The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-27 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 27, 1831.

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Baroness n'Omrycna and Monsieur Ds Gluts-
noarr had interviews on Sunday with her Royal Highness
the Duchess of KENT, at the King's Palace, Kensington.
The Duches. of KENT and the Princess VzcrottiA rode
at Mr. FozAßn's school on Saturday.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office, which was attended_ by Earl GREY, Lord
DURHAM, Viscount PALMERSTON, the Earl Of CARLISLE,
the Right Hon. C. GRANT; SO IL GRAHAM, Lord HOL-
LAND, and Mr. STANLEY.
The Council sat in deliberation about three hours.
The Ministers of Austria, Russia, France, and Prussia,
transacted business at the Foreign4..ffiee on Saturday.
Three messengers from King LEOPOLD, at Brussels, have
arrived in town within the last few days.
The Lords of the Admiralty have placed at the disposal
of the Royal Sailing Society, his Majesty's ship Chanti-
cleer to he fitted up as an hospital ship to be stationed
above bridge, for the reception of poor watermen, fisher-
men, and others, with their families, employed on the river
Thames. A deputation of the Society has jest returned to
town from Sheerness, where they have been to inspect the
Chanticleer. The Flag•officer at the Nore, Admiral Sir
J. BERESFORD, entertained the deputation at a most splen,
did dinner.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE. •
A young fellow, about fourteen years old, named
John °Rostock, was charged before the Lotto MAYOR
with having broken down the wall of a stable and
stolen a donkey.
Thomas Edwards stated that he suspected the
prisoner of being the thief, from the following cir-
cumstances :—Witness's son was few days before

Tuesday last, when ,the stable was broken open,
asked some questions as. to the value of a donkey
by the prisoner, who, upon being told t'
price, said that he would have one in a day
On the morning the robbery was -commie
prisoner left his lodgings at • three o'clock,
gave a very unsatisfactory account of the
his absence; andirom these facts, coupled
fears •of his mother that he had been doii
thing wrong, it was supposed that the pris,

guilty.
The prosecutor said that a wall of the
twelve fret had been knocked down for thi
of getting the donkey out. A dark la!
crow bar, and the donkey's harness, were
the stable, and the prisoner had lately 1

examining the spot.
The LORD MAYOR—Now, prisoner, if you are
desirous to clear your character, you will tell where
you went on Tuesday morning.
Prisoner—Surely, please you, my Lord, I'll
prove to you I'm as innocent as that 'ere book
(pointing to the Testament) wot lays upon the
table, and can't do no hurt to nobody. You see
my Lord, I'm a hard-working boy, and I gets my
bread by making of meat-skewers, and so I gets up
early for to go to sell 'em. It's true I came down
stairs at three o'clock, because, you see, I had to
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go to Maidstone for to get rid on'em; and when I
got there I met a traveller, and he buys the three

dozen of meat-skewers for three bob ; but where
to find that 'ere gentleman wot bought 'em or what
he sold e'm for again, I can't tell your Lordship no
more nor the babe wot never saw the world.—
(Laughter.)
Prosecutor—My Lord, I'll be on my oath he
never was a night out of London.
Prisoner--7 Aye, my Lord, you see the body as
gives hevidence has the advantage of us there, for
you hands him the book .for to swear, but there's
no Bible for a poor prisoner at ail ; and I know, if
it was the law, there would be many a good hoath
taken from this here place where I stands; now
that 'ere's a cursed shame not to let a prisoner
swear ; for it would be a sort of a kind of satisfac-
tion to him, whether he lost or von by it.—(Loud
laughter.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I can't take your oath,
but I am willing to hear all you have to vay in your
defence.

Prisoner—Could'nt you, my Lord,just take my
hoath against that 'ere gentleman ? Prosecutor—
My Lord, I'm blessed, he has been at that bar afore
for felony.
Prisoner—Never, as I knowed on.
One of the officers said, he knew that the pri-
soner had been up for di-putes with his mother, to
whom he was very cruel, bur was not aware that
the ungracious whelp had been ever before ac-
cused of felony.
Prisoner—Now, my Lord, which on us would
you believe ? You see this here gentleman wor
belongs to the donkey swears as I was pulled up for
felony, when it was nothing but a bit of a skrim-
mage. I'm sure, my Lord, you knows the law too
well for to say that it's a felony for a man to beat
his mother.—(Laughter.)
The Loan MAYOR—I know that it is as bad,
and that I have sent you to prison for it ; and I
know, too, that clever as you are, if you don't take
more care of yourself, you will get hanged at last.
Prisoner—Not if I can help it, please you my
Lord. Howsomdever, its hard for a hinnocent body
to escape, there's such false swearing a going
forard, If your Lordship knowed how easy it is fur
to take a false hoath, you wouldn't fix the life of a
mouse upon it. Many a one as swings goes off
upon the strength of just kissing the back of that
'ere book.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—But you say you walked to
Maidstone that morning; I suppose you came home
that night ? Prisoner—No, my Lord ; 1 got home
next morning afore ten o'clock.
The LORD MAYOR—How could you afford to
ride home upon the mere profits of the sale ? Pri-
soner—Please you, my Lord, I walked it every step ;
I tramped it every inch.
The LORD MAYOR—I thought you'd overshot
the mark; so you walked seventy-two miles from
Tuesday to Wednesday morning ? Prisoner—l
never said no such thing, my Lord ; I said I yolked
to Maidstone, wots only thirty-six miles off.
The LORD MAYOR—But it is as far from Maid-
- stone to London as it is from London to Maidstone.
The prisoner (rather bothered)—Well, I'm smo-
thered if I know how it was; I suppose God gived
7 me strength ; I know I paddled it all night, and I
coaled into London in the morning. But the short
I of it is, my Lord, I no more stole that 'ere gentle-
man's donkey nor your Lordship did.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Some further inquiry shall

be made about the robbery, however; and I shall
mi° remand you. His Lordship then said with a laugh,
82 " I don't know what is the cause of it, but, some
•, how or other, since I was first elected to the
Mayoralty all the asses have been going astray."

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