The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-02 00:00:00

LORD MAYOR'S COURT, MAY 31.

TATE AND JOHNSTON V. LORD CLANMORRIS.
In this case, which excited no small curiosity, the
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bip,had been attached in the city
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tom of the Mayor's. Court, given up on the production
of bail for the noble lord's appearance.
Mr. GuiniEv,•for the plaintiffs, stated the case. His
lordship had been frequently applied to for the amount
of the debt from the time at which it was contracted,
but had taken no notice of the applications.
James Guy, apprentice to the plaintiffs, was in their
service in 1829. Lord Clanmorris first visited the
shop on the 23d of September, 1829, and gave an
order to witness and the foreman, which was entered
on a slate by witness, and afterwards copied correctly
into the order-book by Mr. Johnston. The order was
sent on the 28th of October. •

Martin, the carrier, took packages at the dates
above stated, and directed, he believed, to Lord Clan-
morris, from the plaintiffs, to Cox and Hammond's
quay, where he delivered them according to the di-
rection.

Mr. Hammond, clerk to Messrs. Cox and Ham-
mond, produced receipts, from which he judged that
he had received the goods. He transmitted them ac-
cording to the direction.
Mr. GURNEY—Is the receipt of the goods by-Lord
Clanmorris disputed ?
Mr. BULLOCK—Oh, yes ; I suppose so.
Mr. GURNEY-Then I shall call the agent to the
Alliance Fire Insurance Office.

Mr. Toplis, agent to the Alliance Insurance Office,
deposed that Lord Clanrnorris insured at that esta-
blishment, and claimea, in Decerither last, for losses by
fire at Newbolt House, in the county of Mayo.
Amongst other articles set down as destroyed was a
saddle, which was entered as of the value of 101.
Witness was referred.by Lord Clanmorris's solicitor to
Mr. Parsons Purse, fill-lordship's relation, as the per-
son who would give all the information he might re-
quire, and Mr. Purse said, in answer to the question
how the saddle came to so much, that it was a Somer-
set saddle, which had been purchased of Tate and
Johnston. Witness called on Messrs. Tate and
Johnston, and learned from them they had only charged
71. is. for the saddle they had sold to his lordship.
The RECORDER—Ay, perhaps a saddle becomes
more valuable by time. ( A laugh.)
Witness—That particular item had not been paid.
The building burned down was paid for with 2,0001.
Mr. BULLOCK then contended that the delivery of
the goods according to the order had not been proved
with sufficient distinctness. _ _

The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff-
-1281. ss. 6d.

The RECORDER then took occasion to represent to
the Jury that the privilege possessed by the citizens
of London in having the power of issuing process from
the Mayor's Court was a privilege of the most bene-
ficial nature. It originated in the facility with which
foreign merchants were in the habit of avoiding re-
sponsibility by leaving this country, and most justly
authorised the seizure of any property to which they
might be entitled in liquidation of the demands of the
British creditor. " Here is" his lordship said, " a
noble lord, who, although in Ireland, is obliged to pay
the amount of this debt by virtue of this law of attach-
ment. I should be extremely sorry, gentlemen, to see
so valuable a privilege done away with."
Mr. GURNEY—Most certainly ; we might not get
the price of our goods if it were not for this law.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Saturday a brown man, from America, who stated
that his name was Cox, and that he was a clothes-
scourer, appeared at the justice-room to complain
that a person, who pretended to be a justice of peace
at New York, had on Saturday se'nnight imposed
upon the Lord' Mayor by a letter to his (com-
plainant's) very great prejudicb. The letter was sub-
-scribed with the name of " Van Wick, Justice of Po-
lice," and stated' that mulatto, who liqd been,
carrying on alOng round of
.deceptions in New York,
had appeared in London in the capacity of a clothes-
scourer, and it suggested to the Lord Mayor the pro-
priety of watching the movements of the'individual it
described, and of letting him in for a full measure of
justice. Now it happened that he (complainant) was
the only dark fleshed man in London who was in the
trade of a clothes scourer, and it happened too that he
was an American, so that, although no name•Wai men-
tioned, the public looked upon him as the individual
alluded to in the communication to the Lord Mayor,
and he found it necessary to wait upon his lordship,
for the purpose of removing the impression so cruelly
made to the injury of a poor foreigner.
The LORD MAYOR asked the complainant whether
he was aware that any one bore any ill will towards
him ? The complainant answered in the affirmative.
He believed that the letter addressed to his Lordship
had been written in England by an enemy.
The Loan MAYOR said that such was certainly not
the case. It had been transmitted to him through the
American consul, who was the medium of all the com-
munications from that country to him.
The complainant assured the Lord Mayor that there
was no man of the name of Wick a Justice of the Peace
in New York. He had asked gentlemen in London,
who were well acquainted with the authorities of New
York, whether they knew anything of such a person,
to which they replied that they never heard of a person
of that name.
The Loan MAYOR said that, in his opinion, the
paragraph in the newspapers did not allude to the
complainant, and had no doubt that the conduct of
the complainant would be such as to prevent the pos-
sibility of a charge of so serious a kind against that in-
dividual.

MARYLEBONE.
At an early hour on Saturday morning the family of
Roland Alston, Esq., 48, Harley-street, C avendish
square, was thrown into the greatest alarm and con-
fusion, in consequence of a discovery that the puss
had been entered in the course of the night, andro-

perty to a large amount, consisting of . various articled
of costly plate, jewellery, wearing apparel, &c., carried
clean off:- What renders this robbery extremely sin-
gular is, the fact, that when the domestics _rose in the
morning they found all the doors and windows fastened,
and in the same state as when they retired to" rest o
the previous night. On proceeding into the pantry,
where the plate.was deposited in chests, it was ascer-
tained by the butler that almost every article of vAlw
had vanished, but by what mysterious agency is -un-
known, as the chests were found locked, and there
was no trace of the depredator anywhere about the
premises. The family only came to town a few days
back, and the plate had just been brought home for
their use from the banker's, *there it was. deposited.
The police have examined the premises, but all their
efforts to trace the thieves have for the present proved
abortive. The precise value of the property stolen
has not been ascertained, but is said to amount to about
8001.

QUEEN-SQUA RE.
A very respectable-looking young man, who gave
his name Henry Brown, was brought up in custoclh
and placed at the bar before Mr. Gregorie, the sitting
magistrate, charged with stealing a watch, the pro-
perty of George Bolton, a waiter at Wright's Coffee-
house, Charing-cross. The prisoner went into the
Coffee-house, and in the course of the evening he
enghged a bed at the house, and he was shown to a
room on the second floor. The prosecutor slept in 3
room above the prisoner, and to his great surprise,
when he awoke in the morning, he missed his watch.
Convinced that he had it with him when he went t 4
bed, he instantly informed his master of the circum-
stance ' • and, as the robbery must have been com-
mittedby one of the lodgers---none of whom had Ygt
come down stairs—it was determined to send for a
constable and inform the lodgers of the robbery, that
each might be searched. The prisoner was the first
lodger that came down stairs, who consented to be
searched immediately. The search was nearly .coPf
eluded, when the constable felt something hard in the
inner part of the bend of the knee, which turned out
to be the stolen waich, which was fastened very aa°
curely. He was taken to the station-house ; and, ea
searching him, a duplicate for another watch r
found on his person.—Comrnitted.

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