The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-23 00:00:00

THIS DAY.

The Commission appointed to enquire into the state of mind of
Mr. James King, resumed their enquiry, this day, at Gray's Inn
Coffee-house, several witnesses were examined ; their testimony
was in general of the same tendency. We subjoin the most im-
portant.

Thomas Greening, examined by Mr. SCARLFTT—I am a
farmer, residing in Gloucestershire. I know James Smith very well;
he held 3 little tenements with an acre and half of land of me, at 14/.
a year. I knew Smith's daughter before she came to London. She
was in service with a farmer in Gloucester. - I saw her in 1815,
in a puhlic-house in Gloucester, with her two sisters; her
father, and all the family were very poor. I cannot
say that Mr. King knew how they lived before he married
Miss Smith, but after he had married Miss Smith, he
reported that the family was highly respectable ; I re-
collect meeting Mr. King, in company with Mr. John Lord
Smith, in Gloucestershire, where be proposed to sell him a colt,
though King never saw Mr. Smith before, he quarrelled with
him ; after a few minutes conversation he told Smith lie was a
liar ; Mrs. Smith reconciled them ; I never saw him before
that day, and I thought him a very odd man ; he used
to ask the Caine question several times over ; he was very
boisterous, and I did not know what to think of him : before
his marriage he used to be talking of a new building which
he proposed to erect, he purchased a great variety of cattle very
dear, he had no place to keep them; but he bought a rick of hay,
fed them for a time, awl sold them again to a butcher, and pur-
chased a great quantity of the meat and gave it away; he at
one time killed six sheep and gave them away ; at an-
other time, he bought 40 cocks and hens, and gave them away also,
and he came once to my garden, pulled the weeds, and kept them
separately, in order, as he said, to feed his pigs with. At another
time he cut away all the hedge of the garden, except the briars,
which be preserved, because he was fond of blackberries. He
bought two oxen for 40 guineas each, anti a sow with pigs, and
sent fa London for linseed and treacle to boil potatoes to feed
them. Ile sold these all again for very little. I recollect
one day, as we were going up to the farm, Mr. Smith called Ann
Reeves, (a little girl of ten years of age) his hunstman, then said
Mr. King, I shall buy her a.hunting jacket; and accordingly he
bought a scarlet jacket for her, and took her out to hunt.
Cross-examined by Air. Dentnari:--Mr. King-was very muck at-
tached to Miss Smith before he married hie; she was verybsndsome,
but she was not so fond, of 'him as be was of her. persuaded
Mary Ann Smith to come here as a witness, but I did not tell her
that she should haven pound a day while she should be in London;
the paper now produced is the amount which 'Mr. Smith settled
with me, he complained that there was an overcharge of 21. 18s.
1 do not recollect why I signed it twice, or whether it was before
or after the word overcharge was written on the back of it, but I
did not charge him more than I would charge any other man.
John Thomas, a tailor, from Gloucester, examined by Mr.
BICKF.RSTETti-I made a red hunting-jacket for a little girl, by
the orders of Mr. King; he said he should get it made on the
same day that he ordered it, as he was going to see the Duke
of Wellington, and his Majesty ; so that he wished to take his
favourite little girl with him, dressed in the jacket. I made it with-
in the time required; he did not call for it, and I took it to his
house
you going,i a
use; lemettke it back, ri
mebeforel wenticall fo
in, and
it ndsaid " d--n you, where
are myself., I
also ;
Mr.
King ordered a hunting jacket for himself, awl found fault
with every thing' I brought him, without looking at it at
I saw him driving in a low cart drawn by a mule, he was sitting
in a chair in the cart, for what purpose I know not, he some-
times had a dog and played with it.
John Haslands examined by Mr. GUality—l am a cloth
mercer, I recollect Mr. King coming to my shop in Gloucester,
in 1823, and order a suit of clothes for Smith, his father-in-law,
he ordered about 40/. worth for that family;. Li, manner was in-
coherent, and lie spoke at random ; I heard hire speak of his hunt-
ing on Hounslow-heath, and speak of having made• acquaint-
ances of Noblemen ; neither of those two -last witnesses was
examined. •

,
OLNEY.—Great alterations are going on in this
place, so celebrated as the favourite residence of the poet Cowper.
The mansion of the Throckmortons has passed into strange hands,
and the spot in which the melancholy bard spent many of his
least clouded hours, will speedily be deprived of great part of those
interesting relics, which have so long rendered it consecrated
ground,—Maccles,field Herald.

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

The Lord Chancellor, accompanied by Sir Charles
Wetherell, left town soon after four o❑ Saturday afternoon, to at•.
tend the late Duke of York's funeral. -

It is remarked as extraordinary that the house of a
Noble Marquis in Piccadilly displayed not the slightest token of
respect on the day of the Royal funeral, even though the mourn-
ful procession passed that way.
Many of the streets at the west end of the town ex-
hibited no tokens of respect on the day of the Duke of York's
funeral. In Wimpole-street, for instance, scarcely one shutter was
closed.

If every person, upon the present occasion, were to
wear a crape hat-band, at a very small expense, a marked token
of respect would be paid to the memory of the deceased Duke,
and a very sensible impulse given to an important branch of trade.
The household of the late Duke of York removed
on Friday from Rutland. House, in Arlington-street, to the resi-
dence of his late Royal Highness, in South Audley-street.
Mr. Secretary Peel left-Windsor on Saturday night
in company with the Duke of Wellington, on a visit to his Grace
at his seat at Strathfieldsay, Hampshire.
Earl Bathurst returned to town on Saturday night-
Irons Windsor.

Baron Stierneld,-the Swedish Minister, transacted
business yesterday with Earl Bathurst at the Colonial Office.

Viscount Melville transacted bUsiness yesterday at the
Office of the Searetary of State for Colonial Affairs.

Sir H. Davy, Bart. P.R.S. has left town for the Con.-
tinent, by tire advice of his Physicians, on account of the ill state
of his health.

THOMAS WENTWORTH BEAUMONT, Esq. M.P.
is at prpsent on a visit to Northumberland. -

We do not wonder that a 'certain eminent King's
Counsel sbotild be anxious to disclaim the matrimonial Paul;•
Pryism of at► officious namesake. •

The important question of alimony in Lord and
Lady Portsmouth's case shortly cornea on in the Arches Court.

Mr. Kean is engaged by Mr. Harris for the Dublin
Theatre, for 'eighteen nights, and will make his appearance about
the 10th of February.

It is said. that Laporte has accepted an engagement
at the Dublin Theatre, and is very soon to make his appearance
bere.—Dublin Paper. •

The following are the principal actors engaged for-
the English Theatre in the Rue Chantereine:—Mr. Kemble, bro-
ther of the- tragedian ; Johns (not Jones), a petit maitre ; Liston
aid Farren, comedians ; Mesdames Try (query Tree) genteel
comedy ; Davenport, an old woman ; Guihle, waiting-maid ; and
Miss Kely, for lovers' parts. The theatre is to open next spring.
—French Paper.

In the course of last week, a young man was induced
to search for game during the night, on the lands of R. F. Brad-
shaw, Esq., -of Halton Hall, near Lancaster, when he was ob-
served by two of the keepers, one of whom, without, we under-
stand, even calling on him to surrender, fired at him as he was flying
from the grounds. He immediately fell, and on his rising, was
fired at again. He was examined by the gamekeepers, and one
-said to the other, " he is dead enough," and they left him on the
ground all night. He had sufficiently strength to crawl to the
highway, and on the following morning be was humanely taken to
his own home by a farmer in the neighbourhood. We understand
his life is despaired of; he is a young unmarried man.— Wist-
morland Advertiser.

SOMETHING LIKE A BULT..—A good deal of
amusement was afforded at a dinner party on Wednesday last, by
a gentleman, who is no blunderer, exclaiming, after blaming the
Boroughreeve and Constables for not' declaring Saturday a holiday,
" why thermight easily advertise. in the Saturday's papers, that
the market will be held on Friday !"—Manchester Gazette. .

.- A GOOD CHARACTER:-Samuels, who was con-
victed at tie New Bailey on Thursday, for receiving stolen goods,
brought one of his own nation to speak to his- character, who
swore that " Mishter Samuels was the honestest man in all the
globe." " A pretty character he gives the rest of mankind," said
a gentleman at the counsel's table. Another of the nation on
being asked what was Samuels character, said, perhaps properly
enough, when he considered his own, " Vhy he is a very coot
man. I don't know nothing at all about him !"—Manchester
Gazette.

A LIsBoN DINNER. —The regular Lisbon Din-
ner is, as I am informed, fur I have not seen it in its exclusive
purity, thus prepared.—Take a piece of fresh beef; ditto of pork ;
a great Bologna sausage ; carrots, turnips, cabbages, potatoes,
and a superftceation of garlic : cover them close, boil and stew
them all the day long. Take off the soup, throw some rice into
a bason, and serve it up thick. Oh, Mrs. (Masse!—Oh, Dr.
Kitchener ! if we had your kitchen here ! Take your cabbage,
put it in a large dish or bowl, lay the beef and pork upon it—
take the sausage, put it on a plate, with more garlic—serve them
up after the soup. Take a fish (John Dorey, bream, or soles),
fry them in oil and garlic, serve them the same way. Finish
your dinner with a boiled fowl and rice, or a small piece of roast
beef—the former is more classical. Wash all down with a few
glasses of Lisbon wine, at sixpence a bottle, or port wine at eigh-
teen-pence. Wipe your mouth, say grace, get up, go home, or
to the deuce—for this day lam done with you. Wash your mouth
under a fountain, or only speak to a lady who has dined at the
same table.

DOGS AT LISBON.—In every street I passed
through, dirty-looking dogs were straying about for their pre-
carious livelihood, or stretched at length sleeping in the sun. I
never saw such villanous-looking curs. They have all the
raggedness of the English sheep-dog, with the hang-gallows
aspect of the Irish mongrel. They neither own a master, nor
are worth the owning. They sleep on the quay side, under the
sun, or within the porches of houses during the day, kicked and
cuffed by all in whose way they lie. At dark they sally out in
hordes for the food which the thrifty people provide them from
the upper windows. It is fearful to hear them in the dead of the
night growling over their suppers, or howling with hunger as
they course along in bands of eight or ten, disappointed of the
usual commons in one place, and going to explore for it in a did
taut quarter. Should you meet them on those occasions, and
one of them take a fancy to the calf of your John Bull ox-fed
leg, cut him down if you have a sword—shoot him if you have a
pistol-Lbut attempt not to strike him with a stick, unless you
are certain to despatch him at the first blow. They are not
alarmed at a bludgeon, and turn upon it, and upon the user of it,
in an instant. You have but to stoop as if to pick up a stone for
the purpose of flinging at your enemy, to make him lower his
tail and fly. It is not probable you will ever have occasion to
try your valour with them, for they have more of the qualities of
the cur and the coward about them than that of fierceness or
courage, and they are so kicked upon by man by day, that they
have a wholesome terror of him even in the dark. The
number of these dogs has decreased to a great extent within two
or three years.

PUPPIES AT LISBON.—After the dogs, a puppy
just comes in place. The Portuguese dandy has his pretensions
to the attribute as well as any Jessamy in Pall-mall. Here is one
of a very scarce class, to suit us. The hat is of a high crown,,
much wider at the top than bottom, with a leaf of proportionate
dimensions. The coat is after the last English fashion, of black
cloth, and the trousers of the same taste, but wider over the in-
step than we have them, and not confined by a strap. The waist-
coat is the grand affair on which the distinctive elegance is be-
stowed. This young man's is made of silk, with broad stripes of
various colours. I have seen ribands of the same pattern nearly,
in the bonnet of a Cheapside beauty. It is composed of every
hue of the rainbow, blended into each other. It is no doubt very
elegant here, but to an English eye it is far too gaudy for a gen-
tleman's wearing. My Fidalgo was evidently proud of his. Pray
Sir, what is a Fidalgo 2 He is a nobleman—the son of a noble—a
man of estate, of land, or rank, in this country.—The gentleman
in question was a fashionable youth of two-aud-twenty, wearing
short-cropped mustachios, no whiskers, his dark locks made up
to a negligent large curl at the left side of the head, with eyes of a
deep hazel, full of spirit and intelligence. The absence of whiskers,
and darkness of the hair, mustachios, and eye-brows, gave to the
real sallow of his cheek an appearance of paleness, which, Lord
Byron tells us, has more of " thought than woe." While I stood
taking Fidalgo's picture, a servant brought out his horse. The
groom, if groom he were, was clad in a long pea-green frock
coat, with an abundance of silver lace on the collar and front,
and a further quantity of similar lace on the bands and folds of
his hat. The horse was small, but well formed, all black, with
a long flowing tail, cut into a sort of square clump at the end.
There was a crimson saddle-cloth, and then a saddle a foot high
in front and behind—more like a harness-maker's tree to show
horse furniture on than your English saddle--making a seat as
secure as a child's go-cart. The stirrups were like parish poor_
boxes, gaily chased and plated, in which each foot was thrust,
lying securely out of sight,