Star.
London, England, 1830-06-07 00:00:00

FURTUEIIt PARTICULARS OF TIRE SOINDLIXO TaimAcTiox.

IN THE NAME OT THE DUCHESS or LENT.
Last week a person professing himself to be acting for the
Duchess of Kent, and stating that he was her Royal
head cook, applied to several lodging-house keepers at
for residences fur the Duchess and her suite; and he mit: ti:v
entered into a written agreement with Mr. Binstesd for the et:*
cupatlon of Sudley Lodge, erected by Richard Groom,
Esq. of Russell-square, London, for four months from the 2d of
Jane, Mr. Binstead being Mr. Groom's agent; and he pretended
that all his movements were directed by Sir John Conroy, her Royal
Hisboness's Chamberlain. He brought Mr. White, of Chichester,
to or, and gave him directions to fit up certain additional beds
at Su rey Lodge, and invited him to dinner at the Claremont llo-
tel ; but on going away he was kind enough to request Mr. White to
draw his purse-strings to pay for the dinner ! He also commenced a
domicile at Sudley Lodge, sent in wines, fice. and invited Mr. Ein.
stead to dine with him there, and disdained not to prepare, with his
own hands, the pies that were to grace and adorn the repast. The
tradesmen of the place attended him, cap in band, with cards, en.
treating fur her Royal Highness's custom and patronage, and to
these this dexterous manager politely addressed himself, stating that
it was her Royal Highness's intention to select no one in particular,
but to deal with all and each by turn ! Of Mr.ll'hite, until a banker
was selected through whom the household expenses were to be paid,
he kindly borrowed two sovereigns, and as his portmanteau was
not yet arrived, and his lower garments and vest wanted re.
plenishing, he procured Mr. Richards, a tailor, at Bognor, to
furnish these particulars, for which ready money was promised.
In slice, he subsequently declared that he never met with such
good-natured people as those of Bognor and Chichester, and he
should ever entertain the highest respect for the confidence they
reposed in him. A day of reckoning, however, was fast approach-
ing, which was at once to dash to the ground all the fond hopes of
the Bognor folk, to see her Royal Highness among them once more,
and arrest the progress of duplicity exercised by this pseudo ceuk.
An express, on Saturday, anived at Chichester describing the person
of this worthy, who had been playing off certain delusive tricks ,ten
the same kind at Guildford, in consequence of which Mr. Pasco, of
the Chichester police, was on the alert to catch him, and he was
accordingly taken into custody to the great astonial.ment and dit•nety
of the gulls at Bognor and Chichester, at a place called IJray ton,
sear the former place, and sent to Chichester to undergo a little
cross-questioning before the Magistrates of that town, which ulti-
mately terminated in his commitment to the common gaol, to take
his trial at the next sessions, on the prosecution of Mr. White, fur
obtaining the two sovereigns under false pretences ; but he was tir•t
compelled toelivest himself of his newly-purchased inexpressible and
waiteuat (having the old ones in a bund*) and they were delivered
up to Mr. Rickards. It appeared on the examination of the pri-
soner, that his name was Janes Andrews, and it is believed that
he formerly had been in the service of the Duchess of Kent, whose
life he asserts he once saved on an occasion of imniinent danger, but
who, from his abandoned course of life, has properly ceased to hu.
nour him with further notice. It also appears that he is the -ann.
person who last year played off the same tricks on the people at
Broadstairs, and the year before at Hastings.

Tut WE AT II n.—June was ushered in with a shower
of snow ! For some days previous, the weather was ex-
ceedingly cold and boisterous, and in the Highlands thr
drifting snow compelled the people who were busy cast-
ing peats in some places to leave the moors. On Friday,
the Caledonian coach drove upwards of twenty miles of
the road betwixt Blair and Inverness through snow ; and
some of the higher range of the Grampians appeared in
the same covering. The unseasonableness of the wea-
ther has not, however, affected the appearance of the
crops : potato planting is every where finished, and the
sowing of Swedish turnip is going actively forward.
Perth Courier.