The Sun.
London, England, 1809-07-18 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW-STREET.—On Saturday, evening,. about nine
o'clock, at the time Co.es party of the patrole were
on duty in Islington, they met a man dressed in a
blue jacket, as ,a labouring man, in Clark's-place,
who asked them.the way to Shoreditch 5 he having
two bundles, they asked him what he had in thero,,
he refused to tell ; they told 'him who they were,
and that they must know the contents. After ob-i
jet4ing for sorne time, he Agreed to go to a public,
house, and he world shew them ; when at the
house, the officers-observing he was only chewing
them part, and concealing the rest, they insisted
upon.ex.awitling for tberusOves-..-be refused to coal--
ply, and a violent scuffle ensued ; the officers were
at length obliged to hand-cuff him before they accotn-
Plished their objei,i, On finding the bundles. con-
tained cash and notes to a considerable amount, be.
sides valuable property, their detained him in custody,
and brought him before Mr. READ yesterday fOr exami-
nation, when it appeared that the cash, consisting of
hall-crowns, dollars, and seven-shilling-
pieces, half-guineas and guineas, amounted, to up-
wards 01951. there were also a 401. and a
Ply-
mouth bank-notes, two diamond rings, and several
valuable trinkets, besides clothes: The account- he
'gave of himself was, that .he is. a paper-maker, and
came from Ma!lock, in Derbyshire, :where he
worked at his trade—at paper-mills, at Plymouth—
and mills at various other parts of the country ; that
he had saved the money by his industry, and_ always
carried it about with him; and preferred travelling
from mill to mill, rather than living at a settled
place. He said the diamond rings and trinkets
were left him by his mother. He was ordered to
be detained, till it is ascertained whether he is the
man he represented himself to be, He is twat sixty
years of age.

GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday a person of some cek•
brity, named Davenport Sedley, brought a charge
of assault against a- Dutch Lady, named . Norton,
otherwise Osborne, for striking him- with a.cudgel,
on Thursday last, at her lodgings near Ludgate-hill.
Mr. Sedley, from considerations of delicacy, wish-
ed to confine his statement to the simple fact of the
assault; but the Magistrate chose to enquire into the
circumstances of the case.

Mr. Sedley stated, that he went on Thursday to
the lodgings of Dr. Stevenson, a medical gentlemen,
Who has ter some time sojourned in the Rules of the
Fleet Prison, to claim some money due to him; that
some dispute arose between him and the Door;'
who, .after several-times desiring him to depart, at-
tempted-to push him down stairs; -and that on-his'
resising the efforts of Doe or Stevenson, for this
purpose, the Lady in question, who resides in the
same apartments, interfered, and struck Mr. Sedley
on the arm with a large stick.
On the other side, Mrs. Nortdn; otherwise Os.
borne, who is a very handsome native of Holland,
told her own story with much eloquence, and-in
tolerably.good English.
She said, that having become possessed of a right
to a legacy of 18001. she could not obtain ttle money
for want of means to proceed at law, -by. procuring
copies of certain deeds, emending to i 5 skins' of
parchment ; she therefore wished to raise, by loan,
a sum of .6001. for which purpose Dr. Stevenson'
had recommended Mr. Sedley to her, as a money
agent_; she did not, she said, like his charaeler, but
she was persuaded to employ hini: Mr. Sedley
em-
ployed Mr. Coutts as his co-agent, and Mrs. Norton,
promised, if she, obtained the loan, to present them
With 5 pi. each, for their trouble. The money was
• obtained from _a Mr. Martin ; and Mr. Coutts
brought it to Mrs. Norton, who, in the presence of
*Dr. Sievenion, paid him 401, lot his owu trouble

'2H ARD HARRIS, of No. 4, Martiett-coirt. Bow-t;treet ; -#0 l't;blis'aed by WILLIAM ARM!"; SCItl P VS; South NI I
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