The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-05 00:00:00

POLICE.

MAN.SION-HOME.--Monday two watch tilen
ie-
longing to Wapping parish, were brought before the
LORD MAYORk charged with neglect of ditty and
leaving their beat. It appeared that these guardians
of the night were seen by the constable of the Tower
Ward at one o'clock on Monday morning, drinking
with girls of the town, at a public-house near the
Minories, and condualing themselves in 'a disorderly
manner. The constable immediately enquired where
their beat was situated, and they told him at St.
Catherine's; but it turned out that they belonged
to Wapping, and that they were half a naile from
their station. The Constable told the LORD MAYOR,
that several robberies had been lately committed in
the absence of the watchmen, who were frequently
accomplices; he therefore considered it his duty to
take the Defendants into'custody. The watOmen
adMitted that they had neglealed their duty, but
excused their concha by saying it was a cold night,
and they went tbget liquor to drink.
The LORD MAYOR. commended the constable,
and observed, if every watchman who neglealed his
duty was. brought to punishment, burglaries would
not be so frequently committed in London. The
Defendants. unfortunately belonged to Wapping,
which was out of the jurisdi4ion of the LORD
MAYOR,,OtherWiSe he would have made a severe
example of them he, however, ordered the Offi-
cers of Wapping to be informed of the miscondat
of these. watchmen; its order that they miglarbe dis-
missed.

• A Gentleman .in the city preferred a complaint
against Kinisley, a very-a6tive constable, for suffer-
ing a woman to leave the watch-house after she had
been given in.charge. The Officer stated in his
defence, that the complainant had himself given the
woman two shillings in the watch-houSe, and that
he had consented to her discharge ; he also told the
LORD MAYOR, that the woman said she bad lived
with the complainant, and his partner two years,
during which she had a child, and. wanting to get
rid of her, they had, arrested her for 751.; on her
release from prison she went to the
,complainant,
who gave her in-charge to the Watch. The Loan-
MAYOR ordered this mysterious subje& to stand over .
to Wednesday, when the woman is, to attend -the
examination.

. .
Plympton, a seedsman in Thames-street,
brought a man to the Mansion; House, on. suspicion
of having stolen a quantity of onion seed. The De-
fertdant offered a bag of onion seed for sale, and de-
manded three shillings and sixpence a pound for it.
Mr. Plympton, from the representation of the De-
fendant, knew the 'seed to be worth eleven skillings
a pound, and suspe&ing it to be stolen, sent for 'two
constables, who took the Defendant into custody.
The Defendant stated, that he had purchased the
seed of a countryman, named Geaves, at the Guy
EarloorWarwick public-house, in Gray's-inn-lane,
without any knowledge of its quality or real value.
Several Witnesses corroborated the Defendant's
story, and the. LORD MAYOR appointed a further
investigation of the transaction on Thursday.

GUILDHALL.--On Monday a person of the battle
of ilinge was charged with embezzling and apply-
ing to his own use, various sums of money, the pro-
perty of Messrs. Chapplin, irur.►nongers, whose ser-
vant ha was.

Mr. Chapplin stated, that having his suspicions of
the Prisoner's honesty awakened, he rn.ade it his bta:
siness-to inquire of the different persons to. whom
payments had been .made by the Prisoner on his
account, in the course of the last week, as 'to the ac-
tual amount of the sums they had received, whcm lie
discovered that to one person to whom the Prisoner
in his weekly account charged a payment of 21. 12S.
11. I Is. only had been paid, and to another
,7s. 6d..
instead' of 113..6d. charged by . the Prisoner against.
the Prosecutor. These overcharges he, proved by the
hand writing of the Prisoner himself, contrasted
with the accounts given in, by and actually paid to
those tradesmen by the Prisoner. The tradesmen •
themselves-also appeared, and confirmed this testi-
mony. Mr. C. in addition, produced a hook. kept
by the Prisoner of the weekly ready money trans=
actions in the Prosecutor's shop, so far as the same
came through his hands, from which it appefired,
that in a variety of these weekly accounts • the Pri-
soner had received one sum, and debited himself
with a smaller. For instance, that in one week,•
while in the day-book the sum received by -him ap-
peared to be 21. 14s. he debited himself in the ge-
neral account book only with 11.145.*- and on•anothere
occasion when he acknowledged in one account to
have received 101.8 s.: 4d. he debited himself only
with 81. fos. 4d. • - s
A Solicitor attended for 'the i'tisoner, and sub-
mitted to the Alderman ,(Scholey) that the offence
charged did not amount to the crime laid down in
the late penal statute against servants embezzling
monies received by them on.account of their mas-
t*s. Libre it appeared that the Prisoner bad not
kept up any money received by him on his master's
account, but had only made false- representations to
him of the amount of sums expended on his account:
Again, as to the discrepancy in Lhe entries ,the
different • books, if they could not be accounted.ldr
on the supposition of accidental mistake, it being ad-
mitted that• the Prisoner, besides the monies drawn
by him on account of bis master, `also received from .
week to week sums from him, it by no means ap-
peared that the short entries in the books did not
arise from monies in this latter situation, in which
case having come through the hands of the master,
they could not, under the words of the A6t, be con-
sidered as embezzlements of money received on his
account. It; however, the Alderman was of opi-
nion that there was sufficient before. him,, to war-
rant the commit►al of the for trial, he should
advise his client to reserte his defence till then. '

The Prisonp• was lully.po,harnitted for tri.al.

,
The French OffieQrs and soldiers 'had tore down
every piece of gold._ lace or fringe they could.. find,
not only in the churches but in the private house; of
the higher orders in Portugal. These trappings they
had uniformly melted down into bullion.„,-'„,.
A.child, three years old, of the name. ofCorbett,
was stolen froth the door of its parents in Gr'esst-,
street, Rathbone-place, on Friday evening, , and at
seven o'clock it was brought back, and le;t naked at.
the door, unperceived.

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