The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-04 00:00:00

CLERKENWELL.

Charles Greene, Esq., M.P., for Lancaster, charged a
young man named James Brown, for obtaining money
under false pretences. The -prisoner had represented
himself to Mr. Greene as one of Mr. Greene's most effi-
cient supporters at the lateelection, but on questioning him
he found he had never been in Lancaster in his life. The
Secretary of the Mendicity Society stated that that was
an old trade of the prisoner's; he had been sentenced by
Mr. Maltby, at Marlborough-street, in 1841, to a month's
imprisonment fur a like offence ; his name was Lewis,
and he was a Welshman. He was fined :it, or two
months' imprisonment.

MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—On Saturday last you announced, in the
Times newspaper, that you were enabled to lay be-
fore the public a portion of the Report from the Select
Committee of the House of Com Mons on Election
Proceedings before it had been issued for the use of
Members ; and with such announcement you also in-
timated that you had obtained that copy at the earliest
moment after the document had been confided to the
printers' hands.
Holding an important public trust, and having been
• always anxious for the faithful performance of the
duties of the trust, we find ourselves placed in the
painful position of an imputation of faithlessness hav-
ing been cast upon us, through the instrumentality
and under circumstances which involve the integrity
and honour of the public press.
We direct your attention to the subject, feeling as-
sured that you, the unconscious cause, viewing the
painful position, will, jealous of your honour, be
quick in quarrel with the circumstances that have
occasioned it, and prompt to vindicate the integrity
of the public press, by sifting and revealing these
circumstances, and showing that they had not your
sanction—as well as equally prompt for our sake, in
the way you think proper to remove the unjust
and injurious suspicions which have been created
by your announcement, ranking us, unjustly,4in the
world's estimation, as public servants who betray
their trust, either by themselves or by the servants in
their establishment—the latter, although not an im-
puted act against us individually, being of consider-
able importance to us, because our establishment,
being thereby rendered insufficient for codfidence, is
equally unfitted for future trust, as if the breach had
been committed by or with the sanction of the prin-
cipal in whom the trust or responsibility was con-
fided.

To assist your inquiry into the circumstances we
acquaint you with the facts within our knowledge.

The facts known to us are these :—That we—were

Dt applied to by you for the copy ; that we received

no authority to supply you Ivitliihe.copy ; and that
we did not sanction The delivery to you of the portion
of the copy of the Report, which evidently came into
your possession before the issue to Members. This
portion of the Report, therefore, must have been pur-
loined, arid we have not been able to ascertain who or
which of our establishment furnished the copy in
question, although we are assured that the copy must
have been procured from some one or more of that
establishment by the vile means of a base bribe.

It is out of our power to trace this matter without
your assistance. The means of tracing it clearly lie
with you, having the proof of the act which occa-
sioned these circumstances in your possession ; from
whom you received it you will be able to obtain in-
forMation as to holy and from whom it was procured,
and so onward, until you arrive at the false servant
who has betrayed his trust.
The absence of all secrecy and mystery in the an-
nouncement by you of the source whence the infor-
mation was procured, leads us to the conviction that
you could not have conceived, when you directed the
publication and penned your observations, either in
the slightest degree, the publication was unautho-
rised, or that the circumstances under which the copy
was procured were open to the slightest objection.
Now, we, knoWing as a principle of duty what ought
not to have been, feel, and have had occasion to feel,
that the announcement has given rise to exception
against the printer.
Placed, therefore, in these circumstances, unwit-

,
tingly as we conceive by yourself, the bare commu-
nication of the facts cannot but arouse your indigna-
tion to repudiate alike the act and the actors, which
has, or who have, produced them. The immediately
active and urgently impelling motive of desire for the
public welfare, and the instinctive acuteness to dis-
cover. demoralising effects, displayed in that bright
array of talent for which your journal is distinguished,
will materially assist you.
All establishments are liable to suffer more or less
from the acts of servants or employees; and if it shall
be found that your liberality of reward for that in-
telligence and activity which are absolutely essential
for the procuring early information for the benefit of
the public, has been abused and perverted from the
intended uses by taxing the shrewdness of some one
of the procureurs for the Public Press to demoralising
uses, then will you be rejoiced at the opportunity of
showing that the gold of the Times Journal shall not

be spent to buy, with impunity, of those procureurs
of the Public Press, who, regardless of the means
they use, care not whether they bring dishonour to
that Press, so long as they receive, to gild their shame,
the golden fruits of their bribery and corruption.
Relying that you will take the most fitting steps in
relation to the facts and circumstances herein commu-
nicated and observed upon, we are, Sir, your obedient
servants, J. and J. HA SARD,
Printers to the House of Commons.
Thursday, July 28.