The Sun.
London, England, 1808-10-20 00:00:00

POLICE.

digf-si.itcgT'.;".A great number of shopkeeper's in
and about the Metropolis, have,. for a considerable
;time past,'been defrauded of goods and money, by
numerous gang of miscreants, both men and women;
who have gone gliour, uttering notes of a Southamn.
ion and Hampshire Bank, and Ipswich.and Strifolk;',
made payable in town, but which Banks failed some
months ago; their existence, however, having been;
and the names 'attached to. them not being fictitious,
no forgery was committed, and the specious means
used by the parties ,puttitig them off generally kept
them clear of being guilty of a fraud ; and from the
very incautious manner in which the public have'
taken sudh notes, these depredators have hitherto
escaped punishment ; but oaTueSday-a woman was
brought to this office on a charge of uttering several
notes of the above description.
A shopkeeper at Deptford appeared; and produced
a 61. note of a.Sontliampu,n and Hampshire.[lank,
which bad been taken of the Prisoner in payment
for a shawl of the value of
.4s. and which note was,
made payable in town ; but on presenting it at the
place directed, the answer of no effect was given.
• Another shopkeeper at Deptford proved; that the
Prisoner tendered him the same notes a few minutes
before, in payment for sonic goods ',but he havino-
been before cheated. by a 21. note of the same Lank,
told told the prisoner it was bad, and Cautioned the pri-
soner against attempting to pass it. •
Ali'. READ,, the Magistrate, was clearly of opi-;
nion, that train this circumstance the prisoner's
knowledge of the note being bad, when she uttered
it, was evident ; and that therefore she had been
guilty -of a fraud.

The parties were accordingly bound direr to pro-.
secute her at the next General Quarter Sessions for
the county of Kent.

Samuel 1-1' yams, a Jew, was charged with picking
a man's pocket in the one-shilling gallery at Doary-
lane Theaire, on Monday "night; The Prisoner be-
ing deteeied In the faa, ran down the stairs, endea-
' vouring to escire,,and put the money in a corner by
We window. Tredway, a Constable, produced three
guineas, two seven pieces, and some-silver,
he found by the window on the stirs, a:,d which
the Prosecutor described to be the sum he lost, and
identified one of the seven shilling pieces. The
Prisoner, was fully committed for trial. •
MANSION-House—YeSterday Joiui Plate an old
-offender, was charged before the Loitn MAYOR, on
suspicion of stealing, a box coat. Thoma3.Sapwell.
produced the coat, and stated, that on Tuesday last,
about three o'clock in the afternoon, while he was.
upon the look out in Bishopsgate-street,- he saw the
prisoner and two otherS, the prisoner having the great
coat in his hand tied up in a bundle). knowing all of
them to be old offenders, he suspeded they bad got
something which had. been stolen ; and upon :his
asking the prisoner what he had 'got, he could not
give any satisfadory aecount, and the other two ran
away.—The LORD. MAvott ordered the coat to be
advertised, with a description of it, and
.the prisoner
to be remanded. for farther examination.

MARLBOROUGH =STREET,—Charge of Felony.—
Howard, the per Son so well known to the Lord.
• chancellor, as the assumed heir to a part of the Duke
of Norfolk's estates, charged a Mr. Yates, a publi-
can, in Great Russell-street, with -felony, of which
the following are the particulars :---Howard and his
wife slept at the house of the accused 00 Monday
night, but not having the means of discting the
little account, a pawnbroker in the neighbourhood
furnished the needful, at the loss-of the Wife's cloak ;
and after tarrying asecond night at the house, theland7
lord requested payment,and Howard observed, that he
was going to the Duke of Norfolk's honse that morn-
ing. His Wife remained until he returned, ()tit it ap-
pc-!ared that he had not obtained admittance at the
Duke's,and,consequeritly,could not pay the landlord
he, hoWever, left his hat as a pledge of his -honesty,
and shortly after the landlord was taken on 'a chargé of
stealing the hat off his head. Howard talked in an
incoherent way before the Magistrate, of his ne-
gleaed consequence, 8,-c. of Government itself taking
an advantage of him, in deducting five pounds a year
from his annuity of fifty; and, lastly, he observed
he would- from that moment turn beggar.. The
Charge made against the publiCan was altogether un-
true, and Mr. Howard left the Office, with a full
assurance from the Magistrate, that when be was
deteaed'in his promised profession of a street beggar,
he should go to Bridewell.

HATTON-GAankig:— Yesterday a man named
Walker, who had been' robbed' of tWo 501. 'Bank
Notes by a fellow lodger in the City Road, who had
changed them at the Bank, appeared- against the
prisoner a second time, who was remanded-till this
day. On quitting the Office he went along Back..
hill, where he stripped himself naked. He was with
some difficulty secured, anl taken back' tot he Office,
when he appeared to be in a total state of derange-
ment. in his clothes which he threw off were 401.
in cash and notes, which were taken care of.
Un-
der this misfortune he himself became a prisoner; as
a lunatic, at Burrow's Insane.,house, at Hoxton, to
ascertain the state of his malady.

On Saturday se'nnight the Brig Union, ',OTHER
INGTON, put into Whitby in ahurricane of wind
from the North, which, in a considerable-degree, cut
off the. communication between the opposite sides .of
the water at that place. Dutingthe most violent
period of the storm; a young Woman of the name
of Pearson, in attempting to cross the bridge, .ac-
eompanied by her brother, was blown over into the
river : though every possible exertion was used to,
reach her by boats from different quarters, the great..,
est apprehensions were entertained that the poor girl
would finally lose her life; for thrxgh her clothes
prevented her sinking much below the surface, her,
head was observed to remain ,underwater from the:
moment of her immersion to her being taken cut,
an interval of about five minutes. She was. (al:6n
up-by a Boat from a Vessel in the harbour in a state
of total insensibility ; but by the application of pro-
per means she was at length restored to her senses,_
and eventually to her former state of health. On;
the same day, a person belonging to Whitby, of the
name of J. Audas, a joiner, tell a vielim to the seve-
rity of the weather, in 'attempting to walk from
Egton to Whitby, a distance of eight Miles. fie was
found dead the following day,. not far from the road,
his head reclined-upon his wallet.