The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It is impossible not to feel disgust at the
proofsgen ce,
of which are furnished
somethinglikea by every
determinationcay's i l
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the
ehe patienceexe fo
forbearance
aGea r
arncet
whßritaincii had
dn e
been
zed
safelyex_
part of Miguel and his creatures, to ascertain how
tret:lted. Lord Aberdeen apologized
fin- and insulted.
ercised towards the little tyrant of Lisbon, by
prai.-ing the unwillingness of a mighty empire to
he too stein in demanding reparation from a
feeble Government. There is, no doubt, some-
thiii in such a considetation which recommends
it to a manly people ; but may it not be carried
too far ? If a cur merely barks at us, he may
do so with impunity ; but if he snaps at us and
bites us on more than one occasion, it is time
to use the horsewhip, or demolish the offensive
animal by a kick. The outrages offered to
British subjects in Portugal since Miguel was in-
troduced there with our consent, and enabled to
overthrow the Constitutional Charter, in no
small degree, pc: naps, through the security pro-
vided for him by the instructions of this Govern-
ment to its commanding officer to defend the
creature's life if it should be menaced,—these
outrages were, we freely acknowledge, made the
matter of repeated, and in the end, successful re-
monstrance by Lord Aberdeen ; but it does not
appear that the detestable Government of Por-
tugal has abandoned its mstem of injury and in-
stilt. A few posts ago, i;itelligence was brought
of an act of extreme violence having been com-
mitted by Miguel's functionaries on the persons
of four British seamen on duty, who were
robbed of treasure to a large amount, and thrown
into the hateful dungeons of the Limoeiro ; and
to-day our city article states a crime against the
flag, die Palladium of England, perpetrated by
the usurper's Commodore off Terceira, which
(if the transaction has not been grossly clis.
coloured) cannot be passed over withottt sum,
mary and signal retaliation. The case W
shortly this:—A British vessel, the ship Lonclo/
was on her homeward voyage ft om India, when;
on the 13th inst., while mining on her course
through the channel between St. George and
Terceira, she was chased, and fired at with a
" shotted gun, by a large Portuguese frigate.
The English merchantman then hove to, and
was immediately boarded by a large cutter,
manned and armed, from the frigate. Ou de-
manding what was meant by this act of hosti-
lity, the English Captain was told that he must
be taken to Miguel's Commodore, cruiFing off
the city of Angra, which port, it appears, wan
blockaded. An officer and twelve marines were;
kept. on board the British vessel. Our country-
man, after repeated remonstrances, and en-
treaties to have permission to proceed on his
voyage, required that the armed force of the
usurper should either liberate the British mer-
chantman or make prize of her. But the only
answer he received was, that a lieutenant, with
thirty more men, came on board him, hauled
dozen the British ensign, ! and compelled the
captain to follow the motions of the frigate. It
was not until the evening of the 14th, after being
under this detention, amounting to unlawful
.capture, for six or eight-and-twenty hours, that
the British crew and ship were sent about their
business. We shall make no comments on this
rare proceeding: it is new to the marine of
England, and will, doubtless, not become more
frequent from any undue toleration.—Times,
We are glad to find that Mr. Hudson Gurney'
has intimated, in his place in Parliament, that, it'
some one more able than himself did not under-
take the duty, he would, next Session, propose
a measure for preventing the application of Cor?
porate funds to the purposes of elections. By
the law of Parliament, it is a breach of the pri-
vileges of the House of Commons for a I'ecr to
interfere in the election of Members, or exercise
any controul over the suffrages of the people, by
threat, promise, or pecuniary inducement. Thir4
law, it is true, is much eluded in practieel lint.
the principle is not time less sound and good
because it is practically borne down and lost sight
of in the current of modern corruption. If it
be wrong and unconstitutional for a Peer to in-
terfere in elections, as being injurious to the free
exercise of the elective franchise, ought not the
application of the funds of a Corporate body to
such purposes to be regarded as still more mis-
chievous and reprehensible ? The power and
influence of a Corporation in its own neighbour-
hood is generally very great. There are some
Corporations that have for more local influence
than many Peers. If the interference of the
latter be adverse to the " freedom of election,"
why not that of the former ? Every member
of a Corporation, not a Peer, has aright, in his
individual capacity, to iiiterest himself in elec-
tions, and support whichever
party he pleases ;
but it is a very different thing to wield the collec-
tive power of a Corporation, and apply its funds
to secure the return of a favourite candidate. The
funds of Corporations are not like the private
estates of Peers, their own absolute property—they
arc estates vested in them as trustees, to be
applied to certain specific and public purposes.
In general they are endowments to charitable
uses, and for the cleansing and paving of town:
—the keeping of watch and ward—the repair
and rebuilding of bridges, and other matters of
public convenience and police. The tolls and
other taxes which Corporations arc allowed to
levy ought to be applied, as they were originally
intended, to the paving, lighting, and watching
of towns, instead of being lavished, as they too
generally are, in eating, drinking, and all sorts
of Corporate luxury and extravagance. But
when, in addition to such misapplication of
taxes raised and funds intrusted to those corrupt
and bloated bodies, thousands arc squandered
upon contested electrons, there can be no lan-
guage too strong to designate such dishonest
violations of trust—no law too severe to repress
them. Indeed, the whole system of Corporations
ought to be done away—those bodies are no
longer of any public use whatever—they arc the
strong holds of local jobbing, oppression, and
corruption—they increase time burdens of the
people by levying taxes, the produce of which
they mis-spend—and they debase the morals of
their respective neighbourhoods by their vicious
influence and the contagion of their example.—
Morning Herald.
Mr. Hume, at the close of the Session, pre-
sented a petition from certain inhabitants of Pad-
dington, complaining of the late delivery oilet-
ters by the General Post, and that their Two-
penny Post letters, as well as those by the Ge-
neral Post, arc charged an additional penny or
30 per cent., as if they live 4 in the country.
This the inhabitants of Paddington, like those
of Camberwell and Islington, once did ; but, as
the extension of the town has driven them out
of the country, there seems to he no reason, now
that they have exchanged the blessings of air
and quiet for the misery of noise and smoke,
that they should any longer pay for comforts,
privileges, and exemptions, which they no kngCr

ejw,'• 1.-;4lthitv4 mn arc bsto.l tl
n ev, that
the rates of postage i,heuid be regulated by
the circumstance of streets h 'pp:ming to be
paved or macadamised. Distance from the I
I'ost Office, or perhaps, rather, from .the
centre of the town, is the only just talk to
go by. Catherine-street, in the Strand, is pro-
bably the most .exte; centre of the metrorfis
wni...ft could be fixed upon. Let the PoA Otli.:.;e,
then, but a compass upon that street, and let
four or five miles within its reach be the limit of
the Twopenny Post, without any regard to that'
limit reaching town or country, or rather, we
should say, paved or macadamised streets. Then,
with regard to the late delivery of General Post
letters, considering- the cxcelfence of the Post-
office regulations in every respect, we wonder
that nothing has !wen done to extend its ev..el-.
knee in this particular. A plan was long since
suggested in this pal•er which would have cured
that evil ; and it was this—that the General
Postmen should be carried to their destinations,
instead of being obliged, as i 1 W, to walk, and
begin their labours tied and loot-wearied. Why
this plan has not Leen adopted we cannot telL
Perhaps this and otlier improvements in this ad;
mirablv-cond estll _a_eisament await the o n p,2-
n inc, of the new Post.oflice on the 12th of An-
gust. We shall lie rejoiced to find that this is
the case. It -is a common fault of excellence
to imagine that it admits of IR) iatprovementS;
that, however, is not true.. It is rather the natural
faculty of that which is good to become:bettcr,
and, instead of " letting well -1-ne," it is seine
times convenient to show those who have arrived
at a certain point of merit how much farther they
ran succeed in their career thal they themselves
have contemp!ated.—lbid.

A perusal of the evidence taken before the
select Committee, to inquize he° the conduct
of Mr. Nash, has served to account to us for
some of the proceedings adoi:Lci both in the
Mouser of Commons and Chi:Mil:NV, with respect
to this case. We ere not astonished that it
should have been thought advis ride to 'midis!)
the resolutions of the Committee, before pub-
lishing the report on the evidence, and that
statements of the substance of the evidence as
well as discussions on them, should have been
deemed too delicate for any other ears than thme
of -the collective. Before the exclusion of strait-
ger.; on Friday, the 19th of June, World
Davies had given a view of the evidence
relating to the manner in which, after :\lr.
Nash bad made his report as to the terms on
which leases ought to le! granted, Mr. Eclwards,
a near relation of Mr. Nash's, appeared on the
scene—the disappearance of Mr. Ede.ards in
due time—and the appearance of Mr. Nash,
who, -as a 'generous and warm;hearted friend
of Mr. Edwards's, had purchased from
him for 4,5001., a lease which he had subse-
quently sold for 17,0591., and. after deduCting
2,3001. had realised 14,0631. We will not
now go over this part of the subj..et, but proceed
to a.transaction connected with this loan, which
Colonel Davies had no opportunity of noticing.
It appears that the frontage of Pall-mall East,
of wilk.ll a lease was granted to Mr. Edwards,
was not ecyrectly measured by Mr. Nash, and it
so happens, accidentally of course, that the error
was not in favour of the Crown, but in favour
of Mr. Edwards,—and it appears also, that rd-
though the number of feat was correctly stated
in the counterparts of the lca,e granted to the
tenants to whom the ground was parcelled out,
yet that the discovery of the error was first made
so late as January. 129 by Lord Lowther, by
stepping over rt. But we will allow Lord Lowther,
the discoverer, to tell his story in his own words.
Lettcr front Lord Lowther to Mr. Goulburn
(Ev. p. 111.) :
DEAR Gouezur.N—The con,ideration of
the most adva•oag,ous method of laying out the
ground made vacant by the Charing-cross improre-
mcnts, has incidentally led me to an examination of
the transactions whici.t took place in consequence of
similar vacancies in the progres- of the improvements
under the Regent-street Act. In the course of
examination, I haveanct with seine circumstances,
with a in kJ* statement cf which I think it my doty
to troultle you.
" When in the course of the New-street improve-
ments, the wound Between the west side of Suffolk-
street and tiliite=h-strect was to be let, a propo-al
was made for it by Mr. Edwards, of Stanhope-
street, which was referred to our wehitecr, Mr.
Nash, end approved of by him; and, in consequence
au age( einem was male to lease. the ground at the
pronoscd rents in Mr. Elwards, or his nominee. It
fort.her appears :hat Mr. Nash himself became one
of these nominees, and for au extent which .pays
rent ncar'y evil to one-hal of the whole sum re-
ceived from Mr. Edwards. Now the fact of our
Archi-ect becoming the Lessee of property, in the
disposal of which the board was guided by his ad-
vice, is certainly wrong upon general principles;
Put when I add to this, that I am informed that Mr.
Ethvarils is a near relative to Mr. Nash, and that
other circumstances render it probable that Mr.
N rib we: cogniz ant of the term; proposed by Mr.
Elwards at the time he prop sed them, I think you
will agree with me, that for Mr. Nash's sake, if far
no other reason, the transaction should be more fully
explained.
" Another fact connected wiih this aft which I
0141 it to appriz.,you or, is this :--a part of tills
ground having a front tollall•mall East, was, upon
the nomination of M. Edwards, let to Mr. Na.h,
acid was very shortly after disposed of by him to the
persons who have built upon it, far a rent consi,lcr-
ably greater, its I learn, titan that which Mr. Nash
pa) sto the Crown. I do not say that it is impos-
sible that this could fairly happen, but it is cer-
tainly a circumstance which I should think justifies

enquiry.
" There is a third point in this mattee which
ought to he examined into. The frontage to Pall-
vrall East was granted to Mr. Edwards as 82 feet,
or three guineas per foot. I find by re-measztre-
MCJit that it contains • ninety-seven or ninety-eight
feet. So that a valuable piece qf ground has been
added to Mr. Edwartls's original take, without any
additional rent being received on the part of the
Crown. How this mistake occurred must be ex-
plained by Mr. Nash, to whom all measurements
were referred, and who had to inspect and approve
of all the plans and elevations of the buildings upon
this ground. It is, you mai believe, with great re-
luctance that I feel myself..obliged, by a sense of
public duty, thus to revert to eii cumstances which
t:mk place before I was in office ; and I have con-
tented myself with laying the facts plainly before
you, without attempting to draw any inferences, or
to prejudice any explinations of which-they may be
capable ; and I must leave it to you and the Trea-
sury to decide in what mode such explanations should
be sought, and a satisfactory inquiry made.—l.,am
very faithfully your's,
(Signed) " LOWTHER.
4. Whitehall-place, e9th January, 1529."
• In a letter from Messrs. Adams and Dawkins,
to Mr. Goulburn, dated Whitehall-place, Friday,
20th February, 1829, they say—
" We are sorry to learn that a mistake has ec•
curred respecting the dimensions of the ground. It
IS, however, no more than ju,tice to Mr. Nash to
observe, that _it: was measured by him before the
houses which then occupied it had been removed,
and that such admeasurernent
.therefore was neces-
sarily liable to error. But as the last lease of the
'whole plot has not been granted,. t .e frontage will
be re-measured, preparatory to the issuing of it ; and
whatever inaccuracy shall appear to have been made

in Mr. Nash'.; original convitation, either :n grant-
ingahat lease, or by some other arrangeinews with
him, may he rralily corrected.
It would appear, however, that the exact
measurement or this front Age, which came sari-
,dentally, as it were, to the knowedge of Lord.
Lowther, in 1329, was well known to Mr. Nash
ami 1621. Mr. George Jappen,
Architect, says (p. 9), that on the p of Mes,rs.
Paxton and Co., he negotiated a lease or the
izround on which their premises stand, with Mr.
NA] :
" was the date of tine trarsairm?—lt was
in the Later end of 1820; I began the ',oiling

io iB2l.
" What were the terms ttp:m 1%.11A you agreed
with Mr. Nash ?—I was to give him four guineas u
foot for forty jhur feet, fronting Pall-mal East, and
fifty-!wo feet deep."
Mr. Charles Stuart, Secretary to the Univer-
sity Club, p. 15, has this evidence :
Are )on acquainted with any of the t.-an<ac-
tions which led to the renting of grourcl upon winch
the UNi versify Club now stands? The first com-
notn;e,ltion we had o,i the subject was from Mr.
Tapiam, on the 141 th December, 1821.
%\ as the :wore of that communication ?
—lt is a.llessed to Mr. Barlow, who Was then act-
ing as Secretary of the University Club—' Sir, I •
sent you beneath a plan of the ground, which 1
11:1:1c will be sufficiently explicit, and give the gen-
;Lan n of the Committee satistactory ideas of the
&o. .Tbe ground is on karc from the
I.:Avards,for ninciy-ninc seam Mr.
Nas'i is Mr. Ede.ards's (igcnt vpon occa4io;:.—
' 'rite f,,ili.wing are the terms :,-52 feet in f.init
of
New Pall and Z',2 feet deep, at four guineas
pt.r. font, 2331. The cig,,W.fect to be added up
SuirA:-.stseet, is to be at three guineas per foot,
25/. 4 making a total of 24:31. 12s.' Thi: is the
whole that is appicable to the ground rent.
" What was the final agreement you came to nt:th
Mr. E.lwards or Mr. Nash ?—I will read Mr. N
letter of the GM cf May, 1823, which was an enay. cr
to en application to Mr. Nash, to know what was
the price of the ground Sir, by the agreement,
or ra! her correspondence with your solicitor, you
wll tin the terms on which 1 let the ground to your
Club,
" What was the actual rent which bad been
agreed upon for the premises ?-3911., and the lain:-
tax was 20/. 18s.
" 110 w much of that was rent to the Crown

Now by casting up the two frontages to Pal-
mall East of 11 rect. and 52 feet, we have 1)6
feet, which is on i-uch a frontage a singular ad-
vance noon B'2 feet. Lqt us now hear what
Lord Lowther says in his evidence on the sub-
iect Of this frontage (p. 61)—
" It vppears by the correspondence that your
Lordship adveried to the difference between the
Inea,nretnent by Mr. Nash of the frontan brands
Pail-mall East awl the actonl extent of the ground
—in what manna was your attention directed to
it It was communicated to me horn some ii -
formation I called for in the office of what the
lettings were; it was said it was 8r feet : I cannct
recollect the date, but it occurred to me that it was
much wider than 62 feet, and I went up and step-

ped it.
" Have the Crown, in fae, been only credited
with the rent for 82 feet during all this ti:ne ?--The
!cities have been granted with the measurements of
the 97 feet ; but it appears by Mr. Milne's evidence
ther.! i 3 a sum due whirh has not yet bet it paid to
the Gown; I-was informed of that at the end of
January, and there is a letter I have been looking
for no:v, but t annot lay my baud upon.
" flow did you ret•cive that information ?—I
informed by a person, in the °like.
" It appears by the correspondence as if you had
had a ,uNpieion of it ?•—lt did strike me as :angular,
there should bean increase on the most valuable part
of tiro ground.

•. _ .
" The diff;renee occurred tl you lot.g• after the
buildings had been erecel ‘vhich I s:nted,
occurred to me last JanuaT ; this arose out of a
question put to my Right honourable Friend in tbe
Committee of the last Sess:on on Imievet-
mews."
Alexander ',Willie, El., Chief Secretary to the
Mice of Woods and Fores, p. 63, gives the
following evidence :
" There were two lease=, one to the University
Ciith., and the other to Messrs. Pavan ; it was in
1823 I think.
" Is that complete notice to the miiez.. of the actual
ailinea.urement of that land ?—Yes certainly.

6' You were understo:nl to say that it is the cus-
tom in these cases to place part of a general rem
upenone or other hous.., as it may suit best ler the
convenience of the Masan ?—Yes.
"6 With reference to that object, you do not ex-
pect from the University, Char a rental of three
guineas a foot upon tht:t frontage, but you receive
1201., it being more conve&ent to Mr. Edwards's
nominee that that sum should stand upon the Uni-
v....rsity Club ?—Ex;xtly so.
" The .almeasurement of the University Club is
no security therefore that you gt t three guineas a
foot on that frontage ?—lt is not.
" In the same way the hoose occupied by Messrs.
Paxton would be in the same situation ?—.Just so.
" The result of this mist therefore be that the
whole frontage between Whiteomb.street and Suf-
folk-street, men-Airing 97 feet, and which ought to
have secured to the Crown upwards of 290/., clues
not seem e to the Crown that sum ?—lt does not.
" You look for the security of that to other pro-

pert V. • • • • •
" Were you ever ii!fivined by Mc Crown Surveyor
that there had beiqi Lit error in the measurement of
that ground let by the. Crown to Mr. Edwards ?

No, I wus 1:0t."

• So much for this measurement of the Crown
Surveyor. Mr. Milne wished to persuade the
Committee that no loss could have accrued to ,
the public, -..-even :if the mistake in the measure- I
ment had never been diwoVered. This sounds i
rather odd ; but the fact is otherwise. When Mr.
•Edwards took the groUnd, it was calculated that 1
there were so many feet at three guineas, so
many- at one guinea and a half, and so many at
12s. 6d., and the aggregate rent of all these be-
ing 9001. per annum ; to which was to be added
a rent of 1741. per annum, in lieu of 3,800/.,.the
value of old materials taken by Mr. Edwards.
Provided, therefore, Mr. Edwards or his nomi-
nee paid this aggregate rent, it Was a matter of
indill'erence to the Crown how it was distributed
on the ground, and accordingly on some plots
Mr. Nash imposed a low rent for the Crown,
and a very high rent for himself, so that the rent
received by the Crown, on any particular plot of
ground, formed a criterion of the extent of the
ground it contained. It was, therefore, only. by
a reference to the counter-parts of the leases,
which contained plans of the premises, and a
correct measurement, that the Commissioners of
Woods and Forests could have detected the error.
But it appears that they were in a fair way never
to have, discovered it. It is stated by Mr. Milne,
p. 64, " The adtneasurement was taken in Ja7
ntl:lrv, 1829, according to a plan which had
been delivered in June, 1820. In that plan
delivered in June, 1820, the admeasurement is
stated as 82 feet, and the account made rp
in January, 1829 (the account delivered to
the first Commissioner), was prepared ac-
cording to that plan delivered in June, 1820,
instead of being prepared, which it
.should
have been, from the counterpart of the
lease in the office." They might therefore
have gone on, according to this incorrect
return made out for Lord Lowther, to the ter-

01' the 99 se.trs' lease, without tl:-;-
c.overing the mistake, ‘vhielt made a difference of
471. per annum in favour of the Crown
when discovered. With respect to the correct
measurement iii the leases by Mt-. Nash, tho
reze;sAt is obvious. lie did not S,:y to the kssees,
Messrs. Pa7;.!on, and the University Club, )00
shall give the so Touch your plot of ground,
but you shall pay so much to the Crown, and
much peribot improved ground-roit to me.
He had an obvious motive flir letting these
parties know as early as possible the cx:Rtt ad-
measurement ; but he forgot to communicate to
the Crown the knowledge/ of ti's mitaneatAire-
trent. No light is thrown upon this part of
the busines.3. Ileis San— of the admeasure-
went is but a small part of the case. We shall
to-morrow proceed to the consideration of
another part of the Evidence.—Morning Chrort.

POLICE INTEL“GENcE.

(;UIJ.I);IA .L

R uscit a Alit rd, who wise .I.Vixzkes, a dAshiwr-
ittoliing let:mile, about thirty years of age, was
b,ought before Mr. Alderman liEv on Saturday,
charg,:d v:ith bigamy.
Mr. Luke Milward, of Retreat-place-, Hid:m.7y,
t!:e first husband, made the (will:hint. Ile was
much agitated. Ile said he lad been look;tkr ftr her
-&g!'t years. iie had ret,ided at New Ymk about
fair yeat-s and a half, and w hile he was there the
pr'sonei committed the offence he now complained
of by marrying., at Geetria-greett, a Mt% Noakes, with
whom she afterwards lived at Dorking for about five
tumults, behaving -with strict propriety. One day.
she let the fact slip that she had been previously
matrial to a yotutg mart who lived at. Islington, of
the name of vagabond, she said, who
ifl-used l,er, raid died abroad. Mr. Noake%
fluently made some infinities :it Islington. traces
parents, and discovetina that witnet's was lit (t
his
was in September, 1821), be immediAtr.ly prose-
cuted his wife for bigamy, but the east: broke down.
llefore witness bec.tme acquainted with her, she
mart 0(1 some pers in at Esher, who broke his heart
in con-equenee of her misconduct; arid she had a
child now livlt,g by a roan of tile manic of Ileydon.
IL: could vrmitire Mr. Noakes ott a future day to
prove the second martiage, if the magi.trate woull
detain her. _ _

Some Lgal dill:cult), occurred to the mind of the
chief clerk seeminely as to the competency or the
credibility or Noakes, as the only %vitness 10 prove
the second maniage, he having since mataied again;
anti after a consultation with tia_t city solicitor,
2Werrnan Kr.y said, t hot as the complainant
could not then, and probably could not hereafter,.
produce the necessary proof, he should dismiss the
ca-c.
The complainant said that he could bring Mr.
Nookeg on Monday.
The Alderman said tot would not do, and the
prisoner, wit,) was weeping, immediately retired ;
and the complaineel7, with an air of distraction, cried,
" Then am 1, a )(tong man(not yet 28, to live in
martyrdom ? 1 will never leave her till 1 get jut-
tier," and ruslcd out of the office to follow her.
James 31(thiews, whoLsale butcher, vho keeps
•a slaclitet-hott.e in Warwick-lane, Newgate-
marker, attvtaled on the complaint of Mr. Dunsby,
the Lretnatt of the inquest of Far,-ingdon
for unlawfully exposing- for sale the carcass of a
bullock, and a Lin of beef, which were tat for
human fore!.
Mr. Donsby stated that the inquest visited all the
shops in Newgsrate maiket about • seven o'clock on
Siturtlq morning, and at the th fentlaat's they
found the tneat in tptcstion, which Mr. Wood, one
of the inquest, who is a butt her, dto:tred unfit for
• human rood. The man in charge of the • prernis( s
allowtd that the meat was for sale, hut when Mr.
Matthews arrived, he said it was already sold, but the
buyer had neglected to fetch it away.
A (pnter was brought into the jnstiec-room, and
the cliinvitun that proceeded from it was exceedingly

toseou4.
Mr. Wood, ;t butcher ;It Ivy-1 air, deposed, that
le tre,a eta; not fit for food, anvi it was in this
ate fcnm disease, and ►:ot ft um the length of time

after 161:ir,g-,,
J. Bates, a patrol, said he had been a buteher
twenty-five years, an I was of o;.inhat this bullock
was.nothitog bat a rotten one ; it wa: not merely
poor. hit what the battlers call a downright " wet
'to'.'' Fhe Icings felt in the hand like a dish-clout.
Mr. Wooler, for the defendant, railed
James Hooper, will depo,ed, Oat he .slangi tetra
the animal, which had been purchased at Southall.
He had taken Lvers in a wore -state remit beays in
good cnmlition, :ban from the bullock in Tiestion. 1
Mr..Wooler remarked, that the same Thing hap-
pened with man : his liver was affected sometiates,
while the (vita p, its of his body we:e not.
Mr. Alderman KEY it,lcd the witness if ht! could
swear the beast was not diwased?—Witness an-,
swcrea, he was not experienetd enough to tell.--
(Loud laughtur.)
Mr. Dun-by said-, if he was so inexperienced, his
cvi:knee was worth litil-:.
Mr. Wonl,r said, th:it m 4 the auhnal had walked
the 13 miles from Southall, it could not have been
in a very ha l state.
Defendant sad it had been brought to the Loa-
,lon maiket fr:nn a distance of 101) miles. Ile gave
71. 10s. for it. It was a great prite for a poor beast
of that sort, but he bought it intending to sell it to
the dui;,, or ‘vilsl beat jn It was a single
li.lrgt,'n; ; he sold it on Thur,,day morning to Miles,
a s!iecp',..hcad man, on Saffron-hill, who iteeps 00
pigs, atal therefore is a regular dealer in this kind of

:nee% •
Duttsby a•,.ked him why lie hail rubbed- the
carcass over with fit, if lie intended it for dogs'
meet : did he take pains to. make it more relish:llg
for thein?—Deftinthott thought it might fetch a
price.—(A
Me. limsby felt convinced it 'would !ive been
retailed to the pont by catolle-liv,ht.
Mr. over, the late master of the Butchers' Com-
pany, said.it was well known in the trade that the
bad meet was purchased by the sausage and polony-
makers. Hit remembered being fit the shop of Mr.
Boyce, the salesman in Newgatc-market, one morn-
ing, when a sheep in a shocking state, havirg diet!
four or five days be fore, was brought in Gout the
couivry. Us asked Mr. Boyce what he could do
with it, and be replied lie should sell it for dog,:
meat at Id. per lb. Presently a sanSage•mAer,
now in the Justice-room, came up, and (acted to
buy it, tendering as much as tld. per lb. ; but Mr.
Boyce, knowing he wanted it for polonies, said be•
should not have it.
Mr. Alderman KEY was sorry to hear that great
quantitics of unwholesome meat had latterly been
brought to this market.
. Mr. Wouler,procectrug to Prove his defence,

olin Mikß, who was in the hat I%f buying, offal
to fool his pig,. lie bought the beef in question.
Ile never mule either polonie,, sausa2es, or f.iggots.
Three other wittittlie.,. were cawed to prove the
sOe' , br:t one of thou it Wai COndiClOtial ; that
defen-dant rouli not find a coltotner at New-
gate-market who woni 1 Oyu more, then Miles
would buy the whole at 81. per stone. There was
about 80 stone.
Air. Over pronounced the whole dise.tsed meat,
and Mr. Aldermln KEY diNeted it t;hould be burnt
fordo% 411 an:l the defendant held to
bail abide a city prosecution.