FINAL EXAMINATION OF " SwINO."—The examination of John Alexander, the
recruit, for sending a threatening letter to Mrs. Chandise, of Church Farm, was resumed, that lady having arrived in town for the porpose of swearing to the receipt of the letter. Mr. Leo, a traveller to the firm of Barnett and Co. Cateaton Street, Cheapside, testified to his • belief that the letter was in the handwriting of the prisoner, who lived as porter in that establishment for six or seven years, and with whose writing lie was perfectly familiar. The prisoner, by desire of Mr. NWooller, his counsel, said nothing, and he was fully committed for trial.
MR. SAVT LLE.—It may lie recollected that a person of this name esis arrested by the Suffolk Magistrates, charged with dropping two letters, of most portentous import, in the parish of Stradishall. The letters rail thus- ' Will you, Farmers and Parsons, pay us better for our labour ? If you won't, we will put you in bodily fear.—SwING. "Oh, ye Church of England Parsons, who strain at a gnat and swallow a camel, wo, wo, wo be to you! ye shalt have your reward." They were addressed to 110 ODC. The onlv evidence Was an old woman,
who saw Mr. Saville throw the papers on the road. The counsel for the defence contended that there had been no crime committed ; butt the Suffolk Sessions took a different view of the matter, and the Jury found Mr. SaVille guilty, (of what ?) but recommended him to mercy. Tea gentlemen had previously borne testimony to the respectability of the prisoner. The Reverend Richard Whittingham, Vicar of Paton, near Gamlingay, where the defendant resided, said he had known Jinn forty years, and considered lsini a most humane, charitable, peaceable, and highly moral man, very benevolent to the poor, and his political senti- ments loyal and constitutional. The magistrates sentenced Mr. Saville to twelve months' imprisonment, and a flue of 50/. So much for the dread of Swing !
VESTRIS'S LEGS.—A young fellow was Charged at Marlborough Street Police-office, some days ago, with stealing several plaster casts from the work-shop of Mr. Papera, the Italian modeller. Among the casts stolen, were the legs of Madame Vestris, a little above the knee, and including the foot. The Magistrate thought it possible that other artists might have spanned the legs of the fair lady ; but Mr. Papsra said that it was impossible these casts could have been made by any other artist, because he was the only person to whom Madame Vestris had ever " stood" to have a cast taken of her leg ; and from that cast he had made one mould or model, and only one, and that was always kept with the greatest care under lock and key, except when required to • be used in his model-room, so that no person could possibly obtain access to it except some one in his employ ; and as for any attempt at imita- tion, that was impossible to do with success, for so beautiful and perfect was the symmetry of the original, that it was from it alone the various natural niceties of the complete whole could be acquired, and to perfeerors formed. [Is the reporter a penny-a-line adorer of Madame It seems Madame's legs were not kept on ordinary sale, like common shop legs—
they were only cast to order, for amateurs and others. Mr. Papera cum, plained of the indignity offered to Madame, by exposing her legs inde-
cently in a shop-window. The legs, Mr. Papera explained, not only sold dearer than other legs, but more readily, for most of the gentlemen who bought them took both. The prisoner had been already committed, on a former charge ; and the Magistrate advised the artist to add the legs to the indictment. Mr. Papera was told he must produce them in court, and identify them ; which he said he could easily do. BATRYCHOMTOMACHL—The lessees of the Pavilion Theatre apt peered at the Middlesex Sessions on Thursday, as prosecutors of the
lessees of the Garrick Theatre, which has been opened in the same neighbourhood (Goodman's Fields), by certain foes to monopoly, without
the fear of Magistrates before their eyes, or a licence in their pockets. Mr. Alley laboured hard for a conviction, under the act for suppressing of disorderly houses ; but he wholly failed of proving the Garrick to be disorderly. The indictment was in consequence quashed. TREATMENT OF LUNATICS.—An indictment was on Tuesday preferred before the Grand Jury, at the instance of the Metropolitan Commis- sioners in Lunacy, and a true bill found, against James bleat' of Brompton Villa, Old Brompton, for taking an insane person under his care without the requisite authority or certificate of insanity, contrary to the Act 9 Geo. IV. cap. 41.
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