The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.7..-(Tnis Day.) • i
The. Captain of a Danish vessel was brought before the Loan
Ilacron, on a charge of baying smuggled on shore a quantity of
foreign tobacco. , Thee New Smuggling Act renders , any person!
"h) shall unship without payment of duty, more than one pound;
ef tobacco, liable to a penalty of one hundred pounds, and to im-
Ptilonment until it be paid.
Au Excise officer proved that he met the prisoner in the,
Streete.earrying a bundle of foreign tobacco, for which be had no
Permit. The witness took him into custody.
Mr. Atinzaws attended as counsel for the prisoner, who, it
triPeleed, had never before been in this country. , it . could not
e presumed therefore, that he was acquainted .with this, terribly
'seers Act. , '
Akkintan. Maitre ",tito presided' with ; Lord Mayer, *aid
every foreigner who: came hay Was bound 'to know and con
Mr; • Amiss:We said, ,to bind anypereort tn,op4ert;t4td, ; like
the present, •eteriff he kuew 'thein, wati.to 'bind bins to dn
Was impossible. • •-- • . • ‘. • ;
Mr. Ilonr.xt 'characterised theism' era- hesip.of confusion. '
Mr. Atinaiws said, that Mr. Walford,dreevit :up. At any
tate, the Soliaitor of the Excise ought to be: her% „to,explain its
In ning. There was not the Slightest proof of. thc,toliacco her:
list
beetrunshipped, which was • requisite, to ,Werrani time qqzyiei.
titon of the defendant for the enormous penalty of 1001., for
innocently or ignorantly landing five: pounds. weight of tobacco,
and in case of his not being able to pay the fine (which he could
not) to imprisonment for eight or ten years, at the tender mercy
of the Excise. ' ,
The Loan Afavon.asked the officer what proof he had that the
defendant unshipped the tobacco.
, Tile Officer.--None my Lord. If I had seen him ;come from
--a ship, l would have seized ship and all, for having been em-
Ployed in amuggling.-..-(Laughter.)—The officer contended that
Inch proof was not requisite.
A long discussion ensued as to ,whether this evidence.waa re-
(aleitt. Alderman Atkins was inclined to believe that it was not ;
ithe Lord Mayor thought-it was; the Chief Clerk thought it was
7)t• In the doubt which • prevailed under the ,act another
tet
or, Plainer, and • less . 'severe statute Vall resorted to, and
prisoner, who.'-stood , trembling; in. expectation 01 Per-
petual isnpriso
nment,,ill•default of producing. .the muount of a
penalty which the could never
Pe'Y was-fined ,41. 100, being three
taupe the value of the tobacco. This isuna he paid joyfully and went
Sway, declaring that he would never, if he could help
it, set foot
egain in a country where there were lime whicii rendered RStranger
Habit to perpetual imprisonent in f d'
innocently. , or lip ing five pounds Of tobacco
I
Mr. HARIAtit said, that -if .the penalty was 101: instead of
•
°°l9 it Would he infinitely more effective.
The ARA MAYOR and Alderman Aram said, as the duty
On tobacco rendered the temptation to smuggling very great, the
Penalty 4041 be considerable
autufteid, thatet'lle,D under atiees w liberated, the Solicitor of the. Excise came,
ler the act no proof, of the smuggled
commodity
having been unshipped WAS requisite. The man
ought to have
been convicted.

BOW-STR
Mete ElizObeth lifariniuk, a neat little. Jewess, was charged
With assaulting her " wedded lord," and by occasioning a
violent concussion between an tunbrella and his ,head. She,
had broken both at the saline tints. .41t. Marinius, who is at
last 20 years older than his rib (and which she did not forget to
reproach him with) stated her little freaks. Its said he had been
Inarried five years which was three years 'too inuell; he wished .for
divorce, as he had repented when too late ; he said that he would
allow her ss. per week. 'Mrs. M., howeier, replied that she
Would never, consent to that while there -watt a world- in the
world." He was a rich and kept-ctinipanywitti-Prioce
Estterhazy, and adduced su`ch ebody of argument that the case
lised nearly two hours, and Mr. Matstiirt.t finding' that 'he
could not succeeded in Procuring harmony, ordered the warrant to
be suspended on a mutual' prionil from both to keep the peace.

. .
.«,H4* PAY .)
butriel Dibue4st 4
, ►. foreign emigrant, tvisa"chargetau;l hy
Burke, the buullorsi, of go foreign house, withlted Mr,
having ass bitu
iu lii„ house last, nigistart; • •:. °
'the prisonaris AI ”rrine looking Analk..oot leant-6 feet high,
tn immense pair of whiskers. The /tubing* mf his d*rk eye:
ehisvnced a most tietorminesi spirit, and had he been ,4‘. in character"
appearance had been something more thinvimposing. ,
• 'Mr. Burke said he would withdraw his charge, if the prisoner
promise not to visit his bowie again.
41r. Dr IC it, in French, intimated his proposal to him ;' hut he
woultrnot Non to it. lie gild that he derived his snbsiatence
~,fr°,4l hie friends who visited' there ; and insisted on having '
"'tressaa exatnined.. his
ordered them to be called. Two fo.
t'iti4rs came forwrd, wbo swore that Mr. Burke had toki the
:
i4oner, that a knife, vorbich hhu, was the properest
ittuP6l,4 his halo, as an.aSittssin; &c. hoseever,
he!' ."urke denied, and said kliatike the prisoner was a poor ;man,
Would not pi two the anise Lie
,Wll4 discharged.