The Sun.
London, England, 1805-10-18 00:00:00

POLICE.

Mr. T. Nixon;- or
Dixon, was charged by Margaret Dawson, his ser-
vant, with assaulting her. She related that her mas-
ter had pushed her about and violently assaulted her,
drove her out of the kitchen, and struck her,in the
mouth and made it bleed.. She went out and took
shelter in a neighbour's house cloSe by.
The Loan MAYOR observed; that supposing it to
be true, there must have been some provocation for
it. What had she done ? Was she found in bed
with the footman or the butler, or was she drunk ?
No, she said, she had done nothing, nor hid site in-
sulted her master.
The Defendant said, he was a Gentleman of for-
tune.; had' been housekeeper thirteen years, and
kept six servants, the present coMplairrant•was
taken into his service in tebruary last; She was of
a violent and furious temper, always quarrelling with
the other ServantS'i, but in April his family were ac-
customed to go to his country h6use; they' aid's()
this jrea:r, and, it vas trusted, that this Wornan'S
quarrelsome temper would net be,so great an annoy-
ance, as the cause of it, was, in a.great measure, re-
MOved, 'by the rernoval of the other servants. But,
no ' • she gave her Self her rental airs:- Fle.had lately
, ordered_ his honse to he plitated; She, complained of
the patUt' being diSagreCable to her Cookery, i'n the
kitchen, and ordered the painters to go 061 most itti=
periously, and WaS .'ery troublesome; her.' master
lered,her'to quit the house; she reflised ; he got
up frOrn under the. 11;11r:dresser's hands, 'and PUshed
ber out, but splemnly protested that he neverstruck
her, or any worpan, in his life; it wits excessively
to him to be charged; but ''false accuse-
_ Con, nobody could binder.
The hair-dresser and the;ptinter'stated,''thatthe
wm oan was very flippan m t her tongue ; 'imd- that
neither bf them "sa" her' InMter strike 'her. '
woman said, thatllie person who lived in the
liortse where, slie went she Lad been turned
.01.1 t of doors, saw her tut iuth bleeding; and she'Cotittl -
fetch ber to prove it. "J.'Jo LOtio MA.Yoii. said,it
ViUtild be. a &Min.-M:lobn Of her :story if she 'did She
,wer) and soon ret timed with her.witness,,who.qm-
"firin'ed Ler, and b'Cing both sworn 114 repeated it
upon their oaths. ' •
rival *Which:Alio Lotto.-Mkiroi-said to the
,Dc-
endant, he had no doubt he was a man of property,
)as he. kept six Servants,---Nis Lordship Aid ,not
wish to keep too Many: of thorn, but—that, • how-
ever, was matter of taste. The servant' had, how-
ever, no property but her chargier, must be
supported while she was in the right. There wits
ne doubt she was flippant, and.perhaps very imper 7
tinent,,but that cud not empower her master to fake
the law into his own hands, which he did if he struck '
:her, for which reason, the 'Defendant's own goad
sense would convince ban, his Lordship could do no
'other than order him to find bail, to.thide trial for
the assault, unless he chOse tOtsettle it ;' Which the
Defendant said he scorned, and: gave bait accord-

ingly.
. ... .
A Gentleman had summoned the .Porter 'at 'the
Golden-cross, Charing-Cros, for illegally exad,i,'
ing of Km two-pence for booking a parcel, which
wassalne, sent to him from a friend in the country. il
This, he contended, was contrary to'lhe c4ness
direetions of an A6,t of Parliament lately. passa,fori
regulatingthe porterage'ef parc'els in the'metropoliS,;
for there was no such thing as bookingparceliOn their
arrival:—lt was an imposition which he resisted, not
for the value of . therstun,2 but for. Abe principle a
public justice. He added,that noPorter of any othcr
Inn made this 'demand. . , ~.
.. ~
The Porter,who• had been summoned, said, that a
case of the very: same kind :is.: this had been, hearri
ill the siOue place before Ali. .Aldetman , Lzi a .whd
had dismis;:led it, because convinced he:had no .jurisi
di(tiowia:l-110 case The, Magistrates of .14pw-streeti
had aaed in the same way, for the sone reason. ~ :
The Lour) I\ttyou, on looking ov-entlie 44, ;was
of the s.iiue opinion, f.or although It ,was clear th 4
Legislature intended that ho, such charge shoul4
be made; vet there was no convi6tingclitve forthiS
specific charge of beoking a p:trcel after it arrived;
and thercire this complaint was dkniissed.., , , !
A. person of the name.of La ;bpaugbt .his,.wife..:to
the Bar, charged with a robbery, for stealing hi
jack as 4! ,' . . ', .: . ' : . '.... :' i
The wife +id, tharsome time ago her husban
beat her 'so olidiy that She was obliged to go to a'
hospital, where her head was sha'ved, that the wounds
on it.might be dressed`: while she' was there her
• linsband took another-woman' to Bate with h'irn ; she
. met that woman with her husband's ass, in the street;
' they quarrelled and fought, :were taken ,before the
LORp MAYOR, Eind the ass Vie taken to the Green,
yarft The Leon MAycnt hawing dismiSsed the, u.M7
plaint, she borrowed money and took the ass of her
litiSband out of the Green-yard, Una went bout with
walnuts i.e sell, on which her hnsband charged her
with stealing the nit': The husband and his 'cotton-
Line appeared ; be.' said he had 'been separated from
his v,iti.t, by agreement before a Justiee. . ..
lie was told that his wife could not commit felony
' ~,,n at property • he must. support her, or she might
o
) to his parisff for relief, and :that
,parish would
iiilke Itirtf pay for it, or take hind up as'u vagrant,—
Complaint diticharg,A,

At Marliy4.ough.street a case at considerable itit.,
port 'nee between the Pawnbroker and the Public
was yesterday deoided.' Vl' 0 have already stated that
Auo .Of rank in the Ariny'sought torecover stolen
pro
~ ~ pledged by his servant, with a reSpeEtable'
,op
pa k nbroker in St. James's. The 'ease waS now. fully
entered into, all the witnesses being present. The
Officer contended that the PawnbrOker had no claim
to the property, which .Gregory, a Constable', proved
had been stolen. The Pawnbroker submitted to the.
Vlagistrate, that the property, amounting to 171; hid
often been pledged by the servant, and nor many
weeks since she had redeemed goods to the amount
of R.l.—He always understood that the property bi..t-
longed to her mistress, a companion of the Otlicer'S;
and under.theit; circumstances he might as well sus-
pea the dishOnesty of every person who' entered his
hop: If he were bound to deth,er the goods he
;night be milled, its a demand Qf this kind might be
made on the whole of the pledgeS in hiS possession,
as the ov. ncri; seldcirn came to the shop themselves.
The Magistrate felt him Self bound to order the goods

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