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London, England, 1832-11-26 00:00:00

Wimpole-street, and desired the shopman to place it to
that lady's account. He was, however, suspected, and a
4hopman was sent to follow him, which the prisoner ob-
serving, threw down the parcel, and made off.

He was fully committed.
Two other charges were then preferred against the
prisoner, by Messrs. Swan and Edgar, of Regent-
street, and Mr. Oven Morris, silk. mercer, of Pickett-
street, Strand, who had also been defrauded by the prisoner
in a similar manner, but the necessary witnesses not being
in attendance to prove the charges, he was remanded.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
DESPERA ES ASS A ULT.—TWO men, named Henry

Faulkner and Henry Alexander, dustmen, employed by
NIG Tame, of Paddington, were charged with committing
violent assault on two policemen of the B division. On
the previous day the defendants were engaged in their
limal employment in Belgrave-place, Pimlico ; but they
had drunk so much in the course of the morning as to
render them almost incapable of transacting their business,
and one lady ordered them to leave the premises ; they
refused, and, on policeman 53 B interfering, he was
knocked down ; while on the ground Faulkner sat up .m
his breast, and, by repeatedly raising himself up and
down, endeavoured to force the breath out of his body.

Policeman 104 c Inv up, when he was also attacked, and
Alexander, in the scuffle, caught hold of the policeman's
litttle finger, and i❑ trying to twist it off actu illy tore
away a portion of the flesh. A gentleman, named Arm-
strong, a retired Captain in the army, was pas•ing at the
time, and seeing the perilous situation of the constables,
save information at the station-house, when additional

assistance was procured, and the defendants were secured.
Mr, WHITE convicted the defendants in the penalty of
31. each, and, in default of payment, committed them for

-o months each to the House of Correction.
HATT ON- GARDEN.

ROBBERY BY A POLICEMAN. —A policeman of the G
division, named Barris, was charged under the following
circumstances :—ln September a fire occurred at the house
of Mr. Bragg, gunmaker, of 36, High Holborn, and the
prisoner was remarked for his temerity in rushing into
places to save property. He saved a great quantity,
amongst which were several bags of pocket pistols. Some
days afterwards he raffled a brace of pistols, which, on
inquiry, appeared to be the property of Mr. Bragg. The
prisoner, who has always borne a good character, was
committed for trial.
THAMES-POLICE.
APPREHENSION OF A GANG OF COINERS AND SMASH-
ERS.—On Saturday, Sarah Mills alias Chamberlain,
Elizabeth Hall, Edward Chamberlain, and James
Stewart, were charged with coining base money, and
having base counterfeit half crowns and coining imple-
ments in their possession.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Alexander
Mitchell, a survey or of the Thames Police, that he pro-
ceeded on Saturday morning to the house No. 99, Went-
worth-street, Whitechapel, in company with Thomas and
James Fogg and George Judge, three other officers, ex-
pecting to find a gang of coiners at full work, but they
arrived before they commenced operations. In the first
floor front room they discovered Stewart in bed, and under
him they discovered a base crown piece. Some coining
implements were also found in the room. In the second
floor room they met with Chamberlain and the girl Mills
at breakfast, and found a base half-crown on each. All
were from the same mould. In the table drawer they
found a file, the teeth of which contained white metal.
It had been used in filing the rough edges of bad
money. The prisoner Hall was the landlady of the
house. He found her there, and she said she let the
rooms to the other prisoners. She was the landlady of
a house where he apprehended another gang of coiners,
,end gave evidence against them as to their hiring rooms
of her last Sessions. She said she could make snore
money of her rooms by letting them to smashers and
coinera than to honest people, The prisoner Stewart was
in company with the last gang of coinere, but made his
escape.
Thomas Fogg, a Thames police constable, produced a
bag of plaster of Paris, and a band in which the plaster
is set when melted. He found the bag in a cupboard oppo-
site Chamberlain's room.
George Judge, a Thames police constable, said that on
opening a trap-door in the ceiling he found it led to a loft,
and behind a beam close to the trap-door discovered a per-
fect plaster of Paris mould for casting shillings, and a piece
of spurious metal by the side of it.
This being all the evidence, Captain RICHBELL directed
notice to be sent to the Mint authorities, and remanded the
prisoners.
SMUGGLING FOREIGN SPlRlTS.—Captain Wm. Ho-
neyman, master of the ship James, from St. Petersburgh,
lying off Limehouse, was charged with having smuggled
brandy and whisky concealed on board. On Friday after-
noon Messrs. Blyth and Fortey, surveyors of Thames Po-
lice, in consequence of information, boarded the James.
The Captain was on deck, and they asked burn if he had
any liquor. He said he had not, but on proceeding into
the cabin, and knocking something down with an adze,
they discovered three half ankers of brandy concealed in
the rudder-case, in a large bale, very ingeniously made. In
a secret locker of the state-room, a stone bottle, containing
a gallon and a half of Hallands, was found. The Captain
said the officers must find out where the brandy came from,
but the Hall:ands he owned having brought from St. Pe-
teraburgb.
The defendant admitted the liquor was his, and that
his vessel had been cleared.
Captain RICHBELL said that Hooeyman had subjected
himself to a heavy penalty, and sent the liquor to the
Custom-house. The ship will he put under seizure.
SHAMEFUL ROBBERY OF A POOR WOMAN. —Sarah
Watts, a woman of a forbidding appearance, was charged
with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel and other pro-
perty from an aged woman named Francis Kelly, now an
inmate of Spitalfields workhouse. It appeared that the
prosecutrix lived for the last 14 years comfortably, sup-
ported herself by making slops for Messrs. Clark and Co.,
wholesale slopsellers of Sparrow-corner, Tower-hill, and
had occasionally employed the prisoner, who had no other
means of subsistence, to assist her in making the slops and
taking them home. A few weeks ago the prisoner was
despatched to Messrs. Clark's with slops to the amount of
201., which Mrs. Kelly and herself had just finished, but she
decamped with the property, sold and pawned it, and ex-
pended the proceeds with some dissolute companions in
debauchery and drunkenness. The prosecutrix was re-
duced from a state of comparative affluence to beggary
by the robbery, for her securities had to pay the value
of the goods to Messrs. Clark, and the former compelled
the old woman to repay the amount ; and to raise the money
she was obliged to sell every thing she possessed, and seek an
asylum in Spitalfields workhouse. She had not been there
many hours before she discovered the prisoner, who had
only a few days before sought parochial relief, and was
sent to the workhouse ; and, singularly enough, the same
bed was appropriated to both. The old woman did not
discover who her intended bedfellow was until she was
about to retire to rest. Wayling, R Thames police officer,
who bad long been in search of the prisuntr, was sent fur,
and took her into custody.
Mr. BRODERIP commented on the prisoner's wickedness
and ingratitude in robbing her benefactor ; and as Wayling
said he expected to bring other charges against her, re-
manded her for a week.
Driscilla Rayment, the prisoner's former landlady, said
she had lost a good deal of property while the prisoner
lodged with her ; and after Watts was removed from the
bar, Wayling had her searched, and two under petticoats
belonging to Mrs. Rayment were taken from her.

A correspondent at Rochdale informs us, that
the people of that town were struck with astonishment
when they saw it announced in the London papers the
ether week that a petition from that borough had been
sent to the KING on the Dutch war. About that peti-
tion not a single individual in Rochdale knew a syllable
till it made its appearance in one of the London journals,
except the factious crew who got it up. The Magistrates,
with the Rev. Mr. HEY, of Manchester notoriety, at their
head, stand forth as the leaders of the Tory faction. Then
there are the underlings of those personages, with a❑ old
gardener at the vicarage, and his five sons, that compose
this precious squad of patriots, who think proper to ad-
vise his MAJESTY how he is to treat " his ancient allies
the Dutch ! !"—Tunes.
LIFE OF SIR DAVID BAIRD.—" If we reflect
upon the great and varied success of Sir DAVID BAIRD,
we must feel surprised that his biography bad not been
given to the public at an earlier period. The desideratum,
however, is at length supplied. The biography is full and
satisfactory as to the life of this eminent Officer, and
whilst it possesses a lively interest, with respect to the many
great characters, with whom he was brought into asso-
ciation it affords a clear elucidation of a series of
great national events, which must for ever form an im-
portant feature in the page of history. There are not mare
than two or three amongst the greatest of our Officers in
the last two reigns, whose career has been more active,
successful, and full of important consequences, than that of
Sir DAVID BAIRD. The scenes of his many and eminent
services have been in countries which give them a very ex-
traordinary power over the feelings of the present genera-
: tioo. "..-Morning Post,