The Sun.
London, England, 1812-11-07 00:00:00

POLICE.

',BOW-STllEET.—Yestercitty, Mr. .Dobree; p ii-
broker, of. Charing-cross, was brougla to. t 1 :c
Oflice consesittenee of an
against' hisn, charging
,bim with taking more in-:
terest for a pledge than is allowed 'by Act of Prir- "
Lament. '

William Walthurst, w]lo called himself by pro 7
fession, a comedian, stated, that n: tite. :3',:t1,1 of'
November, 1811, he pleded a ring and. a se:lrf,
at the defendant's shop, for eight tihiliings. On.
,the 10th of lest October, he viet4. to the snop to
redeem thent, when he was charged one Shilling
and ninepence intucst. Ile. asked, if the hare
of interest was correct. was answered in the
affirmative: Dobree was present at the Con-
versation. Ile went zawa.,;:, and, On goisig'honle,
:he calculated the interest, and found he had been
overcharged. , He returned to Mr.Dobre.e's shop,
saw Mr. P. complained biin, and said ht hau
him in his power again, which 'be had three or
four times before.- Mr. .D. not receiving him in
the civil way 'he expected, ,but off.zred to return
him three farthings, " the amount of
,the•over-
char,4e, which he 'refused to take, and said he
si,'”ald seek redress in another way.
Mr....liagAPP attended for Mr. Dobree, and took
an objection on account of the pledge being
made in the name of Walters, the duplicates be-
ing in that name,ak• well as the entry in the book,
a,nd the prosecntor's name bcing WOthurst.---:
This was allowed by the Sitting Magistrate to be
fatal to quash the information 3. but Mr. KNAPP
said, he had another objection, viz. that it was
impossible to split-a day ; and the, whiole nf the
transactjon took place within such a short time :
when the overcharge was ,tendered back, surely
it was too much to ask tse Magistrate to convict
under. a Penal Statute.

On Thursday evening two men were brought tc
the office ;ay-Mance,- charged with letting off lire,-
works in Clare-street ;Clare-market, and were con:-
Victed in the penalty of twenty Th•!sr
made such a desperate resistance when they weri.
taken, and.onc of the men.. who assisted lust his
hat. •

A scene of early depravity and w iaedness was
oed. '.l'wo young "girls were brought to the
exp
Office in the morning by Donaidson, the con-
stabN,, W.ho stated that they bsionf.R.d to a
gang of between twenty and thirty ;,oy.-:
girls, that were a terror azid 'nuisance to
neighbourhoods of the Pialsa,
Rose:street,. and. Long-Acre, for then•
of thieving, and almost- every tpecies
ecine,; ;: several of the, girls were ,then
abut the -,13r0w6 Bear .pu-lolic. JunrSe.--Mr.
Lhem to be brought before him. Donaldson
idenii!ied them as part of these the inbabitan`.s
had complained to I;iin about. The 7.4ngistrate
ordered them to be detained till the evenintr, and
in the mean time their parents to be sent fr7._ to
the cvening,they attended'necordingly, when
nppeared, quite callous to every. thing that was
said, not appearing in the least sensible of their
past conduct, or to:promise.to conducttheinselyes
injeture.. They had'ocen singing olacene
so:!gs during the afternoon.
Those in custody for the assault were committed
for want of bail, and the others. were committed
as disdrdecly; .

I.IATTOItZ-GARDEN.-LaSt nighta great number'
of young persons, chieflyapprentices, were taken -
up by the Police ()facers, in 80-ii;:!iiis, Clerken-
well, taken in the, act of throwing sytihs in the
faces of the passengers.. Being this day brought
before- Mr. Leach, the, sitting Magistrate, for
such illegal practices, they ere all lint-A. 20s.
each ; and. some refractory apprentices were 'sen-:
tenced to, one month's imprisonment in the House
..of Correction, •neither their masters nor parents
paying the penalties. for ttunu.

QIiEEN-,SQUARE. —Yesterday young mvx,
named p7l/4on, was charged at the abOve
by the Rev. Y. Weeks, a Licensed aiul Dissenting
Minister, with having disturbed, and greatly an-
noyed his Congregation, during Divine serrice.
It appeared that the defendant, oii the night of
the inst. fired several rockets into a Chapel be-
longing 'to him 9n the lAillian-roadi; and not sa-:
tistied with this- mode of annoyance, thdr.r
quantity of spud and other things terein, where-
by his congregation was iiuteh endangered: The
defendant, in, reply, said, that he was urged to
cornmit this offence by some other persons, and
he Was truly sorry for what had'occuiTed. Under
these'circutustances, the complainant, by the in-
-tercession of sonic of the defendant's relmives,
forgave him, on Lis. faithfully promising the Ma-
gistrate not to be guilty of the like offence in
future ; and having paid all incidental e:4cnt-...e5,
he was discharged.

Wil ItEcHArEi..—A young man of the name of
Barber, a grown, w'as yesterday brought before
the Sitting-Magistrate, charged by a young wo-
pan of a very respectable appearance with ,ne-
glecting to prOvide for the maintenance of a bas-
tard child. The .parties-, it appeiss, reside in
sex, where their intimacy tool: place, and from
whence, the prisoner had run away in‘consepieuce,-
~ He was employed as a groom intheKing'S"MCWS,
.-where the young woman, acCoMpanied by a parish
offiCer, discovered him. Here he was no sooner
.apprehended, than he attempted ti escape by run-
ning away from the officer; who pursued him
through several streets, calling, s" Stop thief f"
Et was itlength.secured, and beougl,t up to this
Ofrice.—ile was remanded, for the puepose of al-
lowing him time to compromise the matter with
the,parish otEcers.

UNION-ITALL.—lliathew Gardener, a porter in
the employ of .Mcssis.l4'innes' and Co. Carers and
Gihiers, in the Borough, was brought ,up by Col-
lingbourn, charged by his' masters with having
robbed them, 2t various times, of considerable
qusantities of quicksilver. , It .appeared that for
five Mdnths,past they have missed, on an average,
three pounds and a half a week, and they have
nrnr discoVered that it was sold at an old iron
slop in the neighbourhood. The-prisoner was
courinitta for re-examination.

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~.ADDREP; TO SZIAIUEL WHITBREAD, ESQ. . :.

[FROM •TNE SATIRIST.]

To thee.,,my Saw, -me vain,
Peet. write.‘snt- .1.)::-nry Lane :
Ent flo nut start, and gucss
" He-;e .carne-s-miethcr
With such, I tiow,'you ,

You 'almest wish the wl:Gle Werefttod ;
Stich ltonoitrs Lnow to gain,
" 'They pm, fire ?viz' swain."
;t would have made my Whitbread smile,
To see the wonclei went, sod toil;
Which, though it ue'ef.t7,-ere his intent,
Were called by his mlvertisement..
The public, ere the oar; they knew
Who v..-on, cried, 'te. be. Lord heows who.
their note ;. the cry is. n:ny, '
'1 Le prize aces gaitf,d ti, L, rd knows
Those who conic the o.is,?.l,(fgazi..;it spy, -
Ere yet itmet the poinie
Athrir'd It,,aod intiq still admire on;
For such the-it zeal, they said, of fl ruii, . - .
Soon as 'tvias known he'd written one,
The Lard he his Aril/ 0.7 doh,c:
October mouth is chili and drew-,

lint still I 'love Cantercheer :
And thou, ruY Sammy, inpire
- Almost as much as thaw irr.
Fain Ni-ould 'tone niy hutd,)le. lay
T 9 thee, oh Sain! and and lirur"'s lday
-To thee who, equal to-the task,
Can all a playlmtn,.-. like a el.sh
lint other subjectStlaim inn M ;
Yet oae.short line she can't refuse.
Whore. I behold the teL.c.-/c-rais.'d

In one shot, year—l stanga6a.z'tt
"l'o sue o.tervaity in-Drury , •
A building -s,2lentlid as thy beow'ry,

A pile, winch seems (so tfr a:10 plain)
Th irothhouse of great Drury Lane;
Thoiukh colts no Mau ever your house.
. Would hint .most.distahtly's a poor-house,
• To see this sight fills wiitl st,trprise,
And makes me almost doubt my eyes
But when the, lobby I explore,
- I iv:Uild inn, ask for one thing more;
And that is.this—thy phis. in stone, •
To 'ltalie ilkv. name for ever. known.
Close,to the spot, where Slialtspea.-e'sforni,
For ever fix'd, for ever 'Nana,
'As guardian of the lire below,
Seen,S with' its genial heat to slow,
Where bending o'er the smoke au a dare,
As- surely was thy wish'and care;
He forces all who see, to say,
. Thai; Drury boasis, as well she tuaY,
Nht only great Apollo's. lyre, •• •
Bute'en immortal Shakspteire's fire;
•• •• And when-the coals are aura to dust,
• it goay'ae said,---indeed it mast,' • •
Fur not to say it were unfair,
to;) are •treasur'd there
- Cl.se to tins spot thy iiglaie. dear,,

- 2 • .deoate9l anti beer,
Have leayn'sl to relish; tiou s'liould'st stand,
A poVolptirtor in illy tared,

".7 rais'd on 'high,
ShaLspca;e; i.ust needs he dry;
Awl as thelirt : • .1;1, whichgloivsy
Wag Lriven )47 iis s 1 3urposel, •
" ;" I'd fain limin~ thy niche,
" old Billy Shakspeare's breech."