The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOLTSE.—A. gentleman was brought before the
Loan 11.1AVOA, charged by the street-keeper of Cornhill, with
.having, in a fit of intoxication, endangered his own life.
Taylor, the street-keeper, stated that on the previous evening,
as he was walking along his beat, he saw the gentleman following
a hackney-A:ninth, as if with. the intention of getting the number
of it. Warms called out to the coachman to stop, hut he whip-
ped on his horsel, although the gentleman took hold of the reins
and was in great danger of being run over.
The coachman, who attended for the purpose of levying a con-
tribution upon the Unhappy defendant, stood forward, and said
that he had important evidence to give. He had, he assured the
Lord Mayor, been very badly treated indeed.
Taylor.-1 assure your Lordship that this coachman acted in
the most brutal manner •on • this occasion. He Whipped the
gentleman several times, notwithstanding my interference as an
officer, and even struck him as hard as he could with the butt-end
of the whip.
The coachman. loudly declared that there was no truth in this
statement. lle had been most desperately abused by the prisoner.
This was said in a tone awl with gesticulations which confirmed
the statement that the fellow had conducted himself in the most
ruffianly manner when be had it all in his own way,
The Loan 11firoa..—Do not dare to call the gentleman a pri-
soner—you ought to stand Were me as a prisoner.
Coachman.-1!. why, my Lord, I came here to be illuminated
(remunerated) for my loss. tell you how it all was, my
.Lord. Let me be sworn—give me the book.
The Loan noel-rear you as a witness.
Here a person of respectable appearance stood forward, and
said, that the street-keeper's statement was perfectly accurate.
The gentleman would, were it not for Taylor's interference, pro-
bably have been run over, as he wus altogether unable to take
care of himself..

The Lunn AlAyou.—Ncni, Coachman, 111 hear your de-
fence.

Coachman.—Vy, your Lordship, you see I had a fare. As I
was driving easy along the street, this here prisoner came up,
and he took and broke the glass of my coach, and he stopped my
horses, and I might a broke my neck. So I says,-let go the reins,
master, and he would'ot do no such a thing. So I just touched
him with my lash ; but I never, so held me God, attempted to
touch him with the butt end ; and now I expects to be paid for
my glass and my litre, what I have lost, and my day too, by this
here prisoner.

Street-Keeper.—My Lord, he struck the gentleman in
the most brutal manner, even when I held the latter; and he
knew that I was an officer all the time.
The LORD MAYnn asked the person who had caused all this
disturbance, by his inebriety, what he had to say.
He replied, that he had taken too much wine, and that, as he
was crossing the street, the coachman, who was driving fu.
rimitily, struck him with his whip, and repeated the blow fre-
quently, when he seized the reins in order to get the number of
the coach. •

The LORD MA-Yon.—lt is evident that you were in a disgrace-
ful condition, Sir. Indeed, I can no more take your evidence as
to the occasion, than I can that of this coachman. I shall fine
you 51. for being drunk.

The Coachman,—;••Your Lordship, I hope I am nut to be with-
out
.my " illumination!"
_

The LORD MATOR.—No ; you shall pay those two men who
have lost their clay by attending here to represent your conduct, or
you shall find bail.

This decision gave the greatest satisfaction. The coachman,
who called himself Mr. Bejor, went away, after following the ad-,
vice, d---g his eyes.
The LAD MAYOR very highly commended the behaviour of
of the street-keeper upon the occasion.
BOW-STREET.--If every company were as well and as ably
represented as the Thames Watermen are by their legal advocate
and adviser, George. Beath, one of their body, it would be well for
them. His knowledge of law, and his unwearied exertions in en-
forcing the regulations of the river Thames, have caused hie name
to be held in reverence, and sometimes in dread, by his brethren of
the scull and piddle. George is an orator of no mean pretensions,
and from long practice he is a thorough adept in the art of special
pleading. From his repeated appearances at this office, his
knowledge of law, and his inflexible rigour in prosecuting to con •
viction every case in which the rights of his brethren are at stake,
he has received the title of the Aquatic Attorney-General, a name
in which he justly glories, seeing that for more than 40 years he
has fought the battles of the Thames watermen, defended their
rights and privileges, and mooted points of law with almost every
Magistrate, who, during that long period, has had control
on the river between. Gravesend anti Windsor. lie never
appears in the capacity of prosecutor without holding ,its bin
band the identical act of Parliament under which he means to
press for a conviction, and ir another be quoted, he can repeat
Icy heart the several clauses and sections that bear upon the
case, either directly. or indirectly. He 'boasts in having, dur-
ing hie long practice, achieved many signal triumphs, among the
number of which, he refers, with no small degree of satisfaction,
to his defeat of Sir Francis Ommaney, who once summoned a
waterman to Bow-street for mending hie boat on a Sunday, dis-
turbing the rest of the worthy knight, by the sound of a hammer
under his bed-room window, that happened to over-look the
Thames. The man Was accordingly summoned, and Sir Francis
attended in pertain to press the charge, hut George Heath was
there also, and it was remarked that his face on that. morning
wore an unusual share of sagacity and impqrtanee, for he well
knew that this was no every day occasion, and that he had to
contend with a great man, and a senator to hoot. There was no
mark of fear, however, about him ; on the contrary, it was said
bY,those who knew hint best, that he tried to conceal, under
an, assumed seriousness of gesture, the triumph 'he anticipated
and afterwards enjoyed. We think it unnecessary to repeat the
proceedings of that day, or to dwell upon the opening and
concluding addresses of the Aquatic Attorney-General, Who
was so unusually eloquent and impressive on this occasion,
that he deprived, it is said, his tfon. opponent of the means
of replying, notwithstanding his long experience in a higher
school of oratory. Suffice it to say, that the Honourable com-
plainant was completely posed, and finally cast with coats, the
opposing counsel having proved that the' work at which his
client was employed, was one of necessity, and therefore not
punishable, although executed on the Sabbath, as the boat would
have sunk in another hour, if a hole in her bottom had not been
discovered and repaired in time. It is said, that the triumph of
George Heath was so great at .hearing the Ilfagistrates's decision in
favour of his client, that in the ardour of the moment he forgot
himself so far, as to read to Sir Francis a brief and pithy lecture
nn No hauling up' hard-working men before their worships, with
a view to get them fined for committing so other offence than dis-
turbing his morning's nap. Having thus introduced our readers
to the Aquatic Attorney-General, and given them a peep into his
by-gone history, we have to announce his appearance yesterday at
this Office, when

Jatuu GOMM!, a lightertnen and waternian, was bUIIIIIIOIICI
for buffering his son, who was hie apprentice, to ply a boat for
hire on the Thames, tho said apprentice not having attained to the
age of 16 years.
_

George Beath, who appeared as the prosecutor, produced an
act of William and Mary, prohibiting apprentiCes from taking
fares on the river Thames until they had attained their 16th year;
the penalty fOr such offence being 10a. The prosecutor stated that
his sole object was to enforce the regulations of the river.
The defendant pleaded that he was disabled from rowingln con-
sequence of having nearly lost the use of his hands, and he merely
directed his smut) take a fare in his stead. ,

Mr. Aft Nauru, on referring to the Act of Parliament, found
that it was imperative, and therefore ordered the defendant to pay
10.., which he did with considerable reluctance.

" It is fur principle I contend in this instance, your Worship,"
said George Heath, " as well as in every other I have engaged in.
I have no animosity to this man, and would undertake his cause
to-morrow with all my heart and soul, if I could do so consist-
ently with the welfare of our body at large, .whose rights and pri-
vileges I tun determined to maintain as long as -I live." He then
took off his spectacles, folded up the Act of Parliatnent on which
he had obtained his conviction, and left the. office, taking care,
however, to pocket th• half of the fine as a fee for maintaining the
rights of his brethren.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday C. 7.ZWhhit in
custody nn a charge of wilfully setting fire to his dwelling-house.
.ittr,ll,,6thilo}4liitisftfraoltebo,rfno,r was asmidagaeixnalbniviztlilotribe. fore Str Cr. An-
Mr. Atiolphue, with Mr. Blunt,- the 'solicitor, as before, at-
tended for the prisoner, and Mr. Alley, with Mr. Turtaer,.th
solicitor, for the parish of St. (like, appeared to support the pro-
eectation, The allies was, as on each of the former occasions,
riowdad aboard to suffixation.
The first witneBB examined was the boy Daniel Langles, of
whom, absence Mr. Alley complained the day before. This wit-
ue", et very 4nUtt't, intelligent, and genteel-looking youth, about
fifteen years of age, gave his evidence with a very marked and evi-
dently well-m[o4am caution. Being sworn, he stated, that be
had lived its slu,p-boy in the eet.vice of the prisoner about a fort-
night before the second fire that happened at the prisoner'', house
on the morning of the I Rth of September. About four o'clock on
that morning, he ryas awoke! 11 the maidservant, Catherine Tay-
lor, who was the only pervert besides himself in the house that
night, as Mr. and Mrs. White.had slept for some nights previous
1

at Kentish-town. When the servant awoke him, she raid there
was a very odd smell, as if of smoke ; he got out of bed and pro-
ceeded down titans, when he found the window of the landing-
place open and the sub op, although it had been dosed on going
to bed at night, but not barred inside.
Mr. Alley asked the tvitness why this window was not secured
inside ?—He replied that he did not know ; it was the Servant,
and hot himself, that dosed the doors and windows on going to
bed.

Catherine Taylor was here called, And said, that all the other
windows but this one she had in the lianal way secured inside on
the night in question ; but the ,bar'which fastened this window
had by some means or-other-been broken some days before ; and
Mr. White threw the broken bar away until another could be put
on. To a question from Mr. Alley she replied, that Mr. White
was quite aware that this window was not secured.
The boy Langles resumed his evidence, and said that on pro-
ceeding down to the ground Hour, he saw light shining under the
door of the psrlour, which was locked; he told Catherine Taylor
of the light he had seen, but she said it must be the moon-beams;
►but un her coming down stairs herself, she agreed with him that
they were no moon-beams. but fire-light.
Mr. Adolphus-•—s' I left my lore to look on the_ bright moon-
beams."

Witness and Catherine Taylor then got the key, and unlocked
the parlour-door, when they saw a part of the floor on fire. Wit-
ness immediately gave an alarm to the watchman,. who came in
and extinguished the flame with a pail of water. There had not
been any fire in the grate of this parlour in which Mr. White
always sat. There was an iron safe in the room, in which Mr.
White used to keep his money. Witness reollects seeing a great
bottle of turpentine in a cupboard in this parlour, the day before
the fire, but he knew not what became of it after. About six
o'clock in the morning, after the fire had been extinguished, wit-
ness went out to Kentish Town, where Mr. White slept, to in-
form him that the house had been on fire. When he arrived
there, he went up to Mr. White's bed-room, and told him of the
fire in the parlour ; but that it had been put out. Mr. White
said, " Poh ! poh ! nonsense ; I will not believe there was any
tire." Witness said, " that if he would not believe it, he could.
not help it," and returned to town again ; but before he left he
heard Mrs. White tell the prisoner that he ought to go into town;
and he replied, " that he would in a few minutes." When' wit-
ness returned to the house in Holborn, he told Catherine that Mr.
White would not believe about the fire, upon which she set of to
Kentish Town to convince him on the subject, and alma ten
o'clock Mr. White arrived at home.—This 'was the whole of this
youth's evidence, during which he scarcely ever gave an answer to
a question that lie did not exchange a most significant look with
the prisoner, and so remarkable was this, that Plank, the chief
officer, privately directed a person to stand so as to interrupt their
view of each other.

The next witness was Godfrey Lazarus, jeweller and general
dealer, residing at No. 3, Rutland-street, Commercial-road. Mr.
Lazarus stated, that he had, with his wife, his sister, and his
grandmother lodged at the prisoner's house for shove a year before
the first fire on the sth of Aegust. On the night of that fire the
witness and his family went to bed about eleven o'clock ; and about
one o'clock the witness was awoke by an impression, caused he
supposed by a dream, that there was a person standing by his bed-
side, and pressing very heavily upon him ; but on his looking
about he could ace nobody, and he went to sleep again ; he had,
however, scarcely fallen asleep when he was again awakened by a
smothering, suffocating smell of smoke in the room ; he immedi-
ately got out of bed, and called up all the members of his family,
and at the same time gave a general alarm in the house. Having
got his family together, he proceeded with them down stairs
into the passage, opened a glass door, and unlocked the street-
door, at which the watchman was then ringing, and got out
of the house. After lodging his family in safety at the
house of a friend in Little Turnstile, he returned to the
prisoner's house, when he learned that the fire had originated in
a Onset under the kitchen staircase, but it had been then ex.
tinguished by Furzman, the constable ; witness was surprise," at
meeting Mr. White in the • passage laughing at the confusion,
and witness could not help .observing to him that he tht.aght
it no matter to laugh at. Mr. White then said that he had no
doubt but it was Margaret DreW, his (Mr. Lazarus's) servant,
who had set the house on tire, and advised him to charge her on
suspicion, and he did accordingly, by the desire of Mr. White, give
her into the custody of Furzman, and charged her at the watch-
house; but he had scarcely done this when Mr. White turned
round and said that he would advise him not to proceed any far-
ther against her. The next day, when she was brought to this
office, Mr. White expressed his determination to prosecute the girl
to the uttermost, as he was sure, he said, she was the incendiary
the consequence was, that the poor girl was remanded on the
charge of arson, but on the second examination the Magistrate did
not think the eireonletaneeN of unviitiOnl were strong enough to
detain her on that ()lnge, but she was committed fur trial on
*nuttier charge, of stealing some trifling article, of which she was
subsequently acquitted at the Old Bailey. The day after this fire
Mr. White quitted the house, and•went on a visit, as be said, for
some days to his mother, who resides.at Fulham, and in a most
unlaudlord and ungentlemanlike manner, the witness said, left his
(Mr. Lazarus's) family alone hi the house, after such an alarming
circumstance as a fire. The whole business, however, the wit-
ness said, appeared so mysterious and extraordinary, that in three
days after he moved his family altogether away from the place.
Mr. ALLILY-..4 now ask you, Mr. Lazarus, upon your oath, did
you set fire to the house? . Mr. Lazarus, with the utmost asto-
nishment—Me set fire to the house ! On my oath, I did not.
Mr. ALLEY—It seems an odd question; but my reason for ask-
ing it is, that persons, for certain purposes, have been very busy
in throwing out hints. •
Julia Lazarus, the wife of the las, witness, was next examined,
and gave the same history of the alarm of fire, and escape from the
house, as her husband did, and added, that on the night before the
fire happened, she observed, for the first time she had been in the
house, a ladder that usually stood near the kitchen,- at the bottom
Of the house, placed against the trap-door, leading out on the roof
of the house. This struck her at the time as a very singular eh-
cumstance, and alarmed her so much, that she said she would not
sleep another night in the house unless it were removed.

'the buy Langlea here called out, without being at all questioned
on the subject, " Itwas I that placed the ladder there;"

11h. ALLEY told him to be silent until he was desired to speak ;
he waa too zealous by half.

Catherine Taylor, a fine, healthy, blooming; looking girl, and
the most correct and satisfactory witness that haa been examined
in the whole of this investigation, was called on to explain about
thia ladder, as indeed she was to explain every thing confused,
that appeared in the whole proceedings. She said that she did
not actually see the ladder taken up stairs from the lower part of
the house, which certainly was its proper place ; but she under-
stood, as well as she could recollect, from Mr. White himself, that
he ordered the-boy Langles to take the ladder up and go out by it.'
through the trap-door, for something that he wanted from the
roof of the house. _ _

One of the beadles of St. Giles 's parish produced the piece of
burned links which be said he found in a flame between the lath
and plaster of the closet under the staircase that was on tire, and
in Mr. Lazarus's kitchen he traced from the- fire-place drops of
melted pitch along the floor to where the fire broke out ; there
was a cupboard in this kitchen which was locked, but Mr.
Lazarus opened it, and showed him that it contained nothing but
the utensils used by Jewish families during the feast of the Peas.
over, end in fact that the cupboard was never opened more than
twice in the year, The kitcheinfietrbysitir. White himself,
wit-
nesse said, was out in the yard detached from the house.
The next witness was Mr. Edward Gore, draper and tailor, re-
siding at No. 269, High Holborn. He ;dated that he had been
alarmed by all the fires at the
risoner's house, and had gone to
view the premises on each °coition. From the beginning he had p
a strong impression that all was uot right; but on the occasion of
the last tire, witness saw too much to satiety him that the fire did
not arise from tiny accident, hut the most premeditated design ; that
part of the floor that was on fire he clearly saw had been rubbed
all over with some strong oonahustible matter, as the hoards were
burned in a circular farm, confined to the space that had been
rubbed, and from this the flames caught the wainscot elose to tho
spot, a good part of which was burned, and when as attempt was
made to break up the floor with it pole-axe, the boards came off
without scarcely any force, and they evidently had been before
moved for some purpose, and not nailed down again, and the joists
under them were nearly burned through.
The witness here conceived himself to have received some in..
terruption from Air. Blunt, the prisoner's solicitor, who stood.
opposite to him, and with much warmth 'called out to him—
'4 You may threaten, sir, hut I will speak the truth. You may.
threaten to 'bring your actions; hut 'you shall not intimidate tire.
You may threaten, as Mr. Harmer" dots, to bring actions about
mail-coach robbers ; but you shall not prevent me from speaking
the truth."
•
Alley.--Do you mean to say that the prisoner's aolicitur
threatened to bring an action against you AS one of the Witneases
fur the prosecution ?...—Yes, air, he did.
" Then," said Mr. Alley, " I would advise you to apply to the
Court of King's Bench against him,"
Gore.—So I will, sir.
Mr. Lazarus here said, that Mr. Blunt had also threatened
him and Mr‘ Bradford, the oil and colour-man with actions.
Mr. Blunt said; that he had never written any letter to Mr.
Gore, threatening him with sizi akin.
Mr. Lazarus.—But you wrote.a letter to me, threatening
action,' and I have:got your letter hi my pocket.

Mr. 00re......And you threatened me the other day ht this
office.

Mr. Adolphus (to Mr. Gore)—You said just now that ha
threatened you as a witness for the prof,:ecution. Mr. Gore.---
Yes; and I say so again, Mr. Adolphus; I am not to,be intimi-
dated by you either. •

Mr. Adolphus.—Why, man, you seem to put yourself 'in a
great passion about nothing. Mr. Gere.—l. am sorry then that
I am so far like you sometimes.

Mr. Adolphus.—Come, Sir, give me none of your imperti-
nence ; clear your fool's head and give me an answer to my ques-
tion, if you can. Mr. Gore.—l will clear my fool's head if you
will give me some of your ointment.

Mr. Adolphus—l am not in the habit of keeping up a dialogue
with tailors.

. Mr. Alley—Pray don't be angry, Mr. Adolphus.
Mr. Adolphus—Angry! I an) not in the least angry.
Well now, Mr. Tailor, tell me have you ever beeri examined as
a witness before ?—Mr. Gore Yes, I have, and by you, Sir.
Mr. Adolphus—l' don't mean that. Have you ever been exa-
mined, I say, in this case, before to-day, as a witness ?—Mr.
Gore—No, I have not.

Mr. Adolphus—Then bow could you he a witness for the pro.
secution at the time you say Mr. Blunt threatened you with an
action.

Mr. Alley—He was undoubtedly a witness for the prosecution,
and Mr. Blunt has behaved in a highly improper manner.
Mr. Adolphus—l think be has behaved in a very proper man-
ner; he was quite right to threaten tho►e with actions who were,
as be learned, circulating calumnies against his client.
Mr. Alley—Now, Mr. Gore, I ask you, had you ever any con-
versation with Mrs. White in the presence of her husband, the
prisoner, on the subject of these fires at his house ?-41r. Gore.
Yes, I had.

Mr. Alley—Be so good as tell me the nature of that converse-
tion, or of any communication Mrs. White made to you on the
subject in the presence of the prisoner.
Mr. Gore (slapping his hand with great vehemence upon the
table before him.)-4‘ By G—d I will not. I never will to the
last hour of my existence tell what communication she made to
me."

Mr. Alley—What may have been told to you in confidence, it
is a very correctleeling in you to conceal, if you can be justified
in doing so ; but it is my duty, in forwarding the ends of justice,
to require you to answer my question.
Mr. Gore (with renewed vehemence)—" Then by G—d I
will not, You may send me to prison, if you please ; but while
I have breath in my body, I never will divulge whatever Mrs.
White communicated to ate in confidence. She was in a fainting
state ; and when I found her so at the top of the house, I made
her take a little brandy and water to relieve her, and after com-
municating something to ins in the presence of her husband, she
went on her knees, and, with her eyes streaming with tears, she
entreated me never to divulge it. I promised her with my hand
on my heart that I never would, and so help me God I never will
for any power on earth."
_ _

Alley.—l am, and so are you, placed in a very awkward
situation. It is my- duty to press for an answer, and yet under
such circumstances I do not like to (h)

Sir GZORGE FAnnArr.r.—You know, Mr. Gore, you have
just been sworn to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
hut the truth. Now, as you have sworn to tell the whole truth,
I (lo not see how yOu can avoid answering Mr. Alley's question.
" Then by G—d, Air George," said Mr. Gore, at the same
moment bursting into a flood of tears, " I never will answer it,
be the consequences, here or hereafter, what they may."
Mr. ALLEv—I shall not press you further at present on the
subject, Mr. Gore.

Mr. ALLAY then said that he had closed his cue ; he had no
further witnesses to examine.

The witnesses were then all bound over to prosecute, and the
prisoner fully committed for trial.

When Mr. Gore was called upon to sign his deposition, after
taking the pen in his hand be dashed it on the table, and said be
would not sign, it.

Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chief clerk, told him that his signing was
a mere matter of form, and it was of no consequence.whether he
signed or not as regarded the validity of his depositions.
Mr. Gore then signed his name, but said, "Where is the use
of my signing? for I tell you plainly that I will forfeit my recog-
nizance, and never appear on the trial."
Mr. Adolphus applied to have the prisoner admitted to bail
under the power vested in magistrates in cases of felony, but Mr.
Alley resisted the application, and Sir George Fervent said that
as the sessions were so near at hand, the point was not much
worth going into any discussion upon ; he should certainly com-
mit the prisoner lhr the present to the New Prison, Clerkenwell,
tined tl:e removal day, to be sent then to Newgate.
The prisoner's demeanour, for a person in his altruist 'perilotis
141 uation, was by no meanie creditable to hint yesterday: During
the whole of Mr. Lararus's evidence he could only suppress laugh-
ter by stuffing hit handkerchief to his mouth, and that but ill
concealed it; and while every body, almost, in the office besides,
was sensibly affected by the stern virtue and intensely suffering feel-
ings of Mr. Gore, the prisoner stood unmoved, and looked upon
the passing scene with the most cool and perfect indifference. He
was dressed in a blue coat and trousers, and black waistcoat, is a
very young man, and has very light hair and complexion.
Before the prisoner retired with the gaoler from the office, Mr.
Adolphus said to him" Mr. White, don't alarm yourself; your
case is perfectly well understood ; your defence will appear in due
time : at present: it is all behind the curtain."
Mr. White-... 1 thank you; Sir.

MARYLEBONE-OPPlCE.—Yesterday John Rudy, a very
young man, and James Wilk., a lad, 18 years of age, were charged
with robbing Turner's Pinner and Harrow coach.

Hannah Hartley, an outside passenger, stated, that on Wednes-
day, as she was in the dicky, she saw Reedy take a bag from the
coach, and Wilka was assisting him, in consequence of which she
demired the coachman to stop.—Comut4ted for trial.

THAMES-POLICE OFFlCE.—Santue/ Banks, a mate of
an Indianian, fashionably dressed, and about 32 years of age, was
put to the bar, charged with committing ,a rape upon Miss
Dottield, a highly
respectable maiden lady; about 45 years
of age, the, joint . proprietress of a respectable seminary for
young ladies in the Commercial-road. . Miss Duffield, ac-
companied by Miss Spencer, her partner, and another lady,
entered the office; such was the mental anguish which seemed to
oppress her, that she was quite unable to support herself. Mr.
BAI.LANTINZ humanely ordered ber to be accommodated with a
chair. He then requested, her to eompuse herself, and afterwards
to state the circumstances of this melancholy transaction. It was
with the utmost difficulty that Mr. BaHelaine was able to obtain
the following particulars:—She stated, that she has known the
prisoner for many years, ever since his earliest boyhood ; they
were both from the village of Massineam, in Norfolk, and the
closest habits of intimacy subsisted between their families ; she
and Miss Spencer.keep a Lady's School in the Commercial-road,
and have done so for, several years past; the , prisoner, about
ten days ago arrived from India, and 'immediately called upon
them. lie asked her' could they accommodate him with an
apartment in their house; they having 'a spare one, they
agreed to do so, perfectly happy to have it in• their power to
oblige . a person she ,had known so long, and for whom she
bad had such a high esteem, and whose foriner conduct to-
wards her was auch, that she always looked upon him iniire-in
the light of a sincere friend and- beloved brother• than any thing
.else. She said that on Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, the
prisoner returned home, and, after taking supper, he inquired
where wes.Mias Spencer. She replied, that she was gone to spend
the day at a friend's, and would not return that night. She
then ohaervcd to prisoner, that it was time to retire ; to which
he assented, and she took the candle for the purpose of lighting
him up stairs, as she had been in the habit of doing ; and being
apprehenalie of lire, she always placed the candle upon the mantel
piece in the room, lest, through negligence,
any accident might
occur. Having done so, on her wishing prisoner good night, as
usual, be, seisedher by the arm, and dragged bar towards the bed ;
she became alarmed; mud asked him whathe meant; he made her
no answer, bat threw her on the bed.
object was, she begged, she entreated, she made every appeal
but all in rain: he
which humanity or ilium* could suggest,
fallen on the
no matter what might be
swore he would accomplish his
Pillow and endeavoured to cover her head,
having
the meetpienesa. She then screamed oat; - he instantly took the
,p, uatt and swore
wntoore hher. mouth,would
smother her. The pillow in r the
I)", he took a t of the sheet
par
she , got rid of. He then tare
which, by an effort of her arm,
round- her neck,- and f a silk handkerchief which she wortchoked Ter; and
creed
it into her mouth, which had . '
"eehreYr in the most brutal after
de-
taining her an hour, and treating her
the, house, and manner
went to ker
possible, she malted from bins,
friends.
said be was well swans how repugnant it
Mr. Ha 1,1,A NTIN le ,
and
of her delicacy education to state further '
must ho to a person
than
what Ached already done, bit shemust he more per-
fects
titular in the
office.)' distress of Miss Duffild, in the greatest mind, and bursting into
_ 4 teats, was unable to proceed, except to se that she
y
an spay w
• I most brutally.
bad been -Newt .
Data,* KTINF said, he should take further particulars from
11r.
itmedical gentleman, and requested • that Miss Duffield shOuld have
i interview with one; hut before she-should do so, he begged to
purpose,
she
saw what his

ask her one question, whether the prisoner had ever was any
overtures to her in the character of an admirer?

Miss, Duffield solemnly protested that he never had ; apd know-
ing him as she did from his childhood, she never considered hint
any other than as a brother, and in the plenitude other confidence
in that character, she admitted him to lodge in her house.
Mr. BALLawrinz inquired whether there were nu persons in
the house at the time of the outrage who might have beard her
cries ?

Miss Duffield replied that the kitchen was so remote that it
was impossible to boar her, as she was nearly smothered, and she
believed the servants were out ; there were three children in bed
above stairs.

The medical gentleman having been sent for, and having had an
interview with Miss Duffield, his evidence was taken in private,
but be could not positively say that the capital offence had been per-
petrated. Yet he declared she had suffered the most brutal in-
dignity he had ever witnessed.
Mr. BALLANTINE asked the prisoner what he could lay for
hiMself?

The prisoner, with the most puppyish affectatiou of farrow, aid
upon his honour he Avas sorry, very sorry indeed, for what had oc-
curred ; he must have been intoxicated.

Mr. BALLA?. MX --Take the fellow out;' I shall hold him to
bail fur the assault, himself in 1,0001., And two sureties in SOW.
cads ; Miss Duffield 111 bind over in SODt to prosecute, andliliss
Spencer in 501. to give evidence; and alio the medical gentleman
in 501. All parties were then bound ever, and the prisoner was
locked up until he should procure bail.
Several highly respectable gentlemen from the rusighbonthog
of the Commercial-road attended, and having expressed the greatest
indignation at the manner in which the unfortunate lady had been
treated, declared that females of more unblemished character, than
Miss Duffield and Miss Spencer did not exist.
UNION-HALL,—,Yesterday a gentlemanly looking man at-
tended before the sitting magistrate, J. S. CALown.L, Esq., for
the purpose of plaiting the following application.
Applicant (addressing the magistrate.)—l called here to apply
for a warrant against my wife, who has absconded from her bong
without any just cause.
Mr. CaLpwcri. (with some surf) ifie. 'sir, you must
be aware that I blailo:(litliiiillyicilkconrdeooinitithitrubeitliftiljuteuelssdttoiiontiannv.iihasiensapcotolilm:
tipulypanionndg withsa:du: y4tho,uivernir:ii-t
wquoeiltpd.plhaicanlvieiutlbletvtl,aline
submission to your Worship, I am of opinion that the law w"1"
justify you in issuing a warrant for the apprehension of a woman
that I strongly suspect is running in debt. with various tradesmeoJ
all of which debts will some down plump upon me by and by."
The Magistrate said, that the applicant appeared to have
formed a very erroneous notion of the law of the case.
Applicant—All I want, Sir, is to recover possession of my
wife, as I know it will be the only means of keeping me out or
prison, and, in the end, of saving her from destruction--perhspq
drowning or hanging.
The Magistrate said, that he lamented he could he of no as-
sistance to him ; but he would recommend him, if his wife was
an extravagant woman, and that he was fearful she would ran
him into debt, to put an advertisement in the newspaper*. • _
The gentleman then retired, thanking the magistrate for lu
advice.

--- ---
ACCIDENT at the TWOPENNY-POST-OFFICE.
On Wednesday evening, about six o'clock, the immediate
neighbourhood of the Post-office, Lombard-street, was
thrown into the greatest alarm in consequence of aloud
immediately conjectured that an explosion °Utile gas had
taken place, but this supposition pro
rfaerplovratrdperdocbeyeditrhige frTowmo_thpeenonffi
rcpose we
attahme
tradlett.ersltto be
was
proved unfounded, the
report having proceeded from quite a different cause, and a
more shameful transaction than that which lid to the ac-
cident we are now about to relate has not been made pub-
lic for some time. The folloWing are the particulars :--It
appears that a man named Westbrook, one of the letter-
stampers at the Twopenny-post-office, was, as usual, hisrk-
ing the letters previous to tLeic being despatched from the
office to theirr"
various destinations,. and be had nst,l"fi
been at his post, ere a loud report equal to that of a a,"
cannon, completely paralysed all the officers of the establien.
ment, and the gas was rtially blown out. This was oc-
casioned by a letter haviugbeen put into the Post-office 'Ogled
with detonatingpowder. The stamp being thrust
letter by Westbrook, immediately exploded, and his, rig h!
' hand was nearly blown to pieces. The nails On each Mila
were all blown off, as • well as most of • the flesh' u.ktfathe
knuckle. The right hand presented a horrid sighttae,...,,w—h
of the 3d, 4th, and of the little finger, was severed'
bone_ which was fractured in many places. The "esiLi,,iid
the right arm up the elbow was torn in numerous P— '
and the poor man's face and neck was also severe All
scorched. Another man, named Sadler, who was 'Wu.
were
ing next to Westbrook, taking the letters as they
oplo.
stamped, was blown down by the violence of the
'ion, and his face very much disfigured. A third pas°
also had his hand much burnt. The table on which the
letters, are stamped, such was the force of the powder ensci
is left for detec .upon the
tamed in the letter, was completely...broken through, en,
many of the letters destroyed. . The letter contairiieg we
powder was of course immediately consumed, and no trace
immediately to the Mail Coach public-house, in Sherborne ting the author. WestbronEokez‘it,'has;etre.kae..".
lane, and medical advice procured. The wounds are rather
dangerous, and the medical advisers feared it would be_ntS;
must have been excessive. Poultices
pccaainaaeryndtaorereds,oratat.tho
eamhpanutdastiboeniaogf
thrust
eust right hand. in
after the wounds had been 'washed, and. the poor man This
as soon as practicable, be removed to his own Wee*
scandalous transaction will, no doubt, be sifted to the bottom,
and a reward offered for the detection of those who have1
bee i
thus risked human life ; for, had Nirestbrook's face
sufficiently near, the explosion would inevitably bees
killed . g the
The following are further particulars concern'Ll he
above accident.:—lt , has now been ascertained it„ii—;dtari
letter containing the sulphate of silver, which exPs—from e
chymical manufactory at' Woodford, in
the stamp being, applied.. by Westbrook, was *en' ,„'" - Mr.
wereintado em°ilndisvrteartel:
Allen, a druggist, in Aldersgate-street. It is,
not probable that any malicious intention was contemn
ed, as the word "glass" was written on the letter. 1%47;
brook, up to a late hour last' night, was going 1 well;
only thing now feared is an attack of the 10A-0-we
The other individuals who were near the stamper Inds
hendeeml
dt•hlybeyrpeNocovwevdseretrbeidNoovathsketwosashbo;:kfloou:hvnleidy,
ireceived,tmit,od
ahis and their
are but small. Nut a vestige of the bottle .which esntal,„
has been. extracted without much difficulty.
part ~, t it
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