The Sun.
London, England, 1813-01-01 00:00:00

POLICE.

MAIISION-TIOUSE.--Yesterday two seafaring
men, one of:.them a black, natives of America,
were imright'op, -as' having been found in the
streets, and Who represented themselves
to be in, a state of absolute starvation, besides be-
ing compelled to sleep in the streets several nights
and, in addition to this, their being afflicted with
an almost incurable disease, one with the scurvy,
and the other witivan nicer la his lere. They in,
treated the Lord illavor':to relieve tueir distress,
either by his ordering them -to receive parochial
.assistance, or.to be admitted into an hospitai.
IlisLordship demanded why they did not apply
for relief to the American Consul ; to which they
thg,they had made repeated applications,
but were refused, relief on the ground that, al-.
though they were acknowledged to be American
subjects, iliey had served on hoard British ships of
war ; that,•as their distresses bad arisen sub,
sentient to their being engaged in our service, he
could not listen to their having any elaim for re".
.lief from the Government of -.their native county.
The men stated, that they had in vain represented
to the Consul that they had been impressed into
the British service without their consent in the
present instance, however, they would wave this
plea, and begged to inform his Lordship that they
had been wounded in the service of Great Britain,
and could produce testimonials to that effect.
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The Lord Mayor ordered that they should be
taken-into St'. Thomas's Hospital for the present,
or until 'they were sufficiently. recovered to be able
to find employment by going, to sea, His Lord-
ship lamented that so many applicants of this
description had come before him of late, whotu
it was impossible on his part to provide `for,
there being not -les*than 1000 of them now in
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England.

BOW-STREET.--On Wednesday, evening a trades-
man currying on an extensive business in Drury-
lane, brought his clerk before 31r. NAIiES, and
charged.linu with feloniously stealing his pocket-
book, 'Fit:doing' Dank-notes to the amount of
8001. t

It appeared that the prisoner and the prosecu-
tor were writing together at.a desk on Wednesday;
the prosecutor left the desk and went into an ad-
joining room, for the purpose Of putting some
books, &c. into a drawer„ his return to the
room where- the prisoner Was writing at the desk,
be asked bim.for his pocket-book, which contain-
ed the above sum. The prisoner replied, he had
not seen; nor did he know any thing of it. The
prosecutolVersisted that he left it on the desk.--a
A friend 01 the prosecutor having left the room at
the same tide he:-(tire prosecutor) did, the prisoner
suggeited the probability of his having taken it in.
a frolic, and, with the prosecutor's consent the prim
sorter ran after him to ascertain it 3 he received for
answer he knew nothing of it.: The prosecutor
them persisted in his charge. against the prisoner,
and brought him in custody to the office ; he was
searched, but nothing of the least suspicions nature
was found upon /him.
The prosecutor stated, in the most positive
terms, that he had diligently searched every place
where it was possible for the pocket-book to be,
and declared his belief that the prisoner had con
veyed it away,by sonic means that he could net
devise. The prisoner 'was, of course, ordered to
be committed for the felony—he declaring his in-
nocence in the most positive and solemn manner.
In about three hours after the prosecutor came to
the Office, and acknowledged to Mr. NARES that
he found!: the -..pocket-bOok in the Oawer, where
he went to-put-some books, when he left the pri-
soner at the
,desk writing ; but. the acknowledg-
ment was not Made in that open and candid man-
ner as waSlekpected, for he actually said he thought
the prisoner had found means to convey it there.
The prisoner fortunately had not been sent off to
Bridewell, but bad remained a prisoner at the
Brown Bear ; he was, in consequence, brought
Over to the Office, and, of-course, discharged.
John Coxeter, a' porter, belonging to the New
Hotel, in Bishopsgate-street, was convicted on
the charge of Adkins, the officer, for charging
him more for 'the porterage of a box from the
country titan isi: allowed by the Act of Parlia-
ment ; heaves also ordered to pay the costs,:

SHASWELL.—A Captain of a merchant ship
having lost a brace of curious double-barrelled pis-
tols, which were a present from the King of Per-
si, tmd suspecting that they had been stolen,
miffed a considerable reward for their recovery,
which induced the Officers at Shadwell to make a
search in almost every pawnbroker's shop in Lon-
don, when they at length Ibund at one in Hol-
born. The man who had plcged them was after-
wards Apprehended, but for want of sufficient evi-
dence, the Captain declined prosecuting.