The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-08 00:00:00

T Elbe, the Lucie, and the Pax, in the West India Docks.
A sesta. d Carl Emile Schmidt, ut the schooner
So' e6,1d.-n, was ineltub ci in the warrants, but he had
since left England for Denmark in his ship.
Mr. Pelham stated the case at great length, and said
it was highly desirable that both Danes and Germans
should be taught that they could not fight out their
quarrels in this country with impunity. The Schleswig-
Holstein men had not committed any acts of aggres-
sion, but the Danes had. There were now 300 or 400
sail of vessels in the docks from Denmark, Holstein,
Memel, and the Elbe, and it was necessary to preserve
the public peace, and prevent a, repetition of the gross
outrage committed by the Danes on Monday last, when
they proceeded from ship to ship, pulled down the
Schleswig-Holstein flags from three vessels, and as-
saulted Heinrich Jansen, of the Elbe, who was knocked
down and received a black eye in defending his flag. The
object of the prosecutors was not to call for a vindictive
punishment, but to make the Danes understand that they
were not to make war on the Schleswig-Holstein flag in
a neutral port.
Peter Bogsen, mate of the Lucia, then deposed that,
during the absence of his captain on Monday, a number
of Danish seamen, under the command of Captain Wu; ff,
came on board, and two of them, of whom Mortenstr
was one, hauled down the Schleswig-Holstein flag amidst
very great choering. He was ordered to strike his
colours, and on refusing to do so Mortenser hauled
down the flag. The .Danes were armed with handspikes
and other weapons, and overpowered witness and his
shipmates, who were only four in number. Captain
Wulff remained on the dock quay and shook his fist at
the ship and excited the men. The Danes said the flag
was a robber flag. He saw the colours hauled down
from the topmast of the Elbe, and the flag of the Pax
was served in the same way. The flag as hoisted on
board the Lucia for the purpose of measuremeut by the
Customs.
Mr. Gronsued denied that the flag was hoisted for
any such purpose; and said the fig was an illegal one.
The duchy of Schleswir4-holstein and the vessels from
that place had no right to hoist any other than the
Danish flag.
Mr. YARDLEY would decline going into the political
part of the question, and said if there was any attempt
to justify the act of the Danes, he should be inclined
to deal with the case very severely, and send the
defendants for trial for riotously assembling, and
for an assault. The Danes and Germans must
not bring their hostile feeling into this coun-
try. Whether the flag was illegal or not, the Danes
had no right to interfere with it. It it was a robber
flag or a pirate flag, the authorities here only would
have to interfere. He did not consider this case so
much in the light of a private 1. jury t,i individual, ; it
was a serious off nee against the laws of England, and
not ro be tolerated.
Mr. Bonsai said, that now the Danes lirr,vv they had
done wrong, they would not be likely to ofisnd again,
and there was no doubt the affair arose out of a burst
of national feeling. He explained that he only came to
that court in the capacity of an interpreter for the
Schleswig-Holstein men, and that the Danish Consul
sanctioned no other flag on the Holstein vessels but the
Danish one.
After some further discussion,
Mr. YARDLEY said this was not so much an outrage
against the Holstein ships as it was against the laws of
England, which must be vindicated. If such a proceed-
ing was ever adopted again in this port, either by Danes
or Germans, he would send all the offenders to prison
for trial ; and before he gave his decision in this case he
would consult the dock authorities, and adjourn it to
Tuesday next. He called upon each of the defendants
to put in bail, himself in 801., and one surety in 401., to
appear on Tuesday, and keep the peace in the meantime.
Mr. Gronsund was accepted as bail for Captain Wulff,
and Mr. Bonam became security tor the other Danes.
.HAMMERSiIIITH.
On Saturday the court was much crowded in antici-
pation that Thomas Chilcott, a sweep, who was on
Saturday week charged on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the late extensive robbery of Bank of England
notes, gold and silver coins, jewellery, &c., at Count
Carlo Pepoli's residence, No. 11, St. George's-terrace,
Gloucester-road, Kensington, on the evening of Christ-
mas-day last, would be again examined ; but it soon
became known that he was no longer in custody on the
charge.
It appears that subsequent to the remand of the ac-
cused f, a. a week the police, in the course of the in-
quiries they are instituting into this mysterious robbery,
finding that they were not likely at present to obtain any
further evidence tending to prove his eonnt,kieß with
the affair, early in the week made an intimation to Mr.
Beadon, the remanding magistrate, to that effect. Mr.
Beadon, immediately on being informed of that fact,
in accordance with his promise to the accused while
remanding him, issued an order for his immediate re-
lease from the House of Detention, to which re-
manded prisoners are taken, mad he was liberated on
Tuesday last. It is understood that the police, who are
still pursuing their inquiries with great perseverance,
will be able to bring them to a satisfactory conclusion
era long.
Mr. BEADON begs to acknowledge the receipt of a
10/. note from the Earl of C , and a 101. note
from the Countess of P-, for the purposes of the
poor-boxes of the Hammersmith and Wandsworth Po-
lice-courts.