The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-22 00:00:00

Mr. Busaine, the inspector, and Waddington,
stated that they actually saw the money pass be-
tween th,! persons alluded to, and that Mr. Cux
4eceived the money in the passage of the office.
Mr. Seijeant SLLLO —Ming the prisoner back
to the bar, and go instantly and fetch the prosecutor.
In answer to the Magis►rate's questions, Mr. Cox
stated that he was agent to a Russian merchant, and
frankly acknowledged that he had received 5/. not to
prosecute.

- Mr. Serjeant SELLON expressed great indignatien
at this attempt to compromise a felony.
Mr. Cox—l am sorry if I have offended. My
long absence from this country has rendered me
ignorant as to its laws, but if I have done wrong, I
trust you will attribute it to my ignorance, and not
to a desire to offend. I came to ask your 'Worship's
advice beforehand as to whether I should be justified
in receiving the money.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON—HOW dare you, Sir, come
to ask me such a question ? lam surprised at your
audacity.

Mr. Cox—l was willing to follow good advice,
your Worship.
The prosecutor further stated, that he had been
harassed by numerous applications from the prison-
er's friends. They represented that the prisoner
was in a situation which he would lose if he wai
prosecuted, and having a wife and family de-
pendent upon him for support, their subsistence and
future happiness depended on his (Mr. Cox's) not
appearing against him.

- Mr. gerreant SELLON—I have no doubt thßt viu
are a respectable man, but every body ought to know
that receiving money not to prosecute in such cases,
is compromising a felony. It is very probable that
you were actuated by motives of compassion, but to
ask a Magistrate who has sat -as a judge in the eits:!
to assist in such a compromise, is audacious and inn-
.pertinent.

Mr. Cox—l question whether it is a felony, your '
Worship.

Mr. Serjeant SELLON—That is not for you to
iudge.

The prisoner, in his defence, said he intended to
pay the prosecutor.

• A Solicitor here entered the office, and asked Mr.
Cox whether he had not received money to compro-
mise the case ? Mr. Cox—Certainly, five sow-
reigns; which I have in my possession now.
Mr. Serjeant SELLON—And you received it at
the very step of the office.
Mr. LAING (to the Solicitor)—Then the best
way is to have that taken down in evidence against
the prisoner.

The clerk took it down, and the prisoner was
fully committed on the charge to take his trial, lint
he will be brought up again, as other charges are
expected to be brought against him.

THAMES POLICE.
A young woman, named Mary Plummer, whose
parents keep an eating-house in Old Gravel-Line,
Wapping, was yesterday ,charged with stabbing Cor-
nelius Don,wan with a fork in the shoulder.
The Itishman stated that he went into the shop
a few mornings since, and asked the prisoner to cut
him half a pound of beef, but, after it was weighed,
it came to one halfpenny more titan he could pay,
and the girl refused to reduce the quantity, and said
if he did not like it lie might leave it. He said,
" Agreed, my darling," took up his canister, and was
leaving the shop, when the prisoner seized the meat
folk and threw it at him with great force. It stuck
in his left shoulder, and he went roaring " murder"
to a surgeon, who pulled it out.
The girl said, the complainant hit her with his
canister in the mouth, and threw the fork on the
counter, because she refused to accept of 4d. for
the meat, and, in return for the blow, she hurled
the fork at him.

Mr. BALLANTINE—You had no business to do
so, but you might have thrown your tongue at him,
which would have been punishment enough for the
blow with the canister.

Donovan swore he never struck a blow.
Captain RICIIBELL said that the Irishman was
covered with blood when he applied for the warrant.
The prisoner was then fined 20s. and costs.

The Gazette of Silesia states that an old oak
at Skarsine, in the circle of Breslau, the existence of which
could be traced back for 1,000 years, has recently been
burnt down, through the imprudence of some people who
wished to take a swarm of bees. The tree, in its fall,
crushed a man to death.—French Paper.

A Louisiana State Loan has been contracted
for by Messrs. BARING Brothers, of which tte follow-
ing are the particulars :—The amount is seven millions of
dollars, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, to be
issued in 7,000 bonds of 1,000 dollars each, with half-
_.

yearly dividend warrants, payable the Ist of February and
the Ist of August in each year, at the rate of 4s. 6d. per
dollar, the capital to be reimbursed at the rate of 4s. 3d.
per dollar, in four equal proportions,-1,750 bonds in
1944 ; 1,750 ditto in 1847; 1,750 ditto in 1850; 1,750
ditto in 1852. Applications for the loan will be re-
:eived until the Ist of October inclusive, i❑ equal propos-
!ions of the four series, at the price of 104 per cent., cal-
culating the dollar at the usual rate of 4s. 6d. ; the pay-
ments by subscribers to be in the following instalments :-
40/. per bond of 1,000 dollars on the 15th of October;
tO/. on the 15th of January, 1833; 40/. on the 15th of
March ; 64/. on the 15th of April; 50/. on the 17th of
June. The bonds will bear interest from the Ist of Fe-
bruary, and be delivered to the subscribers upon the pay-
ment of the last instalment,

THE BATTLE OF RONCESVALLES.— The
Pyrenees, extending in a continuous line from the Illy of
Biscay to the borders of the Mediterranean, rise in a long
straight ridge, the superior points of which are but a few
yards lower than the summit of Mont Blanc. In the

highest part of the chain there are occasional apertures;
and from the main body of the mountains, long masses of
Inferior hills are projected into the plain country on either
side, decreasing in height as they proceed, till they become
unperceptibly blended with the level ground around. Be-
tween these steep, natural buttresses, narrow valleys,
.oinetianes spreading out into grand basins, sometimes
traitened into defiles of a few yards in width, wind .n
owards the only passes from one country to another.
The roads, skirting along the bases of the hills, which, to
-he present day, are frequently involved in immense and
trackless woods, have always beneath them a mountain
urrent, above which they are raised, as on a terrace, upon
she top of high and rugged precipices. A thousand diffi.
•-ulties beset the way on every side, and nature has sur-
rounded the path with every means of ambush and con-
••ealment. Mounted on heavy horses, and loaded with a
annplete armour of iron, the soldiers of CHARLEMAGNE
returned from their victorious expedition into Spain, and
ntered the gorges of the Pyrenees, without ever dreaming
that an enerox, beset their footsteps. The Monarch him-
self, with the first division of his host, was suff,red to pass
aurnoleated ; but when the second body of the Francs,
'ollowing leisurely at a considerable distance, had entered
the wild and narrow valley called the Roseida Wallis,
(now Roncesvalles,) the woods and mountains around
-hem suddenly hriiitled into life, and they were attacked
On all sides by the perfidious Garcons, whose light arms,
distant arrows, and knowledge of the country, gave them
•very advantage over their opponents. In tumult and
confusion the Francs were driven into the bottom of the
oass, embarrassed both by their arms and baggage. The
Gascons pressed them on every point, and slaughtered
diem like a herd of deer, singling them out with their
arrows from above, and rolling down the rocks upon their
heads. Never wanting in courage, the Franca fougliolt:
m the last an, and died unconquered. ROLANDO an, is
companions, after a thousand deeds of valour, were slain
with the rest; and the Gaseous, satiated with damage,
and rich in plunder, dispersed among the mountains, leav-
ing Ora autaracNe to seek for immediate vengeance in
vain. The battle artist have been fierce and long, and the
•truggle great, though unequal, for, during the lapse of
nany centuries, tradition has hung about the spot, and the
memory of Rocasrno and his companions is consecrated
in a thousand shapes throughout the country. Part of his
irmour has there given name to a flower ; the stroke of his
word is shown upon the mountains; the tales and super-
shloei tssl
slight
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',asis which history affords, raised up the splendid structure
4* an immortal poem, and dedicated it to the name of Ro-
LA Nino, that name would still have been repeated through
Il the valleys of the Pyrenees, and ornamented with all
lie fictions of a thousand years.—James's iliaor g of
(lin de may ge.