The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A young woman of respectable ap-
pearance and good address, drove up, to the Mansion-House in :a
hackney-roach, on Monday last, before the, public business com-
menced, and requested to be allowed to make a communication of
great importance to the Lord Mayor.
Fogg, the Marshalman, who happened to be in attendance,
Was struck with the appearance of the lady, who was dressed in
white muslin, very low, as< the milliners call it, had a pearl neck-
lace round her neck, white, satin shoes, and a large plume of
feathers fastened to her head by a gold band. The driver of the
hackney-coach was decorated, with white favours, and several per-
sons gathered about the gates of the Mansion-House, attracted
by so extraordinary an exhibition. The Marshalman believed
that his applicant was insane, until infOrmed that she ex-
pected to be united to a gentleman who had paid his addresses
to her for some time. He immediately introduced her to
Mr. Nobler, without howeier mentioning that gentleman's name
to her.

Mr. Ilout.r.n, judging fron► her tuldress that the lady was a
French woman, addressed her in that language,. .and he was not
undeceived until she had concluded her story, which was as

follows:
About two years ago she became acquainted with a gentleman
of respectable connections, lie resided in a house in which she
used to give lessons to a young lady in umsie and French, and
was extremely attentive to her. She therefore listened to his
proposal's, and they associated together as persons destined for one
another. On the day before the Lord Mayor's feast,. he told her
that be would procure a card for her, and introduce her to his
Lordship, with whoM he was on terms of great intimacy, as his
intended... He; however, afterwards said,. that he had' failed in his
`attempt to obtain the card, but that he was himself to dine with
his Lordship, and he would make arrangements for the ceremony,
which should he performed in his Lordship's presence. Convinced
that this conituunication'wa* a candid one, she consented to • ac-
-company her lover to the house of his friend, the Lord Mayor, at
the time stated. she, however, soon after the appointment, re-
ceived a message from him, informing her that he would meet her
at the Mansion-house, awl requesting that she would appear there
ih wedding garments, suitable to her condition, and that she should
Out bring any money with her. " I have," said she, " obeyed
him in all those particulars; but I have waited in vain for him,
and I fear that his object, after was ussthisig, but to hold roe
up to ridicule. I have therefore taken the liberty to speak to your
Lordship on the subject.
When Mr. Hobler told the poor girl that he was no more
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than the Lord Mayor's' clerk, she was greatly embarrassed. It
was, he said, well for her that she had not thrown herself 'way
upon so heartless a scoundrel, who deserved to be whipped at the
cart's tail. lie, then introduced th 4 poor young woman to the
Lord Mayor, in his LOrdship's private, parlour, who expressed his
indignation at the cruel trick that had been played off upon the
ill-treated girl, and lamented that it was not in his power to
interfere:

'The lady, deeply impressed with the compassionate treatment
she received from the Lord Mayor, said, she certainly would act
as she had been se paternally advised, hilt she departed from his
Lordship's presence evidently much wounded in her feelings.
GUILDHALL.— Without .I{)nvis, the son of a respectable.
butcher in Oxford-market, was brought up for final examination
before Sir PrrEn Lanni,: yesterday, charged with' stealing the
carcasses of two pigs. Mr. Wooller attended as solicitor to the
prisoner, and upon his approaching the Alderman, Sir 'Peter in-
quired in what character he appeased there, whether as the friend.
of the prisoner, or of Mr. Harmer.
Mr.. Wooller replied, he attended as a clerk to Mr. Harmer.
Sir Plagß, said, litt9ruies were only allowed to be present' at
such examinations as a matter of courtesy, but as Mr. Wooller
bad avowed himself to be Mr. Ilarnaer's clerk, he would give him
every latitude, even in cross-examining the witnesses, that he
could desire.—The prisoner was committed.
John Prosser and George Thompson, late prisoners in White-
cross-street gaol, were charged with assaulting Samuel Wilkins,
the clerk to an attorney, who had caused some prisoner; to lee
detaimul for his costs, by declining to take ,the proffered security
for them. The defendants were ordered,to find bail.
Sir PIITIR LAU at>t complained of the general misconduct of the
prisoners, and particularly of the practice of eatting—that is,
stealing the doilies of new corners, who are unable or unwilling to
pay the ward dues. There was poor (laundry (a name well known
as connected with one of the bubble companies) who, he said, had
had no covering but a rug for the last three months, in conse-
quence of having been stripped of his apparel by his fellow pri-

Boners.
Mr. Prosier defended the dues as necessary, because the City
allowed nothing towards preserving' cleanliness in the prison. The
dues were expended in providing lights, additional firing, saw-
dust, clean towels, shaving-boxes, glasses, &e. • •
Mr. Spencer, the governor, declared that the duel levied were
double the amount necessary fur tire purposes.
Mr. Aldermau WaiTimati...said, admit was the fact, the Court
of Aldermen would take up the subject, and fix the amount to be
levied in future.

BOW-STREET.....tlenry Mitchell, alias Henry:Harvey, was
Yesterday placed at the bar, charged with breaking into the count-
ing house of Mr. James Roper, coal and corn-merchant, and
wharfinger, residing at Brentfiwd.
Mr. James Roper being morn, stated, that on Friday the Sd
instant, he went to !Anthill, where he dined with a friend, and
then returned to Brentford on horseback. He ieached the gate of
the wharf, adjoining his premises, at half-past twelve at night, and
IV surprised to find the gate ajar, the bolts by which it was
secured haring been wrenched from their places. He imme-
diately proceeded to call the watch, but on searching the box of a
watchman at nu great distance, be found hito fast asleep. He
called up his nephew, a young lad, an amiatant in his business,
and they both proceeded in the wharf,. witness holding a bilge
stick in "e"todi anti the watchman's lantern, hi the other.
Having examined, all the out-houses, witness went to his counting-
, house, the door of which was ajar.
Iwo fellows kneeling down, On pushing it open, he saw
busily engaged in- opening an iron
safe. Witness immediately walked up to theM, and held the lan-
tern close to
fitee,', in order that he might know them again.
Both the felhows were in the act of rising when witness struck
one of them It tremendous blow on the head, and then retreated
towards the door,' which he closed afteehim, desiring the lad, who
remained ()upside, to keep it fast.
Mr. MiNsiturLasked,the witness why he did not strike the
other malt.
Mr. Roper replied, that be was apprehensive he had killed the
man he struck, and besides he feared that they might both have
bad fire-arms in their pnaseisien, Perceiving the prisoner forcing
his way through a window of the counting-house, the glass of
which he broke, being unable to raise the sash, witness ran to
the place to prevent him from escaping, and gave him two or
three knocks on the hew with the stick while he' was f 44614

himself through the window. The prisoner however, worked
his way through the broken window-frame, and ran towards the
canal, close followed by the witness, who lost his stick while
Making another' blow at the prisoner. The prisoner finding him-
self closely pursued, had no other choice than to leap into the
canal, which he did, and having swain to the opposite bank,
effected his escape,across the country. In the meanwhile the
Other fellow forced open the, door of the counting-house, knocked
down the lad by whom it was held, and escaped through the
town. The robbeis left behind them, in the counting-house,
two hats, a broken crow-bar, and a bunch of skeleton keys.—
One of the hats was cut across the crown, and bad a' mark of
blood on the inside.

The prisoner's head exhibited a severe cut, corresponding in
every particular with the cut in the hat, and he had on, when
taken, a new bat. When called on for his defence, he denied the
charge, and accounted for the wound in his head by saying that
he had a severe fall a short time ago.

Mr. Roper, however, whose evidence was supported by that of
the lad, swore positively that the prisoner was the man whom he
had struck with the stick on the night in question, but the lad
was too much alarmed to be able to identify the prisOner.
Ledbeater, the officer, since the time he received notice of the
circumstances connected with the case, was unremitting in his
endeavours to secure the offenders, and he took the prisoner. into
his custody in a noted flash-house, where a great number of thieves
and prostitutes were merry-waking.
The prisoner, a square-built determined-looking fellow, was
remanded to Wednesday next.
MARY-LA-BONNE.---Yesterday, Mr. Hatt, the fither of
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the two children who were brought to this Office on Friday last',
attended before the Magistrates for the purpose, as he stated, of
contradicting a statement in the Newspapers, 'that he had left his
children unprovided for. Mr. Hatt proceeded to state, that a
twelvemonth ago he lost his wife, and a short time after her
death, he formed an attachment with another female; and when
he left town, about five months since, for the Northern Circuit,
this lady agreed to take his two daughters to hoard and lodge
with her, having previously adopted another of his children.—
During his sojourn in Lancashire, he obtained an engagement as
Editor of the Bolton Express, which situation he now held, and
be had, from time to time, remitted money for his children's
maintenance; the last remittance he sent about six weeks back ;
be felt the highest respect and affection, for the female alluded to ;
and he concluded that his children were provided with every com-
fort, when, a few days since, he read an account, in a News-
paper, that his children bad become chargeable to the parish.—
! Within two hours after reading the statement, he'set off for the
Metropolis, and be could assure the Magistrates that his children
had been sent away by the female entirely through feelings of re-
venge, she having imagined that he was paying his addresses to
another woman. He was ready to take his children from- the
workhouse that instant, and he would enter into any arrangement
with the parish-officers.
The Magistrates expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with
Mr. Hatt's explanation, and Mr: Hatt then withdrew, and a short
time afterwards returned to inform the Magistrates that an ar-
rangeinent had taken place, and that his children were to return
immediately with him to the country.
LAMBETH •STREET.--Hoste-m*stuFACTURID ESQUI.-
SIAUX.—Last night, Mrs. Sanger, the helpmate of the dextrous
personage of the same name, now in custody at Plymouth, on sus-
picion of having stolen the two infants, whem be so ingeniously
converted into a couple of "genuine Esquimaux, imported by
Captain Parry," made her appearance before the Bench, accom-
panied by a Squire of the body, named Buttress. The Officer who
tethered her in, stated her business to be to swear an affidavit; and
on Mr. Wyatt's asking its object, she, in a west country accent,
announced herself to he the wife of the showman now in custody
at Plymouth, for the metamorphosis of two infants supposed to
have been stolen from Whitechapel, and to whom he Lad taught a
mortal antipathy to cooked meats, some carniverous propensities,
and a great taste for train oil. She attended, she said, for the
purpose of rebutting that part of the charge which referred
to kidnapping, by producing her friend Mr. Buttress to swear
that he was present , when she hired the children from their fa-
ther, a person named Thomas, then living in Slater's-court,
Rosemary-lane, to add to her valuable coUectioa of curiosities.
Mr. Wsrarr---:.When you were making the bargain, what did
you tell their father you wanted them for?—Mrs. Sanger—To
exhibit them as foreigners.
Mr. WYATT—What, as" Esquimaux?--Mrs. Sanger--:-Yes.
Mr. Wvaxe—How long, pray, have you been teaching them
to devour raw meat, and evince such ferocity ?—by the account
from Plymouth, you have rendered them perfect cannibals?—Mrs.
Sanger—We did not teach them at all, Sir; the girl is very art-
ful, and learned it herself.
Mr. Wica.vr—But how did you manage to disguise theim ?
! Mrs: Sariger-,ob, we did as other showfulks du, we stained their
skins, and put furs on them, which the sailors brought froM
abroad.—Buttress, as a corroborative witness, assured his Wor-

ship, that the children were not stolen ;, for he was present when
the Showman hired them from their father. He was sure they
treated the children well, as the dwarf told him they always be-
haved kindly towards her,
Mr. WYATT—Where is the dwarf ? Is she with you now

Alia! Sanger—She liaa left us, anti gone to a rival eXhibition. Ii

answer to some further questions, Mrs. S. said, that the mother of
the children, then in the Plymouth workhouse, died two days

after they were transferred to then) ; they were then naked and
in a wretched state. Since she bad come to town she had been
looking tbr their father, but could not find him, and what she
then wanted was, to make an affidavit that they had not been
stolen, in order that her husband might he liberated from custody.
Mr. Wyatt appeared much amused by a detail of the properties of
a country exhibition, and having promised, when the affidavit was
properly drawn up, to have it taken, Mrs., Sanger made her exit.
HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday Taplin, a Bath constable,
accompanied by one of the officers of the Borough of Southwark,
applied to the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Rogers, to take clown a
bill which was posted in the outer room, in which a reward was
offered for the apprehension of a person accused of swindling va-
rious tradesmen and others at Bath to a very considerable amount.
Mr. Roams; hesitated about permitting the bill to be removed,
and said that if the information was correct, it would be improper
to take away the description of the person so implicated. The
Borough constable explained the circumstances under which
the application was made. He said that a person under the
name of Mackay, dressed in the style of a gentleman, and having
the appearance of a foreigner, had taken in several tradesmen in
Bath, and set off for London, by the White Hart coach, on Sun-
day, October 22. On his arrival,in the metropolis, he was set
down in Piccadilly, and took a beekney-coach from thence to the
house of a Mr.' Tomlin, in the Borough. One of the
,persons
whom he had sn defrauded, Mr. Payne, of the firm of Payne
and Turner, goldsmiths, Union-street, Bath, having received in-
formation to the above effect, despatched Taplin, the constable, to
London, with instructions to take such further steps as might lead
to Mackay's apprehension. ' In London, Taplin ascertained that
the man whom he was in pursuit'of, had passed by the name of
Gray ; and in order to effect the caption, a number of posting-
bills had been sent round to the different public offices, describ-
ing the person of the accused, who it was understood had for-
merly resided at Poplar ; and in consequence of which a geutleman
of the name of Gray was taken into custody ; but on being examined
before the magistrate' of Union-hall, he was exonerated from
the charge on the most satisfactory testimony in his favour, though
the description answered in every reepet. • This gentleman natu-
rally felt indignant at being thus brought before the public, and
threatened to bring an action against Mr. Payne for false impri-
sonment, but eventually consented to alter his determination, on
the provision that the placard pointing him out as the swindler
should be immediately taken down, and that every other possible
means should be used to clear his character from the imputation.
Mr, Rooras—Then, if I understand right, the original charge
remains against Mackay, anti you wish to take away that part of
the placard which reflects upon the character of the other persons.
what
that part irniegrtulurfedth. e bill,
Thehir. cutionalit:Rbil e
acquiesced
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hp
er erceisme loyowt
and it was accordingly taken down:,
• Mary Jones and Mary Williams, two elderly Welsh ladies,
hp *lupe"; onof wor
wor-
ship, differentekic
remarkable for their constant atlenalinnee
_ of Davis, a constable, who re-
ship, were brought up in custody
from this office, for nicking an
cognized them as old ammaintence*
Sun-
day evening last.
whootihnersh:r way is a female Barrington, had
Welsh Chapel, some time back.
MiS. old lady's pocket at the
had some recollection of
Roams Raid, lie . the circumstance.
been committed jwointleisiwo
Jones as an ex-
there was scarcel
ceedingly notorious thief; _ y place of worship
not
in London at which shedid exerciseher calling, and that under
Several of the officers described the prisoner J
the mask of the greatest sanctity.
Aliraie r c
.iones protested that it Was a sin and a shame so to ma-
lignbaracter whatever she might have been beforei when
ill-advised, she wit 4 now completely reformed.; and as to her fel 7
low-prisoner, she was a total stranger to her, and, she was sure,
equally innocent.
Mr. Haulms, however, thought that the degree of innocence
was tolerably fairly.balanced ; they should, 'therefore,
have equal
merit ; it would, indeed, be a pity to separate theM. fie there-
fore ordered them to keep each other company at the tread-mill
for thist months.