The Sun.
London, England, 1812-07-28 00:00:00

POLICE.

GUILDHALL ---Yesterday a man named Cgmber-
land was brought up, charged by a hutchor of
Thames-street with obtaining; on'false pretences,
a quantity of meat, sent home by the prosecutor
on Saturday•to the house of a customer in Finch-
lane, Cornhill. It ailpeared that the prosecutor's
servant, when lie wls entering the-house where ,
he deliveredithe meat, observed the prisoner look-...
ing sharply at him. Ile deliveredthe,meat to the
porter, and went away. Soon afterwards, a mes-
sage was brought to his master's house to inquire
if he had sent any person to bring away the meat,
as it bad been given to a butcher's man, who said
he _came from him The butcher, of course,
answered in the negative. 'Some time after-
Avards his man, who had delivered the meat as
before-mentioned, and was carrying some more
to another customer in the 'same neighbourhood,
observed the prisoner, passing with a tray on his
shoulder, containing the identical pieces of aleat
he had delivered some hours before in Finch-lane.
He charged him with the theft, and gave him up
to the care of a peace7officer. The witness per-
fectly well remembered having seen the prisoner
in the morning-, and knew him plying as.a. porter
in Newgate Market. The prisoner was remanded
! for further examination.

A wretched looking old man,' near 70, was
brought up, charged by Mr. Maidman, a butcher;
of Woolwich, with stealing a sheep, his proper-
ty, on Friday last. It appeared that Mr. Maid-
man had purchased this sheep, with some others,
on Friday, at Smithfield, and gave them in care
to a drover's boy, to take home. The sheep fell
lame on -the Surrey road, and the boy tied its,
legs;' and left it under the care of a woman, who
kept a fruit-stall in the street, until he should
come for it .again. In the interim, the prisoner
came for it in the boy's name, and procured
carter to convey it to Newgate-market, where be
gave it to a butcher narned King, with directions
to have it killedlor him against next morning.—
Mr. in interrogated the prisoner as to bow he
came by it ; 'and the account he gave was, that
he was a farmer, living near Odihani; that he had
Sold 4-0 sheep that morning to a person from
Surrey ; be .employed no salesman, but always
sold his own sheep. This one„ bad fallen lame,
land he was obliged to have it killed on his own
account. He had bred it up from a lamb, and it
had.produced him a lamb every year for the three
last., Mr. King,
,however,; discovered the sheep
to be a barren ewe, and of course that it• riever
bad a Jamb ; and he gave theprisoner' in charge
to a police officer on suspicion. Upon searchiEig
him, not ,a shilling was found in his possession,
notwithstanding his pretended sale of 40 sheep in
the !warning of that day : but he accounted for
this by saying-that he had got tipsy, and that his
pocket. had been picked of the money.

. Mr. Maidman, who came to town in conic-
quence of some inquiries he had made, was di-
rected to Mr. King's, where he found his sheep
still alive, and identified it.—The prisoner was
remanded for farther examination'.

VARLBOBOUGH-STREET.—Elizabeth Neal, a pre-
tended prophetess, who affected to be deatand dumb,
was charged by Miss Silvestcr, one of the Paphian
sistephood, residing in Baker-street, with stealing
2 gold rings of the value of 31. and 21. her property.
The prisoner introduced herself by presenting a
note, which stated her to be deaf an dumb, and
that she was, also well versed in prognostics. The
sybil was ititroduced into Miss Silvester's drawing
room, and after a tete-a-tete of some duration,
when the prophetess dil3layed much skill in di-
vination, the bell was rung for the servant, and
the prosecutrix left the room. It was afterwards
discovered, that two rings had been stolen which
the prosecutrix had pulled from her fingers during
the interview. No stranger had entered the
room, and in two .or three days 'after the rob-
bery was discovered, Miss Silvester met . the
prisoner in the street and challenged her; when,
strange to tell,, she had recovered both her
speech and bearing, and denied the robbery. • She
was however identified both by the prosecutrix
and her servant. The prisoner was fully cOth-
mittedfor trial.

The life of John Btzrnsley, who received sentence
of transportation' at the last Warwick Sessions,
presents an instance of perseverance in crimes
seldom to be paralleled.—He was indicted and ac-
quitted-at the Lent Assizes, 1801 :—he was con-
victed at tbe Nfidsummer Sessions,-1801, and-sen-
tenced to 12 months imprisonment in a sellitary
cell :—after being at large little more than a year,
he was at the Sessions, 1803, sentenced to seven
years transportation :—scarcely settled after his
return, lie was again convicted at the Summer
Assizes, 1811, and received sentence of six mouths
imprisonment : indicted at the Lent Assizes,
1812, he was acquitted, but could not be easy out
of trouble, be has accordingly, as was before ob-.
served, just been sentenced again to seven years
transportation ! ,

- At the Waterfor4 Assizes, J.. Connery, J. Cor-
coran, and J. Walsh, were indicted for burglari-
ously entering the house of widow Hickey, at
Graige, in that county, and forcibly carrying off
Mary Hickey, her daughter. The trial proceeded
with all due solemnity until, in the examination
'of the young woman, she was asked whether .she
was carried off against her consents when she re-
plieri—" Oh, no; I was willing to go !" which
convulsed the Court with laughter, and stopped__
the proceedings.
At Nottingham Assizes, Benjamin Renshaw, for
setting fire to a stack of hay at Mansfield, the
property of Mr.. Charles Stanton, and for felo-
niously. killing and carrying away -a sheep; the
property of Isaac Dodsley, of Mansfield ; and
five other convicts, received sentence of death,
bift were afterwards reprieved, e„xcept Renshaw,
who is left for execution. George Spray, for
destroying -a stocking frame at Sutton in Ash-
field, the property of Francis Betts, to be trans-
ported fourteen years.—John Stanley, for inciting
soldiers to break a frame at Basford, to. be impri-
soned three years.