The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-03 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, DEC. 1.

John Burton and John Cox were indicted for con-
spiring together to cheat Mr. Charles Bishop of 40/.,
by falsely pretending that he had committed an
offence against the penal statute.
Mr. Bishop was a coal. merchant, residing in Mill-
bank•strt et. On the 23(1 of July he sent three
tons of coals to Mrs. Williams, of Gillingham-place,
Vauxhall-road, accompanied by a ticket, filled in
with the name of the carman, as required by the
new Act. Three or four days after he received a
letter signed John Cox, 9, Queen-street, Westmin-
ster-road, charging him with an offence against the
Act, and threatening a prosecution. He took no
notice of the letter. He subsequently received a
summons to appear at Queen-square police-office,
and attended before Messrs. White arid Gtegory.
Burton attended as informer, and Cox as witness
against him. The charge preferred was, that the
ticket he sent to Mrs. Williams had not the name
of the carman inserted in it. The ticket he sent
was produced by Cox. To the best of his recollec-
tion it contained the name of the carman when he
sent it, and on its prodnction he was much asto-
nished to find that it was not there. The case was
finally dismissed, in consequence of the informer
and his witness flatly contradicting each other as to
the manner in which they got possession of the
ticket. After the case was thus disposed of, and
before quitting the office, witness was induced to
examine the ticket closely, and he then perceived
that there were marks of an erasure where the name
of the carman is ordinarily written.
John Gore, carman to Mr. Bishop, proved de-
livering the ticket with the coals to Mrs. Williams's
servant.

Mary Green received the ticket from the last
witness, and from curiosity, it being the first she
had ever seen of the kind, was induced to read it.
The name of the carman was then signed to it.
Mrs. Williams said, that shortly after the delivery
of the coals the prisoner Burton called on her, and
stated that he came from Mr. Bishop to request she
would allow him to take the ticket back, and get
the name of the carman inserted, as it had been
omitted by accident. She produced the ticket, and
pointed out to him the carman's name in it. He
then said that the mistake was that the name of a
carman who had gone out with another load had
been inserted in it. She offered him pen and ink
to make the correction on the spot, but he said that
would not do, and that unless he could have the
ticket to take back to the clerk, the latter would lose
his situation. Supposing nothing to be wrong, she
gave it up to him, and saw nothing of him afterwards.
The Jury instantly found the prisoners Guilty, and
The COURT sentenced each to two years' impri-
sonment and hard labour.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

A seafaring man, named Simpson, was brought up
in order that a young woman might affiliate a child
to him.

The LORD MAYOR asked him whether he denied
that he was the father. Defendant—l don't think
I am, please your Honour. At any rate she might
as well swear it to any body else.
The LORD MAYOR—I believe, from that answer,
that you are the father. Defendant—l have not seen
the face of the child yet, and how can I tell whether
lam or no.
The Lonn MAYOR—Shod him his son, I am
sure he is that sort of blunt good fellow who will
take care of the boy.
Defendant (having looked at the baby, which was
of a very diminutive size)—That my child! no such
thing; I an't the father of that poor little puke.—
(Laughter.) I won't have it.
The Girl—lndeed he is, my Lord.
Defendant—But I am out of place; and sha'nt
be able to pay for the child, if you father it upon
me. It's easy enough to get a father that's able to
support it.

The Loup MAYOR—You must contrive to sup-
port it in place or out of place. Defendant--I can't
allow anything, and would rather go to prison than
do it.

The LORD MAvou—Then to prison you shall go
The defendant then tossed his cap up in the air
and went off in the custody of an officer.
QUEEN-SQUARE.

On Saturday eight boys, about 15 years of age,
inmates of St. Margaret's workhouse, were charged
with rioting and insubordination in the workhouse.
Their taskmaster, a man named Bishop, having
reported an assault which they had committed on
him, they were threatened with a flogging; they,
however, made a stout resistance, and having got
hold of Bishop, they knocked him down and gave
him a black eye. They then got possession of a
part of the building, and set every one at defiance;
the workhouse was declared in a state of siege, and
the new police was called in. They were compelled
to break open the door before they could capture
the prisoners.

One of the lads, in reply, complained of the man-
ner that one of them, who was not present, had been
flogged ; two canes, he said, had been tied together
with packthread, with which he was flogged on the
breech until it was quite raw, and they made a re-
sistance, expecting to be served in the same manner.
Mr. GREGORIE committed the boys for 21 days
to the House of Correction.
MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

On Saturday an old man of the name of George
Williams was brought before Mr. CONANT, charged
with going to the residence of Viscount Melbourne,
and threatening the life of the Noble Secretary of
State, unless his Lordship paid him 80/.
Mr. CONANT—How is it that Lord Melbourne
owes you 80/.? Prisoner—lt has been due to me
ever since Lord Sidmouth was Secretary of State,
and I was then told that I could have it whenever I
wished to apply for it.
Mr. CONANT—What year was the money due to
you ? Prisoner—ln 1816.
Mr. CONANT—Did you do any particular service
to Government to enable you to have a claim on it
for money ? Prisoner—l was in the habit of seeing
the Prince Regent, which coming to Lord Sid-
mouth's knowledge, I was taken. up and confined as
a state prisoner; but upon it becoming known to
the Prince Regent, I was liberated, and his Royal
Highness ordered me to have 801.
Mr. CONANT—For what purpose went you to the
Prince Regent ?—This question the prisoner refused
to answer.
Mr. CoNANT—Have you ever been in the army
or navy ? Prisoner—l have been in the Royal Ma-
rines, of the Portsmouth division.
Mr. CONANT—Was you ever wounded ? Pri-
soner—Yes, and I was in Greenwich Hospital ; but
I discharged myself from there.
Mr. CONANT...-.Where do you live ? Prisoner—

I have come up from Liverpool for the purpose of
obtaining the money from Lord Melbourne.
Mr. CONANT —lf any money is due to you, it is
;lot the way to obtain it by going to the residence
,f Lord Melbourne, and holding out threats if he
refuses to pay you.
Prisoner—lt is due to me, and I will have it ;
besides, Lord Melbourne knows it is owing to me.
Mr. CONANT thought that the best course to
adopt would be to send him to the station-house,
and it was probable he would become more commu-
nicative. The constable at the same time was de-
sired to make every inquiry against to-day, and the
-esult is to be communicated to Lord Melbourne.
A HUSBAND FINED FOR ASSAULTING nIS WIFE'S
FRIEND.—On Saturday Thomas. Wilks, a carpenter,
esiding in Davies-street, Grosvenor-square, ap.
peared before Mr. DYER and Mr. HALLS, charged
with assaulting a young man of the name of Henry
Richards.

The complainant deposed that he and the de-
fendant had been acquainted with each other for a
considerable time past ; during that period the de-
fendant became indebted to him in the amount of
31., being money lent. Last Wednesday evening
he went to the defendant for some money, but, in-
stead of receiving a parr, the defendant committed a
most violent assault on him.

Defendant—Your Worship, I have the greatest
cause of complaint, for my peace of mind has been
entirely ruined by the complainant. I took him
into my house, and taught him his business, and he
has repaid me by weaning the affections of my wife
from me.
Complainant—That is false.

After I have gone to bed of a night he has taken
my wife out, and, after an absence of two or three
hours, they have been seen coming home together
with their aims round each other's necks. On
Wednesday evening, after my wife had been at the
door for some time, I went down to see what de-
tained her, when I saw the complainant and her
kissing each other—he having his arm round her
waist, while hers was round his neck. This was too
much for me, and I certainly pushed him off the steps.
Mr. HALLS—If you saw your wife and the young
man in the situation described, it was enough to
excite your feelings ; but still you had no business
to strike the complainant, and, under those circum-
stances, you must pay a tine of ss. to the King.
Defendant—That I will pay, and now, too, Sir,
if you will inform me how I am to act in case the
complainant comes into my house again.
Mr. DYER-If he comes, put him out gently; if
that will riot do, then you must use a little addi-
tional force.

The defendant said, if it were necessary, he could
produce plenty of evidence to prove more against
him and his wife than he had stated.

Gerard us Barcker, a journeyman jeweller, charged
Jan: Loth with having done him a grievous bodily
harm with his fist, a I,' Anglais, on Thursday last.
Mr. Barcker, whose knowledge of English ap-
peared to be rather limited, pieced out his deficien-
cies by an odd mixture of German and French, and
:tfier some difficulty, he made, " My Lor Magistraat"
(Mr. Dyer), comprehend that both parties had been
engaged by Mr. Spilsbury, a jeweller, in Poland-
street, and that Mynheer Losh had " von great
411 p, jalousie," because he nheer Barcker), had
" very mosh experien ore as he." That this
" von great jalousie" tad been often manifested to
his annoyance, during working hours; but as he held
Mynheer Losh to be "not so better as von Rthker-
hont," a rascal dog, he took no further notice of his
conduct. Matters went on in this manner up to
la t Thursday, when Mynheer Barcker having, as
he stated, to pass Mynheer Losh, the latter gave
him, without cause or provocation, further than the
" von great jalousie" aforesaid, a "great box on his
head," and challenged him to come out and "knock
vit him." The complainant added that he refused
the challenge, upon which Mynheer Losh rushed
upon him, and "make blood his nose, and make
blood his mout, wit a great black eye vich he brought
for vitness."

The defendant, when called upon, with a deal of
ludicrous gesticulation, asserted, that Mynheer
Barcker gave him the first " knock," and, moreover,
put his body in manifest peril, by a file, which he
caught up, arid attempted to stab him with.
Mr. DYER (to the complainant)—Well, what do
you say to this ? Complainant—Mt Lor, it is not
more as von great dam lie.
This unvarnished contradiction called up two of
the defendant's witnesses, who came forward and
swore that the defendant had stated the fact, for
they had been present at the scuffle.
Mr. DYER then informed the complainant that the
case was dismissed; upon which the complainant
declared with warmth, that he should " go to de
Lord Mayor for de Joostice."
UNION-HALL.

Mr. T. Edney, a piano-forte tuner, was charged
with a criminal assault on Matilda FeHowes, a girl
aged sixteen, who lived in his service. A few morn-
ify,ir,i;tnhpturlo%ivi;mgi ,chhlvrhh
ings. back the defendant got up at an early hour, and
having. taken a peep at his spouse, whom he thought
in_ a nice " cozy sleep," he stole on tiptoe into the
eedroelvxs.tailsaateinlhddaargewlea(mis.mscitDotiiiring the grate.
The first intimation she had of his presence, was.
Dngoubtless
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would have known of the circumstance, had not
the deserted better half of the defendant woke from
her sleep. A disagreeable suspicion of her husband's
frailty flashed across her mind, and in an instant she
was out of bed and in the front room. A clap of
thunder would not have been more startling to Ma-
tilda and the defendant, but the former endeavoured
to make the best of the business by bawling out
" Murder !" and, in her terror, " Thieves, Thieves!"
slipped from her tongue. Mrs. Edney was not to
be deluded, and she was stalking up to the guilty pair
when Matilda bolted out of the room into the street,
where she commenced a cry, " I'm ruined by
master—oh ! I'm undone !" Mr. Edney wanted
to run after her and present her with her bonnet,
but Mrs. Edney prevented him, for which she re-
ceived a knock-down blow. A policeman now made
his appearance, and took Mr. Edney into custody
on the serious charge of violation.
The MAGISTRATE, after investigating the case,
fined the defendant .51. for a common assault on the
girl, deeming that the affair had not been entirely
against her will ; and 31. for the assault on Mrs.
Edney.

About 2 o'clock in the morning of Wednes-
day se'nnight a stack of oats, belonging to Mr. PALMER,
of the village of Yasley, was perceived to be on fire ; but
fortunately, with the Folksworth engine, and the prompt
assistance of neighbours, it was got out without further
damage than consuming the oat stack and a quantity of
straw. It is remarkable that the premises were fired on
the same night that two prisoners escaped from Hunting-
don gaol. Mr. PALMER was the cause of one being ap-
prehended. Cambridge Press.

Sunday night, about ten, a barn at SaXiing-
ham, containing part of the crop of Mr. WALKita, of
Field Dalling, was discovered on fire. The roof fell in
very soon after the discovery, and the supply of water being
drawn from a considerable distance, the attention of the as-
sistants was necessarily drawn to the preservation of a wheat
stack that stood near, which was in great danger, from
the immense quantity of straw that lay on the premises.
The fire was looked upon with the greatest apathy by the
ass ,mbled labourers, many of whom refused to assist in
extinguishing it; and there were scarcely any persons
drawn to the spot who were nut inhabitants of the parish•
The loss is estimated at about five lasts and a half.of
barley.

On Saturday, the Ist inst., in pursuance of a re-
quisition, having between 200 and 300 signatures
attached to it, to convene a meeting of the county,
expressive of its state of feeling as regards the war
with the Dutch, at an early hour in the day a vast
assemblage of persons had congregated from the
most distant parts as well as those near the place
of meeting, Hertford. Some artifice appears to have
been used in getting up this meeting, which was at-
tempted to have been formed as exclusively Conser-
vative as possible. It was confined in its publishing
to merely a local Conservative paper; the other, a
much better circulating one, it was totally withheld
from. The ordinary and most usual mode of con-
vening a county meeting—that of printing a requisi-
tion, with the signatures attached to it—was entirely
omitted. In opposition to this studied mode of se-
curing a packet meeting, the object once known, it
was immediately and so universally communicated to
all the Reformers of the county as on the appointed
day to show such a front to the Anti-Reformers as
evidently to dismay them at the first onset; and,
as the sequel will show, well it might ; for the
sense of the very meeting they had intended should
make a show to the country that there was positively
what they so much desired—a re-action—proved,
beyond the possibility of refutation, that the seeds of
Reform had been exceedingly fruitful, and increased
most abundantly. It was enough to the Reformers,
had they wanted animation, to see early at their
posts Lord Dacre, Sir John Sebright, M.P., Tho-
mas Duncombe, Esq., NI.P., with a large association
of their friends. The Conservatives, among whom
were Earl Verulam, Lord Salisbury, &c., had ar•
ranged themselves in waggons by themselves.
Around both these were condensed in a solid square
some thousands of spectators, waiting with breath-
less anxiety the success that was evident to them
—the total defeat of the Anti-Reformers.

G. NICHOLSON, Esq. (the Under-Sheriff), opened
the business of the meeting. The requisition was
then read.

At the conclusion, a person who had elevated
himself upon a post, addressing the Under-Sheriff,
declared he was authorind by a number of persons
at Hitchen, the town in which he resided, to state to
the meeting that they had been entrapped into the
signature of the requisition, and when they became
acquainted with the now apparently real object the
originators of the requisition had in view, they were
adverse to it altogether, and now desired to with-
draw their signa,nres. A great deal of altercation
arose, and was kept up with considerable acrimony
for a length of time. The Under-Sheriff having
succeeded in restoring silence,
Earl VERULAM (the Lord-Lieutenant of the
county) rose and spoke as follows :—Gentlemen, 1
am so little accustomed to mix myself up in state
affairs, that great difficulty presents itself in my ad-
dressing you : however, it has devolved upon me to
move an address to his Majesty : before I do so I
will take the liberty to submit to your consideration
certain resolutions moved in the House of Com-
mons in 1791, by an individual upon whose judgment
I am certain you will place the greatest confidence.
It was a question of war between this country
and Russia.—(A loud desire was expressed to name
theindividual alluded to.) His Lordship proceeded:
I know of no reason for the alteration irinciples
embodied in those resolutions. If I amWstrangely
in error, the same reasons which opposed war then
equally operate to oppose war now. The Noble in-
dividual alluded to was then Mr. Grey, now Lord
Grey.—(Looking significantly at that part of the
congregated mass who had so loudly demanded the
name of the individual, his Lordship said—l hope,
Gentlemen, you are satisfied with the authority.)
Those resolutions are as follows :-1. For redeeming
a right forcibly withheld. 2. Providing for a future
safety. 3. To resist a hostile aggression. With those
reasons I fully agree. Having now no right to re-
deem, no future safety to ptovide for, nor any hostile
act of aggression to repel, I cannot absolve the rea-
sons of the measure of war, except it be to cement a
new friendship at the sacrifice of an old and unim-
peachable one. It it be said there is any the least
wish to embarrass Government, or to turn the Mi-
nisters out, it is not the case, although I believe they
have got the country into such a position that it
will be but with the greatest difficulty it will be
righted. This is not, nor will I treat it as a party
question.—(Cheers.) The particular object I have
in view is that his Majesty and his Majesty's Mini-
sters may be made acquainted with the feelings of
the people without the pale of their own associates.
His Lordship concluded amidst the most vehement
cheering with moving the following address :