The Sun.
London, England, 1825-09-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ROBBING A CONSTABLE OF THE NIGHT.
MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday a man named Muse: was
charged with having stolen a watch from the constable of the
night, who presides at the watch-house in Duke's-place, while
his worthip, the constable, was asleep on his post.
Trip, the beadle, who is in the habit of paying frequent visits
to the watch-house to ascertain whether the duties are properly
performed, stated that he called in on the night before, and
found Mr. Minden, the constable, awake, and apparently qua-
lified to perform the arduous duties of his office. He left
him alone, and upon returning found him taking a comfort-
able nap in the easy chair by the fire side. Having awaken-
ed him, and questioned him about a young man who had
been seen leaving the watch house the moment before, lie
perceived that the constable must have slept as sound as a
watchman, for he had seen no young man. He was very
anxious to be supposed to have shammed asleep, and be-
gan to joke upon the subject, when putting his hand to his
pocket, he became suddenly convinced, and he admited that
the sleep he had enjoyed was real, for his watch was gone.
The complainant himself said that somehow or other he had
been overcome with sleep after Mr. Trip had left the watch-
house, but then the sleep and the robbery had occupied no more
time than a quarter of an hour. He had not seen a Inman
being in the interval between Trip's visits.
Trip said that as lie approached the watch-house while the
night constable was asleep, lie saw the prisoner look over the
door; but as the young man had been accommodated with a
lodging in the watch-house before, he had no suspicion of any
bad motive, as the watch-house was, he thought, the last place
a man would go to .for the sake of plunder.
The prisoner at first denied that he had been in the watch-
house, but afterwards admitted that lie had looked in and saw
his worship the night-constable fast asleep, upon which he
walked out, but without seeing either watch or clock.
The Loan MAYOR said be considered the theft almost in
the light of a judgment upon the night-constable, who had made
good the old charge against the guardians of the night. by fall-
ing asleep instead of attending to his business, which was little
more than keeping himself awake. The conduct of the pri-
soner was extremely suspicious, and he should he remanded
until inquiries could be made about the watch : twenty thieves
might have visited tile night-constable in his sleep.
A DESCENDANT OF LOC KE .
Mr. Hobler received a letter from a letnal:, who called her-
self Elizabeth Locke, stating that she was a collateral descend-
ant of the great John Locke, author of the " Essay on the
Understandin,," and that she was in service at No. 8, College-
street, Bristol.' Her grandfather had been, she stated, a hair-
dresser in the City of London, and had taken a violent part in
the affair of Wilkes ; she wished to learn to what Company he
hail belonged, and whether she was not entitled to some pecu-
niary aid as the descende:tt of a citizen of London, if she could
expect none as the relative of one of the greatest genuises Eng-
land ever produced.
By the direction of the Lord Mayor, inquiries were made
about the person Elizabeth Locke called her grandfather, and
it was found that a person of that name had been an active par-
tisan of Wilkes, but it could not be ascertained to what Com-
pany he belonged, or whether he belonged to any.
Mr. Ilobler's correspondent expresses a humble hope that
she may obtain some situation in consequence of the circum-
stance of her relationship, which she can satisfactorily prove,
in conjunction with her claim as an irreproachable.and indus-
trious woman.