The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-13 00:00:00

MAR YLER QNE

Wednesday a young woman ttncin. the cognomen
of the Baroness De Lew.;pl.-,t, and X'osalie Fortier, who
acted as her terVitut, were cherged with h'a'ving rob--
bed a ready-furnished house, No.
Mr. Elder, of 9, Sherrarri-st=reet, N7I ty Fair, stated
that a person, t.fifus,lf the B iron de Laurie,
had engaged one nis furnished houses in Park-
place, on MZtiday week, at the rate of 31. re:
week for twelve months. The Bunn'that his
lather was an Earl attached 'Court of Charles
the Tenth, now in and that his own
family were ",ql/.), his wife, their servant, and one
little boy. Prosecutor was referred at the time to
Mr. Blanc, at King's.square, Islington. where he
sent Mrs. E. to inquire, who saw that gentleman's
own son, by a horn the account was confirentd
that the Baron's father was sicUrved as described.
Since then, however; he fotrid tha't. the Baron's es-
tablishment had iticretsfd to an interpreter, and do-
mes!ics of every serf, and that tradesmen had be-
come quite clamorous for the payment of their bills,
Prosecutor, on hearing this, went to Park-nlate., and
recluested to see the Baron ; but 1w told that he
was from home. Being alorr.- he took the precau-
tion to lock the Banat e'sa and her maid into a room
while he searrhe.d the house,:nd on finding a consi-
derable quattity of property gone, he called in a
policeman and gave them in charge. While search-
ing the house, a foreign Jew kocked at the door,
and wanted to see the Baron, who, he stated, had
received goods of him to the amount of seven, y-
five pounds.

Mr. Walter Varco, of No. Vie, king-street, Re-
gent-street, stated, that the prisoners took lodgings
at his house abot't Christmas last ; the lady took the
apartments, L'ad spoke broken English ; she
took the apartments for herself, her servant, and
child; witness asked her if she was a married
lady, and she said " Me no husband ;" she said, as
she had just come from Brighton, she could not give
a reference arid he agreed to take them without ;
they brought their luggage in about two hours af-
ter, and for four or five weeks paid their rent regu-
larly ; the B iron used to come as a visitor and spend
part of the day with them; in about a week after
they had been in witness's house, the Baron gave
him an order for some clothes, to the amount of
61. 10s, which he said he would pay ready money
for, adding, that he intended to marry Madame as
,00n as they were got ready, and he soon pretended
th6y were married, and accordingly he came to wit•
ness's house, and they lived as man and wife ; wit-
ness at length began to suspect their character, and
madea demand on the Baron for payment of his ac-
count, which induced him immediately to decamp,
and witness has not seen him from that day to this.
Mr. William Austin, livery-stable-keeper, White
Horse-yard, Windmill-street, stated, that the person
styling himself the Baron de Larne came to him,
while he was living at M,. Varcu's house, for the
purpose of hiring a cabriolet ; he gave his name
Arment de Launc; he engaged it for a month ; some
time after it was in his possession it broke down
with him in the city, and he then lent him a gig.
Suspecting the character of the Baron, he applied to
him for some money, but without success. Being
at length convinced that he was a swindler, he one
day accosted him in the presence of the Baroness,
and told him that he was a cursed swindler, and
that the woman was not his wife. Soon after this
he decamped from his lodgings, and he has not
since seen him.

Several pawnbrokers were in attendance to prove
the pawning of the goods, but their evidence went
principally to show whether the female servant
could be implicated as a party in the transaction.
No positive proof of guilt being brought home
against
.her, she was discharged. Madame de
Laune being asked, through an interpreter, whether
she was a married woman, answered in the negative.
She was then remanded, and orders given for the
Baron to be looked after. The Baroness refused to
be separated from her child, an interesting boy; and
the scene was of so affecting a nature, that Mr.
Raw Nilson was pleased to direct that the mother
and her offspring should not be parted.
It is said they have been committing their depre;-
dations to a very large extent among the tradesmen
at the west end of the town. They are suspected
to be the same gang of swindlers who were figuring
away some time ago at Brighton.
Yesterday morning the Baron De Laune, whose
lady was examined on Wednesday, was brought be-
fore Mr. HOsKINs in custody of John Roder ck, S
130, from N 0.2, Great Chesterfield-street, Alaryle-
bone, where he was taken by stratagem on the pre-
vious night.
John Roderick deposed, that from information he
received; he repaired to the house in question at
half-past nine o'clock in the evening, and in about
half an hour the Baron, who had come to inquire
for aportmanteau he had left there, knocked at the
door and came in; but the instant he saw Mr.
Elder and the constable he endeavoured to escape,
but was prevented by the policeman, who took him
into custody while passing the door, when he ex-
claimed, "Ah ! mon Dieu T. je suis perdu." Po_
!iceman then proceeded on the way; but they had
no sooner reached the corner of Woodstock-street,
than the Baron said, " You've made a mistake, I
am not him (the Baron); if you come with Rae I'll
show the Baron to you." Prisoner there attempted
to induce the policeman to turn into Woodstock..
mews, which was refused, when he struggled to
escape. Both rolled against the wall, on which
Roderick called for the police, when two of the D
division came up to his assistance. The witness
was himself in private clothes. After he reached
the station-house be was searched, when 40 dupli-
cates were found in the skirts of his coat, likewise
his card-case and 16a.5fi1. in money.

• • ;Mr. Elder deposed Co several of the duplicates
being for articles which belonged to his furnished
house, and directions were given to get the pawn-
brokers in attendance with the pledges.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that the articles
were pawned without his knowledge, and that his
reason for leaving the house was, because the person of
whom Mr. E. rented it was about to put in an exe-
cution.

Mr. Elder said, in explanation, that he owed
his landlord no rent, but he wished him to put
in an execution, in order to get them turned out.
The prisoner was remanded until this day, when
he will will be brought up with the Baroness.
Mr. Elder said, that from circumstances which had
come to his knowledge, he believed that the Baron
and his lady had performed at Portsmouth as Ty.
rolese minstrels.
The prisoner is from '25 to 30 years of age, about
five feet ten inches high, slight itt figure, has blue
eves, lightish hair, but having just shaved off his
whiskers, is not altogether so easily to be recognised
as formerly. He applied for his modicum of
money, which was objected to. Being told that
Madame had confessed that they never were
married, be seemed much affected, and exclaimed,
" Ah t. celateimporte ! EUe est moi-meme " When
locked up by Burridge, the officer, who acted as
his interpreter, he requested pens, ink, and paper,
which were granted him, when he proposed to fur-
nish what he called a transcript of his bitter fate.
Nothing could affect his serenity but mentioning the
situation of his infant and its mother. He appeared
to be philosophically cool, and indignantly calm.
He persists in being the Baron De Laurie, and -
clares that he was lortnerly an officer in the French
infantry, that he is a carlist in polities, and that his
father is attached to the family of their Sovereign
now in exile; and he denied, with warmth, all in-
tension of imposing on the honesty of shopkeepers,
he being still expectant of large property.

THE XING'S LEVEE.

His Majesty held a Levee at two eb.ee yesterday afternoon
at the Palace at St. tlatteo.

kVo'Ocis, Esq.,,-was presented to the King by Vis.
01nt Goderich, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of
s.tate, on being appointed Officer of Arms attendant on the
Knights Commanders and Companions of the Bath, when his
Majesty was pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood open
him.

Monsieur Lavalette was proente4 to Ilia **Sty at the
Entree Levge by Prlike 'Pallayrand, the French Ambassador.
The .gave andiences to=, .
Earl Grey, the buke of ElerOnibire, the Marquess of Lans.
downe, Viscount Granville the Earl of Albemarle, Lord Hill,
yiscount thorp, Vbcoiint Palmerston, and Viscount Mel.
bourne,
A..ll.i‘Je Entree Levee there were present—

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The Netherlands and French Ambassadors ; the Wirtem.
berg, Bavarian, Prussian, Spanish, Mexican, ~BAgirlV, f. axon,
Lucca, and Brazilian Ministers the tanisii and Swedish
Charge d'Affaires 0114 ri`i,;,l de Wessenburg, the Austrian
Minister dr. Mission; the Baron Zuylen de Nyevelt,
tire it;iister on a Special Mission from the Court of the Nether.
lands; Count Orloff, the Russian Minister on a Special Mis.
lion; Count Michel Woronzow ; the Archbishop of York; the
Bishop of Worcester, Clerk of the Closet; the Lord Chancellor,
the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the
Treasury ; the Secretaries of State for the Horne, Fdreign, and
Colonial Departments; tha Chancellor or the Exchequer, the
First Lord of the Admit-Ally, the Chancellor of the Duchy of
Landaster, the Secretary of State for Ireland, the Lord Charn_
tNerltra, the Master of the Horse, the Lord Steward, the Captain
Of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Captain
of the Yeomen Guard ; Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the
Master-General of the Ordnance, the Judge- Adv.Ocate.General,
the Comptroller of the Househo'd, the Master of the Cere
monies, the Paynsas•er te Forces, the Solicitor-General.
Lord Byrrn Sir Robert Otway were the Lord and Groom
IT! 1~ ailing.

Among the general company were—
DUKES—Gordon, Richmond.
Marquis of Downshire.
EA RLS—Winchilsea, Roden, Sheffield, Plymouth.
VISCOUNTS--Combermere, Falkland, Sidmouth, Gran-
ville, Ferrard.
LOnns--F. Fitzclarence, Templemore, Dudley Stuart,
John Thynne, Marcus Hill, Erskine.

BISHOPS—Exeter, Llandaff.
Right Hon. Robert Grant.

SlRS—Edward Thornton, G.C.8., Robert Kennedy, Charles
Des Voeux, Bart., George Barlow, IL Williamson, Sandford
Graham.

Baron Linsingen.
DEANS—Lincoln, Carlisle.
Rev. Dr. Vignoles, Rev. W. Canning.
MESSIEURS—AyImer Bourke Lambert, Thomas Shep.
pard, Rae Wilson, Whitshed, George Burrard, M.P., Dehany,
W. J. Hamilton, P. Campbell Scarlett, Augustus Smith, Thomas
P. Courtenay, W. Stuart, James Barnett, Birch, Throgmorton,
Keith Douglas.
ADMIRALS—Sir Henry Blackwood, Sir James Whitshed,
Sir Robert Otway, Sir E. Codrington, Sir Thomas Foley,
Brace, Sir Thomas Hardy, Sir Thomas Williams, Sir Harry
Neale, Bart., Lord A. Beauclerk, Sir P. Durham, Sir E. Thorn.
brough.

GENERALS—HaII, 'Moore, Sir Henry Face, Mawby, Pigot
Peachy, Sir W. Oswald, Sir W. H. Clinton.

COLONELS—Sir Charles Thornton, Macdougall, Sir John
Kenwatil Shaw, Potter Macqueen, Lempriere, E. Currey,
Bowater, Story, Hamner, Lygon, Finch, C. 8., Sir John Burke,
Shawe, Rice, Jones, Gibbs, Sir John T. Jones.

MAJORS—Macarthur, Tynte, Burney, Jones, Mackworth
Sir Francis Head.

CAPTAINS—Hodgson, R.N., Phibbs, Last, S. B. Jarvis,
Frederick Irby, R.N., Sir J. Broke Pechell, R.N., Henry \Tyner,
Sir John Louis, RN., A. Shippard, R.N., Cates, Williamson,
Arthur Hamilton, Chipchase.

COMMANDERS—Ramsay, Crozier, Booth, George Evans,
Maitland, Smart.

LIEUTENANTS—George Cromie, G. Courtenay, A. An-
derson, J. I). Blythe, E. Brace, A. Mackenzie, Hodgson.
ENSIGNS—Hon. Charles Stuart, G. C. M. Wilson.
The following Address was presented to the King Iv •the
Earl of Winchilsea