lend their names to a complete im posture, which could not fail sooner or later to be exposed to the knowledge of the world. With respect to the policy of Charles X., who by lids time has probably been proclaimed King of France, no apprehensions seem now to be enter tained by those who once regarded him as the head of the Ultras. That he had espoused M. de Villele's party has long become apparent, and that 'Minister is said to have lately passed his word that no change of administration, or of measures, would arise from the accession of a new King. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We cannot but congratulate our fair readers on the proceedings at the Manslon-louse re ported in yesterday's Paper, from which it would appear, that an insult offered to Ladies may be resented without subjecting their champions to fine, imprisonment, and, possibly, absolute ruin. Let all travellers record in their note-books, that, though in Surrey, the county famous for Magis trates, a Lady may be very safely affronted, for If her protector chastise a coxcomb that Insults her, he is sentenced to gaol and fed on felon's fare; yet in Middlesex it is quite another, thing, and the man who insults a woman is kicked first and pro. scented afterwards, if he do not quietly submit to the correction. The Surrey Bench of Magistrates and the City Bench are Indeed strangely at va riance on these matters, so much so that the op. posite practice of the- two districts may betray persons who have a turn for delicate gallantry into particularly unpleasant errors and very in convenient false positions. The highly respect able and exemplary individual who has wounded the delicacy of a Lady on the other side of the water with perfect impunity, nay, under the protection of the laws, crosses a bridge, quits Surrey. for Middlesex, and if he repeat his itnper tinencies, he may be rolled in the gutter for his pains. There is no saying how the Lord Mayor might treat a privileged person,M.Saurin himself, for instance, if he were on the strength of his former success, to come before the City Magistrate with a complaint such as he preferred against Mr. O'Callagan. The issue of that affair may certain ly have served a encourager les autres, and we therefore deem it incumbent on us to give every degree of publicity to the very different doctrine which prevailed at the Mansion-house on Wednes day. We do not mean to say that Mr. Saurin's conduct was as offensive as that imputed to the prisoner in the case to which we allude, but the principle which governed the Lord Mayor's de cision is as applicable to the one alfuir us to the other, and is that which ought to have governed the decision of the Surrey Magistrates in Mr. O'Callaghan's case. In each instance a lady was OirrOllted ; ill each, her protector, from the im. pulse of indiguatiow, resented the insult with a tlow—here the parallel ceases—in the late case the blow ,was returned, and the party returning the blow was held to bail for- an Assault, it doubtless being considered that the first outrage or insult was the original breach of the peace. —We would be understood to abstain from uttering any opinion on the merits of this ease — nothing can be mole foreign from our purpose — we only advert to it, indeed, as it involves a ~ prin ciple, the assertion of which seems' to us most important, and to which we rejoice to see that ~ • . effect has been given. From what fell him' tlfe Lord Mayor, it would ,appear that it was high time to correct the impression which the deci. sion of the Surrey Magistrates was calculated to create. " The Loan MAYOR - said, that unmanly assaults of this description were daily occurring. In fact, scarcely any woman was now safe in the streets, even in the presence of her husband. " Defendant—My Lord, consider that I was kicked. " The LORD MAYOR—If ion were, you deserved it well for the indecent assault, and I will make you find bail for the as sault on Mr. Walker, and bind him over to prosecute you." —We trust that the flower of the Magistracy, the pink of Justices, will take a lesson from this salutary decision. COMMITTAL OF Ma. HALE. Wednesday Mr. George Hale was taken by Keeble, the constable t to the police-office at Woolwich, before Sir Joni; WEBB, physician to'the garrison, the Rev. Jonw MESSITER, chaplain to the garrison, and Mr. Maitsir, door., keeper of the Royal Arsenal of 'Woolwich, Magistrates acting in that Division, for final examination, charged with submitting libellous pamphlets, entitled " The Two Opinions," to the sol diers in the Woolwich Barracks, intending to incite them to acts of insubordination, &C. Mr. Hale was attended by a gentleman who conducted kit defence, to whom the Magistrates expressed their thanks for his endeavours, though uusuccessful, to persuade Mr. Hale to de.: Sig from a further distribution of the obnoxious pamphlets. Mr. May, the chief clerk to the Magistrates, read over the evidence of the soldiers, and of Henry Ridout, the high con: stable; and then said to the accused, " These pamphlets yote distributed to the soldiers in the garrison, Mr. Hale, did you not ?" ! Mr. Hale's friend here prevented Mr. Hale from making the admission so anxiously endeavoured to be elicited by the wor. thy Justice's clerk ; and Mr. Hale, whose shrewdness and ra. tionality upon every subject, save that upon " war," cannot be disputed, replied, " Gentlemen, that is an unfair question; I have no wish to conceal any part of my conduct, but I think you ought to prove by evidence the offence you charge me with, and not endeavour to entrap me into admissions of my atilt." Mr. May, the clerk, proceeded, by order of the Magistrates, to read over the alleged lihellotis publication, previous to which Mr. Messiter asked the accused if he had got bail for his good behaviour? He replied that he had no bail, and asked what was the effence he was charged with ; for he was not at present aware whether it was for not having a printer's name to the work, or if the work itself was considered to be illegal. Sir JOIIN ‘VEIIII said the charge was, that he had unlawfully distributed publications amongst the soldiery, calculated to ex. cite insubordination and discontent in their minds, and to in. duce them to throw down their arms. Mr. Hale.—ln the pamphlet I have published, there is not one word but what is taken from God's words the Bible is the foundation of the Christian religion, and I have done no more wrong than if I had distributed the Bible among the soldiers. Mr. illEssiTEß said, that some parts of the pamphlet were calculated to do a great deal of mischief: it was evidently writ. ten to deprive Government of that power which it possessed over the soldiers, which was essential to the existence of social order, and to induce obedience to the laws. Mr. Hale said that there was not one word in tho publication but what had been preached a hundred times in different places of public worship; and the Tracts published by the London Religious Tract Societies inculcated similar doctrines, which Societies were under the patronage' of some of the most eminent men in the country for learning and piety. Sir J. Ws:Dn.—They do not conic down to this garrison and distribute their tracts to the soldiers, and endeavour to persuade them to throw down their arms ? Mr. Hale.—They publish works against war and bloodshed, and are not persecuted. • 11 M I r r . May Es shiaTting observed,read the offensive passage was the following:—" Each of you have souls, and neverdy ingptitinslarphtlheet fr m on o i st beginnin. g to end,' e o r s n i t i l t y o 11 1 to lf tp o e u c r o f i e l an souls n ttao Christ, of an d you you lairvee undone n d low-creatures teach and command you to hate and fight against your enemies, they, by so doing, are leading you on, in the most wilful and wicked opposition to the holy religion which they themselves profess to believe in and defend, and in a e ie to in al o l p e l t ) manner that must end in your inevitable and eternal ruin I— 'lf any man-hash an ear, let him hear. He that leadeth into captivity, shall go into captivity lie that killeth with the sword, most be killed with the sword. It is your duty, your interest, and your privilege to obey God rather than man ; and while you hlow arcereatitguireitiai:ay,ou are orevaecdnnlgeareoninntrgaryto re ligion, and disobeying the comman d s o f the on l y S av i our of sinners ! Whatev er engagements or obligations you may b e t ti o gi the lt a C ga h i r n i:t t i Christian " under to your fellow-creatures, remember that will not excuse you at the last and terrible day of reckoning! It is your plain duty to obey God in preference to man ! and where God coiri puinds you to love and pray for your enemies, and your fel-. low-creatures teach you. to hate and fight against them, it is your duty to obey God and not man I For all they that take the sword, shall perish with.the sword " Mr. Hale said there was nothing in the above illegal,th' or. at could be charged as libellous. Sir J. WEiin Or - de - r - eti - Mi. May to read an admission of the accused on Monday last, in which he said that his object in distributing the pamphlets was to induce the soldiers to throw down their arms. _ _ _ • • . 11r. Hale observed that he would not deny having made that admission, but he wished to explain his meaning. His object was to pr event war in this and every * countr y• where the Chris tian rela tion was sanctioned by the existing Government. Mr. MicsarrEn said his notions werelis absurd as the South cotonlans,•who, the other day, were revelling over a stuck pii : he did not question the motives or intentions of the accused, but his acts were dangerous to the Government, and must be re lpressed; and lie believed th at h e (H a l e ) was mor e fit for Bea am than Alaitistone- gaol. • Mr. Hale's friend said that ho was satisfied as to the purity of Mr. Hale's intentions, though he differed with him as to the propriety of his conduct : he, - however, must confess that he could not see any thing libellous in the pamphlet which Air. Hale had published. The Magistrates here generally remarked, that they had nothing to do with the motives of 3lr. Hale; they believed the work to be of a mischievous tendency, and that was sufficient to induce them to call upon him to give good security for his good behaviour in future. Their only object. was to put a stop to the evil; they did not wish to act with severity towards a man who was to be pitied. Repeated attempts were made to prevail' ore the accused to desist from the course he was pursuing, but to no purpose. Mr. Halo saidi that the commands of God were to he observ ed in preference to all human engageMents, and boasted that his opinions and wishes were opposite to those of Curiae, for he (the accused) wished to propagate those opinions which were founded on the Bible and on die Christian religion, which had been decided in courts of law to be part and parcel of the law of the land. Sir J. WEBn hero expressed his strong disinclination to send the accused to a prison, and urged Mr. Hale to put in bail. Mr. Hale said he was ready to go to a prison, or he would put in bail to answer the charge before a jury, but not to be of good behaviour; or, in other words, he would not engage not to dis tribute the publications in the mean time. He knew the only object the Magistrates had in view was to preuont his publish ing the work, and that they had no intention to bring him to trial. Mr. Mrssyrrit said, that if he (Mr: Hato) studied his own interest, lie would put in bail, and avoid further expence and trouble; and he would be permitted to remain for several days at a tavern in the custody of an officer, till his bail was pro duced, if ho thought proper to take that course. Mr. Hale said here, that he was convinced no jury would find him guilty of the off ence of which ho stood accused, • and he would" find no bail. • . His commitment was then made out. The Magistrates told him that a few days' imprisonment might alter his tone, anti he could then put in bail either in 3laidstone, or before a Judge in London. Film—Between nine and ten o'clock last night a fire broke out in the house of Mr. HAND- LtY, linen-d raper , In Hay's-court, Newport Market, which at one time, from the closeness of the court and the adjacent buildings, alarmed the whole neighbourhood. Fortunately, however, the supply of water was plentiful ; and the fire men and engines being as usual prompt in th e i r attendance, the fire was got under in time to save the house of Mr. lIANDLEy from being destroyed, although considerable damage was done to the front of the house, and some part of the stock in trade was consumed. . . Last week a partridge was shot near Wigton, in the gizzard of which was found a sewing needle one inch and a quarteflong. The needle is a little rusty. A*FiriNTEttIGE?IOE. . , LANCASTER, SEPT. 14. . . . . • , i' . IBetbre Mr. Baron flur.Locx.l tIIYDROPHOBIA-DOG SHOOTING. • - Lon') v. lIANCKS AND ANOTIIER. Mr. ST RKIE opened the pleadings. The defendants pleaded Not Guilty. No justification was put on the record. Mr. ScentETT and Mr. Baou GUAM conducted the case on the part of the defendants. Mr. WILLIA3Is, for the plaintiff', stated the case to the Jury as follows :—Gentlemen, of the Jury, you have all of you heard of the war between man and th e can i ne s p ec i es i n this country, and did noble exploits that have from time to time been per formed in exterminating the animal race, but none in my opi nion equals the one that has been performed under the order and directions of the redoubtable Mayor of Wigan—who, hav ing heard from Liverpool that all these quadrupeds had been massacred, and not one of the unhappy tribe left to tell the dreadful tale, his sensitive nerves became alarmed at the Greek word Hydrophobia ; a proclamation was accordingly issued, and that great personage, the town cryer, with his huge cocked hat, armed cap-a-pie, sounded the direful note of preparation in the following words : " Take warning, that all dogs found at large in or about the town of Wigan after this notice will be destroyed, by order of the Mayor of Wigan." Nothing could resist this notice, and execution was therefore ordered to be done on the bodies of all such dogs as should be guilty of the delinquency after this warning; and among the number who paid the forfeit of their lives to this rigid law was the unhappy dog of the plaintiff', who was absent on his duty at Kirkdale Quarter-sessions. The Learned Gentleman then adverted to the facts that will appear in the evidence, and called . Zechariah Bate—He was in the streets on the 13th of May ; he knows 13ancka and Rutter the defendants; Rutter had a gun with him, and Bancks carried the shot-belt; lie observed the pointer bitch sitting by the wall of Worthington's door; Rutter went up pretty near the dog, levelled his piece, and shot her in the breast, she instantly fell dead at his feet. John Hall examined—lie was present when the dog was shot; witness said to the defendants, don't kill that dog, I know whose it is, it is Mr. Lord's and if you will let me I will take it home; Rutter said, " No, I'll be damn'd if you shall, I must do my duty," and instantly took aim and shot her. Christopher Hartley examined—He known the pointer; he has seen her hunt ; she was a staunch animal, and under good command i • in his opinion she was a very good one ; the plain— tiff has shot with her; she might be worth from four to five guineas. Mr. SCAItLETT appealed to the Jury, and asked diem what they would have done under similar circumstances ? The syinp 'toms of hydrophobia had become so alarming, that a proclama tion was issued against all dogs found at large : the defendants had only done what was highlyproper ; and although he admitted a verdict must go against his clients, as there was no statute law that authorised the shooting of dogs, and this was not proved to be mad t . yet, said the Learned Gentleman, fond as I am of dogs, and having some fine ones of my own, 1 had much rather the whole of them should be shot than that one of his Majesty's subjects should risk his life. The dog had been suffered to be at large after a public notice to the contrary; and the defence set up was, that its owner was at the Sessions. The dog was-said to be worth 6/. ; but would any person have given a single shilling for it, when for aught they knew the dog might have been mad or bitten by another ? The act was not of a vindic tive nature. As to his Learned Friend's previous .address about the bellman and his huge cocked hat, and the other de fendant, whom lie had described as a second Don Quixotic., the people might laugh at it, but still a proclamation was is sued with merited attention. The Jury would, in order to dis courage these actions, give the least possible damages, for if they did otherwise, at the next Assizes they would have a plentiful crop, although he of course' did not object to such a harvest.—(A liptigh.) _ _ _ • The L6rned fiAriort charged the Jury, and said the -plain tiff' was entitled to their verdict. There was no law that au. thorised the sweeping notice of shooting all dogs. It certainly was highly proper that persons should take care and guard against this dreadful complaint, as far as in their power, by keeping their dogs tied up, especially after proclamation had been made. - - ..... The Jury found fur the plaintiff—Damages One Farthing, This sum carries costs. I' 0 ITC-11-INTELLIGENCE. EXTRAORDINARY CASE. 51A1lYLE11021E•OFFICE.—.Mr. ORIFFITII9, One of the Magistrates of this office, has been for two successive evenings occupied till a late hour, in investigating an extraordinary charge of felony, brought by Mademoiselle Virginia Perrot, 'against Mr. Askew, the proprietor of a fashionable Parisian dress and milinery establishment in Oxford-street. In the course of Tuesday morning, Mademoiselle Perrot, accompanied by Monsieur Bertrand, presented herself before Mr. GlllF r rig's, and stated on oath, that a chest of drawers belonging to her in Mr. Askew's house had been opened, and valuable property abstracted therefrom, consisting of diationdi and jewellery, together with seven French bank-notes for 1,000 francs each, and five for 500 francs each. Part of this propert y . wa s wrapped up in a con fi dential lettekwhich she had received from allobleman in France, and which letter she had evidence to prove was now in the possession of - Mr. Askew, and was her ground for charging him with - the felony. on this statenient, Mr. Gitiryrnis granted his warrant, w hich was put into the hands of Mr. Within,. who, in the course of the afternoon, waited upon Mr. Askew ; and having stated his business, was voluntarily .accompanied to the office by that gentleman. At seven o'clock in the evening the charge was gone into, Mr. Anotrilusattending on behalf of Mr. Askew; and Mr. 111111E11T, the Solicitor, on the part of the prmecutrix. m a d e moiselle Perrot having been sworn, stated that she had engaged by the prisoner in the dress-making and millinery department at a salary of 2,000 francs per year, and width,' at the expiration of' -seven 'months, was advanced to 4,000 franc* a year.- She quitted his employ on the sth of last July, at which time - she left locked up in her drawers, in second floor roo m, seven French Bank bills for 1,000 francs each, and live for 600 francs each ; also a valuable diamond necklace, a pair o f diamond ear-rings to correspond, an antique ring, with a portrait of the Emperor of Russia on a white stone, set round with diamonds ; also two other antique rings, set with pearls, with blue, and a boy btoly whteii uAbAlepaarekokseLhweveFeauspt'os k. c _ e h t a d we i s sl t t t i f p lrno e r two' necklaces, one of ember, the other of coral, and a variety of of other valuable articles of jewellery.. There' were also number of confidential letters,' and one to p articular , in which some of the above articles were wrapped. It was a letter from a nobleman in France ; there was something in it about a boy :I I ! m se e nrndnoeabin noble- c w o a n C s c e o e n r nvs over ;b e o e x co e n n lin i ne doo r .dg man, but she declined telling his name. The French notes were the property of Monsieur Bertrand ; she did not know the numbers of any of them. Monsieur Bertrand was agrocer in Paris ; he was a friend of hers, and had accompanied her to England. lie had called her his sister to preserve appear ances. She would persist in swearing that all the property she bud enumerated was in the drawers. Mr. Georg© Hubert, solicitor, sworn.--Had called on Mr. Askew about ten days back to demand the delivery of the pro. petty above enumerated, none of which was delivered to him. lie received some articles, and he also found in the drawers a cat►►logue purporting to be of what was left in them. The cata logue he produced. He found none of the property mentioned in it. di Monsieur,eittlooiseu francae Pe Bertrand earcrio t ic e asgecavhve.en into iviFrench the nb cat hi b h He a nndks bills promisedlfoar ot oild take sworn.— ctbarresoolo a situation by Mr. Askew ; an advertisement for that purpose Was put into the newspapers, but without success. Crossexamined—lltid been a grocer in Paris ; he brought the notes with him to England. He did not know their num bers. ; Had called /Mademoiselle his sister, in order to maintain the respectability of the house. Mr. John Smith, locksmith, in Oxford-street, sworn... Had, about three months back, sent a man to Mr. Askew'a to break open a lock, as he understood, of a cheat of drawers on the second floor. Did not accompany the man. Be was still in their employ. It being thought essential that this witness should be forth. coming, and it being then too late in the evening to hope to find him in moderate time, Mr. Griffiths consented to adjourn the examination till seven o'clock the following evening, and in the mean time Mr. Askew was suffered to go at large, on enter ing into his personal recognizance in 501., and finding two sure. ties in 251. each. The sureties were immediately found. ' At the appointed hour the following evening both parties were in attendance. Mademoiselle P et rot was then re-exaniined. She repeated her testimony as to having . received the letter from.' a nobleman ; that it was left locked up in the chest of drawers ; that it contained a history of a boy with black and a boy with blue eyes ; and that it was the only letter she had from a noble man. In that letter.the bank-notes were enclosed. The letter was written* in French. Mr. Hubert examined.—Witness was shown a letter written in French by Mr. Askew. It did not purport to be from a nobleman. There were onlylnitials signed to it. Mademoiselle Perrot reealled..--Tice name of the noblemen was not attached to the, letter; it had only the initial 4 " N. S.!* Mr. Hubert in continuation .) — The lettei shown me had t h e initials " S.'' Mr. ADOLIMUS, (to Mademoiselle Parrot.)—W hat Wee th e name of the nobleman ? • Witness.—l won't tell you. Si r . ADOLPUUS.-1 insist I have a right to be informed of . his nanie, in order in must me unravelling an ted easing:l falsehood of the charge got up by these " wrec.people." 111r.'entrtitits.—I think you have no right to it. Mr. ADOL enus.-1 shall take a note of the objection; then turning to the prosecutrix, he asked, what boy is that the letter alludes to ? _ _ Prosecutrix.—That's nothing to you. Mr. GRIFFITHS.—I think so too. You have no right to inquire about the letter further than to identify it. Mr. A noimuus.—l have the letter in my pocket, but under these circumstances I shall not produce it. If I did, I could prove the falsehood of what is stated as its contents. Timothy Landergeen being sworn, stated, that he was in the employ of Mr. Smith, of Oxford-street, and remembers being about three months ago sent to pick a lock at Mr. Askew's, In the front shop. A young man from Mr. Askew's called on him that morning, about this business. He asked him if he ever picked a lock in the second floor. ' Witness, in reply, told him he never was in the second floor. Mr. Hubert and Illon sieur Bertrand had called on him about three weeks back, and had questioned him about the lock he had opened. Monsieur had called on him several times since on the same subject.. the Mademoiselle Harriet Deular was examined th rou g h medium of the Abbe de Roufigny, who was sworn to interpret truly. She stated that she was at the present time engaged by Mr. Askew at a salary of 1,500 francs per annum; remembered the prosecutrix living there; had seen her wear coral ear -ring' and necklace; had also seen her with a jet and amber nec k., lace; had never seen the diamond ear-rings or necklace; had never seen the ring with the Emperor of Russia's portrait; 3lr• Askew, about a fortnight ago, skewed her a letter which was in French, and which contained a passage about a boy With black, and a boy with blue eyes ; the letter was signed ,wh n been " G. S. ;" is sure one of the initials was "8.;" initials ; thinks the initials were "Y. S. ; If they m ight 118VC tell her how he got it ; the in the letter was to this effect :—" The child you mine, and which you say is a$ much like its father as two peas, has blue eyes ; now mine are black, and I would advise you to look for its father in the per` son with blue eyes." Miss Unit examined.—Witness lives with Mr. Askew, an remembers seeing the prosecutrix wear many valuable arrklett of jewellery, but not the diamond necklace. Knows the chess of drawers in the room on the second floor, in which the prg• cutrix kept her property. Has understood by_ h earsa y t were broken open ; but knows nothing personally about it. that Mr. Gittrririts, in pronouncing us decision, said, n case of strong suspicion had been made out, and to that case he did not answer had been given ; he therefore felt it to be his duty to fully commit the prisoner to Newgate for trial. The office was crowded to excess. The examina tion till past ten o'clock. lasted CHARGES OP ASSAULT. BIARLDOROUGH-ST REET.—On Tuesday lag a Charg e , 3 P; peered enteredJames's watch-book, against Lady liar t n .Antonia Winnington, for an assault upon Mr. Oiib ert ,' tradesman, in Bond-street ; but the fair prisoner not being forthcoming, the Magistrate inquired the cause of her absence, when the constable of the night informed him, that, belies" the lady to be the person she represented herself, he himse" entered into bail, in the usual form, for her appearance. The Magistrate said, that, however praiseworthy this a" , of gallantry might be, unless he produced the prisoner, his re c° ''' nizances To make wouldsure, be in some dang Mr. Gilbert, notwithst ander. ing the night constable's promise to produce his prisoner, wooi d, out a warrant against Lady Maria Antonia Winnington; in the course of the day after, Lady Maria Antonia Sl'inntect ton took out a cross-warrant against Mr. Gilbert, for an wrier,. and false imprisonment ; and, by mutual consent, one yesterday was appointed to have both warrants heard. to Mr. Gilbert being first on the list, he Wall Called ar l , state his charge; and Lady Maria Antonio Winningtnn , a, son of very genteel figure, and elegantly dressed, steppe" ;"'' ward, accompanied by several friends, to meet her accuser. Mr. Gilbert said that the sister of the defendant rents 3 house of his, which, had he known as much as he ,d (g ., 1 ,, now at the time he let it to her, she never should have occupied it; but of this lady herself he knew nothing what' ever, nor had he ever even seen her until about eight o'clock on Monday night, when she came to his house; and, ° a being introduced into his office, she commenced abusing him l a the most shocking manner, because, as she said, he intended 0 dispossess her sister of the house she held of him, and threaten. ed, if he did so, to annihilate him, at the same time holding her clinched fist in his face. He ordered her quietly to leave th b e house ; but she still continued to abuse him, and collected a round his door. To avoid her, he walked down into Piccadl,D but she still followed him, with some man who accomPal_,l, her and fearing personal' danger from both, he gavethe into the custody of a watchman, and charged her at the War t ' . house. Harrington,. a watchman, said, that he took charge of tPit lady by direction of Mr. Gilbert, whom she attempted s! v % ; times to strike while going to the witch-house • t gentleman who was with the lady at the time, "p a e n r ; and that she herself offered him (the watchman)) it,s a , son, a wine-merchant, in Pall-mall, endeavoured to f escue to o'clecs let her go. This watchman said, that her ladyship, she was, was drunk at the time. ire to th° Two servants in the house of Mr. Gilbert also aPe- - d in questioa, and violent conduct of the defendant on the evening her threats to Mr. Gilbert. the In calling on the defendant for her rel.', to this ch.rtl4, io ,„ Magistrate asked her Übe should address her as slrs' nington, or Lady IVinnington P She replied, Lady to . nington. certainly, which neither Mr. Gilbert nor all wi n . else could deny. She is, she said, the wife of Sir John i f nington, who has conducted himself' in' such a to of wards her, by giving the preference so the society o b lasts' Waste' Brisco, that a suit is proceeding in the 'ccle cal Court for their entire itepsration, and it is at the insT, don of her husband and this Lady Brisco that Or., ,it, bert had acted towards her as lie had dune. The rem cumstances, she said, which occurred on Monday nigilt,_,„ ne l these :—Her sister soine time ago took a house from a Monroe, to whom this Mr.. Gilbert is a sort of agent, too re , ceives the rent. For'some reason or other they now want aP t o f text to turn her sister out of the house, as they seem to Let' veltionever the bargan they had made; and although there is not a far , ei o• rent due until the 25th instant; Mr. Oilberthaa been d i e in ing to take possession of the house. On Monday Inernnol! called on Mr. Gilbert to say that the rent would be paid Iday it became due,by Mr. hlanghall, of Aldernianburf• her 7 . te r; licitor, and therefore not to take antsteps against her ' r oot upon which Mr. Gilbert flew into a le, and in pith this, manner tamed her out of the house ; an not content vn homer hook he followed her into Piccadilly, for the purpoet hoo ksa ( knew, of watching where she resided, to give hes c ola an upertunity of annoying her. Mr. Sergeantson , w i g: hit' Wine-merchant, who accompanied her, on seeingi th .sed Gilbert was watching her, proposed to get into a C y r/ we i , by that means escape ; " but (said her LadyshiP)l7le o ar• get into coaches with gentlemen at night, I declin ed j; ,,,, W hat She then went up to Mr. Gilbert, and • aske" " — w hiney , whom he gave her in and had er meant by following her ; upon which he called a w a o - t i off in 3 most brutal manner, and locked her up ro t a ,w,a, tch discharge the humanity of the night constable induced ' 1 ,7„ 0 intox icate, her ; and as for the base assertions, that sh,,e or assaulted Mr. Gilbert, they wereequalit E 'toysliip , Lir l f A witness was now called on the part 01 IL A " 'anti v " . " swore that Mr. Gilbert followed her Into Pieea" - ";,:i also,. s ad ever she crossed the street to avoid him, he std _ b ay oml -- seemed to annoy her ve much. 0 W The constable of the night said, that the Indy w not intoxicated, as stated by the watchman, When 'be • CO the watch-house. h A t tib) Her Ladyship was asked by the hlagistrate tv„,, & o eris A she had to have her residence known ? She SePn u i, o ati a" the world, except to avoid the annoyance of her Pri" Regent his associates. - Her residence, she said, was No: T o rn street, and she defied any one to cast . any iMPUtatiCt_ tg . ths, The Magistrate said, that at first he y ha somee t ; oef ooe she was the person she represented herself to be but admitted on all hands that she was Lady Winningliiiotrooe• Mr. Gilbeit said he had no doubt she was Latif „,“' n st. ,I r t 'l'lle cross-warrant obtained by her Ladyship fr:i 10 8 Gilbert was then heard, and the assault complained u'v„, w ards" we have already statexl—locking her Ladyship up in house. The Magistrate said that under all the eireurnaleacl;licit should discharge both ions if leave the Par li l: ) arderr. each other at the sessions, if they thought fit. .ii n etr o oll, a summons to be served on Mr. sergeantson, of 4 a . obstructin the watchman in the execution of his (10'. cr etre' The parties were then all discharged. The of tve a mo her fed during the investigation by tradespeople, an%ie" Ladyship. • BIRTHS. T wits Oti Monday. the 13th inst Mrs. Henry jetisoPP, p t .l 10 11 ' inn, of a son (still born). I.lr. On the 15th inst., at Harrow, the laly of the no' ler, of a daughter. •• l loy se, until DIED. t Sol' t late On anTt u n eada inen Y t s i t l l l r7eo in n g ok at lio i n i d a o lti n n . gs 9 Galli:" Gle :f 'l o ' li g e ' . 9_n o U r yetlnesday, the 15th inst. In the 70th Yea V b ec, Esq., of Tottenham, ' Middlesex. J. 'minor ' to SO' Os Printed 'and 'Published for the PRooriuX lo l ol * •, 0 1, OFFICE, No. 112, Strand, by J. 13 . (Afirit' `' 't i iy