The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-29 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Thomas Howdle and George Reader, mustard-manufac-
turers, Drypool, Yorkshire.
William Jennings and William Thomas, Little Guil,l-
- Southwark, hat-manufacturers.
William Kirkham and Francis Cotton, High-street,
Shoreditch, silversmiths.
Edward Dodd and Robert Hunter, Berners-street, Ox-
ford-street, musical instrument-makers.
David Johnstone and Ja•ues Milligan, Cambridge, tea-
dealers.

Joseph Leo and Charlea I3lontlrl, New-Inn-yard, Shore-
ditch, lead-smelters.
William Kelsall and William Haste, Pudsey, Leeds,
eloth.mantif..teturers. _ _

Henry Bond and Robert Lever, Lever-bank, Lanca•
shire, bleachers.

William Willis Bailey and Thomas Shakespeare, Swad-
lincote, Derbyshire, coal.masters.
John Morter, Thomas Wright, Isaac Pye, Robert Beane,
and Arm Morter, Norwich, crape-manufacturers.
John Nixon and Sons, Glasgow, retail hatters.
William Robertson and Walter Robertson, Cross-lane,
Cannon-street, merchants.
Thomas Lee, Edward Greenall, and Cu., Warring-
ton, malesters.
Philip John Miles, John S. Hanford, A. G. H. Bat-
tersby, Richard Vaughan, William Miles, and Thomas
K. Bayly, Bristol, bankers.
John Smith Daintry, John Ryle, John IDaintry, and
Samuel Bayley, Manchester, bankers.
John West, William Taylor, and Thomas West, Bristol,
coal-merchants.
Lyon Phillips and Sons, Minories, Manchester-ware-
housemen.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF DELUSION.—A gen-
tleman, who holds a respectable situation in the
Custom-house, but whose name we forbear to men-
tion in respect to his feelings, was charged with
having stolen a hat, the property of Mr. Franklin, a
hatter.

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The following was the prosecutor's statement.
While he was making it the prisoner's blood ap-
peared to boil with indignation.
Some days ago the prisoner went, accompanied
by a young man, who was in sailor's attire, and de-
sired that his companion and:himself should be fitted
with hats: After this was done, the prisoner re-
quested to speak privately to the prosecutor, who
took him into the parlour for that purpose. The
prisoner then said, he had a proposition to make.
lie had, he said, no money about him, but he had
a gold chain and seals, for which he had given eight
pounds, and he was willing to leave those articles as
a security that he would pay for the hats. The
prosecutor said he was not in the habit of dealing in
that way, and refused to let the hats go under such
circumstances. " Well, then," observed the pri-
soner, " you can surely have no objection to let us
have one hat. My son iE going to be married, and
I am anxious that he should appear respectable ; and
the chain and seals ate worth the money I gave for
them." The prosecutor, at length, consented to
let the prisoner have 'one hat, and away he and the
sailor went, leaving the valuable deposit in the hat-
ter's hands. It was soon found that the chain and
seals were regular duffing articles, and not worth a
shilling.• (They were, of course produced in the
justice-room.) A few days afterwards the prose-
cutor, as he walked along the street, met the pri-
soner, and immediately addressed him, and charged
him with having obtained the hat in the manner de-
scribed. An ofhieer was then procated, and the pri-
soner was taken into oustody.

The prisoner denied, in the most solemn manner,
that he had ever, in the course of his life, seen the
prosecutor before the day they met in the street,
when the latter called him into a house, and, taking
off his hat, looked into it, and then charged him with
having swindled him out of a hot. He (the pri-
soner) replied, with all the indignation which an
honest man would naturally feel at so atrocious a
charge, he had never, as he hoped for mercy, seen
the villain before who had so egregiously traduced
him. He was a respectable man, known to hun-
dreds in the city of London, and was so far from
wanting money, that his object was how to spend it
most happily.
The LORD MAYOR asked the,prosecutor whether
he was quite convinced of the identity of the pri-
soner? The prosecutor said it was quite impossible
that the could be mistaken—nothing could be more
certain. If this was his dying
moment, he would be
obliged to declare that the prisoner was the man.—
His (the prosecutor's) wife and servant-maid could
testify to the same effect. They had both been pre-
sent when the prisoner was dealing with him.
The servant girl saw the prisoner in the parlour
on the occasion. She was going in with supper
when she saw him, and she waited outside for some
minutes, looking at him through the crevices of the
door. She could not be mistaken in the person.
The LORD MAYOR---Look at that man, and tell
me whether he is the person.
The girl said that there was not the least doubt
of it.
The prisoner, in the most violent manner, repeated
his denial. He vowed to heaven that he never in
his life had any thing to with, or saw the prosecutor
or his servant before.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether the prosecu-

tor's wife was in the justice-room ? HiA Lordship
was desirous to hear her evidence.

The prosecutor most readily sent for her.
The LORD MAYOR, as soon as the lady arrived,
requested that the persons in the justice-room, of
whom there were not many, would walk into the
hall, and that the prisoner should mingle with them.
This having been done, his Lordship desired Mrs.
Franklin to go into the hall and ascertain whether
the person who had imposed upon her husband was
amongst the crowd. The lady soon returned, and
assured the Lord Mayor the swindler was not there,
It is necessary to state that the prisoner, during
the period of his probation before Mt. Franklin's
wife, courted observation in the most marked man-
ner. Afterwards the Lord Mayor required that each
person should take off his hat. The lady still per-
sisted in saying that the impostor was not present.
The LORD MAYOR—Let the prisoner be phteed

at the bar.
The order was obeyed, and his Lordship desired
Mrs. Franklin to look at him well, and say whether
she recollected him.

Mrs. Franklin said she had no knowledge of the
prisoner whatever ; she had never seen him before.
The LORD M.Avoß—He is not the man who im-
posed upon you ? Mrs. Franklin said there was no
resemblance. The man who had been with her hus-
band had red whiskers, arid much more hair upon
his head thaw the prisoner had. (The prisoner had
a few white hairs upon his head.)
The prisoner was immediately discharged.
It appeared all through that the prosecutor was as
conscientiously positive of the guilt of the gentle-
man so unjustly accused, as the latter was of his own
innocence.

The interest excited by the case was intense.
GUILDHALL.

ATTEMPT AT SELF-DESTRUCTION.—Yesterday
Elizabeth Miller, a young woman about '25 years of
age, and possessing considerable personal attractions,
was brought up before Alderman WAITHMAN,
charged with attempting to destroy herself on Wed-
nesday evening last. This unfortunate being, who
would thus rashly have thrown away that existence
which Providence bestowed upon nor for a better
purpose, is stated to have been the victim of early
seduction. Her friends are placed in a respectable
rank of life ; but the prospects of this wretched
creature were blasted by an intimacy she contracted
with a man named Miller, whose abandoned career,

has been for the present interrupted. He was ar-
rested about six months ago on a charge of felony,
and, having been tried at the 01(1 Bailey, was trans-
ported. The course this young woman pursued
since the apprehension of her paramour may be
easily imagined ; and on Wednesday evening, a little
after five o'clock, she was seen descending the steps
at Blackfriars' Bridge. Immediately she plunged
in, and it being at the time a strong ebb tide, she
was carried rapidly down the current, but was
luckily rescued.
The worthy Alderman pointed out to her, in the
most impressive language, the dreadful consequences
of the crime she was about to commit, and earnestly
exhorted her to wean her mind from the contempla-

tion of an act, the accomplishment of which would
entail eternal misery upon her.
The unfortunate young woman became dreadfully
agitated, and exhibited in her whole demeanour the
appearance of deep and sincere contrition fur the at-
tempt she had made on her life.
tier sister, whose appearance was highly respect-
able, and who seemed a good deal older than the pd-
soner, then pledged herself to take care of her.
On receiving this assurance, accompanied by the
s::ongest protestations from the prisoner herself, that
she would never repeat the attempt, the Alderman
discharged her.