The Sun.
London, England, 1823-09-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-ST REET.-11.011SE STEALING. —Yesterday Samuel
John Chalfont, a young man of gentlemanly exterior, was put
to the bar on a charge of stealing a bay gelding, price 12/., the
property of George Botts.
It appeared that Mr. Dotty is the proprietor of the White
Horse Livery Stables, City-road, and about a fortnight ago
the prisoner applied to mom, stating that he wanted to hire a
horse, to go to Bromley, in Kent, to fetch his wife home. Mr.
(lotts, who neither knew the prisoner's name nor address, but
had some knowledge of him by seeing. him two or three times
in. the City-road, agreed to let him have a horse, considering
that he resided in the neighbourhood, and was a respectable
man. Ile promised to return the horse on the following morn.
ing at eleven o'clock, but he failed in doing so ; and on Mr.
Gotts making inquiry, he discovered that on the same day
the prisoner obtained the horse from him he had taken it to the
Commission Livery Stables in Gray's-inn-lane, where he put
it up for sale, valuing it at 20/., and at that time drew bl. on
account; it was ultimately sold for 121. The prisoner's resi-
dence was subsequently ascertained, and he was taken in bed
about twelve o'clock on Tuesday night last.—He made no de-
fence, and was fully committed for trial.
MAIILIIOROUGII-STREET.—EXTENSIVE IMPOSITIONS.
—A man named John Parsons, who had tbrmerly been a pub-
lican, was brought before Mr. CONAN T, the Magistrate, by the
officers of the 'Mendicity Society, charged with having, tbr a
length of time, practised the most gross impositions on the pub-
lic, by means of advertisements for subscriptions for a distressed
family; and it appeared-that he had the address to prevail on
several respectable tradespeople to receive subscriptions at
their houses. lie has been carrying on this system of imp°.
sition since the month of November, 1821, and was only nowf
detected by his effrontery in having lately stated in one o
his appeals, that although he has repeatedly advertised' at the
expence of his friends, yet that belied never hada single shilling
subscribed for his relief. This. caught the eye of Mr.. Tribe,
a respectable tradesman in Margaret-street, who had re-
ceived subscriptions for, the prisoner, and paid them over to
him, and seeing the glaring falsehood of this assertion,
suspected the whole to helm imposition,. and • laid the case
betbre the lllendicity Society, who apprehended the pri-
soner living with his family, not in a state of• destitution,
as he represented, but in very well furnished comfortable
apartmenui, and. provided with every thing they could rerequire.i
The prisoner also stated in" his-bast advertisement, that n skt_
ditioo to the other afflictions of his family, one of his children
was labouring under water on the brain, and another was en_
tirely deprived of sight. Mr. Pope, a surgeon, stated, that by
the desire of the Mendicity Society, he had examined all the
prisoner's children, and not one of them was in the least
affected with water opt the brain, loss of sight, or any other'com-
plaint. Mr: Hagott4 who keeps an -Italian Warehouse in Ox-
ford-street,' stated, that in the course of a few months he paid
to the prisoner and his wife near 110/., subscriptions teemed
for them at his house. A Mr. Allen said he had paid them
about 201. ; Mr. Tribe upwards of 111. before he detected the
imposition, and several ,other persons different considerable
sums received at their houses.

Mr. COXANT said this was the most shameful case of inipo-
sition on the charitable feeling and credulity of the Public he
had ever known, and ordered the'prisoner, who. is a strong,
healthy, robust fellow, to be committed to hard labour at the
House of Correction for three months.
QUEEN-SQUARE.--.Yesterday,- three young men were
brought up to this office, charged with the commission of a very
outrageous assault tipon two lontleiners," named Holland and
Evans, owthe preceding, night. -The • first prisoner gave his
name.as . Wright rthe second as. Cadre, and the third; on being
asked by the worthy
.Magistrate for his title, exclaimed
" There's net one man in:fifty as can spell my name'
The Magistrate.—Well, Sir; will you 'be so condescending
as to spell it for us ? • ,
The prisoner (spelling)—H o A a It
- Pace (the officer):!—Why, that's the way they spell Iforshaiii-
gaol.
Horsham.—No, Sir ; there's 110 gin it.
The Magistrate.—l rather. apprehend your knowledge of a,
gaol is not confined to-the spelling of it.
The complainants did not appear. .
The watchman stated,•that the gentlemen who. gave the pri-
soners in charge had been very severely treated. '
• The constable of the night said there was a young man pre
sent who witnessed the assault.

Sinyth (a argentan) was then called, and proved that he saw
the assault. It was committed upon the gentlemen without any
provocation, and it was a very outrageous assault. They were
very severely treated. -
The Magistrate observed, Oat two. of the,prisoners were well
known at that office, and he therefore remanded them, in order
to see if the cOmplainants would appear against them. It was
quite possible they were unable to appear fioni the severe treat.
ment which they had suitained. •

Erato RA.TION.—The Montreal papers say, that
emigrants from Europe continued to arrive there
daily, 'most of them Irishmen, and whose appear-
ance bespoke" variety of wretchedness." Within
a few days three steam-boats had conveyed from
Quebec to Montreal no less than 780 of these an-
.
fortunate beings.
yoarAnstitnE.—Walfer Graham and James
Cameron are charged with circulating forged
bunk-notes..-Graham and. Cameron having forced
on their trial tinder the act 1701, were put to the
bar of the 'High'Goiirt of.Justiciary on the 7th of
July. The trial was put off till the 12th, when
another postponement took place to give time to
d ebate some technical objections to the indictment,
When the panels
were placed at the bar on the
29th, the Solicitor-General observed that Graham
had, contrived to disguise himself, chiefly by
changing the colour of his hair from black to a
dirty red; and again their case was adjourned
to afford time to establish the prisoner's identity.
Thirty witnesses are now summoned for the
Crown.--(Edinburgh paper.)
On Friday week a Jury was summoned at
Pettycur, to - value of one acre and
ascertain f
a quarter of the 'lsland,
of I nchkeith, part of the
entailed property of the Duke of BUCCLEUGII,
arid purchased by the Commissioners of the
Northern Lights, for the use of the Light-house
arid its Managers. The price was in thwshape
ora feu-duty, or ground-eebtr which 'was fixed
at 20/. sterling yearly. 'The whole Islaud,'at
this rate, would be worth- 3 or 4,0001. a year'!
We 'doubt if it will ever yield as many pence,
setting aside this profitable acre.—(Scotsman.)