The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-22 00:00:00

SENTIMENTAL ATTACHMENT.

Bow.STRY.tr.-A j,oitng man 'of the name of
Last, was brought before Mr. 11l twsittree, on a warrant, on
suspicion of having stolen or rather embezzled a pony, the pro.
perty of an elderly French Lady of the name of Morville, now
residing in France.
The complainant was a M. Mauduit, who is the principal
inaniesze of the Foreign Coach Office, at Charing .Cross, and
1 he stated that the defendant was an under.clerk in the Same
Office. Some months, ago, Madame Morville, who is very. old,
left this country, where she long resided, to live at Calais. it
happened that she had a potey which had for many long 'years
formed part of her domestic establishment, and for which,
consequently, she had a very great affection. When she got to
Dover, she fancied, whether truly or not he could not say, that
she would not be allowed to export the poor pony, and—
. otiMr„ mrarterus.L.—Prey how came she to entertain Such a
non ? ' .. ,
M. Mentinte,' with' some hesitation, said, " Why, Sir, the
d.never per-
fect is, that it is an entire pony, and Madame thought that the breed must be so valuable, dust the kloglish•woul
twit her countrymen on the other side of the 'water to .havelbc
benefit of it." lie went on to state, that Madame in consequence
of this notion others wrote to him, requesting that he would re. ceive the pony and cherish it, and she would pay any thing that
was demanded • it was not on any account to be sold or killed,
or even suffered to Work, but to be well fed and
_taken care of
as long as it should live. With this injuction,. the witness
out of respect to Madame, felt inclined us comply, and the
defendant having oecaSion to go to 'Dover be wee desired to
bring up the pony, lie dam) but the moment witness saw it
he regretted that so much trotiblet and expellee should be In.
curred for such an unfortunate animal. Jr was lame, almost
blind, very lean, and very old. " Bless my sod)," said wit.
nags to defendant, " how could you think of bringing such a
pony as this seventy-three miles ? why, It would be a charity
to shoot him." However, as he had undertaken to protect the
pony he was determined to • do so;. and while hesitating where
to place ft, he, defendant, volunteered to take care of it alto.
gether forthree shillings per week. Witness gladly closed with
this offer, And the pony was taken home by the defendant to his
mother's at Paddington. The witness wrote soon afterwards
to Madame, advising her to have the . poor animal shot, at the
same time informing her that her notion about the exportation
of it was erroneous. The bearer of the letter reported that
poor Madame when she read the piece of advice about shooting
burst into tears, and declared she would not. have him destroyed
for one thousand pounds." She wrote to witness instructing
him to send the pony to Calais as speedily as possible, and he
spoke to the Dover waggoner to take it as far as that place, at
the same time telling the Defendant that he must produce the
yourself privilegedknow
where to find me.
1 pony by a particular day. Ile had repeatedly asked to see
the pony before, but had always been put off' by the defendant
with various excuses, but upon this occasion he said it should
he forthcoming. On the appointed day, however, he said the
pony was lame. Witness got into a passion, and said it was a
very lame excuse, and insisted that the pony should be pro-
duced on another day then mentioned. That day came, the
pony was not produced, and the witness finally discovered that
the pony had been sold in Smithfield for 3Se.
Air. Fite ec it, the Barrister, who appeared for the defendant,
asked Al. Maucluit several questions, and amens others,
respecta-
ble whether upon discharging the Defendant last week from
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knowing Lb: ugatrate nor of
office he had not given hitn a good character for honesty P Thu
reply was, that he said he conducted himself henessiY in in
employment.
ilipoony was not
wollirdri., }a'silymowuctilitird
1,. worthy and upright
1 any one else, And knowing my ditty:4o7h pwion and your
Ayonutlrsycolfu,,tShier,natice
oiLTi
highly
' young man, choose out of your r
with a felony. •
young Englishman, by charging
i Sir fon the contrary I have
M. elauauit.....l have no malice, Sir thin reateat kindness.
always treated him and hi* family
any y
French malice, to blast the cheraielittejflfre
Von think-, any g, and 700 have
seen some English passion Just new.
grossly insulted me. I hoer
s you are a l'renchman and I sin
Mr. Fezercet—Wslity, ,
. pony was not soldi byY the re"
an Englishman, and y
IQ rister repeated several times with ITreat
This the Learned I ar
Mr lilliessivee who midi
of thopiace in which he was standing, and
minded Mr. French
as Mauduit had al --
that . lewn nothing like
expressed an opinion
~ retort some reason to complain,
malice, and bad the
ref
set up
to a man named T defendant. but given away
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,_ rucks, who sold
a sinithficid. Trucks was called, anti swore that this was
it in .
the case. .
After a noisy argument of some length,, Mr.. Minshull ex.
pressed Ida opinion that there was no felonious intensnu din
part of the defendant, though he had certainly behaved meanly
warmth, until checkewilaks:
that.
.the
and shabbily to a man who appeared to have treated 'him with
great kindness.
Finally the defendant was discharged, and 141, illauduit was
so determined to comply to the letter with Madame's
,-reqUest.
that be agreed to give the Smithfield purelniiier 31..' 10E for the
pony, in order to restore him to his fond mistress. ' -