The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-20 00:00:00

MARYLEB ONE.

Yesterday, ilfr. Gibbons, upholsterer, of Oxford-street,
applied to the Magistrates for their advice and assistance
under the following circumstances :
About two months ago, Mr. William-Jackson, the per-
son who charged five men at this office on Saturday last,
with forcibly entering his house, No. 2, Violet-place, Saint
John's Wood, and illegally seizing his goods, called on him,
and, looking out furniture to a large amount, desired them
to be sent home to the above address, adding that that was
his residence, but he was in partnership with his father,
who lived in Rathbone-place. Knowing his father to be a
very respectable tradesman, and an old customer, he be-
lieved what was represented, and sent home the order, but
had never since received any payment. On the previous
day, seeing in the Observer newspaper an account of the
charge Mr. Jackson had made, he instituted inquiries, and
ascertained that he had no share in the business of his fa-
ther, and applicant then judging that he had been imposed
upon by false pretences, had come forward to obtain a war-
rant, and have him apprehended on a charge of swindling.
Mr. W. S. Artud, upholsterer, of Wimpole-street, Ca-
vendish-square, said that Mr. Jackson had obtained goods
from him under similar circumstances.

Mr. HOSKINS should decline interfering ; but, as the
Sessions commenced on the morrow (this day) the best thing
for the applicant and Mr. Artud would be to procure the
assistance of a professional man, and prefer a bill of indict-
ment against the person of whom they complained.
The parties then withdrew.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

FATAL STEAM BOAT ACCIDENT.

Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was held at the Ship
York public-house, York-street, Rotherhit he, before R.
CARTER, Esq., Coroner for Surrey, on the body of W.
Brown, a stonemason, aged 30 years, who was drowned on
Saturday, the boat in which he was being upset by the
swell of the steamer the City of Aberdeen.
George Ryde, a cousin of the deceased, stated that, on
Saturday morning, about nine o'clock, he the deceased, and
two others, took a wherry at Cuckold's Point to go to
Carron Wharf, Lower East Smithfield. They had four
chests partially filled with clothes, and three boxes of ma-
son's tools, some rammers, &c., in the boat with them,
which made the boat rather deep in the water. When off
Globe stairs, in the middle of the stream, they saw the City
of Aberdeen steam-ship coming down the river ; she passed
between the south shore and them. The deceased stood
up at the moment the steamer was passing admiring her
size. Be sat down again. About four minutes after the
swell came in at the stern and wet witness's feet, when they
were cautioned not to move, and they all sat quite still
until the next wave swamped the boat, and she sank under
them. They then all rose together, and, knowing that the
deceased could not swim, they supported him. The next
wave turned the boat over, and witness found himself alone
in the water, and the boat bottom upwards, with one of
his companions clinging to it. He saw no more of the de-
ceased.
By a Juror—The swell left by the steamer, upset the
boat, and the swell appeared to follow the wherry till it
swamped her.
Mr. Jenkins, the agent of the London and Aberdeen
Steam shipping Company, said that the City of Aberdeen
was the largest steam ship on the river. They could never
get above eight knots out of her, and he should be able to
show that she was only going at half speed.
In answer to questions by several jgrgrs, Mr. Jenkins
stated that flip 001 of 44erdeeo was 800 tons builders'
measurement: Whnn.the accident occurred she drew 14
feet water, and of course caused a great swell, but the swell
was long, and not so apt to swamp boats as short
Robert Naylor, a watt4rman, was in his own boat on the
Thames, and witnessed the accident, He saw the boat

swamped by the swell of the steamer, and it instantly went
down. The swell was so tremendous that he was afraid to
venture to their assistance until it had in some degree sub-
sided. A pilot boat going up shipped two or three seas.
Pilot boats are large high-built boats, constructed to bear
heavy seas. Witness picked up three boxes.—(This wit-
ness confirmed the statement of the former witnesses in
every particular.)
The Jury, after an hour and a hairs consultation, re-
turned a verdict " That the deceased was drowned through
the upsetting of a boat in which he was by the swell of the
river raised by the City of Aberdeen steam-ship in her pas-
sage through the pool."—Deodand 601.
The inquiry lasted seven hours.

JURISDICTION OF CORONERS.-EXTRAORDI-

NARY DECISION.

Last evening the inquiry (which has been twice ad-
journed), touching the death of a new-born female infant,
was resumed before Mr. Hiccs, and a Jury of the inhabi-
tants of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields,
.at the Coach and
Horses, Castle-street, Leicester-square.
It will be in the recollection of our readers, from the for-
mer proceedings having been published, that the subject of
the inquiry was found in the quadrangle at the back of St.
James's Palace, adjoining Marlborough House. The first
adjournment took place for the purpose of obtaining further
evidence ; but secondly, in consequence of an objection
raised by Mr. Churchwarden Simpson, .of .St. Martin's pa-
rish, on the part of the parishioners as to the legality of the
proceedings, on the ground that as the body of the infant
was found within the verge of the Palace, the Inquest
ought to be held by the King's Coroner for the Palace,
and composed of a Jury resident within the precincts of
the Palace.

On the Jury re-assembling last night, for the third time,
the CORONER rose and said that since they had last met, he
had obtained all the information in his power as to the point
for which the inquiry had been adjourned ; and he would,
with the permission of the Jury, read to them his opinion
upon the result of the same. The Coroner then read the
following, which we give verbatim, :—" The body on which
I have been required to sit was presented to my view within
my district, and I could not, until after a Jury was impanel-
led, legally know where it had first been discovered ; and,
having sworn the Jury, I cannot legally dispense with their
giving a verdict ; so I now proceed as if no objection had
arisen, and if any party should feel dissatisfied with the re-
sult, he may apply to the proper Court to quash the present
inquisition and direct a new one. I have to observe that it
is not so much as suggested that any fraud or malpractice
has been resorted to in the removal of the body, or in any
other part of the transaction."
Mr. Simpson should still maintain the illegality of the
present proceedings, on the basis that the infant had been
found within the verge of the Palace.
The CORONER replied that he admitted the body was
discovered not merely within the verge but the precincts of
the Palace, but that the removal of the same authorised

him to hold the inquest. He (the Coroner) had taken
many inquisitions in the parish of St. James's, within the
verge of the Palace.
Mr. Simpson—But that is no reason why, in this instance,
we should not exercise a really legal course.
The Foreman concurred in the opinion of Mr. Simpson
as to the illegality of the inquest.
Mr. Simpson proposed a show of hands, which was
adopted, when the Jury were unanimous in not returning
a verdict.

The CORONER regretted that such was their determi
nation.

In consequence of such a termination, a new Jury will be
impanelled without loss of time.

THE DUKE OF BOURDEAUX.

At about fourteen English miles from Prague stands an
old chateau, removed far from the high road, buried in
perfect solitude, and of the most sombre aspect that can be
imagined. The country about is cultivated, at least the
stubble and the furrows show that the hand of man is busy
there : but the absence of timber, of hedge rows, or land
boundaries, particularly at this season of the year, make
one imagine that it was a place selected by some rich mis-
anthrope, who busied himself on his fortune in a solitude
sufficiently near a large city, that he might command the
luxuries of life when he desired. This chateau was the in-
heritance, in right, of Maria Louisa, of the young Napo-
leon, and at his death devolved to the Duke of Tuscany ;
and it appears one of the sports of fate, that the present
possessor should be the inhabitant of the mansion of the
son to that man who was the bitter persecutor of his family
for so many years. I defy any person to approach the place
now, and to witness the want of living things which marks
its environs, without feeling most sensibly the misfortune
of the Royal family who now are its inmates, and bowing
one's head with respect at the noble fortitude with which
they have thus withdrawn from the world to bear in
silence that grief, or to await with patience for' better
days. It is now too late to argue the subject of the French
revolution of 1830, and no Englishman will maintain that
a great people has not a right to choose its own Govern-
ment, and to meet, by resistance, acts which are beyond
the law ; but still it increases the feeling of pity towards this
Royal family to know, that what they had so badly at-
tempted to prepare has been successfully realised by their
successor, and that the. Republican spirit in France, against
which it fought, was not a shadow, but a substance, which,
if it cost Charles X. his throne, had all but deprived Louis
Phillippe of his existence. I need scarcely say after this,
that Charles X., the Duke and Duchess of Angouleme,
and the Duke of Bordeaux are the present occupiers of
Butcheral.

The health of the old King is good, and he maintains it
by a most active life, being out every morning at day break
with his gun and dog. He had been unwell, and went to
Toplitz, where the baths, as they commonly do at first, ap-
peared not to suit his constitution, and brought on an ac-
tive rheumatism, but the physician made him persevere, and
the result has been that he is perfectly cured and enabled
to continue the violent exercise which is his sole enjoyment.
The Duchess of Angouleme looks well, but deeply
marked with care, and the natural vivacity of her man-
ner is strongly contrasted with the sadness consequent
upon such a continued train of misfortunes.
.`!.s her
actions have proved, she is a person of de `faled charac-
ter, religious, but not imbrued by tin over-strict devo-
tion which marks some other htembers of the house,
and it is under her direction that the education of
the Duke of Bordeaux had been formed, as since the
affair of Blaye, the Duchess of Berri has not the good
fortune to be on good terms with her family. I have heard
it constantly said, and seen it as often stated in the Jour-
nals, that Henri V., as he claims to be, was a meagre and
delicate boy, kept closely under restraint, and brought up
more as a Jesuit than a Prince. Now the fact is, that 1
do not suppose there can be a more hearty, high-spirited,
active lad of his age of 14 than he is, and as to his health,
if being full and ruddy, and wild, and running and galloping
about the country all day is a proof of a consumption, he is
in a very bad way. His governor is the Duke of Blacas,
a man of the world, a man of business, full of enlightened
and liberal ideas. Under his care Henri has been instructed
in ancient and modern languages, and in the branches which
become a Prince and a gentleman. I suppose that the
hopes which are formed by some for him, and which he has
a right to indulge when the vicissitudes that have taken
place in France for the last thirty years are remembered,
and as the wheel of fortune is evidently still rolling round
for that country, have been inculcated by his governor ; but
I believe that no Quixotic ideas have been implanted, and
that if his country should not require him and call upon
him, lie is not likely to trouble its repose. He has been
taught not to forget his rights, but not out of season to
urge them, and the love pf France, of that beautiful France
which his ancestors raised to the highest pitch of glory, is
given to him as the first of duties.

A year ago he was one of the wildest boys, and with
such a flow of animal spirits that it was found impossible
to check him, and every one feared that he would by some
prank break a limb or lose his life ; but within some
months he has become more steady, and his countenance
begins to exhibit that reserve and dignity befitting a
prince, and more especially one who has witnessed the
downfall of his house, and indulges hopes—however vi-
sionary they may be—of re-entering it. He is very hand-
home, light eyes, a regular nose and mouth, full of expres-
sion, but he is not tall, and it is feared he will not be so,
as his limbs begin to settle and to form for a middle-sized
man, and lie becomes robust and hard set, indicating more
of strength than gracefulness in his outline. He spends a
great deal of time at Toplitz, which both seems to be as
much a favourite with the exiled family as it does with the
other loyal personages of Europe, and he is there a ge-
neral favourite, for, as a boy, he ran about and made
acquaintance with every body.
Since the Emperors and Kings have come to this
quarter, the family of France have not appeared in Prague,
and no one can suspect that they have been intemperately
and ineffectually pressing their claims. They have pro-
perly withdrawn from the circle, and it is one of the touch-
ing incidents of this day to witness, during a re-union of
the crowned heads of Europe, he that was one among
the first, and he that may yet be, separated, buried in a
solitude, and as much apart as if their existence was
unknown. It forms an awful contrast, and lie who
thinks upon the mutability of fortune, and of the past and
the present, may hero indulge his vein, and turn from the
glitter• and favour of fifty princes to the cold chill mansion,
where dwells in silence the last King of the eldest branch
of the Bourbons, and the young Prince, who has an empire
before his eyes, however deceitful the prospect may be.
The chateau of Buchteral is the summer residence, but
there are apartments prepared for them in the Government
House of Prague for the winter—l believe the same that
the Empress of Austria now occupies. There they live in

the same retired manner, and the people of the city see
little of them, for, as the Castle is at one end of the town
an.l on the top of a very high hill, they are apart from the
bustle,.and take their rides or walks without being noticed.
I hear every one speak kindly of them, and the poor have
reason to bless their vicinity, as there is a constant practice
of doing'good from principle as well as from feeling. I un-
derstand that access is procured without difficulty to the
Royal Family by persons who are not suspected, and vihn,
come simply to pay their respects ; but no one is presented
to the Duke of Bordeaux without previously being Pres
sented to Charles the Tenth. Several French Noblemen
call in the course of the year, and I am told many have
been here previous to this re-union, but they scrupulously
avoid giving encouragement to intrigue, and have the good
sense not to encourage hopes which, for the present, are 0"
tally out of season.