The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-21 00:00:00

MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS.

There comes out a lame kind of reply to our
charge against the London anti-Catholic pres 3 of
being hired and paid by the Brunswick Club of Ire-
land to adopt its present villainous course. It is as-
serted in reply, that we (the Times) are or have
been bribed or hired, &c. &c. We have not the
least objection to an accusation of this kind, because
being of necessity known to most of the public men
in Europe,—to say nothing of America and the
East,—there is not one of them who does not know
this charge to be false, even to derision. The ac-
cuser, therefore, if such a person can be disgraced, is
disgraced by the falsehood. With respect to the
Courier, that journal, we will frankly say, did not
enter into our contemplation : it had better, there-
fore, hold its tongue. But in another evening paper
a letter has been published, signed " John Judkin
Butler," which gives to our statement " the most
express and unquald contradiction." It is
very odd, but we were going to say a word or
two to this very Mr. John Judkin Butler (whom,
by the way, we knew to be in England), if he
had not thrust himself forward to catch the fall-
ing blessing ;—we were going to ask whether he
and a certain Captain had not been sent over to this
country with placards of the most violent kind, call-
ing upon our tranquil population to resist by force,
if necessary, the intended measures for the relief of
the Catholics ? And we were also going to ask
him, at whose expense be made the journey to Lou-
don, and now remains in this capital ? The ques-
tions may extend to the Captain, too, whom we
shall not name, except he shall likewise thrust him-
self forward, and, like Mr. John Judkin Butler, chal-
lenge publicity. ,A word as to Mr. John Judkin
Butler's contradiction of our charge. We do not
impute to him falsehood in that contradiction, but
we rather admire his address, and we shall tell h:ni
a story, of which his conduct reminds us. A cer-
tain Mahometan is brought before a Turkish Cadhi,
charged with having,by violence, robbed of his purse
a foreign merchant, in the main street of Para. The
evidence was clear : a respectable man swore by
his beard that lie saw the robbery committed, the
merchant knocked down, the purse tern from his
bosom, and the thief flying to a place of refuge. An
accomplice, however, is brought forward, who,
though an accomplice, is as incapable as the former
witness of violating the obligation of an oath sworn
by his sacred beard. He had heard Cie whole state-
ment made to the Court, took it in the gross, and
" gave it his express and unqualified contradiction."
Yet was this man not forsworn—and why ? Because
the evidence of the accusing witness was not all
true. The Turkish language, like ours, admits of an
equivoque. The thief, after committing the robbery,
did not fly to a place of refuge—lie only ran! ! !
of this nature, the public may depend on it, is Mr.
Judkin Butler's contradiction in gross. The essen-
tials of our statement we too well know to be .true.
Times.

'We are glad to perceive 'from the Leeds Inte
geacer, a Tory Paper, that the people of Yorkshire
and Lancashire have too !much good sense to be led
away by the nonsensical raliiiigs of factious and
crack-brained Peers, and are disposed to place con-
fidence in the Administration. We were sure the
North of England would exhibit a marked contrast
to Devon and Somerset, and the Wealds of Kent.
Of course the evidence of a Paper which has al-
ways been on the side of the Church party is, in a
matter of this sort, unimpeachable evidence. `i We
can now state," says this Paper, " that the effect
produced upon the public by the measures in con-
templation of Government agrees, to a certain de-
gree, wi►h our anticipations and wishes. Among
some they have caused intense excitement; by all
they are viewed with deep and anxious interest.—
With the exception, however, of the preliminary
proceeding; adopted by the Leeds Brunswick Club,
and the meeting held in York on Tuesday, we are
not aware that any active steps have as yet been
taken in this Fart of the country to bring into play
the hatred And dread of Roman Catholic power
tv;th which almost the whole community are natu-
rally imbued. ludeed, except at York, we know of
no platter in the North (arid we think we toe
likely to be among the first to hear of such a thing►)
where a general w►sh has manifested itself to oppose
th- lie• of Government in amine, and to in-

Protestants will deem proper, or we must convince
them that it never shall be granted, if we mean to
break up a confederacy which has done more to re-
establish Popery and extirpate the Reformed Reli-
gion in Ireland, than any other state of things could
possibly accomplish. Our aim must be, therefore,
not to satisfy the Roman Catholics, but to satisfy
and sever from Roman Catholic interests, the whole
of the Protestants of the United Kingdom—or we
do worse than nothing. This is the only way in
which the Question can lie divested. of its political
attributes, and reduced to one merely of religion—of
Protestantism against Popery; and need we say,
that if this separation were effected, our Protestant
Constitution is safe in Church and. State ; for
against it the gates of Hell alone can never pre-
vail ?"—Morning Chronicle.
Mr. Hume, we- are happy to see, means to take
in hand the Insolvent Courts both in England and
Ireland (the Scotch, we believe, are too wise to
possess one), and the whole subject of Imprison-
ment for Debt. Whether he will succeed this Ses-
sion in abolishing or rectifying the one or the other
is more than we will venture to surmise; but this
we know, that, if this was not the most law-ridden
nation in the universe, such an unmitigated and in-
defensible evil as this system presents could not re-
main in existence, or rather have existed. In short,
ignorance and folly on the one hand, and crime and
misfortune on the other, are the fertile sources of
profit to that learned body which seems only to
thrive in proportion as the rest of the community
sink in the scale of prosperity. Of al the profits of
the law, that which is derived from insolvency seems
to be the most useless and unjustifiable. What our
Scotch neighbours denominate a Cessio Bonorum
—that is, an honest surrendering up to creditors of
what a man's misfortunes or improvidence may have
left him—we can comprehend; but that he is first
to spend his time and money, as well as consume his
health -and morals, in a gaol, and then that a set of
Judges, with a whole machinery of law-craft, are to
be paid by the country for making no dividends
among the creditors—is a species of folly which, we
repeat it, none but a law-ridden community would
submit to. That a system so manifestly at variance
with common sense and common justice and honesty
must soon have an end we entertain no doubt; and
we think that the country at large will be much in-
debted to Mr. Hume, even should he not be able to
give it its death-blow, if he acts as the pioneer, and
forms the mine which others are doomed to spring.
We wish, among other things, that Mr. thine may
succeed in obtaining returns to Parliament, which
may show at CRC view the whole number of persons
arrested and imprisoned for debt, of every species
and amount, in all parts of the kingdom, for one
year. This is a view of the matter which has, we
believe, never yet been obtained. The returns from
the principal prisons alone:ire appalling enough, but
do not show, probably, much more than one-tenth
part of the whole evil. Now, suppose, it should
turn out—which we very li-tle doubt to be the case—
that 100,000 persons are every year the victims, in
some share or other, of this system. Suppose, too,
that the law-charges amount, in one among the other,
to ten pounds each, or one million annually. Here is
at once the evil in colours glaring enough, and pretty
substantial reasons to boot wily it has so many de-
fenders ; in short, why the image-makers are so
ready to cry out for and defend the great goddess
Diana. But what say the creditors out of whose
money this enormous sum is paid to the lawyers ?
Why they receive not even " the pearly shell,"
but a dividend of one farthing in the pound through
means of the Insolvent Court ! In this-view of the
matter we have taken no notice of the disease, the
misery, the immorality, and
_the death, which follow
in the train of this sad satire upon our jurispru-
dence. These points have been too often dwelt
upon and proved in our columns to render their far-
ther illustration necessary. In short, is there any
one good that arises from our system of imprison-
ment for debt, to mitigate its long and melancholy
train of evils We answer unhesitatingly, None.—
Morning Herald.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BO VV.STR EET.

.e policy .. .
yoke the Legislature to turn out the Cabinet at once, John Mathrws, a person who has figured in the double
for having propounded the question under their cap 'city of an officer of police and a common informer,
official sanction. This fact—however Ministers may was charged be-fore Mr. Alissiruee with having extorted
have deceived the hopes of their party—is a sort the sum of Se. from three draymen in the employment of
of reluctant homage towards them, which we venture Messrs. Ball aid Johnson, ale-brewers, under the fear of
his bringing them before a Magistrate for riding on the
to say no other Administration that has existed
purses.
wader their drays instead of being at the head of their
within memory would have received from. the public',
wader similar circumstances lol,lftsaporiared that the complainants were sitting on the
think it is not wronging the majority of enlightened
(i.erir
wrehspetcotlidy e
th drays, a•lien trey were accosted by
Yorkehireinen to say for them that before they de- the. t ri. on' that
them
beforeuneas they
li each gave
ride they denim to know precisely the measures hinipa prisoner,
he would takeemot:egistriltseonfuer
which his Majesty's advisers Will submit to Parlia- a breach of the law. They adjourned wiatliA
ment and the country, and the grounds upon which to a public-house, and then paid him the sum whichp her
they are deemed expedient. To many even this demanded. They then sent for a constable, and charged
saispension of activity is a great sacrifice of feeling ; the prisoner with extorting money from them.
The prisoner was committed in default of bail.
but few will deny that, on the whole, it is the better
mode of proceeding towards the Government which MARLBOROUGH.§TREET.
till' now was deemed entitled to the amplest conti- Yesterday Mr. Rochfort, who accompanied Harriette
Wilson a few days ago to this office, when she was charged
(tenet., and to a Sovereign whose family arc more
with assaulting a young French female, named Julia Le
seriestely interested in, the discussion he has invited
'['Mlle, came to the office, and addressing Mr. CONA NT,
than any other in his Majesty's dominions." So
the sitting Magiist
.ral te, said, that he was desirous of correct-
roue!, for YeAshire. In Lancashire matters assume appeared
tiied in the of the pro-
a stilt more favoerable aspect. In the great, capital ice6edinnes error which
olf•Teiceoim
haetteenirdoerd here,
of the manufacturing districts, Manchester, with a on the occasion above alluded to.ay
Whether the tt
population of 200,000, the petition against conces- he said, from a mistake of the reporters, or from some
arose,
scion to the Catholics, agreed to many weeks back, other cause less worthy, he could not say; but certain it
had not received, up to Saturt.4:vr lest, more than was, that the error of which he complained was calculated
from three to four thousand signatures. The follow- to brine. about some inconvenient circumstances to him.
He auded to that art of the report wc stated that he
ing paragraph is also taken from the Le: di ifitelli-
had said that he possessed large estates i hin
Ihreland, when he
oencer :
vv.:is speaking in explanation of the sufficiency of his bail;
Mx. PEEL IN LANCASSIRE.—We have heard ullOil
whereas, in fact, what he did say was, that he was not
authority which is entitled to attention, however incredible hinueirt jousfekeeper in London ; but that his mother was,
the fact may wen, that several of those Gentlemen be-
and that she possessed considerable estates in Ireland, which
longisg to Manchester, and other parts of Lancashire, who
was the fact ; be* he never swore that he possessed any
have hitherto been among the leaders of the Protestant
estates himself at preatilt, because they could not devolve to
Cause in that County, era so paralyzed by recent events,
him until after his mother's death. In some of the news-
that they are now disposed rather to confide in the Go-
paperg, Mr. Rochfort said the siatement was not so given ;
a/erne:teat than to join in resistance to the change proposed
but it was thus represented in the 'Fig,,es and in another
by Ministers. Whether this may arise from their know-
morning paper', and in those he was an to have the
ledge of Mr. Peel's character, or from apprehensions of the
error corrected.
consequences of exciting the religions zeal of a vast ma-
Mr. CONANT said that i.'elsosSgil be was present at the
nufacturing population, we are not informed, We must
investigation of the assault case alts i°, 14 41i4 4C 't pay
hope it does not arise from that subservient deference to
any very particular attention to it, as it tn.:" if"rwAii,4teli
the mere authority of a name or individual, which is im-
came under the cognizance of Mr. Dyer, the I:7"idifig
plied in a change of opinion, without an honest con-
viction of its reasonableness. We are also sorry to Magistrate on that day ; but he (Mr. Conant) certain:7
had some recollection that something was said by Mr.
learn, by a letter in the Manchester Courier, that up
to the present time, the petition adopted at the Meeting Rochfort about his having estates in Ireland.
Mr. Rochfort—No ; I said that my mother had estatel
in that popuious town many weeks back, against concea
their., which would come to me after her death.
*ion to the Roman Catholics, had not, up to Saturdaf, re-
Mr. Bishop, the clerk, said, that he distinctly recollected
neived more than three or four thousand signatures. hide-
Mr. Roclit'ort saying when he was asked what property he
pendent political spirit seems to be ebbing very low in
had to qualify him to become bail for Madame De Bouchet,
Lancashire, if we are to judge of the whole county by
or Wilson, that he possessed estates in Ireland to the value
Manchester and Liverpool. Since the above was set up,
tre have beard it reported that the people of Lancashire, in of 700/. a-year.
Mr. Rochfort—l know I did say SO, and so I shall
general, are disposed to back Mr. Peel, if necessary, against
have 700/.. a year after my mother's death,—that was
all Eniand besides.
So much for the schoolmaster, who has been ex- what I meant; but Ido not possess them now; for the
fact is, that my mother having married again after my
raring himself to some purpose, it would appear, in
father's death, she does not, of course, make me any great
the North. In Scotland we have seen no disposi. allowance.
Lion to oppose :enceesion, except among the Pres- Mr. Bishop.—You undoubtedly
whatsaitl that you had the
byterian Clergy of Glasgow, who have always been estates yourself, or otherwise sufficiency
, could your
distinguished for their fanatical spirit, and the Se- bail be of, if they were only inexmectancy
ceder Presbytery of Stirling. Thk Scotch seem to Mr. Coseter —lt is decidedly imy impression' that you
be looking on with perfect confiience in the wisdom said you possessed at the time considerable estates in Ire-
of Government. While advocating the cause of the land ; but if the matter be of any consequence to you, had
Catholics on the principle of justice, we are ready you not better wait until you shall sea Mr. Dyer, who
heard the case; and he probably will have a hatter recol-
to admit that we have always looked to Emancipa-
tion as a means of advancing the Protestant reli- leetion ore the subject?
Mr. Rochfort-4)11, no, Sir ; it is not a matter of any
gion. We never yet heard that that sort of perse- consequence in, fact I i-ame to ask your advice chiefly
cution which does not crush, but merely irritates uwpaosnreacnoo,tninrenaduler‘t-to, and
notice
to the office I
the members of any Church, was not of all courses iceuthliswea3rrg4iling
,toh:kertepanr report.
the one most calculated to strengthen such Church. Mr. Rochfort then drew from error
bundle of
We are glad to see that this view begins also to be letters, and heeded them to the Magistrate, to request
taken by the English Tories. " The great source that he would peruse este or two of them, as specimens of
of present evil is time division of sentiment amongst , the most atrocious and disfuatieg- compositions that were
ourselves, relative to concession. The mistaken i ever penned ; indeed, BO much so, that hi: (Mr. Rochfort)
generosity with which equality of political power I was almost ashamed to ask the Magistrate to look ossr them.
to the Roman Catholics is considered exile- I These letters, be said, were a few of au immense numbk;
1 that had come, all of the same character, and, like these,
dient by so many Protestants, has induced them
I anonymous, from all parts of the country and the metro-
hitherto to connive at and encourage all the lay ! polls, by the General and Two-penny Post to their house,
nod religious advances of that sect, under the im No. 16, Trevor-square, Brompton, since the pnblieation
Egression that Emancipation might thus be pro- I
o f the report of the former day's proceedings at this eflke.
,
voted, We mast, then, either grant what those .1 ow average ',umber of letters of this description that have

come to the house since, and still continue to arrive, is',
above 100 daily.
Mr. CONANT here read one of the letters, and said that
it most assuredly was, although a well-written letter, of a
most scandalous and disgusting character.
Mr. Rochfort—Yes, Sir, it is a well-written letter,
and evidently by a person of a superior sort of education,
and it is much to he regretted that the writer did net apply
such advantage to a better purpose.
Mr. CONANT—I think the greatest inconvenience aria.
ing from an influx of such letters is having to pay the
postage of them.
I%lr. Roelifort—Oh, that we do not do now, Sir. We
now return every letter of the kind to the Post-office : but
at first we took in a great many before we well knew
how to art, or that we were entitled to get back the post-
age from the Post-office. Within the last week, however,
we have refused several hundreds of letters ; in fact, every
letter presented has been refused, and amongst them, some,
no doubt, that may be real letters of consequence.
Mr. CONANT said, that he had no power of interfering
with anonymous writers, nor could he give any advice
about the matter beyond recommending the rejection of such
letters, as had already been done.
" There is another subject," said Mr. Rochfort, "which
I wish to mention—namely, that the young girl who pre-
ferred the charge of assault against the lady whom I ac-
companied to the office the other day, never intended to
make such a charge when she came here in the first in-
stance ; but as she could not speak English, her object was
mistaken. She merely came, as she supposed, to an of-
fice or court which had the power of recovering small debts
as her sole object was to recover a sum for wages, which
she imagined to he due to her, and she thuaght she was in
an office similar to what is called a ' Bureau de la Pays'
in France, for recovering small debts; and she has since
admitted this to be the fact, and has signed a document to
that effect."

Mr. Rochfort here produced a statement, written in
English, to the above effect, and signed by the girl Julia
Le Toille.

Mr. CO ANT asked, if the girl was aware of what she
was signin,, in this statement, as she did ❑ot understand a
word of English?
Mr. Rochfort said, that she understood it perfectly, fur
it was translated for her into her own language.
Andrews, the officer, said, that he had met accidentally
the day before the person in whose house the girl Julia Le
Toiile now lives, and he (Andrews) inquirtd if the girl was
going on with the prosecution, and the answer be received
was, that she could not go on, for that she had been pre-
vailed on to sign some paper written in English, which khe
did nut understand, and for doing which she was now very
sorry, as she was advised not to go before the Grand Jury
in consequence.

A few days ago a Hanoverian lady was arrested
for a debt of 211. at Escudier's Hotel, arid lodged in
Whitecross-street _prison. Wilson, the Sheriff's
Officer, was the person who executed the warrant,
in accomplishing which he was occupied upwards of
four hours. The resistance which he met on the
part of his prisoner and her two sisters seas so great,
that lie was compelled to call in the aid of four or
five persons. _ The Hanoverian ladies, th e moment
they understood the nature of the officer's business,
drew three long-bladed penknives, and the ),oungest
of them declared that she would not survive ,'he dis-
grace, and thrust her penknife at her side wit." such
violence that, if the bones of her stays had not in-
tercepted it, she must have plunged it into her he Itrt•
The alarm of the officer was of course very gre.
and it was with the greatest difficulty he succeede.
in performing his painful and dangerous duty. In
the prison, the lady who had been arrested com-
plained that she had been treated with greater cruelty
than would have been exercised towards her if she
had fallen into the hands of the most savage of the
Italian Brigands; and her conduct was suck as to
excite the greatest possible interest and astonishment.
The prison being under the government of the
Sheriff of the City of London, Mr. Barrett, the Go-
vernor, informed Mr. Sheriff Copeland of some par-
ticulars connected with the case of the unfortunate
lady and her sisters, all of whom have such notions
of the dignity of their family and character, as to
despise even death itself in the endeavour to avert
the very possibility of disgrace.
In consequence of what the Governor heard from
the strangers, he waited upon Count Munster, the
Hanoverian Ambassador. They had spoken of large
claims upon the Government by their deceased fa-
ther, and considered the Count responsible for the
amount. Mr. Barrett, however, ascertained from
his Excellency, who seemed to compassionate the
unprotected foreigners very much, that the idea of
any claim upon the country was a mere delusion.
His Excellency added, that his Majesty had directed
that a sum of money should be advanced, to enable
them to return to Switzerland, where they had been
residing upon a pension, which had been continued
to them after the death of their father, but they had
rejected the offer with disdain. Of the particulars
of the imagined claire no intelligible account could
be collected ; but it is certain that his Grace the
Duke of Wellington thought proper to call upon the
ladies, and that they considered themselves autho-
rised to refer to the Duke, as will be seen by the
evidence of the officers, when a pecuniary demand
was made upon them.
Their father had been a Professor in the Univer-
sity of Gottingen, and had retired with his six
children, all of whom were daughters, to Berne, in
Switzerland, where they lived upon his pension. A
short time ago, a young British Officer, whose name
we forbear to mention, succeeded in prevailing. upon
the youngest to elope with him. The rage of the
five sisters, at this disgrace, was singular and awful.
The crime of seduction, in Switzerland, is punish-
able as a crime. The seducer was pursued, and ap-
prehended, and would have been subjected to a
severe penalty, if he had not at once consented to
make the only atonement in his power—by matri-
mony. This expiation was, however, nothing in the
eyes of the sisters, whose father died under the ac-
cumulation of horrors and torments which sprung
from the flight of his degenerate child. They deter-
mined not to let the runaway live ; but their inten-
tion having been suspected, means were taken to
counteract it. Foiled in this object, they resolved
upon destroying themselves. Drowning Was the death
tkey fixed upon; and they accordingly proceeded to
one of the lakes, and flung themselves into the water.
Two of them perished; but the efforts of some labour-
ing men, who were accidentally in the neighbourhood,
succeded in saving the lives of the other three. The
fatal resolution which the survivors had formed was
broken, at least for a time, by the intervention of
some circumstances, the nature of which they have
shown an unwillingness to communicate. Probably
they were led by erroneous expectation that if they
presented themselves in this country, and demanded
in propria persona what their father, in a heated
and enthusiastic moment, might have supposed to
be his due, they would not be refused. It is re-
ported that their father had given either some valu-
able instructions or information to certain members
of the House of Hanover, and that his calculations
upon English liberality were rather over-estimated
by him. Whatever may have been the foundation
of his hopes, however, there exists no doubt that
his three daughters inherit his faith in the strength
of his claims, and exhibit other unequivocal plods
of the extraordinary effects of a romantic education.
In fact, they appear to be just such characters as
were the offspring of Schiller or Kotzebue's mind, and
to be capable of representing those scenes of terror
with which the story of the "Black Forest" abounds.

Mr. (:iONANT said, that if the girl was entrapped into
the signing of this document for the purpose of putting an
end to the prosecution, it was extremely discreditable, and
a very disgraceful trick; and as for the girl labouring un-
der any mistake as to the nature of this office when she ap-
plied for the assault warrant, it was no such thing, for he
(Mr. Conant) distinctly and clearly explained to her, and
understood from her, that it was only in the case of assault
they could there afford her redress, and she said not a word
about recovering her wages at the time.
Mr. Roehfort said, that however that might be, her ori-
ginal intention certainly was only to proceed for the reco-
very of her wages, but he had no doubt there was some one
behind the curtain who had interfered with her, awl in-
duced her to adopt the other• proceeding, nut fin• any pur•
poses of justice, but to attain some ulterior and hidden de-
sign.

Upon arriving in this country, they went to lodge
in a house in Jermyn-street. Here their finances
failed them ; but although the landlord proposed to
them to move up higher in the house, to less expen-
sive apartments, they scornfully refused to do so,
and engaged apartments at Escudier's, where the
oldest was arrested for the amount of the debt con-
tracted at the lodgings they had just quitted.
It is the puede:, long established in this gaol,
to clear out all strangers at a certain hour of the
night. That this rule should be in force is neces-
sary, on account of the health of those who are
confined from necessity, and Mr, Barrett resolvedoto
alliere to it, without making a single exception.
-In this case, however, he was obliged to yield, The
two sisters of the prisoner visited her, and upon
being told that they must separate for the night,
they first ridiculed the notion of being parted;
when, however, the lock-up man repeated the order,
they all seemed to be agitated by some strange
phrenzy. The two visitors drew out penknives,
and betrayed a firm resolution to shed their own
blood, if any attempt should be made to remove
them from their sister, and the latter clung to them
as if the existence of her life depended upon their
presence. Mr. Barrett then ordered that no force
should be resorted to, and the three sisters remained
together for the night. The endeavour to carry
the rules of the prison into effect the next night
were equally abortive. They screamed at the
thought of separation, and vowed that they would
" pass into thu other world," if once parted from
their beloved sister.
Mr. Copeland having heard that one of l 4 offiem
had been charged with cruelty in the execution of
his office, instituted an inquiry immediately.
Wilson assured the Sheriff that he never in his
life uokigrwgi so mnpb in attempting to perform his
duty. The moment be 1;0 mace his 'caption, the
three sisters started up, and &earned rez.-oivpl to de,
spatch him or themselves. When he told them nta
obligation to take his prisoner to Whitecioss-street
pa; they assured him that Count Munster would
tiny ;11,e •41-4 costs, He went to the Count's
office, and sR.w secretary, who informed him
that his Excellency' had been much annoyed py
woundless claims and applications from them, end
was not authorised, under any circumstances, to dis-
charge any debts they might contract. Upon hear-
ing this lut4igeTice, they declared that the Duke of
Wellington would at once pe ytit ;; sm demanded ;
but it appeared that the Duke had no more autho=
r;i-y or right to do so than count Mun'ster, • '1 he
(4cer edded; ff l a!}l a man witb a family, and am
partipuletly cereftil pot to abuse pr insult tie
of any pet,;eousi who 4FP So unfortunate as to be at
the mercy of the law. You mai judge whether
acted with harshness or not, wheng assure you that
I was engaged four hours and a half in doing my
day, When I saw how desperate the ladies were,
I called in several pzvi.;io;:2 to witness my conduct."
The Sheriff considered the ease tile most el:traor-
dinary he ever heard of. When he went to the pri-
son, the three ladies were together, and the Go-
most
tri:
vein); had no more hope of separating them than
he had entertained the preceding night. He
thoughtact-
ing w o
tild b
that
e theto settle
accord-
ingly did, and the three sisters walked out of White-
cross-street way of
: whip!' he
cross,street prison yesterday