The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-26 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

Sir—l trust you will pardon my calling your attention to a
circumstance which has fallen under my notice, and to which
I conceive it to be my duty to give all the publicity in my
power, and to denounce as a scheme of the blackest villainy,
which nothing but the heart of a demon could conceive or
perpetrate.
On Thursday last an advertisement appeared in the papers,
stating that an accomplished female was required to superin-
tend the education of a young lady, aged 15, and that a libe-
ral salary would be given. The letters to be addressed Mrs.
Knight, Post office, Maddox-street. This, Sir, is my house :
and in the course of two days several answers were returned,
addressed as above.

A person of fashionable exterior announced himself as hav-
ing conic for the letters, but he could not give a satisfactory
statement as to Mrs. Knight ; and being refused the first time,
he called again with the receipts from the newspaper-offices,
showing payment for the insertion of the advertisements. On
this I gave him what letters I then had; but my suspicions
being further excited by one of the applicants calling upon
me, I questioned the gentleman on his next visit for letters
(n'ear fifty of which I have now in my possession) ; and after
being guilty of great prevarication, he was driven to confess
that there was no such person as Mrs. Knight, and that the
advertisement was inserted by him for the purpose of selecting
a victim.

Notwithstanding the bullying tone first assumed by this per-
son, and threats of proceedings, I still retain possession of the
le i ters.

Now, Sir, I have discovered that this fellow holds a cum•
mission in his Majesty's service, and calls himself a captain;
and lam informed that he wears the Crown button. I sup-
press his name only from a conviction I feel that the disgust-
ing exposure he has made of his want of veracity, honour, and
courage, render him too contemptible an object to be visited,
by the fathers and brothers of the applicants, by summary
punishment. Will it be believed that this gallant officer
crouched liked a lashed hound on the discovery of his beastly
purpose, and poured out torrents of apologies and protestations
of sorrow and amendment to the man he found he could not
bully ? Sir, I cannot find language sufficiently strong to ex
press my indignation at the parade of female modesty before
such a wretch. Are the feelings of unsuspecting females of
refined education to be outraged by fellows like this ? A sort
of monkeyfied apology for a man 1 who made his boast that
" other men got their women so." I trust this exposure will
be a warning to young females, who, in their unsuspecting
simplicity, dream not that such fiends in human shape exist,
never to attend an appointment of this description without the
protection of a gentleman; in which case they may depend
that even the blustering, bullying impudence of the gallant
captain himself would shrink before the just indignation of an
honest man.

The reptile will, doubtless, see this exposure ; and he had
better meditate in private on his firmly-established character
as a self-convicted liar, and a dishonoured man. Trusting you
will give immediate publicity to this letter,
I beg to subscribe myself,
Sir, your obedient servant,
CHAS. DAVIES.
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19, Maddox-street, Hanover-square, June 22.
P. S. The letters delivered through the medium of the
Post-office, which did not fall into the hands of the gallant
captain, have been returned by me to the General Post-Office,
from whence they will reach their respective writers. As re-
gards those left by private hands, they may Le obtained on ap-
plication by the writers, on describing the seal.

REGENT'S PARK.----A correspondent informs us
that a considerable portion of the Park, fronting Ulster and
York-terraces, which was agreed and marked upon the plan to
be given up to the public, is not only still withheld, but part of
it has since been actually made over to the Toxopholite So-
ciety. Our correspondent adds that this is not a Royal-park,
but belongs to the public; and that it is, therefore, the more
strange, that while the Royal Parks are freely given up to the
public, officers of the Crown should be found to withhold the
free enjoyment of this.
It appears that Don Carlos and Zumalacarregui
have received severs large packets, containing plans for their
operations, sent them by the Duke of Angouleme. It is pos-
sible that his Royal Highness, recollecting his memorable
campaign in 1823, may feel a desire of dhecting from his place
of exile, a new adventure by the Defenders of the Faith.
Neither Don Carlos nor Zumalacarregui, however, it is said,
pay any attention to his suggestions, but throw them aside as
waste paper.--Vapor of Barcelona.
The remains of the late lamented Duchess of
Argyll were yesterday interred in the catacombs of the beau-
tiful Cemetry on the Harrow-road, near London. Though
the funeral was considered private, the number of Noble re-
latives and connections who attended it was very great. There
were several Royal carriages in the procession. The Rev.
sEdn. It waswardJohn rosteornenvse,oasustlhy statedeofficiatingin Clergyman on the occa-
iopapers yesterday that
the body would be removed to Inverary.
NOVEL METHOD OF ROBBERY.--A lad named
Askew was yesterday charged before the magistrates at Queen-
square, under the following circumstances :—The prisoner,
it appeared, entered a public-house in the NVestruinster-brillg,_
road, and after having called lor a glass of elder, was oh,
rnonew, and irpinpdiatply
!ervf-ti to put a large stick over the. counter towards a pile
withdra w :t with a sovereign .tic;•.-
iug to the end of it. The Ftia' tyas ttoyered with pitch,
gorne other adhesive substance. He was about to repeat .:is
inffenious experiment, when he was taken into custody. The
prisoner did not deny the charge, and was fully committed
fur trial.