At the Mansionhouse, on Wednesday, a French gentleman, M. Alphonse
Alleaume, accompanied by "a lady of rank," whose name it not given, complained to the Lord Mayor of ill treatment by the police of Brussels. M. Alleaume, who is a Parisian, had constructed a filter- ing-machine, and taken it with him from Paris to Brussels on a specu- lation ; but the police thought it was an infernal machine, and arrested
M. Alleaume. After two months' imprisonment, Alleaume was tried and acquitted ; but instead of receiving any recompense for his sufferings, he was put on board a vessel and sent to England. The Lord Mayor recommended M. Alleaume to apply for redress to King Leopold, now in England, through the Belgian Minister. It appeared that some of the poor Frenchman's relations bad formerly served in the body guard of Charles the Tenth ; and perhaps this circumstance had made the Belgian police regard him with suspicion.
A commission was held at the Gray's Inn Coffeehouse, on Monday, to inquire into the state of mind of Mr. Christopher Alderson. aged twenty-six, son and heir of a gentleman of large property in Essex. It appeared that the unfortunate young man was afflicted with mental imbecility, with partial paralysis, and was also deaf and dumb. The Jury found a verdict that be had been of unsound mind since the 30th April 1832.
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