The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-21 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

Yesterday, Frances Craven, an elderly woman, evidently
labouring under partial insanity, was brought before Mr.
CHAMBERS, charged with having been found at a late
hour sitting on the steps of the workhouse in Mount-street,
in the parish of St. Georo. Hanover-square.
A letter was found in the woman's possession which lea
to the discovery that she had been admitted into St.
George's Hospital, and ou being discharged convalescent
she had been sent to Mount-street Workhouse, in expec-
tation that she would be taken care of, her evident in-
sanity clearly showing the impropriety us well as inhuma-
nity of leaving her at large. The officers of the work•
house, acting, it was presumed, upon orders, refused to
receive the woman, and sent her hack to the ,hospital.
L MX. cIfAMBERS sent the woman with a policeman to the

workhouse in Mount-street, with a request that she might
Le admitted. The policeman returned, and said it was
not customary to receive persons without an order from a
Magistrate.

The policeman was immediately furnished with an order.

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday a Woman named Buller was charged with un-
lawfully disposing of several books and manuscripts, the
property of a literary gentleman named Chapman.
The complainant stated that be was the author of a work
on imprisonment for debt, the manuscript of which, together
with several books and documents of importance, he left in
a trunk in the care of the prisoner, at whose house he lodged.
Owing, however, to peeuniary embarrassments he was com-
pelled to leave his lodging in arrears of rent, not exceeding
lOs., and the trunk and its contents were deposited in the
prisoner'S care until the debt was paid. A few days ago
the money was tendered to the prisoner, upon which occa-
sion she said that she had sold the books and papers for a
few shillings, adding that she was so pressed for money that
she was compelled to do so. The complainant added that,
amongst the papers, there was a manuscript of a work
which he had written on " Imprisonment for Debt," and
upon which he had bestowed great pains in preparing it for
the press, and this was made away with as well as the rest
of the things.
Mr. TRAILS. asked the prisoner what she had done with
the manuscript and the books belonging to her lodger ?
Prisoner—l sold them to Mr. Bays, the cheesemonger, in
Vaekfriars-road, for waste paper, as Mr. Chapman did not
pay me the rent he owed me.
Mr. TB Amt.—What did you get for the books and
papers ? Prisoner—l only got half a crown for the lot.
The complainant, in reply to the Magistrate, said that he
had been offered 10/. for the copyright of his work on
" Imprisonment for Debt" by a publisher in Paternoster-
row ; that it contained upwards of 600 pages ; and that he
would have derived a further profit on the sale of every
thousand copies.
The prisoner said that bad she been aware that she had
such a valuable document in her possession she would not
have let it go at so low a price.
The complainant said that upon being apprised by the
accused that she had sold his books and manuscript at a
butter shop for waste paper he went to Mr. Bays, who de-
nied that she sold him any work of such a nature ; that the
butterman during the interview described that he was
curious in old books -and manuscripts, and that if such a
work as that of " Imprisonment fur Debt" had been sold
to him he should not have used it for waste paper, but have
endeavoured to find the author, to give .him back the result
of his labours.

The magistrate decided the ease by inflicting a fine of 20g.
on the defendant for unlawfully di:po3ing of the manuscript
and books, and a further sum of 403. as compensation to the
cninplainant 'Or his loss.
In default of payment she was committed for six weeks
to gaol.