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POLICE.

31AX stou-nor sc.—.l gentleman was brought before tie Lord
Nayor yesterday, charged by the Street-keeper of Cornhill with
having, ma lit of intoxication, endangered his own life.
Taylor. the street-keeper, suited, that on the previous evening, as
t,e was walking slung his beat, he now the gentleman following a
i•ultro .coach, ex if will the inyr lion of getting the number of it.
IVtinvoi called out to the coachman to toot., h.ti he whippet' an his
horses. although the gentleman took hold of the reins, and was in
great danger of being run over.
• The coachman, who attended for the purprse of levying a con-
Intition upon the unhappy defendant. stood forward, and said that
:* had Important evidence to give. He had, he assured the Lord
Never. been very badly treated indeed.
tor—l assure your bonlabip thatWbis coachman acted in the
rm.( Unita) manner on the oceasion• '.le whipped the gentleman
several times, notwithstanding me interference as an otticer, and
oven struck him as hard as he could with the butt-end of the whip.
The coachman loudly declared that there was no truth in this
statement. Ne had been moat desperately abetted by the prisor.er.
This was said in a tone, and with gesticulations, which confirmed
the statement that the fellow had conducted himself in the moat
rvflianly canner, when lie had it all in his own way.
The Loan 111AVOI: —Do not dare to call the gentleman a prl-
p set, ought to stand before me as a prisoner.
Coachman—l ! why, my Lord, I came here to be ilhentinntrd
'remunerated) for my loss. I'll tell you how it all vas, my Lord.
Let me be sworn—give me the book.

The Loan 31.torna-111 not hear you Itt. an evidence.
Here n penen of respectable sovtrance stood forward, and
stated that the Street keeper's shumnent watt perfectly accurate.
The gentl••rwn would, were it not for Taylor's interference, pro-
/ ably hate Brea run one and destroyed, as he was altogether un-
r.b:e to take care of himself.

The Loan MaYon—Now. coachman, Fit hear your def!.ice.
The Coachman—Vl, your Lordship, you see I had a fare. As
t was driving easy along the street, this here prisoner came up,
..rd he took and broke the glass of my coach, and he stopped my
horses, and I might a broke my neck. Fe I ram let go the reins.
:rower, and he woultrnt do no such thing. So I just touched him
with my lash, but I never, so help me tiod, attempted to touch
Dim with the butt-end; and now I expects to be paid fur my glass
.t• d my tare, what I have lost, and my day too, by this here pri-
.

The Street-keeper-111y Lord, he struck the gentleman in the
.:10111 manner, even when I held the Litter; and he knew
1.. • 1 'rd•, -n officer all the time. _ .

The I.OIID ItIATIIR asked time person who had caused all this
slistmhance, by hislnebriety, whet he had to say ?—lie replied,
that he had taken too much wine, and that, as he was crossing the
street, the coachman, who was driving furiously. struck him with
his whip. and repeatril the blow frequently, when he seized the
reins, In crder to get the number of the coach.
Ths LOUD Mayon-At is evident that you were in a disgrace-
ful condition, Sir. IrAeed I can no more take your evidence as to
the occasion, than I can that of this coachman. I shall fine you As.
tar being drunk.
The Coachman—Your I•ordship, I hope I am not to be without
y ;:1;. 'On riOli

rite Losn Mal-on—No, you shall pay those two men who
-have lost their day by attending here to represent your conduct, or
you shall find ball.
This &vision gave the greatest satisfaction.
The coachman, who called himself 31r. went away, after
tol:owing the advice, d—g his eyes.
The I.ono Alavon very highly commended the behaviour of
the street-keeper upon the ”ccasion.

rtijah Pinkory was charged by a clothier in the county of
Gloucester, to whom he had hven an *gem t for some time, with haring
pledged two rirces of kerseyniere, which had been intrusted to
him in older that he might sell them for die benefit of the pro.

Mr. Nathaniel Shackell Nailsworth stated that the prisoner was
h:, agent, and was employed by him to sell goods. On the 21 of
the present month, witness directed Daniel Taylor, a person also
in his employment, to deliver to Pinkney two pieces of kerseyincre
to sell on his account. Pintmey was his agent before this transae.
nor, and was to have two and a half per cent. COMMISSiON and he
neither received authority, directly nor indirectly, from the witness,
to pledge the kemeymere so intrusted ra
Ihnitt.l Taylor delivered the keneymere to the prisoner.
Joseph Bargees, eloopman to 111 r. Pure, of London-wall, stated
vitt the 24 Of October the prisoner pledged the two pieces of
hemmere at the shop, the one fcrls/. the other for il.
sfhe Loan Mawoa stated that in an Act in the Pith of Geo. IV.
cap. lot, there was a clause which made the offence just mentioned
• vitsdenteanour. It was a singular fact, lois Lordship remarked,
tbat the Act came into eperation on the Ist of October, and the
(ence Imputed was said co have taken place on the 2d. His Lord-
to.in titi-b read the following clause in the above-mentioned Act :
s• whereas It is expetlitatt to prevent the improper deposit of
trsia, wares, or merchandise, or the documents relating to such
Petits wares, or nierchantl'ise, intrusted or consigned as alneesaid
to homes or agents ; be it therefore enacted. that if any such factor
oe agent, se any time form and after the said Ist of October. 11124.
*ball deposit or pledge anpycats, wares, or merchandise, intrusted
he aferrsaid, with any person or persone, bodies politic or corporate,
as a security for any eonc) or negotiable instrument incruments,
borrowed or fret:reel by such factor or agent, rod shall apply or
shapes' thereof to his or her own use, in violation of good faith,
and with intent to deer:old the owner or owners of any such goods.
oa-es. or merchandise ;.--every parson so offending in soy low of
the Coked Kingdom shall be deemed and taken as guilty of a
misdemeanour; and bring convicted thereof, shall be sentenced to
ttsespottatios foe any time not exceeding fourteen years.
His Lordship immediately committed the prisoner, under the
ibt:re• mentioned Act, to Newgate for trial.

Or it. Dna Thomas t'uoirinc y L 14.14, who has acquired some
regeriety by feats of walking backward, was brought up foe re-
raismnatlon yesterday, befots Sir Peso* LAURIE, upon a charge
Titent perjur.
evidence given on a former day was read over, that he in.
formed Hanley, the Worship.rtreet officer. that a prtparer of base
coin lodged in the hack room on the first floor, et No. et, lirockley.
street, Golden-lane; that he brought the office* a plan or the room ;
1.1... t he swore to an Information at this office to the sante effect ' • that
when the officers were about to search the house, he pretended the
Feely hail removed to a court in Beech-lane ; that on searching the
latter, some colouring preparations were discovered, but that his re.
pelmet tetions as to the former were entirely groundless.
Harley now added to his deposition, tl:at lie desired Lloyd to
;acme!" what fastenings there were on the room door in Brickley.
Id, se* . and be told bias the next day there was no lock t but a but.
tea to the top, and another at the bottom of the door. lie prodkiceil
lime counterfeit half crowns, which Lloyd gars him as having been
obtathed from that house. _

I??. Collins, of No. 5, Brackley.streat, depored that there were
no back roon:s in his house, and thin had been no lodgers in it for
rears pa.t.
The orkoncr wished to be remanded, as he expected his friends
would employ Counsel for him, and he might find the man who bad
inis:ed him.

,1;.0.31wS11, the solicitor for the postcode% wild, that after
cone feting the cue, he had deterodned to abandon the
,Jiarge Of perjury, but he should 'stela in its stead that of obtain.
13111venty under false pretences.
Wer.lay ens again called. and stated, that on the day Lloyd made
toe be.t &go 'ton at the justice -mom, be hinted that he Wel• ba.ity
..ff, and wanted thous and ritress gate bhn 6s. It was fur lan
utlll es*.

'Wand, the marshaltnan, aid he wag maw when the money
was given, and that it wee pot given altogether for hie own use.
Iflfeess toyurehase some of the bad money with it.

Vim Alderman held that a stillicient eine had been made out to
warr,,r.t him in omitting the prisoner to find bail, and he was cum-
mated, whit directions to give 21 hoists' notice of his sureties.
(Whin iva Sullivan, a prostitute of the !wield order, wits charged
with stealing a watch true dlllMandff LOSIgIIIOIT. a journeyman
tan*, scalding is White Lion-court. Charteehouse-lane.
Thesoompluir.aet stated he was returning home late on Wednes-
-14 right, and was eccos,cd in King-street, Smithfield, by the
p teener. wisp asked hint to treat her. Ile gate her twopence, an
mei immediately snatched his witteit and nimep a court. lie Ml-
lo tied her, sod wiiilc he was stroggling with her, two of her female
"RAC secs Caine to her assistonce. lie called the watchman and
gste.the psimnefan charge, but the watch could not be found. Ile
efterWerde ti smeared she .seal, and rihand hstljteut separated
:rapt the smith, and pu: into his waistcoat
.IsmAtf. •
demge Bush, a wastaliutam.f M. Sepulcht. s, then stepped into
the witness lox, and eaid the complainant was very druids at the
tient. lie saw the prisoner and the man come up King-street
together, and tarn into Salisbury Anus-yard, Where, after vsnain-
ing live minutes. this- both cried out for the watchman. Ile was
studding opposite the entrance to the yard all the time, and was
psaluve that no females whatever went to the prisoner's astistance.
'l'bere was another entrance to Cie place, but the alarm brought a
watchman In that directiou, so that the two females spoken of could
tot have escaped that trey.
Ile* a gentlemen handed up a note to the Alderman that he
tsw tars watchman come out as Mo.shop, near the Wfice with his
peiserner, and halt a dosen other strumpets.
AillefOlati irked the night constable, Abraham Rine,
whether lie knew any thing of the circumstance.
ILF stated that the man was mushily very drunk, and that Ile
said had 1101 given the woman the 2(1, when he first came in.
ra:TRR in e watchman—l minnow you know this woman;
she walks ma your beat) Bush.s-Yce she does, your NVorshio.
So' PETER—Were you peter in a public-house together ? Bush
—..j.4l,Sirt never.
Sir-rsakn-.Arc yon pos:dve that you, have never been treated
by fig t Take care a hat you say. Bush—Never.
&a-Pc? vs recollected he had not been yet sworn, and had the oath
rid miulneral to him. Ile then cautioned hitn that his ansa er would
lit taken down, and asked Min whether lie had not been drinking
with the prisoner and same other pi ostitutes as he CRAM along to the
aGee that morning.
The colour new vanished from liush'meheeks, and lie stammered
get anaemia-inn.
The Alderman said he should commit the prisoner upon the tea.
liitiony of the ccentiktirona alone. The contradiction so readily
gi•en by the watt:ha:an tie et ould enemies trom his mind altogether,
fur he could not give the least credit to the fellow upon his oath,
who, when not sworn, would pertiraciowly persist in a port lie,
sold he permitted he wan detected. Ile did hat think the conduct
of t.,c night constable shogethor tree from suspicion ; but a• to the
watchman, he must be discharged from his c thee ; and lee ordered
she Inspector of the watch of St. Sepulchre's to by in attendance
to-Morrow (this) mottling at the Justice-mom.

HATTOW•CIAllOFN.—Yesterday, Sir John Paul, the bariker,isf
the Strand, appeared tot summons, honed on the complaint of the
parish officers of St. Clement Danes and St. Mary-le-Strand, for
refusing to pay the usual rewards paid to firemen and turneocks for
their attendance in cases of emergency.
The principal fireman of the St. Clement Danes engine said, that
he heard an alarm of fire about seven o'clock on Tuesday evening,
and oil getting into the Strand he discovered that it proceeded from
the house of Sir John Paul ; a body of thick black smoke was
then issuing from the chimney, which was succeeded by a ilia-
charge of sparks and large Hakes of burning soot, many of them
passing right 0.. r the house, and falling into the street. A second
engine came up at the time, and the witness, along with three other
firemen, knocked at the door, and informed one of the servant. that
they wished to go in an examine the house, as there was eery ap-
pearance of danger; after a good deal of resista:tce, they were suf-
fered to go down int.) the kitchen, when they wanted to put out the
fire in the grate, but the cook would not allow them to do so, as lie
had to prepare thinner fora large company; they remonstrated tenth
him, but to no purpose; however, they continued on the spot for
upwards of two hours, when there was no longer any danger to be
apprehended, atal therefore considered themselves entitled to the
usual bounties.
Sir John Paul—What services did you perform ?—We were in
attealanee until after nine o'clock.
Sir John Paul—But it seems you were not wanting ; the re of
which you seem to have entertained such fears went out of itself,
did it not?—Why, yes, Sir, it did to be sure, but it might not have
so happened.
Sir John Paul—These men are very considerate, no doubt, aryl
lam sure I ought to be obliged to them. There is no one who
fears fire more than I do, but on this occasion, I assure your
Worships, there was not the least danger to be apprehended, and
their interference was quite uncalled fur. The fact was, that on thin
evening there teas a large party to dine at the house, my son
having been married that morning ; there might, perhaps, have
been a larger fire than tsual in the kitchen grate, and as the flue
of the chimney is quite perpendicular, some of the amok% very
likely had ascended, which created the alarm in this attentive fire-
man's intc(l.
The fireman persisted in saying that there was very great danger,
fur the grate and the jack were quite full of soot, which had fallen
down the chimney.
Sir John Paul—Well, that seems very singular to me, for I
should suppose, if that were the case. that the operations of the
cook would have been impeded, and I know that I never had a
dinner better dressed—the soot certainly did not spoil the flavour of
an excellent haunch of venison which was roasting at the time; but,
as I may be considered interested in the decision, I must beg of the
Magistrates to examine my porter.
The porter was then sworn.—lle was in the house the whole of
the time. and followed the firemen into the kitchen, where he coon
find nothing to justify their apprehensions, beyond a large fire in
the grate. As porter in a banking-house, he should have thought
it mare particularly his duty to give alarm, if there was any eau-
'On ; but he looked up the chimney, and then went to the opposite
side of the Street, yet he could see no appearance of fire, nor more
than the ordinary quantity of smoke which might be supposed to
issue from a large chimney. Sir John had always made it a rule
to have the flues swept every five or six Week', and of course the
sow email not have accumulated.
Sir John Paul said he was unwilling to impute an improper mo-
tive to any one, but it seemed as if this had been selected a: a fa-
vourable opportunity for making a demand.
Mr. Sergeant SE1.1.0:1 jocosely asked the porter whether lie
thought the turtle or venison had suffired from the fire.
The porter, in reply, said they bad not in the least, and a more
con!Priabkr dinner was never sent to a table.
The Illagistmtes being of opinion that there was no ground for
the interference of the firemen, the complaint was dismissed.

J. Jervis, one of the box-keepers at Sadler's il'ells Theatre, was
brought up on a warrant, by Limbrick, charged with assaulting
Mrs. Mary Hughes, wife of flughes, of the Six Clerks' Office.
The complainant stated that she went to Hadler's Wells on
Tuesday evening. in company with three other ladies; the play had
commenced, and tae house wu very full, with the exception of one
box, in which there was room enough for her party, but on per.
eelving that the places were kept, she waited until the first act was
over, when she went into the box, though Ste man lett in charge
told her that it was engaged. She then said, I shall keep posses-
s;on or return the tickets. The defendant came up soon after with
a party, MA insisted on her quitting the box. Knowing this to be
contrary to the custom of all well-regulated theatrnt, she refused,
and the defendant ultimately forced her out of the box, with very
considerable violence. . . .

The defendant said that this theatre was not governed by the
ume rule as the Royal !louses, and the lady had no right to enter
the box at the time the did. When told of her error in the mildest
manner, she became very violent, and ilinturlicd the company, so
that he was compelled to take her out, but no violence had been
used.

A gentleman who wu in the box at the time corroborated the
defend Ant's statement ; be assured her the was wrong, and she told
Lim he lit d. The complaint was dismissed.

MaRLEOROUG - Ole ROI Tis--.3l:eafertlay„ so..atoitnied exami-
nation of Clieiter Thomas Whit,c. the book er in Holborn, was
concluded. The shop-buy df Whitt, whom Mr. blunt, the solici-
tor for the prisoner, promised, on Wednesday, to produce, was the
first witness examined yesterday. Se little was derived from his
evidence, that when Mr. Turner, the law-agent for the parish,
proposed some measure as necessary for his forthcoming on the day
of trial at the 01.1 Bailey. the lad being too young to be bound on
his own recognizance, and having no father.
Mr. ALLEY said it was of no oonaequence whether he came or
not, as he could supply all he said by other evidence.
Daniel Langlois, the shop-boy, stated that he had lived with the
prisoner a year and a half, and had always slept with his friends
except for a few nights, and once when a fire happened; and on
those occasion slept at his oldster's. Ott Sunday. the 17th of Sep-
tember, only the servant, Catherine Taylor. and himself, slept in
the(house. At halt-past four she awake aim by saying there was •
great smell of smoke in the back part tat the house. On going
down stairs, he observed the back stair-case window open, which
he was sure was shut over night. The window would not fasten,
the bar having been Inst. When he got to the bottom of the
stairs, he observed a great light under the parlour door, and no-
ticed it to Kitty. She said, "Oh. nonsense, it is only the moon-
beams." She then looked under the door, anti said, • Oh, there
is lire," and ran up for the key of the parlour door. When she
came down with it, and opened the door, he saw there was
a tire. There had not been a fire in the grate for a week
before. After the servant unbolted the daor the watchman came
in, and put the tire out. His mss:er had gone to Kentish-town
for the benefit of his health, and did not give him any instructions,
to case of fire happening, to go to hint, and let him knaw. When
he went to his master at half-past six, he went into his master's
bed-room, and told him there had been a tire at his house. His
master said, " Oh, nonsense! I cannot believe it." Witness re-
joined, "If you don't believe it I cannot help it." Told him it
aas all oat, and asked him to go and see. His master refusing, his
mistress told him he must go. lie said, "Very well. I will come
directly." The witness then went away, but his master did not
start till half-put ten. Ile had observed the removal of any
bricks. On Sunday morning he observed that a piece of the
skirting-board had been removed. When his master came about
hall-past ten, he did not make any observation about the fire. He
kept his money in an iron chest, and sometimes in a drawer.
%t tutees saw the servant take a bottle of turpentine from the
cupboard or the Sunday before the fire,o hen simeaid, Oh, here's
• bottle my master did not know of."
Godfrey Lazarus, of No. 3, Itutland-street, Oloneester.terrace,
jeweller, mated, that he lodged with the prisoner twelve months,
and left finally on the Tuesday after the first fire, On the 4th of
August his family went to bed about twelve o'clock, and at half-
past one were awoke from die ef!iset of smoke. He called out there
was tire, and all his family got down into the passage and into the
street. They returned into the passage, and there tom White, lie
wife, and the servant. Mr. White and I'urzcman persuaded him to
chargthis own servant (Margaret Drew) on suspicion, which he
dA, and she was taken to the watch.betote. After witness returned
from the watch-house, lie met 31r. iVhite, laughing, in the pas-
sage. Ile told the prisoner lie saw nothing to laugh at. The poi-
loner said, " I would not prosecute her, if I was you." On the
fullowiog morning, the prisoner told him he was determined to pro.
mute the girl to the utmost. The girl was in eastody, on a charge
of ;neon, from the Satunl ty to the Wednesday following. In con-
sequence of the prisoner leaving the house to sleep at Kentish-town,
the witness declined sleeping in the 'muse. any loggc
.40/ist Lazarus, wife of the last witness, ...e'lh the gib
f August by an alarm of fire. The next day prisoner told her it
must be her servant that set her house on fire, and nobody else.—
Witnms thought it impossible from the good conduct of the gitl,
and her liming all her Ombes in the house. On the Toesday night
previous to the fire, shellrisoner lest the house, and his wife slept
with the 'matt. On going to bed site observed the trap-door
open, anti a ladder placed up to it ; the said it vas strange, and
her husband called bitty to ;olnOwe it ; her husband removed the
ladder ; site had never seen the ladder there before, or but once.

YMICp Riley. the beadle. gave the same testimony aeon his pre•
cinu♦ examination as to the links, and tracing snots of pitch along
the Ititchih of Mr. leszarus to the cellar wider the stairs.

Edward Gore, 269, High Holborn, tailor and draper, went into
the prisoner's holm with Furzentan, and merely repeated the tee.
timony of Furzeman about the hearth-rug being soaked in turpen-
tine, and the Mooring-boards touting up very easy, as though they
had not been nailed down.

Mr. ALLEY wished the witness to divulge something the wife
of the prisoner had told him in her Inithand's pretence; but, after
going into ‘l'llite's bed.tooin, she went on her knees and begged
for Ciod's sake that he would not tell any person what had passed ;
ht solemnly promiatd her be could hot, and, notwithstanding
the oath he had t:.ken that day, he could not.
Mr. ALLEY told him he would not press him then, but there
wa no tlouht the Judge would islet of it.
Al,.(lore said, sooner thro brtak his promise, he would forfeit his
recognizances.
Alr. ALLEY told him he would not putithe question to him on
the trial.

Mr. Blunt smiled at 3lr. Gore while gi►ing his e►idence, which
induced tile lateer to state dist the former had threa.cned hint with
an action, which Mr. Blunt quail:kr, by saying he had nut sent
a idler to that effect.

Mr. ALLEY fold 31r. Gore he had good grounds for an action
in the Coin of King's Bench for the threat.
Mr. Arrot.rucs insisted the threat was very proper, which
brought an angry observation from Mr. Gore, who war retorted on
bit. Mr. Adolphus calling him " Mioer tailor," and telling him lie
wax " a foolir.h atupicialeaded old man." " Well," paid Mr.
Gore, " will you give me Mlle of your ointment ?" Mr. Ado!.

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phus told him not to be impudent, and to grand cool himself few a
hissing goose."
11r. Atmernes put it to Sir George Parrott if he thought
there was sufficient doubt to admit the prisoner to bail, which could
be procured to a reesonable amount.
Mr. ALLEY said he should indict the prisoner on three separate
charges; the 4th of August, the 18th of September, and the 4th of
October.
Mr. Anoernes-1 nay you have not proved sufficient for one,
nor the position of one.
Mr. Aimex submitted the charge was of that nature, that a
Magistrate could not take bail.
Sir (JEOnnE FARR•NT refueled to accept bail.
White applied to remain at the New Prison instead of being sent
to Newgate, anti asked if he could not be permitted to remain where
he had been till the day of his trial. Ile was told that the errenge-
ments necessary for a return to the Sheriff of all prisoners to
be tried at the Old Bailey obliged his removal there a fee days
previous.
The prisoner was fully committed.
111ARYLEHONE.—Yrsterday Jr;l:n Readily and Joules was, the
latter a mere boy, were brought up for examination before .Thner
BAWL THSON, Esq. charged with robbing the Harrow coach, near
Holliedon Green.
In consequence of many of the coaches on the western roads
having latterly been plundered while traversing the journeys, by an
organized gang, theoffice wee crowded by coaceimasters,&e. Roth
prisoners were dressed very genteelly, and had been at the office in
custody twice before on charges of felony, and Readily, it was
stated, is the leader of a gang of robbers, who have interned the
above roses, and immeditte successor in command of James
Henley, who was hanged for his participation in the outrages at
West-end fair.
It appeared in evidence that Mr. Turner, the proprietor of the
Harrow roach. was driving on Wednesday afternoon, and when
close to Hollisdon Green, about seven miles from Harrow, Mrs.
Hartley, a passenger, who was sitting at the back of the conch,
called to him that son :e turn were robbing the coach. Mr. Turner
instantly pulled up, and alighted from the coach. The two pee.
soners, upon the alarm. darted across the road into a hedge,
Rcaddy carrying with him a carpet travelling hag belonging to Mr
Sergeant Routh, which had been deposited in the hind boot of the
coach, and he threw the bag into the ditch, and finding he could cot
conceal himself in the brambles, he retreated across the fields; but
Mr. Turner raising en alarm, Mr. Christmas, a gentleman living
at a villa in the fields, came out, anti with his servants intercepted
the prisoners' mercer, and they were both secured. The younger
prisoner, Wilke, upon being stopped, sunk down to the ground,
exclaiming, in great agitation, " Ile quiet, don't do any thing, let
me fetch wind.' The man oho captured him complied with his
request, as he appeared perfectly exhausted and breathless. The
other prisoner looked as If inclined to resist, but WAS soon over-
powered and rendered incapable of resistance. Upon being brought
to the coach. Mrs. Hartley identified them as the persons who had
opened the boot door, and carried away the hag.
Mi. Hew et escrer observing that Readily had changed his drew',
since he had been in custody, said that the watch-house keeper
had acted very improperly in allowing him so to do.
;Iles. Ilartley, however, said she was positive the prisoner was
the mail; indeed, there was no doubt of it, as other witnesses, who
had seen the prisoners following the coach. confirmed her evidence.
Readily said it was all false, anti complained of the Magistrate's
course of examination, the wirtesees bteng all in the office instead
of being separately examined, which he said enabled them all to
ter the same story.
Mr. RAW LI xsox—But i cennot see any motive for their swear.
ing falsely besides, your changing your dress looks like an inters.
Lion to evade Identity.
Readily—That's nothing, your IVonehip; I have not had fair
play. In a cavelike this, you know in so sudden a transaction, it's
impossible to swear to the man.
Mr. It *Vette/sox—Yes, but can you account for being on the
road and so near the coach ?
Readily smiled and said, f am not to he thrown off my guard.
AA' erersoe said that the evidence was perfectly conclu-
sive, and committed there to Neamste for trial.
Beadily, as he withetrew, requested Mrs. Hartley to reconsider
her testimony.
It is singular what an excitemeut attends the capture of a noted
thief. The avenues leading to the office were thronged with per.
sons regarded " by the world's law," all anxious to heat the result
of Readdy'sexatnination.
An elderly woman, named Williams, residing ret No. 17, Edge.
ware-road, came to this office and stated-she was walking along
Oxford-street, on 11•ednesday afternoon, about six o'clock, when a
very respectably dressed woman tapped her on th!e shoulder, and
said, " Madam, I beg your pardon, but lam unwell, and should
feel obliged if you will mind this parcel for me for a minute." She
scarcely had time to answer the request before the inquirer vanished,
and she remained for above an hour walking about the spot ; but
the steamer never returned, anti she not knowing what to do with
a parcel so strangely intrusted to her care, carried the bundle to
Mr. Harris's, Hid, Oxford-street, to whom she was known, and
I stating the circumstance, deposited the huddle in his care; mean kit
beiujiesposted, it was found to contain Mt pieces of lace, a variety
of every description of wearfing apparel, consisting of Owes, come,
&e. Mr. Harris, having taken an inventory of the articles, thought
it advisable to state the very odd circumstance to the Megistrate.
Mr. Ciatretert advised that publicity might be given to the cir-
cumstance, as probably some light might be thrown upon it.
THAMES OFFICT:.—Samarl flanks, a young man about 3?
years of age, a mate of an ludiaman, most fashionably dressed,
was put to the bar, charged with committing a rape mien a Miss
Duffield, a highly respectable maiden lady, about 45 years of age,
the joint proprietress of a respectable seminary tot young ladies, in
the Commercial-toed.
Vies Duffield, accompanied hy Miss Spencer, her partner, and
another lady, entered zhe office; such was the mental anguish which
seemed to oppress her, that she was quite unable to support herself.
Mr. BAI.LANT 1N E humanely ordered her to be accommodated
with a chair. He then requested her to compose herself, and after-
wards to state the circumstances of this melsocholy transaction.
'this respectable but unfortunate lady was so overcome by her
feelings, that it it was with the utmost difficulty that 31r. Italian.
tine was able to obtain the following particulars of this brutal oc-
currerce :--She stated that she has known the prisoner fur many
yeats, ever since his earliest boyhood ; they are bath from the vi:-
Lege of eleasingham, in Norfolk, and the closest habits of M-
aniere subsist between their Curettes ; ehe and Miss Spencer keeps
a lady's school in the Commercial-Toed, and have done an tor
several yeses past ; the prisoner, almet ten days ago, arrived from
India, and immediately celled upon them. !leashed her, could
they accommodate him with an apartment in their house ? They
having a spare one, they agreed to do an, perfectly happy to have
it in their power to oblige& person she had knoweetra lung, and for
shorn she had such a high c:teem, and whose Ramer conduct to-
wards her was such, that she always locked uuen him more in the
light of a sincere friend and beloved bendier than any thing else;
she said that on Tumeley night, about ten o'clock, the prisoner re.
turned home, and, after tabiag supper, he inquired where was Mies
Spencer. She replied, that she was gone to spend die day at a
friend's, and would not return that vig!.t. She then observed to the
prisoner, that it was time to retire ; to which he assented, and she
took the candle, for the purpose of lighting him up stairs, as she
had been in the habit of doing; anti being apprehensive of fire,
site always placed the candle upon the mantelpiece in the room,
lest, through neglieence, any accident might occur. Having done
so, on her prisoner good night, as usual. he seized her by
the arm, and dragged lice towards the bed she became alarmed,
and asked him what he meant ? He made her no answer, but
threw her on the bed. When she Saw what his object was, she
begged, she entreated, she made every appeal which hum-
ility or reason could suggest, but all in vain—he swore he would
accomplish his purpose, no matter what might be the conse-
quences. Sire then screamed out. He instantly took the pillory,
and endeavoured to cover her brad, :led aware he would smother
her. The pillow, in the stniegte, having fallen on the floor, he
took a part of the *twee arid put U. into. her month, which, by an
t flint of her arm, she got rid of. He then tore a silk handkerchief
ifetich she wore round her neck, mid forced it into bee mouth,
which had nearly choked her ii and after detaining her an hour,
and treating her in the most brdeel manner possible; she escaped
from him, left the house, and went to hex friends.
Mr. Beeeestmtwe said, he wee well aware how repugnant it
must be to a person of her didicacy and education to state further
fact than what she had alreaelwillene, but she mud be mote parti- •
toles id the detail. He theme-0,7d every person out of the office.
Mts.. Duffield, in the greaten distress of mind, and bursting into
an agony or team, was unable to proceed, except to say, that she
had Leen treated most brutally. •
Mr. BALLANTINE said he ample! take Neater particulsen from
a medical gentleman, and -re*ested that Slits 1). should have an
interview with one ; but before she.should tin so. he begged to eels
her one g estion, whether theme-mar had ever made any overtures
to her in the character of an :Minder ?
Mitts Duffield solemnly pretested that he never had ; and know.
ing him as site dad iron his childhood, she never considered hint
are other than as a brother, an-1 in the plenitude of her confidence
in that character she admitted hint to lodge in her house.
BAL LAN T INF. inquired whether there were no persons in
the house during the outrage, who might have heard her cries ?
Mild Duffield replied, that the kitchen was so remote that it was
impossible to hear her, as she was nearly smothered, end she be-
lieved the' servants were out; the.c were three children in bed
above stairs.
The medical gentleman having been sent for, and having had an
interview with Miss Duffield, his evidence was taken in private,
and he side that he could net positively say that the capital offence
had been perpetrated. Vet he declared that site suffered the most
terutal injury he had ever witneesq.
Mr. DAL LANTINE waked the• prieuner what, be could say for
himself.
The prisoner, with the most puppyish affixtation of sorrow, said
upon his hosuntr he was sorry, very miry indeed, for what had
occurred; he must have been intoxicated.
Ale. Bet.retw et sm.-Take the fellow out; I shall hold him to
hail for the ruffianly ass alt, himself is 1000/. and two sureties in
3004 each ; Miss I h,iffueld I'll bind over in 3001. to prosecute, and
Mies Spencer ill Net. to give evidence ; and aim the medical gentle-
man in fill. All parties were then bound over, and the prisoner
was locked up until lie should procure bail.
Several highly respectable gentlemen from the neighbourhood of
the Commercial-road attended, and, having expressed the greatest
indignation at the manner-in which the unfortunate lady had been
treated, declared that females of more unblemished characters than
bliss Duffield and Miss Spencer did not exist.

LAmn E T 11-ST■E F. T .—Yesterday Mr. Ak.rfindnientith, a re.
alienable looking middle-aged man, said to be possessed of con-
siderable property near Worthing, was brought up in custody of
Dalton, the officer, who apprehended him, after an unwearied
search, at Lambeth, and placed at the bar before Sir Daniel Wit.
Hams, charged with having Illegally Intermarried with !Miss Mary
(llasco:t, his first wire, Lucy Keefe, alias Smith, being then living.
It appeared that Miss Dimon had on several occasions met the
prisoner at a Dissenting Chapel in Lambeth-walk, and that they,
mutually noticing each other's devout attention to the service, an
acquaintance commenced, which soon merged into friendship, and
from thence Into a wanner passion ; matters soon came to an
rehircilßement, and the prisoner, 'who represented hiniAlf as a
single man, was profuse in his declarations of affection and endear-
ing constancy. The listening fair not was at last beguiled, and she
introduced him to her family ; the acTiaintance, however, did not
please her r, who expressed in no equivocal terms his dis-
approbation or the connexion ; hut when did lathers feel ft,. • lover's
pangs? Never, thought :Hiss Dlaactitt ; and perish fifial duty when
the calls of a lover are to be atttaded to. After some further trial of
his constancy, she determined to consult her own inclination, and,
having the banns published in St. Martin's in the Fields, she there,
as she then thought, had her fate indissolubly united to his. The
evidence in support of the charge was to the following effect :
Mr. William Craddock Dlaseott examirteil-1 tint a saddler, and
live in Union-street, Lambeth-walk. I charge the masonic with
having married my daughter, 3lary Wescott, he having a wife
living at the same time. I produce a copy of the entry in the re.
gister of marriages celebrated in the parish of Sr. Slartin's in the
Fields, which I compared with the entry itself, and bad it to be in
every instance correct.

Tile copy wax here rend, end is fOHOWN :
" Alexander Smith and Mary Ohiseott both of ibis parish, were
married in this cburch by banns, on the fourth day of May, ono
thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, by met
" DAVID MOR X, elliate.

" This marriage was aolemnized between us, Alexander Smith
and Mary tilaseott, In the presence of " Jou x TaVr.GR and
"ELIZABETH POWELL."
Exsmination resumed—l was not present at this marriage, but
to my knowledge the prisoner has been residitut and cohabiting
with my daughter as her husband since it was celebrated. Senna
time after it took i lace, I was informed that he was married before,
and that his first wife was in existence, and then reaided at 11'orth.
ing, in Statistic. lin consequence hastened thither, and found her
at her father's house. She told me that she only was the lawful
wife of the prisoner, Alenantler Smith, who was formerly Pay.
maater-strgeant in the light company of the tilat regiment of foot,
and at that time an officer of the Penitentiary at I
have since Wel tained that he was connected witli that prison, but
that he was discharged about two months 'thief. lies first wife
told me that she was married to 'him in the parish of East Match.
ington, in Sussex. I went to the Rector and procuted a copy of the
entry, which, by compariscn, I know to be also correct, and which
I now produce.
" Alexander Smith, of this pariah, Sergeant of the 81st regiment
of foot, and Lucy Keefe, widow, also of this parish, were married
in this Church by banns, this fifth day of March, one thousand
eight hundred and ten, by rye "JOHN SHARI', Curate."
" This marriage was soieninizxl by tot—Alexander Smith and
Lucy Keefe, in presence of, ' DAVID EVANS, and
" WILLIAM BUTTON."

The prisoner, in his defence, denied being discharged from the
Penitentiary, and said he had voluntarily resigned his situation.
Dalton, the officer, told the Magistrate that if the prisoner was
remanded for another day, lie had no doubt, from the information
he received, but that he would be able to prove a third marriage
contracted in Scotland, of which country the prisoner is a native,
against him. lie sea remanded accordingly.
liwroir.rta Lt.—Yesterday a gentlemanly•looking man attended
before the Sitting Magistrate, J. S. CALDW ELL, Esq. for the pur-
pose of making the following application.
Applicat.t 'addressing the Magistrate) -I called here to apply for
a warrant against my wife, who haa absconded from bet home,
without any just cause.
111 r. ('ALDw EL 1. (with some surprise}-Really, Sir, you must be
aware that I should not be justified in complying with your request.
Had the lady cornittitted an assault upon you, then it would be a
ditferent question ; but I have no more authority in compelling
your wife to return, if she thinks proper to abandon her home, than
I should have were the circumstances of the case reversed, and she
had made a similar application with respect to you.
Applicant was s;i11 doubtful on the point, and said, " With sub-
mission to your ‘Virrship, I am of opraion that the law would jus-
tify )ou in issuing a warrant for the apprehension of a woman that
I strongly suspect is running me in debt with various tradesmen,
all of which debts will come down plump upon me by-and-by."
The Magistrate said that the applicant appeared to have formed
a very erroneous notion of the law of tic: case. If he (the (leen-
dint) wanted to have his wife rearmed, the best method for him to
proceed upon would be, to ascertain her present abode, and en-
deavour, by conciliating measures, to prevail on her to return home.
Applicant—All I want, Sir, is, to recover poesession of ivy wife,
as I kgens ihwill we do only means of keeping me ont of prison,
and, in the end, of saving her from Destruction—perhaps drowning
or hanging.

The Magistrate asked him whether he was aware what part of
the town his wife Was row residing in 7—He replied in the nega-
tive, and. assuming a doleful tone, said that lie was fearful he
should soon knew to his cost, when the tradesmen's bills began to
pour in upon him.
The Magistrate said that he lamented he could be of no assist-
ance to him, but he would recoirmerd him, if his wife was an ex_
traeagant woman, and that he was fearful she would run him into
debt, to pat an advertisement in the imwsinmers, warning those
whom it may concern nut to give her credit. That expedient would
operate, in all probability, prevent the consequences that he so
much readed.

The gentleman then retired. thanking the Magistrate for Ms ad.
vice, although his application, lie intimated, did not meet with the
success that he at first anticipated.

A young man named Meirgf, in the service of Mr. Gordon, M
Denmark-hill, Camberwell, was charged with stealing a desk, con.
twining money and various documents of importance, the property
of his master.

From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner had been but a
short time in Mr. Gardnn's stmt.% and had resigned his place be.
cause he refused to Rear livery. During the short period he was on
trial, he observed that his master was in the habit of placing money
in tbe desk in question. 'Subsequent to his having quitted the situ•
cation, he called at Mr. Gordon's house, on the pretence of seeing
one of the servants, and availed himself of an opportunity of
entering the apartment where the desk was placed, which he
contrived to carry out of the premises unobserved. Soon after
the robbery was effected the &sic WAS missed, and a constable
having been procured. the prisoner was taken into custody. and the
tn,w•ers which he wore were stained all over with ink, which was
ascertained to have b, en caused by the awkward manner in which
lie carried off the desk, the ink-stand within it having been upset,
and the contents daubing his pantaloons as rt' ”ve described. The
evidence being conclusive against the prisoner, he was fully com-
mitted for trial.

CO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.

your pap, r of this day is reported a case which, I re-
gret to say. is weenie!, incorrect in nearly every particular.
As the party complaining, and therefore the party most egg. irved,
I beg to submit the following corrections for inserth.n in your next
publication : —The person against whom I obtained a " peace
warrant" is named George Maddirk, and not, as reported," Henry
My name is spelt (and well known) Jeffreys, and nal
" Jefferies." I did not mention the name of any other paper than
the Englial Gentlenurn. The person who so very improperly and
unnecessarily interrupted the proceedings of the
_police-office is
named (and is likewise well known as) 3latthew Wasbrough,
stead of " Mr. Vasburgh." Again, it was not on Saturday, but
on Monday, that I said the defendant had, "fur a second time,
most grossly insulted me, by threatening me with personal violence,
in consequence of my hitting approached a box appropriated to the
use of the Engler Gentkopta news:taper, in the back office.'
However, my principal object in this communication is, to defend
.my name and character front the vile and insiduvus aspersions of
the person named Wasbrough, who, as 1 have before shawl, "so
very improperly and unnecessarily Mterropted" the businem tbe
-public, by interfering in a ease with wluch lie was in no-wise
concerned. That person is said to have " interrupted" rne, by
saying, " You're a discharged servant—you were discharged for
very good reasons." And the paragraph commences with, • Mr.
Wasbuegh (Wasbrougto, the proprietor." Now, in the first place,
foe the sake of my name and reputation, the only two things on
*MO I depend for the good-a ill and support of the public, 1 beg
most ea:tenuity to assert, that the man alto has taken upon himself
to dischargeme froth the service of the Englidt Gentleman news-
paper cannot adduce a single cause for such proceeding Moe do I
wish M occupy your pages with the real cause). Secondly, the
person styling himself proprietor or the " English Grutlentan" is
enly a small-part proprietor. I canrot but regret that this commu-
nication should hare extended to so great a length; but if you will
only call to mind what is said by SINAICSPEARE, on the inestima-
ble value of a " good name," I feel certain list )ou will do me
the favour of inserting this in the next impression of your Journal.
I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
14, York-street, Covent-garden, W. JEFFREYS.
Thursday, Oct. 12, 1826.

Some doubts having arisen on the qualiAntion 9f jurora,
under the Tate Act, application has burn made to Mr. Peel
on that p.itiject, and the rolliming answer has been received
by the Magistrate who addressed him :
.

" Whitehall, Sept. 28, 11120.
" Sir,—l am directed by 11r. Secretary Peel to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the tth instant. The clause of the Jury
Act to which you refer was not introduced by Mr. Peel, but by an-
other Member, whose Intention in introducing it was expressed in
the circular letttr of the 10th of August last, to which you adverted ;
and though the words ore certainly equivocal, f apprehend that the
meaning may bo aufliciently collected from the context—tot if a
juror were in be qualified by being rated to the poor'.-rate at 201. a
year, on any property whatever, it would be absurd to require an
assessment to the house duty, which applies to the house only tot
the sane value. Mr. Peel is aware that this construction has not
been universally acquiesced in,
.and he intends in the next Session
to introduce a Dill for amending the defect in the Act, and any
Qtber which may in the mom tithe be discovered.
(Signed) " G. R. DAWSON."