The Sun.
London, England, 1830-05-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We have received pqers and letters from Lisbon
te the 2d inst. Our private correspondence is very
eniaute and particular in its details of Don Miguel's
proceedings; but we are afraid that such details
would appear less interesting in London than
in Lisbon. Brutality without provocation—oppre,-
aion without resistance—the unobstructed gratifica-
tion of degrading sensuality and malignant passions,
offer very little to excite our curiosity, or to coin-
'nand our sympathy. One incident of vulgar horror,
or one instance of capricious vengeance, follows an-
other, without variety or novelty,—without pro,-
Feet of change, and therefore without interest.—
The only thing that bad in the least varied the
miserable dulness of such scenes during the week
previous to the sailing of the packet, was the arrival
of the news from Terceira of the establishment of
the Regency in the name of the young Queen.—
Copies of the decrees of Don Pedro, and the pro-
clamations of the Government erected in the name
of his daughter, were at first profusely distributed in
manuscript, and afterwards in print. The whole
of the Miguelite hierarchy, from the prime Mi-
nister down to the Court executioner, are said to
have been thrown into alarm by those documents, and
the intelligence with which they were accompanied.
They will soon, hoWever recover their equanimity,
if manifestoes and decrees be the only result of the
Terceira proceedings. The chief allies of the con-
stitutional party are the dissatisfaction of the troops
and the emptiness of the treasury. Of these our
correspondent gives instances and proofs which we
have not now space to detail—a circumstance which
we regret the less, as the details would be little else
than repetitions of the same statements which have
often appeared within the last two years. As the
crisis must, however, come sooner or later, it may
be mentioned as some ground of hope, that Don
Miguel cannot now get salt beef for his sailors, and
the streets of Lisbon were one night nearly in dark-
ness fur want of money to purchase the scanty por-
tion of oil with which they are lighted.—Times.

We are glad to observe that Sir George Murray
fully assents to the propriety of laying annually be-
fore Parliament an estimate of the colonial expendi-
ture. Without such a check, the confusion would
become inextricable, and the extravagance unlimited.
Parliament does not exercise that rigid and vigilant
control which it ought over the numerous items of
foreign and domestic expense; but if even one
Member of the House does his duty firmly, the
public receives benefit. While, however, there is no
estimate furnished, it is impossible to do more than
conjecture the extent of the evil. Let the accounts
appear, and the public will alone be to blame if they
do not condemn and resist the waste of their own
money.—Times.

We are sorry to perceive that Ministers mean to
persist in their proposed plan of altering the Welsh
judicature. Though every effort is making to en-
list every loser of a Welch law-suit under the pre-
sent system in favour of the new one, we are
assured that there is not a shadow of doubt that the
majority of the people, including the quiet good
Genie of the country (whin, on all occasions, is too
much overlooked), are decidedly hostile to the
change. But even if this were not so, and admit-
ting that the numerical majority of the public were
the other way, yet the very difference of 'opinion
which exists ought to be of itself reason enough for
pausing on the threshold of so doubtful an instance of
reform—we were going to say, of innovation. But,
besides this, the time seems to us to be the most
ill-chosen for the experiment that can well be ima-
gined. Hare Ministers not real grievances enough
to redress, and abuses to reform, but that they mast
thus, in the memorable words of Mr. Sheridan, as
once applied to their Whig associates, build up a
wall to run their own heads against? The Welsh
are, we repeat, the most quiet, orderly, and econo-
mical of his Majesty's subjects; they enjoy judicial
forms and institutions with which they are not
only contented, but to which they are warmly
attached ; and yet, because certain Commissioners
who, it is admitted, can personally know but little
of the natter, choose to try their hands upon this
healthy subject, Ministers consent that it shall be
teeated as one full of complicated diseases, totally
regardless of that stale, though salutary, maxim
which prescribes to them, and to every body, " to
let well alone." But we are not more dissatisfied
with the project itself than with the hollow, empty
boasts of self-denial and disinterestedness with
which it is introduced, and which forms the most
far-fetched and unnecessary adjunct to such an
affair that can well be imagined. We are told, for-
sooth, that it comes recommended by a great sacri-
flee of patronage on the part of Government—that
they will have three Judges to appoint instead
a eight or ten, and that those three will fall to the
Lord Chancellor, while the rest will be substracted
from the amount of Treasury and Parliamentary
influence. If this were true, it amounts to hut a
sorry species of boasting. If the boast were, that
the measure would render the future Judges in
Wales, as those of England, independent of the
Crown, we could understand them ; but as
a diminution of actual patronage it is neither
true, nor, if it were true, is it fit to boast
of. We remember when lotteries were in existence,
those who knew no better, used to recommend to
the contractors to increase the number of prizes in
their schemes, by making more moderate ones, and
fewer of larger amount. The lottery-office keepers
however, who knew the taste of their customers
better, adhered to the plan of baying few prizes, and
those large ones, declaring that one prize of 20,0001.
possessed more attraction than forty prizes of 1,0001.
each would do. On the same principle, we suspect,
that those Judgeships at 5,000/. a year each, will be
quite as valuable and attractive patronage as eight at
1,0001. or 1,2001. a year could be, laying out of the
question the simple fact, that, according to the ce-
lebrated Cocker, three times five is more than eight
times one. Thus, there is as little reason to recom-
mend the measure on the ground of the diminution
of the patronage of the Crown, as on the pretext of
its giving the Welsh people an increased confidence
in the administration of justice.---/Iforning Herald.
Is Mr. Bugler's satirical novel of" Paul Clifford,"
it is happily observed by one of the characters, that
" all *rime and all excellence depend upon a good
choice of words if you take money
from the public, and say you have robbed, you have
indubitably committed a great crime; but if you do
the same, and say you have been relieving the ne-
cessities of the poor, you have done an excellent
notion ; if, in afterwards dividing this money with
your companions, you say you have been sharing
booty, you have committed an offence against the
laws of your country ; but if you observe that you have
been sharing with your friends the gains of your in-
dustry, you have performed one of the noblest actions
of humanity lt is so self-evident
that it is the way all Governments are carried on. If
you want to rectify an abuse, those in power call you
ditaPeted. Oppression is order, extortion is
g religious establishment,' ind taxes are the
• blessed Constitution.' Wherefore, my good Paul,
we only do what all other Legislators do. We are
never rogues so long as we call ourselves honest
fellows, and we never commit a crime, so long as
we can term it a virtue." Last night the troth of
these observations received ample confirmation in
the House of Commons. Among other items voted
was 6,000/. for the building of Churches in the
West Indies, for the year 1830. " The Govern,.
ment (said Mr. Warburton) desired to have a large
Church Establishment and extensive patronage,
with Bishops and fine Churches, and in order to
have them it had been anxious to get rid of the Mo-
revisits, who were far better qualified to teach both
the negroes and the whites of the West Indies reli-
gion than the members of our Established Church.
The Moravian were humble men who lowered
themselves to the humble intellect of the people they
undertook to instruct. So long as they voted
!coney, so long would there be Bishops and Churches
and bowies to be paid for." Mr. Brougham said
‘‘ he would not vote even 61., much less 6,0001. for

establishments which, in his opinion, were not the
best calculated for the religious wants of the pet.ple
of the Colonies; but as the Poet sings,
" Churches (were) built to please the Priest."
If religious establishments are for the good of those
who name to them, and those who belong to them,
it is of little consequence what is good for the
people. The Moravians ought especially to be
discouraged, because the Government has no ad-
vantage from them in the way of patronage, and
they are of pestilent example to the laity; for, as a
Dr. James, a member of one of Queen Elizabeth's
Parliaments, observed, " Poverty is a thing both
dangerous and odious unto divinity. This must
needs enforce preachers to preach placentia, which
is a thing abhorred even of God himself." It is
proper that the good people of England should not
only have an ample dose of well-paid Bishops them-
selves, but that they should pay liberally for Bishops
to all parts of the globe. Dr. Magee would say what is
religion without a church, and of course there can be no
church without a Bishop, and Bishops must have pa-
laces. But a more pregnant illustration of the truth
of the observation occurred at a later hour. Sir James

Graham announced that he proposed to bring for-
ward this night, a motion with a view to reach the
salaries of the higher officers of Government, ob-
serving that he was not disposed to fly at ignoble
game, but at those birds of prey who were gloating
in the upper regions of the air. Bird of prey wa
not to be borne, and the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer took fire instantly. " Why was it that he
was to be subjected to such phrases in a society of
gentlemen ?" The poor who can ill bear reduction,
have been reduced, while the great Officers of
State remain with undiminished salaries. But why

in a company of gentlemen should this be found

fault with.?---Morning Chronicle.
In the observations which we offered some days
ago on the necessity of allowing appeals from the.

decisions of local courts, we admitted the force of
the observation of Mr. Peel, that " the sums trifling

to one man might be important to another, and he
who appealed for the recovery of his wages, the
amount of which might appear to some of little con-
cern, tight feel the loss of his few shillings more
severely than those who legislated might feel the
loss of 100/.;" but we thought with respect to
small sums, a Judge of the rank proposed by Mr.
Brougham could hardly be supposed to be under
any improper bias in his decision; and it was
" upon the whole, perhaps, as well that, under the
limits fixed by Mr. Brougham, the decision should
be final." The Examiner of Sunday last, in coin-

menting on this limitation, says—
" The magnitude of the sum in dispute must be sup-
posed to have no effect whatever on the procedure or the
decision ; and why, then, should it determine the fitness
of allowing or refusing the remedy for error? If the im-
portance of the demand to the parties be considered, the
class of suits for the smallest sums will generally be found
of greatest moment' to the litigants. If the probabilities
of careless judicature in the Court be considered, the
suits for the smallest sums are likely to be those most
negligently disposed of. The same false view of importance,
which disposes the legislator to refuse appeal to these suits,
makes the Judge least anxious in the treatment of them.
If appeals must be partial, prudence would rather give
them to the cases lowest in the scale—rather to those un-

der than to those above 101.—as the importance to the
poorer parties is greater, and also the chance of careless
adjudication.

" Appeals for sums above 101. are not granted from the
apprehension of improper bias only ; they act as a check on
carelessness, and to correct error, both of which are at
least as likely to have place in the consideration of petty
claims, as in suits of the more considerable class. When
it is contended that decisions should be final under certain

limits, it should he shown either that error, negligence.
and the other causes of injustice are less likely to have
operation tinder those limits, or that the awards are of so
much less importance to the parties, as to render the ad-
ministration of justice of comparatively indifferent concern.
But neither of these points can be made out ; and if the
power of appeal be necessary to the completeness of justice
in suits for sums above 101. the refusal of it to suits
below that amount is a denial of justice to the smaller
litigants.
" As fur the Chronicle's security against improper bias
in the rank of the Judges, we have to observe, that were
the question to be determined, as it is not, by the proba-
bility or improbability of improper bias, we should
hold the consideration either of much more or of
much less force than is represented. If the rank of
the Judges be a pledge for their impartiality in suits
under ten pounds, it might safely be permitted to
operate upwards from ten to a hundred, for we have
no apprehension that a man whose station would assure
his probity in a matter of nine pounds, would be a knave
in one for ninety-nine. Again, on the other hand, we
suspect that the person who would be a rogue in an affair of
a hundred pounds, would not be trustworthy in a matter of
five pounds. Before the Legislature, indeed, proceeds on
this principle of fixing a limit, within which lies infallibi-
lity and impeccability, it would do well to take measures
for forming a scale of morals, whence the point at which
' improper bias' commences may be distinctly marked.—
By comparisons between a pickpocket, a lawyer, and a
legislator, the moral barometer might be contrived with
some approach to accuracy. Mr. William Soaines's im-
proper bias begins to have force with a pocket-handker-
chief, and acts with great momentum on a watch or
pocket-book. Handkerchiefs, watches, and pocket-books,
do not move the lawyer, but fees and office wal determine
his bias in any direction. The Legislator again is not to
be acted upon by fees, but office and place are his impel-
ling forces. Thus according to the material, is the sensi-
bility to temptation. Virtue, like the atmosphere, atte-
nuates as it ascends. From the quill tooth-pick, which
does not move pick pockets, we may rise to the degrees
where the integrity of Lords waves to the offer of advan-
tage. 'Whenever this proposed scale is formed, we think
it will be found that the probity of Judges does not per-
ceptibly vary between the degrees of suits for one shilling
and these for one hundred pounds."
We have no wish to question the benefit of ap-
peal in all cases, if the only consideration were the
check against carelessness and corruption. But we
were speaking with refereeee to a particular plan,
allowing of a mode of appeal so expensive, as to be
beyond the means of poor suitors. The question is,
which of two evils, as we have but a choice of evils,
is likely to be most felt by the poor—careless de-
cision, or heavy expenca ? If a mode of appeal
were open to the poor, which, without any great
expence, would ensure him the hearing of a superior
tribunal, then we might say that such an appeal
would be productise of unmixed good ; but an ap-
peal from the local Judge to the Assizes would, we
fear, amount to a complete exclusion of the poor
from justice, and enable the man of substance to de-
prive hint of the benefit of the local Court. The
final trials in Scotland for the sums under St. 6s. Bd.
have generally been viewed as on the whole bene-
ficial to the poor, as the danger from corruption or
negligence in the Judge was less formidable than the
danger of oppression from an expensive appeal. In
this country, the notions with respect to appeal are
loose in the highest degree. We can conceive the pos-
sibility of rendering an appeal exceedingly simple,by
merely transmitting to a Court in London the re-
cord of the evidence in the Court below, in cases, for
instance, where the complaint is of rnisdecision,
but this is a very different sort of appeal from that
proposed by Mr. Brougham. • When we spoke of
the absence of improper bias in Judges of the rank
proposed by Mr. Brougham, we had particularly in
view the circumstance, that the great multitude of
cases for small sums are between poor men and
poor men,
=end that where the .Judges are of the
same rank of life, or little removed from it, as Com-
missioners of Courts of Requests, Magistrates of
petty places, &c., the decisions are often governed
by Partiality, faction, &c. A man of a certain rank
of life is elevates! l'eyond these partialities. This is
what we more particularly meant by improper bias.
A mall of the lower ranks of life would always be
tried by a geptleman in preference to his equal, on
the principle that lad the Italian towns to take their
Podesta from among strangers, When the exclu-
sive jurisdictions are opened to the County Magis-
tracy, the poor always bail the circumstance as a
great adwatitage. The Assistant Barrister in Ire-
land is preferred )_?y the peasan ytrto a Jury, not
merely on account of hie greater ability, but his
greater impartiality. ob-
serves, our contemporary
serves, that if " the rank of the Judges l'fe a
pledge for their impartiality in suits under ten
pounds, it might safely be permitted to operate

upwards, from ten to a hundred—for we have no ap- '
prehension that the man whose station would assure
his probity in a matter of nine pounds, would be
a knave in one for ninety-nine," he overlooks
the great distinction, that the Judge and the parties
in this last description of cases are more nearly on
a level, and that the sympathies and partialities
which are in operation, where the poor are judges
of the poor, might be expected to influence occa-
sionally his decisions were there no appeal for larger
sums. In local jurisdictions, the great evil to be
guarded against is local connections. In Bavaria
we have heard that, to guard against that evil, the
local Judges are not allowed to reside above a year
or two in one district. The Scotch say that, in so
narrow a country as Scotland, no tribunal in it
could be altogether free from local influence, and
that an appeal to some tribunal in England in the
last resort is indispensable. It was generally al-
lowed that the English Judges named by Cromwell
for Scotland were free from bias—a novelty in that
country, which the natives accounted for by their
being " a parcel, of clanless rascals." We repeat
we are quite aware of the benefit of appeal in all
cases, but till a mode of appeal accessible to the
poor is adopted, of the two evils final judgment for
small sums is, we think, preferable to appeal. We
should rejoice equally with our contemporary at
the adoption of an easy mode of appeal; but we see
little prospect of it at present.—Morn. Chronicle.

We really cannot help again observing that the
Bulletins which are issued respecting his Majesty's
health, continue to be most unsatisfactory. On the
7th (Friday last), we were informed, that the King
" had passed the'previous twenty-four hours under
a continued miti2.ation of his symptoms ;"—on the
Bth, that " the King had passed a comfortable night
with some hours of sleep, and that his Majesty's
symptoms continued the saute;"—on the 9th, that
" he had passed a tranquil night, and that his Ma-
jesty's symptoms were essentially the same ;" and
yesterday that " the King passed Sunday evening
and the night in composure, with some sleep, and
that his Majesty's symptoms renzeined the same."
Now, the question is, what is tneitnt by the word
same? The first Bulletin which we have quoted,
mentioned that the symptoms were mitigated ; and
every subsequent Bulletin, as will be seen from the
above, states that the symptoms continue " the
same;" but the meaning attached by the public to
the expression is, that his Majesty is "not better,"
and that the alarming symptoms continue to increase.
If this be the fact, the public has a right to be made
acquainted with it—and if it he not, it ought assur-
edly to be undeceived.—Morning Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday two examinations took place before
the LORD MAYOR, which exhibited proofs, in dif-
ferent ways, of the gin system.
Mary Palmer, a young woman of genteel ap-
pearance, and extremely well dressed, was charged
by an officer under the following circumstances:—
On Sunday morning the defendant and another
young woman, accompanied by two men, began to
sing a glee in Coleman-street, to the utmost extent
of their voices; and as the inhabitants had often ex-
pressed their aversion to such serenading as four
drunken people may be supposed capable of giving,
one of the officers went up to the " chanters," and
requested that they would not persevere in breaking
the rest of the neighbourhood. As soon as the glee
was finished, all departed except the defendant, who
thought herself bound to make amends for the ab-
sence of the other performers, and screamed as loud
as she could, so that several persons left their beds,
and threw up the windows to ascertain the cause of
such horrible noise. The officer's advice and threats
were equally ineffectual, and he was obliged to take
the girl into custody, and lodge her in the watch-
house. So far the matter was comic enough, but in
the strong-room of the watch-house the unfortunate
creature was- ♦ery near putting a tragic termination
to it and to herself. It was evident that she had
been drinking ardent spirits, and the moment
she was introduced to her prison she became ex-
ceedingly dejected, and looked broken-hearted. The
watch-house-keeper, soon after she was locked up,
heard an unusual noise issue from the room in which
she was confined, and on entering found that the
defendant had pulled her shawl tight round her neck,
was stretched on the ground, and had that sort of
rattling in the throat which, in cases of violence,
often immediately precedes death. A few moments
would have despatched her for ever, and it was with
some difficulty she was restored. Upon recovering,
she said she had drank so much gin, that she could
not resist the temptation to destroy herself, and that
if more ready means had presented themselves, she
would have preferred them.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether the defendant
was in any business 7—The officer believed she
lived by prostitution ; but although he frequently
saw her in the streets at night, she was upon all
former occasions very well behaved, and was evi-
dently superior to the general run of women of the
town.
It was stated, by an experienced person who at-
tended on other business, that since the gin had be-
come cheap, suicides had increased, and that several
parts of the town presented scenes strongly resem-
bling Hogarth's celebrated picture of " Gin-lane,"
which was by no means an exaggerated repre-

sentatton.
The defendant expressed sorrow for having made
the attempt upon her life, and said that the gin had
made her such a wretch that she knew not what
she did; she really believed that it was made cheap
to get rid of the poor.
The LORD MAYOR advised her to abstain from
such dreadful excesses, and having received a so-
lemn assurance to that effect dismissed her.
The defendant was said to have been once beau-
tiful, but girl had bloated her face, and made her
skin turgid, and a few months more of the use of
the beverage must (if reform be out of the question)
alter her appearance to that of a perfect fright.
The next case was that of Marl/ Mumford, a
woman who vends poultry about the streets. She
had gone into a public-house and drank a glass of
beer by way of a cooler. She then began to be
very kind to the landlady's son, and upon being de-
sired to walk out, she flung the beer glass at the
landlady, and determined, in fact, to drive out every
body and take possession of the premises herself, as
she had a fancy for a publie-house.—(A laugh.)—
The police, however, secured her, so that the house
has not yet changed proprietors. It was in vain to
expect that she would go on foot to the Comptes.
She swore she had been drinking gin, and would
do nothing of the kind, and the officer was obliged
to treat her to a coach, there being no cart to shoot
her into.
The LORD MAYOR thought that the defendant
was one his gin customers the moment be heard
that a coach was necessary for her.
' The defendant said she accidentally drank a little
too much gin, and she did not exactly know what
she did after she got her "whack" of that article.
She was willing to pay a shilling for the glass she
had broken, but she denied that she filing it at the
landlady, or intended to seize upon the house.
The LORD MAYOR said that the gin was various
' in its operations, and told the defendant that, as she
chose to break the glass, she must pay the full price
of it, and as she would not condescend to walk with
her gin aboard, she must pay for her coach.
Defendant—No ; pay nothing but a shilling,
or I shall have se money to go to market with.
The LORD MAYOR—Very well. We shall see
whether you like the cage.
At the name of this place of confinement the
woman's countenance fell. She thought (she said)
that the money could not be recovered except an
. action was brought against her.
The LORD MAYOR told her the action was brought
against her, and decided against her too ; upon
. which she burst into tears, but she paid the money.
GUILDHALL

Yesterday Mr. Tobias Burke, a traveller in the
employ of Messrs. Swain and Co., the distillers at

Holborn•bridge, was brought before Mr.' Alderman
GARRATT, on a warrant, charging him with neglect-
ing to maintain Mary his wife, he being able to do
so, either wholly or in part, whereby she became
chargeable to the parish of St. Sepulchre.
Mr. Harmer's clerk, for the defendant, observed
that Mrs. Burke had no cause for preferring this
complaint, as 7s. per week had been offered to her.
The Alderman thought 7s. per week was an
ample allowance, and that the case ought to end here.
Mr. Miller, however, was anxious tto go into a
good deal more at length, and, with the Alderman's
permission, put several questions to Mrs. Burke, the
substance of her replies to which was, that she was
married to the defendant 15 years ago, and had two
children. She received a fortune of 5001, and
tome years after their marriage they came to Lon-
don. Shortly after their arrival, Mr. Burke got
into a habit of stopping out, not only nights but
weeks, and in about six months he left her alto-
gether. He then married a lady at the west end of
the town, in possession of a fortune of 25,0001.,
and was subsequently tried at the Old Bailey for
bigamy, convicted, and sentenced to transportation.
A brother of the defendant, who swore on the trial
that he was not present at' the prisoner's marriage
with Mrs. Burke or any one else (although he was
the person who witnessed the marriage), was in-.
dicted for perjury, and transported also.
The Alderman was anxious to learn the exact
amount of the defendant's income, and questioned
the son of one of the defendant's employers on the

subject, but he was unable to state the amount.
Mr. Burke himself stated his salary was only 1001.
a year, with an allowance for a horse and gig.
The Alderman finally fixed the weekly allowance
at 75., and it was arranged that the money should
be paid at Mr. Harmer's office.
111 r. Burke then appealed to the Magistrate to
exert his authority or influence with the press to
prevent his character from being ruined.
Mr. Alderman GARRATT declined interfering. He
had never yet attempted to exercise any controul

over the press.
Mr. Burke then withdrew.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday a young man, named Benjamin Ben-
nett, was placed at the bar before Sir RICHARD
BIRNIE, charged with highway robbery :
The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and was
fully committed for trial.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Yesterday two youths, named Thomas and Charles
Garland, brothers, the former lately in the service,
as footboy, &c., of Madame Vestris, the actress,
were brought before Mr. ROE, the sitting Magistrate,
charged with having robbed that lady of property
to a considerable amount.
It appeared that about three weeks ago the pri-
soner Thomas Garland, who was permitted fre-
quently to receive his brother, the other prisoner, at
Madame Vestris'e house, ab-conded from his situa-
tion, and at the same time Madame Vestris missed
from her dressing-table her purse, containing three
notes for 101. each, of the Bank of England, and six
sovereigns, and there being little doubt that the pri-
soner bad committed the robbery, search was made
in all directions after him, but no account could be
had of either himself or his brother at any of their
places of resort. An advertisement, offering a re-
ward for the apprehension of the prisoners, and giv-
ing an accurate description of their persons, was at
last published in the newspapers, and a person who
had chanced to read this advertisement, happening

to see two youths answering to the description bar-
gaining at a booking-office in Fleet-street for their
conveyance to Frome, in Somersetshire, by a
waggon, he immediately suspected that they were
the persons sought after, and their evasive answers
on being questioned confirming his suspicions, he at
once had them taken into custody, when they admit-
ted the robbery, and told where they had changed
the notes, for the greater part of which they had
purchased clothes and other articles, and were then
about to take their departure for the country to avoid
apprehension here. They also told where they had
pledged a lace veil worth about 12 guineas, which
they had also stolen from Madame Vestris.
A police constable, who had charge of the pri-
soners, said, that on searching them he found on
them only about 51. in money, but in a leather trunk
they had with them he found the clothes, &c. they
had purchased, and a pair of loaded pistols, with
powder flask, &c. He had also ascertained, he said
that three 101. notes had already been paid into the
Bank of England, but as the clerk from the Bank
was not yesterday in attendance to produce them
for identification, the prisoners were remanded until
Thursday next, when the clerk will be directed
to attend.
Madame Vestris, accompanied by a Mr. Phillip-
son and some other person, was present during the
examination, and identified the veil produced as her
property, and one of the articles that had been stolen.
QUEEN-SQUARE.

Mr. Dunn, of Manchester-buildings, accompanied
by Madame Lanaud, the young female whom he
some time ago introduced to Mr. Marriott, labour-
ing under the greatest affliction, arising from misery
and want, entered the office, and addressing Mr.
GREGORIE slid, that he attended as the interpreter
of Madame Lanaud, to return her most sincere
acknowledgments to the Magistrates for the active
part they had taken in behalf of the sufferings of her-
self arid infant, and to express her most grateful
thanks to the public at large, and to the editors of
the public journals who had given publicity to her
case. The sum already received by her, and in-
trusted from time to time to his care, amounted to
58/. She was entirely destitute of friends, and he
d.d not know how to advise her to lay it out to the
best advantage. In bringing Madame Lanaud to
the office in the first instance, he was guided solely
by motives of humanity, and he felt that he had
only done a public duty in endeavouring to rescue a
foreigner in distress, and her helpless infant, from
warvation. fie now wished to deposit the money
he had received in the hands of the Magistrate, to be
applied to her use as might appear the most advisable.
Mr. GREGORIE said he thought the beat plan
would be to give Madame Lanaud the money at once.
Mr. Dunn reminded the Magistrate that Mr. Mar-
riott had said he could not compel the parish-officer
to afford her arid the child relief,she being a foreigner,
arid her child born in wedlock, without any place of
settlement.
Mr. GREGORIE was aware of that, but he be-
lieved Mr. Marriott had since had considerable doubts
on the point.
Mr. Dunn said, that a report had gone abroad
which he felt it his duty to mention, that Madame
Lanaud was not married to the person who professed
to be her husband.
Mr. GREGORIE inquired if he had heard any thing
of her history.
Mr. Dunn had not, nor did he know whether she
was married or riot. All he knew was, that in
October last Madame Lanaud and a young man came
to his door to offer some elegant glass baskets far
sale, and having a natural feeling of compassion for
foreigners in distress, lie recommended them both to
many of his friends, who lie believed afforded them
temporary relief. The young man, who is since
dead, told him that Madame Lanaud was his wife,
and he believed it; nor did he consider it his duty
to investigate the truth or falsehood of the state•
merit ; and it was at the particular request of the
husband that he attended the accouchement of his
wife last December, both of them being ignorant of
the English language.
After some further conversation, Mr. GREGORIE
consented to take charge of the money until Mr.
Marriott, who was absent from town, arrived,
which will not be for a fortnight.
Mr. Dunn then handed the money to the Magis-
trate, and left the office with M idaine Lanaud.
L A hiBETH-STREET.

A case yesterday came on for hearing before
Messrs. HARDWICK and WALKER, which will show
our readers the gross frauds to which parishes are
continually liable.
A respectable-looking woman, named Pearson,
was brought up by lienfree, the beadle of the ham,