The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-09 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW STREET.
On Monday last, a well dressed youth f abont 15 Tenn
old, was brought up by W. Smith, tool another of the
patrol, who hail taken him into custody on the preceding
evening on mimeo eeee of having shams a hat. He was
areonspastled by 111%1.'4111er, a respectable looking elderly
sass', attired iu a military cloak.
The slateiucut of the 'slivers was, that on the preceding
evesiiiig there was a fire iii Berwick-street, Soho, and •
great crowd collected, among w'aicli ilw thieves were
pastirsiiasly active, and anioug other hicks that they re-
sot ted so, was that silknocking 4.11 ineii's hats end running
away.willa 111.114 While the officers were Ws duty, they
saw the prisoner leave the crowd wills a hat node, his
beside. that which lie had on his head, Conceiviug
that he bail stolen it, they took kiln into custody, and on
his way to the swats li-house lie said he was the 6011 of a
rept ciable sliest, -sod that he hail been rein for the bat
In Ilia father. Bedsore he reached the which-house, be
differed so eive the hat so the officers It 'they would let
• gu, This strengthened Jaeir sospicirm, and they load
hint locked sap for the night. They had wade inquiry that
sitoreinsg, and f I that his 'duty was tine, and they had
theretior no charge agaiii-t
The hlagisfrme (Ms. Halls) expressed his regret that
the lad dondol have been confined all night ; but the ta-
llier must feel that the officers had dune sun snore than
their duty. The boy nisist of course be discharged.•
The father look away Isis sow, dud there the matter was
supposed to Wee ended : but on Tuesday evening, as
mum as Sir 'Behind Wrote and A:v. Halls had taken their
seats. James Sedgwick, E. chairman of the Commis-
, *Motets of Stamp., entered the office, and proceeded to
lay a complaint hefore the anugistratee, of the conduct of
the °aces %, who lie said bad exceeded the Wain of their
aniliiirity, and bad unjustly imprisoned tho sun of.a res-
pectable "mi.
Sir R. His isie,upon hearing the circumstances, declared
his epithet' that theofficers had dune sio more Ursa their
de!).
Mr. Sedguick said they had, They ought nut to have
locked up hie tail when they were told that he Was the sou
of a iespeciiii•ie maii, and had been merely sent on au
es rand. 'fuse; onjlit to More made inquiry. •
Sir H. Biridesaid, that officeis were sod obliged to be-
lieve every 'troy (hat was told them hrtliose whom they
happened to sake lasso Clialotly.
Mr. Smignick said they ought to have .sonde inquiry.
It was list lobe hover, that we son of a respectable and
hullos'' able Haan bliosild he shut up for a whole night its
the black hole ufa watch.house, among felons and prUfte•
tides, as she captive of a couple of police officers. He
as determined that the buy should have justice dour.
Sir R. Bisolie..Vrll,, Sir, yon are at liiserly to lake
what steps you please; but we have nothing to do *WI it.
If she office,. have done wising, they are amenable to the
law. Toss can indict them as the sessions.
Mr. setleviii k.—lndict them at the sessions! And
what satisfaction would that be ? It is your duly, filling
lime as a Magistrate, to are that officers do their duty
property.
Sir It. Birnie.—l think they did their duly properly.
Tiny say, this buy wills a bat whirls sissy Ihouglst he Isad
scion, suit sunder the citcunastance., plane saspiciuu •was
well founded, and they had a right to lithe hint into cos-
todNyl Amigos ick.—Sir• that boy is as incapable of stealing
a bat as yoii rue.

Sir 111..ilit Me (rising from his chair.)—Sir,l know what
is due to my rank and situation here, sod I will not sub.
mit to be instilled by any man, whatever may be his inv.
11011411 Ce in society. I Can: nut who or what pm aro,
and I desire you will leave the office. Officers, renters
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Mr. Sedgwiek was about to reply, but the officers its
attendance, in obedience le the order of the Magistrate,
took him gently by the arms, and ielisoved him outside the
door; and 'there the matter terminated.

The above named gentleman, Mr. Sedgwick, has since
addressed the following very proper letter
TO THE EDIT:/K;—
SlR,—Having no taste for notoriety, and luring still
lelli ambitions that say name should appear in public root-
isu-rted with any contention %tilt Sir Richard Hiretie,whom
1 had never seen helot e the other evening, boot of whom I
know enough by repoilatints to sliiink instinctively firm,
any sort of contact, I should have even abstained from
adverting tothe statement contained in the Police Ile.

poet, if it did nut tend to gibe lu my interference au air
of various intrusion. Having laid the whole case and
the conduct of the two Liow.stiert officers before the
Seereimy of the Home Department, and knowing that it
will undergo immediate investigation, I shall refrain from
exciting those feelings of public indignation **kith a de-
tail of the ciicumistances would create. The youth was
iny awn nephew. Had not the pi 0010 attention of Mr.
Peel rendered it aouecrs•ary fur sue to lay the case be-
fore the t oldie, every one, I am aatisficti, would have
concurred in thinking that it warranted a warmth of
re-
seutsaent much beyond what I expressed.
I am Sir, yours, Ise.
BEDGWICK.

Somerset-place.

SURREY SESSIONS.

Catherine Keile, Catherine Ryan, and Mary Ann
West, wore indicted Mr feloniously stealing a, silver
watch, the property of William Steele, a shoemaker,
resitlitia in Bract:friars Road.
Mrs. Steele, the wife of the prosecutor, deposed, that
on the 17th of February the prisoners came io she shop
between ime and two o'clock in the day. They walked
into the parlour, seated themselt and asked to look
at souse shoes. After having tried several pairs. one of
the prisoners corml up and went towards the mantle
piece. She was a little time afterwards (deserved to walk
to the slop door and drop sitternhing into the lap a her
companion, who waited outside, and who immediately
walked off followed lor die others, will IIIAIOII4. any
purchase. The moment their backs were nutted the
watch (now ['roomed) was missed I the matiile
piece. The prisoners were pursued and ',remain hack...—
The witness saw the watch drop 1r the side of the
p.ishiter West, who kicked it tooter the carpet. The
prisoners were suMetmently given into custody.
The priumers were f 1. uttiliy--tol it appealing
that they were all iiractised thieves, the court sentenced
them all to wren years' transport Atom
A poor orphan boy was Slidicteil tier stealing a watch,
front the house of Mi.Jintlatt, of Darkint, Surrey.
It appeared the unloritotate boy fwd beets employed
In sweep the chimney, and (1111 k oceasi.in to depart with
the watch, which WAS lyiva WI a tattle in the room he
had to pass. The prisoner hegaerl for mercy.
The jury returned a Tref. ildt asi. gailly, but the chair-
man humanely withheld passiea Judgment on 'he pri.
tenser, and directed Chas applica should-Le made for
his admission into the l'ettitelitiarv
Moses Nlartio, a Jew, tot,inil iti.lieted for stealing, in
the month of September last, 20a. in silver, the pio-
perty of Peter ‘Vright.
The prosecutor is a baker, and resides in Lung Lane,
Bermondsey, and the mistmer is a confectioner.. hawk-
ing his wares :Mont the metropolis for fate; use day
mentioned he went to I lir prosecutors shop, awl offered
his sweetmeats to 'Mrs. W'right linr sale; awl she arced
to lutetium a purchaser of a lots of 11. s confectionary 101'
Ito agreed to take 21. 17s. to calls, and 12
loaves or bread, at fid. each iii paymetit. The prisoner
delivered her the timid.. aml then went behhol she
counter into the parlour, and on the table there lay font
1 Is-31. 17s. Or silver, and three shillings ill copper,
which she paid the prisoner 21. 17s. before the
prisoner le;1 the room. ".1 rs. 11 right was called Mtn the
shop by a cost 11111111 l and whilst site seas attend 111 A 11l the
shop. the rhymer came tort of the room, jumped •
los cart, and drove oti; as fast as he could. U.t her re-
torts us the parlour, she missed the 20*. Irons the tilde.
and instantly told her husiettid and jouriteyinatt, Gram,
that the Jew had rulabed. her. They followed, lon could
not overtake hint. Six or seven days afier, a paper, con-
taining an address or a man,. named Moses Martin,
Rosemary Laue, confectioner, was thrown into her thrip,
and suspecriog him to be the Jew who had nabbed her,
she went there and saw the prisouer, whom she tonne.
diately recognised.
The Chairman summed tip the evidence, and the
Jury immil the prisoner godly.
The Chairman said, the sentence of the Court was,
that he should be imprisoned 12 calendar ha in
Guilford Laol, Sind to be kept to hard labritir.
ileac young oleo. 1131114 Ni Cradle, Will , and
Till, who were a few days commuted I Union
Hall, charged with having violently:sr.:tolled and stolen
a hat front J. Harwisel, were tried at these sessions.

F the evidence it apperred that die pramectdor was
returning hone to Stockwell about eleven o'clock on
Sunday night. At the corner of Oakley-street ,he was
attacked by the prisoners; a stogie ensued, its which
the prisoner lost his itat, and the following dry it was
traced to the lodgings of Willmore. who protested tl►at
he found it on the pavement. Two of she prisoners
were giveu into custody on the spot, and Willu►nrc was
apprehended the next day.
The Jnry pronounced a verdict of not guilty against
the prisoners.

General when past 80 years of age,
married a very amiable young lady of 18. He was
an acquaintance of Kant, the philosopher, whom
Le informed of his having married ; adding, " I
do not think I have to hope for any posterity?'—
" Certainly not," replied Kant, " but to fear."

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

GLASGOW, MARCIS 1.--Last night, shortly before
midnight, the watchman stationed at Eatlywell-street
observed two pretty-well dressed fellows hurrying to-
wards the High Chinch, and he tiny. eted from their
appearance and demeanour that they were bent on Wilke
litilialloWeti purpose. lin suspicions were well mood-
, ea; lot, in a %cry short lithie anerwards, he traserved the
same persons, Miaowed by several people, with - bulky
article roiled in a sheet. He of course took mem into
custody, when it appeared they were heathia the body of
a Wall who had lately lived in the Ilavantlah, and was
buried on Thursday. Upon this discosery, the itoliatia-
lion of the people ruse to the highest pitch. Every epi-
thet of indistiation and reproach wrs 'leaped ilholl the
illiSCrea lilt, and had it not been for the timely at rit .11 of
a strung pa:ty of the patrol, the crowd would certainly
have indicted wwro.try and severe punishment on the
spot. A burley was proenred,. on which Abe bwly was
• laid, and, as one of tile fellows resisted, struck, bit, and
di)101:11 the watehiliali, he was wood and laud beside the
hotly, and he and it were lodged in the police suffice. in
Amon an hoot afterwards, body wa,elaiafesi lay the
sus of the deceased. hi consetraenee of lurse
Mallet] traitspiring, with additional Mit-mites, a large
crowd assemoled this nlorilng iu Ira,ut of a 1 se acct.
pied as a leCloire.roOtti its tills City, anti they ttttt tetljately
broke open the door, when a stait was presented of the
,most appalFail description There were too apartments,
and 111 each of them Werelyine IrJKIIIeIIU of lINIIIJIs 1)0.
dies, brink s all the dissecting. Muniments. One large
nth was filled with a number of heads, legs, anus, and
oilier parts of the human fraine, steepill'll4 Water. The
naked hotly of a female, with her low: Hawing hair, was
lying on a talile entire, One of the trades wanted the
head, tile entrails were out, and it 0143 Call op and 11110 l
',l*e.trillly disfigured. A complete skeleton was hanging
at the end of the -room. The smell that emitted was
al l intoletaole. The (relines of the imptilace were
flow aroused. and they immeiliattly tossed um all the
Ixl lies, and threw the tables,frames,llollrrS, at .1 other
tlisseetifia apparatus on the peen. The bodies were re-
entered trout the crowd, soil covered with hoards. A
stoma detachments of Ilse ';'; di regiment mined about
.hall past ten, and cleared the street. A Morley and two
creels were then procured from Britlewell, atot taken to
the spot, and the fralettiell'll which were lying about were
aatlirred together; as they were placed its the creels, a
of honor and intlianation ran through the
crowd. The steels inkwhicit the holies were put were
sup u 1 Bridewell. The crowd left. the place born)
aiactsvards,aill 3 ittilintry guaral remains en the premises
in which the bodies mere mound.
Aerate or 110NOIR.—A rumour hat,. for some
flass,heell ill Cirettlatitlis, 11i a aloel between two ihsiiii•
gni:died foreiktiers. Tile follOwths. is ail tinniest tie
31aleilietil of the alltir :—Alum two years ago, the Nra-
parlit.,n General Cara-co.-a •netal has dent traumata,
oh caliiita, out tricot. General %Villa.nn Pepe, late COlll.
manlier of the Neaphlit tat foie s. Very bluntly after tp •
arritakii. bouffant of Cieueral Pepe, he received a letter
f General Carascogi, its which, siier char.:,isig Gen.
Pepe with contract injurious to his reputation, lie
pointedly avowed his opinions, that 'Mihaly ten trautions
were, in all cases, contrary to the principles of honour—
dial any chatele in the Government of iNapars WaS•tul-
. necessary—alio oral less in that of Snail'. l'he letter
crifielsoled Willi a elialleitue in the ta• terms. To this
letter, General Pepe rephed,,by art .la his opinion.
111.0 tarry Wee State was indebted for its 'Merl In
tarp revolutions, nut excepting even Esitilmil—that the
Spaniards were now a prey to civil anarchy. only be.
cause certain intik israski,. calling themselves Liberals,
were, in fact, hostikr to Use earaistnittiest of. the Cones. -
that he had Employed Ille alithority which hilt rang auul
itis-c and had gt.en Iliad al Naples, to must the
despoils's, of a Got ermitent, which, while it rendered
the people iniserahle, was of no JCIII.II ativaitta,4e 10 the
reigisitta, dynasty—AlM concluded by accepting the dtal-
!title. Ott the 2014) of February, the Generals ones—
Count Santa Rosa.. ex...Nlietistei of %Var of Pion ttttt itt.
attended General Pepe, and Al. Bonnet, a Frown gen-
tleman, General Carascosa. The weraous were swords,
and the Imams engaged; but in the second pass,
Gratettil Pepe's sword snapped short near the guard, IM
which the seconds interiered, and the combat, as is usual
in such eases, Wall deferred. A second meeting took
place on Friday last, a few miles from London,
from K's-bridge. Oil engaging, General Carascosa
attacked with real impetuosity; but atter several passes
11111 both sides,Getteral Prpe seising his adversary's awned
.vitlt his left hand, disarmed him ; and piecing the point
of his sword at his breast, had his hie in his power.--
Here the affair woul•I have terminated,. but General
raterisa, on tecovei ina his sword, renewed the combat,
which seas warmly maintained, until he was (Maly tin-
soled, by a thrust from General Prpe in the rieltt
shoulder. General Pepe, seeing his adversary-incapable
of further defence, declined availing himself of title ad-
saittaue, and thus the duel terminated. .

(?is Tuesday ,c'isitight, Mr. Clayton, of Burson, re-
moved wits) his family to 11.siord ; and on Tuesday
morning last Mrs. Clayton's UCCIIllei Illeall 1150 k lilacs..
the evening, tier husband exres.eil his fears that the
room he was iiiiots& to sleep in was (loop ; and, although
canonised by a neighbour that the 111/416111 kill, he
conceived that theta (Instil be on danger from Mat cir-
cumstance, and wisubl.siave a few red not coals pm Solo
the fireplace. This was accordingly done, and wills a
(tile girl, his daughter, about two years and live months
old, lie retired in rest. The nurse and Mrs. Clayton
gay they heard him up with &lie child alarm one o'clock,
and it is certain he had the child out of bed some nine
in the night About eight o'clock in the inorisistg, the
nurse called at the door, but received no answer, and
'opposing that, as lie had been disturbed the tight be-
lose, lie was still asleep, he was not again called till
near Sc,) o'clock, when there was still no answer. She
then opened the door, hot could scarcely breathe, the
sulphur was so stro:lg to the room, Ilse
wa, dead, and the child nearly so, and it sons breathed
its last !