The Sun. — 1829-02-05 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  Committee contrive to gild it, they may find it less nattsemil at first,- hut, mug sure as they are alive, not t --the less. certain in its operation. We are aware of - cuiLDHALL. all that has been urged about the inconvenience of On the night agile 28th ult., a lad, who gave popitiar elections, and that Noble Lords and Thin. hie name Moms Edwards, was brought into the Cieittlemen would never consent to be the objects of watch-house of Ahlersgate ward,foamingat the mouth, such a kind of choice. Lords and Gentlemen may and in a state of stupor, from having swallowed do as they please I but we do not see why the rights some laudanum. He was conveyed to the hospital, where the stomach pump was resorted to with the of the whole cominUoity should be sacrificed, merely rhea great names may grace an (Ace, to the duties usual success, and he was-brought before Sir PETER of which they so little attend. At all events, if any LAURIE on Monday, to be disposed of, baying neicompromise be submitted to, let not the advantages tiler funds nor friends in London. Ile said he was be all on otie side; let the rate-payers at large (at. a foot-boy out of place, and distress had induced him least those up to a certain amount) have the privi- to attempt suicide, and that he had recently been lege of supplying vacancies as they occur, am! not supported by his uncle, named Edwards, residing at be handed over as still greater vassals to those who, Clifton, a clerk of Mr. Bayliss, the solicitor at we have no doubt, will know how to use their vie- Bristol. Sir Peter Laurie caused a letter to be adtory, if they obtain its—Morning Herald. dressed to ibis gentleman, and yesterday an answer was received from Mr. Baylis, denying that he had Before we shall hare another opportunity of addressing our renders, the Great Council of the Na. any clerk of the mune of Edwards, or that any other solicitor in Bristol had, to the best of his knowledge. tien Will have assembled in a Session which every This only served to whet the Alderman's curiosity me eireutanee of the times serves to convince us willmi. the most important in Ettelish history. to' learn his history, and Sir Peter pertinneionsly he continued to interrogate him above half an hour, till The Catholic Question has for many years agitated he at length extracted from him something like a the country, distracted and enfeebled the public councils of the empire, been a stumbling block and rock of ()Grim among honest end enlightened c'"Tislieteptirtistoarliee'r said he did not know his parents; lie lied been informed that his mother was a Statesmen, and always a convenient but , sometimes n powerful instrument in the hands of the. unprin-* daughter of Mr. Staples, of Brabourtie Lees, near Ashford, Kent ; and a nobleman (the Berl of cipied and ambitions. By means of this question, Shaftesbury) had directed him to be educated at political selfishness and traitorous disaffection have inflicted upon the state incalculable evils—hare Dr. Burt's school, at Canterbury, which he quitted converted Ireland, which ought to be a source of three years ago. lie was put in the school in the name of Henry Staples, and in vacation time was s:length and glory to Great into a cause of received and treated very kindly by his supposed weakness and a subject ofopprobritine—have poisoned mother, to whom the nobleman used to remit JO!. the thickly-sown seeds of prosperity in the bosom of the land, end nurtured them into a foul, and fatal, querterly. lie had himself seen his Lordship's franks upon letters to his mother. She ultimately and sample harvest of misery and disconteot. These cieeeleies, it. is ennieiently• amid never married a person named Medhurst, now a stoker in a Calais eteam-boat, upon which his Lordship disbare arisen from such a cause, had the conduct of the British Government and Legislature been uni. continued his allowanCe, and said the prisoner was old esteugh to shift for himself. lie was then about 15 formly under the guidance of lofty,steady, and 'consisteet principle. It is abundantly clear, we st,,y, years of age, and was engaged by r. allies, a medical gentlemen, who knew his hMistory, to attend that these calamit'es could never have attained owir present .nvignittide hum the restraintsUon hi pm and he would breve , been still in his service if he haul not disliked leaving England to travel disqualificistiens merely to which the Roman Caupon the Continent. Ile haul Mitten to Lord belice have been or are now sulth jeered, had not the hitter been weakened for all good and but his letters had -not been attended to. Ile haul strengthened for all evil, by the gradual adoption been told his mother was dead. of a system alike impolitic and willed— a system The prisoner was remanded till Friday. which treats religious errors as if thee were in themBO W.. ST E