The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-19 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY; SEPT. IS.

George Stevens, a sweep, was indicted for stealing
a sack of soot from Robert Johnson, another of the
same fraternity. •
The prosecutor stated, that the prisoner and him-
self bad been drinking 4vether in a public-house;
when they came out the prisoner pushed him down
and rail away with his sack; which was full of soot.
He twigged him in the streets a few days afterwards,
and had him taken into custody.
Cross-examined by Mr. C. PurwPs—What do
you mean by twigging him ? - Why, when any body
sees I am looking at 'em, they knows I twigs 'em.
Mr. PHILLIPS—And what do you say he robbed
you of ? All my soot.
Mr. PHILLIPS—Not a 11: there's a little on your
face now.—(Loud laughter.)--I knows it.
Mr. PHILLIPS—When you twigged the prisoner,
did net he ask you for 3s. you owed him ? Yes, he
said I had " stuck up" three shillings' worth of
brandy-and-water to him, and that he had been
obliged to pay it.
Mr. PHILLIPS—Fine times, indeed, when sweeps
can stick up three shillings' worth of brandy-and.
water. Pray, had you any cigars that evening ?
No, I never smokes.

11L•. Pllmurs—You did not charge him with this
robbery until he asked you for the 3s. ? No.
The Jury acquitted the prisoner.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.--A quiet, decent-looking, though
poorly-dressed man, named John Marshall, formerly a
private in the 42d regiment, was yesterday brought before
Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, from St. Martin's watch-house,
charged with having, the night before, broken two panes of
glass in a window of Lord Melburne', house, in Whitehall.
The soldier who was on duty in Privy.gardens saw the
defendant, after knocking violently at Lord Melburne's
door, without its being answered, take two large flint stones
from a basket which he carried in his hand, and throw
- them with great fury at the window. The sentinel at-
tempted to seize him, but he ran away, and the sentinel
not daring to move off his post, he escaped for that time.
Presently, however, he returned and threw several mere
stones at the window, but fortunately broke no more than
two panes of glass. The sentinel then seized him, and he
was, of course, sent to the watch-house.

When Sir RICHARD BIRNIE asked the prisoner what
could he his motives for such strange conduct, the unfor •
tunate man replied mildly, " Why then, Sir, if you must
know, lam a descendant of the Duke of Clarence who
lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was affianced to
Margaret of Anjou; and Mrs. Hayley, who lives in Lord
Melburne's house, was concerned with Lord Castlereagh
(who cut his throat about ten years ago,-1 wish he had
dune it thirty years before) in depriving me of my property."
The man's insanity being quite apparent, he was locked
up, in default of bail, for the present, and measures ordered
to be taken for his removal to some lunatic asylum.
MARLBOROUGH- STREET. -- Yesterday Captain
Walton, or a person who assumes to himself that rank, a
man of very eccentric appearance, and who is well known
in the vicinity of the Parks, Pimlico, &c., from his extra-
ordinary conduct and behaviour, was brought before the
sitting Magistrate, charged with creating a riot and tumult
in the parish of St. James's, by flourishing two clasp
knives, to the imminent danger of several of his Majesty's
subjects.

The defendant, in excuse, pleaded intoxication, and after
many promises of contrition he was alloweA to depart.
UNION-HALL.—Frederick Myers, a German by
birth, and a tailor by profession, was brought up charged
With bigamy. Sarah Ballard, the second wife, was in at-
tendance to give evidence, but some collateral testimony,
it seems, is required to bring the fact of intermarrying a
second time home to the poisoner.

Mr. Cusp attended to conduct the case for the pro-
secution, and Mr. Wooler appeared for the defence. A
great deal of desultory conversation occurred between the
law advocates in this case ; an impression seemed to be
prevalent that the prisoner purposely keeps back evidence
in the case, and he has been remanded from time to time
since July last, and no further progress made, on one side
or the other.

On the prisoner being called on for a defence, Mr.
Wooler remarked, that " there was no defence to make,
no fact having been proved for the prisoner to reply to."
A gentleman in the office quoted the case of a man hav-
ing been remanded at Bow-street for three months and
upwards, where it was found he had tampered with the
witnesses.

! It was understood that till the pritioner is fairly com-
mitted, there is no power in any of the Judges to bail him.
fie was ordered to be remanded as before, and brought
up nest Wednesd,y, when an endeavour will be made to
find a Mrs. Smith, a material witness, who is supposed to
keep purposely out of the way.

HORSEWHIPPING A You NG LA I)l%—A tradesman
-named James Slee, residing in this district, was charged
with horsewhipping a young lady named Blackburn.
The complainant, a genteel and delicate-looking girl,
stated that the defendant resided nearly opposite her father's
house. A few days ago, a young man on a visit at her
father's house, happened, while standing at the window, to
observe one of the defendant's daughters, whom he nodded
to. The salutation, however, was not returned, and the
young lady walked. away from the window, apparently
annoyed. Soon afterwards her father made his appearance
at the door ; and from his gestures,. it was evident his
daughter had complained to him of what bad occurred,
for he brandished a horsewhip about, and seemed very
much inclined to use it, as complainant supposed, over the
shoulders of the person who had affronted the young lady.
Some time elapsed; and the complainant having occasion
to go out, had scarcely proceeded the length of the street
when she , was attacked most furiously by the defendant,
who seized her by the arm with one hand, while with the
other he horsewhipped her over the shoulders, until she
nearly fell to the ground from torture. The complainant
added, that she never in her life gave the defendant any
provocation, and could only attribute his conduct towards
her to have arisen in consequence of the young man above
alluded to having saluted his daughter.

The complainant's father said that her. shoulders were
marked from the stripes of the whip. He was not at
home when the outrage was committed, or he should have
inflicted summary punishment on the defendant.
The defendant in his justification pleaded that the com-
plainant was in the habit of insulting his daughters, and
had circulated a report in the neighbourhood injurious to
their reputation. '.‘ lam now willing (added the defendant)
to make an apology for my conduct."

The complainant's father said she should neither accept
of apology or compensation, and he would prosecute the
defendant if it cost him every farthing he had in the world.
The Magistrate said the assault was of a very gross nature,
and the defendant was ordered,to find bail.

On Sunday evening week, at about half-past
eight in Ahe evening, a meteor of uncommon brilliancy was
seen in the northern part of the heavens by sonte individuals
who were walking on the West Pier, in this town. • -This
curious phenomenon was also seen at the same time, in
York, and at Newcastle:—Hun packet. -

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ROBBERY.—Last Tuesday morning, between
three and five o'clock, the house, .Ne: 9, New Boswell-
court, Carey-street,, was entered by some thieves, who got
over the wall in Plough-court, and removed an iron bar
from the kitchen window, by which a slender person must
have got in, and admitted the others by the door. From
the state in which the premises were left, it appears that
the thieves had been disturbed, as they had only ransacked
the lower part of the house, and had left various articles
which they had packed up; they, however, possessed them-
selves of 51. 19.. in gold, and some silver, the property of
the clerk, together with the greater part of his clothes ;
a small pair of sugar tongs, and a pair of silver gilt salt
spoons, marked W., with a black handled punch ladle,
flourishingly struck (not chased), are the only other arti-
cles at present missing.

The Turks, who have ever been the slaves of
custom, have concentrated their forces at Shuntla, a point,
at which most of the Bulgarian roads to the capital unite,
as well as the roads front Varna and the other towns of the
Euxinc. They believe themselves defendeithy their cannon
and their situation from all attacks which can be made on
them but they forget that in the year Li 10 the Russians
broke in between Shumla and the sea, and what a slight
impediment Varna afforded to their progress; and that
KAMINSKI, already master of the heights of Grotten, be-
gan on the 23d and 24th of June, the entrenchments, be-
hind which he carried on the siege of Varna in security.
They forgot Cut, while they are occupied on this point, a
second Russian army advances from Kikopolis or Rutechuk,
and with. the assistance of a few cowpanies of sappers,
passes the Balkan, and deploys near Tierrova, under the
walls of Adrianople ; that there are number of passes over
these mountains; and that, compared with the immortal
passage of Mont St. Gothard, the object of this expedition
will appear easy.-- German Paper.

BANK OF' ENGLAND.

(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday. )
BANK ACCOUNTS.

Mr. RICKMAN rose to mcve a Resolution for the
production of the Bank Accounts, and proceeded at
some length, when
The GOVERNOR said, it was usual to pass the
motion for a Dividend, which was then put and car-
ried accordingly.
Mr. RICKMAN then pressed on the attention of
the Court the necessity of producing the Accounts,
and entered into a hastened detail of the Bank of
England, contending that they were obliged by the
Charter to produce their Accounts. He proceeded
to state, that it was not at all consistent with the
usual practice of merchants to declare a dividend
without looking to their assets, and yet the Court
of Proprietors met and declared a dividend without
knowing how their assets stood. When the Bank
of England was first established, the Court of Di-
rectors were obliged to try the Company's accounts
before the Proprietors, and this practice existed
from the period of the loan to King William the
Third, down to the 24th George 111. The oath

which bad previously existed compelling the Direc-
tors to produce the accounts was dispensed with by
the Act which passed in that year, and it was en-
acted in lieu thereof that any nine of the Court of
Proprietors could call upon the Directors to publish
the accounts. It was most absurd that they should
meet and declare a dividend, without knowing the
state of the Company's accounts. He had the
greatest confidence in the Court of Directors, but
he was bold enough to avow that he dissented from
the course they had adopted of late years, and more
particularly of jeCted to the hasty manner in which
the establishment of Branch Banks had been de-

cided upon. There were many who now heard him
who had a greater interest in the welfare of the
Bank than most of those behind the table, and it
was a matter of importance to all that their interests
should be supported ; and the measures adopted of
late years had been the cause of the reduction of
the interest on Bank Stock from ten to eight per
cent. After a reference to the part the Bank had
taken in upholding the credit of the country, &c.,
he concluded by moving a Resolution, to the effect
that there be laid before the Court of Proprietors
an Account, showing the General State, Condition,
Debts, Credits, and other Accounts of the Company,
for the last Year.
Mr. SELW YN seconded the motion.

The GOVERNOR conceived that the best interests
of the Bank of England would be upheld by allowing
things to go on as they had done for the last hun-
dred years. It was a matter of the utmost im-
portance, not only to the Proprietors, but to the
country at large, that the system adopted by the
Directors, and which bad se long existed, should riot
be altered at the present moment. It will be re-
membered that the period will soon arrive when the
Bank Charter will expire; and the Court of Direc-
tors had the best reasons for expecting its renewal.
(llear, hear.)—Under these circumstances any
change of system would produce a panic among the
commercial interests; and it will be remembered
that, in a short -time, another important measure,
affecting the circulating medium, would be brought
into operation—he alluded to the withdrawal of
country small notes. Perhaps, therefore, at no
former period ought the Bank of England to be
more alive than at the present moment. If the
Lion. Proprietor (Mr. Hickman) was disposed to
press his motion, he would suggest that, between
this day and the next six months, he might arrange
his ideas; and, at all events, he thought the system
at present should not be disturbed.
Mr. YOUNG felt the force of the observations
made by the Hon. Chairman, but must at the same
time state his opinion that information ought to be
given to the Proprietors.
Mr. RICKMAN was always disposed to bow to the ,
opinions of those who 'had matured their ideas, and
from their situation were better qualified to judge
what was most advisable than himself. He con-
' fessed that the present was an important era in the
affairs of the Bank, but it must be recollected that
in the next six months Parliament would meet, and
he should be laughed at by his profession, if it was
found at their next meeting that a clause had been
introduced into the Bill on Bank affairs, for pre-
venting the making of any returns whatever.—
(Hear, hear.)—Without a distinct pledge from the
Directors that no such clause should be introduced,
he would press his motion.

After some short delay the question was put, and
there appeared only three Proprietors in favour of
the production of the accounts. The motion was
lost by a large majority.
The Court then adjourned.