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The Times, 1824-12-14T00:00:00

MAwros.seUsa...Yescray adeputation from about 00 or 70 Itnlian refutgees, who are now-in a ptate of the deepest misery, wait- ed upon the LORD MVAYOIL to entreat his'Lordship's aid to save them f'rom perishing. The deputation informied his Lordship, in the French language, that they a-nd their uniforfirate fell6w-suffierers, very.few of whoms hiad eaten a mormel of any sort of victuals for 24 hours had been all officers in the Neapolitan army, and had subsequentdy joined the Spanish Constitutional troops, and formed what was 'called the " Sacred Band :" that the G~overnment of this country bumanely a!- loweti to the Italian military, who flied hither from cdeath or incarce- ratin, acerain eekl su, whch peveted hemfrom falling vic~ cle, col tsv them. Tae hadsriptono washiln amobou tem had ptcre hordem, anti were in the streets of AMaryleoe ih ouit she oterfeet, andl subject to pulnmonary and thel iess fromteams tota want of doverincg. They were. alqaiid from their education, to suppert themsielves by literaryeetos but they were withlout recommendations ; and from the want of in- troductionis and patronage, the dreadful privations, amnounting in fact to a general famine 'amongst thiem, niecessarily sprang. They expressed their regret at being compelled to beg from a public upon which there were sor-nany loud calls of adomestic enature; buttthey werc persuaded that there were to be found in London friends to the unhappy strangere who owed all their sorrows and perplexities to that national spirit which was so6 waIl appreciated and so constantly acted upon by Englishmen. To hisii entreaty was added, the appeal of some Spaniards, between 500 and 6100 of whkom are pennyless ard hungry about our streets. One of the poor Spaniards, in a very feeling manner, described the conditioni of his countrymen. Pe had, he said (and lie was anxious to exhibit his wvounds). three bullets in his body, received in battle while fighting under the banners of Wellington. A morsel of food had not entered his lips since the slav before yesterday, and he knew not where to look for a mouthfihl. It was a dreadful humiliation for a man, who had been an officer in the army 28 years, to solicit or to beg. His countrymen were in this condlition, many of them. They were wounded and famished, and had no alternative but deatli, or the horrible toil of the consnson beggar. Those miserable objects excited thie deepest compassion. WTe vnay fairly calculate that there are about 600 famnishinig Spanish, and 150 starving Italian officers, nowv in the mietropolis, for whomi, if' a subscziption be not speedily raised, the consequence imust be terri- ble. In the list of the unfortunate suifferers many of them arede scribed as having a great number of'gun-shot wouinds in their bodies. The scene was spoken of by thec LoRxD AlAYO R as the most pain- ful he ever witnessed. His; LoRtnseor lamented the impossibility of his contributing, except in a slight degree, to alleviate the misnery whichi was so palpa- ble, anid extenided to such numbers of unfortunate foreigners of the two nations. But hie juidged sightly upon a former occasion, in cal- culatin~ upon the powerful help of the pre.s, and the great sympa- thies ot the affluent thiroughout the counitry, when an almiost isolated cae was in quiestion. To, the same sourcea lit, would appeal with increased confidence on the present occasion, convinced that when it was represented that the Spanish and Italian unfortunates were roaming about our streets withiout bread, the hand of charity would be opened and extended to their relief. His L-ordship then gave a sum of money to the deputation to relieve the immediate necessities of the Italianis whom they represented, and directed the memnbers of it to apply at the office of the Secretarv of StAte, upon the suibject of their privations. The donation of thec Lord Mayor, although of considerable extent to an individual, could serve suchl a vast multitude -no longer than adlay or two at most. Hie informed themi that he expected in the coarse of as week a subscription would be raised for the aid of'all the poor foreigners nowv suffibring, but that aid could not be extended to those who mnight come over to this country hereafter. A meeting would shortly take place, and in the mean time Mlr. &Iber woruld receive contributions which should he Judiciously applied. Hie concluded by repeating his conviction that the public, who had so humanely taken Captain Venegax out of all his dlifficulties, wvould not be backwa-rd in relieving hundreds of' cases of simiilar calamity. AI AR.n13it1 n Git-STnarEif.-Mr. Angelo Benzedict Veuiticra, an Italian of very genteel appearance, wasy brought before tIre Mlagis- trate 5upon a charge of bigamy. In consequence of information sworn at this office on Satuedlay, a warrant was issued tbr the aDpre- lhension of Mlr. Ventura, and Clenients, one of the officers of this establishment, was despaxcled to execute it in Hertfordshire, where dir. Venitura resides. Having bad his warrant backed by one of the Magistrates of that county, tho officer proceeded in a past-chaise to Shenly-Iiill, thie .seat of Mr. Ventura. in that county, and having taken him into cas- tody,brought him to town, and arrived at this office a:kotit 12 o'clock yesterday. Alir. Adolphus attended for the prosecution, anid the stibstance of the evidence against Air. Ventura is this- Mrs. Caroline Bartlett, the complainant in this case, and who was in attendance and gave evidence, was the widowv of a gentleman of that namne much respected in thc counitv of Hertferd, who resided at Shealy-hill, and died there a few yearti'ago, leaving Mirs. Bartlett in the.posseosion of his mansioni and entire establishiment at Sheuly. hill. Ini the year 1819, Mlrs. Bartlett happened to be in London, and being passionately fondl of mustic, employed the piresent Air. Ventura, then a teacher of the guitar, to give her souse les8sons, which, after a little time, were changed from lessons of mnusic to lessons of love, the result of which was, that liecand Mirs. Bartlettivere united in the bands of matrimony at Alarylebone church in the ;same year and ever since then, Mir. Ventura had lived and ruled lord p.iramount ar Shenly-hill. Of late, however,it appears that Mr.Venturahas begunito exercise a right which Alrs.Bartlett,or MVrs. Ventura, did not exactly approve of-;namely, thatof'selling off and dis,posing of the whole esta- blishmnent at Sheni v-lill, mansion, furniture, and all, worth in the whole upwards; of 10,0001., the splendid fuirniture alone being wrorth 3,00101. of thatsum). It hiappened to come to the ears of MVrs. Bart- lett, that a private negotiation was actually going on for thie disposal of her property ; and it also happened to conic to her ears that there was a lady in existence wbo had a better claim to the person of Alr. Ventura than she hadl ; and upon proper injquiry she foitnd that bottis iTes7 of intelligence were] correct; thle latter. inasmuch as lI.Ventura had been married before the year 18119 to isne Mliss Francis Henrietta Colborn, a young Irish lady, whom Mr. Venitura had also lulled into a happy state of ma-trimony, and charmned to the altar, by the sweet tones of his guiitar, havinig been also an instruc- to!r to that lady in muLsic, and with whom he got somne considerable fortune. Trhese are as many of the partieulars as wve could accurately col- lc,teMagistrat1e (Si G GnE FA,eRArT) having held the exa- miato in his private room. In order to Procure the at`tenance of the first Mrs. Ventura, hier husban was readed to the House of Correctidn for a fuiture exa- niination. A few days ago iniformation was given att this office that Hentry Bak-er, a soldier in the I11th regiment of I ht Dragoons, now quar- tered at Alaittstonc, and sRervant to Mvr. art rington, an officer of that regimient, hail abscondled, after robbing hifs master of a consi- derable sum of mioney, variouis trinkets, and a great portion of Iris wardrobe. The information th~us given, with a description of the nman's per- son, was publishedi tbb next day in the morning papers, whiich hap. penedto come under the notice of Alt. Hiochilsfre, the proprietor of the Angel and Crowni Tuvern, In Wllood-street1 Clieapside, and it struck liin that a young gentlem-an (as he thought), then lodging in his house, answered in a great de-gree the description given of Baiker. Mr. Hlinchlift'e accordingly conmmunicated his suspicions to Plank, the chief officer of this esiablishmcnt, on Satuirday evening last, and inconseqoence this officer proceeded iimmediatel y to the Angel and Crown, to satisfy himself upon the stubject. When he ar- r,ivd there, about Rix o'clock in the evening, .the voting mlan, who had hitherto passed as a young gentleman of, fashion, was tip stairs in his bed-room, preparinig to dress. for dinner. Plank entered the roomn,' commnunicated the nattere of his bu- siness, and intimiated (the prisoner being a powerful voung man) that there were two other officers outside the 'door, and that any resistance would be useless. The prisoner thien at once subinitted, nn(l being secured was searched, when several sovereigns and three gold- rings were foundl upon hiis person ; and in Iisit trunk the wearing-apparel described to have been lost by Air. Warnington. After some hesitation, the prisoner acknowledged that he was-the per- tan at whom the officer was in search, and that the clothis and othier proprl found on hiim he had cartried offfroin his master, besides #151, in as, which, !ie said, he had en-tirely spent, except the few sove- reigns fouind in his purse. Plank told hiini that this account couldi not be true, for that he k-new hins to have had 401. in, his possession on thieeveni-ng before. Hethien confesseuathat hc still had that sum, and thatlhechad left it for safety, at the house of assuncle in that neiglibourhood, antl consented to send for it. Plank requested .Air. IIlinchliffe mightgeo to the uncle's address, which he did, and a girl was sent back with him, bringing the prisoner a Rulssia leTther pocket-book, containing a 201. note, and tw 101. notes, whicim the prisoner handed to the offier, saylnsy, that both the pocket-hook and nioney belonged to his master. The re- mainder of the 651. he declared he had sipent, except one 101. note, whichi he had lost out of his pocket on Friday nightlast, while in a state of intoxicattion. Yesterdlay the Prisoner was brought before AMr. lRof, the magistrate, and Mir. MWrrnington identified the pro- pertyproduced as belonging to him, anid carried ofF by the prisoner. M1r. H-inehliffe also wns in attendance, andl repeated the circum- stances already mentioned : the prisoner hsad gone by the nanie of Willriiams at his house. The prisoner, whien askedl If hebhad anything to sav. acknowledgea the whole of the offence, anid was fully com-mittea 'to Maidstone gaol fur trial. WVhen' apprehended, the prisoner was elegantly dircssed in a suit of his master's best clothes, with military boots and spurs, alsobelonglog to Mlr. Warrington. A young.man of respectable appearance, named Bradlhawv, was charged with aiding and abetting in the clandestine remroval of a young lady, 16 years of age, together with her mother's watchi. Airs. Delay, aG#erman lady, residwing in Frederick.street, Re- gent's-park. stated that the prisoner and another young mian, naimed Smnith, both Manchester people, hod been lodiginig in her hiouse for some time, and hiad been constantly telling her dauhte ho fielytheyoug grlsatManchester dressed, in silks, lacs, c.,untl tey ewiderd hr bahiffto the end, that on Sun- day ornsugbefre se (he othr)-was up, the daughter and Smit, adedby he risner ha goje-off' by the coacls for AMan- cheter tkin wth isns er(th mther') old w.atc, and erun is, ane wearing apparel to no end. (The itnother, whIle detail- ing her loss, sobbed and wept so loudly,that she might have been heard in the street.) IThe young swiss at the .bar listci4c very quietly to w1 this noise and uproar until called upon by thsI Magistrate to anlswer to the charge, when lie declared that he knew nothing about either tLe YOung girl or the wateh; his companion, Smith, had certainly gone to Mranchester the day before, but he had no reason whatever to think that cither Mrs. Delay's daughter or her watch had acco4npa- nied him; and, in short, he kniew nothing about the matter: Mrs. Delay vociferated that herchild had certainly gone to Man- chester, antd was lost for ever! During this scene of confusion, created by Mrs. Delav's loud commentatlons which even the commard, nay, the entreaties of the magistrate, could not mollify, it was intimated to Plank, the chief officer, that the young lady, the cause of all this misery and wn, was listering oatside. smirking and sinling at the confusion she was creating; and accordingly Plank went ott, and in a minute or two led the young lady in before the magistrate. The moment the mother saw her, she redoubled her outcries, in half English and half German; and when the magistrate, Alr. ROE. could get a word in edgeways, he questioned the young girl as to the cause of her disappearance from her mother's house, when she gave a very different complexion to the affair. She said generally, that her mother's conduct was such towards her in various respects, that it was impossible, with regard to her own safety or character, that she could continue to reside with her any longer, and she determined to go into service and earn her bread. She had, with this view, (hav- ing procured a situation as chiltlren's maid in a respectable fasnily) taken away her own trunk, containing her own clotlhes, and nothing more; and as for thie watch, which she now handed to the Magis- trate, it was one that had been made a present to her; and the wvhole story of her having gone off to 1Msanchester, or intending to do so, Was a pure invention. The Magistrate, wishing to question the girl more particularly as to the nature of some part of the ili-treatmnent she complained of from her moth er, took her into the private room for that purpose, and returning to the Benech in a few minittec, toid the mother, that after what he had heard, he certainly felt no inclination to compeel the girl to return home; besides, if he had the indination, he had not the power to do so. The girl had, be said, given him the add3ress of the family she was going to reside with. and also the address of the person from whom she said she ha- received the watch as a present; and he would make proper inquiries as to the trtth of her statementA, and the respectability of those shie was going to live with. As to the young man at the bar, there was not a shadow of charge against hiim, and lie was of course dismissed. Several respectable persons here stepped fbrward, and said, that they attended to speak of the young man's cbaracter, hael it been necessary, which is of the very best. Mfrs. Delay exc'laimed against the decision, and the injustice of not compellisig her daughter to return home, and give un all the clothes she gave away. With some unceremonious persuasion, however, she was ushered out at' the office. Q)uxEs'.sQuYAttE.._..Yesierday WS J. Peas'c and George Seasc, ho stand fully committed fior a burglary in the house of William Fair, in Woodane, Shepherd's Bush, were again brought up for further examination. It appeared that on the apprebension of the prisoners by the Bow- street patrol, on searching the premises at Chiswick, they fotind va. rious articles of wearing apparcl, a quantity of duplicates, and a com- plete set of housebreaking instruments, &c. Siace the first oxami- nation, the officers have discovered the owners of several articles pledged, whose premnises had been broken open and robbed, ot which the annexed are among the number. Wim. Wilberforce, Esq., son to the AMember of Parliament, being sworn, stated, that he resided at No. 8, Onslow-terrace, Brompton. On the evening of the Hlth uIt., orearly on the morning of the 17th, a burglary was committed in hii house; he was informed of it by a servant, who called him up about seven o'clock. On comin-g down stairs, he went into a small bedrooin, the window of which faced the garden at the back of the premises. The window was open, and propped up with an iron tool nued by bricklayers, called a rake. Witness desired that nothing should be altered, and in- stantly sent to Bow-street for an offieer. When Elliscame and examined the house, it appeared ev,ident that the robbers had en- tered frnm the garden, and forced the windlow, as footsteps were observed oR the counterpane of the bed, which was situate(d imm-e diately under the window, and a piece of rag also placed between to prevent it Jarring. In the room witness picked up two matches partly bttrnt, evitiently belonging to a phosphorus-box. On ex- amining his plate-closet, he discovered that all the silver articles wrre gone. A pair of plated candlesties were left behind, which the thieves had indented, to ascertaia if they were silver. Wiritness also missed a drab great coat, a large blue cloak, and five pair of white silk stoekings. 'Ibere was more than one person concerned in the robbery, as footsteps were observed on the flower-bed in the garden; they were nearly two inches deep, anti remained visible for a fortnight afterwards. He had them measured, and thev distinctly sho.wed that two persons were impllicated. Elizabeth Pierce said, shle was servant to Mr. Wilberforce. The cookget up first, artddiscovered the house had been broken open; and in consequence. of whatshe had toid her, witness inforn3ed her master of the robbery; she always fastened up the premises, sometimes be- fore dusk or very early in the evening; wvitness is positive she had made every thina secure the night before the robbery. Three plair of silk stockings were here shov:n to witness, whbich she Instantly identified as the property Of her master, havitig washed themn repeatedly; her master's name was marked in full length, in pink, and although picket! 0Ut. tbc mark.s were observab'ie. Burridge and Shellswchl, Bow-street patrols, proved finding the ntockings in question in thie room of Pearce ; they were in a band- The prisoniers were again remranded, as other charges will be brought against tlhem. UNIONr-rALL.-Yesterday Clhristoplter IJ-ouss, a privatebelong. ilg to the 3d Regiment of FPot Guards, was brought before the sit- ting magistrate, it. J. CetMnrs, Esq., charged with having rob- bed Mlr. Scarlett, thie proprietor of a ham and beef shop, in High- street, Southwark, under the following singular circumstances:- .Mr. Scarlett's skopman, Horatio Swindon, attended to prefer the charge. Ie stated that abouta fortnight sinec, tbe prisoner. accoin- panied by a soldier whom he called liis comrade, caame into his mas- ter's ihop, and called for plates of beef. During the time thev were engaged at the repast, witness heard them both make use od hlas- phemous expressions, which they continued to utter, until at length he advanced towards them, and reprovedi thiem for indulging in such language. The soldiers, otn hearing the reproof, seeined to be stTuck with the conviction that they were acting ex- tremely improper, and witness perceivingr that he had matle some impresFion upon them, requested that they would joist in prayer with him, to which they assented; 'and certainly, to all appearance," said the witness, "1 with the most ferventilevttion." After having prayed for sometime, the soldiers went atyav thanikful for the instructiont they had received,and with lamenting that thev hash not met wit!, such a religious instructor before, " or else," said they, " we shouild have been liffereni men." On Tuesday cvening Iist,thc prisoner entered the shop alone, ant witness recognising hinm to be one of the persons in whom he had the pleasing hoipe of accomplish- ing a reforniation, was happy to see him. The prisoner expressed his grateful acknowledgments to witness, whom he utrged to conimence prayers, desiring the young man to shut up the shop in order that thev mightnot be inter.tipte(. at their devotions. The shop was accordinzly closed ; but the pristiierintiinated tnat before they began to pray, he shouls like a small plate of liani and beef. wrhich was immediate- ly set before hin, arid le then requesied that witness would stcp to the ptublic-house and fetch hint a draught of porter. This was also complied with. XIlitness having opened the till fbr the purpose of taking rut some change, nroceeded for the beer, and on his re- turn the prisoner eagerly swallowed it off and desired that thepravers might not be repr.ated at the length thtey were on the former occasion, observing that le wasanxioustogetbomnetobarracks. Ashortpraver was then delivered, alid the prisoner at the conclusion hastily rose from his attitude of supplitation, and opening the shop-door, called fora hackney-coach, into which he jumnped. This circum- stance having excited some suspicion, the witness, after his departure, looked into the till, and discovered that 21. aIs. had been taken out of it. Notwithstanding the robbery, the witness added, that the prisoner came to the shop on Saturday night, for thc puroose of hav- ltg, as he said, the benefit of a prayer. Hle was accusesi of the rob- bery, but he denied it. A constable was sent for, natd he was given into custody. The magistrate having ascertainet from the witncss that he harl seen the money in the till a fewveinutes before he went out for the beer, aFked whether any other person was in the shop but the soldier ? The witness replied that there was not. and that he was convinced that individual had taken the money. The soldier protested his innocence, observing, it was not likely, if he was the thief, that he should have returned to the shop after. wards. He had, he said, a wife and 2 children dependent on hint for support, and he hoped thwit this circumnstance woulti operate in his favour. He was committed. POLTCA.