The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-18 00:00:00

KENSINGTON PETTY SESSIONS

A younc, man named George Taylor, footman to the
celebratelMrs. Fitzherbert, was charged before Messrs.
CODD, BARLOW, and PILKINGTON, with having assaulted
a man of venerable appearance, calling himself Colonel
Jasper Allen.
Mr. CODD—What have you to say against the defen-
dant ? Allen—l've nothing to say further, than I wish you
would hang me or transport me for life.
Mr. CODD—I thought you was an inmate of the work-
house, which I should say was certainly the best place for
such a man as you.
Allen (with an air of indifference)—No, I am not in the
workhouse ; I am allowed three shillings a week to starve
on, and am wanting the bread of life. I was Colonel of
the 10th Hussars at the time the Prince of Wales was
Commanding Officer, and was very intimate with him at
Brighton, and also with the Duke of York. This wound
(pointing to a deeply indented scar in the centre of his fore-
head, into which a finger might be inserted) has been my.
ruin. I was wounded by a gun-shot by the rebels in Ire-
land, and it cost me 4,0001. to get cured, so that I was
obliged to sell my commission.
Mr. CODD—But what has all that to do with your
charge against Mrs. Fitzherbert's footman ?
Allen—Why I charge the footman with—(looking round
at the persons in the office, and at last pointing to Taylor,
who was dressed in plain clothes)—" Ah, that's the man ;
I know him again although he has taken his footman's
clothes off. He is the man who, about a fortnight ago,
when I was passing through Tilney-street, Park-lane, on
the side opposite to Mrs. Fitzherbert's house, ran across to
me, and impeded me on the public highway, saying Your
name is Allen ; you're a -- old scoundrel, and you shall
not go until I get a policeman."
Taylor, in his defence, denied the charge altogether,
and said that in consequence of Allen having, during the
last three weeks, sent a number of begging letters to Mrs.
Fitzherbert, he was ordered by the butler to stop him, if

he saw him pass the house, and tell him he could have
the duplicates which he had inclosed in the letters. On
the 4th instant, seeing him pass, he stopped him, when
he said if he was allowed to go for half-an-hour he would
return for them ; but instead of doing so, he sent a letter
to Mrs. Fitzherbert complaining of being assaulted by her
domestics.

Mr. BARLow informed his colleagues, that Allen com-
plained to him, on the preceding day, of having sent in a
note to Mrs. Fitzherbert eight duplicates of various
pledges, for the return of which he had made repeated ap-
plications, but without effect. He also stated that when-
ever he called at the house for them he was abused and in-
sulted by the defendant, who he was apprehensive had
redeemed the articles.

Mr. Bass, Mrs. Fitzherbert's butler, corroborated the
statement of the defendant. Allen had during the last
month been quite a nuisance to all in the house.
Mr. CODD immediately ordered the defendant to be
discharged, and told Allen he had subjected himself to be
committed to the House of Correction for three months for
what he had done, and he directed that if he sent any more
letters to Mrs. Fitzherbert, he should be given into cus-
tody. He had better go into the workhouse.
Allen said he would not go into the house, as he should
be placed under a man, who, when he was a colonel, was a
private.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

An elderly man, named John Stephens, was brought up
before the LORD MAYOR, havinged with obtained
possession of three 1001. and threee' 101. Bank of England
notes under the circumstances mentioned in the following
evidence, taken under examination by Mr. Bush, the soli-
citor to the Committee of bankers for protection against
forgeries and frauds.
Mr. Bush attended on the part of Messrs. Barclay and
Co., bankers, of Lombard-street.
William Ward, wheelwright, of Typin-road, Stoke New-
ington, stated that he was in possession, and he produced
three 1001. and three 101. notes which he had received

from the prisoner, who was his wife's brother. The
pri-
soner said that he had found the notes in Bull-street, Bir-
mingham, and witness took one of them to the Bank of
England to ascertain whether it was good, the prisoner
having stated to him that he had never undoubled or exa-
mined them since he had found them. Witness had told
prisoner what they were, and had taken the numbers, dates,
and other particulars, down on a piece of paper, and before
he went to the Bank he had looked into the newspapers
for an advertisement about them, but to no effect. At the
Bank they told him that if the note was bad they must
keep it, and, upon looking into a book, they said that the
note, which was one of those for 1001. each, had been
stopped. They said that there was more of them, to which
witness replied that there were, and he had got them, and
they sent a person to his house, to whom he delivered them up.
Mr. Bush had received a copy of the examination which
had taken place before the Magistrate at Birmingham on
the subject, from which it appeared that a traveller had
dropped the notes, which were wrapped up in a brown paper
parcel, as he was riding along Bull-street, Birmingham ;
that two children picked them up, and were observed by
two men, who took the parcel from the children, and went
away with it. Mr. Bush wished the prisoner to be handed
over to the custody of a Birmingham policeman, who had a
warrant for the man's apprehension.
The prisoner was delivered up to the custody of the Bir-
mingham officer accordingly.
It will be recollected that the Lord Mayor, about a fort-
night ago, granted a warrant against a merchant named
Lewis Augustus Bennet, who ha been engaged in several
heavy speculations, for havinc, committed forgery by al-
tering the dates of bills of lading of 1835, by which he
succeeded in defrauding many capitalists of large sums of
money.

It appears that the fugitive had, with great ingenuity,
committed forgeries on policies of insurance and other se-
curities, not one of which had been ever suspected to have
been other than genuine until he was on his way to Ame-
rica. It is believed that he succeeded to the amount of
between 40,0001. and 50,0001., and that he carried away
from 15,0001. to 20,0001. A French commercial house
lost between 3,0001. and 4,0001. by him. Roe's pursuit
ended at Liverpool, but measures have, we understand, been
taken by the parties who have been the sufferers, to inter-
fere with Bennet's enjoyment of this extensive and injurious
robbery.

An old engineer, named Graham, who had been for, many
years in the East India Company's service, applied to the
Lord Mayor in a great fright, to help him to recover an old
pocket-book, containing orders upon the Treasury, and upon
the East India Company, for money amounting to 1,5301.
He had, he said, just come from India with the property,
i upon the nterest of which, and his half-pay, he intended to
make himself comfortable for the rest of his life, and he re-
gularly placed his pocket-book, upon going to bed every
night, between the bed and the mattrass, in the public-house
in which he had taken up his abode. He, however, on that
morning, accidentally left his pocket-book behind him on
the tab le of his bedroom, and upon returning, in a very.
short time, missed it, and could get no account of it.
Police Sergeant Tebbet, who was directed by the Lord
Mayor to assist the old man, immediately caused payment
of the orders to be stopped, and proceeded to examine the
bedroom, after having made inquiry amongst the servants.
Upon examination of the bed and mattrass, after the row
had been made, the officer pulled out the pocket-book from
between them, and the Lord Mayor advised the owner to
get out of London as fast as he could with his treasure.
Graham was so impatient to escape from the dangers of
London, that he begged his Lordship would do him the
honour to transmit it to Ireland after him, and declared
that he would cut the metropolis at once.
The plunder committed in various ways in the City of
late has amounted to an enormous sum. One great rob-
bery, a most scandalous one, was effected by means of for-
gery committed by a trustee to a large sum of money ;
another, to the proceedings in which publicity has not yet
been given, was committed by a clerk upon his employer.
The sum for which the trustee risked his neck by forging
the names of his two co-trustees was 7,8001. in the Three

per Cent. Consols. Report says that the amount has been
paid back by his friends.

G UILDHALL.

Yesterday, a young man named John Pilgrim, was
brought before Mr. Alderman WILSON, charged with res-
cuing a felon, an offence which subjects the party commit-
ting it to the same punishment as would have awaited the
person rescued if he had been convicted.
The prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial: