The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-07-16 00:00:00

POLICE.

STOCK EXCHANGE.
MANSION-HOUSE —Yeit-rday the gentleman against whom
the charge was brought the day before of having sold a letter al.
hitting shares fora leg in the Alley, appeared at the Justice-room.
accompanied by Mr. &cram, his solicitor, for the purpose of yin-
' dicating his character from the reproach cast upon it by the account
given of the occurrence in some of the daily papers. Ills accuser
attended at his desire to establish or retract the accusation.
Mr. Gregson, who held in his hand the newspaper of yesterday,
stated that his client was shocked at reading the report of a coin.
plaint made before his char:trig him with haying been,
accessary to a robbery. 7ba, transaction alluded to had been as
unexceptionable as any that had ever taken place. The boy for
whom the letter had been sold was in the habit of going to the
Alley 'upon similar business, and his client had disposed of it at
the market price, as could be proved by a reference to the list of
the day ; so that in no respect had there been a violation of the
' established usage, to say nothing of the integrity of the dealing.
The Lotto MAYOR said, the statement that had been made
the day before certainly reflected very much upon the character of
the person accused, as It charged him with dealing with a mere
child, without making any.inquiry as to d‘c owner of the letter.
The accuser's ;Solicitor said, the boy was a mere child ; and
his client considered it most extraordinary that a titan of business
should have a pecuniary transaction with a niece child. It was
impossible in eubh a case not to entertain a suspicion of the honesty
of the dealing.
The accuser himself—What was I to conjecture when I found
that the boy, upon taking the letter to the Alley, got an immediate
sale for it, and without being asked one wind about its owner?
The Loan MAYOR-11 hether it he a practice or not, it I. a
most extraordinary Way of Ong business, and I trust and believe
the exposure that has taken' place will prove exttemely beneficial to
the public. It is extraordinary that such a sum of money should
be given to a mere boy, without saying one word about the owner
of the letter.

The defendant's Solicitor said, it was a very harsh and unjust
way of dealing. to attempt to make his client responsible for the
consequences of a system which had never been established by him,
and which had been acted upon invariably by all persons who did
business in the Alley.
The Loan M•Yoit—Het is not chargeable with it certainly,
and I see no ground fik imputing any dishonourable motives to
hint,: although I certainly consider the transaction a discreditable
one. I think the sooner the practice of negotiating letters is at an
end the better.
The accuser said he charged the gentleman with having sold this
letter to a boy, without knowing or inquiring any thing about the:
manner in which possessinn was obtained of it.
Mr. Nobler.—Your Lordship had yesterday doubts whether
this wax a felony upon the part of the boy. Perhaps a counsel's
opinion ought to be taken upon it. If it prove to be a felony, the
law may tepee' a person who negotiates under such circumstances
as an aceeasary. This would be a decisive way of putting an end
to a practice which is certainly condemnable, although considered,
perhaps. as a fair way of dealing by those who did business in the
neighbourhood of the Stock Exchange.
The boy who stole the letter was then called. Hs stated that be

never had any transaction before with the &tensed, but be had with
other jobbers in the Alley.
'A Gentleman here said, that the bny had often applied to him to
sell letters, and lie had done so without hesitation. Many other
boys were in the habit of selling in the Alley, and there was never
any question asked, as it never entered the imagination of those wno
procured the sale that they werc selling stolen let era.
Alter some further observations from the accused in vindication
of his conduct, he called upon the complainant to retract the impu-
tation. _ _ _

Tile complainant said he did not charge the acensed with fraud,
but he must still persist in stating, that in dealing with a child, his
conduct was certainly improper.
The accused—The dealing was precisely such as is daily and
hourly occuring in the Alley. The boy has been in the habit of
selling letters in the Alley, and there are several Gentleman in this
room who have sold for him. As I knew that to be the case, and
never heard any one donbt his integrity, I considered that he was
acting fairly, and 1 sold the letter at his request. I gave him 151.
in a check. The letter was an allotment of Five Shares in the
Castello Mining Company. and the premium on them on the Bth
of June, the day on which I sold them, produced that sum. After
having dealt so with him, your Lordship may well conceive what I
telt at perceiving that I was accused of being accessary to a robbery.
Time defendant did not consider this sufficient. lie repeated that
he had given the full value for the letter ; that he had, in dealing
' with the boy, done no more than all those who transacted business
in the alley were in the habit of doing, and that it was most unfair
and uncharitable to charge him with the evils of a system over
j which he had no controul.

The LORD IIIASOR Bald that the explanation that had been was
in his opinion quite sufficient, and nobody who had heard what
had passed could for a moment suspect that there was any thing
fraudulent in the conduct of the defendant, although there was a
manifest impropriety in hir dealing with yu young a person without
knowing that he was authorised.

DA RING ROBBERY.
QtIEIN-SCll7AllE.—l'estereay a young female, named AIM
Smith, underwent a P2contl examioation before D. W. GREGORIE,
Esq. the sitting Magistrate, on the charge of robbing Mr. Bernard
Ward of 48 sovereigns, 15 napoleons, 2 doubloons, 5 silver pieces
of b francs each, and Is. in silver.

It appeared, front the evidence of the prosecutor, that on the
morning of Tuesday week he went to see the tire in Tothill.atreet,
.Westimnater, and he there met the female at the bar, in company
with another woman. Ile entered into conversation with the pri-
soon, rand he finally escorted her home to her residence, in Duck-
lane. He gave the prisoner's companion some silver to procure the
necessary articles for breakfast, and whilst she was absent he threw
himself on the bed, and being tired, and somewhat elevated, he
went to sleep, having previously laid his gold watch and breast.piu
lon the table. The prisoner at this time was in the room, but on his
opening his eyes after the repose, he found himself alone in the
apartment, and on examining his pockets, he discovered that the
I whole of his property above enumerated was gone, and the prisoner
I and her msoclate no where to be found. His watch and breast-pin
were lying on the table.
Mr. Go eoonte wished the prosecutor to inform him how he
came to Lave such a large sum of foreign money about him, and
act so imprudently in having any communisation with women of
the prisoner's description.
Mr. Ward said, that in April last, while in Paris, he received
from the banking-house of Latitte 1340 francs, all in silver. He
remained in France for two months after, and on leaving he ex-
changed the francs for napoleons and doubloons ; but on his reach.
:ng Dieppe he again exchanged a portion of these at Taylor's
Hotel, and received 24 English sovereigns. He afterwards landed
at Neahagen, and subsequently arrived in London. On Monday
week, the day before the robbery, be received from a banking.
house, in Pall-mall East, 28 more sovereigns. Ile admitted having
drank freely that day, hut was capable of walking; and between
o'
six
and seven :dock the following morning (Tuesday) he went to
I the Ore, and met the prisoner and her companion.
The prisoner, on being called on for her defence, de:dal having
robbed the prosecutor, but admitted accompanying him home with
another woman front the fire, and he gave her (the prisoner) the
money to procure the breakfast, saying that he should not get up
till twelve o'clock in the day.
Mr. Ward declared himself fully satisfied she was the woman
that was left in the room with him, and not the one he gave the
money to procure breakfast.
Woodbury, the officer, said. from information he received he
I apprehended the prisoner on Monday last, but could trace-none
of the property. From what he ha 4 been able to learn, he sus-
pected that the woman who was with the prisoner had left Wrest.
minster since the robbery, and bad gone to Windsor.
The Magistrate, on hearing this, remanded the prisoner for fur-
ther examination. and granted a warrant against the other woman,
and Woodbury was despatched to Windsor in pursuit of her.
During the investigation the prosecutor suddenly acreamed out,
and fell into an hysterical fit, from which he did not recover for
some time.
SCION OF NOBILITY.

Moor, HAL L.—A decent looking lad, who on his apprehen. ,
sion, by Gill, gave as his mane army Wharton, was placed at
the bar on a charge of felony, in appropriating to his own use
sundry habilimanfk, and other property of his master, a Mr.
Logan, translator, compiler, or composer of music (u we under-
stood) to the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden.
Gill stated to the Magistrate that the prisoner's employer was a
,ruler of the King's Renal WIWI; and therefore unable to attend
' during the vacatton either at this Office or the County Assize with.
out a !Wear, and that having subsequently to the apprehension of
the prisoner received back his property, he was unwilling to prose-
cute. (Gill added, that the prisoner now stated himself to be the son
of the celebrated Lord Barrymore, unlawfully begotten of the not
less celebrated Mary Ann Pearce, the soi-disout Lady Borrymore.)
Vnd:r these circumstances Mr. ALr.Ew ordered the discharge of
the prisoner, cautioning him as to his past, and advising him upon
i his future conduct.

MAD DOGS.
The Borough street-keeper stated, that two instances of canine
madness having very recently come under. his observation, he
thought it his duty to make a report of the circumstances to the
t,ing 3lagistrate.
On Wednesday, one of these dangerous animals ran up the new
Dover road, crossed thehigh-street, and pursued its way through
the Mint, where it was fortunately killed by a butcher.
The other instance occurred yesterday, between six and seven
o'clock in the evening; a dog, in the worst stage of rabidity, crossing
London Bridge, ran along Blackman-street, etc. biting live or six of
its species, and followed by a number of persons who happily. succeeded
in keeping himnff the flagsl/4 as he approached St. Georges Church,
several bricklayers' labourers, who stand there for hire, seeing him
coming, ranged themselves across the mad, armed with their
spades, and on his irriYal, despatched him without difficulty.
Mr:Art:EN observing that it was a lamentable circumstance
I that so many dogs should be at large in the streets, directed that
the facts stateel should be forthwith communicated to the Commit.
stoners of the Borough pavements.
FOROFRit" _ _

Henry Peek stood charged witl;;ll;offence of forgery, in sign..
inc and endorsing a check upon the Borough bank, of Messrs.
1% eston,,. Young, and Rostock, with intent to defraud Thomas
Crafter, proprietor of the Bricklayers' Arms, Kent-mad.
Previously to taking the depositions of the several witnesses, ap.
plication had been made to the sitting Magistrate (1.. B. Allen,
Esq.) for permitsion to withdraw the charge of the capital offence,
substituting one of embezzlement, and of which the prisoner had
furnished sufficient evidence, by his conduct whiles in the employ
of his late mt ster, Mr. Pindscni, of Kennington common.
111 r. ALLEN replied, that he felt himself called upon, however
reluctantly, to proceed with the case before him.
The following depositions were then taken :
Thomas Crafter, of the Bricklayers' Arms, in the Kent-road,
publican, being in his coffee-room between the hours of nine and
ten on Tuesday evening, was sent for by his wife, who was serving
in the bar ; going to I.er, she put a check into his hand, observing
that prisoner, who was standing by, said he was sent by Mrs.
Newsome, of No. 5, in the Paragon, for a quart of brandy and
change for the check; it purported to be drawn by Thomas Clots
on the Borough Bank, for IW. 4s. Gil., in favour of a Mr. Core,
and was dated July 5, 1825. Witness asked prisoner if he lived is
the service of Mrs. Newsome, to which he replied in the affirmative.
Witness then told him to ask that lady to write her name on the
back of the check, adding, that on,his return with that endorse-
ment lie would give him the difference in cash.
Ann;hella Crafter, the wife of the preceding witness, was in the
bar on the enstdisg. is question i prisoner asked her if she would
oblige Mrs. Newsome with change for the check, adding that he
was to take back a quart of brandy, which wits to be deducted from
the amount ; she sent for her husband, who was in the coffee-room,
and on his coming to the bar, heard the conversation sworn to pass
between her and the prisoner ; having been absent about ten mi-
nutes, prisoner returned with the check, on the back of which
" Mrs. Newsum," 5, Paragon," was written, and gave it to
witness, who paid hint ill. 17s. 6.1. in sovereigns and silver ; he
took with hint also a Met and a half of brandy and half a pint of
rum, instead of the quart of brandy which he said his mistress had
first ordered. Witness saw hint go away, and shortly afterwards
brought bark by Treby the constable; witness gave the check to
her husband.
William Trcby is a constable, and was at the prosecutor's house on
the night in question, when prisoner first canto in. In consequence
of what was said to hint, lie went out and on his return received the
change, with which he went away. Witness, at the request of Mr.
Crafter, followed hint until he had passed Sirs. Newsome's house,
and then took him into custody, and returned with him to the
Bricklayers Arms. Prisoner said he had received the check front
a young man who lived servant with Mr. Newsome, to get changed.
On searching the prisoner, witness found on him W. 17s. fid. in
gold and silver, and three checks upon the Borough bank, of the
dates of the 7th and 14th June, and 4th of July—the two former
signed Thomas Close, and the later Thomas Smith.
Mary Ann Newsome resides at No. 5, in the Paragon, NewKent-
road. The endorsement on the hack of the check is not in her
hand-writing. She had never to her knowledge seen the prisoner
before.

The several witnesses were then bound over to prosecute, and
'give evidence at the next Surrey Assn, on the understanding
that Mr. Close, who is an auctioneer at Newington, and was this
day engaged at an extensive sale at Croydon, should be also bound
over. For this arrangement Sirs. Newsome, (through her son,)
contended very strenuously, as she•felt extremely reluctant to be the
principal witness in a case of forgery.
Prisoner is 3 fine looking lad, between 15 and 16 years of age,

Orders have been issued to the Police over the whole
kingdom to prevent all rty processions. The opinion of,
the Attorney and So' -General has been had by the
Government that a sions are illegal. Orders have'
also been receiv ' the Commanding Officers of the
Yeomanry, to pr Any of the individuals of their corps
joining in such no.—Didlin Evening. Poll.