The Sun.
London, England, 1813-06-08 00:00:00

POLICE.

UNtow itAta..—A blind and lame merrcinr,
who said his name was Francis Lewis, was yesi
day brought before Mr. Chambers, charged with
attempting to defraud the landlord of theNel,orA
Head public-house, in the Kent Road, by exposi tg
to his view a sham note, purporting to be a Bank
of England note, and thereby obtaining' meat,
drink, and lodging on credit. Toese circumstances
were proved, and on being questioned by the Wor-'
thy Magistrate, he confessed that- Ile was in the
h:diit or obtain*, credit by stinitar iiiposi~lrins. -»
He was also, he said, employed iay several persons
in Lhe city, to put otf forged notes mid bad silver
for them, and that he had been very ,inceessfol in
these branches for some time past. When desired
by the Magistrate to name some of the persons by
whom he had been empowered' to pass forecd
notes and bad money,, and told, that it he did n, t
he
.wouhr himself be liable to be transported for
having sham notes :in his posseSsion. He declared
be would make no cOminunication whatever, but
stand to all the consequences hithself. The Ma-
gistrate, upon this decl:;ratiOn., conpuitted him for
,examittation, to afford, ran opportunity for any per-
sons who may have taken bad notes or money,.ef
him to come forward. He said he generally went
a few miles nut of town to perform his operations,
and if the notes or money were discovered to be
bad, his blindness was an excuse for him, and pre•
vented his being suspected.

We give the following from the Clonmel He-
rald of lust week On Thursday night, while
Mr. Browne, of Armayle, ani his family, were sit.
tiug in the park r, at an early honr of the night,
accompanied by their guest, Surgeon Brailsford,
of the Royal Dragoons, the house was, beset and
entered by a banditti of armed villains, seven in
number, of whom four took post as sentries, and
three burst into the parlour. The leader of them -
instantly presented a blunderbuss, and demanded
arms, on which Mr. Browne knocked him down.
Dr. Brantford attacked a second, when in the
conflict one of the villains fired at him, end ono*
they at Mr. Browne. The latter was desperately
wouuded by a discharge of small slugs from a
blunderbuss, having r:,:ived several of them in
the breast .and body ; the former was severely
wounded by a pistol-shot in the arm, anahad his
face and head savagely cut . and matOed. Dr.
Brailsford's servant, hearing the shots, got a pis•
tot from some
inpart of the house, and attempted
firing it, but vain, the powder having been
taken out, although the ball was left in the pistol.
This gallant fidelity cost the pour fellow !us ;
the v.refeh at whom he aimed having instantly
Lio-Ati the contents of blunderbuss through his
Ludy. Tile ruffians seemed satisfied at time per-
pet..,,tion of these shock' enormities, and left
the house, without tokin,t or seitrohing for any
1,4511u$ Mr. Drnwne's recovery is doubtful r.
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tirely destroyed the whole of it. So rapid were
the names, that it was with the utmost ditilculty
the family escaped, who had but a abort period
before roared to rest •