The Sun.
London, England, 1833-02-05 00:00:00

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(No. 12,607.)

HORSE BAZAAR, KING-STREET AND BAKER-
ST R ELT, POR TAIA N. SQUA RE.
THE Proprietor of this splendid Establish-
ment begs to announce to the Public that the several
Departments for the SALE of HORSES and CAR-
RIAGES by COMMISSION, as well as the Harness and
Furniture Departments, the Riding School, and the Ladies'
Baz tar, are continued as formerly, and to state his deter-
mination to preserve most strictly his character of Agent
in the Purchase or Sale of Horses and Carriages.

Auction days for Horses every Saturday, and for Car•
riages every other Tuesday.

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the Crown was concerned, as a just measure, and one that
must prove generally useful to the kingdom.
Other points were discussed in succession, and the two
official writers of the Cortes signed the act.
From the same book it appears, that, after the above
Session of three days, there were held various others on
the 10th, 12th, 13th, 20th, and 25th of the same month,
with the like ceremonial ; and that from their acts, which
were signed by the officers in the usual way, it happened
that a proposal was made by the President, in his Ma-
jesty's name, to discuss different subjects, with a view of
preventing the mischief which must arise from the union
of the opulent persons enjoying the advantages of primo-
geniture ; also to discuss the rules to be laid down on this
question for the future--to provide for the cultivating of
the entailed lands, the enclosing of properties, the security
of olive plantations and viney4ds, conciliating private in-
terests with those of the State by the preservation of the
pasture grounds. These subjects, according to the acts,
being discussed in Cortes, produced a great many other
petitions, which were carried to the King, and on them
his Majesty made his resolution in precisely the same terms
which were communicated to the same Cortes.

After these acts there is found in page 416 the original,
authorized by the two official writers, of the Session which
was held on the 31st of October, under the Presidency of
the Governor of the Council, and in which the officers
and procurators of the realms joined. It is likewise ma-
nifest from the said act that the Cortes directed the com-
pletion and execution of the sovereign resolutions which
Charles IV. so happily took on each of the propositions
submitted to his august consideration. In this act we
read, at p. 419, the following :
" In this state the President of the Cortes announced
that the King our Lord had designed to give his reply and
resolution to the six petitions made by the kingdom, ac-
companying them by two resolutions placed in the margin
of the reports made by the Junta of the official writers of
the Cortes, who passed into the Royal hands the said pe-
titions, and made them known is the Junta.

" Don Manuel de Alzpun y Redin, Secretary of the
Chamber of Grace and Justice in the state of Castile, and
who assisted at the Cortes, proceeded to read the first re-
port respecting the reestablishment of the regular and
immemorial succession to the Crown, conformably to the
disposition of the second law before mentioned. This,with
his Majesty's resolution, was handed by us, with the result
agreed to by the Junta, to be inserted in this result. The
tenor of it was as follows:

" The Governor of the Council, D. Roderigo de la
Torre Marin, Don Pedro Peres Valcente, Don Juan Acedo
Rico, Don Santiago Ignacio de Espinosa—
" Senor,—The Junta of Assistants of Cortes pass into
the Royal hands of your Majesty the petition of the king-
doms, for the observance of the second law, title fifteenth,
part second, which, in conformity with the immemorial
custom of Spain, proves the regular succession in the
Crown, with a preference of those who have attained their
majority to those who are still minors, and of males to
females, within the respective lines, according to the order
of each, with also an abolition of the arrangement made
in 1713, to the prejudice of the said immemorial custom;
in consequence of the uniform opinion expressed by the
Cortes as-embled at Buen Retiro, and in which the Presi-
dent and Officers participated, your Majesty condescended
to determine that which would be most agreeable and use-
ful to these kingdoms.
" Madrid, Sept. 30, 1789."
The Royal resolution was this :—The resolution corre-
sponding to the petition which accompanies it, enjoining
the observance of the greater secrecy for the present, in
order thus to accommodate my service.
The President afterwards delivered the said petition on
the regular succession to the Crown of Spain, that we
Wright read it literally, with the answer and resolutions of
the King, in the middle of the circle, so as that we could
he satisfactorily heard by all, and this was done by me,
Don Pedro Escolarto de Arrieta, w hereof the following is
the register ;
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(Here the resolutions agreed to by the Cortes are repeat
ed in the same terms as before.)

" To this I answer you that I shall direct those of my
Council to send the pragmatic sanction which is customary
in similar cases, keeping in mind your petition, and the
opinions given upon it."

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The whole of the aforesaid was heard and understood by
the Knights Procurators with acclamations ; they ratified
their former conclusions.

In like manner the kingdoms had intelligence of thespe-
cial charge of his Majesty, whereby he continued his spe-
cial injunction fur secrecy in the Cortes, these being dis-
solved, touching this petition, resolution, and conclusion,
respecting the succession of the Crown, and so all the
Knights Procurators held it out, extending the oath of
secrecy which bound the Cortes to the above charge, de-
sirous not only in substance, but in form even, to preserve
the constitutional law until the publication of the pragma-
tics in the time when it shall be his Majesty's convenience
to give it.

The solemn reading of the rest of the petition being
concluded, the President stated the intention of his Ala.
jesty to close the Cortes ; be expressed the value which
the King placed on what had been done by them ; that the
consideration which the Sovereign showed for the kingdom
could not be greater, nor could the Royal benignity be
more truly exhibited, than in the confirmation which be
gave to the people of their rights and laws; and that he
had received the greatest satisfation in assisting the pru-
dent course which had been taken by the Procurators of
the kingdom on the subject of the legal succession to the
Crown of Spain, conformably to our customs and law.,
and the other matters which have occupied it during its
sittings. This harangue was confirmed by the first Pro
curator of Burgos, in the name of all the kingdom, with
the most cordial expressions of fidelity, gratitude, and
love, for his Sovereign, the Prince of Asturias, and
Royal Family.

The sittings of the Curtes being closed on the sth of
November, the august and solemn act was realized in pre-
sence of the King, and with all due ceremonies ; and the
account is authenticated by the official writers already
mentioned.

I certify also that one of the documents pointed out in
the beginning, preserved amongst the papers kept in the
office of Grace and Justice under my care, was an exposi-
tion and original opinion which all tbe Bishops gave in
October, 1789, to Charles I V., in answer to a report in
which they asked the First Secretary of State respecting
a proposition of the Cortes for renewing the observance of
the immemorial custom of regular succession to the Crown.
This exposition and opinion, authorized with the signatures
and seals of 14 Prelates, is literally as follows
(The document represented the anxious desire of the
Bishops to be informed of the nature and extent of the
resolution proposed by the Cortes, inasmuch as they natu.
rally felt as much if not more interest in the public weal
as any other class of subjects. The Bishops then go over
the historical facts already described respecting the in-
stances in which the ancient laws and customs were acted
on, and, citing a passage from theological authority con-
firmatory of the policy which the Cortes had resolved on
vindicating, the Prelates strongly remonstrate against the
change by which the operation of the old laws and cus-
toms was superseded. The Bishops conclude by repre-
senting to the King that he was bound in conscience and
justice to accede to the solicitude of tbe kingdom.)
I certify also that an original despatch has been met with
in a book of the Cortes of 1789, amongst the papers of the
office for despatches in my charge. It was found in Se
ville, by order of the Supreme Central Junta of the king.
dom, at the instance of the Portuguese Minister, on the
28th December, 1809, for declaring Donna Carlotta Prin-
cess of Brazil to have the right of succession to the Sp-
nish throne.

In this document the Council give a chronological his-
tory of the particular law, to which they ascribe the
greatest public benefits, and a continued security from
great misfm tunes ; and they demanded why it was that
the just right by which the crown was to descend should
not still prevail, se ing that it the only right of
which a female might be said to possess. The exclusion
of females, by the Salic law, from the throne, was one
of those intrigues of France which she practised in the
time of Philip V. against the fundamental laws of the mo-
narchy, and even against the very law cited, the expressions
of which are strikingly seasonable and worthy of attention
in the fatal crisis which the nation is experiencing. The
Salic law is, therefore, treated as an emanation of French
intrigue, introduced and maintained for no other end than
the injury of Spain, whose laws have thereby been co r
rupted, rendered inconsistent, and apparently founded on
principles at once false and artificial. " Wbat would
have been the just clamour of the nation," exclaims the
Council, "if Donna Isabella, Queen of Castile and Leon,
that illustrious heroine, worthy of immortal fame, were to
live aq exile from that ritricueny which of right bslonged

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4.criter? lioetokruld her exclusion have been borne?---•
how could any one ill.tifv this perpetual 'disinheriting
which such a law as chi. r fleet, seeing that the King can-
not dispose of any part of his dominions or diminish the
possessions of his legitimate suceessers ?" The Council
alluded to proceeded altogether on the impression that the
Salic law was an unjustifiable innovation ; and the cere-
mony of marriage was performed in the case of the female
pretender to the throne, on the ground of the certainty of
her claims. The Council, by a variety of arguments, of
references to history, of appeals to common sense and feel-
ing, seek to urge the recognition of the Brazilian Princes..
I certify besides, that from the authorized copy of the
despatch formed by the pragmatic sanction of the 29th of
March, 1830, it appears that they had sent copies of the
said pragmatic sanction to the cities returning Members
to Cortes, and that these tweed to return thanks to the
King, expressing their satisfaction at the revival of a
law for which so many distinguished Spanish cities had
prayed.
All the statements above are either in the book of the
acts of the Cortes of 1789, and the papers cited ; in the
part copied literally from the originals, which are pre-
served in the archives of the Secretary of State ; or of
the despatch of Grace and Justice in my charge. There
are in it no other opinions or reports favourable to the
re-establishment of the said law, nor in the book already
mentioned of the Acts of Cortes in 1789.
(Signed)
FRANCISCO FERNANDEZ DEL PINO.

OPENING OF THE SALTASII STEAM
FLOATING BRIDGE.

(From the Devonport Telegraph.)
On Thursday last this excellent accommodation was
publicly established on the waters of the Tamar, for the
conveyance of passengers, goods, cattle, carriages, &c.,
from and to the Devon and Cornish margins of the river.
A bridge of the Saltash Ferry had long been ardently de-
sired by the public, and an endless variety of plans pro-
s pounded by the influential gentlemen in the vicinity, hail
proved abortive. ro hit upon an expedient which should
perfect the land conveyance between the two counties,
without interfering with the navigation on the river, and
the restrictions of Government, was given up as hope-
fess—still from the spirit of enterprize (the river Dart
having first become tributary) the Tamar at last yields to
Science and the Arts. The easy distance to Saltash will
doubtless induce many of the inhabitants of these towns to
drive or walk to the Ferry, to view this new species of
The float forms a parallelogram of about 50 feet by 30
feet, open at both ends; the centre is occupied by two
engines of six-horse power each, boxed over from end to
end, so as to be entirely concealed externally ; the engines
work two wheels, on which rest two chains, which are
laid from shore to shore, and traverse through the engine-
room. On either side the engine-room is a clear spice of
50 feet by 10, for carriages, horses, cattle, and foot.
passengers. Carriages of every description are run in and
out, without detaching the horses, and the passage is
accomplished 'in five minutes. The prows or platforms
for shipping and landing are four in number, two at each
end, each 21 feet long by 10 in width. They are so ar-
ranged as to drop on the shore and form almost a level
platform. New landing-places are formed on the sides of
the river, with an easy inclination to facilitate the em-
barkation.

Mr. Readle, the engineer who planned and executed
the construction of the Dartmouth Floating-bridge, has had
the rnanigement of the Sa!tash New Ferr►, and is rviw
engaged in cirrying into effect the new line of road from
Liske trd by Saltasb, to Plymouth and Devonport, on the
completion of which the utility of the new mode of
conveyance across the Tamar will, doubtless, be fully
appreciated.

We •isited the bridge a day or two since, and were
much indebted to Mr. Mare, the steam engine manufac-
turer, for his attention and information. A view of the
engine.room surprised and delighted us—the two beautiful
engines, and the improved boilers, manufactured at the
Plymouth foundry, will, we feel assured, become objects
of attraction to the occasional visiter, as well as the ordi-
nary passenger.
We sincerely wish that the best success may attend the
establishment of this improved method of ferrying, and
we congratulate the residents of this neighbourhood on the
completion of so perfect a thoroughfare between the two
western counties, which we doubt not, will induce many
pleasurable excursions, and much additional commercial
intercourse.

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-Ii O USE.

Yesterday the Justice-room was crowdA to excess, it
being known that the examination of persons concerned in
the burglary and robbery in Bartlett's-buildings would
take place.
Mr. Harmer attended for the prosecution, and Mr.
Nobler, jun., for the defence.
The greatest curiosity was excited by the following evi-
dence :

George Coney, a man of respectable appearance, about
30 years of age, and Richard Smith, a boy about 15,
were put to the bar.
Nicholas James, clerk and book-keeper in the s.,rvice of
the prosecutor, stated that on Saturday, the 19th of Jan.
last, the warehouse was safe ; it was situate in the parlour
of the house. Witness slept in the dwelling-house ; in
the back room, first floor. Witness occupied all the first
flow. Every place was safe on Saturday night. On
Sunday witness saw the warehouse three or four times ;
it was quite safe up to eight at night. Witness was
unwell, and did not stir out all day. About 8 o'clock
in the morning of Monday, when he went down stairs,
he found at the foot a dark lantern close to the ware-
house door, and be observed a stool near to the street
door, two small pieces of paper, and a pair of worsted
socks; they seemed two odd stockings turned into socks.
Witness delivered them to the officer. Went into
the warehouse and noticed a number of empty drawers
on the floor. They had been in a recess situate between
the fireplace and the window, and were secured by a bar,
and locked. They had contained much property. The
bar goes over the drawers, and confines them all; it was
secured and locked on the Sunday. Witness also found a
centre-bit, a small phial of oil, a small double-headed
crow-bar, twelve or fifteen pick-lock keys, some vitriolic
acid, a knife recently sharpened, and some twine. Witness
gave them to the officer. The prosecutor has a small
black terrier, which witness had seen about seven on
Sunday evening.
Albert Schewrer, a workman of the prosecutor, when
he went to the house on Monday morning to his work.
found hit master's dog standing at the door with a cord
round his neck, and when the servant opened the door the
dog went in with him.
William Bedford, porter to the prosecutor, saw the dog
on Monday morning, about half-past eight, it had a piece
of cord round its neck, which witness took off and put in
his pocket.
Daniel Forrester, the officer, proved receiving the
various articles from Mr. James. Witness went in com-
pany with Mr. Cope to the house, No. 47, Red Lion.
street, Clerkenwell. They searched it all over, and found
in the yard of the house a piece of cord, which seemed to
correspond with that round the dog's neck ; also part of a
pair of worsted stockings in the bed-room (the tops had
been cut off), two silver bodkins, a hank of twine in a
clout, a whalebone life preserver, a book, the " Forget
Me Not," and two small skeleton keys. In the cellar
there was a vice.
John Murphy, policeman, 215 G, went to 47, Red
Lion-street. Found a number of skeleton keys, and a
parcel of real keys, about 30, and a file; there were two
vices in the front kitchen.
Thomas Dugard, of 44, Red Lion-street---Had seen
the prisoner Coney twice at No. 47, on the same Sunday
Chit Mr. Wheeler was robbed. Saw him go in, open the
door, and bring out a shutter, and put it up in the win-
dow. Witness knew him from his stature and countenance.
Was attracted by the singular way in which he had
moved into the house when he first came to occupy it.
Mr. Harmer should produce the son of Mr. James,
who, he was sorry to say, was deeply implicated in the
robbery : he had, however, disclosed every thing to
his father and his employer, and was now willing to give
his evidence.
Mr. Nobler, jun., objected to his being sworn. If he
was so deeply implicated as Mr. Harmer had said, he
should be cautioned, and his testimony received as a vo-
luntary disclosure ; the Lord Mayor would afterwards
decide what to do with it.
The Loan :MAYOR would receive any evidence which
would elucidate the case, and tend to bring the guilty
parties to justice.
Joshua John James was then called, but not sworn. It
was explained to him that what he had to say must be
voluntary ; that if it proved he was a party to the offence,
it might be made evidence against him. He expressed
his readiness to state all he knew, and made the following
declaration :—I am 15 years of age. I have lived with
my father at Mr. Wheeler's shout 14 years. I was at
school in London. Richard Smith was a schoolfellow of
mine ; a month ago he asked me all about Mr. Wheeler's
house; so did Mrs. Smith, his mother, and Mr. Coney
and Mrs. Coney. Mrs. Coney was at 47, Red Lion-
street. Smith asked me if I would get the impression of
the counting-house key; and if so Coney would hand-
somely reward me. I had seen Coney before this. I had
been asked to go there with Smith, and he took me to the
kitchen, and I saw a quantity of things, and this life-
preserver ; it was then in a broken state. This was
about three weeks before the robbery. Smith said the
house way kept by cracksmen. I asked him who they
were, he said housebreakers. In two or three days Smith
was to call on ma.. Coney was waiting for me in Bart-
lett's-pasgage. They showed me a tin box with some soap
in it, and they lost' ucted me how to use it. Smith first,
and then Coney, told me to press the key dawn on the
soap, and to have the stem of the key even with the soap.
He told me before I put it on the soap to wet the key, and
only to mark the flat part. Afterwards I was to
look at the key to see that none of the soap was
sticking in tie wards. Smith produced the soap, and
Coney told me I was to press the key upon it to give
an impression, and to examine the key afterwards to see

that none of the soap was sticking in the wards. On the
Monday morning following I got the impression, and put
the box of soap in my pocket. My father had taken the
box out of my pocket, but I snatched it out of his hands,
and I went off to Ne. 47, Red Lion•street, where Coney
lived, and told him of the occurrence, upon which he ob-
served that he hoped nothing was suspected. I told him
I did not think my father had the least suspicion. I re-
turned at II o'clock on the same day to Rid Lion-street,
and saw somebody making a little cart in imitation of the
box in which I had carried the soap, and the cart was
given to me in the presence of Coney, to give to my little
brother, to remove the possibility of suspicion relative to
the box. Coney was then filing a key, and near him was
the soap impression. He gave me the key, and told me
to try whether it would fit the lock of the warehouse door,
and he also told me to bring the dog to him soon after
five o'clock on Tuesday. I did as he desired, and he tied
up the dog in the shed. After we took tea he brought
All his implements, his centre-hits, whip-cord, a dark
lantern, and a knife, which he sharpened on a whetstone.
I went for some oil in a teacup, and we went up to Bart-
lett's.buildings. I tried the key, and it fitted, and I then
gave it to one of the men who was standing in the passage
/eitling to Fetter-lane.
Mr. Harmer here said that the boy had a great deal
more to say, but it was not necessary te, the ends of justice
that any more should be stated in the present stage of the
proceedings.
Mr. flobler, jun., submitted that the prisoners had a
tight to hear all that the boy had to state against them,
and the evidence ought not to be garbled.
The LORD MAvoa then put some questions to the ap-
prover, which were answered in the following words :
" I went in, and was to leave the outer door open between
eight and nine o'clock. oney had asked me previously '
whether I could not contrive to put some laudanum into
my father's and the servant's beer, but I refused. There
were three of us at the door together at a quarter past S
o'clock, and the men went in before me, and I went up '
stairs and sat with my father till 9 o'clock in the drawing
room, and then he and I went to bed. I never saw the
parties since until now, and I heard of the robber) in the
morning."
Mr. Hobler, jun.—Has any one instructed you what to
say? Witness—No ; Smith told me of other cases in
which he was concerned.
Mr. Harmer—Do not deviate into other matters. It is
unnecessary ; and it would be improper for you to state
any more now. You were told to tell the whole truth,
were you not ?—Yev ; certainly.
Mr. Cope, the City Marshal, went to search the house,
No. 47, Red Lion-street, Clerkenwell. and found there
some oil in a tea cup. The last witness had made com-
munications to him which led to the discovery. He also
found a piece of very tine wax, two silver bodkins, and a
piece of whipcord.
Mr. Wheeler believed the wax and bodkins to be his
property.
Mary King, servant in the house of Mr. Wheeler, was
called to by the watchman, between 8 and 9 o'clock, and
asked whether she knew the door was open. Site said
she did not; and she found the door on the lock only.
The Loan Marton then ordered that the prisoners
should be remanded.
The Rev. Mr. Bean waited upon the LORD MAYOR, in
consequence of his Lordship's observations on the con-
temptible and niggardly manner in which education was
dealt out in Cripplegate. The Rev. Gentleman assured '
the Lord Mayor that the charge could not at all apply to
Cripplegate within, where the school was conducted in
the best possible manner. The report of his Lordship's
words had, however, very seriously affected the iutvrest. of I

the school, and soloe of the enlightimed aubscribers had
already threatened to withhold their subscriptions.
The LORD MAYOR said that his observations did not
apply to Cripplegate within ; and he was rejoiced to find
that the Reverend Gentleman felt so deeply the force of
the supposed imputation, a fact which was a sort of se-
curity against neglect in the education of the poor.
Richard Caster was brought up on the charge of
having forged the name of Mitchell upon a bill of exchange
for 154
Mr. Hobler, jun., stated that Mr. Richardson, an in-
dorser of this bill had called upon him on Saturday, and
informed him that the bill had been paid, and had been
consigned to the flames by Mr. Baynton. His Lordship
would, of course, immediately discharge Mr. Coster.

The LORD MAYoa—Oh, so Mr. Coster has contrived
to evade me this time. Well, if ever I get another bill of
the kind again, I shall take care to keep it myself, and not
to leave it in the hands of such a prosecutor as Mr. Bayn-
ton. Call that gentleman.

Mr. Baynton was called, and Coster seemed to enjoy
that gentleman's silence very much.

Coster—There is no charge against me, my Lord
Mayor, and you are not justified in detaining we.
The LORD MAYOR—Mitchell perseveres in saying that
the writing on the bill is a forgery.
Coster—There's no writing on the bill at all, my Lord.
—(Laughter.)

The ion') MAYOR—Is there any body here who has a
charge against Mr. Coster of any kind?
A person named Yeomans stated that Mr. Coster had
served him a very nice trick. He took a bill of Mr.

Coster's from a person who lodged in his (witness's)
house, and when it was due, went to Messrs. Benvolio and
Co.'s, in Great St. Helen's, to receive the amount.
When he presented it the clerk told him that he must
call when Mr. Benvolio was within.—(Laughter.) Mr.
Coster immediately came out of another room, and taking
hold of the bill, declared that it was a stolen one.—(Great
laughter.) Witness then complained to Sir John Key,
who ordered the bill to be returned, and Coster did re-
turn it; but he wrote the word " forged" all over it.—
(Laughter.) " But that's not all," said the informant;
" Mr. Coster immediately arrested me for a debt I never
contracted, and locked me up in prison."—(Laughter.)
Mr. Holder, jun.—There is nathingin this. Mr. Cos-
ter has tried this, and succeeded i❑ a Court of Justice.
Coster—Yes, I have been done justice to by twelve of
my honest countrymen.—(Great laughter.) He served
me with process in the Mayor's Court, but he W+lB afraid
to go on bec :use he knew I had justice on my side. All
I want is fair play.
The LORD MAYOR—I am sorry that I can't detain
you. Go away. You are discharged.
Coster—You may rely upon it, my Lord, that I shall
have justice done to me. You have caused great incon-
venience to me by imprisoning me without a cause, and
you may be assured that I shall bring an action against
you.—(Loud laughter.)
Coster then walked away.
MARLB OR O U GH-STREE T.

Yesterday an elderly female, very meanly attired,
named Julia Montprivet, came before Messrs. DYER and
CONANT, the sitting Magistrates, attended by a very cu-
rious looking personage who announced himself as
" counsel for the prosecutor," to prefer a charge of as-
sault against John Fulham, footman to Earl Cornwallis,
and another man, footman to Lord Brome, who however
(lid not appear, as it was stated that he was in attendance
un his Lordship at Oxford.
Mrs. Montprivet, on being sworn, stated as follows :
—Last Friday week I received intelligence of the death
of one of my sisters, at Bath, and I called at the residence
of Lady Cirnwallis, who is also my sister, to inform her
of the circumstance. I saw Mrs. North, the housekeeper,
to whom I gave a message containing a request to be fa-
voured with an interview by Lady Cornwallis, my sister,
whom I learnt had been unwell, but the housekeeper refused
to deliver the message, and sent the footman to me, who
also refused to take my message to her Ladyship.
I then sat down in a chair in the hall, stating that I
would wait to see Lady Cornwallis, who I hoped would
relent when she was informed of her sister's death. I had
not sat there many minutes when the porter came and

laid hold of one of my arms, and John Fulham laid hold
of the other, in which manner I was pushed into the
street. My arms were much bruised, and it was with
difficulty I saved myself from falling.
Mr. CONANT—Had you expressed a determination to
stay in the hall until you saw Lady Cornwallis ? Com-
plainant—No ; I did not mention any thing of the sort.
The servants said they would not take my message, and
I answered, .4 Very well, I can wait."
Mr. DYER—Have you ever called before, and been
desired to go away ? Complainant—l have frequently
called in Hill-street with letters, hut I have always re-
ceived an answer from his Lordship.
The defendant, on being called on for an explanation of

his conduct, said that Lord Cornwaliis had given him strict
orders, in consequence of the annoyance his Lordship and
her Ladyship were constantly i❑ the habit of experiencing
from the complainant and her husband, not to admit her
into the house again, or to deliver any more messages from
her to Lady Cornwallis. Acting upon these general
orders, as he had been threatened with dismissal if he dis-
obeyed them, he did, with the as-isrance of Lord Brome's
servant, put her out of the house with no more than re-
quisite force, and he denied that he had pushed her or
bruised her arms in the manner she had described.
Mr. DYER—Did the complainant say anything when
she sat down in the hall, after you refused to take her
message?
Defendant—Yes; she said she was determined not to
leave the place without seeing Lady Cornwallis, for she
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had, she said, been the ruin of her and her children.
After I succeeded in getting her out of the house, she re-
turned with a person whu commenced knocking at the
door without intermission, and then ringing at the bell,
making at the same time an outcry in the street which
attracted every body's attention.
Mrs. North, the housekeeper, confirmed the statement
of the footman, and said that his Lordship had given
peremptory orders to his servants not to admit the com-
plainant.
Mr. DYER addressed himself to Earl Cornwallis, who
sat with him, and requested to know if such orders had
been issued by him to his domestics?
His Lordship replied, that his servant was fully justi-
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tied in what be had done, as be had given express orders
for the exclusion of Mts. Montprivet, who had called at
his residence every hour almost during last spring, and
had conducted herself in a manner which would have

justified him in punishing her by law, had not motives of

humanity restrained him. In fact, ever since 1826, every
species of annoyance had been resorted to by the defendant,
to whom both himself and Lady Cornwallis, who certainly
was her sister, had behaved with great humanity. Lady
Cornwallis had allowed her 1/. weekly, upon condition
that she shoald abandon her violent proceedings, but his
lady had been compelled to withdraw it, as the annoyances
were resumed.—The warrants were dismissed.
THAMES POLICE.

Yesterday Thomcs Kelly, a sailor-boy, and Ann
Smith, a young woman far advanced in pregnancy, were
brought up for re-examination before Mr. BALLANTINE,
charged with stealing four silver spoons, the property of
Mrs. Browne, residing in Burr-street, Upper East
Smithfield.

Mr. BA LLANTINE, who appeared shocked at the depra-
vity which the case exhibited, asked Smith, who was in a
weak state of health, if she was a married woman.

The prisoner, with the most unblushing effrontery, re-
plied, " No, Sir ; I am a common prostitute."
In answer to other questions, she said the period of her
accouthement was near, and th it she was formerly in the
service of a Mrs. limphelby, in Pudding. lane, and left her
situation two mon,hs ago.
Mr. BALLANTINE said a more infamous woman never
made her appearance before him. She was then bound
over in the usual way, and the boy was committed for ti ial.