The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-31 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1827.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

OXFORD CIRCITIT.—MONMOUTH, Auc. 2S.
James Coleman was indicted, charged with having
on the 30th of April last, feloniously uttered to Leah
Hillier, at Newport, in this county, a certain note
purporting to be a note of the Governor and Com-
pany of the Bank of England, for the payment of
11., well knowing the same to be forged.
Leah Hillier stated, that on the evening of the
30th of April last, the prisoner came to her shop in
Newport, and having purchased seven pennyworth
of goods, he tendered the note in question in pay-
ment. She asked him if he had not some small
change, which he denied. She then sent her servant
lout for change, and the note having been taken to
Mr. Williams, the banker, suspicion was excited, and
the prisoner being questioned, he said he had taken it
, from a man at the Coach and Horses public-house,
for a pair of shoes.
Mrs. Ewens, wife of a confectioner of Newport,
proved that the prisoner, on the 30th of April, came
to her shop, and after purchasing some trifling
articles, tendered in payment a note resembling a
Bank of England note, for 11. At first she declined
changing it; but being told it was a Bank of Eng-
land note, she gave the prisoner change.
Mr. Wood Deane, an inspector for the Bank of
England for the last 16 years, pronounced the note
uttered to Mrs. Hillier, and the note uttered to Mrs.
Ewens, to be forgeries in every respect. Both the
notes now produced appeared to be from the same
plate.
A confession, signed by the prisoner at the time
of his apprehension, was then read, stating that he
had received the notes at the Coach and Horses,
from Mary Floyd, the wife of William Floyd. She
had plenty more, and there were three other persons
concerned in it,. Wm. Probert, Floyd, and his wife.
The prisoner was to have 10s. allowed him for every
note that he got rid of.
On being called on for his defence, the prisoner
gave a similar account of the transaction.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE having summed up, the
Jury found the prisoner Guilty.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE—Prisoner, you have
been convicted on the clearest evidence; but I don't
think it.necessary for the purposes of justice that
you should be executed : your life will, therefore,
probably be spared, but only on condition of your
quitting this country for ever.
Thomas Badham and Joint Keys were indicted,
charged with killing and slaying Timothy Pritchard,
at Llanvihangel Crucorney, on the 29th of July last.
The prisoners, on being called on for their defence,
expressed • their sorrow at what had occurred, and
called a witness who gave them a good character for
humanity.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE having summed up the
evidence, the Jury found the.prisoners " Not Guilty."

AUGUST 29.

James Ford, aged 14, was indicted for having
assaulted Ann Martin, aged nine years, with intent to
commit a rape. The Jury found the wisoner guilty
of the assault.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE having commented on
the nature of the offence, and recommended the
prisoner to regulate, his passions in future, sentenced
him to one month's imprisonMent.

THE RING V. -SMITH AND OTHkII,/,..
The defendants were indicted for a conspirAcy, in
removing a person named Baker to London, in order
to prevent his giving evidence again 4 them at the
July sessions for this county, held at Usk, on a
charge of stealing certain doors and door frames from
an unfinished house in ChepstosV. The case was
wholly devoid of interest, and occupied the Court
the whole day. At nine o'clock at night, the Jury
returned a verdict, finding two of the defendants
guilty, and acquitting the third.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.—BRISTOL, AUG. 29.
WHITE V. ROWDEN.
This was an action for certain slanderous words
spoken of the plaintiff by the defendant, imputing
to the former that lie had committed a rape on a child
under 12 years of age.
The Jury, after about fire minutes' consultation,
returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 51.

Died, at Dryburgh Abbey, on Wednesday,
the 15th inst. Mr. George Lyon, butler to the
Right Hon. the Earl of Buchan ; and on Satur-
day, the 18th, while preparing some refresh-
ment for her son (who had come from Edin-
burgh to attend the funeral of his father), Mrs.
Lyon, his widow, who had previously been in
good health. This respectable couple were
buried in one grave, on Monday last. —Edin-
burgh Courant.

A RUSSIAN REGIMENT.—The Colonel of
a regiment in Russia is bound, both morning and
evening, to keep open table for all his officers, 1
pay the music of the regiment, whether of in-
fantry or cavalry, defray all the expences of the
hospital of his cantonment, and take charge of
the handiwork of every article for the complete
equipment of his regiment ; so that the Emperor,
or in other words the Crown, furnishes each re-
giment with only the pay, arms, leather, clothes,
copper and iron, and a certain sum for the re.
mount of the cavalry. Thus it is calculated, in
Russia, and especially in Georgia, that an in-
fantry soldier completely equipped for war, his
arms excepted, costs the Government 25 rubles,
(assignats) which are equivalent to one pound
sterling. With respect to the Colonel's table,
whether he be absent or not, it is always pro-
vided at his house, either with music or without,
according to the pleasure of him who presides,
who is the officer highest in rank. If a stranger
arrive, he is always hospitably received, and
placed beside the president, provided only that he
be introduced by one of the officers. On the
other hand, the Colonel, to be able to meet the
great expellees which he incurs in thus support-
ing the regiment, has the right of employing, in
the time of peace, the third part of his troops
for his own benefit, during certain months in the
year, when the military instructions are suspended.
The soldiers then become masons, carpenters,
smiths, &C., or engage ill whatever occupation
they may be hired for ; so that, as they are fur-
nished by the Colonel with suitable dresses, that
their uniforms may not suffer during the time
they are thus employed, they cannot be recog-
nised as soldiers except by their mustachios.
Besides, there are always a certain number of
them employed in the work-shops belonging toinie
the regiment, sier yt
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wanted
everynt in
thingevery
by the corps is made by the soldiers. It is by
this kind of administration that Russia is enabled
to maintain the immense army it keeps at present
on foot, and which, according to the statement
circulated among the various divisions of the
army at the time of my serving ill it, amounted
to 600,000 infantry, 100,000 cavalry, 26 regi-
fdrartillery,
a3pBp
ers,
exclusivesquadrons of tohfe
the s same, and
passiveand 11n2enstqsuoa
regiments, or in garrison, the Cossacks, and a
multitude of other armed corps of the empire.—
Juan Van Halen's Narrative.

GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT OF THE

DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE•

The Duke of Devonshire descended from
liam Cavendish, second son of Sir William

Cavendish, Knight (formerly Gentleman Usher
to Cardinal Wolsey), by Elizabeth, sister and
heiress to John Hardwicke, Esq., of Hardwicke,

in Derbyshire, who was elevated to the Peerage
as Baron Cavendish, of Hardwicke, on the 4th
May, 1605, by James I. and to an earldom, as
Earl of Devonshire, on the 7th Aug. 6, 1816,
during the reign of the same monarch. (His
father, the aforesaid Sir William, was lineally
descended from Sir John Cavendish, who had
been Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench,
as early as in the reign of Edward III.) This
first Earl of Devonshire of the Cavendish family,
died the 3d March, 1625, and was succeeded by

his eldest son,
'William, who died in 1628; and was suc-
ceeded by his eldest son.
William, who married Elizabeth, the daughter
of William Earl of Salisbury, by whom he had

a daughter, and his successor,
William, who was created on the 12th of May,
1694, Marquis of Hartington and Duke of De-
vonshire, and installed a Knight of the most
illustrious order of the Garter. His Grace died
on the 18th of August, 1707, and was succeeded
by his son,
William, K.G., who departed this life in 1729,
and was succeeded by his son,
William, K.G., born in the year 1698, mar-
ried in 1718, to Catherine, only daughter and
heiress of John Hoskins, Esq., by whom he had
four sons and three daughters. His Grace died
on the sth December, 1755, and was succeeded
by his eldest son,
William K.G.,. born in 1720 ; called to the
House of Peers in the lifetime of his father, the
13th of June, 1751, as Baron Cavendish.—
His Grace married the 28th March, 1748, Char-
lotte Baroness ,Clifford, only daughter and
heiress of Richard Earl of Burlington and Cork,
by which union the Barony of Clifford, created
by the writ of Charles I. in 1628, came into
his family. His Grace, who was Lord Lieu-
tenant of Ireland in 1755, and died on the 2d
of Oct: 1764, was succeeded by his eldest son,
William, K.G., who inherited the Barony of
Clifford from his mother ; born the 14th of De-
cember, 1748 ; married first .on the sth June,
1774, Georgiana, daughter of John Earl of
Spencer, by whom, he had William Spencer,
the present Duke and • two daughters. The
eldest, Georgiana, married George, the present
Earl of Carlisle ; and the youngest, Viscount
Granville. Her Grace, whom his present Ma-
jesty pronounced the most accomplished of her
sex, died in 1806; and the Duke married again
the 19th of October, JEW, Elizabeth, daughter
of Frederick Earl of Bristol, by whom he had no
issue. His Grace died the 29th of July, 1811,
and was succeeded by his only'son,
William Spencer, Duke of Devonshire, Mar-
quis of Hartington, Earl of Devonshire, Baron
Hardwcke, and Baron Clifford, Lord Lieutenant
and High Steward of the County of Derby, a
Doctor of Civil Law, born the 21st of May
1790, descended as aforesaid of one of the most
illustrious houses in the British Peerage, whose
princely fortune and extensive real estates are su-
hperior to all others even among the wealthy
Aristocracy of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland. His Grace succeeded to
the 'family honours upon the demise of his father
in 1811, and has since had the honour of repre-
senting his Sovereign as Ambassador Extraordi-
nary at the Coronation of his Majesty Nicholas 1.,
the present Emperor of Russia, with unprece-
dented splendour, at Moscow, with whom he con-
tracted an intimacy during that Prince's visit to
England in 1817. His Grace has been subsequently
invested with the insignia of the most noble Order
of the Garter ; and tills, since April, 1827, the
distinguished situation of Lord High Chamber-
lain in his Majesty's Household. His Grace
continues to live in a state of celibacy; arid,
unless he changes his condition, his titles, and
immense real and personal estates, together with
the incomparable collection of the most rare and
precious monuments of the Fine Arts which they
contain, must, at a future day, go to the collateral
branches of MS family. In his person the Duke
is tall and graceful—in his manners and deport-
ment dignified, affable, and condescending ; and,
although much esteemed by his Majesty, it is
supposed that, as the Duke's delicate state of
health requires an occasional residence in a
milder climate, on account of an asthmatic com-
plaint, constant and close attendance at Court
must necessarily cost his Grace the sacrifice of
much personal comfort and convenience.

A few days since, two English gentlemen pas-
sing the Faubourg Montmartre, in a cabriolet,
let fall the reins between the rue de Provence
and the rue Cadet. The servant alighted and
restored the reins to his master. The latter
wished to revenge his awkwardness upon his
horse, but the horse became restive, reared, and
sprung back at the moment that the servant was
about to resume his place behind th© vehicle,
squeezed him against the wall, and then darting
forward with the rapidity of an arrow, left the
unfortunate man dead upon the spot, without his
master's
of the cabriolet, who was, as may be sup-
--
perceiving it. A water carrier lifted up
the body, and carried it to the house of the pro-
prietorposed, very deeply grieved by the unfortunate ac-
cident. French Paper.

sopneeakosf
withthe carleew Hecla,
CAPTAIN PARRY'S EXPEDITION.—A let-
ter dated Hammerfest, April 24th, 1827, from
greatestof his
confidenceAlajest; s
ofsii their ulti-
mately attaining their object. fhe writer, pre-
vious to this expedition, was fourteen years in
the East India Service, and consequently appre-
hended he would not be able to bear the cold ;
but it seems his fears were ill founded, for the
sharp air had had the effect of making him not
only look, but feel, quite young again. He
speaks in the highest terms of Capt., Parry, whose
only study, he says, is to make his men com-
fortable. None of the crew have had any salt
meat yet, the beef that was shipped at the Nore
being quite fresh. They term it " a fine full-
belly voyage." The Lapland ladies paid the
ship a visit, and appeared highly pleased. There
are but few inhabitants, and one of them is a
Scotchman. On the 24th they bad their rein-
deer alongside, and all their water filled fit fcr