Star.
London, England, 1830-08-20 00:00:00

DOBBS V. SNICKERTOS.

In this (=At Mr. Charles Hugh Snickerton appeared before tlt
Commissioners upon summons to explain why he had refused to
pay the turn of Is. 9d. alleged to be owing and due by and fro:,
the said Charles Hugh Snickerton to Mary Dobbs, spinster.
Mary Dobbs having been duly sworn—
" Now, Mary Dobbs," said the Chief Commissioner—" let 1.,
know—

" I beg pardon, your Worship," said Mary Ihilibs—" I a
usually call'd bliss Dobbs."
" Pooh nonsense, woman !' said the Chief Commisaioner.

" No nonsense, if your Worship pleases ;"—said bury Dobb•.
" But it is nonsense: said the Chid Commissioner ; " for if I
were to call you Miss I should miscall you.—Why you must be at
least JO/ years old ?"
"That, may it please your Worship, is quite irreverent to t 1,.•
question." said Mary Dobbs—at the same time curling her under
lip, and looking down her nose ;—as if to see whether the lip was
sufficiently curl'd for the due reproof of the Chief Commissioner.
" Well, ' said the Chief Commissioner—" let your name and age
be what they may ; will you be kind enough to let us know how 11r.
Charles Hugh Snickerton got into your debt ?"
"By the peru:hal of imppyler minks ;" replied Mary Dobbs.
The Chief Cemmistoner seemed to be puzzled ; and looked in.
quiringly at Mr. Charles Hugh Snickerton.
" Poplar stords,she means," said Mr. Charles Hugh Snickerton ;
—" she keeps a shop wot's called a liberhary."
"0, very well; and you acknowledge the debt, do you, Mr.
Snickerton ?" said the Chief Commissioner.

" Not a bit of it," Paid Mr. Snickerton ; and, having so ■aid, lie
laid his hat down upon the floor of the Court, stuck his thumb% into
the arm-holes of leis yellow waistcoat, and went regularly into his
defence, thus :
" Miss Mary Dobbs and me has been acquaintances time out of
mind—you'll please to understand. Very good. So whenever I goes
by she's tiberhary, In Seven-dials, I looks in with a e How d'ye do,
Alias Dobbs ?' And says she to me, says she, Pretty well thank
you, Mr. Snlckenon, how do you do ?'—.lust so. Very good. Well
—stay, let me see, where was I ? Oh ! and so it went on, day by
day ; and sometimes of an evening I'd drop in and take a dish of
chatter-water with Miss Dobbs"—

The Chief Commissioner here inquired of Mr. Snicker►on what
he meant by chatter-water ?
llr. Srdelterton explained that he meant tea ; and he then resumed
his defence— •

" Well, let me see, where was I ? Oh, about the tea. for I em
desperate partial to a dish of tea, you'll please to understand ; and,
though I say it, Miss Dobbs makes as niece dish 44 tea as any lady
going. tin with that there was a good deal of talk between me and
she, of course ; and more nor once, twice, Of thrice, she said I was
particular welcome to the perushal f any of the poplar novels on %hes
shelves. With that I took a fon of them, sometimes one and some-
times another, for I'm desperate given to rending the hest of every
thing, you plase to understand ; which I always returned 'em duly
and trooly, and as clean as a pink—leastwitys as clean as I
had 'em from she. So you know, upon this, I thinks to myself
thinks me,—for I'm a bachelor you'll please to understand—lease.
ways I'm a widower, which is all as one in a regular pint of too for
anything of that; and thinks Ito myself thinks me—the hooks am
quite in the family way, and it'll all corn right by and by. But.
howeonnever I was mistaken in respect of all that there; for it an
happened—yru'll please to understand—that I was called dos tt to
Dartford, in Kent, so short I hadn't time to say good bye to 3liss
Dobbs; which I stayed there three weeks, and when I came back
Mrs. Trumper, my landlady, says to me, says she, • What do von
think ?* says she. • Nay, says Ito she, • I don't know what I t'.irk,
and with that she wouldn't tell me ; but I"

Here the Court began to manifest signs of impatience, which lir.
Snickerton perceiving, cut short his defence. " Why, tiwes, the
long and the short of it is," said he, " that Miss Dobbs said to
every body. says she, Snickerfon's a sneak!' And with that, in
my hurry, I happeneti to say, Molly Dobbs is u devil.' And that's
why I'm pulled up here this day to pug for the perushal of books
wilt I thought was lent me fur loss—and so I verily believe they
was."

" Upon my honour ferocity, gentlemen, it vat no !tut+ thing !"
said 11iss Dobbs.
And the Court ordered Mr. Snickeron to pay the debt inst...rver,
upon pain of intprironmer.t.

Despatches were sent of last evening, from the C.- -
lonial-offire, for the Governor of the Leeward Wands.

The Sardinian and Neapolitan Ministers transact. ti
busineas with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the office of the St.
cretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

The French have not yet selected an Amba.-sador for
England. Young M. de Flahaut is still spoken of. Surely the
epithet which we have applied to him creates an objection. without
calling upon ua for other objections. It is said that his marriage to
an English lady gives him a title, or bestows on bins a reeamn•endn.
tion to an high an employment. His marriage with the daughter e f
Lord Kdth sas not gratifying to her friends: and Polignac also
wax married to an English lady. The coma is net a good one.
—Times.

ILLUMINATIONS IN lIONOLIII OF HIS NIAJESTY,,
Iltavit.naY.—We understand that the Cabinet-maksrs Stacie,.
Aldgate, are making great preparations to celebrate his 311ejestv's
birthday, by illuminations at their extensive establishments ; acct
from what we have learnt, with such splendor as will equal. if not sui-
pass. any demonstration of public feeling which has heretofore been
displayed in the metropolis on similar occasions. Ti gives us yea'
pleasure to see this society rising, as it is, in public estimation, n•
asmuch as it deserves encouragement. It is by pees( rernate and
industry only that the Society have succeeded in fighting their way
through a host of enemies, and defeating the stratagems at d coo.
spiracies which have been formeti to ruin the Establiahment in
public opinioni It is greatly to their tedit that they have risen
by their own exertions, and not by the aid of the rich man's
purse, although they have had the most noble among their
patrons. Their industry, however, has been their greatest treasure.
ily that they have been enabled tomaintain themselves and their fa-
milies, to support their deserving members in ewe of sickness t and
where death has occurred, to assist the survivors is the hour of die
tress. These are strong recommendations to public plumage t
but beyond these we are convinced, that lamas hoc log once hail
transaction,' w ith the Society will not fail to go there aitain. as their
dealings are conducted with the strictest honour. and upon a prin.
ciple highly creditabie to the Establishmem. Upon reading over
the tales which have bees drawn up for regulatiso the Society, and
which have been enrolled. and are therefore accessible to theyublie,
we fled theta deserviog of the highest approbation.

STROLLING AN
•D POLLING, IN DUBLIN:
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Fatintt, Atm. 13.—This being a diet non in my Home De-
path:Ohl; P agree with my friend Hubert O'Laugherty to stroll
towards the Phenix Park, and see the Grand Review which ought
us be there in honour of the Queen's birth-day Set out accordingly,
tied at half.pevt twelve arrive in safety in the centre of the Fifteen
Acres—vo called because they are 300—and find nothing to review
save the Dublin mountains on one side, and the Irish Secretary's
earavansera on the other. May mention, en paerant, an incipient
wigwam of Norway pine which is Mint erected on the lawn of the
Vieeregal Lodge: very like Noah's Ark (were it not for the port
bass in the sides), and intended, as we learn, for a similar
purpose
be;l7jated (qu. feted ?) to contain some 300 varieties cisl;
2 opg, at a gliwinus deleune on the King's birth-day.
wave the Park at Island-bridge, and make for a scene of ent-
reated nature in front of Kilmainham. O'Laugherty stops to mea-
sure the span of the arch with a yard of tape, and finds it is exactly
three fret (wanting half an inch) wider than the Rialto. The walls,
eovervd with the many.eoloured placards of yestrday, exhibit the
bnas:ful neighings" of the candidates. " Whale for ever" the
predominant ensign. but on reaching the hustings it appears that
White is looking blue enough, for Haeriltort is "for ever"
io-duy. We enter the booth, and take the following true sketch of
an Moth polling :
Iffnter an octogenarian, staggering, preceded by his landlord,
strutting.
reindlnrd (to Sheriff". Deputy}—Please to poll this mutt, Mi-
ehael Voss.

Deputy—Silence in the Court ! (He opens the book.) Michael
Moss.
Moss (hicessping)-31ieky is my name—Puny Micky M 0111...
( A laugh.)
Deputy —Value 501.—house and lands parish of St. Margaret's
—date of Woe, oth May, HMO. Misthur Moss, stand up, Sir, if
you plue.
Mr. Moss stands up as well as he is able.
Deputy—For whom do you vote, Alisthur Moss?
Moss—For Lord Brabazon and the brave Colonel White.
Deputy—Sit down, Mr. Moss, and don't go away.
Koss—Oh, never fare, I am no runaway.
Deputy—is there any objection to Mr. Moss's vote ?
An Attorney— I will .und up an objection in the name of Mr.
Hamilton, that he dthrunk too much punch. (A laugh.)
Another Attorney—Ordthur Micky a pint of punch.
Deputy—Mr. Moss, you May go away.
Exit Mr. Muss as boozy as Silenus.
Colonel White takes of his white hat, and makes divers hand-
some conges, shaking Mr. Moss cordially by the hand four times,
and escorting him out of Court, like one of the Lords in. Waiting.
Ainsi on le Poll.

THE ROYAL TERRACES, ie. AT WINDSOR.
Many and heavy are the complaints which have been made
against the public for its conduct—or rather, irs misconduct, when
admitted to the terraces and gardens at Windsor Castle. We are
told that the turf of the parterre was trampled upon and spoiled ;
that the leaves were stripped off the trees In the orangery ; that the
backs, arms, and legs, of the marble statues were scrawled over with
such vile plebeian names as " Jack Smith." " Jonathan Brown,"
and " Joe Jones ;" that the " creatures," who thus abused the pri.
vilege of their entree, not only ascended the steps leading to the
state apartments, but " actually climbed up the windows to look
into the rooms:" and that thereupon his Majesty delivered himself
thus :—" I shall be compelled to do as my brother did, exclude the
public from this part, if these practices are continued t"—all which
statements or representations (except the last).—this deponent
verily believes—having himself witnessed many of the scrawling.,
trampling. , sttippings, and climbing.,therein set forth ;
Dot that the King made any such remark thereupon, as
that attributed to him, he does not believe; inasmuch u he knows
the King to be too good a King to confound the innocent with the
guilty. His Majesty was too much delighted, with the opportunity
uf doing his lieges a pleasure, to deprive them of that pleasure
'fleetly because some two or three score of blackguards have abused
his courtes Such a plea might have been sufficient for a general
exclusion In a former reign—as it was, indeed; when the public
generally were excluded from those beautiful walks, " the slopes,"
because a party of thorough.bred.born cockneys, or a clump of
downright bumpkins, occasionally left their mustard-stained
sandwich papers and fowl.drumsticks strewed about upon the
flower-embroidered velvet turf; but such a plea will not be acted
upon by the present King. His Majesty knows full wal that
the blackguards, the bumpkins, and the thorough-bred-born
cockneys, form a very minute minority of his lieges ; and,
instead of excluding, the respectable majority for the mi.
deeds of the dirty, mischievous, small minority, he wiU issue his
commands for instituting a strict rurvcißanee over the said mino-
rity. At the same time, it cannot be denied that his Majesty, in
the unsuspecting kindness of his heart, seems to have believed the
blackguards here to be much fewer in number than they really are;
otherwise he would not have intrusted their superintendence, in the
first instance, to owe special constable and four sentinels. But now
that he has ascertained their lamentable extent, he will no doubt'
keep them in check, by stationing a sentinel at every turn; with a
proportionate sprinkling of constables to take charge of, and wry
out, these incorrigible ultra blackguards, who acknowledge no con.
troul but that of physical force.

ANECDOTES OF CHARLES T. AND THE DAUPHIN.

When intelligence arrived at St. Cloud that the Royal Guard was
retreating to that residence, scenes happened in the Castle, which
clearly showed that its inhabitants had lost their senses—At the I
moment when the Duke of Ragu■s came to give in account of the
txsue of the abominable mission he had been charged with, the Duke'
of Angouleme was on horseback at the head of some troops. He
scarcely listened to the Nlarshal's narrative, but asked him haughtily,
•• Do you know who you are speaking to ?" "To the Dauphin,"
rejoined the Duke of Ragusa. " The King has appointed me Ge.
nersliasimo," replied the Prince. " I was ignorant of the tact,"
answered the Marshal, " but I am no ways surprised at it.
•' Well," said the Dauphin, " in this capacity I declare to you,
that the check we have sustained is solely owing to you, and that
ton are a traitor." Then turning round to a Garde du Corps, he
ordered him to receive the Marshal's sword. The Prime afterwards
attempted to break the sword on the pommel of his horse's saddle,
and finally ordered the Duke of Ragusa under arrest. The Mar.
'hal retired.

Charles the Tenth being soon informed of the particulars of
this singular altercation, blamed the brutal conduct of his son
throughout; but, not wishing to show him in the wrong be.
fore all the Court, he limited the duration of the arrest to four
hours; when this time had elapsed the hour of dinner arrived ; a
cover was laid for the Duke of Ragusa, but the latter thought proper
not to appear at table. Subsequently the ex-King gave to the Duke
le.blortemart full powers to negotiate his abdication, and even that
of the Duke of Angouleme, in favour of the young Duke of Bor.
distra, " in order," said he, " to preserve in his family a remnant
of the monarchy. A negotiation of this description embarrassed
M. de /Mortemart, and he seemed reluctant to undertake it without
a written authority from Charles X. who, to remove his temples,
swore to him, on the faith of a gentleman and Christian Knight,
that he would not in any manner counteract the condition and en-
gagements be might contract in his mane. He was deeply affected,
and shed tears. However, as the Duke of Mortemart insisted upon
having a signature, Charles replied, by showing his trembling band,
drat he was unable to sign.
Count Turgot, a Captain of Cuirassiers in the Royal Guard, and
grandson of the celebrated Turgot, gave in his resignation, aim-
fatly refusing to remain in the service, the moment he learned the
sanguinary orders that had been given to the Guard by 11. de
Polignae.

AN INDIAN CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS.
(From a Washington Paper.)
.We mentioned a day or two since the singular tact of a Choctaw
Indian offLTing himself as a candidate for Congress for the State
el Mississippi. According to the laws of that State, the Indians
residing within its limits an entitled to all the privileges of thiam-
in
The address of the Choctaw to the voters, as given in the Port
Gillum Correspondent, is frank, manly, and independent ; and this
*on of the woods" has given a worthy precedent to other stump
candidates for similar occasions.— V. 1. American. It is as fol.
laws :--

" TO THE TOTEMS Or 111581341P11.1.
" Fellow.citizens 1--I have fought for you, I have been by your
own met wade a citizen of your State; I am • freeholder, Nature
my parent. I have been told that the term 'a Roman citizen,' was
once a passport through the world. According to your laws lam
so American citizen, the greatest and the purest representative re.l
public that has ever existed. In my youth I was • hunter, in man-1
hood a warrior ; I always battle on the side of this republic My
fret now fail in the chase, and my in can no longer bear the burden
of my bow. While in a state of nature my ambition „vas alone in
Abe shade—my hopes to be interred in the Mounds of my ancestors.
Nut you have awakened new hopes ; your laws have foe me
brightened my prospects. I know no man who has suffered more
than myself; whether you or myself, time will tell. I have been
told by my white brethren that the pen of history is impartial, and
that, is after years, our forlorn kindred will have justice and
•sicrcy too.'
fellow-citizens, is a plain talk. Listen, for I have spoken
ia candour. According to your laws I think that I am qualified
for • seat in the Councils of a mighty Republic,:of which the
State of Miseiatoppi la • component part ; and I could yield to
an cadet., in point of devotion to the bites and constitution of
tip
te.
''.llllklllolow.citlieris, after examining any Pretensions. and Inver.

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dolly awnporlog than with ahem who will he my opponents, If
you vote for me, I shall serve you. I have no animosity against
any of my white brethren who enter the list against me ; but, with
Indian sincerity, I wish you would elect me a Member of the next
Congress of the United States. • " M usuutaru ova.
" Choctaw Nation, Ist April, tape.*
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