The National Register.
London, England, 1822-01-07 00:00:00

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BOW STREET.
Mona PROSICOTtONS BY SRL listrmg-runner Asso.
tiaTiON.—Application was made to Mr. Alderman Birch,
the sitting magistrate of this office. by Mr. Secretary,
Murray, Ike attorney-general of the association tor •
warrant to apprehend another certain man, who mime
was unknown, but whose peison was well-known, and
who, in the capacity of showman at Carlile's, had on Sa-
turday last publicly sold to one Robert Doke, of Glover's-
hatch, New Cut, Lambeth, yeoman, a copy of the Address
to the Reformers of Great Britain.
The City Solicitor having examined the shape and par.
ticnlais of the information, a warrant was accordingly
sixned by the Magistrate, and delivered to Martin, oue
of the officers in attendance. to execute, who shortly af-
terwards returned with a miserable looking man, between
oft and 40 years old, in his custody, whose lank sides and
squalid appearance bespoke the extreme of hanger and
wretchedness; he was without • shirt; the rags of his
coat, which had once been black, shone with greaseand
filth; and the coloured haedkerehief round his throat
was in so dirty a state as to he scarcely distinguishable
from his coat. As lie stood at the her, he presented such
a tout enseaseds, that it seemed to require a total absence
of all feeling to tall fur additional misery to be heaped
upon him.
Robert Duke. the hemmer. was 'worm and proceeded
to state that he went to earliir's sirup ou Satlll4lo 11111fUlag
last, and asked the primmer, who appeared to he acting as
'holmium, for the Address to !los /informers of theY4th Jane.
The prisoner replied be had mom Ikea, but if he (Bloke
would call in the evening he might have use them Tons be
accurdisigls did call iii the everisig, when he again frond the
prisoner behind the counter, awl purchased from him the
Address abate ares.tioned, for which he paid 61 and also
tinutlier small work, entitled the Character of a Priori, the
pi ice of which was Rd. He did not know the 114111 e of the
pi isomer, but was positive be was the man from whom he
purchased the work neenthmed, and now produced.
answer to s question tram /114cfniais Birch, he said, there
wr no other customer Ws the shop besides himself, mikes of the
times he called there.
As the isiforasation upon which the warrant was granted
alleged that the work its (location contained passages:upon
w Inch verdicts had bees friend pronounciug them libel.. Mr.
Alderman Birch &sired that evidence should be siren to
that fact.
Mr. Secretary Murray, with a serenity of countenance
a hick seemed to disdain to be moved by the misery before
Lon, now referred to the pamphlet itself, and pointed out •
passage, in which tar author alludes, to, and 11111.106 its having
brew declared a libel by the verdict of a Jury.
This the Alderman mossideted safficieul evidence, no
other testi ouy of the fact being required.
The prisoner, on being asked his name, replied mildly,
sod without the teem appearance of impudence or bravado,
tom he begged to decline giving it; and having been ia-
formed that be was entitled to give bail fur the ofreoce
charged against him a and that the NM required wired be
himself in 404 and two sureties in WI. each 1 and that it
wits necessary fur him to give his MOW before any bail
could be accepted, he was committed use want of sureties.
John Brunt, • soldier in the Foot Guards, was brought
before Sir Richard Biruie, charged with committing an
outrageous assault upon the landlady of the Marquis of
Nearby public house, Villets-street, Strand.
The defendant and two other soldiers, it appeared,
went into the Marquis of Grauby on Sunday evening, mid
•raisk several pots of ale, they relined to pay for all they
had drank, alleging that the landlord had barged
theut. Brain afterwards struck the landlady • tretneu.
owls klim on the eye, which brought her to the ground.
Bruin said lie did not know he had struck her.
Sir H. Birnie.—And do you think such an action worthy
of • man mid a soldier? Strike • wousau—for shame !
How can )ou disrgrace yourself and your cloth by such
conduct #
'1 lie defendant was ordered to find bail.
A sergeant of the regiment said, if the magistrate would
prima lit uisi to go of Isle, the colonel would of course,
hr answerable for his appearance.
Sir R. Birnie said he knew nothing of the colonel or
the mammal. It the regiment wished to become answer
aisle fur his recognisance, they most stud two housekeep-
at. to give bail in the regular way.
MARLBOROUGH STREET.

A question of much importance was asked the magis-
trate on rlonday at this office, and however trivial It
might seem, it is one that interested the Clerk of the
Peace at the public expence. It was, that a circular let-
ter was sent to the applicant culling upon him to with.
draw his recognisance fur a person he had bailed. The
terms of the recognisance were, that the accused person
should appear at the Sessions, to answer such matters as
should be alleged against him. The accused was indict-
ed and tried, and atter the indictment was lo•end. fresh
bail wit. put in, and yet the Clerk of the Peace demanded
payment of withdrawing the recognizance, by a lee,
when the contract was fulfilled. The Magistrate had no
power to ■bjudicate. It had been decided by the two
judges, that A. bailing B. for his appearance at the Ses-
sions, and he does appear. the contritet is fulfilled, and
the technical phrase oh " You shall not depart this Court
without leave," is merely a sounding sentence on *hills
many impositions have been practised.