The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STILEET.—A short fat elderly man, in
a groom's dirty under-dress, , was brought before Sir Gwent
FaanaNr, yesterday, charged by a certain watchman with hav-
ing been drunk awl disorderly On his heat, on,Saturday night,
rolling about, andfrulliriting two boughs of laurel over his head,
and shouting the Duke of Wellington for ever ! hurrah !" to
the grievous annoyance of the surrounding inhabitants..
"Have you any thing to say hir,youreelf?" asked Sir GEORG K.
" Why, then, I suppose I'll tell you, if 'you must know," mid
the defendant very leisurely, twirling a sprig of laurel between
his finger and thumb; "if you must know, the efficts of it was
as this, I'm an old soldier, an' I'd brought up them ere laurek,
what the watchman's told you about, because it was the miniver-
wary of the battle of Waterloo."
"Was you at Waterloo ?" said Sir (h oath.
"Why, then, I
suppose I WAS—an' I dare say it wee there I
got wounded. in my leg an' arm. I always keeps the Ititb June,
awl on Saturday
I *net the Doke of Wellington at the corner of
that 'ere club-hoe °in James-street; an' he gave me something
to keep the anniversary of the 18th with; an' that's all the effects
of it your Lordship. As I was SitYile, I'd got one of them laurels
to put on the bead of Copcnbagen—that'a the horse the Duke
rode at Waterloo ; an' 1 was gown ' to crown him with it in ho-
nour of the day, when that fellow lucked me up in prison. An' I
dare say 1 was never worse used when I was in them blackguard
French prisons. They wouldn't give toe a drop of water, an' I
saylt man who's been drunk hadn't ought to be locked up from
Saturday night till Monday morning without water."
Sir Gamma asked him what regiment he served in, and he
said it was the 42J, "A regiment, he dared say, never did any-
thing to disgrace the British conquests." He, was likewise at
Vittoria and ," Sallymitaky," and " many other places, be sup,
posed, he couldn't exactly remember just then." He was dis-
charged at Valenciennes, and allowed a Penal" of Is. a-day ; and
till within these two weeks, "he euppoeed," he had groomed
gentlemen's horses at " and he bad left, because,
supposed," he didn't want to stay in their blackguard country any
longer. ,

Sir Gxottaz told him, if he would promise not to keep the
einniverhary of the IBtb till it Caine again next year, he would
discharge him.

" Thank your Lordship-,4 dare say I won't ; but there's the
sunivereary_of Vittoria au' Sallow:kg now. An' if I meet
your Lordship in the street again' that time, I dare say I'll get a
shillir4 out of you 'to keep them with !"—end so saying, he kit
the ( ice.

On Tuesday, a family in Halifax, sent a piece of
furniture, commonly called a
secretary and bookcase,
to be sold by auction, to Mr. John Lister. On Mr.
Lister examining it, he found in the drawers three
bags, containing 1921. 10s. 6d. in gold. Mr. Lister
immediately went and
gave the family the above
amount.

An enormous cannon, from the arsenal at Delft, was
convoyed on the 13th from the Hague.to Schevenin,
gen. It will he used, in eases of ship*feck, to pfp-
Jed' over stranded vessels hoMhs witll ropes fosteried
them, by means of which the crews may reach the
shore.