The Sun.
London, England, 1826-03-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

(1 111 ',DILA ht.
Win. Yfaley, one of Carlile's shopmen,' who was convicted at
the om Bailey, in June, 1824, of publishing blasphemous libels,
and sentenced to three years' imprisonment, wasbrought before'
Mr. Alderman Lucas yesterday, in the custody of Harris, the
Turnkey of Neargate, to enter into his own recognizanCe in 1001.
to be of good behaviour for the rest of his life (which was a part
of the sentence of the Court),.his Majfsty having been pleased
to relietre him from that part of the judgment which directed
that he should be imprisoned until June,lB27. The signature
to the document, which was dated the 27th inst., authorising the
prisoner's liberation, was in his Majesty's ordinary, firm, f'ree,
and graceful style. The prisoner went through the necessary
form, and was discharged. There remain in Newgate four of
Haley's coadjutors, two of whom were sentenced to an equal
term of imprisonment with him.

MARLBOROUCIH-STREET.
CUMOUS CasE or' DlGAmY.—Yesterday Joseph lilerchan,
a smart .dressed young man, who has been repeatedly before the
presiding Magistrates of ills office, on:the various charges of
polygamy, bigamy, and deserting his wife, was again brought
up in the custody of Avis, before Mr. CON4VST, upon the former
charge for examination. --
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner in the early
part of his lite was a valet, and of late years a waiter • whilst in
the former capacity he went to Oxford, and during his stay in
that city, he married, upon the lath of December, 1810, in the
' parish church of St. Mary's, Charlotte Norgrove ; and at that,
ceremony there were present the relatives of the female. The
issue of that marriage were three or four children, of whom two
are living. The prisoner and his wife came to London, and
there he some time after deserted her. After that he went and
lived as a footman in the family of a gentleman of the name of
Leman, in whose ,family Elizabeth Palmer, the second wife,
lived. She became with child by the prisoner, which coming'
to the knowledge 6f the family, it was proposed that he ghoul&
marry her, to which proposal he consented. The second niar.,
riage was solemnized upon the 25th of June, 1822, at the dis-
trict church of All. Souls, Mary-la-borine. Her also he ulti-
mately deserted. The prisoner then went and resided in the
west of England, out of which circumstance has arisen the pi'e-
sent charge.
Upon the prisoner being now put to the bar, Mr. TAYLOR'r
solicitor, residing in Tunbridge street, stated, that he attended
on behalf of the Trustees, to proceed against the prisoner, Jo-
seph Merchan, alias William Emerton, for having feloniously'
intermarried with Florence Carter, during the lives of his tirsc
and second wives. The prisoner had found means to get intro-
duced into the family of %liss Carter, where he passed by the
name of William Emerton, and having represented himself as
a bachelor, paid his addresses to Miss Florence Carter, with
whom he found means to elope. They were married at the
Parish Church of St. Mary'a, Lambeth, upon the 12th of Dec.
1025, by banns.
Airs. P. Baker deposed, that she knew the prisoner, and was
present at the marriage which was solemnized between him and
Florence Carter, he then stated himself to be a single man.
The prisoner contracted the marriage in the name of %Valli=
Emton ; she had known him to have gone by the name of
Merc erhan, but thought that ►
to have been occasioued by pecuni-
ary difficulties.
Mr. CONANT—Have you any witness as to the first mar-

rilige ?
Mr. TAYLOIt—No Sir; it will be very expensive for the
parties to send to Oxford for the necessary witnesses ; and I,
therefore, wish you to remand him, and in the end to commit
him for trial before the Surry Sessions, as the offence took
place within that county.
Mr. CONANT—I cannot pledge myself to that, for at present
I have scarcely evidence sufficient to remand him ; and I should
wish to know what witnesses you intend to produce.
Mr. TAYLOR.—I intend to prove the two last marriages,
which will be sufficient.
Mr. CONANT—I do not perfectly understand who is the pro-
secutor ?
1 am," exclaimed a little fellow, starting up from the
bench, and presenting. himself before the Magistrate.
Mr, Coxarr—Nl'ho are you. Sir ?
The little man, upon having this question put to him, entered
into a long, and, at the same time, curious statement; from which
it appeared, that his name is Davies, a Welch Attorney, but not
having sufficient practice, he became involved, and wash prisoner
In the King's Bench ; aft, r being discharged, he happened to live
in the neighbourhood of t 1 e prisoner and his wife. When hav-
ing become acquainted with the lady, he so won upon her, that
in three weeks after idle had resigned her hand and heart to
the prisoner, she gave them in turn to him, and he and !Hiss
Carter were married. For, by the prisoner being in confine-
ment, that part of his wife's history was suppressed, and lie had
therefore believed her- to have been as she had represented her-
self—single. Since then she had decamped from him.
Mr. TAYLOn, in explanation, said, that as far as he could
understand, the case was this :—Miss Florence Carter wag ell"
titled to a legacy of 2001., which she was to receive upon being
married, but, by the prisoner being taken into custody, she
was prevented from receiving the money, and she had therefore
married Mr. Davies, under the imression of getting thell
which money she had intended to take to the prisoner if lead
escaped, and to have duped little Mr. Davies.
When the statement of poor Mr. Davies, and the n
elucidatiAlo
of the case was given, it occasioned every, person to burst (it
into alaugh, and in which the worthy Magistrate joined,
which the little Welchman bore with extreme good htllllolo.
Upon the laugh subsiding, Mr. Co srasrr said, he should re-
mand the prisoner for a further examination.

THE FIVE POUNQIPNEoETNu:B—QIU'esAtertrdEaq,
respectable in their appearat ce and manners, were ate.rB;
at this Office? by Mr. Brooks, - the younger, a banker, whose
residence is in Sloane-street, for the adventitious misdemeanour
of picking up one five pound note, in George.street, and re
fusing to return the same, it beinytis property. .
Mr. Brooks, who deported himself wit " Corinthian haw
teur," from first to last, stated, that he accidentallY bed dv°P.
pet! the note in question, while pulling out his dog-
Chelsea, when the ladies were observed to pitewhoitrettnr
clutin from
his waistcoat pocket, in George street, near Sloane-Ware,
Defendant—l have certainly got a 6/. note gentlemen, which
King's-road,
I picked up in some very short street, the name of which I
cei
not know, but which gees out of Sloane-square. live 1
walkedi to very nigh the New Church, now building in the
rudely as to make it impossible to notice him.
lielveirt.h(a3tntEhGe 9nlottelE—bdittml.aeds
Complainant here asserted, that the »ame of Dixon Wl5 en'
when this gentleman first challenged us, but so
dorsed on the back of the note, and that he could bring the per-
son who saw it picked up by the defendant. ignniocsat
however, that I
told so in the public street. I have no doubt,
really is Mr. ',kooks's note:; but not knowing that gentleman'
you acted right in refusing to show it. ly on
Defendant said, that she reftised to drew the note rnertf
woo
ways of doing
account of the insulting style in which herself and frie°
..
accosted. clearly
r. not
nro Brooks,
becauseerftryymota7wherri
Mr. GIIEGORIE--We all know that there re two different
Intl. perhaps,
were accosted in such 's
manner as displeased you, but which
circumstance, I must conf ‘ • lem • iined to attribute to the
pss, inclined things, civilly or otherwise;
irritation of the moment on both sides:
thought the note worth the trouble lie was taking to reclaim it ;
hel‘ttlerg‘ittv'enunp'Etlrelnothtein,la(
Complainant was now asked, by Mr. OrtEciontE,.if 110
r
and he was about to
not
not invite an action
cover it.
Hereupon the parties left the room, and, after some alteretl
don, the aforesaid fiVe.pound note was surrendered up te "14
complainant. n(:ittddres..sini the U
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BIRTHS.
On 'Monday, the 27th instant, at her house in Portland-place.*
Princess Polignae, of a son.
On Saturday last, at Bedford -hill, Surrey, the lady of Henry
J. Rucker. Esq., of a daughter.
lu On Sunday, the 20th instant, the lady of Captain Gustavo,*
o Evans, of Upper Clapton, of a daughter.

On Monday lost, elitillil1ot11,11;;s1)4. to Mary Anna, clo°
daughter of E. Collinson, Esq. of Saville Place.

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DIED.
Ou e
ans. h
Bart. e3d instant, at Netherton-hail, Sir John Wilmot I'rl4
On the 24th instant, at Brighton, Thomas Lertnitte, EstPs
aged 79. 9--
ire t,
On the 21th instant, at his brother's house, 22, Nir"t•*
Cheapside, Mr. Henry Parker, lately from St. Petersburgh.,
On Saturday, the nth instant, at Satfron-Walden,
'daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Hancock, of London.
On the lath instant, Mr.s Mary rearkes, of Porset•street,
LeOostnnert,lisbe:(l)2loaskittshyeillnest:tia:nn2td,tisttiltit eatiiinsixnteurno,
Portinan.square.
On the 9th instant, at his house in Ilarpur.street, Mr. John
Simpson, in his 64th year.
lin's-row, Chelsea, four years of age.
f the late Joseph Curt, Frank,.
t,riltillisburebe, wife of Mr. Thos.

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