The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-31 00:00:00

The LORD MAYOR—Prisoner, how did it-happen
that a person to whom yon were almost a stranger
intrusted you with a check for so large an amount ?
Prisoner—l made an observation to that effect to
him when he • proposed to me to get the check
cashed ; but he saw me with a Mr. Jones, a nursery-
man and collector, and I suppose he thought that
was sufficient.

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The Lorin MAYOR—In what house did you see
this Mr. Jones ? Prisoner—ln no house. I saw
him on Woolwich Common, and he heard that I was
coming to town, and asked me to do him the favour
to present the check,
The LORD MAYOR—It was very strange indeed.
And where_ were you to take the cash to him ?
Prisoner—To the Barrack Tavern at Woolwich.
The LORD MAI-on—When ? Prisoner—The
same night or next morning.

The LORD MAYOR—It Was odd that he showed
and felt such indifference about so serious a sum.
Prisoner—l am Nvell known at Greenwich, where I
reside, and where rev friends are. I dare say Alder-
man Brown and several other gentlemen of the city
remember rne. I was employed. formerly at the
Kent Water-works in the
.capaciry of engineer.

The LORD MAYOR stated that if Mr. Jones could
not be produced, the responsibility must lie with the
prisoner.
Mr. Cope, the marshal, said that the prisoner
upon being first questioned stated that his name
was William Davis, but afterwards declared it to he
Richard Cobbet.

Prisoner—l said so because I was afraid my name
might get into the newspapers. I must say that
Mr. Jones has often seen me. If I could, I would
,jiave had Mr. Jones here, and I hope an opportu-
nity will be afforded to me to have my friends here.
Mr. Cope said that it was the wish of the
bankers that the prisoner should have every oppor-
tututy of defending himself.
The prisoner waft then remanded.
The Rev. Mr. Smith, who is called "Boatswain
Smith," came to the justice-room to complain to
the Lord Mayor of the conduct of the police in
lugging him through the streets from Farringdon-
street to the Compter, and to retutn thanks to the
Lord Mayor for having released him from durance
just as he had fallen into a profound sleep in his cell,
after prayers and a glass of cold water. _ _

The officers stated that Mr. Smith had been
locked up for having caused an obstruction in the
streets, and a crowd, which enabled pickpockets to
exercise their calling. _ _

The LORD MAYOn observed, that without wishing
at all to interfere with what Mr. Smith considered
to be his religious duties, he could not permit ob-
structions in the streets. The omnibuses were al-
ready too serious an evil.
Mr. Smith—l want no more latitude than is
given to Punch and Judy. I wish you could see
with what attention the poor listen to me. Look
at' the present state of Billingsgate compared to
what it was. All the fish-women and poor people
employed there are completely changed in their
habits. I wish the peop!e who call me a mounte-
bank would give me a mountebank's privilege.
Mr. GoWham, the clerk of Billingsgate, who was
present on other business, stated that the manners of
the market had been greatly altered since Mr.
Smith was in the habit of addressing them, and that
to his knowledge many druken vagabonds had re-
formed.

The LORD MAYOR could have no objection to the
exercise of Mr. Smith's calling, provided the public
were not'obtrticted or inconvenienced by .the selec-
tion of improper places for exhibiting in.

(
2W-STREE T.
. .
" f-• • •: Yesterday, Charles Dyer, a respectably-dressed
'
man, was charged before Sir F. RoE with having
been concerned in a burglary that took place on
•• - Sunday morning last, at the house. of Lady Bles-
„
sington, in Seymour-place, Park-lane.
- • - Henry Fuller, shopman to Mr. Mott, a silver
. smith and jeweller, in Pickett-street, Strand, proved
. •
that on Monday morning last the prisoner, accom- •
,s ! •
panied by
,another man, came to his employer's
shop, and offered to him (witness) a gold snuff-
box arid a gold tooth-pick case for sale. There was
an earl's coronet engraven on the corner of the
srouff-box, which induced witness to suspect that
the articles were stolen. He accordingly declined
to purchase them, and the prisoner and his com-
panion went away.
A footman named Yates, in the service of Lady
BlessingtOn, proved that on the night of Saturday
or the morning of Sunday last, the house of her
Ladyship was broken into by thieves, who effected
an entrance by boring a hole through the library
window shutter.
Sir F. ROE should remand the prisoner for a
week, and directed that every exertion should in the
mean time be used by the constables to procure ad-
ditional evidence.
The prisoner, who remained silent during the
examination, was then removed in custody.
The following are among the articles carried off
by the thieves gold snuff-box, eograved with
an Eall'A coronet ; an amethyst snuff-box, set with
precious stones, with two doves and tree carved in •
relief upon the cover; a gold toothpick-case, set:
with turquois; a large smelling-bottle with a gold'
enamel top, the bottle of diamond-cut glass ;
porcelain smelling-bottle with a gold top ; a rock-
crystal box set in silver gilt ; a bronze medal ; a
gold enamelled seal (blood-stone) with an Earl's•
coronet and•the initials M. B.; an enamelled ring
having a coronet and the letters M. B. engraved on
a diamond ; an antique ink-stand, gilt, with bronze
figures (three cupids bearing a basket) two bonches
of seals (eleven in number), one of them a blood.
stone, with a coronet and the initials M. 8., the
others having various devices; two musical-boxes;
a smelling-bottle with gold patent top, and another
with plain gold top, &c.
Q UEEN-SQUARE.
Joseph Vallis, John Vallis, and John Baker,
three young lads, apparently from ten to fifteen years
of age, were brought np in custody by a police con-
stable of the L. division, and placed at tire 1 or,
before Mr. \VIHTE, yesterday, charged with being
found sleeping in the open air in the New Cut, Lams
beth, on the previous evening.
The constable having stated the case,
Mr. WHITE asked him if he knew the lads ? The
constable knew them all to be young thieves.
Mr. WHITE (to Joseph Vallis)—Have you any
place of abode ? Joseph—Yes, I have.
Mr. WHlTE—Where is it ? Joseph—l lodge
in Cornwall-court, New Cut ; I pay Is. a week for
my lodging.
Mr.' WHITE—And how do you get your living
Joseph—The parish allows me Is. 6d. per week. •
Mr. WHITE—Don't you follow some employ-
ment ? Joseph—Yes, 1 sell things about the
street.
Mr. WItiTE (to John Vallis)—flare you got any
lodging ? John—No, Sir.
Mr. WHITE—What ! Won't your brother Joseph
let you lodge with him P John—He only has hilt
a bed himself.
Mr. WHITE—And does the pari
18d. a-week also ? John—Yes, Sir
Mr. WHITE observed, that .if he h
do with the parish lie wool(' take care
should be done away with. Giving
a-week and turning them out into the stri o.as the
readiest method possible of bringing their) up to
thievery.

Mr. WHITE (to Baker)—Does the parish also
allow you 18d. a-week ? Baker—No, Sir ; I lire
with my mother.
Mr. WHITE—And what is she ?
hawks things about the streets.
Joseph Vallis, in a very impudent tone and•mar-
ner, said that he was not sleeping in the street ; he
was wide awake.
Mr. WHITE—Have these lads ever been brought
to the office before ?—The inspector said that they
had tepeatedly,and had been sent to Lambeth Work-
house ; but he believed that they would not remain
in the house.
Mr. WRITE scoffed at the idea that boys could•
not be managed and kept in a house, and severely
deprecated the practice of allowing boys money in
the manner above stated. He should commit each
of them to Brixton for one month, and to he kept
to hard labour.
Joseph—l'll just tell you what it is. Ycis are
just giving us this month for nothing at all; but
never mind—here we go to our country house for a
month, and who cares for that ? The prisoners.
were then removed, laughing and joking about their
country house, apparently as hardened as lads could
possibly be.
MARLBOROUGH- STREET.

ASSAULT.—Mr. James Mice, a tradesman in
Glasshouse-street, Regent-street, was brought be
Mr. DYER yesterday, to answer to a charge of
assault made against him by his maid-servant, Sa-
rah Sandell.
The complainant, a few evenings ago, was re-
quested by her mistress, who had retired to ILA
with a sister in-law, then on a visit, to see her
master to bed when he came home. Her master
made his appearance apparently the worse for liquor,
and having stopped in the shop for some time, t-trll.•
plainant went down stairs to request that he would
go to bed. Her master told her ro go up stairs to
bed, and he in a short time would go to his be:!..
room also. Complainant went into the room she slept
in and fastened the door. In a few minutes her
master came and knocked at the door, requesting her
to open it, as he wanted to see if the cash-box w is safe.
Complainant told him the cash-box was not in the
room ; he insisted it was, and the door haying been
opened for the purpose of satisfyinr, him, he entered
the room, and seized her by the sleeve of her dress,
saying, " Now, madam, I have got you ; you shell
sleep with me to-night." The defendant then pro-
ceeded to take indecent liberties with her, in resist.
ing which her dress was very much torn, and having
got away from him, she succeeded in putting a stop
to the assault. In the morning she acquainted her
mistress with what had occurred, and having also
informed her uncle of the transaction, he took her
away from the situation immediately, and brought
her to this office for the purpose of procuring a
warrant.

Mr. Wilee attributed his conduct to the circus;.
stance of his having met with a relation that even-
ing and having drunk too freely. He was quite
willing to make the complainant any reasonable 12-
comp,:iice for what had occurred.
Mr. Dun permitted the parties: to retire and ar-
range the business; which was. effected by the de-
fendant paying all the expenCes, and giving the girt
a sovereign in addition to .a similar sum for the
damage done to her dress.

:EXTRAORDINARY SIIOOTIN€I..--,:Vir.
goble, of Cleadon, shot on Tuemiay last, on the Moors
near Elscion, six brace of groin at two shots.— Ty ;';.e
2ere ttry.

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