The Sun.
London, England, 1829-08-18 00:00:00

SPIhIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Letters, the dates of which come down to the
24th of last month, have been received, by the
way of Vienna, from Constantinople. These
letters are filled with accounts of the audience
given by the Sultan to Mr. Gordon, and of the
diplomatic intercourse which the latter has had,
before and since the interview between him and

the Turkish Sovereign on the plain of Buyuk-
dere, with the Reis-Effendi. The statements
contained in some private letters respecting the
negociations, possess considerable interest ; for
though they can be regarded merely as the re-
ports circulating among the. Franks in Pera, yet
it is to be recollected that the forms of Mussul-
man diplomacy afford facilities for obtaining in-
formation which do not occur in negociations
with other Powers. It appears that the negocia-
tions respecting the affairs of Greece are carried
on jointly by Mr. Gordon and Count de Guille-
minot with the Reis-Effendi. Neither Ambas-
sador had treated separately on that subject, as
may, from preceding accounts, have been sup-
posed.• The most important conferences took
place on the 9th and 19th of July, on both of
which occasions it is said the Reis-Effendi
very strongly expressed his objections to the
Protocol of the 22d of March, and declared
to the Ambassadors that the Porte would never
recognize the principles which formed the basis
of that document. He intimated, however, that
the Porte was perfectly disposed to ameliorate
the condition of the Greeks by such alterations
of the system under which they had hitherto been
governed as might be found necessary, and that
with this view an amnesty might first be published,
and afterwards privileges conferred by a Hatti-
Sheriff. He reiterated the objections of the
Porte to the treaty of the 6th of July, and des-
cribed it as an . encouragement held out to re-
bellious subjects, the example of which Euro-
pean Courts might yet have cause to regret. But,
notwithstanding time disapprobation expressed by
the Reis Effendi at the propositions submitted
to him i❑ these conferences, it seems to be ex-
pected in Constantinople that the terms of the
protocol of the 22d of March, with some modi-
fications, and presented in a form more accept-
able to the Porte, will finally be adopted for the
settlement of the Greek question. This hope of
an arrangement is much encouraged by the predi-
lection which the Sultan manifests for every thing
English, from which it is inferred that pacific
propositions, coming from Mr. Gordon, are likely
to be well received. At the audience he paid
great attention to the English sailors, and ap-
peared much pleased that they received him
with cheers. The letters to which we have re-
ferred communicate some points of interest re-
specting this audience, which were omitted in
the account wc have already given, but which
appear to deserve to be mentioned. The grand
tent of the Sultan, the construction of which,

and the oriental luxury it displayed, were de-
scribed in our last, was erected under a plane
tree, remarkable not only fur its magnitude but
for the historical recollections associated with it.
This magnificent tree stands at a short distance
from the shore, on the European side of the
Bosphorus. It consists of eight stems, from
six to eight feet in diameter, springing from one
root, and its gigantic branches, crossing and in-
tertwining with each other, form a canopy of
immense dimensions. The age of the tree is
unknown, but it existed in the time of the
Crusades, and, according to a generally received
tradition, under it Godfrey of Boulogne placed
his tent. The dinner given to our Ambassador
and his suite was served on gold and silver dishes,
but as there were no knives and forks, the Eu-
ropean guests were obliged to follow the Turkish
custom of lifting the food to their mouths with
their fingers. After the repast they were per-
fumed and besprinkled with rose water. As the
Sultan approached the tent hie troops saluted
him with the cry—Padishaw, pinyasher—
,, May the Sultan live a thousand years !" Mr.
Gordon presented a diamond agraffe to the Sul-
tan, and received in return a horse richly capa.
risoned. On this occasion the Sultan behaval
with great ease and freedom, and evinced that
disposition to approximate to European customs
of which he has given many proofs on other oc-
casions. It was remarked at the audience, that
the size of his beard was considerably reduced,
and his guards and all the officers who came near
his person have imitated this curtailment. Some
persons suppose that he wishes to follow the
example of Peter the Great, and make all his
subjects be shaved, which would render the old
proverb about taking a Turk by the beard no
longer applicable. His favourite daughter,
turned of nine years of age, is dressed in the
European costume, and is said to deport herself
very gracefully in a corset, and without any veil.
It is also said that all the ladies of the Seraglio
have begun to wear corsets. These are trifles
compared with the introduction of European
discipline ; but if this Sultan can in such things
overcome the prejudices of a Mahometan people,
he may accomplish changes of a far more im-
portant nature.— Times.

Admiral de Rigny, it would appear, has re-
fused to join the new Ministry. The Gazette
de France has justified the prosecution of the
Journal des Debats, on the ground of the at-
tachment of the Ministers to Constitutional
forms. The law allows liberty of publishing,
and at the same time liberty of prosecuting. If
the journalists attempt, by means of the wea-
pons they possess under the Constitution, to de-
stroy the Ministers, the Ministers will try, by the
means furnished by the same Constitution, to
destroy the journalists. The forbearance of an
Administration is an unequivocal proof of its
strength. Self-preservation, it is said, is the
first law of nature. It may be taken for granted
that every Administration which feels itself se-
riously threatened by the press, will make head
against its enemy. It will not be easy to per-
suade any set of men in power that the press, as
an organ of the public feeling, ought to be re-
spected, when it comes to be directed against
themselves. Whatever may be thought of the
policy of so early an attempt to intimidate the
press by prosecution, it must be allowed, how-
ever, that the proceeding is something like an
indication of the determination of the Ministers
to attempt to go on without a Censorship. It
has been said by a Contemporary that—" On
the policy of another point, though apparently
more abstruse, we have less hesitation, because
it must be decided on principles which are not
peculiar to any particular people—we mean the
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its vital principle—its
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creasiner force of Republicanism must be futile,
spring—is maintained in the law which enacts it
forced equality in the division of landed inheri-
tance. Under the influence of this provision of
her code; France is drifting fast towards a de-

mocracy, similar to that of the United States,
where the proposal of a inonarch or a peerage,
as in France, would be high treason against the
people. The House of Peers among our neigh-
bours—without hereditary estates or influence—
is a mere nullity. Most of its members arc pen-
sioners on the Government for their means of
living. Its proceedings during the last busy
Session in the Lower Assembly, were scarcely
heard of, except from a stray speech which some
Member's personal vanity prompted him to send
to the Journals, reluctant often to receive such
an honour. The great fortunes in the other
Chamber will be found—not among the
country gentlemen (if such a word can be applied
to the French Nobtessc
,de Province)—but
among the Lafittes, the Pcrriers, and the Terneaux,
the manufacturers, bankers, and merchants of
the capital, who have been the creators of their
own consequence. In many parts of the coun-
try this division of landed property has reached
its minimum, as the Ottlastre or Government
survey, now before us, describes the state of
whole districts, in which there are found nearly
as many landed proprietors as inhabitants, and in
which the average of land possessed by each
does 'not exceed two or three acres. If such a
course of things were to continue for half a cen-
tury longer, the Crown must either become all-
powerful, by having no aristocratic counterpoise,
or must be swept away by the levelling torrent
of democracy. The present Ministry, with the
feelings which naturally belong to the class or
party from which they have sprung, will very
likely endeavour to strengthen the Constitutional
Monarchy, not by proposing a compulsory law
of primogeniture, but by relaxing the existing
enactment, which compels an equal distribution
of the family inheritance among all the children
of a family. In addition to these changes, and
some relaxation of the University monopoly of
education, to which we may afterwards refer, the
new Cabinet will probably show some addi-
tional favour to the Established Church, by
calling some of its Bishops to the Upper
Chamber, and by increasing the too li-
mimited income of the Clergy." It has
always struck us that the Constitution of this
country is not transferable to any other country.
The attempt in France to import it is unques-
tionably a failure. A House of Peers and a
House of Commons, independent of each other
—the latter representing tl►e people—could not
possibly exist for any leng►h or time. The pe-
culiarity of the British Constitution is, that the
same class commands both Houses of Parlia-
ment, which are divided only in name, except
in so far as the House of Commons receives into
its body a popular infusion sufficient to keep up
the forms of opposition and to treat debate, but
insufficient to affect the decision. The great
use of the House of Lords to the Aristocracy is,
that it is exclusively their own ; and if, from any
particular circumstances, a vote disagreeable to
them should happen to pass the Commons, it
can always be counteracted in the Upper As-
sembly. They can thus never be taken by sur-
prise. In England the Representation is not
that of the people, but of the Aristocracy. In
France there is literally no Aristocracy ; and
if there were, it would still be difficult to frame
a Constitution with all the conveniences of
our Rotten Boroughs. The French have oc-
casionally sent over Commissioners to this coup•
try, to ascertain by what mysterious influence
we were enabled, with such clumsy instruments
as Jurymen, to render justice in so unexception-
able a manner. But it would have been rather
too barefaced an attempt to have instituted an
inquiry into our Rotten Borough System, with
a view to a new Cornwall, in Brittany, or Au-
vergne, and to stud the country with Gattons
and Old Sarums. It seems to us that no alte-
ration of law could make an Aristocracy in
France. The tendency throughout Europe in
other countries as well as France is quite the
other way. During the ancien regime, the
estates of a number of families in France, and
some other countries, were preserved by the ex-
clusion from the army of all beneath the No-
blesse, and by relegating children of both sexes
into the church, which might be considered as
holding a large portion of the property of the
country life interests to the younger children of
the Aristocracy. Without a Catholic Church
richly endowed, an Aristocracy cannot be kept
up. The Tuscan Noblemen told Leopold that
his reforms were impracticable, because they had
no other channel than the Church for dis-
posing of their children. Accordingly, wherever
Church property has been seized by the State,
it will be seen that the estates of the Nobility
are becoming more and more slender. Observe
how property is divided in Germany, and the
greatest part of Italy. Men must provide for
their families ; and as far as division is concerned,
it matters little whether an estate is divided or
mortgaged, because the mortgage is substan-
tially a division. In England, notwithstanding
the immense resources at the command of our
aristocracy, the same process of division is con-
stantly going on. It is notorious that few large
mansions are built, that the old ones are gene-
rally going to decay, and this from the inability
of men with diminished incomes supporting
them. Sir James Graham may have overstated
the matter when he ,aid that for nine-tenths of
the rent the Nobility and higher Gentry were
merely receivers for their mortgagees ; but we
believe he was not a great way from the truth.
Experience is the great teacher of mankind.—
We rely with confidence on her lessons, be-
lieving fully that all the attempts to arrest the
natural course of things by mounds and bul-
warks will be found unavailing.—Morn. Chron.
We are far from joining in the common out-
cry a;ainst informers, who, as many of our laws
are construed, are, at worst, a necessary evil. If
the laws could execute themselves, or were put
into operation by known and responsible agents,
there would be no occasion for the prying eyes
of Messrs. Johnson and Byers, and their host of
assistants, to find out overloaded coaches, adul-
terated bread, and many of the similar evils
which would be still more common than they
are, if unredressed ; and we do not see, there-
fore, any reasonable use in hunting these wor-
thies out of society, or Consigning them, as is
too commonly proposed, to the pump or the
horse-pond. But, unfortunately, it is no part
of their profession to discriminate, either on the
whole or in the detail, as to what description of
cases they will take up. All fish is alike to
them which can be brought within their net ;
they are alike regardless of what game they hunt,
or through what tortuous paths they may pursue
it. Many of the subjects which they take up
would be disregarded by any but themselves.
That which is every one's business is no-
body's furnishes a very common adage,
and mankind in general are much too cha-
ritable to interfere with their neighbours,
especially when their case may be their own to-
morrow. The utility, therefore, of informers
would be quite unquestionable were but the in-

terpretation of the laws 'on which they rely un,
questionable also. But, unhappily, that is not
the case. Lawyers make laws, and lawyers live
on- doubts as their daily bread ; therefore nothing
that they do must be clear or free from doubt;
for, if so, what would become of " Othello's
occupation ?" Judges and Magistrates, too,
must doubt ; for if all things were clear, they)
a diminish
more especially the latter; thight
number and thin--why, then, many briefless
barristers might starve—a consummation not to
he contemplated. These observations have their
rise in a new, and, as we conceive, mischievous
kind of warfare which the honourable fraternity
of informers are carrying on against the brewers
and sellers of intermediate beer—an article
which, very much to his credit, Lord Goderich,
when Chancellor of the Exchequer, prevailed
upon Parliament to allow to be sold, as well as

the two extremes of strong and small, :on
which alone, up to that period, the duties of
Excise had been allowed to be levied. The
object of the law evidently was to provide for
persons who were in quest of a wholesome
beverage, one sufficiently strong to afford nou-
rishment and refreshment, yet sufficiently weak
to bar intoxication. To prevent habits of sottish-
ness, as well as, in some measure, to protect the
interests of publicans, it was enacted that this

beer should not be drunk " upon the premises"
of the brewer or retailer. With a view of com-
plying with the law, these persons have so block-
aded most of their houses as absolutely to prevent
their customers from entering them, who are
served either from over a bar erected across the
door-way, or out of the window—a precaution
which they were, some of them, induced to resort
to in consequence of the informers having, in
an early stage of the matter, pounced upon them
for their prey. However, the latter were not to
be defeated in this way. With the evident and
avowed design of makini, the brewer or retailer
commit the offence, and of thereby putting the
penalty (a pretty heavy one) in the pockets of
the informer, he sends his jackal (who is here,
in every sense of the word, the lion's provider)
to the house or shop ; and having asked and
paid for the beer, lie contrives to stand tiptoe
upon the steps of the door, or under the eves-
dropping of the house, and then comes and tells
the Magistrate that the man has sold the beer

for the purpose of being drunk " upon his pre-
mises ;" and, strange to say ! _Magistrates have
been found to convict in such cases !—Morning
Herald.

It is highly gratifying to us to have had the
opportunity of laying before the public the pros-
perous state of the harvest. In every quarter of the
country the crops are equal to the usual average,
while in particular districts it is abundant. In
France the corn crops also equal the general
produce ; and national benefit must be the re-
sult in both countries. Our Revenue, too, we
are proud to say, has made a rapid advance, as
will be seen at the ensuing quarter ; and alto-
gether, despite the falsehoods of some, and the
evil auguries of others. Great Britain is now in
as high and commanding a station as she ever
was at any former period. We have fortunately
got rid of the miserable ambition of interfering
with our neighbours on every possible occasion ;
we adhere more to the principles admitted to be
sound in international law, and we thereby se-
cure the friendship of foreigners, and maintain
our self-respect and dignity. The peace-policy of
the Duke of Wellington must in process of time
advance our interests at a rate which may not
now be contemplated ; but in the end we
hazard little in predicting that it will lead to our
general advancement. In a State like Great
Britain, where every man can utter his senti-
ments—it is impossible I,lot to have unreasonable
or factious individuals ; but when the conductors
of the Press basely lend themselves to decry our
honour—to prostrate our dignity—to render the
people dissatisfied or unhappy, our language
scarcely furnishes terms of reprobation adequate
to the offence. The time, however, has gone by
when such infamous efforts would produce the
desired result. A good harvest will ensure cheap
bread ; and cheap bread will be a great means of
enabling the manufacturer to give greater activity
to his anvil, loom, or shuttle. The public con-
fidence is strong in the amazing force and soli-
dity of our resources ; and if we have, and we

deny it not, partial distress amongst us, it
is attributable to causes inevitable in a State
so enterprising and so commercial as Eng-
land. If we have distress in one quarter,
we have great prosperity in another, and
we never can hope to see a state of
society in which they will not alternate. We
cannot all be prosperous at our will and plea-
sure ; a higher Power rules our destiny, and
submission is our duty. Some men, however,
in every State will be peevish, false, and mis-
chievous ; the desires of the many never can, or
rather never are likely to be satisfied ; but it does
not therefore follow that the vilifiers of our glo-
rious institutions should be quietly permitted to
abuse and deceive the public mind. We all owe
a duty to our country, and punishment in some
shape or other should follow disobedience to its
dictates. Whilst our neighbours are rioting
upon contingencies, we are having our resources
consolidated and improved ; and we do not he-
sitate to proclaim that at this very moment Eng-
land, dear Old England, is in a state to bid de-
fiance " to the world in arms."—Morn. Post.

Since the commencement of this month we
observe that Hymen's High Priest, in plain terms the
officiating minister at Gretna Green, has been pretty fully
employed by the votaries of love.— Carlisle Journal.

An Irish barrister had the failing of GOLD-
SMITH, in an eminent degree: that of believing he could
do every thing better than any other person. This pro-
pensity exhibited itself ludicrously enough on one occasion,
when a violent influenza prevailed in Dublin. A friend
who happened to meet him, mentioned a particular ac-
quaintance, and observed that he had had the influenza
very bad. " Bad !" exclaimed the other, " I don't know
how bad he has had it, but I am sure I have had it quite
as bad as he, or any one else." " Not quite, I think,"
replied his friend, " for poor Mr. GILLICUDDY is dead."
" Well," rejoined our tenacious Optimist, " and what of
that ? I could have died too, if I had liked it."—Bol-
ton Chronicle.

THE MOORS.—For some weeks past our
town has presented a scene of unusual gaiety and bustle,
owing to the continued influx of equipages of all sorts,
conveying the amateurs of grouse-shooting to their diffe-
rent destinations. The vehicles were as varied in figure,
as the quarters from whence their owners came. One of
them, which we noticed on Monday, was neither more no-
less than a skiff; mounted on four wheels—intended, it
seems, to serve at once the double purpose of a carriage by
land, and a boat by water, as circumstances may render
necessary. The number of sportsmen passing through has,
upon the whole, much exceeded what it has been for several
years past. From the moistness of the season, (affording
the pouts a regular supply of water,) it has been antici-
pated that the game would be abundant ; and we are happy
to say, that so far as accounts of the exploits of the twelfth
have yet reached, these expectations may be looked upon as
realized. The game was in general found plentiful. The
day being dry and warm, the birds sat close, while the
prevalence of a gentle breeze assisted the dogs in finding
their prey. The game is remarkably well grown--,50
much so, that scarce!) a cheeper is to be met with.—
Perthshire Advertiser.

•

~POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW STREET.

William Jones, alias Davis, was charged wi

feloniously stealing, on the 25th of July last, a
parcel of stampd, value 1,5481., the property of hi,
Majesty. The prisoner is a low-sized man, appa-
rently about 40 years of age.
George Ruthven examined--I am one of the
principal officers of Bow-street. On the 6th of this
month I apprehended the prisoner at a house on
Back-hill, Hatton-garden, and I have every reason
to believe and suspect that the prisoner is concerned
in stealing one parcel, containing stamps, from the
Saracen's Head coach-office, Snow-hill, or from the
Royal Blue Coach, on its journey from London to
Bath on the 25th of July last. On searching the
room where I found the prisoner, I found the paper
I now produce, marked (A.) The stamps are the
property of his Majesty.
Thos. Allen—l am warehouse-keeper of stamped
paper and parchments at Somerset-house. On the
24th of July last a consignment of two parcels was
made out to a Mr. Crutvvell, of Bath, who is a dis-
tributor of stamps there. The first parcel contained
stamps to the value of 1,5481. 17s. They were on
parchment and paper. The second parcel contained
one skin of parchment, of the value of 2s. 9d., with
the stamp imprinted thereon of 130/. The invoices

. .
of the stamps were made out by Mr. Clement, and
signed by me. I saw the stamps packed and di-
rected by William Woodger, now present. I also
saw the invoice.
William element—l am a clerk in the warehouse
for stamped goods at the Stamp-office, Somerset-
house. I recollect on the 24th day of July last
making an invoice for stamps for Mr. Crutwell, at
Bath, of the stamps contained in the requisition for
stamps, numbered 1,020. The consignment now
produced, marked B. was made out on a printed form
by me.

William Woodger—l am a packer in. the stamp-
warehouse at Somerset-house. On the 24th day
of July last, I packed two parcels for a Mr. Crut-
well, at Bath, with stamps. The stamps were the
same as in the requisition now produced. The
order was made out by Mr. Allen, and was ticked

off by him. One of the parcels weighed 161 b., and
the other was under 11b. The heaviest parcel was
a square one, and the other was a long roll one,
which contained a skin of parchment only. A sepa.
rate invoice was in each parcel. The invoices were
signed by Mr. Allen. I directed both parcels as fol-
lows :—No. 1020, Richard Crutwell, Bath, July 24,
1829, carriage paid throughout." I saw the parcel
delivered on the same day to James Read, now pre-
sent, who is a porter from the Bull-and-Mouth Inn,
Bull-and-Mouth-street, and he gave me a receipt in
the book now produced for the said parcels. Read
is in the habit of calling at Somerset-house for par-
cels every day.
James Read examined—l am in the employ of
Mr. Shearman, as one of the porters at the Bull-
and-Mouth coach-office. On 24th July last I recol-
lect receiving two parcels from the Stamp-office at
Somerset-house, directed to Mr. Crutwell, at Bath,
. _

and I took the said parcels to the Saracen's Head,
.... . . .. . . --

Snow-hill, and delivered them to Mr. Thomas Hill-
drop, now present, who is the book-keeper there.
Thomas Hilldrup examined.—l am one of the
book. keepers at the Saracen's Head coach-office,

Snow-hill. On the 24th day of July last, in the
afternoon, I received two parcels from the witness
Read. One of the parcels was a small roll one, and
the other was a square one. I considered the par-
cels to be under the weight of 121 b. The small
parcel was of no material weight, and both were di-
rected to " Crutwell, Bath." I entered them in the

Bath book, and then I placed them on the shelf for
the Bath Blue coach, which coach was to leave

London for Bath on the next day, at one o'clock in
the afternoon. The way-bill for that day (the 25th
of July last) was not made out by me, but by Mr.
Joseph Mountain, who is the senior book-keeper at
the Saracen's Head coach-office.

Mr. Edward King Balch, of No. 3, Great Or.

mond-street, Queen square, was next examined, and
deposed as follows :—I am a bookseller, and know

he prisoner. 'My father is one of the turnkeys a

Gilrspur-street Compter. About five or six years
ago I saw the prisoner at the Compter. He was in
confinement there. I saw the prisoner about three
or four years ago, and not since, until within the
last five or six weeks, and then I met him in the
street somewhere near Gray's-inn-lane. Prisoner
told me then that he had some books for sale at his
house at Back-hill, Clerkenwell. I think I called
the same afternoon at prisoner's house, but he was
not at home. I saw his wife, and she showed me
some books, which I did not purchase at that time.
Two or three days afterwards I called again at pri-
soner's house. He was then at home. He told me

that the young man to whom the books belonged
was obliged to pledge them, and I gave prisoner a
shilling for the duplicate of the two books, which
were pledged for 4s. On the following day I re-
deemed the hooks, and never had any transaction
with the prisoner before that time nor since, until

last Tuesday, when I met the prisoner at about two
o'clock in the afternoon passing through Theobald's-
road. The prisoner meeting me, said he had
got some stamps for sale. He then took
off his hat, and showed me some stamps, which
he took from his hat. The stamps were three 301.
stamps, some for 101., and some for 10s. There
were in all as many as five or six. The prisoner said
there were some large stamps amongst them, and
that the whole amounted to 1,4001. or 1,5001. He
also said there were two for 140/. each, and all the
stamps were to be sold for 300/. The stamps the
prisoner showed me were on parchment, in a printed
form. I told the prisoner I would endeavour to
obtain a purchaser for them, thinking at the same
time that they had been stolen. The prisoner said
he was going to a party that afternoon, who he ex-
pected would purchase the stamps of him. I then
left the prisoner, and appointed to meet him the
following morning. He said he did not expect to
part with the stamps till the following day. The
next morning I called at the prisoner's house, but
did not see him. I called again in the afternoon,
and the prisoner was then at home. He showed
me a list of the stamps he had to sell. I looked it
over, and saw that it corresponded with an adver-
tisement in the Times newspaper. I had looked on
purpose into that paper to see if the stamps were
advertised. Prisoner again said that the stamps
would not be sold under 300/., and he added that
they (the stamps) had been " prigged." He then
told me that the licenses mentioned in the list were
of little or no value, as they had not been signed.—
I then told the prisoner I would see a party in the
afternoon who would purchase the stamps. I then
went to the Stamp-office, and gave information► of
what had taken place between the prisoner and
me. In the evening of the same day, after I had
been at the Stamp-office, the prisoner called at
my shop, and I then told him that I knew a party
who would purchase the stamps of him, I had not
the least doubt. He said he should expect to have
something for himself. Prisoner said the price would
be reduced to 2001. or 250/., as some of the stamps
had been parted with, and he added that he would let
me have a copy of the list of stamps if I would call at
his house in the morning. He then left my shop, and
the next morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, I
saw him, and he showed me the list he had shown
me before. I requested to take a copy of it, which
he permitted me to do. The prisoner told me not
to include those stamps which were struck out of the
list, which I believe amounted to 1801., as he said
they had been parted with. The stamps so struck
out were described in the list as " general duties."
The prisoner wished me to be there in the after-
noon, between one and two o'clock. I then left
him, and returned to his house about two o'clock
the same day, when I requested him, to show me
the list again, as I had made an error in my copy of
it. I then left the prisoner, and was met by the
officers Ellis and Ruthven, who went to the pri-
soner's house. The list now produced by the ,

)fficer Ruthven is the same the prisoner showed
to me.

Ellis corroborated his brother officer's statement as
to the finding of the list upon the prisoner's table.
John Hill, clerk to Mr. Richard Crutwell, of
Bath, proved the delivery of only one of the two
parcels, and, upon inquiry, he discovered that only
one of the parcels bad arrived at Bath by the Royal
Blue coach.

Joseph Mountain, clerk at the Saracen's Head,
proved the delivery of both parcels to James Hod-
son, the porter, who proved that he placed all the
parcels which he received from the List witness in
the Royal Bath Blue coach, on the afternoon in
question.
• This being the case against the prisoner, who of-
fered no observation as the evidence proceeded,
sir R. BIRNIE told him that he had made up his
mind to commit him for trial, anti asked him if he
wished to say any thing before he was removed to
prison ?
P. isoner—No ; I have nothing to say.
The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute,
and the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate
for trial.