A POLICEMAN AT FAULT.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 875, 17 October 1871, Page 3

A POLICEMAN AT FAULT.

The Emperor of Brazil it appears, rambles about in the most miscellaneous way, unattended, and in no way remarkable for style in bis costume ; the result is that if you do not happen to know Emperors when you see them, you are apt to pass them by as if they were common people. Even policemen are bewildered. Witness the predicament of a member of the metropolitan force in Grosvenor square, at six the other morning. The policeman was on bis beat, and watching. There strolled into the square a solitary man, of dark complexion, rather handsome appearance, and evidently a foreigner. Now Grosvenor square at six in the morning is not a place where gentlemen usually meet ► ( for promenade, and the suspicions of the policeman were aroused by the coming of the foreigner. "Who could he be, and what business was he on ? Sauntering slowly and surveying the houses witb an inquisitive look were what the foreigner was about. They were actions to arouse distrust. So the policeman watched and followed at a distance on the opposite side of the road. There was but one other person in the'square besides the foreigner and tne constable, and that was the individual who saw the incident. The foreigner stopped before the bouse of Lord Lytton and surveyed it from bottom to top. The policeman was about to cross over, possibly to arrest him. Could he be a Communist ? Had he petroleum in bis pocket? These were the natural thoughts likely enough to rise to the consideration of any right minded policeman. But the foreigner passed on, made the circuit of the square, and turned off into B*ook street, where after looking up and down the street two or three times, he stopped in front of Claridge's hotel, the door of which being open he glided in. Then came up the policeman quickly, and accosted one of the servants of the hotel whom he met at the door, asking him if be knew who the man was that had just gone in. " Know him!" replied the servant, "that's the Emperor of Brazil."