The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-19 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. IS:

Mrs. Mary Bloomfield, of Northampton-place,
Clerkenwell, widow of the well-known poet Robert
Bloomfield, was heard in the matter of her petition
and schedule to be discharged.
It will be fresh in the recollection of the public,
that the celebrated bard expired about 18 months
ago, when a subscription was entered into for the
widow and her two children, by which she was en-
abled to set up in business as a milliner with her
daughter in the above place.
• The public will ever read with delight his cele-
brated Farmer's Bay, which has done him so much
honour, and which procured him the friendship of a
noble personage, the Duke of Grafton,, Capel -Lofft,
Esq., and several. other distinguished and learned
men of the present day. The poet in the latter part
of his life was in great expectance of a situation under
Government; but on his renewing his application he
was told he must wait till a vacancy occurred, which
so discouraged him that he cared little for life, and
expired wanting its necessaries. He willingly re-
signed his soul to that God, the giver of thought,
who, as he beautifully expresses it himself, " raises
up many who will turn a listening ear, and will not
despise

" The abort and simple annals of the poor."
The unfortunate widow, attired in a plaid cloak,
appears about 55 years of age, Lind stated in her exa-
mination by the Court, that she resided in Nor-
thampton-place, with her son Robert, who is about
21 years of age, and who follows the trade of his
late father, namely, a ladies' shoe-maker, and her
daughter, who is 23 years of age, and that the greater
part of the furniture she used belonged to them.
Her detaining creditur was a Mr. Woolmer, a ware-
houseman of Cheapside, whose debt was contracted
by goods furnished to her and her daughter as mil-
liners, and fur which she alone was responsible.
She had been obliged, in the support of herself, to
borrow several sums of money from gentlemen, ad-
mirers of her husband's teent, whose loans were,
mentioned in her-schedule:
-p?osniorlappeariure against her, she was ad-
jtuodbgeedfoelr:htl‘tyleitt th
o benefitb of the Act, and ordered
discharged.

OF KING'S BEN
REX, AT TILE PROSECUTION 01'
JERVIS, 'ESQ., iIIIAY(R
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CH, DUBLIN Nov. 15.
OF LIMERICK, V• D. w GE ~,,,
LIMERICK EVENINO POST. . Y, P:AM`RIETOR .1F TUE
case for a conditional ordeortiio
Mr. BENNETT, K. C., moved
filethae
cCrioaluiritiainiintfohris
,evening P9st.e
riiii;epropriFtor of the
infor-
mation against D. W.
applicationi. was
lefttli
,w itch stated
gliriontniice4d. 011 an affidavit of Mr. Jervis
a Brunswick club '
in Limerick, iinje;taitctke,nadtedwhaticah tillheceretirN'vgereef several respectable
suggested to him
against
persons, and that, when Lord Maasey
Mr. Steele attempted to address the Meeting e chair,hat
the prosecutor, perceiving that disturbance ;tnight
ensue from Mr. Steele's intrusion,
the propriety of remaining silent, and before he, the
prosecutor, could further interfere, Steele Was put
out of the room. The present application
the defendant (the Learned Counsel said) w„,,
founded on a report of certain speeches made at a
dinner given to Mr. Steele in Limerick,
.on which
occasion the prosecutor was frequently called by Mr.
O'Gorman Mahon and Mr. Steele a " coward" and
a " dastard," and which report was published in the
Limerick Ereiing Post, of which paper the defen-
dant was the registered proprietor.—Conditional
Order granted.

COURT

In the C6urt of King's Bench, Dublin, on
Thursday lag, an application was made by Mr. KEATINGF
for a Habeas Corpus, to bring up a Miss DORAN, who was
stated by her brother and other friends to be kept in a
state of forcible seclusion in the nunnery of Harold's Crosse
The Habeas Corpus being granted, the. young lady ap-
peared iu Court on the following day, when she declared
that she was not secluded against her will; and, being-of
age, she was allowed to return to the nunnery.

POLICt INTELttGtNet.

MANSION-HOUSE

A GAMIt HEN.—Yesterday a man named Timmot,
was charged before the Loa') Mayon. upon suspicion
of having stolen a game hen, of very superior breed,
and superior beauty too, for the complainant declared
that she had a gold neck, a tailhke a pheasant's, a
wing of peculiar brilliancy, a Bishop's Mitre on her
head, and a pair of blue legs.
The hen, it was stated was treated with great
tenderness and care, but beina• of a truant disposition
she flew out of her place of safety, and, of all the
places in the world, she chose the tap-room of a
r'siblic-house in whiCh to exhibit herself. The de-
fendant happened to be one of the company, and the
hen was very soon in his possession. After having
kept the bird for some time he disappeared, and
when the o:-nier of the hen went to look for her,
she was nowhere to be found. The bones of a fowl
were, however, it was privately reported, found in
the neighbourhood, but the legs were yellow; and it
was supposed that as a lobster, upon being boiled,
turned from black to red, so a bird's legs were as
likely to change from blue to yellow upon under-
going the operation of excessive heat. The com-
plainant set the highest value upon his bird, for he
was convinced that there was not such another hen
in the kingdom, or indeed in the world.—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR asked the complainant how
much he had given for the hen He replied that
he had given no more than two shillings for her,
but he would not have sold her for 51.; she was a
game one of the very first breed, and would fight
till she'd die, aye, or.afterwards—there was no such
bird to be seen, cock or hen.
The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant what he
had done with the hen ? The defendant declared
that he could find no master for the bird for a long
time. She flew into the tap-room and perched up(-,i
him, and he cotched her in his hand. Well, he
walked about and showed her to every one for a
couple of hours, but nobody would own her. At
length there came a gentleman, in a frize jacket, and
he said, " thank you, my good fellow, it's my hen,"
and he gave it to the gentleman, who gave him the
price of a pint of beer for his trouble.
Mr. Hobler—" And did she eat tender?" (A
laugh.) Defendant—" No, I can't say she did."
Mr. Hobler—" Oh, then she ate tough ? De-
fendant—" I'm sure I can't say, for I did'nt eat
none on her. (Laughter.) I don't know as how
any body ate her, but up comes this here gentleman
(the complainant) aterwards, and he said I stole his
hen; but I didn't steal no such a thing, for the hen
flew to me, and I valked all about axing every body
if it was his ben, and they all said, no it an't, barring
that ere gentleman, what gave the money for the
heavy. (Loud laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR--And (lid you sell the hen for
the price of a pint of beer ? Defendant—Vv, I tells
your Vorship that I didn't sell no hen at all. The
hen comes to me, and I goes about with the hen,
and nobody wont have her but one, and he says to
me that it was his hen, and, your Vorship, I knowed
very well it Ny'ant mine.—(Laughter.)
The LORD Mavoß—ls there any body here who
knows you ? The street-keeper here stood forward,
and said, that he was present when the defendant
professed his ignorance amongst several persons as
to whose property the hen was. He did not see
any person claim it, but the noise made about the
matter was quite sufficient to raise several claimants.
Under these circumstances, the LORD MAYOR
thought it probable that if the hen was in existence,
she was not in the custody of the defendant, and
that if she had been consigned to " the grave of
living flesh," the defendant was not present at the
obsequies,

A verdict to the effect of " Not Guilty" was then
pronounced, at which the accused seemed to have
been as much pleased as if another game hen had
taken a fancy to him.
MARYLEBONE.

William Spurgeon, carter to Mr. George Hays,
ironmongir, White Hart-court, Charterhouse-lane,
was fined .51., and being unable to pay the fine, was
committed to the House of Correction, for unlaw-
fitly, wantonly, and cruelly beating, abusing, and
ill-treating a horse, belonging to his master.
The case was brought fonvard by John Gudge,
one of the parish beadles, who witnessed the mis-
conduct of the defendant towards the animal in
Adam-street-East, on Saturday last; and; in addi-
tion
to the penalty inflicted by law, he is dismissed
from the service of his master.
MARLBOROUGH.STREET. 1

Yesterday two young girls, named Maria and
Susan Higgs, sisters, the eldest not above 16
years of age, were brought from St. Pancras watch-
house before Mr. CONANT, the sitting Magistrate,
charged on suspicion with being concerned in the
following shameful robbery upon one of the unfor-
tunate Spanish refugees at present in this country,
and who had served as a distinguished officer in the
constitutional army of his own.
It appeared by the statement of Senor Fernando
Arino, the complainant, given through the means of
an interpreter, Senor Arino himself not speaking the
English language at all, that he has been lodging for
some months past at the house No. 4, Fredelick-
street, Hampstead-road, where he has occupied a
small back room on the second floor, and on Monday
night last, having gone out for a short time on a
little business, he found on his return, about ten
o'clock, his usual hour of going to bed, that his room
had been stripped of every, thing belonging to him,
including his few articles of wearing apparel, amongst
which wire his very scanty stock of linen, and a
military cloak, which he found of great service to him,
not only in the day time, in this cold weather, but
also as a covering on his bed at night. The sus-
picions against the two prisoners arose from their
occupying a room in the house on the same floor,
and just adjoining to • that of the complainant,
where they are known to be constantly visited
by young fellows of suspicious and bad cha-
racter, they themselves being girls of the town ; and
it was known that one of those fellows called upon
them, and accompanied them out to walk on the
very night of the robbery, during the absence of the
complainant. No trace, however, had as yet been
had of the property, and the prisoners were remand-.
ed., the magistrate assuring the complainant that ne
exertion should be wanting to discover tlic thieveF,
and trace out the property, and•he gave the
directions to that effect.

Andrew Bell and Sarah Bell, who have undergone
several examinations at this office, charged on sus-
picion with being concerned in the robberies at Lord
Hartland's house, were yesterday again brought be-
fore the magistrate, and told by him, that as there
was at present no further evidence to warrant their
unqualified detention longer, they should be liberated
on procuring each two responsible housekeepers in
404 each, to be answerable for their future appear-
ance; but the bail not being then forthcoming, they
were again locked up.
John Jennings, who was fully committed for trial
a few days ago on a charge of stealing two silver
spoons from the house of Martin Stapylton, Esq., in
Manchester-square, was again brought up in conse-
quence of Clements, the officer, having, subsequently
to the former examination, discovered also in the
prisoner's possession a silver salt-spoon' gilt in the
bowl, and of quite a different pattern and crest froui
those of Mr. Stspylton.
Clements said that he had made every effort, but
in vain, to trace out the owner of the spoon ; and he
had even waited on Sir George Nayler at the Heralds'
College, to see if Sir George could trace out to
what family the crest belonged, but Sir George
could not ascertain farther than that he had an im-
pression that the crest mas that of a Scotch family,
lie thought either of the name of Hume or •Home ;
and in consequence of this, lie, Clements, had been
to Sir Everard Home, to MrHume, M. P., and to
all the Homes and Humes of any respectability in
London; but none of them eivned either the spoon
or the crest.

The prisoner said that the spoon had been given
to him by a friend of his named Taylor, who did re-

side at Ledbury, in Herefordshire, but where he re-
sides now, he (the prisoner) does not know.
The Magistrate said that this was the sort of story
the prisoner told about Mr. Stallholes spoons too,
and he supposed both were about equally true. The
prisoner was then ordered to be remanded again for
another week, and Clements was directed in the
mean time not to relax in his exertions to discover
an owner for the spool!.
The crest on the spoon is a naked hand and arm,
resting on a heart, and wielding a cimetar.
A well-looking well-dressed female, who, upon
this occasion, gave her name Catherine Townsend,
but who, it appeared, goes by
a variety of names,
viz. Willis, Barry, &c., was charged with the follow-
ing frauds
A host of pawnbrokers, who attended at the office,
stated that the prisoner had on several occasions
pledged at their respective shops, under various
names, and giving as various addresses, such as
Duke's-court, Charles-street, Oxford-street, `Val-
worth, &c. the pieces of cloth now produced, repre-
senting them to be Irish linen, and received sums of
money in proportion to the supposed value, as a loan
on them, whereas the whole of these pieces of cloth
turned out to be nothing but cotton manufacture,
which had undergone a particular process of calen-
dering and hot-pressing, to give it all-the appearance
of Irish linen, for the purpose of fraud, and in so
complete a manner was this done, and the pieces
stamped with the Irish linen-mark, and made up as
if at the bleacher's there, that nine out of ten linen
drapers, to whom these pieces had been shown, said
at first that they were really Irish linen.
Tic prisoner denied that she had pledged the ar-
ticle as Irish linen, but as a mixed manufacture of
linen and cotton, which they really were, and they
were well worth, she said, the money that had been
advanced to her on them by the pawnbrokers. It
was a material, she said, that is now in very general
sale in all the shops, and it is her husband's particu-
lar business, she said, to prepare it as it now ap-
peared for the market.
The pawnbrokers declared that the prisoner had
pledged the pieces as entire linen, whereas there is
not a thread of linen in the manufacture, it being en-
tirely cotton ; and they said that there was scarcely a
pawnbroker in London that had not been taken in
by this fraud, so extensively was it practised.
The MAGISTRATE asked how it was that pawn-
brokers were so ignorant of a sort of goods which
they were so much in the habit of taking in as
pledges 9—The pawnbrokers said that, in the first
place, the way in which the goods were made up
and prepared for sale would deceive, and have de-
ceived, the most experienced persons, even in the
trade, as linen-drapers; and then, again, the prisoner,
being a very pretty woman, and very interesting in
her manners, the shopmen at pawnbrokers', it was
feared, were often seduced, by her appearance and
address, away from their usual caution and circum-
spection in such matters.

- The MAGISTRATE ordered that the prisoner
should be remanded, and liat a person capable of
speaking as to the real nature of the manufacture
should be brought forward on a future day.