The Sun.
London, England, 1814-08-23 00:00:00

POLICE I.NTELLIGENC:E.

MAN:sum-Mum—Yesterday James Robertson,
alias Bovcerton, was remanded'for farther exami-
nation, On vt:chnrge, by the landlord of...the Ship
Tavet»,:Leadenhall-street, of stealing two table-
spoons. One of the City Officer S stated, that he
knew ,the prisoner by the name of P:ouverton,
formerly a chief cashier in a respectable bankingr
horse, and that he was formerly sentenced to two,
"ears imprisonment for stealing the clock front
the Pause of Commons tr.be.,ptioner is a stos-
pe?ted character, and a description of ltis person
having been sent to' different coffee-houses, led
to his detection.

BOW-STREET.-Yesterday William Cook was
brought up for a second examination, on a charge
of robbing the Hertford coach of notes and bills
to the amount of 5,348/. Tlie evidence in sup-
port of the charge was gone into at great length,
and the following facts appeared :
On the evening of the 15th of May, the pri-
soner ordered supper and a bed at the Angel Inn,
at Hertiord ; be also took a place in the coach
which was to Set out the next morning. In con-
sequence of an agreement between the Proprietor
of the coach and the Bankers, there had been a.
strong Place formed inside the coach at the-back,
in which the latter were accustomed to deposit
the parcels-which they were- continnally.sending
to the Bankers, their agents in London. Into
this place, the clerk of Messrs. Christie and Co.
at Hertford, did, on the morning of the lCtb,
before the horses were put do, deposit the strong
iron box containing the above notes, of which he
had one key, and Messrs. Ramsbottom, in Lon-
don, had another. He then shut up this secure
place, and fastened it with two iron screws.. A
few minutes after the clerk went away, the horses
not being
,put to, the prisoner slipped into the
coach, and one witness, of the name of Thomp-
son, a boot-maker at Hertford, particularly mark-
ed that, while lie remained there, the time being
only five minutes, the attitude and motion of his
body were exactly the same as those of the
Bankers' clerk, when the latter was fastening the
parcel !n tt,e coach. The coach was all this time
standing in the street.' There were two other then
And a woman inside passengers, besides file pri-
soner, who, with one of the men, got out of the,;
coach at Tottenham High-cross.' His person was
clearly identiOed by all the witnesses. When the
coach arrived in Holborn, the clerk of Messrs.
Ranisbottom attended, and opened the iron bnx,
which was empty. Vickery, the otlicer who took
the prisonkr into custody, said, that he had co-
habited with a woman in Lazenby-conrt, Long-
acre, where he often railed ui inquire for the pri-
soner,' and was told that he was at Brighton.
,EVer since the robbery the prisoner- had been ab-
sent from London. The parties were bound over
to itp*ectite; but the prisoner was ordered to he
brought up again. ,
Jane Russell, a p-rostitute, who lived in a house
in Swan-yard, next door to that where the sailor
was killed last Wednesday night, was charged With
robbing a man of nine shillings, and committed
for trial.

On Saturday night a Mr. Phelan, who resides
in the Borougu, while passing through St. Giles's,
was conducted into George-street by a woman, of
whom he asked the nearest road home. Here he
was attacked by two powerful men, who violently
beat and trampled on him, and robbed him of his
watch and money in a dark pp,ssage. Richard
Harris, one" of the men, Jane Hunt, who held -a
eaplle for the robbers during this outrage, and
Ann Hurley, were yesterday examined for this of-
fence Harris and Hunt were fully committed for
trial.

lIATTON,-GARDEN.--Yesterday John Pearn, Mi-
chael Walsh; James Tucker, Thomas and George
Willis, two brothers, and Ward, six boys, and
Sarah B oadjiild, otherwise Gillman, were brought
up and dually examined, being charged, the boys
with stealing, end the .woulan with receiving.—
The prisoners Walsh, Tucker, and Warzi, and S.
rah Woodfield alias Gillman, were fully commit-
ted to Newgate for trial—the boys fur stealing,
the hitter for receiving knowing the same to be
stolen ; John ?earn was admitted an evidence,
and Thomas Willis and George Willis were dis-
charged.

On Thursday night last some villains broke in-
to the dwelling-house of Admiral ROGERS, at
Lymington—they entered the bed-room where
the.,Admiral was sleeping, and stole his watch
from the head of the bed. After breaking open a
desk and escrutoire, from =l4-,-.41 they took-cash
and other valualyies,.they left the house without
disturtiing any part of the family.
Draper, the imposator, has been again appre-
kended at Axbridge, and committed to Ilchester
gaol, having again began to exercise the art of
healing by the touch.

A few wafers. strewed in the night, over the
floor of any room infested with crickets or black
betties, it is mid, wilt extirpate them.