The Sun.
London, England, 1834-08-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1834

the administrators of the laws have outstripped the
lawgiver in his pernicious course (page 4.) This is
the charge which the first law authority prefers against
them, though afterwards he denies its justice. Instead
of representing them as merely sharing in the errors of
their time, he alleges that they have aggravated the
mischief of bad legislation by worse execution, and
outrun the law maker in the race of ruin to the coun-
try I So much for his justice to the magistracy, or
the truth of his excuse for them. It is obvious that
there must be falsehood on the one side or the other.
As to the principle of relief, the benevolent keeper of
the King s conscience says, " I do not object to
compulsory provision in such cases as I have men-
tioned, so it be subject to proper regulation, in order
to prevent the abuses it is much exposed to." What
an indulgent admission ; it makes the speaker a match
for that gentle person described by the poet :
" Narcissa's temper's tolerably mild,
• To make a wash she'd hardly stew a child."
He proceeds to argue that the charity is the least
safe which affords a constant fund known by the com-
munity to exist for charitable purposes, contending
that " the poor immediately calculate upon it, and be-
come less provident, forsaking every habit of frugality,
taking no care to provide against the ordinary calami-
ties of life, or the inevitable infirmities of old age ;
that they no longer strive for the means of maintaining
their children, but heedlessly, recklessly count upon
that fund, out of which, whether in sickness or in
health, in youth or in age, in impotence or in vigour,
they know that they may claim the means of support ;
and, setting the pains of labour against those of a
scanty sustenance, they prefer idleness and a bare
subsistence to plenty earned by toil." This is the
true charlatanry, the precise parallel of which will
be found in every quack advertisement, in which
the utmost possible horrors of the disease are set
forth as certain to afflict every patient affected, unless
he takes the recommended pill. Lord Brougham, in
his quackery, or his ignorance of the human heart,
supposes that the conduct of men is determined by one
motive; restraining considerations, such as the pride
of independence, he leaves entirely out of the account,
and talks as if the parish dole was a temptation irre-
sistible in all conceivable cases. We wonder that, in
his observations on dispensaries, he did not contend
that the certainty of having medicine gratis, in the
event of sickness, must tempt people to make them-
selves ill ; or that he did not qualify his approval of.
hospitals for accidents; by the argument that it encou-
raged men to carelessness, and that labourers were dis-
posed to fall from ladders and house-tops, knowing
that their broken bones would be set at the expense of
the charitable and humane. Seeing the Chancellor's
reasoning, that the certainty of any provision has an
irresistible tendency to carelessness and idleness, it is
amazing to us that he suffers himself to be liable to the
pernicious influences of a retiring pension of some
thousands a-year. According to his arguments, he
should be indifferent to his business, reckless of his
duties, inclined to nothing but the folding of hands,
and preferring idleness and a bare sufficiency to plenty
earned by toil. What a pension is to him, the aid of a
parish, or the bounty of an almhouse, is to the poor
labourer : but this we know full well, that so long as
Lord Brougham is permitted to do work, and to make
work, and to meddle with the work of others, he will
not touch a stiver of the provision for his days of ease
and retirement. In the Bill for the regulation of pen-
sions, brought in by Ministers last session, and passed
by an obsequious House of Commons almost without
comment, we find no trace of the principle so elabo-
rately insisted on by the Chancellor—that to yield a
support to idleness is utterly to destroy industry, and
to blight all the motives to honest exertion. These
men find in their own breasts considerations of pride
and honour more than counterbalancing inducements
to an endowed repose, which they secure to them-
selves, without fear of temptation, at the rate of
2,0001. a year after two years' service ; but they can-
not suppose more than one- motive, and that of
the most grovelling kind, in the labouring classes.
This is a large error, spread over the whole view of
the Poor Law question,, which indeed has been
discussed throughout upon partial evidence and ex-
treme principles. The Chancellor, as every one
knows, out Heroded Herod in contending for even
more than the present monstrous powers and immuni-
ties of the Central Board ; but in his speech be charges
the French economists with the very error upon which
he himself has so preposterously and pertinaciously in-
sisted in the instance of the new authority. He ob-
serves—" Every one who knows anything of the French
economists, knows full well that they flourished under
an absolute despotism,—tl tat they were the great friends
and the firm supporters of an absolute monarchy--that
they abhorred liberty and abhorred republicanism,—and
that one of their errors, in my opinion the most fatal they
could commit, was holding the doctrine that what they call
despotisme legal, in other words an absolute monarchy,
was the best form of government ; accompanying
their
doctrine, however, with this reservation—, if you have
a good King at the head of it ;' as if the sole use of
all restraints upon power was not, founded on the risk
of having bad rulers=-as if the absence of control did
not, while man is man, ensure a succession of bad
monarchs." Does this principle only apply to Kings ?
Are Poor Law Commissioners more than mortal, and.
excepted from its scope ? Irresponsibility—power to
injure without liability to an action for damages
through which the wronged party might have compen-
sation—this, " while man is man," will ensure reckless
and tyrannical authorities, as far as human folly and
improvidence can ensure any evil—Tinzes.

ATTEMPT AT SWINDLING, ATTENDED

WITH FATAL CONSEQENCES.

On Monday last, about twelve o'clock, a person habited
like a country dealer in cattle, with slouched hat, &c.,
went to the house of Widow Smith, the sign of the Cock,
in Grafton-street, Soho, and complaining of illness,
drank
several bottles of ginger-beer. He told Mrs. Smith that
he attended Smithfield market regularly every Monday
morning for the purpose of selling cattle. He had (he
said) attended that morning, and having sold his cattle
profitably, was in the possession of a large sum of money,
but having been suddenly seized with illness, he had re-
solved to stop in town, and asked if he could be accommo-
dated with a room. Having been answered in the affirma-
tive, he went out, and, as Mrs. Smith supposed, for the
purpose of procuring medicine. On his return he had an-
other bottle of ginger-beer, and was shewn up stairs to a
room by Mrs. Smith's sister. He now became considera-
ably worse, vomited violently, and on getting into bed,
placed his small-clothes with scrupulous care under his pil-
low.

Mrs. Smith and her sister -did all for him that hu-
manity and kindness could suggest, and he frequently
thanked them, and at the same time congratulated himself
at his happy fate (particularly as he had more than 1501.
about him) in falling into the hands of such worthy people.
His sickness continued ; and he told Mrs. Smith's sister, if
Mrs. Smith would let him have ten sovereigns, as he had
nothing less than a 40/. note amongst his own money, he
would send for a doctor, as he could then give him his fee
at once. His lady-attendant, however, told him it would
be quite time enough to think of that when the medical
gentleman came. Mr. Thomas, of Leicester-place, and
Mr. Diamond, of King-street, Soho, were accordingly sent
for, both of whom were of opinion that it was a case of
cholera, and treated it as such with the most unremitting
attention. The patient continued alternately better and
worse during Monday nighttand Tuesday morning ; and
having given Mrs. Smith's sister particular instructions re-
specting his family—particularly a brother, residing near
Oatlands, whom he wished to be sent for—and the disposi-
tion of his property, in the event of his death, he requested
his box to be locked, a piece of paper to be sealed over the
key-hole, and the key to be placed on the box,-within his
view. This done, he expressed a wish to receive the bene-
fits resulting from religious consolation : and a clergyman
having been sent for, he joined in the most enthusiastic devo-
tion up to the time of his death, which did not take place
until Tuesday night. On the arrival of his brother, who,
though poor, is represented to be a most honest and indus-
trious man (and in respect to him and his family, we for-
bearcaer
to mention his name), the startling truth broke forth,
that the deceased had long been a most abandoned profli-
iguattoe—effseteotpipiiisn
gswiat
ndlninog artifice, however
and,ever horrible,
to use to
the em-
phatic phatic words of his brother, " One who ought to have been
lothes contained, which he so carefully guarded
under the
all the small..?
hanged years ago !" On examination, it turned out that
wearing apparel, were two duplicates of trivial articles of
d in the neighbourhood of St. Mar-
tin's-lane. n s-lane. The sPupap:7nosietil" is,„„rthtahtehpeuhrpaodsetaokfengeattinqguaind,
ti '
tity of some deleterious drugiu.
an opportunity
re
-empathy of Mrs.
and exciting the commiseration ann
Smith to such a pitch as to induce her to pit
40:entoetn reduced. tnizzL,
soveraigas, and then seeking
with them. By taking two large a dose, however,Y°F
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being prepared with an antidote, he failed in getting the
sovereigns, and forfeited his own life to his wicked designs.
The poor brother gave Mrs. Smith two sovereigns (all he
possessed) for her trouble and humanity, and the body of
the delinquent was interred at the expense of the parish.

BANKRUPTCY COURT.—Auo. 25.

(Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.)
GEORGE SUTTON'S BANKRUPTCY.

In this case the bankrupt was a builder, in New-street,
Borough-road, and to-day a meeting of his creditors took
place, in order to examine him respecting his accounts.
Mr. Webb wished to make an application to the Court
relating to this bankruptcy, and which was of some con-
sequence. He appeared on behalf of Mr. Brooks, with
whom the bankrupt had made contracts for erecting houses
at Herne Bay, and he wished to know if the assignees
would give up or complete the contract. Some advances
had been made to the bankrupt in part of the completion
of the sum of contract, and great injury would arise to the
property if some decision was not come to by the assignees.
The bankrupt thought the contract being completed
would be of advantage to the estate.
The Commissioner said it was for the assignees to decide
whether they would proceed with the contract.
Mr. Webb was of opinion that, under the 76th section
of the Bankruptcy Act, Mr. Brooks could compel the as-
signees to complete the contract under an order from the
Court of Review.
The Commissioner referred to the Act, and said that the
clause related to the completion of land purchases, &c.,
and not buildings. He considered that as it was necessary
to have the houses completed before winter began, that
Mr. Brooks, as the owner of the land, should give some
compensation to the assignees to give up the contract,
otherwise they might hold him at arm's length, and in the
interim the weather would destroy the houses.
The solicitor said that the assignees were willing to con-
sider any proposition made by' Mr. Brooks.
Mr. Webb stated that Mr. Brooks had not so high an
opinion of the contract, and wished the completion of it.
It would remain to be seen if the Court of Review would
not give an order for the contract to be completed ; if not
a bill might be filed in Chancery to ascertain the right of
the party.
The subject was then dropped, and the proving of the
debts proceeded with. The amount of the whole claims
against the estate is about 2,100/. The assets amount to
very little, the bankrupt stating that his losses have been
above 3,000/.

The final examination of the bankrupt was then passed;
and further proceedings were adjourned.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Saturday afternoon an inquisition was taken at Giltspur-
street Compter, before Mr. Payne, touching the death of
Francis Daniell Quadry, Esq., aged 54, who died under the
following distressing circumstances in the above establish-
ment :—lt appeared from the evidence that the deceased,
who possessed • considerable property, had been making a
tour on the Continent for the benefit of his health. He
returned to England about a week ago, and on his arrival
in town took up his residence at the Bull and Mouth Inn.
He reached there on Saturday night, the 16th instant,
where, from appearing to labour under mental derange-
ment, Mr. Sanderson, the respectable proprietor, procured
the assistance of the city police officer, No. 50, who took
him to the Compter. He there appeared seriously ill, and
was attended by Mr. M'Murdock, but died on Friday
morning, about five o'clock, from decay of nature brought
on by diseased lungs. The deceased was brother to the
Rev. John Quadry, a resident Minister at Cork. Mr.
Teague, the governor, had the care of the deceased's pro-
perty. who found 401. besides fifteen sovereigns, in his box.
Verdict—" Natural death."

An inquest was held last evening before Mr. Baker, the
coroner, at the London Hospital, on the body of William
Groves, aged 52, who died in that institution early on Sa-
turday morning last. It appeared that the deceased on
Thursday last went into the timber-yard of Messrs. Bell
and Riley at Mile-end, where some men were engaged in
unloading a waggon of planks. The deceased, who had
been drinking, ascended the pile out of bravado to show
his dexterity at such work, having formerly been employed
on the same premises. He removed about half a dozen
planks very properly, but at length, in endeavouring to
seize the end of one, he missed his hold, and fell backwards
upon the shafts, and from thence to the ground. He was
immediately taken to this hospital, but the injury he re-
ceived by the fall was so serious that he was pronounced
incurable, and in fact was then in a dying state although
he lingered so many hours afterwards. Verdict " Acci-
dentaldeath."

On Wednesday last a party went from Bognor to Good-
wood, Sussex, nn a pleasure excursion. Three females in-
cautiously got into a four-wheel chaise to drive to Moles-
comb, when the horse ran away with the vehicle, and one of
the ladies, named Hunt, the widow of a • missionary, was
killed by jumping out. The following evidence was given
before J. L. Ellis, Esq., Coroner, at the Duke of Rich-
mond's Arms, Waterbeach :
James Puttock, grocer, at Bognor, stated that the de-
ceased was his sister. He hired a horse and a four-wheel
chaise to go to Goodwood on a party of pleasure ; he was
accompanied by his wife, his sister, and the deceased. The
horse was a spirited one ; he had some difficulty in keep-
ing him in ; wanted to keep in company with another
chaise, in which were Mr. Briant and his mother ; would
kick if whipped. He applied to Mr. Rusbridger, the
Duke's steward, for leave to go to Cornice Seat, but a party
being previously there, we took some refreshment under the
trees, the horse standing by, near Stoney Dill. While
smoking their cigars, walked in Stoney Dill for a few mi-
nutes, and on coming out found that the ladies had taken
the chaise to drive to Moldhomb. He was angry that
they had gone, fearing some accident, but Mr. Bryant said
the horse would go quiet enough as they had no whip. In
a short time heard the noise of a carriage, and saw the

horse had run away. Made all the haste he could towards
Waterbeach-gate, but the horse took the other road. On
coming up he found the deceased supported by some per-
sons who had come to the spot.
Mr. Briant, draper, corroborated the evidence of the
former witness, and stated that he saw the horse running
away at full speed, and hastened to their assistance. His
mother being in one chaise, he put her out and drove after
them. lie came up to the deceased, but finding her taken
care of, went after the horse and chaise. He found the
front part of it before he came to the Lodge-gate, but the

horse was gone through. It was stopped by two men at
Woodcote. He strapped the broken chaise to his own,
and brought it back to where he had left Mrs. Hunt and
Mrs. Puttock. Mrs. Hunt was insensible, and his Grace
the Duke of Richmond insisted on sending into Chichester
for medical advice. He thought the deceased was only in
a fit, and would soon come to. In answer to some ques-
tions from the Coroner, the witness stated that he took
some blame to himself, for Mr. Puttock, who was in Stony
Dill when the ladies went away, said he was sure that
some accident would happen, and it was always the case
when the women would have their own way. He brought
the deceased in his chaise to the public-house. This was
about four o'clock.

W. Grey, Esq., surgeon, of Chichester, stated that a ser-
vant came from the Duke of Richmond's about a quarter
to five o'clock, who stated that he came for him to go to
Waterbeach to a lady who had met with an accident in
Goodwood Park. He found the deceased on the bed, in-
sensible, and she died about ten o'clock. On a post mortem
examination of the head, he found a fracture of the bone of
the skull, and many of the smaller vessels of the brain lace-
rated, with about four ounces of coagulated blood, either of
which was sufficient to have caused death, and he had no
doubt the injuries were occasioned by the fall. Medical
assistance could have been of no avail.
Charles Irish, a carpenter, in the employment of his
Grace the Duke of Richmond, stated that he saw the horse
running at the utmost speed past the house with two ladies.
He did not then see the third, but made a short cut to-
wards the gate near Mr. Rusbridger's, in the hope of stop-
ping the horse, but before he got there he heard a scream
and the gate rattle, and when he caught sight of them again
the horse was going at full speed up tbe hill. He saw the de-
ceased jump out and fall, and she never moved after. He
met one lady who had been thrown out, but who was not
hurt. The other lady rode about twenty yards and then
jumped out, and did not appear to be hurt He untied the
bonnet of the deceased, and Mrs. Rusbridger brought out
some hartshorn, &c., but deceased could not take anything.
When I came to her I placed her on the bank ; she
looked up, but never opened her eyes again.
William Parker another servant of his Orace the Duke
of Richmond fully corroborated the evidence of the last
witness, and stated that he saw the horse run against the
gate which it forced open, and that the deceased jumped
out as the vehicle was going up the hill, but missing her
foot she fell, and never moved after.
After some excellent remarks from the Coroner, the Jury
returned a verdict of " accidental death," with a deodand of
101. on the horse.
The Duke of Richmond was present, and evinced the
greatest anxiety : in short, his Grace's attention to the suf-
ferer and her friends was ,beyond praise. He ordered the
lad whom he sent for medical assistance to gallop all the way.

A very strange sensation has taken place at Kensington,
Notting-hill, and their vicinities, within the last few days,
arising out of the following circumstances :
It appears that Mrs. Robinson, the proprietress of a se-
minary for young ladies, at Notting-hill, took under her pro-
ection a young
.female, named Ellen Lawrence, whose pa-
.- have been in good. circumstances, but latterly much
last, the young woman was seized