The Sun.
London, England, 1837-09-08 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The .Minerva, of Montrose, off Cape Galt, by the Swift, ar-
rived at Milford ; Apollo, from Bremen to Baltimore, lat. 43.,
long. 52., by the Louisa ; Severe, from New York, 6th ult.,
hit. 46., long. 59., and Mary, Salcombe, to Quebec, 14th ult.,
let. 40., long. 40., by the Medusa, arrived off Beachy Head ;
Hutchinson, of Cork, 29th ult., lat. 50., long 19., by the
Maida, arrived in the Downs ; Orelia, from Newcastle to
Quebec, lat. 51., long. 25 , by the Lotus, arrived at Ply-
mouth ; Dorothea, from Liverpool to Calcutta, May 21, lat.
3., long. &3.. E; Nancy, of f.:uernsey, July 31, lat. 5. N.,
long. 23 , W. ; Boyne, 8:11 ult., by the Cestrian. arrived at
Liverpool ; Virginia, Smith, front Calcutta to Ow Mauritius,
April 27, lat. 7., long. 89. ; Idas, June 6, let. 34., long. 27.,
by the Java, arrived in the River from Ceylon, which vessel
encountered a severe hurricane on the Bth of May, and lost
quarter boat, &c.; Dorothea, Pairpoint, May 21, from Liver-
pool to Calcutta, lat. 3. 34. S., long. 83. 30 E.

The cholera, says the Gazette de Languedoc, has
appeared at Perpignan and:in the neighbourhood, several
Spanish families of distinction, ag well as many of the inha-
bitants, have left the town.

The deaths at Marseilles on the first amounted to
92, of which 66 were from cholera, including 46 in the
banlieu. Of the total number of deaths 20 were those of
children.

SIN A[.—Among all the stupendous works of na-
ture, not a place can be selected snore fitted for the exhibi-
tion of Almighty power. I have stood upon the summit of
the giant Etna, and looking over the clouds floating beneath
it, upon the bold scenery of Sicily, and the distant moun-
tains of Calabria ; upon the top of Vesuvius, and looked
down upon the waves of lava, and the ruined and half-re-
covered cities at its foot ; but they are nothing compared
with the terrific solitudes and bleak majesty of Sinai. An
observing traveller has well called it " a perfect sea of de-
solation." Not a true, or shrub, or blade of grass is to be
seen upon the bare and rugged sides of innumerable moun-
tains, heaving. their naked summits to the skies, while the
crumbling masses of granite all around, and the distant view
of the Syrian desert, with its boundless waste of sands,
form the wildest and most dreary, the most terrific and de-
solate picture that imagination can conceive. The level
surface of the very top, or pinnacle, is about sixty feet
square. At one end is a single rock about twenty feet
16;1s, on which, as said the monk, the Spirit of GOD des-
cended, while in the crevice beneath his favoured servant
received the tables of the law. . . The ruins of the
church and convent are still to be seen upon the mountain,
to which, before the convent below was built, monks and
hermits used to retire, and, secluded from the world, sing
the praises of God upon his chosen hill. Near this, also
in ruins, stands a Mohammedan mosque ; for on this sacred
spot the followers of Christ and Mohammed have united in
worshipping the true and living God. Under the chapel is
a hermit's cell, where, in the iron age of fanaticism, the an
laborite lingered out his days in fasting, meditation, and
proffer.—lnvicirpo of TiqFek, in Elyet,

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT, SErr._7.

The Learned Chief Commissioner presided today for the
disposal of motions.

IN THE MATTER OF LORD WM. PAGET.

Mr. Nichols applied, on the part of Lord W. Paget, for
the dismissal of his petition, and the removal of the other
documents relating to his insolvency, from off the files of the
Court, he having been discharged from custody without
the intervention of the Court. The application was founded
on an affidavit made by his Lordship at Brussels. He had
now no intention of seeking the relief afforded by the provi-
sions of the Act.
The Court granted a rule nisi.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

Yesterday William Friedlander was brought before Mr.
Alderman WINCUESTEIL for re-examination, charged with
obtaining a gold watch from Mr. Lawley, a clock•manufac-
turer in the Borough, by false pretences.
The prisoner, it will be remembered, had paid for the
watch with a bill purporting to be drawn by Ludwig M.
Gotz,lf Leipsic, and it was traced that the prisoner had
caused the plate to be engraved from which the bill had
been printed ; that a number of blank copies were in his
possession, and that the bill issued had been filled up by the
prirm r.

The prisoner failing to show any special reason for being
remanded, was, committed to Newgate for trial.
John Mowbray and Lipman Isaac Melhansen were
charged with uttering a forged check at Messrs. Praed's
banking-house, in Fleet-street,

Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER remanded the prisoner
sine die.

BOW-STREET.

CHARGE or FORGERY.—Yesterday a young man, of very
gentlemanly appearance, named William Edward Ease,
was charged before Mr. TWYFORD with forging and utter-
ing a cheek for 501., purporting to have been written by his
uncle, Captain Lloyd, formerly of the 10th Hussars, with
intent to defraud Messrs. Wright and Co., the bankers, of
Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
Mr. 13Iackmore, a solicitor, of St. Martin's-place, St.
Martin's-lane, appeared for the prosecution.
Frederick Moore, a clerk in the Worthing bank, de-
posed that, on Tuesday last, the prisoner drove up to the
bank and applied to witness for .501., for which he said he
had drawn a check upon Messrs. Wright and Co. 'Witness
told him that the order had been received, and asked
him if he was the Captain Lloyd named in the order.
The prisoner answered in the affirmative, and witness then
handed him the usual order to sign, which he did in the
name of Captain Lloyd. Witness then told him that
Messrs. Wright had written to say that the order was not
to be paid, upon which the prisoner appeared very much
surprised, and said, " Dear me, that is very odd, as I have
plenty of money at Messrs. Wright's bank." According
to previous arrangement, Goddard, the officer, then came
forward and took the prisoner into custody.
Henry Goddard, an officer of this establishment, deposed
that he was at Worthing en Tuesday last, and took the
prisoner into custody agreeably to the instructions he had
received. He asked him his name, and he replied, William
Edward Ease. Witness then proceeded to search him, and
found in his possession a 101. Bank of England note and
a fashionable gold watch, chain, &c_, and also a letter ad-
dressed to " Captain Lloyd, Sea House Hotel, Worthing."
Witness then asked him where he bought the watch ; and
he answered that his mother gave it to him a long time ago.
Witness then conveyed him in custody to the Town Hall
at Brighton, and the prisoner subsequently told him that
he wished him to stay with him for a short time, as he had
something to tell hire ; upon which witness told him to
be cautious, as what he said might be made evidence
against him. He replied that he did not mind that, for
he was very unhappy. He then said—" I told you a story
this morning ; the watch which you found upon me was not
given to me by my mother. I bought it at Williamhurst's,
in Brighton, for 251., with part of the money which I had
received from Messrs. Wright and Co." Witness subse-
quently searched the apartments he had occupied in the Sea
House Hotel, aid there found the Russia leather writing
case now produced, which contained seven Si. Bank of Eng-
land notes, and the eight letters now produced, addressed
to Captain Lloyd, by Messrs. Wright, acknowledging the
receipt of previous checks, and remitting the amount. On
the following day, the prisoner being confined in the Town
Hall, Brighton, sent a message to witness for some articles
of dress, and witness went to the prison, taking with hiin
the eleven letters now produced, addressed to Messrs.
Wright, in the name of Captain Lloyd, requiring remit-
tances to be forwarded to him at Brighton, Worthing,
Hastings, and other places. On reaching the prison wit-
ness again cautioned him not to say anything that might be
used against him, and then produced the eleven letters in
question ; he asked the prisoner if they were in his hand-
writing. He took the letters up one by one, and said—
" Yes, they were all written by me," adding that he could
not think how he came to write them, and that he intended
to go down to his uncle in Carnarvonshire, and having told
him what he had been guilty of, he would have thrown him-
self on his mercy, and subsequently said that when he
wrote the letters he was tipsy. Witness then conveyed
the prisoner to London.
Mr. Henry Robinson, a partner in the bank of Messrs.
Wright and Co., proved that Captain Lloyd, now present,
had banked at their house for many years. They had, within
the last month received and paid several checks in his name,
which it now appeared were written by the prisoner, whom
witness had never seen before.

Captain Lloyd, who appeared very much affected at the
situation of his unfortunate nephew, came forward with
evident reluctance, and having. been sworn, stated that the
check produced was not written by him, nor had he ever
authorised the prisoner to draw checks in his name. lle
wished it to be understood that the present prosecution was
not at his instigation, nor did he wish it at all ; but, hay-
ing received information that extensive forgeries had been
committed in his name, he came to town without knowing
who the guilty party was, and as the bankers had pro-
secuted, he was compelled, most unwillingly, to come
forward.

Mr. TWTFORD said be quite understood his feelings, And
regretted the necess:ty which compelled him to come for-
ward in behalf of public justice. Perhaps the solicitor for
the prosecution would explain how it was that so many
forged checks drawn by the prisoner were paid by M'ssrs.
Wright, and none •f them detected until the sue now in
question was forwarded from Worthing.

Mr. Blackmore said he could explain that circumstance.
Captain Lloyd bad for a long time banked at Messrs.
Wright's, and it so happtmed that no person in the bank
knew his hand-writing except Mr. Robinson, and he hap-
pened to be out of town when the previous checks were
seat ; and as Captain Lloyd was it gentleman of the highest
respectability, the orders for money supposed to have been
sent by him were never suspected, but at once honoured.
It so happened, however, that on the very day the letter
from Worthing arrived, requiring the 501. now in question,
Mr. Robinson returned to town, and being at the banking
house, the letter was shown to him, when he at once de-
clared that it was not in the hand-writing of Captain Lloyd,
and the previous checks being then produced, Mr. Robin-
son immediately pronounced them to be forgeries, and be
( Mr. Blackmore) being sent for, it was arranged that a
letter should be written to the prisoner at Worthing, in the
name of Captain Lloyd, telling him, that if he called at the
bank there, the sum he required should be paid to him.
Goddard, the officer, was then sent to Worthing, and took
the prisoner into custody, after he signed the order in the
name of his uncle, at the Worthing bank.
The prisoner, who is about 21 years of age, on being
asked if he had anything to say to the charge, replied
" Nothing," and he was then fully committed to Newgate
for trial. During the examination, he never once raised
his head, and appeared fully aware of the degrading situa-
tion in which he stood.

It appeared that he has been living in the most expen-
sive style for the last month, upon the produce of his for-
geries. At Brighton, he put up at the Old Ship Hotel,
in the name of Williams, where he lived with a lady, who
answered to that name, and passed as his wife. Goddard,
the officer, found her splendidly attired, stretched at full
length upon a sofa, and upon breaking the disagreeable tid-
ing to her, that Mr. -Williams was in custody for forgery,
she bounced about in a terrible rage, spoke of her great re-
spectability, and said she was a married lady with five chil-
dren, all of whom were at boarding schools, and that her
husband, from whom she bad been separated for three years,
allowed her 81. a month, and resided himself in London.
She soon became more tranquil, and stretching herself again
on the sofa, said, " Well, I suppose it's all up ; but, so help
me God, Williams told me he had more than he could
possibly spend. But there is no trusting young men, they
are all so very foolish." Goddard added that the lady re-
moved from the hotel to her own lodgings in Brighton, on
the same evening, and was greatly relieved when he informed
her that it was not his intention to take her in custody.
The deluded young man kept a splendid equipage at
Brighton, in which he drove about with two postilions ;
and haing considered a young man of immense wealth, his
society, as a matter of course, was courted by all the young
men of figure and distinction residing at that fashionable
place, whom he entertained at the Old Ship in the most
expensive style. A few evenings before the unfortunate
discovery, he dashed from the hotel in his coach and four
to the theatre, although the distance is only a few hun-
dred yards. His bill at the hotel averaged about 901.
week, and his clothes, &c., were of the first order and
most approved cut.
His uncle, who is a gentleman of large fortune, and a
magistrate of Cardiganshire, requested permission to see
ltisunfortunate nephew in a private room? after his cm-

mitmcnt. The request was immediately complied with,
and a second interview took place between them before
the prisoner was finally removed to Newgate.

HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Mar-garet Ilughcs, a young woman, was placed
at the bar, charged by Sarah Clarke, a decent-looking girl,
aged nineteen, residing in Crown-street, Soho, with a vio-
lent assault.

The officers identified the prisoner as a notorious cha-
racter, and she was fined 51., or two months' imprisonment
in the House of Correction.

A tall powerful-looking young man, respectably attired,
without hat or neckerchief, and his shirt collar covered
with blood, was charged by police-constable, No. 162, with
having been found wandering through the streets at two
o'clock yesterday morning, and refusing to give a satisfac-
toryaccount of himself. _ .

Mr. LAING asked him how he got his lip ing ? Prisoner
(dejectedly)—l am of no occupation.
Mr. LAING asked whether he refused to give any account
of himself?

He afterwards discharged the prisoner, who left the office
in a melancholy mood.
William and Mary Barton, man and wife, of 18, Drum-
mond-street, St. Pancras, was charged by Joseph Turner,
a tax-collector of St. Pancras, with an assault.

Several witnesses swore that the complainant struck the
woman with his staff.

Mrs. Barton now charged the collector with an assault,
and he was ordered to put in his own recognisance, whilst
Barton and his wife were ordered to find bail to answer the
charge at the sessions.
Monday last the overseer of Mitcham, Surrey, attended
at this office to apply for a summons against James Brad-
shaw, of Frances-street, St. Pancras. for allowing his father
to be chargeable to the parish of Mitcham, and to compel
him to support him.
The overseer stated that the son was in business as an
undertaker, in a respectable way, and the father was an in-
mate pauper in the workhouse.
It was stated that the son was high constable (we un-
derstood) of Finsbury.
Messrs. LAING and ROGERS immediately granted the
summons, and informed the overseer that it would be ne-
cessary to have the father present at the hearing of the case.
Yesterday having been appointed for the investigation,
the overseer attended with the old man, who was in the
workhouse dress, and Keys, the overseer of St. Pancras,
was present, but the son did not appear.
Keys said that he was deputed by Mr. Bradshaw to make
an arrangement, as he was ready to receive his father into
his house. He would have done it before, but circum-
stances prevented him.
The overseer of Mitcham said that was all the parish
required, and the old man was immediately received by
his son.

James Harris, a ruffianly-looking fellow, was brought
from the station-house, charged by Maria Bowles, of lligh-
gate, with a desperate assault.
The prisoner did not deny the assault, and he was con-
victed in the penalty of 51., or two months' imprisonment.
Numerous other charges arising out of the fair were
heard, until they became tedious and tiresome to the
magistrates.