The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-01 00:00:00

announcing his victory over the Usurper's exp

dition. have already stated it to he. an un-
derstood fact, that the British Government hail
remonstrated with the Ministers of the Empe-

ror Don Pedro, against the apparent impoliey
of withdrawing the Queen from Europe, thus
aggravating the discouragement of her loyal sub-
jects, and relieving Miguel from the aprchen-
sion which perpetually galls him, whilst Donna
Maria remains within a week s sail of Por;n:al ;
that si►e is here in readiness to take advatlte

of contingencies, and to serve as a rawong,
point for the alienated spirits of the Portuolcsc,
whom his tyranny from day to day diT;tlA.:.
There is no more doubt that the dissuasb.:s ni

this friendly Government have been justified by
sound sense and reasoning, than that they were
founded on good faith and a sincere prelike-
tion for the cause of honour and legitimacy,
and distinguished from that of usurpation.
It would be vain to deny that Donna Maria,
by an abrupt return to Rio de Janeiro, after ail
hitherto unsuccessful voyage to Europe, would
furnish to her enemy the most plausible grounds
for affirming that she abandoned all pretem.ions
Ito the Crown of Portugal, and left Don Miei
undisputed master of the field. Whether mate-
rials could be found, without a single outreee on
the law of nations, for maintaining a centli(t
against that perfidious and odious Prince, even
by a more prolonged adherence on the part or
Donna Maria to the system of watching over
Portugal from England, we shall not here in-
quire, but unquestionalaly, whatever chance of
a favourable result can be imagined, be it much
or little, must be sensibly impaired by this mea-
sure of now revisiting her father's Court. To
guard against all sinister constructions, and espe-
cially to disclaim the notion that her. flight. from
Europe involves an abdication of the Crown (al
the part of her Majesty, or an indifference to his
daughter's rights on that of Don Pedro, is the
professed object of the present formal &clam-,
tion. It does not, indeed, appear to us tleA
case has been made out to justify the Queen's
departure. There is no apparent " necessity"
for the Emperor of Brazil to become the local
and immediate protector of his daughter's person
on account of the " struggle which unhappily
exists between legitimacy and usurpation :"
first, legitimacy, so far as Portugal is concerned,
has gone to the wall without any struogki
that deserves the name ; but secondly, and more
obviously, the person of the young queen, and
her mind also, are in at least equally good keep.-
ing outli
erlog:Americai
l;
there and
is,re a
moreover,s
jects to be placed on the debit side of the trans-
atlantic voyage. Nevertheless, Don Pedro and
his councillors must know their own business
better than we can explain it to them.
give up the cause, it is not for England to im-
pugn their judgment. Her course, being that-
a conscientious neutrality, is a clear one.
gave fair play to the friends of the constitutien
when she turned her back upon the tyrant v. to
destroyed it, and refused to hold interceueee
with him. This of itself was surely affording a
great moral advantage to the Patriots. If the y
were too few or feeble to make use of it, the
fault lies not with England. British commerce
cannot always be compelled to devote itself for
a political principle, however just. Two nations
cannot always be penned in from mingling or
communicating, because the actual ruler of one
of them happens to be a scoundrel. If the Bri-
tish Government be urged, on the other hand,
to take positive measures for the overthrow of
rs h
Miguel's usurpation, the answer is easy. has
Pedro
such thoughte
to
mh or
take
lawful to
subjects
bound
he will not suffer Brazil tb be impli-
cated in the civil wars of a foreign, though
closely connected nation, even where one of the
contending parties—the injured party, and un-
happily the weaker—is his own child. WheWer
a British Ministry would have virtue enough to
exercise such forbearance in a parallel case, we
know not, or to enforce it on the Sovereign of
this country as his duty, to let Hanover, should.
it devolve on a junior branch of the House of
Brunswick, " go quietly to the dogs," arc can-
not say with any confidence ; but sure vee are,
that when Pedro refuses to commit Brazil in his
daughter's quarrel, it would be preposterous to
reproach King George IV., because he declines
to be so committed. History, however, is full
of retributive justice. We may—we ought—to
indulge strong wishes on this subject of the
Portuguese succession—though to act on them
we may be forbidden by the principles of policy
and law. Count Villa floes despatch from
Terceira will be read with pleasure by every ad-
mirer of bravery, constancy, and military talent.
—Times.

If they

She

In our remarks yesterday on the disturbances
at Barnsley, and the speeches delivered by the
artizans at their meetings on Monday and Wed-
nesday last, we observed with reference to the
proposition of Frank Mirfield, that " the la-
bouring class are entitled to a belly .full them-
selves ;" that " if those who ought to know
more than Frank Mirfield bold the same lan-
guage, we are not to be surprised that a poor
labourer should conceive that there ought to be
no such thing as misery in the world." One of
the speakers, Peter Hoey, went a little further
than Frank Mirfield, for he laid it down that the
law of the land ought to give way to the law of
nature. In Blackwood's Magazine for Sep-
tember, there is an article on ". The State and
Prospects of the Country," in which we find
precisely the same language as that uttered at
the Barnsley Meeting, so that we are almost
tempted to conclude either that Peter Hoey and
sauiplporttliaaltl,
Frank Mirfield have written the article in Black-
wood, or thethe proof sheets of it have been sent
to these orators some time before the Meeting.
" Let it be again and again impressed upon the
Continueinclude t
htadee.
Legislature (says the writer in _qlackwood) that the
therefore, all who are ready and willing to labour
in
have a natural right to full subsistence. If it be wil-
tiw country
peopleha withinomi
comfort and lamrdia7tittb meansunda.neteo,
fully and designedly withheld from them, it is a ty.
runny which they ought, and will not,
hour and the raw material—in which we
endure ; if it be a defect of the political arrange
meats of the country, which does not allow the
land—to come .together, so that production
l and
abundance may lath; the common
right to expect that those who governpeopt
he have
willa
remove this defect. It is impossible that Legis-
laturetheem can justify itself from the complaints of the
people, until it c4ut shew either that the country

does not afford the means of their subsistence, or
that they are unwilling to do the work which is
necessary to take advantage of those means."
We protest against these levelling doctrines ;
for though we are of opinion that property is
held by the rich under the responsibility of pro-
viding for the poor, and placing the institutions
of society in such a state as shall remedy the
diseases which may grow up in our system, and
if the rich neglect this duty, they cannot, and
ought not, to escape the punishment of their sin ;
vet we can conceive nothing more mischievous
than to hold out to the people that the labouring
classes ought never to be subjected to any priva-
tions. The principle of population alone is a
sufficient refutation of this doctrine. There is
not at this moment a country in Europe in
which there are not multitudes willing to labour,
but unable to find employment. Nay, though it
may sound paradoxical, we attribute the superior
condition of the English labourers till within the
the last thirty or forty years, to the struggle which
the Poor Laws necessarily produced between the
rich and the poor, arising out of the necessities
of the latter, and the exertions imposed by the
law on the former, either to become poor them-
selves, or to check the increase of labourers beyond
the demand. Why is it that Ireland swarms with
unemployed poor, and that our own institutions
are rendered unavailing by the emigration of ne-
cessitous persons from the sister island, if there
are abundant means to support all the people in
comfort and abundance ? There are not abun-
dant means to supply the people, if they in-
crease at the rate at which they have lately in-
creased in Ireland, and in this country. The
writer in Blackwood observes—

" It is plain to every man of common observation,
who looks at the resources of this country, and at its
population, that there is enough for every man—it
is also plain that every man has not enough. It is
obvious that for the happiness, or to put it in a
stronger and truer form, for the alleviation of the
misery of the country, a better distribution of its
wealth is necessary, and it is riot more necessary
than it is sufficient. Distribution is all we want to
make the common people as comfortable as they are
the reverse; and when they see and know this, how
long will they bear with the cold neglect of scien-
tific speculators in politics, who, while they fare
sumptuously every day themselves, endeavour to
demonstrate the utility of measures which they well
know consign thousands of poor labouring people to
present distress ? The coming danger is already
signified to us by the recklessness of crime which
begins to prevail among the lower order; the pro-
hibition of law is no longer strong enough to re-
strain those who are maddened by a contemplation
of the riches of others, compared with their own
poverty ; they take by craft or by force, that which,
from the altered state of affairs, they can no longer ex-
pect to share by the exertion of honest labour. These
things are no more than the breakers which may en-
able us to gee at a distance the rocks upon which we
are steering. Let but the present order of things go
on, and the common people of England will, ere
long, become like the common people of Ire-
land ; the laws and, establishments of the country
they will look upon merely as inventions for their
oppression—contrivances which it is their interest
not to support hut to break down ; and we know
not what power it is which is to resist the common
people of England, if they become possessed with
notions such as these. They are not like the im-
petuous and fickle Irish, to be managed when they
smart under settled conviction of a wrong; doubtless
the progress of events has much broken and altered
their ardent spirit,, but still they are not the men to
rush into hopeless and headlong violence, or when
resisted, to subside into dejected tranquillity, and
die of starvation beside their cold and desolate
hearths. If, however, the Legislature will not take
better care of them, they may be disposed to take
legislation into their own hands; and against such an
alarming consummation as this, we would warn those
to whom the more than ever important task of go-
verning this country is confided. It cannot be too
frequently, too earnestly, too energetically enforced
upon the attention of all who have any influence in
the making of the laws, that the present moral and
physical condition of the labouring classes is most
deplorable, and that the country cannot long con-
tinue in such a state."
It cannot be denied that there is some truth in
these observations. The labouring classes are
in a wretched state, they are in many places be-
coming reckless; and that they are beginning to
look on the laws and establishments of the coun-
try merely as inventions for their oppression.
This is, unquestionably, a most alarming state
of things. We also agree with the writer in
Blackwood, " that it is not without shame for
our country that we look at an assembly of the
Representatives of the people, containing six
hundred and fifty-eight Members, with so slender
a display of that which constitutes greatness in
a man." It is because Parliament consists of
the elite of the imbeciles of the country that the
Ain and industry of the nation is so often
remlered of little account by that body. The
labouring classes have been sinking lower year
after year, and still nothing is done. Ireland has
been for years drawing down England to her
level ; and after twenty years debating a question
which staved off all attention to Ireland, we are
now, for the first time, in a condition to ap-
proach the disease of that country. The riots
at Manchester were the work of famished Irish-
men ; the riots at Barnsley were, at all events,
inflamed by necessitous Irish orators, according
to whom that town was filled by emigrants from
Ireland. To hear the Aristocracy in Parlia-
ment, one would imagine that all possible good
is summed up in the Game Laws, and their
efficaey as an inducement to Gentlemen to live
on their estates, and that the people were unde-
serving of care. But want is coming on the
country like an armed man. The Roane of
disease is in Ireland, though the poverty of Ire-
land has certainly eaten deep into this country.
We must arrest the multiplication of poor in Ire-
land, without which we cannot hope to prevent
the extension of poverty in England. But if
we indulge in dreams of a boundless capability
of subsisting all who are and may be brought
into the world, we shall only feed hopes that
must be disappointed, and prepare a long ac-
count of guffering for ourselves.—Morning
Chronicle.

GROUSE AND BLACK COCK.—Perhapg it is
not gei;erally known, even among sportsmen, that the
grouse and the black cock, a black game, are inveterate
enemies ; and whenever they come in contact are sure to
wage war against ,each other ; the Vick cock being much
the most powerful bird of the two, always comes off vic-
torious, while the grouse " being game to the bottom,''
never yields to his antagonist till death compels him.
Many gentlemen, especially we kelieve in North
are now encouraging the breed of the 4.4;.,* cock as much
as possible ; but they are surely not awate,, that when
the black cock is introduced on the hills, where g:puse
are plentiful, that every year they will dad the litter birds
rapidly diminishing, till they become quite sparce, or even
wholly extinct. Some instances we bare beard of, pipe-
chilly in parts of Yorkshire, and other counties, as well
as in Scotland, that where these fine birds have been bred
on the same ground, the black cock has almost egtermi-
mated the grouse. Now those gentlemen who enjoy the
manly sport of grousing, and prefer these birds to the
others, will do well in not allowing the black cock to in-
crea,e much on their grousing grounds; if they do, they
may rely on it that inn few years they will have real cause
to rryorct

APPREHENSION OF THE WEST MOUL.

SEY GANG OF BURGLARS.

The public will be glad to hear that the dar-
ing gang of burglars which committed the me-
morable robbery in the house of the Rev. Mr.
Warrington, at West Moulsey, in November
last, and been the terror of the villages in the
vicinity of the metropolis, where they have, dur-
ing the last eighteen months, carried on a sys-
tem of plunder with an impunity that defied the
skill and exertions of the L ost intelligent and
experienced officers of police to detect, is at
length likely to meet with that retributive justice
which the crimes of the gang so well merit.
The history of the gang and their plan for
disposing of their ill-gotten property would, if
given in detail, occupy too much space in the
columns of a public journal, but a brief account
of some of their exploits, and the manner in
which they have been denounced to the police,
we shall briefly narrate.
The gang, which consisted of five desperate
fellows, at thet head of which was a man named
Banks, who had been tried at the Old Bailey
for robbery, and was for some time an inmate of
Newgate, committed the burglary at the house of
the ltev. Mr. Warrington, at West Moulsey, on
the night of the 20th of Nov. last. The parti-
culars of their dragging Mr. Warrington and
his wife and servant from their beds, tying them
with cords, locking them in the cellar, and steal-
ing his horse, chaise, &c. must be still in the
recollection of our readers. The almost unpa-
ralleled daring of the outrage excited at the time
a very strong public feeling against the villains,
but notwithstanding the large reward which was
advertised for the apprehension of the thieves,
and the offer made by his Majesty of a free par-
don to any one of them who would impeach his
coadjutors, and be the means of bringing them
to justice, no clew was obtained that was likely
to lead to the detection till within the last few
weeks. The gang committed a burglary in the
dwelling-house of J. Campion, Esq. at Waltham-
cross, on the night of the 20th May last. They
cut out the pannel of a back door, and by intro-
ducing a hand withdrew the fastenings. Amongst
other property, they carried off a green top coat,
the property of Mr. Campion ; five men were
seen early on the morning going away from the
back part of Mr. Campion's house with bundles.
When the gang had obtained a " swag"
(booty) of what in their slang language is termed
" pewter" (silver plate), they used to dispose of
it to a well-known " fence," named Joe Barnett,
who immediately consigned it to the melting pot.
Barnett was what is called a dealer, and traded
at the coffee-room in Duke's-place, where the
lower class of Jew dealers congregate to pur-
chase and exchange commodities. He was ap-
prehended a little more than three months ago
by Herdsfield, the city officer, charged with steal-
ing a quantity of silver plate. The robbery had
taken place a few days before, and Herdsfield
seeing a porter, followed by the prisoner, stopped
the porter, who was carrying the stolen property;
Barnett ran away, and effected his escape. The
porter proved that he had been employed by
Barnett to carry the property, and he was igno-
rant that it had been stolen. On the following
day Herdsfield met the prisoner near Finsbury-
square, and saw him run into a baker's shop ;
he pursued, and took him into custody. These
facts being proved on his trial, he was convicted
and sentenced to transportation for life, he be-
ing an old offender. The Moulsey gang were
the parties who actually stole the plate in ques-
tion, of which Barnett was the receiver only.
After he was taken, he said that one of the rob-
bers had " nosed" upon him to the " traps,"
because he had refused to give the sum the gang
had demanded for the " swag ;" and he knew
that Herdsfield had been given the " office"
when he would go towards his house with the
swag" in his possession. He observed, that
if it had not been a " plant" upon him, how
could Herdsfield have known that he had any
thing to do with the porter who carried the
" swag" twenty yards behind him ? Since
Barnett's conviction his suspicions that he was
betrayed by one of the robbers having been
strongly confirmed, he declared that he would be
revenged, and " split" upon the whole gang.
He consulted with a gentleman who had acted
as solicitor for him and other members of his

family on several occasions, and to him he com-
municated the whole facts that he knew concern-
ing a number of daring robberies in which the
gang have been engaged. The gentleman ascer-
tained that a large reward and a free pardon had
been offered to any one (except the individual
who used the violence to Mrs. Warrington) who
gave information that led to the apprehension
and conviction of the gang, and he advised Bar-
nett to avail himself of the opportunity of ob-
taining a commutation of his sentence. Barnett
authorised his solicitor to make known to the
Chief Magistrate of Bow-street his willingness to
assist in bringing the gang to justice upon cer-
tain conditions. His solicitor had an interview
with Vlr. and Mrs. Warrington, and also with
the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, and it being clearly shewn that there was
evidence that was likely to convict the gang, if
they should be taken, it was determined to em-
ploy Bishop, one of the principal officers of
Bow-street, to effect the apprehension of the

parties. Bishop, who is well-acquainted with all
the haunts of the initiated cracksmen, soon as-
certained that the gang had split, and that they
were on country excursions. He engaged the
assistance of Ledger and Craig, two active of-
ficers, and they soon got scent of some of the
gang. In the early part of last week the officers
proceeded to a house in Chequer-alley, Golden-
lane, and there they apprehended a man named
Banks, who was one of the principal robbers of
the Moulsey gang. They have subsequently
apprehended two men, named Taylor and Smith,
and on Saturday last, a fourth of the gang was
apprehended, by the officers of police at Lam-
beth-street.

Banks, when taken and brought by Bishop to
Bow-street office, underwent an examination be-
fore
Sir Richard Birnie, which, as the rest of the
gang were not at that time in custody, was taken
in private, and the evidence was not permitted
to transpire. Mr. and Mrs. Warrington, and a
number of witnesses, were in attendance. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Warrington identified Banks as
one of the gang of robbers who entered their bed-
room, and plundered their house on the night
of the 20th of November last. Mrs. Warrington
decl.ared that he (Banks) was the person, who,
when yi.Ql,lico was offered to her by one of the
robbers, interfere 4 in lapr behalf, and that he was
th;.l robber who proposed to carry their bed and
clothes haw the cellar to prevent them from
taking cold. The most important evidence af,
fecting Banks was that of Mrs. Barnett, the wife
of the convict who is now Irr Newgate. She
stated that her husband bought some of the
stolen property, and that Banks made her a pre,
sent of a brooch, which he said was part of the

booty. She produced the brooch, which she had
worn ever since.

Mr. Warrington, on seeing the brooch, de-
&red that it was his property, and was stolen
on the night of the robbery from his dressing-
table. He had been constantly in the habit of
wearing it, and could not be mistaken as to its
identity.
It is a curious fact, that when Bishop took
Banks into custody, he found upon his back the
identical green coat which was stolen by the
gang from the house of J. Campion, Esq. at
Waltham Cross, in May last.
Mr. Campion identified it as his property,
and he brought forward the tailor who made it
for him, who deposed that it was the coat he
made for Mr. Campion, and that new buttons
had been put upon it.
The prisoners are to be reexamined this day
at Bow-street office, when witnesses who saw
several of the gang smoking cigars at a public-
house near to Mr. Warrington's the day before
the robbery, will be called. The servant girl of
Mr. Warrington has been sent for, and she will,
in all probability, arrive in time for the examina-
tion. As these is no longer any necessity for
secrecy on the subject, it is believed that Sir
Richard Birnie will take the investigation in
public. The fuur robbers are in separate
prisons. It is but justice to Bishop and the
other officers to say, that their exertions for the
last fortnight, by day and by night, have been
unceasing, and they deserve great praise for what
they have accomplished.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

Yesterday John Johnson, William Bankes, and
James Smith, the men charged with the robbery at
West Moulsey, as given in another column, under-
went an examination, together with two others
John Potts alias Emery and James Taylor, for a
burglary in the house of a Mr. Campion, of Wal-
tham-cross, upon suspicion of being also concerned
in the Moulsey robbery.
The five prisoners having been placed at the bar,
the case of Mr. Campion was first gone into.
Mr. Campion having been sworn, stated that
on the morning of the 21st of May last, his house
at Waltham-cross was broken into, and a variety of
articles carried away. Amongst the property stolen
were a pair of boots and a light green body ccat.
The boots and coat now produced are the same that
were so stolen.

Mr. Mathews, pawnbroker, Whitecross-street, de-
posed, that on the 21st of May the boots now pro-
duced were pledged at his shop by a woman who
gave the name of " Ann Potts." In consequence
of the information which witness received from Mr.
Millar, the chief officer of Lambeth-street Office,
who told him that the boots had been stolen, he
was induced to watch for the party who pledged
them. On the sth of the present month the pri-
soner Potts came to the shop and redeemed the
hoots, when he (witness) seut for an officer, and had
him apprehended.
Craig, a Bow-street-officer, deposed that upon
taking the prisoner Bankes into custody, he found
upon him the green coat which Mr. Campion had
identified as one which had been stolen from his
house on the morning of the 21st of May.
Pye, a constable of Waltham-cross, produced a
coat (also a green one) which he found buried in
the earth in a ditch at the back of Mr. Campion's
house. (This coat, it is supposed, was left there
by the man who carried off Mr. Campion's coat.)

Sir R. BIRNIE said that this evidence was quite
sufficient to warrant him in sending both Potts and
Bankes to trial. The magistrate then asked if there
was any evidence affecting the prisoner Taylor, and
being answered in the negative, he was discharged,
but cautioned as to the company he kept in future.
__.

Sir R. BIRNIE a,ked if Mr. or Mrs. Warrington
had arrived, and were told they had not as yet come.
The prisoner Smith here requested that two per-
sons, whom he saw in the room, named Lock and
Fordham, might be ordered to withdraw, if it was
intended to enter into any evidence against him.
" I wish, your Worship," he added, " to have the
witnesses against me examined separately•"
The witness Lock observed, that he merely came
to say that the prisoner Bankes was in the habit of
wearing a green coat prior to the 20th of May.
Sir R. BIRNIE—What do you know of the
prisoners ? Lock—Why, I know them all as re-
puted thieves.
The prisoner Johnson said lie was a respectable
man, and had kept a house for several years in Fleet-
market, where he carried on the business of a chim-
ney-sweeper. He complained of having been in
solitary confinement for nine dais.
Fanny Longman, a young woman, who lived as
servant with the Rev. Mr. Warrington at the time
of the robbery, was then called forward to see if
she could identify any of the prisoners. Having
looked attentively around her, she said that she did
not see any of the men present whom she saw on
the night of the robbery. Her master and mistress,
her fellow servant and herself, were all put down
into the cellar by the thieves.
Sir R. BIRNIE—Did you not see any of their
faces sufficiently to remember them ? Witness—No;
I do not think I saw their faces at all. _

Sir R.-BIRNIE—Do you know any thing of a man
of the name of Johnson, who was in the habit of
sweeping chimnies about Moulsey ? Witness—No,
I know nothing about him.
Sir R. BIRNIE—You appear to have a very bad
memory.
The witness's father was then called forward; but
after looking at the prisoners, he declared he knew
nothing about them. He then complained that his
daughter had been turned away from her service im-
mediately after the robbery, and had never since ob-
tained the wages that were due to her.
Sir R. BIRNIE said he did not at all wonder at it.
There were circumstances which rendered his daugh-
ter's conduct very suspicious.
A young lad who lived at Moulsey when the rob-
bery took place, was then called forward. He de-
posed that one morning, a little after five o'clock, he
could not exactly say when, but it was a good while
ago, he was proceeding to Guildford, with some
fish in a cart, with his master, Mr. Rough, a fish-
monger, who lives at Hampton. They were driving
along the Sunbury road, when witness saw a horse
and chaise pass them by. There were four men in
the chaise, and witness immediately said to his mas-
ter, " That is Mr. Warrington's chaise gone by."—
His master replied, " It cannot be his chaise at such
an early hour." Witness repeated that it was Mr. •
Warrington's chaise, for he knew the horse, and
could not be mistaken in it. When his master and
himself returned from Guildford that evening, wit-
ness heard for the first time that Mr. Warrington's
house had been robbed.
Sir R. BIRNIE directed the lad to look attentively
at the prisoners, and to say if he could recognise any
of them as having been in the chaise on the morning
in question. The witness, after looking attentively
- at the prisoners, pointed out Bankes, and said,
" That is the man who was driving the chaise."
Bankes—You are quite wrong, young man.
Sir R. BIRNIE asked the witness if he could iden-
tify any of the other men? The witness replied that
he could not swear to the oihers, but he remembered
the prisoner Bankes from the circumstance of his
driving the chaise.
Sir 11. BIRNIE observed, that in the course of the
investigation, he was sorry to say very little assist-
ance had been afforded by the turnpike-men, who
must have seen the chaise pass through on its way
to town. Men who stood at turnpikes might be of
the greatest use on such occasions, but, in general,
for some reason or another, they were extremely
backward in giving evidence.
The Rev. Mr. Warrington and his lady having
arrived, Sir R. BIRNIE inquired if their servant
Margaret had as yet arrived in town ? Mrs, War-
.

rington replied that she had been written to, and
was expected in a few days.
The prisoners were then remanded for a week.
The examination was not over until nearly five
o'clock, Sir R. BIRNIE having been engaged until
three in the investigation of a charge against two
men, who were brought to town yesterday morning
by Smith and Taunton. The prisoners are charged
with being concerned in the late extensive forgery
on the Customs, for which a young man named
Richard Hughes Jones has been fully committed to
Newgate. They were examined in private, and re-
manded to a future day. It is said that 7001. were
found upon them when taken into custody; but none
of the notes could be identified as those which had
been received in payment of the forged instrument
at the Bank of England, those notes having been
sent to France, and there exchanged for others, so
that there will be considerable difficulty in obtaining
evidence to convict.