The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-04 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday Mr. .Gilbert, the
proprietor of the Blossoms-inn, Lawrence-lane, was sum
moned before the LORD MAYOR, to answer a complaint pre-
ferred against him by Mr. Sohnnons, of the Old 'Change,
for demanding two-pence for bookitg a parcel. Mr. Gilbert
did not attend; but sent-the vu.tci. trbo.delivered the parcel.
The LORD MAYOR, in order to put a stop to this fre-
quent attempt to obtain this additional charge on parcels,
directed that a second summons should be served upon Mr.
Gilbert to attend, and ordered that the weigh-bill, which
was produced by the porter, should be detained till the
matter was fully investigated.
The proprietor of the Half Moon Inn was charged by
John Jones, of Chain-gate, in the Borough, with having
overcharged him for the carriage of eight barrels of oysters
to Wakefield.

Mr. Jones said that the charge made by the defendant
was most exorbitant; that he demanded and received 4s. Eld.
per barrel, when the regulated charge was only 2s. 2d.
The LORD MAyOR said that it was too bad that the pub-
lic should be subject to such extortions when there was an
Act of Parliament for the puipose of preventing those
positions. He asked Mr. Jones what was the value of each
barrel. Mr. Jones.—Five shillings.
The LORD MAros. addressed the defendant; and said that
those attempts 'to impose upon the public were generally
practised at this season of the year with success. His Lord-
ship then referred to the regulations of the York sessions,
where the carriage for all such articles, to any place within
the West Riding of Yorkshire, are regulated ; and it appeared
that the charge for any article not weighing more than one
stone, was only Is. 10d. to Northallerton, and Wakefield
was 40 miles nearer to London.

Mr. Jones said that a barrel of oysters only weighed 131 b.
The defendant said that he was not aware of such regula-
tions ; that he agreed to receive 4s. Bd., and thought it very
hard that a man could not make such an agreement with-
out being subject to a penalty.
The LOAD MAYOR said that there was an Act of Parlia-
ment to regulate those fares, and he felt it his duty to fine
the defendant in the penalty of

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday .Henry Fallon, a person
lately in the service of Mr. Warren, the blacking manu-
facturer in the Strand, as a chalker, or perambulating ad-
vertiser, was brought before Mr. MiNsuum. for re-exami-
nation upon a charge of committing a rape upon Margaret
Gains, a child only nine years old.

There being a deficiency of proof with respect to the com-
mission of the capital offence, Mr. MiNsn um. intimated his
intention to commit the prisoner for trial for the assault,
with the intent to commit a rape, and in order to make the
ease complete, he remanded the prisoner until Saturday, in
order to have produced a copy of her baptism.
Last night, William Bedford, a dog-fancier, and one of
a gang of the same profession, who resort to a public-house
in Belton-street, Long-acre, was charged with assaulting
and fracturing the leg of a young man named Joseph Law-
rence. The surgeon has declared that the limb must be
amputated, and cannot as yet say whether the accident may
not be attended with worse consequences.
Under these circumstances, Mr. MlNsituil, refused to
admit the prisoner to bail, and he was committed to prison
until the state of the wounded man is finally ascertained.
Nothing transpired during the whole of yesterday and up
to the closing of the office last night, respecting the murder
in Montague-place, beyond what the public has already been
aware of through the medium of the press. Mr. HALLS
and the officers engaged in the transaction are, however,
unceasing in their exertions to find out the murderer.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, Monsieur
Anthony Barnard alias Legendrd was brought up for re-
examination, before. F. A. ROE, Esq. charged with having
stolen from the Gloucester Coffee-house, Piccadilly, four
54 notes, a purse containing five sovereigns, one five-franc
gold piece, a pocket-book, containing a draft on Messrs.
Salt and Stevenson, of Lombard-street, for 8001., the
property of Francis Joseph Leine, Esq., a French gentle-
man of fortune.

The prisoner, a fashionably- dressed person, arrived about
four months ago at the Gloucester Coffee-house, from
Salisbury, and represented himself as a man of fortune...—
Whilst remaining at the coffee-house, he formed an ac-
quaintance with M. Lain 6, whom he ultimately robbed of
the above property, and was in a few days afterwards
brought to the office by Goddard ; but is consequence of
M. Lain 6 having left London two (lays after the robbery for
Paris, the case was postponed. In the meanwhile, by
order of the Magistrate (Mr. Roe) Mr. Dale, the proprietor
of the Gloucester Coffee-house, wrote to Mr. Lain,:, who,
knowing the prisoner's real name, made inquiries at Paris
respecting him, when be found he was most respectably
connected ; that his father was an eminent merchant, and
bad been obliged on account of his evil propensities to send
him to sea : on his return, his father procured him a situ-
ation as a travelling clerk, and in a short time after he
robbed his father of some thousand francs, and afterwards
forged an order for a large sum, for which offence be was
obliged to leave France very precipitately, and which cir-
cumstance explained a singular letter found on his person
by Goddard ; the writer of which advises him to disfigure
his person, and to be extremely cautious how lie returned
to France, as the gensd'armes were all on the look out for
him. Several fictitious letters to eminent mercantile houses
in Lirerpooli purporting to be from their correspondents in

London, were also found on hint. The following evidence
was then adduced :
Mr. Francis Joseph Laine deposed—l am at present re-
siding at the Gloucester Coffee-house; in November, 1527,
I was.there, at which time the prisoner was also residing
there. By his being a countryman of mine, we were fre-
quently in the habit of being together. On the morning of
the 13th of November I was unwell, when the prisoner
came into my room three times, and inquired after my
health ; during those visits my pocket-book, containing
four Si. Bank notes, an order for 800/. which I had re-
ceived from Mr. Rothschild, and which was to be paid me
either at Messrs. Salt,and Co.'s, or at Paris, and a purse
containing about five sovereigns, were within his reach.
Having occasion to leave the room, I was absent three
minutes, and on my return I found my property gone. I
instantly informed Mr. Dale of the robbery. At the time
having no suspicion of the prisoner, but not seeing him by
the 15th, I began to think it was he; from that time until
the present I have not seen the prisoner. The pocket-
book and the Si. note now produced are my property, and
part of what was stolen from me.
Thomas Ewins, waiter at the Gate-house, Highgate, de-
posed—The prisoner came to may mistress's house on a
Thursday in November, 1827. On the following day I
saw him, when he said he should want to sleep there that
night ; he then said he had come by Mr. Hale's coach.—
Acoordingly, I showed him his room, and took up his
trunks ; be then came down, and ordered dinner, and about
seven o'clock he called for his bill, which he paid and retired
to bed ; he stated his reasons for coming were, that he had
been staying at Gott's hotel, but all the houses in London
smoked, and it rendered it impossible for him to sleep there.
On the following Monday, he said he wanted change for a
Si. note, which he gave me, and my mistress changed it.
On that night he went to town, and returned about eleven
o'clock on the following day, when nothing passed until the
Thursday evening. On that evening he remained in the
coffee-room a long time, and observed 'he wanted some
money, and that he must go to Messrs. Salt and Stevenson's
bank for some, as he wanted to go to Paris, as London was
so cold for him. He then showed me the order now pro-
duced, and said, " This is but a small piece of paper, but
it is worth 8001., and on getting it cashed I shall go the
day following to Paris." In about half an hour after-
wards, he said, " Do you ever go to London ?" when I
" Very seldom." He then said, " I should wish you
to go for sue to-morrow, for the weather is so very cold I
cannot go out myself: we have no cold weather in Paris."
I told him, to oblige him I would go. Ile then desired me
to bring him a sheet of paper, when he wrote a note, which
he read to me; in the course of which he mentioned
the name of Um; twice, and signed it in time name of
Lain& He then enclosed the order, and sealed the letter
with a seal which I lent him. He then put it in the
pocket-book which he pulled out of his pocket, and gave
them to me, and then told me his name was Lain 6, and told
me to be at Messrs. Salt andiCo.'s by twelve o'clock on the
following day. On presenting the letter to Messrs. Salt
and Stevenson's, Lombard-street, I was desired to wait,
and two or three clerks came and questioned me about Mr.
Laine. In the course of twenty minutes Mr. Salt came
in, and I was then called into the counting-house, and,
after some conversation, Mr. Salt asked sue whether I
would go with him before the Lord Mayor, as the letter
was a forgery. I said I would; and we afterwards went
up to the Gloucester Coffee-house, 4nd I returned home
about two or three o'clock. The prisoner was then gone
away, but from information which I had received, I dis-
covered bins at the Bull and Last, in Kentish-town, talk-
ing in the bar to the landlord and landlady. instantly
took hold of his'arm, and said, "I charge you with felony ;"
when he said, " A felon ! a felon ! a felon !"
Here some links of the evidence were wanted, when Mr.
ROE ordered the further proceedings of the case to stand
over until Monday.
The witnesses who had given evidence were bound over
to prosecute.

Mr. ROE asked the prisoner what name he intended to
give, when he replied Barnard. He at the same time de-
clined saying any thing, and was accordingly remanded.

MARYLEBONE.—On the 26th of October, Ann
Pearson, a sturdy Irishwoman, 27 years of age, was
brought before the Magistrates at this office by T. Read,
the messenger of Marylebone parish, to obtain an order of
affiliation upon the father of her male bastard child.

She had sworn before a country magistrate, that it was
been in Paddington-street (upon the foot-pavement oppo-
site the iron gates of the burial-ground), in the latter end
of July, and that John Hudson, a young grocer, in a lead-
ing thoroughfare, was the real and true father. of it.
The MAGISTRATES, thinking her statement doubtful, sent
Read to No. 15, York-court, where the prisoner said she
lodged at the time of her delivery. The woman of the
house-said her story was true, and Mr. Hudson was ordered
to pay 3s. a weekl'or the child's support.
Yesterday, Read, the messenger, brought Selina Kirby,
-an Irish girl, to the office, who, upon oath, stated, that
Ann Pearson was delivered of the above child at her
father's house, in Ireland, last summer, and the witness
was there two days afterwards. Ann Pearson has a hus-
hand, a soldier, and told the witness the child was his ;
she had lately returned to her father's house from England
in a pregnant state.
Other questions were put to Selina Kirby, respecting
Ann Pearson's circumstances, which. she appeared unable
to answer, but said, with great simplicity, •" She can tell
you herself if she gets lave to spake."
Mr. Stocker, an officer belonging to the workhouse,
asked *Mr. Gatrrynts and Mr. RAwLticsoti what was
best to be done? They advised him to lay the case before
the Vestry for their determination, and afterwards the
order must be abandoned, for as the child was not born in
illarylebone parish, 11Iarylebone parish had no claim upon
its father.

HATTON-GARDEN.—James Robinson, a hawker
of cheese, bacon, &c., about the vicinity of London, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Sergeant SELLON, charged
with having robbed Robert Scullard, a shoe-maker, living
at No. 43, Primrose-street, Bishopsgate-street-without, of
his watch, a bundle containing several pairs of boots, and
an umbrella.

He was brought up in charge of the Foundling watch-
house-keeper, and: at his entrance into the office, Reid, the
chief-officer, addressed him and said—" My friend, where
did you come from ?" "From my mother!" replied the
prisoner with an air full of caution. " 'Tis as likely you
came from your father," rejoined Reid, " though perhaps
you cannot rightly tell who he is." "If you, Sir," said
the prisoner, "abstain from further interrogatories, we
shall be both less impertinent to one another."

Upon his being brought in before the Magistrate, Ange-
lious Batrion, the constable who took him into custody,
stated, that about five o'clock on Wednesday evening, he
saw the prisoner in company with two others in Oxford-
street, whom he suspected from their manner of an intent
to commit a felony. He closely watched their movements,
and followed their footsteps, till they came to the corner of
King-street, where the prisoner, separating himself from
his companions, first came up to the prosecutor, Scullard,
who appeared drunk, and taking him by the arm, led him
into Red Lion-square, where he took the bundle from him,
then. into Guildford-street, where he possessed himself of
the umbrella; and next into Wells-street, Gray's-inn-lane,
where he rifled him of his watch, and murderously at-
tempted to throw him into an open area of some new
houses there, in an unfinished state. As soon as the con-
stable perceived the'etruggle with the prisoner and Seul-
lard, he rushed upon him, aid seized bold of him by the
collar. At this moment the prisoner struck the constable
several blows, and endeavoured to wrest himself from his
gripe, but to no purpose, for Roberts, and a man named
James Catchpole, coachman to Mr. Wiggs, No. 22, Meek-
lenburgh-square, coming up, they finally succeeded in se-
curing him.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON ordered him to be fully commit-
ted to take his trial at the next Sessions.

•
WORSHIP-STREET.—Thomas o'4ryan, an athle-
tic young Irishman, was charged before Mr. TWYFOILD
with stealing 100 sovereigns, the property of an elderly
couple, named Murphy.
The Murphy. keep a lodging-house in the neighbour-
hood of Petticoat-lane, in which the prisoner and 14 or
15 others, his countrymen, have sleeping apartments, and
there is one common apartment called the kitchen, of
which the whole of the inmates have the entree. On
" boxing night," it appears, the O'Bryans, the O'Fla-
hertys, and all the O's and Mac's then and there as-
sembled, went together by the ears, and a general fight
ensued, the effects of which were still visible on the broken
heads and disfigured countenances of the parties to this
examination.

Old Mrs. Murphy now stated, that in a cupboard in her
bed-room she had deposited a bag containing 100 sovereigns,
and 9s. in silver ' • that on the night of the row she met the
prisoner coming from her cupboard and saw the said bag
of sovereigns in his hand. Sbe called out that she was
robbed, but she was knocked down and the bag of sovereigns
carried off.

The prisoner, with his sister, and another female, Were
detained for further inquiry.

A short time since the guard of a stage-
coach desired some poachers, of Mere, to procure him a
large basket of game, which they did, and received one
sovereign for it; but on its arrival in London, the honest
guard found that the basket was packed only with hay and
stratu....,,Bath Chronicle.

MR. D. GORDON'S NEW STEAM-COACH,

(From the Register of Arts and Journal of Paten

Inventions.)

In the historical sketch of locomotive ma-
chines, given in our last number, we, expressed a
hope of being able to insert in the present a de-
scription of Mr. David Gordon's new patent
steam-carriage : we have now the gratification of
fulfilling that obligation to our readers, and of
being the medium of conveying intelligence to
the public at large, highly important in a national
point of view, and exceedingly interesting as de-
scriptive of a very complete and beautiful piece
of machinery.
Mr. Gordon's patent for this invention was
sealed in December, 1824, at which time a small
model was made of the machine, from which we
made our drawing which was published in the
month of June following, in our 45th number.
Since that period, the inventor's extensive avo-
cations as an engineer (especially as relates to
the great undertaking and successful prosecution
of the portable gas-works), have prevented until
the present time the completion of the steam-
carriage. These facts we have thought it
proper to state, as a very general misapprehen-
sion exists respecting the first projector of the
peculiar application of " propellers" herein
described. Mr. Gurney's patent (inserted in
our last) was sealed in May 1825, or 17 months
after Mr. Gordon's ; but the accounts given in
most of the periodical journals of Mr. Gurney's
carriage would lead the public to suppose that
the priority was on the side of the last-mentioned
gentleman, which is the reverse of the fact.
Mr. Brunton, of Butterly iron-works, was the
first person who proposed the use of a substitute
for horses' feet ; and had it not been for a la-
mentable accident, consequent upon the bursting
of a cast-iron boiler, it is probable he might have
prosecuted the idea to a more profitable end.
Mr. Gordon's application of this contrivance
was essentially different to Mr. Brunton's in se-
veral respects, the chief of which relates to his
attaching a continuous series of propellers to
revolving cranks, instead of using only a pair
with a reciprocating parallel motion. The ad-
vantages of this variation are too evident to need
explanation : it is in this, therefore, that Mr.
Gordon's patent right consists : yet it would
appear, by Mr. Gurney adopting a similar mode
of applying the propellers, that he is trespassing
upon Mr. Gordon's claims.
This point, however, it is not our intention to
discuss; but there is one reflection arising out
of the fact, that we think worthy of notice. It
is stated that Mr. Gurney has found these pro-
pellers necessary in going up hill, which circum•
stance gives a character of utility to Mr. Cor-
don's invention, much stronger than theory can
impress, and shows clearly that we were correct
in our 45th number, when we observed that
" another serious difficulty was found in the
wheels of the carriage slipping round upon the
road without advancing, whenever a slight ascent,
or a heavy load, made the friction upon the axis
greater than the friction between the peripheries
of the wheels and the ground ; the power of the
engine being thus solely employed in turning
round the wheels without advancing the carriage
a foot."

Having in the paper just , quoted stated the
prominent obstacles that have hitherto prevented
the success of steam-carriages on the common
road, we shall not enlarge upon that subject
here, but proceed to notice the improved modi-
fications introduced by Mr. Gordon since lie
took out his patent. These chiefly consist in
placing the propellers in the fore part of the
carriage instead of behind it : in raising from
the ground by means of a light revolting crank
(having six throws, that being the number of
propellers employed), which effects the operation
with undeviating regularity, and with much
simpler arrangements than by the eccentrics pm-
vionsly used. The machinery generally is much
simplified, and its adaptations improved. The ex-
ternal form of the carriage is to be materially dif-
ferent ; and, instead oft he caravan form, there are to
be accommodations for the outside passengers, si-
milar to those in our ordinary stage coaches ; but
the inside passengers are to sit in a row facing
the fore-part, in an apartment much resembling
that in front of a French diligence.
The carriage runs upon only three wheels--
one in front, and two behind ; and each of them
has a separate axle. The latter circumstance
affords a great advantage in the hind part of the
carriage, where the two wheels are opposite to
each other ; there being no cross axle, an in-
creased capacity is obtained in the body of the
carriage, exceedingly useful in the stowing of
heavy goods in ordinary cases ; but as now em-
ployed for locomotion by steam, the utmost
value as a depository for fuel and water. The
wheels roll perpendicularly on their axes, between
strong parallel bars, which become the bearings
Of the axes; a considerable degree of friction is
thus avoided : while the single wheel in front
gives a greater facility of turning, and in a less
space, than coaches having two fore wheels. The
peculiar construction of the body of a carriage is
a distinct patent of Mr. Gordon's, fully de-
scribed in the 27th number of the Register of
Arts, with engravings antecedent to the patent
for the propelling apparatus now under con-
sideration.

The engines and other machinery rest entirely
upon the springs of the carriage, to preserve
them from the injurious effects of the concussions
made by the wheels upon looso stones, or other
obstacles lying on the surface of the road.
In the body of the carriage, connected with
the piston-rods of the engines, if; a six-throw
crank ; to these throws or arms are attached the
propellers, which, by the revolution of the crank,
are successively forced out against the ground in
a backward direction, then drawn up again, pre-
cisely in the manner of the hind legs of a horse.
The rods are formed of iron tubes filled with
wood, to combine lightness with great strength.
to the ends of the rods are attached what may be
considered as substitute for horses' feet, although
their form, being the segments of circles, is very
different. They press g
rolling kind of motion, causing a -round by a
sufficient adhe-
sion to the surface without digging
it up, and
against the
adapt themselves to any turn of the carriage,
Ihe under part
of these feet are formed into
short strong brushes, supported by, iron teeth,
that would take effect in the event of the other
part failing.
In going down a hill these propellers are lifted
off the ground by the guide at pleasure, so that
the carriage
proceeds entirely by its own gravity :
if the descent should be steep, or the motion too
rapid, the guide then makes use of a break, by
which the motion can be retarded or entirely
stopped. If the carriage is proceeding upon a
level, the lifting .of the propellers alone stops the
carriage gradually, but quickly if ascending an
inclined plane. This application of the propel-
lers affords also a very facile means of making
a turn in the road, simply by lifting them on one
side, and allowing them to Act on the other,