The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-07 00:00:00

SWANSEA H.a.unouiz.

Mr. JAMES opened the case on behalf of the promoters
of this scheme, and proceeded to call evidence in sup-
port thereof.

Room D.
SOUTH TOTLIESELITLE (DONCASTER 11.111)

GOOLE).
The Committee were occupied during the day with
evidence in favour of the Bill.

Room E.
EAST LANCASHIRE, SOUTHPORT BRANCH
The case for the promoters was closed today.

HOUSE OF COMMOT.\-S.-(YESTERDAY.)
GROUP VI.

niusTox, AND EXETER (TAUNTON AND
CASTLE CARY BRANCH).-BRISTOL AND
EXETER (BRANCH FROM BLEA DON TO
WELLS AND GLASTONBURY). - GREAT
WESTERN (EXTENSION OF THE BERKS
AND HANTS).-EXETER, YEOVIL, AND DOR-
CHESTER-SALISBURY AND YEOVIL.

The` Committee were occupied in passing the clauses
of the above-named Bills.

REMARKABLE CASE OF

DECEPTION.

A German collection of remarkable trials has just
been published, which contains•some extraordinary cases
of successful fraud. The first of these is that of a native
of Berlin, of low extraction, named Grosjean ; who,
under the assumed name of Carl Grandisson, made a
splendid figure in several parts of Germany—appear-
in,' and disappearing at intervals throughout a period
of twelve years, as a wealthy merchant travelling with
his family for pleasure. At Heidelberg, especially,
and in the neighbourhood of that city, he twice re-
sided for a length of time, on each occasion with his
wife and family—an object of general esteem and admi-
ration. His establishment was of the richest kind ;
his entertainments were noble and frequent ; his man-
ners, except for a certain tendency to boasting, were
thought to be in the highest degree winning and delight-
ful. The public regard acquired by a prosperous air
and sociable disposition was enhanced by the domestic
virtues and admirable conduct of his very handsome
wife. She seemed to be a pattern of propriety—cheerful
and amiable when in company, but greatly preferring
retirement ; in which she devoted herself with exem-
plary care—especially during the frequent absence of
her husband on short business journeys—to the educe-
cation of two lovely and well-conducted children.
After this happy family bad lived for some time in Hei-
delberg, universally popular and admired, in 1802
some questionable circumstances took place in con-
nexion with the members of a family that had become
intimate with the Grandissons, in which an unaccount-
able loss of money cane to be talked of, with some
other strange transactions, but all in a manner that ap-
peared to reflect chiefly on ene of the young men of that
family, who had fallen, as it seemed, hopelessly in love
with the merchant's beautiful wife. The matter came
to no certain conclusion ; the youth fled, and the Gran-
dissons left Heidelberg in consequence of the disgust
which this occurrence had caused. Eight years later
they reappeared there, with the same splendid equipage
and living in the same admirable manner. This se-
cond sojourn lasted for three years, when a mere
accident led to the discovery of the facts which
render the case surprising. The wealth of Grandisson
was the fruit of a regular plunder of the public mails,
which, without any accomplice in the act, he had syste-
matically cairied on for years with entire impunity.
His short absence was employed on expeditions of the
kind; during which he must have committed almost
countless robberies of large sums of money and other
valuables, without detection in a single instance,—
returning to the bosom of his family with the plunder
which he had collected. The discovery was brought
about, during one of these absences, by a letter,
intended to extort money, from one who had
accidentally found out some of his minor peculations
and had traced the offender at last to his abode. It
then became apparent that the whole life of this flourish-
ing person had been a series of every kind of theft.
While the wealth gained by his larger felonies was ex-
pended in keeping up a stately appearance, he could
not repress the petty desire of stealing any trifle
that fell in his way, in shops, dwelling-houses—nay,
even in the very place where he lived on the foot-
ing of a grand personage. Yet of this not a suspicion
was raised until the detection of his greater robberies
had come to pass. The condition and history of the wife
are hardly less curious than this long success of a whole-
sale system of plunder combined with the incessant
bperaenctaicteonoefetehoenmse!oaonsesotiphielfrering.
husband's
Sheinapiqpneiatriesst,ohave
studi-
ous to conceal them, wavering between fits of abandoned
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adventurers at the outset. The man began his course
of crime, when a valet, by robbing his master ; and soon
to her children. Both husband and wife were mere
tale, it may
and felonies, on the grandest as well
so
long
undetected,
scale —so dexterously planned, and
like
romance than
afterwards entered upon a career of pirietaesncoens,tthreeascmhaelrlieesst,
that the story of them sounds more
the
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le late Thomas Stilwell, -'---Esq.; navy . agent,
Arundel-street, Strand, and of Dorking, Surrey, died
possessed of personal property amounting. to 120,0001.,
which, together with his freehold estate, he leaves prin-
cipally among his three sons, John, James, and Thomas,
who are his executors, making a provision for his son
William and some other members of his family.