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London, England, 1825-04-04 00:00:00

POLICE.

MA NSION. HOUSE.
Coat Laws—Saturday Messrs. Favell and Hurcornbe. two
Members of the Court of Common Council, waited upon the Lind
Mayor with a requisition signed by several rnpretable gentlemen,
requesting his Lordship would convene a meeting of the Common
Council, to petition Parliament for a repeal of the Corn Laws.
His Lordship informed them, that he had engaged to preside at
a feetiog of the merchants and bankers of the city of Loudon, on
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ednesday, the 13th instant, to petition Parliament on the same
subject ; and, after some conversation, appointed a Court to be held
on Friday next, at one o'clock.
Ai R. PALMER.—The Lord Mayor received a letter sow Mr.
Brehm. inclosing a sum of la for the use of the above gentle-
man ; who shortly after entered the Justice-room and received the
money, for which he expressed his gratitude, and said be would
call on Mr. Witham and thank him for his liberal donation.
finery I've!, was charged with stealing twelve pieces' of Irish
linen. He was stopped in Fenchurch-sweet by an officer, who
suspected the parcel he carried was stolen ; and which, on inquiry,
he found had been taken from a waggon in the yard of the Ips-

wick Arms, Coleman-street.
A clerk to Messrs. Todd and Co. proved that he booked the
parcel is question to be sent to Sudbury, and that the contents were
the property of his employers, and worth about 161.
The prisoner said a man gave him a shilling to carry the parcel
to Whitechspel.—Rernanded.
HATTON-GARDEN.
Saturday an ancient Sybil, with venerably flowing leeks, not un-
like those of Hamlet's father, " • sable silvevet," was brought be-
fore the Magistrate of this office, on a charge of dealing in the occult
license of fortune-telling." From among the host of complain-
ants that appeared to give evidence against this beldame. which
was generally composed of young maidens, and widows that would
be wives again, one was selected to describe the grievance. and a
prettier little simpleton spoke-woman could not have been found,
even in the happiest days of Arcadian innocence. She gave her
name Janet Perry, and described herself as laundry-maid to Squire
Cosgrove, of Myrtle Park, near Islington. The prisoner stated
that her name was Set sh For, and that she was as innocent as the
unborn babe. " That," responded the constable, " remains to be
proved." The fair complainant, who seemed to suffer nearly as
much as if she had herself been on trial, went on to say, that the
prisoner at the bar had lately come to reside at a farmer's house
within less than a mile of her (complainant's) master's house, and
commenced fortune-telling, and getting husbands for young women
who wanted such a thing. For her part she never thought nothing
of no such nonsense. only she went just to have her fortune told like
others; and when she went, Mrs. Fox told her she would be one day
married to her master's son t at first she didn't beliese it not one bit,
but afterwards somehow thryoung master used to take more notice
of her than afore, and—the narrater blushed, and a hiatus of some
length occurred in the story, which was filled up by an interjection
of the constable to this effect:—" Arid this here young woman,
your worship, has good reason to remember that notice." The
allusion was palpable enough, and the little laundress's cheek re-
ceived an additional tinge of carmine. When her confusion had
sufficiently suosided, she resumed her complaint. In consequence
of the promi.es of aggrandisement running in her too credulous ear
by the pleasing fort une-teller,she was induced to listen the moreesaily
to improper solicitations ; she was seduced from virtue and plunged
into vice, and the evidence of her shame becoming too great for
concealment, she was obliged to throw up her place, and the young
gentleman,instead of marrying her, as Airs. Fox predicted, refer-
red her to the parish officers, to whom, he said, he would allow a
suitable maintenance for the child, when it should be born. This, she
confessed, made bee angry, and in revenge on the perfidy of old
mother Fox, who was the chief cause of her misfortune, she told
the whole story to her late mistress, wbo made it known to the
parish officers, by whom the prisoner was taken into custody. For
the last twelve months complainant had been giving various sums
of money to the prisoner, in all amounting to nearly forty shillings.
The Alagistrate said he would allow her one month to make ob-
servations in that celebrated observatory, the House of Correction.
Sumac! Moi lay, a gentleman known to the police, having before
figured under the Police act, was charged with having picked the
pocket of Mr. William Brown Roberts, a warehouseman, residing
at 134, Cheapside.
The prosecutor was passing along Chsncery-lane, and felt a tug
at his pocket ; he turned round and found his silver snuffbox in the
prisoner's hand; the prisoner immediately delivered it up, and
being accused of stealing it. he said that be did not steal it, but
another person took it and put it into his hand, aml as he wished to
behave honourably, he returned it.
The Magistrate was not satisfied with the prim:ma's honotrable
conduct, and finding that he had before been to.nmitted as a " re-
puted thief," he now sent him to Newgate to take his trial.

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• LA M BETH -STREET.
THE JEALOUS WITE.—On Saturday Mrs. Good, • well-look-
ing comely dame (or, in other words,frt, fair, cad forty), the
worthy hostess of the Black Boy, on the tlile-end.road. was
brought before their Worships. Sir Daniel Williams and M.Viryatt,
Esq., for an assault. She was accused of having committed a most
outrageous attack on the person of Sarah Booth, a servant-maid
in the family of Mr. Burton, a gentleman residing in the neigh-
bourhood. The complainant, a diminutive female, possessing no
peapanal recommendations whatever, in comparison to those of mine
Ildittess, the aggressor, stepped forward, attended by her master,
Mr. Burton. She stated, in support of the charge, that on the
evening before she was walking out with her master's children,
when she was met and attacked in the moat furious manner by
Mrs. Good, who she was confident would have done her some
grievous bodily harm, had it not been for the kind interference of
sonic persons passing by. who saw the manner in which she was
oersted. Here Sarah made a halt, and seemed to think she had
said sufficient, and so she had to prove the assault ; but the ,Magic.
trate* seemed rather curious iu the matter, and said it was very
unusual tor persons to commit such breaches of the law without
some previous provocation had been given them ; they therefore
should very much wish to know if any such provocation had been
given to Mrs Good. Mr. Burton, Sarah's master, stepped far-
word, and relieved their Worships from their anxiety ' • the fact,
he said, as he understood the matter, was that Mrs. G.nos, un-
fortunately, of a very jealous disposition, which, no doubt, had led
to the present complaint, as his servant was one of the many other
females whom Mrs. G. imagined to be her rivals in the affections
of het liege lord. His servant, he said, was in the habit of going
for beer for the family's use to the Black Boy, and Mr. Good, Mrs.
Good's husband, who is notorious in the neighbourhood for his
good humour anal jocularity, would on these oceasimis take harm-
less liberties with-her, as well as with all the other servant girls,
who dealt with him for porter. It would, therefore, seem that
these harmless jokes had seriously snroyed Mrs. G.'s peace of mind,
who did not scruple to accuse Sarah witt permitting improprieties
from Mr. Good. Indeed, her accusations did not only fall on
Sarah's purity, but that of all the maid, in the neighbourhood.
Mr. Burton further said, that, for'his own part, he ritrily believed
the apprehensions of Mrs. G. to be totally unfounded, at least as ne.
spected his servant.
Mrs. Good, who seemed to struggle very much with her feelings
during the above disclosure, said that she untimtunately, in the
moment of rage, committed the assault compla,:ted of ; but she
was the injured party; in illustration of which she said that she had,
most unluckily for her, about ten years ago, taken Mr. flood for
her second husband, and during the greater part of that period her
life, though in the midst of affluence. had been rendered most mi.
seeable by Mr. G.'s behaviour towards her. She had long sus-
pected an illicit Intimacy between her husband and the complainant,
and, but a few evenings before, her auspicions on the sub act were
placed beyond all doubt, for she actually beheld ter husband and
Sarah Booth in the back premises, in such a situation as to leave no
doubt on her mind of 31r. G.'s inconstancy and the worthless
Sarah's guilt. " This your Worship," said Mrs. G., " being
more than flesh or blond could bear, and as revenge is sweet, I
vowed at the time that I would repay her for her tricks." Mrs. G.
went on to state, that when she met her she certainly did inflict a
trifling personal chastisement but she hoped some allowance would
be made for her outraged feelings.
Mr. WYATT expressed his astonishment that a female possess.
ing so many personal charms as 3lra. Good did over her accused
and supposed rival, should for once suspect her husband of such
want of discernment; there certainly was no comparison between
their respective attractions.
Mrs. Good—Ah, Sir, my charms have been the means of deceiv-
ing me these many years. My husband appreciate them no more
than a strew.
In answer to some questions from the 'Magistrate. the complain-
ant did not deny that Mrs Good had ought her and Mn. Good to-
gether, but not as described by her—they were only talking to.
gether at the time.
Mr. Burton here said, that he understood that Mr. Good,
from knowing the disposition of his better half, used to affect
attentions towards his female customers, to annoy her jealous
feelings.
Sir D. KILLIAN/1 said, that such conduct on the part of •
husband was both unhandsome and unmanly ; but whether the
suspicion of Mrs. G. se to his conduct with the complainant was
well or ill founded, it was not a justification tor committing the
assault, fur which he shoull hold her to tail to answer at tau
Sessions.
The necessary bail was given, and Mrs. G., with her friends, left
the office.