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London, England, 1825-11-18 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday a band-bill was plated before the Lord Mayor by one
of the officers of the establishment, who said he considered the
substance of It a libel upon the police of the City. It was headed,
" A Caution to the Inhabitants of Coleman street and its neigh-
bourhood," and was as follows :

" Whereas last night, a quarter before nine o'clock, three men
made an attempt to break into a shop No. 57, Lothbury, by means
of a picklock-key; but, fortunately it happened, I was behind the
counter, and opened the door immediately, and could have taken
them into custody had it beempotaible to obtain the aid of a patrol,
watchman, or any of (le pOkice. This being the third attempt of
these three noted depredators, I think in the centre of the city of
London, near tlie Bank, Exchange, and Mansion House, &c. we
might have a little more prote;,tion from the Police, and not suffer
men of this description to be prowling about, and repeating their
attempts, night after night, without interruption.
" Nov. 18, 1825. „W. S. HUTCHINSON', 57, Lothbury."
The Loan MAYOR observed, that Mr. Huchinson, if the state-
ment was correct, had certainly reason to complain, but then it
would have been much more proper for him to make his complaint
at the Mansion House, where he must have known due attention
would have been paid to what he might state, than to circulate
hand-bills of such a description. His Lordship then sent for the
beadle of the ward in which the attempt at robbery was stated to
have been made, and questioned him upon the subject.
The beadle said, he had waited upon Mr. Hutchinson, and was
told by him that the thieves had attempted the house three times;
that he had been told by a friend of the two first attempts, and that
he had himself heard the third; that be went out, but that the men
made some frivclous excuse, and went away in different directions.
It was to be said for the patrol of the ward, that at the time Mr.
Hutchinson said the key was tried at his door, they had gone ac-
cording to order to have their names called over. And, as for Mr.
Hutchinson's shop, It was particularly liable to plunder, as many
tempting articles were constantly banging outside the door.
The Loan MAYOR hoped that if there were watch.boxes in the
neighbourhood, there were no seats in them, as if there were, the
watchmen might mistake them for places of repose. (A laugh.)
His Lordship asked what was the condition of the Ward, as to
patrol and watchmen.
The beadle said, the ward of Coleman-street, was as well secured
as any in the City. Patrols constantly paraded the streets to stop
auspicious persona who were found carrying boxes or bundles, and
there were 28 regular watchmen.
The Lonn alayoa—l must say it is my decided opinion, that
if the watchmen did their duty, there would be no burglaries. If
they went their rounds regularly, there would be no danger. It
should be contrived, that a watchman should not lie sufficiently
long away from any one plate In his beat to allow thieves time
to break open a house. Arrangements to this effect have been
made in my ward ; we have paid oar watchmen more money,
and reduced their numbers, and made such regulations that not
a burglary has been committed, or attempted, in it, these four
years.
The beadle said, he hoped there were not more robberies in his
ward, in consequence of the neglect of the watchmen. Ile con-
sidered it extremely well watched.
The Loan MaYoa said, lie did not mean to reflect upon
Coleman-street ward. His observations had no particular direc-
tion. He repeated emphatically, that if the watchmen did their
duty, no burglaries would be committed.

GUILDHALL.
Mr. Mills, a stable-keeper in William-street, Newington.
causeway, appeared before Mr. Alderman Ansley yesterday, to
swear an affidavit, which is to be exhibited, along with nine
others, to the gentlemen who composed the jury that, at the
last Old Bailey Sessions, found one James Adams guilt?, of steal-
ing a horse, the property of Mr. Neighbour, of Beaconsfield. The
jury, it was stated, had nearly come to the determination to make a
representation to the Secretary of State, that they are now satisfied
of the innocence of the convict, and that if they cannot be permitted
to rescind their verdict, they entreat it may he allowed to pass with.
oct effect against the prisoner. Nine of the affidavits were sworn
before Mr. Alderman Cox last week, at this Office, and the
the one now produced was to the effect that the stolen horse was of-
fered for sale to him (Mills) by the convict Adams, and the alleged
owner of it, Brown, and that the deponent believes, if Adams had
been aware the horse was a stolen one, he would not, knowing de.
ponent was well acquainted with his name and residence, have yen.
lured to offer it for tulle to him.

Mr. Bereeford, the Chief Clerk, objected to allowing such an
affidavit to be sworn. Ile thought the practice of forcing the Se-
cretary of State to retry cases should meet with no encouragement.
Why, he asked, were not these ten witnesses produced at the trial,
or at the examinations before the hlagistrates ? NVliat opportunity
was there now to inquire into their character, and why were these
affidavits brought before a City hlagiatrate to be sworn, when the
offence was committed in the County, and the convict was tried
before a County Jury ? There was, he thought, a strong appear.
ante of subterfuge in the getting up of these proceedings.
A Gentleman who appears to be interesting himself on the be.
half of the convict, replied that he brought the affidavits here be-
cause the prisoner had been originally examined and committed at
this office, and that Marna, conscious of his innocence, had thought
it unnecessary to bring any other witnesses at the trial beyond
those who proved that Adams was at home, instead of at Beacons-
field, on the night of the robbery, and that another person did ac-
tually bring him the horse, and afterwards call for the money it had
been sold for. The main circumstance that weighed against the
prisoner in the minds of the Jury was, that while one witness de.
rewibed Adams as bring In his shirt sleeves while talking with
Brown when he came for the money, another described him as
wearing a blue coat ; but instead of contradicting each other, these
witnesses, in fact, it turned out upon a little inquiry, were speaking
of different times, and each spoke the truth. The Jury, who had
entirely disbelieved the story about Brown, had now no doubt upon
the subject.
Mr. Alderman AwaLte, after' reading the of over, di-
rected certain names to be introduced to render the meaning more
certain, and then permitted it to be sworn.
BOW-STREET.
The clerk of Mr. King, a carrier of Fore-street, appeared yester.
day to answer a summons obtained by a gentlemen named Wool-
colt, fir overcharge of a parcel, and abstraction of a portion of its
contents.

It appeared by the statement of the complainant, that a parcel
containing game, fruit, clotted cream, and other delicacies, and also
some money, bad been forwarded to liitn as a present from Sher-
borne, in Dorsetshire, by Mr. K.'s van. On its arrival he found
that a hare, the cream, and a great quantity of apples, and the mo-
ney, had been taken out un the road, and the weight was charged
as for half a hundred weight, whereat, in fact, the plecel, in its di-
minished mate, weighed only twelve pounds.
Mr. King's clerk explained to the Magistrate that the theft must
have taken place at Salishury, where the coachman and guard were
changed, but that he bed been instructed by Mr. King to do what
was correct towards the complainant.
Sir Rtcrtaan ISt MN tr; stated that he knew Mr. King to be a
most respectable n.an, and had not the slightest doubt but that the
matter miglit be arranged amicably between the parties.
Mr. M'oolcott and the clerk immediately withdrew fee the pup.
pose of such arrangement.
11ATTON-GA RDEN.
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Some time back Mr. J. Ramsay. pawabroker, of Liouorpond.
street, was brought before Mr. Sergeant 81t.t.ott' co two in.
formations, wherein ha was charged with taking Caere than

the lawful interest Mr. Andrews attended as his Counpei.—
The first information was quashed. The second wai so stoutly
supported by the informer's witnesses, that a conviction was the
result, but it was only for the sum of 4th. being the lowest penalty
nllowed by law. fur. Ramsay appealed to the Quarter Sessions.
Mr. Andrews, however, was unfortunately compelled to attend the
Old Bailey on a we of felony when the appeal came to be heard,
and the brief fell into another gentleman'a hands, who, not having
SU lEcient time to read it over, made no defence, and the conviction
was confirmed.

The informant applied yesterday to Mr. Sergeant SELLON to
have the comiction enforced.
Mr. Williams, Solicitor to the Pawnbroker's Society, attended,
and observed, that for the protection of the trade, he should, in all
probability, more the question to the Court of King's Bench, but
he first begged to offer one or two objections. The first was, that
the information was laid under " an Act passed in the 39th and 40 h
years of the reign of his late Majesty George which he (3lr.
Williams) contended was informal, as it would not have been the
act of Iwo years : it was either passed in the 39th or 40th, whenever
it received the Royal Assent.
This objection was overruled.
The second was, that the information had not expressed, as the
law required, " that the offence was proved before a Justice of
Peace, presiding in the district."
Mr. Sergeant SELLON expressed some doubt as to the necessity
of this showing, provided the offence was sufficiently set forth on
the face of the informs-ion.

Mr. WILLIAMS, in support of the objection, cited the case of
C,okkett v. the turnpike man, heard at Bow-street, and a case of
Popley v. the bakers, at Alarylebone. In the former the opinion of
Mr. Bo!land had beer, taken, and in the latter that of the Recorder
of London, and both were conclusive as to the validity of the object-
Orr s and the Magistrate's jurisdiction in the enforcement of
ye laity.
Mr. Sergear t Si .LOX wished to see these opinions, and deferred
the eei atm till Tit alay.
QUEEN-SQUA RE.
THE CASE OT CUTTING AND STABBING A HUSBAND.—
Yesterday James Gillmore, the chief constable belonging to this
office, who had been directed to inquire into the state of Mr. Car-
ter, the man whose wife unhappily cut and stabbed hint on Wed-
nesday se'nnight, returned to the setting Magistrate (Mr. White)
with the following certification of Carter's condition, from the
house surgeon to the Westminster Infirmary:—" I cannot yet pro-
nounce James Carter free from danger.
Mr. IVIIITE, upon receiving the notification, thought it propel
to order the further detention of Mrs. Carter, now in Tothillfirlds
prison, till Thursday. next.
Mr. Carter, the injured man, wished his wife to be liberated now.
Carter stomach still ejects ; till that symptom is more abated, he
cannot be deemed free from an unfavourable turn.
MA RY LE BONE.
Yesterday the driver of the Rocket, Paddington stage-coach,
was summoned to this office before Mr. Griffiths, charged by Mr.
Robert Homer Gordon, of Portman-square, with furious driving
and cruelty to one of his horses.
Mr. Gordon stated, that on Tuesday morning last he was pro-
ceeding along the New-road, when he saw the defendant driving his
coach at a furious rate, so as to endanger the lives and limbs of pas.
sengers. One of the horses was galloping at the time, and his
mouth was bleeding profusely, in consequence of what is termed a
" port bit" being placed in its mouth. The defendant continued
driving furiously until he arrived at the Mitre, public.house,
where he pulled up with such violence, that the bleeding of the
horse increased, the pole of the carriage having struck the port
bit. Vileness remonstrated with the defendant, and said he was
determined to bring him to justice.
The defendant did not deny being the individual who drove the
coach ; but he positively denied that the horse was galloping. It
was a stubborn animal that was hard to drive, and the port bit was
necessary to be used. The bleeding, he said, was occasioned by
the pole of the carriage. He regretted being thus brought forward,
and contended, that even if he had drove furiously, he had not,
strictly speaking, offended the Act of Parliament, which states,
that the lives and limbs of passengers should be endangered by it.
The fact was, he had not a single passenger on his coach.
Mr. Gordon denied this, for he saw an individual on the coach,
with whom he (the defendant) made very free.
Defendant said that was very true ; but he was only one of the
rad; he did not consider hint a passenger because he was not a
booked one.

Mr. GRIFFITHS said that he was determ;ned to do all In his
power to put u stop to the furious driving that daily took place in
the above neighbourhood, and which was highly dangerous to the
public. He would not convict, as Mr. Gordon did not press the
matter, but he hoped the defendant would take warning. lie dis-
missed the case.

A boy named Spitler was charged on suspicion with the follow.
ins danng robbery :
In the forenoon of Saturday, the sth inst., some of the servants
of Sir Henry Russell, of 62, Wimpole-street, Cavendish square,
placed some silver table and tea spoons upon a table in the house-
keeper's room, which very shortly after were missed ; it appearing
that the area gate was open at the time, the prisoner, who was in
the service of Mr. Bentham, oilman, of Great Marylebone•street,
was observed at that time delivering a bottle of fish-sauce, and, as
he absented himself from that hour from Mr. Bentham's service,
suspicion fell upon him, and he was apprehended by Buckridge on
Wednesday last, but no account of the spoons could be obtained.
The boy declared he knew nothing about the robbery, and was
remanded.
The crest upon the spoons is a meridian sun.
UNION-HALL.

Yesterday a poor fellow, a native of the island of Sumatra, in
the East Indies, appeared before the sitting Magistrate (R. J.
CHAMBEBS, to solicit bis advice as to the means of recover_
ing a sum of money from the proprietor of a travelling caravan, for
exhibiting him as a " Wild Indian." When he was engaged, the
showman stipulated that he should allow his nose and ears to be
pierced, for the purpose of introducing large brass rings into them;
his mustachios and beard were also aufferel to grow to an amazing
length, in order the better to pass off for an Indian warrior just
arrived from the back settlements of America, He was to have
20s. a•week, and support himself in victuals. For the first four
mouths he was paid pretty regularly, but afterwards he received his
wages by dribs and drabs, until at length they were stopped altogether,
and at the conclusion of thelast Bartholomew fair he was sent adrift al.
together without being paid his arrears, amounting to between two
and three pounds. He said he had been basely treated by Mr.
Moon, for that person had made plenty of money by showing him
up, and at the last Bartholomew fair between twelve and fifteen
hundred people paid their sixpences.each to see him.
Mr. CHA3IBERS asked him whether he appeared at the fair in
the dress that he now wore"

"No Sir," said he, "in a very different one. I was then
strapped up in a buffalo skin, and marched up and down in the ca-
ravan with a large club in my hands, with which Mr. Moon told
his customers I had vanquished and killed more than a hundred of
my enemies. A tomahawk was also put into my hands, and with
this instrument the showman declared to all that I had scalped
hundreds of my own countrymen, with whom, he said, I had been
at war a few months previous to the time I was then imposing upon
the public.
The Magistrate directed him to the Court of Requests, where
he could take out a summons against the person who was in
his debt.

The applicant having no money to pay the deposit of nine
shillings, which it was necessary to lodge in Court. Mr. Cham-
bers humanely advanced the sum ; and the poor fellow left the
office, grateful for the assistance rendered him.

HORSE-BREA RI o.—The practice of breaking in young
horses in the crowded streets of the metropolis cannot be too fre-
quently or too strongly reprobated, and it is, indeed, somewhat
extraordinary that the Police Authorities do not adopt some deci-
sive means for the suppression of an evil that hourly threatens de.
structlon to human life. An instance of this occurred on Wednes-
day evening, which is likely to terminate fatally, to the unfortunate
charioteer himself. Mr. Siniond, livery-atable-keeper, of Lana-
down-mews, was driving a young colt, harnessed with a trained
horse, as is the usual practice, in a light chaise-break; turning
the corner of Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, the colt shyed at
some passing object, and, becoming restiff, Mr. Simond endea-
voured to pull round, but the animal (disdaining the curb) dashed
off, and ran against the railings of Mr. Bray's house, the iron-
monger, at the corner of Compton-street, which were driven into
the area, together with the railings of the adjoining house;—the
horses both fell—the break was shattered to pieces—and Simond
thrown against the pavement, and nearly into the area, with
dreadful violence. lie was taken up to all appearance dead ; but
being removed to the Hunter's Arms he was attended by Mr. Holt,
a surgeon, who bled him, and lie showed some faint symptoms of
reanimation ; but, as he has received some very severe internal
contusions, only feeble hopes are entertained of his recovery.
Four hundred male convicts are now embarking on board
the Dromedary, for conveyance to Bermuda, to be em-
ployed on the public works ; 150 male convicts are also
embarking on board the Woodman, for transportation to
Van 'Diemen 's Land. One hundred female convicts and
their children, and also the wives and children of trans-
ported convicts, are being embarked on board the Provi-
dence, for conveyance to Van Diemen 's Land ; and one
hundred and fifty male convicts are also being embarked on
board the Sesostris, for transportation to New South
Wales.

HERRING FISHERT.—An interesting and novel sight
occurred at Folk.itone on Saturday last; the fishing boats
belonging to that town brought on shore six hundred
thousand herrings, caught within one mile from the shore,
a circumstance never before remembered to have taken
place in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. What makes
it more remarkable is, they were caught i❑ the day time,
and so speedily, that many of the boats were not an hour
out before they were completely filled, and this occurred to
many of them twice and three times on the same day.
HAZARD and Co. sold and shared four Prizes of 23,000/.
and 20,000!. in the last two months. Tuesday, Dec. 6, four Prizes
of 30,000!. with other Capitals, must all be drawn. By Act of
Parliament all Lotteries in this country will speedily cease. He-
rod and Co. sold in the last year's Lotteries only, five Prises of
311,000/. and 20,000/.. and in a recent Lottery all the 30,0001. Prises.
Royal Exchange Elate • 96, Cornhill; and 324, Oxford-street (end
of Regent.street), and by their agents in all the principal country
town'.