The Sun.
London, England, 1826-05-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE....-Robert Atkins, a groom in the em-
ploy of a Mr. Rush, was brought up for examination, under the
following charge
The prosecutor stated, that the prisoner had been in his service
about ten months; that on the 10th of April, he drove his ladyin
a gig to liernemstreet ; and, on her alighting, she discovered that
she had lost her pocket-book, containing a ten pound note. The
prisoner, on being questioned respecting it, stated, that his had
not seen it. A few days after, in consequence of his sporting s
new watch, chain, seals, &C., suspicions were excited that he had
become possessed of the pocket book; and, on further inquiry, it
was ascertained that, the day after it was lost, he had purchased
the above articles at the shop of a Mr. Frodshara, and paid for
them with a ten pound note; and eubsequeutly, the prisoner him-
self admitted he had taken the nute.—ile was remanded.
GUILDHALL.—Mi. D. v. Mr. • G.—This was a case of
assault and battery, alledged to have been committed by Mr. G.,
a small young gentleman in blue steel spectacles, upon the person
of Mr. D., a tall gallaut son of Mars, recently returned from the '
Ashantee wars, with his liver a little touched, and a large mercu-
rial cataplasm exteriorly applied thereto.
Mr. D. detailed his case at great length ; and as be expressed
a hope that " the blazonntent of it in the newspapers might he
done decently, on account of his connections being very high,"
we shell endeavour to do it as decently as possible, though w e can-
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not go into it quite so lengthily as Mr. D. did.
All• D. as we understood him, was lately a poor lieutenant
in a marching regiment, battling and broiling beneath a burning
sun on the Gold Coast of Africa, among those sanguinary savages
the Ashantees; but he is now, though scarcely two-and-twenty,
a wealthy man ; for,
of being rather touched in the liver, as aforesaid, he came home to
Old England,having left the Gold Coast in consequence
and whilst waiting under the liver-relieving opera-
tion of the mercurial cateplasin above-mentioned, he obtained
golden luck in the last lottery, and thereupon he forsook the
" clang of hostile arms," and all that sort of thing, for the
peaceful pleasures of this very merry metropolis. Now, it so hap-
pened that, ou Thursday morning last, he paid a morning visit to
a lady in whose house he formerly lodged, and of course the con-
versation turned upon his very excellent luck in the lottery ; but
in the midst of it in dropped Mr. G. who was almost an entire
stranger to Mr. D., hut who, nevertheless, began questioning
Mr. D. with a very paidl:Jry-ish familiarity, as to the precise
number of the ticket by which he won his prize, as though he
doubted Mr. D.'s declaration touching his hick in the lottery.
Mr. D. did not half like this incredulous familiarity, or familiar
incredulity ; but thinking it would be extremely indecormis to

resent it before the ladies, he replied, simply, that the ticket by
which he won his prize was No. 1783. "Oh !" said Mr. G.
" that cannot be, for I have been with Sivewright, and he as-
sures me that no such number was sold!" Mr. D. declared that
if Sivewright said that, he said that that was not true. " Well,
111 bet you 101. that that number was not sold," said Mr. G.
" Done !" said Mr. D. ; and taking out his betting book and
a ten pound note, he desired Mr. G. to do the same. " Oh! I
am not prepared for that," said Mr. G. " Oh? I thought so,"
said Mr. D., " and as I never bet without having the stakes de-
posited, I shall have nothing more to do with you, further than
to relate a little anecdote to you. The other day, I met a gentle-
man in the city, who asked me at which of the offices I pur-
chased my lucky ticket; and I told him I bought it at Bish'e.
Now, I never was in Bish's office in the whole course of
my life ; but I made the gentleman that answer, because
I considered his question impertinent." " Perhaps you
think me impertinent ?" said Mr. G. "Oh ! no : not
impertinent ; but something a little like it," said Mr. D.
" Then, if that's the cue," said Mr. G., pulling off his
coat in a great bustle, " the sooner we settle it the better."
"Oh ! fie, Mr. G.," said Mr. D, ; " not in that manner, if
you please. Whenever I quarrel with a gentleman, I settle it as a
gentleman ought to do—in a gentlemanly manner; and even if I
were to meet you as a gentleman, I should allow you to fire twice,
and then shoot you!" But Mr. 0. did not see the gentility of
being shot, and converted into worm's meat, merely because he
had been taxed with impertinence ; so, without paying any, the
slightest, attention to Mr. D.'s remonstrance, he went on with
pulling off his coat; and as soon as he had got it off he threw it
over the' back of a chair, and made a straight forward poke at Mr.
D.'s dumpling depot: which straight-forward poke Mr. D.
dashed aside by a back handed twist of his umbrella. Then
Mr. 0. having rubbed his wrist a little, to do away the
imitation consequent on the back-handed twist aforesaid,
made another and more furious poke at Mr. D.'s dump-
ling depot ; and again Mr. D. dexterously dashed it aside
by the aforesaid back-11anded twist of his umbrella, which so
enraged Mr. G. that he rushed upon Mr. D. with the intentiun
of boring him down as it were ; but Mr. D. by turning sud-
denly to the left about, received the charge in the rear instead
of in front, and by a well-timed retreat he came out of the
action with no other damage than two good hard thumps
on the back of his head ! This was the assault and bat-
tery complained of by Mr. D., and he conjured the Magis-
trate to hold Mr. G. to bail, and to make him give twenty-
four hour's notice of bail—his conduct had been so very, very
shameful ; though had it not been for the mercurial cataplasin
above mentione 1, he would have given Mr. G. such a dressing,
on the spot, as should have taught him much better manners for
the rest of his life.

Mr. Alderman ANSLZY said he did not see any thing so very
atrocious in Mr. G's conduct, as to justify him in requiring
notice of bail.—lt appeared to be a mere common assault.

" A common assault, Sir !" said Mr. D. " I assure you Sir,
Ids conduct was excessively bad ;--most outrageously shameful ;
and I am surprised yon should denominate it n common assault."
Mr. Alderman Artsutv explained that common assault was the
technical phrase fin• an assault which had nothing felonious in it;
and he then asked Mr. G. what he had to say in his defence.
Mr. G., evidently a young man of few words, assured his
Worship that he was utterly incapable of misconducting himself
in the manner described by Mr. D.
" Then you had better step aside and arrange your differences,
without exposing yourselves further," said the Alderman.
" Impossible !---totally impossible?" exclaimed Mr. D.
" Quite out of the question !" gently ejaculated Mr. G.
" Very well ; then Mr. C. will put in bail for his appearance
at the Sessions," said the Alderman ;" and to the very great
chagrin of Mr. D., his worship not only refused to require
twenty-four hour's notice of bail, but consented to take one
surety only, instead of two.
QUEEN-SQUARE.---Rominav AT THE 11011. LADY M‘Do-
srALD'S.--John Smith, who gated himself a fruiterer, residiug
in Whitcomb-stroet, was charged with a robbery iu the house of
'Lady Louisa M'Donald.

Mr. John Morris, of No. 41, Vincent-square, stated, that he
was Clerk to the Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer.
About one o'clock on Saturday, lie was in the house of the late Sir
Archibald Mg./meld, fur the purpose of meeting the executors ;
and, on going into one of the rooms on the ground floor, he ob-
served the window open, and the prisoner standing near it. After
searching for the papers that were wanted, on his going into the
hall, the prisoner was there with two bags under his arm. Wit-
ness asked him his business, and where he came from ; to which
he replied, that he had brought a letter for a Mr. Smith, from
Mr. Farquhar, the banker. Witness put several questions to him,
but finding ho gave evasive answers, be seised him by the collar,
and took the bags, with their contents, from under his arm.
Here the bags were produced. One contained two shirts, a
pair of stockings, and a handkerchief; the other, another bag and
a skin of leather.
John Moore, porter to Mr. Makepeare. silversmith, Lineoln'a
11)1140dg, hroushe two bags to Lady MiDonald's hone, with
scales and weights to weigh the plate, and those new produced
were the same.
Master E. J. Randolph, the nephew to Lady M'Donald, about
12 years old, said, he was a scholar in the Westminster School.
About 20 minutes before one o'clock, he came to his auntie hours,
and left in the hall his bag of linen. The property produced be-
longed to him.
in his defence, and was
The prisoner declined saying any thing
fully committed

WORSIIIP-STREET.—Thomas Char Nan, a known cha-
racter, with an unlucky cart in his aye, was brought before the
sitting Magistrate, charged with breaking into, and robbing the
house of Mr. Haffatul, a grocer and cheeseinonger, in Brick-lane,
St. Luke's.

It appeared, that between the hours of six and eight last San-
day morning the lock of the street-door was picked, and the shop
broken into, from which 101. in cash, several canisters of tea, a
silver watch, and other articles, were stolen. About a quarter
before eight o'clock, a neighbour of Mr. Ilaffand's saw the prisoner
corning from the house, carrying a large bag. He afterwards
gave a description of the man who carried the hag, to James
Taylor and Robert Lock, headboroughs of St. Luke's, who appre-
hended the prisoner at the Salmon and Ball public-house, Golden-
lane.

No part of the property has yet been found, and the prisimer
was remanded to give tune for further inquiry.
TOWN-HALL.—Fnaolar.—A few days back a young man,
who gave his name John Adams, was charged with stealing a
sheet from the Prince of Wales public-house, iu Prospect-place,
St. George's-fields, and remanded. Ou his person were found,
by Reeves, the marshalman, the remnants of a letter, purporting
to be written from East Cliff, Brighton, to some person, in 'fails-
tock-row, Covent-garden, (the names, in both instances, being
torn off.) A report of the case was made in the Times news-
paper, which was productive, the following morning, of a letter to
Mr. Alderman J. J. Smith, stating, that the prisoner, whose real
name had been discovered to be Joseph Sweeney, had committed
forgery upon his master, a gentleman named Auldjo, an office in
the 18th, or Royal Irish .; who, on Saturday morning, attended
with Mr. Morgan, hosier and silk-mercer, 117, Strand, and pro-
duced the following notes in the hand-writing of the prisoner
Mr. T. R. Auldjo requests Mr. Morgan to send by the
bearer (his servant) half a dosen pairs of black silk stockings, and
two body flannel frocks, to make choices.

" T. R. AU! DJO."
Mr. Morgan said, the goods were delivered to OK. prisoner.
Directions being given to Mr. Law, the keeper of the Borough
Compter, for the production of the prisoner, he was brought up,
and immediately sworn to, and the evidence being taken down.
he was committed to the custody of Kinsey, the officer, and con-
veyed in a teach to Bow-street, where a warrant to apprehend
lihn had been taken out.

Mr. Alderman J. J. Sun% said, this was one of the many
proofs of the service rendered by the publication of Police Reports,
by which the public were much benefited, in-which he was joined
by the prosecutor and Mr. Morgan, who described the prisoner
eThe having
Wtlndies and this country. received every kindnars
as a young man of capabilities, which, if properly direzted, would
have rendered him a useful member of society; that he bad added
duringingratitude
to his
servitudeo t liebrootiffin in
The prisoner seemed in the deepest despondency, and declined any
defence. The minor charge was given up.

Private letters from America state, that a subscrip-
tion for, the relief of the late President of the United
States, Mr. Jefferson, has commenced in his native
town, Boston.
In the General Assembly of the Church"of Scot-
land a discussion took place on Tuesday last, relative
to Gretna-green marriages. The strongest disappro-
bation was expressed of the county magistrates or bo-
rough justices, who allowed them to be attested in
their presence, and a committee was appointed to in-
quire into the best means of preventing them. Should
this committee succeed,
will drive to the north with heiresseN and boarding:
school girls. fewer post-chaises and four