The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Rumours the reverse of pacific are in circula-
tion respecting Turkey, though we do not by
any means vouch for their being founded in fact.
It is said that, making Sophia the centre of their

movements, two or three Turkish Paellas, with

he Grand Vizier at their head, have collected

an army, of which a large portion are Albanian,;,

and threaten to fall on the rear of Count Die-

I)itsch by the way of the Western Balkan, and
Philippopoli. 'When the Sultan's authority has
inanifestly become extinct, and the terms of
peace which have been reluctantly signed by him

are disgraceful to the Turkish nation, it is diffi-
cult to say what desperate measures the contempt
for annihilated power on one side, and on the
other indignation against a crafty and insidious
enemy, might suggest themselves as at (nice
praiseworthy and practicable to a number of
warlike chiefs, backed by an armed population.
It' Count Diebitsch were the invader of any

European State, even of the fourth order, save
Turkey, with a kingdom behind him, and
only 50,000 men (or less, we believe, than
50,000) on whom to calculate for the de-
fence of his positions, or for the success of
his retreat, all the world would say that he and
his army must surrender. Nay, even in Tin key,
if his communications be attacked with _ any

spirit, it is possible that he may feel himself but
uneasily placed for a conqueror. Neverthe!ess,
we know nothing of the truth or falsehood of
these statements. lf, indeed, the British Go-

verntnent, supported by the French, or supported
no otherwise but by its own sense of what was
due to the equilibrium of European power, and
by the sagacity and manhood of this great people,
were to interfere at once, in aid of the uneapitu-
lating Turkish Paellas, Count Diebitsch's posi-
tion would soon be rendered, not uncomfortable

alone, but dangerous, or perhaps untenable,
without a second army of 50,000 men topro-
tect him. Austria, likewise, it is just possible

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to imagine, might prove herself no listless looker-
on at a contest engaged in by western Turkey
against the Russian power.-7 times.

Persons connected with our eastern emphe
are in a state of extreme anxiety, on account of
the known di,,satisfaction of all ranks of ofneers

in the Company's service, with a recent measure
determined on by the Court of Directors, and
promulgated and about to be enforced by Lord
William Bentinck, for reducing a large portion
of the military allowances throughout the three
presidencies of India. An admirable letter of
Lord Combermere, addressed to the Surreme
Government of Bengal, which t ppeared in sothe
of the journals net many days ago, represents
the harshness and injustice of this system, in
colours which reflect equal honour on Lord
Combermere, and discredit on the feelings, cr at
least on the policy, of those who have advised
the new " regulation," as it is denominated.
The India Company have so contrived it as to
revolt against themselves and their monopoly the
spirit of e
rt the E
iu tiro n
stchunala, of their mis-
managed nation. If we felt
any it
sovereignty of Hindostan, we might
warn them against exasperating the whole body
iztlni
ce
of instruments through whose swords that go-
vernment of force and despotism has been so
long preserved. It wou'd be rather too bad if the
King's troops were called upon to repair by
bloodshed the disastrous effects of the Com-
pany's ingratitude towards its own defenders,
who undertook originally to serve it on fixed
and understood conditions, many of whom have
endured the toils of thirty campaigns, and all of
whom have sacrificed friends and country, and
abandoned every other walk of life for the sake
of those pecuniary rewards which now, it is said
at least, ore on the point of being arbitrarily
wrested from them. There was, as we are in-
formed by the men of that day, a commotion
throughout India, which shook Leadenhall-
street to its foundations, about the year 179 i.
arising from some unpopular interfereneo with
bothel lit
the pay or allowances of Officers. Accord,
ing to letters which we have, seen, all foimer
troubles were mere flea-bites compared with
those now likely to burst forth, if the present
obnoxious ordinance of the Court of Directors
bceouitsiiestisl.tecllt
isc m
affirmed
brymetdbethaGt °ve
Lor-rGd Hastingsn:
ro
and Lord Amherst refused to execute the de-
cree ; and now it is plain that Lord Comber-
mere deprecates the possibility of his signature
being employed as an ostensible sanction to a
proceeding which his reason and inclinations
ave equally and decidedly condemned.—lbid,

In the statement of facts connected with the
clandestine introduction of British manufactures
into France, which appeared in the Cl/4-,'onicte
of Wednesday, our authority was of such a pa-
tine as to preclude the possibility of inaccuracy,
wilful or accidental, and we only recur to the
subject to correct some miseonceptions into
which a-contemporary has fallen from want of
knowledge of the circumstances under which
Lord Stuart accepted and undertook the Em-
bassy to France. It will be observed, that the
preliminary circumstances we now communicate
bear the same character of decisive and scrupu-
lous accuracy which we have claimed for our
previous statement. When Lord Granvale re-
signed the French Embassy, an offer was made
by the Duke of Wellington to Lord Stuart to
appoint him his successor ; the offer was com-
pletely unexpected, and the reply c.,1 Lord Stuart
was to this effect ;---,4 I am so little satisfied with
the abrupt and uneeremor!tous way iu which I
was recalled by Mr. Cara-ling, that I inn ready to
resume the duties of !.he embassy, if it were but
fora single day ; and no matter at what expense
or inconvenience, as it will be a decisive answer
to any insinuations that may have been thrown
out on the subject." His Lordship's departure
followed almost immediately, with little prepa-
ration, and he travelled unaccompanied by
Lady Stuart, who some time after joined him
at Paris, ha vine Irvine- performed the journey under
-
the escort of (we believe) Lord and Lady
I lardwicke. This will account pretty satisfactorily
for the order for the carriage. As to the impe-
rial and travelling trunks, we apprehend that in
all instances they accompany the launch of an
equipage ; and we can only express our surprise
that this very common occurrence should be
viewed as a mysterious manceuvre, requiring ex.
,pislatnoattilolen.malntneisr qinuit‘evhuier
tcrlessaeryo.
ticks were introduced into France, than to re..
nt'ltsb'avindm tier!
c; o;:utitt exactthere
slere
js toonteh e let.
sent to
fromti,epiatlei the
tpeera ti
,ti Ilea:,
ever
infe-
rence drawn from a part of it, at once SO un-
founded and so ludicrous that we tnust stop to
ensbit)ireessiiot.n , The inference
itil'ireu ' articles isb
edsr:a.
from whence they came ;" thereby meaning (as
Ye think, plainly, to any common apprehension),
let them he exported to the port of .Londo.i,
From whence they were originidly-shipped: it is
rather too strong a deduction from this appa-
rently very simple order,- that the Ambassador,

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to whom not one of the parcels was addressed,
and who was absolutely ignorant of their
existence, until it was made known to him
through the French Custom-house, must he
cognizant not only of the smuggling transaction,
but must further know the several individuals in
London by whom it was got up. In conclusion
we have only to observe, that however
ini-
probable our account of the transaction may be
said to appear to those who are not in posses-
sion of the facts, it is in all and every particular
strictly accurate; and we must endeavour to
console ourselves under the censure of a con-
temporary,
by a recollection of the generally
received maxim, that " le vrai n'est pas toujours
le vraisemblable."—Morning Chronicle..
Though we are free from all apprehension as
to the possibility of invading India with any
chance of success, it must be owned that Col.
Evans has adduced several great authorities,
partially corroborative of his views : Colonel
Macdonald Kenneir, now our Representative at
the Court of Teheran, who was employed by
Sir John Malcolm in inquiries connected with
this subject, says—
" Although the possession of that country (Hia-
dostan) can be but of trifling advantage to an Eu-
ropean Power, which does not command a mari-
time communica►ion, it might be the object of Rus-
sia to deprive us of what it considers to be one of
the chief sources of our strength.
" It is perhaps unnecessary to remark, that this
dissertation was written before the downfall of Na-
poleon, and the eventful change in Europe, which
by the aggrandizement of Russia, have endangered
the safety of our Eastern possessions.
• • • • • •

" It was my determination on quitting England,
to visit all the countries through which an European
army might attempt the invasion of India, and in
prosecution of this plan, to explore the North-eastern
parts of Persia, and the vast plains which stretch
beyond the Oxus towards the confines of the Rus-
sian empire. . . It was, doubtless, to be wished
that we possessed some personal knowledge of the
state and resourct a of so large and populous a king-
dom as Bokbara, which, from its situation, must ever
be considered a most important barrier to the en•
eroachments of Russia towards our Oriental posses-
sions. * *
" Of the many plans suggested for the invasion of
Hindostan, that of crossing the Caspian and sailing
up the Oxus appears to me to be the most easy of
execution."
Colonel Tod, more than twenty years politi-
cal resident in the Rajpodana countries, speak-
ing of the Rajpoot States, recommends certain
measures towards them ; and " then," he adds,
,c if a Tartar of a Russian invasion threatened
our Eastern Empire, fifty thousand Rajpoots
would be no despicable allies." Lord Hastings,
speaking of Oude, says, " The force, however
irregular, capable to be thence collected in the
rear of the army with which we were meeting
the invaders on the-frontier, was a subject not to
be revolved without anxiety. The knowledge
of an insurrection behind them to an extent
which could not be ascertained, as our commu-
nication with the lower provinces would be pre-
carious and interrupted, if not wholly cut off,
would unavoidably agitate the minds and dimi-
nish the confidence of the advanced troops. I
had often ruminated on that chance." These
are a sample of the authorities adduced by Co-
lonel Evans. Differing from him as we do as
to the importance of the danger from Russia, it is
but justice to him to give this slight notice.—lbid.
1 What does Government mean to do to re-
lieve the distresses of the country ?" is a ques-
tion which is asked in every company, and at the
corner of every street. if the question were,
" what o,ight they to do ?" we should answer,
" to call Ear:lament together immediately, and
meet it prepared with such measures as they
deem best calculated to effect the end." But of
this there is now avowedly no intention. Par-
liament has been prorogued pro forma to the
middle of December, and we have no doubt but
that there is not the least intention of assembling
it before the end of January or the beginning
of February. Had this happened under a simi-
3ar state of things in former times, when the
INhigs were out of office, how would the very
isle have been " frighted from its propriety" by
the remonstrances and lamentations of the
" liberal" Press, but which is now as silent as
the grave ; nay, indeed, as if to show the bitter
draught which political apostacy is doomed to
sWallow, Lord Rosslyn, the Ministerial repre-
eentat;ve of the Whigs, is named one of the Com-
missioners to prorogue Parliament, and thus shut
out all hope of any present appeal to what Mr.
Fox and the Whigs of his day used to declare
ought to be kept constantly sitting when any na-
tional emergency exiatcd. The truth, however,
we fear, is that Government is not prepared to
meet Parliament ; that it is not prepared with
any remedy, but is still lingering on the
threshold of its own doubts. Nay, we carry our
apprehensions still further, and are exceedingly
inclined to question whether the Administration,
as it is now constitate4, is likely to come
to any agreement which will aiable it to pre-
scribe ao bold a mode of cure as the desperate
state of the patient seems to call for. The time,
we fear, is now come, when the evils of a meth
ley Administration, composed of persons of such
different ways of thinking upon some of the ,
;mist vital points of public interg.:o, is becoming
apps: eat. We cannot persuade Dmrsdve,g, if the
Government were agreed upon a. remedy, that it
could justify it to itself to postpone its -adoption
for a day, or even an hour. But as retirement
from office, or the Rubicon of change, must be
passed, let us hope tliat their own good sense
and patriotism, urged on by the nation's galling
necessities, will speedily remove every obstacle
which exists to a unity of action, which cannot
be much longer delayed. Mr. Peel, we are
happy to see, is passing his time with his fa-
ther—the best school certainly in which Ile can
be taught the errors of his financial creed. 4'ie
Robert Peel—and no wonder—as a practical
man, was uniformly opposed to his son's tbeo,.
rues; and Mr. Peel, therefore, to whom the
difficult task of retracting is not unpractised,
will, we trust, be speedily prepssed to consign
his currency principles to the same vortex of
conviction or of necessity which swallowed up
his once unalterable love of Protestantism and
No-Popery. At all events the time is come
when something must be done ; and that put of
the Press which yet remains unshackled by past
Q 4-0 nitinnts or party attachments cannot be
better employed than in urging upon the Go,
vet-whew a timely recurrence to sounder prin-
ciples than those which have invoked the coun-
try in its present unparalleled and almost inex-
tricable state of embarrassment and distress.—
Morning Herald. _ _ _

It is truly gratifying to us to hod that we are
'cjbitet*,in the opinions which we mil-Icel.
:latiriatytrd on the first perusal of the treaty
of. Adri only by our town, but also
byeurproii*Attpcoternporaries—that from one
of.oo-Wirtkroin to the other that treaty is
-.4s an insidious attempt to over-
is- empire, but as a virtual demo-
.4t ' all intents and purposes, as an in-

dependent State, and one of the grossest breaches
of a profession of moderation, as well as the
grossest insult to France and England, of which
Nicholas could have been guilty. There is, in
fact, and indeed there cannot be, but one opinio►►
on the subject ; as instance once more, in brief,
a few of the very moderate terms of which it is
composed :

1. An enormous indemnity for commercial losses.
2. A still more enormous indemnity for the ex-
penses of the war.
3. The civil tiAministration and military govern-
ment of Turkey until the indemnities are paid.
4. Not only the free entrance into the Black Sea,
and free passage from it into the Mediterranean, but
permisson to all Russian vessels, to carry and to
land, what cargoes they please, without being sub-
ject to search, inspection, or notice of any kind, by
any Turkish authority !
5. Permission to all Russian subjects to commit
what crimes they please, without being liable to be
called in question for them, by any other than Rus-
sian authorities !

Such is the moderation of the Emperor Ni-
cholas !—such the proof which he now gives of
his having " subjects enough, and territory
enough,"—and then—as if this breach of good
faith towards his allies were not enough—he must
needs prove how very cheaply he holds them—
firmly he considers himself seated on the throne
of the Sultan,—by taking the Greek question
wholly out of their hands, and settling it with
the Sultan, contrary to express covenants and
stipulations! But this is not the first time that
Russia has given such proof of her moderation.
Look at her dismemberment of Poland—at her
seizure of the Crimea—at her attempts on Per-
sia, which 'she held but too firmly within her
grasp—at her pretended desire to give indepen-
dence to Greece, over which she now lords it as
absolutely, through the instrumentality of her
minion, Count Capo d'lstria, as it were a pro-
vince of her empire— at her constant and un-
principled attacks on Turkey, whenever she
could find fitting occasion—and finally, at the
frequent agitation in her councils of the question
of our expulsion from India ! Are not these de-
cisive proofs of her moderation ? and does any
one suppose that, having once been permitted to
occupy but for a very short time any portion of
the territory of Turkey, she will be persuaded to
deliver up possession of it ? What does the
Treaty of Kainarga, in 1774, say ? Why,
" That all the Tartar people, those of Crimea
Budgiac, of the Kahan, &c., shall, without any
exception, be acknowledged by the two empires
as free nations, and entirely independent of any
foreign power, and shall be governed by their
own Sovereign, of the race of Gingis Khan,
elected and raised to the throne by all the Tartar
people, who shall govern them according to their
ancient laws and usages, rendering no account
to any foreign power, &c." These solemn gua-
rantees, in the name of " God Almighty"—for
so that Treaty, most irreverently, began, as
has this also of Adrianople—. were soon
aferwards found," as Colonel Evans very
justly remarks, "to be no better than
waste paper ;" and so will it be with the
principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia—so
will it be with Servia—so will it be with Greece,
and, in a word, so will it be with the whole Ot-
toman empire, if the present treaty be allowed
to be carried into effect. It is allowed on all
hands, we believe, that there is no single state
but England which has within itself the power of
rolling back the tide of invasion and usurpation
from Turkey, and compelling the Northern bar-
barian to retire within his own dominions ; but
she has it in perfection ; and we will not libel
the Duke of Wellington by supposing for a
moment Ghat he will not call forth the resources
and rouse the spirit of the country, against
the colossal ambition of a power which has
proved itself as faithless in promise, as it is de-
cidedly barbarian in deed. The country now
looks with impatience for his decision, and we
dare not imagine for a moment that it will be
disappointed at the result. In the mean time
we submit the following just observations from
the columns of a provincial cotemporary (the
Glasgow Free Press) :

" There is no madness," he observes, " equal to
that which arises from prejudice, and takes its direc-
tion from the bias of a mere name. Had any other
than a Mahometan State—we mean, had any state,
professing Christianity, held the position at present
occupied by the Turks, and been attacked in the
same unprincipled manner, and for the same un-
warrantable objects, there is not an individual in
this country, however great his political ignorance,
who would not have called out ' shame' against the
aggressor, and, sensible of the danger which re-
sulted to the interests of Great Britain, have
urged our Government to raise aloft its arm, and
command an instant cessation of the injustice. But
because the Turks are Turks, and because we in-
herit from our grandmothers an indefinable antipathy
to the name, we regard as proper every act of in-
justice perpetrated against them, and, in our joy at
seeing them smitten with the sword, forget the
dangerous wound which we ourselves are ut the
same time receiving!
" "Ile Turks ate barbarians,' say the declaimers
egaisist them. Well, and are they on that account
to he placed beyond the pale of humanity ? ' But
then they will never improve.' Indeed ! Was not
the present Sultan effecting some improvements
among them ? and waa it not become almost cer,
tain, that, had he not been unjustly attacked by
greater bat barians from without, he would have suc-
ceeded in regenerating and building up anew his
empire ? ' But then the Turkish despotism is in-
tolerable tp those who live under it.' Very well, if
it be so, those who live under it are the greater
foole far not causing it to be altered, provided the .
sufferers form a majority. That is their concern—
not ours. The people of any state have a right to
mould their institutions as they please, and to submit
to them quietly, or rise up in rebellion against them
eepording as they feel disposed; but no other state
has a right tp advance into the arena, and attempt
to intermeddle with thi. parties. The rule for those
without is to stand neuter until the one side has
gained the ascendant, and then acknowledge it 03
composing the state in future. Are there no oppress-.
ed classes in this country ? And would we deem it
jut were any foreign nation gin that account to make a
crusade iotpour territory, in order to relieve the suf-
ferers ? ' But then the Turks are unbelievers ?',.-_-•
And will acts of injustice and violence make them
the contrary ? Whether is it better to convert them
by ggpileness and persuasion or by the sword ?
We denounei., e.s the worst characteristic of Islamism,
the obligation it lays on its professors to propagate
its tenets by compOlsion. Jot dp wp not perceive
that wo lay ourselves open to exactly the same
' charge, when wg in our humanity and wi,dom re,
commend the violent expulsion of the Turks from
urope ? But why from gurope only ?=-why not
from the face of the whole earth, since the one act
would be just as warrantable as the other ? And
who are those who with pure hands could under,
take this work of justice ? Surely none of those
Powers that have ever violently seized on an inch
of foreign territory themselves, and held it after,
wards merely by right of conquest l And if none
such could, without establishing a precedent equally
fatal to themselves, put forth their banes to execute
the project of our philanthropists, where could any
one Power be found eligible for the task ? Not in
the whole world ; for the thing is a rank absurdity,
and argues the greatest ignorance of the manner in
which all states have been founded."—Morn, Advt.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Mr. Baldwin, a coal-merchant, who has a wharf
in Thames-street,appeared before the LORD MAYOR,
upon an information, in which he was charged with
having supplied Mr. Warreker, a lodging-house
keeper in Little Distaff-lane, with coals short of
measure.

The case excited a great deal of interest, and the
justice-room was crowded to inconvenience. Mr.
Reeves, Mr. Burnstead, and others of the principal
coal-meters of London, attended. Mr. Bolland the
counsel, and the City Solicitor, were for the prose-
cution. Mr. Wooler was for the defence. The
case was considered the more important as there is
an action at law against Mr. Baldwin for the reco-
very of penalties for wrong quality, by the same
prosecutor.
Mr. Bolland having stated that the information
was for the offence of having supplied a deficient
quantity, without any reference to the quality, pro-
ceeded to call witnesses.

Mr. Warreker stated that he gave an order to
Mr. Baldwin, on the 18th or 19th of September,
for two chaldrons and a half of New Arches Wall's-
end coal. The coal arrived, and witness found, upon
throwing a sack of it into a measure which he had,
that the quantity was deficient. lie stopped the
men who were shooting the coal into his cellar, and
sent for a coal-meter and for Mr. Baldwin. Mr.
Baldwin, upon hearing of the matter, said he had
desired the meter who measured the coals at the
wharf to be particular, us the coals were going to a
particular person. The re-measurement of the coals
proved the deficiency.
Cross-examined—Desired Mr. Baldwin, on or-
dering the coals, to attend to the quantity as well as
quality of the coals, as witness had a tub for ascer-
taining the former. Mr. Baldwin offered, on finding
there was a deficiency, to make it good; but wit-
ness refused, because he was told it was not proper
to accept of any compromise.
Mr. Young stated that a written notice had been
served upon Mr. Baldwin, who, on the occasion,
asked the coal-meter who measured the coals at the
wharf whether he had not charged him to be parti-
cular as to the measurement, to which the latter re-
plied in the affirmative. Mr. Baldwin then said he
was surprised at the short measure.
John Vaughan, labouring coal-meter, deposed,
that he was called upon to measure coals which had
been sold to Mr.-Warreker, who, with Mr. Baldwin,
was present while he measured them. Fourteen
sacks were short 12 pecks and a half. Witness
gave fair measure, and had been accustomed to do
so for 16 years.
Mr. Edis, of the coal-meter's office, stated, that
he was present, and that Vaughan's account was
correct. Witness told Mr. Warreker that if he had
taken the coals to make up the deficiency, the whole
bulk would be forfeited to the poor of the parish.

Mr. Wooler.—Does the act state that ?
The City Solicitor exhibited the clause to that
effect.

Mr. Rolland then called Hirst, the meter who
measured the coals in the first instance.

Hirst deposed, that he measured 31 sacks of
Parritan's Wall's End Coals, at Mr. Baldwin's
wharf. He measured them fairly. Whether they
were or were not fair measure when they reached
Mr. Warreker's house he did not know, but he was
confident that he had done his duty.
Cross-examined by Mr. Wooler—The bushel
measure was used on the occasion under his super-
intendence. Was positive it was.
Mr. Wooler—Did not Mr. Baldwin tell you to be
sure to be liberal in your measure? Witness—Yes ;
and I asked him why he said so, and told him I
always did my duty.
By the LORD MAYOR—I have been a coal-meter
12 months, and frequently measured coals before
then. It is always an adage with Mr. Baldwin to
give a little more than a little less.
Mr. Wooller admitted the fact of the deficiency.
His client had, however, it was evident, given direc-
tions that ample measure should be given. He had
been candidly told that the sacks would be measured,
and he had been particular in consequence of that
intimation. Why the sacks proved to be deficient
could not be accounted for, except the matter could
be explained by the fact which he could prove, that
Hirst the meter had not used the bushel measure
at all.
The LORD MAYOR—HOW is this to exonerate
the vender from the penalty ? Mr. Wooler—You
have the power, my Lord, to mitigate the penalty to
nothing.
The LORD MAYOR—What you say only goes to
inculpate the coal-meter. The public are not pro-
tected by the course pursued by the defendant.
Mr. Wooller thought it right to allude here to the
question as to the quality of the coals. The mistake
in that respect arose from the inexperience of a boy
in Mr. Baldwin's office, who had sent out the coals
with a wrong ticket.
The LORD MAYOR said the boy in whom Mr.
Baldwin confided must then have signed the meter's
name.

It was here stated that there was but little diffe-
rence between the price of one species of coal and
the other.

The LORD MAYOR said that did not signify. jf
even a better species of coal was supplied than the
ticket described, the vender was equally liable to a
penally.
Mr. Wooller then called two witnesses for his
client.

William Morris said, I am in the employ of Mr.
Baldwin. I assisted in filling thirty-one sacks at
his wharf on the day you mean. We filled them
away, and upon my oath there was never a bushel
used at all—never a blessed bushel.—(Laughter.)—
The meter was in the barge all the time, and we
never uses a bushel, barring he bids us.
Cross-examined—We filled the sacks to the top,
and put lumps at the top. The sacks came as nigh
to three blessed bushels as possible. I'm blesst if
they did'nt.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Bolland—Did you fill any more coals on that
day ? Witness—l knows nothing about any other
coals that day. I know I filled the thirty-one sacks
—that was all.

The LORD MAYOR—WiII you swear that you did
not fill sixty-three sacks ? Witness—Why no, I
vont swear it; but I came to talk upon this here
coal, and I filled thirty-one sacks of it.

The LORD MAYOR—Pray why do you recollect
any thing about the thirty-one sacks, and forget
every thing else?—Vy, my Lord, you see I am an
old man, and I forgets.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR—You can give the sack a
shoulder, can you, so that it shall appear full when
it is not so ?—(Laughter.)—The witness looked at
the Lord Mayor with some degree of astonishment.

The LORD MAYOR—You can nip the sacks at
the bottom, can't you ? Witness—l never neither
shoulders nor nips.—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. Bolland—He can do any thing with the
sacks.

Witness—l'm blest if this here meter didn't come
to me, and ax'd me to go to the David's Harp with
him, and he axed me to drink; and says he to me—
" I say," says he, " I rants somebody to swear as
the coAls was measured in the bushel !" so I says,
" I won't do no such thing." " Oh, then," says
he, a'ter I took a glass, " I'll get another as will
do it."—(Laughter.)
Bridgeman, another coal-porter—l was present
when the 31 sacks was filled. The meter was stand-
ing by ail the blessed time we was a Hirt it. We
filled 63 sacks afore that, and we used no measure
whatsomever.

Mr. Bolland replied---,Even supposing the wit-
nesses for the defence had spoken the truth, Mr.
Baldwin wa3 not justified. The public would not
be satisfied with such a defence, and nobody could
be benefited by what had taken place, except the
vender.

The LORD MAYOR said that Mr. Baldwin was
liable:to the penalties under the Act, even admitting
the veracity of his witnesses. The public required
in cases of this kind the most careful protection. The

neglect which had been displayed was productive of
the injury which fraud was calculated to inflict.
His LORDSHIP then fined Mr. Baldwin 20s. upon
each sack that wag deficient. There being ten de-
ficient sacks, the sum of 10/. was the amount of the
penalty. Mr. Baldwin gave notice of appeal.