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ROBBERY AT THE AUCTION MART.
The following circumstances which comprehend what occurred
before'the Prefect of Police at Paris, on the subject of the robbery
of Mi. Robertson at the Auction Mart, will fill, explain the na.'
ture of the transactions which took place after the four 10001..A.es
d isappeared.
MT. Robertson, come time after the robbery, learned that one of
hits notes waft stopped set the Bank, where it had been presented by
a respectable Irish gentleman. who without hesitation stated that
he bad received it of 3loasieur Cheesier at the Palate Royale, a
money changer. This note was numbered 303. Mr. Robertson
immediately set off for Paris, and employed an interpreter to attend
him to the Prefect of Police. He had :Am with him several let.
tyre, from lord Grenville and other men of rank, to some of the
members of the French Government, requesting their interference
to facilitate the detection of the robbery. The interpreter, who wail
not acquainted with the name of the party to whom the note had
been traced, upon making inquiry about the Palais Royal, learned
that • money changer named Emerique had a note for 10001.
which had been stolen in London. It afterwards proved that, very
much to Mr. Robertson's surprise, two of his notes, Nos. 302 and
3(13, were thus likely to be obtained, and the Prefect of the Police
immediately undertook to Investigate the case.
Emerique, money-changer, No. 20, Palais Royal, made a de-
claration, of which the following lathe substance:—That about the
middle of May last two Englishmen, accompanied by • young
man (also English), who acted as interpreter, came to his shop
and offered a thousand pound Bank note for sale. That after
haggling some time about the price, they went away, saying they
might return in a few days. That a few days afterwards they
did return, during the absence of Emerique, and offered the note
to his wile, who, after some demur, purchased it for 11,1100 francs.
On Emeriques return home his wife mentioned whet she had
done; and he, on looking at the number of the note, discovered it
to be one of those mentioned in the printed bills. Emerique was
much embarrassed by this circumstance, and immediately applied
to ale. Rothschild for his advice. [Mr. Rothschild appears to
have declined all interference in the business, intimating, that he
had been requested to circulate the notices of the robbery, but that
he was not bound to take any steps in pursuing the thievesl A
day or two after this Emerique's wife observed one of the men
who sold the rote passing the shop. Emerique immediately
ran out, and asked him if he had not sold him a note for 1,0001.,
saying, at the sanie time, that the note was stolen, and the
money must therefore be returned. The man at first denied all
knowledge of the affair, but on Emerique's insisting, said, "Do
you take me for a rsibliev?" and asserted that the note was a
good one, and that be had received it from his hanker in Eng-I
land; adding, at the same time, that he was willing to take back
the note sad return Emerique the money. Emerique was not able
to produce the note imrnediateiy, having deposited it with his I
bankers, and it being too late to procure it from them that day.
It. order, however, not to lose sight of the Englishman, lie ac-
companied hint to his hotel (I'hotel de Valois, rile de Richelieu.)
On arriving at the hotel the Englishman, without any preface, ,
placed ?AM francs in the hands of the mistress of the hotel,
desiring her to pry them over to Emerique on his delivering to
her a Bank note for 1,0001. The Englishman left Paris that
night. The following day the money was paid over to Emerique,
on his giving up the note.
The declaration of 31. Emerique then contains the names of
the Englishmen concerned in this transaction, which ate the I
same as those mentioned in the following memorandum, given by
the Commitetaire de Police to Mr. Robertson.
Memorandum given to Mr. Robertson.—" The person who gave!
the note to Mr. Emerique, fire money-changer, towards the middle
of last May, is Mr. Vyse, calling himself the brother-in-law of i
Mr. John Palin, both established in London, and keeping there a
straw-hat shop. The person who returned to Mr. Emerique,
through the hands of the mistress of the Hotel de Valois, the value
of the note, is Mr. John Patin. Mr. John Palin set out the same
day from this hotel for England. Vyse, jun. who was boarding at
the end of the Faubourg St. Martin, was with them. Emerique
told the Commissaire de Police, though it is not stated lathe de-
claration, that the number of the note received by him was 301"
Monsieur Chauvier'e dealing was, as far as we could learn, with
a person not known to hint, who applied to him merely arta money-
changer, and received the value of the note No. 903. It is certain,
however. that he had previously received notice from Mr. Roths-
child that it was a stolen note. Ms. Robertson, upon indemnifying.
the Bank, will receive the amount. The Irish gentleman who re-
ceived it from Chauvier has an undeniable claim upon the money-
changer, who must look after the person whom he aceoturnodated
with change for the stolen note.
There was a reference made by Mr. Harmer, on Saturday, to the
evidence of Enserique and his wife, and Madame Marcel; lie wished
to know why those persons were not produced, to which Mr. nob-
ler, the Solicitor for the prosecution, replied, that he was of opinion
—and he was borne out in the opinion by able professional men—
that the presence of the French witnesses was not necessary at the'
Mansion House, though it probably would be before the Grand
Jury.
Application was made to the Secretary of State to request that
the krench Authorities mould interfere, in order to insure the ap-
pearance of Monsieur and Madame Emerique, and Madame Mar-
cel, to give evidence at the Old Bailey.
The eigeretary has, we understand, written to the French Go-
vernment upon the subject, and expects an answer daily.

'hatters had combined. and subscribed tp keep oat of the way the
material witness in a deeply-lei 4
'Mem of robbery upon a coun-
try
manufacturer,. The oewspaper reports, however, had led to the
discovery of his retreat at Gravesend, nod • hishad been brought up'
' by warrant this day.
Mr. Butterworth expressed himself strongly in favour of police
repotting, and hoperbbis &nicer to the charge against the pa.
rish officers would be'allow.ed to go to the public ; and here the
matter rested.

Bow.sTaaae, Avo. 29.—Goodwks, the driver of the hackney.
coach No. 1162, appeared at this Mae to answer a summons,
charging him whit having taken more than his fare on the 23th
instant.
This charge was preferred by a young Erneraider, just imported,
in the following manner:—
" Please your Worship, I wish to inform you that the lady with
whom 1 reside, on the' 3th of the month made up bee mind that
we should go to Peckham Fair, for which purpose a coach was
obtained to convey us, but previous to our starting an agreement
was made with the coachman."
Mr. 111 iNsituti.—Sir, I never allow agreements to be made
by coachmen ; they have no right to make them. A coachman is
entitled to his fare arid nothing else.
The complainant—But, your Worship, he did make an agree-
ment, which was that he would take us to the fair and back for
10s. Gd., and we were to give him 3s. for himself.
MiNsit ro.i.—Prav, Sir, where did he take you from ?
Complainant—From king.street, Soho-square; we went away
at tour o'clock, and arrived at home again about half-past twelve.'
During the time we were at Peckham I gave the coachman 2s. Gd.
for himself. When we came to pay the man I put a sovereign into
his hand, desiring him to give me the change after having paid
himself according to the agreement.
Mr. MixstruLL—Agreement, Sir, I tell you I never allow an
agreement to be made by a coachman.
Complainant—Well, Sir, but one was made ; however, having
given hint the sovereign he put it into his pocket, saying we
might summons him for the rest. This, Sir, is the charge I have
to make against the defendant, which is the breach of our agree-
went. _ _

Mr. Alms;tuoo—l have told you twice. Sir, that I do not at.
low an agreement to be made, and that must consequently be en-
-1 tirely put out of the question--the man is entitled to his fare.—
' Pray, what is it coachman ?
Coachman—lt is 3s. more, your Worship, than I have received.
It was calculated that the time was about eight hours, fur winch
1 a charge of 21s. was to be made.
Mr. MINSH I; LL, to the complainant—Yea must, Sir, pay the
coachman Is. more, and the expenses.
The complainant said he had paid for the summons already; he
I thought it very hard that the man was not to be made to stand to
his agreement.
Mr. Al ixsattoo—llow often as I to tell you, Sir, that there
can be no such thing as an agreement made by. a coachman ?
The complainant' then left the office, observing, that it was very
, hard he should be compelled to pay so dearly for a little experience
of the ways of London.
lIAT TON-GARDE X, AUGUST 29.—This day Anne Clarke,
a decent looking woman, who was brought up in the custody of
Read, jun., charged by Joseph Thwaitce, Esq. with the following
robbery ! .
I It will be recollected that a short time ago, the prisoner's husband
was brought before the Magistrates at the instance of the Mendi.
city Society, charged with obtaining, under false pretences, five
. pounds from the Duke of Northumberland. His wife was at the
i time, in care of Mr. Thwaites's house, in Euston-square. The
i publication in the newspapers, of the conduct of the parties, excited
suspicion in thCfaMily as to the integrity of the prisoner. An ex-
amination was accordingly made, and a quantity of plate, house
linen, &c., was missed. Through the exertions of Read, the
officer, the bulk of the property was traced to have been pawned, at
Messrs. Barth and Fitcherd, New Road.
Mr. Barth attended, and stated that the prisoner had been in the
habit of pawning and redeeming there, different articles during the
last twelve months, and of course he had no reasonable grounds of
suspicion.
Mr. Thwaites identified the property.
As the prisoner absconded immediately on the cspoie being made
of the begging letter system, she was committed for the felony,
and not for illegally pawning.
•
MAR LROROUGH-STII EET. AUG. 29.—A young man, of re.
'tamable appearance, who gave his name as Joseph Thompson,
but afterwards acknowledged that that was only his travelling name,
and that his real name was Josrph Lonion, was brought from St.
lAnn's watchhouse, charged witheing drunk and disorderly in the
street the night before.
The Mag:strate having asked him to give some account of him-'
self, he said that at present he lodges at No. 20, Newman-street,
. Oxford-street, where he has been about a week ; he is a native of
Manchester, but has not been there for a long time; he seldom
stops above a week in any one place, having given himself a sort of
roving commission ; is of no trade, profession, or calling, but is a
gentleman at large, living upon his property, which he thinks Is
nothing to anybody else; has come last direct from Calais.
And proy, Sir, said Mr. CONANT, what might be your business
at Calais?
Defendant-3ly business--a strange question ; why, the same,
to be sure, as every other gentleman, my own amusement.
Oh ! I thought you might have gone on some business, said the
Magistrate.
Defendant—And so I did ; partly go on business and partly on
pleasure.
What was the business-part of your journey, asked the Ma-
gistrate ?
Defendant—That's best known to myself; I don't choose to tell
you my businss.
Mr. CONAN T.-47011 really give a very sharp account of your.
self ; I cannot discharge you, until you send for some one who
knows you.
Defendant.—lndeed ! that's curious, too; pray, what is my
offence ?
Mr. CORANT.—You are charged with being drunk and riotous
in the street, and at the watchhouse you refused to give your
name.
Defendant.—So I did, because I think no one had a right to de.
mend my name. This is an odd sort of business altogether; but
I can send for a friend who knows me in this neighbourhood, Mr.
Behens, the sculptor, in Dem-street.
The Magistate ordered Mr. Behens to be sent for; and in the
mean time the defendant was locked up.
When the Officer returned from Mr. Behens, he told the Ma.
gistrate that Mr. Behens said the defendant was a conjuror.
The defendant was then again brought forward, and questioned
by the Magistrate, when it appeared that he went to Dover, and
trop thence to Calais, to examine the ground at both places, with
a view of flying from one of the Dover CHB to the French Coast;
but he said he had since changed his mind, and he supposed any
gentleman had a right to do so.
Mr. Co KANT asked him if he had his wings about him ?
Defendant—That is a question I shall not answer.
Because, if you have, said Mr. COMANT, you may fly out of
the Office as soon as you please, when you pay Ss. for being drunk.
The defendant paid the M. and preferred walking out.
UNION HALL, AUG. 29.—1 t will be recollected, that last week
several shipwrights, in the employment of Messrs. King and Co.,
the shipbuilders of Rotherhithe, were brought up to this Office for
striking work, and refusing to perform a contract into which they
had entered with the firm. All the defendants were members of
the " Union Provident Society," a Society which, Mace its forma.
I tion, has caused considerable distention between the shipbuilders
and their journeymen. The whole of the men were set at liberty
lon their promise of returning to work, and finishing the contract.
On Saturday last, however, Mr. King again made application at
the Office for warrants against several more of his men, under'
circumstances precisely similar to those already stated; and this
morning the defendants were brought up in custody before the sit.
ting Magistrate, It. J. CHAMBERS. Esq. The contract into
I which the defendants had entered was produced, and the Itlngis-
-1 trade asked them whether they were willing to return back to their
work on the ship which they had stipulated to finish, or to work at
the Brixton mill for three months.
One of the defendants, named Eager, said that he RSA perfectly
willing to work for Mr. King, if that gentleman gave him a par.
ticular job, which would be more advantageous to him (the de-
fendant), than that which he had left unfinished.
The Magistrate observed that this was a most unreasonable re-
.quest ; the defendants had all contracted to perform a certain job
for their employer, had overdrawn their wages for that particular
job, anti now they wished to relinquish it altogether, in order to be
put upon work which they considered more profitable to them.
selves, without once reflecting on the injury and detriment which
such conduct was likely to produce on those that employed them.
Eager said that the work he had contracted to finish, he since
found was not sufficient to support his family.
Mr. CHAMBERS—Why, don't you let that part of your earnings
which you subscribe to the Union Society go for tile support of
your family ? I don't at all wonder at your complaints of distress
when you pay Six or seven shillings a week each to a club that has
created nothing but disorder and disunion between the masters and
their journeymen since its formation.
After the Magistrate had made the above remarks, Eager, who
appeared to be the spokesman for the rest of his companions, in a
loud and impertinent tone, addressed Mr. Chambers, saying—
" Inuit we give to the Union is nothing to you ; that does not bear
upon the question before you, and I have a right to give my money
[ to whom I think proper, just as much as you have."
The defendant was proceeding on in a rude and insolent strain,
when the Magistrate interrupted him, by threatening to have him
locked up if lie did not desist.
Mr. CHAMBERS then put it to all the defendants whether they
would consent to go back and finish their work ?
To this question they all remained silent except the two Eagers,
who said they would prefer going to Brixton, if any persons would'
take upon themselves the responiibillty of supporting their families
while in prison.
Mr. CHAMBERS said, that no two men were ever brought before
him who deserted the punishment of the tread-mill mote than the
two defendants, and advised Mr. King strongly not to take them
back again, and lie should send thou for three months each to the
House of Cotrectirm.
Both of the defendants (the Eager's') appeared perfectly indif-
ferent as to the Manner in which they should be Mr. -4 of.

POLICE.
]Il-t-aereileeer--
AWSION-UOUSE, Aye. 20.---A man, named Thomas Evans,
Was brought before the Loan MAYOR charged with having dis-
turbed a dissenting congregation in the neighbourhood of Barbican,
on Sunday evening.
It appeared that on Sunday evening the defendant hail been
drinking with some of his comr-Ales in the neighbourhood, and that
their conversation turning upon fighting of all kinds, he swore he'd
be d—d if he would nut go and have a bout with a clergyman. A
wager of a half a pint of gin was laid with him that he would not
beat the clergyman, and he sallied out to win his money if he could.
The that house of divine service that he saw was that above alluded
to. He walked in, and squaring at the preacher, who was address-
ing the congregation, called upon him to descend from the pulpit,
and stand up fair before his man. The congregation had endured
a great deal from the fellow, who bad thrown himself into menac-
ing attitudes opposite the pulpit, before they took any active notice
of him, but the introduction of a challenge, which was delivered in
the style of the vagabonds of the fancy, was too much. The tie.
fendant was removed, and lodged in the Compter. He was, how-
ever, so determined to floor a clergyman, that it was necessary to
employ four men to clear him away.
Ile said In his defence, that he was drunk at the time lie went
into the house of divint service, and that nothing else could have
induced him to make his appearance there for such a purpose. He
begged to be forgiven.
The case was not pressed, and
The Loan Illevos was. therefore, satisfied to fine the defend-
ant es. for drunkenness, and to discharge hint.
GUILDHALL, AUGUST 29.—Mr. Butterworth, the Common-
Councilmameand another gentleman of the parish of St. Dunstan,
Fleet-street, attended before Mr. Alderman Atkins, for the pur-
pose of entering into some explanation relative to a case that
occurred here on Saturday, reports of which had appeared
in the Sunday papers, and had been copied into mosf of the daily
journals of that morning, reflecting very strongly upon the charac-
tee of the parish officers.
The short facts of the ease were them. A poor woman applied
to Sir James Shaw for his interference in her behalf. She stated I
that, though she was residing in the parish of St. Dunstan, and 1:
the overseers had actually relieyed her more than once, they had I
suddenly come to the determination of refusing her all further re-
lief. 'I be assistant vestry-clerk had been to the house where she
lodged, and by using thews of having the person, with whom she
was, imprisoned if she harboueed her any longer, had been the
means of forcing her to walk the streets ill the previous night, all
admittance at the lodging being positively denied lier.—An-
other woman, who rents an apartment at 'No. 2, Apolloscourt, I
Fleet-street, and whose bed the applicant had shared, corroborated
her account of the threats used by the assistant vestry-clerk, not
only to her, but to her landlord also, if they harboured her any
longer. The applicant said all that she wanted was about as. to
enable her to get a pair of shoes and a gown, that she might go to a
place of service where she had been recommended. Sir James"
Shaw reprobated in very strong terms the improper mode
adopted by the pariah to rid themselves of this poor woman.
He gave her a half sorcreigu out of his own pocket, di-
rected an order to the overseers for her immediate relief, and after
commending the conduct of the woman who had shared her bed
with the applicant, told her she might continue so to do without
fear of harm or molestation.
Mr. Butterworth now said, that he was quite sure, from the
statements of the case that had appeared, some explanation was
due to the public as well as to the parish officers, whose conduct
was seriously impugned. The woman came to them under very
suspicious circumstances. She had been residing some time in St.
Andrew's, Holborn ; site had been relieved by the Magistrates at
Hatton-garden with a shilling, and had slept in St. Dunstan's only
one night, on purpose, it appeared, to claim relief in the morning,
and saddle herself upon that parish. All this looked very suspi-
cious. They had, however, relieved her with 45., which it would
be allowed was a sufficient sum for a single woman for one week,:
sbe had no settlement with them, and had she been able to giveany
account of her settlement they would have passed her to It. As to
the story of her being expelled from her lodging, he had brought
She landlord of the house, who would state that he bad expressed
his disapprobation of the conduct of his own lodger as soon as he
discovered she h.d taken in a bed-ftellow, and had threatened
to shut them both out of the house before he knew any thing of
die woman's application to the parish officers. Sir James Shaw
would feel he had been entirely imposed on with respect to
the character of these women, when he should learn that the
pauper, instead of fitting herself out for the place she bad
spoken of with the money the worthy Alderman had given her,
,had with her companion got beastly drunk, behaved themselves
very riotously in the course of the night, and on the landlord's
going up :into ahe room to remonstrate with them, lie found that
each of the women had got a man In bed with her, and lie, for
the credit of his house, bundled the whole four of them into the
street meet tier.
Mr. Payne, the clerk, sail the statement before Sir JAMES fully
warranted the expressions it called from him, as it did appear they
hail attempted to rid themselves of the pauper in an unjustifiable
Manner.

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Mr. Alderman ATLIWS declined hearing the witness or witnesses ' .lisposed
Mr. Butterworth had hwught, and expressed some surprise that The Magistrate and their employer perceiving this, the former
immediately ordered those two men to be taken from the office and
the pariah officers did net inquire more promptly and thoroughly
into the cases of persons claiming relief nu casual poor, with a view locked up, preparatory to their being sent to Brixton for three
to their immediate removal and the saving d the pariah purse. If months.
this woman did not belong to St. Dunsten's, she ought to hate The rest of the defendants being questioned individually by the
been removed legally before it became necessary to relieve her a se. Magistrate as to whether they would return and finish their con.
ctind time. The reports in the newspapers did mischief sometimes, tract ? all with one voice, seeing the fate of their mates, Proclaimed
but they often preyed of immense advantage, as had beetles- tbat they would return to the yard and work, in preference to work.
perienced by him in i cese that morning, wArre somejotrrnernen dug for the county in BriAton fee notttingat