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London, England, 1825-01-19 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

CLAIM OF THAVIES EITIA-PA-
ROCHtAL.--The success of the Upper Liberty of the parish of St.
Andrew, Holborn, in their late cause with the Ron. Society of
Lincoln's Inn, the result of which was to defeat the claim of the
Inn to be considered extra-parochial, has had the effect, it seems, to
stimulate the City Liberty of that pariah to fresh exertions, to
overturn the similar claim on the part of the inhabitants of
Thavies Inn, which is locally situated within that liberty.
It will be remembered that the question, whether Thavies Inn
was or was not extra-parochial. was tried in the Court of King's
Bench some time ago, and a verdict was given in favour of the Inn.
Application was also subsequently made to the Court for a new
trial upon the ground that the parish had subsequently got pos-
session of certain ancient documents, &c. which would furnish new
and important evidence. The Court, however, refused to disturb
the verdict. Thavies Inn, notwithstanding, has been regularly as.
messed to the poor in every rate that has been made since, and with
a view on the part of the parish to bring the question again to trial.
Montriou, an inhabitant of the Inn, had been summoned
before the Magistrate for his poor-rate, and having refused to pay,
attended yesterday by appointment, with Mr. Jopson. the Vestry
Clerk, at this office, before the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman
Ansley, to show cause why a warrant of distress should not be
issued against hint. The presence of two Magistrates beirg
tie-
cessar Mr. Alderman VI attlunan, the Alderman of the Ward,
was also in attendance.
Mr. Jopsoo, in support of hie application, said it was import-
ant to the parish to establish the fact, that Thavies Inn was liable
to be assessed to the poor's rates, and the new evidence they had
procured would, in his judgment. clearly show that the place was
not extra-parochial, and they therefore felt that it was their duty to
bring the question to • trial. He pledged himself that this evi-
dence was not the same as that produced at the former trial, nor
that which was before the Court when a new trial was refused.
Dl is Montriou said the new evidence, as it was now termed. was
no more than what had already been before the Court of King's
Bench, and which the Court did not think of sufScient importance
to grant a new trial upon, and if Mr. Jopson would produce, as
he had required of him, the affidavit upon which the motion for the
new trial was founded, that would show that this very evidence had
already been rejected as insufficient by the Court.. This was the
fourth time lie bad attended upon this business, and Mr. Jopaun's
applications had been refaced by each of the Magistrates, under the
advice of the Cit y Solicitor, and though he did not complain of the
trouble parsonally, the inhabitants, he thought, had a right
to complain of the expense they were thus repeatedly and un-
necessarily put to.
The further hearing of the case was adjourned till Thursday
next.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday three young men, named Clements, Tyke, and
Beecham, were brought before Mr. H•L Ls, charged with breaking
into the cottage of a poor woman of the name of King, at Brent-
ford, and stealing some money and wearing apparel. The prisoners
had been committed from the Thames Police (Mice, for one month,
as rogues and vagabonds, under the Vagrant Act, and their tcnn
of imprisonment having expired on Monday, they were taken into
custody at the gates of the House of Correction upon the present
charge.
It appeared that Mrs. King earns her living by gathering water-
creases, and that, on the morning of the 27th November. site left
her cottage at there o'clock to puns her usual trade. NVhen she

returned in the afternoon, she found that her bed-room had been en-
tered by the window, and her wearing-apparel, bed-furniture, and
2/. 10s. in money, which was in an old stocking, deposited between
the bed and die sacking, were gone. The prisoners, Clements and
Tyler, were her neighbours, one of them living in the next cot-
tage. On the same morning, at seven o'clock, they were seen in
Rosemary-lane, Tower-hill, by two Thames policemen, sitting
down upon some grass mats. They said, in answer to some ques_
. dons, that they caine from Wrothani, in Kent, that morning, and
that they made the mats on the road. The officers took them into
custody, and found a shawl and two or three other things of trifling
value upon them. The Thames l'ulice Magistrate, after remand-
ing them two or three dines to give the officers time to inquire atria
an owner for the shawl, dm, committed them under the Vagrant
Act (it was not stated under which clause). Mrs. King, during
their imprisonment, found that the shawl and other things were
hers, and Mr. Creighton, a Magistrate at Brentford, granted a war-
rant to take them as soon as their month expired. Beecham was
taken up because he was heard by some boys to boast of having
part of the money.
Clements and Tyler said they found the things on Brentford-
bridge.
They were fully committed, end Beecham was discharged.
Sir li. IBIRKIE asked the Thames police officers if they had •
copy of the conviction under the Vagrant Act, and they replied in
the negative. " Because," said Sir Richard, " I should have liked
very much to see that conviction."

HA TTON-G A it DEN.
Mr. Fagan, one of the gentlemen connected with the Mendicity
Society, waited on the Sitting Magistrate yesterday, to announce
the result of the exertions Of the Society in behalf of a young wo.
man, named Matilda Scott, about twenty-six years of age, whose
case was submitted to their consideration under the following cir-
cumstancess—
About three days ago, this young woman made her anpearance
at this office, seemingly in the last stage of human suffering; she
appeared to have entirely lest the use of her limbs, anti contem-
plated her dissolution as rapidly approaching. With the assistance
of the officers she was ushered into the presence of the Magistrates,
to whom she told a tale to the following effect. She described her-
self to be the daughter of a respectable gentleman in Denbighshire,
North Wales. and that some months ago she came up to London
to visit some friends, and to have some enjoyment of the amuse-
menu of the metropolis. Unfortunately, during one of her visits
to Drury-lane theatre, to see Mr. Kean in Romeo, a gallant Captain
of dragoons entered the box in which she was sitting, and with the
power of the great Captain, it was with him, weal, nidi v./el In
short, she surrendered at discretion, and by sonic understanding I
between the Muses, the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet inspired them
with the idea of the oedy of All,* Love. Her faithless lover,
however, deserted her after a few months, and left bar completely
destitute. She could not, however, bring herself to reveal her dis-
grace—" she never told her love" to the overseers of the parish—
" she pined in thought," as she perambulated the streets, " and
with green and yellow melancholy," she sat at night on dunghills
and such comfortable places of repose. She only made the humble
application of being admitted to some workhouse, where she might
lay her head down and die.
Her story was so plausibly told, that her case excited general
commiseration. She was relieved out of the funds of the office ap-
propriated to such purposes. Several persons present gave her
some relief, and letters were written to different overseers. The
hlendicity Society was applied to, which undertook to provide for
the young woman, and in the tnean time to place her in St. Se-
pulchre's workhouse. Now for the catastrophe:—On Monday
night, as Mr. Fagan and a constable were conducting her to the
workhouse, on their near approach thereto she seemed suddenly to
become faint, which appeared to increase the nearer they got to the
workhouse, and at length she dropped down, apparently in violent
epileptic his. Mr. Fagan immediately ran to the workhouse for
assistance, and in a few minutes returned. accompanied by the
nurses of the house, bringing with them sal volatile, burnt feathers,
Svc., as restoratives. To their amazement, however, on their re-
turn their patient gave a convulsive spring upon her feet. and
started off at a rate that would do honour to Halton, or any first-
rate pedestrian. Mr. Fagan and the nurses not being as well ac-
quainted as the young lady with all the short cuts through Saffron-
hill, they were completely thrown out in the chase.