The Sun.
London, England, 1826-07-12 00:00:00

CURIOUS CASE..

At di* Assize Court of Sienne, a deaf and dumb youth,
named Jean Nadeau, was, tried for theft. He had been
employed in a straw hat manufactory, and was in the
habit of taking several valuable articles of this kind, con-
cealing them in the cellar till towards evening, when be
would convey them out of the house, and dispose of them
abdut the town. These circumstances were clearly proved
against him, and the only question which remained to be
decided was, whether he was conscious that in doing so
he acted wrong, as being an uninstructed sound-inuet he
could hardly be supposed to understand all the distinctions
of moral rectitude. In order to ascertain this important
Ncti M. Pautmier, the Institutor of the Sounds-mues, who
interpreted between the prisoner and the Court, attempted
to take Nadettu's handkerchief from him; the latter
instantly resisted, and on M. Paulmier taking the hand-
kerchief of another person present, and handing it to the
prisoner, he made signs that he had no right to retain it,
and-restored it to the right owner. This foolery being
ended, a shorter and plainer course suggested itself, that of
putting the question to Nadeau, when he instantly admit-
ted that he lied no right to the straw hats he had sold. It
was contended for the prosecution, that the circumstance
alone of his seeking concealment, Was sufficient proof of
conscious guilt. •
M. Lebrun, however, the Advocate of Nadeau, made a
very ingenious and eloquent defence. Would it be just,
he 'asked, that society should visit with a severe punish-
ment an infraction of its laws, by a being who never had
been instructed in their provisions, and to whom, de-
prived as he was of the organs by which truth and justice
could be learned, the world had ever been an inexplicable
mystery ? Even admitting him to have sinned against, the
' religion of Nature and Morality, he denied that the civil

law could subject him to any amend. It would be

more proper course if the Court, instead of condemning
him to an useless and cruel imprisonment, should sentence
the accused'to he educated.
This appeal had its effect, and the prisoner was ac-
quitted. •

ft is computed that there are 15,000 deaf and (hnt
patients in France, of whom 500 only have been educated,

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.

LONDON DIARY, MONDAY, JULY 17.
(At the Court of Commissioners.)
J. Eaeterhy, Feucharch-street, 12.
Hunts and Robinson, Waterloo-place, PAII-wap,
Evuns, Cheapeide, 2.
S. P. Chapman, King-street, °wapiti', 11.

COUNTRY DIARY, MONDAY, JULY I'7.
J. Haneybouni, Portsee, Southampton—Three Time, Port-
sea, 3.
B. Woodcock, Hyde, Chester,—Mr. Lontlale'm office,
blanches-
ter, twelve.
Osborn, Howes, Smith, and Osborn, Nortliamptou—Guildhall,
Northampton, 10.
J. Gray, jun., Birminghani,--Royal Hotel, Birmingham, 10.
Christopherson, Liverpool—Golden-lion, Liverpool, 12.

PETITIONS OF INSOLVENT
DEBTORS.
1N THE COUNTRY.wor
WILTS.—At Salisbury next Mob..
R. Smith, Southwick, Wilts, labourer.
T..Aust, Wormwood, Wilts, fanner:
H. Winkworth, Devites-green, Wilts, baker.
W. Butler, New Sarum, Wilts, brush-maker.
J. Wickham, Devizes, Wilts, stage-coachman.

RUSSIAN TR A Dlile.-•••Tlic principle articles im-
ported in 1825 were rice, sugar, cotton, yarn, dyeing
materials, cotton manufactures, wine, &c. The whole
value of the imports was 182,706,835 rubles. The
pr the exports amounted to the sum a
iiicipatexporu were' tallow, flax, hemp, and corn ;
exceeding the imports by. the
t2h3e4,w7-131011,e4:8f
rubles,
sum of ,52,024,613 rubles.—St. Petersburgh Jour-
nal, June 20;
ii y1)1101'1E10'81 A.--Pogs that. are usually kept con-
fined, should always have a bowl of fresh water con-
tainilig a . lump of
it
stiiilapvheur.theW
ontaneously
caution is effecthen thiso f p
pre-r pre-
venting the disease from
occur-
ring. But when the dog is bitten by another in
the rabid state, it will neither -
ler prevent the formation
of the disease, nor accomplish
however, confidently AS rt
Se , that no dog kept un-
der the above circumstances, has ever been attack.
ed by hydrophobia, unless the . disease was com-
municated by inoculation.,.—Lancet, vol. vi., p. 191