The Sun.
London, England, 1833-05-14 00:00:00

MISCREANTS.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
[We have received the following communication from
a respectable gentleman. We fear that there is an orga-
nised system in this metropolis among the needy and un-
principled, who abound in it, to extort money by trump-
ing up charges of unnatural crimes ; but whatever horror
we may feel at these accusations, we must observe, that
the recommendation of our correspondent is of a some-
what startling nature. Of course it can only be acted on
by powerful and energetic men ; but every man who ac-
costs another between twelve and one o'clock must not be
rashly presumed to be in a conspiracy against him ; and
before a man attacks another with such violence as to
leave him for dead, he ought to be well assured of the guilt
of that party.]
" illtscaEaras —We publish the following as a warn-
ing to individuals whose pursuits may keep them from
home at late hours, to hold no conversation with any
would-be acquaintances. A gentleman was passing through
Covent-gard,n market between twelve and one o'clock on
Sunday night, when two men came up to him, one of
whom said, A fine night, master ;' to which the person
accosted rejoined some off-band civil answer. One of the
men then left, and the other continued in the path of the
gentleman at a dist ince of two or three yards. lie
turned up a passage (his usual way home) leading
from King-street to Long-acre, when the man who
bad previously left came suddenly up and seized
him by the collar, saying hurriedly, " I saw you do it—
I'll swear to it." In an instant the other man, who had
never left his path, seized him also, saying, " Yes, you
did it," or something to that effect. The gentleman in-
stantly turned on the wretches, and being rather a power-
ful man, succeeded in giving one a terrible blow, and
striking the other left-handed, so as to throw him down.
He then instantly jumped upon the fallen coward, and
smashed his face and stornacti with his heels—a mode of
defence in any other circumstances most cowardly and
malignant, hut in this perfectly justifiable. The other
wretch made off at once, and the gentleman having dis-
abled, and we are led to believe nearly killed his other
wretched antagonist, made off too. This affair proves that
there is to be a regular sjstetn in these disgusting endea-
vours at extortion—that two witnesses are to be brought
forward instead of one, and so crush an honest citizen for
ever. Let every man furnish himself with a stout knotted
stick, and on every such attempt as this use it well (for
in these cases bieaking every bone in a fellow's body is
perfectly justifiable) ; use it so that the accuser shall
never speak again, and this race of miscreants, of cowards
and of wretches, will soon be extinct in England."

A SINGULAR CASE.—On the 25th of April
a suckling calf, the property of Mr. DAvus, of Pencoed,
in the parish of Eglvesysts rw, in the county of Pembroke,
appeared sickly; recourse was bad to palliatives, and
amongst oti.er things a small qtaintity of antimony was
4da:inistered• On the 27th a snake, two feet lon4, was
7oided, part of which had actually commenced the process
of being digested, and the calf is at prese❑t likely to do
well,— Carmarthen 'journal.