The Sun.
London, England, 1826-09-15 00:00:00

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Sart. 14.

Nothing occurred in this Court to-day worth noticing,
except the fact of a poor woman coming from the Marshal-
sca prison to be discharged from a debt of 1/. 125., and the
costs of suit upon it, which amounted to more than 22/.
She was ordered to he discharged forthwith.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

the art of surgery, stated that he was going tip Holborn between
six and seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, when he Was
accosted by one of the prisoners (John), who asked him to pur-
chase some real Havannah Cigars. Mr. Milhourne told the fellow
several times that he did not want them, but he stuck close to him,
still extolling the quality of the cigars, which would be sold for
almost nothing. Tired of the man's importunities, and believing
him to be in distress, he at length agreed to take a shilling's Worth,
and was with much appearance of honesty conducted up a dark
passage in Fulwood's-rents, where he was shown into a room, and
the other prisoner stood up to receive him, as if pre-informed of
his coming. ,The'person who decoyed him hither, addressing his
associate, said, " Weil, Captain, here's a gentleman will buy sonic
of your cigars ; mho* them to him, and he'll find they are the
right sort." The pretended Captain observed in reply, " Oh,
I have none that I can recommend to a gentleman, as they
have been damaged by the sea-water, but I can show hint
something more worthy of his attention, real French cambric,
worth a guinea a yard ; there is nothing at all like it in this
conntry," and at the same tune he opened a bundle, produc-
ing the matchless cambric., Mr. Milbourne 'declared he did
not want any, but the prisoners insisted on his buying one piece
at all events; measnring full seven yards, which he should have for
two guineas, being less than the third of its value; from the signi-
ficant glances which passed between the fellows, Mr. Milhourne
imagined that they were determined to rob him if he persisted in
refusing to buy something from them ; however, he told them
that he had not so moth money about liim. The prisoners said
they would take whatever suin he had about him, and call at his
lodgiuge in, the morning for the remainder. Clad to escape at any
price, he gave them a guinea, declining to take the cambric, but
they literally forced it into his bat, and said they would show him
lame very beautiful French made musical boxes, and some choice
cognac brandy,' at the same time:. On his return home to Mr.
Shepherd's, the surgeon, of Datton-garden, with whom he was
then residing, he mentioned the circumstances, and exhibited the
cambric which had been forced upon him. Mrs. Shepherd de;
Glared that it was not worth 'sa., but on showing it to a linen-
draper, in Holborn, it proved to he common book muslin, worth
abbut 6d. or, 741. a yard. The next morning Mr. Shepherd,
being determined not to let so shameful a fraud go unpunished,
sent a person with Mr. -Milbourue to try if they could meet the'
priaohers, and after walking a few turns in Holborn, they met the
same fellow that had accosted Mr. Milbourne the evening before,
and on being charged with the- fraud, he said that the money
should be returned; they accompanied him into the Crown public
house, where he said his employer was waiting for him, but the
instant that Mr. Milbourne and his friend entered the room, the
latter was assailed by a man with a wooden leg, (suppased to be
the notorious duffer, Dick Bowers), who struck him a violent
blow on the hack of the head, which threw him across the table,
whilst the other fellow ran out of the room ; but being cloSely
pursued, he was apprehended at the top of Chancery-lane. The
other prisoner was soon after taken into custody by an officer at
the old haunt in Fulwootl's.rents. •

Thhi statement wax corroborated by two other witnegaes.

The prisoners denied having used uny violence to the young
gentleman, and as to selling the muslin, they were only employed
by another.
Sergeant Simms asked who it was that employed him.
One of the prisoners said, that his name wail Lesangea, and that
they believed the goods to be of ihreign manufacture, as had been

represented to them. -
.They were both held to bail in good securities—one for the con-
spiracy to defraud, and the other for assault and conspiracy. They
were locked up, no bail appearing.

OLD BAILEY, SEpr. 14.