The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-06 00:00:00

POLICE.

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ILDHLI., OCTOur. yopgrt4p, \viia33
)ve,forbear to mentienivvas charle* TNl,Ssts,
Bryan.aA,Brapelen , grocers, No. 47, N:s4,gtor7s '
with 4{oe:lz-bog 32L tts. sd. their prepey, 'reed
upply!ing:it to,his owmuse.-
Bryaq and,. 'Biy.ndoli stated, that the. Pri,
soner- applied to thcm, is the month of January, to
be taken into their employ. He stated that he had
several excellentsonnexions, and could be of service
tta them in their trade.---They offered to give him
an hundred pounds, a year; but he said he would
`prefer having elle per..cent. on all goods` he sold and
i4,tiglitffor them. Thisehey did :not agree to ; but
they_ finally aged -to giie him 4001. a-year, and
told him he might keep Lan account of what business-
hea4t.Ltlly did throngh_ the year, so as it7might
triertftrion for them to judge from, oil making a *Sub:•:'
e‘itiiierit agreement. He accordingly came into their
service the-21st January. On the loth September
tlsey began to have some suspicion of his ho-
ne,ty. On that day he mode a return 'of several
Sums of money he had received. There was a bill
which he had taken out, on Mr. Sutton,;. Oxford-
reedi Lich they had reason to suppose hed been
pisid„ On quystioning. him, he denied that he had
received the amount of it. Two or three days sub-
sequent, they sent toe Mr. Sutton, who produced
tine prisoner's receipt for .321.
.11th 5d.; even after
this he decried havingereeeived it, until his own re-
ceipt was produced.
Mr. Sutton deposed, thaehe paid the prisoner the
money on the loth, el, September, and he gave him
a_ receipt, signed by. the prisoner for Messrs. Bryan
and Brandon. He:had known the,prisoner a length
of time, and it was on his account he had dealt
Nkith the prosecutors. When theprisoner went first
to live win' them, he told him he -had a-share iu
the profits of the trade.
„Xlie„prisoper.,, in his, defence, statedeAtrat :on the
*.pt4 -;ofJanuary-:he applied to Mr. Brandon, to do
business for hirb,,,apd shewed him -a ljtivotpersons
from whom he could get orders. itUd.Birandon
said,.tbey were much in want of such a person; .as
they were only commencing business, and referred
lira to Mr. Bryan, who lived at the other end of the-
eity. Accordingly, that evening he called 'on Mr.
Bryan, and stewed him the same list. He observed,'
that he knew several of the persons Whose names
were mentioned in the list,' and that they were very
geod, two.; he then offered the prisoner 1001 a-year.
teetofthe house, or 501. in it. The prisoner told
biro he was obliged to him, but would -value until
the next day to consider of it, and tweblvicrit his
friends; accordingly irext day he callediNirfk Mr.
Bryan, and told him he could not think of taking
a settled salary,--but he would do his• business at
4 per cent. Mr.. Bryan observed,. that the grocery
business %tould not allow 1 per cent. the profits
were so smell, but he would give bit one per cent.
on all goods t,e bought or sold,for him. .
The prisonet then went to -Mr. Brandon, and in-
formed him of the agreement they had'made, vv ho
observed, that tht: prisoner had the best of the bar-
gain, but, that he must not expeado have centage
on goods, the amount of which should 'turn out bad
debts. The prisoner answered, he did not expel it,
and immediately went and gut three eiders to a large
aniount,, and had continued doing so ever since.
kjv had bought and sold goods ,for them to a large
amount, and he never did it under the idea that he
was to have a yearly salary. When he was only two
months with the prosecutors, he had 501. from theta
in cash and goods, and they were.charged to him in
the same way that articles were charged to other
customers, and not as part of a salary. He had three
witnesses to prove, that, at the end of sift Months,
he called on the prosecutors, to.produ'de their books,
40 as he might, have a settlement, ancEflieyaid they
could not then conveniently, as they COtirelbatipoSted
up.: Although, on the foth of SepteriiWlA44; arid
the prosecutors he had lint received. any' tiibtrey but
what he had paid in, he afterwards told them he had
received the amount of- Sutton's accountond desired
them to charge it toitim, but he did not know they
had done so.
Sir Wm. CURTIS observed, that if the Prosecti-
turS could not prove that theeprisoner- was their bona
fide servant, he could not, under the Statute, com-
mit him..

• Mr. BARRY, Counsel -for the prosecutionl-stated;
that the Prisoner's signing the receipt ttafiutitcavand
slating- it was for Messrs. Bryan and lOraatioly, estu,.
blished that faEt.

Mr. ALLEY, Counsel for the prisoner,:contended,
that it did not; for any, broker receiving a sum of
money for a merchant would sign that he :received
it for him; but certainly that aCt would not make
him the servant of the merchant;-but if the Worthy
Alderman required it, there` were three witnesses in
Court who would prove the prisoner was only an
agent
•

. Sir Wm. Corns discharged the prisoner, after
giving him a severe reprimand ; and assured him if
lie ever came to hith as an agent., he would turn him
out of his house.

NIARLISOROUGH-STREeT.=;-Yesterday, two men,
named Bryant and Kite, were charged by the father
ut the latter, an elderly man,: about buy witk rubbing
ou Sunday morning, the 24th ult. of a Bank of
England note for 1001. •

It appeared from the statement of Kite the'elder,
that he had saved, by his industry and economy, a
sum of money exceeding 1801. whichWe was accus-
tomed to carry about his person for seii'M (V. Some
tune since he determined io.go over fo:lreland,to
rest his head upon. the lap of his nativefsdii';' and
thither he went,- but soon returned, 'on finding no
traces of the scenes that .were once dear to him in

his boyish days, determined to pursue his customary
. lab Ours as long as nature would permit' He
bad been returned to England about a eek preVious
to his being robbed, and on the Sunday morning be-
fore last he accompanied his son and the other Pri-
soner to the :Union. public-house, in St. Giles's, to
take a morning glass of gin. 'the intoxicating liquid
via; however 'administered to the old rpßn icy such
quick successiOn, that be soon becaineJnebrihted,
and in the folly of the mo,mclit, hejeOli -ot.it his
leathern purse, and exhibited its' contents_ to tbe Pri-
soners, consisting of a 1001. Banknote-, a 601; a 301.
and a 21.

LONDON Priilte'.! by RICHARD FI4 RILI s% of No. 4i. Mardett-court, liow-street;
tili Lit; ice-.OF No. 11' 514-3131; where Abby? tisem &nu , Ord rrs