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Pert,' from the premises, or suffer them to be removed by any of
tin it clef ks or seicants.
" J. That both parties have free Inspection of all the late part-
nership work and papers.
" 4. That Mr. M ilks's two female setvants continue to reside
on the premises.
That Mr. Turnpenny, a Police Officer, be in possession,
to prevent a lark itch of the peace, but not to interfere with the pro.
perty ; and that he do not permit any property to be removed aide.
out the consent of both panics.
" O. That Mr. Currie be not permitted to enter the premises;
but that Mr. !'arsons, a maleprvant of Mr. %Textile, be pc:runt:ed
to sleep on the premises.
" 7. Tinit flee boards and bills outside the premises be inunedi-
atOy taken down.
`• 8. T!lat each of the panics engage to keep the peace, and
cause it to be kept by their respective clerks and servants, and
strictly to abide by the engagements entered into.
" 9. That Mr. Verbeke be permitted to remove the goods which
he has placed on the premises since Saturday, and to leave what
articles he Khali think proper for the convenience of his male ser.
vents, who are to reside on the premises.
" That these erigwaiems ore not to prejudice either of the
parties as to any remedy they may have to what has occurred.
(Signed) " Joon' SVit.xs.
These having been duly excruted,
Witness, John 'lVoog. " J. F. F. VERDE \E."
the parties retired.
Soon afterwards, a female servant in the chipioyment of Mr.
Wilk., accompanied by two of his clerks, came and requested a
summons against Mr. Curie for an assault committed upon her.
The assault she complained of consisted of his forcibly detain.
log her whilst two men teliowed him and got possession of the
house. He held her fast by the wrists, one of which she stated had
received a slight scratch.
The Lord Mayor granted her a summons.
This having been obtained, sfie applied for a warrant against
Mr. Charles Verbeke, the brother of the late partner of Mr. %V ilks,
for having falsely imprisorted her. She stated, that he had detained
her in the kitchen forcibly, and would not let her go to the door, or
go hot when she wanted.
The LORD Mayon refused to grant the warrant; she would,
perhaps, see Mr. Verbeke when she came up to gm her evidence
on the other case.

lvtan, the driver of the hackney
coach, No.' lOW, appeared upon a summons, for wilfully hindering
the free passage of his 3lejesty's subjects in Cheapside, on the 21st
inst., and for enlawfuilv escaping from thevietl-known Mr. Duncan
Campbell, beteg in his custcdy for the ash( offence. As soon as
the defendant entered therms), Mr. Campbellumwehended him as
a miedenicanant who had escaped, and caused him to be lucked'Up
until the night charges were gone through.
When the cue was called one, Mr. Campbell stated that he was
riding in the cabriolet. No. 90, along Cheapside, on Thursday last,
when the defendant, in breaking Into the line between the cabriolet
and a cart that was before it,- drove against the former, and had
nearly caused serious mischief. Ile got out, and, mounting the
box of the coach, touched the defendant on the shoulder, declared
him under arrest, and required him to fellow to the Justice-room.
Soule gentlemen, however, volunteered their opiniou that he had
no right to areest'him ; and the coachman, after threatening to flog
hini it he did not leave the horses alone. drove away. He pro-
ceeded in the manner he had described, tinder the direction of an
Act of Parliament, the 30th Ceo. 11. cap. 22, which left hint no op-
tionns to the course he was to pursue, it being ena.:ted, that " any
tweeter seeing an offence committed against that Act shall appre-
hend the offender, and deliver him to a constable." If he had not
felt himulf aggrieved. therefore, it was, nevertheless, imperative
upon him to seize the defendant, and he should have been liable
to indictment If he had not done so, although the capture of a
coachman on his box by a foot passenger wars not a thing to be
safely attempted upon all occasions. Armed, however, with power,
by authority of Parliament, which was superior to thatl derival e
from a Magistrate's warrant, the use of brute force in the caption
was unnecessary ; It was a legal arrest if the oflender was touched
and declared a ptisoner.
Sir Jolty. Peet:tee, turning to the Act, said it appeared by
the title to relate only to the "misbehaviour of the drivers of carts
in London and Westminster."
Mr. Campbell replied that it °still, in' the clause respeeting the
preventing, hindering, and interrupting the free passage of the
public streets, extended its operation to " any carriage whatever,"
so that a gentleman's coachman, or a stage coachman, was as liable
trebe dragged away itaianter for a breach of the law as a carman or
hackney-coachman. Singularly enough, the complainant (and that
was most likely to be the parry seeing end suffering by the offence)
was disqualified by this Act from giving evidence, by the awarding
to him a moiety of the penaly. Me Campbell then called
George Stephens, the driver of the cabriolet, who stated that he
had followed two carts from Newgate-street ; but when near Bow.
church, although his horse's head was within two feet of the tail of
the cart before him, the defendant broke in from the middle of the
street, drove witness's horse upon the pavement, and broke the
sprifiee of his vellichme-lie did not know the defendant's person,
Or the number of his coach. nor did he-see Mr. Campbell touch his
body, but he heard him till the man he was in custody.
' William Campbell stated be was in the cabriolet with his father
and corroborated the account of the last witness. The number of
the coach was 1,1108, but he could not recognise the defendant, nor
did he see Mr. Campbell touch his body.
Mr. Lee, a coal-merchant in the Alinories. here begged to ad.
dress the Alderman, having understood Mr. Campbell had taken
warrant out against him for atedsting the cuaclirpar to escape.
Mr. Campbell ssid he would call him its witness; and yet there
was some ihfficulty in that, as his evidence might convict himself
of she aidieg ifi the escape. After a moment's reflectiou, however,
he said he would Mrego the latter charge, and
Mr. Lice, being sworn, stated, that without perceiving what in-
jury the defendant bad done. he found Mr. Campbell desiring him
to outside' himself in eustodyrand go with him instantly. Witness
'asked whet he had done? ."
Some damage," said Mr. Campbell.
Ile then inquired if Mr. Campbell was an oflicer ; and being told
he was not, witnesa said he :night make the defendant responsible
by summoning him, as his number was no secret. There were
paascrigers in the coach ; and besides the inconvenience to the
public, it w.ts hard to make the driver lose his fare as well as suffer
the penalty. As Mr. Campbell was not an officer, he thought he
could hare no right to apprehend in such a rase. Ile considered
him an °Helium busybody, putting a poor man in trouble, and he
certainly did recommend the defendant to drive away, and pay no
regard to Mr. Cardpbell's threats. Lie hail never heard of the law
31r. Campbell had produced ; and In mitigation of the fine he
would say, the coachman 114.11 not utter en oath or an expression
that could offend the gentleman's ear, and that he natually lost his
fare by the delay in altercating with Mr. Campbell.
Mr. Campbell—Did he net threaten to flog Me? Mr. Lee—No,
Sir; he said he would flog his horses on if rot did not leave them
alone. Even, now lam aware of this Act of George the Second, I
shoeld think it imprudent to enfnree
Mr. Campbell—And I think so too; but let his opinion be tacked
to his evidence (addressing the Clerk).
In his defence the coachman urger: that he was forced into the
line by meeting the Lord Mayor's coach ; that there was a greater
opening thatfwes represented : and that ie bad never heard of the
Act of George 11.
Mr. Carapfell argued, that however old. expensive, or hard to
be understood, every person Was held to have, knowledge M every
Act of Parliament. lenrance of a statute was never admitted to
be a plea available to oeenders against it.
Sir Jewel PERRING ii,iid. the public were much indebted to
Campbell for pressing this comelaint, and it would be desirable
If other getelemen of his energy would exert themselves. The
knowledge that drivers were liable to apprehension at the nioment
Iry any person who Sale them offending, would do wonders in
keeping them In order, and, for the sake of example, he would
tine the defendant lila. and order him to pay 17a. costs.
The defendant's master was fined 10s. for not entering his
present place of abode in the Sewers' Office, in the city ; and
the owner of the cabriolet is about to claim 31: for damage to his
vehicle.

Bow-arlirET.—A man named Robert Rooks, who vends prints
in James-street. Covent.gatilen, was brought i.eiore the Magistrates
on a warrant, charged with haying attempted to violate the person
of Matgaret Sullivan, a child only eleven yeam-of age.
The girl is the daughter of a paor blind titan, who has a wife and
five other children, living in White Iforse-yr:rd, James.sticet, I.'o-
vent-garden. Site stated that about nine o clock on Sunday even-
ing the pris,ner accosted her in the sticet, and took her up a dark
passage; from thence he induced liar to go along with him into a
mews in the same neighbourhood, and then he made the attempt to
commit the offence imputed to him. She spoke positively ato the
identity of the prisoner, and she said that she cried out, which in.
duced 'din to leave her, and the moment she arrived at home she
informed her mother of the attack the prisoner had made upon her.
The prisoner declared that he was at hotne at the time the girl
said she had been assaulted, and he was as innocent of the crime as
a child unborn.
Mr. MlNstirrt. time Sitting Magistrate, said diet the girl had
sworn so positively to hint that a Jury must decide upon the cities-
don as to what credit was due to her testimony, and he ordered the
prisoner to bud bail.

James Pratt, a young man of respectable appearance, was
charged by Mr. !Smokes, a stationer residing in Oxford-street,
with havit.g obtained from him, by false pretences, three legers,
value ik
The Pri,oner had formerly been V. the etnployment of the pro-
meutor, anti seine time ago called upon him, and stated that he
.was employed by a gentleman named Mariette to get three
legers for him. The prosecutor said he should have no objection
to let Mr. Marlette have the legcrs, and three were sent for his
inspection by the prieoner. The prisoner afterwards attempted to
obtain a writing-desk under the pretence that he had again b.:en
sent by Mr. Marlette, when it rite itiSCOVCreti that Mr. Mariette
had nut auth:srind him to detain the goods, and that the prisoner
lied pawned the legers on the seine day that be obtained them
from the prosecutor.
The prisoner was remanded at his own request, to enable him to
have legal as:istatice.
Sir It iIIIINTE stated that he had received a letter from Kid-
derminster, informing him that a female el ausplcious character
had been apprehended in that town, and that upon her person had
been fuund a valuable antique watch, with chain anti two gold
seals, bearing thereon the crest of a Baronet. The Magistrate ob-
served that publicity, through the medium of the press, being
given to the circumstance, would in ail probability lead to a tits-
coney of the owner of the property.
LODGING IN ST. GILES'S.
MaatannotTow.scameT.—.Yeaterday Mr. Ratcliffe, right
constable of St. Giles'e, exposed the economy of a t!t. Giles's lads.,

ing-house in a way scarcely credible but for the admissions of the
landlord, and the evidence on oath of the inmates.
Mr. Ratcliffe stated, that on old Mal. of the name of George Al-
len, came to the watch-house to complain that he had been robbed
of his waistcoat, some papers Mr. Dyer had intrusted him with the
delivery of, and 2s. 4d. in money; and that two lads, lodging in the
same room, had been robbed of all their clothing, and were now
naked in bed. The house belonged to a man named Kennedy, in
' George-street, which is an eight-roomed house, and lets out 42 beds
nightly, at 4d. per night; at the Ira, k was another building, con.
tainlng 12 small rooms, with a bed in each, let at 43. per week each
room. He had another house in George-street, known as " Mother
Allen's," in which were 52 beds, altogether 100 beds. In the house
of 42 beds, in which Kennedy himself lived. the old man had taken
a nightly lodging. in the little room in which he slept were four
men, ibut who bad taken his clothes he could nut tell. 'Witness
sent one of the beadles to make inquiry, which resulted in appre.
hending two women on suspicion. From the description given by
the beadle, witness, accompanied by another palish officer, went to
the house, and never before beheld such a loathsome sight; the
effluvium was infectious ; the bedding, if such it could be called,
Was of the most wretched appearance, and filthy in the extreme.
When he went there, in the afternoon, two lads, one he knew to be
creditably industrious. were lying in bed in their shirts, the rest of
their apparel, except the hat and a pair of shoes belonging to one,
which he had put under the bed, having been tairan away. Wit-
ness desired to see Kennedy. who said lie knew who had taken the
things, that two women had done it, who were then in the watch.
house. Witness took Kennedy to the watch-house, where, among
40 charges, he pointed out two females, whom witness had detained.
The parish of St. Giles had prosecuted two bOAKS in George-siteet
at the last Middlesex Sessions, and lie should represisst this to the
committee as a nuisance likely to engender fever, and as a resort
for thieves ; also on account of the conduct of Kennedy, as possess.
ing a knowledge of those he harboured ; fur, first, lie refused to
trouble himself to recover the lads' clothes, and when he did get I
them, and they were restored to the lads, denied his knowledge of
the person of whom he received them.
Kennedy said the old man came and awoke him out of his sleep
for his things, which he knew nothing about. lie had often been
robbed himself, and never got any recompense. lie believed the
tarn women took all the things, because, when a fuss was made,
they brought one of the lad's clothes, and said they found them on
the landing-place.
On a question from the Magistrate, the old man was said to be
" Pope" Herring.
There being nothing auspicious enough to detain the two females,
they were liberated.
Edward Wilson, a well-spoken man, aged 50, who deposed t'
sleeping in the next bed to Allen, was said to have been at one
time a hatter at the corner of St. fames's-street and Jermyn-street,

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and was said in the office to have kept his sarrlage. Sic transit
gluts t mundi !
" Pope" Herring was shortly after brought in. There are three
brothers, all of a like celebrity—one has taken a voyage. This
one lives in " Rats' Civic," am ther wretched resort for thieves
and beggars in St. Giles's. lie said a young woman threw the
things into his room, saying, " There's a pair of trowsers for
you ; but he did not know her name, though he had often seen
her in George-street. Kennedy did not give him any thing fur the
clothes, neither money, victuals, nor drink.
Herring was remanded till Thursday, and the others ordered to
be punctual in their attendance.
ROBBERIES OF CARPENTERS.

James DM•Bride, a carpenter, was brought up for stealing a saw
from Thomas Bushel, a fellow•-workman. On the prisoner were
found in one pocket 7t duplicates of pledges, all for carpenters'
tools. The duplicate for the stolen saw was found in another
pocket by itself.
The case was clearly made oat against the prisoner by the attend-
ance of the shopman of Mr. Aldous, pawnbroker, producing the
saw which had been pledged by the prisoner at his master's for
2s. Gd., in the name of Andtrso.t.
The parties were bound over in this case; but the prisoner will
be brought up on Thursday, us similar charges are expected against
him, there having been many complaints lately at the office of car-
penters having been robbed of their tools.
A SIIA3I POLICE-OFFICER.
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MARTLEBONE. —Yesterday, Richard Thompson, of No. 7,
Union-street, Middlesex Hospital, a young man of respectable ap-
pearance, was charged with having, under the preLince of being an
officer belonging to the police establishment in Marylebone, cheated
and defrauded a poor woman named Elizabeth Cecil
Elizabeth Cecil had lodged in the house of .Mrs. Pattison, but
had lately removed to 14, Little Barlow.strcet. On Wednesday
morning she was at Mr. Menzies', in Rlding-house lace, when the
prisoner called there, and inquired for her; when site came,
Thompson took a paper from his pocket, and read as follows :—A
pair of brass candlesticks, a linen shirt, anti a pair of stockings.
Ile then produced a staff, and said he held a warrant, as an e,tficer
belonging to the Marylebone police establishment, for her appre-
hension, on suspicion of having stolen those articles from Mrs.
Paulson. Mrs. Cecil solemnly declared her innocence, and Mrs.
Menzies, pitying her situation, said she thought she wasa different
kind of woman, and requested Thompson not to hurry her away,
but to let her have some bread and cheese and some porter, before
the went to prison. He sail he would wait a quarter of an hour,
and partake of the bread and cheese. As they were sitting at the
table, Mrs. Menzies said it was a great pity to take the polr woman
from her work, and asked Thompson if he would see her righted:
Ile replied, " I will ; I now see into tie business; she is an in-
jured woman; and if she will give tee I.V. hid. I will h.,ve tl e war.
rant withdrawn, although 1 shall lose at least ss. in time by it.
She must. however, go with me before a Magistra e, which wi Ince
detain her ten minutes." Mrs. Menaist advanced the la. ed., and
they went out together; they found Mrs. Pattison at the iop of the
lane, who proposed an amicable arrang.ment aitbout going heft re
a Mageserste, and they returned to Mrs. Menzies, where Mrs. Pat.
titan' becanie so troubleso:ne that she was turned (nit or do re. M:s.
Menzies beginning now to see into the business also, inquired .of
Thompson how it wits, if he belonged to the Marylebone Police,
that she never saw him at the office. He said lie had only been
sworn in about nine tnonths, and if ane had never seen hint there
whenshe came, it was because he was absent upon business.
On Wednesday evening Mrs. Cecil surrendered herself, and no
warrant being found in existence against her, the cheat was dis-
coverecd. _

The prisoner, in his dcfnce, said he had held a situation in a re-
spectable solicitor's (Alice for seven or tight years, aid it was not
likely he should have been guilty of such a inisreprsentation, nor
was it likely that a wan of his profession would falsely say he htld
a warrant; it was a conspiracy against him ; it was all false, totally
false.

That is the answer, said Mr. RAW LlNsox. which almost every
thief makes. It you give bail, it must be competent, yourself• in
let)/. and two others, who are quite unexceptionable, in Zrol. each.
Crop MU. a toll collector at the Yorkrthire Stingo Give, was
charged by Mr. W. Poile, a Hertfordshire farmer, with having un-
him hilly obtained, and detained, a parcel. containing 50a.. About
a fortnight ag,, Mr. Poile sent a butter flask, cunt lining the above
sum, by his own carter, directed to be left at the Yorkshire Stingo
public-house, for a person residing in Westminster. His carter,
not knowing the house, inquired for it at the toll-gate, and Webb
informed him, that if he left the basket with him it would be all
right. it hen Mr. Voile discovered Iris servant's blunder, he in-
quired of Webb for the parcel, who has never returned it. under a
pretence that some stranger, two hours rater it was left with him,
inquired for it, and obtained possession of it.
Lord MOXTFORD, Mr. GRIFFITH, Mr. RAWLINSON, and
Mr. BROUGHTON, considered it impossible that the gate-keep2r.
with so plain a written direction, would have received or delivered
the basket in error, and therefore he was committed.