The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-20 00:00:00

WESTMINSTER SESSIONS.

GAMING HOUSE.—A true bill was found against .1. F.
Tadlor, for keeping a common gaming-house in the parish
of St. James, Westminster.
The remaining cases were gone through, and the Court
adjourned to the 13th September next.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A warrant has been issued for the apprehension of Lewis
Augustus Bennet, who succeeded in obtaining money on
false bills of lading, policies of insurance, Sze., to an
enormous amount, and in escaping from this country ; and
it is expected that, although the American authorities will
not give him up to the persons who may intercept him in
passing through the States, they will lay an embargo on all
the property he may have in his possession, and send him
as they sent Rowland Stephenson, some years ago, to seek
his fortune as an excavator.

Some days after the discovery of the alteration of the
dates in the bills of lading on which Bennet obtained a con-
siderable sum of' money, it was suspected that he had fa-
bricated a Company, for the purpose of plundering banking-
houses by means of their bills, which he endorsed,' and
which were readily discounted in London. An inquiry was
immediately made, and it was ascertained that the plans of
fraud and robbery had been most extensively laid. The
brother of Bennet contrived to get introduced by a gen-
tleman to the partners in an eminent banking-house in
the City, as a Member of the firm of Peter Blake and
Co., to get bills discounted there. This brother, whose
name is Peter Bennet, passed as Peter Blake, repre-
sented himself as one of the principal partners in the
commercial house of Blake and Co., and, after having aided
and assisted Lewis Augustus Bennet, concluded a long
series of offences by accompanying his brother to America.
Another of the fabricated firms was Edwards and Co.
The amount of which, by this system, they have plundered
one banking-house is said to be 2,600/. ; but the full extent
of the depredations committed by Lewis Augustus Bennet
exceeds 50,000/. considerably.
It is rather extraordinary that Peter Bennet was intro-
duced to the banking house alluded to by a person with
whom they had dealings, as Mr. Peter Blake, the repre-
sentative of the house of Blake and Co. It is probable
that the two brothers will be attacked in America by the
agents there of the merchants and bankers they have plun-
dered, and that no ceremony will be shown to the property
which either of them may have in his possession.
A reward of 1001. has been offered for the apprehension
of a young man named George Francis Burn, the clerk to
Mr. W. S. Taylor, the stock-broker. Burn had been in-
trusted with large sums of money by his employer, took
opportunities, it is said, of speculating in some of the va-
rious Companies in which so much gambling has of late
been carried on, and disappeared on the .sth instant, imme-
diately after which it was discovered that his accounts were
very greatly deficient. He effected his robberies by means
of the manoeuvre of keeping a banking account himself, so
that he was enabled to dispose of the checks, which he
ought to have paid into the banking-house of his employers,
to his own advantage.
The delinquent was traced to Dover, but nothing has
been heard of him since Daniel Forrester crossed over to
the Continent in pursuit. The amount of which he plun-
dered his employer is said to be between 3,000/. and 4,000/.
A woman, who said that her name was Julia .1114Vil-
limn, was a few clays ago brought before the LORD MAYOR,
having been found not only totally destitute, but insane, on
the preceding night, in Leadenhall-street, and his Lordship
sent her to the Compter, and directed Mr. Teague, the
keeper, to make inquiry about those upon whom she might
have a claim.

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Mr. Teague ascertained that the female's real name was
Margaret M'Tighe ; that she had been confined for five

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years at the house of the late Sir J. Miles at Hoxton ; h!`
been taken from thence on the 6th instant by order of a
Mr. Saunders, who upon being applied to, said that ste
came from India with a relation of his five years ago, and
having been insane upon her arrival was placed and Inill'
tained by him until the 6th, at Hoxton, when, by the ail;
vice of his attorneys, Messrs. Barrow, Vincent, an
Plumley, he discharged her, and she was taken into custody
by the police, ant taken before the Magistrates of Wor-
ship-street, who refused to commit her to the county
lu-
natic asylum, and dismissed her from the office ; that her
late husband was a sergeant in the East India CompanY's
service, and that she was entitled to a pension amounting at
the present time to 60/.
The LORD MAYOR, upon learning these facts, was %vaittla
upon by the clerk to the above-mentioned solicitors, will')
stated that he had in vain pressed the poor lunatic's case
upon the Magistrates at the police-office, under the 9th °
George IV., c. 40, sec. 41 and 44, which was exactly
adapted to it, and the su,zgestion having been rejected, there
remained no alternative but to let the unfortunate creature
wonder about the streets.
Mr. Hobler—lt is quite the fashion to drive the desti-
tute and infirm of all descriptions into the city of Londt
as if the Mansion House was a mere place of refuge. "
is most disgraceful.
The LORD MAYOR—Has any application been made to
the Secretary of State on the subject ?
The Clerk to the Solicitor said that no application ha
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as yet been made ; but that, if the Lord Mayor would allow
the female to remain in the Compter for a few days, Lord
John Russell should be applied to.
The Loan MAYoß—Certainly. The unfortunate crew
ture shall not perish in the streets. The Secretary of Statea
will, no doubt, remedy the evil, which is a shocking and
most disgraceful one.

G UILDIIAL L.
In the course of Thursday, the Bow-street officers stls
ceeded in seizing a great number of packages of unstamPc
newspapers, dated Sunday, August 21, containing altose
ther above 3,500 copies.
James Vaughan was charged yesterday before Mr.
dermanlr
WILSON with having in his possession a pars
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containing five quires of unstamped newspapers.
Prisoner was glad to get a job of Mr. Cousins. 1-le
could not starve.
Mr. Alderman WILSON said he need not starve. c
a young man as he was might easily find honest and lawta
employment. As the imprisonment he had already sufferej
had not proved a warning to him he must be punisb6
again, and he committed him till the 15th of SepterobT
when the stamp tax would be reduced, and the illicit tra
would cease.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday Richard Rumpling, landlord of the Joiner!.
Arms, Camberwell-green, was summoned on an inforniatiop
charging him with having in his possession a certain Pre*
partition as a substitute for malt and hops, namely, stl;Plr'
or the purpose of adulterating his beer, whereby he b
incurred a penalty of 2001. There four counts .0 the ill;
formation, upon each of which, if convicted, the deknd°
rendered himself liable to penalties of 2001.
Mr. Sly, the supervisor of the Excise, conducted the
prosecution, and Mr. CLARKSON was for the defence. .ti,
The Magistrrtes convicted the Aefendant in the 131!
gated penalty of 501.