The Sun.
London, England, 1808-04-11 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bow•trnsat.—•-;On Saturday Mr. P who bolds
a respeilabla situation in a public Qtfice, was brought
before AARON GRAHAr4, El4l. Sating Magistrate,
charged on suspicion of clell-anding Messy.

4441141. Cox, and Co. Olt: Bankers, ufCharing-Cross,
of 1061. 13s. (id.

The Prisoner- paid six certificates, for the year
180, for 'the above amontit, into the •shop, of
.Messrs. Biddulph, Cox, and Co. purportin,y, to be
the certificates of six of their customers for their
duty on dividends paid into the• Bank. The ,7eiti-
ticates were regularly, signed by Georg Beech, the
InsPellor of the Lind' Property Tax Office in the
Bink, but the Blanki were not filled up by hint.

On inquiry, and •searohing the hooks at the BAtik, it
turned out that the persons whesd certificates they
purported to be, had received credit fUr their duty,
consequently it•was 'not paid. , •
The Prisoner said, he could justify his-condnd by
documents Which he had in his possession, of trans-
adions and accounts '.which he 'had , with the late
Mr. Morgan, who was 'Clerk to• Messrs. Hoare,
Bankers, of Fleet-street. 'They, however, upon
investigation, turned out to be of such a CO'biplex
nature, or of that description that Mr. GRAIIANI
could not enter into them, The Magistrate, there-
fore; told hint, that the coarse to be Rivaled was
very simple : that unless 'he could satiA'adOrily ac-
count fur having obtained the t (61. I GI. from
Messrs. Biticlulph and Cox, he must commit him for
trial ; or, as it was a bailable otlence, admit him to'
bail, provided he offered such bail' as' should be,
satisfadory to hint and the Prosecutors, of which he
must give forty-eight hours notice.—Tho Ptisoner
not being able to give a satisfadory account of
conduct, Mr. .ORAHAU told hint, he should tequire
of bitn to enter into a recognizance of Sool;-and'i”,Y)
sureties ol 2501. each, fur his appearance at the
siotts.

The Prisoner reit:pet:led to be inJoige4 «itic tv-
tuaining at tho Brown lkar Public-hi.nie till ho pro-
cured bail, which watt agreed to, iind to ho ity the
custody of.Joneg.
Mr. Becket; the Solicitor to the Corornis,,ioners
of the Tax Office, attended,, an:l said the prny:eu,
don would be ca ried on at the expence of-Govern-
ment.

AlArtstorr-Housti.--,•000 of the Clerks belonging
to an eminent Banking-hunse, near Cornhill, has
been taken into custody, and was on Friday brought
before thti LORD M4You, at the Mansion-I-louse,
where he underwent a long private exatnitiiition on
a charge of forgery, mid where a- g'reat number of
respettable per3ons attened. At present we for-
bear mentioning the names of any of the parties, or
any of the particulars wW(!ii have cutte to light;
because the Prisoner been remanded, and will
probably undergo several tither examinations the
business appearing at present to htt of an extensive
and complieated nature.,

Among our chronological events of the present
year, the following will doubtless be recorded On
Tuesday, April 20th, 1808, a Freehold Property in
the City of London, Worth 26;0001. wai .-ebtained for
less. than 81."--This objea, for so minute a stake,.
would be alone sufficient to merit the attelition of
the world \of adventure f but %Own it is considerid
that the-City Teoftery, hick will Le determined on
the above ttiy, aff.srds molly other (!hancei or obtlin.
ing Freeholds of 4:.•:y great %;11 e, .s 1 le geocral amtiefy
' to posse;; Ticket; alio, its Scheme may be
easily aertmiztizti fur.

- • ,
TA t TON. di-SSIZES.

Ayjizes for the Ookinty of Somerset co:r.-
n.letice‘l etvAlo.idiy last..

DEFAMATION.
CHALMMWS, ESQ. V. THE REV. ,MR. nowitbr.

'Lie parties in this case were bath ir.mibers of
the Harmonic Society. The-da,q'tages were laidat
10,0001. Seiseant LENS stated the. case. The
ite'v. W. F. Slomberg was the only wit ness.examinedi
He proved the slanderous words taillaid in the De-
claration. On hiS'Crass-examination, by Mr. 13011..
,HOUGH, he Mdinifted that he had been in habits of the
strietest• intimacy with the Defendant tar nineteen
years past ; and also that the Defendant (at whose
'lrCiose the witness had dined when the Words were
spoken), on the next morning, cautioned the Wittlegi
not to mention the circumstances, and referred hitn
to the person t'rt~tn Ouna the 'report originatod;
and the witness went to, -and took the exarninatioa
of this person, before he ventured to circulate the
. report, and-for which he had heard the Plaintiff-in-
tended to.proseente an action against film (the Wit
•ness), instead of the Deft/taint.

The Jury found a verdict for the Plaintiff—D:.* •
mates 4001.
This CUUSB extited more than ordinary intereit,
the Defendant being a popular ci.6ricter as Vice-
Presidene of the said Society, and also one of the
Magistrates fJr the Hundred of` 113th Forum'.

THE COUNTEtii c.H? NVALDEGRAVE U. 1:11.1081.EY;

I.OE, 'AND) OTH II; It S.
This was an action on a breach: of cweriant in a
mining lohn.—Verdid for the Plaintiie-L—lamagei
501,,

JON IitLLII±:GSLEy, ESQ. ,V. LADY WALDEGRAYE.
This was an aetien to recover a compensation for
purchasing, and the sebsequent management for three
years at the Manor of East Elarptree, in this county.
The defenee to %cilia was, that tie, Plaintqf,(who
had acted as Steward to the .Earl Waldegrave, at
an annual salary.) purchased this estate for Laird-
ship'; but it appearing in evidence., that such estate
was purchased in the name of the Defendant, who
enjoyed the benefit arising therefrom, the jury re-
turned their verdiet fur the Phintid----3001, and costs.
After which, an, action was 'tried, wherein Mr.
Billingsley' was Plaintitl, and Lord Waldegrave
fendatit, This action was cointnenced under the
suggestion of the Lord Chancellor, on a motion in
ifis Court, in a Cause Lord ‘Veldegrave v. Billingsley
(some time since noticed in the Public Prints), to
recover retnunetation for the Plaintiff's extra ser-r
vices, tor eight 'years, in the cultivation and improve
bent of boo acres of waste Lea on Mendip,' by
which his Lordship acquired,.. aod now enjoys an
estate of upward or oul.pqr annum, but w nieh pre,
vious to thug:: scuvic.J2i, wa's wholly unproJ.ietivc ; and
other extra services duriog Isis Lordsh:p's minority,
not within the province of a receiver, and for which
extra services the Planititi wits verbally assured
he would be liberally fewarded on Defendaut be-
coming of age: Tu this action Defend rut's Counsel
set up the plea of infancy, and. eherefOre he was
not liable;' bet Plaintiff proving some tiikling set.,
vices to his Lordship, after'he had attalie...d.twanty--
one, ti'd guts his opteion, that theugh irk
hotiour and generesity Plaintiff might tie entitled to
the remuneration he sneght, yet he could not in law
recover such ; but that he was certainly entitled tea
verditit for the small services sine,: rendered ; where-
upon plaintnr.consented to take a v cnliet for'4us.
and coots.
Considerable interest was excited in the trial of
I.n ilitthardi, at fanner, fur the seadieeion of a
young woman, tb •Whorti he had, • tor two preceding
years, paid.his apparenily howotarable addresses. --.e.
The Plaietilf's ease was matte out so strongly that
.the Jury retemed a Yenta of 50,01. Aglinst the Da-
letidnut ; brit ai the damages wary laid at only tool.
the Judge int'ormed the Jury their verlii'e could. net
exceed that ; which) was accordingly awarded.

OLD BiIILEY.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9.

Geo. IPilkimon with hulk:led for stealing privatoly
ity.the dwelling house of William Wykes, monies
and hanli ' not,ts to the amount of 701. the property
of the said Win. Vcr y kes. _ _ _

This case atrords another lamentable instance of a
servant robinghis master, when property was plac-
eti -under prole:lion. The Prosecutor keeps, the.
Windmill Inn, St. John-street, and the Prisoner miss
his servant, employed in the inn yard, It appeared
by the evidence adduced, that the propertt, as stated
in the indtatnein, had been stolen: front the 'ware:-
in the inn after it had been inclosed in t
;,!Ircei to to by the Wellington stare-coach. The
I'riwner b l,ft in possession of the
the warehotte on the 7th Mr.reb, for about two'
hours in the.evening, after which they were deliver-
ed to a boy, and the parcel was missing when looked
for. The proof, art applied to the Prisoner, SCA-
tered through the testimony of several Witnes,ics.—
The whole of the property has been found by the
indication of the Prisoner, the greater part of which
wo. in hs own pol;ei.sion, and (Alcor the notes was.
idomitied ; bin the strongest Of Oh proofs was anon,
solicited confession. Guilty—Death.
Charlotte Way., other wise, .Isurnstead, was in-
didted tbr a fraud. ,It appeared that the Prisoner
had formerly lived with a liaberdasher at High
\Vyeotnbc, and making that het pretence; had or-
dered a•con3iderable quantiyi of silk handkerchiefs,
ribbons, &c.)ke. of different Warehousemen, to he
sent her lodging.,. ';l3 she Was come up to London
for that purpose. Immdiately' .that she obtain-
edpossession r,f the too. j 8 she pawned them. The
Case, being node- dot c:early against her, she was
called on for her defew,.c. The only- answer, she
made was, " that' she nothirtg to say, but that
she bad done it at the ia'AiffatiOn and by the per-
suasion of a Gentleman of tho name ofHawkins,
with whom she lived." She called no Witnesses ;
and the Jury without hesitation found a verdia of
Urcllty.. 'he case itself did not excite so much no-
lice as the respectable appearance of the Prisoner,
wbo was dressed in a black velvet /Jelisse, a white
'bandVau rouru her hair, brai:elets, &e._&-e. in short,
she appeared dressed more tit for i Theatre than a
PiJSOn. She heard both the trial and verdia with'
most Complete sang frold. She gave in het
age 23.
llt tdd:tion tLe above, 24 (Altar Prisoners were
tried, ten of whc:n were gerait* teIODY.