The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—AFFAIR AT Lain GRESLEY'S.—
Yesterday Joseph Smith, formerly coachman to her Lady-
ship, by whom he was indicted, along with other servants,
for having conspired to deprive her Ladyship of her liberty
in August last, made application to the sitting Magistrate
(Sir R. BIRNIE) under the following circumstances :—He
had been more than ten months in her service at the time
when brought to Marlborough-street on the charge of con-
spiracy. When the servants were engaged in detaining her,
as the only probable means they had of recovering the
wages then due to them, he was in the stable, and took no
part whatever in the transaction, although afterwards in-
cluded in the charge, and sent to the House of Correction.
He understood that the legal proceedings were removed to
the King's Bench, which, from the enormous expense it
must create, would militate very severely against the poor
servants, espcially as they were not yet'paid their wages.
Sir R. BIRNIE had nothing whatever to do with the
complainant's statement.
He now stated that her Ladyship was indebted to him in
the sum of 491. 12s. 5d., the amount of his wages, and
several small sums of money he advanced to her on different
occasions.

Sir 11. BInNIR expressed his regret at not being able to
afford him any assistance, especially as he had every reason
to believe the correctness of his statement. He was very
much astonished at the conduct of Lady Oresley, which
was any thing but that of a-lady of sense.
The complainant partly agreed with Sir Richard, but
he begged leave to say that she showed no great want of
sense in engaging servants to do her business, and discharg-
ing them for a conspiracy or impertinence when they de-
mand payment.
Sir R. BIRNIE—You say you had nothing to do with
the riot? Complainant—No, your Worship; but I was
determined not to give up the coach and horses to any
other man until I was paid my wages.
Sir R. BIRNIE—Yon have received no part of the money
due to you? Complainant—No, your Worship. A per-
son named Williams offered to give me 40/. if I gave up
the coach and horses.

Sir R. BritNie said, Marlborough-street-office was.the
proper place for hive to make the application ; he would,
however, recommend him to apply to an attorney.
The complainant seemed very thankful for the advice,
but he regretted to think, from his present circumstances,
that no attorney would be willing to undertake his case.
Yesterday morning Ann Peirse, better known as Lady
Barrymore, was carried to this office in the arms of two
street-keepers, her face and person covered with blood, and
apparently in a dying state. Sir Rwft Aan Bum F.. directed
that she should be conveyed to the waiting-room, and that
surgical
.assistance should be immediately sent for. A sur-
geon soon _after arrived, who having dressed her wound,
stated that the hurt was not of a dangerous description.
Inquiry was then instituted as to the cause of the fracas
in which it was but too evident her ladyship had been con.
cerned, when it was ascertained that a publican named
Clint, who keeps the Blue Boar, Long-acre, had assaulted
the wretched woman, by repeatedly striking her upon the
head with a constable's staff. Ford the gaoler was imme-
diately despatched to take Clint into custody, and bring
him before the Magistrates. He found him in his bar, and
having told him the object of his visit, requested him to
go quietly to the office. Clint, however, refitted to stir,
unless Ford would produce a warrant, adding that he cared
as little for the Magistrate as for Ford himself. The
latter immediately sprung across the counter into the
bar, and seizing Clint by the collar, never loosened his
hold until he brought his prisoner before the Magis-
trates. Several witnesses were then examined touching
the assault, when it appeared that the unfortunate wo-
man, who had only the day before been released from
Tothill-fields prison, was proceeding through Long-acre,
when she was surrounded by a number of boys, who began
to annoy and call her names. She happened to make a
stand opposite to the Blue Boar, when Clint, armed with
a constable's staff, ran out, swearing he would " brain"
her, if she did not immediately move on. The wretched
woman, being is usual inebriated, resented the rough usage
of the landlord by flinging a shoe which she held at the
tap-room window—a mode of warfare which she has
carried on with the most unrelenting vigour against these
publicans who had happened to offend her. Clint instant'y
felled her to the ground with a blow of the staff. He then
repeated the stroke twice, and left her bathed in blood
upon the pavement, in which state she was conveyed to
Bow-street. . .

Sir R. RrawrE—Bad as the unfortunate creature is, she
must be protected from an outrage of this description.—
You must find bail.

The Magistrates then directed that the unfortunate
woman should be conveyed to St. Martin's workhouse.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday, soon after the sitting
Magistrate (W. A. A. WHITE, Esq.) had taken his seat
on the bench, Capt. Montague, of the 3d Regiment of
Foot Guards, entered the office, and addressing Mr. White,
said he was directed to make inquiry, whether a report
which had appeared in some of the daily journals of Wed-
nesday la,t, respecting some sentinels in• the Park assault-
ing two females, was correct.
Mr. WurrE ordered the clerk to be called in, who read
the depositions over, which were the same in substance as
appeared in the newspapers.
Captain Montague—But, Sir, you did not receive the
evideove of the soldiers.

Mr. 'WHITE-Certainly not ; they Were the party com-
plained against.
Captain Montague—l attended at the office with the
soldiers to make a charge against the females for obstructing
them in the execution of their duty.
Mr. WHITE-Then, Sir, if you had any charge to make,
yo❑ should not have gone away. •
Captain Montague—You told me, Sir, there was no oc-
casion for my waiting.
Mr. WHITE-Because the charge was against the sol- 1
diers, and not against the women. You could have waited
if you chose.
Captain Montague—The uewspapers assert that you
said, " You did not consider the Park under the control of
the military :" is this correct?
Mr. WHITE-1 hope, Captain Montague, you do not
come here for the purpose of quarrelling with me?
Captain Montague—Oh on, not at all ; I only want the
matter explained.
Mr. WRITE-You have heard the depositions read.
Captain Montague—Ant 1 to understand that you (1,-cline
answering my question?
Mr. WurrF—l do not consider, Captain Montagne,
that you come here in a proper temper to ask the question.
Captain Montague—Then, Sir, I am to understand you
decline answering the question. Here is a newspaper con-
taining the as,ertion. [Captain Montague here produced a
newspaper containinc, the report.]
Mr. WHITE—When I answer• the question, 1 stedlcom-
municate it through another channel.
Captain Alontagne—Then you refuse to answer me the
question?
Alr. White—Certainly,
man, named David ' Wood, . ,
Captain Montague then left the office.
MARYLEBONE.--RATHER SUF;PWIOII4.—A yonns,
named Barham; residing in Upper Baker-street, Portman-
square, La
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It appeared, that after Mr. Bar-
ham had retired to rest on Monday night he was alarmed
at hearing an utusul noise, and on proceeding into the

passage he saw the defendant creeping along the staircase,
alinost in the act of opening the door of the servant's apart-
ment, and having on neither hat, coat, or shoes. The de-
fendant had scaled a high wall and mounted a cistern 12
feet high to gain admission into the premises.
Wood, in answer to the charge, said, that he had court.
ed the young girl in question for five years, and it was his
invariable practice to bid her adieu every evening before he
retired to rest. On Monday night she appeared rather
fanciful and out of temper, and refused to return his salu-
tation, which preyed so much on his mind that he could
not compose himself to sleep, and therefore entered Mr.
Barharn's dwelling to afford her an opportunity to atone
for her violence towards him in the early part of the
evening.
After the above explanation, the MAGISTRATE expressed
his belief that Wood had no felonious intention in ap-
proaching the servant's bed-room, and he was therefore
discharged.
FIATTON-GARDEN. —Duffle/ Magrath, a young
man of about 22 years of age, a native of Carlow, in Ireland,
was brought up in custody of Brundley and Upward, two
of the Bow-street patrol, charged with being a deserter
from the 41st Regiment of Foot, now lying at Dover.
An accurate description of his person was taken, and he
was committed to prison.
AIARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Mr. Verrey, a con-
fectioner in Regent-street, whose shop has been for some
time attraction to the lower order of the idle and the
curious, who assemble round the door and windows to
catch a glimpse at a supposed female beauty (by the way,
a very ordinary girl) to he seen there, came yesterday to
this Office, accompanied by Mr. Fearon a solicitor, to state
to the Magistrate that although the young female in
question was his own daughter, and not, as supposed, a
shop girl, placed there for the purpose of attraction, and
although the girl, from her speaking English, as well as
ALL the Continental languages (!), was the chief manager
of his business and his accounts, yet so completely was the
proceeding of the mob collected daily round his door and
windows ruining his trade and likely to destroy all his pro-
spects of success in his business, that he was compelled to
part with his daughter, and he had therefore sent her out
of the country at a serious loss to him, to join her rela-
tions again in her own country (Switzerland) ; and he
hoped, therefore, that he might in future be permitted to
carry on his business without interruption. Mr. Verrey
himself not speaking English, Mr. Fearon made this state-
ment on his behalf, and said that Mr. Verrey and his fa-
mily had not only been thus injured most seriously in their
business, but they had been grossly abused, insulted, and
their lives endangered. by stones flung into the shop at
them from the mob without; but he (Mr. Fearon) was
happy to say for the character of his country, that it was
only the very lowest of the rabble who had thus shamefully
conducted themselves towards a stranger and a foreigner.
The MAGISTRATE was sorry for the manner in which
Mr. Verrey had been treated ; and he was sure it was only
the very worst part of the community that would so behave.