The Sun.
London, England, 1825-05-20 00:00:00

CHARGE OF HORSE-STEALING.

Robert l'asley, alias For, James Harper, Thos. Cutts, and
William Brookes were put to the bar on an indictment, charging.
them with stealing, in the month of February last, two horses,
the property of John Jefferson, from the parish of Islington.—;
A number of witnesses appeared to bring home the charge to .
the prisoners, but in the absence of a female, named Jane
Yaxley, a relative to the prisoner of that name, the case was so.
defective as to induce the Learned Judge Hum.ocs to direct
an acquittal. The recognizances of the witness was entreated.
—Yaxley and Cutts were again indicted for stealing on the.l6th
March last two horses, the property of John Maitland, value 40?.
In this case the horses were found at the King's Head, Kings-
land-road, having been brought there by a man whom the wit-
ness did not know. Yaxley stood about five yards off at the
time. Cutts was not the man who gave him the horses. 'the
next morning the men disappeared before the Officers came.
Yaxley was a lodger in the house. On the arrival of the Officers
the prisoners went away, and were not heard of until taken into
the custody of the Officers. The Jury found them Not Guilty ;

NEW COURT.
ROBBEIIT OF TAE WESTAIINSTEII SCIIOLARS.
Charles Simmons, aged 25, was indicted for stealing, on the
05th May, a variety of articles, the property of Mr. Hugh Hodg.
son, the Usher, Master Thomas Tooke, and Master Walter
Wrottesley, Westminster scholars, from the Boarding House
of Mr. Strikeman, in Dean's-yard, with whom the prisoner
lived servant.

Mr. Hodgson deposed, on asking the prisoner whether he had
any objection to have his box searched, he said no, and applied
several keys to open it, without effect. At length, a carpenter
was sent for, and then they discovered a variety of articles be.
longing to the young gentlemen, boarders in Mr. Strikeman's
house, and a shirt belonging to himself. There are 23 boarders
in the house; believes they have access to the prisoner's room.
He said the articles found in his box were given him by the
young gentlemen.
Master Tooke and Master Wrottesley both identified the
property produced, found in the prisoner's box. to belong to
them; they were not given away.
The prisoner, in his defence, said the property had been pat
into his box.
A witness gave him a good character.
The Comm ox SERGEANT summed up the evidence, and the
Jury found him Not Guilty.

THE MARKETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, MAT 20.

The Arrivals of this week are tolerably good, and as the
weather is remarkably fine the trade for most articles continues
dull.—Wheat remains at Monday's prices for the best samples,
in other qualities there is no trade.—Barley continues almost
unsaleable.—Beans and Peas are without alteration._pats mee t
buyers at the same terms as last quoted.—The Flour, trade is
very dull.

ARRIVALL—EngIish Wheat, 3,4oo—Barley, 1,100--thos.
4,100 qrs.—Flour, 6,200 sacks.

SMITHFIELD MARKET; MAr 20.
The following is an accurate Report of the numbass and
prices at Smithfield Market this morning:—

Beasts..
Calves

CATTLE AT MARKET
413 'Sheep 10,44.
287 ; Pigs
To sink the Offal, per stone of Bfb.
Beef 4s 4d to Ss 2d I Veal 6s Od to 7s O,t
Mutton 4s 10d to Ss 8d I Pork Ss 4d to 41s 441
Lamb 6s 6d to 7s 4d.

WAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Hay £2 6 to .£4 4 0 I Clover ... £.73 6s to f 6 7s 64
Straw £1 16s to £2 Bs.

DARING ROBBERlES.—Yesterday a daring rob..
bery was committed at the house of Sir Robert Kennedy, in
Wimpole-street. Some fellows who were selling wood, ob-
serving the area door to be open, went down and enquired
whether any wood was wanted, when an answer was given in,
the negatived. It is supposed that shortly afterwards a second
one went clown, when the kitchen happened to be empty,' and
seeing the key in the pantry door, opened it, and took frora
thence eighteen silver table spoons, eighteen ditto table forks,
ten ditto desert forks, one ditto soup ladle, and one ditto fish
knife, with which they made off. The above articles are of as
old plain pattern, and engraved with the family crest—a hand
and dagger. The pantry at the time contained a considerable
quantity of other articles of plate, which remained untouched,,,,
as they were of a bulk too large to be secreted. On Monday
last a robbery of a similar description was committed at the Earl
of Leitrim's, in Cumberland-place, whence the offenders took
twenty-two silver fiddle-beaded and threaded tea-spooss, forks,
tea pot, and egg cups, each of which articles also bore a crest
of a hawk, surmounted with an earl's coronet; although the
robbery, if the statements of the servants are correct, was at-
tended with a degree of mystery, as the footman, who had the
care of the plate, stated, that after he had cleaned the plate' he
locked the iron door, and put the key in the usual place; and
from the situation of the plate cupboard, it is evident that tbs.
offenders must have been well acquainted with the premises.
Information of each robbery has been given at Marborough-
street office to Plank, the chief officer.
Last night a Coroner's Inquest was held at the
Rose and Ball, Bennett's-hill, by Mr. Shelton, Coroner for the
City, &c., and a Jury, upon the body of a man taken out of
the river, on Tuesday night, about eleven o'clock, by a water_
man accidentally striking the floating corpse with his oar, •
opposite Trig Wharf. From the length of time the body
had been in the water, it was too much decomposed to bear a very
minute inspection ; but no marks of - violence were observed '
on it; and as a silver watch, with seals, and N. 6d. were found
upon him, the verdict was—" Found drowned, but from what
cause remains unknown to the Jury." He was dressed in a
coat and pantaloons of dark mixture, black waistcoat; and silk
neckerchief, tied in sailor-like fashion,' short-laced boots, had
the appearance of a Captain or mate of a small vessel, anti
supposed to be connected with Dundee, from the papers,(i&e,
left with Mr. Coward, Churchwarden, St. Bennett's, Castle.
Baynard Ward.

CAuTION.—A fellow icgoing about the country
who pretends to be the " King.of all the Conjurors and Slight.
of-hand men in England," and practising with success the
folloviing impositions :—On Monday last he made his ap-
pearance at -Foot's Cray, in Kent, at the Seven -Stars public;
honze, into the parlour of which he walked, and asked. per-
mission of the company to perform. • Leave being granted.
after having amused the countrymen for some time with the
old tricks of eating, yards of blazing flak, and playing some
tunes on the salt-box, he said, as a conclusion to the entertain-
ment, he would exhibit oae of-the most extraordinary pieces of.
conjuration ever beheld,; he then asked cacti of the company to.
lend him half a crown, saying..that they shOuld see him leave
the room with ,the balf.crowns in his possession; ind while out.
side the door he would conjure them all into a bOsin placed ou
the mantel-piece for thatpnrpose. The company, efonsistingat
seventeen men, gave their half-crowns into tit's hands of the
slight-of-hand, man, who no :tomer reached the 'door -than ho
took to his heel's.

E LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
Ex irectsfrom the Mornmg Papers: May 20, 1824.

. •
111 is qnita e4cLf.Al, to read, 4,4[:• accounts- (tom
134..,Cts.peopsAteepky, tlq they cefiect.,on the cha,
rsl
.otof. who ¢;o Ws a hmls
.p.lase in the; ad-
. ministration of that colony. A ii,ontipqs
vviiwtot may be j.u.stly. coodemned.,7-a lofty. and
overbearing despokism• spay, be disliked,, even by
. w,hp are dazzied with, 4s magnificence ;
''Tstst a tyranny so, miuute, so mean, -so vitidietive.,
nngentlernanly, so opposite to, whatever is un-
skets.iciod I the word English, as is described. in
' ifieseletters, provokes a compou,nd feeliog, of
tosfrtempi anddisgost, which, we repeat, it is most
paieful to experience. The wrathful suppression
of a literary society, composed of sixty-onegenr
tiernen, who included among them the ChiefJus-
Ike and all the most respectable members of the
Vqlozn.j!,, lotiowed, the suypression of gr..: Greig's
440At5.4.,. 244 may, be adcluced as one among
ouperous, isastan.ces of the freaks of " legitimacy"
when disembarrassed. from all controul from
ae p,r,es4. The publication of a, calumnious
pamphlet, the matter of which had been raked up
from the obsolete slander of 20 years, against a
geatlernan ofhigh respectability,whohad fallen un-
des the displeasure of 'my LordGrosvenor,'bera use
of his zeal for literature and science, is a second
proof of the blessings of arbitrary power—espe.
• sialtly as the printer's name was loft out, and
.thtq" my Lord's" authority vindicated—to treat
. with, contempt the laws which his own wisdom
• had enacted: But en attempt to seize the funds
tbat bad been raised for the relief of the destitute
colonists, was more than an act of tyranny. AO
effort was made, as appears by the correspond-
ence,,
,to transfer the above. funds to certain
• functionaries, who were afterwards to distribute
ibein among the persons for whom they bad been
lu4Kribeki„ This, however, was at once defeated ;
and then, but not before, came out an suthorized
declaration, that there was no want of succour in
the colony, to the•amount of -more than 1,000 or
I,soodollars, When, it is to be remarked, the gross
~ fund, vvhiclr had been- officially snapped..at for
the same professed purpose was no less than
107,000 dollars ! To what uses, then, would
that fund have been applied, had not the design
- So seize upon it been providentially frustrated 1.
Lord Charles Somerset is still Governor of the
Cape,-with permitted emoluments which do not
fall short of 12,0001. sterling per annum. The
Commissioners sent to investigate the supposed
abuses of his administration have not yet report-
ed, although two or three years have elapied.. Is
it that the offences are so multiplied, as AO have
altogether overwhelmed the inquisitors ?..- But
*..-every body asks the question, when is this bro.
ther of the House of Beaufort to be recalled ?—•
--We .'answers within one day• after Parliament
shall have been reformed. The existence, in
truth, of such a Government, is enough to spread
the passion for reform likeswildfire through the
land.

BRITISH. US.] • •
Tfie Paris Papers of Tuesday are filled with
t!.e continued debates in the Chamber of Depu-
tes on the Budget of 1826. The subject of con-,
sideration on Monday was the expellees 'of the
War Department, which are estimated in the
' -whole of .195-millions of francs. General Foy
took advantage of the occasion, to make a strong
• alrpeal<lto.the Chamber, on the Royal Order in
December last, to place fifty of the old Generals
on the retired Be: stigmatised this measure
as-barshi unjust, and, impolitic, and even subver'-.
sive of the honour of 'the army., On the miniver-
, 54.17 of, the
_battle. of AusterlitA,,he
fifty Generals. of the Army.tha-t gained it were
told, that they no,lptiger were worthy of forming
post. of, it,. :lie, afterwards, at gretit:ifhl ob,-.
jected to the prodigality with which the public
money„-was,expenfled. The increase. of the mill-
t•
a'ry charge..was altogether above-two
M. de Clermont Toucere, the Minister of War,_
replied indefence 'of his department. In coo-
elPitin; itie''vitidicated the measure attacked by,
Gen,e,ral, Toy in the commencement of his.
sllcetche Tito redoction.of the General Officers
wtti7 he said,, in fulfilment of a pledge given;
charnl;ers. The King had interfered
only. to, Moderate its effect as much as pos-
sible..-. .The measure was equally blameless in
it5...06;14,1e, in the. mode. of its execution,
Ap -subsequent' period-of. the day, M. Benjamin
• Collstaof, -cOmfilained of the conduct of
.the
-Frisicb" Government with regard ,to, the Slave,
.-Troide;• !No'ieffert was made to suppress it ; nor
the.petitien respecting. it.signed•
'l4.the principal,merchacts.of Paris. M. Dupon,
• the Minister'of the Marine, replied, that time law
oarance.;prphibited the Slave Trade, and that
the Government- had:adopted•every measure cal-
".
epfased,t9'.qtrry,the into,execution. Ile was
eto,fiiniCii-ilta-t: the: severity of time law ought not
I'o'-6,4ncreased, because the. aggravation of the
PUnishuientwoultlTcrily tend' to defeatits-ob-
•tH
ject,:artu.. sepifg y, guilty.
• Oat. the traffic was cOiltfarY tf'; 11-t2o)arili tY ;
tke negroes'were _ more miserable since it had
citased;.ttie, Were. now, r'llossaC.r" • bye the victors
instead-Of delivered,into the hands of.the
EnitTettps,..yriro:. were interested in maintaining
anci,•,pteserving..; them. h e ,ivlition to .w,Nctt
13.1 Constant' had allude* proceeded, only,
nfew grocers, who were
incapable -of fooling, a. currect.opinion on the
*ubject under consideration.

Vye. rupt..ic r.E.DpEit.l-
- We fins!, from: the'rrerich Papers,' that the fa.
moms FianStrpeon wkese, .tame6l(l4.s9l)ro•
6- rank in- the'recent transac-
'tiot,ks of the...Qttonlan, Hovire,, fins hem, restoxed
,tlte•full favpur of, hks,Sovereiaos—The. woidS
" full faroorn• (to• net,_ adequately tlegcrilm the.
hooonrs w bs 1L ha,ve JA.cel4...joat-covferrftl uppt,t.!his.
noted dipfamatist, ag..see ftud.thai.h,e,has:bgetkae-
Ifcted frog! the rani4 of the Russifto. notrilily for
the spientdiCappoiOrneu,t,,4, Arnitiassad or, Extra.
ortiinar".osr-tise:oceasion of Aircapp.roacitiog car°,
ution at Illttio”, The part. he 'acted at Con..
bkaptin-OPI4, W-05 supPA4e4,teitilY AP gwilied a en-

dency tb provolta thy Porte to commit some act
that would give Rnisia a pretext for hostilities, that
this Fox cf had only the alternative of uphold,-
tii.l4. kg a line of conduct which bad given
general disgust, or of dismissing him from all his
employjneute. It would now appear that his
disgraee was a reluctant sacrifice on the part of
the Russian Government to controulling circum-
stances, and the condemnation of his principles
may have been also a concession to necessity.—
With respect to ber designs on the Ottoman Em-
pke, Russia may couch, but she never sleeps ;
land, whenever she sees a favourable moment for
seizing her prey, to suppose that she will let it
pass, would betray an utter ignorance of the cha-
racter of that power, at least it would be the first
time that she neglected an opportunity to ex-
tend her dominions ; but her caution is as pro-
verbial as her ambition : and as she never let her
prey escape, where she. could seize it, so she
never lost itby her impatience. She would sooner
wait for years than risk a favourite object ; and
at no period of her career did she display this
tnixture of caution and decision in so conspicuous
a manner as she has done its the unostentatious,
but eminently politic reign of her present Sove-
reign: Let the latter only see any circumstances
arise in Europe, that should enable him to accom-
plish a project that has descended to him as an heir
loom of his Imperial Crown; and it will be seen
that be is not insensible to the duties it has devolved
upon_ him. As yet England has been the chief
obstacle to the designs of Russia upon the Otto-
man Empire ; but this obstacle has been consi-
derably lessened by an event that we shall al-
ways deplore, as the strongest instance of infa-
teation which has been displayed for years in this
country. When the news reaches Warsaw, or
any other place where the Russian Emperor
should be at the time, it will cause him as much
exultation as if he had received intelligence of
some, signal victory. Let us not deceive our-
selves ; the occurrence to which we allude, will
be hailed by such States as are our rivals, with
the same joy as it has been received by all en-
lightened Enlishmen with dismay.

[MORNING POST.]
The business in both Houses last night was
comparatively unimportant. The Bill for allow-
ing the importation of Canadian Corn, and the
sale of warehoused Grain, was read a second
time in the Peers without exciting any observa-
tion. The County Courts' Bill passed with little
more notice through the Commons ; but notice
was given by Lord A. Hamilton that he should
oppose the third reading of the Bill for regulating
the salaries of Scotch Judges. The most interesting
discussion of the evening was on receiving the'
Report of the for modifying the Qua-
rantine Laws. On this occasion Sir Isaac Coffin
adduced fresh proofs of the contagious nature
of the "Plague, and gave reasons which would
be of sufficient strength to convince the most in-
credulous, if there was nothing_ but incredulity
in the case. hle also mentioned the disadvan-
tages to which it exposed our commerce in foreign
countries, and that part of his speech was con-
firmed by the statement of Lord Belgrave, who
said that 4 4 our opinions on this subject had al-
ready reached Marseilles, Leghorn-, and other
ports, and thP consequences were likely. to prove
most prejudicial to our trade. At several ports the
period of quarantine for English ships was extend-
ed, and some species of goods perished before they
were brought ashore. These considerations ought
not to he overlooked.". It raises, -therefore, an
additional objection to the proposed alteration :
fur it is clear that our trade will lose more by the
restrictions to, which ft will be subjected abroad,
than it will gain by their removal at home. We
regret to learn that•there is a case of strong sus-
picion of infection from plague on board a vessel
now under strict quarantine in Stangate Creek.
;The vessel in queption arrived from Alexandria
only a few days ,ago. She brings suspicious
hills of health, and, after full investigation of the
facts before the Council, peremptory orders were,
issued, that no part of the cargo should be de-
livered until she has performed the full term of
quarantine required by law. Previous to her ar-
-Irival at Alexandria, this vessel had been at Suda,
.•
in
Candia, where she had a case of confirmed
.plague on board,of which the man infected died.
Notviithstanding all the confident assertions of
the plague not being contagious, it will require
;stronger confirmation of that doctrine than has
yet been afforded, to induce the. Legislature of
this country, to abrogate the salutary precau-
tions by which %ie !lave- been hitherto protected
'against the importation of contagion.

• rMORNING HERALD.]
The Earl of Darnley, last night, in the House
of Lords, in correcting some misrepresentations
-that had crept into the Public Journals regarding'
-his presentation of Catholic Petitions, said he
did so for the purpose of setting himself right,
not with the view of preferring complaint. In-
deed, his Lordship added, he should not feel him-
seff justified in making any complaint ; when he
recollected under what circumstances and disad-
"vantages notes for the reports of what took place
in that House were taken, his surprise was that
they were done so well and so accurately.—
When it is remembered that till within the last
ten years, a rrporter below, the bar was not al-
lowed efett,to exhibit a note-book ; that if any
thing of the kind: were seen, a Messenger im-
mediately proceeded to him and desired him to
'put it into his pocket ; and that on Tuesday, the
ll..ords, for the first time, recognized the presence
of the public Press, by setting apart a space for
,their,special use (withdrawing the accommoda-
tion, however, on 'Wednesday); we are not with-
out hopes that some complete accommodation may
hereafter be afforded to, the reporters from. the dif-
ferent Journals, in both Houses. The legal fiction
of no," stratigert" being allowed to be present is
wearing aiay rapidly ; but when notes of, the
speeches and proceedings are allowed to be taken,
without affording the ineaus of,taking them,accu-
rately, complaint comes with a very il! grace.—
So -far to recognize the Gentlemen of education
and character who -attend to report
,the debates,
as to enable them to see, to. hear, and• to. take
notes without being jostled amongst the crowd,
iwould.leave the privileges of both Houses where

they aro ; any violation, of them would make the
offending parties liable to be called'to-the bar—
and what more powerful safeguard could be de-
sired ? One thing is certain, the House can no
more keep out the Press, than they can prevent
the ebb and flow of the river that passes close to
their walls. Why, then, not make a virtue of
necessity ? Why not afford those facilities that
would give then a just and decent right to com-
plain if the speeches were misrepresented ?
Much credit is due to Lord Darnley for
" breaking the ice;" but his Lordship only fol-
lows the public voice on this subject, and at an
immense distance.