The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-23 00:00:00

LA PETITE VICTOIRE.

In this cue an attachment was applied for against Mr Horse.
ford, a Magistrate of Weymouth, for contempt of Court. The
alleged offence was said to be committed on a person named Yates,
who had a warrant to seize upon the French ship La Petite Vier
toire, until a question of salvage could be decided. Yates
made affidavit, that as he was about to enter the valet
to put a man in possession, Mr. Horseford pushed him
off the plank. In opposition to this affidavit others were
put in, which went to prove that Mr. Horseford had only
acted as a Magistrate, to prevent a breach of the peace, and theft
it was the French Captain who pushed Yates off the plank.
Answers were put in to the effect that Mr. Horseford was the
agent of the vessel, and had threatened the sailors, who were
Portland seamen, that,if they libelled the ship in the Admiralty
Court be would give them enough of it.
The case stands over to the next Court day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-110USE.7(THIs DAT.)

On Monday last, a most respectable young gentleman, named
Win, was brought before his Lordship, on the charge of stealing
several Medical books, the property of the Medical Society, in

bolt-court, Fleet-street.

Mr., James Field, secretary to the Medical Society, deposed,
that ht the month of May last the prisoner, who was his appren-
tice, went to see his friends in Cornwall, and on the day fol-
lowing his leaving town, another apprentice, uamed AVAllister,
absconded ; a number of the books of the Society wire
missing from the library, and the prisoner's box being broken open
and Searched, several of them were therein found, the Society's
mark bad been obliterattO, and it was afterwards discovered that
the prisoner had sold two volumes et Mr. Stroud's, khookseller,' in
the Illackfriars-road, for two volumes of " Ilcur)'s Chemistry."
David Stroud deposed that he knew the prisoner, and Corrobo-
rated Mr. Field's statement with respect to. the exchange of the
hooks. _ . _

The prisoner was again brought up for examination this
day, and Mr. TIIESSIORR attended on his behalf. He ex.:
,amined Mr. Field at great length. Mr. Field said that he
was to receive a premium with the prisoner, but the
whole of it had not yet been paid ; the other apprentice absconded
immediately after the prisoner left town. He wrote to the priso-
ner, and received an answer froM him stating that two of
the books were at Mr. Stroud's, and that there had been a
considerable trade between hint and the other apprentice, in
books, 11PAllister giving the books. as, a security for money
lent hint by the prisoner. He wrote to the prisoner to con►c
back to his situation, tint did not offer to destroy the Wen-
tore, or assign hin► to another person, on receipt of 1001. He
had once seen the prisoner iu town, and did not give him into
custody. Dr. Wlntyre bad called on hint on this subject several times,
and told him that the prisoner was prepared to meet the charge. lie
did net tell him that he had no intention to prosecute the p►'i-
soner. He had dined with Mr. Win, the prisoner's Adler, at. the.
London Coffee-house, but did not, state tbat h►e only wanted
looney.
The Loan MAYOR on remanding the prisoner until Wednes•
day next, remarked that he had nothing to do with the motive►►
of the parties prosecuting. He regretted very much that it was
his duty to commit so respectable a young man ►ts the prisoner.
: Mr. Thessiger suggested, that perhaps his Lordship would
admit the prisoner to bail, under the new Act of Parliament.
The Lord Mivoa said, that under the eircumstauces of the
Owe, it was his duty to remand the prisoner for the further inves-
tigation of the case.

FASHIONABLE TNT'ELLIGENCE.

Despatches were received at the Foreign Office yes-
terday froiri the Right Hon. F. Lamb, our Ambassa-
dor at Madrid.

A King's Messenger was sent off yesterday evening
from the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, with despatches, which, it was understood,
were for the Right Hon. Stratford Canning, our Am-
bassador at Constantinople.
Mr. Waring, the King's Messenger, has left Lou-
don for Washington, charged with despatches to our
Minister at the capital of the United States. There
has not been any instance, we believe, for a very long
Period, of a King's Messenger having been despatched
across the Atlantic ; the services of those individuals
being. chiefly confined to the communications with the
Continental Courts. _

The Duke of Clarence was in the House of ,Lords
.on Tuesday. He was in his naval uniform. He was
accompanied by the Duchess.
The Princess Augusts left her seat at Frogmore,
on Tuesday, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of
flarcourt, at their residence Nuneharn, near Cour-

tenay.
Prince Leopold has arrived at Naples.
Letters were received in town yesterday from the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Ilanorer, dated
up to the 17th instant.
The American Minister transacted business yester-
day with Mr. Secretary Canning, at his Office in
D

,owning-street.
Yesterday the Earl of Clanwilliam, our Minister to
he Court of Berlin, transacted bUsiness with Mr.
Canning, at the Foreign Office.
Mr. Secretary Peel and Mr. I:luskisson transacted
business yesterday,. At the Secretary of State's Office
for Foreign Affairs.
The Duke of Devonshire received fram the hands
of the Emperor Nicholas a valuable 'present, Olt the
day of his Grace's departure from Moscow. It is a
gold snuff box, set round with brilliants of a peculiar
size and water. But the mode of presentation pleased
the Duke most.

It was Mr. Robinson, the. Member for Worceste4
who spoke in the Debate on the Address on Tuesday,
after Sir It. Fergueou.
Captain Lord Byron was in the House of Lords
on Tuesday.
Mrs. Liddell (the wife of the mover of the Address)
Mrs. Wilmot Horton, Lady Georgians Bathurst, and
other ladies, were in the roof over the House of Com-
mons on Tuesday, to listen to the debates.
The Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen has ap-
pointed the Rev. John Horaford, 8.A., of Wey-
mouth, to be one of his Lordship's domestic Chaplains.