The Sun.
London, England, 1832-07-21 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The first trial of the alliance between the elder
and the junior Conservatives, to use the lan-
guage most familiar to the Hon. Mover, came
off last night, and a more decided failure was
certainly never exhibited within the walls of St.
Stephen's. A host of the minor satellites of
the Tory faction prattled about economy and
the 'public purse in support of their new ally, but
the more experienced and more cunning of the
party, satisfied with the beating they have three
times experienced, and thinking prudence the
better part of valour, kept in the back ground.
Mr. Baring indeed, the representative of his own
breeches pocket, was an exception to the rule,
and gallantly threw himself into the fight, and,
however painful to his audience it must have been
to listen to his oft-repeated strain of errors, incon-
sistencies, exaggerations, and contradictions, we
have reason to thank him, since his speech eli-
cited from Mr. Stanley one of the most able as
well as one of the readiest extemporaneous
replies which was ever heard within the walls
of the House of Commons. We refer our
readers to what must necessarily be but an im-
perfect report of it. Uniting the most logical
reasoning with the most statesmanlike and ex-
tended views, Mr. Stanley pounded to shivers
the wretched sophistry, and exposed, in a vein of
the happiest irony, the gross inconsistencies of
Mr. Baring. Driven from the ground they had
so vainly endeavoured to defend, the Tories were
glad to seek refuge in anything but the subject
inatter of the debate ; and Ireland, the Reform
till, the Sugar Duties, Negro razors and shoes,
were alternately called in aid of their failing at-
tack. So much, then, for this last effort of the
disappointed party—this combination which was
to have destroyed the Administration of Lord
Grey ; and upon which, if we refer to the whis-
perings in the clubs this morning, the hopes of
the Tory faction were so confidently built. But
what shall we say to those who, pretending to be

the friends of the people—the supporters of a
liberal policy, and an Administration on which
the nation has set the seal of its confidence,—
have lent themselves to the worst purposes of the
worst enemies of all which they profess to
befriend ? What will Mr. dills plead
at the bar of his country, or upon the
hustings at Rochester, in excuse for Navin.
done his little possible to oust the Government.
and replace the Tories in power ? To the la,'
tribunal we think he may safely he left. Wr
greatly err in cur estimate of the sentirnents of
the Kentish electors, if an account be not de-
manded of him which will not be settled by eithe;
a few common-place protestations of economy 01
apologetic promises of amendment. The cone
duct of the true and long-tried friends of the
people exhibited, index!, a striking contrast to
the movements of such self-constituted sup-
porters of their cause. Mr. Coke travelled up
purposely from Norfolk to tender his support to
the Government. Mr. Littleton, Mr. Wilbra-
ham, Sir Henry Bunhury, and many other,.
came from their respective counties to mark ti eit
sense of the proceeding, and show that they feli
that, to sustain the plighted faith of England.
and defend a Reforming Administration from
the insidious attacks of half-and-half or Anti-

Reformers, was not likely to diminish their well-
deserved popularity with their numerous consti-
tuents. What a blow to those who had indulged
in the fond hope of being hailed as the econo-
mists par excellence. Poor Mr. Mills ! We
observe that even Mr. Bunt threw him over,
declaring that the vote was too palpably a fac-
tious one for him to support. Our readers wil
see that the majority has increased to 79.
Surely, after this unequivocal expression of the
sense of the House, we shall hear no mote of the
Russian-Dutch Loan !—Morning Chronicle.
We perceive, by certain articles in the Mes-
sager des Chanzbres of the 16zh and 18th inst
that the plan for partitioning Belgium between
France and Holland, which was developed in a
letter from the Hague some days ago, and made
the subject of commentary in this journal,
still defended with much argry eagerness by the
Dutch politicians, and disclaimed by those of
France, on grounds of good faith and honour.
We admire the spirit of the French disavowal.
more than that in which the propositions pave
been made and repeated by King William's (ot
Holland) advocate. The Dutchman charges
the Times—representing, as he supposes, the
general feeling of this country—with the olds
crime of " English selfishness," because we have
expressed some degree of indignation at the ap-
pearance of treachery affixed to the disclosure of
a scheme, by which not merely the negociations
of the last eighteen months would have been
frustrated, but a long series of positive and so-
lemn engagements on the part of France, Eng-
land, A ria, Russia, Prussia, Belgium, in some
instances nd herself, would have been vio-
lated, and the counsels of Great Britain and the
rightful demands of all the people of Europe for a
fulfilment ofnational pledges, and for an observance
ofthe faith oftreaties, would have been covered with
ridicule and disgrace. We say nothing upon the
supposition that a proposal had been made at
the outset to leave Antwerp, and the parts ad-
jacent, in possession of Holland, (always stipu-
lating for the free commercial navigation of the
Scheldt,) and to let the rest of Belgium become
part of the French territory. We now say nothing
as to what, in such a case, English Statesmen
rnigilt have regarded as consistent with the na-
tionAsecurity. But at this late period of.a course
of. negotiations professing to be serious ones,
and alfvrecognizing as a irrinciple, that ~Brusseis
should trot be French, nor Antwerp Dutch, it
would be'lvild amid monstrous to entertain a pro-
ject framl as it were in utter contempt of all
the Powerriwhos.c signatures had been annexed
‘i,to 67 prototcols, every one of which it would
deduce to waste paper, or worse ; for they would
be proofs of an extravagance of levity or dis-
bonesNtot paralleled in the records of Europe.
The lette'r‘aeriting Dutchman is a saucy Dutch-
man after: in. He accuses England of pet-
firly tor retaining four or five Dutch colonies.
which had been ceded to this country in conse-
quence of the uhion cf Belgium with Hol-
land I. How modest ! What could Hol-
land cede c—She who had gone to war with
England, and had all her colonies wrested!
from her by conquest !—She whose national
existence had totally ceased by her incorporation
with the French empire !--She that had not a
ship, nor island, nor settlement, nor foot of land
on earth,---that had been beaten, beggered,

swallowed up,—ind that was indebted for the

recovery of her life and name in 1814, in great
part to the friendship—as she was for Java and
to the profuse and the Spit Wands wholly
Great Britain. She, or
ill-
requited -igeik-Vogityy6t.
hers avoweili advocate,- talks of England being
tr iteroua for not' Strireacring Demerara and
tl ,CaPtit,l2.eeausb Holland, by her• clumsy or
a itrary Goverriment,:•Ciiiild not keep what
and ,amt the Allies---7of England had given
E
her ft...
. Vireiiisli, with all our hearts, that De-

merara, &c., which has been the grave of so
many of our gallant countrymen, and the
ruin of so many of the ancient British colo-
nies, had, in 1814, been restored to the
Dutch ; and that the precious possession
of Java, so wisely governed by Sir Stamford
Raffles that one unarmed Englishman could have
enforced the police of that magnificent and well-
peopled island, had been retained, together
with the Moluccas ; and let the Dutch beware,
or those colonies may once more become British.
But we deride the slanders of this Hague
diplomatist. If English charity, as he tells us,
begins at home," we would to Heaven that it
had ended there, and then little need England or
Europe have been plagued with his perverse and
tricky obstinacy. The Messager des Cham-
bres admits at once, that propositions were
made to France, both early in the Belgic crisis
and more recently, to the effect of the parti-
tion now alluded to : and the writer takes cre-
dit for the rejection of such overtures by the
French Government, on the ground of its
anxiety to abstain from a course which might
justly have alarmed the natural fears of Eng-
land, and endangered the friendship between
these two nations, of such infinite importance to
themselves and to the world. This declaration
is true upon the face of it, and ought to be re-
ceived by the people of England with good-will
and gratitude. We, too, are as sensible as the
Messager des Chambres of the infinite value of a
cordial French alliance to the welfare of this coun-
try and of France, and of liberty and good govern.
ment all over the globe. In the name, then,
of all these sacred interests, let us adjure the
Governments of France and England to inter-
hoe at once with hearty and united energy, and
end the humbug of innumerable protocols,
vvhich have become subjects of scorn to every
honest man in Europe. If Belgium, as is well
known, has agreed to all the conditions pre-
scribed by the Conference, and Holland disobeys
them, which indeed she does not attempt to
conceal—if again the Conference has bound it-
self to enforce such conditions upon the refrac
tory power, why do England and Louis Phi
lippe endure any longer the insolence and defi-
trice of the Dutch ? Why, as General Goblet
tells Lord Palmerston, are " they struck with
impotence" whenever the Duch Government
!walks them ? Lords Grey and Palmerston are
humbled and lost in the evs of Englishmen, if
his wretched farce be, will) their approbation,
continued. Never will the alliance now subsist-
mg between France and England be secure
agairst the efforts of diplomatic knavery to dis-
-4,,1ve it, until the whole of the Belgic and Dutch
luestion shall have been settled by their active
old conjoint aid ; and never until that consum-
mation shall arrive, will the sincer;ty of either
Cabinet be placed beyond reasonable suspicion.—

A Supplement to the Gazette of Tuesday
contains au Order in Council, rendered neces
..arv, we regret to say, by the increase of the
'earful epidemic which has visited so many por-
'ions of the globe. The Order in Council, after
reciting the Act of Parliament which empowers
the Privy Council to adopt and enforce such
rules and regulations as in its judgment may be
necessary to prevent the spread of the disease
called cholera, and describing the enactments
which authorize Magistrates to call upon the pa-
rochial authorities for such sums as may be re-
quired for the institution of Boards of Health,
die supply of medicines, &c. declares the expe-
diency of granting to the Boards of Health addi-
tional powers, to enable them to carry into effect
the purposes of the Legislature. After this pre-
liminary form the Order in Council proceeds to
confer all or any of the following powers upon
Boards of Health, according to the decision of
the select or parish Vestry within the district,
which Vestry each Board is authorized to appeal
to, through the Churchwardens for the time be-
iug. The following are the powers which the
Vestries may grant :—A power to expend a
certain sum of money, the amount being fixed
')y the Vestry, for the purpose of furnishing
medicines, assistance, &c., to the sick poor at
heir own houses, when they cannot be conveni-
ently removed to the Cholera Hospital ;—a power
•o cleanse and whitewash any house in which
there exist dangerous impurities—to remove any
offal or filth from slaughter-houses—to engage
medical inspectors to visit all lodging-houses
for the reception of vagrants—to open sewers,
or cover drains, ditches, and cesspools, the pa-
rishes undertaking to defray the expense—to
purchase lands for burying-grounds--to pay the
Cuneral expenses of persons dying of cholera—
to enter any house at seasonable time—to remove
all swine out of dwelling-houses—and to adopt
the necessary means for carrying these regula-
tions into effect. It is also provided that no
person dying of cholera shall be interred in the
usual burying-grounds, and that the funeral of
-uch person shall take place within twenty-four
hours from the time of the death. Under the
authority of this order every parish will be enabled
to establish an efficient Board of Health, as cir-
cumstances may require ; and it is, we are per-
-waded, unnecessary for us to urge their attention
to cleanliness, in the first instance, as one of
the most effective agents towards the counterac-
tion of contagious or epidemical disease. The
statement of Ministers the other night in the
House of Commons, that the reports which pre-
vailed respecting the progress -of cholera in the
metropolis were greatly exaggerated, is calcu-
lated to restore thc_, sonfidence of those
timid persons _who were alarmed by . pc),
pular rumour; but the Order in Council,, of
which we have given the above brief abstract, is
an admission that the malady exists to a degree
which requires the utmost precaution on the
part of the
ecommunity—a precaution which we
trust every individual will apply to himself; and
observe in his own circle, be it large or small, as
A member of that cotranunity.—Morning
Herald.

1 The state of political feeling in Germany,
-he edict fulminated in the name of the Diet,
,iat virtually by Austria.. and Prus,ia, against
every institution calculated to promote the pro
trress of freedom and civilization, and the pioba-
ble consequences. Which may result from such a
display of arbitrary power,
naturally occupy much
,of the public attention at the present manor,
and it is confidently hoped by the friends of li•
lierty that the smaller_ states will ri,e up like one
plan to resent the indignity which has been
hrust upon them, and rid themselves for ever
from the yoke under which they have so long
,uffeled. It does not appear to us, however,
bat there is much chance of such a glorious r:f -
,ult being realized at present, whatever may be
.he ultimate issue of the contest which has
pow fairly and openly commenced between
the opposing Powers of despotism, on the
one hand, and heedom, on the other. The
people of the smaller German States are un-
questionably distinguished by great liberality of
:sentiment and feeling—by an ardent admiraticn
~f free constitutions, and a rising ambition to

place their common country in an equally favour-
able position with France and England; and we
may, in consequence, readily enough take it for
granted that the late edict of the Diet has given
rise among them to a proper feeling of indigna-
tion, and a sincere desire to annul it. But the
mere desire of freedom, and admiration of con-
stitutional governments, is not sufficient either
to resist the iron yoke to which it has been de- ,
termined that they shall submit, nor to make the
blow which has been aimed at them by the
united despots, recoil upon their own heads.
For such an enterprize there must be union,
combination, actirity, and noble daring—a
head under whom the liberal army of
Germany might tally its scattered aml
unpractised forces, and to which all would wil-
lingly confide the care and guidance of their in-
terests. That there is no such head at present
is the well-known misfortune of Germany ; and
it seems to us somewhat too sanguine to indulge
the hope, that among a people unused to revo-
lution, born to obedience, and only beginning to
bethink themselves of their political degradation,
the occasion should either create such a chief, or
the dispersed masses of liberalism readily enrol
themselves under his banner. Every thing in
fact is in favour of despotism at the present mo-
ment. There is union among its abettors—zeal
in the attainment of the common object of solici-
tude, and immense and well-disciplined power to
insure it. The only chances in favour of the libe-
rals, are either that by some unforeseen accident,
or through some unthought-o f jealousy, the
despots should quarrel among themselves, or the
political feeling which pervades the civil classes
in Germany extend itself to the armies of des-
potism itself; but the first is unlikely, and it is
but reasonable to infer that the soldier, who has
been trained to blind obedience, will as blindly
follow the orders of his chief. The people of
Germany must, therefore, wait for a season, we
fear, before they can hope to rival those of
either France or England in the freedom of their
institutions; but as surely as they wait and watch,
and train and league themselves in union against
the despots who have conspired their perpetual
enslavement, so surely shall they ultimately
triumph. The day-spring of liberty has dawned
upon them, and nothing but their own cowardice
and selfishness can make it set upon them in
darkness.—Monring Advertiser.
We have always maintained that reflection,
sober tranqui reflection, would speedily dissipate
the public delusion upon the subject of Reorm,
The question was from the first merely one of
time. A variety of circumstances combined to
create an extensive popular delusion, and the
Whigs and Radicals, the former unfortunately
possessing office at the time, united their power
to force through the measure before the cha-
racteristic good sense of Englishmen should
come to their relief. In an evil hour they suc-
ceeded in breaking up the most efficient and
the most exquisitely balanced sytsein of Govern-
ment which had ever extorted the admiration
and guaranteed the happiness of civilized man
But though the Conservatives could not gain
time enough to defeat the enemies of the Con-
stitution, they fOund ample opportunities
to secure to themselves a lasting claim upon
the sympathy and gratitude of the best
part of the community, by the unrival-
led zeal and ability with which they never
ceased to adtocate the great cause of social or-
der and true liberty. The consequence is, that
the absurdity of the Bill being now detected,
' and the wretched incompetence of the Ministry
being as palpable as ever the eyes of the country
are once inure directed to the great conservative
phalanx as to the only party capable of supply-
ing such an Administration as the pressing exi-
gencies of the empire obviously and imperatively
require. It was to be expected that the Whigs,
blundering in every thing, would blunder very
sublimely indeed upon their grand measure of
Reform, and this they have undoubtedly done to
the heart's content of their greatest enemies.
They thought, good easy men, that they could
fence Whig interests and protect Whig boroughs;
and well the country noted their kind and
disinterested intentions in this respect, but they
will be miserably disappointed. Bad as the
Reform Bill is, and mischievously as it can
scarcely fail to work by disturbing all the settled
interests ofthe country, it still allows large bodies
of men a voice in public affairs, and no important
portion of the community is really attached to the
Whigs. There are revolutionists and there are
conservatives, but who ever thinks of the poor,
unfortunate, intermediate Whigs ? They are
merged and lost in the impure mass of radi-
calism which they called to their aid. But the
radicals refuse to be any longer either led or
controlled by the Whigs, whom they consider in
the light of mere puppets of their own creation ;
and the country must therefore choose, and that
shortly, between a fierce democracy, going all
the lengths of revolution, and a proper conser-
vative Administration. The Reform Bill itself
renders such an Administration imperatively ne-
cessary if the great interests of the State are
not to be hurried to irretrievable destruction.
By how much the Bill is democratic by so
much should the elements of stability be
brought together in the system of the prac-
tical Government. But there can be no
stability, no confidence under the present sys-
tem, which only exists by revolutionary ex-
pedients, and places the interests of the empire,
foreign and domestic, in anxious and critical
jeopardy. On. all great questions, such, as
finance, taxation, .currency, the government of
Ireland, and even the management of foreign
affairs, Ministers appear to have either no settled
principles, or no power to adapt their principles
to the practical exigencies of human affairs.
Hence a system of continual shifts and expedi-
ents, designed it would almost seem, merely to float
them over from one quarter-day to another ; and
hence a degree of incettituee, stagnation, and
distress in all branches of trade, perhaps unpa-e
raileled in the history of the country. Potent to
destroy, the talent of an idiot, they have proved
themselves incompetent to originate a single
measure calculated to relieve a suffering and pa-
tient but wonder-stricken people. Every thing
is doubt and suspense, as though the earth were
out of its course so long as they remained in
office ; and practical men ask when the Ministry
will state what measures they intend to adopt,
that they may pursue in quiet their customary
avocations. But the Ministry have no measures
to propose, and they had better state this at once.
We need not say that this cannot last long.
In a commercial country
acute
and appalling lung continued stagna-
tion is followed bydistress,
hat
and loud cries for the punishment of the guilty
authors
of the national calamity.
give to
be replaced What
would
Duke of Wellington was first
not the
thedegreepeople
of prosperity which they en-
joyed when the
outvoted on the Civil List ? The plain truth is,
leyd , the country
Conservative
thatAd unlessa
tai nsit)eaeldidilystrfoornmg
will be in dangeer of becoming one wide scene
no
ne.ffilacei e

'of bankruptcy and convulsion, and there is but
One class of Statesmen competent to form such
an Administration. It may be wise for the
constitutional leaders to let things remain in their
present position a little longer, but it ought to be
only a little longer for the country is exposed to
grievous perils by every hour's continuance of the
present incapable Ministry.—Morning Post.

POLICE IN rELLIGENCE.

BO W-STREET.

Yesterday, three very smartly dressed youths,
about 15 years of age, named John Smith, James
Ginlay, and John Kennedy were brought up for
final examination before F. A. ROE, E-q., on sus-
picion of having robbed William Holmes, jun. Esq.
'he son of the M. P. of that name, of 2601. in bank
notes.

On Thursday morning, the sth instant, Mr.
Holmes, jun., was in May-fair with two friends, when
his pocket was picked of his pocket-book, containing
the sum above mentioned. He did not discover his
loss till the evening, when he caused information to
be given to the police. On the afternoon of the
same day, and before the discovery by Mr. Holmes
of his loss, Joseph Higgins, one of the F. division
of police, was passing up Holborn, when he saw the
prisoners, Smith and Ginlay, whom he knew to be
two expert and determined thieves, riding in a ca-
briolet, and dressed in a dashing style. It struck
Higgins immediately that they had been engaged
in some robbery, and called to the cab driver to
stop, but instead of doing so, he drove furiously on.
Higgins, however, followed and seized the reins,
and, having stopped the horse, took the two priso-
ners and the cab driver into custody. Upon Ginlay
he found three sovereigns, and upon Smith fifteen
of the same coin, besides a number of shirts, hats,
silk handkerchiefs, &c., all quite new. Having got
assistance, and secured the prisoners in a shop, he
searched the cabriolet more narrowly, and under-
neath the seat he found a green purse, containing
twenty-five sovereigns in gold.
The two prisoners were brought before Mr. Rots
the same evening, and he examined them apart, and
their stories were so much at variance with each
other that not the slightest doubt could be enter-
-ained that the property was the produce of a rob-
bery. They were remanded, and two or three days
after the other prisoner, Kennedy, was taken into
custody, and he was found also to have a good stock
of fashionably-made clothes about him, and plenty
of money, although a few days before the robbery of
Mr. Holmes he was almost without shoes. On the
s,eorid examination, Smith and Ginlay had each a
solicitor in attendance, and the office was nearly
filled with their friends and acquaintance, all of them
known to the police.
M.. Holmes attended and described his loss, and
he and another gentleman stated, that they saw the
dri,oners in M ry-fair on thP morning of the robbery,
but they could not identify them as being near to the
person of Mr. Holmes.
They were again remanded, and about the time
at which the police van usually leaves the cffice,
Bow-street was completely filled. and upon the ac-
cased making their appearance aloud ' burnt," swill
" never mini, you'll be turned up (discharged) next
t out," was given by the mob. When the van de-
parted, several very young g7rl-, flashily dressed,
hired cabriolets, and followed the prisoners to the
New P, ism', Clerkenweli.
Yesterday they were again brought up, when
Mr. Holmes attended, and said, thai al hough he
had no moral doubt that the prisoners were con-
cerned in robbmg him, arid although Higgins had
exerted himself in the most praiseworthy mariner
yet there was not evidence forthcoming that could at
all fix them before a Jury.
Mr. ROE, addressing the prisoners, said he must
discharge them, although he had no doubt they had
commi,ted the robbery in question.

. .
Smith (quite a boy) in a very impudent manner,
said, " How am I to get my money what Higgins
took from me?"

Mr. ROE—You may recover it as you can.
Smith— Ihen I shall immedia,ely instruct my
lawyer to bring an action.—(A loud laugh.)
The prisoners were then discharged, and had no
sooner got into the street, than they were joined by
a great number of persons of both sexes, chiefly very
young, who surrounded Mr. Holmes and another
gentleman who was a ‘vitries, and Higgins, abusing
them in the grossest mariner, calling them false-
swearing scoundrels, and other opprobious epithets,
and at length two of the assailing party attacked
Higgins and the gentleman alluded to, and assaulted
the titter so violently as to blacken his eye and
draw blood from his nose. Warrants were imme-
diately applied for and granted by Mr. ROE again-t
the assailants, who had in the mean time gone offal
triumph.
The money found upon them was ordered to be
sealed and detained for the present, in case any fur-
ther evidence should be obtained hereafter.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

- _
A young man, genteelly dressed, was brought be-
fore Mr. CONANT yesterday, charged with having
committed a mo•t indelicate assault upon a young
lady in Regent-street.
A gentleman named Thompson, the guardian of
the young lady in question, was walking . with her
and another young lady in Regent-street, about nine
o'clock the previous evening, when the defendant
came up and seized hold of her, taking a most gross
liberty with her person. He immediately seized
him, and gave him into the custody of a policeman.
The defendant had subsequently expressed great
contrition forhis conduct, which he a►tributed to
intoxication, and had stated his willingness to make
an ample apology, and to pay a sum to a charity.
Mr. CONANT was reluctant to admit of this mode
of settling what he must consider a most scandalous
outrage; but the gentleman having stated that the
feelings of the young lady would not permit her to
attend to give the necesqary evidence, the Magis-
trate said he would hear the explanation of the de-
fendan t.

The defendant was a clerk, and bad been taking a
few glasses of brandy and water with his employer,
which had, unfortunately, taken such an effect upon
him, as to make him unconscious of his actions.
Mr. CONANT remarked that a person who gave way
to such practices, when intoxicated, could net, in
his opinion, have very correct propensities when
sober, and he felt great inclination to hold him to
bail.

The matter was permitted to be arranged upon
the defendant paying a sum of two guineas to the
Charing-cross Hospital.

THAMES POLICE.

LATE MURDER ON THE THAMES.-A further
examination of witne-ses, relative to the murder of
Mr. Wilkinson took place yesterday morning, at this
Office, before Capt. RICHBELL, at half-past eleven.
Ater a lengthened inquiry, the case was ad-
journed, and the prisoners remanded for a week.
HATTON-GARDEN.

Yesterday, M. Curtis, a publican, residing in
Southampton-row, Pentonville, attended at this
office, to ask the advice of the Magistrates under
the following extraordinary circumstances :
The applicant, who presented to the Magistrate
two little children (girl-), the one about five years
of age, and the other eighteen months old, which he
held in his arms, stated, that on Thursday afternoon
last, whilst he was attending at his bar, a young man
of respectable appearance entered his parlour with
the two children in his arms, followed by a porter,
who carried a trunk (now produced). He rang the
bell, and called for a pot of ale, and requested the
porter to sit down and take part, of it. Applicant
brought in the ale, and set it before the young man,
who appeared very dejected, and caressed the
children with great affection, and pushed the pot
of ale to the porter, and told him to hold one of the
children. His conduct appeared very strange, and
applicant left the parlour to attend to his business.
Shortly afterward, however,he saw him pass through
to the street, in a wild manner, as if in great haste,
and he heard no more of him until about half an hour
afterwards, when the porter came to him (applicant)

And inquired whether the gentleman was coming back.
He replied, that he knew nothing of him, and ex-
pressed his astonishment that he was not in the parlour.
The children were crying exceedingly, and applicant
made every inquiry about the neighbourhood, to ascer-
tain whether any man answering his description had
been seen, but [ID tiding; whatever could be traced of
him. The porter informed him that he met the
young man at the Bull coach-office in the King,lanil-
road, where lie got off a stage-coach with the two
children, and employed him to carry the trunk to the
house of the applicant. On leaving the parlour, he
left 3s. with the elder of the children, and money to
pay for the ale, and prior to going out he hugged
and kissed the children with tears in his eyes.

Mr. RoGEas.—Did he say nothing on entering
the place ?
Applicant—Nothing, with the exception of call-
ing for the ale.
The eider of the children was here questioned by
Mr. Rom,Ars, who asked where she came from. She
replied " Herford."
Mr. ROGERS—Did you ever live in London ?
Girl—Yes, Sir, in Hugh-court.
he could not plainly articulate, but it was in-
ferred from her answers, that she either lived when in
London in Hugh or Hewitt-court or street in White-
chapel, and that her mother had lately died, and her
father's name was " Sabine."

The children were both decently clad, and their
appearance and youth excited the utmost interest.
Mr. ROGERS directed that every means should be
exerted to discover the father of the children, and
ordered that they should be instantly carried to
Is-
lington workhouse to be taken care of. He also or-
dered the 3s. which the supposed father left with
the children, to remain in the possession of Mr.
Curtis for their benefit, and paid (himself) the porter
for carrying the luggage.