The Sun.
London, England, 1807-06-12 00:00:00

POLICE.

B6W-STREET.-!--OH Wednesday evening,. Thomas
Fletcher Was brought before AARON GRAHAM, E,q.
in the Custody of John Smith, one of the patrole,
charged on suspicion of having been guilty of a lout-
pad robbery.

• George Black, of Prince's-street, near the Bank,
stated, that on Sunday evening, the, 31st ult. bh-
tween to and t t o'clock, as he was returning home
from Uarnpstead, ..he was met by two melt Lica: ly
opposite a lane leading to Chalk Farm; -one of them
seized him by the collar, and
.held up a stick to
him in a- menacing way, demanded his viatch
and. Money, .and desired . him •to be silent he
accordingly.. gave him . his watch, two guineas,
and some the robber was not content with
this, .but searched his,Pockets, and took out of them
some valuable trinketS. ,The robber then demanded
his pocket-book ;.•he assured him he had none ; thu
robber then ordered him to be off. The Witnesi
said.the Prisoner is .very like the robber, and the
watch prOduced by the Officei is Iris property, and
which was.pawned by the Prisoner.
• - PiEnry •Overten, shopman to Mr. Salkeld, pawn%
broker, of Fleet-streets said, that on the Ist. inst.
the vateli he took is pledge from the Prisoner, in
the name of Robert Fletcher, for the sum- of
On Tuesday the Prisoner called, and said he had
lost t duplicate, and desired him .to sti;p it if any
lieLilailii-oilwridd it. The witness having received
previous information that, the watch had been stolen;
detained.th6 Prisoner • and as be Was being coovey=
ed in a coach to the'donipter,' he attempted to make
. his escape, jumping out of the coach, and 'ran ;
considerable distance,
On hiS being taken.before'the LORD MAYOR, his
Lordship, ordered him into the custody of Smith,
the patrole, the offence having been committed' in
Middlesek. .

He was committed for further exam- ination.

'At the Police Office, Queen-square,. yesterday,
Hannah Goodwin, a young child, under 13, wasbrought up for final examination, on a charge of hav-
ing committed various felonieS, and, among others,
of having stolen from. the shop of Mr. Kenyon, of
Newport-market, three pieces „of lace. It appears
that this.child, even frarri the early age of six, shes.v-
ed, strong symptoms of a propensity to pilfer, and,
after repeated deteafons by her parents, she thought
proper, to abscond froth them, How she has lived;
or with whom, !..or a long time past, she keeps an
'inviolable-secret.

Mr. COL4UHOUN made a very feeling address to
the girl, is to who, if any, were her seduceri from
the'paths of reaitude ; and pointed out to her the
necessity there was for her doing that degree of
.pubL
"licjuseice that was required. • She declared. that U-O
one was Concerned •v.ith Iltx;.`: With Ll
the COit oc
'the. Prosecutor, .she .was ordeie&-tco be sent to the
Philanthropic Society. . . „

SMITHFIELD MARKET, ruht-ii.;
This day's market afforded but a scanty supply of
,different kinds of Cattle; Beet is cheaper than our is t
'report:; Lamb is' rather iliarer.; Mutton, Veal, and
Pork support last prices, and the trade for the most
:part was but indirferent.-LLThe Sales in the Hay-
market were not lively ; iftlyland Clover have fallen
in price since Monday's market • ' Straw obtained a
'better price.—We subjoin a nOrreet statwnent of the
prices and numbers :
To sink the MEd per stone of 81b. •
Beef 0. 04. to Ss. od.—Mutton 4s. od. to SS. t74l.—Vea
cd. to 7s. od.—Lamb 6s. od. to 7s. 6d. -Pork ss, od. to
6s. *Gt. ..

Beasts, 371).7—Sheep and Lambs, 470. —Calyes,. S 7
Pi&s 410.,

. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.
Hay ii. s6s. to-41, lo:.--Clover 31. od. to si. :.;
Straw ti. to 31. 6s.

.LAIP REPOR7:

COL; rR OF-KING's BEN( HOVEsTmnssTLß,lvrti

CRIMINAL IN FORMA:I ION;.

The-MTORNEY-GENERAL applied for leave 'to file
a _criminal- inOrmakiron against the ftev. Charles
Prescott,,Clerk, one of the Justices of
.the Peace for
the cbunty of Chester, for his miscondua in his
office,ot Magistrate.
ThiS iipplieation was made on-behalf Of Mr. John
Dicas, an Attorney -of , Chester ; and. the affidavit
Stated; that several Journeymen Cotton Manufac-
turers residing in, thit town having a complaint,
:against their master respetiiiig the paynient of wages,
.applied at the Magistrate's 'Office. for srimmonses,
which were issued aceordingly.by order ofMr.Prescott.
Upon the'day on, which these summonses were ie7-
turnable, the proper parties attended at. the Office-of
Mr: Lloyd, Attorney,;t-he Magistrate's Clerk, where
-Mr. Prescott transacted ail his magisterial business.
'The complainants, being ignorant and illiterate per-
sons, had employed Mr. Dicas as their Attorney'to
.state their case, and be was about to proceed in it,
.when Mr. Prescott said " he would do .nothing

Dicas Was present'', Three ,times he was ap-
plied to to proceed in the business, and persisted in
to.tusing..to do any thing ;while Dicas was •present.
The affidavit went on to state, that:lr. Prescott's in-
tention was to destroy Mr. Dicas, by holding him

up as a.person with whom he would not dO-busi-
\ tress ; and the Court were •requested to reeoliet%
that Lloyd.was Clerk to Mr. Prescott, and he want-
ed to throw all the.business into his hands, and
thereby deprive Mr. Dien.. of it.: . .
Lord LL LE NBO ROUG said, that'- applications like
this, against Magistrates, were not to be entertained
upon slight grounds. .There. was nothing in the af-
fidavit to spew that the Magistrate wanted, to rum
9r injure this. Gentleman, who some days- ago tried
an action `for assault in this Court against Mr.
Lloyd (for which see our Paper. of Tuesday last),
that might as well have been spared. This was
pot a case in which an Attorney must necessarily be
employed; for, although the journeymen might
have beep ignorant persons, there was no doubt
hut that they could state their claims against,their
master very well. Neither did it
.#ppear that the'
M.igistrate was actuated by any improper motive.—
Rare refused..

THE KING. V. THE tiEPTFORD BRIDGE C01\I••
MISSIONTERS.

Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD chewed cause against a
Rule obtained by the ATTORNEY-GENERiC, for a
Mandamus, directing the CominisMoners to sum-
mon a Jury, and assess compensation to' Mrs. Mary
Metcalf.

In this ease the Defendants were constituted, by
At of Parliament, to allow —compensation to certain
persons interes'ed the lands,. &c. adjoining- that
part of the River Ravensport which divides Green-
wich from Deptford, and whereon abridgelrasdate-
IT been- eretted. For abolit do years past a. ferry
f.
existed, called the Sunday Perry; and the-Coin-
patty of Watertnen hal rented a certain part of. the
land at either side to land their passengers.. The
complainant, Mrs. 'Mary Metcalf, was the proprie-
tor of the land on the Greenwich side. In con-
sequence of building the bridge, the ferry was
done away, and .tie Watermen bad. no longer oo;
colon to use the land _let to. them by Mrs. Metcalf,
Who now sought compensation for the loss of the-
ferry tOll6, Vie. ,
. After very.learned arguments against_ the Manda-
mus. by Serieants SHEPHERD, lie.sT„,and BAYLEY,
and Mr. GAEROW ; and in support of the Rule, by
the A.l* TORNEY--GENEILIL, and berjealitS WILLIAIIS
and V.a.uogAN, the Court were unanimously of opi-
nion, that -.Mrs. Metcalf waS.not entitled to make
any claim. whatever tier ferry tolls, het interest only
extending to.the landwhich:had been previously oc-
copied hy.the ferrymen.. •
The Rule forford Mandamus:Was consequently dis-
charged...

LIBEL ON THE ,EA la OF MOIKA.-

THE KNG v. CHARLES.

The Defendant •in this case was -brought fbt
judgment. for publishing. a "libel against the Earl of
Moira (as stated in a former Paper). He had suffered
judgment .by default •
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, for the Prosecution,
said, that there Was no doubt but that this was a
gross, scandalous, and unfeunded-: libel against the
Noble. Prosecutor, who had no • personal animosity
whatever to.the Defendant, but, from the nature of
the libel, he felt himself imperiously called upon to
eater this Prosecution ; hoWever,, since that time,
Mr. Charles had made every reparation in his power,
and it was found that the calumny did not origi-
nate with him ; it was, therefore, the E,,'arl of Aloha's
intention
with
to prosecute the case any further,
and, with the permission of the. Court, he Wished
Mr. Charles-should be:discharged upon his own re-
cognizaice. •

Mr. GA-Biow, on the same side, said, in justice
to Mr. "Charter, that'll-Jai' the moment the matter
came tOlig)t,. he did every thing in his Bower to
suppress-tile further publication, and had ever since
professed the most
;sincere contrition.' • • - "
Tice Court then directed him to be diScharged,
upon his own recognizance ,in •tool. 'to appear when
called upon by their Lordships.
,THE KINGV.,,ELIZA/SETII POWELL.
The. Defendant in this case was brought up to
lead toan indictment f'or vending and publishing
an obscene and indecent libel; to which she, with
.
tuvst apparent contrition, pleaded guilty,
,IV.ZN'APP 540? that, this prosecution had been
instituted by q?e SoCiety for the Suppres,sion of
Vice, but, in con§icivracipa_a the sincere Contrition
this woman hail shewu Since her confinement, and
„having d)argd:fatnily of children, .the Society, with
.the permiss.ion of the Court, wished her to be dis-
.charged, upon etifeiing • into security to appear if
.
..-c-alled.npuii hereafter: . • •
.She then entered into the usual recogaliance,
t
, Lord .E1...1. BOROUGH
obScived, tnat this was one
,of the most obscene and .iniquitous libels he had
ever not -only' tehding to: destroy ille
moral's of the rising;:genertion, bat of society itself.
• He concluded with admonishing the Defendant to
be °tiller guard in future.-- • • •