The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-17 00:00:00

POLICE OFFICE, BOWSTREET.

Yesterday a respectably dressed young woman,
who seemed by her manner to possess an abundance of the
milk of human kindness, with but a very small portion of what
is called knowledge of the world, approached the Bench, and
curtseying respectfully to the Magistrates, requested their as-
sistance under these circumstances :—She stated that about
eleven years ago a younger brother of hers, who from infancy
bad been addicted to wild habits, absconded from his parents
and enlisted into the 83d Regiment of Foot. None of the
family had ever seen him from the hour of his enlistment, and
for the last four or five years they had not even heard of him.—
On Sunday night last, about twelve o'clock, as she and her
mother were retiring to rest, they heard a loud knocking at the
dour, and the applicant opening it saw a tall and fine looking
young man in the stable dress of a dragoon, who asked her if she
had not a brother, who some years ago ran away and enlisted
foi a soldier? She replied in the affirmative, and supposing that
the visitor had brought some intelligence of her brother invited
him into the parlour, and he there asked her smilingly what
she would give to see him ? She replied that she should be
most happy to see him, but she had nothing to give, observing,
" I have no property, Sir, in the world but what you see about
me." The visitor then turned to her mother and said, " Don't
you know me ?" The mother said she had no recollection of
him. " Indeed !" replied the soldier, " why it's rather strange
that a mother should not know her own child. lam your son,
my dear mother." The applicant and her mother stared at
this announcement, and doubted its truth, for they could trace
none of the linetunents of the family in the face of the soldier :
but recollecting that he was but a growing boy when he
left them, and that long service sometimes effects a wonderful
change in " the human face," they began to believe that he was •
really their long lost relation, and they were confirmed in their
belief when he mentioned several family matters of a private na-
ture. They embraced him very affectionately, and although the
hour was late, they procured him meat and drink, and while at
supper he entertained them with a brief narrative of his services
abroad. lie said he had lauded only thelday before at the Lon-
don Docks from foreign service, that he was then without money,
but that he had arrived at4the rank of serjeant-major' and was to
go on the following morning to the Duke of York's Office to re-
ceive arrears of pay. They, knowing nothing of military effairs,
believed this to be true, and congratulated him of course on his
good fortune. The applicant had a small gold watch which hap-
pened to be lying on the table, and her supposed brother took it
upend said, " This is a pretty watch, sister; I want a watch,
and I shall keep it." The applicant said she must object.
to that, for the watch was a present front a particular
friend, and she could not part with it. He, however,
laughed, and put it in his pocket ; and she, conceiving him
to be only in joke, said no more about it. They made up a
bed for him' and in the morning the applicant was stirring'be-
times, and having prepared breakfast for her newly-found
brother, cleaned Ins boots, brushed his jacket, and prepared
him as well as she could for his visit to the Duke of York's
Office. While he was taking his breakfast she said she would go
and fetch her brothers and sisters, who lived hard by, to see him ;
but to this he objected, observing, that he did not wish to be
" reviewed" in that manner just then. She pressed it, and he
then said, " Do you suspect that I am not your brother, that
you want me to be reviewed by all the family in this manner? I
am shabby now, stop till lam smarter." She and her mother
thought this very odd, hut attributed it to his pride, or they
might perhaps have had some suspicion. When he had finished
his breakfast he walked out of the parlour, as they supposed
merely to the door, but they were deceived, for he went entirely
away, and they saw no more of him. He took her gold watch
away with him.
Mr. HALLS said the story was a very singular one. He
could not help wondering at the credulity of the applicant and
her mother, especially when they both declared that there way
not the slightest trace of their relation to be observed in the
features of the impostor. That service must be hard, and the
climate extraordinary indeed which could effect so total
change that a mother and a sister could not discover the slightest
resemblance of what their son and brother formerly was.
An active officer was then desired by the Magistrate to snake
inquiry, and endeavour to apprehend the impostor.
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the charge of having cruelly beaten and tortured his son, a child
eight years of age.
Bowers, one of the beadles of St. Giles, going his rounds in
the course of the day saw the little boy sitting upon the step of a
door near the Seven Dials, crying and rubbing his back, seem-
ingly in great agony. The beadle asked what ailed him, and the
child said that his father had treated him so cruelly that he was
obliged to run away, and he was afraid to return home. The
beadle asked him some questions, and he said that his father was
in the habit of beating hint until the blood flowed, and that he
had that day come home from the gin shop and without any
cause lie stripped him naked and lashed him with a thick rope
upon the bare akin until he cut the flesh and made him bleed.
He cried with the pain, and because he would not " hold his
tongue" his father seized him by. the two ears and threw him
upon the tire. His back came against the hot bar of the grate
and was burnt. The beadle hearing this recital thought it his
duty to represent the case to the parish officers, and took the boy
with hint. They examined his back, and found a burn ex-
tending across from one shoulder to the other, which had
evitlently been occasioned by a hot bar. The back was also
much lacerated, and the child exhibited other marks of extreme
ill treatment.
The defendant did not deny the charge, and urged in the
way of extenuation that the boy was perverse and obstinate,
adding that lie thought every father had a right to do as he
pleased with his own child, and that lie did not see what right
other people had to interfere.
Sir It. Itiatrein said the law must teach the defendant that
this doctrine of his was very erroneous. The parish officers had
done great credit to themselves by bringing the case forward,
and he hoped they would follow it up by a prosecution.
The defendant was ordered to give 411 hours notice of bail,
and was meanwhile committed.

MR. FAUNTLEROY.—PreviousIy to the recent
interview between Mrs. Fauntleroy and her hus-
band, the lady who had some time lived with
him, and by whom he has two children, was in
the constant habit of visiting him at Newgate.
Some of his friends, however, having hinted to
him the propriety of such visits being disconti-
nued under present circumstances, he imme-
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concurred with their suggestion, and she
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hours with him. Mr. Fauntleroy's health, which
had been particularly good, has, it is said, within
the last few days, rather declined ; his spirits
have, in consequence, suffered some slight degree
of depression. By his own desire be sees fewer
of his friends than 4teretofore, and is daily visited
by one or other of two very respectable clergy-
men, whose benevolent attention appears to be
highly acceptable to him.—On Sunday last, when
Mr. Cotton, the Ordinary of Newgate, was per-
forming divine service in the chapel, which was
extremely crowded with prisoners, a female con-
vict, who has been sentenced to die, was dread-
fully affected. She fell into hysterics, and was
taken from the chapel, but those who remained
behind heard her shrieks for half an hour after-
wards. The circumstance was awful beyond de-
scription. Mr. Fauntleroy, and other convicts
whose cases are considered desperate, were list-
ening with solemn attention to the Ordinary, who
was delivering a sermon calculated to fix the at-
tention of common hearers. The effect was such
that the Ordinary could scarcely proceed. Mr.
Fauntleroy covered his face with his hands, and
seemed quite overwhelmed with affliction. We
stated some days back that the Recorder would
make his Report in the course of this week, or
very early in the next. It is now understood
that the Privy Council is to he summoned to meet
at Carlton-house on Saturday next, when the
King will come to town for the purpose of re-
ceiving the report of both September and October
Sessions.—( Times.)
ANDREW PRESTON, a peasant of Scottish ex-
traction, was the preserver of GUSTAVUS VASA,
the deliverer of Sweden from the tyranny of
Christiern the usurper. Preston concealed the
royal boy ; and with inviolable fidelity kept the
secret of his birth, until be attained the age of
patriotic action.

• Far PaoTzus's Third
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