The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-28 00:00:00

POLICE.

MAN‘ION HOUSE.

A pernn of respecta.,h•apprara.nce,unmed Robert Markle,
lea. examined upon a eliatge uf hawing forged anal uttered
the aereplanee of Rieltaid Stephens Taylor, E.olitire, fur
111. 175.24.

Alessrs. Hobert and linund, of ('orithill, stated, that onus
time iu the mouth of April lost, the prisoner came into their
shop to saint a quantity of roods. for which he said ha would
give in p0y1114.111 Ili. acceptance of an eminent solicitor, pit).
ante al our of the jirst banking houses. 't he proposal was
agreed to, and the selection was made to the value of nal.
17r. 211. Having ordered the goods to be forwarded to the
place at which he then resided lie requested Messrs. Hubert
anal Mound to draw a bill for the moonlit on Mr. Richard
Stepheii- Taylor, the solicitor, of Gray's Inn. This Will thine,
and iu the course of the same day lie returned with the bill
accepted, " Richard Stephens Taylor, payable at Messrs
Praed's and Co., bankers, Fleet.street." The bill was lodged
in the ordinary way with the bankeit of MI sirs. Hubert-and
Mound, and a• regularly paid by !desire. Praed and Cu., tie
suspicion whatever Staving arisen as to genuineness.
The il.seuvery that it WAS a forgery did not take place fur
some months. The prisoner was thee, not to be found.
:Mr. Richard Stephens t isylor, of Gray's lon, deposed that
be knew• nothing whatevel of the bill in question, nor had he
ever accepted into for the prisoner. lie hail some knowledge
of that person a few years back, whet, a disagreeable eir-
cuinetance of a similar kind took place, which however the•
witness was led to pardon.
The prisoner was fully committed.
BOW sTILEET.

Several hoteliers of Clare Market were convicted of follow-
ing their business on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sun.
day. It appeared that the shops were opened, the meat
exposed for sole, and the butchers calling out for purchasers
as on othrr dor. Nine of the butchers and one green-
grocer who wete summoned. did not attend. The magi,.
trate tir%trutl that amotitooses might lie issued, and then if
they did oat attend to them, warrants should be issued.
to appre:iend them. The pioseentions were at the suit
of Mr. Donew, the Churchwarden of St. Clement Danes.--
Mr. Nesbitt, the street-keeper, gave evidence against the
butchers.

Ou Tuesday, a young woman of respectable appearance,
professing herself to be a servant, applied to Mr. Birnie
to ,pisuisli a young woman, whose name she stated to be
Charlotte Say, who had bewitched her wills brimstone, and
had exercised the black sit towards her; and last of all, bad,
with the assistance of two men, exercised Freemasonry to-
wards her, and had made use of such means and such lan-
guage that it would not be proper fur a female to repeat ;
and she farther complained, (list she was nut able to relieve
herself from their control, atid was thereby preveuted
keeping her places of set vice, acid was therefore deprived of
getting her living.
The Magistrate endeavonreil to compose her grind, and to
convince her that she was deceived in supposing that any
person or persons could bewitch, her, or intertei e, or influence,
ur control her conduct in the way she described ; hut she
was not accessible to persuasion or conviction, and nothing
would satisfy her but a warrant against Charlotte Say, although
she confessed she did not know where to tied her, and all
that she knew of her family or connexions was, that her aunt
lived at the house of Miss Linwood's exhibition, at Leicester-
square.
Two fellows named 11.sekhoosse, alias Baer bus, and Leroy( ,
alias Rodney, stele oil examined on a charge of
being concelised in stealing from the Exeter snail a parcel
of Bank notes, to the amount of 1,6001. They were re-
committed.

George Fisher and William Ranmeraton were committed
for cwt !lug down a waggon lead of the holly hedge round the
garden of Mr...IOIIIIMM, Howell Hill. They had cut down
• great deal in mere wantonness ; the rest to sell for Chi llamas
decor,' ions.

Mr. Thomas Harrowell, a coachnialer, of Long Aere, was
convicted in the penalty of ins., for causing one of his cats
riages ►o be placed in thy street, opposite to his house, for tne
space of two hums.