The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

CROY DON PEI TY SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. WARRINGTON ard other Justices.)
THE LATE INVASION OF FRANCE BY FRINCE
LOUIS BONAFARTE.—A Frenchman of military appear-
ance, named Jean Baptiste de Bouriot, was brought be
fore the Court by Mr. Collier, the inspector o the P
division of police, charged under the followin circim-
stances :•—•
Mr. Collier stated that he received information that
s Frenchman bad been inquiring in various directions
.ibout the town of Croydon for the residence of Prince
Louis Bonaparte, and that he had represented himself
as having escaped from a French prison, in which he had
been placed for taking part in the late invasion of France
by Prince Louis. He also received information that he
had exhibited letters, and had applied for pecuniary as-
sistance from several parties, and in consequence of
what he heard he made search after the person in ques-
tion, and he met the prisoner in the High-street, and
upon questioning him he told him that he had just got
a letter for Prince Lucien Bonaparte, who, he was in-
formed, resided in the neighbourhood of Croydon, and
asked if he could tell him his address. In the course of
the conversation having ascertained that the prisoner
had no settled residence or means of subsistence, he
thought it his duty to take him into custody, and also
to take charge of his papers and place them in the hands
of the Magistrates.
The Inspector then handed the papers for the peru-
sal of the Bench.

The first was a copy of a minute issued by the Juge
d'lnstruction of the Tribunal of First Instance (or pre-
liminary inquiry), of Boulogne, authorizing the keeper
of the prison called the Chateau de Boulogne to receive
and keep in his custody Jean Baptiste de Bouriot,
upon a charge of high treason, or attenelat a le emeute
de l'etat, and to keep him so in custody until diicharged
by due course of law.
The following is a copy of the letter addressed to
Prince Lucien Bonaparte :
" To his Royal Highness the Prince Lucien Bonaparte.
"My Prince,—l beg you to pardon the liberty of a
stranger addressing you ; but I trust that, when you
know the circumstances under which I do so, that you
will excuse it.

" I bad the honour to belong to the expedition of
Boulogne, under his Highness the Prince Louis Napo-
leon, and at its unfortunate termination, I was taken
prisoner, and placed in the prison at Boulogne, where I
and my companions suffered the greatest misery. The
day on which I and my unfortunate companions were
to have been removed to Paris, I was fortunate enough
to make my escape, and succeeded in getting to Eng-
land.

" I arrived in this country without money, or any
means of obtaining a subsistence, and I have not a single
friend or acquantsnce to whom I can apply. I trust,
therefore, that your Highness will take into considera-
tion my unhappy position, and I assure you that nothing
but the greatest distress and misery could have induced
me to trespass upon your generosity. Hoping for a
favourable answer, I have the honour to be, &c.
" BOURIOT."

There were some other documents found upon the
prisoner in reference to the same subject, but their con-
tents were not material.

The CHAIRMAN asked the prisoner what he had to
say to the charge of going about to obtain money by
begging ?—He replied that he was not aware that he
was committing any offence. H• had suffered a great
deal of misery in the cause of Prune Louis, and having
understood that his uncle resided at Croydon or some-
where in the neighbourhood, he thought he had a right
to try to obtain some assistance from him.

The CHAIRMAN asked him where he came frm ?
He replied that upon making his escape from the autho-
rities at Boulogne, he made the best of his way to Lon-
don, and he there received information of the residence
ut Prince Lucien.

Tile Inspector said that some relations of Prince
Louis did formerly live at Croydon, and he believed
the Prince himself lived there for a short time, but none
of the family were at the present time living in that
neighbourhood. The Prince died some months ago.
The Magistrates told the prisoner that the law of
this country did not allow persons to go about collecting
money in this way, but, under the circumstances, if he
would promise to leave the town immediately no pu-
nishment would be inflicted upon him.
Bouriot said that as he found Prince Lucien did
not lire at Croydon be had no wish to stay in the
town any longer, arid he, therefore, willingly made the
required promise.

The Magistrates then ordered him to be discharged.
He afterwards applied for hi 3 papers, bat the Beach said
they had better remain for the present in the hands of
the Inspector.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

Mr. Stockdale, in the early part of yesterday. ad-
dressed Alderman Hooper, who sat for the Lord
Mayor, on the subject of the petition which he (Mr.
Stockdale) which he intended to present to the Court
of Aldermen against the election of Alderman Harmer

as Lord Mayot of London. He had, he said, been
told by the Lord Mayor to attend the Court of Alder-
men on Tuesday, in order to present the petition, but
he had, since that appointment, very much to his sur-
prise, received notice that the sitting of the Court had

been postponed from that day, and he thus teas

prived of an opportunity of bringing before it a matter
of the utmost importance to the Corporation of Lon-
don. Alderman Harmer was perfectly atvare of his in-
tention, having received a communication ,o the effect
of the meditated opposition to the election, and stating
the time and place.

Alderman HOOPER—The affair is one of which

cannot take cognizance.
Mr. Stockdale—l know that. My object. in corning
here is to state publicly that I shall attend here on
Wednesday next, for the purpose of bringing- forward
the matter before his Lordship, so that Alnicrrmsn
Harmer may be perfectly well acquainted with the ap-
pointment. I come here because, whatever may b., the
cause of it, the Court of Aldermen appoiated for
Tuesday has been postponed.
Alderman FloorEa—lt is not Alderman Harmer's
fault that there is to be no Court on Tuesday.
Mr. Stockdale—l don't know that. 1 know that the
Mayor appointed that I should attend at the
Court on Tuesday, and I find that a postponement has
taken place.
Alderman HOOPER—WeII, I tell you that Alderman

Harmer ha 3 nothinto do with the postponement.

Mr. Hohlor said that p9.llponements of the Courts of
Aldermen were by no means unusual, especially when
appolutments in the Calendar followed closely, the one
upon the other.
Mr. Stockdale—l ,7,ive this public intimation, that on

Wednesday I shall attend here to make my statement
so that Alderman Ihrmer, or any body i❑ his behalf,
may be present upon this occasion.
Alderman HOOPER —I. dare say the Lord Mayor wil
be here.
Mr. Stockdale then withdrew.
The list of charges contained several cases of drunken.

neis, for most of which the Aldermen considered the

punishment of imprisonment, from Saturday night till
Mandl), morning, and the disgrace of exposure, sufficient.
One of the " disguised in liquor" was a decent-look-
ing man, who described himself as a commission agent
for the business of chemists and druggists.
The policeman who picked him up stated that the
gentleman was so drunk that he lay gasping upon the
broad of his back in a court, and that he had not even

the power to turn himself on his belly.
Alderman HOOPER expressed some surprise that a
man who had a respectable appearance should degrade
himself to such a brutal condition, and asked him
whether he wished to say anything on the subject ?
The defendant said that after having been engaged
in transacting business during the day, ,he had unfortu-
nately drunk a little ale, and afterwards a little rum.

Alderman HOOPER observed that if the defendant
had any professional sagacity in his moments of recrea-
tion, he must have known that he had swallowed a very
discordant compound.
The defendant said that he had taken but little of
either ingredient ; for in fact his medical friends had
assured him that if he did not abstain from drinks of
the kind, he could not fairly calculate upon a long stay
in this world.

Alderman Hoot,Ea—And so you are determined to
take their advice? The defendant—l fell into a fit
in consequence of having taken the mixture ; and I
think, if I persist in drinking liquor of this kind, I
shall go off in an apoplexy, as my medical friends have
informed me.
Alderman Hoop Ea—l think so toe, and I advise you
to be influenced by that apprehension. The defendant
—You may depend upon it that I shall take y•ur ad-
vice, my Lord.
Alderman HOOPER—Do so. You live by com-
pounds. Take care that you do not die by them. You
seem to be pursuing both courses. Was he quiet, po-
liceman ? Policeman—Quiet enough, my Lord. He
neither spoke nor moved.
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signed John Barber, which stated to Il a
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effect :
As a citizen of Dublin and a merchant, Mr. Barber
begged to apprise Mr. Levy, though he was afraid too
late, that there was one of the most determined swindlers
in the City of Dublin that had been known to the world
for some time, A fictitiou; firm under the name of
Messrs. Whyte, fii:Ninbottom, and Go., No. 9, Christ
Chun:ll6,w, bad been got up. Tuvre was no such

party as Higginbottom. Whyte attended the office to ;
receive letters in the morning, but was not seen on the
same day again, and all goods that arrived were at once
sold off at whatever they would bring. The mode of
procedure was to order goods, and state that they
,could be paid for on delivery, and reference was given
to some persons who were known to whatever menu
facturers were applied to. The pickles ordered from
Mr. Levy, to whom the letter was addressed, were sold
at fourpence per bottle. Fine old Windsor soap, which
cost 80s. per cwt. in London, was sold at 50s. by the
trader of Christ Church-place, who bad, it was believed, .
swindled every respectable firm he could find out. Hops
were ordered from Sewel, in the Borough ; isinglas
from Mr. Mobbing, Great Winchester-street ; Roman
cement from another ; hair-seating from Hull, silk and
cotton hose from Nottingham, hardware from Birming-
ham and Sheffield, hair-seating from Scotland, silk vei
manufactures from Glasgow, &c. &c. Major Sirr,
one of the Dublin Magistrates, had upwards of 150 of
the swindlers' replies to letters. It was supposed that
the fellow had received goods from upwards of 1,000
houses, for not an article of which he had paid one
farthing. He had received two shipments of sewing-
thread, amounting in value to upwards of 601., which
had been obtained from two manufacturers in Paisley,
in Scotland, and sold for less than half the value. The
letter to Mr. Levy concluded by requesting that the
facts might be laid before the police of London without
delay.
Mr. Levy stated to the Lord Mayor that the loss he
sustained did not, very fortunately, amount to more
than 6/. or 81., but he knew several respectable trades-
men who were sufferers, and he was anxious to prevent
further extension of the plunder, which seemed to have
been carried on with remarkable boldness and success.

The Loan MAYOR said that be should give all the
aid in his power to check and expose the system.

GUILDHALL.

James Glennon, a very old and feeble-looking man,
was charged with committing a nuisance by emptying
a pail of filth on the pavement of St. Andrew's-hill,
The Churchwarden of the parish said that similar
nuisances had been frequently committed, and in conse-
quence he placed a policeman in plain dress to watch
the parties so offending, and in the present instance
the prisoner was observed to come up to the door of
the Rector's house, and empty the pail down the area.
He must have done so for the purpose of annoying that
gentleman, as he passed several houses in coining from
his own to that where he committed the nuisance.

He was sentenced to imprisonment for one month
in the House of Correction, with hard labour.
Two wretched-Inoking youths were placed at the bar,
for creating a disturbance at the workhouse of the West
London Union.

The porter stated that they applied for admission to
the workhouse, which was denied, because they had been
formerly inmates, and left without permission. On
being refused, they made so great a disturbance, and
used such abusiv e language that be was compelled to
give them into custody.
The prisoners who, in their defence, urged that they
left the workhouse to seek some employment, but being
unsuccessful were compelled again to apply for relief,
were sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment.