The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-06 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Samuel Mullett, a young man, in the garb of a
waiter, was brought before Mr. ROE, on a warrant
of bastardy before birth, by Mr. Chadrrell, one of
the parish officers of St. James's. A pretty-looking
well-dressed young woman, named Rebecca Chand-
ler, in the third month of her pregnancy, servant to
a fitiNily in Dover-street, Piccadilly, was conducted
to the office, order to swear that the defendant
was the father of the infant with which she was then
pregnant. On the unhappy young creature behold-
ing Mullet, she went into strong hysterics, and up-
braided him 44 feeling terms with having seduced
her under aggravated circumstances. Mr. Roe in
vain endeavoured to prevail on the girl to compose
herself to have the oath administered to her. She
threw herself on tile floor with such violence that
the comb in her hair entered her head, and caused
the blood to flow copiously, and it required the
united strength of four persons to carry her towards
the Magistrate's table. At length the poor girl was
sworn, and Mr. Roe desired her to point out the
father of her child. " There is the wretch," ex-
claimed the girl, gazing wildly around, and aiming a
desperate blow at Mullett, who stood near her, and
escaped solely by running for protection into the
Magistrate's private room, having previontly inti-
mated that he was not prepared with bail to satisfy
the parish.
Mr. RoE then renewed his efforts to soothe the
unfortunate young creature, whose continued shrieks
were most distressing, by assuring her that the fel-
low was gone to prison, and see might return peace-
ably home ; but the only reply she made to the Ma-
gistrate's observation was, " Oh ! my poor mother,"
and half-uttered expressions concerning others of her
family .
The poor girl was then conveyed into the •pen
air, and restoratives applied, and eventually her
sister had her taken borne in a coach in a dreadful
state, arising from excessive anguish of mind. Mul
lett, who, until the young woman terrified him by
her frantic gestures, protested that he had a great
deal to offer in his defence, was locked up in default
of bail.

On Friday evening last, between six and seven
o'clock, as a youth about 18 years of age was passing
through Hyde-park, he was attacked by two fo-
reigners, who seized him, and forcing him down on
one of the seats, proceeded, by force and violence, to
commit an assault of an atrocious description on him.
The youth repeatedly called out " Murder I" but
while doing so the prisoners held him by the throat,
and attempted to stifle his cries, in which, not
succeeding, one of them was is the act of draw-
ing out a knife from his pocket, when sonic persons
fortunately came up, and the ruffians run away in,
different directions, and one of them made his
escape, but the other being closely pursued, was
taken, and conveyed to this office, from whence he
was committed by the Magistrate to take his trial
for the assault. On his way to this office from the
Park he contrived to inflict a severe wound on him-
self with the knife he carried in the lower part of
his throat, which discharged a vast quantity of
blood before it could be properly bandaged by a stir-
geon ; and on his way to prison afterwards, he tore
away the bandages in the street, and opened the
wound afresh. When, however, he got to Tothill•
fields prison, the wound was re-bandaged, and he
was secured with a strait waistcoat, in which situa-
tion he at present remains, until the approaching
We,tminster Sessions. The prisoner's name is
Louis illaria Lambert, a native of Franco, and he

states himself to be a silk-weavar, lately in the em-
ploy of some silk-manufacturers, having an esta-
blishment at Battersea. Nothing further was heard
of The prisoner's companion, who had made hie
escape, nor was he sought after, as there was no
clue to his detention, until yesterday, a respectable
female, who keeps a lodging-house in Riding-house-
lane, Oxford-street, came to the office, end stated,
that having seen in one of the Sunday newspapers
an account of the applehension and committal to
prison of a Frenchman, she was satisfied from the
description of the prisoner's person there given that
he was a lodger of hers, who with his companion,
also a lodger in the house, and a Frenchman too, went
out on Friday evening, and had never since returned,
although his companion did on the sense night,
and stated that he had missed his friend by some
accident, having left him speaking with a gen-
tleman in the street, and he supposed that he had
lost his way to the house, and could not again
find it. The Magistrate at once suspected, too,
that these were the parties who had assaulted the
boy, and sent for the latter to identify the man still
in the lodgings, if he should turn out to be the other
offender; and on the boy's arrival, Clements and
Ballard, the officers, were sent with him to the
house, with directions to take the Frenchman into
custody if he was the offender. On the officers go-
ing to the house the Frenchman was still in bed at
two o'clock in the afternoon ; but they ascended to
an attic room where he slept, accompanied by the
boy. The room-door was locked inside, but on one
of the officers knocking, and haying that he had a
letter to deliver, the door was opened, and the
Frenchman stood before them in his shirt and night-
cap. The boy, in that state of comparative nudity,
could not recognize the man as one of those who
assaulted him, but the moment the Frenchman spoke,
the ♦outh exclaimed that it was the same man, for
he knew his voice. The prisoner (for such he was
then made) having, with some reluctance, by the
orders of the cfficera, put on his clothes, and taking
off his night-cap, the boy distinctly recognized him
by his dress and general appearance, as well as by
his voice. The prisoner, who does not himself seem
to be above 20 years of age, was thee brought to
the office, and the youth having repeated his evi-
deuce as against the other man, this prisoner was
also committed for trial. The prisoner gave his
name Eli Prince, and said that he had been a waiter
at one of the principal coffee-houses at Paris,