The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-25 00:00:00

MARLBORO U G H- S TREE T.

CONFLICTING EVIDENCE IN A CASE OF ASSAULT.
—Thomas Boyle, a policeman, of C division, No.
62, appeared before the Court yesterday with his head
bound round with a pocket-handkerchief, and one
side of his face and nose covered over with large
strips of adhesive plaister, in consequence, as he
stated, of wounds which Mr. Beere, a tradesman,
residing in Carnaby-street, had inflicted upon him
with a cleaver.

The policeman, on Saturday night, about 12
o'clock, had occasion to move a boy on who was
conducting himself improperly, when Mr. Beere, to
whom he was well known, left six or seven of his
friends with whom he had come out of a public-
house, and came over to him, and, after abusing
him for laying hold of the boy, knocked off his hat.

Witness then laid hold of Mr. Beere by the collar,
but in an instant he was thrown down, and while on
the ground he received twe heavy cuts on the face
either from a hatcher or a cleaver. Several police-
men having come to his as.istance, Mr. Beere was
conveyed to the station-house, and complainant ac-
companied them to make his charge, and get his
wounds dressed.

John Hudson, policeman, C, 25, swore that he
came up just at the moment when Mr. Beere threw
the policeman down ; and he assisted in pulling
Mr. Beere from the constable, but not until Mr.
Beere had struck him with a cleaver or chopper,
which he afterwards threw on the ground.
Mr. Beere, when called upon for his defence, in
the most positive manner declared there was not
One word of truth in the statements of the police-
men. He solemnly denied having struck the police-
man while on the ground ; and with respect to the
blows he was asserted to have inflic:ed on the man
with a cleaver, he believed it was a charge trumped
up by the policeman to screen his drunkenness and
his improper conduct towards him.
Ten or a dozen of Mr. Beere's neighbours, trades-
man, living in Carnaby-street, who had witnessed

he commencement and the conclusion of the dis-

turbance, here stepped forward, and begged to give
evidence in favour of the truth of Mr. Beere's state-
ment.

Mr. CONANT directed the witnesses should all
leave the office, and be admitted separately, as the
charge was of a most serious nature, and he was
anxious to arrive at the truth.

Several witnesses were then separately called in,
and their testimony in no material point varied from
this account of the transaction :—Policeman C 62,
had been noticed by several of the tradesmen in
Carnaby-street to be in a state of intoxication some
time before the present occurrence happened. It
was further stated where and with whom the police-
man had been drinking, and that a private watch-
man in the same district, with whom the policeman
had got drunk, could be brought forward in evi-
dence. The policeman, who was not in a fit state
to be on duty, struck a boy on the head, and laid
hold of him; a tall man, a tailor in the neighbour-
hood was passing at the time, and after saying some-
thing sharp to the policeman for striking the boy,
he knocked off his hat and went away. The police.
man picked up his hat, and mistaking the person, from
the situation he was in, he ran over the road to where
Mr. Beere was standing in conversation with some
friends, and laid hold of him, calling out, " Curse you,
I'll have you, Mr. Beere." He then threw Mr.
Beere on his knees, but Mr. Beere got up and said,
" Let me go, you have made a mistake, hut if you
think I am the person, I will go with you to the
station-house; leave go of my collar, or I will lay
you down." The policeman still continuing to drag
Mr. Beere, the defendant did put the policeman on
his back, but not at all violently. Mr. Beere did
not attempt to strike a blow with his fist, and all he
had in his hands was the tobacco-pipe he had been
smoking, which was broken in the scuffle. Several
policemen arrived on the spot, and laid hold of Mr.
Beere, amongst whom was policeman C 25, in or-
der to take him to the station-house. While they
were thus conveying him, policeman C 62, came
behind him, and struck bins on the back of his head
with his fist and the handle of his rattle, policeman
C 25 dropping his hold, in order that the other po-
liceman might have space to strike Mr. Beere. Mr.
Beere might then, on being treated so shamefully,
have made a blow with his fist at policeman C 62,
but they all declared that Mr. Beere never had any
knife or cleaver in his hands that evening; and one
witness hinted that it would be prudent to examine
the policeman, to see if the bandages really covered
such wounds as he said were inflicted. His ap-
pearance, with the exception of the plaisters, by no
means indicated that he had experienced any severe

. .
suffering.
Police Sergeant Walsh did not believe the police-
man was drunk when he made the charge. He con-
sidered that the appearance of " giddiness," which
the policeman exhibited, was from the effect of the
treatment he had received.

Mr. CONANT, in deciding the case, said the testi-
mony of so many respectable tradesmen so com-
pletely negatived the statement of the two police-
men, that he was bound to allow it to have some
weight. He should therefore call upon Mr. Beere
to find one respectable housekeeper only to be bound
for him, to answer the charge, if prosecuted, at the
sessions.

UNPLEASANT FINALE TO A LOVE APFAIR.—A
smart young gentleman, who gave his name Barber,
and stated his residence to be in Coleman-street,
complained that he had lost his watch, chain, and
seals under the following circumstances :—He was
taking an evening stroll on Sunday,when he noticed
a young damsel pensively pacing along Poland-street.
As he passed her, she threw a languishing look at
him, and then cast her eyes on the ground in the
most amiable confusion. He accosted her, praised the
beauty of the weather, and concluded by declaring the
inexpressible happiness she would confer by permit-
ting him to stroll in her company. The young lady
with infinite modesty declined his advances, accom-
panying her refusal, however, with a tender squeeze
of the hand, and pointing to a handsome house in
Poland-street, hinted that was the residence of her
" Pa," who expected her home immediately. Mr.
B. however, urged his amorous suit so warmly,
that she at length said she could not invite him to
and combatted her
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her home, as " Ma" or " Pa" would be sure to
open the door ; yet she would have " no objection
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Hugging himself at this lucky " chance," Mr. 13.
convoyed the young lady to a house in Sheppard'r
street, and in the morning took a tender leave°
his charmer. He had hardly left the house before
he missed his watch, chain, and seals, and in fr
turning to the house, he was informed the youlls
lady had just left.
The MAGISTRATE, of course, could do nothing'!Ml
the matter, and Mr. B. left the office minus h'
watch, and plus a little unpleasant experience.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

THIS EVENING.

WAR-OFFICE, SEPT. 24.
7th Regiment of Foot—Major-Gen. Sir E. Blakeney,
to be Colonel, vice Field-Marshal Sir A. Clarke, G.C.8., de.
ceased, Sept. 20.

Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Lanark.
Royal Lanarkshire Militia—H. H. Vaughan, Esq., to be
Brevet Captain, Sept. 6.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
GEOGRE ASHBY and THOMAS ASHBY, Derby, linen-
drapers.

BANKRUPTS.
GEORGE WILLIAM AT K I NSON, Fenchurch-street, itr°'
cer, to surrender Oct. 5 and Nov. 6, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Parker, St. Paul's Church-yard ; Whitmore, AO'
tin-friors, official assignee.
THOMAS HOLLINS, Salford, Lancashire, saddler, Oct. 8,
10, and Nov. 6, at nine, -at the York Hotel, Manchester. Ad'
ington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row, London ; ClaYe
and Thompson, Manchester,
GEORGE WATSON, Liverpool, publican, Oct. 13 and Nov
6, at one, Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Snowball, Clarendon'
room, Liverpool; Johnson and Weatherall, Temple.
HUMPHREY MAY FREESTUN, Monkton Coombe, sower-
setshire, dealer and chapman, Oct. 2 and Nov. 6, at twelve, at
the Three Cups Inn, Bath. Jones, Crosby.square, London;
Hellings, Bath.
JOHN BRITAIN, Ripon, Yorkshire, grocer, Oct. 4, at si%,
sth,!and Nov. 6, at eleven, at the Falcon Inn, Micklegate, York-
shire. James Williamson, 7, Gray's-inn-square, London;
Messrs. Blanchard and Richardson, Yorkshire.
WATTS LEES, Greenacres-Moor, Oldham, Lancaster, cot-
ton-spinner, Oct. 10, 11, and Nov. 6, at ten, at the King's Arms
Inn, King-street, Manchester. Makinson and Sanders, Temple.
London ; Atkinson and Birch, Norfolk.street, Manchester.
CHARLES SHEA M, Widcombe and Lyncombe, Somerset-
shire, barilla-manufacturer, Oct. 8, and Nov. 6, at eleven, at the
Castle and Ball Inn, Bath. Drake, Vine-yards, Bath; Dax and
Bicknell, Lincaln's-Inn-Fields, London.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Dodd and J. Earnshaw, Liverpool, printers.
W. Jones and W. Baucutt, Soho-square, drapers.
T. Williams and J. Hardwick, Worcester, glove manufacturerS•
T. W. Monteath and T. Sutton, Liverpool, wine-merchants.
J. and T. Lockitt, Congleton, Cheshire, grocers.
M. and J. Tysack, Sheffield, ie-sinkers.
B. Bewley and J. Briod, Liddington, Wiltshire.
A. Latham and S. S. Gair, Liverpool, merchants.
C. Swain and T. Dcwhurst, Manchester, booksellers.
R. Hendrick and S. Brownentt, Liverpool, chronometer-TO'
S. Young, W. S. Young, and T. Elliott, Parliament-street,
Westminster, attorneys (so far as regards T. Elliott).
P., J. S., W., and H. Kenway, Bridport, Dorsetshire, twine'
manufacturers (so far as regards H. Kenway).
Jde Smedt, Boulme, Nottingham, lace commission agents,
W. Brswn, and H. Cosier, St. Albans, Hertford, auctioneer'
and appraisers.

W.'ii.ratson and J. Waltham, Skidby, Yorkshire, millers.
W. Booth, J. French, W. Wilkinson, T. Turnbull, and w•
Ferry, Deptford, Durham, flint glass-manufacturers.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE
KING OF SPAIN.

Ferdinand VII., born at St. Ildephonso, on the 13th of
October, 1784, was son of Charles IV., and of Maria
Louisa of Parma : he was proclaimed Prince of Austurise
at the age of six years, and made rapid progress in the
sciences. From his earliest youth he detested the favou-
rite Godoy, Prince of Peace, who, on his aide, did not
ease to thwart his inclinations, and estrange the Queen
rom him. In August, 1802, Ferdinand married a Prin-
cess of Naples, whose grace and beauty gained his entire
affection, but whom he had the misfortune to lose in 1806.
Napoleon, who had already conceived his projects upon
Spain, then caused his ambassadors to request secret Audi"-
ences of the Prince of the Aus urias, to engage him to ask
in marriage one of his nieces, daughter of Lucien. Fer•
dinand, for fear of receiving a wife from the hands of
Godoy, and induced, besides, by regard for the public
interest, accepted the proposal, and wrote in consequence ,
to the Emperor of France. This step, having come to
the knowledge of the Spanish Minister, he took occasion
to represent in an odious light the correspondence of the
Prince with Napoleon, and even went so far as to insinuate
to the credulous Charles IV., that his son aspired to de.
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Godoy,eCiz seized dwc aonun the 29 th of October, 1807, a.O d
lowing day a violent decree appeared, which declared the
Prince and his servants traitors. After a reconciliation,
which was probably not sincere, the insurrection of Aran'
juez in 1808, fomented by the Prince, forced Charles IV.,
on the l 9th of March, to abdicate the throne in favour 01
his son, who was proclaimed King of Spain, by the name
of Ferdinand VII. ; but surrounded by dangers, the caire
of which he could not develope, the new monarch at'
tempted at first to reconcile Napoleon, and appointed for
that purpose a deputation to go and renew to him assur-
ances of friendship. Soon Savory came in his turn to
compliment Ferdinand, whom he persuaded to leave Madrid
to go as far as Burgos, to meet his master, protesting that
the step would have the happiest effects. Ferdinand'
not suspecting the snare that was laid for him, set
out on the 10th of April, 1808, and arrived at Burr*
where he did not find Napoleon, and was induced to coo-
dime his journey, notwithstanding the fears and entree'
ties of his people, who surrounded his carriage, and cow'
jured him to turn back. In fact, he had scarcely arrived
at Bayonne, when it was announced to him that the Em'
:peror had irrevocably determined W exclude the Bourbons
from the throne of Spain, and that he required the young
King to renounce his throne. Meantime Charles n',.
having arrived at Bayonne retracted his abdication, and
ordered his son to return the sceptre to him on pain to,
being treated as an usurper. Being afterwards exiled to
Valancy, in Berri, where he remained five years, Ferdi'
nand divided his time between walking, riding, and the
society of his family, till the time when the reverses of
Napoleon induced the latter to offer him conditions 0f
peace; in consequence of which he left France on the 94
of March, 1814, to return to his kingdom.
Immediately after his entry into the capital he dissolve!
the Cortes, and annulled by various decrees all that the)'
had done. At the same time he re-established the inqui-
sition, ordered all the monks to return to the convent"'
proscribed all those who had taken the oath of allegiance
to Buonaparte and Joseph, and condemned to prison or to
exile a great number of persons, most of whom bad ine
,Jll
Deputies to the Cortes. After that period, the system ""
rigour against the Liberals became more or less intenee'
according to the views and opinions of the Spanish Minis'
tors, who succeeded each other in power with a rapidity
alarming to the people and to tht government itself.
In 1816 Ferdinand VII. married his niece, Maria Thei
resa, daughter of the King of Portugal. On the 20th
°
October, 1819, Ferdinand married the third time the
Princess Maria Josephine, of Saxony. On the 7th ef
March, 1820, he accepted the constitution of the Cortee°
1812, which a part of the troops destined for Attie'?co
had proclaimed in the Isle of Leon (Cadiz) at du. hill
ning of the month of January, and immediately set e- .
li-
berty all personswho had
been confined for political or
nions ; abolished the inquisition ; re-established the lihell
of the press; permitted ail the emigrants and partisans w
Joseph to return to Spain; ordered the organization of the
Cortes, the Majorites (or right of primogeniture), and
,be
great number of monastic orders, among which was "0
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French, under the Duke of Angouleme, overcame the liberal
party,
marked by superstition,
party, and the old spirit of oppression was reified
government. He has leftbiagodtaruyi public expenditure,
His third third Queen died under suspicious circumstance', lot
Ferdinand married a fourth wife, a Princess in the Hots if
of Naples and Sicily. Since that period his reign has hrol
daughter
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representative of the Bourbons in Spain, with the Ole,
tion of the brother of the late King, Carlos, and bisj,,,,i„.
ilvlibcese the eel;

BIRTHS.
On the 25th inst. Mrs. Young, of 112, Strand, of a son. .400,
On the 23d inst. at Brighton, the lady of Capt. Richard .
of a daughter.

MARRIED.
On the 20th inst at Blidworth, Notts, Edmund Lewis t,"'viet
Esq., of Repton Park, Derbyshire, brother of Sir Geo. of
Bart., to Caroline Anna, daughter of Lieut.. General Ne'
Fountain Dale in the county of Nottingham.
On the `24th inst. at Pancras Church, Ethelbert-Biglan- ter o
Esq., of the South Sea House, to Frances youngest daugh.
the late John Morgan, Esq., of Penge.place, Surrey.

lED.
On the 2`,ld inst. in ManchesD
ter-street, Lieut.-Colonel Tucl'er'
late of his Majesty's 29th Regiment.
On the 22d inst. in Piccadilly, Mrs. Sophia Jelfe, daug!:iirerrei°'r
the late Captain Andrews Jelfe, R.N. late of Pend Hill,
On the 21st inst. at Ketteringham, 'Norfolk, alter a sevec'o4.l
lingering illness, Frances Mary, daughter of N. W. Peach,
M.P.
On the 19th inst. at Cromarty House, Scotland, Michael DO
Clare, Knight, aged 55, Physician-General and Member 0
Majesty's Privy Council, Jamaica.

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