The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.
WoxtquiP-ST REE T.—ln consequence of a complaint alleged
at this office on, a former day, SAMUEL TWYFORD, Esq., the
presiding Magistrate, issued his warrant for the apprehension
of the Rev. Wm. Eyre, a clergyman, residing at Wing, in
Buckinghamshire.—Mr. Eyre was yesterday brought before
the same Magistrate, and charged with having feloniously as-
saulted Johanna Quinlan, a child nine years of age, and with
having carnally known and abused her. It appeared from the
testimony of Mr. Howard, one of the overseers of St. Luke's
parish, and of Wm: Monk, another parish officer, that the pri-
soner made application to the parish for a female child out of
the workhouse. He represented himself to be, the Rev. Wm.
Eyre, of Buckinghamshire; that he was curate for two pa-
rishes there, and that he did the duty of both. He said he was
well known to the Rev. Mr. Towers, formerly curate of Saint
Luke's, and also to the Rev. Mr. Crosby, of Shoreditch. He
wished to have a little girl from the workhouse, to be a com-
panion for a little boy, whom he had adopted as his own, and
having a little property, it was his intention to divide it between
them. He was particularly anxious that the child should be
an orphan, in order that it might be solely dependent on him-
self. He would delight in its editcation, and therefore,
whether the child's morals or its future prospects in life
were to be regarded, it was important that the parish should
accede to his proposition. The Parish Board readily as.
sented to an offer from a
.person of such apparent respectability.
The Clergyman was introduced to look at the children,
and he selected Johanna Quinlan, who was nearly nine years
of age. This child lisped, and could not speak very intelli-
gibly, but the only objection he started was her having a
mother in Newgate for shoplifting. He expressed great plea-
sure that she could say her prayers. He then intimated his
intention of leaving London early the next morning, and he
should wish to take the child with him that night. There was
no objection, and he accordingly took the child with him. It
appeared that they slept the first night at a public-house in the
city of London, where he was seen in the bed-room of the chil-
dren in the morning. It was further stated by Johanna Quin-
lan, that he went by the coach the next day to Buckingham.
shire, and on their way that she slept in the same bed with
Mr. Eyre And the little boy, and that he committed his vile
purposes upon her that night. Afterviards they proceeded to
Wing, where he,,the little boy, and this little girl, had always
slept in the same bed, and where he was in the nightly com-
mission of this abominable conduct. At length some intelli-
gence reached the parish officers of St. Luke, that the prisoner,
though a clergyman, was an immoral and base character. A
young woman, aged 21, informed them she was the mother of
the little boy whom the prisoner said he had adopted, and that
the prisoner was the father, and that she had been abused by
him in the same way when she was eleven years Of age. In
consequence of this information, Monk the officer was sent
down to Wing for the child, and while there the prisoner
charged the little girl not to tell Mrs. Edwards, the matron of
St. Luke's, of what he had done. When Monk brought the
child to the first inn on the road, she related to him the same
story she told the Magistrate this day.—Attfield, the police-
officer, stated, he went down with Monk to execute the war-
rant, which they did on Saturday morning. Upon the pri-
soner being taken into custody, he declared to Almighty
God he was innocent ; but he admitted he sometimes had
been out late, and when he came home he had lain down
on the bed, and he might have tickled her, but, he observed,
there was no harm in that. He said he 'could not have done
what was stated in the warrant with so young a child; if he
had done so, her linen would show it, and 'he brought the offi-
cer a shift to inspect. Ann Abted, the unfortunate young wo-
man who had been formerly ruined by the prisoper, was brought
into the parlour where this examination took place. She ap-
peared an interesting young woman, drcirged in black, and
could scarcely support herself while the .prisoner was present.
She preyed the little boy to be hers by tlfe prisoner, when she
was sixteen years old. The prisoner/was committed to the
New Prison, Clerkenwell, for re-extttnination. He is a tall
fine-looking man, about fifty years a it,q, with all the exterior
manners of a gentleman. He was permitted to sit during the
examination, and he requested something to eat, as he said he
bad fasted for two days, and the indulgence was granted. He
represented that he had been tutor to,the-children of Mr. Dyer,
the Magistrate. Mr. WiLxsi appeared professionally for the
parish, and Mr. HARD= for the prisoner.

Masrsiox-Ho u SE.—Bitu TALIT Y.—A very decent looking
man, holding a respectable situation as clerk to a corn-factor,
and whose name we forbear to mention, appeared on summons
yesterday before Mr. Alderman Cox, who took the business of
the Justice Room, in the absence of file Lord Mayor, to answer
the complaint of Thomas Deacon, a constable of the ward of
Aldgate, for disorderly conduct, and insulting him in the exe-
cution of his duty, on Wednesday evening last. One of their
watchmen, it appeared, in going his rounds between one and
two o'clock in the morning, in Cooper's-row, found a female
sitting on the steps of the defendant's door, nearly in a state of
nudity, having nothing on but her chemise and nightcap. Upon
inquiry it turned out that she was the wife of the defendant, and
the story told by her was, that she had gone to bed, and when
her husband, who had been spending the evening out, knocked
at the door, came down without dressing herself- to let him in.
She had some troublvo perivade him to come in, and at length
upon her begging of him not to keep her in that state, he hastily
pushed her into the street and shut the door upon her, nor could
all her knocking or intreaties induce him to open it again ;
and the watchman finding he could not procure her admittance
into the house, wrapped her in his great coat and conveyed her
to the watchhouse to take care of her till the morning. Shortly
afterwards, however, the defendant.made his appearance at the
watchhouse, and conducted himself in a most violent manner,
charging the complainant and the other officers of the night
with bringing his wife There with an improper intention. The
defendant affected to make very light of the business. The
Worthy Alderman, however, viewed it much more seri-
ously, and after expatiating upon the brutality and inde-
cency of thus exposing the person of his own wife, and insult-
ing those whose humanity had rescued her from further shame
and exposure, directed him to be bound in his own recogni-
zance of 501. to answer any further proceeding that might be
instituted against him.
• MARLBOROUH-STREET.—OUTRAGE UTRAGE IN A GAMBI.ING
Roe SE.—The other enning a party of Gentlemen who had
been driven to. need in consequence of their imprudence at the
table of a gambling-house in Pall-mall, in a moment of des-
peration proceeded to the house, determined to be 'revenged
on the owner, and if possible to recover, if not by fair, by
foul, means, part of the lost store. For this purpose they arm-
ed themselves with sticks, and repaired to the house about ten
o'clock at night, where they found-some persons playing; their
first object was to make an attack upon the individuals who had
the care of the box holding the stakes. One of the party at.
tacked them desperately with a stick, while the others put out
the lights and broke the lamps, and thus succeeded' in carrying
off the stakes. The parties were recognised, and warrants of
assault were issued against them ; and yesterday they appeared
before Mr. RoE, the sitting Magistrate, when the charge was
made out "by-The person assaulted. A young gentleman of
fashionable appearance was spokesman ; he reprobated the ex-
istence of gaming-houses as being instrumental to the ruin of
piing gentlemen; he had been led into the above house, where,
in the course- of three weeks, he had lost 3001. The owner had
only been charged the other day at Bow-street, and now he had
the unblushing effrontery to appear in Court again, against a
person whom his house had ruined. Mr. RoE told him he
had his remedy against the house, by indictment, if he felt ag-
grieved, but he had no right to exercise the law in his own
hands.—He was ordered to find bail.

QUEEN'S-SQUARE,—DISTRESSING CASE. --Yesterday
Mary Duly, a young woman under eighteen years of age, was,
bre.ght before the. Magistrat, charged by David Payne,'
watchman, in. Charles-street, with wandering about the streets
at midnight, and not having any place Of abode, nor being able
to give a satisfactory account of herself. On her , examination
she said that she had not a friend in the' world, that she had
been servant to a tradesman in the. Burlington Arcade, at 51. a
year,wages, which she had heen paid weekly. About a fort-
night ago her, mistress stole upon her in the,kitchen, and found
.bet dosing, with her head rechning.upon her arms,. she being,
exceedingly tired. This wasall her transgression, and her mis-
tress gave her a week's notice to quit. IVhen the week was
up she had only 2s. to receive, and she was _turned
This was all she had to find her in lodging and sustenance, but
it was soon expended, and she could not procure any place
nor get any lodging for. want of money, but sleeping on the
benches in the Yank.--r-On being questioned as to her
of
settlement, she answered that she was quite • ignorant of that ;
her father was a soldier, and was killed in Spain. nefore he
went abroad he placed her in the Duke of York's school; her
mother went with the regiment, but died on the first day's
march upon the road. She remained at the Military Asylum
till 14 years of age, when she was bound apprentice as a domes-
tic servant, but here she received the most cruel treatment, and
was passed over to a tailor in Dean-street, Soho. The poor
girl burst into tears.—The Magistrate ordered the Clerk to take
her examination, in order to pass her to the latter place. But
on referring to the late Act, of Parliament, he' found he had no
such power. A few shillings were given to her from the office
funds; and she was told that something should be done for her
to protect her from min.—Discharged.

Admiral DIGBY and-Lady AN "uovEit. are reco-
yering from their fraetuies;—lfer Lailfshipta left
arm was bode dear to the and she has Bttf-
fered most severely,