The Sun.
London, England, 1817-07-25 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MAR LBO R OUGH -STREET.
DISORDERLY CONDUCT.—Yesterday, the Hon.
Col. 11--, the lion. Captain B--, and a
Mr. C--, were brought up, charged with being
disorderly, in St. James's-street, the preceding
night.

Abraham Murray, a watchman, stated, that as
he was going his roun!!s, he observed five gentle-
men standing with a female at the door of the
Queen's Larder; he called out, "Who's there ?"
and received for answer, " We are the guardians
of the night." He observed, if they were they
ought to be ct•ying the hour, and attending to
their duty, and. not encouraging such wickedness.
Upota which one.of them answered, " Oh, d—me,
we'll roar like bulls." They then took their dif-
ferehtbtats, as they said, and began crying, one
half:past twelve, anodic!' half-past one, 84c.—
Witness said, it they. were such disorderly. gnat.-
dians_as that, he should take them to the watch-
house;, and for that purpose began springing his
rattle, when his comrades, the• real guardians,
came up, and were about to attack the sham ones,
hut deemed it prudent to wait for a reinforcement,
which soon arrived. They then took the three
Prisoners into custody, without the least opposi-
tiou'on their part, and the others escaped...
Captain B-- now stepped forward and gave
a very different accomn of the transaction, He
said he was coming along St..james's-street, with
four Gentlemen (who were present) ; Colonel D.
met a Lady, to whom he was speaking ; some of
the Gentlemen stood' near i but lie went upwards

of thirty Ortis.olf, and 3AW that during the Whole
' transaction no act of the least impropriety took
place ; but whet' the watchman spoke they were
certainly guilty of a great noise, which he did not
mean to inStify; only he thought the watchman
extremely petulant.
The Magistrate ordered them to pay a shilling
each for their discharge, and advised the watch-
man to be very circumspect in interfering with
any one quietly talking in the streets, but those
whom he knew to be improper objects.—The pri-
soners were discharged.
VtlAubut.F.Nt SUBSTITUTION OF A Cu ILD.-Elea-
i:dr :Smith, a miserable looking woman, was brought
up by Craig, the officer, charged with defrauding
the patisli of St. Giles of 28/. under the following
grotS circumstances :—lt appeal•ed that the pri-
soner 'vas an acknowledged parishioner, and a wi-
dow woniall With one child. About two years
ago she made application to the Overseers, stating
that she could earn her own livelihood, but wish-
ed to get some relief for the child ; 'considering
she was an industrious woman, the parish al-
lowed her 12s. a month, which was more than
they allowed some families. She regularly at-
tended each board day with her child, and
ceived her money, without the slightest suspicion
on the part- of the parish but it was well applied,
and even in the past season of distress anti star-
, vation they never reduced ber.allowance. Thus
things went on until a few days ago, when it -was
discovered that the child which the prisoner used
to produce belonged to another woman. conse-
quently they caused her to be apprehended.-7-The
prisoner was committed to prison, together with
tile substituted child.
IMPORTANT DECISION.—Mr. J. Brookes, an
opulent cow-keeper and proprietor of a tarn' at
Harrow, appeared to plead to a summons, at the
snit of the parish officers, charged with unlawfully
refusing to lend a wain, or waggon, hi:. property,
for the removal of military stores and baggage,
contrary to the provisions of the Acr, Ste. 1,
this case the constables pressed the vehicle it' to,‘
but the horses were at Harrow, the defendant re-
fused to fetch them and offered the waggon ; they
did hot think it their duty to fetch the horses, and
now sued for the penalty.
The Magistrate said, he could find nothing like
a penalty attaching to the case expressed in the
Act, and dismissed the case.
WORSHIP-STREET.

SPITAL-FIELDS WEAVERS.—Yesterday an • in-
formation was laid against Mr. Isaac Cooper, a
master silk-weaver in Spi talfields, by W. Mitcham,
a journeyman in his employ, Under the I:3th of
Geo. 111. cap. 68, for not paying his journeyman
the wages allowed by law. Mr. 'Gifford and
Mr. Mainwaring were upon the Bench, and Mr.
Alley attended to support the information.
Wm. Mitcham, the complainant, deposed, that
in last October the defendant employed him to
work a piece of silk serge. Having finished the
work, he took it house about five weeks ago, and
defendant only paid him one shilling' per yard.—
Soon afterwards be made application for the dif-
ference, but instead of paying, defendant abused
him. Complainant called with two friends after-
wards, and defendant said, if he paid biut Is. 6d.
per yard, every man he had employed for seven
years would claim the same. Complainant met
him in the street on Tuesday, and be then said he
would give him 151. if he made a flaw in the iiifor-

'nation.
Mr. ALLEY here observed, that the rejection of
this offer saved --him (defendant) ,froth the pillory ;
and ordered his client to produce a sample of the
work, in order to skew that it was such work as
the Sessions allowed Is. 6d. per yard for. This
being done, several journeymen weavers proved
it to be the kind of work specified in the informa-
tion.

Thomas Cooper deposed, he was a jonrneyman
wearer, arid accompanied complainant to defen-
dant's house; that defendant refused to pay him
the regular prices, awl he produced two. newspa-
pers wherein the regulated prices of the trade or-
dered by the Sessions had been printed.
Joseph Unwin produced a book of the trade,

regulated according to the different kinds of work,
by the Sessions of April, in the 46th year of the
King's reign, according to which complainant was
entitled to Is. 6d. per yard for the weaving of
such work as the sample produced. This closed
the case on the part of the information.
The defendant, in his defence, said, he' was no
scholar, and consequently never read the news-
papers, but left all his affairs to the management
of his wife, who paid the men and kept the hooks.
But, on cross-examination, he admitted he knew

the prices given to journeymen in all descriptions
of work,' according to the regulation of the trade,
and called a woman, who gave her name Mary
Bazar, a cotton-winder, to prove that his wife
paid complainant 13..6d. per yard for the work.
This witness said she was present frequently
when complainant was paid ; but, on cross-exa-
mination, she could not state the sum he received :
did not know any thing about the trade ; but
that she heard Mrs. Cooper say she paid com-
plainant 15..6d. per yard' for work done. This
evidence was totally contradicted.
Mr. GIrFORD addressed the defendant at consi-
derable length; observing, that according to his
own declaration, every journeyman who had
the misfortune to have been employed by him
within the last seven years were' sufferers as
well as the complainant, which certainly ag-
gravated the present case. There were no
body of men who had conducted themselves
more peaceably and orderly, notwithstand-
ing the pressure of the times, and the well-known
distress under which they laboured, than the
Spitalfields weavers. He regretted not having the
power of awarding the difference of wages due to
the complainant, which amounted to 141. but he
could recover it in another Court.

The BENCEL'however, adjudged him (defendant)
to pay a fire of 501. but he might appeal against
it if he chose. Defendant not having appealed,
he was informed, unless the fine was paid before
evening, that a distress would be put hitt) his
house.—The case excited considerable interest,

and the office was very ranch crowded.

BOW-STREET.

Yesterdity Richard Keene '
was brought to the
Office by Joseph `lane, one of the POlice Officers

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of the city of Gloucesterj charged with Iliaviog

committed a felony ; and upon an invCstgatiOn it
appeared, that a few days since the prisoner was
in the city of Gloucester, itra state of intoxication,
and became very turbulent and unmanageable at
an eating-house, at which time he confessed to
having committed A robbery in London, about 12
months ago ! on examining the Hue and Crc, an
advertisement was found, descriiting the robbery
he had mentioned, and contair,ing a description
of Itis person. Ile was, therefore, brought to
London, and yesterday an investigation took place,
from which it appeared that he had been a ser-
vant to Mr. William Jones, an apothecary in Lit-
tle Argyll-street, and on the 26th of July last, pri-
soner, during the time his toaster was gone to the
Opera with a friend, took the opportunity of
breaking open a desk, and absconding with Bank-
notes to the amount of 601. ; and also with three
watches and a gold ring, the property of Mr.
Green, the occupier of another part of the saute
house.—The prisoner was committed for trial.
Joseph Lumfties, the driver of the Isleworth
Coach, was .convicted in the penalty and costs, for
Standing with his coach in Piccadilly on the sth
Doney Was convicted of a similar
offence on the Ilth instant, for the Wimbledon
coach.