The Sun.
London, England, 1821-10-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

BOW-ST I:FE T.—SLR CITA PILES WoLsr.LEY.—Yesterday
Major Cartwright attended this Office, -foi the pupose of en-
tering into a recognizance for the good• behaviour of Sir. Charles
Wolseley, for the eighteen montns ensuing, pursuant to the
terms of the sentence passed upon the Baronet at the Chester
Assizes.—The Major remained in an .outer room, while Mr.
Jones, his Solicitor,- came into the public office,' and laid a
form of the recognizance" before the Magistrate for his signa-
ture. _ _

illiNsuuLL said, that before he could sign the recogni-
zance he must see the C-entleman proposed, in Order to qUeStion
him as tcy hi§ - competency to give security to the amount re-
quired (x 001.). . .
Mr. JONES :submitted that .it was quite unnecessary.—
The signing of a recognizance of this nature was 4 mere matter
of form, and it ;was not the practice to-ask any questions.
Mr. Miws-uuLL said, the practice elsewhere might be very.
different; but it was a rule at this Office not to take_ re-
cognizance of any man without questioning him in the usual
form. • _ _

Mr. JONES said it was quite unusual. The signing of a re-
cognizance was always done as a matter of course by the Judges
without any questions being, asked.
Mr. Mrssu ir Li. said, that whatever might be the practice in
other places, he should not take the reco,ginzance of any man as
a mere matter of course. He was bound to ascertain whether
the person offering himself was competent or not. He did so in
cases of common assault where the amount required was. only
101. and he certainly should not.depart froM. an established rule
in this particular case.
.Mr. JONES said; the Major was ready to answer any ques-
tions that the Magistrate might think it his duty to put to him.
He (Mr. Jones) had only taken the liberty of mentioning what
the practice was in the Court of Ring's Bench.
Mr. Mix suuLL said he must see and interrogate the Worthy
Major.
Major Cartwright then appeared, and being sworn and asked
if he was worth 5001. after the.payment of his just debts, he re-
plied in the affirmative.
Mr. MINS4IULL asked if he was bail for any other person at
present, and Mr. Jones was understood to say that the Major
was under his own personaltecOgnizance of 1001. for good be-
haviour. - . .

Nlr. lihNsrium. then asked if he was worth 6001. after the
payment of his debts, and receiving an answer in the affirma-
tive,Alte Major was bound in the sum of 5001. " that Sir
Charles IVolseley, Bart. should be of good behaviour toward
his Majesty's Person and Government, and to all his Majesty's
subjects; for 18 months, from and after Monday'nest, the 15th
October." .

The te rip of the Baronet's itnpriaomuent.expires, we belide,
on that day: - •
DANGEROUS MODE OF CORRECTION.--Patrick Saul was
charged with throwing a lad named Emmett into a well with
intent to drown him. Robert Emmett deposed that he was ac-
quainted with the-prisoner, and- that they worked for the same
master, a gardener at Walham-green. On Wednesday after-
noon, as he was crossing a field near his master's premises, he
met the prisoner, who asked him to fetch him half a pint of
beer. He said he would, and,was going off to execute his er-.
rand, when the prisimer seized him round the waist, and car-
rying him to the mouth of an adjacent well, plumped :Am in it
head foremost.
,The well has seven feet of water in it, and
it was with great_ difficulty he succeeded in saving his life
by holding fast by the sides and -climbing up until he got to
the- top- .
Patrick, in his defence, said, the. complainant and other boys
were constantly plaguing and annoying him, because he was
the only Irishman amongst them. . The boy Emmett was - par-
ticularly active, calling out wherever he -saw him, " Arrah Pat,
which way does the bull run?" &c.. He had borne this till the
Patience of mortal man'could stand- it no longer, and so he just
took him gently by the middy and carried _him to the well to
give him a small taste of a ducking. And when I got hint
to the-edge, your Honour," contnmed Patrick, " made a
sudden spring and sprunted xight out of my arias into the wa-
ter-and the d—l a bit could 1 hold him at all."

ItliNsuuni,--:But, Patrick, the least you could have
done, waS.tcaielp him out again ?
Patrick—Gon bless your Worship, T only.stepped :back
.yard or:two, just to avoid the splash that lie made, and the
urchin was out again, and shaking his feathers in the " taink•
ling of a. bed-post."
The Palrawho apprehended the prisoner, said that when he
asked him v4iy he adopted such aniode of revenge, he received
'this answer-.:" Why, 1 didn't- like to lake the law in may own
hands,, by beating him with astick, and so :t just soused him
into the well by way- of a cooler, and the d—l a help he-wanted
to get out:" .
Mr...•3liNsuuLL said it was well for the.defendani,- the boy
was not drowned, or lie would have stood in a very serious si-
tuation.

- Patrick was ordered to give good beirfor the assault.
AIILBOROU GLI-STREET..—EXTRAORDIDWIY APPLICA-
T I ON.—The proprietor .‘ of an_exhibitiOn in Pall-Mall, where
three individuals with long white hair are shewn, applied to the
Magistrate -for the- assistance-of two constables to :_prevent
breach of the peace. • The applicant stated, that the partiei.ex-
hibitedhad been brought from. the Continent, where they hid
been severely treated like slaves, by two men who wanted to
gain possession of persons,. to take them back-to their..own
country. Witness had had them under liiSProt:;,.tam for acme
length of time, and on questioning thent-in the Portuguese lan-
guage, .whieli was the only one they could speck, they. expressed
their dislike • to their own country, the Brazils,
.in_ consequence
of the cruel manner in which they Were there treated, saying
they weuld rather be .in a free country like.. England, than in
their own to be, slaves. • The • parties .who had brought them to
England were ertP6cted yesterday,• or this day, to tale them.
against-their will, and it-was in order to prevent-this that he ap-
plied for the assistance of the officers.. .
cow.a.wr inquired whether any contract had been made
between theliarties' prior to leaving their native country, as in
that case- the. 'parties who' brought them Would be entitled to
their services.

The prOprietor answered, , that no agreement whatever had I
been niade"; on the contrary, the individuals were dr4ggcd
from , Rio Janeiro against their will; so much so, that one '
of them had attempted twice to -.commit suicide during the
Voyage. • ,"
The Magistrate was of opinion,-that they could not be taken
legally against their will. The applicant mightOmploy a con,
Stable, and when the.persons---vaine to. seize on.the parties who.
were the ObjeCtsOf 'attraction, if
:they:Offered to lay their hands_
on :assault Would" be committed, for which the parties
-
could .be brought to the Office --togetherwith the white-haired
gentry, and the parties offending would. be bound over to keep
the peace".
- The proprietor "quitted the office with a` determination to put
the advice of the Magistrate into execution.
'THAMES POLIC* OFFICE...-.CHARUE
,01' ,STEALING
(loons 11t3ith..L-Xestzrday a lighterman named Wilkin sun,
who; was brought before the'-Loan:IIAYOR 011 a charge of
!having. feloniously removed a quantity of merchandise from the
East India Company:a warehouses in Bow-creek, was brought
before the sifting Magistrate and under Went a final" examina-
tion..--The Solicitor of the ljustom.vattended upon the part of
the prosecution. " - • - • -
Mr. Marsh, a ligliterrnan; Stated; that on the .6th instant, he
sent the prisdnef with in Order to receive 30 packages of liu.e
epoiii..a, for a Mr. (Madman from the .East India warehouses
in Bow-ereek, to beshipped out of hand, on board a vessel in
tlie-London Docks, called the Vohs MERCHANT..
Samuel Jenner, a Servant to the East India Company; de--
posed that on the llth. inst. he received an
.order to pack up 760
bags of miX.vomica in.3o bales, to be marked from 4.t0 33.
WitnesS put 30 bags of the .nux vomica in. each bate, and de-.
livered the-whole to Georgetimith, the wharfman to the East
India.Companv, on the 6th inst., •
George Smith deposed, th4lon the.fltli instant lie delivered
the 30 bales which he had received 'from the last witness to
thedug boat called the Perseverance, which the prisOner had in
charge. ... • •
James Morgan, the tide-waiter on bOard the 'Vault 111E11-
, CHANT; stated, that he received front the prisoner on the oth
inst. 30ales,-..marked from..f: to 33, packed up in the
.Com-
pany's package. Upon delivering them oa board, the prisoner
appeared to be particularly anxious that ]tools should not be
• used in getting- theM in, as he said the bags would be torn by
them. ‘Vitness said that Mr. Albert, the Inspector of Cus-
toms,.came on board soon after, and examined the bales. It
was impossible that the bales could have been changed, or in
• any way touched, after: they had been put on- board. -
, Mr. Albert deposed, that when .h .examined the bales he
found thAn to contain C/NDERS AND OTHER
stead- ef NIT X V OMIC A. • Several other. witnesses who had been
present at the ..time the- bales were opened spoke to the same
effect. .

The prisoner did not enter into any. explanation, or say any
thing in his defence, except merely denying that he Was r.
.111arsh's servant; and saying that he acted as the partner of that
person..
Mr. Marsh denied that he was in partnership with the
soner. The fact was, the prisoner had brought the job of ship-
ping the goods in•question to him, and he had agreed. to share:
the profits of it with the prisquer, by paying him for tieing the
labour, and receiving himself the flue allowance for the use of
the boat,. Stc. - When the prisoner first introduced the job;
ness offered to send one eu hl.s own men .to do the work, and
make an allowance to the prisoner, but thelatter said he Would
lihnsvll do the work.
Mr..I3ALLAN.TYNE said, he saw nothing to alter-the nature
of,the case, in what the prisoner had stated. . Ile. should.feel it
his duty to subMit the, case to the decision of a Jury-, The duty.
on flux- romica.is 2d. per 1b.,• the prime cost Id. per lb. The
whole of the property which has been stolen out of the King'q

Lock, as it is termecl, atounts to about 2,00 M. and has, we un-
derstand, been Seiied'in'a warehoast: The' ptitoner was fully
committed.

IMANSIO2O-110USE.,-,-To:CAR.Ts.—A number of the
owners of tows carts were brought up on summorseshefprethe
LORD MAYOR, charged by the street-hees;.iers and some of the
inhabitants of Bishoptati..-Stralt witli having brought their
carts to the stand soon atter midnight, against the . regulations
of the act. For some time past.the thine of the'liord Mayor his
been daily occupied in hearin4-charges against the numerous:
Carmen who work in the city, ror going to the stands at the most
unseasoriable.hours ;:frequently racing at full1,:allop down the_
streets at three or four o'clock in the morning, to the great
alatin and annoyance of the inhantantsi whose complaints to
tlielChief Magistrate that their rest is frequently broken by.
Such conduothave been incessant. His Lordship has used all,
endeavours to suppress the practice ; but'as Many of the More
Wealthy carmen find it their interest to. run the hazard of 'the'
fine, for the benefit of the early hour, those, endeavburS have
been hitherto unavailing.—The defendants brought at this time
before the Lord Mayor were of the poorest clan.'. They said,"
that each depended upon his labour With a Single cart for , his!
livelihood. nitre were, other carmen, each whorn, had six,
or
.more carts.. Those transgressed daily by bringing out their
carts at an 'improper hotir ; and 'if the defenclinti did not endea-
vour to get to the stand as early, they would stand no chance
of work at all.. As the 'carmen who had Gor 8 carts paid Daly
the same fine for having, the.whole of his carts out which the
man who had no more than one cart on the stand was obliged.
to pay,- the large owners could afford: to defiay the. expenses
which would be ruinous to the otheri. They • declared Oat-
they were as strongly inclined to discontinue thedestroyed
of the prosecutOrs, but felt that they should be if the •
law were put in force against them. . ,
The LORD MA-Yon. said, he felt extremely for the si-
tuation of the defendants; and had no doubt of 'the truth,
Of their 'statement. His' Lordship 'said, the only re-
medy would ,be-- 'to obtain a . new regulation' whic:'l
would . give the .officers and street keepers' the porrer
sweeping the whole of the carts found in, 'the -streets et an im-
proper hour to the Green-vard ixsTagTER, whether belong-
ing to rich or -poor. Hisl.ordship ordered the szv:-.;rAI charge*
to stand over, and in the mean time said be- would' cnth...avaux
to get a regulation of th'e -nature he had mention:it:fn.:Me by the
corporation, which he was convinced was 'the only measure that
could give relief to the defendants, and protection- to the
habitants.

'The defendants warmly thanked his Lordship for his inter-
ference, and expressed. their Conviction- that the nieasure pro"'
posed would prove filly adequate to the cure of the eVil.
MARY-LA-BONE OFtICE.—CALITION TO P;iIVNI3II.O-
KtitS.—Yesterday an information cattle on to be heard at thi.!!
office against a respectable pawnbroker residing- in Oxford-street,
for charging illegal interest. on -articles pledged at his house•--,
The infinmer, John Biers, said that on' the 1;:th of -Septemb°`-,
last, he' pnvrned a:silver spiroil at the defendant's shop for
which he redeemed on the 25th of the same month, whell,3'
demand of two-pence was made for the interest, which he paid;.
this was a farthing more than the At allowed. In answer tO
question, the informer said he did not complain in the shop,
at the time, that he• thought it„was too great A tlemarka...7
The worthy Magistrate, Mr. Griffiths, Onlooking over the Act,-
ohserved, it certainly was more than' legal. interest, and there-
fore convicted the defendant in the perkthy of ,10g: and rces,--
-Another information was laid against the saute party, by BiePt
on exactly the same, grounds as the last case.—The Magistrate.
observed, the pawnbroker could hot plead iglioritnce.of the Act,'
and convicted him in the penalty of .40s. arid costs ; at, the san
time stating that if any more intbfinations were laid against tlk.g
same party,.he should convict in the full penalty..

. . , . •
• MunnErt..----At the Aberdeen Circuit Coitet, ow/
:Friday, Ceorge Thong, residing at flarthill,Al,
That county, was found guilty or the, murder t:
William Mitchell, residing at iinvaide, is tit
parish of Tough, by means of poison. Thotoll±',
sentenced to be executed at Aberdeeir,. on t"',7
16th-of November, and his body given for (11.
section. The prisbner, who is about 61 year' °1
age, appeared' unmoved' on receiving the avv,.fu
sentence; and on his retiring from the bar, 01a
to some of the Counsel.near him—" Gentlemen,
I am as innocent as any of you sitting there." •
CHILI; STEALlNG.—Notwithstanding the trial'
conviction,, and punishment of three persons at,
the.last.Old"Bailey Sessions for this offence, "-
have to record the carrying off from its
paren.,
of Another infant. Yesterday ,morning, between
an.d ten o'clock, as the daughter of a poor
woman, residing in Briek-lane,..wa3 standing at
the corner of Church-street, an elderly' matronly"
looking woman accosted her, taking great
notice of an infant the girl had in her arms, OA
it from her, and gave her a penny, desiring sh‘-'
would carry a letter into the next street,'o,3;
Suring her the child
.should.be'' taken Care 0.1
until her return: The ,girl took the letter, but
could not find the person for whom it
directed. On her coming back, the vVoinati ha
Iled, taking' the child with her, no traces of
'could he di'LVOVered (iring the morning. The
The ,lameo-4-
une of .the mother of the infant is C)l..
ts
nErts,living near the loeWhonse, Brick-lane, SPl-
tal=field-s.'
REMOVAL OT Corvicirs.—LlVedneiday Digiolt!
at twelve o'clock, another draft,,consisting
convicts, was sent off from Newgate for tran'ti
portation. They are. to proceed to Gosport,. and
were escorted by a phrty of Dragoons ; five re 7
lays of Dragoons are stationed on the rea-A.
These convicts are a set'of most desperate eha--
racterS, and are all old offenders.
Mr-
SUDDIN DEATH.— Yesteillay morning -
BAKER; of the Shakespeare. Tavern, VerceVa.i_
street, Clerkenwell, after eating. his breakfast!:
apparently good health and spirits, lv bile in the
act of putting on one of his stockings, fell head
forward on theilloor, and expired. inStanly