The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLI3OROUGH-STREET.—Dr. Nichol, a gen-
tleman residing in Saville-row, came to this office, accom-
panied by his solicitor and two of his servants, to apply
for warrants of assault against four men, whose names
were unknown, hut whose persons were well-known to the
complainants, upon the following grounds :—lt appeared
that the house No. 37, Hertford street, May-fair, has been
for some time to be let, and the disposal of it placed by the
proprietor in the hands of two separate house agents, so
that if one should miss a customer, the other might chance
to hit. Each of these agents had, it seems, a key of the
street door given to him to show the premises and give pos-
session to any one who should become the tenant. On Sa-
turday week last, Dr. Nichol finally agreed upon terms for
the house with a Mr. Claridge, one of the agents ; and Mr.
Claridge having given hint possession, Dr. Nichol placed
two of his servants in it to prepare for his own removal
from Saville-row. All this went on very smoothly until
about five on the evening of Saturday last, when four men
came to the house, and having knocked at the street-door,
where answered by one of Dr. Nichol's servants, from the
area, to know what they wanted ; but no sooner did the
men observe the area-door, which gave admittance to the
house, open, than they jumped over the railing into the
area, and endeavoured to enter the house. In this, how-
ever, they were for some time resisted, by the servant
having suddenly closed the door against them ; hut they
were not, it seems, to be driven from their purpose, and
first attempted to force the door with a hatchet; but fail-
ing in this, they commenced a species of ram-battery, by
running two at a time, feet foremost, with all their force
against it, in hopes to burst it in that way ; but here they
were equally unsuccessful, and at last they procured a
chisel, with which they forced off the hinges of the door,
and thus effected an entrance. They now called upon the
servants of Dr. Nichol to quit the house and leave them
in possession ; but the servants, neither knowing who or
what they were, or uncle; what authority, if any, they
were acting, refused to leave the place unless expelled by
force. The intruders did accordingly resort to force, and
after as protracted a resistance as one male and one female
servant could make to four powerful men, the riehtful oc-
cupiers were in the end turned neck and heels with great
violence into the street. Having accomplished this feat,
the intruders followed it up by clearing the house of a few
necessary articles of furniture in the use of Dr. Nichol's
servants, such as cans, saucepans, &c., which they wantonly
flung out of the windows of the upper rooms into the street,
and one of the saucepans lighting on the head of Dr.
Nichol's female servant, hurt her severely. Upon these
grounds it was that the application was made for warrants
against the four men who thus took and kept forcible pos-
session of the house.

The Magistrate, Sir GmonnE FARRANT, on hearing
the oaths of Dr. Nichol's servants to the above effect, im-
mediately granted the warrants, and they were placed in the
hands of Goddard and Ballard, the officers, who proceeded
forthwith to execute them. When, however, they got to
the house, into which, on their showing their warrants,
they were readily admitted, accompanied by the two servants
to identify the offenders, they found that although there
were four men in possession, they were not the men who
had taken that possession or committed the assaults com-
plained of; and it turned out that in the anticipation of a
Magistrate's interference, the offenders had been removed
from the house by their employers, and four other meo
substituted.

All this violent proceeding arose out of the employment
of two ageuts to let the house : for it appeared that a full
week after Mr. Claridge had given possession to Dr.
Nichol, Mr. Denew, another house-agent, disposed of it
to a gentleman named Neville, and authorized him to take
immediate possession, which he did, as above described,
and in this state of double tenantry the house remains at
present.
MARYLEBONE-OFFlCE.—Yesterday Ann Walters,
a midwife, charged with having defrauded the Governors
of the Middlesex and Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospi-
tals, was finally examined and committed for trial.
lIATTON-GARDEN.—A lamplighter, of the name of
William Henry Parsons, was yesterday brought up to this
office, under a warrant, by Mr. Coulthard, one of the over
seers of the parish of St. Pancras, and charged before the
sitting Magistrate, Mr. Sergeant SRLLON, with deserting
his wife, and refusing to allow her a maintenance.
An order was made by the Magistrate, that he must allow
her a sum of 4s. weekly for her support, and keep her otr
the parish funds.