The Sun.
London, England, 1846-01-05 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY).

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John .4sbui y and Henry Lee, two lads eighteen years
of age, were charged by police-constables 290 and 269
with attempting to pick a gentleman's pocket at the
Old Bailey.
It appeared from the evidence that police-constable
269 saw the prisoners at about five minutes before
eight o'clock this morning dodging a gentleman
at the Old Bailey, and when the place became
crowded, he saw both prisoners put their hands in the
gentleman's pockets. lie then took them into custody,
and when they were proceeding down Skinner-street,
he saw one of the prisoners drop a white cambric
pocket-handkerchief, which he produced ; and the other
prisoner said the two officers were two rascals to take
them into custody merely for an attempt to pick the
pockets.
Alderman AlooN said that it was a most lamentable
thing to see so many boys devoting themselves to clime.
He therefore committed both prisoners for one month.

SOUTHWARK.—(THIS DAY.)
Charles Perryman and William Hardwick, two well-
dressed young men, were placed at the bar, charged
with attempting to rob Captain Randall of a gold watch
in Horsemonger-lane, and with having assaulted a po-
liceman in his efforts to secure them.

Captain Randall stated that as he was standing near
the corner of Swan-street, at half-past ten o'clock this
morning, witnessing the execution of Quennell, the two
prisoners made the attempt to rob him of his watch,
They rushed upon him in the crowd, and one of them
(Perryman) made three attempts to pull the watch out
of his fob, but did not accomplish it, owing to the chain
having been twisted firmly round his brace. He (com-
plainant) called for the police, and 272 M, coming to the
spot, took the prisoners into custody, in doing which one
of them struck him a violent blow in the face, and both
of them endeavoured to escape.
Another gentleman, who was present at the execution
near the same spot, said that he was robbed of his watch,
but, owing to the pressure of the crowd, he could not un-
cit-rtake to identify the parties.
EN-idence was given of the previously bad characters
of the p,-isoners, one of whom, Perryman, had been con-
victed at th" Old Bailey and sentenced to be transported,
which was aftewards commuted into imprisonment.
Mr. COTTINGiIi DI said that the dreadful spectacle of an
execution did not prCirent the prisoners from exercising
their vocation even under the very gallows; that it was
fortunate for them they had not effected the robbery,
for if they had he would assuredly have committed them
for trial, and as the sessions were then sitting, probably
they would have been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
be transported. He should wave the circumstances,
and commit the prisoners for three months each to the
House of Correction.

The MAGISTRATE, addressing Captain Randall,
expressed his astonishment that a man in his situation
of life should have been a spectator of such a scene as
an execution, and advised him in future to remain at
home.

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(T HIS DAY.)
James Williams, a young man well-known to, the
police, was charged under the following circumstames:
—Mr. James Logan, of Duke-street, Portland-place,
stated, that about one o'clock on Saturday night last,
as he was proceeding along Oxford-street, he was beset
by the prisoner and two other men, who hustled him,
and be felt their hands in his pockets, they then struck
him down, and were running off, but a police constable
of the E division succeeded in securing the prisoner,
although his companions escaped.
The prisoner said he had never touched the prose-
cutor.

Mr. MALTBY asked the prosecutor if he had lost any-
thing. The prosector said he believed not, excepting his
latchkey, which might have fallen out of his pocket in
the scuffle.

air of invidious scrutiny, and reddening as he spoke,

•• • ileie are no loui;er any a;,•.ssieur 11l Prance, but
only citizens.'
" Well then, pardon me, citizen, if I have given
you offence.'
" You are not a Frenchman,' he resumed, with an
embarrassed air, and cannot, therefore, be aware of
our new usages.'
" If peace be established, I shall certainly visit
France.'

' never shai

" You, sir?' he rejoinei with warmth,
set foot there, so long at least as I live !'
" Do you mean personally to designate me, or my
countrymen in general ?'
" The young officer, fixing upon me a pair of hand-
some, but fierce eyes, rejoined:—
" Sir, my name is Murat, and I hare served in the
constitutional guard of the ty— last lciug.'
" Then, with a less lofty manner, and lowered tone,
he continued :

I know who you are, sir, and I am very sorry that
I have met you.'
" You are a soldier and a man of honour,' I replied,
and I can have nothing to fear from you.'
" Country before all,' answered Murat, ' yes, before
all ! Such at least ought to be my maxim. Monsieur,
I advise you not to sleep here.'
" With these words he bowed, and quickly with-
drew. I reflected upon the course w hieh I ought to
pursue; and prudence suggested the impolley of trusting
to the dubious generosity of a hotheaded republican. I
consulted d'Avaray, who became alarmed for my safety,
and would not be satisfied till we had resumed our
journey.
" When fortune, at a later period, had raised Joachim
Murat to the throne of Naples, I recognised in him the
young French officer who had driven me so abruptly
from my sleeping quarters. I could not be certain whe-
ther he had betrayed or kept the secret of my birth,
and in this dilemma, felt in his regard some sort of
grateful feeling. When, therefore, I returned to France
a second time, and heard that he was en unfortunate
fugitive, I gave express orders that, if arrested in my
dominions, his life should be spared."

The writer of this article is evidently strongly pre-
judiced in favour of the elder branch of the Bour-
bons, and as strongly prejudiced against the Orleans
dynasty; but he is an honest recorder of facts, and
those facts prove that the elder race were, to a man,
weak, grovelling, superstitious, ignorant—nay, even
incapable of education. They were firm believers in
astrology, prognostics, dreams, ghosts—
" Black spirits and white,
Red spirits and grey."
Witness the solemn relations of the prophecy found
by the Comte de Provence on his table, on the day of
the birth of the Dauphin, of the horoscope of the three
Princes, drawn up by the Count de St. Germain ; of
the mysterious appearances preceding the death of
Catharine of Russia, and of the dream of the Sa-
cristan previous to the execution of Louis XVI.
Nothing could exceed the folly of the friends of that
unfortunate monarch at this period. Just as
his trial was about to take place, the Comte
de Provence, then an exile, addressed a letter to the
Duke of Orleans, couched in the most haughty
and arrogant terms, commanding, rather than request-
ing, that he should not interfere in the trial. Among
many absurdities, we give the following as a speci-
men :—" The king" (at the time a prisoner in the
Temple, and about to be tried on a capital charge)
" is disposed to indulgence, and indeed oblivion of
the past would be for all of us the wisest course."
If anything could exceed the mad folly of pen-
ning such a missive, it would be the manner in
which it was presented to the Duke of Orleans by
Boissy d'Anglas, the secret agent of the Comte de
Provence in Paris. He himself, in a letter to the
Comte de Provence, thus describes his reception at
the Palais Egalite
Your cousin, Monseigneur, by the graciousness of
his reception, made amends to me for the insolence of
his officious attendants. He is always the pink of polite-
ness, and begged me to sit down, which I refused to do,
perhaps from a mischievous wish of reminding him that
he is still a prince."

Why, if the Comte de Provence and his agent had de •
sired to prevent the Duke from exercising his influ-
ence in the King's behalf—if they had desired to goad
him on to the King's destruction—could they have
done so in any manner more effectually ? Can any-
thing prove more completely the utter heartlessness
both of the Count and of his agent, than the comply
cent manner in which the one relates, and the other
records, his reason for refusing to set down " a mis-
chievous wish of reminding him that he is still a
prince ?" What nature that was not utterly frivo
lous, utterly incapable of forming a good or a noble
aspiration, could have imagined such an espieglerie at
such a time? The whole history of the Revolution
goes to prove that poor Louis XVI. fell a victim to
the unprincipled, uncalculating, heartless, frivolous,
incurably vicious folly of his soi-disant friends, ra-
ther than to the malice of his enemies; and if any-
thing could excuse the excesses of the Reign of Terror
towards " the Aristo .Tats," it would he the revelations
which these aristocrats ever and anon make of them.
selves. The more we study the history of this
Revolution, the greater is our admiration of the cha-
racter of the present King of the French. Louis
Philippe is the most statesmanlike king that France
has ever possessed—the wisest, and, perchance, the
greatest man that France has ever produced. That
his sons inherit his great talents, his manly courage,
his energy, his activity, they have already given
abundant proofs. Let us hope, for the sake of
France, of Europe, and of the world, that they also
possess his prudent firmness, his wise caution, his
unerring tact, and his sound judgment.

THE SUN LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1846