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London, England, 1822-08-30 00:00:00

PUZIC7I.

FELONY.
*Yeshards, Jake Jefkittr, who was remanded oe Friday for
a farther esamipation, was again brought op,
Jahn Garden., an offierr, stated that on Thlhrwlay rivaling
last he saw the Prisoner off ring fuse volumes of prrems,for
able, at the Rose riblic.lmisee, nu Holborn-hill, for 4s. Ile
took hiss into ettarody, and on scotching him be Aland is hie
pwieseminn an *Makin cover of a carriage. The Prisoner
said he had got she books. front. Mr. Gibb.„ the Torukey of
Eridewell, to sell. T.Aie witners had Redo. iiropiry of Mr.
Ceiba, and he denied all kinwlpdge of the books, but ad-
mitted his Iratialrdge of the Prisoner, as be was Italy des-
Averted from his rare in Bridtwell utilise dal before. The
Erisonec secounted tor having the oil „ion,
aeon, by saying ghat be had Just returned from ',digt, sod a
pawner had earrird out a
„carriage theta which the oils
aim covered, and on the armies, of the ship is lad.a the pas-,
/eager had given it to him, and he had brought it home.
Mr. /oho Rumpus, of Na. 6,4lolborn.barst 600kaillee,
slated, that the ftpr books were his properly; they sue odd.
volumes, stolen from whole lets, which stood 1• a easy ease
ist the trust of his shop window.; two volumes of Gil Bios,
ohe of Prior'e Pones, and one of Wolfe. lie was certain
that neither himself nor any of his tinnily had *old the books.
They never 84.1.1 odd voliamvs; they were of the value of lft•
The Poisoner, in hie detente, said, that be had belonged to
Rowteag Indisman, and Ike mytg:of the ship vier
them to kiwi to keep fur him.
He was rally eointnilled fur trial.

NAT RI MO\ „
Rllia Tyra was eltargeftwitb rolsbiog her
Thomas Leonard, • iespeetablieleoklng lusts, Guided, that
le was • musician, and lived al No. 1, deed.. Mrs ei, clerketi-
well. The Prianner, nn Monday 134, dnrialg his ahs►•ee
teem home, bridge open his room-deur, and stole tee Rage°.
let.,a shirt, and • Rea foichief.. . . .

Alderman Thionpoon—" Had you and kooldedge of her
before she romnslited this art
The Prisoner, wdh a !oat, of her head, said she was hitt
wife.

The Proerewtor admittt d Iliad he was married to her, and
had Ave children by her, two of whom were Brier, and he,
supported them; hut from her cuuduct he d,d nut like her
to he his wife any limes.
Alderman Thompson—" You meat recollect that yea did
set marry her roe as long as yew liked, bat as lung as you
and she lives.

The Prosecutor asked what he was to do ; he had sup,
ported her as long as she conducted herself property. She
would stay away for a week and a fortnight at a time, during
which period she bred iu prostitiokis, and then return,
break open his door, and steal his property.

The Prisoner—" Lam your wifs.fe;•ll-that, sodijoircna.
sot deny it."
The Prosecutor said, that when he returned with the Duke
of Wellincton and the army, after the battle of Waterloo, he
found her in the Masseur Correction, to which place sloe kid
been sentenced after being tried at. tie Old Haile,. Hie
flageolets. were • most distres.ing loan to him, as it was by
them he supported himself end his childrea,.arid he doclarril,
on his oath, that be bad nut broken has fast binge Tuesday
last.
Alderman Tliempson said, " it was certainly a serer.
Calf, and he had so doubt bsl the Prisoner was a very bad
Woman; but shetras his wife, and as each it was his duly to
maintain be►, sad try to reclaim her. He could out take
cognisance of • charge of felony made by a husband against
his wife ; hat if she hail committed a crime,she had done it
out of the jurisdiction of the City, Cleikenwell being in Mid.
dlearx,aud be ought to. make his complaint at Hallos-gardro
afire.

The Normtoe requested that the Alderman would order
her In give him np the duplicate of the flageolets, which she
grid alle had pledged C.r 9..
The Prisoner-4 I won't; tlitrr's that for you.. (Snap.
p 1.9 lutr Anger..)
ronSo 'llotripou raid he could not 19,lerfere.
The poor esuileian lets the office •pporently wills a heart'
heart ; rot so with his fair spotter, the appealed all cheer.
fulness.

DOW-STREET.

Oa Monday, evoking fast, between 9 and 10 o'clock, the
shop of Mr. Richard Stators, a tailor, aiittste at the corner of
the Golden Cross Inn, Charing Crook was broken apes, and
• great quantity of cloth sad •e.risig apparel stoles there-
from. Application was made by Mr. Moon, os Tuesday
morning, at this Office, awl Avis, one of the patrol, was etn-
ploygd tp Investigate the affair.
Yesterday evosieg Williams Walker, a toopleinne eharar.
ter, driver of the hackney coach, No. 1,127; wail taken into
custody on suspicion of being concerned in the rubbery.
It appeared flow dm evidence of James Siloam, a porter
at the Golden Cross, that he as. the Prisoner'. coach down
up to the gate; he asked him and another porter to give him
northing to drink. Witness told hit. he had no motley,
and so did the other porter. Prisoner said he *mild treat
then, and be did an at the watering house. While the y were
thete.• man, called Little Dirk the Tailor' who is a friend of
the Prisoner, and a man who beats a bad character, came,
and called him out.

Sir Richard Birnie said there was evidence month to eats.
mit the Prisoner es suspicion, hat, hearer', he should like
to hear what be had to say io his defence.
The Prisoner then said be was called of the rook between
nine and ten on Monday night; sots, man called him uP the
yenta the inn • he left his coach at the cad nf the'Diteway
about I qhmteriif 'en hour, while he went to drink with the
porters; gibes be arrived back, three men got into the roach;
he set one down at Charles-street, Westminster; the mill
had a small box or pot tmontesti pith him; be believes be
was called to from terpublic how by the waterinar, not by
pay of the fare.-ailiere it must be ottnered, that the priers
generally steed opposite the Prosecutor's shop-window, and
at the time the Prisoner had Skein the public-hogs., his
erotica was drawn up at the end of the gateway.]—Ten Pri•
looser-then weal fs to sly he found three men in the coach ;
be took the second man to the corner of Rowland Hill's Cita.
• and the third to Bridge-steeet,Blackfrian ; the last two
bast ae luggage*, be saw..—He was remanded.
aterday Susanne,' Daman, a wretched-looking woman,
with an infant its her arms, 'was brought up, charged with
haviug obtained :al the Navy Pay Otte a sum of mosey,
part of the wages of Job. Cox, a seaman belonging to his.
Majesty's nary, by persionatiag Margaret Belcher.
It appeared that tux had allotted I. a month of his
wages for the support pf his child, which he hail left in the
care of Margaret Belcher abort two years and a half Om.
Margiretnllelehrr being ill Then the forpt monthly payment
became due, employed the Prisouer 16 go to the Navy Pay
°Peel° reoresynt her and receive it fur bye, giving her the
eertilleata fur that purpo•*. The Prisarner received the no
ney thee,. and continued to receive it toe her for the Gest
twelve months, wham she told Mrs. 1101cher that the allot.
teat had been stopped, lb cosseqseuce of as application
from Co.'. metier. Mrs. Belcher rested satisfied wilt, that
account, sod made no further inquiry about the moo. y, which
the Prisoner coutigued to receive from the Navy ()See down
to the present month, and had received altogether upgards
of • 1114. which she bad not accounted for. The ((au,' was
discerired an Cox's return from sea, and receiving his wages
with the allotment stoney deducted._

A Gentleman from the Navy Pry Office Minded, to prove
the payments to the Prieoner. •
Whets asked what she bad to say For herself, the Prisoner
at itrt said Mrs. Beichge bad agreed Jai allow her half she
moo" for mosiog ley she nen pleaded great distress, sod
a family Mx children, the youngest el which she had in
hi. arms.
The Magistrpte (Sir R. Bireie) wn of opinion that as she
Penner had bees authorised by Mrs. Belcher to reweave the
money, the ease was takers oat of she penal 'iteration o(she
Act of Parliaxicat, sad the money received ronld be cuktsi-
dered merely as • debt. He thought Mrs. Belcher hail dis-
played a great want of diligence and prudeore at not making
hurley pt the Navy Pay.office during the tweedy mouths that
the 'Primmer bad bees receiving the money, more pariieu.
lady sa that was as office at which every facility was lien
to Ike poorest aid least interned persona.
The Prisoeer was accordiagly ordered to be discharged.
Haut, Hope aed J. Wafts *ere brought up by lack, she
°Meer, who met them is Marquis-street nu Wednesday night
*nit N. o'clockt gaol knowing them to be hod characters,

he kliowerktheyn down the Strap/. ba perceiving the cit.
err, the Primmer, butts rap away down doyen sire'', at‘laire
one of them threw Amain an area a box of the composition
for procuring thstaititoneons light; the oillicer then ramr up
with him and took him into clean/fly. The other Primmer
woe taken by the watchman. • Nothing was found oa them.
but a pawnbroker's duplicate, which the Prisoner
said he had found together with the Are-Intl. .

The Magistrate direet;dibetU tole consmkled,uoder the
Police Act.
AN INVETERATE THIEF,
gimlet Wisp, a young Woman about 4.0 years of age, was
charred by Mary Dawson, a laundress, in Whose hostile sin
lodged, with robbing her of s great variety of articles of •p.
Fors 1, linen, &c.
The Complainant had discovered about a fortnight ago
that the Prisoner had stolen floca her font. Virkets sail a
piece of lace, which on her rap/visions orpenttence, and •
pteMilli to take them nut of pledge and-restore them, she for-
gave her; but she afierwarels discovered that the Prisoner
Ma that very day again robbed her of a shawl, two silver
'poops, and carious articles of liseo, which she pledged at.
different pawnbrokers. Tke Priyerner left ttei lodgings • few
days •got andplaced in the bands of hies. Dawson a great
number of diipliCales of Mks s'olen from hermit; as a se-
curity, she returned to pay Mei what she owed for rent,
rustle's( • prorhiwe renew hire that she would not look at
them, which ir • r she kept till she found she Prisoner. did
not return, wiieu .he discovered ont only that tbe Prisoner
had ',Abed her, but had also stolen sone of the ham be-
looming to di fforent persons fur whom she washed,
_ .

thell6lCP 11,11 filed with pawobrokets, with whom alp
Prianiter hHd pleileed th► ♦arious s• miss stolen.

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The Frivoller had rootessid tit the officer who took her
into routinely that she had stolen Nod pledged the things, bod.
from the slat. smut of her non rondo, to Mn. Uftwaoe, it
appeared she had ben addtrtcd to such practices elute lb.
sit. 14 sears
The Magistrate ordered the Prifoner to be folly etwo-
toittad, and the parties were bound over to prosecute.
MAR LqOROllOll-41yRSET.
WANTON ACT OF CRUELTY.

Yesterday Itiehard Cowlett, • boy between twelve and
tbiritien years of ase' was charged by Mr. Dennis quiro,
ciorkeeper, of Littlelt uoldfoid-street, Hassell square, with
stiabliiiig one of his cows I limes 'Kb a pitchfork.
Mr. Quin stated, that one of his fowl was served so some
time bask, and that yesterday evening the buy was det.cied
in the act, •nd seen to throw the pitchfork through an open.
log into the stable at the row, when he made his escape, and.
WWII 1101 taken till ten o'clock the same evening. The cow,
he sant, had bees examined by a doctor, wed was still in
danger, having received nine stabs in the side.
The buy nal convicted in the p. batty of ten shillings, and
in default of payment was sentenced to fourteen days im-
prisonment.
THOU, POLICE OFVICE.
THE WATERMAN r. THE CLERGYMAN.

Ifesteidoy the Reverend Thomas IFllds, a Clergyman
serving at Twickenham, was brougM before the Magistrates,
upon a warrant charging him with committing an assault
and battery on the person of John Sills, the owner of a 'ad-
ios boat.
Kills stated, that the Rev Defendant was in tbe habit of
employing his boat fur himself and family, to Make short
aquatic excnrsioas; that he got into his (Sills'a) debt, and he
could get no money from him, hut at last he succeeded in
getting it by iiistaloteutii. Ois Saturday last the Defendant
again engaged his boat, and with his e nt west on board.
The boat was under weigh, but wilting to put the sails right,
be thought he would cast anchor, to be able to dose with
greater ease. Q. his attempting In throw out the anchor, the
Likfctidant came up to him, and told him not Its do so; he
insisted, hue evsr, npon throning it out,.and Defendant said,
"If you do, you shall go over after it." He (whores) still
'resisted 14 throwing out the ansbor, and the Defendant
came up end struck him with hit fist in the. Month. and
knocked out one of his teeth (which witness produced from
his pocket, carefully wrapped in paper), and rut his lips.
tie also encoureged bin lit to follow his example.
.1. Sine, jun son of last witness, who was in the boat during
the assault, stated, that the Defendant raid,“ I will knock
you over if you throw out the anchor," and thew put himself
in a bidttog position, and struck his father its the mouth.
His father gave no provocation whatever.
. .

TO. Miakirale said a blab CM of assault had bees proved
oo oath, and the Defend int most bud bail.

BARIIAROUN NtiltDEß.

The Dublin Freeman's Journal of Tuesday gave an
*ermine of the murder of a nisi, in that city, an Satur-
day list, by throwing him out of the window of a house,
of ill fame. The following are fusilier 'particulars of this in-
human art :—The official announcement of this atrocity from
hirbtrath.atreet office at the Head Office states,that the name
of the murdered individual was klnlosiy, and ha:occupation
had been that of a saddle-tree maker : his residence was in
Row-lane. He was throws nit aria wirduw in Row lane.
snit fell go the crown of his head, io consrq of which
Ma Anil was fractured, and he 'spired immediately. Three
prisons, whose names are Janet's Birmingham. of the New.
market. butcher, Nary Kirwan, and Eliza ifrillietass, were
iu the roont when the' wreirhed man was thrown into the
Street : they have been taken iutb custody by two of the pa.,
trot. torbrasitidn of thin event was sent to both the Co-.
ronrr*, by Mr. Sims. rhnf peace officer of Aliontratb-street.
sbeilito and his patrnliag party found the. deceased quite
dem4l in the sheet, and lodged Birmiughsio and Mary Kir-
wan in cloirch-street watch-hotiae. Some persotk in the
neeehhourbelosi heard the uproar whirl, had pieceded.tbe fatal
act, aid we lento that the murderers tie likely to be biome—.
dial. ly recognised, and on satiafactuiy evidence. A little
after three yesterday (Sunday last), the body lay is the spot
where it had been so tnhumanly stropped, the police having
covered it with straw and a skeet : 'vast numbers collected
round the body during the day. The deceased has left a wife
soil four or flee children. As inquest has been held upon
the holly. Verdict—" Wilful murder again! Jaws Dir.
weinghtem. cu,priacipal, and 'Mary Kirwan, es akliieg and

LUSS gf the PA CKer-SHIP LIVERPOOL,

We have already announced the lots, on the banks
of Newfoundland, of the packet-ship Liverpool,
which railed from New York fur Liverpool, on her
first voyage, on the 16ih tilt. The whole of the
passengers arid crew ate raved, though their suffer-
,
lugs mutt hive been severe, as they were exposed
to the weather for five days in open boats, when
they were taken up by a &Ming-boat, and conveyed
to St. John's; Newfoundland. Captain Lee and.
the crests. with one passenger, have returned to New
York ; and the other passengers hate come to Eng-
land in the Dort, which arrived off arristol on
Spiirdiiy. the 24 ill instant. The only particulate
yet known of this lamentable event are contained
in the following extract of a letter, receiNl at
rpm)l ott Monday last, front one of the poen-
IZ" 177
4 kg Dart. off Bristol, August 24, Mei
" The F,inetpoul Was Inst on the 251 h ult. ori•the bank* of
Neorfunadliinif, ;by ramming foul of an island of ice, but all
bands paved aid pal into Si. Jollies; thence must of the pps-
tengtrs proceeded hither in the Darf. uf this place, buff a
pasarneri(ars ipfant child', having died ow the passage, 'we
are compelled to wait here the imitation of the" goarasitioe
officers, which Must delay as from landing until tomorrow.
Captain Lre sailed on the same day with us (61b August) in
a schooner (or biyw York, with the whole el the crew and
one of the passeorrs. The vessel only, floated two boas,
qiid nothing was saved except the clothes we had on and a
little specie. We *ere Ave days in the urn boats, and on
the seventh arrived at St. Jobs'', bairn% been take* bp 14 a
AslyingMoat tat the fhb day."
The following is a bat of the passengers:—
sr.
T. Heard aimd tardy, of New York; Mrdolui
Simpsou, of Laotian; Mr. litibcd Matbei, of Liverpool ;
Sir. Was. Christie ofJamaica ; Mr. Sim. Wright, of Saran.
wish ; Mr. We. diode, of Moatreal ; Mr. Thomas Wright" of
r#4leadi,aad Mr. G.,. Nortliedge, of blasdrsii.

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