The Sun.
London, England, 1807-03-09 00:00:00

PO LICE.

MANSION-I-JOUST, MARCH 7.7.-JOlz?! Niehols and
•his,wife were charged with stealing, at different
times,
.considerable quantities of drugs, and Other
property put of the warehouse of. Messrs. Howard_
and Bush, Chemists and Druggists, near :Cannon-
street, with whom they lived as servants;' the man
being employed as a porter about the warehonse.—
Boxes of goOds and bundles of wearing apparel were'
produced as having been found with, or pawned by
them. They did not deny the property .to ba that
of their employers; but the latter being' of that de-
. scription of people called Quakers, could not, con-
sistently with. their religion, take an oath in suppOrt
,* of the prosecution; and their affirmation rot being
legal evidence, the prisoners were discharged.
Sarah Sountes,-. alias Powell; the reputed' wife of
the notorious pick-pocket a, the above name;- was
brought up-to' Guildhall,- and -eharged; before Slr
MATTHEW BLOXHAM, with assisting •another infa-
mous prostitute to.rob a Gentleman, named George
Peters, on Friday morning, -in Fleet-street:'..MTl
P. said, that passing along between 'one and two
o'clock,
,artd- perfeally' sober; he was attacked by 'a
womarrat the corner ola passage, who forcibly put
her hand into his pocket, and took out two notes,
one of 201. and another of 21. and'ran awsay.
attempting to .stop her; the prisoner Some's; who
was at a short distance,, witnessing; the'tranSaalOri,
instantly came up, held out her arms,.. and forcibly
prevented the Prosecutot from.pUrSuing the robber,
till she was out of sight. • The constable, 4ho had
the Prisoner in -custody, said'he had seen her a tew
minutes before the transaction in question:v./WI the
'Other woman who ran-. away;- that they Were. inti-
mate companions; and, with a third associate, 'used
always to Caine into the street after twelve-at
where they, made a.praetice of assisting each other-
in the manner described, by the Prosecutor, tai :cotta,
mit depredations chiefly on men in-a state of intoxi-
oation.• Some other -constables, corroborated this
testimony. Their said the constables,
.had but just
come, out of Bridewell ; that she,
..and several other. •
WO'11.611", who came every night to Fleet-street,-
.re-
sided in ..St. Pedrge's-fields, near the. Ning's..Be6ch,
and were intimate .with thenotorious Mrs. Barrington.
Sir.MATTEIEW BLOXIIAM lamented that such .a .
well-dresi3ed decent.lOoking woman as the Prisoner
should hate sutih'a charaaer. Bur as there was no
proOf of her liaviny, taken the Prosecutor's notes,
he ordered her to be discharged.
Puns zc
OFEIC,E,.Ay HITECHAPEL.--4, young ,WO-
man, a iady'spmid in a tawily-ofdistinetion,.4nci,the •
daughter of: a. yespeetable tradesman, in. Mary-lc-
bone, srands charged
,with., a robbery, to a.consi-
derable extent, in. the
.Rouse. of ler. mistress. The
young woulan ha.d been,inthe habit of consulting a
.pietp34:o.prophetess, who, hy.ber artifices, obtained.
so Much influence over the credulous woman, asto.
prevail Oil ,Iktr. to rob the 'wardrobe of her mistress to
satisfy her demands-. Tile young woman, on the
, property beh;ig missed, confessed her crime, and part:
of it was traced to the Sybil, who is in cuSto4y..

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A-few days ago a woman ..at Blackburn, having a
bottle of gin sent her as a present,- the servant -whoa
took it in inadvertently lefty it on a • table, when' a
child,,only,-six years old, drew the cork, and drank'
so much out of the bottle as to occasion her. death.

Metamiopltuse.— A Welchman last
week bought an •AmeriCan pig, on boa-0.-ayespel
from- Carolina, at Liverpool, Hel put, his purchase
in a.bag, and left it on board'the Vessel for an lit*
or so, when', he called and took the purchase;
and on' the swine evening arrived: witb it safelt ak his
house, near Neston : on opening thel)agt.itAPpeai-64.
they had taken - away the pig, on board; and snbstita-i
ed a yOuhg Atilerican bear. . .