Dean, the shoemaker of East Hampstead, who was convicted at
Windsor Petty Sessions last week, of poaching on Prince Albert's game, and committed for two months, has been released; "a gentleman from London" having paid the fine, 101. lls. The Times assumed that the gentleman bad authority from an "ex- alted quarter"; but a letter from Mr. John Collett, the Member for Athlone, in the paper this morning, states that he was the "quarter," and the "gentleman from London" his servant. He wrote to Dean that he raid the fine because he disapproved of the Game-laws, and "deeply commiserated an act of tyranny and injustice inflicted on a poor man." [Mr. Collett makes the COMMon error of taking the tempter's or oppressor's vice for the trespasser's virtue.]
Mr. Voules, one of the Magistrates, complains to the Times that there were in- accuracies in the first report. Dean, an old offender, made the first overtures to Milky, a young and inexperienced gamekeeper: neither Prince Albert nor Sir John Walsh knew anything of the matter; and the Magistrates did not refuse Dean time to pay the fine.
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