The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-24 00:00:00

COURT or ASsIZES,

(From a Paris Paper.)

Pierre Begin, arid his wife, keeping the Hotel
teAleri,...,:on, in the rue Floidrnanteau, were bfought
beforc•tire Court on the 21st inst., on a charge of

having committed a robbery to a very considerable
amottet on William Lyons Andrews, a merchant
from Ireland.
On the 16th of June last Mr. Andrews arrived hr
Paris, and took up his quarters at the Hiitel des
Ambassadeurs, in the rue Notre Dame des .Victoirts.
On the following day he dined at a restaurateur's'
on the Boulevard. In his way home, in the even-
ing, he encountered a girl of the town in the neigh-
bourhood of the Valais Royal, and being d
with. the streets of Paris, requested Iter assistance.
in finding his hotel. The latter profited by this cir-
cumstance to induce him to go into some house which
he is unable to point out, and in which they had
liquor till he was in a complete state of intoxication.
41r. Andrews, thus entirely gt the mercy of his-com-
panion, suffered himself to be conducted to the hotel
kept by the prisoners, and as he had already. e.xl)i-
bited his penchant for champagne, a copious supp.ty
was provided for him, which he madesttelooll.:lfse
of as at length to lose all consciousness.
friend then had him deposited in a very indifferent
bed. On uwaking.in the morning, Mr. Andrews,
whose bead iVae not yet quite clear, was not a little
surprised to herd himself in such a eitnation. On
putting his-, hand in
.bis pocket, he miesed halfea-
dozen sovereigns which "might to have lieen4h7re,
.old six tWenty4ranc pieeee, His watch, of sonic
value, had ebb disappeared. On summoning Be_itt
the latter declared that be had only taken two of the
gold pieces.to pay for the champagne,•and had le-
moved the watch to prevent its being stolen. Mr.
Andrews had, then the singular imprudence to ems-
mine whether his Bank of England 'dotes, to the
value of 68,000 francs, were yet safe, and ascer-
tained that they had not been touched.
According to the charge, it was the sight of these
valuable articles which excited in Begin the idea. or
appropriating them to his own use. He therefore
brought up plenty more champagne, and Mr. An-
drews drank until he fell asleep. He awoke a'seeond
rime in the evening, and again looked for his beik-
notes, but they were no longer to he found. Begin,
after some hlaitation, now said that he had placed
them for safety in one of his drawers, and Mr. An-,
drews affirms that he had at the time taken the pre.
caution to lock up his clothes also, for the purpoie
of compelling him to remain his inmate. He coir-
tinued, however, to solace himself with copious
libations cf brandy, rum, and his favourite champagne. •
In the meanwhile the woman Begin changed at a
money- changer's in the passage Vero-Dedat a lefle
note; and having succeeded so well at the first time,
presented soon after a second of similar value. The
money-changer, however, becoming suspicious, in-
sisted on knowing the owner, and was Conducted to
the side of the bed where Mr. Andrews " lay in
glory," unable to articulate a word. Another note
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it was also ascertained, had placed ie
ftAehlmart.a
llesApinerdinsroehrleile, Andrews,
the hands of a person of her acquaintance, a note of
ten times the value of the last, but could not suc-
ceed in converting it into specie, notwithstanding
the sacrifice she offered to make. Begin himself,
too, gave another note for 1,0001. as security for a
sum of money which he owed.
Mr. Andrews having at length succeeded, on the
20th of June, in getting out of the house, could only
recover his two notes of 1,0004 each, by paying
4,300 francs, for which sum they bad been pledged.
An amicable arrangement was afterwards made, by
which Mr. Andrews agreed to pay the Beginm
the sum of 1,200 francs for -his expenses dui..
ing his short sojourn in their hotel. The bill, which
is a curious one, wai produced in the course of the
trial, containing, among other items, a charge of
550 francs for 110 bottles of champagne, and 89
francs for the favouts of four ladies, whom his R6C•llll.‘
Modating host had introduced to him.
Mr. Andrews, however, afterwards consulted
some proper persons upon the business, as on casting
up his balance of profit and loss, he found that of
his 68,000 francs there remained to him but 44,500,
consequently that there was somehow a deficit of
23,500 francs. OH searching the house of the Be-
gins, about 2,000 francs were found in money and
notes, which sum the latter declared they hail re-
ceived as the reward of their services. The charge
of robbery was in consequence made.
M. DELAPALME, the Advocate-General, now
moved that the trial be postponed, as it was ascer-
tained that Mr. Andrews had gone to England, was
now at Brighton, and he conceived his presence in-
dispensable to carrying on the cause. He moved
that the case should stand over.till the next session.

This was opposed by Mr. HARDY, for the defence,
on the ground that though Mr. Andrews's last letter
was certainly dated Brighton, there was good ground
for believing that he was now on his way to Ireland.
His clients were content to go upon the written de-
claration of the prosecutor.
The ADVOCATE-GENERAL again pressed his mo.
tion. It was evident that the absence of Mr. An-
drews would not only compromise his own private
interests, but the ends of public justice.
The COURT accordingly, after some deliberation,
decided that the presence of Mr. Andrews was ne-
cessary to elicit the truth of the affair, and ordered
the case to stand over till the next session.

ASSURANCE COMPANY FOR FEMALE
BEAUTY.—A foreign journal states (seriously) that a ❑ew
Assurance Company has just been established at Santa
Fe, in America, the object of which is to assure female
beauty ! The plan is Stated to be as follows :—any woman
may estimate her personal beauty at whatever value she
pleases, and assure it at that value, paying a proportionate
sum, according to the period assured for, &c. The Com-
pany assures female beauty from the age of fifteen to that
of thirty, paying to the assurer a specific sum if her
beauty goes off, or is by accident injured, during a given
period.

Mr. MAUNDER, jeweller, Launceston, has
in his possession an ancient copper coin in fine preserva-
tion, on one side is the head of PRIANI, King of Troy, on
the reverse side is some shipping, and in the back ground
a garrison and the building of a city; it weighs 13i ounces
Troy weight.

A BDUC TI 0 Ner-- A Miss S- B-, a
young lady of great beauty, and entitled to a considerable
fortune, came before the Magistrates at Henry-street police-
office, and made the following extraordinary statement :
She said, that she was acquainted with three persons, a
Mr. P----- M—, Mrs. P-- and Mr. S----
111—; on Sunday last Mr. and Mrs. P— M---
called on her, and asked her to take a walk; she went
with them, and when she got near the Ivy Cabin; Mrs.
M— pretended to be ill, and a carriage was sent -for ;
she went into it with Mr. and Mrs. P-- and
they then drove off ten or twelve miles, when they cam to
a house into which they entered ; Mrs. M— and Miss
B— were here left alone, and Mrs. DZ then told
the young lady that she was brought there in order that
the marriage ceremony might be performed between her
and Mr. S— and that there was a priest in
the house to marry them. This offer Miss B-- declined
in the most positive manner. The two ladies stopped to-
gether until night, when the Messrs. M— came in,
and Miss B— declined the proffered marriage. Mrs.
M— and Miss 13— slept together that night;" in the
morning the latter was awakened and told by Mrs. AI
that she might as well make up her mind to be married to
for that she herself had been run away
with. Miss B— immediately got up and dressed her-
self, jumped out of the window, and thus made her escape
from the house. Sh e met the two M---'s on the road,
and they wanted her to go back, but she would not do so.
A warrant was granted against Mrs. M----, her brother.
in-law, and husband. In a short time after, these three
persons entered the Board. room. Mrs. M— is a very
beautiful and fashionably dressed woraan—they asked per-
mission of the Magistrate to send for counsel. Mr. COLE
said he should postpone the business until their counsel
was sent for, requiring good bail for the appeat ance of the
parties.--The requi;ite bail was given, and ibe-matter was.
PubtPonsd.--I)nblin Morning Register.