The Sun.
London, England, 1824-08-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Bow.STnExT.—Yesterday an, elderly gentleman, respect-
ably though somewhat singularly dressed, was brought before
Mr. Mt wsu u Li. by Josh one of the horse patrol, stationed
upon the Essex road.
The patrol stated, that about eleven o'clock on Tuesday night
he was on duty on the Romford.road, when he met the de.
fendint travelling down the road on foot, carrying a small
portmanteau and a blue bag seemingly well filled. He stopped
him, and asked him where he was going, and he said to
Gravesend. " Why, my friend," said the witness, " this is
a queer way to Gravesend ; what have you got in the portman-
teau and bag ?" The defendant said it was nothing to him—
what he had was his own. The patrol answered that he must
see what he had, and conveyed him to a public-house on the
road-side, where, with the assistance of one or two others, he
searched his person, as well as his portmanteau and bag. The
defendant made very violent resistance to the search, insomuch
that two were obliged to hold him down, while the third exa-
mined his pockets and baggage. He was subsequently lodged
in a lock-up house.
The patrol here produced what he had found upon the de-
fendant's person, as well as the contents of the bag and port.
manteau. They consisted of linen and wearing apparel, shav-
ing apparatus, shoes, slippers, a watch, a few keys, and other
trifling articles, with two purses, one containing some sovereigns
and silver, and the other some gold coins which are current in
the West Indies.

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111 r. MlNsiititt.—Do you suspect that any of these things
have been stolen ?
Joss.—Nci, Sir, I do not now, but I did at the time.
Mr. MsnsituLL—Did he give you no other answer than
what's that to you," when you asked him what he had got ?
Joss—He said " clothes ;" and when I asked " what
clothes ?" he said, " why clothes to wear, to be sure."
Mr. MissuuLL—(To the defendant.)—Pray what is you,
name, Sir ?
Defendant—My name, Sir, is Strachan.
Mr. 111 nom v L I.—W hat are you, Sir ?
Mr. Strachan—l have lived in the West Indies, where I
was a planter ; I was born in London.
Mr. 1111Nsitu LL—have you any friends in London ?
Mr. Strachan —Yes, I have.
Mr. M IN sin or. L—Whereabouts ?
111 r. Strachan— In Oxendon-street.
Mr. 1111xsituLL—And where were you going ?
Mr. Strachan--I was going to Gravesend.
Mr. MINSIIIILL_.Iint you were much out of your road.
Mr. Strachan—l was travelling my own road, and no one as
I conceive had a right to molest me. I was very roughly
treated, in a way that I never experienced before even in the
land of slaves. I have always untie(' litto be the duty of
a patrol to protect, and not molest the, 5 ic.
11r.-111iNsituL r' L—Why I think y that the patrol has
done no more than his duty. You were travelling late at night
with baggage about you, and you did not give satisfactory
answers to the patrol.
Mr. Strachan—l had a right to travel at any hour I liked.—
But it was not my fault that I was walking at that hour. I
travelled some distance by a coach, and I was recommended to
an Inn for a bed ; but at that Inn they said they were full. I
applied at two or three houses, and the answer was the same,
and therefore I was compelled to walk on.
Mr. Mt malt tiLL—I repeat, that I think the patrol was right
in stopping you.
Mr. Strachan—But he had no right to treat rae roughly, and
afterwards to put me in a lock-up-house. I would wish to ask
you, Sir, one question. Supposing a publican has not a vacant
bed, and a traveller demands entertainment, or rather refuge
for the night, is not the publican bound in law to allow the tra-
veller to hit up in his kitchen, tap-room, or some other part of
his house P

Mr. lIIINSIIULL—That is a question which I really am not
prepared to answer. A publican is undoubtedly bound to fur-
nish you with a bed if he has one; but whether, his beds being
all engaged, he is obliged to give you leave to sit up in his
house, is a point which I cannot give a decided opinion upon.
Mr. Strachan—Well, Sir, I have been arrested on my way,
and brought back to London against my will ; pray, who is to
remunerate me for the expense and inconvenience I have been
put to?
Mr. Ilivistrtru.—l am sorry, Sir, that you have been so
incovenienced, but I cannot remunerate you. You were tra-
velling late at night—you had baggage with you—you refused
to give satisfactory answers, anti afterwards resisted the patrol
in his endeavours to search you, and you therefore compelled
him to bring you here. You were not on the road to Gravesend.
Mr. StraChun-1 was going to Tilbury Fort, and across to
Gravesend.

Joss—Even then, Sir, you were out of your road ; at least
were going very much round about.
Mr. Strachan—l had a to go which way I pleased. If
1 cannot have redress here i Khali seek it elsewhere.
Mr. Strachan then took his packages and departed,
MAnLilohou ott-ST RE esterday Charles Stevens,
William Rower:, and Richard Shilleto, were finally examined,
the former charged with disposing, fur his awn use, of property
to the amount of about 3,000 t,. belonging to Mr. Richardson,
linen-draper, in Oxford-street, and the two latter with receiv-
ing the sdid property, both knowing it to have been stolen.—
Mr. DYER read over the evidence as he had taken it. After
sonie observations from Mr. lianurn, Mr. ALLEY the Par.
rimer, and Mr. ri LL, Mr. DYER, the Sitting Magistrate, was
of opinion that by the evidence of Mr. Richardson it was clear
that Stevens had disposed of property to Bowen, which he was
directed to deliver to other persons, and that, he conceived, was
something more than embezzlement. Ou tke whole of the case,
he was determined to send the prisoners before a Jury, and
they were fully committed for trial.
Won:3llr P-STnEET.—Yesterday Messrs. Eastman and Hill,
silk-manufacturers, appeared before ROOT. BE VI LL, Esq. in
answer to a summons obtained against them by Abraham Ivor,
for not paying him One pound seven shillings, being the ditnr-
ence between the sum they paid for weaving three pieces of
edit:and the price allowed for the same work under the late
Spitaltields Acts. The complainant having received the cane
on the 12th of June, and the shoal on the 10th, while the Acts
expired on the 17th, it was the clear opinion of Nlr. Bevill, -
the Magistrate, that no. reference whatever could be had to the
late Spitaltields Acts; and where no special agreement was
made between the parties, nothing more could be reasonably
expected than a just and fair allowance for the labour performed.
i% tth respect to his receiving part of the materials before and
part after the expiration of the Acts, yet. admitting he received
the entire before and had even the goods in progress, still he
would he entitled only to such part as was completed under its
operation. But as nothing of that sort had appeared before
him, anti as the sum which was paid had been proved to be a
fair allowance, he felt himself called upon to dismiss the
complaint.

HUNT EitIAN MANUSCIUPTL—The College of
Surgeons lately made an application to one of the
executors of the lute John Hunter, the celebrated
surgeon, for a vast number of manuscripts left by
him, relating to physiology, and comprising nu-
merous experiments and new views of physiolo-
gical science. They, however, have learned with
regret, that these valuable documents have been
consumed by tire. Many of the curious facts
contained in them have, however, appeared be-
fore the public in another form, in papers read at
the Royal Society ; but still the loss of so large•
a portion of manuscript physiology, from so able
a surgeon and anatomist, cannot but be deeply
regretted.

Mr. MORIER gives the 'following description
of a room 'ln a palace at Shiraz, " whii!h," "Ys
he, " could it hive been transported to Eng-
land, would probably have excited universal ad.
miration, and a new taste in the interior decora-
tion of rooms. Like almost all the public rooms
of a Persian house, it was in shape a parallelo-
gram, with a recess formed by a Saracenic arch,
in the centre of the superior line of the figure.
The ground of the wall was of a beautiful var-
nished white, and richly painted hi gold, in or-
naments of the most neat and ingenious composi.
lion. The entablature, if it may be so called,
.was inlaid glass, placed in angular and prismatic
positions, which refit-Tied a variety of beautiful
,lights and colours. The ceiling vraa all of the
same composition. In the arched recess was a
chimney-piece, formed in front by alternate layers
of glass and painting. The whole side fronting,
the arch was composed of:windowz, the frames.of
which opened from the ;ground ; and though .of
clumsy workmanship compared with frames in
England, yet, aided by the riches of the painted
glass intermixed with, the: gilding of the wood
work, they filled up the :oleo splendidly anti;
symmetrically."