The Sun.
London, England, 1831-08-02 00:00:00

JUSTIFICATION OF BAIL

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place, by order of the Courts of King's Bench
and Common Pleas, relative to the justification
of bail and other matters connected with arrests
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sons offered as hail, and living by that sort of
traflic. The public are not aware of the iniquity
practised in the Bail Courts during the Team:,
nor of the conspiracies concocted to procure the
liberty of swindlers. At the last Old Bailey
Sessions three buffers' bail were convicted of
fiaTing attempted to obtain the discharge of a
prisoner confined in the Fleet prison, and
sentenced each of them to imprisonment for
twelve months in the House of Correction ; and
a J:ew Sessions ago a fellow was transported for
fourteen years for perjury, in giving bail for a
defendant. It is understood that the .Tudges
will order that the name, residence, and occupa-
tion of every person becoming bail be published
on a list, and placed in the several Courts of
Justice during the Terms, so that attorneys and
clients may refer to it. This will, no doubt, to
a certain degree, have the effect of interfering
with the schemes of the buffers.

During the last term, one fellow, who had
been an inmate of a prison nearly twelve months,
obtained his release by tiring out his creditors,
and not by " whitewashing ;" for he knew that
the Insolvent Act would spoil his trade of bait
buffing, and a fortnight afterwards justified bail
in an action for 1401., although he had been a
few days before asking charity. In another
case, the name of a buffer was given in as bail in
an action for 1601., and he described himself as
a jeweller. The attorney for the plaintiff, upon
inquiry, ascertained that the bail had been lately
released from prison by means of the Insolvent
Act, that he had been imprisoned under the de-
scription of a scale-maker, and while in prison
obtained a scanty living from a menial office
which he held amongst his brother prisoners.
This buffer was afterwards proved to be always
in readiness to swear to any matter, either as a
creditor, under a fraudulent commission of bank-
ruptcy, or bills of exchange, to sway the choice
of assignees, to an alibi, recognizance, or cha-
racter at the Sessions, or to make affidavit of
debt to any amount to arrest a party for the pur-
pose of keeping him out of the way, if he hap-
pened to be a witness against a gaining-house or
.
brothel-keeper, and thereby stop the course of
justice.

It is much regretted by the respectable attor-
neys, that professional men can easily be found,
who most readily bind themselves to transactions
of so scandalous a nature, and proceed with as
much alacrity against men, upon whom their
clients have not the most remote claim, as against
those who have contracted bona, fide debts.

The Law Commissioners have, it is said, a
measure in contemplation, which will relieve the
Courts of Law, the Judges' Chambers, the
Commissions of Bankrupts, and the profession
at large, from conspiracies of the sort we have
described.

The fellow who is represented as having stated
himself to be a jeweller, but who also appeared
on the part of a scale-maker, is now standing
and named as bail in an action. Some suspi-
cion having been excited as to the accuracy of
his description of himself, the Judge ordered
that the case should stand over until the officer
of the prison in which he was confined be exa-
mined upon the point of his identity.
Some days ago a man made affidavit that he
saw a sum of money for which an action was
brought, paid. The attorney for the opposite
party knew well that he had a buffer to deal with,
and at once threatened to indict him for perjury.
In apprehension of the consequences, the buffer
acknowledged that he had been paid the sum of
is. 6d. for the bit of perjury, but he really
thought there was no harm in it, as the man
who paid him wanted the money very much, and
he whom it was intended to defraud was very
well ab'e to afford the expellee.

The case of a person who is a witness against
a notorious ga►ning-house, and who was arrested
a short time ago for no less a sum than 700/., by
a party whom he had never seen, and with whom
he never had any dealing, in order that he might
be prevented from giving evidence, is now under
investigation, and will shortly appear before the
public.

FEMALE WARRIOR.—An eye-witness gives
the following sketch of the detached Lithuanian corps com-
manded by Countess PLATER. She is about twenty years
old, with pale and beautiful features indicative of romantic
melancholy. ller duenna (lady's maid) supplies the place
of aide-de-camp, and is younger than her mistress. The
former is the chief of the staff, and at the same time in-
tendant-general of the corps. Both ladies are dres'ed as
men, and mix constantly among the troops. The Countess
has assumed the name of M. CONSTANTINE, and from hire
the soldiers receive orders, provisions, and ammunition.
MONTESQUIEU'S DEFINITION OF A
FRENCH Loan.—" A great Lord," says MowrEsQtEu,
" is a man who sees the KING, and speaks to the Minis-
ters, who has ancestors, debts, and pensions. If, with
that, he is able to conceal his indolence and imbecility by
an air of ignorance and importance, or a feigned attach-
ment to pleasure, he believes himself the happiest of men."
Lettres Persane', lettre lxxxviii. This is a French Lord :
the character will apply to an English, if for eagerness wo
read indifference or nonchalanc., that being the distinction
between the respective characters.—Dr. Lardner's Cabi-
net Library, Vol. VII.

THE NEW RUSSIAN COMMANDER-IN-
CHIEF.—The family of the Russian Field-Marshal, Count
PASKEWITSCII EKIVANSKI, was originally from Siberia,
where it bore the name of PASSE. His grandfather emi-
grated to Russia, where he assumed the name of PASKE-
WITSCII. His grandson entered the army, and on distin-
guishing himself in the battles fought by the Russian
army in conjunction with the Austrians and Prussians
against the French, he advanced rapidly to higher ranks.
In the year 1812 he was Major-General, and com-
manded a division under General BAGItATIAN, with
which he fought bravely at Smolensk and Moscow, and
followed the French on their retreat. At the battle
of Leipsic he performed an active part ; he after-
wards made the campaign of 1811, and was present
with the Russian army of occupation in France in
1815. In 1826 he was sent as General against the Per-
sians. On the 27th of September lie defeated Prince
ABBAS MIKZA, near Elizabethpol. In 1827 lie obtained
the government of Georgia, and became Commander.in-
Chief against the Persians. jie took Erivan by storm,
defeated ABBAS Mutta a second time, and forced the
Persians to sue for peace. Upon this the Emperor
in-
vested him with the order of St. Andrew, and promoted
him to the dignity of Count. In 1828, during the
Turkish war, he marched with his army into Asia Minor,
took six fortresses, and occupied three Pachalicks. pie
year after he advanced lir() the more important Paehaliek
of Erzerourn, entered its chief town, and was on the point
of capturing Trebisond, when peace put an end to Ina
victorious career. Upon being created Field Marshal, he
remained governor of the conquered Pe.r,at, pro% im..es,
from whence
Poles.cehe was called to the command of the army
against