The Sun.
London, England, 1802-10-12 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGY STR-EET OFFICE.

YESTERDAY Joseph Alfred Saville, a buck of
the first fashion, was examined K•fore NATHANIEL
CONANT, Egg. at Marlborough-street, oh a charge
of felony. .

• Miss Ann Renhold, a Lady of very genteel ap_
peirance, stated- to • the Magistrate, that she lived
with her brother, who kept a house in Brook-street,
leading into Bond street, and lett out ready-furnish-
ed apartments. Between eleven and melee, o'clock
• that morning, the Prisoner, accompanied by an.
elderly gentleman, came to her houSei:Under: pre-
tence of wanting a lodging, and being., shewn up
stairs, was informed'he could only be•accommodated
with a second floor.. He wished to look at it,•and
on seeing it, said he liked it very well, 'but should
want it on;y fir a short time, as he•was about to
leave the country. Re_returned town stairs into
the first floor, and said he shoulcl.like that apart-
ment jnuch better, had it been to lett.,• Miss Ren_
hold inlormed him that it would he empty in a few
week, and if he thought proper he might then have
it. He looked into the 'bed-room, ,and said he
tiiQught it was larger than the one ,on the second.
fioni; The Witness said, she thought •they were of
the same size. On which the Prisoner-,replied, " I
can't think that you are correti; but if you are, I am
wonderfully deceived ; I'll ascertain the faa, how-
ever,•by stepping up stair s-agairt," He did so, and
was a'p, eta little more than a minnte, while the Wit-
ness was engaged in conversation with the second
person. On his return, Miss Renhold observed a
piece of-tape peeping out from under- his hat, which
`she instantly knew belongetl to a' muslin dress, she
had put away in a drawer upon the second-floor.
%She challenged him with having her gown in his
hat, and whether she knocked his hat off, or whether
he took it off,, she Could not tell, but it fell IQ the
ground, and the gown rolled out. The elderly per.
son was in his progress,towar4s the door wherf,die
Prisoner came down from the second floor, aniron
fin ling, as she suppo,ed,s his friend deteaed, he fan
out of the house. The. Prisoner would have
ed instantly ; she prevented him for a time, but
having no one in the house with her;, she, was•inti-
midated, let go her hOld, and he made off. • She
had courage enough, however, to, call outl and he
was afterwards secured. •
Joseph Simpson saw the elderly man come out of
Mr. Renhold's house, and run up the street ; pre_
sently after the Prisoner came to the door and fol-
lowed the first Gentleman. He then heard Miss
Renhold say,. the man had attempted to steal her
gown, and he immediately ran after him. He
also heard the Prisoner call out to his friend, say,
ing, " D-,-n you, Jack, stop for me ;" the other,
replied, "No,, me if Itio," and went on.—
The Prisoner then turned into a silversmith's shop

in Bond_street, where he was afterwards taken.
Mt. Daibv, who kept 'the silversmith's shop al-
luded to, said, he was conversing with-a Gentleman
in his parlour, when the Prisoner came haitily in,
said he had a silver tureen he wished to be mended,
and as he was shortly going abroad, wished to
know if it could be done out of hand-? • Witness
saw a mob about the door, and without answering
the Prisoner, went to inquire what was the matter!
The mob said, a Gentleman had robbed, a Lady of
a gown, and they were in search- of hirri. Mr.
Dalby replied, he ,believed their search was at an.
end, as a very suspicions man had just come into
Iris shop, and'he had little .doubst, from his agitated
state, that he was the man they were looking alter.
The Prisoner was then given up, and brought to this
Office.

The Prisoner, with the greatest possible assur.
ance, laughed at the depo'itions made against him,
convinced, as he said, the Magistrate would irta
mediately see the whole was a job, which the
alarm of Miss Renhold had conjured into Felony.---
His char der and conneditms would defy susPicion;
he was a sailor; in-short, he had been to India in the
Company's service, 'as Fourth Mate in the Asia East
Indiaman, commanded by Car. Pace ; he had been
home eighteen months, during which time he had
been employed in fitting out the Princess Amelia, a
ship belonging to Messrs. Mesraers and Wright. He
resided at the Gun 'Tavern, Deptford, the better to.
accommodate himself to his business ; but that being
nearly finished, he had slept at Mr. Scott's house,
Cheney row, Chelsea, on Sunday night, who was
the Gentle Man who had accompanied him, in order
to get a More suitable lodging at the West end of
the Town. In
.that. pursuit he had called at Mr.
Renhold's, and the history of the gown was a mere
bagatelle ; he had brought it down
.merely out of
curias;ty, to chew his friend, observing as he en-
tered the room—" Here, Jack, is some real India,
what I have often seen in its original. state:" He
confessed the young Lady. appeared alarmed, and
- said she hoped he did nor mean to steal it. He re-
plied, certainly not, and threw it down. immediate.
ly. With_resped to his having his hat on, and the
gown secreted, he positively denied the fad, ad.
ding. that he never could be guilty of so much ill_
manners as 'to wear his hat in a room where a Lady
was present. He denied having run away, and said
lie had supported the Lady, who fell into his arms,.
-almost fainting with fright at what hetown im,t_
-
gination had conjured up ; and might, had he pleas-
ed, have taken that 'opportunity to run away. He'
concluded by saying, that he was engaged to, sail
'the City of London Indiaman, and that if not dis-
charged, he.sh,,ttlil disappoint several of his friends,
both at the Jerusalem and Lloyd's Coffee-houses,
who would be anxit usiy waiting for him.
The worthy Magistrate observed, that -he must
be under the necessity of binding all the parties to
prosecute, being anxious the Prisoner should not
escape-the justice of the country. It was a lament-
able thing, that men should dress -themselves tip,.
and assume the airs and charader of gentlemen,
and, by Throwing persons off their guard, the more
easily praCti,e 'tick deptedations. The convkiion
of such an 'oPnder, when guilt was clearly demon-
strated, was of more use to society than that of
twenty ragged wretches, who, perhaps, were in-
duced. to cammit crimes to obtain sustenance to
support.a wretched and miserable existence.

Tile parties werethen bound over to prosecute,
and the Prisoner led from the Bar.

He is a 'well favoured young man, ormiddlin7
stature,' wears a' fashionable Brutus over his own
hair, and hits wiremarkably piereiog eye, extremely
well dressed, had all the exterior of a man of f.l_
shion, and in the habit of constantly promenading
r!le superior walls of con.