The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-03 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Mustapha Ali, a Greek, about 30 years of age, who
speaks English fluently, was placed in the dock before
Mr. Burrel, charged with the following fraud :
Mr. BURRELL, upon seeing the prisoner, said—Why I
have seen you repeatedly here.
Prisoner—Oh, yes, Sir I I have come nearly every day
to hear the cases of felony,—(Loud laughter.)
Blr. Wood, a bobt and shoemaker, living at 34, Tot-
hill-street, Westminster, said, that on Friday, the 16th
ult., the prisoner came to his shop and bought a pair of
shoes which came to 3s. 6d. ; he did not pay for them,
and prosecutor did not press for the payment as he knew
the prisoner lived in the neighbourhood, and he was in
the habit of seeing him almost daily. He came again a
few days afterwards, and bargained for a pair of bluchers,
and agreed to give 4s. 6d. for them' which made the
whole debt Bs. The prisoner called for pen, ink, and
paper, and wrote a draft upon Cox and Green-
wood, bankers, of Parliament-street, for IL, to be
placed to the account of Colonel Leicester
Stanhope; the prosecutor, said he had not the difference
with him, and the prisoner said, " Never mind, I'll call
again for it." He went that day to Cox and Green-
wood's, and the cashier said they had received no order
from Colonel Stanhope to pay such an amount. He
called the next day, and still no order had come, and the
cashier advised him to wait upon Colonel Stanhope. He
did so, and the Colonel told him that he had never au-
thorised the defendant to draw any draft or check in his
name, or by his order, and that he was an irreclaimable
vagaband. On Saturday last the prisoner came to price
a pair of boots, and with the greatest assurance asked if
the draft had been honoured. Prosecutor told him he
would honour him with an abode in the interior of a gaol.
Prisoner ran off, prosecutor followed and caught him,
and gave him over to the police.
The prisoner admitted having given the draft in pay-
ment of the boots, and when he heard next day that it
had not been honoured, he went to Colonel Stanhope,
and told him what he had done, and the Colonel replied
that he knew well he had no right to use his name, and
was very angry with him.
Mr. BURRELL—And, indeed, he had cause to be
angry, I think, with a person who first drew drafts upon
him, and then came and asked him to honour them.
Pray, in what relation do you stand to Col. Stanhope ?
Prisoner—l was adopted by Lord Byron, and at
his death Colonel Stanhope brought me over from
Greece and took care of me. (This individual
was found, when a mere babe in the oven of a
house in some town in Greece, the inhabitants of which
house had been massacred by the Turks, who overlooked
the babe, hid away by his unhappy mother. Lord Byron
brought him up, had him taught him the English tongue,
and at his death Colonel Stanhope brought him over to
England. He was in the Colonel's service some years,
when the latter got him a situation in the Post-office ; but
this he lost through his misconduct, as also one in a
banking-house. Since then Colonel Stanhope had dis-
carded him,)
Mr. BURRELL--I shall remand this case till Thursday
next, when I hope Colonel Stanhope will attend.

DUNFERMLINE.—There was no fast-day here.
The ecclesiastical authorities set themselves in rebellion
against the Assem'Ay's appointment ; and had only ser-
vice twice a-day in St. Andrew's Church, and in the
evening a meeting in the Abbey Church, in which the
remaining three ministers took part. The people being
taught by this arrangement that obedience was not ex-
pected of them, acted accordingly. There might be
about 400 people attending the services of the day. ' The
banks were shut ; but scarcely a single shop or counting-
room was closed.

Between 11 and 12 o'clock on Saturday night
a man who was proceeding over Black friars• bridge was
observed by police constable Roe, 356, suddenly to
stagger and fall. Roe immediately ran to his assistance,
when he discovered that the poor man was in a state of
insensibility, and with the assistance of Sergeant Taplin
he conveyed him upon a stretcher to the station-house,
where he was promptly attended by the surgeon, who
opened a vein in the arm, but no blood would flow. The
body was afterwards conveyed to the BrideweW bone-
house for identification, and to await a Coroner's inquest.
It is dressed in a dark coat and trousers and plaid waist-
coat, and has the appearance of being that of a working
mechanic.

DEPREDATIONS OF A Fox.—A few days ago
Mr. Matthew Lewis, of the Park farm, near Bridgend,
was much annoyed by the ravages committed amongst
his poultry. Be adopted means to secure the plunderer,
and on Sunday last he was successful in capturing a fine
vixen fox, of the greyhound species. During the visits
paid his poultry, Reynard managed to destroy the large
number of 83 fowls, and 19 couple of ducks.—Cambrian.
Copy of a Letter from the late Henry Cowper,
Esq., of Tewen.waters, Herts., to Mr. W. F. France, who is re.
siding at 22, Spring gardens. "Tewen-waters, Herts., March 21,
1840. - Sir, In justice to the Messrs. Solomons about the time men.
tioned in the extract of the advertisement which you have sent
me, I beg to inform you that I certainly did write to them to that
effect; before I possessed the Voice Conductor Sound Magnifiers
I had been stone deaf. lam within two months of my 87th year,
and can still feel the comfort and benefit of the Sound Magnifiers
Invisible Voice Conductors. T am, Sir, your obedient ser.
vant, Henry Cowper."—Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, 39,
A lbemarle.strect, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel, and
76, King William.street, City, state that their newly.
invented Invisible Voice Conductor Sound Magnifiers enables per.
sons at an advanced age, and of forty and fifty years' standing of
extreme deafness, to join in general conversation, and to catch the
sound of a distant low speaker at a public assembly. They are the
size of a very small gold seven.shilling piece, and when in the
cavity of the ears, they are not the least perceptible nor more un.
comfortable than having a small piece of fine wool in its place.
Messrs. Solomons' newly.invented Spectacles, immediately they are
I laced before imperfect vision, that mist and dullness whicli appears
before the eyes is at once removed, every object becoming clear and
distinct, so that the most aged defective eye.sight become s bright
and brilliant, 110 is brought to its youthful, naturals ,anti Ori-
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