The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

IVESTMINSTER.

Henry Laurence, a young man about twenty years of
age, was charged with plundering his father, Mr. John
Laurence, a fishmonger, at 2, Motcombe-street, Bel-
grave-square, to a considerable extent.

The prisoner has for a series of years been in the
Yesterday Thomas Lewis, the master of the Robust,
was summoned for refusing to deliver up possession of
the certificate of register of that vessel.
Mr. Edward Jenkins stated that he was one of the
registered owners of the Robust, which belonged to a
society called the True Britons, at Aberystwith, in
Wales ; that he and the other two trustees, being de-
sirous to remove the defendant from the command of
the vessel, had applied to him for the register, but he
refused to deliver it up, and still remained on board.
On the p irt of the defendant, it was contended that the
majority of the society to which the vessel belonged
wished him to remain in command, and that the com-
plainant and the other two registered owners had a
sinister object in view in attempting to get possession of
the certificate of register and turning the defendant out
of the vessel. Do2uments were also put in to show that
the society to which the ship belonged were desirous
that the defendant should still remain as master, and also
to show that the complainant, not having obeyed some
of the rules by which the society was guided, had,
therefore, no authority to act in the disposition of its
affairs.

On the other hand, it was submitted that the com-
plainant had a right to the register, being one of the
three individuals to whom it was granted.
After a considerable discussion on the point,
'rho Magistrate decided that the complainant was en-
titled to the register, but that, under the peculiar circum-
stances of the case, if the defendant refused to deliver
up the possession of the document he should mitigate
the penalty from 1001. to 101.
The defendant, by the advice of his solicitor, refused
to give up the register, and the latter fine was inflicted,
which was immediately paid, and the parties withdrew.
Two men, named Capton and Hands, were brought up
for re-examination, charged with stealing a watch from
Thomas Plume, a shipwright.
It appeared that a few nights since, as the complainant
was walking home, accompanied by another man, the
two prisoners rushed against them, and in a moment
Hands drew a watch out of the pocket of the former,
and both prisoners run away. They were, however,
soon afterwards taken into custody, and when Hands
was in gaol he sent for a man named Fitzgerald, in-
formed him that the complainant's watch was at his
house, and begged him to go and get it from his wife
and throw it into the Thames, in order that it might
not be produced as evidence against him. Fitzgerald
acceded to a part of the request ; he obtained the watch,
but, instead a throwing it into the river, he took it
forthwith to the owner, and offered to deliver it up if he
consented not to appear against the prisoner. The com-
plainant, however, refused to adopt such a suggestion,
and a policeman being present, Fitzgerald was taken
into custody himself, but the magistrate, on being ap-
prised of the real facts of the case, and that the latter
person had no hand in the robbery, and was ignorant
that he was acting contrary to law, ordered him to be
discharged, and committed the other two prisoners for

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