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London, England, 1824-08-25 00:00:00

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MA NSION -HOUSE. i
A young French girl applied to the LORD MAYOR for relief'
under the following eircumatanees :
She stated. through an interpreter, tlest she Is the daughter of a
widow, who keeps a shop in a town in France (the name of which
we dirt hear) ; that when the Vanish tmops were over there, she
fell violently in love with a young tarot soldier. and that her mamma,
to prevent her running away with lilm, caused her to he imp I
ri-
aimed until the regiment to which he belonged bad mar
Mrsooched k
her'
away
and was embarked. She however escaped from prison,
friends, fin{ her country, and. after a great deal of labour. succeeded I
' its getting to her lover. They lived for a long time together in i
great lumpiness, until 'he was discharged, when, be being unabandlase i
Ito get anysemplm meat, they were reduced to great mis
he could not (she bclieved)hear to see her in distress withoSheut being
able to assist her, he had fled she knew not whither. now ex-
i peered to become a mother font is Choir( ; she had not a friend in
i the country or a single sobs in the world : she had appliedgo the
1 French l'onsul to send her home, but lie refused t., have anything
[ to say to her, or render het any assistance, because she was married
to a foreigner, and she now, therefore, depended on the humanity
of the Lord 3layor to preserve her from perishing.
A gentleman present stated to the Lord Mayor, that our soldiers
were found to be as formidable to the women as to the men in
France. When our army re.emharkeei, no less than 6,000 French
women, who had given up their homes end their country to follow
the red coats, were cruelly stopped and sent bark. Numbers, how.
ever, got over afterwards, and many had settled here.
The Loan lil.ii on wished to know how, when both parties
were ignorant of each other's language, they contrived to make
love ?
The French girl replied, with much vivacity, that her poor hus-
band's eyes spoke a language that was universal.
The Loan MAYOR could not believe they had been !mellifluent. i
Ills Lordship expressed his concern for the situation of the (tom
girl, whose husband Was unworthy of his country or his cloth thus
Ito quit her, although she scented to think he could not help it. It
sins to be feared she would cut a sad Spire, and might be rather in-
differently received when she returned home ant presented herself
before her mamma with the fruits of her obstinacy. His Lordship
had received a sum of money. with a reuest that he would direct
' its appropriation to the relief of some individual placed in circum-
stances of particular necessity. His Lordship directed part of the
money to be given to the poor girl, who will thus be enabled to get
1 home before the period of her "vouchment.
BOW-STREET-
PICIPOCZETS.-I(mtday JAR Starkey and WM. SaTilh, two
lads, were brought beforere 6. R. Mt want 1.1., Esq., by Avis, one
of the patrol. charged with being reputed thieves, and with lurking
about the it, enues of the English Opera Iloase, with intent to com-
mit MOO y ~ upon the persons and property of his Majesty's sub-
jects, then and there being," ' as the Vagrant Aet has it.
Avis saw the two prisoners on the watch for the audience coming
out, and knowing them to be reputed thieves, he took them into
custody. Ile searched them, and found upon Starkey what must,
certainly be regarded as strongly indicative of his belonging to a
certain profession. This was a copper medal, upon one aide of
which were very neatly and accurately engraeedw brace of pistols,
a crow-har, a pick-lock, and two skeleton-keys,-1 dark lantern,
. phosphorus-box, and matches ; the whole surmounted by the
i word " Senate '.'' in large capitals. Or. the other side appeared—
" When this you *cc
Brmember me
When I ant far away.

John Starkey."
Mr. NI t Waill'l.L declared that, in the wrioleUM of his expe-
rience, he never met with a stronger proof of determined
pe vice and
profligacy than this. There could be no doubt that the
rner re-
garded thieving as a regular trade, and that he gloried in it. An
example must be made of him and his companion.
The prisoners had little to say, and were committed to hard la-
boor in the House of Correction fur two months.
people M'Catihil, and James lll'Carlhy iron related). wen
charged by Morris. Leadbetter, and others, under similar circuits.
'tams with the last. prisoners.
They were sent to the tread-mill for three weeks.
Sir other lads, all of them very young, were committed for va-
rieus periods upon the same charge !
HATTON GARDEN.
TOLl.S.—lresteLty ea
sed T. Colson, lessee of the Highgate
Archway Turnpike, appe on behalf of one of the tool collectoes,
.mimed
ta answer the complaint of a Mr. Bingham, for
an unjust demand of toll.
Mr. Bingham stated, that on the 15th inst. he passed through
the gate in a glass coach, and paid the toll then demanded, and re-
ceived a ticket. On returning to town, though lie had-not passed
through any other gate, the toll was again demanded, and on pro-
'luting his ticket, he was told that it was useless, as persona must
pay for each time they pass. As Mr. Bingham had passed the
I MOW gate about six weeks ago, without a second demand for toll,
and as he conceived that there could be no rational meaning to
giving tickets, if the tell could be detnanded every dme a person
tent ffirbugh the gate, he felt it Ida duty to have the magistrates'
I.Piton the subject.
r7Collon in defence, stated, that the collectors were authorised
ta deman^lie sum of sixpence on every horse passing through,
but that "there was a private understanding between hint :rid the
trwstees m permit vehicles • bleb arc private property to pass with-
oat toll, but to demand it frmn all that are lure. ; in ream of fact,
Lit was quite optional with hint what ho demanded, as far as the
sum of sixpence (the limit prescribed by the Turnpike Act), and
he was at liberty to indulge his own caprice from whom and how
often in the day he extracted the toll.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON (with whom concurred Mr. Marmaduke
Sellers) observed, that though the trustees of the Highgate Arch-
way Toll may consider it private property, and of course make
private regulations, they ate still amenable to the Turnpike Road
Act, and that they should so far conform to the clauses in that act,
as to have it distinctly written on their board, what vehicles are,
and are not subject to toll, without subjecting passenger, to be 'le-
, pendent on their whims. It was a very irregular mode of pro-
ceeding.
SET.LON' observed, that if such capricious demands were,
' made on him, be would certainly dispute the
.paywent of them.
As the Turnpike Act bore the trustees out 'awaking the demand,
,the magistrates were compelled to diunfie the coniphilat, not, how.
Fever, without severely animadverting on the hardships to which the
public ie exposed.
bIARLBOROCOIT-STREET.
Rtnewiten Dorrputte.—Charks Talbot, one of the " Deny
11n11" fraternity, was yesterday chatged with sulawfally collecting
dust in the parish of St. George, Ilanover-souare.
It was proved by the servant of 51r. Kelly, the dust contractor
for the parish of St. George, that the prisoner and another man,l
who is not in custody, collected dust glut ashes front several houses'
'in the perish, they not being hit servants, or authorised by himl
to do an.
Mr. Kelly said, that these frauds were carried on to a great)
extent, and to his material injury. The prisoner was some time,
logo caught in a similar act, and was sent to prison for a month; as
then expiration of which time, in order that he should not oommit I
die offence again, be (Mr. Kelly) offered to take hint into his'
Service at 17.. per week, and gave him bs. to begin with ; but the
prisoner only worked fur hint one day, and then went to his old
trade of collecting the dust on his own account, boasting that he
could earn 17a. per day at it. This was a most ruinous practice,
as these fellows obtained gratis what he (Mr. Kelly) paid the parish
several thousand pounds a-year for.
he Magistrate ordered him to pay a fine of 10/. ; the money not
being forthcoming, he was committed to prison for a month.
Several persons residing in alonstiouth-street, St. Odes's, were
summoned for exercising their worldly calling during Divine Ser-
vice, on the Sabbath day. They were fined ss. each, and costs.
MARY-LA-110NNE OFFICE.
Sot x nriwo.—Yesterday a young and very intelligent lady re-
quested the advice of the Magistrate under the following circum-
stances :
The fair applicant stated herself to be the friend of a foreign
lady, who, a short time since, had established herself in the neigh:
bourhood of Regent-street, in the fancy millinery business, and
as in the habit of displaying some of the gayest of ibs Par
cadet. She had only conimenced,business a few dam whoa *pm-
ann. dressed in the most elegant and fashionable style, entered the
shop, and gave some orders in the business, by direction of a lady
of equally dashing exterior, who accompanied him, and desired the
articles to be sent to a house near Lisk-street. They were accord.
ingly kft, as were also goods, the subject of an order subsequently
meek; but no motley could be obtained, and the French lady had
the misfortune to learn, that she had been duped by a swindler of
most accomplished impudence amid address, as he turned out to ba.
He had, even after incurring those debts, called at the shop, sad
was•about moving ofl' with a cap, &c. but was prevented, and per-
ceiving some wish to detain him, he became alarmed, and darted
out, parsnod by the applicant, who demanded payment, and on he,
moving off, followed him until he escaped by darting through 'al
public-lacuse into another eforonghfare. She wished to know who.
ther something could not be done.
Mr. Raw noi sox lamented the readiness with which, in oils
and many other cases, credit had been given by shopkeepers to
mere strangers, who, with the aid of polished manners and address,
laid thenieelves out to plunder the public. There appeared, how-
ever, in this man's conduct a disposition fo defraud; and if what
was stated could be proved, he had no objection to give a warrant
for his apprehension if he was to be found.
The young lady said she really could not say where he was lobe
met with; he had Paid he lived in Burton-crescent, but tleat tinned
out to be untrue. She wished to know whether, if she met him in
the street, she could seize and detain him.
Mr. RAWLINSON, sniffing, said „Yes,' and complimented
the amiable girl on the talent and steeliness she had displayed,
advising her to detain him if possible, and send for an officer.
The young lady and her friend then retired.
A COACH TO THE REVIEW.—Yesterday Mr. Alexander, of
David-mews, appeared to show cause why lie refused to pay the
sum of 11. lbs. for the use of the hackney-verb No. Iti on the day
1 of the review of cavalry on Hounslow-heath, by the Duke el York,
early in the last month.
It appeared from the statement of the driver, that he was engaged
to take the defendant and some friends on an excursiun of pleasure,
and accordingly took into and on his coach grown persons of thel
defendant's party to the number of twelve, and drove them through
Hyde Park Gainer gate to Hounslow Ileath, where they entop‘ei
sod saw the review. Ile at night returned with his land, and de-
posited theta at defendant's dwelling, and was asked how much lia
limited. Ile replied 355. but they would only give hie: 20s. wiach,
prit liking to take, lie refused; and knowing them, called repeated-
11y, but they refused to pay any inure; so he, by direction of '• his
limner," summoned them.
The defendant called a wiener'', who declared that the coachman
had agreed before starting for the 20s. and knew lie was to have its
more. Besides, all expenses were paid, and he and his horses were
very liberally refreshed.
your Honour, I declare on my davy all I had wart