The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-15 00:00:00

ASSAULT AT AN ACADEMY

Bow-STnEET.—On Tuesday last a respectahie-Inoking
foreigner, wearing the cross ,of St. Louis at his button, pre-
sented himself before Sir R. 13; axan and THOMAS,IfiALLS,
Esq., who were then on the beneb, and•said he had to complain
Of a violent outrage which had been committed upen bin) by two
young gentlemen of rank', the Hon. A. cistrz2n, sort: f Lard.
Teynhara, and Mr. Frederick Mansell, the .on of a wealthy
gentleman of that name, who were pupils to. Dr. Moseley, at his•
establishment at Little Ealing. Being desired to relate the cit-
cumstancas, the applicant stated -that he had been for some time.
French and German tutor at Dr. Moseley's academy, end the
two young gentlemen whom he had named had often borrowed
money of him ; and one day, when they wanted a supply, arid
he was not prepared to answer their demand for another loan,
they prevailed upon him to pawn hi 3 br00..1, and acearainodate
them with the produce of the pledging. Early in, the last week,
having repeatedly before asked them for the restitution of his
brooch, he became pressing upon the subject; upon which they
picked a quarrel with him, and Mr, Frederick Mansell stoic.
him violently over the head the handle of an iron shod
whip, and thoffon:AaCurzon afterwards took the
.whip from,
Mr. Mansell and. followed his example by striking complainant
repeatedly On the head: Dr. Moseley, hearingthefraeas, carne
to the room, and expressed himself very indignantly at the
outrage; but when the young gentlemen had retired, he said to
complainant, " This. is a bad piece of business ; they are sad
young men, and I have no doubt they have treated yon very
ill, but you must not take any further notice of it." Cona-'
piainant, however, said he had not been used to suffer
such treatment quietly—he had been insulted, and •he
should certainly seek redress by an appeal to the law.—
Dr. :Moseley said. he must not, do any such thing, for it would
be injurioas to his establishment, if such an affair went abroad,
and complainant must therefore take no further notice of it.
Complainant said, that let the consequences be what they might,
he would have redress ; upon which Dr. Moseley told ,him
that if he persisted in that determination, he should discharge,
him from the establishment. Complainant said,
.he did not
care, he should apply at Bow-street. " Then," said Dr.
Moseley, " if you do, I. will not only discharge you, but I
will write to Sir Richard Birnie, who is an intimate friend
of mine, and any proceeding that you contemplate there will
soon be stopped."
" Indeed !" said Sir It, Bataan, interrupting the.conoplain-
ant, " I can tell Dr. Moseley then that he is egregiously mis-
taken. ,I know no man when in the performance of my public
duty, and no one, I believe, can accuse me of having ever suf-
fered feelings of private friendship to have any influence on my
decisions awe public officer." •
Mr. HALLS asked the complainant why he did not apply
before, as -a week had elapsed since the assault was cam:
milted ?

The,complainant said, the doctor kept him some days in the
house, endeavouring to prevail upon him to let the matter drop,
but when he found him inflexible he discharged him. He then
applied immediately to Sir R. Birnie, who told him to come
again on that tiay (Tuesday.)
The complainant then handed in a paper containing the
names of the defendants, and his own, which appeared to be,
"L. G. W. K. C. Klatorski," together with Senors Del Riego
(nephew to the celebrated Spainsh General,) and D'Hurtado,
(son to the Colombian Ambassador) who, he said, were wit-
nesses to the outrage.
A. warrant was granted, and put into the hands of Nicholls;
the conductor of patrol, who went down to Little Ealing, but
did not take the young gentlemen into custody, but left it to
Dr. Moseley to choose his own time for producing them to
answer the charge. Late on Thursday evening the doctor at-
tended befur Sir R. Birnie with his two pupils, and brought
with him a solicitor. The two gentlemen named as witnesses
did not attend. •

The complainant being sworn, repeated his former state-
ments with eci additions. He stated that Dr. Moseley said—
" if yon go to Bow-street, it will cost you mon2y, and I will
outbuy you in justice. I will write to Sir Richd. Birnie," &c.
Sir R. BIIINIE—(to Dr. Moseley)—which, by the by, Sir,
you never did ; and which, if you had, would have been very
improper—nay, exceedingly impertinent. I will suffer no in-
tervention between me and common justice on the part of any
man, and you are much mistaken if you supposed I would
This man, as it at present appears, has been grossly assaulted,
and though he is a foreigner, and the -persons he complains of
are connected with wealth and nobility, he is equally entitled
to the protection of the law., and he shall have it if he de.
serves it. •

Dr. Moseley, evidently much abashed, offered no remark.
Sir R. BIRNIE asked the young Gentlemen, who seemed to
•thin'k very lightly indeed of the matter, what they had to say,
and one of them said that Dr. Moseley would state their de-
fenm for them. ,

Dr. Moseley stated that the fact was, the complainant com-
mitted the first assault. Some words had arisen between the
complainant and the young gentlemen, and the quarrel run-
ning very high, he (Dr. 41oseley) went up stairs to stop it,
and found the complainant standing between the two defend-
ants, and holding each by the hair of the head. This was the
first outrage, and to revenge it they afterwards fetched a whip,
which Mr. Mansell carried into the room behind his back, but
neither of them used it at all.

Sir R. ButNlE—How do you know that? You did not see
them.

Dr. Moseley—They told me so.
Sir R. BIRNIE—ToId you•so 1 Of course they, like every
other person accused of an offence, would make out the best
story they could.
Dr. Moseley said, he believedAhe complainant himself would
not deny having used a poker against these young gentlemen.
He bad, in fact, struck Mr. Mansell a very heavy blow with
that instrument.

The complainant said he did not commit the, first assault as
'had been stated, neither did he use the pOker. The cook had
kindly put 'a poker into his hand during the affray as a weapon
of defence, but he did not use it.
Sir R. Built lE asked Dr. Moseley if he had any thing ;more
to advance, and being answered in the negative, the worthy
Chief Magistrate said, that, as he had before observed, the
complainant, though a foreigner, had an equal claim with the
first nobleman in the'land to the fair protection of the law, and
he (Sir B. Birnie) was bound to, and would afford it him, and
he should order them, as he would any other persons, to find
bail to answer the charge at the Sgssions.
The young defendants were held to bail, Dr. Moseley and
his solicitor becoming their sureties.