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good that there had been such a person in it. He did not
give the bills to the defendant on account of property which
he had mortgaged in Cambridge.
Af er an appeal on the part of the prisoner by Mr.
ADOLPHUS,

WESTMINSTER SCHOOL.

Last night the Queen's scholars of this school gave their
last representation of Terence's Phormio, and had the
high honour of counting his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge and his suite among their spectators. It is
almost unnecessary to state that on his entering their
theatre he was received with loud and universal plaudits.
Whether it was owing to the presence of his Royal High-
ness, or whether the juvenile performers had obtained greater
confidence in their own powers from the success of their
former exertions, it was quite clear that their performance
of last night was much more masterly than on former eve-
nings. The Phormio of Vernon and the Geta of Wood
again elicited well-deserved praise ; each acted well up to
the other, and the diffidence of Wood on his last appear-
ance having been completely got over on his appearance
yesterday evening, he was more than a proud second
to Vernon, who was quite the hero of the former
representations. Of the other performers we ham e
only to repeat• the remarks which we made on a
former occasion. All acted admirably ; even the repre-
sentation of Demipho by Swabey deserved a higher tide
than that of respectable, which we formerly applied to it.
It was last night a quiet but just picture of that severe,
cautious, and yet anxious father. Williams's Sophrona
was an excellent piece of acting ; he tottered and coughed
and drawled through his part as well as if he had really
been an old nurse of some sixty years' standing. At the
close of the comedy the epilogue was repeated, and gave,
as before, great satisfaction. " God save the Queen" was
then played by the band in honour of their Royal visitor,
who, on leaving the theatre, was welcomed with the same
tumult of applause with which he was received on entering
it. The theatre was crowded to repletion, and we have no
doubt that the collection made among the Noblemen and
Gentlemen in the pit was such as would remunerate the
Queen's scholars for any expense they might have in-
curred in this attempt to promote the amusement of their
exalted visitors.

The Learned RECORDER left it to the Jury to say if the
defendant obtained the 591. 10s. on the bills, on the faith
of a representation that he had property in Cambridgeshire.
The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, and the de-
ftndant was discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A man of respectable appearance, ---nan;d Alexander Ca-
meron, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with
having committed extensive forgeries in Scotland, some
years ago. The prisoner had been apprehended by John
Forrester, the officer.

A warrant had been sent from Glasgow for the appre-
hension of the prisoner, whom it was necessary to identify,
in order to sanction his removal from London to the place
in which the offence was stated to have been committed.

Mr. James Scott stated that the prisoner was iu partner-
ship with him until between four and five years ago, and
was the party named in the warrant.

Anthony Nish, Queen's-messenger, stated that he was
appointed to execute the warrant, and the prisoner was
ordered to be handed over to his custody.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Yesterday a grey-haired old man of military appearance,
seemingly quite blind, was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS,
charged by a policeman with begging.
The policeman said the defendant had been pointed out
to him by Dr. Bloxam, of Hanover-street, as a person
going about to obtain money by fraudulent representations.
Obsorving that the defendant called at different houses, he
concluded that his object was to beg, and he took him into
custody.

Mr. CHAMBERS asked the defendant who he was ? De-
fendant—My name is James Green. lam a gentleman.
Mr. CHAMBERS—If you are a gentleman why do you
beg ? Defendant-1 would not degrade my station by such
a proceeding.

THE DUKE DE LEUCHTENBEIW
AND BEAUHARNAIS FAMILY.

Mr. CIIAMBEItS- What has been your occupation ? De-
fendant—l have held a high military rank in India. lam
very well known to Mr. Dyer, who was Judge Advocate in
the Bahamas at the time when I was Comptroller of Cus-
toms.

Maximilian Joseph Eugene Auguste Napoleon de Bean-
harnais, Duke de Leuchtenberg, whose impending mar-
riage with the Grand Duchess Mary of Russia excites so
much attention, was born on the 2d of October, 1817*.
The family of Beauharnais is of the Orleanais, and de-
scends from Francois de Beauharnais, Lord of Beauville,
and Villechauve, whose eldest son, Francois, having formed
an establishment on the coast of Acadia, at a place called
Port Maltais, the King of France conferred it upon him,
and erected it into a barony in the year 1707, under the
name of Beauville, and, on condition of his paying fealty
and homage for that Lordship to Castle Saint Louis of
Quebec. On this Francois de Beauharnais dying without
posterity, his brother Claude, a Captain in the Royal
Navy, inherited the family property and honours. It was
in favour of the latter's eldest son, Frangois de Beauhar-
nais, Baron de Beauville, and Governor of Martinique,
that the estate and Lordship of La Ferte-Aurain was
erected into a Marquisate, under the name of La Ferte-
Beauharnais, by a Royal patent issued at Compeigne,
in July, 1764. The Marquis left two sons. The
eldest, Francois, Marquis de Beauharnais, was Deputy-
Suppliant of the Nobility for Paris, in the States-General
of 1789. He always sat on the cote droit, or Royalist

Mr. CHAMBERS-If you have been in the East India
Company's service, you have a pension I suppose ? De-
fendant—l have a pension of 451. a year, but not from the
East India Company. The fact is, my father held a very
high rank in India. I had a situation of 500 rupees a
month, which I thought I could better by going into the
service of Sindia, then an ally of the Company's. I had
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, but 1 was made a Major-
Gent ral for my services in " bushing" cannon.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Your pension ought to be sufficient
to keep you without resorting to begging.
Defendant—l have lost my sight, and front other mis-
fortunes am very straitened in my circumstances, so that I
thought I would call on those who formerly knew me,
and state my situation to them. I have been wounded
eleven times in the army. I have loit my sight, and after
undergoing an operation for cataract, I was run over by a
cab, and had my collar-bone broken.

Dr. Bioxam in a short time entered the office, and said
he had strong reason for believing the defendant went
about imposing upon the medical profession. He had
called at his house on two occasions ; one time he repre-
sented himself to be a distressed surgeon, the other a
pcor dentist. Witness had also seen him at the houses of
other medical men.

benches of the National Assembly, and at a later period
offered to defend the unfortunate Louis the Sixteenth at
the bar of the Sanguinary Convention. An author even

affirms that such was his perseverance in his honourable
attachment to his lawful Princes, that he urged his sister-
in-law Josephine to persuade her husband into a surrender
of the Throne to the Bourbons.
The other son, Alexandre, Viscount de Beauharnais,
born at Martinique in 1760, was a Major of Infantry
when he married Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie, since so
celebrated as Empress of the French. He was Deputy of
the Blois Nobility to the States-General, and one of the
first to go over to the Tiers-Etat. He actively laboured
in the preparations for the memorable Federation at the
Champs-de-Mars, and according to Mercier's last tableau
of Paris was put to the same cart with the Abbe Sieyes.
Though one of the warmest promoters of the revolution,
he escaped not the fate which befel so many more of its
partisans. Accused of having by his inaction contributed
to the surrender of Mentz, he was condemned to death in
July, 1794, and died on the scaffold with great courage and
composure. When the Conservative Senate was created,
the statue of Gen. Beauharnais was placed in the Palace of
the Luxembourg.
By his marriage with Josephine he had issue the late
Hortense Eugenie, Duchess de St. Leu. married in 1802
to Louis Bonaparte, ci-devant King of Holland ; and the
gallant Eugene Rose de Beauharnais, Napoleon's adopted
son, Viceroy of Italy, Prince of Venice, and Hereditary
Grand Duke of Frankfort. Eugene was born in 1780, and
died at Munich in September, 1824. In 1814, when
Bonaparte fell,t notwithstanding the offer which it is said
Louis XVIII. made him of a Marshal's baton, he wifr...
drew to the dominions of Maximilian Joseph, King of
Bavaria, whose daughter, Augusta Amelia (born in 1788),
he had married in 1806. In 1817, the King conferred
upon him the titles of Duke of Leuchtenberg, Prince of
Eichstadt, and " Royal Highness ;" his house was declared
the first Princely one of Bavaria, and he was authorised to
take precedence immediate►y after the Princes of the Royal
Family. At the same time he was granted the principality
of Eichstadt for a sum of 200,0001. This latter arrange•
ment was the consequence of an engagement which the
Allied Sovereigns had come to in the treaty of the 11th of
April, 1814, whereby they were to bestow an establishment
upon Prince Eugene as soon as circumstances should permit.
The Prince was, moreover, left in possession of his dotations
in Italy, and of his private property in France and America.
The Royal deed, which confers upon the late Prince
Eugene the titles of Duke of Leuchtenberg and Prince of
Eichstadt, provides that all the honours, rights,and privileges
attached to the two titles shall perpetually belong to his
house ; that the title of " Serene Highness" shall be borne
by all his descendants ; that the title of Duke shall be
borne only by the eldest son in the order of primogeniture ;
and that the other children shall bear the titles of Princes
and Priocesses of Leuchtenberg and Eichstadt. In 1818
the Duke de Leuchtenberg and his descendants, by order
of the primogeniture, were declared first hereditary Peers
(Reichsrathe) of the Crown of Bavaria.
Prince Eugene left two sons ; the eldest,Duke Augustus,
married on the 27th of January, 1835, the Queen of Por-
tugal, Donna Maria, and assumed along with the title of
" Prince of Portugal" the dignity of Peer and General-in
Chief of that kingdom. On the 28th of March, 1835, he
prem ►turely died, when his young brother, Maximilian, then
serving as a Lieutenant in the 4th regiment of Bavarian
Light Horse, succeeded to the Duchy of Leuchtenberg.
Eugene de Beauharnais left also four daughters—Jose-
phine, the eldest, is married to the Crown Prince of
Sweden ; Eugenie to the Hereditary Prince of Hohen-
zollern-Hechingen ; Amelie is the widow of the late Don
Pedro, Emperor of Brazil and Duke of Braganza ; Theo
dolinde, the fourth daughter, born in 1814, is not married

Mr. CHAMBERS asked defendant if he had at any time
called himself a surgeon ? Defendant—l was brought up
to the medical profession. I was educated at Trinity Col-
lege, Dublin.

Mr. CHAMBERS—And where have you practised ? De-
fendant—ln France and other places.
Dr. Bloxam said he doubted the story of the defendant.
He would, with permission, examine him as to his medical
skill, and if he answered his questions correctly, he would
present him with a crown for the trouble he had caused.
Dr. Bloxam—What is the anatomical name of the
thigh bone ? Defendant--I don't mane to tell.
Dr. Bloxam—l thought so. And as you call yourself a
dentist, how many teeth has a man at 21 ? Defendant—
I'm not bound to answer that question.
Mr. CHAMBERS—You say you have invented some dis-
infecting apparatus. Pray what is considered to be the
most common disinfecting agent ? Defendant—l can't
recollect.

Mr. CHAMBERS—I am now satisfied that a great part
of your story is untrue. I have now no doubt of the
mode by which you attempt to obtain money. This time
I will let you off ; but if you are brought here again, you
may depend on it you will not escape so easily.
The defendant then went away.

WAVERLEY MANUSCRIPTS.—We lately had the
pleasure of looking over the eriginal manuscripts of the
Waverley Novels, which have been re-purchased from
various parties, and are now in the safe keeping of Mr.
Cadell, publisher, Edinburgh. They form a long file
of quarto volumes, handsomely 'bound in russia leather.
They are accompanied by the original manuscripts of
the " Lady of the Lake," and some other of the poems.
So vast a series of original compositions—full of bril-
liant creative genius—has certainly not issued from one
man's brain since Shakspeare threw off successively his
thirty-seven plays, apparently with the same ease that a
tree resignS its leaves to the wind. Sir Walter Scott
wrote a careless but free and regular hand ; his novels
are written on large quarto post paper, on one
side only (as authors generally do for the accommo-
dation of the printer), and each page is crammed
from top to bottom and side to side. Leaf follows

leaf, through quires and reams of paper, with only a slight
verbal correction or interlineation here and there / His in-
tellect seems at once to have embodied itself in suitable

language, and lie poured out himself on the same
facility that a man engages in conversation, or pens an ordi-
nary letter. Sir Walter, it is known, read over and revised
the whole of his novels preparatory to their republication in
their latest form in monthly volumes. For this purpose he
had a copy of each work interleaved ; and this goodly array
of volumes is also in the possession of Mr. Cadell. Sir
Walter appears to have bestowed considerable pains on
this last duty to his numerous offspring : he altered words,
improved the phraseology, corrected his quotations,
and occasionally heightened and improved the dialogue.
Sonic of the smaller fry of critics used to ridicule the author
of Waverley for his Scotticisms, such as saying that one man
inquired at another, instead of inquiring of him. Sir Walter
made the only sensible use of these criticisms: he quietly
drew his pen through the " at" and substituted "of." No
Scottish author, with the single exception, perhaps, of Dr.
Beattie, ever fairly got rid of these little peculiarities of style
and expression which betray his origin ; but few or none
could be more indifferent about the matter than Sir W. Scott.
He looked to the general effect—to the grouping of inci-
dents—and to the delineation of character and passion,
leaving the language to shift for itself. The world was
content to take the words as they came. The press was
always calling to him for manuscript ; and the prospect of
a new wing to Abbotsford, or the payment of another
thousand pounds, spurred him on in his almost superhu-
man career. Alas ! that he should have taxed himself be-
yond the strength and endurance of frail humanity ! We
may add that the Waverley manuscripts are kept in a fine
Gothic cabinet of oak, which Mr. Cadell has had made for
the purpose ; and, if no accident intervene, future ages will
undoubtedly look upon this ark of genius with wonder and
delight.—lxverness Courier.

* According to the " Dictionnaire de la Noblesse," by La..
cbesnaye des Bois, and " L'Armorial d s France," the family
descends from Guillaume de Be.tuharnais, who lived towards
the latter end of the fourteenth century. It was in possession
of the estate of Villechauve as early as the year 1500, and one
of its members was deputy of the nobility of Orleans to the
States General of 1614. The family motto is" Autre ne Sers."
t The Empress Josephine herself was to have been pre-
sented to Louis XVIII., in 1814, but death prevented that
event, which excited much attention at Court. In the month
of January, 1815, Hortense, her daughter, had an audienco
of the same Monarch, when he conferred upon her the title of
Duchess de St. Leu, instead of that of Countess.

An officer who served under the Emperor Napoleon
has accomplished a singular performance of patient industry,
to which he devoted three whole years. After the fall °of
Napoleon, having procured some of the hair of the Emperor,
of Maria Louisa, and of the King of Rome, he formed a'
medallion, containing the address of General Bonaparte to
the army of Italy, on the summit of the Alps—" Soldiers!
we descend from these rocks like an impetuous torrent, and
we will conquer the immense plains which meet our won-
dering eyes. Then shall victory dispense happiness to all."
This little speech, which in the original French contains
about 150 letters is easily read with a good glass, although
the space occupied is almost inconceivably small. To add
to the interest that the little work alone would excite, several
general officers, and among others General. Bertrand, have
certified that the materiel is the hair of the three illustrious
personages mentioned.—French Paper.
An inquest was held yesterday in Belton-street,
Long-acre, on the body of an illegitimate child, which was
found dead in the bed of its mother under suspicious cir-
cumstances. Several of the Jury expressed their firm opi-
nion that the child had been smothered by the mother, al-
though no evidence could be obtained to prove such. After
deceasedsome consultation
was
f,)
found
thed
suffocated,Jury returned
but
whether a vetrheirdc t , That the
by
design or
accident there was not sufficient evidence to prove." The
mother was reprimanded by the Coroner.
A BENEVOLENT DEED.—Last Friday, the Right
Hon. Lady Kinnaird, accompanied by his Lordship, visited
Mrs. Weekes (the widow of the celebrated Irish Weekes),
at the Star Hotel, when, after making many tender inqui-
ries as to the condition and circumstances of the family, J
Ladyship presented the widow with a bank order for 10L—
Perth Constitutional.
TENDENCY OF RAILWAYS TO INCREASE TRAY-
rm.—The travellers from the small towns near part of the
Leipsic and Dresden railroad, which has been already
opened, have increased so enormously that a second line of
rails is thought necessary. The conveyance of goods has
increased in like proportion.

Yesterday evening an inquest was held before Mr.
Stirling, at the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of William
Bailey, aged 35, who met his death under the following
circumstances :—lt appeared that deceased, who was a la-
bouring man, was, on the morning of Thursday, the 29th
ult., at work in the common sewer near Irongate Wharf,
Paddington, at the depth of about five feet, when a piece of
earth between two supporters weighing about 2 cwt. gave
way, and falling on deceased's left foot, he was knocked down.
He was immediately taken up, and his left boot cut off,
when there was found to be a wound on the instep about
four inches in length. He appeared much hurt, and was
conveyed to this hospital in a cab, where he continued
getting worse. Mortification subsequently ensued, and he
died on Friday last. It was proved that the ground was
well shored up, and that the only piece of earth which gave
way (owing, it is supposed, to previous heavy rains) was the
piece that caused the injury to deceased, and which fell
about three feet from the top. Verdict, Accidental death.

THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.--Mr, Bentley, Pub-
lisher in Ordinary to her Majesty, New Burlington-street,
has this day published the following New Books :-1. In-
cidents of Travel in the Russian and Turkish Empires, by
J. L. Stephens, Esq., author of " Incidents of Travel in
the Holy Land," &c., 2 vols., price 155.--2. Peter Pilgrim,
by the author of " Nick of the Woods," &c., 2 vols., price
145.-3. Life of Charles Mathews, Comedian ; including
his Correspondence, and an Account of his Early Days,
written by himself, 2 vols Bvo., with numerous illustra-
tions-4. The Hon. Mountstuart Elphinstone's Account
of the Kingdom of Caubul and its Dependencies in Persia,
Tartary, and India ; new and revised edition, with Addi-
tions, containing the latest particulars, 2 vols. Bvo., with
map and other plates-5. The Second Edition of Oliver
Twist, by Charles Dickens, Esq., author of " The Pick-
wick Papers," 3 vols. bound, with twenty-four illustrations
by George Cruickshank, price 255. Agents—For Scot-
land, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; for Ireland.
Mr. J. Cumming, Dublin ; and to be had of all Booksellers,
and at all the Libraries in the United Kingdom.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1838.