The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1842.

the plucking would do no harm at all. He knew
perfectly well that the respectable butchers would not
countenance su3h a practice as that which was sus-
pected to be in existence, but he believed there were
some who would pluck without taking the trouble to
break the neck at all.

A Mr. Smith, who resides in the neighbourhood of
King William-street, was summoned for having re-
fused to pay the firemen who attended for the purpose
of extingishing a fire, which was said to have taken
place in the chimney of his house.
The parish firemen stated most distinctly that, upon
arriving at the house, they saw smoke and fire issue
from the chimney, and they pulled down some soot
which was on fire.

Mr. Smith—There was nothing at all of the kind.
I can prove satisfactorily to your Lordship's mind that

there Ivas no fire at all.
The LORD MAYOR—What ! Was there no soot on
fire ? Mr. Smith—None at all. There was no reason

whatever, for supposing there was a fire.
Mr. Cowton, a parochial officer of the district, was
then called by the firemen. He said that he went into
the house, and, upon looking up the chimney, saw
the soot on fire. He then took a broom and brought
down the soot, which was burning.
The LORD MAYOR—What have you to say to this
evidence, Mr. Smith? Mr. Smith—l say I can con-
vince your Lordship that there was no fire at all, nor
anything like a fire.—(Laughter.) Why these men
offered to compromise the matter by taking less than
they said they had a right to claim.
The firemen said that rather than be at the
trouble of attending before a Magistrate they had
offered to take less than they were entitled to, and

they were always disposed to do so.
Mr. Hobler informed the Lord Mayor that such

was very often the case.
Mr. Smith—l say there was no fire. There was
only some smoke.
The LORD MAYOR—NOW here is Mr. Cowton, a
disinterested witness, and a man we have long known
as a respectable person, and he says he actually swept
down the soot on fire.

Mr. Smith—They are all perjured.—(Great laugh-
ter.) Why should not my word be taken as well as
theirs ?

The LORD MAYOR—They are all sworn, and
amongst them is a man who has no interest in the
business.

Mr. Smith—There were other persons there who
said their demand was a common robbery.
The firemen declared that Mr. Smith had paid the
men he alluded to.

Mr. Smith—Oh, I can explain all that.
The LORD MAYOR—I adjudge you to pay these
men their full demand, and I will not hear of a com-
promise. To refuse to pay men under such circum-
stances is by no means creditable.

The particulars of the case hive already appeared
in the columns of The Sun.

The policeman Cross, now stated that six other
cases had come to his knowedge in which the
prisoner had unlawfully dispod of various articles
of wearing apparel and jewelery, the property of
gentlemen with whom he had lodged, but who de-
clined to prosecute him.
The depositions in three distinct cases having been
completed, the prisoner was committed for trial.

LOSS OF THE FRENCH )3ARQUE

L'ADOLPHE.

Letters received at Lloyd's, from their agents I
at Nevis and St. Croix, under date the 24th and
17th of August respectively. give accounts of the I
destruction of the above vessel, from which it I
appears that on the 29th ult. L'Adolphe,
commanded by Captain Brodeau, left Nantes for
Martinique, with a cargo of coal. Haring arrived
there and discharged them, she left that port on
the 29th of July, bound to St. Domingo, and on
the 31st of the same month struck on the reefs of
the little sandy island Ayes, or Ares, at the
southern extremity of Saba Bank, and soon be-
came a total wreck. The crew were enabled to
save two quarter boats, a small quantity of pro-
visions, a little vinegar and claret, but little or
no water. They landed on the island of Ares,
which is uninhabited, and only about four feet
above the level of the water. The small
quantity of water saved front the wreck was
soon expended, and none could the crew pro-
cure by digging. In such an exposed situa-
tion, without the means of shelter, and a scarcity
of provisions, the sufferings of these men
can be better imagined than described. On the
3d of August, their situation becoming alarming,
and no vessel in sight, the Captain dispatched
the chief mate and five men in one of the boats
to the northward, in the hopes of making St.
Kitts or Montserrat. On the 9th Captainßro-
dean consented to the second mate and three
men taking the second and remaining boat,
giving them directions to make for St. Croix.
The Captain was then left upon the island, with
the boatswain and cook, with a dreary and un-
certain prospect before them, in the height of the
hurricane season, and on a desert island. The
first boat, containing the chief officer, Mons.
Billard, arrived safe, but in a very exhausted and
attenuated state, at Nevis, on the 4th August,
and received every attention. On the following
day he started with a fresh crew and two naviga-
tors, on board a small schooner, with pro-
visions and other necessaries, for his help-
less companions at the island. But she re-
turned to Nevis on the 10th, having been
unable to find the island. She was then dispatched
to Guadeloupe for the assistance of a French
vessel of war. The second boat, under the
charge of the second officer, arrived at St. Croix
on the 11th of August, and were received into
the hospital. Fortunately, his Danish Majesty's
brig-of-war St. Croix, Captain Sealer, was in
port at the time, and departed under the special
orders of the Governor, for the island of Ares on
the following day (the 12th of August), where
they arrived on the 15th, and rescued from a
miserable death Captain Brodeau and his re-
maining companions, the boatswain and cook.
Captain Brodeau gave a melancholy detail of his
and fellow-sufferers' privations. They had used
vinegar mixed with salt water for want of the
greatest blessing of life, and for animal food
sucked the blood of birds, with which at night
the island was numerously frequented and easily
captured. No vestige of the wreck remained on
the 15th. The St. Croix returned and gave the
tact of the safety of the crew to St. Croix, and
bore up afterwards, having on board the second
boat's crew, in addition to the three men rescued
from the island, to St. Thomas, where she would,
land them. The poor cook was not expected to
survive.