The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.--A very dingy matron, in brownish black ea-
limanco, and a very dusty bonnet of the same colour and material,
was placed at the bar as an incorrigible disorderly. She had
been given in charge to her attendant constable by one Mr. John
Dickie, a douce elderly of the Land o' Cakes, .for mobbing him
and boxing his ears with a bucket)
.4 This is No. 14 on the list, please your Worship ;—Mrs.
Frances Dickie, .and her h'usband appears against her, said the
constable.

" Aweel, she's na wife o' mine," said Mr. Dickie, slowly
climbing into the witness-box—his palsied head noddling as tho'
it would tumble off his shoulders.—" She's na wife o' mine, God
be thankit ! and Dickie's no the name she's ony title to. Her
real name is Fratincees Webb."
" Well, never mind her name—tell us what she has done," said
the Alderman.

" Gin I were to tell yea she's done, ye'd be a wearie body,"
replied Mr. pinkie ; "but she gets bermel in think, ye'll ken,
and when she's fou she smashes a' that comes in her way—forbye
dinging my ears wi' the bucket; though I'm fain to flatter her
like a chield !"

• " Ah, you false old wretch," said the lady,—" hav'n't I nursed
you and comforted you, and done every thing for you these twelve
years? And hav'n't I brought all sorts of scandals upon myself for
you ?—you false old wretch ?"
"Will ye haud ye'r tongue, ye auld jad ?" cried Mr. Diekie,
in a tone of command ; and lowering his voice, he added " I was
na addressing myself to .you, ye ken." '
" If she is not yoir wife, why do you suffer her to come near
you ?" asked the Aldermen.

" I canna help it," replied Mr. Dickie ; " why do I suffer her
to come ! the jad has twa legs o' her air!, and I canna help her
cumin. No that I should parteecularly object to her. veesiting me
in a douce.and proper manner at ony time; but she's sa kenspeckle
that as soon as the neebors see her cumin they say, God ha' mercy
upon poor Jock Dickie, for he'll got his fairin this night !' say they.
Ye'd maist think she's deleerit, Sir, and I cairns bear it mil

longer—forahe'll berry me out o' house, Name, and Bic a'thegitherl"
The'couatable produced the bucket with which she had ding'd
'poor Mr. Dickie's ears; it was a good sized churn-shaped wooden
bucket, painted dark green ; a very queer thing to box a man's
ears with one would think; but the constable did say, that the
neighbours told him, that that they saw her " dinging it about
poor Mr. Dickie's ears in a very awful manner."
1. Well, Mrs. Dickie—or whatever your name is," said- the"
Alderman, " what is the reason you can't let this old gentles
alone?"
" It's the old gentleman that won't let me alone, your Worship !"
replied the lady. " He's always after me, go where 1 will, though
I left him long ago, and never wished to see him again."
"0 !, ye'r a moist improper peerson I" ejaculated Mr. Dickie.
" Nay !" rejoined the lady, " didn't you write a letter, asking
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do
me to give you the meeting at Buckingham-gate, last week?
And didn't I meet you? And didn't I give you my eompany the
and and admitted that he did write
whole day long at Chelsea?"
consequences did ensue. " But,"
added he, " I did it to keep her awe from my ain house; .for I
t't she wad be cumin till it every day, and I cou'dna bear
expec t e
such Mr.
e Petiteckri,e groaned
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l'• the l ti
" Oh, you false old man.exclaimed
.a y—..“ Didn't ye
crawl all the way to Battersea, yesterday morning, and wheedle 1
?"
me away from my friends
the thoughts of tb*neehn.....rs seeing ony mair 0';.,.
Mr. Dickie groaned in spirit again ; but he did not deny hav-
ing crawled to Battersea--he !nerd..
7 murmured something about
a .. waist improper person ," and the Alderman pitying his di-
ogird've ofhimtrusomthttinof it," she
yahreeenrespalined:iny:::
iefauts,
mated the lady why she boxed his ears with the bucket 1
brought the bucket with me from Battersea, and he was only
I had in it !"
greens
se
asaniddi;nYaiende ;if hit Worship would postpone the ease,
ve:::r.Driefteu:iiselnnowow:utallecd'wita -red, that there Was not a word of truth in
bring many witnesses who would swear that they con-
from her violence.
he neWr coveted either greens orinyins
Alderman, inn.dt:wgireserr said, be had heard quite enough of it,