The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Bow-STREET.—Yesterday evening Mr. PnAm.
sON appeared before Sir ItonERT BAKER,
ference to the case against Fletcher, alias Frank-
lin, when the following dialogue took place :
Mr. Pearson—Have you heard any thing of Mr. Fletcher?
Sir It. Baker—No, nothing, Sir.
Mr. Pearson—Are you sure, Sir, that you have heard nor
thing ?
Sir It. Baker—Qnite sure.
Mr. Pearson—But, Sir, you have bad letters
Sir It. Baker—Yes, Sir; what is that to you ?
Mr. Pearson—Did you not say, that the last letter bet tscp
which you have reccived tram Fletcher acknowledged his
guilt, assigned his reasons, and was wrote to you fur the pur-
pose of puhlicatim, ?
Sir R. Baker—Yes, I did.
Mr. Pearson—Then, Sir, I now dare you to publish- those
letters; and I charge you with having got them up to answer
your own purposes. -
Sir R. Baker=Sir, cannot keep my promise; they are in

the hands of his Majesty's Law Officers.
Mr. Pearson—Sir, the Lan• Officer to whom von have given.
the letter, I know is an intimate friend and a relation og
Fletcher's.
Sir R. Baker—l will say no more. Officers, remove Mr.
Pearson.
Mr. Pearson—l will give your officers no such trouhle. You
ought to know that the H 5415 who always questions your weak-
ness, would never deny your power. Mr. Pearson then left
the office.—(Morning Chronicle.)

MANSION HousE.—A. man was yesterday ex-
amined, who has been in the habit of obtaining
money by informing persons that sums were due
to them at the Bank on unclaimed dividends.—
One case was his obtaining five shillings from a
poor woman, who found that she was entitled to
a dividend of three shillings and sixpence. He
was enabled to discover names by inspecting a
list of unclaimed dividends exhibited at the
Bank. The Loan MAYOR severely reprimanded
him, regretting that there was no law which
reached his offence.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET THIRD OCTOBER MEETING, 1820.-

TugsDAY. Ocr. 31.
Handicap Sweepstakes of lOgs each, fur three-yr-olds anct
upwards.
First Class.
Mr. Crockford's Sultan, 4 yrs, Bst. 91h.
Mr. Vansittart's gr. c. Financier, 4 yrs, Bst. 91b.
Mr. Roger's Nina, 4 yrs Bst. alb. 3
Six started.—The Judge placed hut three.
7to 4 agst Sultan-5 to 4 agst FinanCier.
Second Class.
Mr. Crockford's Brutus, 4 yrs, 7st. 1 01b.
IA Grosvenor's Ahra, a yrs, 7st. 411
sir C. Bunbury's, hr. c. by Sorcerer, 3 yrs, 7st !Vb. .. 3
Mr. Douglas's Inferior, 5 yrs, Bst. 71b. 4
D. of Graftun's Miracl 3, 4 yrs, SA. 611) 5
3 to 1 agst Sorcerer c.-5 to 1 agst Inferior—Even on Miracle.
A Gold Cup, value 150 gs, by a Subscription of cogs each,
tilt winner to pay lOgs extra, for horses of all ages. K.C.
Mr. Rogers's Corinne, 5 yrs, 9st
Mr. Jones's hr. E. 'rybalt, 3 yrs, Est. 1111
Six Started.—One pd.—The Judge placed but two.
6 to 1 agst Corinne.
Fifty Pounds for tae-yr-olds carrying a feather, three, 7st. 51b.
four, Set. 91b. five, 9st. 3113. six, 9st. 7113. aad aged, 9st. 101 b.
Last three miles of B. C.
Ld Clarendon's b. f. Ansiope, by Whalebone, 3 yrs
Mr. Jones's br. x. Tyhalt, 3 yrs
D. of Grafton's b. c. Carbon,-3 yrs 3
Ld Suffield's b. e. by Vandyke Junior, out of Rosetta, 3 yrs 4
Mr. Rugers's h. c. Alfred, 4 yrs
Mr. Wyndham's b. f. by Soothsayer, out of Tlialestris, 3 yrs (.;
3 to 1 agst Antiope—t to 1 apt Tybalt-4 to 1 agst Allred.

DREADFUL FIRE A T THE MARQUESS OF BUCK•
INGHAM'S SEAT.

The venerable Mansion of the Noble Marquess-,
Wooton House, Bnckinghnmshire, was almost
entirely destroyed by fire in the morning of
Monday bast, and nothing left remaining but
the bare walls. The flames burst forth from one
of the attics, about two o'clock in the morning;
and, before any effectual assistance could be
rendered, the whole interior of the house was
reduced to a heap of ashes, including the library,
the pictures, and almost the whole of the fur-
niture. Lord and Lady Temple were residing
there, and their infant daughter was at one time
in the utmost danger of falling a prey to the
flames, but his Lordship's foreign valet rustled
through the fire, and. brought the child away
without injury. Lady Temple and her atten-
dants were removed to Stowe ; and an express
was sent off at seven o'clock to the Noble Mar-
quess in town. Lord Temple was expected in
town last night. The fire, we understand, was
first discovered, by Captains Jervis and Grace,
who happened at the time to be on a visit to his
Lordship.—(Morning Herald)

Base Conduct and Extraordinary Escape.—
Monday evening, a good looking country girl
was observed to throw herself out of the first
floor window of a second-rate brothel, in a street
leading into Queen-square, Holborn; she fortu-
nately escaped falling on the spikes of the iron
pallisades, which caught her clothes, and broke,
her fall, or she must have been killed. She was
insensible for some time from the fright, and the
neighbours sent for a constable to investigate
the affair, and the gentleman who enticed her to
the infernal den was taken into custody, and
brought for examination before the sitting Ma-
gistrate at the Police Office, Hatton Garden.—
It appeared that the poor girl was going from
shop to shop, inquiring fora situation, when Shda
met with the young gentleman (whose name we
were unable to learn), who accosted 'her, and
learning from her that she was in search of a
place of service, he told her his aunt wanted a
servant, that he was certain she would answer, and
if she accompanied him home he would introduce
her. She accordingly, without suspicion, accom-
panied him to this infamous house, which was of
a respectable appearance, and was shown up
stairs,, where she soon learned the kind of house
she was brought into, and finding no other way
to escape, .she precipitated herself out of the win-
dow. The Magistrate finding the gentlema.
used no force, and that she accompanied him
freely, said he could do nothing in the matter,
and as the girl escaped uninjured, he thought it
was better to let the matter rest.—The gentle-
man was discharged.--(Morning Herald.)

Five Candidates have already offered thern-
selves for the Fellowship of Eton Collece, which
the Rev. Mr. SUIbiNER intends to resign at Christ-
mas next. This Fellowship is worth eight hun-
dred pounds a year; besides a living which is held
with it.

J3,-O, DON JOURNALS.

[DA L I EA TRACTS

FRCAI THE MORNING PAPERS.

[Morning Post.]
ierne Quitvq.—We. have given copies of the.
-preteiided Letters of -Baron' Ompteda (sec our
Paper of ne.stcrziag), of which Mr. Brougham
has attempted to make so unfair and unjustifiable
a. use. Admitting them _to be genuine, our
!leaders will see that'they*are mere endeavours
to procure information from those who are best,
able to afford it—such endeavours as might have
been ucod with the utmost,-.publicity, if that
would not have, wholly defeated their lawful pur-
pose. And what was the circumstance that ren-
dered a secret conveyance of the letters neces-
4ary ? Plainly this—that access by other means !
could not be had to the persons for whom they
were intended. Why access to them should have
been or rendered difficult—why it should
not rather -have been:fully permitted, and ,that
with perfect freedom from observation, we leave
tothe Q,neen's Counsel to explain, if they cau.—
I appears by these letters (the authenticity of
pit hiclr ive must continue to doubt), that a com-
munication from -Mademoiselle Dumont to her
Lister was wished to be securely conveyed to her
hands. What were the contents of that letter
ao conveyed ? Let them be shewn to be of a
criminal or dishonourable character, and• then
the means winch were employed will partake
of that character. •In the absence of this
proof, 'the first alleged letter of Ompteda
furnishes a satisfactory explanation' of those
means :---". The Princess and her confidants
(Messrs. Bergami, Ilownam, and Co., we
suppose) 'intercept all the letters addressed
to the persons in her suite." Is this a fact, or is
it not? If it be,how conclusively it demonstrates
the existence of practices in the house of her
-Royal Ilightiess- which made it necessary to re-
sort to so • degrading, so base,. 50. .pertidious a
trick, as to intercept and read all the letters ad-
'dreSsed to the servants. And: why, in God's
'name, was there any necessity for all this ma-
riceuvring all these low artifices ? Not a letter
could .be addressed to a menial in her Royal
Ifi,ghness's household, but first of all it must be
opened and read by "her Royal Highness or her
confidants !" Does innocence, does virtue, does
the- dignity of high station, employ these miser-
able shifts to pry into the letters of footmen and
chambermaids ? Admitting, too, this base prac-
tice to have prevailed, how completely it justi-.
.Iftes and explains what was asserted by Made-
Dumont,- in her examination, that she
used double entendres, because her real meaning,
should not be intelligible to the honourable spies
who either intercepted, or inspected; the con-
tents of every letter that reached the l3aroua or
the Villa d'Este. .

[British Press.)
The Letters written by Baron Ompteda to the ,
;Director of Police at Pesaro, which the House
Of Lords refused to receive as evidence on Mon,
day-last, (see our Paper of gesterday), are ma..
&festly addressed to one who was previously
aware of the machinations devised, and then in
Course of operation against the Princess of Wales,
and consequently they could not be expected to
cOntain a full and perfect avowal of the writer's
villainy; but they contain enough to • shew by
ready inferences the character of the negociation
'which' the Baron intrusts to his worthy friend
and fellow-conspirator. The Baron evidently,
according to a familiar phrase, " knew his man
well:" lie was " convinced" of his " amiable
"c6mpiaisance," of which it seems he had already
given " decisive proofs ;" and, therefore, he was
not deterred by the official situation of the man
-from employing him as his instrument, in cor-
rupting the integrity of the Princess of Wales's
Servant. Ilis first wish is, that a letter from
Louise Dumont to her, sister Marlette, who still
continued,, in the service of her Royalllighness,
shoul&be privately delivered, and by the Lands
of some trusty agent, who should induce Marlette
tb confide her answer to him. The Baron, it
dreaded least the letter should fall into
the, hands of the PTificess. of Wales, " or some of
'her confidants." This apprehension chews the
Character and object of the letter, and impor-
tant no doubt it must have been, as it required
a Minister of the Kingdom of Hanoyer, and a
confidential Officer of the Police of the Papal
Coverninent, to unite their power and talents to
have it conveyed safely to its destination ! Who
can doubt that this letter conveyed an elucidation
of the hints contained in the letter produced dur-
ing the trial, and pointed out with what facility
a fortune might be made by," bearing false wit-
ness against her Mistress ? Louise Dumont, as
the writer of such a letter to her sister, must be
considered in the light of. One of the original con-•
spirators against the character of the Queen,
being joined with Ompteda and the Chevalier
Bischi in this instance in endeavouring to toy per
suade Mariette to follow her example, and by
saine means " make " a splendid fortune in Eng-
land." This circumstance alone ought to "he suf-
ficient to, taint her whole evidence, even :if it had
not been destroyed previously by. its own incon-
sistencies, or the contradictory testimony of Sir
Wm. Gel), Mr. Keppel Craven, and Others. .

[The Times.]
Tbere,lS:a point which requires some •discus.
:Sion on the present occasions It is asked 'why
'the Coniisel have not called more witnesses, par-
ticularly why they have stopped without the evi-
dence of Mariette (Dumont's sister,) Schiavini,
&c. ? .For.our.own parts, we should as severely
•criticise the. Cobduct of the Counsel for the Queen
that of her, Majesty's bitterest enemies:_ We,
. shall here, however" .briefly state what. We' con-
.celve to be their reason for stopping where they
have done in the evidence, and express •our be-
lief that the reasons are satisfactory :—First,
'there is testimony sufficient, and more than suffi-
4ent, to convince all reasonable men of the

Queen's innocence : cc. They have Moses and
die, Prophet's; let them hear them." They who
are not convincr,d by such evidence as has been
produced against, and such evidence as has been
produced for, the Queen, would not give up their
malignant charges though an angel from Heaven
were sent to announce her .Majesty!s• innocence.
Next, never men were so surrounded by' treach-
ery, conspiracy, perjury, subornation of per-
jury, corruption, and tampering with witnesses,
as her Majesty's legal advisers have been. They
could not be sure of producing a single man,
woman, or child; that might not have been
bought over to deceive and betray them by their
adversaries. It will be recollected that. Mr.
Brougham, at the beginning of his speech, most
feelingly .alluded to the difficulties of the situa-
tion in which himself and his Learned Brethren
were placed in this respect; and:happily com-
pared it to that of the Athenians, in their deal-.
ings with the treacherous King Philip. "Against
him," says the greatest of orators, " there is but
one safeguard and protection : it serves for
walls, bulwarks, and trenches, for these are
to . be made. with hands, and cost much ;
but that which I recommend is one which a
sagacious nature \retains in itself—and that
is, distrust, suspicion, of him."—(Philippic
ll.—This distrust, or suspicion, Mr. Brougluun
and his colleagues, knowing the criminal arts of
their adversaries—knowing the detestable, un:-
principled practicei of the Milan Commission—
must naturally have felt on the approach of every'
new witness whom they called to the bar.: They ,
knew that the plague was in their house, but
they kne;.v not how many were tainted. CC flow
can any one," said Mr. Bronghani, "44 secure me
" against the great probability of Mariette being
"all' the while in league with the Omptedas, the
cc Grin/ins, St.c.?" Mariette, indeed, they hhd
at the beginning determined to call ;, hitt they-
did not then know so much of the plot, or, the ex-
tent of its ramifications, as they have since learn-
ed ; that, plot, which it was determined not to
inquire into till after the Bill had passed the
House I None of the Counsel for the Queen
knew of the bribing of Codani's clerk to 'steal
the Queen's papers, and betray the witnesses
for the defence, till long after the opening of the
cause. Were those Learned Gentlemen, then, to
go on (the charge being already sufficiently dis-
proved), and expose their Royal Client to the
very spares which the conspirators had been lay-
ing for her, by making her Counsel call their
bribed witnesses ? .dud now come to light Omp-.
teda's letters, which confirm but too fully all the
suspicions-:originally entertained. The Countess
Oldi was probably above suspicion, but her evi-
dence would Lave been chiefly confirmatory ;
she would have proved the sleeping on deck, the
necessity of her brother's presence, and the liarrn-
tessness of it. Does any rational mind doubt
any part of this now' • As to Non-Ricordo,
lorabier, Cuchi, Kress, Sze., they were settled-
long ago.
[Morning licrald.l
An impudent and base fabrication, signed with
the name of an individual who is in the habit of
supplying the Morning Papers with articles .of
telligenCe, was sent to us for publication last
night. It purported to be a letter from the Duke
of Y3rk to the Queen, in which his Royal High +.
ness is made to profess, in clumsy terms, his con:.
viction that the Queen had " subverted the charges
brought' forward against her," and desiring an in=
terview 'at Brandenburgh House. 'ibis pre-
tended letter was accompanied with a string
of lies about 'Prince Leopold's having called
in•• the' morning and delivered the Queen
a letter ; his coming again at a later. hour in
a mourning coach, Scc.; and, finally,- to make
the 'forgery more plausible, the copy of the
letter is stated to have been received from 'C Mr.
P. 'Wood," the brother, we suppose, of the Al-
.derman,- and therefore likely to have a know-
ledge of such an incident.. We, have good reason
to think the fabricators will be discovered, and
punished as they deserve. was a circular
brought by a person describing himself. as a Ham-
Mersmith stage coachman, who demanded and
obtained payment for his trouble, and therefore
for his own sake would act prudently, as Well as
properly, in giving all the information he may
possess of the quarter whence he received« this
packet. There were copies sent, we have under-
stood, to•all the Morning Papers but two..

[New Times.]

Where her Majesty's personilmnreseeve is not
thought an adequate plea, we are.told offoreign
manners. This is 'a plea to which a Queen of
England should be. very unwilling to resat ;- but
make the most of it, it will only serve„to excuse
deviations from our national and peculiar notions
of decorum, not indecencies, nor incle.cent
universally considered as reprehensible. In
Mrs. Loveden's case, it was urged that modern
Manners allowed a greater latitude of conduct than
in the .days of 'oar more rigid ancestors, and the
plea was allowed as applicable to some supposed
cases; " but," said the Judge " the laxity of
modern manners does not extend to justify such
conduct as this."—So we may ask, by the cus-:
tom of what country is it recognised as decorous
and becoming, that a Princess shou4d sleep every
night for five weeks in a.closed tent with a courier ?
Was there ever Princess—was there ever Lady—,
was there 'ever Female, of any rank, that did so,
before our own most.gracious,Queen ?
Advices were yesterday received that the Rus-
sian Loan has been concluded, and.. though these
accounts are not official yet they.seern entitled to
credit. • The amount of the Loan i545,000.,000 of
silver • roubles, or about 6,750,0001. sterling,
bearing an interest of nearly 7 per cent. per an-
num. Most of the principal articles of import
into Russia' are nearly. double :what they were
last year in price at the same season. This seems
to slew a rapidly increasing. demand, and. may
perhaps be regarded as a proocthat the internal
prosperity of 'the Country is advancing at a
portionate rate.---(md.)

[Morning Chronicle.]
The Lisbon Packet arrived yesterday; and. in

her came. Lord Beresford, together with several
British 'Officers, late in the Portuguese service.
She bring papers and letters to the 18th ultimo,
of which we publish extracts. The manner in
which the new Government obtained possession of

the specie and diamonds on board the Vengeur is
particularly'described, and of which duplicate bills
of lading came to band hi the Phoenix, purporting
that the property was to be delivered to the
Treasury. It is singular that at firSt a refusal was
made to give it up, though the demand was after-
wards complied with ; but we would ask, if the
Phcenix had not luckily arrived to whom was it to
he delivered ? The arrival of Lord Beresford in the
Tagus, we" always thought would be a moment of
great dilemma, considering the relative situation
his Lordship so long and so lately held in Por-
tugal, and the momentous changes which had
been effected during his absence ; but he must
have known little of the state of public feeling
in that country to suppose he would be allowed
to exercise an authority that had no superior but
one person, and he at some thousands of miles
distance. We think it a most happy and for-
tunate event that Lord Beresford did not land,
as this circumstance might have been attended
with the most fatal consequences; and, though
the act of an unauthorised individual ought not
to implicate the relations of the country in which
he was born, and which he gives up for the ser-
vice of another, yet any broil or bloodshed that
might have ensued, and for which his Lordship
alone could be deemed responsible, might have
done us a temporary injury in the opinion of the
Portuguese nation, and not answered the end
which the Marshal in Chief had in view. We
are free to confess that we felt as much surprise
on reading the expostulations of his Lordship, and
the menaces appended to them, as he himself did
oil hearing that the Portuguese had risen up, to
a-man, broken the unnatural bondage in which
they were kept, and demanded the restoration
of their invaded laws. We say surprise, be-
cause we cannot conceive lrow his Lordship
could expect, under the new order of things,
to be received in the incongruous character in
. which he came, receiving his orders from and
being only accountable to the King. To have
received his Excellency as Marshal in Chief,
the Portuguese nation must have undone every,
thing they had lately done, reinstate the Re-
gen cy, and again sunk into that abject and debased
state from which they had just emerged. This sur-
prise was, however, increased, when we found me-

laces attached t 6 these remonstrances menaces put

forth, not only in the name of this country, but of
Europe ! We can make great allowances for- eve
feelings and opinions of one coming from such a
region, as the Brazils, and for-his being imper-
fectly informed of what had happened during his•
absence; but Lord Beresford was acting in the
character of a Portuguese Officer only, and at
least he knew before his departure what had
tv.kett place in Spain, where a Constitutional Go-
vernment had been established without bringing
down the vengeance of either England or Europe,
and it must have been evident to him that the ob-
jector Portugal was precisely the same. We, there-
fore, cannot help thinking that the Supreme Go-
vernment did right in entering into no explanation
of the views, and late cOndUCt of the Portuguese
nation with Lord Beresford; their reasons for
demanding a change of Government had already
been proclaimed to the world, and no doubt they
have communicated them to their distant King,
to whom they faithfully and cordially adhere,
though the unanimous and unalterable voice of
the nation has declared that he must restore the
ancient charters of -the kingdom, and hencefer-
ward govern in a more equitable and enlightened
manner. •

AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.-111011-
day afternoon, as ChristopherSplitt, Esq. a Rus-
sian merchant, and who had been Colonel of the
St. George's Volunteers, was coming, in the Strat-
ford stage from his country seat, at Stratford-
green, to his town residence at Splitt's-fields, St.
Georges in the East, he was seized with a vio-
lent lit of sneezing and coughing, while the
coach was going along the Mile-End-road, which
caused a rupture of a blood vessel, and he died
almost immediately after.

SII6CKING ACCIDENT.--About five o'clock
yesterday evening
.a Gentleman's servant was
siding a spirited horse in the Curtain-road, when
the animal took fright at some abject, and ran air
with the utmost fury across Worship-street, into
Crown-street, where it was attempted to be
stopped by some men, several of whom were
thrown down and seriously hurt. The horse still
continued its course across Finsbury-square,, when
the rider was thrown oil, and his arm broken.
Unfortunately a nurse-maid was going along at
the time with a young child in her arms : they
were trampled upon, and taken up in a senseless
state. The child was taken to the Hospital,
and is not expected to live.

Sutcrnr.—An Inquest was held fast evening
at the Ship and Whale public-house, Wapping-
wall, pn the body of Mr. Jonathan lleseltine, who
shot hirnielf with a pistol, at his lodgings in that
houe. it appeared in evidence that the deceas-
ed, who was Captain of a Leith trader, had been
.for some time in a desponding way, in conse-
quence of the death of his father and two bro-
thers.
_Verdict—Temporary Insanity.

The revenues of the Waterloo Bridge Com-
pany were. defrauded the other day by the fol-
lowing queer stratagem :—Two-young chimney-
sweepers wanted to pass over the bridge, Ui4
having only one penny between them, the thing
appeared to be impossible. They were not long,
however, in contriving how to manage it. They
tossed up which should get into the soot-bag;
and the one upon whom the chance fell instantly
enshrouded himself in that sable envelope, was
taken up on the shoulders.of the other, and, car-
ried, without discovery, through the bar. lie
then as instantly emerged from the•ba,, and they
both ran off together with a loud horse laugh at
the toll-keeper's want of vigilance.