The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-22 00:00:00

LONDON SESSIONS, SEPT. 21.

Margaret Alfredius, a pretty-looking woman,
aged 30, was indicted for committing a violent assault
upon Alfred Alfrediu.:, her lawful husband.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS, for the prosecution, was sorry
to say that the defendant, under the mask of an
agreeable countenance, possessed a most virulent
disposition, and so violent was her temper that his
client absolutely apprehended that his life was in
danger.
The Learned Counsel held some letters in his
hand, which were a kind of accounts current, which
he hoped were not very common documents, for it
was a statement of which party gave the most black
eyes. The present letter began thus—
" My dear D,vil,—You forget that you sent me to
finish my education, but you never paid the shot money
(a fee paid on entrance into the Compter.) Depend upon
it I will not forget to pay you as many black eyes as you
gave me. I well know you, and will reckon with you by-
and-by, and then I shall see bow we stand. From your wife
" MARGARET."
The next epistle ran thus—

" Devil Dick,—When it comes to my turn to come
out, you must look sharp, for I will keep you from the
company of the la4y whom you walk with in Hackney-
road. I will put a knife into you when I come out. This
is from your wife " MARGARET."

Mr. C. PHILLIPS, addressing the prosecutor—
" Your name is Alfred Alfredius, Sir ?"—" No, it
is not," said the prisoner; " his name is Richard
Collins; and I am his lawful wife."

The prosecutor explained that he had assumed

tie fortvier name, and used it for four years. He
then described the treatment he had met with from
his wife in July last, in Throgmorton-street, when
she threw mud in his face, and beat him with her
shoe. He said he separated from her seven years ago.
A ticket-porter of the name of Itosoman described
the conduct of the defendant to be most violent, and
the officer who apprehended her stated her to have
said, " I'll run a knife into him. I don't mind being
hanged for him : I shall not suffer long."
The prisoner entered into a long defence, which
she couched in very good language, and complained
that she was forsaken by her husband, who, although
well off in the world, had only allowed her 6s. since
the 14th of April, when they separated; he had
used her very ill, and debarred her from seeing her
child; they had been married 14 years, and she had
borne him five fine children.

The Jury reluctantly found the prisoner Guilty,
and she was ordered to pay a flue of Is. The hus-
band was admonished to maintain his wife.

PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 19.

It is with sincere regret we communicate the fol-
lowing fatal event which took place in the Sound
last Thursday evening, and has plunged the relations
of the unhappy sufferers in the deepest affliction.
A boat having gone from the shore for the purpose
of conveying some wine on board the Britannia,
120 guns, lying in the Sound, with a Custom-house
officer, named Oxlen, and two watermen, named
Jope and Markem, arrived alongside with her cargo,
which, being discharged, the boat was about to re-
turn, when Mr. Barker, a Midshipman, with Me3srt,,,
Curgenven, Cummings, and Scott, clerksi 110 two
or three others, 'engaged w;th the watermen
to take them aslinre. It was at this time
nearly seven o'clock, and I;lowing fresh, with a
heavy swell from the S.W. The party named hav-
ing seated themselves in the goat, another was
coming down the neeomniodation,ladder to join
them, when a heavy swell carried the boat under
the ladder, and the ship rolling heavily at the same
time, the ladder struck the gunwale of the boat,
which it instantly upset, plunging the a+ole of the
party into the sea, wi.h the exception of Marketn,
who was holding on the ladder, to which h,e clung
after the boat went down,
The alarm being instantly given, Lieutenant Haw-
thorns with Mr. Carrol, the Second Master, Mr.
Hughes, Midshipman, and one seaman, got into a
small gig, and succeeded, after much exertion, in
picking up Messrs. Curgenven, Barker, Cummings,
Scott, and the Custom-house officer (Jope vent to
the bottom, the body has not been pielied I,lp yet),
arly
by
atwhnlid'so ttihNm'ee do
vreNie•niafett rixher e
ing very tempestuous,
B they were
h a
strong ottrrent setting up the harbour,
obliged to steer for Plymouth, at the imminent ha-
zard of being swamped by a heavy sea, 'o hich broke
continually over -them, and nearly filled the boat
with water.

Medic.l assistance was procured for tb.-i;' sufferers
as soon as they landed, but although it was but
twenty minutes after the accident, and all the usual
methods of resuscitation were 'seditiously employed
by Messrs. ilalrly and .loberts, their Worts to re-
cover INksSrs. Curgenveu and Curntnings proved in
vain, life having fled before they reached the shore;
with the others, happily, they were more successful.
Mr. Curgenven, we regret to add, has left a widpix
and five children to deplore his loss, and Mc, Cum.
mings a widow and six children ; ATr a widow and
three children.

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(From the Journal des '
MM. Bourmont and La
perfectly sensible of the delic%
- which they stand. It is necess.
rtWfti.•-'f::;)
act. Objects of general terror, Lilo' --grk,;,lL,
however, nothing but contempt, ainigliWklit: tit
days more they will be received with hootings.
They have carried to the Ministry a cettain cha-
racter for determination and boldness, which in
France is something.. They do not wish to
bear the ridicule of it : the only advantage which
is wanting to their life. To escape from this
difficult situation, an act of policy is necessary ;
not such an act of policy as is prepared in the
Master of the Rolls' office, a process-verbal
sealed with wax ; but a counter revolution—rude,
wild, and violent. Such, however, can neither
be the interest nor the passions of their other
colleagues. Without doubt they would also re-
joice in a counter-revolution ; but gradually, by
corruption and deceit. They are afraid to at-
tack the lion in front, and ready for combat.
To surprise him, and slay him whilst asleep, ap-
pears to them more prudent. All who are ac-
quainted with their characters know this ; and
we will try to make them known to all the world.
Then comes M. de Polignac. M. de Polig-
nac is one of those men of whom it may justly •
be said that they have not two ideas. Ile has
but one, and that is—aristocracy. He would
do for that what Richelieu has done against it,
if he were a Richelieu. He dreams of enriching
it by honours, and by places, and by causing the
greater part of the representative power to pass
to the Chamber of Peers. Conceive a Jacobite
Tory in full purity, and you have M. de Polig-
nac. Be assured, that he feels at least as ranch
repugnance towards M. Olivier, or Cesar Lapa-
nouze, those Peers of the Counter, as for the
most vehement deputy of the left.
But M. de Polignac, although he has not
much imagination, understands that to disturb
the country—that is to say, property—is not the
way to strengthen the aristocracy ; that, yet in its
childhood, it requires to be nourished with sine-
cures, and fattened upon the fortunes of vain
citizens. Add to this, that his whole existence
is devoted to the Crown. Restrained by an
exalted friendship, he fears to commit to inevit-
able perils those interests which are precious to ,
him. He is also aware that, at the moment or
difficulty, he would not be able to find sufficient
resources in himself to meet the danger. With
this mixture of aristocratic fear and devotion to
royalty, he could not long continue in accord-
ance with M. de Bounnont and de la Bourdon-
naye--men who have nothing to compromise.,
and who are devoted to nothing but their politi-
cal hatreds. A separation therefore took place,
as the Minister of the Interior, in order to try
his hand, was desirous of signing an order for the
destitution of 20 Prefects, M. de Polignac
would have granted one or two ; for example,
this penitent emigrant, or that liberal Protestant,
who were obstinate in their departments ; but
22 !to alarm 20 provinces. That could not be.
Thus the men who talked of nothing else but of
changing the face of the State, have retreated
before a revolution of Prefects.
To M. de Polignac, the timid and involuntary
representative of moderation, have united them-
selves, as was perfectly proper, M. de Chabrol,
M. de Courvoisier, M. de Monate], and M.
d'Haussez.
Let us begin with M. de Chabrol. It can-
not be but that you have had connexion with
some administration,prefecture, direction-general,
or ministry. Of necessity you must have met
there with a Chabrol. Well, at least, you know
what to expect from our Minister of Finane;
for of all the families which people the globe, the
family of the Chabrols is most like itself, the
most identical. A Chabrol is what is called a
good administrator. He conducts his aflifirs
honestly, but always at the public expense. In-
dustrious, he does not allow a single paper to be
in arrear, a letter to he unanswered, a petition to
be unacknowledged. The Cardinal Dubois
answered such documents by the use of fire,
MM. de Chabrol by the use of ink. If the re-
sultr
tri
dispositioneacrte very far
INit.ln,ddet.eiteaosfAririfiarilanoerytymi,itigeillilt:ealaaimvecl
is often the same, it mai at least be granted
azes, M. de Villele,
olignac, all is one to
that they are more polite.
d affairs, they do conduct affairs, and
ccmf;olgoill..:NadN(dti7iieelitotelititpce:
e
they will conduct affhirs, whatever may he the
general system. They weave their administra-
tive tissue as the silk-worm spins its web, with-
out looking to the right or left, With this in-
dividuality in affairs, it is natural to think that
they ought to have a honor of acts of state, for
an act of state is diaorder in the bureaus, confu-
sion in the ()Oleo, wad chaos among the clerks.
Thug tie cs the Finance has quickly arranged,
Wins& according to the advice of M. de
nac. Already he foresaw a responsibility with-
out rule, of the arrears, of the deficits, of the
services in sufferance,—perhaps, of' the inter-
rupted correspondences. Lastly.. he gives his
vote for the peace of the int-crjor, in order that
the Administration ma" goon as a manufacturer
desires peace in thq "East, to have there a market
for his bales.

wishing for moderation, sits M. de Courvoisier.
At the side of M. de Chabrol, and like him,
I know all that has been said of him, and all
that is still said of him ; but parties always ex-
Itimerate, M. de Courvoisier has neither more
or less argument or eloquence that; he had in
1818. Few ideas under many wwds, such was
then M. de Courvoisier; such ahe to-day. He
has not changed. WLEtt has given rise to very
singular reports that he is afflicted by a kind
of monomania, lie wishes to be absolutely of
the leA centre. Do not object that he is in a
Ministry of system and not as coalition. They
are lost words, " I am a the left centre," he
intrepidly replies. Lastly, he sits betwecn MM.
Royer Collard and 'l'ernaux, and it is some
fashion as awls colleague that he has declared him-
self au,inst MM. Bourmont and la Bour.ionnaye.
With respect to M. de Montbelt he is only
there to represent M. de Villele His master
has sent him to the Council,. as petty princes,
who preserve hereditary 1-,-fotensions to a fallen
Crown, send to every Cc vess a modest Ambas-
sador to protest in tavour of their rights, Who is
called an Amlimsador ad referendum to report.
M. de Mo*tbel is Minister to report. Thus he
reports very faithfully to M. de Villele all that
Inch M. de Vil-
is said, all that is done ; and M, Villele
awilrivotesly,tosilmiipmle.to joinlhe Ahla.tdreeloPl:o.hl
ign7teo-re-alp'ipliesairs,
lele has excited is too rec;Alt
without creating a storm, at the head of affiiirs. It
it. M. d'Haussez., a Neptune ready
is necessary for to take time to be forgotten. The last
particularly to his owls, Hitherto M. cr.:F.:musses
made to the great surprisf,s, of. France, a:id more
had paid no ino.K attention to naval afirirs than
to Sanscrit ;, lais,preteusions were liini
to the
Direckor4,l,c(cueralship of Canals.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Journal des _Minds.)

After the victory of the 12th June, the taking of
Silistria, of Erzercum, and Trebizond, after the
passage of the Balkan, and the entry into Adrian-
ople, can we believe seriously that the new levy
ordered by the last ukase will be made against the
Sultan, who trembles, and his armies which no
longer exist ? Let
.us rather see in it the first
necessary result of a change of policy, foreseen at
Petersburgh on the day that it was known that the
Duke of Wellington and Prince Metternich could
no longer rely that France would oppose an ob-
stacle to the combinations of their alliance. The
manifesto of the 2d of September appears to be,
whatever may be said to the contrary, a first reply
to the Moniteztr of the 9th of August; in fact, how
can it be supposed that the Emperor Nicholas is
ignorant of the indisposition towards, and the hos-
tile wishes against, his cause, of the party whose
agents have taken power by assault, and whose
organs but a few months ago placed the altar and the
throne under the protection of the Grand Vizier?
How is it that 600 leagues from Paris no measures
are taken against the foolish foreign reveries of our
political adventurers, when we ourselves can hardly
tell to what extremity their madness will drive them
at home ?
Here we take from our constitutional arsenal the
inoffensive arms which the charter has given us to
defend ourselves against our prevaricating Ministers.
At Petersburgh, soldiers are raised, and the servce
is placed upon the war footing. Our Ministers have
already thrown France into trouble ;—that concerns
ourselves, and God knows we do not want any but
ourselves to bring back to2the country a repose so
slightly compromised. But they annoy all Europe,
and in this view the power which has played the
most active character for the last two years has cer-
tainly a legitimate motive for putting itself on its
gtisrd against a complication of events which may
change the face of affairs. This is the secret of the
300,000 men called to arms, for that is about the
number of combatants with which its army has been
reinforced. Thus London begins to be sick of its
own work. As constitutional ideas finally prevail
there over the ephemeral combinations of the policy
of a day, the Duke of Wellington and his colleagues
already feel that there is no way of venturing upon
an alliance offensive and defensive with Ministers
who want the first condition of existence and dura-
tion—the majority in the country and in the
Chambers.
At Vienna, though the institutions are not in
such an advanced state, proper names were imme-
diately understood, and it is said, that M. de Met-
ternich believed, like the Duke de Laval, on the day
when the composition of the new Ministry was
shown to him, that a inyetificalion was intended.
At Petersburgh they begin to take things more seri-
ously. All this was inevitable, .-and, spite of what
may be said, the Polignac Ministry has had success
no where but at Lisbon.

Messrs. Bert, the director of the Journal du
Contmcree, Bertin, sen., director of the Journal des
Debats, Chevassut, director of the Constitutionnel,
and Lapelouze, director' of the Courrier Francais,
appeared this morning before M. Camille Gaillard,
Juge d'lnstruction. They are accused, the first of
having inserted the article relative to the Brittany
Association, and the others with having copied the
same article from the Gazette de France :-1. Of
exciting hatred and contempt against the King's
Government. 2. Of provoking disobedience to
the laws. 3. Of an attack against the constitu-
tional authority of the King. 4. Of 8n attack
against the rights and authority of the Chambers.
The Editors of the last three papers have declared
that they only inserted the incriminated article be-
cause the Gazetee de France, after having given it
in its morning's edition, repeated it in that of the
evening. They could only believe that if th. article
had appeared criminal to the Government, the 7
would have taken care to have communicated the
seizure which had taken place by the evening papers.
M. Gaillard was to make his report to-day, and
the Council Chamber will to-morrow peki-gounce
upon the validity of the seizure.