The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-24 00:00:00

GUILDLIALL.

buried.

John Bryant, a labourer at Messrs. Crawshay's,
in Thames-street, attended before Mr. Alderman
COWAN yesterday, upon a summons, for threatening
to assault and beat a young man named Briscoe, a
clerk in a mercantile house.
Complainant said he suspected there had been an
improper intimacy between him and his wife.
Well, said the Alderman, is that suspicion cor-
rect or incorrect ?—lt is incorrect, replied the com-
plainant.
' The defendant said be had been in a comfortalle
situation thirteen years, and had been married nine
years. They lived happily together till they ven-
tured to take a house in Little Carter.-lane, and let
a room to the complainant as a single man lodger.
He soon discovered a change in his wife's behaviour,
and had some suspicion of the cause. One night
she said she was going to a woman's club in Old-
street, of which she was a member ; and upon his
making some objection, she seized a knife, and swore
she would run hint through if he refused to let her
go. She was so excited that he yielded. He sus-
pected that she had made some appointment, and
followed her unseen, and, as he expected, saw her
take the complainant by the arm. He reproached
her, bat told her he would forgive her if she
would give up the young gentleman's company, and
do her duty to her children. Subsequently he had
more unequivocal proof of her faithlessness, and he
turned the young man out of the house. She chose
to follow him, and they had since been living toge-
ther in Angel-street, St. Martin's-le-Grand, as Mr.
and Mrs. Briscoe.
Mr. Alderman COWAN, after consulting his legal
adviser, asked the complainant if he could seriously
swear that from the threats the defendant had ut-
tered he went in fear of his life ?—Complainant
said he certainly could.
The husband assured him he might rely on his
promise not to annoy him hereafter; and
The ALDERMAN again urged the complainant not
to press for sureties, but he was inexorable, and the
husband was accordingly locked up in default of bail.
BO W-STREET.

Yesterday, a man of rather respectable appear-
ance, named Henry Curl, was charged with having
attempted to utter a forged 5/. Bank of England note.
The Magistrate should remand the case unt'

Friday next—, and the prisoner was removed in cus-
tody, application to bail him having been refused.
A miserable-looking old woman, named Ann
Drib coil, whose brogue afforded sufficient evidence

of the country from which she came, was yesterday
brought up on a charge of vagrancy, for the purpose
of being passed to her parish in Ireland.
Mr. HALts asked her what could have induced
her to have quitted her own country, and thus to
become a burthen to this ? Mrs. Driscoll replied,

hat an trough she had come over to look after her

husband.

Mr. HALLS—And did you find him ? Mrs. Dris-
coll—Upon my conscience, 1 did'nt, Sir, burin' I

had had him pult out of his crave.
Mr. HALLS—What ! was he dead ? Mrs. Dris-
coll—'Fore God, he was, Sir. At any rate he was

Mr. HALLS—And were you not acquainted with
that fact before you came to this country ? Mrs.
Driscoll—Why, your Honour, he wrote to tell me
he was dead, but [ didn't believe him, and came
over to be satisfied that it wasn't a lie he was tell-

nig me.
Mr. HALLS —You do not mean to say your hus-
band wrote to you after he was dead ? Mrs. Dris-
coll—By my sowl, I do so ; and I have got the let-
ter he wrote at home.—(Loud laughter in the

office.) There now, you're making game of me ;
but the devil a word of lie I am telling you.
Mr. HALLS—There is no person making game of
you; but we are not disposed to believe that your
husband possessed powers not possessed by other
persons placed in his situation. Have you got the
letter which 'your husband wrote? Mrs. Driscoll
_ .

—I have, Sit 7; but it's over in Ireland beyant.
Mr. HALLS laughed, and observed, that he had
heard of " Dialogues of the Dead," but this was
the first time he had heard of the departei corres-
ponding with their relations on this side the river
Styx. If such a posthumous talent did exist, it
must be peculiar to the Hibernian race. ifs Wor-
ship then directed the overseers to make some in-
gully into the truth of the story told by the pauper,
as in all probability some person had written a letter
to acquaint her with the melancholy event to which
she alluded ; and, in order to give a greater appear-
ance of authenticity, being from the same side of
the water from which she had come, had signed her
husband's name to it.

The wretched woman was then taken back to the
workhouse, evidently surprised that any doubt could
exist of the fact of her husband having written to
her after his departure from this world.

MAR YLEB ONE.

Yesterday Eliza Daniels, a female of prepossess•

ing appearance, was brought before Mr. RAWLIN•
SON, the Sitting Magistrate, charged with violently
forcing herself into Captain Dighy Willoughby's
house, No. 11, Montague-street, Portman-square,
and putting that gentleman in bodily f!ar.
The prisoner went to the Captain's house about
three o'clock in the. afternoon on the previous day,
and knocked at ,the,door, which was opened by a
servant, when she inquired if Captain Willoughby
was at home, and without waiting to receive an an-
swer, rushed up stairs into the back drawing-room.
The servant immediately informed his master of the
circumstance, but Captain Willoughby refused to
see her, having experienced her violent conduct on
former occasions. Upon learning the Captain's de-
termination, all entreaties for her to quit the room
were in vain, and she ultimately locked herself in.
Police-constable Charles Lake, D, 71, was then
fetched, and he knocked at the door and requested
her to open it, to which she replied she would
not, and if any person dared to enter she would
blow his brains out. There were two loaded blun-
derbusses in the room, and fear was entertained
lest she should carry her threat into execution; for-
tunately, however, the ISre-arms did not appear to
have been moved on the policeman bursting the
door open, and she was conveyed to the station-

house.
Mr. RAWLINSON here asked her what she meant
by such violent conduct ?—The prisoner had known
Captain Willoughby for upwards of l 4 years, and
had a child now living by him. She was formerly
the Captain's mistress, and until lately he allowed
her a maintenance; but having stopped it, for some
tifttVe 'that she was totally ignorant of, and being
completely destitute, she went to his house for the
purpose of coming to an explanation with him, and
on his refusing to see her, she certainly would net
quit the house. He had also prevented her seeing
her child, which is.at present at school.
Captain Willoughby denied the latter part of the
prisoner's statement. He said he certainly had
given orders to the schoolmaster not to let her take
the child away, but he had never refused to allow
her seeing it.
The prisoner also accused him of living with a
common prostitute, whom he had taken off the
streets, and whom he had suffered to take charge
of her child.
A letter was here handed over to the Magistrate
by the Captain's present mistress, which she had
received since the prisoner had been in custody,
threatening her life.
Mi. RAWLINSON read a part of it, but it contained
such horrible imprecations, that he threw it down,
and immediately ordered the prisoner to enter into
her own recognizance in 401., and find two sureties
in 201. each, to keep the peace, in default of.which
she was committed to prison.
Jane Banning, a middle-aged woman, was placed
at the bar, charged with being a common cheat and
impostor.
The MAGISTRATE sentenced her to three months
hard labour in the House of Correction.
William Stormont and John Williams, the latter
dressed in the garb of a sailor, were brought before the
Magistrate, charged with selling cheap publications.
Robert Currie saw the prisoners selling the Cos-
nzopolitc and Poor Man's Guardian in Newman-
street yesterday morning. He purchased a copy of
each from both prisoners, and then took them into
custody.
The prisoners admitted that they were aware of
the consequences of selling such publications, but
said it was better to do so than starve.
They were committed for a month.
LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday, Joseph Slater, a constable belonging
to the G division of police, was brought before
Messrs. HARDWICK and WALKER, on a charge of
having written and sent two threatening letters to
Sir William Blizard, one of the principal surgeons
to the London Hospital. After the case had been
gone into, the prisoner was discharged.
HATT ON-GARDEN.

Yesterday Mary Bond, a fine-looking middle
aged woman, Was brought to this office, charged
before Mr. ROGERS and Mr. LAING wish having
committed an assault upon a policeman of G division.
The prisoner was fined 20s. for the assault, and
in default of payment to be committed for one
month to the House of Correction.
UNION HALL.

Yesterday John Martin, a bald-headed old man,
was brought before Mr. MURRAY, charged with
selling the Poor Man's Guardian in High-street.
The charge against the defendant having been
proved, he was asked whether he was not aware
that he was breakiug the law by vending such pub-
lications. He replied, that he was a native of
.11irillingham, and that being unable to procure bread,
e was forced to commence to try and earn a liveli-
hood by selling the work in question.
Mr. MURRAY said that there were numerous other
small publications by which he could earn as much
in the sale of, as of the obnoxious papers found in
his possession.
Defendant—We get sd. profit in every Is. for
the sale of the Poor Man's Guardian, but in the
other publications the profit is not sufficient to keep
a man whose dealings are in a small way alive.
Mr. MURRAY would not give credit to the above
assertion.
Defendant—l tried what I could do with reli-
gious tracts, but I soon found that the.public would'
have them at no price. I then tried the penny pub-
lications, but discovered that there was very little
sale for them in the streets, until at length a young
man advised me to sell the Poor Man's Guardian,
so I took his advice, and sold treble what I did be-
fore.
Mr. MURRAY said that he committed the offence

with his eyes open; and must have been aware that
he rendered himself liable to be punished.
Defendant—What am Itodo ? What brought
me to London was to get work ; being old,
and having weak eyes, nobody would employ me,
and I was forced to enter into this line, rather than
thieve.
The Magistrate discharged the old man, who ap-
peared quite indifferent as to the result.

PORTRAITS BY BENJAMIN CONSTANT.

THE ABBE SIEYES
was some 35 years of age at the commencement
of the revolution. He embraced the party of
liberty, because that party was the enemy of the
object of his bitterest hatred—the nobility.
From his infancy this hatred (of the nobility)
ryas predominant in him, and as he had more
penetration than his contemporary revolutionists,
this passion was exacerbated by a feeling that its
object (the nobility) could not be destroyed.
After a heated declamation he would say, with a
sigh, " After all that, I should never be a Mont-
morency." When the question of driving all
the nobles out of France was under considera-

tion, no argument could make any impression
upon him. " Those who are not of my species
are not my equals : a noble is not of my species
—he is a wolf; I shoot at him."—Je tire dessus
ce constituunte. _

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On his entry into the Assembly the feeling of
hostility to the clergy was still more violent than
that which prevailed against the nobles, and
this was the more annoying to him, as he was a
prie,t as much in disposition as by profession.
He defended his order with a courage which he
has never since evinced, and on the occasion of
the sale of their property, gave utterance to
that celebrated declaration which has been too
faithfully verified, " You wish to be free, and
yet know not how to be just."
Mirabeau, who disliked Sieyes, thought to
foil him by overwhelming him with panegyrics.
He declared from the tribune that " The silence
of the Abbe Sieyes was a public calamity."
Sieyes had the sagacity to persist in his silence,
and the saying of Mirabeau served but to add
to his reputation.
Next to hatred fear was the most vivid
passion of Sieyes. He believed himself to be
perpetually menaced, and it then became his
object to endeavour to find out some person
whom he could expose in his own place. One
day that it was announced to him that one of
those persons whom he saw most was arrested,
" that wretch," said he, " wants but to com-
promise me ;" and he dwelt with all his ener-
gies on the charges against him.
At the commencement of his career he was
very disinterested, because he was ignorant of the
value of money ; lions are not cruel till they have
tasted blood. When he discovered what money
could procure him, his character changed, and
he then believed he never could have enough.
He replied to one of his female friends, who
reproached him on this head, " You see, when
I used to go about on foot, I heard all the bad
things the people whom I met said of me ; but
now I ride in my carriage, and do not hear them;
there is the difference."

Once embarked in the revolution, his two

master-passions of fear and hatred rendered him
terrible. He was not a prominent figure during
the sway of Robespierre, but after his fail was
the promoter or partisan of almost every measure
of severity, without, however, wishing to attract
attention to himself by putting himself forward
in the foremast rank. On the night of the 18th
Fructidor he was behind a kind of curtain which
divided into two the recess of the gallery (l'es-
trade) in which the deputies from the School
of Medicine used to sit, anu he passed his arm
(only) through an opening when adding new
names to the lists of proscription.
When he was proclaimed Director, his first
and only object was to new-model the constitu-
tion, in order that he might get rid of his col-

leagues. When they objected, his answer was,
" I am good enough as a single cart-horse, but
am worth nothing harnessed showily in a row
with others."

When he had succeeded in expelling two of
his colleagues, he was anxious that their places
should not be filled up, or that they should
be creatures of his own. He wished that they
would of themselves sound his meaning, and
became enraged at their not divining his object.
The Jacobins waited on him to ascertain whom
he wished. He fixed his eyes on them sternly,
with folded arms, and then exclaimed, " Go to
the Devil, and think for yourselves." They
did as they were desired, and were felicitous
enough to choose the very two men whom he least
of all desired. Sieyes, however, might still go-
vern as he liked, for his new colleagues were
willing to obey him implicitly. But he pre-
tended that they saw through him, and 'never
answered one word to the questions they ad-
dressed to him.