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London, England, 1830-08-17 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS

MAII9IOII.IIOIIIIII.—Two labouring men appeared es plaintiff
and defendant before the Loan 111.twon, in a caw which is likely
to terminate in a manner not at all e_ xpnted by eitmher.
The complainant stated, that he bad lately come out of the hoe.
pital, where be had been congaed for some time by severe illness.
On appearing in the streets he met the defendant, with whom be
had been well acquainted, and whose rival he had been in the affee-
tiens of a young woman. They went together to a grog-shop, end
there they chant a little too much gin.tin. d.water ; and the coon.
plainant's bead being weakened by the hospital regimen, he was
not very well qualified to take care of himself. As he had
the infirmity of " woman-hunting" when he got a drop -too
much, he 'thought it would be advisable to leave his vetch in
the care of his friend, the defendant: but to his great sat/wise,
that person upon being applied to next day for restitution of the
watch, declared that it was his own property, and that the com-
plainant had made him a present of it while he was sober on the
preceding evening. Under these circumstances, the complainant
was of opinion the conduct of the defendant was neither more on
less than a flat robbery, and finding tbat possession would be per.
severed in, applied to an officer, who recommended that the matter
should be represented to the Lord Mayor.
The defendant's statement was to the following effect :—/le had
been for some time courting a lady, who, however, bad bad taste
to prefer the ceniplaiaant to him, and even to become the wife of
his rival. While he was in the height of his addresses, be made her
several presents, which she never objected to receive, although ibe
woe detenninid never to make the son of return which was coml.
dewed secesmity .by him. She, however, Sive him 'a couple of
watch seals. As the love business was wholly at an end, the
defendent proposed to dee emplalient that doe lady should
tadierbh Wee 'up the mansehle'ef the palm he ones enter.
Weed fur her. Se it the dime tbewi meld, he had bee seals

ready to restore to her. The complainant candidly ac-
knowledged that his wife was no longer in possession of
the trinkets, for it happened that the moment she received them she
handed than over, as proofs of her attachment, to the complainant.
who dispersed of them to a neighbouring Jew for about a fourth of',
their value. This was considered unfair dealing, although a love
transaction, and the complainant upon being reproached with having
firmed a conspiracy against the propery of the defendant, pulled
out the watch, and handing it to him, requested that it might be kept
as a compensation for the articles out of which he had been wheedled.
This being the state of the case, the defendant thought he was en.
titled to the watch.
The LORD klayoa said, he never wished to be concerned in
teansactions arising from the tender passion, for fear he should hurt
the nice sensibilities of the parties : but he should like to know
what sort of a watch the watch in question was.
The complainant said it was a metal watch.
A metal watch !" said his Lordship, looking at it ; " why, my
Mend, this is no watch of your's. It is gold, and double-cased, and
goes upon a patent lever. Where did you get it ?"
The complainant and defendant were both struck with amazement
at this discovery, and were evidently sorry that they had not con-
trived to divide the watch between them.
Mr. Hobler—You must tell us by what means you obtained pos-
session. It is probably very lucky for the right owner that you have
quarrelled, and brought the matter before the Lord Mayor.
The defendant said he knew nothing about the watch, but that
he had received it from the hands of the complainant; and if that
worthy was brought to the Old Bailey for it he should most wit-
tingly attend to give evidence.
The Loan Mayon—Except a satisfactory explanation be made
to me, I shall not let the watch out of my possession.
The Complainant—The watch is mine by the laws of finding.
As I was passing through Leadenhall.market about two years ago,
I sees it lying there under a butcher's stall, and as there was nobody
there that seemed to have lost it, why I takes it up and claps it in
my pocket, where it went very well until it went away from me.
Mr. Hoimiti...-The watch may have been stolen. I see the
mimed " Martin Clayton, Manchester, No. 1,227," upon it, and
that may lead to the discovery of the owner. It would have been
no more than honest in you to have advertised the circumstance, or
to have made it known here.
The complainant said he always understood that if a body found
a watch, he had a right to keep it, and he hoped the Lord Mayor
would act upon that understanding.
The Lou) Maxon —No : I shall keep the watch until the right
owner makes his appearance.
The complainant and defendant then retired, greatly discon-
certed.
It will be recollected that a person of respectable character and
connexions, named M'Pherson, was committed from the Mansion-
house some time ago upon a charge of forgery, and prosecuted by
the committee of bankers. The Lord Mayor was informed that the
grand jury at Guildford at once threw out the bill against him.
Gunnnam..—Yesterday Joseph Jones and William Parker,
the former an assistant in a public.house in Newgate-market, and
the latter an old man who has for many years claimed the exclusive
privilege of working the market pump, were charged before Mr. Al.
dermsn AIIIILLT on suspicion of being concerned in an extensive
and daring robbery committed on the premises of Mr. Frederick
Frame, the landlord of the Red Cross, in Newgate-market.
Mr. Frame stated, that he closed his house on Sunday after.
noon, and left home, accompanied by his wife, and the servant
having had permission to visit her friends, no person was lett be.
hind on the premises. The prisoner Parker was therefore employed
to sit upon a bench at the door, and look after the house. When
complainant returned in the evening, soon after 8 o'clock, he
found an iron chest in his bed-room had been broken open, and bank
notes, cash, jewellery, and various articles of plate carried off, to
the amount of about 2001.
Joseph Bates, a patrol, stated that he passed the Red Cross about
8 o'clock, and saw Parker sitting upon the bench. The door sp.,
to be closed at that time; but on returning five minutes after,
reai found it wide open, and on entering he met Parker coming down
stairs. He asked him what he was doing there, to which Parker re-
plied that " he would face a lion." Witness went upstairs, and on
entering the bed-room he found the drawer in which the keys of the iron
chest were kept had been forced open, the keys taken out, and the
chest opened by them. The contents of the chest were gone, the
cash-box emptied, and a yellow bag and a pocket-book were thrown
on the floor. It seemed that the outer door, as well as the staircase
and bed-room doors, had been opened with skeleton keys, and there
could be little doubt the felony was committed by a person well ac-
quainted with the house. Parker was searched, but nothing was
found to criminate him.
Mr. Frame said, the ground of suspicion against Jones was, that
be had been seen in company with Parker and two noted characters
in the course of the evening, and that Jones had paid for half a pint
of gin to treat Parker. Jones and Parker were seen in close con-
versation in a street adjoining the premises at the time the robbery
was supposed to have been committed.
Mr. Alderman A waxy asked if it was understood that Parker
should not quit his post at the door ?
Mr. Frame replied it was. He would have employed another
person to watch if he had supposed he would quit the place.
Parker said it was no part of the agreement that he should forego
any job which might turn up, and at six o'clock he was sent with a
message to Cheapside. When he returned to Mr. Frame's he was
told by a neighbour's daughter that the outs door bad been opened,
and on ascertaining mischief had been done, he was coming domain
give an alarm when Bates met him. Two bad characters had seated
themselves on the bench, but he drove them away.
Jones offered no defence.
Mr. Alderman Ametow directed search to be made after the two
suspected persons, and in the meantime ordered the prisoners to be
remanded.
Bow-STREET.— Williams Randall was examined on a charge
of having violated a child, only eight years of age, named Mazy
Ann Robinson.
The details of the case are unfit for publication. The prissiest
was remanded fora week.
Two Irishmen, named Murray and Berry, were charged with
having assaulted two police constables.
It appeared that the constables were walking together on the pm.
vious night through Shore's Gardens, Drury-lane, when the deft&
ants came behind them, and without provocation, knocked amts
down. The defendants on that occasion effected heir maps bee
were subsequently identified and taken into custody.
Sir Rieman]) 13inxis demanded to know how it came to psis
that the defendants had acted towards the of in the MUM,
described ?
The defendants scratched their heads. and said they bore heavy
hatred towards the police in general, and these officers in particular.
Sir RICHARD Mawr: fined the defendants 40s. each, and in de. I
fault of payment, sentenced them to a sojourn for six weeks in the
House of Correction.
John Wise was charged with entering the premises of Mr. Do.
pee, coal merchant, Surrey Wharf, and stealing four fowls.
Mr. Thomas, the superintendent of police, stated that, in MOW
queuee of the frequent robberies that had lately taken place, dine.
dons had been given to the police to be on the 100k-out, and the
result was that the prisoner was found on the wharf about three
o'clock on Sunday morning. It appeared that he had obtained ad-
mission by wrenching off the lock from the outer door, and that
four fowls belonging to Mr. Dupree, were missing. These were
subsequently discovered in a heap of dung.
Hans, a subsequently
watchman, proved the facts stated by Mr.
Thelma
Sir R. Banns ordered the prisoner to be detained for the pea.
deetion of other evidence.
Hawsoir.Gannsw—Charles Combs, a discharged policeman,
vas yesterday brought before Mr. Lama and Mr. Serjeant Sot..
140 y to answer the complaint of John Chayters, of Comwall-place,
Helloway, an undsewriter, for an assault.
Mr. Moods, ono of the inspectors of the Finsbury division, in.
hied the Megistentes that this ease had been heard by the Com.
islaissers on liaday, and that the defendant was in coneequence
alliszumthssl, and a week's pay then due to him stopped ; but that,
as the loans were not satisfied with that punishment, and
wished the ease not to rest there, they ordered the man to be takes
into custody, end brought to this office.
The complainant stated, that on Saturday morning between two
end these eicleek, be was passing along Cornwall-place, on his way
banoteed elm he got within a few doors of his own house, he was
knocked down, and his bead dreadfully cut, as if by a blow of a
mds u's& Being inteudeated at the time, end the Mow having
seadmed him quite isible, be did not know of his own know.
Wes that it was the diedent who gave the blow, but the drains-
stems removed all doubt spill the matter, and It suluer Litm7 ap.
pied that the defendant took possession of his watch Line
ilk. Re was taken home by another police constable, and in the
sown of the day, digi extremely ill, he attended before the
seastiodosa at Whitehall, who seemed to view the case in a very
alas Vt.
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hearing amy ie CAmtwoMolout_at dm time already mentioned. WI
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his home, but was struck by him twice ; upon which be struck him,
he admitted, with his staff.
Mr. LAING observed that the best way to deal with the case was
to hold the defendant to bail.
Mr. Serjeant Sect.ox said that he could see nothing In it to in.
duce him to send it to the sessions.
The complainant requested that the magistrates would dispose of
it in a summary way, and not put him to the expense and loss of
time attendant on an indictment.
The magistrates then agreed that the punishment already inflicted
on the defendant was sufficient, and they discharged him.
Mary Ann Griffiths was finally examined on a charge of admi-
nistering poison to a young woman named Dorothy Turner, residing
at No. 25, Hyde-street, Bloomsbury.
Mr. Harmer attended for the prisoner. It appeared that the pri.
loner lived as servant in the same house with the prosecutrix. On Sa-
turday week the prosecutrix sent her own servant to the kitchen foe
boiling water for tea, but the prisoner would not admit the servant
into the kitchen. but taking the kettle filled it herself,and then handed
it out. The prosecutrix immediately after tea went to the Adelphi,
where she was seized with dreadful pains in her stomach, and vio-
lent retching. The servant and a child, who had drank also of the
tea, were affected in a similar manner about the same time. The
prosecutrix continued excessively ill until next day, when she took
an emetic that greatly relieved her. Suspecting that the prisoner
had infused some poison into the water, she had her taken into cus-
tody, and a portion of the discharge from her stomach was analysed
by Mr. Garden, of Oxford-street, chymist, but the presence of any
thing deleterious was not discovered in it. It was also asserted that
the prisoner had thrown a quantity of vitriol over the prosecutrix at
the moment she was going out to the theatre, but of this there was

no proof.
The prisoner was accordingly discharged.
MARLBOROUGH•STATET.....AIRZUN ASSAULTS. .... Several
respectable inhabitants of Regent-street yesterday waited upon the
Presiding Magistrates, A. Rox, Esq. to solicit his assistance and
advice under the following circumstances:—
The gentleman stated that for the last few days they had been
shamefully annoyed and endangered by some unseen agency. On
Saturday night last there had been several air-gun pellets discharged
indiscriminately at the shops and at passengers, and from the
imminent danger they felt themselves in from the repetition of
this nuisance, they had thought It prudent to wait upon the Ma.
gistrates, in order to know if there was any possibility of checking
so abominable an outrage.
Mr. Rox said that if they could in any way detect the delta
quests, and could substantiate a case against them, he would visit
the offence with the heaviest penalty of the law.
One of the shopkeepers said that a missile had been discharged
at his window, which, had it been a quarter of an inch further on
one side, would have done him 81. damage. On going out he looked
for one of the new police, but full twenty minutes elapsed before
one could be found.
Mr. Rox said he could not account for that. If the Gentlemen
would taka the trouble to go to the Commissioners and state their
case, they perhaps would appoint an extra force to attend there. He
(the Worthy Magistrate) was sure they would pay every attention to
their request.
The Gentlemen inquired whether the County would remunerate
them for any damage sustained by,these outrages ?
The Magistrate said he apprehended that the County would coot.
them only if the damages had been done during a riot.-
7istrregard to the nuisance, he could only repeat that it was abs.
minable ; and if they succeeded in tracing the offenders (so very
probable matter,) they should not escape the punishment they se
well merited. 1
The parties thanked the Magistrate and withdrew.
Annoyances of this nature have for the last month been commit-
ted to a great extent at the West End, but from the extreme porta. ,
bility of air guns, and the silence of their discharge, it is very diffi-
cult to detect the offenders.
MART.LA.SOUNE.-..A tall thin man, in a suit of black, very
threadbare, was charged with a breach of the peace. Mr. Rawlin.
son asked him his name. "I am here," replied tae defendant," in
the name of the Lard JESUS Guam."
K. Holland, a constable, stated that the defendant had lately 1
=hsermons in the open air, and eandoned persons to assem.
ale of whom making a disturbance, Instruction were then
rem to put a stop to it. He saw the detadant at setae o'clak at
Sunday morning in Brill-row, preparin balk sod WM hiss
that be must not come there to preach.- The sea mid be bed
chosen a text, and preach from it he would. Deladent was rang
en with a sermon; a mob of thirty persons was assembled arcs
him. The constable told him to leave off. The defendant said be
wield not. The mob hooted the constable, and be got some of his
semeades to assist, and took the defendant to the watch-boom
Complaints had been made by many respectable inhabitants of the
,ctice and the object was to suppress it without severity. The
defendant was offa -a his liberty, but he would net go.
Defendant (to the constable.)—Do you know the dares.' be.
tweinsia:ing and praying? The constable made no reply.
t—He don't answer me.
Mr. Rawtrweow—He is not obliged to answer such a question.
After some further conversation, Mr. Wartime' told him, he and
Ids brother Magistrates believed the evidence, and they should de. ,
pylon
tain him until he gave bail to k p the peace. He was required to
withdraw, but he refused, and e was carried to the lock-up room
by four of the officers. The neither gave bail nor his name ;
and when the van came to remove the prisoners to Cierkenwell New
Prison, Keys, the gaoler, was obliged to carry him to it upon his
back, for he would not walk.
Lawarrn.szasyr.—YesterdajMr. Elliott, the landlord of the
Three Pigeons, at Stratford, an account of whose application for a
warrant against a master tailor in the Strand, appeared in our
Paper of yesterday, waited on Mr. Walker, the Sitting Magistrate,
andrequested that he would discharge the warrant.
Mr.Watzza at once consented, observing that he considered
it the most prudent course.
Among the number of disorderlies which were brought before
the Magistrates, a spectre-looking, shirtless Irishman was placed at
the bar, charged with having committed divers assaults and bat.
arks on the persons of his Majesty's more peaceable subjects.
The defendant exhibited marks of a most woeful drubbing, his
face and had bearing ample proofs of the unsparing attacks of his
opponents. The charge of assault was principally sustained by
police constable H, 0K who deposed to the outrageous conduct of
the defendant, while labouring under the effects of intoxication.
The defendant admitted having kicked up a bit of a row, but
laid it all to the fault of a drop of drink, which had overcome his
peaceable propensities. The policeman, he also asserted, had been
drinking with him for a considerable time, and when the scuffle
ensued was as drunk as himself.
The Magistrates expressed their disbelief of the latter part disks
story, and inflicted a penalty of 40s. or six weeks' imprisonment.
The next charge placed a: the bar excited much merriment. It
was utterly impossible from the garments to guess the sex of the
defendant. A drab Mee great coat and waistcoat proclaimed the
masculine gender, but the remains of what had been once a beaver
bonnet asserted the owner's claim to the privilege of one of the fair
sex. The latter opinion was confirmed by the reply, in a double-
base tone, of Norm% Mealy to the question of what was her
name ? The charge against Norah was for setting the powers of
the police at defiance, and maintaining her station with a basket of
grans in Whitechapel, in spite of their prohibition ; and also for
having got particularly drunk, and thereupon abusing the super-
intendent.
At the recital of these charges, Nash assumed a most penitent
expression, and upon being called on for her defence, pointed to the
Rev. Mr. Mathias, who was on the bench, wad begged to ax his
honor's reverence for a tweeter.
Mr. MATSU/ISi astonished at the reference, dhclaimed all know.
ledge of the defendant. " Ooh, plait your honor," said Norah,
you oche to give me a good lumens at any rate, for you chris-
tened my_babbylest 13 years, and have got him under your keep-
ing now."—" Why, how is that," inquired Mt. MATSU" still
more astonished ? " Because," said Nash, " didn't you berry
him awhile ago !" This reply excited a smile from the Magis-
trates, and upon the solemn promise of Norah to abstain from gin,
the Magistrates allowed her to depart.
Tnanze.PoLicz.— Margaret Corbin was charged with cruelty
towards her mother, an old deaepid woman, aimed Rhoda Rolla,
aged 70 years. It affm that the usfrelig denglitur had long
been in the habit of cragbre her aged present, and the new polies
bad been frequently called upon -to inaction On Sonde, nit,
the old woman being destitute of firing, phrased an old pie of s
in the rate to kindle one. This gave oginw to the elslasr, who
beat her mother with the shoes, but her swains bass teeth by the
policeman on duty, he interfered on her behalf. At alba hour cries
of murder were heard from the house la Brook-street, lawillts, and
the officer, on entering, found the prisoner bating ha medar is a
must savage manner with a heavy poker, with which she bed out
her head open. The clothes es the old woman wars enteeetel with
blood, and her arms and shoulders were wend with weenie. The
poker, which was hot, bad been taken out of the fire, and sear*
smirched her desh.
The prisoner, who behaved in the most unfeeling manner, said
die chastised her mother for pledging the clothes is the room to
reruns liquor.
Certain Ilicuazzi. said the defendant was • most unfeeling
beam, and convicted her In the penalty of M. and in default of pay-
ment she was sentenced to two months' imprisomeet and hard la.
hour, and also ordered to find bail to keep the poem le future.

THE Ex-KING AND HIS SON POLIONAC.CIIIIIIIII
the Teeth, the gossips of Park4shisper, has bet only se deplete the
evils which have evemskee legitimacy, but then whisk fall ea
Illegitimacy aloe. Betides*. mischief dose is the et the
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Ilgase Wes a pud aiteedea, if set hie bead late the beryls.

SCINTILLA.

ST. JOHN'S WORT.—The peasants of France and
Germany gather on St. John's day a species of the plant St. John's
Wort, and hang in their windows, as a charm against evil spirits.—
Meg. Nal. Hist.
ST. JOHN'S B REA D.—The fruit of the carob tree
was supposed to have been eaten by St. John in the wilderness,
whence it was named St. John's bread.—lbid.
THE WINGED LIZARD.—The Pterodactylus,
winged lizard, one of the most extraordinary productions of the
fossil world, is an animal which forms the intermediate link,
hitherto deemed to exist only in fable, between birds and reptiles.
This creature, previously known in two formations upon the con.
tinent, has been recently recognised in the lies of Dorsetshire. We
cannot resist the temptation to introduce this remarkable animal in
the language of Professor Buckland :—" In size and general form,
and in the disposition and character of its wings, this fossil genus,
according to Cuvier, somewhat resembled our modern bats and
vampyres, but had its beak elongated, like the bill of a woodcock,
and armed with teeth, like the snout of a crocodile • its vertebra,
ribs, pelvis, legs, and feet, resembled those of a lizard ; its three
anterior fingers terminated in long hooked claws, like that on the
fore finger of the bat ; and over its body was a covering, neither
composed of feathers, as in the bird, nor of hair, as in the bat, but of
scaly armour, like that of an iguana ; in short, ammeter, resembling
nothing that has ever been seen or heard of upon earth, excepting
the dragons of romance and heraldry. Moreover, it was probably
noctivagous and insectivorous, and in both these points resembled
the bat ; but differed from it, in having the most important bones
in its body constructed after the manner of those of reptiles. With
flocks of such like creatures flying in the air, and shoals of no less
monstrous lchthyosauri and Plesiosauri swarming in the ocean, and
gigantic crocodiles and tortoises crawling on the shines of the pri.
metal lakes and river—air, sea, and land, must have been strangely
tenanted in those early periods of our infant world."—Mr. R. C.
Tal_lor's Illustrations of Antediluvian Zoology.
REFINING Su o n.—The art of refining sugar ap-
pars to have been known, at least as early as the reign of Henry
VIII. as a roll of provisions of that period mentions, " two loaves of
sugar, weighing 161 b. 2oz. at per pound." A letter from Sir
Edward Wotton to Lord Cobham, dated Calais, March 6, 1546, in-
forms him that be had taken up for his Lordship twenty-five sugar.
loaves, at six shillings a loaf, • whiehe is eighte pence a pounde."
—The earliest record of refined sugar we read of, is a quotation in
Whittaker's History of Whalley,from a eomputus of WhalleyAbbey,
in 1614: "Pro swears inrolut. et al. spebue Mr. d."—Mirror.
BATONETS.—Bayonets were introduced into Francs-
about 1673; and among the English grenadiers, in the short reign
of James the Second. Many such are yet to be seen in the small
armoury at the Tower. The use of them, fastened to the muzzle of
the firelock, was also a French improvement, first adopted about
1690. It was accompanied, in 1693, at the battle of Marseille, in
Piedmont, by a dreadful slaughter; and its use was universally fol-
lowed by the rut of Europe in the war of the succession.
SLAUGHTER-HOUSES.—Among the rolls of Parlia-
ment of the year 1380, a petition occurs from the inhabitants of
Smithfield and Holborn, against the butchers of Butcher Hall Lane,
praying that some penal ordnance might be enacted to restrain the
nuisance of throwing the blood and entrails of slaughtered animals
into the channels connected with the river Fleet ; and that the but.
chers might be forced to kill their beasts at " Knyghtbrigg," or
elsewhere, away from the annoyance of the people, under penalty
not only of forfeiting such animals as might be killed in the
" butcherie," but of a year's imprisonment. The prayer of the
petition was granted, and its penalties enforced for several reigna.—.
Correspondent of Me Mirror.
DRYNESS OF Till E AIR AT FLORENCE.—The Su-
perior dryness of the air in Italy in summer, compared with that of
England and many parts of the north of Europe, is well known ;
but (says Mr. Spence) I was not aware that the difference is equally
striking even in the rainy part of winter, judging, for want of a
better hygrometer, from the condensation of moisture on the inside
of windows in rooms without a fire; which I have always observed
to be very considerable in winter, both in England and also at Brus-
sels during a three years' residence there, whenever a cold night
succeeds a rainy or warm day, the condensed moisture often even
running down to the floor; whereas at Florence, under precisely
similar circumstances, I have never but once observed more than a
slight eoodensstion in the middle of the panes, as if breathed on,
even in rooms with a north aspect; and only once during the frost,
any , and that but slight, of that thick crust of ice formed
on the reside of the panes in England and at Brussels whenever a
hard frost sets in. Among many other proofs of the greater dryness
of the air in winter, one is afforded by the profusion in which grapes
are to be had, at leis than two-pence a pound, at the corners of every
Thhtap to the end of March, quite free from all mouldiness,
cut full four months, and kept merely by being hung at the
1472-rooms without a tire.—M2 p. Nat. Hist.
EXPLAINING A HARD WO RD.Tile following singu-
le occurrence actually took place at a Wesleyan Chapel, in a
market town in this country, a short time since. A reverend preacher
Ras dilating with much freedom and ability on the subject matter
Olds text; and in the course of his sermon having occasion to refer
Is the commentaries of several learned divines, he repeatedly made
use of the word "Commentator." This was a complete puzzler for
a countryman who formed part of the congregation ; and although
his mouth, as well as his ears, had been wide open to swallow
every sentence of the discourse, yet he could not comprehend the
meaning of this hard word. At the close of the service, on his way
out of the chapel, addressing one of his neighbours, he said, " I
say John,dost thou know the meaning of that word that the preacher
tould us of so often—l think he called it cosemonlater it" John,
astonished at the ignorance of the applicant, replied, " Why, dos'nt
thou know? why, the preacher meant common tatoes ; thou knows
that oz's nobles, or sAortdrisks, or some such sort of common
tatoes as Mose." The inh quirerto;nexed satisfied with the explana-
tion; and they trudgedborne
ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDIN•RY. A KING
our or PLACE.—Oh, yes oh, yes ! oh, yes I This is to give
notice to all countries, and particularly to those that are as yet un.
civilized, that a King is to be had cheap. He will suit Algius,
inasmuch as be is tyrannical, despotic, and absurd. lie will suit
Greece, inasmuch as he is crafty, and yet easily led by the nose.
He will suit Rome, because he is greatly attached to the Lally on
the seven hills (who, by the way, is not the only "scarlet abomina-
tion" extant.) He would suit Turkey, because there they are sworn
foes to the liberty of the subject. He would suit Spain tolerably
well, only that the country is already blessed with one of his in-
vited breed. In short, he will suit any country where despotism
is favoured, and where tyranny has swar—where the people go for
nothing, and the King and Ministers only are held in consideration
...where the people are content to exist as serfs and vassals, to be so
for the aggrandizement of the few and wealthy ; to pamper their
lusts and their appetites by toil and submission—in fact where the
people are content to lose the name of men and the character of hu.
inanity, and are willing to forego their birthright, liberty, and be the
willing and uncomplaining bondsmen of crowned despotism. But
in a country where the voice of the nation will be hard—where the
middle and lower classes do stand for something in the great ac.
count—where, on an attempt to fetter their free-born limbs, the
nation will rise as a man' and vindicate its rights to liberty at the
expense of life—for such a nation, this ex-King will not be suited.
He only requires, as a security, 100,000 soldiers to enforce the mild.
Den of his measures, and convince the lucky nation that shall select
him foe their Monarch, that "the King can do no wrong."
He
nay be a bad bargain, but will not be taken back when once sold.
Enquire of Messrs. Polignac, Peyronnet, and Co. near the Gallo.
tine, Place de Greve, Paris.
PRINCE JULES OF Pomo c.—The father of this
Prince emigrated, like many other French Nobleman, at the begin-
ning of the Revolution, and resided for some time at Ratistant,
Grand Duchy of Baden. On the birth.day of his son Jules (the
mean too famous ex.Miniater of France), when be had attained
his yelp year, Ito invited all his companions in misfortune, and
sass sage hew% mil showed them into a room, where, upon a
Is his, • sad ant two lighted candles had been placed. He then
Moped poems Jules to approach the table, and, in imitation of
Amami (Hannibal% father) bound him try an nub, AM be would
skips the French revolution and the principles to which is
bid Om7lifi. This solemn set neon to have powerfully worked
ups thoploml of the you Nobleman, and may explain in some
unsime lisistestatiss ef ng
liberal ideas. With right, one can apply
M him Oat Ike post says—
" Miklos like tender esters, take the bow,
Aisles bey Out ass farhioned, always pre"
• This anadois is from as eye.mitneto, and play fellow of the
Prince, whew lives at Rarimadt.
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