The Sun.
London, England, 1810-03-24 00:00:00

POLICE.

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. I • PUBLIC
.t../FFItE, WORSIIIP-STRBBT.--Yesterday,
Ann Ev6ls was finally
.examined, being 'charged
with robbing; 'Mr. William 'Williams, of Llii'igturt,
with %darn "she lived servant, of it. bs. 6d. and 3
key, his property. The charge being substantiated,
.the prisoner'' was fully committed to NetVgate for
trial.
BOW-STJ3EET.--DUBLLIII;G. Yes'erday Lewis
Gasqueti,E.sq. was brought to the Office by Adkins,
before Mr. GRAHAM, charged With sending a letter
to-AldboroUgh Richardson, Esq, challenging him to
:fight a duel. . The parties. formerly,*ere-officers be-
longing to the gotit Regiment of Light Dragoons.
The challenge was sent in consequence of .some ex-
pressions; said to have been made use of by. Mr.
„Richardson as to the cause of. ,the prisoner's leaving
the Regiment; but Mr. Richardson refused to ac
-
„Cent the challenge. The prisoner.found bail, him
self in 2001. andr two sureties in 1901. each, to keep
.
the peace for twelve months.
A girl, who said her name was &fury Thillicuns,
offered, a counterfeit dollar at the shop of Messrs.
Fisher and Son, haberdashers, Strand ; on being
asked where she lived, she replied in I. itle Drury-
lane, that her mother took in plain work.; Mr.
,FlSlter sent. one ot.his shopmen with her, but she
•refired to go horpe,•ancl returned• to the shop for-
the dollar. It is supposed 'she has-;for. some time
,been in the habit of passing had money ; she was
well known .at, Bow-street ' • .she is rerna.kded for
another examination on FridaY next, -March 30,
when several otlir charges„are expeEted to be made
against: her.

MANSION=ITOUSE.—Yesterday an interesting ex-
amination took place before the LORD MAYOR.
A. Mr. Mason, an Attorney; was charged with
:aiding some persons in robbing and carrying,away
property from a warehouse in Vine-street, in the
Minories. It appeared from the explanation of a
.person who gate evidence against Mr. Mason, that
.the property carried away belonged to the estate of
the late Mr." Steel, map and chart-seller, formerly of
that it was put in.lus warehouse, under
his care, as one of tl:eNlessengers of the Bankruptcy,
fOr w hich-he produced, his order ; -that they had
since traced the property, Consisting of books, maps,
charts, and navigation instruments, to a consider-
. able 'value, to -different places, sent in a clandestine
:manner by the desite of the defendant, part of which
-were in the possessi,n of a man of the name of
Brison, ,who refused to give them up, having
.bought them.
Mr. ALLEY attended as Counsel for the defen-
dant. He admitted- that his client had a6ted" under
.a mistake in; this case; -but not with a' felonious in-
tent. He having married the widow of the late
Mr.. Steel, .supposed himself intitled to all the pro-,
perty his'', wife was in possession of. This was
.answered by .r Gentleman for the °conceal, who
stated that Mrs. Mason had been separated from her
husband above. twelve months, and what business
She, had done was for herself; independent of her
lbband, as a female citizen, according to the pri-
vilege. of city .ot London. •
Tile LORD: ;IVIAYoII obseri'ed, that-this was cer-
"airily a very important case. The defendant had
no right to take the- property which was under the
Commission of Bankruptcy; and ordered it to be
immediately restored,. admitting the defendant to
bail fora fuller examination.

DVITLIy, MARCH 20.—1 t is said that Govern-
ment has issued a'Cdmmission to Aldermen Carle-
.ton and King, authorising them to cause all the
Martell° Tot% ers along the coast of Ireland to be
demolished, as it is now the declared opinion of
the besk,engineers, that these Towers, in case of
InvasiOn, would most probably prove "formidable
td all but the cnemy."
It is with regret that we have to state the decease
of the. Bishop of Elphin. The Bishop of Water-
ford, ft, is mentioned, is to succeed to the vacant See.

"Edna HARVEY, Esq. who was broke for disre-
sped to Lord GAMBIER, was restored to his rank of
Rear-Admiral of the White on Wednesday last.
The new Comedy forthcoming at Covent-Gar-
den, Under the title of 110,w/o Toze and how to
Please, Is reported to be the Produdion -of a Lady.
'Much instruction therefore nizy naturally be expea-
ed from this Dramq, as it Whist be acknowledged that
the fair scx are abundantly. qualified to display the.r
talents in each directiop. •

RUNNING IN SACKS.—A man of the
.natne of
Field, who keeps a .public-house at Old Windsor,
.has made a bet.of tOO guineas, that he will run hi
a sack :rom Hyde Park. Corner to Windsor •in 122
hours: He is to start on Sunday night after 'twelve
o'clock ; -he is to have . as many sacks as he should
want, and change as often as be pleases; and if he
falls, to get up without assistance. Many hundreds
,are betted on the race.

A travaer from Merthyr Tydvil was stopped' on
Wednesday morning, about. eight o'clock, on the
road. between Catsash and Newport, Monmouth-
shire, -bv two men, who robbed him of 601.' and
thrn tied him to a tree, where. he remained above
lour hours, He was at last liberated by two cnen,
who, having their 'faces covered with mud, he •sup-
' poses to be those who robbed him.
SiNotmAtt SPORT.— On: Tuesday pfternoon, a
singnlar
.runustment tc ok place in the neighbour-
hood .of 'Bankside. A 13botirer having caught a rat
abotit a fortnight befo.v, which was fed ever,
since on young kittens a:id milk,' propOsed that the
rat should Should fight-* on the:,above day, as •moony cats as
,itcould,it half 3-Crown each, and tha't the person
whose cat • killed the rat -sliottld. be entilled. to one
guinea. At lout o'clock a full groW-n cat Was put
into the tat, in a vat tvbere the rat had' bees- pre•
viOnsly fed, which instantly jumped out of the vat,
and would not face the rat ; and singular it is to re-
mark, 16 cats were placed to combat this animal,
seven 'of which lay dead in the Nat, and eight ran off;
but the 16th heing soniething of the tiger bteed,
was, after a severe round, which was supposed from
fatigue of the other, enabled to kill the rat.

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BENJAMINi V. ROUSE AND OTHERS.

Mr, GARRO* stated, that this was an anion to -
recover. a compensation in damages ,for art assault
and false,. imprisonment, under circumstances_ the
most infambuS'le, ever recolle6ted .to have heard.
The plaintiff was a minor, a young' girl under 18
years of age, who sued in the name of her father
as her prochat:n- 'is- the law -termed it. The
defendant Was-aQinStable of the city of Rochester,
where then plaintiff's father lived in a very teseeci-
able re,e of life, Carrying on the trade.of-aslopseller..
T the month of SePterriber, " lastyear, there was a
fair at Stroud, in the neighbohrhood. of Chatham,
which was moth frequented by all the inhabitants
&Allow places. The plaintiff, incompany with her la-
ther and mother, went to the fair, as many of their
neighbours also did. It happened, as was not unlil:e-
ly to -happen in such a place, that by the pressure
'of the crowd, .the- plaintiff 'got separated from her
lather and mother, and not being able to find them,
.she made the best of her way home.. She found
• her father and mother had tot come home, and
therefore she waited patiently against their door
until4hey should arrive. -While- she-was in this si-
tuation, 'she was addresed by the apprentice boy of
'Roust, who impertinently solicited her to go with
-him. She gave him a‘properreply, upon which
proceeded- to 'take some more liberties with her,
which she resented. In the mean time the defend-
-ant, -RotiSt, came up, :and- he was sorry to say, in-
stead of-correcting the insolence of his apprentice
'towards a deWneelcss yeutig woman, he actually
dragied her front- her father's door to the cage,
undes -pretence .that she was -a common prostitute,
and had assaolted.his apprentice.
When Benjamin, the father, came home;.. he
learned what had hoinened to his daughter, and
endeavoured to. procure -her _enlargemetit•; but all
•his intreaties proved in vain, and' she Vvas 'detained
,the whole that night in- custody. Having the
next day procured her liberation, -he expressed his
-determination, of seeking redress by law, and he
:accordingly • brought an action for- the injury his
edaughter had. sustained..,, Gress and grievous ai the
.wrong done to hint was already, it was nothing. 'to
Nv-hat followed, for the. defendant. boasted he could
.easily get rid.of the Jew's chaege, and accordingly
went :before a .Magistrate, and swore to an assault
apiost all iiitee, father, mother, and daughter, and
as the ramify was qtnetly sitting in their. house, se-
veral; soldiers, .with their bayonets fixed, • were
Marched' in, and the whole family compelled, at
the poinr of the bayonet, to go again to the cage,
where they were confined in • a ,filthy dungeon
under gleund. This. being on the Friday, the l';ain-
,titf, as a Jew, ;could not by his religion :take any
steps ror his liberation_ on .the Saturday, being. Its
',-Sabbath, and On .Sunday no Magistrate was sitting
.t 6 -hear his complaint. While 'in this situation he

begged a little indulgence; but not so* much as a
drop vf .Aater would they in him or his family
-.hay% unless as a condition he procniselllo abandon
. the gelioli wiiicb he had brought against the defen-

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dant. , Oil the Sunday evening he promised to. ac-
eerie in 'belle:terms ; - but having received ,a little re-
freshinein, he b:und iiiti spirits recover ; and when

it was poposed that. he should sign a .release, he
sold " No •I will wait now until I can go before
a Magistiate in the morning, who will do- what is
right;" he accordingly , remained, with his family,
in , custody until. the Monday,- when he was dis-

clorged. .
Air. GAitnow said he muStadd, that the defen-
dants preferred a B;11 tar an assault at the Sesson
against all the family, so that there were none to
contra diet their testimony, and it was true they were
found guilty ; but the Court were so little satisfied
with the verdict, that they merely inflicted% nomi-

nal pilniShment by fining them One Shilling. He
shoed see whether they would on the present-occa-
sion, attempt to setup the same defence.
The plaintiff was about to call his witnesses,
•When_it appeared lie had given 110 notice of action,
Which the defendant as a Constable, was entitled to,
and the Chief 11;n-on held this omission to be fatal,
and the plant& was Nonsuited.
eui fleinagin was Charged with robbing Mary
'Bar o:, the highway, at Woolwich, of a bundle of
'clOaths. It rip, eared, that another crime, rather than
robbety, was in the contemplation of the prisoner,
and he was therefore-acquitted.
The same prisoper was again indicted for an as-
sault, with au • inien t to commit a rape &pan the
last-mentioned prosecutrix. The prosecutrix had

itirprutiently .given her company on the toad, to the
_prisoner, on the, evening in question, although she
badnever seen_ him before.—Guilty. _ Imprison-
ment °lie year. . .