The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-27 00:00:00

WARWICK SESSIONS.

John Thomas, Thomas Suffolk, and Joseph More-
ton, labourers, of Nuneaton, were indicted for riot-
ously assembling, with divers other persons (more
than 100), in the parish of Nuneaton, on the 16th
of September last, breaking into the house of Joseph
Parker, and seizing John Freeman Taylor, placing
him upon an ass, parading him through the streets,
and violently maltreating him.
Moreton pleaded Guilty, and the other two Not
Guilty ; but after a lengthened trial the Jury found
them both guilty.
The CHAIRMAN, in delivering the sentence of the
Court, said the two latter the Court sentenced to
two years' imprisonment and hard labour in the gaol,
and Moreton to six calendar months' imprisonment.

HARVEST in the NORTH of SCOTLAND.

Excepting on bleak solitary braes and uplands,
or where the indolence of the husbandman has
retarded the operations of nature, the northern
harvest may now be said to be completed. Some
part of the corn led in a soft state, particularly
wheat, will require a longer time in the stack to
put it into condition, but a considerable propor-
tion taken in latterly, when the weather was
drier, is fit for early use ; and, of the whole, very
little has suffered from sprouting. In the hea-
viest fields of wheat, where early laid, there will
be a great deal of light and coarse grain ; but
where the crops were not so weighty or early, or
so closely lodged, the sample is more equal.
Barley will prove about an average as to quan-
tity, and where early, as to quality ; but where
late sown, the colour is dark and the skin
coarse. Oats are fully an average in quan-
tity, and a large proportion will be of fine
quality. Pease and beans will be rather
short of an average produce. The potatoe
crop on good dry early soils is a very full one,
but on flat wet situations it is deficient both as
regards quantity and quality. Putting both to-
gether, the return will probably be equal to that
of ordinary years, though not so good as that of
last season. Over the whole country we observe
the people at work gathering in this useful crop,
and they all seem thankful and satisfied with
their respective shares. Turnips have suffered
greatly from the excess of cold and moisture.
Few heavy crops are to be seen, and many are
exceedingly light. We have no doubt but the
failure of the turnips has been one great cause
of the recent bad market at Falkirk, so far as
the sheep are concerned, and we fear it will also
have an unfavourable tendency on the sale of fat
cattle in the spring. If we advert to the present
occupations of the farmer, we shall find that
wheat sowing is more backward than usual on
wet soils ; and unless we have still some dry
weather, it is to be feared that many fields of this
description must remain unsown till the spring.
These observations apply equally to the counties
of Inverness, Ross, Moray, and Nairn. The
county of Sutherland, excepting a narrow
stripe along the eastern shore, (a district of
about twenty miles long and one broad), is en.
tirely pastoral, and chiefly possessed by Cheviot
shepherds and their flocks. The arable district
rests on freestone and limestone. It consists of
a dry fertile loam, long manured with sea-weed ;
and lately in addition with the offal of the great
quantity of fish, including thirty to forty thou-
sand barrels of herrings, annually caught by the
settlers on the eastern or limestone part of the
district, and with the exuvix of the many thou-
sand sheep which annually consume the turnips.
Irom the nature of its soil, its exposure to the
south, and the mode of cultivation employed,
which is in most farms subsidiary to the wants
of the pastoral country behind, in fact, the pas-
ture has been most abundant, the hay crop good
and well got ; the harvest, though the corn
ripened more slowly than usual, and the weather
was showery, has been well secured, and the
crop bulks beyond an average one. The barley
crop of the district has been uncommonly good,
and during harvest the weather has been so cool
and such breezes blowing among the stooks 'and
stacks, that a sprouted or a spoiled shP:di• is not
to be found. In common with el:'ery part of the
agricultural community, Sutherland has suffered
by the late restriction of the circulating medium,
the admission of foreign wool and corn, and, the
foreign competition to which our manufactures,
subject to British taxes, are exposed. But its
farmers have the advantage of living nearly all
under one landlord, and him a good one. He
has abated their rents in proportion to the prices
of the staple produce of the country, and sup-
polled their courage to grapple with the diffi-
culties opposed to them. Hence the fine con-
ditioikt of the farms, the abundance and good
quality of the produce, and the high price
which that produce bears in the market.,—lnver-
ness Courier.

TALES OF A BRIEFLESS BARRISTER.-A
work under the above singular title is announced for im-
mediate publication. It is said to be written by a gentle-
m in whose literary talents hail Already eera highly appre-
ciated by the public. The Tales to be
founded on some actual ocpurienc-eivirti the
characters, though underassunieniantes,, are reporild to
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SPIRIT OF THE PUi3LIC JOURNALS.

That separate act_of the Russian and Turkish
treaty which regulate's the future condition of the
Principalities; has at length been published. The
journals which communicate this document sub-
join a report, that his Imperial Majesty of Rus-
sia has notified a disposition to . modify some of
the more oppressive articles of the general treaty.
When the nature and amount of these modifica-
tions shall appear, it will be time enough to
trouble our readers with a comment. In the
mean time we have to do with the Moldavian
and Wallachian article. The first clause pro-
poses the necessity of giving " to the admini-
stration, of these provinces a more durable basis,
and one more in harmony with their true inte-
rests." This basis—durable and harmonious we
acknowledge, since it is laid by a single hand,
and made comformable to one undivided will—
is as follows :—The two Hospodars are to enjoy
their dignities for life, instead of for the more
definite, if not more limited, period of seven
years. They are to govern within their respec
tive Principalities as they and their Divans may
think proper, without the shadow of interference
from the Porte or any of its officers. The Porte
surrenders every thing on the left hank of the
Danube,—soil, cities, fortresses,—even to the
privilege of permitting so much as an individual
Mahometan subject of the Sultan to reside there
or to retain, beyond the term of 18 months, one
foot of land, however fairly and lawfully acquired.
Establishments of troops may be kept up by the
Hospodars, independently of the Sultan, who
is nevertheless (apparently in ridicule) still
spoken of as their nominal Sovereign, and
they are at liberty to draw sanatory cor-
dons (an ominous appellation !) when and
where they please along the whole line of the
Danube. The Turkish Government has been
forced to relinquish all claim to those contribu-
tions in kind which it has hitherto received from
the Principalities ; as an indemnification for
which sacrifice, it is to be allowed an annual sum
of money, the amount of which is to he deter-
mined " hereafter," but which, as well as the
regular tribute, is not to commence until two
years after the total evacuation of the Principali-
ties by the Russian troops,—an evacuation which
is not to take place until after the last instalment
of the heavy fine imposed upon Turkey by the
conqueror shall have been liquidated,—that is to
say, until after ten years, as the term provided by
the treaty, which term it is the obvious tendency
and seeming piirpose of this long suspension of
all pecuniary aid from the Principalities to the
Porte to protract, and with it the evacuation by
the Russian armies. Finally, the Turkish Go-
vernment binds itself to confirm every administra-
tive measure which the Russians may have
adopted during their military tenure of the pro-
vinces alluded to, " provided always, that such
decrees do not in any way infringe upon the
rights of Sovereignty vested in the Porte !"
Sovereignty, forsooth ! We think that this last
sarcasm, at least, might with more decency have
been omitted. We have taken pains on former
occasions, and we here repeat them, to put out
of sight whatever questions others have appeared
rather anxious to raise concerning the personal
merits and character of the Emperor Nicholas,
as developed in these recent treaties. The points
most important for Europe to consider have no-
thing to do with his Imperial Majesty's 44 mode-
ration," a quality which may vary as the seasons ;
but they have every thing to do with that position
which Russia, whether through the moderate and
peaceful, or ambitious and grasping spirit ofthe pre•
sent Autocrat and his predecessors, at this mo-
ment occupies in Asia and in Europe, and on
the confines of both. We find, that in the most
courteous and polished language imaginable, the
Court of St. Petersburgh has proceeded to an-
nounce to the world, through the medium of
some grave documents called treaties, that Wal-
lachia and Moldavia no longer belong to Turkey,
but the Czar of Muscovy,—that Turkey in
Europe, no matter by what thin forms of circum-
locution the unpalatable truth may be disguised,
—that Turkey in Europe has no independent
existence, but is henceforth as substantially the
slave and property of Russia, as the latter power
would persuade us that Wallachia has a feudal
Sovereign in the Porte. - The military occupa-
tion of Turkey and of the Principalities is in
the hands of Russia ; their civil administration,
in all its principal branches, is her's. Russian
subjects are to enjoy, on both sides of the
Danube, privileges from which Turkish subjects
are excluded. The Sultan can neither exercise
his nominal power, nor travel through his own
nominal doininions, nor collect nor apply his
own nominal revenue, but under " day-rules,"
as it were, from his keeper. Fine and imprison-
ment—if not hard labour—are the unfortunate
Mahmoud's lot. Tree victis ! That the Chris-
tian inhabitants of Turkey lose nothing by the
subversion of the infidel sway, it is every one's
duty to acknowledge. Europe at large had an
interest in the extinction of a barbarous and
anti- Christian government. But Europe has like-
wise a solid interest in the establishment of such
a successor to that Government as may
comport with the public peace and safety. People
speculate on a new Greek empire in Turkey,
Whether a Greek or Latin empire is to us of
little significancy, so that it be a Government
not quite under the foot of Russia. But the
evil is done, and the season of effectual inter-
ference to prevent it by surrounding States has
for the present vanished ; nothing could exceed
the indiscretion of an appeal to arms at this time
of day. The Greek treaty was identified with
Mr. Canning. Had that Statesman lived, lie
might have so played off the treaty of London
against the more exclusive and selfish claims of
the Russian Court, as to have delayed the attack
on Turkey until a conjoint opposition of other
States should have been organised to defeat it,
or to alleviate its ill consequences. Had Mr.
Canning lived, Russia would have been less
ready to act against the known wishes and inte-
rests of Great Britain ; and what is of at least
equal importance, France, whose tastes and
feelings were with Mr. Canning, would have
had no repugnance to second his schemes of de-
fensive policy for Europe. As it happened,
Russia was filled with undue—we may add with
unfounded—distrust of our intentions ; Tur'ssey,
with confidence as unfounded in our support ;
and the French Government, overpowered by the
national prejudices against the new directors of
British policy, withdrew itself from every plan of
cordial and useful co-operation, Circumstances
have done what men could with difficulty avert,
in working out the results of the twelvemonth
just expired.— Times.
The splendid festivities of Sudbourne have
given occasion to political speculation to an ex-
tent little contemplated by the Noble Owner
when he looked for partakers of his magnificent
hospitality in the distinguished members of all
parties ; or, to speak more correctly, when he
discarded party considerations altogether in the
Selection of his guests. It is known that the

Duke of Wellington and Mr. Huskisson were
among the number of the persons who accepted
the invitation of the Marquis of Hertford ; and
from this perfectly fortuitous reunion it is un-
hesitatingly inferred, and industriously circulated
that the late Colonial Secretary is to return to
office, with the additional function of Leader of
the House of Commons attached to his re-ap-
pointment. With respect to this great political
movement, v. e shall dismiss it with a single re
mark—there is not, and there never has been, a
shadow of foundation for the assertion. •• he
circumstances under which the two distinguished
names already mentioned met at Sudbourne are
so simple, that they would not have been worth
alluding to in an ordinary case ; but as they have
been much talked of, and exceedingly misrepre-
sented, we shall give them as succinct as possible.
When the Premier was invited to Sudbourne,
the Noble host thought it necessary (probably
with a recollection of the occurrences which pre-
ceded the late Colonial Secretary's retirement),
to inform him that Mr. Huskisson was an ex-
pected guest. The Duke of Wellington, acting
upon a principle which he has invariably adhered
to, of drawing a line between political and per-
sonal alienations, at once declared his perfect
readiness to accept the invitation.
_On this
simple foundation has this enormous' political
supersti ucture been erected—ex uno disce omnes.
—.Morning Chronicle,
The Hamburg Reporter has brought us the
addition to the Treaty between Turkey and
Russia, which regulates the future condition of
the Principalities. In these days, when wonder
succeeds rapidly to wonder, little time can be
afforded to the indulgence of any one passion,
and therefore we may conclude that the fear of
Rusisa is now nearly on the wane. We know
what it is to be a day too late with our country-
men, and therefore we lament exceedingly that
our wish to have our stock of alarm in marketable
time has not been compatible with that solid in-
vestigation into the subject of the probable ag-
grandizement of Russia, which, we flatter our-
selves, we are at length enabled to lay before
our readers. Our neighbours the French, who
are still better at taking large leaps than ourselves,
have been peculiarly edifying of late on the sub-
ject of Russian greatness. But even they have
shut their eyes too soon. They merely see in
vision all Europe either Russian or Republican
before the lapse of many years. But we see the
whole world under the Russian Emperor ere
long. And were, pray, are we to place the li-
mits of Russian aggression short of universal
dominion ? One of our contemporaries (the
Standard) observed a few nights ago, that " it
has been profoundly remarked by Mr. Mill, in
-his British India, that a nation which has be-
gun making conquests, thereby improves beyond
ordinary calculation the power of persevering in
her aggressions. She has the necessary arts,
the army, the machinery, and the habit of con-
quest already—all of which are wanting to a
people awakening from a state of peace." Now
Russia has been at the trade of making con-
quests for considerably more than a century,
constantly gaining and never losing, so that
she certainly has the habit of conquest, if
ever a nation had. According to the opinions
of the wisest of our contemporaries, Turkey is
already as good as devoured ;—Sultan
Mah-
moud is indulged with just such liberty for a
little while as a cat gives to a mouse she sports
with. The question is, what State will she
swallow next? The avalanche cannot be arrest-
ed in its descent; the obstructions it meets with
only add to its momentum, and the extent of
its subsequent ravages. Russia being stronger
than any Power that can be opposed to her, can-
not be arrested in her career of conquest, and
every fresh conquest facilitates the means of
making future conquests. Conquer, then, she
must and will ; but there is still room for con-
jecture as to the course conquest will take—
ViThether will she finish her work in the East,
and then begin where she has left off in the
West, or go on with East and West at the same
time ? It has been thought by many that though
there can be little doubt of her success either in
the West or East, Austria and Prussia, as was
demonstrated by Sir Robert Wilson, being utterly
unable to make an effectual resistance to her,
she will nevertheless take the East as somewhat
more easy than the West. Persia, it is allowed,
is already almost a province of Russia. When
Persia has been made entirely Russian, India
must follow. Being augmented by India and
Persia, how easy would it be to overrun China.
As to Japan, its acquisition would be easy after
the conquest of China. The other islands of
Asia would soon be occupied. After such a
vast accession of power, it is probable that
France and England would be so paralysed with
fear, that of themselves they would solicit the
honour of being received as provinces of the
great empire, on condition of retaining their
privileges. We remember it was demonstrated
a few years ago in an article in the Quarterly
Review, attributed to Mr. Barrow, that the mo-
ment the Russians came in contact in America
with the citizens of the United States, the latter,
wouldlose their independence, as they would never
be able to withstand the men with jackets and
bayonets. The conquest of the rest of America
would follow in due time. It is to be hoped,
that after the incorporation of so many enlight-
ened nations into the Russian empire, the Go-
vernment would avail itself of the additional
civilization thus placed within its reach. Of
course it will not be so easy to govern the whole
world from one common centre as to govern one
of Mr. Bentharn's Panopticons. But, the im-
provements made in communications in our
times rill be of great advantage to the Russian
Power when supreme over all. As rail-roads
will allow of travelling at the rate of thirty miles
an hour, an order from Moscow will soon reach
Pekin,
.so that messengers may soon proceed
from one extremity of the empire to another.
Our English liberties will not be so safe under
the Autocrat as under our Borough Lords ; but
then the lovers of peace—and we have an espe-
cial eye to the Society of Friends—will have
the consolation that unity of empire will neces-
sarily put an end to war. If civil war can only
be prevented, we may count on perpetual peace.
The Emperor would also allow the most ample
protection to Missionaries, who at present are
in much jeopardy among savage tribes, so that
Paganism would soon be extinguished. It has
been so often demonstrated that no opposition
can be made to Russia, that we deem ourselves
warranted iii taking two things for granted—the
power to conquer ; and, as power implies a ten-
dency to exert itself, the will to conquer. We
have iwt taken into our calculation any extraor-
dinary intedarence with the course of events—
such as the Millenium of Mr. Irving, which, no
I ,
doubt, may materially affect the

We have oaten called the attention of our
readers to the strange anarchy which prevails in
this country in the administration or criminal
law, Indolence and vindictiveness have the as-

cendancy by turns. In an account of the Devon-
shire County Sessions, the Chairman is reported
to have said, " I beg to remark that there are
thirteen or fourteen for extreme petty offences ;
one for stealing a prayer-book, another a mat-
tock, &c., and for which petty offences the parties
have already undergone an imprisonment, some
of six weeks, and others two months ; but Ma-
gistrates are so situated, that if prosecutors per-
sist in their charges, they have no alternative but
to commit; for, by acting otherwise, they might
subject themselves to the serious charge of com-
pounding felony. It is a serious cost to the
county, as I have no doubt the expenses in each
will average from eight to ten pounds." As far
as regards the prevention of crime, nothing can
be of worse tendency than the allowing so much
scope to individual caprice. These prosecutions
for stealing prayer-books, &c., whether they origi-
nate in a spirit of avarice or a spirit of vindic-
tiveness, create a sympathy in favour of the ob-
ject of the criminal, who is looked on as a
sort of injured person. A responsible officer,
charged with the duty of prosecuting, should,
for his own credit, exercise judgment in the se-
lection of his cases. This would, of course,
prevent many a commitment which now takes
place. The expence to the county in consequence
of these trivial cases is not, of course, so im-
portant a consideration as the diminution of
crime ; but still it is one of very considerable
importance. We are pleased to see the manner
in which the Chairman notices another im-
portant subject—the mode of treating pauper
lunatics. " The Legislature," he observed,
" had been careful to provide for their support
in proper asylums, where a fair expectation may
be entertained of removing their malady. On
the contrary, in parish poor-houses they are not
only insecure, but they become a jest and a
scoff; and their misfortunes, instead of being
ameliorated, are heightened and aggravated ;
while, if properly, treated, the light of reason
might again beam forth, and they might become
useful members of society."—/bid.
An Evening Contemporary is extremely
anxious to have it believed that, in the late cor-
respondence between the Bishop of Ferns and
Lord Mountcashel, the former bears away the
palm both in style and argument ; observing, as
to the first, in rather a flippant way, that his
Lordship " was born to a coronet," and had not
to make his way to reputation " through learn-
, ing's steep and rugged road." Though it is not
usual to measure epistolary style by the severe
rules of criticism, we cannot help thinking that,
as a composition, the Noble Lord's letter is that
both of a scholar and a gentleman, and will bear
to be measured against the Bishop's in any scale
which can be applied to either ; while, in point
of argument, the noble Lord has immeasurably
the advantage. Without meaning any disrespect
to the Bishop, or to treat him with any of that
unmerited coarseness which lie has received at
other hands, we think it cannot be denied that
the whole jet (gist ?) of the Bishop's argument
goes to defend the enormous amount and the un-
equal distribution of the Church Revenues
of Ireland as a mere right of their pos-
sessors, with little or no reference to the
spiritual advantages or disadvantages derivable
from them. Lord Mountcashel, on the con-
trary, treats the Church property, as every rea-
sonable man must treat it, as a trust in the hands
of the Clergy for the benefit of their flocks.
Viewed in this light, how little has the Protes-
tant flock in Ireland been benefited by the enor-
mous means the Church possesses for their ad-
vancement and its own protection ! That " the
labourer is worthy of his hire" is a scriptural pre-
cept, of the most apt and 'universal application ;
but in its application to the Church revenues,
both in Ireland and England, but especially in
the former, it is reversed, and he who labours
most has the least share of the reward. Will
any one believe that, had Church preferment in
Ireland been wisely bestowed, and its revenues
justly distributed, Protestantism would have
remained nearly stationary for more than a cen-
tury ? And will any one be now bold enough
to declare that, when its main bulwark and pro-
tection has been taken away, it can be expected
to go on in safety without those internal repairs
which, if resorted to long since, would have ren-
dered external props useless ? The Bishop, in-
geniously enough, reminds Lord Mountcashel
that " four-fifths of the profits of the Bishops
lands are in the hands of their tenants,"
We were not aware that the value of Church
leases to the laity was quite so great as this ; nor
do we believe, if the value of the fines be taken
into the account, that it is; but we are well aware
that the distribution of these leases among the
great landowners is (to the discredit of the Church
be it spoken) one of the main holds which it has
had upon their interested support. We say that
it is to the discredit of the Church that such
should be the case, because we feel that the
Church and religion are disparaged when they
do not put forth stronger claims to support than
any which are to be found in mere self-interest.
It is the corruption and abuse of things good and
noble in their own nature which oftener produce
their destruction than the efforts of external ene-
mies. Unfortunately, even religion has not been
exempt, in any age or country, from this prevail-
ing tendency to engender and fall into abuse ;
and we leave it to the good sense of mankind to
say whether those are its real friends who would
justify its errors at all hazards, or those who, like
Lord Mountcashel and the Reformers at Cork,
would protect the goodly edifice by timely repair
and judicious alterations.--Morning Herald.
The Marquis of Hertford has invited another
party of fashionables, among whom are some
gentlemen nearly connected with Ministers, to
spend a few days at Sudbourne, to partake of
the sports of the field. There is no nobleman
who studies more the comfort of his guests than
the Marquis, whose hospitalities are of the first
order, and distinguished by the best taste. Sud-
bourne might be said to be " Liberty Hall,"
where every guest amuses himself as he thinks
fit, without any of those formal and ceremonious
restraints too common at the select parties of the
aristocracy. Judging from the recent visitors to
Sudbourne, and the parties at present invited, it
is conjectured that these meetings are not alto-
gether unconnected with politics, from which
arises the rumour in the fashionable circles, that
the Marquis of Hertford is speedily to be created
a Duke, whose ample fortune will enable him
to support a Dukedom, as he does his present
title, with suitable magnificence and splendour.—
Morning Advertiser.

AN EXTRAORDINARY BARGAIN.--AS for-
tunate a purchase in picture-dealing as we have heard of
for several 3ears, was made a few weeks since by Mr.
CnA ALES YOUNG, son of Mr. YOUNG, auctioneer, of Rom-
sey, Hants, who obtained an original painting of the Roman
School for a mere trifle. The production was one of the
beautiful pieces of the renowned CLAUDE LORRAINE, which
Mr. Y. recognized at a broker's shop in London, and pur-
chased fur 31. ! A few days ago the landscape was trans-
ferred to a connoisseur for 600 guineas, at which price it
is considered a bargain.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday the LORD MAYOR was a considerable
time occupied in hearing a case of much interest and
Jitliculty. The Justice-room was crowded to excess.
The Committee of Bankers being concerned in the
prosecution, Sir William Curtis and Mr. Gates, the
solicitor to the Committee, attended.
A young man, named Emanuel, was put to the
bar, charged by Mr. Gates with having uttered a
forged 51. note to a fashionably dressed girl of the
town, named Johnson. The note was one of the
Birmingham bank, and was made payable at Messrs.
Elanbury's, in the city, where the, forgery was first
detected.

Mrs. Johnson lived with her husband, who is a
harp and pianoforte-maker, in Exeter-street, Strand.
Her husband did not always live at home. The
prisoner on Friday the 9th of October, knocked at
the door while she and her husband's father were in
the parlour, and asked for Miss King, a lady who
had lodged at the house. Being told that Miss King
had left the house, and seeing the parlour door open,
he said, " You might as well ask me in;" which
the servant accordingly did, and he threw down a
shilling for some gin, the old gentleman having said
that he could take a drop. The prisoner then asked
her to go up stairs with him, and when they were
in the drawing-room, after a little conversation,
handed her a 51. note, as she believed, folded up, and
told her to order a bottle of wine and change. The
servant brought the bottle of wine and change, and
the prisoner offered her half a sovereign, but finally
gave her a sovereign, as she objected to the moiety
of it as not her usual compliment. He went away,
after giving the servant a shilling for herself.
Mr. Elias Isaacs, of St. Mary Axe, as solicitor to
the prisoner, cross-examined the witness with the
permissio►► of the Lord Mayor.
Had you ever seen the prisoner before that day ?

The witness, who had been reprimanded for her
levity in the direct examination by the Lord Mayor,
here dropped tears with amazing facility. She would
not, she said, swear falsely; and she was sure she
was not mistaken in the person.
You are in the habit of meeting gentlemen ?
Yes, certainly.
And you know the prisoner was the man ?—He
certainly was.
Mr. Gates—Did not the prisoner know you yes-
terday when you took the officer in search cf him ?
He did. He was sitting in one of the alcoves on
Waterloo-bridge, and I went up to him and said,
" I think you know me," and he smiled, and said
he did ; " and you have been at my house, I think,"
said I, and he said he had. _ _ _

,
Mr. Isaacs—This is nothing, my Lord, but a mis-
take. Ido not impute any vicious motive to the
young woman, but she has certainly, I can prove
it beyond question, mistaken my client for another
person._ _ . .. .

Mr. Gates—Look at this strong circumstance.
The utterer of the forgery asked for Miss King, and
the prisoner was not only found in the neighbour-
hood in which she lived, but he was actually seen
by the officer who went in quest of him at her lodg-
ings, at No. 19, William-street, Waterloo-road, pre-
viously.
Elizabeth Scrivener, servant to Mrs. Johnson, let
in the prisoner at dusk, on the 9th of October, and
confirmed her mistress's account of the transaction.
The change she brought to him consisted of four
sovereigns, a half sovereign, and some silver. She
kept Gs. to pay for the bottle of wine, for which she
gave 3s. 6d. She was sure the prisoner was the
man, and she remarked that he was very like young
Mr. 510n...n.

Mr. Isaacs—Did any thing take place between
you and Mr. Johnson below stairs, when you took
down the 5/. note ? Witness—Nothing; I only
told him I had got a Si. note to change.
Mr. Sprules, the owner of the Bell, in Exeter-
street, took the note from the last witness on the
9th instant. He was not in the habit of giving
change of notes, but did not like to turn away a good
customer. He thought the gas was not alight at
the time.

Mr. Bewick, agent to Messrs. Wroughton, Scho-
field, and Co.'s bank, Birmingham, believed the
note not to be genuine. He believed it to he a for-
gery, for he never saw one of the notes without be-
ing signed by one of the partners. Thought it was
struck off from one of the genuine plates.
John Forrester went to the house of Miss King,
in William-street, Waterloo-road, to look for the
utterer of the forgery, and saw the prisoner there.
He and Mrs. Johnson afterwards waited in the
neighbourhood, and as two or three men passed,
witness asked Mrs. Johnson whether the guilty per-
son was amongst them, to which she replied in the
negative. The moment, however, she saw the pri-
soner, she pointed to him as the person. She then
went up to him and said:a few words, at which he
laughed and said " Yes."
Mr. Isaacs—We have no disguise, my Lord; and
the prisoner will speak for himself. He has wit-
nesses to prove the correctness of what he has to say.
The prisoner declared that he was not the person
he was represented to be. He never had the note
in his possession, and he knew nothing about it.
His business was that of a jeweller tallyman, and he
was daily employed in collecting the money for
which he supplied the articles from his house in
Whitechapel. He happened to have au accurate
recollection of what happened on the day of the ac-
cusation of uttering the forgery. He had, agreeably
to an invitation he had given, received a visit from
two ladies, who had come from Richmond to see
him and spend the holiday. They arrived on the
Friday, and dined with him at half-past three. He
went out at half-past four; called at several places,
all of which he had marked down in his book.
Being lf the Jewish persuasion, the holiday com-
menced with him at half-past five, and he returned
at five, and remained to meals until eight o'clock,
when he and the ladies went out together.
Mr. Gates submitted that he had made out a case.

he LORD MAYOR said, that if the prisoner
proved the statement to be correct, he should not
be sent to Newgate.
Mr. Isaacs said, that even if the prisoner were the
utterer, no case had been made out against him :
there was no proof of guilty knowledge.
Mr. Gates said, that the possession, with the
denial of it, wai proof of guilty knowledge.
The prisoner then called
Eve Lyon, his housekeeper. She stated that the
prisoner had been out very little on Friday, on ac-
count of the arrival of her nieces on a vis►t. He
never went out of the house after five o'clock.
There was here some confusion as to the exact pe-
riods at which he left the house, and, as far as our
reporter could collect, a slight variance between the
statement of the prisoner and the evidence of the
female.

The LORD MAvoR should hear the remaining evi-
dence for the prisoner on a future occasion, and if
satisfied with it, would not destroy the young man
by sending him to Ne nate.
The prisoner was then remanded.
Mr. Goldsmidt, the merchant, and other men of
eminence in the city, soon after came to the Justice-
room, and said they were never snore surprised
than at hearing of such a charge against a young
person whose whole life had been most irreproachable,
who had been intrusted with large sums, and was
pointed out as an example of industry and integrity
by some of the best men.