The Sun.
London, England, 1812-01-25 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSIOtq,}IOUSE.--Yterdjy,
_a decent loot:Tit
Man, named Robert- Wilson:, was brought belore the
Lord Mayor, charged having stolen two casters
worth forty shillings-from the Angel Inn, near 131111
Inn-Moo, sirec,t, tuoor l.ree dlys aoro; into w Lich
he wt, ,1 to take a of tip, or hra:iay and ‘'eater,
while the tables were ltd for dinner, and departing;
took away the-casters tinperCeived. He was seen
to offer them for sale to two different ithersmitiis
and a publican, but was arrested in the ad of pais:.
ing them away. He appeared palsied in his right
side. He was fully committed for trial
Cates was charged with stealing tea from the:
warehouses of tt-e East India Company, where he
was employed. He was deted.ed coming our with
some of the tea, wrapped in p3per, and folded up
in his handkerchief about his neck, while a qualr
City more of the same tea was found in his ruom iii
a chest. ,

. .
The (gicers of the India House detthed him in
the !heft, and he only denied the I 'tier part of the
charge. Lie- vas committed

BOW.4•STR RET.—A man his resided at Deptford
,for some time pastt under the name and title of Sir
Edward Perrot!, staling himself to be the Agent of
the Admiralty, and.that he. resided in that neigh-
bourho2d for the purpose of transite.king business
relatiVe to that department of Government, by
which means he- has iiradised impositions in several
instances. A woman 'of the name Of---Eli zab6.
Bullen, applied to him to procure an Admiralty
prote6lion tor her husband, lie ha'ving ben in the
merchant service, and could not go about' his busi:-
ness for fear of being impressed, which he aeeed
to ; and a few days after produced her a'preterided
protection, written on a skin of parchment, with
'an Admiralty seal on it, 'which no doubt had been
taken off an official-instrument; and pasted on the
pretended protedion: At the tirot tie delivered it
to her, he gave her a bill of the charge, amounting
to 601. in dliferent items for •Parehment, writing; -
different.fe, &c. Mrs..Bullen did not expect, :(.tr
was' she prepared to pay so large a sum; but she
paid him 231. I 3i. 9 I. in part, and gave a large otra
hogany dining-table and chest of drawers as seduri y
for the rest. Re read her a' letter, pretending it to
be sent to him -from the Admiralty, saying, the
charg..sfor the proteEtion were very reasonable. Mrs.
Bullen's husillsand then went about his business in
fancied security, a,,d was impressed, the pretended
protedion being treated Willi ridicule. •Mrs. Bul•-••
len in conseqnence applied to Sir Edward Perrot t,
Who said there must be some.error in the ptotection,
and desired to see it ; and on her giving it td
Ile refused to let her have it again, and destroyed
it. She not being able to obtain any redress, pp..-
.plied to a
.Magistrate in that neighbourhood, who
iintuedi-ately, saw the imposition, • and dispatched
three a&liog constables, who took the self-created
Knight, into custody, and -carried_ bins b,lne she
Magistrate, who communicated the Lcircumsfance to
the Board of Admiralty, and sent • Sayers, ,the Bow-
street officer, to make inquities, and he, with the
other constables who had taken the impostor. into ,
custody, learned that his real name was Edward
Perrott, and his tile assumed. On searching his
house, they found a copy of the pretended,protedion. -
He stands committed.

Sn A nUrrit.E. OFrica.—..dnn Christaphef was fully
committed for trial, charged with stealing a guano
tity of wearing apparel, the property of Mrs. Jansen,
of Mill Wall, Poplat ,—The prisoner had been . em-
ployed as a,washerwoman, and in the absence of
the inis'r&sa of the house,. had contrived ro put..
loin the. articles, and escape., She was traced
shor4ls7, iiffrwards to t.ite watch-house in Poplar,
when the property was found concealed round
her body.
Mary, S►nilh .2nd Mary Davis *ere committed
for trial, Charged with uttering and passing coun•
terfeit Bank' tokens for three shillings. They were
apprehended by Partridge, the Officer, In the act
of passing one (or the purchase of bread, in the
shop of a baker-. The Officer immediately took
them Into otutcoly, and on searching their persons
a number of three-shilling Bank tokens were found,
all of them counterfeits.

. LTNtotc-ITIAct.,--Hattonleh, and Clark) the
three men in custody on suspicion of haling been
concerned in the attempt a! robbery at Mr. Pryot's
were again examined, and Sarah Wilkins not being
able tatideptify .them, they were discharged. •
• On.t.l*-ntorning of the day•on which the robbery
Was. attempted, Mr;.'l'iyor missed the keY out of
the shop door, and searched all over the shop tor it,
but uithout effect, and in the evening after the vil-
lains had been there, the search was renewed by
Mr. May, but with no better success ; the door cl
ing-the day had been on the spring lock, and it was
plain theyentered byakey which fitted u, as the h k
remained uninjured. It is a singular cir,2unistance
that the ke., which could ho where be discovered
on the Sunday, was on the Thursday following
found in an exposed situation in a closet in the
shop, which had frequethly been ()Retied Liming rie
interval.

QUEEPitSQUARE —On Wednesday evenirw, Arm
Davis; • apprehended by Bly and Gilmore, etiirg.,d
with robbing a poor—Washerwomari, who h :cf, out
of charity, taken her in and given her a ingln's
lodging, when she took away a great quantity of
prOperty of the porir woman, which fortunately wa;
afterwards found left-by her at a pubic-house in th'o
vicinity of tht aorse Guards, and recovered.

Yesterday nlternbonsttie carriage of Mr.. Men-
ton, of Sutnther-plate, Portland=road, was passing
a quick rate along Wigmore-street, the coachmon,
in endeavouring to avoid a butcher's cart, drove the
chariot against the hinder wheel of a dray, which
overturned it with considerable viulem.e. The
coachman, who was greatest sufferer by the ac-
cident, had his thigh broken, and he was conveyed
to an hospital in a very bad way. Two ladies and a
youth, who were in the carriage, escaped with but
little injury.
Yesterday morning ad Jitional troops of the Hor,..e
Guards (1344.,-marched from Reading to Nottinz:-.
ham, and' orders are issued for the dispatch of two
inf.intry regiments, in consequence of the untoru-
nate existence of the continued destrudtioo of pi
i.
rats property in that neii;hbourhOod.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, TAW. 24.

TLINDT V. WATERS, AND

Rules to shew cau3e for new trials were, on the
in mons of Nlr. TAPPING granted in these insurance
cases, upon the same point which had gained the
Rules in the last term in Flindt v. Andrews, and
same v. Throckworton. The_question is, whether
a plaintiffcan recover, who, .bye annexation of
1-I,mburgh to France, has become an alien enemy
after- the loss, and before the action brought.

who held that a retaicl could not legally be g7ven
in favour of the plaintiff, found in his favour, to
the full amount of the damageS laid.
Sir JAMES MANSFIELD,—," I recoiled the case;
I must confess I was surprised at the verdid.—Take
V. BAZETTE.
a- Rule to shew cause."

COOKE 'V. ARROWSMITH.

This was 'an action to recover damages for an
assault, leaving the sum to the discretion of the
Jury.
Mr. Cooke, the plaintiff, is proprietor of the
King's Head Tavern, Black Wall, and the defendant
a Gentleman of respeEtable fortune. It appeared,
that at the return of the last East Indig fleet,. Mr.
Arrowsmith, accompanied by two of his friends,
returned from dining on board one of the Com-
pany's vessels, somewhat merry with wine. A Cinar-
rel had ensued between them and the waterinen,
and they arrived at the public-house of the -plaintiff
pretty welt enraged, as well as flushed with li-
quor.- Here, when they entered, one of the de-
fendant's companions swore roughly he wouhl have
a b-y row, and began to.strip his coat, pitting
himself in hostile attitude ; much disturbance en-
sued, the landlor& interfered, received a push and
a stroke from the defendant in consegnetsce,
and was grasped so vigorously by Arrowsmith,
that one of the witnesses, at a loss for a vigor-
ous compariSon, described it to be somewhat more
powerful thaq..the tweeze of a blacksmith's pincers !,
The watchmen were called in, and the gentlemen
we're confined all night in the watch-house. Such
was the, case for which the action was brought,
concluded the Counsel on the part of the prose-
cution.

Mr. Serjeant BEST, for the defendant, said, that
the purposes of justice would have been fully an-
. swered by one action, but in this. case three had
been brought. Here were three young men, he said,
,Who entered a ,house of general accommodation a
"little tipsy, and admitted they were quarrelsome, and
assaulted the landlord,.and deserved to be fined ; but
one of the defendant's companions had already paid
a fine for the same assault ; Mr. Arrowswjth was
called upon for his quota of fine for the same as the
other, and a third action awaited the Other young
Gentleman, when the present. was disposed of.
Sir JAMES MANSFIELD said, most certainly, the
whole might have been comprehended in one aCtion,
and was sorry to think the Jury would have to re-
turn a verdio for the plaintiff. _

'Lie Jury returned a verdiel of damages—One
Farthing.

BISHOP OF LONDON'S COURT, DOCTORS'
COMMONS, I ,AN.24.
POUGET V. TOMKINS.

This was a cause of of marriage; brought
by Joseph Pouget, Esq. the father of William Peter.
Pouget, the husband, on the ground of minority, he
being only of the age of 16 at the time the same
was solemnized between him and Lucretia Tom-
king, a servant living in .the family. It appeared that
the marriage in question was performed between
the parties on the 28th of Jan. 1810, in the pa-
tish church of St. Andrew's
,Holborn, publication by
banns -having been previously made by the name
of William Pouget only, and this without the know-
ledge and consent of the minor's father. On the
part of the promoter of the suit, it was contended,
that this was a marriage fraudulently and clandes-
tinely had, as the Marriage Ad required the parties
to give in their true Christian and Surnames, where-
as one of the parties here had omitteJ the hame
Peter,' by which name he had constantly gone,
and was known by his parents, inmates, and ser-
vants, belonging to the fatnily, and this was done
for the purpose of concealment. On the other side
it was contended, that the Marriage Ad did not
say that a party was to give in all his true Christian
names, or that a marriage should be annulled fur
the want of giving in all his names.

Sir \Viz. SCOTT said, be should take time till.the
next Court day, to consider of the sentence.

Sunday evening last, about nine o'clock, as Mr.
Lander, jun. was quitting the house of his uncle,
who lives near the road.leading to Aiverstoke from
.Gosport, he was attacked by a man with a small
crow-bar, eighteen inches in length, who struck
him over the head. He had proceeded but a few
yards from the house, which is situate in a field, at
a distance from the road ; but supposing more were
at hand to assist the robber, he pulled the door to,
and called to his uncle to make it fast. A despe-
rate confliEt ensued for a short time, during which,.
the- robber sustained several severe .blows from a
stick, which Mr. Lander, had to defend himself.
The fellow, finding himself pressed hard, stabbed
at Mr. L. with a bayonet, and ran to the top of the
field, where another severe contest took place,
until both were exhausted with the loss of blood,
and fell litele,s; Mr. Lander recovering first, went
down the field, and, found, that on the elder Mr. L.
setting out to his assistance, he untorttmately took'
the wrong side of the field; otherwise, the fellow
must certainly have been taken. Mr. Lauder's
wound we are informed, is only a flesh wound, and
of no material consequence. The robber escaped,
but left behind him a leather hat, with piece of
crape sewed inside, so as to let down over the face:
The hat has the name of " M;chael M'Coy, Dub-
ho," written in it, and has been ascertained to be-
long to a private in the Dublin Militia, who had
been ill, and was at the time so -unveil, as to keep
his bed'in the hospital. Every man belonging to
the different regiments have undergone examination
by the Surgeon, but no discovery has yet been made.
The villain appeared to be nearly six feet high, and
bad crape over his face.
'No less than five 'houses in Salisbury, and the
immediate neighbourhood were broken open on the
nights of the t ith and Mb instant. The general
alarm has, howevbr, made the public so vigilant,
that the robbers failed of then- object, being dis-
turbed- before they could commit any plunder at
four of the hou,ses, and only car:ying off a cheese
from the fifth.

A pitched battle was fought on Pittani-common,
near Farnham, on Wednesday, between G2reen
and Hamerton, two stout novices, for a wager of
ten-guineas. It lasted two hours and ten minutes,
during which time above 'sixty knoelc7down blows
were given. Hamerton won the match, but both
were hit senseless.