The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-21 00:00:00

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M. de Lafayette 450,683
Comte Alexandre de Laborde 136,433
Comte Alexandre de la Rochefoucauld Z
Comte Gaetan de la Rochefoucald S 1,284,079
Comte Charles de L4meth 201,696
Comtesse de RambuteJti 155,104
Comte de Thiard
Madame de Voyer d'Argenson

2,605,415

Grand total of the Indemnity received by the
Deputies above named, errors excepted 5,608,456
* More than seven millions, which may yet be augmented by three or four millions, in consequence of indemnities not yet in-
cluded in our abstract, and not settled.

IRELAND.-COUNTY OF DOWN ELEC•
TION.—At half-past twelve o'clock on Wednesday, 15th
instant, the Chair was taken by DANIEL DELACHERIOS,
High Sheriff. After the Sub-Sheriff, Mr. CALDBECK,
had read the writ for a return of a Member for the county,
Sir ROBERT liaTxsox, in an appropriate speech, proposed
Lord Viscount CASTLEREAGH, as a fit and proper Repre-
a .ntative• HUGH KENNEDY, Esq. (Cithra), seconded the
motion, which passed with only one dissenting voice. The
High Sheriff inquired whether there was any other candi-
date to be proposed ; and on receiving no reply, returned
Lord GasTmErtEAcii Representative of the County of
Down, and duly elected. The announcement was received
bydeafening cheers. After the applause had subsided,
Lent C. addressed the electors.

LONDON POOR ItATES.---Th the Morning
_Herald a few days since, a statement appeared of the ex-
penditore of the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-fields, and
truong other items was one of 91. 14s. for conveying E.
JONES, his wife, and family to Exeter; by the accounts
of the treasurer of the poor of this city, no such parties
have arrived in this city up to this date.—Devonshire
Chronicle.

CONMTS 'MARTELLV AND CONWAY;

Since the final decision of the Privy Council
with respect to the doom of these unfortunate
young men has been made known, facts have
transpired which; if properly authenticated, ought
to have considerable weight in the quarter from
which alone mercy can emanate. It will he re-
collected that their conviction mainly rested upon
the evidence of an accomplice, named Coonibcs,
who, from his own admissions on his cross-exa_
mination at the trial, was a person of the most
abandoned character, and had been so steeped
in crime himself, that in answer to a question
put to him by Mr. Clarkson, as counsel for the
prisoners, he declared that " he could not enu-
merate the offences he had committed, they
were so many." Long, however, as his course
of crime by his own confession must have been,
it happened somewhat singularly that the disclo-
sure of his delinquencies should have been con-
fined at the trial to his mere connection with the
unfortunate convicts, and a few petty offences
tending to prove that he was an habitual thief,
but which were not sufficient in themselves
to throw that discredit upon his testimony
which a full development of his character would
undoubtedly have Produced. From his own
showing at the trial it appeared that he was a
young man certainly of very bad character, and
to whom dishonest practises were perfectly fami-
liar ; but there was no evidence to establish the

fact of his haying been a❑ habitual forger, and
the presumption therefore was, that he had never
contemplated a crime of such magnitude as that
of forgery, until he became connected with the
unfortunate convicts, whose dupe, he succeeded
in making it appear to the court and jury, he had
reluctantly been. Such was the impression, we
suppose, under which the jury acted ; but a very
different result might have followed, if it had been
known to them, that long prior to his connexion
with Martelly and Conway, Coombes had been
concerned in a series of forgeries, the disclosure
of which was prevented by a prosecution which
must be fresh in the recollection of the public.
Coombes was the intimate acquaintance of
William Jones, the young man who was
charged with the murder of Mrs. Jeff's, the
aged housekeeper of Mr. Lett, of Montagu-
place. He had joined in the dissipations of
that unfortunate individual, who was accused,
amongst other offences, of having committed
several forgeries, one of which was on the bank
of Coutts and Co. It can now be established
beyond a doubt, by the production of docu-
ments, and the evidence of more than one wit-
ness of character and credit, that Combos was
time person who instigated Jones to commit the
crime of fimrgery, in the expectation of sharing
in the spoil. There i proof that he actually
partook of the proceeds of the forgery com-
mitted upon Mr. Duncomb, the master of
William Jones. Up to the period of the mur-
der of Mrs. Jeffs, the connexion between
Coombes and Jones remained unaltered ; but
from the moment that suspicion fell upon the
latter, Coombes turned round upon his friend,
went to Bow-street to state what he knew re-
specting him, and, knowing his haunts, was the
means of tracing him to his hiding place, and
giving the description of his person which
finally led to his capture. The motive by
which Coombes was actuated in assisting to
convict Jones, is sufficiently apparent. Had
he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs.
Jeffs, his execution would immediately have
followed, and the forgeries in which he
(Coombes) had participated would never
have been brought to light. It appears'
somewhat singular, that the participation of
Coombes in the forgeries attributed to Jones
should never once have been hinted at in the course
of the recent prosecutions. Had the circum-
stance been made known to those who conducted

the defence of the prisoners, it would, of course,
have been taken advantage of at their trial, and
if known to the committing Magistrate, the
party who conducted the prosecution, or the
officers concerned in the case, common justice
should have instigated its disclosure. We have
now only to repeat, that the facts which have
been stated above can be fully authenticated ;
and, without meaning either to absolve the pri-
soners from a just portion of guilt, or attempt-
ing to question the policy of the law which in-
flicts death as a penalty for the crime of forgery,
we submit that the lives of fellow-creatures
ought not to be sacrificed upon the tainted evi-
dence of a witness such as Coombes. In con-
clusion, we suggest to the parties interested in
the flute of the two unhappy young men now un-
der sentence of death, to lay what evidence they
possess immediately before the Secretary of
State for the Home Department.

The following paragraph is propagated with
extraordinary diligence by almost every Paper :
" Considerable importance is attached by some of the
Paris journals to the visit to this country of the young
Margrave of BADEN. It does not appear, however, to be
grounded upon any thing else than the frequent private
interviews which he had with the King of FRANCE prior
to his departure. He is said to be the bearer of auto-
graph letters from CHARLES X. to our SOVEREIGN and
the Duke of WELLINGTON."

We believe that the sole object of the Margrave's visit
is to obtain the sanction of the British Government to an
arrangement sanctioned by all the Governments who were
parties to the treaty of Vienna, that he is to succeed the
present Duke of BADEN. It is a curious instance of the
open-mouthed credulity of our contemporaries, that they
should for a moment attach immense political importance
to the arrival of such a visiter. His journey is about as
political as that of a Highland landlord to prove his title
to a thousand acres of hereditary sheep-walks.— Tintes.
The Exanziner, in the course of a clever ar-
ticle on " Extortion by means of Fees," thus alludes to the
fees on arrests paid to Sheriffs' officers :—" In 23 HENRY
VI. the fees on arrest were fixed at 20d. for the Sheriff,
4d. for the bailiff, and 4d. for the bail-bond; and so, ac-
cording to statute, they still remain ; but the Courts have
taken upon themselves to alter the statute—by what autho-
rity we know not ; but this we know, that he who ar-
gues against an usurped jurisdiction before the usurpers,
or their successors, will have his bill of costs for the
amount of his satisfaction. It would be reasonable to
suppose that the Judges, when they found that the change
in the value of money had rendered the fees fixed in the
days of HENRY VI. inadequate to the just remuneration
of their officers, which must have happened some time
before the reign of GEORGE Iv, wou'd have intimated
the necessity of a change, even if some of those who have
sat in the Lords did ni.t themselves initiate some measure
on the subject ; but this would not have suited the views
of the officers; they prefer donations or exactions, expe-
dition-money, or copy-money, or civility-money, or by
whatever name their perquisites might be called, to any
fixed scale of remuneration ; the consequence of which is,
that the public pay indirectly more then twice as much as
the service rendered could fairly demand. As respects the
Sheriff and his officers this abuse more especially requires
r(form, as its victims are seldom in the condition, and
yet more rarely inclined, to oppose their extortions. The
Common Law Commissioners have reported on this sub-
ject, hut unless great vigilance is exerted, there is no in-
considerable risk that the measure of future payment may,
in this and other instances, be graduated on the scale of
present extortion. This should be watched."

It is said that a meeting of notorious swell
thieves took place a short time since, at a flash house near
Temple Bar, to determine or:' what course the fraternity
should pursue in the present aspect of affairs, as regards
the new Police Act.