The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-03 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

A gentleman appeared before Alderman WILSON,
who sat on Thursday for the Lord Mayor, and re-
quF to know whether a summons could be
granted against the proprietors of the Leith and
Glasgow wharf, for having unnecessarily delayed
the delivery of parcels coming by their steam-vessels.
Alderman AVILsoN said, that although there was
a law which obliged the proprietors of coach-
offices to deliver their parcels within a certain time
after they arrive, yet it did not apply to vessels
corning by sea, and he could, therefore, afford no
redress.

Alderman Copeland appeared before the Alder-
man, to complain of a letter which he had received
from Ady, in consequence of the notice that had
been taken by the public Press of the impudence
and presumption of that person in mentioning
" Alderman Copeland," as a referee, in the letter
directed to Thompson, the pour black man at
St. Kitt's.

Adv's letter to Alderman Copeland was received
by the Alderman at Layton, in Essex, and was as
follows :

" OCT. 23.
" A letter for George Thompson, Esq., at Kitts, has
fell into the hands of a poor man remarkably stupid, who
came over as steward, and showing his black fice to Ady,
was pronounced the wrong man. Well, what then ? Why
Alderman Copeland, or some other person has shown him
up at the Mansion-house. Now, Mr. Copeland, I have,
for some months, left off printing your name for fear your
election to Parliament might be injured thereby. But if I
can bring home to you such a foolish exhibition, you shall
repent it. " J. ADY."
" It is the undoubted right of every British subject to
employ his capital and exertions in any manner he thinks
proper, not contrary to the laws of his country."—Judge
Vaughan.
Alderman WILSON had consulted the city solicitor
as well as his own upon the subject, and he much
regretted that they could not point out to him any
mode of proceeding, by which a person who was
constantly doing so much mischief could be punished.
By means of the public press several persons to
whom Ady had subsequently written, inviting them
to give him money " to hear something to their ad-
vantage," were cautioned against venturing to con-
sult such an oracle, and escaped any more expense
than the postage of the letters.
The black man who had the simplicity to come
over to England from. St. Kitt's was present, and
stated that he had got a berth through the kindness
of Mr. Pixie, and hoped to set sail the next day.
Amelia Pearks, a poor woman chargeable to the
parish of Whitechapel, summoned the officers of
Bishopsgate some days ago, for having refused to
pass her regularly to her own parish. The case,
which was subsequently investigated, presented the
conduct of the Magistrates who administer justice
blended with mercy, at Lambeth-street Office, in
rather an extraordinary light.
The paupe' said that her husband had lately
ceased to give her an allowance of 3s. a week, and
being in an utterly destitute condition, she had ap-
plied to the Magistrates at Lambeth-street, for a
summons to the parish officers. Their Worships,
however, had positively refused to interfere, as they
considered the overseers the best judges in such
cases, and left every thing of the kind to their de-
cision. In this extremity, and having been refused
assistance of any kind, she had gone to the parish
of Bishopsgate,where she had previously been treated
with humanity, and had been compelled to bring
the matter before the city authorities, to save her-
self from the absolute starvation to which her own
parish consigned her.
One of the officers of Bishopsgate, a man greatly
respected for his humanity, had three weeks before
passed the pauper to her parish, but she soon re-
turned, and declared that the overseers had gi .-en her
6d. and refused her a farthing more,and told her to go
away. The parish of Bishopsgate relieved her, but
could not repass her to Whitechapel, as it was against
the law to do so, so that the unfortunate woman was

in a most desperate condition.
The LORD MAYOR, who presided when the first
complaint was made, asked whether it was pos-
sible that the Magistrates of Lambeth-street left
the poor so completely at the mercy of the parish-
officers ? The Bishopsgate officer said it was the
general cry of the paupers of Whitechapel, that
the Magistrates totally abandoned them to the
overseers.

The LORD MAYOR--I declare that the accusa-

tion is quite incredible. If the Magistrates refused
to listen to the poor, the poor had no appeal, and
must, in many instances, perish. I have
heard reports of the kind; but never supposed the
thing possible; and I hope the matter may reach
the ears of the Magistrates, im order that they may
publicly deny the imputation, and remove any
wrong impression which may have gone abroad.
The Bishopsgate officer said that the pauper
begged that, instead of being sent back to White-
chapel parish, she might be sent, together with her
child, to prison.
The pauper—Yes, I'd thank you to send me to
prison, for my child is starving.
The LORD MAYOR gave the poor woman some
relief, and sent an officer with her to the overseers
of Whitechapel; but•no attention was paid to the
message.
The further investigation took place before Alder-
man WILS9N.

Mr. Smart, the vestry-clerk of Bishopsgate, at-
tended, and stated, that the pretext upon which the
overseers of Whitechapel refused to assist the pauper
was, that her husband was able to support her, and
that they could not get anything from him.
Mr. Hobler observed, that this was another of
the innumerable evidences of the defective state of
the poor laws. This poor woman was resolutely
cast off from a parish, which did not at all deny her
claim upon it, and must have perished but for the
humanity of the neighbouring parish-officers.
The Bishopsgate officers then told the Alderman
that they would take care of the pauper until the
Magistrates should be again applied to; and
The ALDERMAN hoped that the case would, by
some means, meet the eye of the Secretary of State.

MARLBORO U GH- STREET.
thiswaS
FURIOUS DRIVING.—Henry Mann, driver of 216
Paddington omnibus, was fined 255. for galloping
lr o, by Henryngoxfod-street. The
offence
clearly provGoddard,anen officerc ofe
establishment, who saw the defendant apparently
racing with an opposition omnibus.
John Combs, the driver of the other omnibus was
likewise fined 255. for the same offence. The pro-
prietor of the latter vehicle attributed the speed at
which they were going to the nature of his horses,
using the expression to the Magistrate of by while
attempting to show the difficulty of restraining them.
Mr. CONANT immediately fined him two shillings
for swearing.
WORSHIP-STREET.
George Lambert, a young man in the employ of
Mr. Underwood, a butcher, in Featherstone-street,
St. Luke's, was charged before Mr. TWYFORD with
having robbed his master of sums of money to a
considerable amount.
The prisoner, at the request of the prosecutor,
was remanded for further examination.

THAMES POLICE.
Yesterday and during the week several women,
some with infants in their arms, and others far ad-
vanced in pregnancy, and the greater portion with
two, three, or four children, have applied to the
Magistrates for orders for their admission into the
workhouse, or to compel the overseers to support
them, in consequence of their husbands having de-
serted them to join Dan Pedro's expedition, and
left England without leaving them any thing for
Their maintenance. One young woman who was
enciente, and appeared overwhelmed with grief,
said she had only been married five months, arid her
husband had induced her to leave Warwick, her
native place, and come to London, where he had
not been many days before he enlisted in the service
of Don Pedro, and was by this time at Oporto.
She was relieved by the parish authorities, arid re•
moved to her native place. Other applicants said