The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-12 00:00:00

POLICE..

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,LW , S r%, Thursday e'veni ca. drgi
• Palmer, a sorter of letterg in the General Po'v-
Office, was brought by Anthaiiy aed Adkins t?efore
ReAo, E,q. charged on stispiCiiin of stealing
.a 491. Rink of 'England note, .from a letter, in the
Post-Office, and Joseph Inwan, Charged with re-
. cei tug the same, knowing it to have been stolen.
it appeared that a letter was put into the Post
Office, in London, with a 401. BAtik note
direOed to a person at Oakhampton, on.the 6th.of
'August, and in the dde course of the Post itiatight
to have arrived at that place on the 7th, but it has
never come to hand. Information of the cireum-
Stance was given at the PtistAittice, and the Ageno
of the Office gent a description of the 401. note to
the Bank. On examination of the books, it was
discoveied that the note had been paid into the
Bank, on the 7th of August, and six 51. and two 21:
note 4 had been given in exchange far it. Exertions
were made in ‘nin to trace out ,the' person who had
paid the 401. note into the Bank,
pccording to the
name and direction written Itpon it. At length,
within these few days, on examining 'the indorse-
ment, and the hand writing of all the sorters on
duty 'on the sth of. August, suspicion fell upon the
Prisoner ; in consequence of which, Mr. Parkins,
the Solicitor to the Post-Office, and the Officers,
went to his lodging, in TOok's-ceurt, Ctirsitor-street,
and after interrogating him, &c. they seized his
papers, and took him into custody. The prisoner
Inman was with him, whom they likewise took
into custody and it appeared that .tbreekof the 51..
notes" which had been paid "by the' Bank,' in ex-
change for the 401. he paid to Mr. Stevenson, in
the Strand, Palmer declared his innocence in the
most'pesitive terms;and signed the account he gave
-with a great deal of composure.
-The'account Inman gave of himself, and the pos-
session of the '5l: notes, Was ratuer.extraordinary.---
He stated, that on the ad or 4th of August, betweel&
between six and seven &Clock 'in the morning; as he
Was on his way to Covent-Garden Market to pur-
chase-some vegetables, in Burlington-Gardens, be-
tween the pump and ..theentratice t 6; ;the Albany,.
he picked up a twisted piece of palm „which he' stip-
posed, contained thread or tapir, but 6it opening it
he discovered four 51. Bank notes, three of which
he paid to Mr. Stevenson. He said he had knewn
Palmer about a year and a half, that he is a poor
man,.with a-wife and fatally, and that when he. was
foimd, in Palmer's apartment, he was there merely
for the purpose of taking up a green cloth to clean it.
Mr. Parkins told him
,that.,it was impossible his
account could be true, ag he said that he found the
notes on the qd or , 4th. of August, whereai they
were not issued from the Bank till the 7th; the poor
man, 'hoWever, persisted in the correctness of his
statement, and signed it in writing, with great firm-
ness. He was committed for fbrther examination
to New Prison, Clerken well, and Palmer 'Was Com-
mittedto.the House of Correaion.

John lbertson, one of the notorious piekpocyets,
belonging to Ityland's daring gang, was charged with
stealing two pocket-books and their contents, the
property of some person unknown. It appeared,
that on Tuesday afternoon, a Gentleman, who
know,i some of the g,angS of pickpockets from their
daring condua daily in the street, was *sin
through Holborn, when be observed the Prisoner
and several others, well knewn to him as pick-
pockets; following a Country Gentleman, which
they continued to do till begot to the ;gateway of an
inn where was turning ind.vhen ht y surrounded
hustled him, and be saw one of them take his
pocket-book out of his coat pocket, the villain put
it under his arm behind him, alid it
.was taken by
another of the gang, and they all made off; the
Gentleman w,atehed them, into' a public-,house its
Gate-stfeet, no dottbt to examine their booty, and
then went elf with all speed to Bow•;street to give
information of what; he had seen.

Limberick and Blackman in consequence, went
to the public-house, where they found the Prisoner
and several other pickpockets, but there was no-
thing of a suspicious nature found upon any of them
but the Prisoner, and on him was foUnd two pocket-
books, oue of .thorn with some valuable papers, sop.
posed to have been lost between the Royal Exchange
and St. Bartholomew few days since; the
other is a small red book, supposed to be the one
stolen from. the Country Gentleman in Holborn
it contained, two 51; Petersfieltl Bank notes, fire
11. Bank of England notes, two guineas, NA) half-
guineas, three Seven-shilling pieces, and six shillings,
He was committed for further examination, when
it was expeeled the Gentleman will attend.

MANStotc-House.--The Officers of the Custom-
house. haOng filed an infornaatiOn egainst a person of
the name of Webster, Captain of the Ship Pigihpa,
from Lisbon, for penalties to the amount cat three
times the value of some bottles of Wine which had
been run on shore by him without having paid the
duty, the case was this day heard before the Lord
Mayor. . ,
An Officer of the name of Davis, and a Waterman
employed under him, stated, that on thelith of June,
while they were on ditty at Coxe's Wharf,- where
the Defendant's Ship lay, ,they observed a large bas
brought from on board the Vigilant; tttid the Oil);
cer Suspeeting from the great care displayed by the
Defendant,
,who was himself on shore, in elevating
it to the wharf, the tide being then out, that the bag
contained something which the Defendant was afraid
might break, ordeVed his mai to search' the bag.
The Defendant at first said, that it contained nothinei
but dirty linen ; but on the Officer's. desiring leis
men to make the
iseareh, he said it was oni,s, a
bottle or two of wine belonging to the Owner.,,,' The
Officer said he was bound to seize it, as thefiefend.
ant had run it from on board the Ship, His:men
accordingly searched the bag, iu wl'Xch, having
founiften bottles of Port wine, they l'ldged the bag
and its contents in the Custom-bote4. Tho claim
now made by them was for 51. As. ',being three tinies
the value-of the ten bottles of po.A.
The Defepdant, 'and- a Part ',caner Of the vessel
who attended along with hitr,, and whose property
the wine was, denied all htvawledge of the wits:ac-
tion, but imputed it entirely to the fault of boy
Who waited on them, -tehtian they saspekled or hav-
ing formerly robbed l'item of wine, and who, it
would appear bad hviended to appropriate the ten
bottles inluestion own use.
The Loan Maxott, however; conceiving - the atd•
mission of the tfrefendant himself, made to Davis,

the
Offlaer, previous to the search, as si ffident evi-
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attnce of his knowleclg-e that the bag containedwine;
which'Was inconsistent with the present defence;
ordered the fall penalty to be inflicted,
the Protirietors of the clothes, which h.vd_boen seized
along Will) rho wino, to apply :It thy: Custom-liciuto
for resawtion Of them.

A young man who said. his name was glpnes,
but whose real name the Officers said they knew ta
be Mitchell, was brough before the Lord Mayor, on
a. charge o followin'g t‘ti) different Gentlemon yes•
terday afternoonrfrom Temple-lane, to the Temple,
and from the Temple again up Temple-lane, look.
ing in their pockets, he being known to bea cotn=
,nod thief.

The Officer MI6 apprehended him stated the 1 I6fi
and;almost every:. Officer in the Courtrecoguized
hint as a known charaCter, who had been more than.
once sent to the tender, and returned as being in a
constant suite of disease. - - '

The LORD MAYOn ordered the Prisoner to be sent
to Bridewell for a mdnth and to be flogged. ibis
Lordship also ordered:, that a silver watca, with a
chain and two gold aegis, one of which fild a cyphet
upon it, found on the Prisoner, should be kept by
,the Officer till the period of his confinement was
pired, that, if the property of any other person, they
might be claimed,

Gumnift‘u..—A number of the juvenile gang of
pickpockets, now in custody, underwent privateexa-
minations.. From what has beets already discovered
()Nils business, it promises in the long-run to exid.
bit a more extendod scene of villainy than wasaat
first imagined. From the proceedings of this day,
several persons of mature years,' both male and
female, seem to be implicated. The various parties
were ordered to be brought up again .on Welnesday.
James Dearing, who had been- brought up oh a
former day, charged on the oath of out: of-tile Offi-
cers, with having had iris hands ,in other persOns
pockets, at Bartholomew Fair, he being, at the same
time, a suspicious characler, anti who, at the request
'of Mr. BARRY, his Counsel, was then remanded to
this day, Or the double purpose of allowing the Offi-
cers to adduci;.auy thing they Might t;iiiik material
against the Prisoner, and atrqrding the Prisoher,an.
opportunity of yin:fie:sting, his'cliaraaler, MO again
brought up.

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Mr.-BAnav said, he was convinced the worthy
Alderman would feel more pleasure in ohderving
that the person,. however he. roigut 'tbrinerly have
been Suspeded; could now prove that he possessed a.
eharaCter above exception, than he would iu
ing deserVed punishment on twenty . persons.
From the evidence which he was ready to it4kluce,
the worthy. Alderman must be ~convinced, if. his
Client was ever of the character ripresetfled by the
Officers, ho -110.1 V• stood in the for Mer of these two
situations. He must, however, be excused for again
arguing that it Was nOnnanswerable p4,‘of cif
that a person had Once been accused of a crime, par-
ticularly when, it appeared that latterly no attempt
was made to bring it. home to him.
A Gentleman of respeclability,. who has resided
for the last eighteen years in King-stretot, Cheapside,
gave the Prisoner an excellent onaracter, represent-
ing him as having, for several years past, been par-
ticularly attentive to InsineSs, frugal, and industrious.
Another Gentleman also, attended h the. earlier
part of the day, who would have given him a similar
charaEter, but who eunkl not sit out the private exa-
minations.

Under these circumstances; Mr. Aidefthan Ptti&-
sep ordered the Prisoner to be diSchargedi having
previously cautioned. the Officers not to take per-
sons of whose charaaer they were not well aware
►nto custody, unless the evidence ofil4e;r criminal
intention, at the moment, W LIS 'cutbriletly
,apparent.

O,IIT.EN-8(11: .I.lui‘—lresterday. Dan. Pearce and W.
Rurk,t wo wed-known charataers. -on t lie river Thames,
being observed by the Offieersin the act of
ming the crafts of the ro.ds, were pursued by them
in boats. The Officers came tlp with them after a
long chase oil I,tioas's Wharf, at• I 4 and
having boarded the Vessel, took the crew ri,onoli.
They were examitied'before r; and Mr. Coc--.
cantons., and were convicted as well. for.the eitals
as in the penalty of 40 shillings each, and costs un-,
der the Barn Boat Mt. The, boat as It waft 'the
first convklion only, was not ordered to be bornt..,
Pnamt-Oi.vick, Wriasutti4rdmr.—Y csterday
Sdrrah Purrier was fully cotpmitred for trial, charged
with going•into the house of Mr. Arch4,,r, in Old,
street-square, and stealing a silver watch and a gold
ring,

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PU BLI C 01:1' IC. , A tyw r.....;Yesterapy, [lan nah
Trßaor, Sullivan, alias Connell, undement cx7
amination as a common utterer ofcounterfeit gold and
silver for several years past, and, who has for tt long
time eluded tits vigilance Oifteeri. She was
so.guarded, that it appo:trui:(‘to he .almost impossible
to detea her. About rnontils since she took
small shop in Greenbar;tc, W‘ipping, a roller of •
oysters and greens, ';,.here she supplied near seventy
harrow- 'women w.,th change. Being susp(...cled,:he
removed to itiugait!-lane, Vvrdpping. It was ;d-
-ieted belbre the Magistrates, by per!,uns who gave
evidencer ap;mSt her, that OW sold such base. coin*
int-411 tY 3'S 'a
common artick of trade. 'flat Solicitor
of the Nfi,,int attended opon the, occasion. he was
fulir i',onuititted for trial.

'FinE.---Thursday =rain°. about one o'clock,the
garden house of Joutr Ottn, Esq. of Walimn Orden,
was discovered to-be on fire, and raged so furiously,
that in a short period the whole fiibrie was levelled
to the &round. Mr. Wuire, the head gardener,
whO wai.accustomed to, sleep on the premises, un-
fortunately perished its the flames. A part of the
body was found, the extremities of which were li.
terally burnt to a cinder. Attachvd to the building
was a stable, 'Wherein Was a valuable horse, which
also fell a vitlim to the'fUry of this lamentable con-
tlagration.

Holland
the stria measures taken in
Holland to prevent the iorportation of British Mero
ettondise, incre'ead.be no doubt that the
whey haveldways a sharp eye to their private good,
would be very glad to smuggle in a few tln),lsands of
'Pickets in our pi.esent inwroved Lottery Scheme, as
time' plan has certainly the. broadest baittoin oi
that thelottcry annali can'imtatice.
The harvest, with very few. exception.t, is Haw
completed with more abundant crops, kaised itj a
shorter time, in bettei.'eptalition, and at less tApence
than it has been for many preceding years.