The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The formal provisions of the treaty of peace
between Russia and Turkey; which arc laid at
length before the public, would be read, in
general, without dissatisfaction, if there were
nothing behind. There is, at least, no direct
partition of Turkey,—no keys to the heart of
Turkey in Europe to be held within the grasp
of the Russian Autocrat, as posts of annoyance
and arbitrary aggression. The Asiatic conquests
to be retained are limited to a very small portion
of territory along the eastern coast of the Euxine,
and to one or two fortresses of secondary rank,
which serve at once to define and strengthen the
Russian frontier of the Caucasus, which had
hitherto experienced, not infrequently, the incur-
sions of neighbouring Turkish tribes. With re-
spect to the free navigation of the Euxine, the
Bosphorus, and the Dardanelles, the principal
stipulations are, with one exception, those which
every friend of the industry, commerce, and
kindly intercouse of civilized nations would have
solicited the several states of Europe to guarantee
in favour of Russian subjects and of their own :
all merchant ships, of all European flags, at
peace (not with Russia but) with the Porte, are
to have free ingress, progress, and egress, with-
out let or hindrance of any kind from the Otto.
man authorities ; and any infraction of this atti-
de is to be held a declaration of war againuf,
Russia. There is nothing demanded in rel
tion to men-of-war; nor are they alluded to,
at least in the ostensible treaty. The treaty
of London in favour of the independence of
Greece, and the protocol of the 10th March, 1829.
for defining its future boundary, are to be recog.=
nised and acceded to by the Sultan. So far, then,
as we have yet gone, we should be willing to
concede that the Emperor Nicholas has fulfilled
the engagements announced by his manifesto at
the opening of the war. His Imperial Majesty
has, apparently, forborne to exercise powers which,
in the first instance undoubtedly, whatever might
have been the ultimate consequence, there wa
no human force at hand or within call to restrain.
In this he will have judged wisely for his own
dominions, which need more to be consolidated,
and internally cultivated, than to he enlarged.
So much for what appears on the face of this
important treaty. With regard to what does not
appear, or is only referred to as forming the sub-
ject of " separate" articles, if we do not speak in
similar terms of eulogy, it is evidently not from
any hostile feeling towards Russia. We should
be willing to hope that those articles may, when
made public, be such as not to entail reproach
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amount of pecuniary indemnity required, and the
periods to be fixed for its liquidation : another
is, the definite arrangement of the times at which
the Russian troops are to commence and to com-
plete their evacuation of the Turkish territory.
There is yet another circumstance, which strikes
us as being pregnant with danger to the continu-
ance of peace between the Emperor and the Sul-
tan. The Russian subjects are, it appears, to
enjoy a degree of independence throughout Tor.,
key, which would seem capable of being ren,
dered inconsistent with the administration of the
Turkish law, or indeed with the existence of any
sovereign power, except that of Russian Consuls,
in the country. The commerce of Russian

subjects is not to be " checked in any case, or
under any pretence, by any prohibition, restrie-
i tion, regulation, or measure, whether of adminis-
tration or of legislation."—" Russian subjects
shall live, throughout Turkey, under the exclu.
sive jurisdiction and police of the Ministers and
Consuls of Russia." What becomes, then, of
the Turkish authorities ? Suppose the Russian
subject abuses his privileges, and violates the
usoges or laws of Turkey, where is the Turk—
whether Sultan or subject—to find redress ?
Again : Russian vessels shall not be subject to
visitation or search whatever by any Ottoman
authorities, neither out at sea nor in the Turkish
ports. Suppose, then, that a case of smuggling,
or other abuse of the rights of commerce, should
be detected, where is the redress ? So far we
had proceeded with our remarks on this most

important treaty, or bad rather in truth drawn
them to a conclusion : in which remarks also, it
will be observed, we had cast a fearful and sus-
picious glance on certain articles, at the moment
when we wrote unknown to us. But as Perdita
says, in the Winter's Tale—

" The self-same sun that shines upon his court,
" Hides not his visage from our cottage ; but
" Looks en us alike.*
The light which shot from Constantinople to
illumine the Court and the Miuistry, imparted a
ray also to our office in its path. In plain Eng-
fish; we have got what is of much more im-
portance than the treaty itself,—we have got
the substance of the supplementary and separate
articles : we should, indeed, rather say the sepa-
rate treaties referred to in that document, and
explanatory of some of its principal provisions ;
and it is upon these, no doubt, that dissatisfac-
tion will fix itself, as untoward proofs of Russian
moderation. By one of them, the sums which
the Porte is to pay to Russia, as indemnity for
the expenses of the war, and for the losses of
the Russian merchants, are assessed, the former
at 10,000,000 of ducats, nearly .5,000,000/.
sterling; the latter at 1,500,000 ducats, about
750,000/.,—sums which it should appear to be
entirely out of the power of the Sultan to dis-
charge. They are to be paid in instalments,—
(and upon this point we shall have a remark to
subjoin),—the greater sum in ten equal annual
instalments of about half a million each ; and
the smaller in four instalments of unequal mag-
nitude, increasing as they go on, and at smaller
intervals. Upon the payment of the first of
this latter class of instalments, Adrianople is to
be evacuated : on the second being paid, the
Russians retreat beyond the Balkan ; on
the third, beyond the Danube ; and when
the fourth and the whole of the sum of ten mil-

lions of ducats has been discharged, they are to
quit the Turkish territory altogether. By these
articles it should indeed appear, that Russia has
in fact secured to herself the perpetual posses-
sion of the Principalities, unless some extraor-
dinary gift of Providence should enable the

Sultan to raise the sum of five millions in tcn

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their private losses, as the Emperor Nicholas
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was perhaps obliged to do by his duty,
making their payment the condition of a
series of retreats, be has left the public in-
demnity, both as to amount and times of pay-
ment, subject to the remonstrance and interpo-
sition of the great Powers of Europe. By the
other supplementary treaty the regulations for
the internal Government of the Principalities
are settled on such a footing, by giving Russia
an equal voice with Turkey in the nomination of
the Hospodars, and depriving the Sultan of the
arbitrary power of deposing them, together with
other provisions in a similar spirit, that there is

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Times.

The present is a very fitting opportunity for
canvassing the privilege which Foreign Ministers
have hitherto enjoyed of an exemption from duty
On the articles imported for their own use.—
This is a privilege which, from its very nature,
is liable to be abused ; and it is well known that
it has often been grossly abused. We take it for
granted that the Ambassadors of the great Powers
of France, Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Eng-
land, are themselves above embarking in. smug-
gling transactions ; but experience proves that
even in their case, a sersant will not scruple to
abuse the confidence reposed in him by his mas-
ter to smuggle under cover of his name. As to
the Ambassadors of the minor Powers, it is no-
toriously known that some of them live by
smuggling. When a very active servant of the
Crown detected, during the Ministry of Lord
Liverpool, a smuggling transaction, in which
the A mbassador of a certain Monarchy was im-
plicated, Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canning,
knowing that for years that Ambassador had
had mottling from his Court for his support
tbis expensive capital, and knowing also
t'!Ow the supplies could alone be obtained,
telt a reluctance to expose the nakedness
of t e land. It was thought better, on the
whole, tt.: wink at the abuse. Some of
the Ambassadors at Paris in like manner exist
sinviggling. In these days of improved com-
'rnil4eation, it may well be questioned whether '
l''Aident Ambassadors arc in any case required.
'nen the people were considered merely as the
stock of the Sovereigns, and everything depended
on the caprice of a .\ lonarch and his mistresses
,r minions, and polities meant Court intrigues,
t hen a resident Ambassador might be indispens-
able, with a view to security against plots and
machinations. But, in our times, the most abso-
lute Sovereign governs with the advice of a Se-
mur, or some other body, to which all public
orfairs arc submitted ; and the idea of conducting
public affairs on any other principle than a ten-
dency to promote the public good, is universally
disclaimed. It is at least certain that the con-
duct of all the great Powers can always be now
pretty correctly anticipated, with reference to any
given conjuncture, by taking into consideration
the circumstances and situation of such Powers.
Warlike preparationa Cannot be made in silence,
and armies catittot be put in motion till long after
!hit idatol has been given. A functionary of a
instils More humble description than an Ambas-
'lffil ;eight answer all the purposes for which an
Ambassador can be employed. But waving this
question, it is at all events clear that there can
be no necessity for maintaining Ministers at
Courts of a secondary rate. The Ministers of
the great Powers are above the necessity of
Smuggling, and they would willingly forego any
aslsantag,e they can derive from an exemption
front tlitties. But if there should be any diffi-
Olty about' the matter, on account of the alleged
Unfairness in compelling the Ambassador of a
country in which taxes are low to pay more in
a highly taxed country than the Ambassador of
such country would pay in his, it would become
the Government of this, the highest taxed na-
tion in the world, to pay down at once an allow-
ance to the different Ambassadors, in order to
repel any charge of wishing to gain, on an ex-
-chouge of Ambassadors, through a difference of
ditty. But we are persuaded all the great States
+s-ottld at once consent to the abolition of the
privilege. As to the smaller States, the effect
oftnch an abolition would, no doubt, be to pre-
vent many of them from having Ministers here.
It is the custom in some parts of the world,
which we will not particularize, when a man, by
his conduct in a situation at home, has merited
the gallows, to appoint him to a foreign mission,
and the privileges of the new situation arc soon
turned to account. Now that these people arc
no longer necessary to our Stock Exchange for
purposes of deception, it would be as well at
once to annihilate them, by cutting off their pri-
vileges, which supply them with the sinews of
W a re— Moen ing Chronicle.
We published some months ago the speech
tlelivered by Sir John Grant, on closing the
Court at Bombay on the Ist of April last, and the
Proclamation of the Governor in Council which
followed. We learn from a most respectable
quarter, that letters have been received from Cal-
einta, stating that the Judges there think Sir
John Grant acted properly in closing the Court,
and that the character and honour of the King's
Judges did not admit of their acting any longer
alter such an interference with their authority as
that ordered by Sir John Malcolm. Our readers
will recollect that the Judges were ordered not
to bring up a person before the Court, on the
allegation that the Judges of the King's Court
bad jurisdiction beyond the Island of Born-
bay ; and that the Habeas having, notwith-
standing, been issued, its execution was pre-
vented by the military, acting under the autho-
rity of the Governor in Council. The opinion
of the Government at home was sufficiently
evinced by the appointment of the Judge Ad-
vocate, then at Bombay, to be the Senior Judge
over Sir John Grant ; and the decision of the
King in Council, on the petition of Sir John
Grant, supported the Governor of Bombay in
the course he had taken. It is extremely diffi-
cult at this distance, and with the imperfect
knowledge of the situation and circum-
stances possessed in England, to form an opi-
nion on the business. It must always be borne
in mind that .Judges in India are not, as in Eng-
land, controulled by public opinion, as there is
no public ; that the existing Government is
charged with the protection of the nations under
their sway, and bound to exercise in their be-
half a controul over all functionaries, including
Judges. In England, when Judges misbehave,
there is first the censure of an enlightened
public, and next the appeal to Parliament, which
can address the Executive. In India, the Com-
pany unites the functions of King and Parlia-
ment, and Protector of the Nations; for it is to
be borne in mind, that at present the English in
India have little sympathy with the natives ; and the
forms of English law, in the hands of men linked
together as the English in Bombay must be, may
easily be made a most effectual engine of oppres-
sion. We are not disposed to attach much im-
portance to the sympathy of the Calcutta Judges
with the Judges at Byphtay. In every profession
there is an esprit de corps, and the History of
India affords some: instances in which that esprit
has not alwaysaliaplayed itself beneficially. But
in the presents4remnstances of the country, with
the Commander of the army opposed in a mate-
rial point-to. the Civil Government, this addi-
tional' cause of discontent may be of importance.
—lbid.

The public will do well to keep a wary eye
upon the proceedings of the several Water Com-

panics, who, not contented with enjoying a mo-
nopoly, which sonic, if not all of them, have
most shamefully abused, appear to be meditating
flesh measures to increase the general evil to
their own advantage. At a recent meeting of
the South London Water Works it was gravely,
and no doubt most truly stated, that if a coali-
tion could be formed, and a greater spirit of una-
nimity exist between the Companies on the
Surrey side, the interests of the whole would be
advanced ; while another speaker openly arraign-
the disposition which he said existed among
those Companies to undersell one another. This
is free trade with a vengeance; and the public
has only to witness this opposition to underselling
introduced into al the other necessaries of life,
as into this most essential one of water, to be at
the uncontrolled mercy of those who would thus
be allowed to revel in inordinate profits. With
the exception, however, of water and of beer,
happily this cannot take place. In other trades
—as in thoe of the butcher, the baker, and the
grocer—the sellers arc too many, and the rivalry
toogreat, to admit of such impositions being prac-
tised. The time, too, we hope is fast approaching,
when the monopoly of the mash-tub will experience
a downfall, and when the public, but more especially
the lower ordet s, will be allowed to enjoy the whole-
some staple beverage of the country, instead of
the deleterious trash which is now dealt out to
them Irons magnificent establishments, which
seem to exist but to poison the community, en-
rich the possessors, and overawe both the Go-
vernment and the Legislature. But that water,
the free gift of Heaven, an article so essential to
health, happiness, and life, should be sealed from
our use except at an almost unattainable price, is
more than we trust will be ever submitted to ;
but which would inevitably be the case if those
who take upon themselves the supply of it were
to complete the combination which they openly
avow their intention, if possible, to effect. We
regret that one hint which we have frequently
given, as a means, to a certain degree, of coun-
teracting this, has not been more generally
adopted ; we mean in the erection of pumps for
the supply of spring water to all parts of the
town. We arc aware that, from habit, people
are persuaded that fund and soft water ;we not
equally applicable to all purposes. This, how-
ever, is a mistake ; and when we compare the
purity of the one with the proved and acknow-
ledged filthiness of the other, we do not think
that any part of the community would long omit
to prefer the well to the cistern, if they had an
opportunity of doing so.—Morning Herald.

If to be silent about the distresses of the
country were to remove them, we might be dis-
posed to copy the example, without participat-
ing in the motives of those " public instruc-
tors," who decry the publication of unpleasant
truths. Such writers advocate the principle of
concealment, not from regard for the people, but
through sycophancy to their rulers. But con-
ceahnent can only serve the purpose of a tem-
porary delusion, without alleviating the pressure
of calamity. On the contrary, it must accele•
rate the crisis of national suffering, which the
errors of Government arc calculated to produce.
The greatest advantage of a free Press—its
truly national and proud characteristic—is to
make the voice of truth be heard in the high
places of power. In absolute Governments the
operation of terror and servility prevents, it ge-
neral, the language of truth from reaching the
ear of the Sovereign. Hence the errors of Go-
vernment arc not known, where they might be re-
paired, before their disastrous, and often irreme-
diable, consequences force themselves upon the
Monarch's attention. In such States the su-
preme authority, unless when wielded by a despot
of original and vigorous character, is virtually
usurped by men who practice beyond all other
accomplishments the artifices of fawning and se••
ductive deception. Inebriated by the delicious
poison of flattery, their nominal master, but, in
reality, their slave, enjoys the dreams of pleasure
upon a bed of roses while his people suffer. The
miserable condition of the great mass of his sub-
jects is seldom known to him until the melan-
choly truth speaks in a voice of thunder, and
startles him from his repose. It is thus, from
the suppression of truth, that despotic States are
subject to such frequent and sudden rev°•
lutions. In free States the errors of Admi-
nistration—the consequences of the folly or
incapacity of Ministers—cannot fail to be
made known in the quarter where they ought
to be rectified except through the corrupt sub-
serviency of the Press. If those journalists
who make false representations of the state of
this country at the present day—who attempt to
give the colouring of prosperity to abounding
wretchedness, have any private motive to serve
we stop not to inquire ; it is enough for us to
know that their conduct is calculated to plunge
the nation in deeper misery, by hiding from the
eyes of its rulers the convincing evidence of the
errors which they ought to retract and the evils
which it is their duty to remedy. We are not
alarmists—neither are we flatterers—we court no
party—we pay a blind devotion to the idol of
no political sect—our ambition is to serve the
public—guided .by that principle, we cannot lend
ourselves to the delusive and dangerous system
of keeping the distresses of the country out of
view. We may say of them, in the words of
Mr. Dunning's celebrated motion respecting the
influence of the Crown, " they have increased,
are increasing, and ought to be diminished ;"
and how arc they to be diminished ? Is it by
describing trade as advancing when it is rapidly
on the decline ? Is it by representing the ma-
nufacturing districts as reviving into wholesome
activity, when the artizans work upon stall/big
prices, and the peace of the country is disturbed
by repeated explosions ? Is it by stating that
the agricultural interests are improving, when
the account of every market and fair only tells
us of the fall of prices, and every audit-day dis-
closes the fact that the farmers cannot support
the appearance of solvency unless their landlords
return them a portion of their rents ? It is na-
tural that Ministers should be slow to believe
the ruinous effects of their own system ; but it
is equally natural that those who see the true
interests of the country, and wish to preserve
whatever remains of its ancient grandeur and
valuable institutions should endeavour to con-
vince them of their mistakes. If men are
blind to their own defects, how are we to
expect improvement ? It is now about
the fifteenth year of peace, and the country
instead of showing any symptoms of the restora-
tion of its prosperity is growing weaker and
weaker. Undoubtedly the pressure of the enor-
mous debt, which is the consideration at which
the military glory of the last war was purchased,
has a most depressing effect on all its interests ;
but the juvenile statesmanship of Air. Peel made
that debt doubly oppressive ; nor is it to he
wondered at when the Gamaliel at whose feet he
sat to learn the science of political economy, was
the founder of the Macculloch school--that
school which put forth the mischievous and stupid

paradox, that the absenteeism of landed proprie-
tors benefited the country which they deserted—
that school which, in groping after recondite non.
sense, shuns the contact of common sense.
Then, as if the mistakes of Mr. Peel, with re-
tard
to the currency were not sufficiently injuri-
ous to the State, comes Mr. Huskisson, another
ambitious disciple of the theorists, and makes
himself an unenvied celebrity by breaking down
the best protection of our commerce—carrying
away, with an inundation of " philosophy" too
powerful for Parliament to resist, those Naviga-
tion Acts which Adam Smith—himself a liberal
theorist—admitted to have been founded in the
most deliberate wisdom. To crown the cala-
mitous effects of those measures, Russia has
been allowed to trick us in diplomacy, to beat
down the empire of our '' ancient ally" in the
field, and to establish a supremacy in the East,
which may one day enable her to realise what
even the genius of Napoleon could only contem-
plate with regard to our Indian possessions.
Under those circumstances at home and abroad,
we see no present hope for the country unless
Ministers themselves see and feel the truth.
Whatever credit we may give them for their mo-
tives, we certainly cannot, without violence to
our own conviction, pay any compliment to their
wisdom. We care not who are Ministers so as
their measures arc of advantage to the empire ;
and we should be as ready to praise as we now
are to censure the present AdminiStration, if
they would retrace their steps—make a practical
confession of their errors—" emancipate.' them-
selves from the fascinating follies of the theorists
who have beguiled them--and restore that sound,
wholesome, moral, and dignified tone of policy
under which the country so long prospered above
all the nations of the earth.—/bid.

At length we have the satisfaction of laying
before our readers a copy of the first chapter of
the Treaty of Adrianople—the first chapter we
say, because what we insert alludes to various
matters which still remain to be settled, and be-
cause the Hamburg Reporter of Friday last,
Which we have just received, mentions that there
are three separate treaties-Ist. The treaty of
peace, properly speaking, which we now publish
—2dly, An explanatory convention, consisting
of four articles ; and 3dly, A separate act, relating
solely to the Principalities of Moldavia and
Wallachia. What the explanatory convention
and the separate act may be, we have no means
of knowing, but from the accounts in the German
Papers ; but the treaty itself is now before our
readers, and that they will resemble it in spirit
and effect there need be little doubt. The first
three articles of the treaty present nothing worthy.
of remark, beyond the pretended surrender,
by the Emperor of Russia, of all the forts
and towns which his armies have taken in
the course of the war—the establishment
of the Pruth as the boundary between the
two empires, the free navigation of the
Danube to the merchant vessels of the
contracting Powers, and a stipulation that
the " right bank of the river shall remain unin-
habited from the point where the arm of the St.
George separates itself from that of Soulineh to
a distance of two hours from the river, and that
no establishment of any kind shall be formed
there any more than on the islands which shall
remain in the possession of the Court of Russia,
where, with the exception of quarantine, it shall
not be allowed to form any other establishment
or fortification." By the fourth article the fron-
tiers between the Russians and Turks in Asia
are to be " the line which, following the pre-
sent limit of the Gouriel from the Black Sea,
ascends as far as the border of Imeritia, and from
thence in the straightest direction as far as
the point where the frontiers of the Pa-
elialiks of Akhaltzik and of Kars meet
those of Georgia, leaving in this man-
ner to the north, of and within that
line, the town of Akhaltzik, and the
fort of Khallnalick, at a distance of " not
less than two hours." The effect of this
boundary line is to give into the hands of Russia
in perpetuity all the countries to the north and
east of the above line, towards Georgia, Ime-
ritia, and the Gouriel, as well as all the coast of
the Black Sea, from the mouth of the Kouben
as far as the port of St. Nicholas inclusive—a
pretty considerable rounding, as it has been
termed in some Papers, of the Russian territo-
tories, in that quarter, but much less objection-
able in every other point of view, than the rigid
stipulations in sonic of the subsequent articles.
The fifth and sixth articles relate to Moldavia,
Wallachia, and Servia, and provide for the pre-
servation of all the privileges and immunities
granted to the two former by the Convention of.
Akermann, and for the issuing of a firman which
shall order the execution of the clauses respecting
Servia in the said Convention, within the period
of a month after the signature of the treaty. The
seventh article we commend to the perusal of our
readers as one of the most obnoxious in spirit, and
the most likely to furnish grounds for future
war, that was ever contained in a treaty of peace.
It is incapable of abridgement. By the eighth
article, 1,500,000 ducats are to be paid to Russia
within eighteen months, in full of all demands,
for losses sustained by her merchants and sub-
jects since the year 1806. The ninth article
stipulates for the payment of a sum of money,
as an indemnity to Russia for the expences of
the war ; but the sum itself is not specified, and
does not appear at first to have been agreed upon.
In the tenth article, the Russian Plenipotentiary
takes at once the place both of France and Eng-
land, and provides by his own sole act and deed
for the immediate execution of the treaties re-
specting the independence and limik of Greece,
simply leaving to these two Powers to witness,
along with Russia, the execution of their stipu-
lations. This is a bold and not very respectful
step, but fully warranted, we must allow,
by the inactivity of the Powers who are
thus so unceremoniously treated. The ele-
venth article of the treaty stipulates for the
evacuation of the Ottoman territories by the
Russian troops, from the moment when the sti-
pulations of the treaty can be considered as ful-
filled, for the Administration, and the order of
things established therein, under the influence
of Russia, being maintained, and the non-inter-
ference of the Porte, until the stipulations have
been fulfilled !—in other words, for that part of
the Turkish Empire remaining under Russian,
domination, external and internal, until the sti-
pulations of the treaty have been fulfilled to the
utmost extent. The remaining articles merely
respect exchanges of prisoners, general pardons,
and other matters of little moment to either of
the contracting parties. It must be evident to
every one, from this brief recapitulation of the
different articles of the Treaty of Adrianople-
1. That Russia has secured to herself by it the
virtual domination, though not the nominal sove-
reignty, of Moldavia, Wallachia, Servia, and Greece.
2. That she has eecured greater commercial ad-
vantages to her subjects than are enjoyed by those
of any other Power.
3. That she has eentrived by the indefinite manner

in which the stipulation's of the treaty are worded, to
%yolk i►►to it as many grounds of war as wig ju,tify
her in recommencing hostilities at whatever period
she pleases. And,
4. We were going to add, that by ftipulating for
the government, external and internal, of that part of
Turkey, of which she now holds military possession,
she is paving the way for its final conquest, and the
conciliation of the Turks to her sole, exclusive, and
unlimited, dominion.
But we arc not yet in possession of an official
copy of the separate act which is to specify the
sum to be paid by Turkey to Russia as an in-
demnity for the expensex of the war, and, till we
are so, we shall not indulge in any pointed obser-
vations on the subject. We cannot, however,
conclude for the present without observing that,
if Russia he permitted to carry the above treaty
into full effect, a blow will have been struck at
the independence of the Turkish empire, from
which it may never recover, and an insult offered
to France and England which in other times
would not have been borne—at least here.—
Morning Advertiser.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Two gentlemen, who are connected with the
Taunton Bank, applied to the LORD MAYOR for a
warrant to search a lodging-house in Ironmonger-
lane, Cheapside, in con,equenee of a very serious
robbery which had been committed there between
Sunday night and Monday morning last. The cir-
cumstances, which are of a mysterious character, are
as follow :—The proprietors of the Taunton Bank
are in the habit of sending up to London cash and
bills to a considerable amount, and the person
usually employed in conveying such property to its
destination is a respectable tradesman of Taunton,
who secures himself against coach-robbers by stitch-
ing the bundle in the pocket of his coat, which he
never takes off until he arrives in town. He had on
this last journey to London adopted the same pre-
caution, and upon reaching town he went, at be-
tween eight and nine o'clock on Sunday night, to
the lodging-house of Mrs. Andrews, Nos. 22 and 23,
Ironmonger-lane, where he had been in the habit of
sleeping. At nine o'clock, after having taken a glass
of ale and some tea, he returned to his sleeping-
room, and, as he was accustomed to do, put all his
clothes under his head. Being greatly fatigued he
soon fell asleep, and upon awaking, he found that,
instead of being under his head, his clothes were on
the chair next the bed. This alarmed him, but
upon examining his coat he saw that his parcel was
stitched up in the pocket. He then concluded that
all was right, and that he must in a dream have dis-
turbed his clothes. However, upon putting his
hand into his breeches'-pocket, he felt that his purse,
in which he had the night before deposited four
sovereigns, contained only one. Again he was em-
barrassed ; for the bundle which he had received
from the Taunton Bankers' contained between 5001.
sad 6001. in bank-notes, and between 4,0001. and
5,0001. in bills. The secret was disclosed upon his
cutting open the pocket, for although he found all
the acceptances in their proper place, all the cash
had been removed.

The thief must have found the tradesman in a
very deep sleep indeed, for the clothes eAdd not
have been removed without disturbing an ordinary
sleeper, and some time must have been occupied i►►
unpacking the parcel, repacking it, and sew►ng up
the pocket afresh, after the money had been sepa-
rated from the bills.

The LORD MAYOR expresed surprise at the
strange circumstances of the robbery, and asked
whether the tradesman bad not locked the door, or
whether any person slept in the same room ?
To this it was replied there was no lock to the
&or, and that although there was a bolt it would
not shoot, and other fastening there was none.
The LORD MAYOR said the sleep of the trades-
man must have been intense, or he would have felt
his clothes going from under him.
It was here stated that the tradesman was rather
deaf; so that between that defect and the excesive
fatigue it was no wonder that his sleep was like that
of death.

The LORD MAYOR ordered that Mr. Cope, the
Marshal, and another officer, should go to the
lodging-house in Ironmonger-lane, and execute a
search warrant there. This was done without de-
lay, but without effect.
Mr. Cope mentioned to the Lord Mayor that he
had, as he expected would be the case, found no-
thing like a clue to the property. Ile had ques-
tioned the proprietor and servants, but they ap-
peared to be completely ignorant as to the person
‘vho might have committed the robbery, or the
means by which it could have been effected. Upon
inquiring into the character of the house, the Mar-
shal had learned that other robberies had been com-
mitted there. One gentleman had been plundered
there a short time ago of 105 sovereigns, which were
cut from his valise.

The Lulu) MAYOR asked whether the people of
of the house seemed to be aware of such practices ?
Mr. Cope said that they could not deny that rob-
beries had been complained of as having been com-
mitted there. _ _

His LonDstuP hoped, that for the sake of the
public, the circumstances of this very extraordinary
robbery would be publicly mentioned.

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday. a young man, fashionably dressed,
muffled tip in a cloak, was brought up in custody
from St. Martin's watch-house, charged with steal-
ing a tortoiseshell snuff-box, the property of a gen-
tleman, from the lodgings of Isabella Beaumont, of
No. 49, Holywell-street, Vauxhall-road, Westmin-
ster. The prisoner gave his name and address, Mr.
William Edwards, No. 1, Wimpole-street, Caven-
dish-square.
Isabella Beaumont stated that about three weeks
ago she accidentally met the prisoner, who accom-
panied her home, and remained all night; he break-
fasted with her the next morning, and as he was
going away he said he had no money about him,
but he would leave his silver snuff-box, and call in
the course of the day and give her two sovereigns.
He had not been gone many minutes before she
missed out of one of her drawers tortoiseshell snuff-
box, which had been given to her to take care of
by a gentleman who was at present in Paris. The
snuff-box he left with her turned out not to be silver,
but only Britannia metal. No other person could
have taken the snuff-box, as no ene else had been in
the room. She showed it to him on the previous
evening, and he took a pinch of snuff out of it.
She saw no more of the prisoner until last night,
when she met him in the saloon at the Haymarket
Theatre, and she gave him in charge to the constable
in attendance.

The metal snuff-box was handed to Mr. WHITE.
The prisoner, in his defence, said that he met
Miss Beaumont in Regent-street, some few weeks
ago, as she had stated, and accompanied her home.
He should allow that he had not acted in a very
gentlemanly manner in leaving the metal snuff-box
fora silver one. He had certainly seen the tortoise-
shell-box, but solemnly declared he never took it.
He met the complainant twice since be was at her
ii9gand nodded to her; and he also gave her
his name
e and address, and she addressed him by his
name in the saloon.
The complainant denied this statement.

Mr. WHITE ordered the prisoner to be remanded
for further examination, and directed the officer to
make strict inquiry about the snuff-box.

UNION.HALL.

The example set by the new police in scouring
the streets west of Temple-bar of the disorderly
prostitutes with which they were nightly infested,
to the great annoyance of the public, has had the
effect of giving a stimulus to the exertions of some
of the old police at this side of the water, and yes-
terday morninga batch of thirteen of the frail sister-
hood was brought up in custody, followed by a
mob of at least 100 perm-,,..
The two constables 1111 V attend the Coburg

Theatre stated that the portico in front of the house,
horn the moment it opens, is constantly infested
with prostitutes, who not only conduct themselves
with the greatest levity, but arc also iu the habit of
using language of such a description as to shock the
ears of all decent people. The officers then. said
that two of the County Magistrates who had re-
cently visited the theatre complained of the nuisance
in question, and directed them to apprehend the
women who were chiefly conspicuous for being
riotous and disorderly.
Mr. CHAMBERS took great pains in the investiga-
tion of each case, and the defendants proved to have
been prominent for riotous and disorderly conduct
he committed for one month each to Brixton, antl
the remaining four out of the above number he dis-
charged, with an admonition,.that in future, if they
should congregate together under the portico of the
Coburg, to the great annoyance of the persons at-
tending the theatre, they might expect to share the
fate of their unfortunate companions.
On the preceding evening, between seven and
eight o'clock, as John Sweet, one of the new po-
licemen, was returning home to the Kent-road, atter
his day's duty was over, in pas.ing the Elephant
and Castle he saw two men, dressed as sailors, sur-
rounded by a mob of the go-cart men and other va-
gabonds who constantly lurk about that place. The
policeman hearing the two men whom he supposed
to be sailors quarrelling about a sum of money, which
one accused the other of stealing from him, he (tho
policeman) immediately interfered, when one of
them, named Hitson, alleged that he had been robbed
of 101. by a man named James, in whose possession
money nearly amounting to that sum was found.
On discovery of the money by the policeman, the
mob, which, as we observed before, chiefly consisted
of cads and go-cart men, wanted to prevail upon
him to share the money between the contending
parties, and suffer them to proceed about their busi-
ness. Ile was averse, however, to act under such
advice, :nal took the two men off to the watch-
house, where he lodged them for the night, and
kept the money in his possession until the matter
was explained before a Magistrate. Yesterday the
whole of the parties were in attendance, and the
policeman having described the circumstances under
which he locked them up, the Magistrate said that
he had acted perfectly right, otherwise, in all pro-
bability, the money he had taken care of would
have been plundered from those who had the con-
tention about it.

On investigating the circumstances at this office,
it came out that the two men were both discharged
convicts, and had arrived at the Elephant and
Castle on the preceding evening, from Portsmouth
together, having each 101. on their departure from
that sea-port. On the road, where the coach
stopped, it appeared they had both drank freely,
and on being set down at the Elephant and Castle,
one of them, named Ritson, discovered that the
whole of his money was gone. On the discovery
he accused the other of robbing him, and the alter-
cation that ensued between them soon drew an
assemblage about them. In the course of the in-
quiry, however, it was ascertained that amongst the
money Ritson had lost was a 5/. note. When the
policeman searched the person accused of the rob-
bery nothing but sovereigns were found in his pos-
session; and it also appearing that it was impos-
sible he could have converted the note into smaller
money on the road, Mr. CHAMBERS discharged the
accused, and directed the money found upon him to
be delivered to him again. The Magistrate extolled
the conduct of the new police-man for his activity
on the occasion.

A Mr. IVbeckr, who described himself a gun-
maker, was charged with disorderly conduct that
morning, and seizing the rattle belonging to an aged
and infirm watchman.

The watchman, who described himself 78 years of
age, stated, that about three o'clock that morning,
while on duty in the Waterloo-road, he heard a
none at Mr. Blanchard's shop-door, and on going up
to see what was the matter, he found that the door
was burst in. He immediately laid hold of the per-
son whom he suspected shoved in the door; upon
which the defendant stepped up and said, " That is
not the person who did it, for lam the man." The
watchman then added, that in asking the defendant
whether he meant to rob the house, the latter seized
him by the collar; and when he attempted to
spring his rattle for further assistance, the defend-
ant twisted it out of his hand and broke the handle
of it.

The Magistrate could not help expressing some
mil raise at seeing so aged a man engaged as nightly
guardian of people's property ; it was quite time he
should resign the situation, and if he had acted with
fidelity and honesty in his situation, the parish au-
thorities should not forget his services.
In reply to the above charge, the defendant said,
that he was in the habit of calling at Blanchard's shop
frequently for cigars, and on this occasion he gave
the door a push, conceiving they were all up, when
the watchman came over and branded him with the
disgraceful epithet of house-breaker, upon which he
(defendant) could not help expressing his indigna-
tion, and at the moment he was seized hold of by
his assailant, and in the struggle the rattle was broken.
Mr. CHAMBERS said, that it was impossible the
defendant could have supposed the tobacco-shop was
open at three o'clock in the morning, and as an as-
sault was sworn against him he should pay a fine of
20s. and costs.

ADMINISTERING NARCOTIC DRUGS,
FOR THE PURPOSES OF ROBBERY.

Yesterday Mary Long, a middle-aged female, of a
repulsive countenance, together with her three
daughters, Margaret, Jane, and Elizabeth, were
finally examined at Lambeth-street office, before M.
WYATT and T. WALKER, Esqrs., on a charge of
administering narcotic drugs to seamen, and plunder-
ing them while under their influence.
Charles Dempsey stated that on that day week,
he, accompanied by two of his ship-mates, went to
the hous,o of the prisoners. One of his companions
sent out for some gin; and after his drinking a por-
tion of it he became quite stupitied, in which state
he saw the younger prisoner, Elizabeth, put her
hand into his small-clothes pocket, and rob him of
all the silver it contained, as also a silk pocket-hand-
kerchief. He distinctly saw her take chum both ;
but such was the powerless state to which he was
reduced, that though he saw her he could not pre-
vent her.
Charles Hill, another seaman, deposed that he
went with the last witness on the day before men-
tioned to the house of the prisoners. On entering
it they were at dinner, of which they asked him to,
partake; but he declined, and went to the Mercers'
Arms and purchased a pint of gin. On bringing it
in he saw one of the prisoners pour something into
it which completely discoloured it ; and, after drink-
ing two or three glasses, he became so insensible
that he reeled about, and knocked his head against
a table, by which it was cut. He then fell asleep,
and on his awaking found that he had been robbed
of about 245.
Mr. WYATT—Did you not perceive something
peculiar in the flavour of this gin ? Witness—l
did, Sir; and suspecting that something was the
matter, I marked one of the half-crowns before I
went to sleep, which, if I saw now, I could swear
to; but it is gone along with the rest. When lie
awoke, finding that the envie of his money was
stolen, he asked the elder prisoner to lend him a
half-crown, which she agreed to on his leaving her
his jacket,
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made inquiries at Mr. Petre's, a surgeon in the
neighbourhood, arid he told him that his shoproen
confessed, that from two to three pennyworth of
laudanum was obtained daily at his shop, and con
'eyed to the house of the prisoners. It genera
was purchased by a young man, at present in 05:6
Hospital, and, since his illness, by an Irish girl. L'lT'
Petre promised him that his assistants should be i"
attendance, and give evidence of the fact. /.4
reply to questions of the Magistrates, Howell said
that the house of the prisoners was a notorielic
brothel, and, to his' knowledge, the scene of re
peated robberies.
John Craig', an apprentice to Mr. Petre
next witness), on being asked if he was in the 11,01
of selling laudanum to any of the prisoners, rePlie:
in the negative ; adding, that it used to be obtainv
by a young man in a sailor's dress, whom he did eel
know to have any connection with the prisoners.
Prendergast and Howell, in contradiction to this
testimony, distinctly asserted that this witness se'
knowledged to them that the laudanum was Boor I
times purchased by one of the prisoners, and 0.13,4 i
always taken to their house, and that it was Wt"
much trouble that they (the officers) could get hi°
to come forward.
The NIAGISTRATES observed, that they did •11
doubt the fact of his knowing the parties, and pose:
some marked observation:, on his (Craigy's) condoe"
Howell here stated, that while in conversation
with fir. Petre, he mentioned a conversation ern
very suspicious nature, which occurred at the house
of a Mrs. Cocklcarnc, who kept a lodging-house fnt
sailors, not many weeks past. About two month 4 •
since, he was called aeon to remove a sailor from
this person's house to the London Hospital. 0
going there, he found him in a state of deep 'turf.,
—his mouth foaming violently, his eyes fixed es 7
glazed, and with all the external indications of hi/
haring taken something prisonou.. lie procured
coach, and conveyed him to the institution, where,
after lingering, e• for some time, he expired. Ile under
stood him tohave been a man of some property,lo •
was unable to ascertain whether such was the eel
or nor, owing to his extreme insensibility. Howe'
concluded this narrative by saying, that Mr. Per°
agreed in opinion with him, thas the business Well
dark and mysterious, and required investigation.
Mr. Isaacs, at the close of the examination, isel •
that the charge against his clients originated et
tircly in the jealousy of Gent, a rival lodging.holler,
keeper, and denied that the house was a broth!'
adding, that it WAS kept alone for the accommi
tion of sailors.
Mr. WYATT—In other words, it is a crimpi‘
house.

Mr. Imacs—No, Sir, it's a lodging-house.
Mr. WYATT—That's a distinction without a di'
fercuce.
Howell again came forward, and said that th,e
young prisoners were in the habit of standing
the door and inveigling persons into the house.
fact, they had solicited himself before they kat"
who he was.
Mr. Isaacs here made some observations on the
conduct of Howell, but they were put a stop toll
the Magistrates, who said that his conduct was (1.e.1
serving of every merit; and after a lengthened 117,
irregular conversation, they held all the prisouv,i
to bail to answer any charge that might be preferre
against them at the Sessions, at the same time te#l,
quiring them to give 21 hours' notice of the 0°0(
vency of their bondsmen. This course, instead
...4
sending them to Newpte, was considered the on
eligible, it being probable, that if put upon OA
trial fur the robbery they would have been squill"'
in consequence of the condition in which the pro',
tutors were at the time of its perpetration.