The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE..

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GUILDHALL.
Webb; the driver of a town-cart, No. 111,671,
belonging to William Press, of James-street, Globe- teat his having stolen the plate.
fields, was charged, before Alderman LUCAS, by Mr. In the interim, however, the butler's wife was exe"
John Throsby, one of the society's officers for the mined, and she stated that she bad not, till within these.'
prevention of cruelty to ahimale, with wantonly and few days, the slightest idea that her husband was in debt
cruelly ill-treating a horse at Snell's warehouse, in to the amount of 441., and much less did she euppoge.:
that any parish efficer hail a claim on him. She was noft.'7
London-wall, on Monday last, and fined by the
worthy magistrate 10s. to the King, and .ss. costs. satisfied that her husband was gone toWem, about a child',
• be ha, sixteen years ago. She had lived in Adams's Metre ~
BOW-STREET.
for fourteen years, and had three children under seven,J
On Saturday Henry Lee, a notorious pickpocket, was
years of age.
brought in custody to this office, charged by Mr. Richard '
On Friday evening the butler returned to town, and
Gude, of No.. 9, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Secretary to
fearlessly, at once went to the house of his mistrese.
the Chartered Gas Company, with stealing his pocket- •
Stowell, an officer, hail been apprised of his arrival, tind,
book, by cutting his coat pocket.
went to Mrs. Higginson's to receive him, and, with the,
Slime time in August last Mr. Guile was standing with
greatest alacrity, he consented to accompany him to tlail
two ladies upon 13attersea-britige, waiting to witness a
office. He was not put into the dock as a culprit, but
boat-race. The prisoner_stood close by, and was reading
a bill descriptive of the boat-race, which he very politely Mr. HoseiNs, on seeing him. said I think it tight you ' '
offered to Mr. Gude and the ladies. As'the contending should be told that a quantity of plate has been lost fro's,
boats approached the bridge Mr. Gude felt something he your mistress's house, and I ask you who was the stranger'
his left-hand ctiat-poeket, and turnine• round he said to the who called on you on Sunday morning? The hutler-s•`
prisoner, " You rascal...you have picked my pocket." Some He was a parish officer froin Shropshire, who cant. Sit I
person then said, " Your pocket-book is thrown into the apprehend me far 41/., the arnotint of arrears due for S
river." The tide was running down very strong at the the maintenance of a child I was declared to be the Wier ', I
time, and Mr. Gude crossed the bridge to look into the of 16 years ago.
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river, when he found that his pocket-book had been picked Very well; now as to the plate. Do you know anf .l
up by a waterman. He then ran in puisuit of the prisoner, thing about it? No, Ido not, said the man sternly, but
who was making his escape over the bridge, and took my firm belief is that it is now in the plate-chest, where I
him into custody, and lodged him with Freeman, the toll- left it.
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taker, saying, " Hold this fellow, be has robbed me ; 1 Mr. Hosersze turned round to Colonel George Higgins: .).
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shall return in a few moments." The toll-taker took son, Mrs. HigginsOn'a SOD, and inquired if it were possible., '
charge of the pis/leer ; but when Mr. Gude returned to after the search that had been made, for the plate 60.0; the toll-house he found he had been permitted to escape. be there 2--e Colonel Higginson smiled, as if the idea waster"'
Mr. Gude saw the prisoner about a fortnight ago standing absurd to he entertained for a moment. and added that
at the corner of a street near the Coburg Theatre. He diligent search bad been made, and it could not be found: -
went for a constable to take him into custody, hut the pri. The butler more warmly said, I repeat that I believe ir'
soner ran away, and effected his escape through the back is there. I put it there myself, and unless some one luny
part of a house where a billiard table was kept in the examined, the chest who knows the secret part, I shall coal
Waterloo-road. Mr. Gude then gave information at this tinue to think so.
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office, in consequence of which the prisoner was taken into Mr. HOSKINS inquired of Ctilonel Higginson if he had
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custody on Saturday morning.
personally examined the chest ?—Colonel Higginson said i ;
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
John Emonson Smith and Richard Bennat, two
he had not; but his brother had, and was convinced the•.,•'
spoons, &is were not there.
country lads, were charged with having been found in
arm, in the night time, with the intent to destroy game. Air,. flosicris_air iiin . man, what you mean by the ':,-
secret part. The' IsPutle.r-- Why Sir, 'underneath tli,!
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The offence is one which has rarely been the subject
of in-vestigation at this office. place where the candlesticks go, there is a kind of trap.
which lifts up, and I took the candlesticks Out niyialf, and',
Put the s onto: in that trap; and there I ern sure they will:
Mr. Manners, jun. said that the prisoners were old
offenders, and prayed the Magistrates to make a severe foams.
example of them, now be fa
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Mr. Hosoctres and Colonel Higgieson were evideng e'
Mr. HALLS cd served, however, that as no evidence had
staggered at the earnest manner in which the man spat: !'
been offered to show that the prisoners had committed the
offence before, he should, from that consideration, send the
and at the curious description he gave of the secret ch.;posi
prisoners to the Heuse of Correction for two instead of -i
tory in the chest, and the former ordered Stowell to pro--
three months• ceed immediately to the house with the man, and examine
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The prisoners were then committed for two months. the part he hail described.
MAitI.I3OItOVOH-STREET. In about an hour afterwards, Mr. Hostrires said to ova.,
of the personzisotinstaatyteanndva7locnegerre,lattihveehtuerthishasbnasineaorease.s:
h"treYsel—needthe plate has been found in the chest, precisely,
forged cheques to the Secretaries of the projected King's
On Saturday night, a fashionably dressed man, about 40
years of age, was charged at this office with a series of for-
geries on mest of the banks of the metropolis; by uttering
as he left it."
College, Literary fund Society, Society for Promoting.
Christian Knowledge, Society for Building Churches and
Chapels, and various other national institutions, besides
private individuals. The prisoner being asked his name
and address, replied, " I must beg leave to decline answer-
ing until I obtain professional assistance."
Mr. Peacock was cashier in the office of the Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, at 67, Lincoln's-inn-
fields. About three o'clock that afternoon the prisoner
came to the office, and handed witness a 101. cheque, drawn
on Bosanquet and Co., 27, Lombard-street, arid signed
" Alexander Hope." fie ondecstaod from the prisoner
that the drawer was General Sir Alexander Hope, Bart.,
Governor of Chelsea Hospital, who was desirous of making
a donation to the Society of 5/., and he requested witness
to give him change for the cheque. He told the prisoner
that he must send out for change, and for t4at purpose
heeded the cheque to quo,* of the clerks, epoo which the
prisoner, withoet uttering a word, precipitately quitted
the office, and he (Mr. Peacock) pursued him as far as
Turnstile, Holborn, where he secured him, and took him
into a shop. A constable was they eent for, end the pri-
seiner, upon whose person pothipg of importance was fotind,
was bropght to thif office.
Mr. Joseph Snow, secretary to the Literary Fund So-
ciety, at No. 4, Lincoln's-inn-fields, deposed thet en the
14th of November, between threg.;and four &clock in the
afternoon, the prisoner called neon him, and requested to
be furniehed with a prospectus of the society for Robert
Grant, Esq. of St. John's-wood, Regent's-park, and asked
witness if he was authorised to receive dont:tione, as Mr.
Grant hail desired him to present Of. to firs society. Wit-
netts, of cows!, agreed to tevtive Ole donation, and the
prisons; then handed him a printed cheque drawn on Mas-
terman and Co. for 10/. and demauded the difference. He
(Mr. Snow) observed that 5/. seemed an odd sum to pre-
eent to the society, as it did not constitute Mr. Grant 4
lumber, 0141 could lie effected either lay that gpntloniari
becoming an annual subscriber at one guinea, or giving the
sum of 10/. as d (1011010 Po The prisoner, however, de-
clared that Mr, grant intended to become a tpember, end
promised to call again the following day, when he would
cnrii for the receipt, wineli he (Mr. Stow) aecordiogly
prepared ; he gave the prisoner 51. ; the prisoner, however,
never called again ; and when lie paid the cheque into the
society's bankers, it was pronounced to be a forgery ; a
few days afterwards he called at the office of the Royal So,
ciety of Literature, and Society for Propagating the
Gospel in Voreign Parts; at No. 4, Parliament-street; anal
mentioned the circorpotance of the prisoner having de,
frontlet! him, to the secretaries of those institutions; when
one of them informed him that the prisoner had presented
of a noble and distinguished personage; end, indeed, Mr.
saecirelt.nif•yortgriedthe4pqr;ct°tedMl: inlgle'snrCyolNlegle7l4°°tllieenddogne'attne
Snow said, that to enumerate the institutions whieh the
prisoner had defrauded, would be to name 44 the national
establishments with which the metreeelis alteunds,
Mr. Phippen, of the White Horse-cellar hooking-
office, nigh Holbert), stated, that on Friday evening the
prisoner took pp inside and outside seat fur Bath, and gave
a cheque on 13esanioet's, signed " Alexander Hope," its
payment. Witness gave hire two eoyereiges in Chew.
No one came to take the seats, and the cheque proved i
forgery.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. Is.
EX FAKE scHLEsittaxit, A BANERVI'T.
The Loan CuAncEr.t.ou gave judgment in this atm.
The bankrupt had been indebted to the petitioner for goods'
sold. The goods were sold in distinct parcels; at different ,
times : two bills of exchange were given in payment for
them, drawn at 4iifferent dates. When the conunissidn
issued against the bankrupt, the first bill had fallen duenn&
was unpaid ; the second had also been dishonoured, but ha&
not at that time been returned, and no subsequent demana
for payment had been made upon it. An actionwasafter-' ,
wards brought for the recovery of the latter bill, when a'
summons was taken out to stay the proceedings, on the '
ground that it ought to have been proved tinder the cont-1
mission, and that it was now barred. Mr. Justice Holroy&P *,
before whom that sumMOna was taken out, refuted to Ulat°
any such order. The matter was then brought before Sks.e
Vice‘Chancellor upon petition, who had made a different
order. The question in dispute, his Lordship said, turned'
upon the construction of a clause in the 49th Geo. 111.,
which had been re-meted, with certain additions, by tha
last bankrupt act (6th Geo. IV.) Two classes of cases veers
thvz# provided tor; and it was clear, under the Aro put of:
the clatt.e, that the proof of a debt under ei CO.Milliglian of
bankrupt was a relinquishmort of the right a creditor would
otherwise have to sue for it at law. The second part ofttie
clause, and that it was which related particularly to this case'
provided that where a creditor having twe remedies
chase to
prove his debt before commissioners, he should he considered
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to have made•his election, and was precluded from rei4rting,
to any other mode. it seemed to his Lordship %WO ti3ke mean- ;.•
ing of tho Act of Parliament was perfectly 'exi-itiad that the
word election did not mean an election geriectiiiy, ii)M tk3
the pat ticidar debt proved. The tuAly dotd.4 thqt regoinc4
was, whether these were distinct debts; And, applying to ‘,
them the .rule adopted by the judges of common law, who
bad said that tlistmct contract:, wade distinct debts, hie,
Lordship was of opinion that these, were distinct debt*,
His opinion therefore was, that the creditor in this case 4,9 d
not, by proving a debt under the commission as tq orte
tall
of exchange, divested himself of his right to tiring itn action
upon the other, that being givon aE a ditferegt time and
for a different parcel of goods from those in respear- of
which the first deht had been incurred. His Lordship
made no order as to the costs. -

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. iS.
DE DEAUVOIR V. RHODES.
The hearing of this cause is at length concluded, and bia
Honour this day again expressed his determination of givio(
judgment in the case On the 12th of January.

PATHETIC App,Ws.-t—A poor girl killed
herself with poison this week, apparently. by way of
freak, on a more striking manner of lark, to bottoy (VA
vulgar slang. When ber parent- waa ft I.lfl
agonies, and the sppposo caps§ 4l}§ rpprovod him, coin,
weiwipg, ae Op newspapers say, with this remarkable elk-
preAsiop? " My dear father,
.what a silly man you are," &c.
The address reminds us of the black woman's account of
the affecting manner of the death of her child-7'f pof
little Satnbo l tie said pothing lil=t curse your heart,'
mammy,' aryl die 4 like a lamb !---Exambier.

MY: DYER, the Magistrate, then told the prisoner, that
tbs. evidence in Mr. phippen's case was so conclusive, he
should at once commit him for trial. The -prisoner
merely said, hi a faltering voice.--„`f Well, sir, j 14140
submit, I suppose." The prisoner was then committed
for defrauding Mr. Phippen, and (mitred to be brought
up on a future day for examination on other charges.

BIRTHS.
On the 13th instant, at his house, at Dslstoo, the lad/
of Griffith Jones, Esq., of a son.
On the 4th inst., the lady of Thomas Biqq?„ 4011*/
citor, Egsof,sti-ept, 24a:id, 'of q datigUer.
On the Uth July, at Calcutta, Mts. Horatio Jones, of a
daughter.

NARYLESONE.
A charge of robbery volt eeyera) time, last week brepght
under the attention of Mr. Hosxttes, whiCh, from the,
peculiarity of the circumstances, and its singular termina-
tion, is altogether of a different character to the ordinary
cases of this description.
The complaining party was Mrs. Higginson, a lady of
property, residipg at 1'0.4,§, Wimpole-street, and the ac-
cused individual; her bull'er, was charged tle4h
about four dozen of table, tea, and dessert spoons, and
other valuable articles of plate. The information was
given to Mr. Hoskins by a friend of Mrs. Higginson ; and,
in the course of a very minute detail of events, he stated
thcp, pp the morning of yesterday (Sunday) week, a
stranger enll:id at 114 g. ffigginson hpuse tp inquire for
the butler. They went out together; and, coon 'after the
butler's return, the stranger again carne and was taken by
him into the pantry. While they were there a servant
went to the room for the purpose of her daily duty there,
and was surprised to find the door locked; and, before
she caul4 sbe distinctly heard the jingling of
plate. Within a Is miliiiteg of thal; tithe the butler
made a-confidential communication to tbe'loeinian "that
he was compelled to go immediately into Shropshire, for
that the stranger who was with him was an officer of a pa-
rish near Wem, who had come to London to apprehend
hip foe &p., the arrears due to the parish, under an order.
of aipliatioa matt against bin] 16 years before, for the
inai,noarii dr ll?egmate child ; ass) he gave into his
.(ine IfootAitl}?i) ciri Qo imwtrplao'4., lie'
he wanting for the service of the familydut•ini his ab-
sence. He then obtained permission from his mistress to
be absent till the fullowing Wednesday, under an excuse
that his father, who lived in the country, was dangerously
41, 11,4 cfeedinlT ansjiotts tp see him. The different rea-
sons given to tie totitinari anditie mistress as to the cause
of Ids lesiVing tolVtt *aria litre g'cireittataneet tif skispioitin
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against him, when, 'On the plate-chest beteg looked' into;
wery.,Foqitrable tion of its contents' could' not be
found. DLL diePonektiapPeiepily bg:c4? Indfe manifest;
as, instead of returning on Wednesday, etii
gagement, he sent a letter to his wife and brother, de-
siring one of them to call on his mistress to say he could
not possibly return before Saturday. Neither could the
:atraPger )71Po pc.,4 galled on him on the preceding Sunday
be f4bnd, although every efertioit, hat? beep giptl2 arer-
iaii,‘ where he kds Jivitig. alSo'Cofistiited Mgliy tt
his disadVantage; that' be hid kept 'it 'a" profotini secret
'',Fm bis 7isttess, ditrini the many yeats be bad peen id
her service, Zhai he iaki a ilii4EMme antil the father of a
family of children, all of whom were living iiithai a sherlt
distance of Mrs. Higginson's residence, and the expenses of I

On the 10th instant, at Catnbridge, the lady of the Rev.
Edward Serocohl Pearce, of a son.

In Charles-street, Berkeley-square, Mrs. Arthur E4eflt
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On 'the 12th instant, the laJy of 3. Petty Mospratt, Eoq•

of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 13th. instant, at St. Margaret's, Westminster, by
the Rev. A. Gordon, Lieut.-Colonel Ebringtou, of the
3d Regiment of Guards, to Anne Margaret, second qiNgittel•
of,lohn Miott, Esrl , of FirpliF.o Ledge.
On the 13th instant, at St. Giles's, Cainberw.ell, by
cence, Mr.' James Davidge,,of Friday-street, 'to Catherine, '
daughter of Mr. Charles Harden, of the Old Kent-road.
On the 15th instant, at St. Saviour's Church, Souther
wank, by the Rev. William Harrison, D.D., Mr. WilliaitYl', . •
Jackson, of Three Crowu-square, Southwark, solicitor,,.lo:
filaupth, tl;ird dait4.l4eF of Georgc, Fs;,, of Malik
street, Southwark.
DIED. .
On the Bth of November last, at Vienna, Thomas Jaekt
son, Esq., in the 69th year of his age : he MIS the Ai '7.
can of William Jackson, Esq., of Exeter, and for fi"
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years Minister Plenipotentiary to the late King .of Sar.
14131101,,i4!44, i 4 Y-filpfY •
Ditilid'grancia JOnes,rEiq , oue of his Majesty's Nov
Lieutenants far that county, aged 71. • • -
On the 17th of October last, at Trinidad, universa4
lamented by the whole community, .Philip Reinagle, :Esit;*!
after many years of unparalleled bodily a±.l 7.-r.e.p;al
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iuge, ttioaqe4 by Crneertuluesa aid' afro
dith 46. • • • ' • , •
On the 1 kat iiMant, Heater Robinscn, wife of.. ' •
Henry Robinson, Upper Belgrave-place, Pimlico,. sitteereir,
lamented by her family and friends. .. . • .
t*th. ipsiaa:t, at Poilthai-1,144ue1l lamented, Ncrs.,
Woodthorpu, the wife of the Town Cluk.
On the 18th instant, Mrs. Groom, wife of Mr. F. U•
Groom, of Aldersgate-street, leaving seven children to la' '
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nient their loss. „

Op the 27th November laNt„.pt qll,ll
4emjc fever; age 4 Liget. p. -
Ttekirrietit of Filth', IhV rielyl fekriitea by his flan 4 "4
brother ofEeeis. .

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