The Sun.
London, England, 1821-08-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

CHARGE- OF FORGING THE DUTY AND HALL-
/ - MARKS ON PLATE.
Mastsiorr-Housx.—Yesterday a person named Jeremiah
G-ofield, underwent a public examination on a charge of liming
forged the Duty Stamp and the mark of the Goldsmiths' Com-
pany, technically called the Hall Mark, on a quantity of plate,
with intent to defraud the Revenue and the Goldsmith's Com-
pany. The prisoner, who is a working silversmith' had under-
gone a private examination on Tuesday. A number of silver-
smiths were in attendance. Mr. Lane attended as solicitor for
the Goidrniths' Company. Mr. Sykes, the solicitor of the Stamp
Office, conducted the prosecution.
Mr. SYKES, in stating his charge against the prisoner, said,
that from what had transpired during the examination of Tues-
day, some imputation fell on the firm of Messrs. Leven and
Jacobs, who were respectable silversmiths in the City, and
who had consigned a quantity of plate to Messrs. Smith and
Company, of Ostend ; which plate, upon examination at the
Custom House, was found to be marked with forged stamps.
The consignees were of coarse applied to upon the subject, and
he was happy to say that they had cleared away that suspicion
which naturally fell upon them. They had given the order to
Messrs. Levi and Co., manufacturing silversmiths, of Bury_
street, St. Mary-axe, and Mr. Levi had employed the prisoner
in executing the order. Mr. Sykes said, the act upon which
they proceeded (the 55th of Geo. 111. cap. 185, sec. 70),
from the difficulty, if not impossibility of obtaining evidence
in such cases of the fact, made possession evidence of it, and
threw the burthen of the proof to the contrary on the possessors.
He called .
Mr. G. IV Tucker, a searcher in the Customs, who stated,
that some days since a box of plate was brought to the
Customrhouse and entered for Ostend, and he, in the
course of his duty, examined it, when he found that the
marks on some spoons, of which he produced a dozen, were
forgerieS.
Mr., George Miles, of the Assay Office, in Goldsmiths' Hall,
examined the plate produced by the last witness, and declared
the stamps upon it to be forgeries. None of the plate had passed
Goldsmiths' Hall.
Mr. SYKES—How much plate do you find entered in )ror
books, as having been passed by the prisoner,Jeremiali Goheld,
during the last year ?
it r. MILEs---1 find only 41 ounces and 14 pennyweights.
Mr. SYKES—How much plate do you find in the parcel seiz-
ed,,marked with forged stamps, and with the prisoner's initials
on it as the maker ?
Mr. AISLES--I find about 140 ounces.
Mr. Alexander Levi, of the firm of Levi and Co. deposed,
that a short time since he received an order from Messrs. Leven
and Co. for a quantity of plate. The prisoner was a spoon-
maker, who had been employed for several years by the firm to
work for them in his profession. . Part of the order received'
from Messrs. Leven and Co. was given, to him. The spoons
made by the prisoner were those packed up in making up the
order, and sent to the Custom House. Those produced were
part ofi them, and were of the prisoner's make. The articles in
question had never been in possession of Messrs. Leven and Co.
but had been sent direct to the Custom House.
TheSotrciTon who attended in behalf of the prisoner, said,
be was not now prepared to. defend his client in the manner
Which he wished ; but if the case were remanded for a week, he
trusted he should be able to-adduce such facts as would exone-
rate his client from the charge made against him.
The prosecutors had no objection whatever to the repest
being acceded to, and the LORD MAYOR accordingly remanded
the prisoner for a week.
A warrant was issued againSt another individual in the trade
on a similar charge.

A STACIE-STRUCK HERO. •
GUILDITALL.—A young man about 5 feet 10 inches in sta-
ture, whozave his name Camac Godfrey, • was brought up by
the watchmen in Fleet-street, charged with disorderly conduct.
Gillespie, one' of the watchmen, stated, that about 11 o'clock on
the previous evening a comrade told him that there was a man
seated in his watch-box. He went there immediately, and found the prisoner seated at his ease in the box. He, of course, de-
sired him to retire; which he politely declined : and at length, finding neither entreaty nor remonstrance of any avail, the com-
plainant was compelled, with tile assistance of a brother watch-
man, to force him out of the box. The prisoner, without any
ill language, raid he would give him some trouble for forcing
him out, and crossing the way, immediately began breaking the
windows of Jr.N Kempton's shop, No. 156, Fleet-street, with a
.
bundle which he had his hand. In consequence, he secured
him and lodged him in. the COmpter.
The'prisoner, when asked by the-Magistrate, Mr. Alderman
ATENAMLES, what account. he' had to give of himself, advanced
towards the front of the liar, bowed to thd Magistrate, then as-
suming art ;attitude, coMmeimed.. his address in the following.
words :-4 My name is Camac Godfrey ; I will not now trouble
you,.Sir, with my unhappy and eventful story—'tis too long—
indeed, st`tlong, that if •. every word were a link, and Vulcan
would condescend to forge them- into a chain, the Master of the
Gods might,hold one end in his hand; whilst Pinto lashed the
rebellious giidstg in Tartarus with the other."
This proem, and the theatrieal tone and attitude in which it
was delivered, alarirKd the worthy Alderman for the length of
the spevdi Ischich. was to follciw.it ; and not baying either leisure
or inclination to listen at that time to a display of the histrionic

art, he cut short the primotii.-.r's aration by desiring him to come
at once to the natter of fact 'relative to breaking the windows.
The pristmer, having nothir.,; to say upon that subject, placed
his hand upon his bosom, ';;Wry as :le would have done upon
an interruption from an audience, and remained silent. In an-
swer to the various questionsnf the Magistrate, the following
account of hiinself was at length drawn from him was
born at Neivrya where he h 44 been in business for hinisalf as a
merchant, and where a brother whom he dearly loved still re-
s:ded. He was unknown to any one in London but Messrs.
Alexander and William Og,ilbV, and Mr. O'Hahley, -of Dela-
hay-street, Westminster. He had been in London but a short
time, and had lodged last on Szaron-hill : from distress, how-
ever, he had be-n compelled to sleep latterly in the brick fields,
and for the last four days had not tasted fooll. Being asked
what had reduced him to this condition, lie replied, a fancy for
the stage had brought him to its and that he did not even now
care for his life, unless it could be passed in that profesi.iiiin.
He was asked whether he had ever been upon the stage,
to which he replied, yes, for three nights. He performed the
part of the third ..41onk in the Play of Bertram. The theatri-
cal directions for the character were, that, he should enter
breathless. In order to qualify himself, therefore, for the pro-
per performance of the charade', he ran till he was out of
breath, and in that state.,ll,l3,.Aiasn.,4e.e. upon the starer The
manager "-Don't • iii;t4gs don't speak so fast." On
this rebuff, his spirits sank, and'he was unable to, proceed with
any prospect of &access. He was also disgusted with the scan-
tiness of the company and the meanness of their appointments,
particularly in alit _part where Bertram saya.." Draw your
swords, ye vaTant knights," and all the valiant knights there
were, were only four low fellows in niorning cloaks. This de-
termined him to try the London Stage, where merit, if he had
any, might meet with due promotion. Ile had applied at -the
Theatres, Lut without success. The character in w:lich he pro-
posed to come out in. was that of the centinel, The
manner in which that character was at present performed, be. • ing, in his judgment, entirely contrary to military. regulation,
particularly in the manner in which the challenge is given to
Rolla. From this criticism, it -was suspected he had been in the army ; and, on inquiry, it turned out that he had been a
private in the 48th regiment about 25 days, but his friends had
bought Irna. out.
On examining his bundle, it was found to consist of nu-
-merous manuscript extracts from Lord Byron, 'l'asso's Jeru-
salem Delivered, andsome original compositions, which he mo-
destly confessed were attempts of his own.
Though.the prisoner still declared that nothing could be done
to serve him, unless in the way of the profession to which he
was so strongly attached, he betrayed, with the exception of his
first poetical flight, no symptoms of mental derangement,• but
gave his answers to the questions put to him in a very.cool and
proper manner. To the reality of his distress his attire bore
evident testimony. He had neither shirt nor stockings ; a fus-
tian waistcoat with sleeves, a pair.of trowsers, with shoes, con-
stituted. the whole of his dress. His appearance, notwithstand-
ing, was cleanly and wholesome.
The Magistrate treated him with r.creathurnanity, and direct..
ed that he should be taken care of in the Compter, till some in-
quiry might be made respecting him, which may lead to his re-
storation to his friends.
The prisoner, on hearing this. determination, again repeated
his theatrical bow to the Magistrate, and made his EXIT.

EXTRAORDINARY OUTRAGE.
Tows HALL, SO UTIIWAR K.—Yetterday,
.111 r. Thornton,
who keeps a chair and sofa manufactory in the Borough, ap.
peared before Mr. Alderman J. J. Smith, the presiding Magis-
trate, to answer charges of gross assault.
The first charge was preferred by a Gentleman named .Hale,
who stated, that on Tuesday evening, about six o'clock, he
was passing through the Borough, when he met the defendant,
who was carrying, an extremely frightful-looking monkey in .his
arms. As witness approached him, he suddenly, and without the
slightest provocation, threw the animal in his lace; the com-
plainant threw up his arms for the purpose of repulsing the ca-
resses of this unwelcome intruder, but poor Jaaka, finding-him-.
self likely t 3 come to the ground, seized Mr. Hale stoutly'
round the neck, and, by way of Shewing that he meant nothing
-unfriendly, began to lick his face, pull Ins ears and nose, and to,l
play mlic prank., 'rhich tezin.2,Thrt accepts ge to -$ll-:'
plainant, although they se
.tti to afford much amusement to
Mr. Thornton, who testified the same by loud bursts of laugh.ter. At length complainant succeeded in shaking off the mon-
key, which tell on the pavement with some violence, and he
was about to ask the defendant, in an indignant toile,
the cause
of such unaccountable conduct, when the latter, vexed at. the
treatment his favourite animal had received, commenced a most
violent attack on the complainant ; he knocked him down,
kicked him in the ribs, and otherwise ill-treated him, and then
he "retreated towards his own house. During the scuffle,
wheneVer the defendant had the advantage, the monkey uttered
a kind of-applauding yell, then clapped his paws together; and
jumped about in greet glee.
Two persons who beheld the attack bore testimony to the
violent conduct of the defendant, and the peaceable demeanor
of Mr. Hale.

The defendant said, that the monkey in question having es-
caped from his house, he went in pursuit of it, and had much
difficulty in overtaking the animal. Having done so, he was
carrying it home, but being rather of a mischievous disposition,
it jump, d upon the complainant, but he (defendant) denied
having wantonly thrown it upon him.
The coin2lainant and his witnesses contradicted the latter
statement.

It was also added, that die defendant had been guilty,of
lar conduct on the same evening, towards a young Lady named
Stevenson, who lives in Waleot-place Lainbeth.lt was stated,
that he then had the same monkey with him,-which he flung; in
the Lady's face, and almost frightened her into hysterics. She
attended the Justice Room.. on Wednesday, to get a warrant;
but understanding that one was already issued against the de-
fendant, she expressed her intention of indicting him at the
Sessions.

• The Worthy Magistrate said, the defendant's conduct was
Most brutal and unmanly, and to a person of weak nerves might
be productive of sudden death. For his own part, he had no
hesitation in declaring \ that if he had been the object of either
of the outrages now disclosed, he would have destroyed - the
monkey by any means that.jid in his power. The defendant's
mode of conducting his defence was well worthy of being com-
pared. with the rest of his conduct, and under all the circum-
stances, he should require very good bail for his appearance at
the Sessions.

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The defendant found the necessary sureties, and was dis-
charged.
CHARGE, UNDER THE NEW POLICE ACT.
HAT ToN-Gant)EN.—Patrick Smith, a watchman, in North-
place, Gray's Inn-lane, was brought
up in custody of John
Hutt, Watch-house-keeper at the Foundling Watch-house, in
Guildford-street, on the following charge • appeared that
about eleven o'clock the preceding night, as a poor man, named
Penny, and his wife, were on their way home, they were ac-
costed in Gray's Inn-lace by e!.e prisoner, who was in a state
of intoxication, and charged the poor woman with being a pro-
stitute, and on some words arising he took than- both to the
watch-house; but on Mutt's hearing both parties he took the
charge against the watchman. The charge,. on examination
before the Magistrates, being satisfactorily proVed, they ordered
the prisoner (under the new Act, which gives them- jurisdiction
over watchmen) to be dismissed from . his situation and com-
nntEed to prison, with an intimation that he was to give 24
hoursnotice of bail, to answer the assault on the woman at the
next Sessions.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.
LAMBETH-STREET OFFlCE.—Yesterdity afternoon, about
one o'clock, Mr. Jolla Jacob Widmayer,.a licensed victualler,
who keeps the Catherine Wheel, in Ilssex-street, Whitechapel,
in a state of frenzy, without either coat or hat, rushed into the
Office, Lambeth street, and stated that his bar. had Just been
plundered of 401 in sovereigns, silver, tic. and -that the thief
was a lodger in his house, ,named Wilson,.. Who had watched
Mrs. W. up stairs, when he crept into. the bar, broke open a
beaufet, in which was a tea caddy, containing the property,
with which belled. Forster, Miller, and other officers, as also
several howtekeepers, went in all directinns in pursuit of rob-
ber, and fortunately a person named Smith met him running'
with all speed with the caddie and its olden contents under iris
arm. Smith attempted to seize him, -but failed ; and the villain
threw the treasure into the road, and the sovereigns were scat-
'came '
tered in all directions. Luckily at thiS moment, Forster, the
officer, who was also in pursuit of him,
up, and whilst
Smith picked up the property, Forster pursued the thief, and
succeeded in taking hint into custody. On tieaiching his
rockets, they were found to he filled with silver. He was taken
lefore. Sir DANIEL Wii,Ciati3, Underwent a short examind
tittn, and was remanded ; was agood looking Man; about
fifty years of age, arid of rather respectable deportment. He had
lotlgtd .at ‘1 idruayer,s, for the last.seyen nlonti-s• Until
,
r.ow was considered a respectable charactei. •

YOR THE SUN.

MODERN CRITICISM.

Mn. EniTOß—Passing a bookseller's shop on
the second day of the month, my attention was
arrested 'bY the number of new pamphlets
.ranged in the window, so as to attract notice,
like the newest patterns of a linen draper, with
the prices affixed. I counted; in the breadth of
half a•dozen panes of glass; thirteen monthly
publications (principally Magazines), and two or
three Reviews. With sonic of them I am ac-
quainted ; and as they are all possibly nearly
similar in plan and arrangement, they would be
found to contain very little original matter, but
made up of extracts and observations by way of
criticism upon those extracts ; and perhaps
, taken in the mass, they may not inaptly be com-
pared, like Gratinno's " infinite deal of nothing,"
to two .bushelt of chLtf; amongst %:'hich are hi fen
two grains of wheat.—" You shall seek all day
ere you find them ; and, when you have them,
they are not worth the search."
It is inconceivable to what an extent this book-
making and manufacturing has arrived! this skin-
deep learning ! -and, a§ to criticism, it is become
a trade which any one that can read and write,
'and sufficient audacity, takes up at his plea-
sure.
_lle soon learns, to use most royally the
pronouns
~" we" and " us ;" and as there is no
indispensable probation to which he is bound to
submit, he calls himself " Critic," and armed in
his goose quill panoply sallies out" ready made,"
to rid the world of all other pretenders but—
. Critics !

This is what is called the march of intellect
44 by the critical rank and fil6" and by others
who believe in their manual, their knowledge,
they would persuade you, embraces the entire
circle 'of thearts and sciences, and their literary
qualifications, general learning, and research, they
assume, to be at inmense and incalculable as the
infinity of space ; the ravages however which the
march of this battalion of book-makers, and
their auxiliary critics, makes in our habits of use-
ful industry, and the desolation it so frequently
Occasions in our social relations,,. renders me very
desirous to learn that the , squad had halted, or
that they were fairly set down before some great
author, and his ponderous work, who might oc-
cup), them 'as long as Troy did the Greeks, and
oblige them to call in their irregulars, who are
principally armed with astilletto, and use it with-
out remorse, and thus the allegement that a" great
book is a great evil" would be completely dis-
proved.
I cannot help considering book-makers and
critics, in their individual capacities, a.sjiterary
" spinning jininks," 'With reference to their power
to prepare and'intiftipik, and cOltectively as a
sort of intellectual " steam-engine," contrived to
render thinking easy and mechanical. Those
Who have•no brains, and depend upon this ma-
chine to supply them with ideas, and others who
use it to prevent the wear and tear of their caput,
go on with great comfort and ease, while" they
implicitly submit, and are satisfied with whatever
their machinery produces ; but, if they demur to
the quality or correctness of the article, or de-
sire to restrain it when it becomes persOnal and
malicious, and venture into a contest with these
every-day furnishers of sense and learning, and
are. thereby themselves brought within their pro-
cess, as a subject of critical examination and re-
mark, they are inevitably cut to pieces by a com-
bined momentum, like the lamented sausage-maker
in Fetter-lane, who a short time ago fell a sacri-
fice to the uncontrollable power by Which he
hoped to obtain, without any' other trouble than
feeding his machine, the commodity which he
vended.
" Is the genius of criticism not yet. under-
stood ?" Must it be endured till knowledge is
rendered of less social value than ignorance ?
These literary sausage-makers (for the vast ma-
jority of them have not the slightest. right to any
other name or description) arraign at their plea-
sure every man's repdtation, and pronounce upon
him and his works without any. reserve or cere-
mony. If he is irritable, and it unfortunately
happens th't such a disposition is too often the
concomitant of genius, he soon falls into their
hands; if he questions their competenCe or autho-
rity, they call upon him to,answer their objec-
tions, which.usitally commence assertiVely—like
a " fishing Bill" in Chancery (another place
.of
more torment than the
.11ell of Critics)—if he
answers, it series their purposes ; for if be dis-
proves their assertions, at any rate his answer
tills some of . their pages, and he is so far in the
place .of a contributor ; but if he is indignant and
lays open some weak point, they pounce upon
Trim, and attack him with effect, and
,he gets lin-
volved in a warfare that soon engrosses his atten-
tion, and he becomes as it were annihilated as re-
gards his own immediate pursuits ;
.'he is thence-
forward under the necessity of watching the as-
saults of theselilera'ry vermin, whose publications
he Must buy, and %vhat is worse, read ; that he
may continue the defence they have put him upon,
and that they may share him amongst them.
One of our most splendid writers (Burke) de-
scrihes a process of the KevolutionistsOf France,
:by reference to the manlier in which the butcher
pricks out his animal for dissection, joint by
joint, and the object of a Critic's attack, be he
either artist, literary per Son, or man of science,
is submitted to a proCess at the hands of critics
which I endeavour to describe, by referring
to a leSs sanguinary operation.
Where they have marked their victim, while
he is thinking no manlier of harm in' the world,
" he suddenly' finds himself Covered with dirt by
some daily or weekly member Of the conTrater-
nity,.andTsat oneti Consign-6d t(ithe literary 'wash

to where (as _the good women *say who pride
themselves in " getting " up their washing at
hone,) he, is « firsted," which is a preliminary
operation very
„little beyond putting intothe tub
to soak. lie is then " soaped and. rubbed," and;
" wrung out" amongst the froth ()fa" monthly noia-
gaziDe;" then rinced and pegged " upon the linespil
the " next monthly publication," and put out to
bleach and dry: lie is next " sprinkled by re-
marks, and finally. " ironed and folded" upon the
thick woollen stuff of a" review!" This elaborate
process is only bestowed upon persons whose
eminence, in their respective prefeSsions is so ge7
nerally known, that an attack
,upon them occa-
sions the notoriety of the critic, the same as livl
lug the purification of a great family's habit..
ments gives celebrity to a matron of the wash tub;
but there is scarce an individual of any known re-
putation That these critics do not render at
time or odor the siihject of what. is celled by the
nymphs of'soap and pearl ash, a " dab wash ;" tbis
least smudge renders him subject to the critical
tub.; and if. they caiffiot discover any dirt dr stain
upon him, someone of the brotherhood will insist
upon giving him a fraternal embrace and praise
him ; and this, in washer-woman's language, ren•
tiers him so " duberous," that he quickly ex-.
cites the attention of others of the tribe, who
commence their operations accordingly, and he
can no longer escape one of these processes
suited to his size and quality."
~
It is high. time that the public should reflect
seriously
.Upon the probable consequences likely
to arise out of malignant and personal criticisms
upon the works of artists who haiTe for some time
past been elicited from the mongrel crew whom,
it is the object of these observations to bring into
a fit point of consideration : such criticisms will
never deter the ignorant of any class; they, like
these critics, heed not paper bullets so long as
they can live by the impudent assumptions and
pretences to knowledge of which their experi-
ence, if any, is vague, slight, and imperfect; but
they will rePreSs and chill the efforts of improving
anxious merit, when it sees how soon the labour
of his life may be blasted, while those whose ex,,
per ience and talents have established their fame,
will consider it as a sort of insanity to place
themselves as a public mark for the strictures of
ignorance and malevolence.

The criticisms disseminated in a weekly paper
are particularly 'deserving of reprobation, for
their peculiar personality, audacity of style and
language. That paper, a few weeks ago, amongst
other bravadoings, was pleased to say, that the
" reign of panegyrical criticism is past ;" note
this, Reader, and then refer to the Paper al-
luded to of the 29th ult. and you will there find a
criticism upon a work of Mr. CnANTaty's,
ten by thiS independelit man of " talent. and ib-
tegrity," as he has been called by another cri-
tical writer. Of this criticism it is difficult (per-
haps unsafe) to speak in terms of sufficient con-
.

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tempt and derision. But let'menot be misunder-
stood, the works of CHANTREY are always above
praise ; his busts appear to think, and about td
speak, and his subject, in this instance, is no.
doubt one that will excite his most zealous anti
effective exertions, and furnish the nation ith a
splendid proof of his matchless talents ; I hope,
also, that it will. not detract from his reputation
for independent fidelity to his originals. But
for the Critic's account of the means by which it
is stated that the artist was assisted, to give to Na-
ture tier due form and expression, and to give no
more,- not one word of -Which was necessary as a
criticism upon a work of art, Foh !

VIATOR.

11E3 LATE MAJESTY.

TIMES.]

A considerable change took place yesterday
in the appearance of the Royal Corpse. On
Wednesday nothing could exceed the citNri
pity of her MAJESTY'S face, and we have reason
to believe that an eminent artist was employed•
to take a cast of the features. Yesterday that
gradual decomposition took place, which, con
sidering the violence of her Majesty's &Order,
it was wonderful had not taken place sooner,
and it would not have been possible to do jus.
Lice to her fine expressive countenance. The
remains were last night consigned to a cedar
cotlin, and Lady Hood and Lady Ann Hamilton
alternately remain in the room, thus shoWing
themselves as attentive to their dead as they
were to their living mistress.—The public Thea 7
tree were open yesterday evening, and will b'e;
closed again only on the night of the funeral

[MORNING CHRONICLE.]
Mr. Dykes, the King's Messenger, whose de-
parture from town on Wednesday, with dis-
patches for the King, has been stated, Was- the
bearer of the result of the deliberations of the
Cabinet Council uhich assembled at Fife-honise
in consequence ofthe death of her Majestypatid
we are assured that nothing decisive will be
known relative to the funeral, or as to Whither
the body will lie in state or not, until the return
of Mr. Dykes with -his Majesty's commands upon
the subject. The Messenger had strict orders to,
use the utmost possible dispatch.

• (MORNING HERALD.]
Mr. Wilde, and Nit. Fox, of Doctor's ,Cone.'
mons, were the only arrivals at Branclenhuigh•
house yesterday,and they,remainedktill a late hour
in the evening.. All the Ships Aive,r)nve.,
had their flags hail-inat.t high, ,siycc -yednesclay
morning, with the e.Aception of „the o,overnmerkt
'fender, lying of the Towgr • but yes yJay this,
vessel' also lowered its flag.