The Sun.
London, England, 1814-02-23 00:00:00

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•
he Strand baying been mucl'i
infested with day street-robbers lately, Westcdte,
bk4ong'itig to Office, *as-ot.. the Alert on Mon-
afternoon to•watch them, 'and 45-hgerved two
well-known fellows, of the names of Evans and •
Taylor, a;;Siged by two olher . charac-
ter, endeaV'dotririg to. rob, different people. He
cort'erived to conceal hiwelf -so as to be unob-
served by the. thieves. He. sow Evans put his
hand twice into the
.s.ltne Gentleman's pocket,
and the sccOnd,time he,seized hini and his corn-
,s
fr.
pitman a:ttol ; F.rans only got the Gentlemen's
silk handkerchief. Westcote secured thesn by
tying their hands, ,and conveyed them to the of-
fice ; a third cif the gang was secured by another
of the patrole, and corrve,yed to the office,. The
Gentleman whom they had,•robbed attended, and
`-they. were conunitted for trial. As they were be-
ing taken 'from the office to prison, the fourth
robber was ohserVed standing near the office by
Westc(te—he was also secured, and committed •
with the'others.
.UNI 0 ti -11 1. L.— ThOMaS was brought
beforeSlrA3ritiNtE, charged by hiovife with beat-
ing her in a cruel manner The woman stated
that hr was guilty of this brutality towards her
frequerttly, and often threatened to murder loer,
'saying he was only restrained by fear of the law.
A person who lived next door to the prisoner,
stated that he had heard fregnent quarrels,, and
cries of murder, routing from the.pris=oner's:
ap,,rtinent ;' he had also repentedly heard his wife
accrue him of being absent front home on the
night on which the Marr's tamilv were murdered,
and call on liint to account for the :manner in
-which he had passed that night.
.Mrs: did not deny this fart ; herims-
. band, she said, certainly was ahNent the whole of.
that night, and she load often, when he used her
so cruelly,,Nunted with it.. Site did not,
'however, believe he was any way concerned, or.
had'any knowledge of that horrid transaction.
Her husband' had a drab-coloured great coat at;
that time, and load it still,
The prisoner said lie was,
„a millwright, and
SOMeti ;tics .-orked as it journeyntan;at others for
himself ; his wife, he said, was ',Very proKoking
with her tongae, which forced hint sometimes-to'
beat her. He acknowledged he was -absent from,
home on the night the Marr's family were nun--
tiered ; he had quarrelled with'his wife as:tisnar,.
and went oat on that account ; he slept at tire
in ‘Vititecimpel, and could prove the fact by
the 'testimony of a person who lived at Old Ford,
if the Magistrate Nvould give•him time. to do so.
The Magistrate said, it certainly tvoi•ild be ne-
-eessary he should do S'o, and to afford hint an op-
portunity of getting his friend horn Old Tord
would commit hitn.till Saturday. •
MAaLsonout; 11-ST Butcher, Geo.
firaribn alias Jelks,,..lncl i7reeman, alias Cohtei',- were
charged with stealing, :at divers tittles, Coach'
g=lasses,. &c.
&c This system of robbery has, during,
the, whole winter, been car Tied on to It very great
extent, ,not a editch-house or coachmalcer's ware-
house being safe from deopmlations of this Sort.—
Two of the prisoners were hackney-coachmen out
of service; as they termed it, and the eharges more
particularly against there were for robbing the
eoach-h6U.se of Sir Jos. Banks; in Dean-Street,
Soho, of c'inich glasses aril two great cants, in
the night of the.,241 instant, "and also with the like
offence on the premises of :Mr. M`Niel, coach-
maker, Charles-street. Middlesex Hospital; on the
9th, between three and four o'clock in the morn-
ing, but the robbers had finished...their job in
stealing fourteen valuable. glasses 'before the
watchman found the place open. In answer to
interrOc;atories by Mr. Hicks, the Sitting Magis-'
trate, prisoners could give no.satisfactory ac,
count ,if the.uselves at the time of the roltheries.
An' accomplice was admitted an' evidence against
the accused,, alai i they were Temandedsfor another
examination.

Yesterday being the day appointed for the pu-
gilistic combat between-Foao, the pugilist,7-ami
Gardener from Deptford, some hundreds of people
assembled by twelve o'clock ,at Coombe Wood,
the spot fixed an. After wafting- for some time,
there were no signs of the arrival of the combn--
tants, and it at length turned out that the Dept:.
ford man had curred it, or, in other words, :had
refused to fight. Thus were hundreds hoaxed by
would-be pugilist, Dever before heard.ol.
blame was attached to Form, was ready for
combat. , •

SnAmEtEas ImposrrioN.—On the authority of
the Parish Officers of Bridles, the following ex-
traordinary instance of shameless- imposition, -on
the part of, a pretended pauper iu that parish,
named Harwood, hi-IS:been made public. This
man had long claimed and received parochial re-
lief for himself an,' his wife, and, to strengthen his
claims, he had lately represented himself as inca-
pable of labour,: from illness. But on examina-
tion by the medical' gentlemen,, these repre-
sentations were proved to be false ; and an abate-
ment woimtantly madg in his forme; weekly al-
lowance. Complaints of want and distress pre-
sently followed, so loud and so frequeOt, that•at
length the parish officers determined to inquire per-
sonally into the trutb of his case. On entering
his dwelling they observed a good fat bacon hog
just slaughtered, and a great part of a side of old
bacon. They found also of bed linen, near iwenty
sheets, antl other articleF of furniture, denoting
not merely comfort but affluence. -And, to crown
all, they discovered, in an old.. coffer, a sum ii box,
which the .Man seemed particularly anxious to
conceal, and of which, when forcibly taken and
examined, the Contents. were found to be 42.. gu-
ineas, 42 half-guineas, 03 sevi`m-shilling pieces in
gold, 321.,- 10s. in silver, and 141. in Bank r6ges !

li7e are requested by Mr. WATSON, writer,
Danse, to contradict the account of his haring
purchased from a labourer, for 70/. a quantity of
gold and silver coins, dug up at Douse Castle,
Scotland... No such Coins were found there, con-
sequently no such transaction could take place.
A plan is on foot to transplant into Britain the
superior oak. of Poland, the swirk, a superior spe-
cies of fir, the white ash, and the Pohsh maple--
all trees of great worth for ship and house,huild--
ing., and of singular beauty as picturesque objects.