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London, England, 1826-03-02 00:00:00

POLICE.

11.1511 A LL.
Richard Rowley was yesterday brought up for re-examination,
before Mr. Alderman Ueygate, on suspicion of being concerned in
stealing a parcel which contained a 1,0001. Bank of England note,
enclosed in a letter sent to the banking-house of Sir R. C. Glyn
..and Co. from one of their c,orrespondepts in Yorkshire, a short time
since.
Mr. linstpristEvs attended fee the prisoner, and Mr. GATES
for the prosecution.
After a short conversation between the solicitors for the parties,
the examination of any witnesses was again deferred, and, by
mutual consent the prisoner was remanded till next week.
The circumstances which directed the attention of the police
towards Rowley have not transpired, but some documents found
about him, when Harrison the marshalman secured him, has, it is
said, strengthened the suspicions that had been previously enter.
tained. The 1,0001. note was changed at the Bank for one pound
notes, and a part of those notes were subsequently convened into
gold at the same place. The hand-writing of the party who re-
ceived the gold turns out to be very similar to that upon sonic
papers found on the prisoner.
Mr. Harris, the landlord of the Brown Bear public house in
Seacoal-lane, Skinner-street, attended to give information, that
about sine o'clock yesterday morning a young Irish woman, not of
very prepossessing appearance, applied at his bar to be informed
whether a piece or paper she handed to him was deny value. lie
found it was a MO!. Bank of England note, and upon questioning
tl.e woman as to the way in which it came auto her possession, she
stated that a country gentleman, who had passed some hoUrs in her
company, gave it to her as a present. This appeared to him so
improbable that he detained the note, but suff,red her to go away
upon giving her address. The address she gave he had since as-
certained to be false.
Mr. Beresford, the clerk, said he had acted very properly under
the circumstances, and there was little doubt he would soon hear
1 of the owner of the property.

BOW-STREKT.
Mr. Mrssit oil., the sitting Magistrate, was occupied for a
considerable time on NVednesday evening and yesterday, is hearing
a matter which, although it did not strictly come within his juris-
diction, he was kind enough to investigate, in order, if he could, to
render service to a seemingly deserving object. A young woman,
apparently about twenty-five years of age, respectably dressed, and
whose modest and respectful demeanour at once Interested her
hearers in her behalf, applied to know if the Magistrate could
render her any assistance under these circumstances:—Her name
she said was Harriet Hanks, and she had passed the early part of
her life in the care, alternately, of two staters, married women,
named Smith and Lawrence, to whom she believed she was in
some degree related. She was treated exceedingly ill by them, be-
ing often half starved, and shut up in a cold garret for days to-
gether, and at length they apprenticed her at a linen manufactory,
belonging" to Mr. ilenyon, 'M.P. at Shrewsbury, where she served
seven years with credit, and at the expiration of her apprenticeship
she went into the service of Lord Guildford's family. When she
was with the two women whom she had named, she went by the
name of flanks, which she understood to he that of her father, and
' she often inquired after her parents and into the circumstances of
her birth, but could never obtain any direct or satisfactory informs.
ties lama 4116411, 41te had, however, subsequently learned from
other quarters that she was the child of the brother of those women,
who intrusted her to their care before he died, and who at his death
I left property to the amount of 2,0001. which came into their pos-
t session, whether illegally or not she was unable to say; at all events
, she had never derived any benefit from it beyond the scanty sub-
, sistence which she bad with them. It was since she became of age
that these circumstances were communicated to her, by persons
who professed to be well acquainted with her connexions, and she
of course applied to Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Lawrence noon the sub.
jeer, but coull obtain no satisfactory answer from them, and e•:er
since die first mentioned what she had heard to Mrs. Smith, the
latter Tal done all she could to injure her, by spreading reports
that she was both dishonest /and insane. She had lost two or three
respectable situations in consequence of the evil and unfounded re.
ports which Mrs. Smith had chosen to circulate. Her chief ob-
ject in making the present application was, to endeavour, if possj.
ble, to ascerutia who her parents were. If there had been any
money left by her supposed father, it was in all probability gone,
and even If it were nut, she did not cure about that part of the
matter so long as she could satisfy her mind upon the subject of
her birth, and tree herself in future from the calumnies which Mrs.
Smith had heaped upon her.
In answer to questions from Mr. Minshull, the applicant stated.;
that Mrs. Smith was livine in St. Anoe's (Sohn) workhouse, and
that she was ignorant of Mrs. Lawrence's place of residence.
Mr. Minsbull sent an officer to desire the attendance of Mrs.
Smith, who came yesterday afternoon, and the young woman re-
pealed her story.
Mrs. Smith, a women about sixty years of age, was then ques-
tioned by Mr. tlinsbull, but to very little purpose, fur if ever there
was a striking instance of determined and sometimes most Mee.
ohms evasion of plain questions, it was presented in this kiwi: v.
In the commsacetnent she hinted that she should set the Magi*.
traces at defiance, and she in a great measure kept her word. Her
answers, or rather t.o answers, were always flippant, and sometimes
excessively impertinent. All that could be drawn from tier was
that she herself was the daughter of an liaglisli officer, who served
in the Gerinio war, aril whose name was blanks; that he retired
from the army mid commenced business in the woolku trade, but
fsilrd ; that she had a brother who also carried out the woollen
;rade at Wooton-under-Edge ; that the applicant was brought to
her by that brother when she was two years of age or thereabout*,
and that he died twenty years ago. When asked if the applicant
W-4, her brother's child, she said she did not know ; she hart no be.
lief upon the subject—no opinion one way or the other. Her bro-
ther !ell some property by will to her and her sister. She did not
know the amount exactly ; it might be 10101. • it might be 2001. ;
it might be more or less, she could not tell. die oatild fetch the
t will, but she could not send for it. She was the widow of a publi.
, _ can, who at one time kept the Queen's Anna in Compton.street,