The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-12 00:00:00

POLICE LNITILLICI,ENCE.

BOW-STREET:— Y11147{9, Stereos, and Goodwin, the three
men accuse,' of being concerned in several burglaries in the neigh-
bourhood of Hounslotv, were yesterday brought forward for a re-
examination. The ca‘e against Young was considered so decisive,
that, from the first 'examination, the Magistrates had determined
to commit him. But there being no evidence beyond suspicion to
warrant the committal of Stevens and Goodwin, the case was re-
manded to yesterday for the third time, in order to give the agents
of the prosecution -a further opportunity of bringing forward some
specific charge by which those men might also be committed.
Accordingly, Ann Collier, a little girl 12 years old, deposed,
that on Saturday week (the day before Mr. Burnell's house was
entered) she was at Feltham-hill, between four and five o'clock in
the afternoon, when she was accosted by two men, of whom-
Young, the prisoner, was one. They asked her the name of the
place, and also,who lived at a house which they pointed to, be-
longing to a Mrs. Cameron. She was then asked who lived at
the house inhabited by Mr. Burnell, and being answered, they
inquired if they could go to it across the fields, to which witness
replied they could not unless they went over hedges and ditches.
The men then went went down tke road towards Littleton, and
witness saw no more of them.,

Charles Littlewood, a labourer, examined_Was on the road
between Hanworth and Hanworth-bridge on the evening of Sun-
day week. Saw a cart and a grey horse, with four men. Wit-
ness thought he knew three of the men who rode in the cart.—
By their dress and appearance thought they were Young, Stevens,
and Steers, but it being dusk at the time, witness could not swear
to the men.
No further evidence being offered,

Mr. HALLS said, that the case against the prisoner Young was
quite sufficient to call for his immediate committal. With respect,
however, to the prisoners Stevens and Good Win, there was not suf-
ficient evidence to send them for
.trial, although the fact of the
former having been seen in the company of Young, on the very
day when the robbery at Mr. ,Birnell's house was effected, gave
room for very strong suspicions. He should, therefore, remand
them both until next Monday.

Both prisoners were remanded accordingly, and Young was
fully committed.

QUEEN-SQUARE•—Mr. Quentery, of No. 1, Manor-place,
Chelsea, appeared to a summons obtained against him by the
driver of the hackney-coach No. 1,027, for refusing to pay him
his fare.

Mr. GRECORIE.-You must pay the coachman 21. for his fare.
" Certainly," said Mr. Quentery, and was putting his band
into his pocket—
Mr. GREGORM—And ss. for loss of time.

Mr. Quentery stopped short, and appeared astonished when the
costs were enumerated to him-25. for summons and copy, 4s.
for service, Is. 6d. for the hearing--altogether 14s.
Mr. Quentery now attempted to argue upon the hardship of
the case, when
Mr. GELEGORIE ordered the money to be immediately paid, or
Mr. Quentery to be committed for 14 days to the House of Cor-
rection.—The money soon appeared.

SURREY SESSIONS, JAN. 11.

ROEERT CHARSLEY; ESQ., V. THE TRUSTEES OF ST. MARY, NEW-

INOTON.

The Court was occupied during the whole of the day in hearing
an appeal against the Trustees of the parish of Et. Mary, Newing-
ton, who, it was alleged, had incur] ed " useless, uncertain, and
extravagant expense," in the erection of two new churches in
that parish. _ _ _

The COURT quashed the appeal, considering that the parish
funds were liable to the expenses incurred.

MAIDSTONE WINTER ASSIZES, JAN. 10.

James Spratford, Wm. Burden, and Riikard Spratford,
were indicted for highway robbery, on the night of the 21st of
November list, at Bnrnt Oak-hill, near Ashford, in thisi county,
and stealing from the person of Jeremiah Washford, a variety of
articles, his prt;?erty.
The prisoners were part of a most desperate gang, which had
for months past infested the neighbourhood of Tenterden ; on
the night in question, the prosecutor, when he had arrived at
Burnt Oak, on his return ou horseback from Ashford to Ware-
horn, where he lived, was, about eight o'clock in the evening,
stopped by four men, one of whom seized the bridle of his horse,
while the others surrounded him, and, with dreadful menaces, de-
manded his money. The prosecntor resisted with his stick,
when one of the party fired at him with a gun loaded with shot,
several of which struck him in the fare. He immediately jumped
from his horse, and was instantly knocked down by a blow from
another of his assailants. He then declared his willingness to
Surrender the property about bins, when from his person were
taken ls. 61. in silver, his pocket book, his knife, soma halfpence,
his watch, and every description of portable articles about his
person. This was effected while lie lay ou fife ground wounded,
one man bidding him by the hair, and another stopping his mouth.
John Lawrence, an accornpliCe-, proved the participation of all
the prisoners with himself in the robbery in question.
After a most elaborate summing up on the part of the Learned
Judge (Mr. Justice Park), the Jury found the prisoners " Guilty.'
There were six other indictments for capital offences against
the same prisoners, two of which were afterwards tried, and one,.
including a man of the name of Thomas Russell; upon both of
which the prisoners were most satisfactorily convicted.
The Learned Jona E immediately proceeded to pass upon them
the awful sentence of the _

It is believed some, if not all of them, will be left for execution.

LEEK.—This town is now in more distress than it
has hitherto known, arising from the stoppage of the late firm of
Messrs. Badnoll, Spilsbury, and Cruso. It is calculated that more
than five hundred hands are out of employ on this account.

THE RONIAN LADIES.—We have already ven-
tured on the assertion, that all the essential traits of the female
form are no where met with in greater beauty than in Rome and
the Roman territory. Yet this beauty is not transitory ; we have
often seen ladies who have had six or eight children, and who
might still be taken for virgins. Their masculine strength betrays
itself in very many of them in a black downy moustache, which
they call Baffi, and which, to their great mortification, sprouts on
their white upper lip, hut which, in our opinion, heightens the
charm of their dazzling white and red complexion by a black
down, which looks like a mere soft shade. The damsels them-
selves, however, regard it as a great blemish, carefully shade
it off at the toilette, and, without very close observation, one
Cannot perceiVi the silken stubble. On their bodies the Ro-
man ladies impose no unjust conditions. Their bosom rises in
natural fulness " like the wave under Zephyr," to use the words
of Ariosti. Whether it results from. a juster sense of nature,
or from the frequent observation of the antique, the Roman wo-
men have not the Monstrous custom of our young ladies to
squeeze up their entire bosom above the shoulder bone.—
The Gods, as they had to PelOps, seem to have given them
arms and necks of ivory. One should look at the firm shoulders
and slender neck of Fernsrina, the friend of Raphael, to perceive
what a,nazing beauty and strength resides in this part of the per-,
son, which are still never found in such perfection as at Rome.
If, indeed the higher the rank, the more splendid the beauty of
the person usually is in Rome, yet the vine-dressing women in
rpiantrtine
icudlasrtta.artev nhoa,
tttornbgenti lsehspi;7eds, abnedanotftefonrtfhro.rn
lumndeenr tthbeeybriolasdve-
first received satisfactory answers to the question of conscience,
" Are you a Christian ? bave you had the holy baptism ?" all is
well, and a traveller ought never to fail to make the entertaining
vignades. If in the female world, in general, there is but little
incident, this is the case in Italy, and in Rome especially. Never
Flo they learn even to thrum the guitar, or harp, although their
finely-toned throat offers the strongest inducement. Ariosto' and
Tasso, they scarcely know as superficially as our ladies do Schil-
ler and Goethe ; and of the poet of the Inferno, they are as wholly
ignorant as our fine ladies are of Klopatock, and yet one rarely
meets a lady Who talks foolishly, or expresses herself improperly.
Ontlaec:itpttcim and jesting contrary, even
tng humourwomeni oflitel
;ower class are exuberant in
roguish
and, in addition to this,
they speak the purest and most harmonious Italian. They are
artful and ingenious in the highest degree, and particularly so
in the art of love, which indeed at last they pursue as a trade,
and have brought to incredible perfection ; and although love
teaches the virgin of all climes unknown tongues, yet the Romans,
in this respect, are the most perfect of all linguists. A glance, a
gentle movement pf the elegant hand, is equivalent to long periods.
In the rapid instant in which perhaps the mother turns aside, the
daughter describes a semicircle in the air, and raises two of her
exquisite fingers aloft ; you are a dull-gated fellow, if you do not
instantly understand that you are to be in waiting at about the
second hour of night, that is; after sun-set--for the semi-circle
denbtes the sun's course, and the two fingers the hours. Ex-
tremely captivating and full of grace is their salutation, or, rather 1
their beck, which is the form of salutation throughout Italy.
Above the finger-tops of their upraised hand, which mournfully
beckons " farewell !" the brilliant eye beams with silent eloquence.
—From Xephalides, a recent German Traveller.

THE LONDON MAIL.

We copy the following paragraph with much satisfac-
tion :

'6 We learn on good authority that the London Mail, conveyed
by Woolley, Coldstream, Kelso, &c. to Edinburgh, Will be dis-
continued at the expiration of the contract in April next. We
have also- heard that arrangements are in contemplation for the
arrival of the London Mail here (Berwick) at eight o'clock in
the morning, three hours earlier than at present. In case one or
both of these alterations take place, the coaches will stop here as
they formerly did."—Berwick Advertiser.

The Berwick paper is on the main point right; and
now that the measure has transpired through other chan-
nels, we may state, that we may have for several weeks
been in possession of the fact, that a further acceleration
of the mails to Edinburgh and to this city, from London
and all places to the south of this, is determined upon,
and is to take place in the Spring, and most likely in
April next. The major arrangement is fixed. The mail
coach is to run at the rate of ten miles per hour through-
out the journey, by which we shall have our London mail
into Glasgow from two to half-past two, p.m.; and
Edinburgh, the mail to it, by two p.m. There are many
minor arrangements connected with these, and necessarily
arising out of them, which are in course of arrangement,
and which, when completed, will prove highly advantage-
ous to the country.

The Heads of the General Post Office, when this ar-
rangement is completed, have, we believe, done every thing
that is within the compass of their power at present, and
that the state and lines of roads will admit, and it remains
for the country at large to do that which can easily be done,
and which, when done, will enable the Post Office to send
us our Southern Mails at noon of the second day from
leaving London; and the third day from leaving Falmouth,
as easily as we now receive these at .5 p.m. The distance
from London to Carlisle can be shortened about 20 miles,
and the distance from Manchester to Carlisle can be
shortened about 14 miles, and, in both cases, we believe,
there is not above 25 miles of road in each line to make, in
order to connect the lines which complete the shortest
possible line of communication in the great lines bf'commu-
nication alluded to. These are most important objects• to
look after; but these are more properly the business of the
country and of the Government than of the Post Office
department. We perceive that things are moving on the
line betwixt London and Carlisle, and we trust that the
matter will be looked after, and pushed to a conclusion by
all the energy and all the activity of which this great com-
mercial country is capable.
Our London Mail once received here at noon, would
render it unnecessary for the return mail to leave this for
London, till 2 p.m. on the following day, if such a long
delay, should be considered necessary. The present is
the time for the Gentlemen in the county of Lanark, Stir-
ling, Perth, and Inverness, to procure a mail coach, to run
from the village of Crawford, at the head of this county,
by Lanark, Stirling, Crief, and direct through the High-
land line of road to Inverness. By this conveyance (and
the line of road is we believe, every where complete),
Stirling could have all its London and Foreign packet
correspondence by 3 p.m. Perth by 6 p.m. Inverness by
8 a.m. next morning, and ultimately two hours earlier,
when the lines of road in the North of England, to which
we have alluded, are completed. The discontinuance of
two small mail coaches from London to Edinburgh, will
enable the heads of the general poet-office to put on a mail
coach from Crawford to Inverness and to Thurso, not only
without any additional expellee, but at a considerable say-
ing from what the mails at present cost, because, while
they discontinue a mail coach from London to Edinburgh,
392 miles, they only put on one from Crawford to Inver-
ness, 190 miles. We know the gentlemen in Lanarkshire
are deeply interested in this matter, and we call upon them
to bestir themselves on this occasion. If judiciously gone
about, their object will be attained. Lanark would then
have its London mail by 10 a.m. and ultimately by 8 a.m.
—Glasgow Paper.

FACT AND FICTION :-FATHM VALENTIO.

With the mystery and solution of the celebrated Iron
Mask our readers are sufficiently acquainted. The follow-
ing materials for a story of analogous interest, many of
them, however, may not be aware is connected with the
fate of one who probably; was never indifferent to the
County.of York. The particulars are collected by a gen-
tleman who himself had visited the scene in question, and
having received his information from very respectable cha-
racters, vouched for the fact here related :
In the latter part of the reign of George the First, a Friar,
who dwelt in a convent in the interior part of France, and was
known by the name of Father Valentin, was on some particular
account under the necessity of flying that kingdom. The place he
chose for his exile was a country in the North of England, where
his virtues, piety, and learning, soon made him conspicuous, and
drew respect and admiration from all who knew him. But for-
tune, who has ever loved to persecute the good, soon altered the
scene. As he was one day sitting alone in an apartment of his
house, he was suddenly alarmed by the entrance of a number of
armed people, who instantly seized him, and, in spite of all resis-
tance, hurried him away, and conveyed him to Hurst Castle, on
the coast of Hampshire, opposite the Isle of Wight. - Here he
was Committed to the care of the constable or keeper of the cas-
tle, who permitted
with
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several persons
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ht the neighbouringsebook : shores. About fourteen years after his confinement, as he was
one day walking out, the constable observed, from an apartment
on the castle, a coach,
appa-
rently armed, at a about a mile distant, ready, as •he conceived,
for the Friar to decamp. Alarmed at this extraordinary appear-
ance, he instantly, with his attendants, went in quest of his pri-
soner, whom he found, and re-conducted -to the castle. From
that period the unfortunate Friar was debarred from ti.e comforts,
and almost the common necessaries of life ; was kept a close pri-
soner in a wretched apartment, in the inmost recesses of the cas-
tle, where he spent his solitary hours in reading and the contem-
plation of that supreme being, who alone could give him comfort.
From this period, to the time of his death, which happend twenty-
three years after, he was not permitted to correspond with
any person, or see foreigners ; but was allowed, at times, to re-
ceive the visits of such of the neighb6uring people as curiosity led
to see him. Various conjectures were formed as to the real cause
of his confinement, but without effect. It was supposed, however,
that he was a person of noble birth and family ; but obliged, on
some particular reason, to embrace a monastic life. What strength-
ens this opinion is, that after his death, his remains were carried
to France, and there interred with great splendour and pomp,
much greater than is usual for Ecclesiastics.

What an entertaining work might be ereeted on the
above foundation, by one of our present architects of
romance !—The influence which the following facts have
on the charm of the story the reader will soon discover.
The truth is, this supposed Father Valentin, a foreigner, was
an English friar, a native of Yorkshire, whose name was Mat-
thew Atkinson, called in religion Father Paul of St. Francis.
Under the penal statute 11th and 12th of William 111. he was
condemned to perpetual imprisonment, in the latter end of the
17th century, for having exercised the functions of an ecclesiastic
of the church of Rome, on the information of his maid servant,
who received the reward, stipulated by the statute, of 1001. for
betraying her master. Pursuant to his sentence he was convey-
ed to Hurst castle, and there confined for life, but he was not
taken away either Suddenly or without any form of law, neither
was any attempt made to rescue him from confinement. The
fact is, the prisoner was indulged in the privilege of walking, at
his discretion, on the adjoining strancl, by the warden of the place,
by whom he was much respected, and to whom he rendered him.
self useful, by teaching his children Latin ; till certain strangers
who happened to visit the castle, took offence at this indulgence,
which was the occasion of Mr. Atkinson's voluntarily confining
himself ever afterwards to his own miserable apartment. Here,
however, he Was so resigned and contented as to persist b refus-
ing the offers made by certain powerful friends to endeavour to
procure hii enlargement. Finally, he was not buried in France,
as stated in the above-mentioned account; but at the Roman Ca-
tholic burying-ground contiguous to Winchester. We believe an
original painting of this last sufferer under the penal statutes is in
the possession of the Clevelands, of Vicar's-hill, in the neighbour-
hood of Lymingtou. Such is the real history of the friar who
was confined in Hurst-castle, and who died there more than one
hundred years ago.—Leeds Intelligencer.

A bonus, it has been remarked, means, literally, a
"good thing ;" and so very good it is supposed, that it has been
thought entitled to the honour of appearing always in "the most
worthy gender."