The Sun.
London, England, 1807-04-23 00:00:00

POLICE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A complaint was made
yesterday' at this Office,' by' a Publican,. against a
Footman -in a Nobleman's family in Piccadilly, for
withholding from . birn a piece of lace, value '6l;
Which be had won by insuring the first-drawn ticket
in the State Lottery.
It appeared eVidence, that the Footman, a.
great man amongst the servants in • the family, bad
taken insurances at,- ss. each, twenty-five members,
and•that person N-vho hit on the thonsand that pro 7
daced the fit-St.-drawn ticket was• to have the piece
of.-lace. The Publican, on 'Fling his insurance-
money, observed, that he had a bad .hall guinea,
which the Footman received of him, as it was in
his power to get it of at a card party.'Thelace was
won by the Publican, but the Footman refused to
deliver it up, on account of the:bad half guinea.
The Magistrate informed the Servant, that -he was
liable to six,tnonths imprisonment for ,his mrscon7
dua • hut he.was liberated, on returning the Money
to the different subsenbefs.

PUBLIC-OFFICE, HATTON-GARDEN. —Tuesday
a young man, apprehended by Chaproamaad TrOtt,-
was privately examined, being charged with borne 7
stealing, and other depredations to a,great extent,
which he volimtarily disclosed, 'being one of a Oily
belonging to a formidable gang who infest the coun-
try: • He was committed tar re-examination.

The murder in Higgler's-lane, it is hoped, will at
length be found out, and the Ibul perpetratOrs dis-
covered. Some person, whether from eompunaion
or otherwise it does not appear,. on Wednesday
morning last affixed a written paper on the door-
post of a' Wheeler's shop,' in the BorOtigh4oad;
wherein the writer exp,reswd some knowledge of the
transa6tion, and that it he could be assured of, secrecy
and protection he would
_come forward.—Mr.
EVANCE has taken the only means in his Power to
.make such assurance to an anonymous writer—that of
causing posting-bills to be affixed, promising secrecy
and protection to the writer ; and.. adding, cu
.t • in
case of a disclosure, he would become entitled to
the reward of tool, offered by the 'Parish of- St.
George, Southwaik.
At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace for
the division of; Lindsey, holden at Louth, in the
County of Lincoln, on Friday and Saturday last,
William Bell, for stealing deals,' &C. to be imprisoned
twelve months at Kirton; the last month in a soli-
tary cell. William Evison, tbr stealing books from
the Grammar School at Horncastle, as above. Thomas
COupland and John Coupland, father and soil, for
stealing horse-hair froth. the animal's tail ; father
ac4uiited,,the son admitted to go for a soldier. Wil-
liam Read, for stealing a game cock, to .go for -a
sOldier; :Reuben Tuplin, for a breach of the peace,
by wilfully' breaking a child's leg, -to go fbr a soldier.
Twenty-four vagrants to 'be passed to their settle-
ments.

{ At Lynn Sessions, the mast important cause,
which excited considerable interest, was an indi&-,
meAt against-a man of the name of Kirtan, for steal-
ing some. plate. The Prisoner's Counsel, in cross.-
examining the witnesses, endeavoured to set up a
plea of insanity; hut no evidence was offered to .es-
tablish the faCt of his being Out of 'his senses at the
time of the cominission of the robbery. • The Jury
retired for a very few minutes, and returned a'vcr-
di ofguilty .—The RECORDER, in passing sentence
of transportation for seven years upon this min,
urged, in very forcible terms, the aggravating cir-
cumstances attending hi§ offence. - 14 addition to
his other offences, he has two wives alive, both of
whom were_ present at his trial ; and, we under-
stand, it was their intention to have prosecuted' him
for bigamy, in the event of his acquittal for felony.
• On Monday se'nnight whilst the wild beasts were
exhibiting to the inhabitants of Bodwin, a man of
the name of Slogget, presuming on the sleeping of
the tiger to smooth his paw,' which, was stretched
through the bars of the den, was much torn in the
hand by the claws of the animal, but had the good
fortune to escape with rio further injury.
FIRE.--At ten o'clock yesterday, morning an
alarming fire broke out in the tanndry of Thomas
Carter, Esq. of Upper Brook-street, •and in a„.mo-
ment the stables of Blackburn Mews were in a sheet
of fire, threatening deStrudion to the neighbourhood;
but by the prompt attendance of the wort: en -and
the engine of the fa,c,tOry of Messrs. GilloWs;:and
the immediate supply•of water from the vast cisterns
the stables of the Earl of Derby,Duke Of Mon-
trose, &c. it was most fortunately got under-with
_only the loss of the stables and laundry of Mr. Carter

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