The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-23 00:00:00

QUEEN-SQUARE.—(This D.A Y .).

EYTAA °ant vAIIY CHA 110 E or Fxt.o N Y.—The following extra-
ordinary cue ooeaspied the ..stentiett et W. A. A. Wattles. Esq.
the sitting Magistrate, nearly the entire morning.
Two respectable young men named Mathew and Talbot, gentle-
men's servants out of place, the former lately in the employ of the
Right Hon. George Canning, the Minister for Foreign Affairs,
were charged with stealing Slb and a half of cheese ; also 6s. 6d.
the balance of a half sovereign, the property of Mr. George Harris,
a cheesemonger, in King-street, Westminster, under the following
circumstances.

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It, appeared from-the evidence of Samuel Stokes, a shop-boy to
Mr. Harris, that on Saturday evening about half pat nine o'clock,
the accused, Mathews, came to his master's house, and said
to him (witness), that the cheese which had been previously
ordered to be taken to Mr. Gullin's stables, in King-street,
with change of half a sovereign, was not to be sent there,
but round the corner, to those of Mr. Eastwood's. He
accordingly received from his mistress 341 b., with 6s. 6d. change,
and requested him to bring back half a sovereingn. The cheese
was to he given to Mathews, the man that had called. On
reaching Eastwood's stables he saw the prisoner, who said
to him, have you brought the cheese and change, observing
also he was •to receive the change. Witness asked him
for the half sovereign, and refused giving him either cheese or
money till he obtained it; upon which the money was forced
from his hand, and he desired to fetch two pounds and a half more.
Witness hesitated going back, but at length he went home, and,
on his return with the other quantity last ordered, he
was gone away. Witness then began to cry, when a
man came up, and, with a lantern, searched the stable
round without success. Witness had before taken cheese
to Mathews in the name of Lee. Last night he, in com-
pany with his muter and a constable, went to the Star and Gar-
ter public-house, where he pointed out Mathews from a number
as the person. The dress he wore was a brown holland jacket
and white stockings, he also had a hat on.
Mathews was now called on to answer the charge.—Your
Worship, I have very little to say, I am innocent of the accusation,
and know no more about it than a child unborn. The fact is,
when I was spoken to last night on the subject, Mr. Harris then
offered to arrange the matter if I would pay for the cheese and re-
turn the change, which I most certainly refused, and told them I
could bring witnesses to prove I was elsewhere. I gave the con-
stable my address, and he let me go at that time.
Rhodes, the constable, stated that he went into the public-house
with the boy, who pointed out Mathews among a number. He
called him out; when he was accused of the robbery, but he de-
nied it. The accused then gave his address, and he set him at
liberty.—About eleven o'clock the same evening, in consequence
of the other accused man, Talbot, abusing Mrs. Harris, witness
and her husband went to a public-house, and took both into cus-
tody.
Mr. WHITE.--Then you let a man go about his business at
half-past nine o'clock, and because another person abuses Mr.
Harris you think proper to take both into custody at eleven;
surely the crime could not be greater than the farm You seem
to know very little of your business as a constable.
RhHeodnryeLlrlerlrrt,rtaiservniany act
totedDfrr.oinShignute°rlll,l7 No. 48, Guildford-
Street, stated, about twenty minutes past nine o'clock on Saturday
night Mathews came to his master's house, and asked fora lotion
for the Right Hon. George Canning ; there being no person pre-
sent who could make the medicine up, he conversed with him, as
did also his fellow-servant, for about ten minutes, when witness
told him to return home, and be would bring the lotion as moon as
possible. The dress that Mathews wore was white stockings and
a cap, but could not speak to the jacket. Mathews had repeatedly
been to their house for medicine.
Robert Clark, clerk to a solicitor, saw Mathews about ten
o'clock, at his brother's house, in Charles-street; he requested
him to inform his brother, a footman to the right hon. gentleman,
and who had sent him for the medicine ; that it would he tent
very soon. Mathews wore the dress he now appeared in.
Stokes, the boy, was repeatedly called, and cautioned if he was
positve of the person of Mathews, and strongly insisted he was the
same man.

The Steward to Mr. Canning said that Mathews had been in
the Hon. Gentleman's se► vine for above two years and a half; he
was a job coachman, and repeatedly employed to go to Mr.
Shuter's for medicine, when wanted. The Hon. Gentleman left
town on Sunday, and therefore the job horses were not required.
Mr. WHITZ-4 am inclined to think the boy is quite mistaken
in the person of Mathews ; but the lad positively swears to him,
therefore it is my duty, Mathews, to hold you in sureties to be
forthcoming, should any charge be preferred against you at the
Sessions.
Two persons instantly became responsible, and he was set at
liberty. With respect to Talbot there was no charge whatever,