The Sun.
London, England, 1832-09-04 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Robert Bradley and Frederick Brown were
brought before Mr. DYER yesterday, on suspicion of
having been concerned with two young girls of the
town in instigating a lad of about 14. years of age,
son of Mr. Steel, jeweller, Oxford-street, to rob his
father of a large quantity of jewellery.
The girls and the son ate already in custody, and
have undergone one examination, standing remanded
to Wednesday.
Policeman E, 80, went into a public-house on
Sunday in Poland-street, and there saw the two
prisoners in conversation together. Knowing that
Bradley had formerly lived with Amelia Saunders,
one of the females in custody, he suspected he might
know something of the robbery, and as the prisoners
were talking of the circumstance he listened to their
conversation. He heard Bradley Say, "If they
(the female prisoners) split, its a dunner' with me,
for I shall get lagged," upon which he came forward
and took them both into custody. On searching
Bradley, two duplicates were found, one for a pair
of valuable coral ear--rings, and the other for a gold
split ring, both of which articles were suspected by
Mr. Steel to be part of the property which his son
hid been induced to plunder from him.
Mr. DYER directed that Brown should be dis-
charged, and that Bradley should be brought up
with the other prisoners on Wednesday next.
MAR YLEB ONE- OFFICE.
Yesterday the policeman D, 107, charged John
Wilson, a newsvender, with selling the last number
of the Poor titan's Guardian, in Paddington-street,
that morning.
Mr. RAWLLNSON asked the police constable, by
whose direction he interfered with the province of
persons now employed by the Board of Stamps for
the purpose of taking up the sellers of all unstamped
newspapers, and how he himself knew whether the
paper was legal or not.
Policeman D, 107, assured the magistrate that he
acted on this occasion in consequence of the direc-
tions of the Commissioners.

Mr. RAWLINSON, on hearing this, told the police-
constable that he had better go before the Stamp-
office solicitor, and ascertain from him whether the
last publication of the Poor Man's Guardian was
considered to be unlawful by him.
John Truss, another illegal newsman, was charged
by Robert Currie, who is employed by the Board
of Stamps, and resides at No. 45, in Dean-street,
Soho, with selling the Poor Man's Guardian in
Newman-street ; but th:s charge, unlike such cases
in general, gave occasion to a development of the
system of the Stamp-office, in prosecuting all un-
stamped news.

Mr. 11:twr.iNsoN (to Currie)— How do you prove
to me that this is a newspaper at all ?—Currie here
referred the magistrate to the head of Public News,
adding that Truss had been committed from Marl-
borough-street-office, by Mr. Dyer, to the House of
'Correction.

Mr. RAWLINSON--I hear, on these occasions,
much noise made about the Six Acts, as if these
proceedings were had under those Acts; and I even
wrote to Mr. Hume to rectify his notions on this
point. It may, therefore, be useful to state, that,
instead of Lord Castlereagh's Six Acts, so called,
this offence is provided for by an Act of the 16th of
George 11., which provides for various duties on
glass, &c., containing, in a narrow compass, more
enactments than are usually found in lengthened
Acts of Parliament. But ‘I by, Currie, do you
bring nothing else here? Currie—There are some
other works, as the Cosmopolite, and the Political
Observer, the latter now being in a serious train of
investigation by the Board, whose—
Mr. RAWLINSON—Do YOU not take up whom you
choose, and what you choose ? Currie—No, your
Worship, we don, t. These numbers are inspected
at the Scamp-office
first, as they come out, and af-
terwards we are instructed as to what are legal or not.
Mr. RAWLINSON—I am relieved at hearing this,
and glad of it ; for then it cannot be fairly said that
it is left to yourselves to apprehend such offenders
at will. Currie—So far from it, your Worship, we
go daily to the Solicitor for Stamps, and receive our
instructions to proceed from him.

Mr. RAWLINSON—I am still apprehensive that
the public do not understand these points, but are

misled by what this Guardian calls, as I see, the
" Six Acts of the odious Castlereagh," and impute
to those Acts only the effects of the summary Act
passed in the 16th year of the reign of George 11.
Currie now claimed his certificate of conviction
in the present case; and John Truss, who had been
once before sent to prison for the same offence, was
consigned for another month to the House of Cor-
rection.