The Sun.
London, England, 1812-02-27 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION-Housi.—Yesterday, Mary Peck,whti
hands charged with stealing a qiiantity of linen, and
setting fire to the house to prey,nt dn,co‘ery„ wag
again put td the Bar, when Mrs I\•!.,rchwt, t!.'e
laundress, told his Lordship that rare prisoner Work.;
ed for her ; that on the sth of July sot- was alarm.
ed by a person calling In her to takv care of her child,
that lief room Was on fire ; that she ran to the room,
and saw the prisoner standing by a chest otraWerh-,
the Contents of which were on tire, hut she w:is'nor
attempting to extinguish it, although a pail of
water stood in the room ; that 81 'e with proper
assistance put 'the fire out, bur trussA nine'
shirts and a shawl, which had beers in the
drawers. The prisoner said they were burnt, and
she having abSconded, suspici,in was .entertaincd
that she had taken the thins, and set the room an
fire They afterwards found that she had• ple.iged
the shirts with different pawnbrokers, many of
whom appeared, and produced shirts pledged by the
prisoner, and the owners proved them to be, their
property, entrusted with Mrs. Matchant to wash.
The prisonerdenie.d setting the house on fire ; but
upon his Lordship asking her what she had to say
about stealing the shirts, she made no answer.—
She was fully committed to take'her trial flir 1110
offence. •

Slaper and Pathsugy a Cellarmtin and an Excisci•
r 113.11, who have undergone two examinations, bAorei
the Lord Mayor, charged with stealing rum from the
vaults of Mr. Chaptnan, of CrUtchedfriars, wte
again put to the bar, and fu4cornmitted to take
their trial. The Exciseman was taken into custody
coming from the taults with two tin cankters;
Limning a gallon of rum, concealed under his clothes,
which he said be had from the prisoner Sloper.

BOW-STREET.—Sunday " morning, when die fe-
male servants of Mrs. G. who resides in the neigh
bourhood. of Go er-street, got 'up to their work,
they found a- light horning on the Stairs,' and thde
the door leading to the area wa3 open. An investi-
gation took place, when a number of atticles of
plate were missing, consisting of silver table and
desert spoons, &c. The footman confessed, that
about an hour after he and the family were gone to
bed, which 'was about one o'clock, he got up, dress-
ed himself, and went out-, and meeting with a' fe.
male in. Plcmtree•stleet, St..,Giles's, he brought
her home with him; and that she having left thti
house before he awoke, he had no doubt that si°
had stolen the plate. Although Mrs. G. had a very
high opinion of the footman, he Inwing lived four
years with her, this was not, a satisfactory account,
and application was made at the above Office. Ad—
kins attended at the house, and under all the ch-
cumstances he thought it right to take the footinatx
into custody, and he was examined before Mr.
READ, but nothing transpire es to contradict his
statement. On Tuesday evening, in consequence
of private information, Lavrider and Vickery- ap-
prehended the woman in St. Giles's, with -part of
the stolen plate upon her : she underwent .an exa-
mination before Mr. GRAHAM, and was commit:ed
for further examination.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--A man who stated Ilia
name to be George Smith, but who has gone by
many other names, has undergone two examiria,-
tions at this Office on the charge of disposing of
and uttering forged notes of vationi denominations.
The prisoner hes been long searched after, and the
charges against him already entered are eight in
number, at the suit of different persons, on whom
he had passed notes of i 01. 51. and 21. There are
also charges against hitu of disposing of divers
forged notes.

HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday James George
Wheeler, Charles IV/teeter, and Sarah, his wile,
were charged with forging Bank Notes and coining
base money, at their house, in the City-roaj, v, here
they were apprehended by the Police Officers Hull
and Limerick. Mrs. Wheeler was seized in the at.
tempt to throw into the tire a bundle of the notes,
just fresh and moist, after being recently impressed,
_by Limerick, while Hull was engaged with one of
the men in a scuffle. A quantity of genuine and
forged notes were found mixed together, as well as
genuine dollars, three-shilling tokens, and eighteen.
penny silver pieces, intermixtd with false coin ; all
of which, about sixty pounds worth being genuine,
was offered for hush-money to The Officers, which
they refused. Seven•two-pOund Bank Notes were
. seletled by the Solicitor fur the B ink, to ground the
prosecution, and Saturday. se'nnight is fixed for a,
final- hearing.

UNXON.-HALL.—Joseplz Heafkins was yesterday
brought' before the Sitting Magistrate, charged by
the turnkey of the King's Bench' Prison with con,
veying ropes and scaling ladders over the walls of .pta
prison to John Henry Dickner, who is confined in
the prison for a debt of 8001. in order to facilitate
his escape. It appeared, that in consequence of in-
formation having been received by the turnkey, of
Dickner's premeditated escape, he, with the officer,
proceeded to search his .apartment in the prison,
whew, concealed in a box, the ropes. and ladder
were found; and circumstances arising which threw
suspicion on Healkins, he was taken Into custody,
when he confessed having been employed by Dick-
ner to procure the ladderand ropes, and tf,at.he got
them of a ropemaker in, the City. The pri.,oner
was also charged on the oath of Francis, head clerk
to Air. Joseph Green,
.01 St. Martin's-lane, Cannon_
street, on suspicion of having been concerned,
with ()diets, irr.stealing a bill of exchange for 'OOOl.
He was committed for re-examinatioia.

There now resides in Cawsand, Devonshire,
man who had not slept in a bttd for thirty yeiirs. Ile
was a sailor in his youth, and untortundie. ahf
ways refused an asylum in the workhouse, living on
the misenible pittance of twos-pnce or three-pence
a Way, earned by tarrying pitchers cf water. He
indignantly preferred this to hying n the bounty
of others. In tie coldest night of winter he would
'sleep. under a bOat on the beach of C;iwaatid : at:
other tinics he took refuge in the cliff's of the rocks
apd couched himself .ith t-he raven and the otter.
He reaclitd his seventieth year, and sonie persons
carried him by force to the workhouse ted and
clothed, and warmly bedded, he.siept for twenty.
four hours, and acknoWledged he has felt, for Cut
'first time these 30 yeirs,what it is to be comfollable,

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Fla. 26.

TAYLOR L• BOLTON.

This was an -artiol against the defendant, Mr'
, of the G.lden Cross, Charing-cross, for not
delivering a basket of game which had been sent
from Tdinworth, in Staffordshire, by the Holy-
head Coach, diretted to the plaintiff, near Barnet,
who was the High Sheriff of the County; Jt ap-
peared that the game had been sent, and arrived at
Charing-cross, and from. thence was forwarded to.
Bolton's house at Barnet, but he alleged he
could not find the person to whom it was dire&ed,
as he resided seven miles"from
.Barnet. The plaCe
was called by the plairitiffl'ormlins, but by the reit
of county was called Newgate-street, Nortbaw Com-
mon. It appearing,' however, that the basket had
been opened, Lord Ellephorough held, that this sub-
jected the.defendant to the action, and direEted the
Jury to find a.verdiol for the Oaintiff, which they
did, for 40s.