The Sun.
London, England, 1823-03-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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Coach Office fur causing him to be conveyed to Chatham in-
stead of Cheltenham, and refusing to correct the mistake by
sending him coach free to his place of destination.
It appeared from the statement of. the Frenchman, who
spoke the English language very imperfectly, that he had
gone to the Swan.with-two-neeks, Lad-lane, for the purpose of 1
engaging a seat on the outside of the coach to " Chottyltans,"
and paid-five shillitiga ; which, although he believed was'erro-
neously charged, and to the proprietor's disadvantage, he said
nothing about, on the ground of retaliation, having been often
taken in by the eunaille of England himself. 'lle entered into
conversation upon the coach with some female passengers,
and was much amused for a considerable time. He could not,
however, help observing, that there was a very great dissind-
' larity between the road to Chottyhaoi and the road pion Chatty-
liam—o circumstance for which he accounted, after a little
thought, by ingeniously ascribing it to the change in his own
position,—having had his face towards London on the one
occasion, and his back on the other. The novelty produced by
this way of travelling- added to his satisfactions But on are
riving at Rochester-bridgei his astonishment exceeded all
bounds ; for, in travelling to London,' 'he had seen nothing
at all of the kind ; and upon shifting his positioo, the bridge,
and the great sheet. of water, 'still remained, and whatever way
he looked at them, were not convertible into any other descr!p-
tion of scenery. He then requested that his fellow-passengers
would explain the cause of so extraordinary an event as the sud-
den appearance of a bridge and a river of such' dimensions...-.
They. replied, that Rochester-bridge stood their along as they
could remember. " Rodintliere-bridge!" 'cried the French-
man ; " God bless my soul, what bring me to Rosleesthere.
bridge? Stop, coachman, and drive me teCitotitiltom !" " Why
so I am." said the coachman s " you'd soon be there." To
describe the rage of the complainant upon being set down at
the inn at Chatham, and told that he was at his tourney's end,
would be impossible. lie neither ate nor drank, nor left the
company of the coachman, until the coach actually returned
to Lad-lane, and dropped' him, fatigued in body and mind,
on the spot from whence he had taken his departure.--
The clerk. who had booked him first came antler his rebuke;
but the language in which it was conveyed was of so hete-
rogeneous a description as to fail even in correcting the
mistake. At length the Frenchman said that be hail paid
the suni of U. 12s. for travelling from the place he wished to
reach to London ; and then the clerk found that it was to
Cheltenham, and not to Chatham, the unlucky traveller wish-
ed to go. There was, however, now no remedy. The French.
man demanded, as retribution for the inconvenience he hid
suffered, that he should be immediately- supplied with an inside
place, and driven to Cheltenham gratuitously ; but Mr. Water.
house the proprietor, although disposed to abate :min died einand,
in consideration of the 'error of his servant, refused to mend
the matter upon such unreasonable terms. The Frenchman,
therefore, resorted to the Chief Magistrate, in the hope that his
Lordship would order that a seat should be forthwith furnished
for him to (Matt tiliant, which he declared that he pronounced
as perfectly at the Inn as at the present moment, and that the
coachman should he punished for not stopping at Roshesthere.
bridge, when called upon to do so.
The Loan Ma von regretted that the clerk, coachman, and'
passengers had been sit Stupid as not to know 'Nadu complain-
ant wished to go to Cheltenham ; but refused to punish the pm-
prietor of the inn frog the' wintor s, correct eat ialits servants. The
proposal to deduct the Chatham fare appeared to be a very consci-
entious way of settling the dispute, and there certainly appeared
to be not the most scrupulous regard to w
hat was right in the
wish of the Gentlemen to take advantage of 'what lie supposed
to be the error of the office. Indeed, to the endeavour to over-
reach the owners of the coach might be attributed all the mis-
fortunes of the journey; 'for, had the complainant mentioned
what he had paid before, he never would have trembled at the
sight of Rechester.:bridge.
The Frenchman then consented to accept the offer,,_ and
withdrew.

Bow,ST RE E T.-- Yesterday William Haywood, late a hut.
ler in the service of Mrs. Dehany, of Hayes, and of Upper
Seymour-street, Portman-square, was held to bail on a charge
of sending a letter to that lady,which implied a threat of assas-
sination.

U 24 HAL L. —Yesterday Samuel Stroud and William
Moore, against whom the Coroner'S.Jury had returned a ver-
dict of Manslaughter, for being concerned in the death of 31r.
Briggs, the butcher, of King's row, Newington, underwent
an examination at A this office. Evidence was, adduced similar
to that taken at the inquest, and the prisoners declined saying
any thing in their defenee.—The presiding Magistrate, after
observing that the Coroner's jurisdiction did not clash with the
Power of the Magistrates, recommended the -prisoners to have
legal advice, as they were now committed for murder.

MURDER OF MRS. DostArry..—We understand
that a passenger in the General Harris East
ludi►tman has brought home the confession of
the seaman on board the lion. Company's ship
Marquis of fluntl,y,to ►'hick allusion has already
been made. This document, it is added, was
forivarded yesterday morning to the Secretary of
State for the Home Department.