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POLICE.
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• 11011 t• 01 ALIT.
COV'ENT-G R DEN- T H EATItE.
An Wtalsoesolay night, at a late hour, Jebt Birth, of Lower
/Marin-ell, a clerk to * brewhouse, was charged by Richard
Lionlserork, one of the patrol', with exeitin; the audience iu
the pit to make a distill hance. tie stated, Oust he was in
the beer tier of boxes, on the Prince's side, std the third
from tlo. stage, when he saw the Prisoner in the fir-t circle
of buses shove hos, about as or seven from the stage,
the other aide of the house. Soon after the perfuriaauce
was riser, be observed the Prisoner, in the front of the box,
sad via him take a s ibhou out of his pocket, with the label,
to gilt ktters, Old Prod's;" he laid it upon the front of
the box, t..warois the pot, and spoke to the audience therein.
Illts observation, had the edict et-causing the people to make
• greater noose and dist oirhauce. Afterward., the Prisoner said
he wits ;ping away, w hen the people in the pot cried—" Sc,
him tout safe."
The above was confirmed by Jame 4 froppark, a .shaman,
.e. 4;.....07(;anden, who was Si the box with Loulwrock.

.411. Prill.ldlOr .14•Wir.1 else pi ineipal part of the disco.., and
ribbua MRS fastened to his welch, us a watch string,
only duiplay he made of it, was, by polling out his
watch to vie Hoc buur. He denied that he addresse4 the
people in the pa.
Mr. (.e A MAY orderf.l hint to hod bail, hinttn.lf iu trod.
Owl two sureties in ; which be not !slog provided
with, teas coukruittell to Tutluiil- Fields Bri.its. +I.
014.1.5d1, Use pit ..rater, and pretended 1.11•111 officer,
a 'milled to bail, beuntlf iu 4oul• /bad ts,., stool.
heels.
111,1 Aneio, for using • rattle int the gallery., was alou ail-
nutted to 411.

MORLOOIIOI'OI4ATEtt, OCT. 11.
MRS. PM NitiKrr.

This lady was brought up yestriTtay on a charge of forgery,
preferred by Mr.Jantes No/tits-mod, a.arveyor, of )lolyurus-
miert, Frlgeware•road, with whont it appeared she was tit
the habit of nr gociat log •y transact
Previous to Ilia Plunkett'.. iippearAllue, Mr. Northwood
stated, that be had souse ills a4:n reeds'', from Mrs.
Plunkett a bill of exchange foe gal. purporting to be at-
erred by her husband, Major Plunkett. The lady was then
at Margate. and the bill crow to boo by post in a letter from
her, requesting hits to discount it. He did so, and emit her
part of the tei,orey by a Mr It dont, a frit lot .if her own,
and his realailtdor afterwards by moot'', The
bill was dram pays'ale at her I -r m toy n. Mr. North-
wood poured it is she rousse of litorol'Art and i 1 afire.rteihi
palmed ihroagh various hands It become due in milsont six
weeks, and was presented for payment at Major Plun-
kett's town ',sit:trice, but the Answer 'received was, that
Mrs. Plunkett did not hve there sod that the persons
in the house burs nothing of her or Afajor Plunkeit.—a
l'lrt bill yak of count protested sad returned to lir. North-
t:iiod. Ile mule frequent personal applicetinits at the house,
but received the like answers as IsrAire. He med.-mere:ll
other tuquirics after Plajor PluArtt, but is vain. After
some time, he sow day s tior Piu Meet, by mere &orioles'', •
is the street, and folios cu him from place H. place for sett,
gel hours, os 'p.p.., of terroig out bis pesieltoce, but rook!
not their And au opportiiiiity of speaking to hire. In souse
short time afterward., he called et the sir of Mr. PAL',
the Solicitor of the 3lajor, shoat he this re met opportnnely,
sod orinirdiatrly porseutel the acceptance to him Aw trey-
meld; okra she Major auswered, " I know nothing shoot
it; it is not mime." in a few enitlotvr, Otto'', he placed his
Lager Loa the siznat are of his name's the bill, and said, " It
is a very good imitatton of my hand-writing, bat do you
drink place on wife in such a situation ," He refused
to pay the
The Prosecutor, therefore, firmly persuaded the accept_
asset was a fnreery, (moulted his own atiocory, as to Ilor
stem hr should adopt. s lio advised lima to prosecute 3lts.
Plunkett for the fro crry lie bad proceeded aseorden4ly,
and be there r oe andivd for a sarrairt t o spyrelseed
Major Plunkett, who .4. resent, mid, that such a step
would be unnecessary, an Nlis. P. was in the neighbourhood,
anti worthl trometliatrly rum^. forward. She was accordingly
tient Aw, and attended in restudy.

Major Pleat:lt Awn eatievti:d an anxious wish that Mr
Pvttr should also Iw essiosineJ, as from his te.hassay it
aptwar *lint this charge was a Jour.• trick to extort
another sum of twiner, a hieh tlic Num.( ufor o.a•,rted was
thee to b• U. erns presisaaled Mr. Parker's v I.:4liCe would
ent.r.•li•faisif. the charter, said particolvly the attcgi t dental
of 319101' P. that the ateeptatire W the ..It ass his bawl-
writing ; and t►e Major said, that so far (tom hubs; ever
(lesiva It, he was ready now to or ear to it as his ; and
in order to COIIIII,IIV the Magisti air, ►e attend to write
,41111 P. for t►e ten:pose of comparing it wit► the sigaaturc to
•►e bill.

Mr. Cowan?, understanding it to be the wish of the
Prisoove to "torte.' her defence r sourly to Mr Porter, her
Siolicdor, dertar..l himself to hear that firvitlemaii.
Mr. P• n a. tit t acn r4113e forward, sad sold, Is. should roil..
Our honsclf to 3fc ahort observations, on the part of hi,
Client, io mown toe most unjust awl uufouniled ckarec ; for
so ►e marl term it, undir 314 ITS rircanstaiwea. Ire sail,
that, fir a latig time pees tone to Mrs. Pliacttli marriage
with her liushood, 3:r. Northwood had been continually in
the habit of idscounting bill. Go that lady, and obtaining
fur her peruniary acasinutodstions. These be continued
dirt her Inaeringe, sod so intimate was the conuectioli
twee.' them in this way, that Mr. Northwood purchased
♦two Mrs. Plunlittt an atosuity of sot. which had been set-
tled opus herself. This, however, was kept sierut from Mr.
Plunkutt, unlit a few weeks steer ; when Mrs. P. thought it
proper Si roam anseate the eireummance to the Major. It
was true, he would admit, that Manic Ploakett wee stone
time in tats hotel of accommodating his Lady with his ac-
erpneirel, to esti irate tier from some rinhArratsing etreum
stances, one of throe arrrpiaiires came unto 11w bawls of
the Prosecutor, who then claim 4 a coesidriabte arra ar,
which be alleged tole due to him, on sce.mat of the annuity
lie had parrhaard (iron Mrs. Plookiitt ; of which debt the
Maio, had no knowledge, and !toreros, icruard to cuss, to
Vet nententent on that account, roles icing him to haw toe
other claim than foe the it kiwi as to tin statement of
Mr. Northwood, that Nlajor Plunkett bad denied, su hir pre.
fence, list hand-writing to the acceptance in portion. lie
mold conscientiously rootradict that assertion upon oath.
lodrill he had said, "that he would neit►er deny nor Wl.'
lint it."

Ilere he wail interrupted by Mr. Northwood, who said,
that the denial wade by Major Platokett was not to Mr
Parker's presence, but dunog his absence in souther room,
and to this fact hr would peter nine! suluonly
Mr. PAR* En again perreverled and said, be could sot
*peek to soy thing he did is,rt hi ar, but he was positive that
Maj,w P. Aid say to the Pruseentor, im his presetri, that he
would neither admit our deny the sceepianev to Ns his baud.
noting; end three Ma, one material fort tr, pone this
charge to be of the motor, hr had first stated,r.sosi lye that
there was nut one tittle of this /inn itatioa of forgrry awn-
I mooed try the Pr..serutnr, mod %ift.jor refotsrd to pay up
the nitrites' arrears of the aunisity , sod then it we., that, fur
the first time, Mr Northwood threatened to indite Mrs Plan.
belt fur forgery. It on. upon the ground of this fact, then,
that lie Cliiiintal foe bra client the protection uf the Magri
pirates.

'these alleetinents Mr Northwood pefiterely rontri
du led. He dean d especialty that Major PI01•11,“ so. on-
acquanted with the circumstance of his rift's heroic sold
the annuity ; and be denied that he himself soli lit tilika to
this charge by any rouaiderstoni relative to other claims 4111'
to low. He felt it a duty to himself, sad to the piddle, to
bring Mrs Ploolisti to justice, believing Grady, so be. AA,
(bat the acceptance was • forgery, not sot> 5r.... the Slajta's
originally .keying all koualctlge of it, bat fruits other
eireamstantes that since came to his kairwledge.
Mr. Ceuta', haven, patiently heard the pieties, ob•
served, that it was i.ut hit provinco is Hist rte. • to try the
,nicrits at ibis caw, lo compliance sigh duty, he
was Wood tomcod the matter I. a Joey in a 'aperitif Court,
who ritone could be legally compete...l to deride opens the
',tilt or moment-et of the Prlsunitr. He hail so discre-
tion to travel out of the strict line of ditty marked for
bins A Whiny was diet:tit-fir arid positively swam to, by a
respectable witness, against Mrs. Pltuilsett ; cod, hotevev
deeply be might Irinsetit, that a piers& of ben rams sod
esnolition in Itfe al Id he mauled t• it ..!nations onfter.
trinato, still the fogies of law could not be ilispened with—
hut asoot Oaks their coition, ih holle vet Ism thsposttion .might
Ile t NOW. Fenner of eirersunitances ua her 'rebels,

he iced le pow an to do. But though-no discretion on the
print was within his astkorisy, he woold do any thing ut
his power to oireaibi her liberatwou upon adequate suretie►.
There were certainly some strong enconsistances iss the testi-
mony of ale. Patter, whirls, if laid Iselin.r one of the Judgri,
might induce him to adeuit law to b,il. H► therefore advised
Mr Parker to lay a proper affidavit berme a dodge, with
such other evidence as be could obtain., which, lint kin' by
hie owe (the Magistrate's) reeommenilation, he had little
doilies would °Wain the liberation of Mrs. Plunkett, on good
hail. In the oilcan tiuwe she should he treated with the at-
IMO%t tenderness, and ought lee indulged with the company
u her frieisils in a private 14)001 : wider like care, ►uwerce,
of a police officer.

Mrs. Pliinkett seemed estremely grateful for this
enrr, and remained in the private ehamlier attic Ma[i•trate,
while lire- Solicitor proceeded to adopt the advice he had just
ereeitrol.

' Mr.. Plate:etre Artist having returned to the Office with-
'east bring able Ware Owls her raler;ettleot, hi the manner
sn=estrti by the Meg trete, sbe was ....Lammed to Tuthill-
field's Primo°, et ten o'elock at ttig'it—.l.e preferring, that
plAcc of cuutin.umnt to Isiewpoo, ae arnier to her friends.

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