The Sun.
London, England, 1808-11-08 00:00:00

POLIC'E.

Alia LBOROUG 11-STREET. —Yesterday, at this
Office, a- Man abort five feet six In itli
fair countenance and red hair, wriCk stat.d his name
to be Patrick Al' illakon, with theap-pendage of alias,
was charged with fraud to au endrrnous amount, on
a mul iplicity of persons, by representing himself as
an Irish merchant, and other characters. Col. Gre'.
ville, at whJse suit the Prisoner was apprehended,
had beeq defrauded of• 42 guineas by him, and the
Colonel's was tile only charge entered into yester-.
day. On-the Prisoner j)eing taken into the Office,
there being about six persons present, he requested
of Mr. CONANT, the Magistr,ite, that the Office
might be cleared, lest some writer ne!onging to a •
newspaper might be piesent, as his was a case which
involved his and other Gentlemen's characters: The
.INlagistrate gratified the Prisoner, and ordered the
room toile cleated. The charge made by Colonel
Greville was in substance as follows :—The Colonel,

it appeared, had adverti,.ed a chaise and harness for

sale, and ffie Prisoner lost no time in soliciting-to
be"the purchaser.' He applied to Mr. \Volker, the
coacbmaker, in South-street, Marybone, and °tiered
to purchase the chaise, but as -there was nothing
said about payment he was referred to Cul. Gre-
ville. The Prisoner introduced . himself try the Co-
lonel as au Gish tnerchartt, and soon avfe.4lto give
a note for 42 guineas, payable at eight.-;days, at a
substantial firm in Sherburoe-lne. Thu ,note was
received, drawn by Ryan and Co. No. 12.,Sherborne-
lane, and indorsed by the. Prisoner. The note was
negotiated, and on its being presented for payment
at the said mercantile house- in Sherborne-lane, the
merchants and clerks wereall absent together. The
Gentleman who had the note. went again on the
following day, whets he found a label affixed over
the names. of Ryan and Co. which stated, " Gone
to the Custom-house, communications to be dropped'
into the letter-box." • . . .
M 'Ma hon was taken into custodypky Foy,, on
Saturday night, and he addressed:a iitttlerto, Colonel.
Greville, stating that. he wouldiigtorn the;chaise -if
the Col Opel would forego the prosecution. This
offer was rejected, as Colonel
,Greville chose
rather to -par up with the -loss of his ,property,
than . to suffer the. prisoner to continue his pub-
lie depredations. On the prisoner was found
several more . ii.aitious notes., ready . for cireuia-
tion, besides- cheques for large sums on the Irish
Bank. It turned our, the prisoner had disposed
or Colonel Greville's chaise at .the Running Horse
Livery' Stables. Blackftiars-road, for 40 guineas.—
Alttiouzli the. prisoner's captivity was so recent, a
vast number of persons appeared .as his aceu.',.t-rs on
various swindling. transactions, consisting of tailors,
jewellers, coachinakerA, gent letnen,Bre.; and amongst
the latter, Major limes, of Argyle-street,- has been
duped of 1001. These charges were entered, and
will he heard at the next examination. Tice prisoner,
who, previously to his becoming gentle - an, was as,
att9racy's clerk, entered into a potni
which he prefaced with a little of his biography, &c.
His motive for purchasing the CoAlfel's chaise, was
to convey .11.11-s Mahon to Ireland,, hst, having been
invito to return to that Countryibto. ,cense-
quenee of t. 51. only having been remittel to him for
the accomplishment of his journey, he '..as obliged
to sell the chaise,
.as the refill' tance was• to insigni-
ficant for a Genileinan to acquit himself with creche
amongst a circle of .female acquaintance, to whom
it would be necessary. to make presents previously to
leaving London. The prisoner was remanded to
answer to above a dozen other charges.
BOW-STREET.-The Lady who was charged on
Thursday by her servant with having> robbed her .of
16 guineas,' appeared to answer the charge, attended
by many of her friends, and waned an .hour and a
half, but the servant.girl. did not appeiriu qslr.,Gv
tt-
NEr,who,attended on the behalf o,C:tliel,ady, then
applied to have his' client discharge, and offered
evidence to sliew.. that,there Avas no ground whatever
for the acensatioii, that she was a.person of property;
and that it was impossible •for the servant to be pos-
sessed of the property she had, on a prece,ling day;
..sworn slitiohild lost.- But the Sitting Magistrate

thought he could not hear the evidence r. GURNEY

proposed to offer in the a4sence.of Mr. REAtk, who

presided when. the servant male the charge against
her mistress, but added, it was of the utmost tpipdr-
tauce to..the Lady that 0.4 e -matter should kvAve the

fullest investigation. He accurdin6ly direued her
to attend again on Thursday.
HATTON-GA It I) ENT.---.Are have to curl-ea-an error
in our report in yesterday's Paper relative to "Inn
Penn, charged by the Abbe Roufigiy with s,•_auug a
carpet. It is not true that the Abbe was at all in-

debted to her, all demands- upon bin). hailing I
since been discharged. •

The fisheries have been extremelt 'produ(live of
late cm the Cardiganshire coast, part. 'Tarty at Abe-
rayron and New ,Ittay. It is ealculatKi. (hat the dif-
ferent boats caught on Saturday se'dnik!,t. 15,000
maize~, at those Pons only : each maize contains
550 llerrEfl4s, 1.09 the hundred, exclusive of extra-
ordinary allowance.

The oea;iiul Bay of Swansea was never- seen to
more adiantage than on. Sunday sennight ; it pre-.
sented the iott.resting spectacle of about 6EIO vessels
in tOll sari, freishted with the.produce.of their dines
for distant ports.

On Wednesday-evening the balloon stage coach,
on its ,vay from Birmingham to London, wastikbed
of a parer l .Birmn,gham bank notes, to the amount
of vpward, of 1.2n0i. payable at several bankers in
London, principally in 01. and Jo). notei„. Most of
have since been changedby the fjiibers.

LAW REPOIIT.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 7.

At..one *o'clock the Lola) CHANCELLOR and the
ATAsrhit se l the Ittir.t..s, stressed in 'heir rc b s, to, ,k
their Seat:,,,accoinpaineci by twosMasiers
(Try._ ,* . •

. ,:,ay.ing been. appointed by His Ma-
jesty to be one of ins Cotniset, took his seat inside
the Bar, by the of Lord ELDOI:,.

I%‘LMER V. THE EARL OF A.YLESEURr.

Mr. ftiCliAtlS, on behalf of the Defendant,
moved, tltathje testintouy of a _witness, ob. behalf of
refeud,ipt,
,tuigrit be taken before the Master,
on 4CC,.;tlt or his old age and indisposition: The
cireutn,ranees of the case we)e, that., ott the cause
C01111114,0t1 to be heard, the Court direaed an issue
to be tried ui the Court of
:King's tench, whether
.)au•iel Holhert did not, in the year 17.74, f.iie pos-
sessed Of a certain estate ? The Plaintiff:examined
Wiinesnesberore-the Master, but L the Dl did
not. Mr.. illettA.upS stated, that the Noble Be—
tendant had been advised, by his Counsel, to
examine witnesses, as they had not a doubt but the
Court would dired an issue; tjut at the present mu-
nient, one of the most essential. witnesses .for the

Defendant, aged 79, was labouring under -a dan-
gerous illness, with little hopes of his recovery, and
if his evidence were not allowed to be taken, the
defence of the Defendant would be much weakened.

He acknowledged it was a novel ease, and he knew
Of no 'precedent that was laid doWn, where the
Court was induce l to alter their praaice so tar; but
he contended, that equity anti justice called on them
to step aside hom the rygular course,, in the present
instance; he therefore trusted the Court would, its
its justice, grant the motion.

Sir SAMUEL ROMILLY and Mr., HART contem.:A,
that the Noble Defendant had nothing to complain
of; he kept front examining; in witnesses, on pur-
pose.thar the Plaintiff might not know the extent of
his evidence; he cid not state by his affidavit 'that it
was a witness hehtid.tbund out since the heating of
the cause; he was in as full knowledge then as he is
now; he knew then the age of the witness; he
knew that a than of the age of 79 was not at a time
of life to be trifled with. They felt confident that the-
Conit wn.ald not allow itself to be trifled with; did
it not, at the time of the hearing, expeet that every'
fatt that could be as..:ertained was before it ? yet the.
Defendant swears lie "kept back, by the advice of his
Counsel, essential information from them. I Perhaps
if those witnesses had been examinea, the Court
would have been of opinion that the bill should be
dismissed, instead of direding an issue to be tried,
and putting the Plaintiff to so mech. unnecessary
expellee. The Learned Counsel, Mr. RLCHARDS,
acknowledged there was no precedent for the ino
tion, and surely the Court would not alter its prac-:
tice on light grounds. Under these considerations,
they-tru:Jed the Court would dismiss the motion
with cos s.

The I.oxp CHANCELLOR observed, this was a point
of great Importance, and Le telt happy ut,having the
assistance of his Efoaour, the Master of 'the Rolls;
they would not then give their opinions, but would
confer together. Mr. Richards bad said he could not
rind any 'precedent; there were some in the 2d vol.
of Dickins ; for instance, the case of Sandford and
Paul ; tie thought that was rather against the
present .60, as a witness in that case was allowed
to na examined, because the party did not know of
his existence until after the hearing of the cause,
and lit course could not have exadiined him. He
would not then say any thing more. on the subject,
but as soon as be received his HonOur's opinion, he
would make them acquainted with it.
The IVIAsTEa OF THE ROLLS observed, that he
would decline :then sayingany thing on the subject
--he would
_make up his opinion, and lay it before
'the Lord Chancellor.