M. DE R ANYILLE.—A chevalier d'industrie, who had assumed this
name, and, on the pretence that he was the nephew of M. Guernon de Ren- ville, the French ex-Minister, imposed on a number of persons in Lon- don, and among others, on Messrs. Clarke and Debenham, of Wigmore Street, from whom he obtained 10/. in part discount of a forged bill of Lafitte and Co., was secured a few days ago, by a patriotic barber con- stable. M. de Ranville had opened the campaign at Clifton, from which he was soon fain to retreat ; he then took up a position at Jaunay's in Leicester Square, whence he was driven by the suspicions of Clarke and Debenham. From Jaunay's he retreated to Portsmouth ; where he passed himself as a Captain Belgian, a Netherlands patriot, and took splendid lodgings in Jubilee Terrace. The vapouring of the
was, however, so extravagant, that it excited the suspicion of Mr. Lewis, the barber, whom he honoured with his notice ; and %[r. Lewis being an officer as well as friseur, took Captain Belgian in cus- tody as M. de Ranville. The arrival of a gentleman from London, of the firm of Clarke and Co., proved that the conclusion of the sagacious barber was a just one. Ile was examined on 'Wednesday, at Marl- borough Street Office ; when he declared that the Lalitte notes, some of which were found on him, were genuine. Ile was remanded.
ROBERT TAY!: E.—T he Society for the Suppression of Vice has insti- tuted a prosecution for blasphemy against the puppy who calls himself the " Reverend Robert Taylor." The indictment came before the Grand Jury at the Sorry Sessions, and a true hill was returned. LUKE DILLON.—The trial of this person for the violation of a respect- able young lady named Frizell, to whom he had pretended honourable affection, and whom he first seduced on false pretences into an infamous house and then stnpified with opium, in order to perpetrate his planned and calculated villany, took place in Dublin on Thursday last week. The Jury found Dillon guilty, but recommended him to mercy because of his youth. The Judge, in pronouncing sentence, said he could not entertain the recommendation, as he did not perceive in the evidence any circumstance of mitigation. There is no great magnanimity in re- proaching a criminal on Isis way to the gallows ; but when every prin- ciple and feeling of right is sought to be perverted by attempts to save a man from punishment whose crime has not the shadow of a shade of palliation, but on the contrary offers every aggravation of the most base and deliberate brutality—(the heartless ruffian even struck the miser- able girl while in his poxvcr)—it is right to say, that if such a case were passed over, the man who in future suffers death by the sentence of law, be he what he may, is murdered. It is impossible that any offence can be committed, murder and treason not excepted, that will not call as powerfully for mercy. There is, we need hardly ads], an immense mass of twaddle in the Irish newspapers touching Dillon : it always happens so when the criminal is more than ordinarily infamous, and especially if be happens to have been a gentleman by station. Mon Camas AND MISDEMEANOURS.—A Captain Thomas J. Grant has been found guilty of the following terrible crime, by a Court-Martial that sat at Colombo in Ceylon, in October last—"having at the mess of the la 8 t h re; iinent, on the occasion of a public dinner, given at the inspec- tion of the regiment, positively insisted that a toast proposed by him should be drunk before one proposed by his commanding officer, and having actually given such toast, contrary to his capressed wish and de- sire." There was a second charge "for quitting the mess-table," but he was acquitted on that. A Captain Sadleir was not so lucky : he was found guilty of the first crime, and "part [half ?—quarter ?—eighth guilty of the second." We are not told what the toast was—could it be " the Bill ?" The people of India heard of the French Revolution five months before it happened, why not of the English Revolution also ? GLAsoow COACH ROBBERY.—Four individuals have now been fully committed for trial, as having been concerned in the late robbery of the Commercial Bank parcel in the Regent coach. Their names are George and William Gilchrist, brothers, James Brown, and Thomas Camp- bell. It now turns out that Brown was the outside passenger who opened the coach-door to the persons within, when they came out be- yond Airdrie. Upwards of seventy sovereigns have been discovered in his house, under very suspicions circumstances, having been found con- cealed in a fish-basket. —Edinburgh Evening Courant.
ROBBER SHOT.—On Sunday sennight, early in the morning, two men were discovered on the premises of Mr. Brereton, of Church Minshull, Cheshire. The watchman challenged, and then fired, and wounded one of the men so severely in the thigh, that he died on Monday last. The poor wretch's name was Bankes ; he belonged to the neighbourhood, and bore but an indifferent character. He has left a wife and three children.
SUPPOSED CHILD Mannar..—The body of a female child, apparently about three months old, was found in the Serpentine on Monday. There were several bruises about the head, which one of the servants of the Humane Society was of opinion had been inflicted before the infant was drowned. On this opinion, so confidently delivered, the Jury came to a verdict of " wilful murder against some persons unknown." The linen
of the infant was fine ; it had on a lace cap, and a napkin marked F. B.
was wrapped round it. As there is an obvious distinction between wounds inflicted previous to death and contusions received after, had a medical man been called, he would at once have settled the point whe- ther the child received the blows before drowning.] SUSPECTED MURDER.—Two women named Connop and Manners, and a man, are in custody at Hereford, on suspicion of having murdered Mr. Carwardine, a farmer of Pembridge, who was attending the late Hereford Assizes, but who had not been heard of from that time till his corpse was discovered in the river Wye, on Tuesday last. There was. the mark of a dreadful blow upon the left temple.—Gloucester Journal.
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