The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-26 00:00:00

SPITLIT OF THE PUBLIC JOUiZNALS.

The Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsular
war, was famous for his vigilance and excellent
intelligence, on which so firm a reliance was
placed by the army that all, from the highest to
the lowest, believed that he could never be taken
by surprise. The only exception to the rule
was the battle of Talavera, where he ought to
have been beat, and where he was saved alone
by the jealousy of the French Generals. With
respect to this battle it is observed by Colonel
Napier, " That so able a Commander should
engage himself in the narrow valley of the
Tagus, with twenty thousand British and forty
thousand Spanish troops, when fifty thousand
French were waiting for him at the further end,
and about fifty thousand more were hanging on
his flank and rear, shows that the greatest
masters of the art may err. He who wars walks
in a mist, through which the keenest eyes caonot
always discern the right path. Speak to me
of a 'General who has made no mistakes in war
(said Turenne), and you speak of one who has
seldom made war.' " If we were to give any
credit to general rumour, the operations of the
Russians at present are to be viewed as a second
surprize. That he arrived quite unexpectedly,
and in great haste, in Downing-street on Mon-
day, is certain ; but this is all that is certainly
known. The Austrian Legation had, it is true,
an interview with his Grace and Lord Aber-
deen, in Downing-street ; and those who ought
to be well informed on the subject of their de-
liberations, do not hesitate to say Mat a hostile
movement against Russia, on the part of Elia°-
land, France, and Austria, is at hand. A
courier is hourly expected from Vienna, with
a communication, on which, it is said, much
will depend. It is the part of a Journalist
to repeat what is confidently stated by well-in-
formed people, with such comments of his own as
he may deem called for. Were we to credit this
information, we should say that the posting to
Downing-street, and subsequent bustle, looks very
like being surprized by an enemy. But we con-
fess that, notwithstanding the confident assertions
of the French Journals, and the no less confident
it.stirarices here, we do not believe that Eng-
land will act so foolish a part, as to kindle a
general war in Europe for the absurd purpose of
propping a Power which cannot be supported.
By this time we have no doubt Russia occupies
Constantinople, and garrisons the approaches to
it. A hostile demonstration on the part of the
Three Powers would not in all probability inti-
midate Russia, or even induce that Power
to grant more favourable terms to the Turks
than she would grant of her own accord.
We do not believe that Russia has at present an
intention to occupy permanently Thrace, and hel
conquests in Asia Minor. Nay, we do not be-
lieve that her resources are equal to the per-
manent occupation of such extensive regions.—
Her policy has always been to advance step by
step to her object. She will probably insist on
retaining the country to the Balkan and the
pusses, and will keep and fortify the entrance
into the Bosphorus, with a view to commanding
a secure passage into the Mediterranean ; but
the garrisoning permanently Constantinople,
Adrianople, and the towns on the Asiatic side,
would be enormously expensive. By occupying
the countries between Turkel and Russia, she
would so strengthen herself on the side of Aus-
tria, that, on a future occasion, that Power would
be unable to interfere with her operations. The
Duke of Wellington must have been prepared for
aome time for what has taken place, and there-
fore his visit to Downing-street, however unex-
pected, can hardly have been caused by the late
Russian Bolletins. From the moment General
Diebitsch stated that he had amused the Grand
Vizier in Shumla, and gained several days
ynarch on him, it became pretty obvious that the
'Balkan would be passed. All mountains, in
earl be passed just as all fortifications can
be taken # and the only question at any time
was, whether the Russians would have force
sufficient to carry the natural forts of the
ialkan, if garrisoned by a Turkish force
At all adequate. But when there was
am) koree there could be little difficulty.-
IVe trtit Eogland will not commit herself for
any ooch fbofith business as a war for the Turks.
Good Gc‘l ! only think how the resources of
this beautiad country—how the industry of the
most ingenious and civilised people the world
ever yet behold are crippled b) the burdens im-
posed on us by a succession of prodigal Minis
ters—the creatures of the most profligate Aris-
tocracy- in the world ! Shall the industry of this
eiviliaed nation be further mortgaged for tom-fool
iertifeadest---to humour Prince Metternich, and
enable him to goriceal the feebleness with which
Austrian policy basgiven to him thirty millions ?
if we must fight, let us fight only when it is ne-
,eessu-y for British objects f. if necessary, the
people of England, taxed as they are, would con-
sent to sacrifice sufficient to enable Ministers to
In kite the Czar tremble in his own capital ; but
let us not wage the resources which ought to be
reserved f'►r great and national occasions.—
Morning Chronicle.
One of the small journals of Paris, in allud-
ing to the recent change of Ministry, and the
supposed interference ,of the English Govern-
ment in that event, reproaches us with having
built palaces to our Kings ktt tJa?, expellee of the
French people. It is painful to recur to such
charges, even when defence is most easy; but it
would be unpardonable to omit the opportunity
of giving a satisfactory explanation of a plausible
inuendo, where the facts are at once accessible
sand undeniable. We ourscii,2a were among the
first to denounce openly, arta to condemn
strongly, the diversion of 250,0004, destined
originally for other purposes, to the object of
pulling down and building up such a libel on
the public taste, sash a mass of deformity, as
liockingliatn Palace. Ju iending or giving to
the Department of the Woods
.11. n d Forests, for
the purpose of being so applied, ;Joelt a fund,
without tha authority of Parliament, the Trea-
sury committed an act for which they were justly
censurable. But the effair lay between our Govern-
ment and the eountry,-ot between our Govern-
ment and foreigners; and the loaner of a million
handed over to the Woods and Fooats from the
Commiscioners of British claims on Vraoce, was
equally due to this nation, and would have
equitably remained in it, whether expended in
building it palace or meting a range of poor-
houses. To establish this position it is only
necessary to recur to a few circumstances which
must have been forgotten when the charge was
made. In the negotiations which followed the
entrance of the Allies into Paris iii J 815, Lord
Castlereagh, our Foreign Minister, displaying an
extraordinary degree of generosity at the public
expense, surrendered the extensive claims which
we had upon the Government of France for the
maintenance of prisoners of %var. The only con-
dition for which he stipulated 61 return was, that
British subjects, whose property had been coa-

fiscated during the Revolution while they had
relied on the faith of treaties, should be indem-
nified for their losses upon proper evidence of
such unwar►antable spoliation. To this they
were evidently entitled, without any abandon-
ment of the public claims on the French
Government for other objects. The sum
a►iginally set apart by the treaty of No-
vember, 1515, to answer the British claimants
was about three millions sterling—on a declara-
tion that i► such an amount was insufficient, it
should be increased, and if too much, that the
overplr►s should be retur►:ed. This conditional
stipulation was afterwards exchanged for a cer-
tain sum, which, whether sufficient or not, was
to be received by the British Government in sa-
tisfaction of all the demands of its objects. In
the latter case, it is evident that the surplus, if,
any, was not to revert to France, but to be de-
voted to British objects by British authorities.
We need not encumber this simple statement
with any questions about the rights of two classes
of claimants under different treaties, or about

the refusal of the Commissioners of Liquidation
to admit certain equitable demands which could
not be supported upon documents which time or
violence had destroyed. We shall at once admit

that there exists 250,0001. of a surplus, which,
according to the first convention in 1815, would
have reverted to France. Now how stands the
balance ? We surrendered for this all the in-
demnity due to us for the maintenance of French
prisoners during the. war, of whom the following
is stated to be the average number from 1803 to

814 :
Number in 1803 3,250
Ditto 1904 6,750
Ditto 1805 11,901
Ditto 1806 20,100
Ditto 1807 94,400
Ditto 1808 97.500
Ditto 1809 37,250
Ditto 1810 46,700
Ditto 1811 45,000
Ditto 1812 55,800
Ditto 1813 63,900
Ditto 1814 67,500

We allow that during that period the French
Government could have made a set-off to a
certain amour•, but the average of charge against
us was very disproportioned to the credits in our
favour. Indeed, the number of French prisoners

in England during the last year of the war,
was nearly equivalent to the whole of our army
engaged in actual conflict with France at that
epoch. We recall these facts, not for the pur-
pose of reminding our neighbours Of unpleasant
topics (than which nothing is more distant from
our minds), but merely to show both to the
English public and that of France, that if we
have squandered away money on useless splen-
dour or ungainly constructions, it has been the
money of England, and not the fruit of foreign
'vine or diplomatic circumvention.—Times.
We published on Monday a report of the
trial of the policeman St. Ledger, for homicide,
arising out of the unfortunate transactions at I3or-
risokeen. Our readers have seen that the result
of that trial, which excited extraordinary inte-
rest, was an acquittal. Our correspondent ac-
companied his report with observations which
imply a very disturbed state of the public mind.
The fact of the people bein,, in a state of extreme
excitement we can easily believe, but we should
be sorry to find that popular intimidation should
have any effect on the even course of justice. In
times of alarm and danger, it is peculiarly neces-
sary that Judges and Juries should be free from
external influence, let it come from what quarter
it may ; but what influence can be more subver- •
sive of judicial rectitude than popular terror ?
Let such a servile passion once take possession
of the minds of Courts and jurymen, and every
just man must shudder at the consequences. We
make these remarks, because our correspondent
pretty plainly hinted, before the trials of the
policemen came on, that, if they should happen
not to be convicted, it was the prevalent opinion
the multitude would appeal to force, and, not
having justice in their own way, would exact
vengeance. In the same spirit he informs
us, now the popular rage for the life of the
first policeman that was put on his trial
has been disappointed, that the " result of
the trial has caused the greatest anxiety for
the country, and the people declare that the
trial was the best got-up humbug oh the part of
the Crown that was over acted in this kingdom.
The host of witnesses who are to be examined in
We five other cases would have gone home were
it not for the interposition of their legal advisers,
as they vehemently declare they have no hopes
or prospect of having justice clone as long as the
Government interferes with the prosecution.
Messengers were sent off to different parts of the
country as soon as the verdict had been an-
nounced, and it is impossible to calculate what
may be the consequences." What a deplorable
picture does this afford of the present " tran-
quillised" state of Ireland ! The " grievances"
which were represented as the only cause of party
rancour and public disturbance have been re-
moved, and the people who have received those
concessions now demand that the tribunals of
justice shall decide upon the life of men accord.
ing to the dictates of their domineering passions,
Lind threaten vengeance if the phrenzy of party
should not direct the decisions of the Jury-box.

We hope they are only the lowest of the rabble
who dare to give utterance to such sentiments ;
or, if they be expressed more generally, there
must be a strange relaxation of the necessary
energies of Government. As far as we could col-
lect from reading the report of the trial, it appears
to have been most impartially conducted. The
Jury was aleu a mixd one of Protestants and
Catholics. They heard the evidence on both
sides patiently, and gave a dispassionate verdict.
If they had yielded to popular intimidation, and
Found the prisoner guilty when they did not be-
lieve him so, we might soon expect to see in
Irish Court;; pc !Justice such scenes as mule
the forms of Jaw a cr4el mockery in the revolu-
tionary tribunals of Prance, hiupp writing the
above we have received from our correspondent
j at Clonmel a full report of the trial of Ledger
and his associates, which will be found in
anothgr part of our Paper. This was the most
important of the Frials arising out of the unfor-
tunate occurrences at Borrisgkeen. The result
in this case has also been an acquittal, but
Ledger was subsequently indicted on anodicr
charge of wilful murder. The Jury, in this
case,
jare stated to have been exclusively Pro-
testant, TLat circumstance, as might be fore-
seen, is made a gi'Oiinj for impeaching the purity
of the verdict. Those who 'do ;i2 seem deter-
mined that religious distinctions shall not pei;ll,
—Morning Herald.
We haw. hefpre alluded to the very error.eous
notions which arc SC gsenerally entertained as to
the facility of greatly simplifying our laws, more
• particular!y as they regard real property. T!!..,3
truth is, they arc the growth of so many centu-
ries, the work of so many changes in our inter-
nal anti external relations, that a partiii altera-
tion would be likely to effect as much evil as be-

Went ; and we know not how the whole system
can be grappled with at once. It must be clear
that those who think otherwise have forgotten
how soon the simple maxims by which Greece
and Rome and other States were governed be-
came insufficient for the interests of several
States—that in the progressive change of man-
ners some laws fell into desuetude and some be-
came inapplicable, and that it was rendered ne-
cessary to provide for insulated cases as they
arose. In Rome particularly there were the de-
crees of the Senate, the ordinances of the People,
the edicts of the Consuls, the regulations of the
Prwtors, the opinions of learned Jurisconsults,
and filially the rescripts, edicts, and novels of the
Emperors ; until at length such a mass of legis-
lative matter was assembled, as scarcely the efforts
of Theodosius or Justinian were adequate to
bring into order or reduce to principle. But it
may be said that it was of this immense accumu-
lation of incongruous or conflicting laws that the
Romans then complained, as the people of
England are now complaining, as well as
that the simplicity of the old laws was
corrupted by interested men, rather than
by the natural progress of society. These
complaints, however partially just, are not
altogether unanswerable. While society remains
in a simple state, there is no necessity for more
than a few simple laws ; but as society alters its
structure—as conditions change—as enterprise
leads to success or failure—as it becomes divided
into classes, new duties are incurred—new obli-
gations are contracted—new relations of necessity
arise, and these must be regulated as circum-
stances demand, either by the course oflong-esta-
blished custom, or by precise legislative enactment.
The real property of this country is completely
mixed up with the feudal law ; and indeed the
history of every country where the feudal laws
prevailed, while it presents us, on the one hand,
with an account of the many restraints imposed
by them upon alienation, and of the many methods
which have been taken to make property inalien-
able, presents us, on the other, with an account
of the different arts which have been adopted to
elude these restraints, and to make property free.
This is as observable in the law of England as it is
in the law of any other country ; but the mode by
which it has been effected in England is peculiar
to England. In other countries, where a liberty
of alienation has been introduced, it has rested
on a kind of compromise with the lord by pay-
ing him a certain fine ; and a kind of compro-
mise with the relations of the feudatory, by
allowing them a right of redemption, com-
monly called the " jus retractus.' But the
steps by which a free alienation of property
has obtained ground in England are very diffe-
rent. In England an unlimited freedom of
alienating soccage and military land was soon
allowed ; the practice of sub-mfeudation was
soon abolished ; the alienation of land was re-
strained by the introduction of conditional fees,
and afterwards by the introduction of estates
tail ; entails, from their first establishment, were
greatly discountenanced by the Courts of slims-
tice, and they were eluded by the doctrines of
discontinuance and warranty. In the course of
time a fine was made a bar to the claims of the
issue in tad, and a common recovery to time
claims both of the issue and of those in remain-
der and reversion. Most of these circumstances
are peculiar to the history of England. Hence
an English reader who opens the writings of the
foreign feudists with an expectation of find-
ing there something applicable to the practi-
cal state of the law of his own country,
respecting the alienation of landed property, will
be greatly disappointed. The same may be ob-
served with respect to the doctrine of conditions.
According to the strict principles of the feudal
law, no conditions could he annexed to a fief
except the implied conditions to which every fief
was subject from the obligations of service on the
part of the tenant, and the obligation of protec-
tion on the part of the Lord. Every fief to
which any express or conventionary condition
was annexed, was from that very circumstance
ranked among the improper fiefs. But fiefs in
England were at all times susceptible of every
kind of condition. (See Coke upon Little-
ton, by Butler, vol. i.) The modern system of the
law may be supposed to have taken its rise at the
end of the reign of King Henry the Seventh,
and to have assumed something of a re-
gular form about the latter end of the reign of
King Charles the Second. The principal fea-
tures of this alteration are, the introduction of
recoveries ; coveyances to uses ; the testamentary
disposition by wills ; the abolition of military
tenui es ; the statute of frauds and perjuries ; the
establishment of a regular system of equitable
jurisdiction ; the discontinuance of real actions ;
and the mode of trying titles to landed property
by ejectment. There is no doubt but during
the above period a material alteration was effected
in the jurisprudence of this country ; but this
alteration has been effected, not so much by su
perseding as by giving a new direction to the
principles of the old law, and applying them to
new subjects.—Morning Post.
The critical situatian of the Turkish empire
and the future steps to which the unexpectedly
successful advance of the Russians may eventu-
ally give rise, have again begun to assume that
importance which properly belongs to them, and
which they only momentarily lost in consequence
of the more immediate and absorbing interests of
the change in the French Ministry. The ques-
tion is not now, whether the Turks or time Rus-
sians will be ultimately successful—for that point
would seem to have been settled by the able
manceuvres, and unchecked advances of Count
Diebitsch—but whether the latter will advance
immediately to Constantinople—whether the Sul-
tan will, or will not, sue for peace, and whether
the Governments of Austria, France, and Eng-
land will, or will not, interfere to put a stop to the
preposterous ambition, and .still more prepos-
terous pretensions of Russia ? With regard to
the situation of the Turkish empire, nothing
assuredly can be more critical, to all appear-
ance, than it now is, The Russians are not
only advancing from the eastward through the
fertile plains of Anatolia, crowned with victory,
and without any thing before them to oppose a
serious obstacle to their advance, but another
army is within an hundred miles of the capital,
and'a third is about to descend from the moun-
tains, to reinforce it, if necessary ; while there is,
on time other hand, apparently no army-1;) at
least, say time accounts in the German papers—
fortress, or defence, to delay their advance on
Constantinople. Two timings, however, ought to
be tia:en into consideration, as diminishi.ig, in
some measure, the dagger with which the Otto-
man Empire is apparently threatened,—First,
the fact that the Porte had armies of no
inconsiderable magnitude at the opening of
the icampaign, and that although these
arirue lirrie been defeated and dispersed,
' we have as yet had no account of their de-
struction ;—and, secondly, that however feeble
the roistance of he Twks may have latterly

been, it is scarcely to be supposed that the same
apathy should characterize their conduct as the
Russians advance nearer to the capital. Armies
much more powerful than that of the northern
Autocrat, and much better d'seiplined also,
have ere now been defeated by less warlike op-
ponents than the Turks, es en after they had
mastered the capital of the country ; and, not-
withstanding the unfavourable aspect of the late
military operations in the East, we are con-
vinced that it only requires a vigorous and
united effort on the part of the Turks
to drive their invaders from the soil. With
regard to the last point--we mean the inter-
ference of the European Powers in behalf of
Turkey, we should think that no doubt need
be entertained on the subject. France, on the
one hand, cohld gain no object by the extension
of the Russian empire to the Bosphorus ;
Austria, however she might he bribed by a por-
tion of the plunder, would have, ultimately,
good reason to tremble for her own inde-
pendence in such an event ; while the Duke of
Wellington, on the other, has declared the in-
tegrity of Turkey to be essential to the balance
of power in Europe. Under these circum-
stances interference appears to be certain, and
even successful, without recourse being had to
arms.—Morning Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-FIOUSE.

Yesterday the Justice-room was crowded with pa-
rish officers from all parts of the metropolis, in conse-
quence of a detected conspiracy amongst multitudes
of persons who claim palish relief.
It has been found that numbers of paupers of both
sexes are in the habit of earning a very luxurious
livelihood, by merely walking from parish to parish
at the time appointed for paying claimants, both
real and fictitious, in each.
The first put to the bar was a man not more than
40 years of age, named Paxton.
An officer of Bishopsgate parish stated, that on
the 14th of August he gave to Paxton shoes and
articles of clothing, and 2s. 6d., upon the under-
standing from him that he belonged to that parish,
in which he said he had established a settlement by
birth. Upon many other occasions witness had
answered the demands of the applicant for relief.
Mr. Smart, the vestry clerk of Bishopsgate parish,
stated that Paxton had, upon his examination before
the officers, declared the nature of his claim to be by
birth, and he received the money in the name of
James Thompson.
Mr. W. Bigg, clerk to the licensing Magistrates
of the division of Holborn, stated that he had re-
peatedly relieved Paxton upon the representation
that he belonged to that parish. Every Thursday,
tbr the last year, Paxton had regularly called for his
allowance.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—Do you think he belongs to
you ? Mr. Bigg had every reason to believe he did not.
Mr. Hobler—You must prove where he has a set-
tlement.
The LORD MAYOR—Ii that:neccssary ? Surely
he cannot belong to all.
It was here stated, that fortunately for the ends
of justice, his legal settlement could be proved.
Mr. finish, one of the officers of the parish of St.
George the Martyr, Southwark, knew Paxton well,
having relieved him for the last ten years—(a laugh)
—as a pauper of that parish. The pauper had been
removed about seven times to that parish by orders
of removal.

The LORD MAYOR said that the system was
really a dreadful one, and that prosecutions for per-
jury ought to be instituted, particularly as he un-
del stood that a regular system had been acted upon.
Mr. Iluish said tl:e parish of St. George had the
credit of owning Mr. Paxton, and the last time he
had been relieved was on the 13th of August, a day
on which he had his necessities assisted in other
places.

The beadle of Mile-end Old-town knew Paxton
well, right well, the pauper having applied to the
officers of that parish for relief, as one of their poor,
and obtained it until the time of the list application,
when he was believed to be an impostor.
Paxton—Upon my word, Mr. Stone, I never got
a shilling from you.
The LORD MAYOR—Why you seem to know him
as well as if you had.
Paxton—Pray, my Lord, when did he last see me
there ? Beadle—l should think about two months
ago.

Paxton—That's a falsehood. You have not seen
me there these four months.—(Laughter.)
The LORD 11AYOR-1. his sort of plunder weighs
heavily upon the industrious part of the community.
The beadle of Bishopsgate stated that Paxton had
assured him he had a wife and three children.

The LORD MAYOR-Where are your wife and
children ? Paxton—l han't got none; I never had
none.

The LORD MAYOR—What have you to say for
yourself ? Paxton—Why, I didn't know hich
parish I rightly belonged to, you see, my Lord, and
I din't get enough from any one on 'em for my liv-
ing.— ( Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—You shall go to Bridewell
for three months, to hard labour.
_ _

Paxton—l say, my Lord, which parish shall Igo
o when I comes out ?—(Loud laughter.)
He was'then escorted to prison.
John Goss, a friend of Paxton's, was next put to
lie bar.

Mr. Smart, of Bishopsgate parish, deposed that
Goss had received relief in that parish in the name
of \V. Goodman.

Mr. Baker, the vestry clerk of St. Michael's,
Cornhill, stated that Goss also received relief from
that pa►ish, as a claimant upon it.

The beadle of Nile-end Old Town stated that
Goss had claimed upon that parish as an inhabitant
with a wife and three small children, but he was
watched, and found to be neither a resident nor to
have a wife or children. It appeared that the
pauper had been committed for this imposition by a
Middlesex magistrate for one month, and that since
he came out he recommenced those practices.
The LORD MAYOR— Where are your wife and
three children ?—Goss shook his head.

The LORD MAYOR—I suppose you have got
none. Gass—Not one, please your Lordship.—
( Laughter.)
Sentence—three months' imprisonment and hard
labour in the House of Correction.
A pauper named Junes was the third. His case
was similar to the two former, and he received a
similar sentence.
Nary Stevens, a stout woman, aged 39, was the
fourth. It was stated that she regularly went from
parish to palish, and received relief in each for two
or three years.
The beadle of St. Giles's assured the Lord Mayor,
that there was great difficulty in discovering im-
posto:.s, as they were in the habit of changing
clothes, and completely metamorphosing themselves,
so that it often happened that one pauper received
relief three or four times in one day in one parish.—
(Laughter.)
This pauper was also sent for three months to the
House of Correction.

The Lou.r) MAYOR said the evil was one of such
magnitude, that the officers of all the parishes were
bound to combine for the prevention of it all through
the metropolis.

Mr. ilobler handed to the Lord Mayor a list of
resolutions, which, if generally adopted, would, he
thought, produce a great deal of benefit. They
were, he said, passed at a meeting of the overseers
of the parish of Si. Saviour, Southwark, in the
county of Surrey, held in their committee-room.
The resolutions recommended that all the parishes
should pay their paupers on the same day.
he Loßp MAYOR said that he should most

readily and actively co-operate with the parishes in
the cure of this very desperate and overgrown evil.

MARYLEBONE.

A young woman, possessing the advantages of a
good education and a genteel appearance, came be-
fore Ml'. GRIFFITH yesterday morning, and com-
plained that Samuel Fisher, a private in the 2d Regi-
ment of Lire Guards, had robbed her of a gold
watch and seals. She astonished the magistrate by
stating, that between one and two o'clock on the
preceding day, she accidentally met the accused
party in the New-road, and yielding to his importu-
nity, she spent more than five hours with him in
the parlour of a public-house. They were there a
great part of the time alone, and as soon as he had
left her, which he did very abruptly, she missed a
watch worth 20 guineas, given to her by her father
when she became of age. She felt it safe in her
pocket three minutes before, and as soon as she dis-
covered her loss she made the circumstance known
to the master of the public-house. The soldier was
as great a stranger to him as he was to herself, but
he knew by his dress that he belonged to the 2d
Regiment of Life Guards, and under his instruc-
tion, she went into Hyde Park yesterday morning,
and singled him out from the rest, as they were
riding their horses for exercise, and the Setjeant-
Major gave her his name.
Mr. GRIFFITH asked her how she came to fall
into the company of a private soldier. She re-
turned a confused answer to the question, but said
something about a fine man with a fresh-colour.

Mr. GRIFFITH gave Webster, the officer, instruc-

dons to go directly to the barracks at Knightsbridge,
and bring Fisher before him. Webster succeeded,
and at half-past seven in the evening the case was
brought forward.
The young lady gave her name Matilda Parlett,
and said she was then a visiter at No. IS, Halton-
street, Upper•road, Islington.
Her statement was taken with great minuteness.

I met the defendant (said she) iiear Gloucester-
place. He accosted me, and asked me to take some-
thing to drink. I said no, at first; but after two or
three times I said " Yes." He took me to a public-
house in Norton-street—(Mr. Griffith asked the
sign of it, and the landlord being present, said it
was the Little Cannon)—and when he left me he
robbed me of my watch.
Mr. GRIFFITII—When did he leave you ? Miss
Parlett—lt might be about half-past seven.
Mr. GRIFFITH—HaIf-past seven! What, did you
stay in this place five hours with him ? Miss Par-
lett—l saw he was an idle character, and I thought
I was safer with him in the house than out of it.
Mr. GRIFFITH smiled at her answer, and desired
her to state what took place there. Miss Palen—
After we had sat some time, he put his hand round
my waist, and said, " You have got a watch." At
first I said no, and then yes ; and I defy you or any
man to take it away from me.
In answer to Mr. GRIFFITH—I did not say- yes
until after a great deal to do. He then wished to
see it, and I took it out of my watch-pocket and
shoved it him. She said no other person was in the
room when this happened, and no one came into it
afterwards until lie was gone, and she missed her
watch.

Mr. Richard Blake, the landlord of the Little
Cannon, in Norton-street, did not know when the
soldier and the lady came to his house; he was out
at the time. He found them in his parlour about
three o'clock, and served them with two pints of
ale and a glass of gin and water.
" Hear me, young woman," said Mr. GRIFFITH
to the complainant, " and answer me truly upon
your oath.
and gin and water ?" Miss Pallet t—A very little, Sir.
Mr. GRIFFITH—Oh, I dare say not.

The landlord further stated that there was no
person in the room excepting the lady and the sol-
dier, after half-past six ; a light was carried into it a
little after seven; the soldier left the house imme-
diately in a hurry, and the lady:came out directly, and
said he had stolen her watch, and he considered her
to be a little overcome with what she had taken.—
He did not know what they drank before he came
home at three o'clock, but his waiter, who could
not then attend, would speak to it.
The soldier said, in answer to the charge, that at
the time before stated he met the lady in the New-
road, and he asked her to go with him and take
something to drink. She said she could not stay
then, but would return to him after she had visited
her uncle. She went into a house in Dorset-place,
and came back. He took her to the Goat and Com-
passes, and there they drank three pints of Scotch
ale. He took her then to the Little Cannon, in
Norton-street, treated her with beef-steaks, and they
drank ale and gin and water all the afternoon. She
showed him her watch, and afterwards said she
wanted to speak to the landlady, and she was ab-
sent from the room for five minutes. He did not
leave her abruptly : his time was up, and he was
obliged to go. She told him her father was in dis-
tress, and endeavoured to persuade him to remain
with her all night. lie said he had neither money
nor leave of absence, and he declared most solemnly
before the Magistrates that he did not know what
became of the watch.

Mr. GRIFFITH re-examined Miss Parlett—She ate
some beef-steaks with the soldier, and drank a little
ale and a little gin and water, but was not at all

tipsy, or:she could not have traced him ; and his
story about her wishing him to remain with her all
night was a gross falsehood. She felt her watch
safe three minutes before he left her, and missed it
as soon as he was gone.
The landlord was re-examined—No one but the
complainant and the prisoner were is the room for
the last half hour, and he left the house very hastily.
Mr. GRIFFITH said the case appeared so strong
against the soldier, that he must commit him for
trial, unless further evidence could be produced.
Mr. Blake thought his waiter knew something of
the soldier, and, that he might have an opportunity
to come forward, the prisoner was remanded.
The serjeant of the troop told the Magistrate he
was instructed by the commanding officer to say,
that in consequence of the prisoner's general good
conduct, he (the commanding officer) would be an-
swerable for his forthcoming at any time, if he was
allowed to return to the barracks. The serjeant
said he came home at ten o'clock on Monday night,
and he was quite sober.
Mr. GRIFFITH thought the latter circumstance
unfavourable to the prisoner, for he left the young
woman at half-past seven, saying his time was up,
and he refused to part with him.