The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-12 00:00:00

ed to be handsome pierced cut steel dining-room fenders,
anti the other a small parlour fender, wrought in the same
manner and of the same materials.

Waddington said he had no doubt that they were the
very fenders of which the house of Sir George Farrant had
been robbed on the same morning that he had apprehend-
ed the prisoner, and that having compared them with the
description given of those in the report from Marlborough-
street poliee-office, he found them exactly to correspond.
The prisoner was remanded till Saturday for further ex-
amination.

G TI LD Fl A LI,. —Those cat-o'-nine-tails disciplinarians
who stickle for tickling the soldier's back as the best mode of
making him honest and sober, may quote the folloWing
proof of its efficacy among the " Royal Ruffs," ,should
Lord Nugent again attempt to put a stop to it.
One Mrs. Ann Grieg,
a bold virago stout and tall
" As Joan of France or English Moll,"
was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE, the other day, by
Routh, one of the patrol, of Farringdon Within ; who,
having found her drunk and quarrelling in the street, with
a bag of new military boots in her possession, took her into
custody, on a violent suspicion that she had not come ho-
nestly by thetn. She had five pair of boots in her bag, and
in her pockets he found pawnbrokers' tickets for seven
pairs, pledged for three shillings a pair ; besides which, he
had ascertained that she was in the habit of receiving large
packages by the Chatham waggon. He, therefore, had no
doubt she was a regular receiver of stolen King's stores ;
and he requested that she might be remanded to give him
time for inquiry.

" Why, you "fellow !" said Mrs. Grieg—" I'm an honest
a woman as ever broke bread. Me steal the King's-stores
indeed !—l'd scorn the action. I'd have you to know that
I'm a soldier's widow, and there never was the man yet
that dare say black was the white of my eye !"
Mrs. Grieg added, that the was travelling the road be-
tween Dartford and Gravesend one afternoon, with a quan-
tity of children's clothes on her arm, when she met a party
of soldier's wives, and they gave her theseboots in exchange
for the children's clothes--they telling her that thek hus-
bands got more boots served out to them than they had any
occasion for.

This account not being satisfactory to the Alderman, he
postponed the investigation in order to give Mrs. Cirieg
time to get sober, and the constable an opportunity of in-
quiring further into the matter.

Yesterday she was again brought up, the constable hav-
ing in the mean time been down to Chatham, where he
ascertained that some of the boots were regimental stores
belonging to the Sd Royal Buffs, now quartered at that,
depot, and Sergeant Evans of that regiment was now in
attendance, to give evidence.
Sergeant Evans of the "loyal Buffs was accordingly
sworn, and by his evidence it appeared that the Royal
Buffs are such thirsty fellows that they ought to be called
the Bibulous Buffs; inasmuch as they would not mind
doing deity in buff for the sake of satisfying their excessive
bibulousness. He handed in a paper containing a long list
of necessaries (id est, clothes, boots, &c.) which had been
surreptitiously sold by divers Royal Buffs for that especial,
purpose; and he talked of serving out boots, and issuing
out lashes, " and other necemaiies," in such a cool and bu-
siness-like style that Lord Nugent would have admired to
hear him."—" Look at that list of necessaries, your Ho-
nour," said he to the Alderman—" those have all been
served out within these last two months, and we have
issued out twenty hundred lashes on account of theii being
sold ; but it's of no use—they will sell 'em. Here's this
pair of boots (pointing out a pair found upon Mrs. Grieg)
—this very pair I served out to a man that was under
confinement and order of punishment for having sold his
it. At the time I served them out to him he hadn't
it pair of &jots to his feet; but he contrived to sell
these, as he had sold the others, even before he received
his punishment; and now he is gone abroad—he was
sent to the East Indies."

Many other edifying matters Sergeant Evans related;
but we trust we have reported enough to show the efficacy
of the triangles upon the. .Royel ; and therefore we
shall take leave to jump at once to the issue--viz. that
Mrs. Grieg was convicted, under the Mutiny Act, in the
peualtyofsL, and, in default ofpayinent, she was serasanced
to three months' imprisonment.