The Sun.
London, England, 1828-07-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUTILIC 10t1INALS.

When the notable 'experiment made by Lord
Wellesley's Government in Ireland, for putting
down the old Catholic Association, was under
discussion here, we said that it never could be
executed, that it was an unwise and unjust law,
and, would rather defeat than promote the pur-
pose of its authors. While the law lasted, what
were its effects ? It multiplied the meetings of
the Catholic body sixfold, from weekly to daily
meetings ; it raised the spirits of the Catholics to
enthusiasm ; it magnified the power of their body
an hundredibid ; it placed the almost undisputed
representation of Ireland in their hands. The
ultra Tory papers in this country have been me-
uaemg the empire with measures of violence for
putting down effectually the Association, which
found means to thrive under Lord Welleslev's
law for its suppression. The best commentary
on the madness of these men is, that the King's
Ministers have not shared it. They let the
Session close, and the law expire, without an
attempt to restore it, or to substitute one more
(soercive. The people of Ireland would not, in
tact, have borne it, nor would the people of
England have endured a gag upon the complaints
ssf British subjects crying out against injustice,
That is the truth of the matter; and Ministers
deserve praise on this occasion for understanding
and bowing tem the old spirit of constitutional
liberty. The original Association is now res
vived, and has recommenced its sittings in
Dublin. That intemperate individuals may
there continue to expose their folly by want of
discretion in their speeches, is more than probable,
and that such persons should have the opportunity
of openly discovering the little worth of indiscre-
tion, is devoutly to be wished, for the public peace
and safety. If the Catholics are not permitted
to meet and vent their dissatisfaction publicly,
they will still meet and brood over it in private :
the spirit will be more compressed, and the ex-
plosion—should our impolicy drive them to an
explosion—will be so much the mere terrible.
As fur the indignation which is so frequently in-
dulged by Englishmen at the coarseness and ap-
parent fierceness of the Irish orators, it is only so
much good anger thrown away, and is as much
slisplaced as the fears entertained of their power.
There is nothing intrinsically powerful among
the Catholics but their grievance : the dema-
e;ogues, the priests, are but its creatures. Those
men who appear most prominent among them
derive their whole credit from being the organ of
a feeling which is general, and which, whets ex-
pressed by the orator of the day, finds an echo in
every Catholic bosom. To reduce these children
of circumstance to their proper size, it is only ne-
cessary to take away the food which fattens
them. When the exciting cause of the actual
fermentation is removed, the froth of the O'Con-
nells and Shiels will disappear ; and the real
quality and body of the people of Ireland will
recommend themselves to the English nation in
all their strength and brightness. The only mo-
ment at which inferior men can eclipse their
betters in the public estimation, is when society-
whirls round from some extraordinary impulsion,
and objects are indistinctly seen. Tranquillize
the present commotion by removing the cause of
it, and character and property will soon reassert
their influence. Away then go the priests and
mountebanks together.— Times.
The Old Catholic Association has revived, by
the expiration of what the Catholics called the
Algerine Act—" the illustrious old Association
which (says Mr. O'Connell) has made the people
quiet, and the country obedient to the laws."
The proceedings on Saturday last, as reported
in the Dublin Morning Register, were enli-
vened by the appearance of a young English-
man, a Mr. Robarts, among them, who gave
himself out as the son of a Member of Parlia-
ment, and the nephew of a Minister, hut whose
knowledge and discretion were not exactly in the
ratio of his zeal, and made him serve as a foil
to Mr. O'Connell. Ireland is not a scene on
which any Englishman ought to appear with
feelings of exultation. The misery which he
sees around him in every direction, in a country
subject for centuries to his Government, are cer-
tainly not very creditable to him. If he throw
the blame on the Government, this would only
prove that the Government is not under the
controul of the people of England, and the Eng-
lishman is himself a slave, though a better fed
one than his Irish brother. Mr. O'Connell may
well, on the other hand, exult at what he has
achieved by means of the Association. " When
the Catholic Association was first instituted, there
were eleven counties in Ireland under the Insur-
rection Act ; no man could then go outside his
house after nightfall, without being guilty of a
transportable felony. Seven other counties
were in the preliminary step to this ; they
were under the Peace Constabulary—this was
eighteen out of the thirty-two counties. Before
the Catholic Association was put down by the
Algerine Act, in every one county in Ireland
the Insurrection Act had been taken off, and at
the present moment I defy him (Mr. Robarts)
to show me where there is one single instance of
disturbance, except (as I before stated) what has
been done by the Orangemen or Po ice. .
. . Come, then, I say to him, and read our
history in our tranquillity ; learn our story in
morality ; and know this from me, that there is
not a peasant who has embarked in politics that
is not snore observant of his religion than the
highest Aristocrat in the: land. In this city,
since the discussion of politics became so gene,
ral and extensive, the communicants that have
approached the altar—those, as he would term
it, who receive the Lord's Supper, ors as we call
it, time Eucharist, have increased in the propor-
tion of 500 to 1. At the same time there is
this increased attention to religion,the people
have become remarkable for their good conduct,
and the moral effects are now beginning to be
perceived in every transaction of life. *They are
rising above their situation. Despite of the ca-
lumnies of their enem es, they are becoming in-
fi more civilized than the people . of Eng-
land ; and if the political change which is how
taking place among them should proceed be-
,, and my calculation, it will be found that I shall
be the drag upon the political wheel, to prevent
it from hurrying down the hill of revolution and
destruction. I am, however, 'struck at the
idea of revolution, and it will never happen in
ins- time. While I say this, however, I will say
that I never will lay my head upon my couch a
willing slave. The moral improvement of the
"
people, the diffusion of education among/hem,
must, ere long, prsduce a revolution in Ireland,
if the Government do not render such a change
unnecessary. Knowledge is powers and Vhat-
ever adds to the intelligence of the Irish, adds
to their power as compared with the ascendancy
by which they are oppressed. An ignorant peo-
ple may remain an oppressed people ; but know-
ledge renders the oppressed dissatisfied, and
with the desire to change, suggests the
rmeans
by which the desire may be gratified. There
never was a greater mistake than to suppose that

the disposition to revolution increases in the ratio'
of oppression. If this were the case, Spain and
Portugal, Austria, Turkey, and Russia, would
have been revolutionized before France. Eng-
land was less oppressed under the Stuarts, than
under their pitdecessors. Oppression may be
tarried mo far as to render a people perfectly
apathetic, resigned to whatever takes place. It
is with nations as with individuals—persons in
the lowest order :tse often the most contented
with their situation, and the disposition to better
their condition grows with every step ascended
in the scale ; and, in like manner, nations who
have already made advances are most impatient
of the obstacles which stand in the way of their
further advancement. Hence the Catholics of
Ireland, under the penal laws, were resigned.
They had lost almost the desire of recovering
their rights. The partial repeal, by enabling
them to acquire property, necessarily gave them
ambition, and every succeeding concession has
only inflamed their desire to be rid of every re-
maining rtstriction. Were they under a Govern-
ment purely arbitrary, which could exclude them
from all access to liberal opinions, there might
be some hope of being able to keep them down.
But they cannot be debarred from the sources of
information open to their fellow-citizens. They
have, therefore, the same wants that we have,
with obstacles in the way of their gratifying
some of them, which obstacles only serve to
enhance the value in their eyes of that from
which they are excluded. With this growing
information, growing power, and growing dis-
satisfaction, it does not require the gift of pro-
phecy to foretel, that if the Government do not
level all distinctions between the Catholics and
Protestants ere long, the former will save them
the trouble, and do justice to themselves. We
have no doubt of Mr. O'Connell's sincerity,
when he expresses himself anxious to prevent a
Revolution, but we question his ability to pre-
vent it. The wheel, as it descends, will soon
render all attempts to impede its progress un-
availing. Governments, in countries of any
extent, generally place great reliance on the di-
vided interests of their subjects, so that a great
part of the population can seldom be in revolt at
a time. Where there are different orders, classes,
and corporations, there are different interests ; so
that what is to the disadvantage of one is to
the advantage of another, and the content and
discontent often neutralize each other. But
where the religion of a whole people is
made the pretext for oppressing them, the
Government deprives itself of all the secu-
rity derivable from disunion. Religion ral-
lies all against authority. And this is what,
indeed, renders the situation of the Government
of this country so full of danger. We do not
believe that the Irish at present entertain the
least idea of separating themselves from us. But
should recourse be ever had to hostilities, mu-
tual exasperation and mutual fear might destroy
all hope of remaining connected. Mr. Cobbett,
we think, counts too securely upon the ability of
England to coerce the population of Ireland, if
onee fairly committed in insurrection. " What-
ever," he says, "may be the troubles of England,
to whatever degree she may be embarrassed by
her paper money, however foreign nations may
take advantage of her depressed state, whatever
may be the convulsions or even revolutions that,
she may be pinnged into, she will always have
dominion over Ireland. She had it when she
was catholic, and she will always have it. We
do not see this exactly. The Irish, notwith-
standing all their foolish boasts of early civiliza-
tion, were evidently a very barbarous' people
when the English obtained a footing in the
country. The few buildings in the island were
Danish, the natives having no towns or fixed
habitations, which argues the absence of all the
arts of life, and being in a state of complete
anarchy. It was not the strength of the English,
but the weakness and divisions of the Irish, that
gave the former an ascendancy, which, after all,
was little more than nominal in all but a small
portion of the island, down to a comparatively
recent period. But the Irish have DOW become
a great nation, no longer divided into clans or
septs, but united ; and though, no doubt, with
the maritime superiority and superior power of
England, it would be a matter of extreme diffi-
culty, even under favourable circumstances, to
effect their independence ; yet, if it were once
achieved, it might not be an easy matter to re-
duce them to obedience. All arguments drawn
from remote times are very deceitful in the al-
tered circumstances of the present day.—Morn-
! tng Chronicle.
A case was tried at Guildford yesterday which
would not exhibit the lessee of Drury-lane in
the most favourable light, if it were instituted at
his suggestion. We rather believe, however,
that Mr. Price is not the prosecutor, but that
the shareholders of the theatre are. We allude
to the prosecution of Mr. Davidge, of the Co-
burg Theatre, for four penalties of 501. each,
ultimately reduced to two. There can be no
question of the law on the subject, nor of the
right to prosecute; but it is surely unnecessary
at this time of day to tell these gentlemen share-
holders that he who does all that tke law autho-
rises, as well as he who abstains only from what
the law forbids, is, for the most part, a person
whom the unwritten law of respectable society
teaches us to banish from our companionship.—
Mr. Davidge we merely know as the active Ma-
nager of a minor theatre. That he has acquitted
himself well, in that capacity, we have every reason
to believe, and we do so the more readily, from the
fact of his having attempted to inspire into his
somewhat mixed audience a taste for the higher
drama. To such a man the-public is morally in-
debted ; and it is passing strange to flirl him
punished fdr the exhibition of the works of
Shakspeare And Home, while the theatres that
hold by patent-their privilege to corrupt the pub-
lic, are bringing •out, with all their attractions,
-such compilatit& of ribald slang as Tom end
Jerry,But not only is the public interested in
the representation at the minor theatres of pieces
of establiShed merit and decency, which are not
very rigidly sought after at either of the Patent
Theatres, but us) part of the public is more in-
sPoantaebrilty ahttr
xtfterir
de levters;
in-
terested than three
mig
As' justly and
Eton, as Drury-lane put down the Coburg. The
small theatres generate that love of dramatic ex-
hibitions,
which, unless it pervaded the mass of •
the community (for the higher classes alone
never yet supported their own exclusive place of
resort), the atent Theatres could not exist for
a twelvemonth. In all the requisites of the higher
drama the Patent Theatres, in the nature of things,
must for everstand pre-eminent, and to them alone
will those who seek for the gratification that his-
trionic excellence bestows, have recourse. To
keep down the performances in the Coburg and
other similar places to the level of the lowest of
those who frequent them, is the most effectual
method of permanently thinning the benches of
Covent-garden 'and Drury-lane—lt is destroying
the seed,
.the produce of. which they were after-

wards to reap. To say that the performance of
Richard. or Douglas, at the Coburg, had au
effect on the receipts of Mr. Price, is so utterly
absurd, that we wonder how even a gentleman in
a wig and gown could enunciate the proposition,
without laughing in the faces of the Jury. We
are not, however, sorry altogether at the trial that
has taken place. We look on it as a sort of re-
ductt@ ad absurdum proof of the necessity of an
alteration in the law regarding places of dramatic
entertainments. That we should forbid the re-
sentation of anything except the regular drama,
would not be unreasonable ; but that we should
forbid it, and allow everything else, however ab-
surd or pernicious, is a singular freak of legisla-
tion. According to this, the sale of poison is
free to all, but none may vend healthy food un-
less he have a patent ! The origin of so rea-
sonable an arrangement was well worthy of its
author—the most profligate Monarch of Britain,
and his basest tool.—New Times.

It will be seen by a report in this day's Paper,
that several applications were made yesterday
for licenses to Hotels, under the Hotel-keepers'
Act, at Marlborough-street Police-office, and
that all of them were granted by the presiding
Magistrates with only one exception. To such
exercise of their authority the Licensed Victual-
lers, we feel confident, would not, if present,
have made the slightest objection. On the con-
trary, we believe that they aa•e fully disposed to
co-operate with the old established and respec-
table Hotel-keepers in procuring licenses, and
that their sole wish is to exclude from the trade
—first, parties whose conduct would disgrace
any trade, and, secondly, those who, in defiance
of the law, have been robbing them of their
profits, without being liable to their burthens or
risks. The licenses granted yesterday were in
perfect accordance, not only with the spirit of
the Act, but with the wishes of the Licensed
Victuallers ; while the application which was
postponed, and, we doubt not, will be ultimately
refused; was equally opposed in the same spirit.
The application, be it remembered, was for a li-
cense, and on the ground that the house for which
the license was demanded was a regularly kept
Hotel ; but it turned out on inquiry, as indeed
the fact is notorious to every one who has fre-
quented the house in question, that it does not
partake in the slightest degree of the character
of an Hotel. Four beds are made up in it, and
150 people may find accommodation to drink
their wine ; and yet this is said to be an Hotel !
The house does not, evidently, come within the
meaning and intent :of the Act ; for accommo-
dation for residence is the distinguishing charac-
teristic of an Hotel, while wine shades and other
places of the same description, to which the
Act was not meant to apply, are distinguished
by the accommodation which is merely neces-
sary for the consumption of wine and other
liquors. In conclusion, we cannot refrain from
pointing out to the attention of our readers the
cautious and praiseworthy conduct of the Magis-
trates. They have acted in perfect accordance
with the spirit of the Act both in grai►zing and
withholding licenses; and if they will but perse-
vere in the same course, the Licensed Victual-
lers will, we feel assured, be more pleased tha❑
angry that the Hotel-keepers' Act was passed.—
Morning Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—CharIes Jefferies, a youth about
nineteen years of age, was charged with stealing a box,
contaitiing Geneva watch. materials, &c. of the value of
231. the property of Mr. Peter Gottheiturr, of isro. 34,
Aldermanbury.
Samuel Franklin, a city constable, saw the prisoner and
another between eleven and twelve o'clock yesterday morn-
ing lurking about the prosecutor's door. He watched
them, and saw-one-inter the promecutor's door, and came
out again directly- with a box on his shoulder, which he
gave to the prisoner, who set off with it, when witness
stopped him and seized it.
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The prisoner said a young man
.gate him the, box .to
carry, and to follow him.
Mr. Gottheither said, that the box was iust packed up
to go to Liverpool, and he was afraid that the articles being
principally made of steel, would spoil unless carefully pre-
served; 'he, therefore, requested the goods or part of them
back immediately.
Mr. Alderman Pit REBROTHEIL inquired if there was
any one article worth more than al., and being answered
in the negative, said it was necessary to detain the whole.
It was better that the goods should be spoiled than the
thief should escape: If the prisoner had got clear off it
would have been worse still.
He was fully committed for trial.

- SQUIRES v.‘Aar.}.—This was a case of assault and
battery, arising out of an attempt to throw light on sup-
posed improper doings.
Mr. Squires, the complainant, stated his own ease ; and
having informed the Court that he kept house•at No. 8,
Bridgewater-square, and that he had a widow lady occupy-
ing apartments therein, he.procceded—" Last night, please
your Worship, the widoW brought home this gentleman—
or this gentleman brought the widow lady—l can't exactly
say which, and, as such, I won't take upon me to say whe-
ther she brought hoMe he, Or he she ; but he was an entire
stranger to me, and they came hoMe together, and, us such;
they went rip stairs to her apartments together.; by which
means I didn't feel at all comfortable; for my house is a
respectable house; and, as such, I was resolved it should
he. .1:ly which means, please your Worship, 1 heard a
great jumbling on the widow lady's landing-place ; and,
as such, I ran down stairs to strike a light ; for I consi-
dered that improper doings were about to commence, by
which means I thought the best way would be to throw a
light upon 'em ; and, as such, that was my reason for
running down stairs to strike a light. By which mums-
when I had struck a light, and, as such, went to see what
they were about—this gentleman knocked it out of my
hand ; by which means I laid held of him and ordered him
to quit my premises momently ; and, as such, he laid hold
of my leg. 4 Sir,' says I, I shall thank you to let my
leg go ;' by which means he would not ; and, as such, he
split my trousers from the ane're to the hip."
Mr. Allen, in reply, said, " Some of that ere is pretty
true, and some of it is very false; because why—l did
not knock out the light before he laid hold of my collar to
turn me out like a dog; and I was not going to be served
in that way, consequentially I stood up in myown defence."
Mr. Squires, in rejoinder, said, " Your Worship, I have
no doubt it was his intention to disparage the respectability
of my house—else why should he conic home, with the
widow lady, like a thief in the night; and as such be is a
false loan; by whiehmeans I hope you will sec me righted."
Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER-.--" It appears to me Mr.
Squires, that you have brought this assault upon yourself,
by intruding yourself too officiously into the widow's apart-
ment. Whilst the widow pays you rent for that apartment
she has a right to receive whom she pleases there ; and ' as
such' I would advise you to get rid of the widow ; ' by
which means' you will avoid coming into any unpleasant
contact with her visitors." •
And " as such" the complainant was dismissed.

RosENBERc V. SAYERS.-211r. Richard Sayers, the
driver of the Newbury coach, was charged with having
kicked Mr. Levi Roseuherg, a dealer in cigars.

Mr. Levi Rosenberg said, " I come up and down by the
-coach rare often : and when we come to. the inn I ayk
Mr. Sayers to hay° a glass of some brandy and water, in
politeness to him. So he ask me to bring him a pound of
cigars from Mr. Lundy Foot, in the Minories. Se I get
them from Mr. Lundy Foot, and take them to the land-
lady •at the inn, for Mr. Sayers. Then I call again fur
my money for the cigars, and she say there is no answer
from Mr. Sayers. So I call again another day, and she
say there is no answer yet. Vet, I call again another time,
and I see Mr. Sayers; and I ask for my money for my
pound of. cigars. So he say, ' You be dam, and your
cigar be dam too !' Then I say, ' Mr. Sayers, I shall get
my money from you some other cay for the cigars;' and
Mr. Sayers say, You dam rorciprre, if you don't get
out from this place I shall kick you out soon.' So I drink
up my smallglass of porter, and go out: and Mr. Sayers
come after me and kick me on the hip so sharp, I was
compel to get in a coach to go to my house." This was
Mr. Rosenberg's case ; and in proof of personal damage
he handed in a surgeon's certificate, by which it appeared

that lie•had consulted the surgeon for a " contused hip,"
and the surgeon had recommended " fomentations."
Mr. Sayers (who really looked like a kicker), in his de-
fence, said—." Why the fact is he insulted me very much.
I never ordered him to bring me a pound of cigars from
Lundy Foot's--nor nowhere else—not I. And 1 told him
he should keep a clean mouth you know, or else take the
consequences; but that a man should come into Court and
take such an oath as that, Lord a' mercy upon us ! say I ;
and for —"
" Silence, Sir !" said Mr. Alderman FAREBROTHER,
" you are not on your coach-box driving four-in-hand now,
and I shall teach you to behave properly, at least while
you are here. This person swears that you have grossly
and violently assaulted him ; and, instead of denying it, you
speak of provocations, of which you offer no proof. lam
therefore bound to believe that the assault was committed;
and unless you make him some compensation, you must
find bail to answer him before a Jury."
" Very good, your Worship," said Mr. Sayers—brush-
ing his hat round with the cuff of his coat ; and the parties
having retired to confer, Mr. Sayers " baek'd out of the
consarn," as he called it, by paying Mr. Rosenberg for
the cigars, with all costs of suit, an a trifle for the fo-
mentations.

Ilumphry Murphy, a little urchin apparently not more
than nine years of age, was charged with obtaining goods
under false pretences.
Mr. Charles Tilt, bookseller, in Fleet-street, said, that
the prisoner came to his shop a few days since, and stated
that he came from Mr. Kelly, a bookseller, at the west end
of the town, and one of Mr. Tilt s customers, and that he
wanted two copies of Omnium Gatherum for Mr. Kelly.
Witness let him have the books, taking him for one of Ali-.
Kelly's errand boys. Next day the prisoner came again,
and had two copies more, in like manner ; but soon after-
wards Mr. Kelly himself called for a copy, which led to
an ecluircissement, and the witness determined to stop the
boy the next time he saw him. He went again yesterday
morning for two copies more, on the same pretence. They
were again banded over to him, and he was taken into cus-
tody by an officer as soon as be got outside the door.
The officer said that the prisoner had given him infor-
mation by which be thought he should be able to find the
person who had set the boy on to get these goods.
Mr. Alderman FAREIMOTHER ordered the boy to be re-
manded, to give time to bring forward the principal offender.

BOW-STREET.—CROCKFORD'S AFFAIR.—The hear-
ing of this case came on yesterday, at two o'clock, in the
private office, before Sir R. BIKNIE, when John Wild-
smith, a check •taker at the English Opera-house, was
charged with assaulting Mr. A. Crockford, junior, of the
celebrated establishment in St. James's-street, on Saturday
evening last, at the Theatre.
Mr. Crockford was at the Theatre, and through curiosity
looked into tide free.admision book, to see if more names
were there than in the book at the Haymarket. Mr. Wild-
smith came up, and called him an impudent blackguard ; he
then put out his tongue at him, when he (Mr. Wildsmith)
struck him across the face.

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Mr. Wildsmith, in his defence, said Mr. Crockford was
sitting at the door window, in company with a female ; he
vas reading the book, and was told not, when he persisted,
and a scuffle ensued. lie said, " how would you like to
be knocked down ?" and at length he struck him, after
some irritable language.
Mr. Crockford—l was sitting with no girl of the town
by God ! Mr. Thomas corroborated the statement of Mr.
Wildsmith. Ile said the complainant said he would appeal
to his friend, Sir R. Birnie.
Sir R. BIRNIE-Ah, ah ! I never sail him before. Let
Mr. Wildsmith find bail.

Mr. Crockford said he should attend Doncaster Races,
and would not indict Mr. Wildsmith.

Sir R. BIANIE said he might do so if be pleased.

MARYLE B ONE. —Svc le DUNG.* TV. Hughes, alias
Clarke, was re-examined again yesterday on charges of
swindling.
Mr. Street, house-agent, in Mount•street, Grosvenor-
square, stated that he let the furnished house, 32, Upper
Berkeley-street, Portman-square, about three months ago,
to two individuals, styling themselves Messrs. Waller ands
Clarke, at 180 guineas a year. Clarke gave two referen.
ces to respectable people, who stated that he was a sur-,,
geon. He let the house, but had not received a farthing
for rent.
Mr. Tayler, of Wimpole-street, said that the prisoner
called upon him and represented that his name was Clarke,
and that Mr. Clarke of 32, Upper Berkeley-street, was
his guardian, and the son of a harmer at Bristol ; and that
H. B. Curteis, Esq. M.P. for the county of Sussex, was
his gtiardian.
Mr. Wilson, of Broad-street, Golden-square, produced
a bill for le/. which he received from a Mr. Clarke, and
indorsed by the prisoner; it was dishonoured, and when he
called upon the prisoner for payment he went by the name
of Hughes. The bill had never been paid.
Mr. Davis, clerk to Air. Hollaston, wine-merchant, 129,
Regent-street, stated that a Mr. Clarke called a fortnight
ago, and ordered two ftteen of wine to 32, Upper Berkeley.
street. The wine was sent with the bill, 6/. 125., and he
called several times, but the prisoner informed him that
Mr•. Clarke was not in town. The wine of course had
not been 'paid for.
Mr. Gilbert, tailor, 86, Oxford-street, proved that the
prisoner ordered a suit of clothes, which Mr. Clarke, of 32,
Upper Berkeley-street, would pay for. He went there
and saw Clarke, who said he would pay for Mr. Hughes's
(the prisoner's) clothes when his salary was due, and he
therefore supplied the goods.
Mr. Wright, 253, Oxford-street, bad also supplied the
prisoner with hardware goods, and had not obtained pay-
ment for them. _ _ _

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Mr. Gray, livery stable-keeper, of Shepherd-street, said
the prisoner hired a horse from him, at '7O guineas a year,
and had not paid for the hire.
Mr. Angel, an ironmonger, in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-•
square, stated that the prisoner, with a Mr. Waller, ordered
three brass plates to be engraved, on two of them Mr.
Waller, Professor of Gymnastics, and Teacher of the
French Language ; and Mr. Clarke, Surgeon, &c. on the
other plate.
Mr. Hudson, tailor, New Bond-street, said that the
prisoner and his companions obtained goods from him to
the amount of 40/.
A great number of other tradesmen preferred similar
complaints.
Mr. Street said, that sonic ladies who were found at the
house in P,erkeleY-stret, disclaimed all knowledge of the
prisoner's proceedings. Clarke had been seen driving
about in a dashing equipage, with 300 sovereigns in kis
pocket; and one night last week he introduced his prosti-
tutes, and turned his sister out of bed that he and his fe-
male companion might have it.
The prisoner was ordered to be remanded, for other
witnesses to attend.