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London, England, 1824-09-28 00:00:00

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POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
A Jew, named Levy, was brought before the Lord Mayor,
charged by another Jew named Wolfson, with havirtg robbed him
of various articles, which the prisoner was entrusted to dispose of
hi the country.
The prosecutor stated, that on the 3Oth of November last, the
prisoner applied to hint to be employed as a traveller. and was en.
gaged in that capacity. Witness, after having tried him on a few
occasions, in selling articles of various kinds, stocked him well,
and sent him into the country. After a considerable absence,
be returned to town with a pair of black eyes, and without either
goods or money. The prosecutor, the moment he saw him, sus-
pected that the black eyes were the symptom of some vile trick.
The prisoner said, that, as ha was journeying in the neighbourhood
of Chelmsford, he wan knocked down by robbers, who stripped
him of his goods, and left him without a penny. To prove this
feet he produced a handbill to that effect, which had been issued
by the Illagistrates of Cues, to whom he had stated his mis-
fortune, and who had with great humanity befriended him. The
prosecutor then ascertained, that when the prisoner mentioned
the circumstance of the robbery to the Magistrates, he acted
the part of a robbed man to such perfection that a subscription
was entered into, and the sum of 30!. was collected, to set him
up once more. Before the prisoner could get possession of
the money. however, it was necessary for him to come to town,
which he did; and after having paid a visit to the owner of
a public-house in the neighbourhood, in wham eat, he had left
some property. Upon inquiry, it was learned diet the property
which had been entrusted to the pablican was ike other than the
prosecutor's goods, which the inteciled lek tarn to his own
nigleaseed advantage, as soon as he MOM Or the amount of
the subscription, and which be 10401 a be kept safely for
him, until he should finish SIM be bad to attend in at
4, Chelmsford. The prosecutor aka OP believe that he had
beaten his head against a peel, le " himself in such a
manner as to throw credit on his .'
7."ta• '
The prisoner declared that he ins tabbed by foot-
pads on the road, who beat him R. said he certainly
had left a bundle of goods at a but dam that bundle
was the property of another person, had maplayad Mtn as a
traveller, and not of the prosecutor.
The Loan 111 or De eked him the Mae of his new employer.
The prisoner could not recolled, bathe was quite sure that the
property at the public brass was wet the prosecutor's.
Several circumstances ware stated, to Awe that the prisoner had
devised an abominable trick, to deceive the humane people of
Chelmsford, and rob his employer.
The LORD Maros, therefore, want Mu to Chelmsford in the
custody of an othcer.

BOW.STREBT.
Yesterday Beejansie Makepeace, • respectably attired In
frock-coat and top-boots, was brought flow It. Martin's watch-
house, charged on suspirion of having stolen a large quantity of
Iron chains, and other hardware articles. The watchman on duty
last night in New-street, Covent-garden, suesed, that • little past
twelve o'clock the prisoner at the bar was standing in conversation
with a woman of the town, when he (des useekonan) perceived he
had a very large bundle, and on asking Ma whet it contained, the
prisoner replied, " Nothing but a lot of dig &dna, and you may
. have them if you please;on which he Ink him to the watch-
house, and on being further searched by neueldeen, the night coo.
stable, a bundle of copper wire was found esseseled in his hat.
Sir R. Brawn: asked the prima bow Mt becoene possessed of
the property'
The Prisoner replied that he was a geetlensa's servant, at ;ve-
nue out of place, and that be had found the oldies laat night in
Bouverie-street, Fleet-street.
Sir RICII•RD ordered the prisoner to be &him% in the mean.
while he ordered that the articles should be advertised.
HATTON-OARDSN.
iseSe A OROS/ I mrorroa.--Yestaday Jail. B who stated
himself to be 76 years of age, angusresi as nut wu brought
up in the custody ef see ef the hears
of the M ty Societe,
charged with harksg bum hued Wain! In Hustor-street, Bruns-
wlck.equare, sad so being a notorious ' begging luta" writer.
Mr. Walker, sedetant manager to the Social, attended, and it
appeared from their documents in 1821, a rellenoce was sent to the
Society by Lord Loraine, in consequence of a letter received by
him from the phew, exhibiting a state of ipeat family distress.
On inqury being merit at the house, No. ilk little George-street,
Winstead mad, which he gave as his address, the Sudety was in-
formed by the landlady (a widow), that the appliaat for relief had
quitted her lodgings a few days before, after naminiegwith hie for
nearly five months, without paying any rat, though be had
nally taken the apartment but for • night, . Moselfto
be a gentleman entitled to 80001., at poem is In an-
sequence of his having married his own soressat ; lie nue famed
afterwards that he had gained his living durinucciod of ansa.
teen years by writing begging letters. The on making
further enquiry, discovered that in MIS Lady Harcourt and
other ladies agreed to establish this man In a stationery
and toy shop; at first he seemed to !WOWS of the plan,
but when it was insisted as a eendisiou that he should deist
from sending letters, his wife entahed what would be the
probable profits of the shop, whether they would amount to a
certain sum? On being answered in the negative, both husband
and wife declined to saw the generous proposal, inasmuch as
their letters produced than annually, at least 1301. Since that
period he had been In the habit, In conjunction with his wife, of
circulating their letters; she representing herself as abandoned by
her husband, and he ropeuedieg that the beloved partner of hie
bosom, together with ble inserent children are without bed and
raiment, or common suunuist. Thirty-eight of those letters were
referred to the Society, they were written in the best style, with the
dates filled up with a peed, amediv as they mimed le be re-
gulled for use. Yamaha deg, ftes he was ammheaded la
Hunter-etrest, Bliooseri&orlese, la preousted to the Lily of the
house, a lease, to be eibuomi to him by hie Gram the
Duke el Perdoall. le mit Mei. The *sewer, ibo
was died. with Zand altoget el an im-
WON•agie when ea for 'hie Ashur. paw
m awe ist-lis had gees es huhu men hat hi assn.
Nguema ef numinous ambrosias* ens esepaled to sell his
onnatiesion. After many years struggling to nearer his due rank
in society, he was seenpelled to have esanne to After writing for
his subsistence, writing not only on his own account, but also for
others.

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Mr. Latta.—Pry what regiment did you belong to?
Prisoner—Regiment ! 0, f have been in several.
Mr. Latta—`What regiment did you sell nut of ?
Prisoner—Sell out of Why tbe--the-73th.
Mr. Latta—Who was the
Colonel ?
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Prisoner-0, your Worship, I can't recollect, it's so longer.
Mr. Laiwo—What other regiment were you In ?
Prisoner—Regiment I was in ! 0. the 60th.
Mr. hat sto--Who commanded it ?
Prisoner—Commanded it ! Why—why—Sir Robert Aber.
cromby was our bud Colonel ; can't say the name of the Colonel
in Command. _ . . . _

—Mr. Lours--What was the last regiment you were in ?
Prisoner—The last—last I Why—the 6th Foot t but there was
only an Ensign.
Mr. Ultra—Who was your Commander ?
Prisoner-0, Commander I Sir—Sir—Andrew Clarke.
Mr. LAI SO.—Who WAS the Captain of your company 2
Prisoner-0, bless you, Sir, we had not sufficient men to form a
mg:Li =sari pat a termination to the necessity of any further
examination, and Mr. LA'S./ was about to send the prisoner to
the Sessions, when the Assistant Manager of the Society. withdrew
the charge, in consequence of the extreme age of the prisoner, on
his promising to go to the workhouse of the parish of Mary-la-
bonne (his legal settlement), where he was accordingly sent, in the
cuatcxly of an officer.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
BVIIALART.—On Friday night last, the house of Mr. Naylor,
of St. Ormond's-hill, Westminster, was broken into, eed reperty
of considerable value was carried off by the robbers. bilsenuelon
was given at this ciMee of the robbery, and also of meeker bweglery
committed in the house of a Mr. Mott, in Peter-west, Woman.
ster, from whence IMP wersips were Genial eIL
Cooper, the olio; week fiat, ibeetbeheurdes M eeedeed, he
and Pople, yesterday morales, sopeebeisded twe sees. semesid ✓oiln
Morgan, and Mary Barton, Aim be knew to be laegated with a
gang of robbers, and strongly auspeeted to have been eescerned in
WI of the above robberies. . .

The two men wore placed at the bar, and also a man named
Marais, the keeper of a notorious/nice in Pye•treet,Westminstes,
and hit wife, charged with feloniously receiving the property, know.
ing it to hays been stolen.
Pople said, that a warrant being issued to search the house of
Martin, he, and Cooper, were proceeding there for the purpose of
executing it, and met Martin's wife on the road, whom he sus-
pected was going to make away with some of the stolen property.
They took her into custody and searched her, and found under her
cloak a bundle containing two gowns, a whittle a quilt, and other
articles, part of the property stolen from Mr. Naylor's. Having
secured the wife, they proceeded to the house, secured the hus-
band, and searched the premises, and found 64 duplicates of pro-
perty pawned at different pawnbrokers, several phosphorus boxes,
&c. They asked Mrs. Martin from whom she got the stolen pro.
perty, and she said she bought it of the prisoner Morgan, on
Saturday eight last, and gave him for the bundle of articles, and a
silver watch. 21. At the same time she said that Morgan de.
posited 19 sovereigns into her possession to keep for him.
Mr. M You suspect that Morgan was concerned In
Nott's robbery, from his having so many sovereigns in his pos-
session.

Cooper—We think so.
.Mr. 51 asked what was the evidence affecting Barton
Mrs. Naylor stepped forward and said, that on the night of the
robbery, on her return home and finding the house had been
plundered, idle went to the dnor to call for assistance, and saw
Barton standing near the door, who asked her what war the matter,
and she charged him with being concerned in the robbery.
The officer said if the prisoners were remanded fora few days
they had no doubt of being able to obtain clear and satisfactory
evidence against the accused.
Mrs. Martin here declared that her husband was not at home
when she purchased the property.
Cooper said that he surebed the lodgings of Barton and Me-
gan, No. 54, ',ye-street, and found dark buitherns, and imple-
ments of house braking, which be produced.
Barton and Morgan were committed for te-easednation on Fri.
day nut, and Martin was ordered to fini bail, himself in 1001.,
and two sureties in 501. each, to answer the charge of receiving,
and to give twenty-four hours' notice of bail.
The three have been repeatedly in custody for felony.
CHOICI *Vit.—Mr. Salisbury, the proprietor of the Botaulcal