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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.----Two men, in the employment
of a mud-contractor, named rower, were brought befofe
the LORD MAYOR, charged with having, contrary to the
statute, emptied whole barges full of mud, which they had
dragged out of the London Docks, into the Thames, to the
great prejudice of the navigation.
It appeared from the statement of Nelson, the assistant-
water-hailitt, and others, that the master of the defendants
had contracted to clear the London Docks of the immense
quantities of mud which accumulate there. The usual and
legal way of disposing of the cargoes was shovelling the
mud on shore some distance down the river, and the far-
mers gladly carried it up to their grounds as manure. To
awe trouble, however, and to make a larger profit, the de-
fendants, as soon as they filled a barge at the docks, shoved
a little way into the river, and threw oat the contents, so
that they were enabled to perform two unloadings in the
time generally required for one. If they had not been in-
terrupted at this sort of work, the navigation would have
been choked up completely. As, for the purpose of evad-
ing the vigilance of Nelson and his men, the business was
done at night, there was great difficulty in getting hold of
delinquent., particularly as these who worked disguised
themselves. Nelson, however, watched constantly, and
succeeded in apprehending the defendants.

The Lo MAYon asked what disguise the men put on ?
Nelson mai,' that the moment before they began to clear
out the barge they took up some of the blackest mud in
it, and scrubbed each other's faces and heads in such a
manner, as to defy common observers. He, however, bad
taken most particular notice of them, and had no doubt as
to their identity.
The defendants said they knew nothing about the busi-
ness. One of them afterwards said, " Vy, you see, my
Lord, Master Nelson nor nobody else could not know
nothing at all about us, we was so black vid mud. Ven I
vent home to my vife, I'm blowed if she knowed me until
I vashed my face vid a wisp of straw." (Laughter.)
The LORD MAvois said, that the complaints of the in-
fringement of the act were daily pouring in upon him, and
he expected, if he did not put a stop to such practices, to
be accused of a gross neglect of duty. Ne should therefore
fine each of the defendants in the sum of 101.

The mud itself could scarcely have changed the counte-
nances of the two defendants more effectually than this sen-
tence did. They were taken to prison in default of pay-
ment of the penalties. Afterwards their employer ap-
peared, and endeavoured to prevail upon the Lord Mayor
to remit or abate the fines ; but his Lordship refused pe-
remptorily, and said, that for the next offence committed on
thr river, the fine of 201. each man should he inflicted.
This is the second triumph achieved by the Water-
bailiff's men. The white-bait fishing is entirely knocked
up. Two guineas were offered the other day for a gallon
of this fish at Black wall, without effect.

A m3n named AP Cauty was accused of having seized a
respectable young woman in the street, and charged her
with having robbed him.
The complainant stated, that yesterday morning, between
five and six o'clock, as she was returning from Billings.
gate, from whence she had been with her sister and niece
seeing off her brother in the steam-vessel, the defendant
seized her by the shoulder, told her she had robbed him, and
must go to the wdteh-house. She was very much asto-
nished at the charge, but without hesitation went to the
watch-honse. She never saw the defendant before, and
considered that he was not serious until he persisted in his
charge.
&Ir. Capper (one of the Society of Friends) stated that
he attended Bishop ate watch-house as constable in his
own right, when the defendant entered with the young
woman in his custody, and charged her with having robbed
him. The defendant, who had once been a patrol, was
not sober at the time, and the witness believing, from the
conduct of both parties, that there was not a shadow of
truth in the charge, immediately told the young woman
that he would not detain her, but requested that she would
attend at the Mansion-house.

The defendant said that he was very sorry for having
made such a mistake. It came about in this way,—he
was standing in Bishopsgate-street, and a woman with a
red shawl clapped her hand in his pocket, pulled out lA. 9d.,
and walked off. He turned round, and seeing the com-
plainant with a red shawl near him, he believed her to be
the thief, and took hold of her.
The Loan Mns•ox.—Where you drunk or sober?—De-
fendant—Why, my Lord, I was tossicated in liquor.
The LORD illAvott very highly approved of the conduct
of Mr. Capper in dismissing the innocent girl. Aa igno-
rant constable would, in all probability, have locked up all
of the party, and it was really dreadful that respectable
females should be liable to such shocking outrages as that
he now heard. _

The defendant begged to be forgiven, and apologized over
and over again.
The LORD Mayor asked the complainant whether be
should commit the defendant, who would no doubt, if
brought before a Jury, be imprisoned for three months.
She declined, and his Lordship ordered the defendant to
pay the fine of ss. for having been tilunk. In default of
this penalty, he was committed to prison.
BOW-STREET.—Mrs. Susannah Stamp Sutton
Cooke, the woman of colour against whom a warrant has
been out for the last five days, charging her with beisig the
principal of a gang of swindlers whose depredations upon
the public have been fully reported, was yesterday placed
at the bar, having bees taken into custody at two o'clock
in the morning at a public-house in the Borough, where
she had 'Aged one night.
Mr. Rathmacher, the musical-instrument-maker, of
Charles-street, Soho-square, having been sworn, stated
that Barrett came to him about fire weeks ago and hired,
for the prisoner, Mrs. Sutten Cooke, a pianoforte of the
value of 401. It was sent to the house of Captain Pet-
tinghall, at Chelsea, where the prisoner was then residing.
When a month bad expired witness sent his son for the
amount of the- hire for that period ; but when he arrived
at the house, he was informed that Mrs. Sutton had ab-
sconded a fortnight before. On searching the house, the
pianoforte could not be found.
Mr. HALLS observed, that as Barrett was the man who
had obtained the instrument in the name of the prisoner, it
would be necessary to produce bins as a witness; but what
was his word worth ? The magistrate then asked if there
was not another ease respecting a harp.
The prisoner said that she had been prosecuted four
years ago on account of Mr. Ellard's harp, and she there-
fore supposed that no fresh proceeding would be bad against
her for that.

Fagan replied that the harp in question now bad been
obtained from Mr. Dodd, of Bury-street, Oxford-street, by
prisoner
and pawned by her in the city.
HALLS observed, that if this could be proved, tke
eil‘solnre prisoner,r wo n I d be convicted of unlawfully pawning. At
present, however, she was only to be considered as forming
one of the conspiracy for which Drummond, Barrett, and
others, had been held to bail. He should therefore hold
the prisoner to bail upon the same terms.
Fagan stated that the prisoner attributed all her misfor-
tunes to her husband, James Stamp Sutton Cooke, brother
to Stafford Cooke, who some time ago set up a claim to the
Stafford peerage. The prisoner's husband was now &ruler
in the Fleet prison.
The prisoner is a middle-sized woman, rather inclining to
corpulency. She was drviaed extremely plain, in a rusty

black gown, and an old red shawl. It is supposed, how
ever, that she was thus attired the better to conceal her
person, as she has been known to dress in a most expu.
sive manner. She wore a close black bonnet, and a large
veil, so that her features were almost entirely cone, :led.
She appeared to be about forty Sears of age,. and seems
devoid of personal attractions. It is said she possesses in
her own right considerable property in the West Indies.
She was accompanied to the office by a female servant,
who held a little girl in her arms. The child was said
to be the prisoner's daughter. The girl on parting from
her mistress wept bitterly, and the prisoner kissed and con-
soled the child.

MARLBOR OUG 11-STREET. —Yesterday the Dowa-
ger Lady Gresley came again to this office, accompanied
by her solicitor, and applied to the`Magistrate, Sir GEO.
FARRA NT, for a peace warrant, or some other legal protec-
tion, against the annoyance to which her lidyship said she
was still subject from the conduct of her two lately.dis-
charged butlers, Johnson and Brannan, who every day
parade, for hours together, up and down Conduit-street, in
front of her Ladyship's house, staring up at the windows,
making faces at those of the inmates who approach them,
and pointing the attention of the passers by to her lady-
ship's residence. Upon the whole, however, as the per-
sons complained of had not collected any mob or excited to
any riot or breach of the peace, the Magistrate did not
deem the character of her ladyship's cause of complaint
sufficient for the present to warrant his interference, and
her ladyship retired to her carriage, which was in waiting,
accompanied by her legal adviser.
Mr. Rosenberg, a tailor, residing at No. 20, Frith-
street, Soho-square, appeared to answer an information
preferred against him for retailing wine in his house without
license. The information was preferred at the instance of
a young female who had been a lodger in Mr. Rosenberg's
house, and some person connected with the law appeared
on her behalf, and stated that this information was laid
under the 35th of Geo. 111., the same Act, he said, upon
which so many eating-house keepers had been fined for re-
tailing beer to their customers without licence, and upon
which even persons having a wine-licence from the Com-
missioners of Excise•were coxvictcd, besause they had not
also a beer-•licence to entitle them to have the wine drunk
as well as sold by retail upon the same premises ; but the
present case, he said, was much stronger than either of those
he had mentioned, for that Mr. Rosenberg had no licence
of any description for selling wine, nor had he the excuse
that the eating-housekeeper had for a slight deviation from
the law.

Eliza Hanna, a dashingly-dressed young female, residing
at Bayswater, in July last was a lodger in Mr. Rosenberg's
house, and on Sunday, the 27th of that month, the day laid
in this information, she asked the wife of the defendant far
a pint of wine, which Mrs: Rosenberg brought to her, and
for which she paid, she said, Ss. While in the house alto-
gether, she had, at different times, eight pints of wine sup-
plied to Ler, and for which she was charged in the bill
given to her by the defendant 2 ts. On the cross-exami-
nation of this witness by another man of the law, who at-
tended for Mr. Rosenberg, she admitted that before she
had this information preferred against the defendant, she
had been summoned by him to the Court of Requests, and
an order was there made out against her for the amount of
the bill furnished to her for lodgings, &c., at Mr. Rosen-
berg's, where she also admitted some of her dresses were
still detained for a further demand.

On the part of the defendant it was contended that he
merely supplied wine to his lodgers when they occasionally
asked for it, and at the same price exactly as he himself
purchased it for at an adjoining licensed house. Mr. Ro-
senberg, it was said, kept no wine in his house for sale,
hut whenever a lodger asked fora bottle or a pint of wine,
the servant was sent for it to the licensed house, and what-
ever vas there paid tier it, that sum only was charged to
the lodger, and is was positively denied that this female was
ever charged so much as 3s. for a pint of wine while at
Mr. Rosenberg's house ; and it was submitted to the tna-
gistrate that it would be a very hard case indeed if a lodg.
ing-house-keeper could not send out for and supply his
lodgers when they asked f►r it with a bottle or u pint of
wine, when he had no profit whatever from it, without
being subject to an information of this kind.
Mr. Keys, a licensed victualler in Frith-street, stated
that he constantly supplied Mr. Rosenberg either through
his servant or some other of his family with wine, chiefly
in pints and single bottles ;it a time, and he never charged
Mr. Rosenberg more than 2s. 3d. per pint.
Sir G. FARRANT said, that in that ease Mr. Rosenberg
had a profit of 9d. on each pint, according to the evidence
of the first witness, as he charged her, she swore, 35.

Mr. Rosenberg declared, that be never did charge 3s. for
a pint of wine in his louse, and called another of his
lodgers, named Gardiner, who swore that ?,Ir. Rosenberg
had frequently supplied him .with wine, and only charged
him at the rate of 2s. ;id. the pint, the same price as he
(the witness) also paid, he said, occasionally himself, to
Mr. Keys direct.
Sir G. FARRANT said, that if the young woman's evi-
dence was true, it was clear that Mr. Rosenberg sold the
wine at a profit, brit whether he did or not he was equally
liable to the penalty for selling it at all. The Magistrate
would consider this case, and give his judgment in it on
Saturday next.
TOWN-HALL—ST u any VAGA itoti D.—A miserably
half-dressed individual was brought before Sir JOHN PER-
RINO, by Wilkinson, the night constable, who stated that
he was given in charge to him by Mr. Illidge, of St.
Saviour's, fur begging, who was prevented from attending
by pressing business.
Well, said Sir JOHN to the defendant, acquaint us with
your name, and why you should not be sent to the tread
wheel? Your Honour, answered the prisoner, in a puri-
tanical tone, my name is Jackson, and I frequent the same
place of worship as Mr. Illidge, to return thanks to the
Almighty for his abundant mercies to me, and I consider
I have a right to ask a brother Christian for-relief—that
great man in the Lord, Mr. Smith of I'enhance, whose dis-
ciple I am, says so ; besides I go a preaching.
Sir JOHN said, Mr. Smith would have done better by
giving him some decent clothing, instead of encouraging
him to preach in the open air.
prisoner,nl).}less ecdlaspi
Saviour,ng hi
will clothe"inle as
hands
t ()-
gethe
does the lilly of the valley. I care not for man.
Sir JOHN told him, he seemed to be far advanced in his
thr l ;
said
Christ rist the
!
studies, and thought he could do no less than commit him
to Brixton, as a vagrant on his own confession.

The prisoner begged very hard to be excused, but the
worthy Baronet observed, it would be an act of charity, as
Fe would be both cleansed and fed, besides having the ad-
vantage of hearing divine service; he was accordingly
committed to hard labour for one month.

We have lately conversed with a gentleman
recently returned from Saxony. he represents every thing
as being extremely dull throughout Germany—no trade,
no money, manufactures languishing, and agriculture em-
barrassed. The German traders complain that the Eng.
Fah undersell them in cotton and woollen geode ; that they
have no country to which they can export their own pro-
ductions, and ti.at their own population arc too poor to
give activity to trade of any kind.—Brighton Gazette.
In Peru heavy dews fall at night, and the
weather is bz.zy for weeks together. . It once happened
that a vessel bound to Europe met a cruizer, and hailed to
ask if the latter had any commands—" Remember us to
the Sun, when you see him," was the answer.
On Saturday last, his Excellency the LORD
LIEUTENANT visited Donnybrook Fair, accompanied by
Lord WILLIAM PAGET and two of the junior branches of
his family, and unattended even by a servant. No sooner
was his Excellency's approach perceived, than the an-
nouncement flew with rapidity through every quarter of
the fair; every tent, and creili place of public amusement,
became all at once unoccupied, and all flew to hail the ap-
proach of the impartial Viceroy ; and thus surrounded by
hundreds of the people, every head uncovered, his Excel-
lency proceeded, passing the various theatres, the bands of
which (stationed ill front) soon obeyed the call of the
people, and played " Ged save the King." His Excel-
lency in this manner slowly advancing, amid loud and
repeated cheers and demonstrations of respect, from many
fair and elegant intimates of several private equipage` pre-
sent, who appeared no less gratified at the condescensiob
awl graceful acknowledgments of the gallant Marquis than
the humblest of his admirer.. It was evident that an
anxiety pervaded the crowd to pay his Excellency some
peculiar inarkpf their respect and affection ; bet the visit
having coins so unexpectedly upon them, they s-,:emed at a
loss in what manner to evince their feelings: Some were
perceived endeavouring to obtain the signs in front of the
tents, such as were suitable for the occasion. A large
tree was veinal upon and carried in triumph before his
Excellency, at which he laughed very heartily—others en.
deavoured to displace the figure of a seaman, but this eau.
tical sign being too elevated and permanently secured, it
was found impossible to remove in sufficient time. It was
understood the intention of the people was to bear this
before Lord WILLIAM PAGEr, as a manifestation of their
respect and regard for his Lordship, and in compliment to
that service of which this young Nobleman is so distin-
guished an ornament. His Excellency at length left the
fair amid repeated cheering, and proceeded on his route to
Itichview, carrying with him the affections and good wishes
of an enthusiastic and generous people, who, turning to
each other, observed that the gallant Marquis was the first
Lord Lieutenant who (vet' paid a visit to the " Brook,"
and that without a single soldier or a policeman being pre-
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