The Sun.
London, England, 1822-05-29 00:00:00

SUN.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

QUEEN-SQUARE.-EXAMINATIOX OF THE RIOTERS IN
WESTMINSTER ON MONDAY NlGHT.—Yesterday, thirty
.Irish labourers were brought from the watch-house, and ex-
amined before Mr. RAYNSFOUD, Mr. WHITE, and Mr.
MARKLAND (Sir R. B iotiE, of Bo w-strea,was on the Bench),
charged with creating a desperate riot on Monday nisbt in
Westminster, and obstructing the ..Police in the execution of,
their duty.

Robert Walsh, Thomas Walsh, Peter fife Manus, Lake)
Mc Donough, David Halligan_, and Martin Gallighan, were
first placed at the bar; when Mr. Richard Hudson, landlord of
the Duke's Head, Great Peter-street, stated that on the pre-
ceding night, about nine o'clock, he was in the cellar, when
he was informed two men were fighting in the bar ; he came
up and separated them, and turned them out ; but at a quarter
past nine o'clock a Gentleman brought one Johnson to the
back door for protection, they having ill-treated him : the door
was no sooner opened, than they all rushed in, broke the win-
dows, and he was obliged to send for the Police Officers.
Penrose Whittle, shipwright, 21, Peter-street, said stones
and brickbats were flying in all directions, and the inhabitants
were obliged to shut up their shops ; his wife was with him,
and they could not get shelter in any place till he came to this
Office to give information. A pistol was fired off in Peter-
street, bltt witness had not seen it. Every person in the street '
was in imminent danger. No less than 200 were altogether
engaged, and each party throwing stones.
Gilmore, Cooper, and Handly, on their arrival, produced
their staves and pistols, and ineffectually endeavoured to re-
store peace. At last the mob separated, on finding the inha,-
bitants took part with the officers. The prisoners took shelter
in the houses, where they were afterwaids found concealed, and
taken into custody.
Several persons whose windows had been broken were ex=
amined to that effect, as well as the parish constables and
others, who proved the prisoners' identity.
This party being taken from the bar, Thomas Walsh, Moir.
tin Walsh, Thomas APC6rmiek, Augustine .11FManus, John
Brannon, &c. were put in their place.
William Johnson described the outrage committed upon him,
and identified Thomas M`Cormiek and to be the
ringleaders. Several of the Police identified the other prisoners
to have been active in the riot.

Dennis Glyn, J. Walsh, J. Rieby, Dennis .31' Carty, James
Carty, and T. Murphy, were next examined, and their identity
was also proved.
Nixon, conductor of the Police, who, it will be recollected,
acted. under Sir R. BIRNIE, on the occasion of the r.•w-street
conspiracy, knew Carty. White identified Dennis Glyn. lie
had a large knife when taken into custody, and others of the
gang were armed with pokers, &c.
Mr. Whittle said Glyn had the knife concealed, and would
not give it up till he was compelled, but he said at the watch-
house, he was eating his supper when the officers came into his
lodging, and one.of the prisoners were concealed under the bed,
and some in the closets.

The Magistrate ordered Hughes to be detained, and give 24
hours notice of bail.

Martin Walsh, Thomas Jennings, Edward Jones, John Do.:
nougue, John Macquin, 'Martin -Durkir, Cornelius Efferson,
Anthony Langdon, and others, were now brought in, and ex-
amined ; but therg were only two of this party identified to
have been concerned in the affray, therefore they were dis..
charged for want of proof.
A boy, about 14 years of age, proved that Devany fired a
pistol out of the window of his lodging, N 0.2, St. Ann's-lane ;
but it turned out he had been taken in a closet, at No. 3. The
Magistrate inquired the state of the wounded man. It was.
said he had been fighting with a stick, when he received a ball
in the groin, but he was able to go into his lodging afterwards,
and lie upon his bed, and from thence was carried to the Hop.
pital, where upon examination the wound was found to be only
of, a slight nature. There was po proof who had fired the pis-
tol., and no pistol had been found upon any of the prisoners.
The Magistrate ordered Devany to be detained, until the fate
of the wounded man is known, and the rest, who had been iden-
tified, to find bail. ' _ _

Mary Donoughe was then charged with furnishing stones
and brickbats for the men to throw upon their opponents, and
Ellen Conway was charged with throwing stones out of her room
window upon the officers, &c. The former woman being well
known at the Office as a troublesome person, was ordered to find
bail, and Mrs. Conway was discharged.
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday a poor woman applied to the sit-
ting Magistrate, Mr.HAL Ls, for assistance to enable her to make
her way back to Preston, in Lancashire, and in support of her
claim she told the following rather singular story :—She and an-
other woman, both natives of Preston, had formerly lived servants
with the late Crouch, the celebrated singer ; and when she
died she bequeathed to her fellow-servant an annuity of 101. per
annum, to be paid by a Mr. Kelly, her executor. When she
was on her death-she also gave her a ring, desiring her if she
should eve'r be in distress to present it, or cause it to be pre-
sented, to his present Majesty, and inform him that it was the
dying request of Mrs. Crouch, that he would relieve her faith-
ful servant if ever she should require it. Within the last
year, Mr. Kelly, the executor, had, from some cause or other,
reduced the annuity from 101. to 51. Before this the applicant
and her fellow-servant had lived together at Preston, and sub-
sisted very comfortably upon their earnings and the annuity, but
the reduction of it distressed them very, much, and it was ar-
ranged between them that the applicant should come to London
and try the effect of a personal application to Mr. Kelly ; and if
that failed, she was to make the experiment recommended by
their deceased mistress with the ring. She came about a fortnight
ago, and waited upon Mr. Kelly, but could not prevail upon him
to raise the annuity to its former amount. She next turned her
thoughts to the subject of the ring, which was to have such
an alchyrnic effect; and having made inquiries as to the
best mode of approaching the Royal presence, she was advised
by some person to go first of all to the Home-office. She did so,
and related her story to Mr. Hobhouse, the under Secretary of
State, and he advised her to make application at the King's
Palace. To the Palace she went, and there she repeated her
tale to Mr. Watson, one of the Royal household, but he ap-
peared to treat it as an idle story, and told her she could not
see the King. Having thus failed in all quarters, and having
spent all her moneything and parted with every she had, she
was anxious to obtain such relief as would enable her to go
home.

Mr. HALLS told her he thought ;the was a very silly woman
to come all the way to London and lose her time and money
upon the faith of such a wild and improbable story. She must,
however, be taken care of, awl he. would adopt the proper mea-
sures to send her• home, where he hoped she would remain for
the rest of her life. - •

The parish officers of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, were then
applied to, and they undertook to have her sent home.—(Morn.
ing Paper.)