The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-26 00:00:00

THE LATkSCAI•rDALOUS AFFAIR

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IN PARIS.
COUP ROYALE DE PARIS, MARCH 21.

This case has been so frequently before the public, and
has been so criticised in all its details, that it requires no
additional comment from us. Mr. Lawson, the keeper of
the Hotel Bedford, in the Rue St. Honore, stated his
case as follows :
Mr. Cassidy arrived at Paris at midnight in the month
of January last, in a carriage drawn by six horses, con-
taining two ladies and three servants, and alighted at the
HoteCßedford. As he did not wish to remain at the
hotel, the proprietor, at his request, found him an hotel,
at the rate of 2,500 francs per month (1001.) Lord W.
Paget, however, arrived shortly after, and 'remonstrated
with his friend against this enormous expenditure. This
course of extravagance, however, still continued, and
several dinners were given, at the rate of seven or eight
hundred fralics, when at last a scene occurred between
Miss Bellew and Mr. Cassidy, which has already been
made known to our readers. • •
Mr. Cassidy first said that Miss'Bellew, and latterly.
that Lord William Paget; was responsible for all the ex-
pense; Miss Bellew, however, after the unfortunate
business above alluded to, paid 4,400 francs, and Mr.
Cassidy gave a bill for 5,000 francs. • •
•There was, however, a surplus of 723 francs still owing
by Mr. Cassidy, but he suddenly left Paris in the public
diligence. The police being informed that he had a
false passport, followed the diligence, accompanied by
Mr. Lawson, and compelled Mr. Cassidy to return with

them.
The police took their prisoner to several prisons and
spunginff4touses, at all of which, he was refused admit-
tance,' for want of sufficient legal cause of detention,
when, at the request of Mr. Lawson, he was arrested by
M. A'nselin, who sent him to the prison at Clichy, where,
however, he only remained for three days, owing to a
decision, which he obtained from the Tribunal de. Pre-
mier Instance, to the following effect :
" That Mr. Lawson was not in the enjoyment of those
rights which were exclusively enjoyed by*Frenchmen.
" That out of 5,525 f. originally due, Mr. Lawson
knowledges to have received 4,250 f., and that he is still
the bearer of a bill which is not yet due.
" That this prosecution is frivolous and vexatious. The
Court, therefore, condemned Mr. Lawson to 2,000 f. da-
mages and all the costs, and-acquitted Mr. Cassidy." •
Against this decision Mr. Lawson appealed, and stated
that Mr. Cassidy had escaped to Belgium under the name
of Douglas, with a false passport, for which he had been
arrested, and that, he had been since declared bankrupt
to the amount of several thousands of pounds in Eng-
land. On being arrested in Belgium he was sent to Lon-
don to meet the various demands of his creditors.
The Counsel for Mr. Lawson showed the justice of his
client's demands for 723 f., and declared the damages
awarded to be unjust and excessive.
The Counsel for the other side brought forward several
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precedents for refusing to foreigners tne right of arrest.
The Court, on the conclusion of the substitute for the
Procureur-General, reversed the decision of the Cour
Royale, and condemned Mr. Cassidy to the costs.

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On the 6th of March, 1842, died, at his residence,
the Schloss Seehof, near Bamberg, in Bavaria, after a
few days' illness, in the 56th year of his age, most deeply
- _____ - and deservedly lamented, Frederick Baron von Zandt,
The annual Paris ham fair 'Commenced yesterday I of Ovington Park, Hants, and of Clarges-street, London,
on the Boulevard Bourdon. The number of venders Chamberlain of his Majestl the King of Bavaria, and
was about three hundred, two-thirds of whom are from the Baron of the Holy Roman Empire.
Lorraine, and the ethers, with the exception of a few We learn from llastia that one of the desperate
belonging to Paris and its environs, from the southern I bandits that have so long been the terror of that part of Cor-
and' central departments. The Lorraine hams (Meurthe sica has been arrested. The lieutenant of geadarmerie at
and Moselle) fetched 85c. to 95c. per half kilogramme Calvi having received information that Lega, the man in ques-
(lib.), and the Bayonne and Strasburg hams 90c. to, lfit. ' i tion, who had been condemned to death by contumacy, was
lately seen
EAGLE SHOT.--A few days ago a large golden in that arrondissement, sent out a party of h
eagle' was shot on the hills of Glengolly, Ballindallocli men, under the command of a brigadier. They found him
about four in the morning of the 7th inst., seated by a fire
estate, by. Mr. Allan Grant, farmer there: The follow-
' near a sheepfold ;
.but Lega's nephew, a boy, who actedie his
tuff were its dimensions :—Expansion of wing, Seven feet
spy,hio fl f gave
h t a
gendarme him notice onfamhiesddacnagsetreihanhdehetired
at Meeting
atti.tingnd
two inches ; length of first four feathers, twenty-six
inches ; circumference of leg, eight and a half inclies.
. On the day it lodged a bullet in his left side, which' killed him. Being close
Its talons were of an extraordinary size.
pressed by the others, Lega turned round three times and fired ;
,
was shot, it killed two sheep belonging to Mr. Great.— • the last shot passing through the shako of the brigadier, within
Elgin Courant. 1
an inch of his head. One of the gendarmes fired at Lega in
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THE LATE ACCIDENT AT WOMBWELL'S MENA- return, and brought him down by a ball, which entered his
GEBIE.—Mr. Martin, the unfortunate gentleman whose back, and went through him. Thoughply th:itshoduistabffleedc,t.ds,UHchheo
I Arm was so dreadfully lacerated by the tiger in Womb- was his resolution, that before his arms could be secure
I well's menagerie at Mid-Lent fair, Stamford, expired list fired a pistol at his as-
and his nephew, wh.oaiwiaanstsalso :capatUrpei_d: were conductede to
I Saturday from the effects of his wounds. His arm was Calvi. Lega, who is about 42 }ears of age, was one of the
amputated, and everything that human skill could de- most formidable of the band. NV hen taken, he had with him a
vise was done, but ineffectually, to save his life. It was double-barrelled gun, with percussion locks, a double-barrelled
I erroneously stated in some of the papers, that Mr. Martin pistol, a stiletto, a dagger-knife, 21 bullets, a quantity of yow-
-1 was inebriated at the time of the accident,- which-eras k der, and a telescope.
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lot the fact, as he was then petiectly sober.