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London, England, 1862-09-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEVIBEh 19, 1862.

to my eye or judgment only, though I have seen
enough to know something about it, but I heard a
general commanding a corps d'armee say he did not
know, and could not ascertain, the relative position
of other corps. Another general, a regular officer
of engineers, and famous for topographical clearness
and skill, said to me that one glance at the hillside
was enough to show that there was no general at
the head of the army encamped there.
" It was no better with the supplies of food. The
troops were half fed, or fed irregularly. Regimen-
tal waggons were unloaded, and ordered to Alex-

yielded, but I looked on the scene for the first time,
and I knew that it was sure to be the last for many

days—not again till another army emerges from the
capital and advances on the Richmond road,
" When the storm broke the troops were fully
exposed to its fury—some of them already on the
march, others still less comfortable, waiting in the
rain and mud and darkness for the welcome relief
even of a toilsome march. Returning to headquar-

:ers, the spot where they hart bees, we waited till

midnight, then mounted and set out for Fairfax.
The moment we struck into the road it was evident
that the whole movement was in confusion. Regi-

andria for food and forage. Then the order was

countermanded, and they were reloaded and ordered
to the rear. Brigades without supplies were sent

ments were separated from their brigades, divisions

lacking whole brigades, batteries straying from the
commands to which they were attached, cavalry cut-

out on the flanks and in front, and left there with-
out waggons to shift for themselves-1 suppose to
subsist on the country ; and from the country they
might have gathered scanty grass and, if in the
woods, leaves for their horses—for the men, nothing.
But if a general on the eve of a battle cannot sup-

ling columns in two and making no end of mischief
[n all directions. From Centreville to Fairfax is

seven miles. We accomplished it with difficulty in
four hours. No circumstances could have made such

a march—a retreat from a rebel army upon the capi-

ply his troops with powder, it is useless to expect
they shall be fed. I need not multiply instances.

;al—anything but gloomy. No circumstances could

have made it much more so. Sumner was in front,

There was mismanagement everywhere, because at
headquarters there was incompetence, confusion, no
settled plans, no head.
" The army was not so much disheartened as en-
raged—willing to fight, but not willing to be sacri-
ficed—denouncing, with a unanimity that had no
exception, the incapacity which had caused their

Sigel had the centre of the column, Porter the rear.

The three masses crowded and mingled together, the
long line filling the road from front to rear, the troops

marching heavily and wearily away from an
enemy whom they knew they ought to have beaten.
Many of them were already overmarched, and

worn out.

Arriving at Fairfax, the men

defeat. No one believed that the combined force
of the rebels was in front ; and as for the bat- I
tle of Saturday, the men, the officers, the gene-
rals who fought it, confess wii,h shame and anger
that they were beaten by half their number. The
army was not defeated, its commander was cut-
generaled. He neither knew where his enemy
was, nor would suffer himself to be informed. He
was warned that the enemy was massing on his
left—every soldier know it, but he disbelie-vad and
denied it—sent batteries and troops to the right, to
the centre, to the rear—everywhere but where they
were wanted—then, in a moment, found himself

dropped painfully out of ranks into wretched
camps, weary and tired. Only some of the
German regiments, which are wonderfully hardy,
and never wholly broken down, went by with elastic
step to the music of the same airs which on far
other ground, in night marches over the mountains,

I have heard again and again.
"Fairfax next morning was the scene of appa-
rently hopeless confusion. Positions were held on
every side of it, and brigades wero marching to all
points. Germantown was held by General liana's
brigade. Hartstuff's was also in the rear. Their
troops were complaining for want of food, the
only hard usage which no soldier bears without
grumbling. Hooker held his ground to the right
and in rear of the town. Porter, Sumner, and

aurrounded, enveloped, crushed, and defeated.
" M'Dowell was censured not less severely than
Pope. With the latter his advice was said to
have undue controlling influence. The only order
Pope gave was the order to retreat.' M'Dowell
fought the battle. Pope leaned only on his advice
—yielded him command throughout. It was a
blunder from the beginning. ' It is useless,' said
an officer, to fight under M'Dowell—l shall do
my duty as an officer, but we shall lose every battle
he commands.' I do not know whether I have
heard treachery or imbecility most frequently im-
puted to M'Dowell. Perhaps oftenest he is given

Sigel were sent out on the Vienna-road to Flint-
hill, and lay under arms in tho fields till the middle
of the afternoon. Here, if anywhere to-day, w✓as to

be the battle.

" No gun was fired till three o'clock. The rebels
then, observing trains moving out on the road from
Fairfax, which they knew must accompany columns
in that direction, opened rather suddenly with two
sections of artillery, Their shot flew wide and got
no reply. Before the cannonade began Porter was
well on his way through Vienna, and the columns of
Sigel were filing along the edge of the woods by
the road. Sumner marched last, and of his corps
General Sedgwick's division brought up the rear.

the benefit of the alternative. I did not hear one
suggestion in his favour—no excuse nor palliation.
" No order of battle was communicated to gene-
rals of any rank. Generals of corps were not told
who supported them, who was on their right or
left, what movements concerned their own com-
mands or position, or on what plan the battle was
fought. I asked a question about the plan. Sir,
there was no plan. We knew nothing but what
we discovered for ourselves. Ido not know to this
hour who was on my right.' I asked, 'ls it not
usual to inform generals of corps or divisions on such
points ?" Usual The general who negiects to
do it is an imbecile.'

" Sumner's excellent corps had already marched
72 miles since Friday, had been on the road four
nights in succession, and had earned the right to
be thoroughly tired. They moved none the less
with promptness and precision. General Sumner,

a veteran soldier, whom every one trusts, sat on
horseback with his Staff, on a hill.that commanded
the ground, watching the movement of his troops,
enjoying the spectacle of their regular and orderly
march as only a true soldier can. They moved in
three columns, all the waggons and artillery in the
road, with intervening infantry brigades, and in-
fantry marching also by brigades in column of
fours on either flank. Away towards Fairfax
a house was burning brilliantly; clouds of black
smoke and flame together. The rebels re-
opened with cannon as the brigades of Sedgwick's
division started, but still were out of range. A
road through the woods to the left, which offered
a chance to bring up guns to Flint-hill, where the
road and fields for some distance in front are com-
manded, was blocked up by felling trees across it,
and the division moved on. There was a single
regiment of cavalry on the rear, which came, no
doubt, with the best intentions, but wholly failed
to be of service.
"The enemy seized on the hill as soon as it was
abandoned, and, having put 10 guns in position,
began shelling the triple column which had ad-
vanaed, perhaps, half a mile on the road and through
the fields. The cavalry regiment—it was the 6th
New York—had contrived to get itself on the right,
where it could be of no possible use, instead of on
the left, towards the enemy, or in the rear, between
them and the rearguard of infantry. The blunder
was a fortunate one. At the first shot which came
screaming overhead—which must have struck a mile
beyond them—the cavalry regiment started and ran
away at speed nearly to the bead of the column.
The display of cowardice was more than usually
disgraceful. It is popularly believed in the army
that cavalry always runs, which is not quite true;
but here was a whole regiment which was ordered
to cover a retreat, which had in the first place put
the rest of the troops between itself and all danger
on the flank, and then fled precipitately from the
first cannon shot. It is quite time to tell the whole
truth about such troops.
" Colonel Sully, with the Ist Minnesota, was
ordered by General Sedgwick to hold the hill next
beyond the one from which the rebel shots were
coming, and to halt for a quarter of an hour. Gen.
Howard, was soon after ordered to take command
of four regiments, and cover the retreat. It was
handsomely done. With the 19th Massachusetts,
the Ist Minnesota, the 106th and 72d Pennsylvania,
and a section of Tompkins' battery, he halted at
every eminence commanding the road, and waited
the rebel attack till the rear of the column was
well on its way bey ond.
"The rebels pursued not more than a mile and
a half. About 150 cavalry showed themselves
near the battery just at dusk. They were instantly
dispersed by a volley from the Ist Minnesota and
a couple of shells from Captain Tompkins.
" While marching away from the cannonade the
troops moved briskly—once or twice rapidly, but
were kept in their ranks without difficulty. Gene-
ral Sumner and General Sedgwick kept in the rear
so long as the firing lasted, and the constant per-
sonal supervision of the latter kept his column in
the most admirable order. An alarm sprung up
suddenly about ten o'clock, beginning with the ac-
cidental discharge of a musket, which was hurriedly
thought to come from a rebel picket, and was
answered by a volley from the 15th Massachusetts.
Four men were killed and five wounded by the uis-
charge, which was at close quarters—all of the 19th
Massachusetts. The 15th, before their mistake was
discovered, came rapidly across the road, and swept
it clear in a moment. Firing so sudden and close
at hand produced a momentary panic in the column,
but it was checked by the officers before it had time
to spread. Assistant-Surgeon Hill, of the 19th
Massachusetts, was severely wounded in the leg,
which will have to be amputated. Captain Russell,
of the same regiment, had his horse shot under
him, and was slightly wounded in the forehead.
"The direction of the march was from Flint-hill
to Vienna, thence by the old Court-house to Per -
kins, and through Lewinsville to Langley, a mile
beyond which the three corps went into camp.
Chain-bridge crosses the Potomac a mile and a half
further on. Except what has been related, there
was no attack or disturbance, and the retreat was
in perfect order. A break in the road occasionally
halted the column,' but there was no confusion, no
intermingling of troops, and very little straggling
—some of Sigel's Germans, who acquired a nearly
inveterate habit under Blenker, being the excep-
tions. Here and there were parties in the woods
by the side of the road, who had, in the most com-
posed manner, lighted fires and cooked supper
while their regiments were miles away, and still
marching on. As fast as the rearguard came up
they were ordered forward.
"Leaving Flint-hill, between four and
the three corps arrived at this camp about 1 o'clock
in the morning. The brigades moved into posi-
tion as regularly as if and went to by daylight, five o'clock
sleep in the most compact order in fields on both
sides of the road. The camp was so near the river
that the retreat might be
i considered acccomplished,
though the troops may not remain. n their present
position. All the army has arrived under the forts.
The capital is surrounded and
.guarded by the de-
feated, retreating armies, whicti long since left it
confident of swift succeos-01.
possessing the rebel
capital as the surest defetece of their own.
"A. Baltimore paper of this mauling arrives

with news that General Pope has advanced two ;of the ladies to be taken, so as to commit him for
miles beyond Centreville, and is resuming the of- trial.
fensive. This information is telegraphic—that is, Miss Caroline Fawkes, in addition to her former
evidence, said that, in July last, she advertised in
furnished or authorised by the Government. The the Times for the situation of housekeeper to a
camp on the Potomac, which is occuried by the family, or elderly lady or gentleman. On the 14th
rearguard of the whole retreating army, is the best the prisoner called on her, in the Old Kent-road,
possible place to read that news. It may be expe- and said he kept an hotel at Wooton in the Isle of
dient to deprive the public of truthful intelligence; Wight, and she would just suithim as his confiden-
it cannot be necessary to the existence of the Go-
tial housekeeper, and a sum was agreed upon as
wages. A fortnight after that he called upon her
vernment with false. again, and told her that they made up eighty beds
" The movements and plans of the rebels are still in his hotel and kept ten servants, and he was sure
a secret. An attempt to cross into Maryland by she would suit him. He said ha dco
he me in a
hurry and forgotten his purse, and begged her to
the Leesburg fords is still considered possible. It
lend him a little cash, She let him have £1 16s. 6d.
is plain enough that their army passed away from
and as he was leaving, her watch (the glass of
our front while Pope lay at Centreville. It has which
was broken) was lying on the table. He took
not been heard from since." it up and said he would have it repaired for her.
He put it in his pocket and left the house, and she
never saw anything more of him until about a fort-
night ago. She put another advertisement in the
Times, and, curiously enough, it was answered by
" James Harding!' Suspecting it was " James
Carter," the man who carried away her watch and
between £4 and £5, she replied to him in a feigned
hand, making an appointment to meet him. She
also communicated her suspicions to the police, and
an officer attended; and, sure enough, it was the
prisoner, whom she gave into custody. She would
never have advanced him the money, or allowed
him to take away the watch, had she not believed
that he was an hotel-keeper, at Wooton, Isle of
Wight.
Robert Brickler, 167 L, said he took the prisoner
into custody, and on the way to the station-house
he said, if the lady would go with him, he would
get her her watch and money.
George Holmes, a detective officer, 252 M, said
that on Tuesday week he went to the prisoner's
lodgings, a miserable room, up a court in Drury-
lane, and saw a poor-looking woman, who said her
name was Clements, and she was his wife. She
handed him a bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates,
among which was the duplicate of Miss Fowkes's
watch.
The next lady who stepped forward was Mrs.
Ann Paget, a widow. She said that in October,
1861, she advertised in the Times for a house-
tuation. The prisoner came to her house
keeper's 5.2
helfterwards, and said he had just taken
a few days
a Isle of Wight, and had pur-
a new hotel in 14,_
ure, and he had no doubt she
chased all the furni!
ager. He called several
would suit him as ma:l
t occasion he asked
times afterwards, and on the, las
clear some wine at
her to lend him some money to
the docks to send to the hotel. She thought it
was all right, and lent nim £4, which he put in his
pocket, and she saw nothing more of him until in
custody in that court.
Miss Mary Harrison, of 8, Bute-street, Brampton,
said she advertised for a similar situation in Novem-
ber last, and received an answer signed James Ed-
ward Marshall, and an appointment to meet him in
the Palace-gardens. She saw the prisoner there,
and he said he was James Edward Marshall, and
he intended to engage tier as he had an hotel in the
Isle of Wight, and he wanted her to manage it. She
told him that she was acquainted with all the duties
required of her, when he said that if such was the
case he might be induced to marry her. They
chatted for a long time. At last he said that he had
some wine to clear in the docks, and asked her to
lend him a few pounds, as he had run short after
purchasing so many articles, and the wine must be
sent down immediately. Believing it was all right
she handed him £4, and he left her, promising to
send for her in a week, but she never set eyes on
him until a week ago, when, having seen the report
in the newspapers, she attended to identify him.
Several other ladies were anxious to come forward
to give their evidence against the prisoner, when
Mr. Burcham observed that it would be unneces-
sary to overburden the depositions with their testi-
mony. If they thought proper they could attend at
the Old Bailey next week, and indict him. His
worship then asked the prisoner whether he had
any answer to make to the charges.
He looked round the court hastily, and replied
that as his legal adviser was not present, he should
reserve his defence.
Mr. Burcham then told him he was committed to.
take his trial at the next Central Criminal Court
Sessions, which will be held on Monday next.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 18.

MANSION-HOUSE.--A NEW MODE or RAIS-
ING THE WIND.—A respectably-dressed young
man, who gave his name George Pearson, and de-
scribed himself as a clerk, residing at 6, Burnett's-
buildings, Crown-street, Soho, was brought before
Mr. Alderman Rose (who sat for the Lord Mayor)
in custody of detective officer Foulger, charged with
uttering at the London and County Bank two
forged £lO Bank of England notes, he well know-
ing them to have been forged.
Mr. Hall, clerk at the London and County Bank,
Lombard-street, said—On Tuesday last, between
two and three o'clock, the prisoner went to the
bank and produced two £lO Bank of England notes
in payment for an advice for the sum of £2O, to be
remitted to Windsor, to the credit of Mr. George
Robinson, as from Robert Williams, to be sent to
the branch establishment of the London and County
Bank, at Windsor. The prisoner filled up the credit
ticket which he gave him, and left the notes in pay-
ment of the advice. One of the clerks who took
the notes out of the box in which they were placed
discovered that the two in question were forgeries,
and they were immediately sent over to the Bank
of England, and were returned marked " Forged!'
He (witness) was then sent down to the bank at
Windsor, accompanied by detective officers Foulger
and Smith, to sae who applied for the money, and
on Wednesday morning, at about half-past 11, he
saw the prisoner go into the bank and ask for £2O
for George Pearson from Robert Williams. The
clerk to whom he applied gave him a form of appli-
cation to fill up, which he did, and he was told that
the money had not been advised. The prisoner
said it ought to have been, as it was paid before
three o'clock on the previous day. The prisoner
then left, and he followed him for about four
miles. The prisoner seemed very uneasy, and
kept turning round, as if to see who was behind,
and at last he turned round and went back, upon
which the officers who had also followed, stopped
him.
On being cross-examined by the prisoner, the
witness said he pinned the notes to the credit note,
and although there were other notes in the same
box they were kept separate.
Smith and Foulger, who took the prisoner into
custody, were examired, and corroborated the
latter part of the witness's statement, with ard
to the occurrence at Windsor. When he was taken
into custody he was asked if he was the party who
paid £2O into the London and County Bank on the
previous day. He said "Yes ;" and when asked
if the two notes which were produced were the
same notes he paid in, he looked at them and said
they were. He afterwards said he saw the wit-
ness Hall following him, and he knew him, and
knew that it was all up with him.

The prisoner was remanded.
Thomas Edward Pendry, a genteelly-dressed
man, was brought up on a charge of feloniously ut-
tering a forged bill of exchange for £34 35., pur-
porting to be accepted by Messrs. Owen and Mer-
ton, palm candle manufacturers, at Millwall, with
intent to defraud the Unity. Bank of London.
Evidence having been given, the prisoner, who
had nothing to say, was committed for trial.

CLERKENWELL.—THE LATE ATTEMPTED
MURDER OF A CONSTABLE: 401ln Henry Green,
alias Bell, who has been several times remanded on
charges of burglary and attempting to murder a
constable at Hornsey, and Esther Coleman, aged
14, residing at the Swan public-house, Keate-
street, Spitalfields, who was charged with having
in her possession an ivory ornament stolen from the
dwelling-house of Charles Newton, Esq., Harrin-
gay House, on the 3d of September, were again
placed at the bar before Mr. Barker for re-exami-
nation.
Mr. Beard, solicitor, attended for the female pri- !
soner.
The facts of the case having been fully reported,
inspector Bywater N division, said he had no
further evidence to offer against the female prisoner.
The man had been convicted of burglary at Alder-
shott, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment
with hard labour. The prisoner had belonged to
the sth Regiment of Lancers, and had borne a very
bad character.
Mr. Beard said his client, who was only 13 of
age, did not deny receiving the ornament from the
prisoner, and said she had no idea that it had been
stolen, but understood that he had purchased it at
the Exhibition.
Mr. Barker discharged the female prisoner, and
fully committed the man to the Central Criminal
Court on three charges, viz., two of burglary and
one of attempted murder.

THAMES.—INGENIOUS SMUGGLING. —John
Isaac Crisp, Steward Martin, Wilhelm Stolck, Wil-
liam Moy, Henry Giles, and Thomas Laslett, sea-
men belonging to the General Steam Navigation
Company's ship Leo, were brought before Mr. Selfe,
charged on a Custom-house information with smug-
gling 100 lb. of foreign manufactured tobacco.
Mr. R. Beverley, jun., from the Customs solici-
tor's office, prosecuted on behalf of the Crown.
Mr. T. W. Gardner, an examining officer of Cus-
toms, stated that on the arrival of the Leo from
Rotterdam at St. Katherine's Dock wharf, on Wed-
nesday evening, he rummaged the vessel, and found
' 1001 b,, or 971bs. net, of foreign manufactured to-
bacco between the outer and inner lining of the
ship in the forecastle. The tobacco was compressed
and in papers. It was behind two bed berths one
on the starboard and the other on the port side of
the forecastle. All the prisoners slept in the fore -
castle. He seized the tobacco, and put the men
under arrest.
In answer to questions put by Mr. Selfe, the wit-
ness said that the Leo was an iron vessel, and there
vas an inner casing of wood. The tobacco was in-
gen;ously stowed away. It took him an hour to
remove the tobacco from the hiding place,
Mr. Se lfe—How could the prisoners or any other
persons conceal the tobacco in the place where you
found it ?
Mr. Gardner'—Myopinion is that the inner
lining of the vessel had been removed, and then put
up again.
The prisoners, in defence, denied all knowledge
of the tobacco, and laid all the blame on two ship-
mates who had übsconded. The missing seamen
were the psrties who brought the tobacco on bond
and concealed it.
master of the Leo, was
Capt. Samuel Hart,
of opinion the tobacco coin
not have been secreted
prisoners, who always
without the knowledge of the
slept in the forecastle, and wee not absent from
their berths while the ship was caking in cargo at
Rotterdam. The prisoners would n.
It be employed
again by the General Steam Navigat:on Company
on any pretence whatever.
matter.
Mr. Selfe said he had no option in the
by t.he
He was bound to inflict the penalty sued for
Crown. If the prisoners could show they were I,n-
-nocent, they must memorialise the Comn3issiont. Ts
of Customs. He agreed with Captain Hart that st.'
much tobacco could not have been stowed away
in the forecastle without the prisoners being aware
of it. He then inflicted a fine of £lOO on each
prisoner, and in default six months' imprisonment.
CHARGE AGAINST AN AMERICAN CAPTAIN FOR
DETAINING PROPERTY.—Captain Andrew M4Cas-
lin, the master of the American ship Parliament,
lying in the Victoria Dock, appeared before Mr.
Selfe to answer a summons, taken out by William
Lee, which charged the defendant with unlawfully
detaining a chest and wearing apparel not exceed-
ing in value £l5.
The complainant said he joined the Parliament
in Boston, United States, as steward on a voyage
to London. The voyage from London was not de-
termined upon when he left Boston, but he did not
intend to leave the ship unless she went to India or
China. The voyage was made from Boston to Lon-
don in 25 days, but as he had received a month's
advance in Boston he determined to remain by the
ship a few days longer, until it was determined
what voyage she was to make. On Thursday last
a man applied to the captain for the steward's
situation, and obtained it, and he was ordered to
join the ship on Saturday. On Friday night he
left the ship, and on the following morning he
asked the defendant for a written pass to enable
him to remove hia chest and things out of the dock.
The defendant said, " I'll see you -- first ! You
played me a trick last night by going away." He
retorted by saying the defendant had acted badly
by shipping another steward over his head, and
giving him no warning. Some more words oc-
curred, and the defendant told him to go to ---,
or go to a much worse place, he did not care which.
The value of his clothes, cheat, and effects, was
111.00.
fen dant, in reply to the charge, said the
corn
piaint:nt shipped for twelve months, and had
no right to leave the ship. When he returned to
Boston he 611°112
d be asked to give an account of the
eoinplainant.
Mr. Selfe—Will yOll produce the ship's articles?
The defendant—l cELR't do that; they are with

LAMBETH.—ATTEMPTED SlllClDE.—Elizabeth
Wood, a respectably-attired, middle-aged female,
was placed in the dock, charged with having at-
tempted suicide.
It appeared from the evidence of a police-con-
stable, P 141, that he was on duty the preceding
afternoon in the vicinity of that portion of the Grand
Surrey Canal which runs threw Camberwell, when
two little boys gave him information that they had
just seen a female throw herself into the canal.
'rhe officer hastened to the spot, and saw the pri-
soner endeavouring to extricate herself, and with
difficulty he brought her on to the bank. She was
in a very exhausted state, but by the administra-
tion of brandy and other restoratives she was restored
to a state of consciousness, and on her threatening
to repeat the attempt, she was conveyed to the sta-
tion-house.
The husband of the accused, a man of decent ap-
pearance and demeanour, here presented himself in
the witness-box, and with much feeling undertook
to take charge of his wife, and have a care that she
would not be guilty of the repetition of such an act.
The prisoner, is reply to Mr. Elliott, said she was
extremely sorry for what had happened to her, and
declared emphatically that it should not occur again.
She denied that she had ever contemplated self-
destruction, and asseverated that she was getting
wild flowers and herbs on the banks of the canal,
when by accident she slipped into the water, and
becoming entang:ed in the her deep
regret and mud, she was
unable to extricate herself. She reiterated.
regret that she had been. found in such a situat
forithe
on,
and expressed her gratitude to the police
assistance and care which had been affordedto her.
Mr. Elliott, after reading a document which had
been handed up to him by the husband, cautioned
the prisoner as to her future conduct, and permitted
her to be taken away by her natural protector, who
evinced the liveliest affection for her.

SOUTHWARK.—VICTIMISING THE LADIES.—
EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF SWINDLING.—James Car-
ter, alias Harding, alias Marshall, alias Clements,
was brought before Mr. Burcham for final examina-
tion, charged with obtaining watches, jewellery,
and money from various ladies, under pretence of
engaging them as housekeepers at "his hotel, in the
Isle of Wight," ..c,zuch never having had any exist-
ence.
Mr. Burcham said that he had on the last occasion
prisoner trial for
made up his mind to comma.the
it was necessary,
his swindling transactions, buy
the prisoner
before he could do so, to prove tha!
had no hotel in the Isle of Wight. He had there-
fore requested the police to communicate jth that
.
place on that point. It was likewise necessary that
all the witnesses be in attendance, that their depo-
sitions might be talwa in the proper manner.
Holmes, the detective officer, informed his wor-
ship that there were at least twenty ladies in court
to prefer charges against the prisoner; and he had
in his hand a roll of letters which he had lately re-
ceived from others, exposing the villany of the pri-
soner. From some of them he had obtained sums of
money, varying from 4s. to ,E 4 or £5, besidesjewel-
lery, &c. He had in some instances, under the pre-
mise of mai riage, treated the females in a disgraceful
manner, so that they felt ashamed to come forward
and prosecute. A constable from the Isle of Wight
was in attendance to prove that the prisoner had
no hotel in that island.
Thomas Lawlor, an officer of the Hampshire con-
stabulary, said he was stationed at Carisbrook, but
did duty in all parts of the Isle of Wight. He
knew all the hotels and the keepers thereof, but he
knew nothing of the prisoner.
him if there was an hotel
Mr. Burcham asked
in the Isle of Wight kept by any person of the
name of Carter or Harding.
Witess replied the negative. There was no
in
but there was a small inn, which
hotel at Wooten, y b Mr. Vanner.
has been kept for
askemand h y imears whethy er he was sure that
The prisoner
hotel keepers had privately let their
none of the
hotels ossible for
Witness replied that it would be imp
•
him to tell that, but he had made inquiries, and he
believed that such was not the case.
Mr. Batch= then directed the evidence of three

the American Consul.
_ Mr. Selfe—The complainant says that you have

shipped another steward.
The Defendant—l have had a steward to work in
his place. I expect him to stay by my ship for 12
months.
Mr. Selfe inquired if the intended voyage from
London was known when the ship left Boston.
The Defendant—No ;it was not.
Mr. Selfe—According to English law the articles
of agreement would have been void for uncertainty
if it was an English ship.
Defendant—It is not so according to American

law.
Mr, Selfe was surprised to hear it. If the na-
ture of the voyage was not set forth in the agree-
ment, the captain could take the complainant to
the burning climate of Sierra Leone, the frozen
regions of the North, or an easy voyage up the
Alediterranean.
Smith, an officer of the court, 415 K, said he
lei t word with the mate of the Parliament the ship's
articles were to be produced.