The Sun.
London, England, 1823-05-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE..

Mai srog-liou sE.—.A. drover named gutton was brought
before Alderman ATKINS, charged. with having violently as.
saulted Mr. Nichol.
• The complainant stated, that as he was driving along the
street, in• a chaise, with a friend, the drover came in contact
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ll was proved that the drover had, with characteristic bru-
tality, exulted at seeing the blood flow from the complainant's
wounds, one of which was near' the temple, and said, "D
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my eyes, I've given him a rum cut." The defendant said he
could not bear to see his beasts struck, nor could he bear a
blow himself.; and both he and his beasts had suffered before
he took his and their part.
Alderman ATKINS ordered the defendant to'find bail.
LAMBETN-STREET-Yesterday, two Chinese, belonging
to Mr. Gould's establishment at Cliadwell (for the purpose of
keeping together all Chinese and I.ascars brought to this coati-
try until they are sent home), were brought up in custody of
Somers, a constable of St. George's, charged with attempting
to murder another Chinese, on the same establishment.
It appeared that on Saturday afternoon the prisoners created
a disturbance among the inhabitants of Mr. Gould's barracks,
and the person wounded was threatened with violence; he re-
torted, and then ran away, but the prisoners drew their kttives,
and ran after hiln ; having overtaken him, they stabbed him in
several places, and no doubt would have murdered him on the
spot, had not assistance arrived, when the prisoners were taken
into custody, and the poor fellow released from their grasp : he
was taken up in a dreadfully wounded state, having received
several deep wounds, and was conveyed to the London Hospi-
tal; where he now lies in such a dangerous state that but little
hope is entertained of his recovery. Somers produced the
knives, which were about 15 inches long, and very broad and
sharp, with handles like those of savor as ; they were covered
with blood.

The prisoners could not speak English, and the interpreter
to Mr. Gould's establishment being at the London llo.spital
with the wounded man, no further information could be elicit-
ed. They were remanded until the man should be declared out
of danger.
QUEEN-SQUAILE.—(TOTUILFIELDS Fain.)—The Ma-
gistratei at this Office being determined to suppress this Fair,
on Sunday night the whole of the officers, a party of the Bow.
street patrole and parish constables, were ordered out ; a vast
number of people collected, showmen, stall-keepers, &c. who
pitched their tents, but the officers informed them of the danger
they exposed themselves to, and the resolution the Magistrates
had come to of convicting them according to law, unless they
departed. They all in consequence quitted the ground, and
thus the fair was put an end to.
WORSITIP-STREET.--(CRUELTY.).— Yesterday, /Vary
Davidge, a woman advanced beyond the middle age, and
whose aspect denoted something extraordinary, was brought
before NVitLiam BENETT Esq. the presiding Magistrate,
charged with horrid cruelty toward. Mary Davidge the younger,
her daughter.
It was stated by Mr. John Coulson Porritt, and two other
parish officers of Shoreditch, that they had received inform.
don of the prisoner having kept her daughter in a state of con-
finement for upwards of a year. They accordingly prpceeded
to Still-alley, the prisoner's residence, and there they found
the wretched yoiing girl confined in a miserable spartment.—
She was completely naked and seated on the floor, and pre-
sented a spectacle of such human misery, that the officers, in
relating what they had seen, seemed to feel all the horror which
could be excited by a scene of cruelty. The poor victim of,in-
humanity was in a state of starvation, and was in the act of
eating some dirt, which, in the last stage of hunger, the craving
of appetite induced her to devour.

Crockwell, one of the parish officers, declared, that in
the course of seventeen years, during. which time he had been
an officer and familiarised the sight of distress, he never
saw such a horrid scene of wretchedness. • The poor girl had
become insane, and was in a state altogether such as he could
not describe, but he seemed to shudder at the recollection of it.
The mother stood at the bar apparently unmoved, and said
that her daughter was well taken care of.
It was ordered by the Worthy Magistrate that the prisoner
should be held to bail, for assaulting and ill treating herdaugh-
ter ; and that the latter should be immediately removed from
Still-alley to the parish workhouse, there to receive every at.
tention due to her miserable situation.
ManLBOROMMI-STREET.—A man named Bellamy, in the
service of Mr. Evans, a smith, in Wardour-mews, was put to
the bar under the following charge :—Mr. Spenser, living in
Warner.street, said, that when he got home last Saturday af-
ternoon, he learnt that his son had been wounded severely by
something which had been let off with gunpowder by some men
in Mr. Evans's shop. The poor lad was passing through the
Mews at the tithe of the explosion, when the contents of the
instrument carried off part of his left cheek. lle was conveyed
to the Hospital with his face shockingly lacerated.
Alexander Harrle said, he lodged in Mr. Evans's house.
Last Saturday afternoon, he, in his way up stairs, saw the men
busy in preparing gunpowder to let off a tube which had a
square bore, and which was placed on the ground beside an
anvil. On reaching his apartment he opened his window, and
looking out, he observed a piece of red hot iron advanced to
what he conceived the touch-hole of this tube. He drew his
head in, and immediately heard a loud report. On going again
to the widow, he saw that a lad had been severely wounded.
George Knox, a lad living in the neighbourhood, said he was
in the Mews at the time of the accident. He saw the instru-
ment above alluded to; and saw the prisoner Bellamy actively
engaged in preparing it.

Bt gamy saint,
that last saturday he was celebrating the birth-
day of his ion, who on that day was 21 years of age. His
comrades were, therefore, merry-making ; anxious to increase
their mirth, he had taken the anvil used in the shop, and ap.
plied that part which has a hole for the convenience of turning
it round, for the purpose of making a report. This not answer.