The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.— Thomas Annie was charged before
the LORD Ma:voa with having fraudulently obtained a bill of ex-
change from
,John Thompson.
The prosecutor, who is a poor illiterate baker, deposed, that
the defendant came to him to sell him some flour, and got two'
bills from him, on the pretence that the flour should follow imme-
diately; but it 'lever, came, and the prosecutor was arrested for
the amount, thrown into prison, and compelled to take the benefit
of the, Insolvent Act. One of.the bills was drawn by him on the
17th of April, and the defendant had altered it to the e7th of May.
The Chief Clerk said this. was a forgery. The alteration was
palpable.
The now prisoner Annia said, the bills were given him in dis-
charge of an old debt due to him by the prosecutor. The latter,
when it became due, requested further time, and he had made the
alteration at his requeat.
The prosecutor solemnly deelared that he had never given any
such authority to the prisoner.
The Loan Maws asked a Gentleman, who attended as soli-
citor for the prosecution, what object the prisoner could attain by
the alteration.

The solicitor said, that at the time the prisoner got the bill dis-
counted, it had but a few days to run ; and in order to get the
money upon it, and other circumstances, rendered the alteration
desirable to him. •
The LORD MAYOR remanded the prisoner on the charge of
forgery.,
It was stated yesterday by the Loan MAYOR, to relieve the
minds of those who thought the account of the man who was com-
mitted for stealing the table might be untrue, that , he had pre-
viously been charged with a felony.

GUILDHALL—Had/ow, the young N candidate for • Holy
Orders," was brought np again yesterday, and it appeared that the
last account he gave of himself is the true one, vie. That he is the
son of Mr. Hadlow, the minister of a Dissenting• congregation at
Ashford, in Kent. His uncle, a clerk in one of the fire offices,
waited upon Mr. Alderman Aust.yr, and confirmed that account,
and added, that he had been a sad trouble to the *hole family for
some time put. His temper was so violent when at home that
his mother considered her life in danger ; and in consequence his
father placed him in one of the Universities; but there he squan-
dered his outfit immediately; and commenced the vagrant life,
which had brought him into his present predicament. Every
effort had been made to reclaim him, and induce him to betake
himself to some reputable employment, but every kindness was en-
tirely thrown away upon him, and therefore they were determined
to leave him to the consequences of his misconduct in the present
instance, in the hope that any punishment inflicted upon him
might have a salutary effect, and when be should be again at liberty
they would endeavour to get him some situation abroad.

The uncle then_ retired ' - and the Alderman baying directed
that the: eung man should. be brought in, he entered the bar with
a hop, skip, and jump—bowed profoundly to the bench, placed
his baton the floor,: and his hands on the front of the dock, and
waited. ary smirkingly for what was coming.
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Young roar)," said Mr. Alderman ANSLZY, 0 1 have. seen
a near relative of yours, and I learn from him that you have been
well-educated, that you have talent, and that you might have
been a respectable member of society; but instead of turning these
advantages to any good account, you have been a continued source
of uneasiness to them ; and you have now rendered yourself liable
to he punished. for attempting to obtain money by false and frau-
dulent representations.—Pray how have you maintained yourself
these last. SIX months ?"

" As I was about to inform -you yesterday, Sir, if I had not been
interrupted. I have Maintained myself by writing sermons for
fox-hunting clergymen, who are too lazy to write Mr themselves,"
.replied the prisoner.
"1 do not believe you," said the Alderman ; " but, at all
events, we will put an end to your labours in that nay, by com-
mitting you to Biidertvell, , whete they will find you sontething else
to do ; and I hope the discipline you will meat with there will
make an honest man of you."

Thank you, Sir," rind the prisoner—and he was sentenced to
one month's hayd laboni in Bridewell.

One Thomas Sturday, a very decent looking man, in the dress
—or what is called the undress, of a gentleman's coachman,
was brought before the Alderman, charged with having attempted
to destroy himself, by leaping into the Thames at Blackfriars-bridgr.
It appeared by the statement of the constable, the watchman
in Chatham-place, and other persons, that in the dead of the night,
between twelve and one o'clock, it being then nearly high water,
he was;fteen going down the steps of.the bridge, from Chatham-
place, and in tl;e next moment he was heard to plunge into the
river. Several persons instantly rushed in after him ; but he
struggled so desperately to accotnplish his purpose, that it was as
much as three stout young fellows could do to drag him ashore.

Mr. Alderman Al4Bl,Zi'renmstratedWith him on the weakues9
and the Iviekedneis of self-destruetion, and asked him what could
possibly have induced him to attempt it.

" linow nothing about it," replied the poor fellow, in a voice
almost inaudible with emotion, at the same time withdrawing him-
self behind' the broad back of the &instable who stood by him at
the bar.
" Have you a wife?" asked the Magistrate.
" Yes, I have a wife!" he replied ; the tears starting from his
eyes, in spite of his evident exertion to repress them.
Somebody said his wife was present; and a pretty young woman
was led forward to the witness-box. She did not weep—probably
her thoughts lay
.for too' deep tears.
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" Is this your husband?" asked the Magistrate.
" Ile is my husband !" she replied.
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"-Have you any , family ?"--" One little she'replitid—
looking towards her husband ; and he raising his eyes towards her
At the elm moment, they both burst into tears—but silently ;and
with a very manifest edeavour ou their part. to prevent such a
display!
" Have you any fault to find with your wife said the
Alderman.

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" No !-God— knows I haven t • said the min,' still endeavour-
ing to repress his tears, and hiding himself behild the constable.
" Have you any idea," said the Alderman, addressing himself
to the wife—" have you any idea what could induce him to leave
you and the child Unprotected by destroying himself? Has anything
unsettled his mind ?"
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" He hts been out of place more than eight months," she re-
plied, " he can't get anything to do, and we have been broughtto
great diatres3." _ .

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In answer to further questiOna, she said he was a coachman, and
his last service was that of Mr. Winter, in St. Helen's-place ; but
no further explanation could be obtained from either of them, and
the Alderman recoMmemded them to go home together, and have
better hopes.
, I beg YoUrPirdon,'Sir," said an elderly man stepping into
t"e witnen's hos ; "but they can have no better hopes; for Mr.
Winter refuses to give him a clutracter—eueli a character, at IrA.,t,
as will get him a place. He had three or four opportunities of
getting into service again, but Mr. Winter has prevented him &inn
all of them. It is very hard, your Worship. Can nothing be
done in it ?" '

The Aiderman replied, that these was no law to compel a
master to give a character to a servant ; and if he gave a &he one
he was liable to an action.

There wax nothing more to be said—the rescued suicide and his
wife had already left the office,- and their friend followed them, evi-
dently much disappointed at the result of his interference.

BOW-STREET. --five INDIA
—Yesterday, one of the part-
ners m the firm of Bales and King, gun-makers, in Tavistoek-
street, Co% ent-garden, came to this Office for the purpose of giving
ihrohnution, that a person, representing himself to be, Sir George
Cayley, Bart. of Brampton House, Yorkshire, was going about
defrauding tradesmen of goods to stuns extent. The person in
question, he said, was a Man of between 50 and 60 years of age,
plainly attired, but of gentlemanly manners and address.' 'A few
days ago he same to their shop, and requested to' look. lit Some
guns ; he inspected a rut many, and 'at last fixed upon one tithe
most expensive description ; and the favour of his name and ad-
dress being requested, he itiote in the waste book,' 4 Air George
Cayley, Brampton House, Yorkshire." He stated, that he was
in town for the purpose of husking' Purel'alle% various kinds,
and that several packages of goods were already deposited, i,l his
order, at the Kines. Anus, at trxbeidge,: 'to he for-warded thence
by the waggon to Aretkehire,, a and (continued the supposed lia-
runet) you may as wed mind the gun there also, and 4.ye hear)
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