The Sun.
London, England, 1825-12-12 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE OF POLYGAXI.Y.—On Satur-
day John Jacobs alias the Hon. Captain Hamilton, was brought
before L. B. ALLEN, Esq., under the authority of A • habeas
corpus writ, he,being a prisoner-Within the walls of the King's
Bench, obtained at the instance of Mrs. Frances Vitellis Ras-,
paid°, to whom -he ,was married last May in Paris, at his'
Britannic Majesty' house, and by whom he was now charged
with
,having contracted marriage with her, having-at the same
time a lawful wife living. The examination was citified on in
the ',private room, in consequence of the Office being 'filled
with parties engaged in other cases, and much interest was ex-
cited on account of the high respectability of the parties engaged
in -the proceedings. Several witnesses having been examined
to prove both marriages, and others continuing to arrive, the
case was ordered to stand over. Mr. Butler was understood to
say that he should at once prefer an indictment, the Assiies
being now at hand. After a short discussion the prisoner was
taken back to the King's Bench, with the understanding that_
he would he prosecuted without delay. A
HIGHWAY ROBRERY.--Jsbn May was brought up, charged
with being one of the two men who robbed Mr. Luck, upon
Newington Causeway, of upwards of sixty pounds. Mr. Luck
identified the prisoner as the man who tore open his coat, and
forced the money out of his-packet while pinioned by his asso-
ciate. Upon getting the money, the prisoner held up his hand
with it, and said, " I,,have got it." Mr. Luck then received
from the man-behind him a tremendous blow under the right
ear, which made. him kiss the dust.
The landlord of the 'Windsor Castle public-house, in Suffolk-
street, positively swore that the prisoner wa&one of the two men
that came.....i,,m0 hiS house with the prosecutor on tl e. night of the
robbery; r.• .
The prisoner, a
,gobbing hackney coachman, denied in the
most solemn manner, having any participation in the business,
and expressed the greatest surprise at having such a charge
brought-.against him.
Front the description given by Mr. Luck and the landlord,
Clark and Johns, who have been unremitting in their exertions'
jsucceeded in apprehending the prisoner in Surrey-row, Black:
friars-road, at the abode of his there amie, where Air. Luck had-
been inveigled to take tea, and where they found out what pro-
perty he had about him. The perseVerance of the two officers
cannot be sufficiently commended. Suspecting he would not
absent himself long from the object of his attachment, and that
his visit would be made when "-half the world is in a lonely
solemn darkness hung," they watched alternately for three
weeks, and at length succeeded in delivering him over to " the
Unerring hand of Justice."
SHEEP STEALING:—A mar, named Miles, who, a short
time since, was charged with stealing a sheep, the property of
Mr. Wyatt, butcher, Camberwell, was this day brought up
for final examination. It appeared that the prisoner had
butchered it under a hay-stack, where the traces of fresh
blood was seen, together with the skin, which the prose-
cutor identified as his property. The person in whose
charge Mr. Wyatt had placed cne hundred sheep, and from
which stock this one had been taken, stated, that within
a very short period he had lost upwards of 40 sheep. The
constable who took the prisoner into custody deposed, that on
stopping' the prismfer, who seemed to be carrying a truss of
straw, he ordered him to pitch his load while he examined it,
when he discovered the sheep quite warm, carefully concealed
within ; he questioned him as to where he got it ; he replied, I '

The French Papers of Thursday and Friday,
received since our last, are filled with political
and financial discussions. Private letters from
Madrid in the Constitutionnel and the Journal
des Debuts give a version of a letter said to have
been written by the British Ambassador to
the Duke of Infantado calling on the Spanish
•
Government to come to a determination to enter

into arrangements with its former subjects in
South America. It is, however, very easy to see
that either no note has been written at all,
or, if it has, it is a gross and atrocious for-
gery. It is quite impossible any British Am-
bassador could have penned a letter so full of
absurdity as this, to say nothing of the circum-
stance that is in the teeth of the policy of Great
Britain and her foreign secretary.
An Express has arrived from Paris this day,
but we have not received our Papers. We
learn, however, that the French three per cents.
had fallen, and were on Saturday at 3 o'clock,
6V. 60c. without the dividend. Extracts will be
found elsewhere.

The following are extracts flow the Frankfort
Papers of the Gth December. They seem to
contain nothing of any great importance :

BERLIN, Nor. 30.
M. Von Klewitz, Minister of State, closed the Assembly of
the Provincial Estates of Sexony on the 27th instant. His
Excellency afterwards gave a grand entertainment to Count
Stolberg Wernigerode, the President, to all the Members of
the Assembly, an& to the Civil, Military, and Ecclesiastical
Authorities. When the healths of the King and the Crown
Prince were drank, the Members of the Assembly expressed
their gratitude for the benefit conferred on the province by the
introduction of a Provincial Assembly, and the hope that it
would produce very happy effects.

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 26.
Accounts from Greenland state, that the small pox had been
brotrght by an English ship to Dog island, where several per_
sons had already died of it, and the disorder had began to spread
farther, but as the vaccine matter last sent over had turned out
well, and vaccination was becoming more general, it was hoped
that the small pox would not prove very fatal.

Nov. 29.—A letter from Elsinore, says—" We have already
accounts of numerous losses at sea, and reports of others are
daily received. A Danish brig coming from Malaga was lost off
Belsingberg. We have now above 150 ships in the roads,
among which is the Glasgow English frigate."

Hamburgh Papers to the 6th December ar-
rived this day. Letters from Emden, dated
Nov. 28, give us accounts of the high floods pro.
duced by the late heavy rains, and the damage
which has been occasioned thereby to the dikes.
These, however, we are happy to say, were suf-
ficient to confine the water for the time, since
which the floods have abated so far as to ad.
mit of their being repaired. Intelligence nearly
similar has been received from Bremen where,