The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-07 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE " POET'S COMPLAINT."-A one-eyed elderly
son of Apollo, with a remarkably wide mouth, who de-
scribes himself as " Michael Rough, schoolmaster, poet,
and martyr, of Marylebone," ascended the rostrum with
great deliberation, placed a heap of papers on the desk
before him, saddled his nose with a pair of spectacles,
and then proceeded to call the attention of the bench to
his case, which, he said, included the offences of " con-
spiracy, persecution, and attempt to murder himself and
Mrs. Rough."
Mr. HARDWICK, the sitting magistrate, told him to
go on.
The complainant selected a closely-written sheet of
foolscap from his bundle, and in a sonorous and mellifluous
Milesian brogue proceeded to read with a sort of running
comment. "On Monday morning, at six P.m., being
sick and wake, I got up to help me wife in the big wash.
Ah, yer wurtchip, it would do your heart good to see
me wife at the tub. At nine precisely (looking at the
paper) ; no, at ten minutes past, I hung out the clothes
on the leads when Mrs. Morley, me landlady, wid the
voice of a Stentor, flourished a hammer and swore she
would have 'em all down. Grant me loan of five
minutes,' says I, and I'll have the clothes in.' She said
she would not stay, and the row she made brought all the
neighbours about ; but if there had been a hundred, I
could have satisfied them wid the truth of me eloquence
and the innocence of me cause."

Mr. HARDWICK—Get on with your complaint.
Complainant—Seeing the slaughter of me wife and
meself about to begin, I called out, "Oh gintlemen, I'm
sick; I'm under the doctor's hand." Wake, fable, and
faint as I was, I knocked down a black man of gigantic
proportions, and me wife got none the worst of the
scrimmage.
Mr. IlAnDwicK—Let me know what the woman has
done to you.
Complainant—She conspires against me, and she per-
secutes me all she can. The attacks on me wife will
shorten me life, sad plase yer wurtcbip, they goes brag-
ging about that Rough and his wife can't get justice from
the magistrate. ,
The defendant said she ought to make the complaint.
Two more troublesome lodgers than Rough and his wife
no landlady was ever before troubled with. The leads
were a tabooed spot to the lodgers. They had no right
to hang out wet clothes there, and it was while protest-
ing against this breach of her domestic laws, that Mrs.
Rough had nearly pitched her forty feet down the
street.

Complainant—Me karacter will bear inspection. I've
letters from the Duke of Wellington and a hundred of
the nobility and gentry. I only wish anybody was here
that knows me, to spake to me karacter.
_ _ _ _

Horsford, the Ifendicity Society's officer, who hap-
pened to be in Court, very much to the annoyance of the
complainant, volunteered his services.
Mr. ITAnDwicic—Do you know anything of this
man ?

llorsford—l've known him for years as a begging
letter writer. He's a regular impostor.
Complainant (bristling up)—An impostor ! What,
spake that way of a schoolmaster—spake of Michael
Rough, the poet, that way ! Spake of me that way,who
has written seventeen reams of manuscript about national
inventions and saving life and property from tire, ship-
wreck, and lightning, by moral manes—me, Mike Rough,
that has written no end of poetry—here, your wurtchip
(pulling out a well•thumbed pamphlet), I'll rade you my
last new poem.
Mr. IlAnnwicx—No, thank you.
Complainant—l'll bind Ilorsford down to what he
says. He's at the head of a conspiracy against me.
Mr. HaiDwxcK declined to hear anything further.
The landlady wanted to get rid of her lodger, and the
lodgers said they wanted to leave. The best way to end
their dispute was by parting, and this he should recom-
mend to take place fortwith.
The complainant pocketed his papers, leaving his
poem for the perusal of the magistrate. It was entitled
" Eddystone Lighthouse ; a moral poem, by Michael
Rough, late schoolmaster of Cahir," and it appeared to be
a curiosity of its kind. A preliminary note informed
the reader that "to relish the beanties of the poem,
the reader should be at the top of Eddystone Light-
house in a hurricane," commencing with this windy in-
vocation—
" Goddess ! arouse me with thy sacred trump."
The poem proceeded to give a rhyming account of a
fire that hapened at the lighthouse, and the burning
of one of the men employed in the building. The poet
says—.

"Now to his body let the world repair,
Behold the truth, and stay and ever stare,
For in his stomach some cold lead was found,
Its weight one ounce just less than half a pound."
SOUTHWARK.
Eliza Hawes, a showily-dressed young woman, was
brought up in custody by Sergeant Pocock, F division,
before Mr. Seeker, charged with stealing 1501. from
Captain Wylie, of No. 52, Stamford-street, Black-
friars-road.

The complainant stated that he recently returned
from abroad, and being desirous of settling in this
country, he purchased the lease of a house in Stamford-
street, in which he intended to take up his residence,
and for this purpose furnished it throughout. Being a
bachelor, he required a respectable female to take charge
of the domestic duties of the house, and about three
months ago he met with the prisoner, who was strongly
recommended as a person well qualified to perform the
duties of housekeeper, and he engaged her accordingly.
He had no fault to find against her conduct up to last
Thursday, on the afternoon of which day he had
occasion to leave home, and in his hurry forgot
his bunch of keys, leaving them in the lock of a
chest which he kept under his bedstead in the
back parlour, and in which was a cigar case containing
a 1001. Bank of England note, besides loose cash to
the amount of 50/. more. When he returned home in
about two hours afterwards he was informed by the
housemaid that the prisoner had left the house in a cab

about au hour previously, saying she had business in
the City, and that she should return in time for tea.
Upon being made acquainted with the above circnin-
stance, he proceeded to his bed-chamber, found the
chest already mentioned open, the key being left in the
lock, and on examination discovered that the 1001 Bank
of England note, together with all the loose cash, were
taken, but none of the other property the chest con-
tained was touched. Suspicion was at once excited
against the prisoner, who was known to have been in
his chamber up to the moment she left the house in the
afternoon in question, and those suspicions were
strengthened from the fact of her not returning home
at the time she mentioned. The captain added that he
did not know the number of the 1001. Bank of England
note, that he had only received it a few days previously
from Mr. Bowen, his broker, of Bank-chambers, who,
by his directions, had sold out 4001. in the Three per
Cent. Stock, and who would probably be enabled to
procure him the number, as it was from him he received
it. He added that he did not want to punish the young
woman if she made a disclosure of her crime, and re-
signed possession of the money left; that he had sinee
ascertained she had proceeded on a country excursion on
quitting his house; but that she returned to town, and
had taken up her abode at • a house of an improper de-
scription, in the vicinity of the theatres.
The prisoner, who held her handkerchief up to her
face, and was weeping during the time occupied by the
captain in making the charge, now exclaimed that she
was innocent of the offence ; that the captain, by his
persuasions and promises to marry her, had induced her
to become an inmate of his house ; but, on finding that
his intentions were-not likely to be fulfilled, she quitted
the house abruptly, she confessed, but the very night
before he told ber to go, and said he should give her 14/.
to get rid of her. She added that she took him at his
word, and left the place as described.
Mr. SECKER asked the captain if there was any truth
in the prisoner's assertions with respect to his having
given her a sum of money to leave the house ?
The reply was that nothing of the kind occurred ;
that there was not a vestige of truth in the assertion that
he had never held out any promise of a matrimonial
alliance with her; that he was satisfied with her conduct
in the situation he had engaged her for ; had no inten-
tion to discharge her so long as she conducted the house-
hell affairs as she had done up to the time of the rob-
bery ; and that she had been a fortnight altogether in
his service.

The complainant's housemaid confirmed that portion
of his statement with respect to the hurried manner in
which the prisoner left the house on the afternoon in
question, and of her assertion that she was going into
the City on business and should return to tea ; that no
person was in the house either before or after until her
master's return, when be missed the money.
Sergeant Pocock stated, that, upon receiving informa-
tion of the robbery, and a description of the prisoner, he
traced her to Great Marlow and Oxford, and after quiting
the latter place, she returned to town, and took up her
abode at No. 36, Exeter-street, Strand. That he went
there on the preceding day, and informed her that he
came to take her into custody for stealing 1501. from
Captain Wylie, of Stamford-street. She said that she
had no objection to accompany him, but that she was
innocent of the charge. He then proceeded to examine
a box which she claimed as her own, and in it found a
gold watch, chain, and seals, six gold finger rings, a pair
of gold earrings, a Si. Bank of England note, and 31. 10s.
in gold, besides several silk gown pieces recently pur-
chased, by the bills and receipts of the tradesmen at
whose shops they were bought, and also several other
articles, all of which he produced.
The prisoner said, that she had the gold watch before
she went to reside at the complainant's house, and had
a witness in attendance to prove that fact; that with re-
spect to the gold chain and the pieces of silk, she had
purchased them, she admitted, with the money she had
received from bim.

The complained said that such could not be the fact,
for he had not given her money sufficient for the
purpose.

kr. SECKER inquired if any exertions had been used
to trace the possession of the 1001. note to the prisoner.
It all depended upon that, for it was not at all impos-
sible but she might have purchased the various articles
produced with money of her own, as she states that, in-
dependently of money she had on entering the com-
plainant's service, she had also received some of him ;
which, therefore, might have enabled her to procure
such articles. At all events, it was absolutely necessary
to trace the 1001. note, to make anything of the case, and
that no time should be lost in obtaining the number at them
Bank with a view to its recovery. The magistrate added
that he should remand the prisoner for a week for the
above purpose, but that he had no objection to accept of
bail for her appearance in her owu recognisance of 1001.,
and two sureties of 501. each.

The prisoner, not being prepared with the necessary
bail, was committed to the county gaol.

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.

BRUSSELS, Atm. 3.—We have been able this morning
to give our readers the first example of the rapidity with
which news will henceforth be transmitted between
Belgium and France. Yesterday evening, August
2, we received, at nine o'clock, a letter written
at Paris on the morning of the same day. This
letter, which was brought us by the railway, gave us
news not only from Paris but from Nismes, Bordeaux,
and Toulouse, all dated the Ist. The news from these
last cities had come to Paris by the Telegraph. This
morning, the 3d of August, our subscribers at Brussels.
and the provincial towns in the country, received a sup-
plement which acquainted them with the result of the
first day of the election in some of the principal towns of
France.

On the Ist of August, while the centrigade ther-
mometer at the Royal Observatory at Brussels was at
33 deg. 7-16ths, that at Paris was at 36 deg. 15-16ths in
the shade ; in the sun, 44 deg. 3-19ths at the Louvre.
This is probably the highest degree of temperature at
Paris, as well as Brussels. The heat has lost some of its
intensity ; from the Ist to the 2nd of August, a' noon, the
maximum.at the Royal Observatory was 30 deg. 9-16ths,
and the minimum 18 deg. B.loths ; from the 2nd to the
3rd of August, at noon, the maximum was only 27 deg.
8 10ths, the minimum, 16 deg. B.Bths.
Mr. P. J. Tyens, at Brussels, requests us to inform
the public that he has obtained a patent for an invention
which is intended to prevent accidents on the railways.
This invention consists in a means to stop a train al-
most instantaneously at any part of its course. He also
affirms that by the facility of arriving at the stations
without the slackening of the speed, now necessary, by
this invention much time would be saved ; for instance
between Paris and Brussels to the amount of two hours.

THE HAGuE, AUG. 4.—We are assured that her
Majesty the Queen will set out about the middle of this
month for Italy, that she will remain abroad for some
months, and return to the Hague about the month of
November.

UTRECHT, Aua. 4.—The mint of Utrecht has coined,
from the Ist of July, 1845, to the middle of June, 1846,
11,790,000 f. in new silver coin ; the mint is now able to
furnish 500,000 f. of large silver coin in a week.
AMSTERDAM, AUG. 4.—Yesterday afternoon the King
set out on his journey to Luxemburg. He arrived here
by special train from the Hague, at' a quarter past five
o'cbck, and immediately proceeded with his suite by a
special train on the Rhenish Railway to Arnheim, and
thence to Luxemburg.
The thermometer, which at nine o'clock this morning
was 75 deg., had risen at three o'clock in the afternoon
to 85 deg.