The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE: Purse, the pawnbroker' of Lon-
don-wall, was summoned before the Lord Mayor, to accotMe
for the detention of a gold chain which had been offered him to
plt,ilge; The complainant stated his name was Thompson, when.
he offered the chain to pledge.
The Loan MAYoit—Praki Sir, is that your real name?
Complainant—No, my Lord.
The LOAD Mayou—What is your, real name?
Complainant--I do not think proper to make it known.
The Loan Mavcia:—.-Theit I cannot hear you. I cannot hear
a charge preferred by an anonyttious person against a tradesman
who is known.
Complainant—My Lord, lam a tradesman, and the eiretun-
stance of my application to a pawnbroker might injure my credit
if it becaMe khdivii. I will write -my name down, and commu-
nicate ii in yout Lordshiii, lid I cannot state it publicly.
The Loan Mavoit,--I cannot receive if, except in the the same
public' manner as the defendant's name is received,
The complainant, then, on his Lordship's positive refusal to
hear the case, except under his real name and address, then gavot
it : but his Lordship suggested, subsequently, to a gentleman
connected with the Press, that as nothing appeared to depend
upon the nan-ie or individual at regarded the public, it might as
well be omitted.

The complainant stated, that he offered to pledge a chain,
which lie had every reason then, and even now, to believe to he
gold. The pawnbroker, instead of receiving or rejecting it,
thought proper, without putting it to the usual test, to declare it
to be a fraudulent article, and to charge him with having offered
it with an intention to defraud. They detained the chain, and
positively refused either to give it up, to cut it, or' return him the
money.
The pawnbroker's shopinan stated, that the trade generally
had latterly been extensively defrauded by means of counterfeit
geld chains, which were so well gilt as to stand the common test
of aqua fortis.—Dismissed.
GUILDHALL.--Mr. Goundry, the projector of the Tea Coin-
pany speculation, applied to have a warrant lodged at the White-
cross-street gaol, against one John Archer, the Steward of the
Poultry Ward, for five different assaults between the 2d of Sep-
ternber and the Bth of October. Goundry had, it seems, just
obtained his liberation,

Sir PETER. Lauftle said, the prisoners ;were a sad rebellious
set ; he had received three or four letters that morning, calling on
him to go to the prison to hear charges of assault; and, said the
Alderman, I suppose you can tell me something about one of them
that relates to the tatting of Mr. Mapleston.
" Yes, I can ;" replied Goundry, who is a jovial, broad-faced
farmer-looking man, but dressed in the peculiar garb, and affect-
ing the manners and style of the quakers. " 1 saw him," said he,
" come into the liifirirtary, with his head cut and bleeding. If the
prisoners rebel, it is the fault of the Magistrates, who do nut do
their duty when complaints are made."
Sir Pairs said, the Magistrates usually found the complaints
very frivolous, and their decisions therefore gave little satisfac-
tion. Neat week, however, a day should be set apart for the
hearing of complaints, of which Mr. Goundry should have due
notice.
BOW-STREET.—Yeaterday Edward liforlimee and Edward
Newland, two well-known characters, were charged with the fol-
lowing impudent robbery :—The prisoners, with another' of their
fraternity, were prowling about Covent-garden metket, yes&rday
morning early, when they met with a respectably dressed man,
moth intoxicated. They followed him until he fell down, vital
they picked hint up, a.. d led him to a wine vault, where he treat,
ed them to liquor for their seeming kindness. They then went to
another house, and there, while sitting in conversation, Mortimer
was observed by two little girls, venders of water creases, who had
obtained leave of the landlord to warm their half-frozen hands by
his fire, to be very busy about the upper part of the stranger's
trousers, and at length they saw him take a watch from the stran-
ger's fob, and put it into his own pocket. The three then left the
house ; but the girls having informed the landlord of what they
had seen, a pursuit was raised, • and they' were found comfortably
seated in a neighbouring barber's shop, about to undergo the ope-
ration of hair cutting.
The prisoners had nothing to say, and were fully committed.
• An. unfortunate girl was brought to the office, by Stevens, en
suspicion of having poisoned herself.
Sir R. BIRNIF. advised her to be looked after; in the mean
time, he said, be would see if anything could be done with a view
to a permanent provision for her.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—John Ind was charged, un-
der Mr. Martin'i Aet, with beating a sheep, on the 13th Nov.,
cruelly and wantonly ; the eye of the animal was beaten out of
the socket.

Mr. Corraxr said the masters seemed to encourage their ser.
'rants to strike the animals en the head : he should therefore
wake an example of the prisoner. The fine was not less than
10s., nor more than 51. ; as the case was an atrocious one, he
should convict him in $l. The prisoner not being able to pay,
was committed for two months.

MARYLEBONE.—YesterdaySir Anthony Carlisle appeared
upon summons, before Mr. Garrvvrrr, charged by the driver of
the hack►►ey-coach, No. 677, with having refused to pay him his
legal fare.

Mr. Gwynn decided the case in the coachman's favour, and
Sir Anthony paid the other shilling with costs.
UNION-HALL—A young fashionably dressed man, named
Joh* Routh, was charged with embezzling 91. 10s., the property
of Messrs. Davy, Sawyers, and Co.
The prisoner, who was extremely agitated, hoped he would
not be committed to the common gaol ; but was told by the Ma-
gistrate that he had no discretion. lie was, however, allowed to
go thither in a coach. Ile was a very gentlemanly looking young
man, and dressed, not only well, but splendidly.
On Sunday night one of the watchmen, in Surrey New-road,
on returning from calling the hour, found his box iu possession of
a female who refused to give it up, without, however, uttering a
word. She was,' by the assistance of another watchman, ejected,
and carried to the watch-house, where she was as stubbornly
silent as in the box. By the advice of a surgeon she was removed
to the workhouse, where she persevered in the same strangely ob-
durate behaviour. Yesterday afternoon her weakness was ex-
treme, and she was pronounced to be in a dying state. She is
rather good looking, apparently about nineteen years of age ;
had on a cottage-Shaped bonnet, a red shawl, and a blue cotton
gown. No one either at the work-house or watch-house knew any
thing► About her.

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A SUBSTANTIAL IVIEAL.—A young man, boast-
ing of his health and constitutional stamina, very lately, in the
hearing of Wewitzer, the player, 'was asked to what he chiefly at-
tributed so great a happiness? "To what, Sir !--to laying in
good foundation to he sure. I snake a point, Sir, to eat a good
dial every morning.!", Then, I presume, Sir (remarked We-
witue), you usually breakfast in a timberyard."
STRANGE DiscovEßY.---About midnight on the
9th instant, the keeper of the bar at Ilolbeek, near Leeds, was
alarmed by a singular sound, which it appeared proceeded from a
shed belonging
if waedectoovearepdottetliaryt; and on a more particular examine-
a man and woman had both fallen
into a 'draw-well in the shed, seven yards deep, and containing
about five feet of water. With a good deal of difficulty the parties
rvere'extricated from their perilous situation, and plated upon
terra firma, when they explained that they had retired together
to the abed, not being aware of the well, or of the cooling immer.
sine that awaited them. The lady, it appears, is an inhabitant
of one of the neighbouring streets, but the gentleman described
himself as having come to Leeds fair from near Halifax. In the
.course of the following day, a silk shawl arid a reticule, the latter
containing a quantity of silver and copper coin, were found in the
well, and restored to the frail oamer.--Staffordshirs Advertiser.
SHOCKING CIRCITAISTA.NCE.-All
inquest was
yesterday held at the Crown public-house, Rosemary-lane, on the
body of James Wilson, a native of Sweden. When the occur-
Fence wag mentioned to the Beadle, he hastened to the spot, and
on entering the apartment, saws number of rats tugging at the
sinews and actively devouring the remain) of the deced• hi,:)
intent were they on their banqiiet, that his
the slightest degree excite alarm; and in enderivtourint.g to separate
presence did not in
one of them from the corpse, he was obliged
to
1111 iwhiehAfter.the
Jury were sworn they proceeded to view the
ofll*lay in a
miserable attic, exposed to every inclemencyweather. It
rpr ntett the most emaciated appearancc....-
ring whatsoever, ant
the head, and the other together with
One of the hands lay under „
the .
was enveloped in a piece of old sacking, without any other rove-
ring
provisions a decayed state.: The
in one td)a,r‘tvho,f, rnut.ilat.,4l by
.. vermin. Th. e room
the right cheek, Were mach
~,,,,es, and pieces of non of all 5r,..... —d
itself was full of rags, i, . in...., and
i:va‘,,Veortil the most penurious disposition, denied him-
selfus yet
, ;amcliveoVered. The evidence was to the
dfoeie,tlavis,iee.n
gcopniilmrpootritn:e_cestriaies4 ofallieftne,alairwidaissaacuii:aprwosedoluaton,haavnedlieiyfteda
house with the deceased. Yesterday, betirtan three
and four o'clock, she broke open his room door which was bolted
on the inside. On going io, she found .him lyink in a heap on
einoititelitilesarailudeesum,
the floor, in an old sack. Biz jacket was lying
near hint, but
there ivas no' othei covering. The deceased was in the habit of
working for Jews, and used to go on errands. He was 55 years of
age, and she thought be starred himself to death.—.To the quo-
tious of the Jtiry, , this witness replied, that the ti aced had no
pm!'"
friends, and WAS of a 'very miserly disposition. Verdict,. "upend