The Sun.
London, England, 1815-01-09 00:00:00

MA: SION-HOUSE.

,Saturday J. Walker,.. alias Sheridan, was finally •
-examined before the Loan MAYOR, charged with
stealing a parcel from the Bristol and London Mail,
containing bank notes and bills to a considerable
amount. The prisoner on his former examina-
tion was charged, getrially, with stealing several
other parcels-of a similar nature from the Bath,
.Bristol, and IVestern coaches ; but being. re-
manded to afford time for collecting a multiplicity
of proof, which it was 'stated would be brought
against him ; his lirosecutois in the mean offcred•
to withdraw' the proceedings, and. allow the.pri-:
soner to enter as a soldier iti the 60th regiment:
This humane proposal the prisOner accepted.; but
•he had not long beets enrolled the corps'tillud-
ed to, when he found means to des,n, and was
again seen gt large. '[he eirenutstauce corning
to the knowledge of his prosecut:ns; he was again
apprehended., and brought before rise Lord Mayor.
Several witnesses were produced to .prove the fact
of the parcel in question being forwarded by th,.
Bristol Mail on the 4th' of December last. The
fact of its contents was also proy.,:lby wo or three
other witnesses. The Guard of the !..i'ristol
deposed, that he saw the parcel in the ;ocher un-
der the seat, and that the prisoner-only Was then
in the coach. J. Painter, a clerk At the Swan
with- two Necks, deposed,.that on the arrival of
the coach, at. their office in town, he found the
parcel regulatly entered in the way-bill, but which
after a diligent search was missing from the
coach. 4 respectable linen-draper stated, that
the prisoner came to his shop, to purchase some
goods, when, upon tendering a ten pound note
in payment, he expreSsed some suspicion of its
- guiltiness. The prisoner immediately produced
six others of the sane valise, and upon being ask-
ed how he came by so many new notes, he -re-
' plied, that he had just arrived in town frcitt Salis-
bury, where he had taken them in change of 'a
1001. note.—This account, coupled with the ap-
pearance of. the prisoner induced' the witness to
give information, and' he was. taken into custody.
Upon this charge he was fully committed for trial;
but there are other charges 'of a like description
pending againt him, and for which he is ordered
up for a future examination.—John Carlow, an
officer in the Custom-House stores, was charged
on suspicion of • stealing a quantity of leaf to-
bacco, from a warehouse of the London docks.
It appeared that Forrester, the officer, tvas going
down the -Minories about six o'clock .on Friday
evening, when he observed a man apparently
sleeping upon 'the steps of an office door, when,
upon approaching him somewhat closer, he dis-
covered something bulky about the prisoner,
whom he awoke and interrogated as to the na,
tore of his situation. The prisoner seeming in-
toxicated, answered that he had been drinking
with a- man who had offered to sell him a ton of
tobacco, and he, as an officer, suspecting it was
not fairly conic by, bad taken his address, and a
sample of the commodity, which he had carefully
deposited under his clothes, and which was taken
frosts Isis small clothes, and beneath his waistcoat,
by the officer. The latter, not believing the story
of the prisoner, insisted upon accompanying him
to his lodgings. To this proprAal he at first ob-
jected, but on being threatened. with detention by
Forrester, he at length consented, and 00 pro-
, ceediug to appartments, in Grub-street, there
was found in his chest several pounds weight of
leaf tobacco, similar to the sample found upon the
, pt•son of the prisoner. He was remanded for
another examination.