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POLICE.

ROW —STREET.
rlbAVll.—VCSltiday John ledlowcs, an aged man, of decent
appearance, was brought before Sir R. Birnie, charged with having
falsely and fraudulently obtained the sum of 30/. front Mr. Henry
Owiley, under the pretence of having the power to procure him •
Government situation.
After hearing the evidence, Sir R. Maxi,: put some questions
to the prisoner, and said he knew him to have been a long time at
this trade.
The prisoner wan committed for funkier examination on Thurs-
day next. and orders given that Mrs. Newman, Mr. Sibbery, and
Lord Liverpool's porter, should be required to attend upon that
day.

HATTON.UARDEN.
ADVF.TEFATTOX OF FLOoll.—Yesterday AtAiss, •
baker, living at 20, Lower Smith-street, Northampton-square,
Ckrkenwell, was charged on information with having on his pre.
miscs a quantity of Sal Amoniec, for the purpose of adulterating
meal, flour, or bread. conlary to A4t of Parliament, by which
he was liable to a penalty not exceeding 101. nor less than 40a.
The defendant pleadel—Ngt
W. Read, jun. one of vita off.i.rs deposal, between flee and six
o'clock on Saturday last, the 19th instant, he and Limbrick, by
virtue of a warrant granted on information, searched the defen-
dant's premises, and in the bakehinise they found the stone jar than
produced, containing sal amonme. which he had no doubt was for
the purpose of adulterating meal, flour, or bread.
The defendant stated that he was a biscuit-baker as well as a
baker of bread, and that such biscuits could not be made without
sal amoniac, but, on the contrary, it would split bread and prevent
its rising. lo proof of which he produced some loaves of bread
and biscuits, some of each having sal *maniac in them, and

some not.
Mr. Sergeant SELLow, on referring to the Act of Parliament,
said, thathe saw no exemption in the Act in famine of biscuit oc
fancy-bread bakers, the words of the Act being, " Any baker, in
whose house, out-house, grounds, or possession shall be found any
mixture for the purpose of adulterating meal, 1k or bread, shah,
on onnviction, be liable to the penalty as'before-mentioned."
The defendant was accordingly convicted in the mitigated penal-

ty of forty shillings and costs.
HORSE STEALIXO.—A roan who gnre his name JAN Jay,
was brought up in the custody of Wm. Read, sea the head officer,
charged on suspicion of stealing two horses, the property of some
person or persons unknown.
W. Rolfe deposed, he is a workman in the employof Mr. White,
a nicker, Who keeps a slaughter-house for horses in Sharp's.alley,
Cow-cross ; that morning he met the prisoner in Cow-cross with
the two horses in his possession, making inquiry where them sou a
slaughter-house for horses witness told him his muter kept one,
and he asked the prisooer if he meant to sell those horses to be
slaughtered • the prisoner said he did, and he should expect Al. for
them, but they must be killed. Witness said six pounds was too
much to give for them to be killed, but he thought they were too
good to be killed, and desired the prisoner to go with him to his
master's. Each mounted a horse, and they rode to Mr.

White's.
Mr. White deposed, that the prisoner offered him the hones for
GI. to be killed, but ou es.unining the horses, he found they were
too good to be killed; they were both gentle and perfectly sound,
and well worth 301. They were cart horses, bath bays, with long
tails and manes, and about 15 hands high ; one was a gelding, six
years old, with four white feet and a blaze down its face; the other
was an aged mare, with a star on her face, and appeared to be the
dam of the gelding. Suspecting that the prisoner had come dis-
honestly by them, he sent for Mr. Read, the head officer, who took
the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner, on being examined, gave the following account of
himself :-lle said he was serrar.t to Mrs. Wickham, a widow,
living at Writtle, a village in Essex, about 10 miles distant from
London ; that she keeps a farm of about 60 or 70 acres, and has
six cart horses ; that she rant him to London to sell the horses to a
slaughterer, in consequence of their breaking a child's leg. Ile left
Wnttle about twelve o'clock the preceding day, and did not offer
the horses for sale until the time he was apprehended.
IVni. Read stated, that he searched the prisoner, and all the mo-
ney he had about him was three-pence, and he could not believe
any person would send him such a distance with PO little money.
Ile found a quantity of pewebrokers duplicates on him for articles
pledged in Roinford, which made him believe he came from that
neighbourhood; that the prisoner equivocated in all his accounts
to him, and he believed the horses to be stolen.
The prisoner was asked if he knew several persons in Writtle
who were named, but he knew note of them.
Ile was committed fur further examination next week, to give
the officers an opportunity to make the proper inquiry ; to the mean
time, the horses were sent to a livery stable to be kept.
AIARV.I.E.BONNE.

COUTERTEIT Mostew.—Within the last five weeks, the shop-
keepers of the parish of Mary-la-bonne have been suffering to a
very considerable extent by the circulation of counterfeit sovereigns,
half-sovereigns, crowns, &c. which have been struck from so good
a die as to render it almost impossible for the nicest judge to dis-
corer them to be bad. So ingenious:), have the manufacturers of
base coin brought their nefarious uncle to perfection, that even the
metal. when rung against the counter, Las a sound similar to that
of the good money. In consequence of the titterers appearing to
illatatit, the tradesmen have entered into a resolution to watch
any suspicious persons; ar.d, through the exercise of this laudable
plan, one of them was detected in the person of a very interesting
female named Sarah Lee.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Spenser, the Newsman of
East-street, that a day, or two since the prisoner came into his
shop, end asked Mrs. Spenser for some conversation cards, a pack
of which was shown her ; having examined them, she looked at
some other articlea of stationery, and made a trifing purchase, ten-
dering in payment a half-crown, which being shown to Mr.
Spenser, he pronounced to be bad ; at this intimation the prisoner
affected great surprise, and left the shop, promhing to return.
Mr. Spenser followed her through sevetal streets, when she entered
the shop of Mr. Ward, butcher, in High-street, and on her coolies
out, he entered, and was shown shrif-crown, which she had paid
for some beef; this was also a counterfeit ; he immediately ran
out, and was observed by the prisoner, who instantly stooped, and
appeared to be doing something to one of her patient ; he ap-
proached her with .Mr. Ward. and said, " You must come with
me ;" she anewered, " Well, I will." Mr. Spenser then picked
up a paper, containing two other hod half-crowns, which she was
endeavouring to couceal•witillierfeet ; she was taken into a public-
house, and horn thence testae watch-house, where she offered live
shillings to be allowed to go away—not denying having passed the
half-crowns, which she said were given h.r by a gentleman in
Oxford-street.
This was her defence ; and with the tears trickling down her
foam she begged for mercy. she called her sister and another fe-
male to prove she gained her living by prostitution • and a gentle-
man had accompanied her to a house in Shepherd,stroet ch: the
evening previous to the day of her capture, and had given her mo-
ney ; but what they could not say.
Mr. PowEtt., the Solicitor for the Mint, in calling upon the
Magistrate to commit the prisoner, observed, that the defence could
not avail her anything, as she was charged with uttering certaip
hase eoln, knowing it to be counterfeit ; and therefore it did not
signify from whom she received it.
Mr. Rawl.; x sox said, the fact of endeavouring to conceal the
half-crowns was sufficient. Before he committed her, he required
proof of the money being bad ; he therefore detected 11r. Powell to
be sworn.
Mr. PowEbt.—l must decline being sworn ; you have sufficient
evidence as to that fact.
Mr. RawbiliSON—Oh dear, no, Sir; we have no evidence at all
to that point of the case.
Mr. POWELL—Why observe the evidence of Spencer—" I found
the half-crowns to be bad ;" and Wood also speaks in similar
term,* of that passed on him.
Mr. RAWLINSON—I am aware of that ; but yen must also be
well aware, that es a committiug Magistrate, I am entitled to have
distinct evider.ce to every point of the case, and cannot receive the
declarations of witnesses as to discovering the utterer to be the proof
of the money so uttered to be bid.
1‘1•• POWELL—AIIsw me, Sir to say, that you have sufficient
eviderce for the committal of this prisoner under the Act of Par- I
hentent ; and I think it would be establishing a precedent as use.
less as it is unnecessary, for me to briny evidence here of the fact of
the money being bad, when other witnesses are here to prove it I
at once.
Mr. Raw xsosr—No, Sir; lam of cpinion that the course
pursued in bringing up the evidence against this prisoner at the
Sessions, should not be departed from here, and if you bring the
proof I require there, you, Sir, shall bring it here ; because, it does
not follow that the +administration of the law should be different in
another Court from that from whence the felon is committed.
Mr. POWELL—Why, Sir, the Grand Jury do not require any
such proof, and I do think it unnecessary in the first stage of a case
like this.
Mr. 11.sw LI trsosr—Why, you might as well pronounce it to be
unnecessary in the Bank cases, where evidence is adduced to speak
to the notes being forged ; and I really cannot discover any distinc•
tion in your case and that of a forged note.
Mr. POWELL—I thought the distinction was wide. and hinted
that no undue advantage would be taken of prisoners because the
evidence was nut entered into so fully at the offices as at the Sea.
*ions-
Ms. RAWLINsox said, he thought that the prisoner should al.
ways know the full extent of the case against him ; therefore lie
did require that the Mint cases should be fully establi.thed before
committal, not throwing open a door for the introduction of other
evidence afterwards.
Mr. POWELL said he really thought it would only be a repeti-
tion of evidence ; however, as it was persisted in, he would submit
to be sworn, and would give the required proof.
Ile was then sworn, and pronounced the half-croons to be coon.
terfeit, and all from the same die.
The prisoner was then committed for trial. She stated herself
not to be married.