The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-17 00:00:00

MAR YLEB ONE.

Yesterday two brothers, named William and John Darla.,
were placed at the bar before the sitting magistrates,
Messrs. SHUTT and BURRELL, charged with an assault on
the new police.
The prisoners, who are notorious bad characters, were
then fined 10s. each, and in default committed to the House
of Correction for fourteen days.
Yesterday Mr. Feltus Floyd, late a grocer of extensive
business in Quebec-street, New-road, was charged as fol-
lows :

Mr. George Payne Ansell, shoemaker, No. 23, John-
street West, Edgware-road, having received information
that a person was in the habit of scaling his wall of a night
from out of a Mews on one side of it, determined on watch-
ing, and about three o'clock saw the prisoner get over, upon
which witness went up and asked him what he did there ?
when the prisoner replied that he lived next door, and was
going to try to get in the back way. Witness, not thinking
his statement correct, gave him into the custody of a police-
man.

The prisoner, in reply, lived next door to the complainant,
at No. 22, and that having been out rather late with a
friend, and not being able to make any one hear the front
way, he was merely crossing the complainant's garden to try
and get in at the back of the house, when he was stopped
and given in charge.
The landlady of No. 22 having been called, and con-
firmed the prisoner's statement as to his lodging there, he
was discharged, Mr. Shutt remarking that it was a very
improper practice, and if the landlady had not come for-
ward, lie should have punished him severely.
Williaur Oliver, an ill-looking fellow, was committed for
one month to the House of Correction, for indecently ex-
posing his person to Harriet Prescott, aged 13, daughter to
a livery-stable-keeper, in Peterborough-place, Bayswater.
Herbert King, a police sergeant of the D division, and
clerk to Mr. Lazenby, the superintendent, was charged
with embezzling the sum of thirteen shillings.
The Superintendent deposed that the above sum con-
sisted of fines which the men had forfeited, and which wit-
ness deducted from their pay weekly, and handed over to
the prisoner, whose place it was to account for it every
month. At the latter end of last month he had absconded,
and witness had never seen him since till then. _ _

Mr. Shutt said it appeared to him that the prisoner had
only been guilty of a breach of trust, and he therefore was
discharged.

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday a man shabbily attired, who gave his name
Count. Sansvouskoi, and described himself to have been
formerly an officer in the Polish service, was brought before
Mr. Muunnv and Mr. WEDGWOOD, charged on suspicion
with being concerned in an alleged felony committed by an
individual styling himself General Konstantin, also of the
Polish army.
On Saturday last Konstantin called at the residence of a
Mr. Simmons, a hop-merchant in High-street, Southwark,
and, having inquired for that Gentleman, begged to request
his perusal of the following statement relative to his services
in the army, and his present distressed condition. It was
to this effect
Gentlemen,—l am a native of Poland, and have served
under Napoleon Bonaparte, and was present at the besieging
of Cairo ; afterwards at Malta, Corsica, Spain, Portugal, Wa-
terloo, and lastly at Algiers, and received thirty-two wounds.
Three months ago I intended to go to my native country, but
was not permitted to go through Prussia, and lost all my things,
so I was obliged to embark at Hamburg and come to England.
Since I have been in London I am reduced to great distress.
I beg, therefore, most humbly to solicit your assistance in ena-
bling me to reach my native country, and shall remember such
a benefit all my lifetime. I am, Gentlemen, with the most
profound respect, your most humble servant,
" KONSTANTIN, General."
On the same sheet of paper upon which the above was
written, appeared the names of several individuals who had
contributed to the relief of the writer, and there was also ap-
pended to it in print the words " General Konstantin."
On the occasion of Konstantin's first visit at the com-
plainant's no interview took place between them, and he
subsequently called on the same day, and immediately after
his departure two great coats which were previously hanging
up in a passage which he had to go through on leaving the
counting-house were found to be missing. On inquiry it
was ascertained that the coats were seen in their places a

few minutes before the stranger's entrance, and were miss-
ing before he had scarcely time to go the length of a street.
Mr. Simmons gave information of the robbery, and a de-
s?ription of the suspected party, and on the following:
Tuesday General Konstantin was apprehended by police-
man Cudman, M division, dressed in such a manner as to
induce a belief that it was done for the purpose of disguise.
When taken into custody he denied all knowledge of the
imputed offence, expressed his astonishment that he should
be suspected of guilt, urging that he held a high rank in
the Polish service, and that whatever distresses he might
endure, nothing should make him tarnish the character
which he was proud to say he always held in every society
in which he mixed.

When asked by the Magistrate where he was at pre-
sent residing, he replied that he was in very humble lodg-
ings at the east end of the town ; the name of the street
he had forgotten.

The policeman said that there was a person in the office
who said his name was Count Sansvouskoi, who was ac-
quainted with General Konstantin, and that he attended to
inte;pret for the General, as he knew the English language
better than he did. The policeman then looked round the
of ice for the interpreter, but it was found he had made a
precipitate retreat from the place on finding how matters
were like to go with the General. The General was, there-
fore, remanded for another hearing, and in the interim from
information, Sansvouskoi, the other prisoner, was taken into
custody at a miserable lodginn•-house, No. 10, Artichoke-
bill, Ratcliffe-highwav, at which place both of them had
been for some length of time living. On the policeman's
entrance Sansvouskoi exhibited considerable terror, and
taking out a large package of papers from his pocket, passed
them into the hands of the landlady, and then making a
dart into the yard, he managed to get over a wall ten feet
in height, but was secured on the other side, due precau-
tion having been taken to cut off his retreat if he attempted
to make his escape at the rear. Amongst the papers re-
ferred to were upwards of one hundred duplicates. of pro-
perty pledged at different pawnbroker's shops, and there was
also a passport, besides several letters or petitions written in
a begging strain, one of which ran thus :
" I am now, in consequence of the Polish war, obliged te
obtain my living in a different way to that which I have been
used to, having been made a prisoner in Dantzic for the space
of a year and a half, and made my escape from thence to
Dundee, in Scotland. From thence I joined Don Pedro,
and, not receiving any pay, was obliged to quit his service and
come to London. I received 1/. from the Polish Committee,
who said they could help me no more. lam now going to
Algiers to join the Polish regiment, and to accomplish which
will require funds which I am not at present in a condition to
bear. Trusting that you will assist me in the enterprise, and
it will ever be gratefully remembered by, gentlemen, your most
obedient servant, " The Count SANSVOUSKOI."

The policeman stated that in the bundle of papers he
also found several belonging to General Konstantin mixed
up indiscriminately with those of the Count Sansvouskoi, a
circumstance which indicated that they were on terms of
intimacy. An evening newspaper, dated the 14th of June,
was found amongst the General's epistolary correspondence,
containing a report of an application he made at Bow-street,
and which described that he had served abroad, and bad
been wounded in several engagements. The report was of
such a nature as to excite sympathy, and it was stated that
he derived considerable benefit from the publicity given to
the case. A note was also found, from which it is sus-
pected that the General made an attempt to_ practise an
imposition on the Society of Friends of Foreigners in Dis-
tress. It was to this effect :

" This is to certify that General Konstantin will be assisted
by the Soicty of Friends of Foreigners in Distress, provided
he produces to the Directors a passport from the Austrian
Embassy.
(Signed) "F. HORNEMANN, Assistant-Secretary.
" 10, Finsbury-circus, July 25, 1834."
In the possession of Count Sansvouski was discovered a
paragraph cut out from a Newspaper detailing the circum-
stances relating to the ingenious robbery committed a few
days ago at the Castle and Falcon Inn. He was very de-
sirous to destroy this, but was prevented.
The policeman stated that on searching the General's
lodgings he discovered a kind of turban for the head bedi-
zened out with different coloured muslins and mock jewel-
lery, besides an old scarlet embroidered waistcoat.
Inspector Hack stated, that from what information he
gathered since the apprehension of Konstantin, be had rea-
son to suspect that he was in the habit of dressing himself
in the Turkish costume, and hawking rhubarb about town.

In reply to Mr. Murray, the Inspector said that as yet
the great coats stolen from Mr. Simmons's house had not
been traced.

The Magistrate then addressing Sansvouskoi, said that
there appeared attached to his name the title of Count, and
asked him if he claimed that distinction.

The reply was in the affirmative, and in a jargon almost
unintelligible, he said that he met with Konstantin, whom
he had never seen before in London, and that being brothers
in misfortune they both took up their abode at the east end
of the town. He declared that he was innocent of being
concerned in the offence charged against him.
Mr. MURRAY remarked upon the circumstance of the
Count clearing the ten-feet wall on the policeman's approach,
and observed that if he was not conscious of having done
something wrong, he would not have run the risk of break-
ing his neck. The Magistrate then inquired whether the
policeman had reason to suspect and believe that the
" Count" was concerned with the " General" in the alleged
robbery.
The policeman said that he had no hesitation in swearing
to that effect. Upon which the Magistrate remanded the
prisoners, and they will be brought up again.