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London, England, 1841-04-16 00:00:00

some respited ; and others ordered to be privately whipped
and discharged.
Twenty-four persons were discharged by proclamation,
the Grand Jury having ignored the Els preferred against
them.

The Court at its rising adjourned to the 10th of May.

CITY OF LONDON ADJOURNED
SESSIONS.

(Before the RECORDER and Aldermen WHITE and PIRIE.
A considerab'e time elapsed before a Court could be
made, owing to the circumstance of none of the Aldermen
being present.
The early part of the day was occupied in hearing cases
against individuals indicted for committing ❑uisances, by
keeping brothels in various parts of the City, most of
whom were bound over in personal sureties of 200/. to
be of good behaviour for two years.
No case of any interest occurred.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION. HO USE.

A man named Edward Macon, was Charged with hav-
ing robbed Mr. Joseph Taylor, his employer, a plumber,
of various sums of money.
John Paul, assistant-clerk to the Board of Guardians of
the City of London Union, stated that on the 11th cf
April, 1840, he paid the prisoner the sum of 11. 153. 9d.,
the amount of a bill for plumber's work done on the pre-
mises of the Board, 35, Cannon-street, by Mr. Taylor.
William Wells, of No. 20, Budge-row, cork manufac-
turer, stated that on the 13th March he paid the prisoner
the sum of 5/. Bs., for plumber's work done by Mr. Taylor.
The receipts of the prisoner for the money were pro-
duced.

Mr. Taylor said that the prisoner had been in his service
as a clerk about a year and a half, and in that capacity had
been employed to collect accounts from the customers.
Witness had recently discovered the embezzlement, by the
prisoner, of various sums of money, and the prisoner had
never paid over to him any part of the two sums specified,
nor made any entry of them in the books.
A constable who apprehended the prisoner, stated that
in the prisoner's room he found a letter addressed to Mr.
Taylor, containing a full admission of the offence, and ex-
pressing hopes of forgiveness ; and in the letter was a list
of names (thirteen in number), and sums of money re-
ceived by the prisoner and cot accounted for. The letter
was acknowledged by the prisoner to be in his hand-writing.
Committed for trial.

Two well-dressed young men, named George Hudson
and Samuel Mason, who have been in the habit of pick-
ing pockets, were put to the bar, ehargJd with haviNg at-
tempted to rob a Mrs. Barfoot. The prisoners were well
disguised with cloaks lined with silk, and decorated with
tasiels.

A gentleman saw one of the prisoners walk up to Mrs.
Barfoot in Fenchurch-street, raise her gown, and take
something from her ; while the other held his cloak so as
to screen the thief from public observa,ion. When Mrs.
Barfoot was asked whether she had lost anything, she
looked on the ground and saw her purse lying there. It
contained several duplicates, which she valued at 51. The
prisoner, who had picked her pocket, was immediately
apprehended, and the other expostulated with him, re.,
presenting that it was quite impossible that so resperi.",able
a person could be guilty of an act of the kind. "i'h .! two
prisoners were soon identified by the police as the asso-
ciates of well-known thieves.

Mason—Thieves! not at all. It'a quite a mistake, I
do assure you, my Lord.
The LORD MAYOR—Pray where do you live, young
man ? Mason—Why, my Lord, I don't like to say ex-
actly, not at present.
The LORD MAYoa—.The officers seem to know some-
thing about you ? Masou—Not at all, my Lord. I've only
just come to town. They say that I had a cloak on rue.
Nuw, I never saw that cloak in my life before this day.
The LORD MAYOR—Has Hudson anything to say ?
Hudson—Nothing.
The officers said that the thieves dressed so elegantly
every thy, that it was difficult to discover them except
when actually engaged in plundering; and it was a com-
mon manoeuvre to use dashing cloaks as a blind.
Committed.

FORGERY AND SWINDI.ING ON A LARGE SCALE.-_A
paragraph appeared in some of the papers of Wednesday,
statug some of the circumstances of an extensive case of
swinating, in which a Spani.li refugee, who assumed the
name of the Chevalier de la Mott, was concerned. The
paragraph truly represented that the pretended Chevalier
had obtained from Messrs. P. and L., eminent merchants
in London, a large sum of money upon forged bills, by
means of a forged letter of introduction of Messrs Chau-
vileau and Co., of Paris, but it did not state that the
capture of the offender was effected principally through
the activity and talent of John and Daniel Forrester, the
officers of this Justice-room. When these officers re-
ceived information of the commission of the offence, they
soon succeeded in ascertaining the real name of the
offender, and his residence both in London and Paris,
and upon making communication of these particulars to
the plundered parties, John Forrester was directed to pro-
ceed to Paris, and after his arrival there on the sth inst.,
the delinquent, was apprehended.