The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OT THE LONDON JOURNALS.

We insert two letters from persons employed
either as masters or journeymen in the silk trade._
One of these purports to he from the individual
named Wallis, who was reported to have informed
the Spitalfielde meeting, on the authority of Mr.
institute
an Fitzgerald, that Ministers would not
an inquiry into the condition of the silk trade. Mr.
Wallis now denies that be made any such com-
munication. We took the fact as it appeared is the
report published in an Evening Paper; eed if it be
unfounded, we have only to regret that Ministers
have nut furnished so equivocal a proof of their good
sense upon this subject as we had, on the strength of
the report, been induced to give them credit for.—
There is another letter from, we suppose, an em-
ployer of journeymen silk-weavers, reiterating many
of those assertions in regard to the decline of the
t:ade, whici are, and have often been, vigorously
denied by men of known respectability, one of
whose statements is now before us, and publicly re-
futed by official documents. All that we can gather
from his allegation, if true, is, that the profits of the
silk trade have been lowered. He says that there
are quantities of goods on hand. Very possible.
The known fact that much new capital has been
thrown into the trade, is quite consistent With the
belief that the eagerness of speculation may have
outstripped the consumption ; and, as has happened
in every other branch of commerce, the field for
which seemed to be extended by a change of law or
policy, a temporary glut may have followed. How
often has this occurred in the cotton trade and the
woollen ?—and how much nonsensical jargon has
assailed us on every such occasion, as if laws
were to be made for no man's convenience but
for that of the manufacturer alone. There is
ere doubt that a considerable portiou of
French silk has been smuggled into England, and
we have reason to believe a still larger portion of
English silk, manufactured iu imitation of the
foreign, not merely to foil the smuggler at his own
weapons, but to help the practice of making a poor
month, and deploring the "fatal consequences of
doing away the old salutary prohibition." Now if
the wages of the silk-manufacturer havetbeen redu-
ced, and if the profits of his employer (which we
beg leave to say is a mush more doubtful circum-
stance) have been lowered, we may regret the fart
for their sakes, but for the sake of the public
rejoice at it. There is no question whatever that
better silks are worn now, and at a less expellee
than worse ones were four years ago. Competition
has succeeded to unfair preference, which is an in-
disputable public good, whatever murmurs is roily
produce in " Milk-street ;" nor tan we retrain from
;wondering at the audacity with which these weuld-
be,monopolists persevere in crying out for a return
to the former system of robbing the nation for their
particular advantage. If the consumption of silks
be governed by caprice or taste, instead of a neces-
sity for the supply of them, like that of beef or
corn, the vicissitudee thence resulting ought to fall
on the heads of those wilt; with their eyes opit here
engaged in a liusiness dependent exclusively on
farhian, and must not be made the subject of coin-
plaint against a law whose principle is, or ought to
be, the comfort of the -consumer, that is, of the
nation at large. We take it almost for granted that
the head of the Board of Trade is far too well in-
formed to adopt the crude and shallow prejudice
which would perpetrate the miserable reign of pro-
bibitione, and that the well-planned reform which
31r. Huskisson hid time only to begin, will riot be.
overturned so soon after its foundations have been
111161 before its useful capacities have bed op-
?ortunity ee be thoroughly developed.—Tithes.

Ti, the article in the Edinburgh Review on Hal
kon's Constitutional _History, we are told that " the
conflict of the seventeenth century was maintained
by the Parliament against the Crown. The con-
flict which commenced in the middle of the
eighteenth century, which still remains undecided,
and in which our children and grand-ehildren will
probably be called to act or to suffer, is between a
large portion of the people on the one side, and the
Crown and the Parliesnent united on the other."
It might be more correct to say Parliament, than
Crown and Parliament, because they, in fact, con-
stitute but one and same power. " From the time
,of the Revolution, the Howe of Contalons was gra-
dually becoming whet it :tow is—a great. Counsel of
Mate, containing many members chosen freely by
the people, and many others anxious to acquire the
favour of the people, but on the whole aristocratical
n its temper and interest . It is only at inter-
vele that the clamour on the subject (of Reform) is
loud end vehement, But it sterna to us, that dur-
ing the remissions, the fei.ling gathers strength, and
chat every seceessiNe burst is more violent than that
which preceded it. The public attentiLn may be
for a time devoted to the Catholic Clairee or the
Mercantile Code; but it is probable that at no very
:distant period, perhaps iu the lifetime of the present
!zeneration, all other questions will merge in that
which is its a certain degree connected with them all."
The Kings of England endeavoured to protect the
common people, that, by their aid, they might
humhle the Barons. The Stuarts contrived to unite
against themselves both Barons and pecy.e, and in
the struggle were destroyed. Victory having de-
,:lercd for the Barons, the Kings were reditcpd to
the condition of an instrument in the hands of tics
Oligarchy, neuescery, indeed, for the play of the
Government, and requiring a share of the taxes for
palaces and pageants, but possessed of not an atom
of subgtanti-ie power. The. difference between the
state of things now and in the middle ages is, that
by the machinery of Parliament the Barons are
vrabled to act in concert, which rendees them in
reality more powerful; and that, instead of Fxercie-
jng their feudal privilege. autocratically, they et-
eei7ll them in, the shape of a commission from tins
general body, 1. e. the Government. We are now, I
therefore, pretty much in the state in whichtherefore, we
were before all our struggles, except that anarchy
has given place to organization, which renders the
condition of the people the more hopeless.
L
take the case which Is every day forced on
euertauts-
tention, namely, the disturbed state of Ireland. No
man who reflects for a moment on this subject Can
hesitate to ccme to the conclusion, however much
religious differences may, as an element, add to the
difficulty of settling Ireland, the great cause of the
Aril is the aristocratical government of this country,
against the noxious influence of which there are
no defences, as in England. That nearly the same
phewomena would have been exhibited if all
the inhabitants had been of one and the same
religion, whether P.otestant or Catholic, we TIO
more doubt than that we are now in existence. At
whatever period we look into the state of Ireland,
we perceive the population in extreme ruic,ery. In
" Captain Rock Detected," attributed to the Bishop
of Limerick, we find some valuable observations on
this subject :—" In the year 1779," he says,
" when Mr. Young published his Agricultural
Tour through Ireland, it appeared that the acreable
rent of land had doubled within the preceding 25
years. The prices of things had, perhaps, increased
in something near the same proportion, but still not
sufficiently 80 to prevent discontent and murmurs.
Indeed it would appear that the population of the
country, at that day as well as at the present, might
be considered excessive;
that is to say, the quantity
of ground devoted to the purposes of
tillage (and
thus likely to be distributed among a people who
had no capital but their labour) was by ao means
sufficient to meet the demand. This state of things
will readily account for the rapid rise into conse-
quence and wealth of the persons termed Middle-
men. Capital was scanty, and labour was abate-
dant ; and accordingly there was little competition
in the bidding for large farms, while those who ob-
tained the land could, by re-letting it, procure an
enormous profit." He observes, " as far baclitentie
can trace, I find the quantity of land which' was to
be let out in small portions not s-ullieient to meet the
demands on it;" and, high prices or low prico,
it was always the same to- the wretched pee-
sant, whose situation placed him entirely in the
rower of his §uperiore, Rua could not :posiibly be

imptoiied. If we turn from the South to the North
of Ireland, and from Catholics to Protestants, )ve
find the same causes producing the very same results.
When Irishmen speak of one county of Ireland as
better than another, they nor the county of Down.
Ie the Agricultural Report of that county, by the
Rev. John Dubordieu, Rector of Annahilt, we find
the numbers of people beyond the emount of land
for them ; and the result, the same minute subdi-
vision. " The minute division of hinds," he says,
" which so much prevails in this_ county, is owing
to various causes. Many farms have been brought
to this situation by the holders of them portioning
each child with their share of the land ; others by
the temptation of a profit rent--a much easier way
of living than by labour—let off part of their lards
to under-tenaete, that, on the expiration of the
leases, were taken as tenants by the landlords, who
thus answered two purposes ; one of providing for
those already found en their estates, and the other
of increasing their interest by the number of free-
holds. But front whatever cause this -division has
arisen, it certainly has proved very prejudicial to
Agriculture, and not very conducive to the general
comfort of the class of men whom we are speaking
of, as must be evident to those who have paid at-
tention to the situation of the country." The Bishop
of Limerick says, that in 1824 e though prices were
the same as in 1778, and the mode of agriculture
nearly as bad as es ee, the rents are doubled ; and he
very properly infers, that every increase in the cumber
of the people, by increasing the competition, enables
the landholder to sink the peasant deeper and
deeper in misery. In the time of Young, every
Irish labourer had a potatOe garden and a cow; the
cow, he observes quaintly, is not gone " absolutely,
only transmuted into a part of that increased ten?
which the landlords are now enacting." If an indi-
vidual landlord were to say, I will not exact more
rent than was exacted in 1774,, he would merely
place an intermediate landlord between himself and
the working peasant. The state of the population
determines the competition, the competition deter-
mines
the rent, and a lower rent than the average
one gives necessarily a profit rent. If an English
farmer could obtain a profit rent, without labour or
the investment of capital, he would be as much die-
posed to take it as a gentleman is to take his origi-
nal rent, instead of cultivating his land as a farmer,
The reason why a profit rent cannot be obtained is
England is, that there is not the seine competition
for land. Nay, the tendency in England, except in
particuler situation?, is the other way ; and a entail
occupier, even if proprietor of his land, is driven by
the poor rates to quit his possession. We will ad-
mit frankly that the Irish Catholics have not more to
do with the Protestant Establishment of Ireland than
we have here in England. If the Establishment had
not been a mere pretext for obtaining a certain share
of the produce of the soil, and a clergy had been rip-
painted with a view to the religious instruction of the
people, it is possible that the population might by
this time have been Protestant. As we think that
Protestantism has a substantial claim to superiority
over Catholicism, we regret that Protestantisna in
Ireland should have been disregarded, and that the
Eetehliehment should have been made a mere aris-
tocratical job. But this Church jobbing does not
affect the Irish peasant, except in the mode of col•
lecting, more than it affects the Scotch Presbyte-
rians. We are all affected by tithes 2,72 a tax, and
as corruptly expended tar the benefit of the govern-
ing body ; but the cause of die misery of the Irish
peasant is the prostrate state in which he is placed
with regard to his superiors. Any other than an
Aristocratical Govermnent would, long ago, have
interposed some check to the oppression of the poor.
But the problem to be solved is, a motive to ope-
rate on an Aristocratical Government sufficiently
powerful to indnee it to adopt such harsh measures
towards a section of its body as may be effectual to
protect the great body.of the Irish people. We are
thoroughly of opinion of the Bishop of Limerick,
that all plans for the improvement of Ireland, till the
relations between Me peasant and the landlord are
completely ehanged, will utterly fail. " There are
societies (he observes) for the cultivation of waste
lands ; turd of the propriety of their objects I have
great doubts. If there could be any assurance given
that the tearntry of these waste lands should grow
so familiar with comforts that they would feel a
dread and a shame of bringing children into a world
where their portion is likely to be wretchedness, the
lands might be turned to good account; but if the
population of them is to be of the same kind with
that from which the principal evils of the present
day arise, then I think wise men should hesitate
long before:they would, in order to procure a slight
temporary relief, lend themselves to a measure which
would be silently, but certainly accumulating the
matceisle for future convulsions. But as to the agri-
cultural societies for improving the condition of the
poor, they must fail, and they aught to fail ; be-
cause, while the rents continue what they are at
present, the people distinctly understand, that for
every new power developed iu them, an additional
burden will be imposed upon them." The Bishop
of Limerick has evidently a clear understanding as
to the serious nature of the means by which alone
the evil can be met. What he recommends
amounts to P revolution in pn,perty ; and without
such a revolution it will be impossible to aid the
people. " If it be found on inquiry (Ile says) that
the gentry have been the cause of our sufferinge,
that the poverty of the people has been at once the
coirsieuence and the cause of their multiplied op-
pressmns, what meesures ought the Government to
adopt ? I think it should first be resolved to lighten
the burden of oppressive rents, which are the primal
obstructions to all hope of improvement. . . .
' The incumbrances affecting the estates of the Irish
gentry would make this a ruinous measure to
them; and therefore it would be just to en-
lighten all their incumbraneee, so as that they
;night bear to their diminished revenues no higher
proportion than thee had borne to the nominal
incomes of former years." An equitable adjust-
ment of this sort would be effected,. and can
only he effected, through the instrumentality
of Poor Rates, which would nut merely
protect the existing generation from the ne-
cessity of that excessive competition which ie the
cause of the enormous rents, but would tend, as in-
evitably as heavy bodies descend, to the increase of
the siees of fat ms, and to the diminution of the num-
bers of the eerieultural population. But can we ex-
pect this ender a faovernment like ours ? Dare the
Duke of Wellington prc.p,oso such a thing? Not he.
If he were to venture beyond ttt: shifts and expe-
dients which are necessary to keep IT the engine
which draws from the people the plunder tc be dis-
tributed among the body whose delegate he is, he
would be sent to the right about in a moment. We
diuecy,.. any
rr ISh,.ilitei iie may.
u
slte I to adoptscce any i
in oney measure of effi-
ecarrying Catholic
Emancipation, wo can believe; for that tonches not
the Aristocracy. Well and truly did the
.Edinburgh
Re.vi.wer remark. " that all other questions will merge
in that eebich is ma certain degree connected with
then
all."
i.%,t- in the way of carrying this ques-
tion, we see many ti,... c.cu ies, in the worthlessness
of the higher ranks, and ti;:; degradation of a great
portiote cf the lower. Of this wa are almost cer-
tain, that the tin-10i when such a question can be
carried are not time.' tit Which a man may take hi; i
r,., gi-;ajr with the ho of
. hope
afternoon's nap in his ar . p
..
Mtrusions.—
'ceing undisturbed by
Morning Chronicle. ,
We ment;oned that what was denominated a
disagreeable
public and general meeting
of the Bolivar Jl:fining
Scheme was held 'on Wednesday, at the office in
Great Wiershester-street, Old lekoad-strett, from
which meeting reporters were excluded, they
could prove themselves shareholders. This ec4e.sne,
by having the name of Bolivar prefixed to it, Is Of ,
course a " liberal 'and patriotic scheme." It is for
'Eli-e'o6eF of Mankind that it has been established by
its philanthropic founders; and it is exceedingly
liberal in them to require reporters to become sharer '
holders, that their labours may be repaid by sharing
in its golden ad vantages. it is true, some indiei-
duals might be ungenerous enough to suppose diet
talc reason of preventing the proceedings of, the a

meeting to be reported by any but persons ;do
have a CO*l7?ibality of interest in the scheme with its
projectors for the purpose of colouring highly the
" prosperity" of the concern, for the gullable cupi-
dity of John .?;ull. Nay, there are people who will
go so far as to say that, if those who concocted the
scheme are not afraid of the truth being told, they
would rather the reporters were not shareholders
than that they were, because they would pre-
fer their reports to be perfectly disinterested,
and above suspicion. Peoi:le who entertain
this notion will also not fail to observe that, during
the rage of the Joint-Stock mania, in the years 1895
and 1826, the public delusion and mischief were
chiefly created and extended by purchased literary
agents, who were presented with shares in various
schemes, or got them at cheap rates, and who, by
working the paragraph-machinery in the venal por-
tion of the press, or by falsifying reports, spread the
evil like a desolating pestilence over the land. Such
observations, however, can hardly be deemed appli-
cable in this case, as the 7olivar Mining Scheme im-
plies,r Jrnething of sublime and
by its very name,
generous enterprise. We are, therefore, at a loss to
discover what can have induced the patriotic Com-
pany to shut their doors against the Argus eyes of
the press, unless the press would choose to put on
its eyes the spectacles of self-interest, before it be
allowed to look at their concerns; but perhaps
those benevolent men practice concealment from that
innate modesty that blushes, with painful sensibility,
at the exposure of its virtuous deeds.—Morning
Herald.

A most important Meeting took place in Dub-
lin on Tuesday last. It was a proud and
triumphant assemblage of the patriotic men who
have taken the lead in the Constitutional Protestant
Associations recently formed in all parts of Ireland.
This re-union was all that was wanted to give to
the Brunswick Clubs of Ireland the chareeter of
one great, undivided, and indivisible National In-
stitution. It was indeed time for the Protestants
of Ireland to unite in self-defence, when threatened
with ruin and destruction ,in detail by an anti-
social confederacy of superstitious sieves, orga-
nized and commanded by ambitious bigots. This
meeting of the leaders of the Constitutional Asso-
ciations will be a memorable epoch in the his-
tory of Ireland. It proclaimed and celebrated the
emancipation of Irish Protestants from the threats
of brute force, and the injuries of lawless combina-
tion. Henceforth we shall hear no more of the
Popish Demagogues and Priests compelling their
ignorant and deluded followers to confine their deal-
ing in trade to such persons as are equally ignorant
and deluded with themselves. The Protestants of
Ireland are now secure in the possession of means
amply to compensate each other, abundantly to
retaliate upon their foes, in the event of such
an injury being attempted. Henceforth we shall
hear no more of Protesta:st Lnudholders depen-
dent upon the fiat of Popish Priests and Dema-
gogues for the gathering in of their ripened
crops. If those who exercise a spiritual and tem-
poral tyranny over the Papists forbid them to work
for the wagea of Protestants, the latter will work
the more vigorously and unsparingly for each
other. Henceforth we shall hear no more of the
Papists forming themselves into a separate com-
munity, since the Protestants are now prepared, if
necessary, to do so likewise, and there can be no
doubt which of the two parties would in this case
be the greater loser. Henceforth we shall hear but
little of the physical force of the Papists, since, in
the event of a struggle, the Protestants are more
fully prepared to meet them with a superiority of
energy, intelligence, and good order, sufficient to
ensure to the latter a complete, easy, and immediate
triumph. The establishment of Protestant Consti-
tional Clubs has done more than any other measure
in modern times to guarantee the peace of Ireland,
since these highly meritorious and valuable institu-
tions cannot fail to damp the presumptuous hopes,
to abate the overweening confidence, and to curb the
hitherto unbridled audacity of the Popish Faction.
We highly applaud the determination of this Pa-
trietie Association of Irish Protestants to lay at
the foot of the British Thrnne a statement of the
circumstances which have drawn together and ce-
mented them into an indissoluble union, of the oh-
, jeete which they seek, and of the means they intend
to employ for their attainment. This proceeding
was duo to themselves, and equally due to the Pro-
testant Monarch, of whom they are the most loyal
and devoted subjects. The Protestant Sovereign of
this Protestant Empire cannot but feel himself seated
upon a Throne mere seeure, lofty, and magnifi-
cent, when he perceives this new manifestation
of the spirit by which it is guarded and upheld.—
To impart the consciousness of union, strength,
and security, to the Protestants of Ireland, and to
counteract and humble the Popish Faction, which
has so long agitated, degraded, and enfeebled that
country, are the first great objects of the Brun-
wick Associations ; and it is not too much to say,
that those objects are already accomplished by the
very existence of such associations, in the power
and splendour to which they have so rapidly at-
tained. By forming the point of re-union among
Protestants, and furnishing the visible emblems
through which they may pledge themselves to the
country, and naturally to each other, for the defence
of their Faith, their Freedom, and the Laws and
Constitution, with which their faith and their free-
dom are inseparably connected, the Protestant Asso-
ciations have confetred en inestimable benefit upon
the nation. But we do not believe that the benefit
to be derived to Irelan from this source will end
here. We expect this great and glorious combina-
tion of the wealth, virtue, and public spirit of Ire-
land, to engage in positive and active enterprises for
the amelioration of the state of society in that coun-
try. For such enterprises Ireland presents art exten-
sive field, by the adequate cultivation of which, more
effectually than by any other means, the Protestant
Association may reduce the Popish Parliament to
insignificance, withdraw from it the affection of all
classes of the. people, and (such will be the :sure ef-
fect of crntrast) expose it to universal odium.—
Morning Post.

Great apprehensions are entertained for the
safety of the Redpole packet from Buenos Ayres, which h
now more than a month over due, and has not been heard
of since she sailed from Rio de Janeiro. Thirty guineas
per cent. has been offered at Lt rria's as an insurance on
this ve.sel, and refused. The onlv y ound of hope is, that
the Redpole may only have sustu...d partial injury in a
gale, which is known to have occurred in her course to
his country about the period of her passing, and have put
into Mao: port of the We►t Indies for repair. The wind',
too, have been contTary for some time past, which may
have retarded her arrival. Great complaints are made•
among the merchants of the inefficient mariner in which
the packet-srvice is conducted, since the rnaila have been
carried by ships of war, under the management of the Go-
vernment. Many of the vessels are barely sea .worthy, and
if a gala arises, zwe iris-aria:Ay placed in great jeopardy.

A mistake of rather an awkward description
occurred a few evenings since to a couple of youthful
lovers, residing not fur from lagatestone. The unfortu-
nate swain, it appears, had incurred the displeasure of his
mistress's father, who forbade him to enter his house, and
laid a strict injunction on his daughter not to " pass the.
threshold" without leave ; this she obeyed to the very let-
ter, but hit upon ex.pedieat to gratify her lover also, by
breaking a square' of glass in the pantry window, through
Irhi:-.h many
"1t long, long kiss—a kiss of youth and lore,"
had been giren. Three times had the square beep re -
placed, and four times had it been broken, whrn Miss at,-
tributing it to the cats her father concealed himself iu the
Place, in order to watch. About ten o'clock the lover ap-
proached, with a " slow and cautious step ," which the
master hearing, ut iis face to the aperture, to ascertain
who wag cooking ut that " unhallowed hour," and the
wain, mistaking it for his " soul's softest treasure," sa-
luted him with the "heart`, taken." The whiskered face
made him start. " ley Heavens (thoagiit lie) it is not
you—it is somebody else ;" and soon the direful troth
flashed upon hint, In the shape of the sturdy farmer and an
old musket. A parley, now ensued, and the mistaken swain
he was allowed to depart.
Irceehineignitsioiiir)ady
ctlhiergoltai 'a

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

BIANSION-HOUSE.

Poster, the Marshalman, charged a constable wit'r,
having abandoned the watch-house in which he ‘l,s
to serve for the night, contrary to the regulations of
the Police-committee of the City of Loudon.
The Marshalman stated, that the defendant was
an extremely attentive and active officer. He (wit-
ness) had been obliged, however, in consequenee of
the orders of the ward authorities, to report him for
having left the watch-house, which was in contradic-
tion to the orders issued by those authorities. The
defendant had been absent about a quarter of an hour.
The defendantsaid that he really wasat a loss how
to act. It was true the ward authorities had di-
rected that the night-eonstables should remain in the
watch-house, but then the Act of Parliament ea•
pressly directed that they should go round to see
whether the watchmen were on duty. If, therefore,
he obeyed one rower, he must disobey the other;
and he hoped it would not be considered an unpar-
donable offence in him if he looked to the Act of
Parliament for his chief direction.

Mr. Brown, the Marshal, said, that the Commit-
tee ha'ing appointed superintendents of the watch,
it was thought unnecessary for the constable' to go
round ; and therefore the order had been issued,
which did not tally with the words of the Act.

Mr. Holder said that the constable had acted ac-
cording to the direction of the Act, and was justified
of course in doing that of which he had been accused.
The LORD MAYOR told the defendant, if his con-
duct was reprehended, he had only to desire those
who reproved him to read the Act.
A CutvEß DEPENCE.—Yesterday a man named
Myer was brought before the LORD MAYOR,
charged with having been concerned in conveying
from one place to another a quantity of spirits which
had never paid the duty.
An excise officer stated that he was passing along
Fish,-strtet-hill, and saw the defendant and another
man in a cart, which looked like a contraband ve-
hicle. He looked at the defendant, who was driving-,
whereupon the defendant, who seemed to know his
vocation, suddenly dropped the reins, leaped down,
and took to his heels, as if a mad bull was after him.
His companion leaped down and escaped, but the
defendant, after a violent struggle, was apprehended
and lodged in the Compter. In the cart which was
thus abandoned there were five barrels, three of
which were empty, and two contained about twelve
gallons of spirits, which were, together with the
horse and cart, deposited in the custody of the
board of Excise.

The defendant produced a witness, who, he said,
could explain the whole matter, and show that the
man who escaped must have been the person who
was aware that the goods were run goods.
" Why, your worship," said this rwitne s, " you
see as how this man what run away was riding along
in his cart, when Myer and I were walking ; and as
I knowed him a long time, he says to me, Come
up, blow you, and take a ride.' No,' says 1, I
an't going your way,'which was towards the Borough
your worship ; but' says I, my friend Myer,' who
didn't know nothing about him, your worship, will
go with you.' So he says to Myer, Well, come
along, comrade;' and up Myer got, and so they
went off together. So, your worship, you see he
knowed nothing about the matter." (A laugh.)
The LORD MAYoR—Aye, aat's a clear case. But
what induced you to come here ? Witness—Why
to clear that ere young man pointing to the de-
fendant), what's as innocent as myself.
The LORD MAYoß—What was the name of your
friend who ran away ? This puzzled the witness.
" His name? why I don't know exactly. Let me
see—ves it was ; his name was Picklesquia, your
Lordship."
" And where is he to be found," asked the Loan
MAYOR. Oh ! I don't know ! I never axed him;
but I know him as well as I knows any body.
The LORD MAYOR—With whom does he work ?
Witness—That I don't know, your Lordship, tout I
know he used to work with old Lucas, the bargeman.
The LORD MAYOR—Why that's myself.—(Loud
laughter.) Witness—Well, your Lordship, be used
to work for you; but whether he works for you
now, I can't say, I'm blow'd.
The LORD MAYOR—And pray what are you, my
friend? Witness—A brazier. I makes brass and
copper utensils.
An officer (in a stage whiiTt,r)—lle makes pr;-
vate stills for these fellows to work with, my Lord.
He works for half the private still•workers in Lon-
don.—(A. laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR—Oh, you are the still-maker,
are you ? Witness—l don't remember no sue'l a
thing as making private stills, my Lord.
The LORD MAYOR--You don't remember! Re-
collect yourself—you make stills, don't you ? Wit-
ness—Not to my knowledge.--(Loud laughter.)—l
work in the general line, and I make any thing in
the brass line, but I don't know what you mean by

1 he LORD MAYOR— Upon my word, you shine in
, the brass line.--(Laughter.)
His LoRDsnIP then asked the defendant how it
happened that if he was a stranger in the cart, he
held the reins, and drove the horse?--" Why, your
Worship," said he, " this here was the way. Yew
I got into the cart, says the maw, says he, I'm
blowed if my hands a'nt perished with the cold; do
you hold the reins while I warm 'en, in twy breeches
pocket.' So, my Lord, you see I took the reins,
and lie soon afterwards, just as I was lashing the
horse, leaped out all of a sudden, and I leaps out
atcr him ; but I'm blowed if I krrowed any thing
about the spirits."—(Loud laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR fined the defendant 231., and
sent him to prison in default of payment.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Yesterday a young man named William Godfrey
was brought before Mr. CONANT, the sitting Magis-
trate, charged with the following robberies :
Mr. I'e la Fontaine, a coach-plater, residing at
No. 9, Archer-street, Haymarket, stated that
about six years ago the prisoner had worked
with him as an apprentice, but since that time
he had seen or known nothing of him except
having occasionally observed him of late lurk-
ing about the neighbourhood of Archer-street,
but without taking any particular notice of
what be was about there. About a fortnight
since, his, Mr. De is Fontaine's, warehouse was
robbed of ten or a dozen sets of collar-buckles, value
aboHt 245. a set the selling price, and the collar-
buckles now produced were some of the sets so
stolen. There was no way, the witness said, of
getting at the warehouse, which is situate in the
hack part of the dwelling-house, except by entetiag
at the street-door or some other part of the front of
the house.

A female servant of Mr. De la Fontaine stated,
that on one occasion, about a fortnight ago, just
about the time of the robbery, she happened to go
rather suddenly into the street-door passage, and
there she saw the prisoner standing, and he said
something which she now forgets as an excuse for
his being there, and he went out at the street-door,
by which way he must also have entered, but how
or by whom he got it opened for him she could not
tell. To the best of her recollection this occurrence
took place two or three days before the robbery of
the warehouse, cad it was late in the afternoon.
Mr. Radcliffe, also a coach-plater,
residing at No.
g, Queen-street, Golden-square, stated, that the
prisoner had worked for him about three years ago,
!?pt he had lost sight him altogether since that time.
I,V4hiri wine weeks past seve..al robberies have beencommitted ill Lis Mr. RadeKe's ,Farehqusc, and a
considerable quantity of property in his trade carried
away at different times, but how or by whom these
robberies were perpetrated he was totally at a loss
to conjecture, until between one and two o'clock on
Thursday last he heard the footsteps of some person
corning up the stairs in his house, and on his going
to discover who it could be, he found the prisoner
conFcaled in his bed-room. The prisoner, on being
questioned as to what brought him there, said that
he had come to see ," Fred;'—that was a lad named
Frederick; who had lived as an apprentice in the

house at the time the prieoner worked there, hat
who; as the prisoner well knew, had long since left
there. Witness then sent for an officer, and de-
livered the prisoner over to his custody, on a charge
of designing to rob the house. The " hame-clip,"
which is a part of the brass and iron fastenings of a
harness-collar now prodnced, Mr. Radcliffe said was
one that had been stolen from his warehouse, and a
part of the property of which h►e had been robbed
us he had stated; he knew it, and could positiveli-
swear to it as being his own nianuftteture, for it dif-
fered from those generally made in the trade.

Ballard, one of the officers belonging to this
office, stated, that he took charge of the prisoner on
Thursday last, and searched him, but found nothing
except a parcel of pawnbrokers' duplicates about his
person. He questioned the prisoner as to where he
lodged, but he replied that he had no lodgings any
where, for that he slept about from one place to
another, wherever lie could get a bed. In the course
of the same day, however, he (Ballard) traced out
that the prisoner lodged in a room on the ground-
floor of the house, No. 3, Jones's-court, Bainbridge-
street, St. Giles's ; and on searching this apartment,
where the prisoner lived with a woman of the town,
he (the ot3icer) found the hume-clip and the collar-
buckles produced, and he also found there the two
skeleton-keys produced, one of which opens with
great ease the street-door of Mr. Radcliffe's
house, and the other with equal facility opens the
door of Mr. De la Fontaine's house; and the female
with whom the prisoner lived admitted to him (Bale
lie.d), that she always left the window of the apart-
ment partially open all night, that the prisoner
might at any time get in that way without being
observed on his return after any depredation he had
been committing.
Mr. Radcliffe fluid, that he now recollected having
seen tlat prisoner several times of lute about (bleak'
greet and that neighbourhood, but he never for a
moment suspected him of the robberies, until he
found him in his bed-room.

The prisoner declined saying any thing in his de-
fence, and was committed to Newgate for trial on
both charges.
Maria Butler, a middle-ageJ, decent-looking
female, was charged with robbing her master, Mr.
Fairburn, a bookseller, in Duke-street, Adelphi.
It appeared that the prisoner had been about four
months in the service of Mr. Fairburn as housemaid,
but quitted him rather abruptly some days ago, since
when Mr. Fairburn missed several volumes of books,
quantities of soap, candles, &e. ; and on the lodgings
of the prisoner being searched by Scofield, the
officer, at No. 18, Exeter-street, Strand, all the stolen
property was found in her box, which Mr. Fait-
burn clearly identified as belonging to him. Seofield
also found two handsome watches and several sove-
reigns concealed under the prisoner's bed ; but al-
though Mr. Fairburn had little doubt but these were
the produce of robberies upon him also, he could not
swear to that fact, and this property was, by the
prisoner's consent, given up to her mother, but she
was committed for trial on the charge established
against her,
A youth named William Cotmne►ford, well known
to the police Rs having been more than once tried
at the Old Bailey, was charged with picking a gen-
tleman's pocket in the street, on Thursday evening. 3
Ballard, the officer, said that as he was passing
through St. Martin's-court, Leicester-square, he
observed the prisoner, whom he knew very well as
an expert pickpocket, nianmuvring about a gentle-
man's pocket, and he kept his eve upon him for sonic
time, until he saw hint extract the silk handkerchief
now produced from the pocket, and ;,lien he laid
hold on him, with the handkerchief in his possession.
The gentleman had gone on some distance, not per-
ceiving that his pocket was picked; but he (Ballard)
ran after him, bringing the prisoner along, and over-
took the gentleman in the square.
Mr. George Howell stated, that the officer gave
him notice, as he had stated, that his pocket had
been picked, and he then missed his handkerchief
from his coat-pocket, which he knew was safe a few
minutes before the officer spoke to him. The hand-
kerchief produced is the same that was taken front
his pocket, and was worth about Us.
The prisoner in his defence told the thread-bare
story of his having picked up the handkerchief from
the pavement just before the officer seized him ; but
he was, notwithstanding, committed for trial to
Newgate, from whence, it seems, he has been only a
very short time discharged.