The National Register.
London, England, 1817-12-08 00:00:00

TOMBS OF THE KINGS OF FRAYCE.

JIRITISII IV SOUTH AMERICA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER.
Sta.—Observing in your Paper of Sunday last. an article copied
from the limes on the subject of embalming. and preserving of
dead bodies ; 1 send you the two following anecdotes translated from
the Monuments Francais of M. Le Noir, as bearing upon the saute
subject, while they present a striking picture Of the sacrilegious spo-
liation which marked the first days of the French Revolution. 1..
" Ire 1793. when the tombs of the Kings of France at St. Denis were
broken mum, to get at the leaden coffins, the body of Henry the IV.
was found in such perf..ct preservation, that the lineaments of his
countenance were no ways changed. It was deposited in the passages
of the lower chapels, wrapped up in its shroud, which was equally
well preserved. It was exposed to public view till Monday the 14th,
when it was carried into the choir, and placed at the foot of the steps
leading to the chancel. where it remained till 2 o'clock, in the after-
noon : it aas transported thence to the burying ground called Vi/ois,
and next put into a deep grave dug at Me bottom, to the right, on
the-north sole. This Node, which may be considered as a dry mum-
my, had the scull divided, and instead of the brain, which had been
removed, was tilled with lint steepest in a fluid extracted Irons arotia-
tic spices. which still imparted so strong an odour as to be almost un-
sapmirtable by those who approached it. A soldier who was present
impelled by a heroic enthusiasm. threw himself, the moment the
coin was opened, upon the body of the conqueror of the Ligue, and
after a long silence and wonder, he drew his sabre, and respectfully
cut oil' a slip from the beard, which was still fresh, exclainUng, at the
same time. in the most energetic manner " I ton, tun a French .m%-
diet.! Itenr•litrth f sill war no other atitstarhint;" then placing
this precious slip of hair on his upper lip, " Noir," said he "I am
sure at' ranquertag the Entioirs ty' Prow... awl I in to tt to Victory."
lie then withdrew.
On October ifs, 1704, during the exhumation in the church of St.
Denis. the workmen, under the order of the Commissioner from the
Convennon, opened at 3 o'clock on the afternoon the coffin of Louis
XV. It was found at the entrance of the vault belonging to the
Bourbon family, in a sort of niche, made in the thickness of the wall.
For the greater safety, it was opened at the edge of the grave dug for
the body in the burying ground ; the body, when taken out of the
leaden coffin, was found quite entire, fresh, and wellpreserved,wrapped
in its clothes and bandages : the skin was white, the nose of a violet
colour, and the thighs as red as those of a new born male infant, and
swimming in a endow liquid formed by the decomposition of the
marine salt with which it had been covered, not having been em-
balmed, as was the usual custom. The body was immediately cast
into a grave in which a bed of quick lime had been laid, another bed
of the asme substance was then thrown upon it, and the grave next
titled up with earth.
" In the same year at St. Marcel, the tomb of Pierre Lombard,
Bishop of Pais in the I.2th century. was broken open ; the body was
found clothed in the pontifical habits, and on the feet were embroi-
dered shoes with cork soles ; those curioas relicks were stolen."

[From the Leeds Intelligencer]
It will be recollected that about the end of July 100
British officers embarked on board the " Two Friends" to
join the Spanish Insurgents. Amongst these was a young
officer, the son of a respectable gentleman in Leeds. nom
his father we have received the following extract from his
first letter :

" Island of St. Thomas, Oct.:.

" Dear Father.—We arrived here on the 21st of Septafa-
ber, after a most unpleasant voyage ; but the most unplea-
sant part of the event is, that we have all completely been
imposed upon and taken in ; for you will scarce credit me
when I inform you, that instead of meeting an agent here to
pay us our dollars and give directions as to our removal to the
Spanish Main, and to trams:Kt the other necessary business of
the ship, as promised by that
selves most slannefully doped, and not a single soul to ad-
vance a farthing for the ship, neither by bills, or any other
plan; so the Captain has been under the necessity of selling
part of the ship's stores, ,sze. to pay the port charges, and we
to part with our clothes to get a meal, having left the ship,
and endeavouring to get a passage for our return to England,
the :Oldies of the independents being in such a wretched si-
tuation as to preclude the possibility of going on. Such un•
fatimate officers, Americans, French, Engli,b, Sm. as had
entered their service, have been returning by this island, in a
most wretched state, having been robbed of their cloth's and
effects.; and the descriptions they give are truly shocking,
being nothing but is set of banditti, living on raw meat like
cannibals, all quarrelling one with another, and instead of an
an army, there are two or three parties, jealous of each
other, and consequently injuring' the cause they *ish to serve.
On my first arrival here, when 1 femnd the situation of things,
determined to return, as did also a great number en the
most respectable characters, amongst *hum is Lieutenant
P—t of the mariues,who resides at Portsmouth, and who
will put this letter into the pest fur me.
" We are not the oily sitip that have been taken in : a
schooner with 30 or 40 °threes left England on the same

terms that we did, NI Eivt.4l here, and final themselves in a
similar situation with out selves ; after selling their erects to
pay their debts, tht y cot into debt again, and being unable
to pay, some were put into dungeons, others lied to the moun-
tains, were three of them died through want of food, and the
rest of them in the greatest distress, returned back to Eng-
land. There is no British Consul here, therefore no means

•
of getting mom y, even by hills. All the places on board the
two brigs that Are here direct for England, are taken lip by
the passengers, eowerpiently I tinned my attention towards
New York, thinking I could f asity get a passage from thence
to England, by introducing tnsself to Niessros.
hot how to aceomplidi this I was at a loss, being without
money, and the Captain having refused to take me On my
promise of paying him on toy artisal at New York ,
and it is more than probable I might have staid
to perish, 'had it not been for a nettle act of gene-
rosity I met with from a resident Frenchman, Monsieur
Smarm), a respeetable merchant, who most kindly offered
to pay env passage 1110IWy in the " Wil!'am and Mary," to
New Bedford, t about nixteen days' sail!, and from thence in
the stage to New York, in one day ; when I suffered lnm
an acknowledgment for the money, lie refused it, saying, he
knew I should pay hint when L was able, and %%hick 1 pro-
mised to do from New York.

It has been a common practice with the Officers of Pali e c
upon apprehending per-ors, wholly' the mimes with which
they are charged leave any ielarelite to the property they
may. carry about them or not, to take front them every thing
valuable that may be found in their pockets. Sheritl Aldee -
son WAS a short time ago furnished with a list of names of
Officers who are under this impioatiom One of them has
opposite to his name the sum of between aol. and 101. alledged
to leave been taken from a prisouer, now confinedrin Newgate,
attke time of his apprehension, and wholly miaccountial for.
Mr. Alderson having no !omelet to proceed mem but the as-
sertions of the several persons who eomplained of smearing
these robberies, lead not acted rytrospy envoy, hut finding
that abase was veryairactica tam he weep tett. at the suegestion
of Mr. Brae n, the Keeper of Ne wit ete, a plan by which these
will be an effectual cheek upon all (Ware attempts at spathe
titne in this way. In company with Nle. Blown he visited se-
veral poio•e offices, lull advised the. Magistrates to keep a
book, in which the property' of each prisoner should be en-
tered upon their centioittal to prism). The Magistrates ex-
pressed their readinesx to adept the suggestitemand observed,
Recent accounts from Malta state, that the Weymouth
that at the same tune that it would be some gnarl nail"' store-ship, Mr. Turner, had sailed from that inand tar Tri-
mly imposition, the obloquy louder whit; Police-officers la- poli, to receive on board the curiosities collected at Lebida
bowed mead subside, by thitsramiderina to the Politic an (the seit e of the ancient Carthage), and destined for the
impartial statement of the particular laictinislances of each Prince Regent by the Bey. They are represented as highly
prisoner it, relation to the officers. 'II r. Brown has ;dreamy saint hie and curious, consisting of massy columns of ?Gristly.
establishes a book at Newgate, as a counter-check, in which re, statuary, and other treatetents of enticed art. 'l leis col-
lie registers the property lot each prisoner. The consequeuces I,..ction has been made make the direction of Capt. Smith of
of tha wilt be, that the ',miserly lot amulet ed prisoae. a will at the Royal navy, who has been some time employed la Peer-
restared to item, and I tie property ~t those Yam are convey!. veying that part of the African coast, and is nequently with
.t,i will te, lute '.t., p.oper cleaned- the Ion& of Inc Sheriff, .. Hey, by whom le ; „
time ~ey, oy e% attoweil it guard ofJanissaries is his
Oats preamee has stalk:a, that al eitlVer tone: from him, lay several journies through the country. At one MM. audiences
virtue of his autleie ity to searat, hilis of exeloinge to the the Bev of Pezatei sin. present ; and he relnted to Captain
aamula of soul An I a memorandum to receive a dividru I of 'Smith, that about 17 years since, an Piegliehenan travelled
2,ey. laeethay with some plat. , Art, &e. tv:tla him to the smith ward of ',ream, and was taken ill tin tier
Flie. Kin Mer, la years of age, servant to Mr. Andrew 7, of Solis- road of a fever, whit le caused ins death, and he enemies der
bury, was on Friday charged by her neater with the fallowing O. s,,,er. I.leita.l..loaleniietl. 'l'Ms person, !here can he no doubt, was
fence :—R was stated, that tor four or tire nights Billowing Nll..and
i 4
.eneart. tile son tit a hernial' (*l'll:pilau, employed
Mrs. Andrews were greatly nlarnici by haul:an:l repraic i noise, ."' '.
for making thscoveries in the interior of
heard in and about the house and preiniaa, the cease of steel dal by .the Boesch for
.afreca. As in the mow of Park, sete intedi:ienee of this tra-
could not discover. The circumstance so 0110•11 alarmed Mrs. An-
drew: t who is near her canline ;tient) that she molt lodging in Salisbury yeller had been received Munoz the period before ineeitioned ;
Mr. Wiltshire, of and as he wasl..llo %in 111 leavebeenill OW direction slated by
on Taursdity week. Mr. A. pas tired af- itt,
Wilton, and five other ma, in watch with him during Thuralay the Bey of t'yeame, no doubt of his death exists, especially
night. The girl sat up with them in a large wainscotted parlonr as this oe e t,,,t1 Of hit disappearauce exactly corresponds with
and the man who had fallen asleep, were rou.ed by a violent noise tar alleged It ere of has decease.
occasioned by the tall ng of a tea-chest. The girl appeared to he ex • „,, .
..
medingly alarmed. After same time all the own went again to sleep, I ot,• Totilowin 7, appeared lot so evening paper, if the statement
excepting Mr. Wiltshire, who, having enm!sitspicion, feigned sleep; he con eel, we e know not which is most deserving of censure •;
and in a short tint' he p aeeival her going gently to the ota.v side of the preacher it ho outraged elle feelings of his coneregation,
the fount, where she trerk up a heavyeartiele of weed, concealed it or the congeal; aeon who quietly endured the insult : -
under her apron, returned to her scat, and then threw the article A! St. NFOT.L.-Welltleltilety, the 19th of November, being
against the wain ,cot at s remote part of the roam. Bann this Mr. till day appointed for the interment of the lamented Princess
Wileshire seated her, anti delivered :ter into the eietody of a eon- Charlotte, our shops here closed with it general cessation
stable. The girl aeon after enufettedl that site had made the reeks frotu busineas, pursuant 10 a resolution passed at a publie
night aft_r night. It ii supposed, that she was itetuated by Sterne ino- Veatry Meeting, held in the palish churl; of this place.
tire of revenge towards h a mistress. Iler mother, a widow.woman, .
Ilte
. iNew Baptist Aleeting-hanve was opened for public
with tic . oth^r ehiklren, was bonne' fur the girl's good behaviour, and .
worship n the timeline., at half past 10 o'clock, where the
she was da is •d from her servige. „ .
, ,a,nees,—.ln Saturday week, the eleven priamere congregation assembled in expectation of hearing a sermon
whilneli•;•as'ili‘fte(ni; has beer. commat ad to transportation. arrived at New- 111 lIIIISOU with those reflections their melaticholy feelings sug•
get'- et theta o'clock, having trieeelled all nignt. Mr. Brown ordacd Keeled, and their somber appearance warranted ; but were
the; to b • hedged in the transports'-mom on the north side of the disappointed by the pastor prefacing a discourse. from the
epeie in, were they were made very comfortable. They are all in mewl 4th verse if the eall chap. Of Deuteronomy, with the follow_
hada' all spirits, and segued very well satisfied at the chime, in ing observation: "there is no doidet but some pee sous pre-
their destiny. aloa. of than have families. 'Choy tleclared n 0•..- - '-ail•I
-- "-at have crane with the txpeelalloo of hearing a tuner it
all. that if thee were onee more entrusted with their own liberty, rectum, for ~.„
~
outte ;
if
so
they
wilt
altogether
they would use it with a discretion which shnidd keep them tint of ,be iii,,,,,poin"4‘
. she,mightt:1
lave
10,,,,,,,..1
saute
amtahic
his Majesty's pri ons. They were all sitting round tbe tire at this iina I.i!i.ea.lions,for aught (know,
. in a moral point of view ;
,net this i can assert, that all who ale not converted by the
visit, and were most thantatil for the efforts made to a13.0m.
mutate them. Now and then they speke of their wivoi and faini-
li-s with delft:don ; and when any allusion was made to their crime, glace of Otitl will go to hell. Ot the Princess Charlotte (know
C'iere seamed :memo. them an (unveils] feeling or regro..fliefollow- utheltiug, therefere I fall say nothing abort her ; and it' °thee
inn are te be transported fare it:, viz.--GemereWeiglitnete, Thomas people elioase to preach a (me rid smitten for a cat, that is no
nurn,,, Samuel Hunt,am:l)t Sake, alias Manchester Tanya., Ea .• . I„boil ~,,ii:. I should. •
It may be proper to misers e, that this
went Termer, Joan Onion ti cider. John Mae Ketswida .holm Bill, eiergym tee is a rit'll Iilit)0111 eleatamer. lie is supposed to
George Brassington. end lawman Buxton. The following. three have been ungugNi ill evitaill pellUiliCal works %Omit made
are transeorted Gtr at year t— Thomas Bytt.aaar :knish. !toen, some attacks upon ;tee preiwut Iti‘iiip .-f 11.1/iitlatr."
• Josiah Godlier. And the remaining six mulcts, vie.—Joan Moore,.. ._ .
Edward Moore. williabiWcithtman• Alexander. Johnson• William (the etantlay night the house of Mr. limo% butcher, of
Hardwick, and Chariot Swaim, remain in prisou, their final sult644 10.111(1111a1I-Illal k et, ens broken opt ii, and three a holy sleep,
DO being yet settled. It is probable that they Will be 0:m1m:tor for a large quantity of beef, mutton, and veal in joints, and sr-
barter tams. viral cleavers and butchers' knives acre stolen.
_AIL

•' The seenes I have witnesved Isere of our di,tress, I was
not prepared to expert: we have been obliged to s? 11 every
thing usetial, and even necessary ; if that - could take a
view of us, I think he wOutd repent."

OLD BAILEY.

DEC 8.

Wednesday. these Sessions commenced before the Judges llayk.y
and Greham. the Lord Mayor, &c.—There are near ,too prisner.. be.
trial. On this day, dire.: prisoners were capitaly convicted, but diem
of dices exhibited no peculiar feature of turpitude.
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Thursday two lair, each 17, were capitally conyictad of a burglary
in the dweliingbouse of George Phillips, of No. 7, Charlotte-street,
Bbonisbury, and stealing therein a sanely of articles of wearing ap-
parcl.—The Jury recommended them to merey.
M u anon.--Friday, Mary Cook was Milieux.' captally fur the wil-
ful mural( r of Thomas Cayes.
Joseph Downes W 33 a bricklayer, and knew Thomas ('ayes very
well. Ile lodged with hint at No. 4. Hooker-street Clerkenwell, and
the prisoner at the bar cohabited with the deceased in the same
house. On Sunday, Oct. 20, he heard a very disagreeable noise as
the room where they lodged, and a sort of scuffle. He went up to
the door and broke ;it open. It was at the time either locked, or
some one stood against it. When he gut into the wont he saw a
man leaning on the table, with his hand against his left side. The
prisoner had a chopper in her hand at the time. The decessedatp-
neared to be in a very bad condition at the time, and could hardly
fetch his breath. Ile said, "My wife has hit me with a hammer on
the head." She answered " You should have let me alone then."
The deceased added, 0 She has struck me on the left side with the
tongs." The prisoner replied " Serve you right, you should have
let use alone, then ;' adding, he has hit me on the left ann."
The deceased made no answer, although she said it sufficiently load
for him to hear. She gave this as a reason for having struck hint
with the tongs. Witness did not notice the prisoner's arm at the
rime, whether it had any bruises or not. He sent for a constable
and dressed upthe wounds of the deceased on the head. He believed
that both the prisoner and the deceased were in liquor. Ile never
looked at the prisoner's arms, as his whole attention was drawn to-
wards the deceased, who was in extreme agony. He did not go for
medical assistance, ashe did not then think the wounds were an dart-

geroes.
John Coneford stated, that he was constable of the parish of Clerk-
enwell, and remembered being called in on the Sunday when the de-
ceased received the blow, a little before one o'clock. He confirmed
the testimony of the preceding. witness.
Thomas Stretin, a silversmith, lived in Great Sutton-street, and
employed the deceased. Ile came on the Tuesday morning, and
from his altered appearance, witness was induced to ask what was
the matter. Ile held his hand to his left side, and had great diffi-
culty in standing or speaking. On the morning of the death of the
deceased, he saw a large berme on the prisoners arms; and she said
she had received it from the deceased, who had hit her with the bel-
lows. It was a violent bruise. The deceased, when he asked him
what had occurred, said, " My wife and I have been fighting in
the house ;my lanlady," he added, " was the eanse of it." Ile ap •
geared unwilling to enter into any details. On the Wednesday or
Thursday the deceased work 3 or 4 hours at a very laborious work,
and witness was much surprised to see it.
William Erasmus Hardy, clerk of the papers to Newgate prison,
renumbered the prisoner being brought in on the tali of November.
Ile observed her left arm to be black nearly frous the elbow to the
shoulder.

.......
Thomas Spencer, a surgeon, residing in Islington-mad, was tail-
ed on on the 4th of November to see the body of the deceased. Ile
saw the 7th and Bth ribs were broken ; the one was still united. the
other was quite separated. There was on that side of the body no
appearance of intents! inflammation, and no mortification had taken
hlace. That wound, he conceived, would not have been sufficient to
ave occasioned death. He examined the right side of the body
also, and found the left lobe of the lungs to have been in a state at
disease for above a month, and there appeared to be great inflamma-
tion, which might have bean-, noised by catching cold, or drinking,
or injury which he might indirectly have sust.dned. Ile thought cold
was the most likely cause of this immediate inflammation. lle had
considerable doubts a Maher the blows he had rece!ved, were the occa-
non or even acceleration of the inflammation which caused his death.
The disease in the lungs had continued from a long period, and from
cold or drinking, die inflammation might have ensued. Laborious
exercise would have increased the disposition to inflammation.
Mr. Stretton being again called, said, that after having worked-co
hard on the Wedntaty or Thur,day, he WAS in a violent perspiration.
Adout 6 or 8 months ago the deceased had had a serious fall down
some stairs. . . _

Mr. Justice Bayley, with Out calling upon the prisoner for her de.
feriae, gave his opinion to the jury, that the prisoner must be ac-
quitted; the surgoon had distinctly stated that he had considerable
doubts whether the blows which the deceased had received (teen-
;ion, or even accelerate h:s death.. The indamation, it *Hie:utak,
was not on the left side where the blow had been given, but on the
right side where the lungs had been injures' for a period ling previous
to the present transaction. Under these circumstances he conceited
that a verdict of acquittal ought to be given.
The Jury immesh:lt:fly returned a verdict—Not Guilty.
'file prisoner was nut old and apparently a feeble woman. She con-
ducted nee elf with firmness during her trial.
William Moore was indiised for having forcibly violated Ellza
Taylor.
This trial occupied a very considerable portion of the time of the
Pours. Th: prisoner is a soap-boiler, and the proveutrix was a ,;r1
living in his service. Si:: had. however, left his .erviee before the
present transaction, which took place on the sth of November last.
The examination of the Prosecutria lasted fur two tour !:cal a half ;
and although the facts of the rase were distinctly proved, yet upon
the cruse examination, the ease took a different turn. It rna pawed
that she on many occasions suffered most inidecent liberties to be
taken with her. While in the prisoner's service she had suffer:el het
ma-ter to take her upon his knees, and tokiss her. (In this aticount she
had been turned away by the prisoner's mother, who laid watched and
seen what hail passed. On another oia:asion she tuff:red him to act
still more indecently, hut still she withheld all information, and suf-
fered the prisoner tocontinue his caresses. Previous to the 4th of Nov.
she had seen the misoner in Goawelhstreet, and then an appointment
was made betwewn them to meet at a certain. spot at a certain hour
(10 minutea to seven in the evening.) The p: toner at the same rime
gave her a 3s. piece to buy her a pair of gloves. More than once, she
confessed, she had joked with a woman with whom she was acquaint.
ed of the name of Adams about her conduct with the prisoner. and
had several time called him by the familiar name of Billy Moore"
She admitted that 071 one occasion she had than surprised while in
the company of the prisoner by a rtnging at the bell, and that at the
desire of sir. Mome she just stepped into what was called the dog
hole, to get out of the way of the exciseman. She was now in years
of age ; bid been one year at service, during which time she might
have been ilistni,•ed from service sin ti times. ;she had lived ice
the service of a Captain Fuller six weeks, hut denied that she was
turned away because she and her master were too familiar. With the
prisoner she admitted, however, she Lad Er queasily been alone, that
he had taken liberties with her, and that she hail in answer to a ques.
tion from I s.: friend Mains, said, Yes, I think it would be a goad
thing if I could marry him." During tree cross-examination a great
deal more Mine out which it would be highly improper for us to de-
tail ; but it was most distinctly proved, that there was no foundation
for the charge of violence, and that it was not until a fortnight or
inure after the transaction that any information of the fact was given
before a Magistrate.
, The only other witness called by the keened Counsel for the pro.
secution, was a Mrs. Aldridge, with whom die prosecutor after
, her disnossal front the prisoner's service. She taatved her unstressed
situation on her return home on the 6th of November, Si.. her dada-
ration of the whole circumstance of the ease.
, Upon her eross,ixamination, however, it eame out, thrt instead of
ittl'onning a Magistrate, she went to the priconer, and endeavour( d
to compromise ts.e matter. She admitted that she lied asked him
whether he intended to marry the girl, but deuiod that sl.c o.kcd hum
thy any money.

DEC. S.

case here eloseti for the prosecution, and Mr. Barton Carrow
altiressed the jury. lie said, if their mitala were nut already made
up on the eilie, he was most ready to procezd with the trial; but he
really thought, alter what had b:eii brand, that there voithi be nu
pretence for sayin..; that the gentleman at the bar was guilty.
The jury immediately acquitted the prisoner.

CLERKEN WELL SESSIONS.

TV F.-+D tY, Dec. 2.

. -
FR syn.—Robert Cousins was put to Ilte bur under an in.
dictment charging hiw with unlawfully containing from John
Long a chick, value 501. with inteut to defraud the said John
Long of the said sum of money.
John Lung depose:1,111,11 he keeps an hotel in flood-street,
and that on the 1-.oth olJnite,lol6, the defendant cause to his
house aunts 5 or 0 o'clock in the alternoiiii, taming out ht•
Caine from Mr. Joseph Long, who was then cutt6u.•d in a
lock-isp,moase in Carey-street, and wa• aillisolized by Joseph
Long to .wk far 501. ot witness. The &ft.:Want added, "if
yell are dll/ie to let me pace that semi, l shall let ilia. out of
• to•morrow morning.' Upon this state meat, wit sires
was induced to give the deteitulain J cheek for 501. He should
nut have• given it, had the d.tenulant nut said, that lie calla.
from his nephew Joseph Lung, who bad authorized him, and
with that mini he could let I out of custody. The check
was given into the hands of the defendant, and with it lie
went away. Soon after, lioweve•r, he returned, and told wit-
ness that the 501. was lint enough to release I , and that lie
mast have 1001. Witness said that he was wiry, butt the
defendant persisted, and repeated that he must have the 1001.
addisig, that with it he could release Isis nephew, nt not with
a smaller sum. He asked the defendant what lie had dune
• the cheek for 501. and the latter replied, "0, 1 have torus
that sip." 'l. he defendant never gave sup the cheek for 501.
lie defendant called next day at the hotel and received
DWI. check, again repeating that he was authorized by Alt.
Joseph Long, and persisting that he had torn tip the cheek
for 501. In July, Ibl7, witness received his eilill:Vbed cheeks
from his banker's, and swung them n.is the cheek her 501.
which he had given the defendant, and which lie had been
told bail been destroyed.
truss-examined.—Witless never said to the defendant that
his nephew was too much in debt. Mr. Joseph Long paid
the debt for which he had been arrested out of his own pocket,
and wasuot liberated by the defendant's assistance. The de-
feinlaut was not arrested by him. The defendant had ap.
pearLd before the insolvent Debtors' Court, had been op.
posed by his creditors, but had notivitlistanding been dis-
charged. Witness was there himself in the character of a
witness for one of the creditors, being subpoena...a for that
purpose. Hu might have said to Mr. Sergeant Itanningtou
nn that occasion, that the defendant had rubbed hint of 50t.
He diet not appear iu the Court as a creditor for the pur-
pose of opposing the discharge °like detioidant. As soon as
be ascertained the fact that lie had beed defrauded of 501.
by the defendant, he applied to Bow_street for a wart:W.-
11e was a creditor under the commission of the defendant,
but received no dividend. M the time he gave the defen-
slant the check fur 501. he might be iodebteil to him to that
amount for goods liwilished to the hotel. He had no dealings
Asia' a Mr. Hudson, as connected with the defendant. He
never charged the defendant with this 501. as a civil dent but
always considered it as a criminal transaction. He w.!nt to
tha King's Bench prison, and there saw the defendant. He
asked him how he came to lob hint of 301. ? and the defendant
aeplied, " 1 ant sorry for it," ur words to that effect. In De-
cember, 1810, there was a final settlement of ger:011111S be•
twsen himself amid the defendant ; and on the 13th( of July,
)SIT, the check tor 501. he diseuveled lied been paid.
Mr. Joseph Lung stated, that in June, Nth, he was con-
fined in the luck•up•house ill Carey-41 Tel ; but that lie never
authorised the defendant to apply to his uncle for 501. or 1001.
or any sum of money whatever. The defendaut had never
accouuted fin the 501. he lied received. _ .

Cross-exainined.—He never de,ired the defendant to apply
to his uncle for any money ; awl nut a farthing was advanced
by the deleild4nt ti‘ards his Uischaige from custody ; he
never was ins(' uniental, either by iihmey ou credit, to his dis-
charge ; there was one bill at his discharge endorsed, but lie
did nut know whether it was or was nut endorsed by the de-
fendant. . . .

The banker's clerk proved that a check for 501. was paid
to the order of Mr. John Long, and delivered over as cancel-
led on 13th of July, 11517. Alr. John Lung had been accus-
tomed to keep cash at the kunst. for twelve years.
Mr..lllley, un the pail of the defendant entered into a long
defence. lie stated that the defendant had been a respecta-
ble tradesman, tesiding in the neighbourhood of Oxford-street
and had, unn: the present nufortunate transaction, constantly
supplied the hotel in flood-street, of which the pi useetitur was
the owner, with goods to a large amount. tie represented
in strong colon pi the 11'110'1 mate situation of the defendant,
who had already, previous tie his appearance in the Court,
passed through one ordeal ; he had hero In ought before the
Insolvent Debtoi's Court—hail gone through a long and.pain-
Int examination—had !Well honourably discharged—aud was
now again brought up ler aci 'initial charge uldefrauding
the pi osecittoi of the sum of 301. fie really believed that the
evidence given this day against the nutortiniate young man
Was false ill too malty ireqieel" ; and he bail nu difficulty iii
affii AAA i ig, that the defendant, When he asked ter the money,
had no citactiml intention of dehauding that Mau with whom
lie had di all in business fur so many years. He conscienti-
ously believed that, actuated by a beast of pity fur the un-
fortunate biltidtion of Mr. Joseph larg, with whom lie had
been ter many years acquainted, lie had cone to :he uncle,
had uesolichi, and hail been successful in oirtaining the 1001.
Which he had uncurled for his release. I et, notwithstanding
this noun. c Met on the part of the defendant, that young
man whom ice iiitended to have served had now most ungene-
rously appeared on this Ilia' as a Willie's against his ti tend
and hem/actor, tor the purpose of ilepming limi of his libel ty
and tat all that was dear to him in this idle. He concluded by
earnestly exhorting the gentlemen of the jury to weigh all the
facts of the ease tugethei , and above all things nut to be hasty
it) their decision.
l'sro wituesses were called, who gave the defendant a good
charamei.
The jury found the prisoner—(:nifty; and, accompanied
with a suitable Whiles.., parUeul.trly touching upon the atio-
city of the case, Mr. Watsou delivered the sentence of the
Court—iliat he ue transported for
.”:alll.

Ou SumLiy ev, Mug 140, auwr %Matto broke into the house
of Air. t.re.•u of King-mai ri, Borough, while the family
mere \►hru tr. lUtoiuid home he limit(' a
•keleton kr% in the 511(.1 t-dour, and mourd.atriy flare siren
jumped out of the our p.m of stair:, a .11Jobs, and ctaped.
Viii loos AI lives of hillell, AC. were packed up for removal ;
but the rally booty that they carried off Mar 51. iu COrper.

Tit

NAT/ONA

POLICE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A STRANGE CABE.-- Wednesday, the Lord Mayor was sor-
prind by a most ex tram dims' y application from a young
w;loo beued that *owe hattl.heatted fellows in the
Borough sliotiia be compelled to gise him up his mother's
head.,

The Lord Mayor.—" Your mother's head ! For the love of
God, is it separated from her body e
St4111:111.--" Vv., my Lord, they cut away the head, and
told me 1 alight have the body if pleased. Accordingly. I
took the body, but I can't think of leaving the head behind,
and 1 hope your Lord.hip will set it delivered to me."
Lord Nlavor.--" This is the most strange *tibia I ever
beard of. For God's sake, the man serious, in saying that
his mother has lost her held

Holder said, the charge was not without foundation.
The poor teilow had spoken to him at an early hour upon the
suotect, and seemed very touch agitated in desei thing his
mother's death which, however, took place some days be-
fore her decapitation, in St. Thomas's Hospital.
The Lind Mayor.—" Oh, then, it is of the surgeons of St.
Thomas's you complain i"
Sea•iian.—" Yes, my Lord, of the butchers there. They
are willing to let me do what I please with the body, butare
deter mined to keep the head for themselves as a curiosity, for
my poor mother died of a tooth•oclie."
The Loud Nlayor--" or a tooth-ache? This is still more
esti dui-dimity . I have certainly beard that the most diet.
Mal way of curing the tooth-ache is by cutting off the head;
but I never before beard that such a eomplaiut would cause
death."

Mr. Holder said, the seaman meant that his mistime died in
consequence of a bungling attempt to extract a tooth. The
of the deceased had been so lacerated by the opera.
tion that a gangrene look place, and death soon followed.
She ILA been taken to St. Thomas's Hospital, where the sur-
geons, probably finding that the ea•e presented great no.
velty, asked and obtained leave to examine the head.
The seaman said, the moment he was told it might be of
service to his tellow creatures, he allowed the surgeons to
dissect the head ; but at the saint time that lie allowed that,.
he never had ally notion of leaving any part of his another in
their hands, and lie thought their refusal to give up the head
was quite unnatural. He had had the body at home these
two day s, and there it should lie until he had the means of
making it complete by putting the bead in its proper place.
The Lord •Slits or.—" They certainly are not justified in
detaining the head, and should have restored it to you after
it had . •1 their professional purposes."
A gentleman in the medical line, observed to his Lordship,
that he apprehended the professional purposes of the sur-
aeons. would not be answered until the heath was in pickle.
The Lord Mayor —" This indeed is a very indefensible
practice; besides it will terrify the relatives of patients who
die in the hospital, by giving them reason to suppose that
when they are following the deceased to their graves, they
are following bodies without heads. or heads without bodies."
The medical man said, the interests of society were para-
mount; and for his part, WM was going of in a disorder little
known to practioners, lie would not care into how many
pieces he was cut for the benefit of society.
" And yet," (said the Lord Mayor,) although that is the com-
mon talk of physicians, I never knew one of the profession
who had any inclination to have hi. homes dangling in an ana-
tomy room, or his head in a bottle."
The physician observed, that there might be cases of' the
kind winch were concealed in consideration of the preju-
dices of the weaker sex.

The Lord Mayor.--" I don't know how we can prosecute
resurrection men for stealing dead bodies, ifsuch practices
are allowed. A thing of this kind .s more distressing to the
feelings than a church yard robbery ; for our habits are such
that we cannot endure the burial of a body peacemeal. Even
in a field of battle we should go about anti endeavour to
collect the mangled limbs of a friend, before we could think
of covering an atom ahem with earth. At home, then, where
the rightsof sepulture are attended to so scrupulously, it is
barbarous to mangle a body and torture the feelings of a son
by keeping the head of his mother for exhibition."
The seaman said he had often seen death in it' most fright-
fol shapes, and had given many of his companions graves in
distant parts of the world, where there was not
whether bodies were buried or not, and in fact where he was
indifferent whether in case of his own death he should un-
dergo that ceremony; but his mother was different, and he
should go to the hospital, and stay there until his demand
was agreed to, whatever reception he should meet with, even
if they were to take it into their heads to cut off his own.
The Lord Mayor said he felt convinced, that when the sur-
geons should considei the cruelty of persisting in the refusal,
there could no longer be any hesitation. His Lordship or-
dered Cartwright, the marshalman, to attend the seaman to
St. Thomas's, and inquire the cause oldie conduct complain.
ed of.

Upon his return, Cartwright astonished the whole office
by saying OW he heard at the hospital that the seaman's father
had sold the head fur a. pound to the surgeons. fie said, the
poor son acknowledged be had been present awli..n the bar-
gain was made, but that he abhorred the proposal of dispos-
ing of the head at any price.
In order to satisfy the Lord Mayor that a proper arrange.
ment had been made about the head, the principal surgeon
sent word that he would wait upon his Lordship.

An investigation has been for some time going on at the
Ilelire Offices into the conduct of several of the Officers, for
appropriating to their own Use property, which under the
**right of seal•';' they had taken from persons Chill vti
with crimes. blr sheriff Alderson lately wailed on th •
Lord Mayor, and slated that he had a serious charge to 1113kC
against one of the City Office's, lot ha Viii ap,.ropriated t
his oun use propel!) which he had taken Iron' a wretched
prostitute, who was convicted of a robbery, and way now
stiticting punishment (io• the offence. M ro ii tae keeper
of New gate, stated. that at the last Old Raney Session,.
woman named ,Nary Al Austin. was convicted of stealing
from a Serit ant of Artillery a considerable• sum or inoue).--
'the Officer alluded to by the Sheriff had lir r to custody.—
At the Mite of her apprehension she had val ions 'intr.( s ut
Wearilitt el, seven duplicates for p1,412eil proper!), and
45. nil. in money. the whole of this the Office•'• had seized.
and had rendered Ito account to the SiieriN. The Other i ad-
mitted the fact, and said, the man woo !Adis robbed was so
poor if,.. the esqlellSe prWeelltiOn had fallen upon lido
Oitic.•l). :u metes of whirl, he had the 410 p,”
rates on tat cotivie•t, Ile had fetleensed, but um hieing able t..
sell the •a, of had returned them to the l'awnar''ker, who had
given one guinea. lie also sand he had been ordered by the
late Lori/Mayor to retain Um articles in question, on her ex-

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. k• ti,r /cry probably the product of the
I.' , -mild not believe that alderman
10 .1... to have at alt netioned such a. proceediniz. He
wr old. itat.ever, din at Park on the atwjei t ; and
in the mean time hi: 'tied the Officer front all employ-
nsent in tht Police. ..r, ag it to lie iiis intention to lice all
his oxerttoos to atop . hugs to ilisgrretful to the Police
of the cir; .

' A LL.
IHtilltr.n AssAtr., . .'TEMPT TO STEAL DP:AU HONES.
—Slone , Mr. .• ...e vestry 'desk of Lambeth and
sev, a. slisgeo isl.....heera, attended before the Magistrate,
Mr.vtimiffiers, to prefer a charge against twoanen, named
Thomas Ditffin and John Marshall, under the following cir-
cumstances :—lt appeared that the burial ground of Lambeth
has for a considerable' time past to en the scene of trantaw-
lions of the most daring and horrid description. •flie depo-
sitories of the dead have been nightly invaded, and the feel-
ings of surviving relatives exceedingly harrowed, by the de-
predations upon their deceased friends of that callous gang of
wretches known by the name of Body Snatchers, a host in.
ilnstry in their disgusting trade has been particelarly
eked in the new burial ground a 4 Lanibetli. Tile Parish
officers have been frequently called upon by the iiilmbitants
to adopt some effectual arrangements for the diseinitinnanco
of those nefarious practice,. In compliance with the general
wish, they ordered ;Mr. John Seagar, the sexton, to procure
some persons to keep a nightly watch, he accordingly Inn d
two men for that purpose, and instructed than to be vigilatit
in their duty ; still the ground was robbed ; ecarcely a night
passed without a body being stolen, and yet the otiendera
were not discovered. Mr. Seagar at last determined to watch
in person attended by his son and a young man named John
Sharp. On Saturday night they coucealed themselves in a
convenient part of the Initial-ground, and about le o'clock
observed two men passing over the graves. They first pro-
ceeded to that part of the ground where there were two mats
traps set, which they let rid ; they then proceeded to the bone-
house, 'oroke it open and provided themselves with spades,
and immediately afterwards commenced their operations
upon a grave wherein a body bail been deposisted the pre.
ceiling day. Mr. Seeger continued to watch their proceed-
ings; they dug till the spades struck a coffin. Mr. Seaga,- then
cause from his concealment, and called to these tiler to desist
and surrender themselves; he then discovered to his great
astonishment, that they weie the identical persons whom he
had hired and paid to protect the ground. Marsh..ll sprung
from the grave, and with dreadful imprecations swore that
he would murder Mr. Seeger, and at the sante time made a
desperate blow at him with a spade and knocked him down ;
he was about repeating the blow, when Mr. Seagai 's soli flew
to the protection of his father, fired a pistol at Marshall, and
wounded him in distill arm ; he then thought proper to Sur'.
render. In the mean time, the primmer Malin attacked
John Sharp aWI a drawn sabre, and cut him dangerously
in the forehead Sharp had armed himself with a poker, with
which lie maintained a conflict of several minutes, and at
last brought his adversary to the ground. They conseyed
their prisoners to the watch-house, when they discovered
they were both very much wounded; a surgeon dressed their
wounds. They continued in the watchdionse all night, and
in the morning a ere condocted before the Magistrate.
The :Magistrate ordered the prisciiers to be brought up
for further examination on Monday next, when the solicitor
for the palish will attend to conduct the prosecution.
Tuesday Win. Stanley and Wm. Slade were ['meek up
, for re.examination upon a charge of sheep stealing. The
prisoners were kept apart by direction of the Magistrate,
and after their apprehension ou Saturday, the prisonee
Stanley stated, that he would make confessions of consider&
ble importance relative to the crimes in which he had been
concerned, it the Magistrate would ailinit him as evidence for
the Cross n. The Magistrate expressed his willingness to hear
the confessions of the prisoner, but could give no assurance
that he would be admitted as King's evidence. The pri-
soner made the following confession :—" The name of the
other prisoner is not Slade, but Chamber'. He and I stole
three lambs lin Friday night, about 12 o'clock, froth a field
in Kent, about 8 miles off. I can show the place. We took
the lambs out of one 6^ld into another, shoot 100 cards off,
to kill them ; we left the heads and skins in a ditch. About
a month ago we stole a sheep fronts field near the same place;
we killed it, took it into London to a lodging house for beg.
gars, kept by a woman named Horton, in White's-yard. Rose.
inary_lane ; we retailed it to the beggars at 4d. per pound,
and lei the landlady have some for aid. 'flie skin and head
we ler( under a hedge, where we killed the sheep. About a
fortnight ago, we stole a sheep out of a field near Camberwell,
and disposed of it at the seine house, and iu the same manner.
When I was hopping in Kent, with Chambers and another
tan. we ,101 e three sheep at different times and ate them.
About a month ago, Chambers and I stole a donkey from a
farm yard 011 the Maidstone road, and sold it for 10s."
In consegneuce of the informatior given by the prisoner
Stanley, the officers Nlay. Goff, and Hall proceeded to the
various places mentioned by him; they took the prisoner with
them, anti the discov,ries they made corroborated the cir.
elimatancei in his confession. In the places mentioned by
Stanley, they found skins, heads, and plucks of sheep, and
by means of the marks on the •kins they were ell:lined to
discover the ()woe's. It appeared that Mr. Joseph Carter,
of Mottingliant, Kent, was robbed of three lambs; 41111 John
Fort, his servant swore to the skiiis whit+ had been f. rind
by the officers, end which were pro_ diced ui Coin t Mr.
Richard St.lirlies, of FJOldin, in Kent, was lobbed ot'a sheep
on the 29th ot October ; Mr. Starnes ideutiti d OM. of the
skins found by the officers. to have belonged .0 lu. sheep.
The patties were hound over to proseeilie in the cases of
Mr. Carter and Mr. Starnes, and the prisoners are to
iie to ought up again on a future day, when many other
charg. s of a similar nature will be prefet red against them.

On Saturday se'sinizht, ti'. I. prig .nt rs, ha ot re confined
in a cell .$ll the around door of r Cu. tra..l, con-
trived to make an aperture through the ,Lou, %kirk they
got ACCC“ to the foontiotetm of the buil,h, ;, Is re n.u. ntti
part of the 'tone Nnrlt of %shit h. tan of thum gotA .e.ti off.
A %%as Ito 'he act of foth.oing, hut nas btopp7 mid se_
cured.

It will be recollected. that some time, since. a psoposal was Made
by the Court of Vi,ona, to supply this country witiisa large quan-
tity of midi, r from the tor•sts of trsana and Dalmatia for the use or
the navy ; and that the value of it was to be set se against part of
the dent due from Austria to England. remits were then or soon
afterwards, employed to esantine the timber, and decidc wiwther it
would be worth the exocnse of tranyurt. cia Austrian Govern-
ment did not propose to ear. yit either. A .outtact tas :dace been
wade with tit) unere.,ant:4 t.ir the c inveya.ax: or it to Eng-
land front Tneste and titc Dalmatian ports. Tlic contract is fox
Sts ),000 loads of timber, and one of the cootiyetoxs it dicadron hilt
way to fur...dun:addle periumfacc of it.