The Sun.
London, England, 1822-08-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

ClunVnALL.—Yesterday a young woman, whose name in
the list of prisoners was set down as Ellen Eyre, one of those
wretched females whose appearance denotes a life of drunken.
ness and debauchery, was brought up before Mr. Alderman
THOMPSON, on. a charge of felony.
The prosecutor, William Leonard, describing himself as a
musician, residing in Castle-street, Clerkenwell, commenced his
charge by stating that the prisoner ran away from him on Mon-
day morning last.
" What," said Mr. Payne, the Magistrate's Clerk, who was
examining him, " she lived with you as your wife ?"
" Yes," replied Leonard, " she has done at several times."
The prisoner here interrupted, by declaring that she was his
lawful married wife, and he could not deny it.
Leonard made no reply, but being pressed closely upon the
subject' by the Magistrate, reluctantly acknowledged the fact.
—He had been married to her some years ago at Shoreditch
church, and had a family of five children by her.
" What do you bring her here for now?" said the Magistrate.
" For breaking the room open and robbing me," answered
Leonard.
" But you are married to her," said Mr. Payne, " and a
wife cannot rob a husband."

" Indeed, Sir," said Leonard, " she has robbed me several
times, and almost ruined me." He then proceeded to state that
on his return from his last voltage to India, in the Marquis
Wellington, (for he was a sailor, it seems, as well as a musician)
he found his wife in the House of Correction, under sentence of
'imprisonment for a robbery, of which she had been convicted
at the Old Bailey. Be took her home again after the expira-
tion of her sentence, and she had several times since stripped
his lodgings, and run away from him : this last time she robbed
him to some tune, for on Monday she set off again, and took
with her, among other things, two clarionets, the principal in-
struments by which he got his living, and he had seen nothing
of her since till he met her accidentally that morning, and gave
her in custody.
The Magistrate commiserated the poor fellow's misfortune,
and regretted he could do nothing to assist him. The law con-
sidered the interest of a wife in the property of her husband to
be complete, and consequently no felony on her part could lie
committed with respect to it.
Leonard could not understand this law ; nor could he be
brought to conceive why, after his wife had violated her matri.
monial vow " to love, honour, and obey" him, the fatal de-
claration he had made at the altar, " with all my worldly goods
I thee endow," should be held so strictly binding on him that
his wife might rob him whenever she thought proper. " I
can't get my livelihood," said he, " without my clarionets—
she has pledged them—can't your Honour make her give me up
the duplicates 9" But the duplicates, standing in precisely the
same situation as the rest of tne husband's property, the Ma-
gistrate could not interfere, and the unfortunate musician was
left to his own ingenuity to make the best of a bad bargain.
MARLEOROUGH-STREET.— CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.—
Yesterday Richard Cowlett, a boy between twelve and thirteen
years of age, was charged by Mr. Dennis Quin, cow-keeper, of
Little Guilford-street, Russell-square, with stabbing one of his
cows with a pitchfork. Mr. Quin stated, that some time ago
one of the cows was severely stabbed in the same manner, and
that yesterday evening the boy was detected' in the act, and that
he immediately ran off, ana threw the pitchfork through an
opening Into the stable, and he was not taken until ten o'clock
the same evening. The cow, he said, was in a very dangerous
state, having received nine stabs on the side. The boy's de-
fence was that the cow had kicked him.—The defendant was
convicted in the penalty of 10s., and sentenced to a fortnight's
imprisonment in default of payment.
LAMBETH-STREET.—Yesterday James Geese, servant to
Mr. Wm. Hone, farmer at East Ham, appeared to an infor-
mation under Mr. Martin's Act, for cruelly whipping a cart-
horse.—The Sitting Magistrates, Sir DAN. WILLIAMS and
M. WYATT, Esq. after having read him a severe lecture on
his brutal conduct, convicted him in the penalty of 20s. and
costs. The defendant said he was unable to pay the conviction.
The Magistrates told him that in default thereof he should be
committed for one month to hard labour in the House of
Correction.

BOW-STREET.—On Monday evening last, between nine
and ten o'clock, the shop of Mr. Richard Staton, tailor, situate
at the corner of the Golden Cross Inn, Charing-cross, was
broken open, and a great quantity of cloth and wearing apparel
stolen therefrom. Application was made by Mr. Staton on
Tuesday morning, at this office, and Avis, one of the patrole,
was employed to investigate the affair. Yesterday evening
William Walker, a suspicious character, driver of the hackney
coach, No. 1127, was taken into custody on suspicion of being
concerned in the robbery.—He was remanded.
HAT T 0 N-GARDE N.—Yesterday William May was charged
by Mr. Edward"Scargill, jeweller, Coppice-row, Clerkenwell,
with forgery, under the. following circumstances.—Mr. Scargill
deposed that the prisoner came to his shop about eight o'clock
that morning, and presented him the note then produced, pur-
porting to be from Messrs. Rundell, Bridge, and Rundell, of
Ludgate-hill, silversmith; ordering eight handsome mourning
rings to he sent them by the bearer.—Mr. Bridge, of the firm
of Messrs. Rundell, Bridge, and Rundell, deposed, he knew
'{nothing oC the prisoner; he was not in their employ, and the
written order then produced was, to all intents and purposes, a
fbzgery.—The prisoner was committed for further examination.

A PeN.—A gentleman, who was blessed with
a mouth of unusual dimensions, was once asked
by a friend, if he had a lease of that mouth of
hiS " No," good humouredly, rejoined the
other, " I have it only from year to year."
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.--We regret to have
to corn) nunicate a most melancholy accident, which occurred on
'Wednesday last, in the county of Wicklow, by which a young
Gentleman, of most amiable manners and character, has been
suddenly snatched from his horror-struck friends, and from the
society wherein he was universally esteemed. The lamented
individual is James Pratt, Esq. second son (we believe) to
General Pratt. Accompanied by his friend Mr.• Drury, he
drove into.the county of 'Wicklow on Wednesday, on a shoot-
ing excursion ; the two Gentlemen weredriven in an inside car ;
Mr. Pratt's gun, which was unfortunately loaded, was placed
by his side in the car. Mr Drury observed to him, " You are
subject to cold, and liable to a sore throat, put your handker-
chisf round your neck ;" the lamented young Gentleman com-
hpliisefdaoatntdo'tit is supposed
,keretheliimefu'izle of which,
tinchmedov'til
by accident, slipped towards his side—the piece went off—the
contents lodged in Mr. PitATT's side„ and he expired shortly
ngte
trigger
ruostf hishis handkerchief,
afterwards.--(Dublin Freeman•)