The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-08 00:00:00

POI,ICE.

MANSION-HOUSL
Parc the bny that was a few days ago examined before the
Loan MAYOR, charged with having entered the house of a mere.
cal Gentleman, and stolen seven silk handkerchiefs, the property of
one of the appnmtiees, was fully committed for trial. He listened
to the evidence against him with great attention, but without ap.
pealing moved by in the slightest degree. It was mated that a per-
son could not pass from the house which had been plundered, to
that in which the young thief was found, without extreme danger
of tumbling into the 'onset. All attempts to get from him an
acknowledgment of his accomplices, of whom it is not doubted he
had several. proved unavailing.
The boats Maxon observed, that nothing would do for such
a deplorable instance of depravity, bu• transportation.
The witnesses were bound over to appear at the Old Bailey.
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Jolla Sergeant, a lad viinitimtettenea acts Si a drover, wearing
the badge 791, was charged with wantonly ill-treating a sheep.
John Finlay, one of the men engaged in penning the sheep in
Smithfield, said that for 40111 P tune he had discovered that while he
was absent getting refreshment, some persona. purely for amuse•
ment, tore out handfuls of wool from the backs of the poor Rnimal%,
amid since Christmas he had upon return found three sheep dead
from the cruel treatment they hail suffered. Ile determined there%
fore to keep watch on Thursday night, and about one o'clock he
saw the prisoner take a sheep out of a pen which contained four.
teen, drag it Into an adjoining apace, anti begin to beat it most
savagely with a stick. It could not have survived such violence
three rtinutes ; he therefore instantly rushed on the prisoner and
secured hint.
The prisoner, whn denied the charge altogether, was fined forty
shillings, and, in default. was committed to the tread.mill for two
months.

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MA RicHOROUGH-STREET.
Yesterday Mary Mearat was charged with robbing Ur. Thomas
Aston, of Edward-street, Itiaektriars, of 18s. fad.
Mr. Aston, who stated himself to be connected with Mr. Price's
glassworks' said that last evening, about half-past ten, having
parted with a friend in High Holborn. he w.oi returning home,
when the prisoner came up to hint as though to ask a question,
and putting her hand into his right hand waistcoat pocket, ab-
stracted la.. 6d. in silver. lie immediately missed his money, and
gave the prisoner in charge of the watchman.
The watchman who took the Outlier to the watch.house, said,
previous in searching her, he asked Mr. Aston what money he
had in his pocket, when he said 19.. in the whole, ore sixpence of
which was left in the corner. On searching the prisoner the exact
sum missing was found upon her.
The prisoner protested her innocence, said her husband was a
mechanic out of work, that the His. 61. was her own, and that when
taken to the watch house she had I/. 12s. 2d. . _ .

CONANT inquired very particularly as to her being properly
searched, and whether nny other moneys were Mind on her.
The night constable declared she had no other property than the
identical Ilk•. 841. mentioned. . . .

The prisoner wan fully committed for trial.
The driver of the cabriolet No. 15. *Mu; cane Rtand over that he
might produce the gentleman who hired Ilan, yesterday appeared
for the third time, and mated face to he min ill to attend,
The old woman nail nhe lived at No. 5. Queen-ntreet,Windmill-
street ; that, on returning battle shout half-pant nine o'clock on the
night of the 21st ult. she WWI knocked cbiwn by the defendant's ca-
briolet, hut all she could recollect was a blow on the head.

John Mack ntosh, a watchman. said he was on duty in Coventry.
street when the accident happened. He observed the vehicle con.•
ing at a rapid rate, and at the instant saw the complainant knocked
down In the road ; the home passed over her, with a wheel of the
cabriolet on either side. He ran to her assistance. helped her into
a surgeon's, and took the number. A gentleman came up to him
and said he had had a very narrow escape from being run over by
the same carriage.
Mr. Sullivan, surgeon, of Sherrard-street„ Golden-square, also
attended, and stated that the poor creature was conaiderellv reco-
vered, but that the wounds on her head and arm had at first an
a:arming appearance.
Mr. CONANT, who had threatened to woke an example of the
driver, in compassion for the complainant, allowed a compromise,
as, in the event of his fining the driver, the money would go to the
King. She had lost her work as a charwoman, and incurred an ex.
pence with her landlady of 14a.fid.
The defendant 'accordingly paid 21. to discharge the surgeon's
bill, and gave the complainant a sovereign in compensation for her
injuries.
William Bellamy, a twice.convicted pickpocket, and Charles
Smith, alias Turtle. were brought in by Reardon. and sent to the
tread-mill, for following their idle occupation in Drury-lane. Bel.
lamy was too well known for the Magistrate to ask him any ques-
tions. Smith said he had been to see his cousin in ‘Vhiteclinpel,
and on returning home to his father's (Turtle,) a butcher. near the
chapel, in Tottenham•court-road, met his companion. This story
did very well, till Mr. CONANT sent for the father, when his
right name was discovered. Old Mr. Turtle attended, said his
son was connected with a bad set, anti hoped the Magistrate would
imprison him but not send him to the tread-mill. Mr. CONANT
replied that he should make no distinction, and thought that hard.
boor might reform the youth.

woßsn I P-STREET.
Yesterday Joseph Tory/or was re-examined on the charge of hay.
ing been concerned, with a person named James Harper, in stealing
four cart-horses from Mr. Batten, of Brickwall, Herut, in Mardi,
1 t 125. _ .

Most of the witnesses against Harper, who was executed for the
robbery, have been brought forward in the course of Taylor's ex.
aminstions, and yesterday Thomas M uneasier. hostler at the Crown
Inn, Holloway, was produced, and identified Taylor. It appeared
from his deposition that three cart-horses and a mare in foal were
brought to his toaster's stables early one morning by the prisoner,
and were taken away again in the afternoon. He could not tell on
what day nor in what month, but he recollected that Attfield was
there that day and saw the horses.
Attfield stated that he saw four cart.horses in the stables at the
Crown, and particularly remarked them no being very fine cattle.
Two other horses which were with them he took away, and they
were found to have been stolen from a gentleman in E•sex. He
shortly afterwards received information of the robbery at Mr. Bat-
ten's, and he returned to the Crown for the four cart-::ones, but
they had been taken away in the meantime. He and t►anon,
with other officers, traced them from thence across Cambridge
Heath, and for smite distance on the road towards Bow.
The prisoner was again remanded until Monday.