Star.
London, England, 1826-08-08 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE, Jul.: S.

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
As i told you in my last, Constantinople is far from
being tranquil since the great event of June 15. The
Sultan, the Grand Vizier, and the Officers of State, are
encamped in the public square, and are protected by a
powerful train of artillery against such popular com-
motion, and re-actions as may manifest themselves.
The Mufti, and other heads of religion, are incessant in
their prayers ; and all the insignia of the Mahometan
belief are displayed around the Sultan, in order to en.
force upon the people, that the changes which have been
effected do not, in any respect, alter the ancient faith of
the Prophet. What is essentially injurious to the pro-
jects of the Porte is the known impossibility of its con-
tinuing, for any length of time, those sacrifices of every
kind which a revolution at Constantinople requires.
During the first day or two of the revolution, it was
quit* easy for the Divan to diminish the price of bread
and of rice one-half; but this mationass, purchased by
the distribution of a number of purses; cannot be long
maintained. A belief has been spread abroad, that the
Janissaries were the cause of the high prices of provi-
sions, and, in a word, of all the miseries of the people ;
but the people, stupid as they are, will reject that notion
the moment that things come to the level of their real
value. You are aware, that with all the despotism of
the Sultan, there is no country in which, taxes can be
heightened and supplies raised with such difficulty.
His poll-tic once paid, the Mussulman is no longer a
public debtor. • • •• a
The news received from Adrianople, and from Asia
Minor, speaks a great deal about the profound impres•
sion produced by the revolution of the 16. h. It appears
that the men of religion, the Multi and the Imans, are
opposed to the new organization of the troops after the
European mode, and have been sadly affected by the
massacres of the capital. It is certain that the Aga
Pacha, who commanded the Divan, which. permitted
these terrible executions, has acted with the most bar-
barian imprudence: The destruction of the Janissaries,'
as a corps, was necessary ; but, after a few striking
examples, the rest of the individuals ought mime been
spared. Favours, not &Atli, ought to have beets held
out to those troops, which are yet masters of a great
part of the kingdom, and which despair must unite to

Isaiah John Langstruth, alias Isaiah John Lrngstoa,
was put to the bar. He had been convicted at the last
Assizes of stealing three chests of tea, which be had
obtained by personating the owner at the waggon (Ace
at Tewkesbury ; but a-paint of law was reserved, whe-
ther the offence was a felony or a fraud?
Mr. Baron GA anow addressed the prisoner, and said
that he had been convicted at the last Lent Assizes for
this county, of having obtained three chests of tea by
fraud. There having appeared at the time some nice
distinctions between the prisoner's case and those of a
similar ilium which had preceded it, the peint oflavi
urged.by.bis Counsel was reserved for the-materna deli-
beration of the twelie ledge's. 'This solemn reference
'had since been bad, and after. the fullest consideration,
the Judges bad enattimosisly decided the objection to
be invalid, and the convfction strictly legal; and the
sentence of the Court therefore was, that the prisoner
be transported far the term of seven years.
The prisoner appeared quite prevents' for this sentence, which
did not went to nuke the least impression upon bias. He-made a
graceful godfather Affected obeisance to the Court as he withdre*
from the bar. He was said to have been a pettiest Uwe engaged in
estensive trade in this county.
Arthur Britoil, Snared Crews, and William Crow, were
indicted for feloniously assaulting Ann Hicks, spinster,
on the King's highway. in the parish of St. George,
near Bristol, (but in Gloucestershire)) potting her is
fear, and taking from her person, and against her will,
two hundred guineas in gold) a quantity of dollars and
shillings, a linen pocket, value 64.. a leather bag, a
handkerchief, a pair of scitiors, and some other trifling
articles, on the Sth of April last.
The prisoners, who were all young men, pleaded
le Not thultit.". Two women and a man, who were al-
leged to have formed part of the company at the time,
were tried and acquitted at the last Assizes for the lame
offence, and these prisoners had not then surrendered
to the bills of indictment which had been found against
them at the Lent Aasiaes.

The prosecutrix, it appeared, in her examination in
chief by Mr. Hotta= Twat, bad ceased to be a spinster
since the last assizes, having, since married a young
farming labourer, of the name of Brain, in the hope of
legalising a previoosly subsisting connexion between
them, repeated, in the most positive and flippant man•
nor, the same story which she had told a former Jury.
She said that on the night in question, er towards one
o'clock in the morning; she.was returning soberly and
steadily, with this paramour, from Bristol fair, where
they had gone in the evening, when they were awaked
on. the high road by the prisoners at the bar, the two
women named Barrett, already acquitted, and a man
named Pibble, and beaten most severely, and without
the least cause or provocation ; that all the parties—
prosecutrix, Brain, and prisoners—were well known to
each other, and all residing on the same road; that
while she was down her pocket was forced off by the
prisoner William Crow, and carried away, Containing
ten score of golden guineas, eight score of which were
wrapped op in a piece of cotton, the rest in, paper, to-
gether with several dollars and other silver coin, which
she had in a tin box. She swore point blank, both to
the loss of her propel ty in this manner, and the identity
of these prisoners as the assailants.
In her cross-examination by Mr. WATSON, she ad-
mitted, that though this sum of money had been left to
her by her mother four years ago, no human being
had been permitted besides herself to know the secret.
William Brain, her paramour, and to whom she had
since been married, was never informed of her wealth
until after the robbery. There was no mention of the
money in her mother's will, who had left 51. each to
all her brothers. and sisters (nine in family); and the
reason for distinguishing her in this manner, was because
she wanted it most ; she admitted these brothers and
sisters were all labouring pectic. For above a year she
had kept this large sum of money, first at her mother's
house, and next at her sister's, in a hole in the kitchen,
under a stone, and where every body had access ; latterly
it was in a box, from which she bad removed it to her
side•pocket as the safer place, to take for the night
among the crowd of Bristol fair. Sbe never took it
out before, and might have wanted something though
she had not asked the price of any thing at the fair.
William Brain warmed her story, of having told him of the
robbery after they were attacked by the prisoners; but they went
hobo sessuser, notwithstanding, without calling up any body In the
road shwa It. Here the evidence for the prosecution was closed.
Mr. Baron GARROW asked the jury whether they
wished him to put the prisoners upon their defence, for
a charge so heinous, upon evidence so unsafe. Here was
a woman asserting the possession of this, to her, a large
amount of cash, acquired in so singularly sec et a man-
ner, and hidden onJer a stone, until, for safety sake, as
she called it, she put it into her pocket to go jostling the
crowd with it, in Bristol fair at night time. Then they
were to believe that she was attacked and robbed of it
by people, all of whom were well known to her, and
who had no reason on the face of the earth to believe,
or even suspect, that she was worth Is. in the world. It
was for the jury to say, whether they thought upon the
evidence before them, that all these improbabilities were
sufficient for them to found a verdict upon, which might
consign these prisoners to a Capital punishment.
The Jury immediately informed the Court, that they concurred
ja his Lordship's doubts, and acquitted the prisoners.
" Prisoners," said Mr. 13aron GassoW, as they were released
from the bar, " I believe you to be bad and dangerous characters,
young as you are, and I beseech you to profit by this acquittal.—
Loose fellows like you, who have escaped hitherto, are now, I be-
lieve, caught in the present calendars, and the gallows is likely to
Close acquaintance with them. Take care that by and bye you aro
not also overtaken by the same fate---reform in tune, and profit by
the put."
The prisoners promised reformation, and were then turned out
of Court.

There war no other business worth mentioning in the Crown
Court, and the causes tried on Friday, before Mr. Justice Bousouou
hi the Civil Court, were devoid of general lutenist.

MAIDSTONE:
James Hook William Butler, and Abel Funk, young
men of ritypectable appearance, wars indicted for ar