The Sun.
London, England, 1828-08-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-IIOUSE.—In the case of the plate claimed
by Mr. Cooper from Mr. Baylis the pawnbroker, the Loan
MAYOR. yeiterday heard witnesses and the arguments of
Counsel.
Several xi,itnesiiesgaVe evidenee as to the indentitY of the
whole Of,the plate ,found in Mr. Baylia's two shop
After hearing Mi.. Atfolplitts ancri
the Loan MAroa then ditecied Mr. tiPe to give tiP to
Mr. Cooper the property found in the city : with resiktit
to the plate found in Poland-street, his Lordship would not
issue any order for the delivery of that, but Mr. Cope gave
it up to Mr. Cooper tiPen i.:,:ceiving an indeinnity in the
iioit or Prnceeiling.;.
Mr. Baylis then signified that he should immediately
proceed at law for the recovery of the plate.
BOW-STREET.:—Thnnutsj3roicnalias Thos. Coshant
i'rotiln, who underwent an eaitiinatiOn at this office abOnt
a t'til,ek.ago, changed with bkving einleairodred to incite
James Wood, a clerk in the General Post-office, to commit
a capital felony, by extracting money from Post-office
letters, was yesterday placed at the bar fOr the purpose of
being re-exaniii4d;
The prisoner teas asked if he hail not anocher name
when employed as a letter-carrier in 1817, when he was
convicted and sentenced to transportation. The prisoner
admitted that his name, was as. it is above stated, and that
his only reason foi ciineealing th'e nanie of CoShain was,
that ii would get into the newspapers.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial for the misde-
meanor, but told that he might put in bail, provided that
his sureties were respectable.

Ryan and ,George, the two young men who stand
chaied with breaking tiii6 the hoiise of Lady Raffles, at
Highfield-house, Rear Hendon, were brought up to
examined, but remanded, in order to give the officers an
opportunity of investigating the case.

MARL BOROUGH- STREET. --James Hake, the
driver of the hackney.coach No. 447, appeared upon a
tummonS to answer the complaint of Earl Ferrers, who
charged him with taking More than hls legal fare.
Earl Ferrers being s.rOrii, stated, that dri Saturday
night last he hired the defendant, who conveyed him from
a very near part of the New-road to his Lordship's own
house, in Harley-street, and for which drive the defendant
demanded and received from his Lordship 2e., whereas the
legal fare was not more at the outside than Is. Gr.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, declared that lie
had never i 3 e i his Ldrdship's face in all his life Before, dor
did he drive his Lordship or any body else either on Satur-
day or Saturday night to Harley-street, and his Lordship
must therefore be mistaken altogether in his man.

Earl Ferrers said, that he was not in the least mistaken,
for not only he himself but also a gentleman who accom-
panied him at thr, time, examined the number of the coach
very accurately, and clearly saw that it was No. : the
other gentleman was at present in the country, but lie
(Lord Ferrers) himself was quite satisfied as to the exact-
ness of the number.

The coachman said that it was quite impossible his
Urdship could be right, because he, the defendant, had a
written list of every fare he drove during the whole of
Saturday, from the time he left home in the morning until
he returned at night, and there was not one fare to Harley-
street, or any place in that neighbourhood. " And besides,"
said the coachman, " if I had been the man, your Lordship
AVould know me again by my vice."
Lor: rerrers—Your vice l what have I to do with your
vice or your virtue, man? I only know that if you are
the driver of No. 477, you are the man who drove me and
charged me 2s. on Saturday night,
The coachman here explained, that he meant to say his
Lordship would know him by his speech, his voice, and
not his vice, as his Lordship supposed : but he persisted
most solemnly in declaring that he drove no fare whatever
on Saturday to Harley-street.
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The ALIGISTKATE asked the defendant if his vehicle
was a coach or a chariot ? Defendant—A chariot, your
Worship.
Earl Ferrers—Exactly so; a tbatiot it tag.

The MAGISTRATE asked the coachman the colour of him
chariot ? Defendant—lt is a yellow chariot, your worship.
Earl Ferrers—Exactly so ; a yellow chariot it was.
The defendant again, with tears in his eyes, and cer-
tainly with every appearance of sincerity, declared that he
was not the offender, and handed in to the Magistrate the
list of every fare he had dtiven on Saturday, where he took
them up and where lie get them do:tn. He had now, he
said, been 24 years a driver of hackney-coaches in London,
and during that long time he had bad only three masters,
and never in his life bad a complaint been made against him
before this, which he protested was utterly groundless.
Earl Ferrers again repeated that he was quite certain as
to the number of the chariot, and although he had little
doubt but that the defendant himself was the very person
who drove, it was possible that another might have held the
reins, for the defendant had another man with him on the
box at the time, and this was the trick these fellows resorted
to when eummoned,

Defendant—if was tint perfectly cf:rtain before that
your Lordship was wrong as to the number, this would
convince me, for I never in my life suffered any one to sit
on the box with me, and that is well known to be my prac-
tice : perhaps the number was 774.

Earl Ferrero--No, it was not 774.
Defendant- It might be then 74T.
Earl Ferrers—No, indeed, it was not 747.
Defendant—May be it might be 407.
Earl Ferrers—No, I tell you, it was no other number
but 477. I looked particularly at the figures, and they
were distinctly a 4, a 0, a 7, and then another 7.
The clerk here siiggeeted that the figures thus named
and placed by his Lordship made 4.077, and not 477.

Earl Ferrers—Well, I don't care : those I have mentioned
were,.l think, certainly the figures.

Mr. Bishop said that there was no such number as
4,077, the highest number of hackney-coaches being 1,200
lieenso.

Earl Verrers—lt is, perhaps, possible that I may he
mistaken as to the nought; but I am quite Certain ao to
the 4 and the two sevens but I shall not now press the case
further against the defendant—only let him take this as a
caution.

Defendant--A tatition for what, your Lordship? It
was not my coach your Lordship bad at all.
Earl Ferrers—Well, well, I shall take an opportunity
hereafter of satisfying the Magistrate, when my friend
cothes to town, that the number was 477.
The defendant was then discharged, and his Lordship
had to pay all the costs, and he gave the coachman Is. 6d.
for his loss of tune;

MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—iohn Vont, an old man
still possessing a great deal of vigour, was brought before
Mr. GRIFFITH, by one of the street-keepers, for brutally
disaultitig a young girl who sells vegetables and fruit in the
streets.

The complainant told the following stoty rich a great
deal of simplicity It 6 cirri sitting in Tiehfield-stteet,
with a basket of brocoli and apples far sale; the defendant
came up to her, and asked her if her tient *as not Ann
Voley? " No," said she, "my name is not Ann Foley, but
Mary 14e called her a lying hussey, said she lived
with him Go years before in aft iitiproper way, and robbed
him of some money; and he alined a bloW at bet head with
bludgeon, Which, but for her bonnet, must halt
fractured her skull. 3lie told the Magistrate she. was
ready to cry befi}re it happened because she had "hel ho
luck," and her father was ill ; and asked him whether it wait
possible for her to be guilty of the offence imputed to her,
as she will be only fifteen on the very first day of next De-
eenaber4l . .

It appeared by the evidence of othet *itnescec, that she
was stunned by the blow, and saved from falling by sothe
gentleman pasting, who caught her in his arms.
tiaii4trit told the defendant it was very well he
did not stand there Charged with murder,
"Aliirder'?" replied the old m,ii ; " no; I never coin-
Mated thiiitler. bile attended the fire teate ttgo tb clean
my room, and she robbed me of 2/. 16s. anti will it
Old Bailey."
I am surprised that you have not been
76. thellriier d.
tti the Old Bailey if ykiti rise such a stick in such a
*ay. What are you ? Prisonet—Why, r`§if, a man, the
tame aS pit are.
This ihabient ritiStVer tiet the reception it demi- ved, and
he then described himit'l a Oitlernan't servant mit of
place."
The Magistrate asked him in whose service he had
lived ? He replied "In the service of 20 ; and being re-
quired to name some of his late masters he said he lived last
with Lord Norrnanton, 3, Seymour-place, Park-lane, three
years ; with the Marquis (now Duke) of Buckingham,
before that, two years; with Mr, Egerton five years and
lie still accused the girl of having
rteorib4mdolnitmhs;

Further to prove her innocence, the girl assured the
Magistrate that she had lived eight or nine years with her
parents, at No. 6, Church-street, St. Giles's, and was no
older than she had represented.
The old man was committed; but he afterwards prod iced
sufficient bail to answer for his appearance at the sess',ons,
and he ins allowed td be at large.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—A. Newton, foreman to Messrs.
Kirby and Thomas, linen-..=drapers, at Knightsbridge, was
cbargo m befcre Mess RECORIE and ikIARRIOTT, by Sir
Joins Theophilus tie, with an assault, and using most
abusive language at bis residence, Crescent-house, Brompton.
Sir John stated, that on Thursday afternovu, about ball-

vast five o'clock, just as he was sitting down to dinner with
his family, the defendant called at his house, and stf.it him
in a bill up stairs for id!eged to be due to Messrs.
Kirby and Thomas. As he had late ;laid theiF hill, he
conceived there must be some error, and desitletT 52 servant
to tell the defendant to go away, as he should not pal ?°,
then. The servant returned with an answer that the de-
femiant Slid he would not go away until the bill was paid.
iSrittie43 theft wed dolt!! stairs to him, and desired that
iiiiatt leave the house ingantlys when the defendant
abiickci hiL nicestgtoasly, declared lit tiotld not go, and
said, " blackgtiarcl,' pit}, yOnr just (1643." Witness
told him if he would not g'S iffitletlY,. he Wotild Cal/ the ter-
6nts and turn him out, upon wlsicu defend/int shoved
him against the (loot leading to the lower ha:1; fnn ix fell
three steps, eiclairning at the same time," You villain,
keep your tongue tirhhin your teeth,' and pay your debts ;
your character is well known'," Witness immediately
seized the defendant, sent for a constable a:;:u give him into
custody. The defendant then said he did not cart; fA.rr the
Magistrates or ass one else. There was a person with de-
fendant at the time he sha'vv_i down the steps, and
witness desired him to notice the assault; /4t be replied he
siiw.nothing of it.
John HtitchinsOn Lee, the complainant's son, stated th:,!,
he was in the at th'e time of the affray', and hear-
ing a noise went down into ih..; hall'. when he saw the de-
fendant push his father against the door.
Harriet Grimshaw, servant to Sir John, counting the
itatethent.
The defendadt, itY reply to the charge, said that a few
days previously he had called si:n abstract of the bill,
when he was desired by Lady Lee to Sei.il d hill of parti-
culars, which he accordingly did on Thursday al'erh.s67),
He never refused to leave the house, but merely wanted the
blc!:; to correct it if there was any error, when Sir
John seized hirii t'fy the cAlary end tore his shirt to rags, and
said he was a Magistrate, and sl?erfflti feel his tower and
also his vengeance, when an officer was cent for,' trod he
was given into custody.
Mr. Kirby said he hoped some allowance would be
made for heat of temper. _ . .

fir John said there could be no excuse for that ; he
iirgs andst groesly insulted by the epithets applied to him,
and lie now wished to Mr; Kirby if he did not always
punctually pay him his bills.
Mr. Kirby—Certainly, Sir John, you aiw'ays etc.

Mr. MAuitioTT censured the defendant's conduct, which
he said was most intolerable and disgraceful. If it hail
been a bill for 5001. instead of 55., and owing a twelve-
month, midi scandalous conduct could not he defended;
besides, the epithets used wets d.ominable ; he was sure
n• respectable tradesmen would apprb such conduct.
Mr. GREGORIE agreed with his colleague, and said that
the excuse about having the bill back was a mere evasion;
as the defendant had the particulars of it at home. Their
judgment eras, that the defendant pay a fine to the King of
40s. and costs, or be imprisoned 1.1 days in the House of
Correction,

Mr. Kirby here spoke priVately to Sir John, when the
defendant was ordered td be called in again.
Sir John then said, that ai it hetd been intimated to him
that the defendant's circumstances were not such but that
the fine would hear hard upon him, he would not press the
payment provided he made an apolou in the office, as 1-:e
had no vindictive feeling towards him ; at the same time
he was not sure that he was doing right towards the
public, for such insolent and violent conduct he never before
witnessed.

The defendant, after a short consultation with his friends,
made the necessary apology in the office, and expressed
his sorrow for what had occurred.

Sir John said he was perfectly satisfied, and the parties
retired.

LAMBETH-STREET.—Yesterday Mr. Chambers,
a respectable miller, residing at Great Ockendon, in Essex,
was brought before the sitting Magistrates, Messrs. HARD-
WICK and WYATT, in the custody of the parish officers of
St. George's in the East, to show cause, if any be had,
why he refused contributing to the support of an illegiti-
mate male child.

A very good-looking young woman, of about 18 years of
age, made the necessary depositions.
Mr. WYATT asked the reputed father if he had any reason
to assign why an order for the maintenance of his child
should not be made out against him ? Mr. Chambers re-
plied that he had. He had already paid for its support the
round sum of 1601. to a Mr. Fry, a respectable gentleman
then residing in the 2dile•end-road, and the uncle of the
young woman ; and by him he was assured that he never
more should be troubled on the subject. He had his re-
ceipt for the money, and was then ready to produce it.
(The receipt was produced accordingly.)

Mr. WYATT observed, that under these circumst,nces
it was a great hardship that Mr. Chambers should be now
called upon to answer any demands on the infant's account,
but though he had paid so large a sum, he was not exempted
from the liability he was under to the parish officers.
Allen, the beadle, said, that the young woman about
seven months since thought proper to get married, and it
was in consequence of the husband's refusing to keep the
child any longer that the parish was compelled to adept
the present proceedings.
A respectable middle-aged woman here stepped forward
and said, that her son, who is quite a youth, and not yet
out of his apprenticeship, was inveigled into the match with
the girl they had then before them, and it ought not to be
expected that besides being obliged to submit to the degra-
dation of such an union, he should also be subjected to the
support of her bastard child.
Mr. WYATT asked if he was aware of her former lapse,
and of her having had a child before he married her? The
mother—l believe not, Sir.

The wife—He certainly was, your Worship : be is now
outside himself, and you can ask him.
The husband, quite a stripling, was then called in, and
asked by Mr. WYATT if he knew that his wife had bad an
illegitimate chill before he had married her ? He blushed
and hesitated, and, after a minute or so, admitted that be
did, but that it was three days before.
An order for the payment of 3s. a-week was then made
against Mr. Chambers, he being at the same time informed
that he had a right of civil action against Mr. Fry for the
non-appropriation of his 1601.

HATTON-GARDEN.--John Uostin, the dustman
charged at this office on Saturday last with the wilful
murder of his own child, William Costin, was brought up
yestetday for re-examination before the sitting Magistrate,
Mr. LA ING.

As soon as the prisoner was placed at the bar, and
the witnesses were admitted, an exclusion of the public
from the justice-room took place, and more partieuLirly
of those persons who usually report the examina-
tions which take place at this office. The exclu-
sion upon this occasion must appear somewhat strange
and unaccountahle,—though not at all unusual in
this office,—when it is considered that the case before
the Magistrate could nut possibly have obtained more
publicity than it had already got through the medium of a
coroner's inquest, and at the prisoner's first examination at
this office. It was understood, however, that the prisoner
stands committed, but that he is again to be brought up
on Friday next, to have some further evidence taken
against hirrld
UNION-HALL—Yesterday a gentleman named Gude
attended at this office for the purpose of giving information
of the following robbery stated, that on the day pre-
eeding he went on Battersea-bridge, accompanied by a party
of ladies, In iitdet to view a boat-race from thence. While
on the bridge he felt something, as it were imperceptibly,
at his coat pocket, and on putting his hand dawn, missed
his pocket-book. He immediately seized by the cellar a
stout genteel-looking man, whom he accused with being
the thief the fellow endeavoured to make his escape after
having flung the pocket-book over the bridge into the river,
but was held by Air. Gude, who dragged him along to the
toll-house, where lie gave hitu in charge to the toll-col-
lector, describing to the latter the circumstances of the rob-
bery; and requesting that the prisoner might be kept there
for' zr fest minutes, until he (Mr. Gude) tvent for a con-
stable. When Mr. Gude returned to the toll-house be was
excessively mortified td And that the man into whose care
lie gave the thief had suffered fr?r,r to escape. Fortunately
for Mr. Gude, at the moment his peke-book was thrown
into the rii4r a waterman happened to ht passing, who
picked it up and restored it to the owner. 'Ae thief eon-
trii,ed to get possession of the pocket-book by ct:lting the
poelist *ith a sharp instrument, which penetrated the
pocket-book. Mr. Glide was very anxious that the Ma-
gistrate should graut a summons against the man for suffer-
ing the thief to escape, but it was refused, and he was ad-
vised to lay the circumstances before the trustees of the
bridge, who would, probably, discharge the man from his
situation.

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IMPROVEMENTS IN COVENT-GARDEN
MARKET.--Yesterday morning a number of workmen
commenced their labours in Covent-Garden Market, for
the intended improvements. Stone-inasons were employed
in pulling down the stone pillar, which was surmounted by
four gas lights. The column was erected at the sole ex-
pence of his Grace the Duke of BEDFORD, and cost 9001.
It never answered the intended purpose, as.it was not of
sufficient height to diffuse the light generally through the
Market. Several workmen were also employed in pulling
down the stalls„