The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-26 00:00:00

POLICE irrtrtuanrct.

MANSION-HOUSE.---A poor woman presented herself before
the Loan DIATOM, and handed in the following petiliA '
" My Lord—The applicant, Mrs. lianuah Moss, a poor rto-
man; begs your direction under the following circumstance
daughter lived with Mr. —, of Thames-street, and was,
by some person of his family &hamming a ghost, frightened into a
fit from which she seemed to recover, but immediately .relapsed
into en appearance remarkably strange, which het master cheated
to treat as a joke, calling her a Merry Andrew ; but she 0116-
treed to get worse, and now lies convulsed in St. Thomas's Hos-
pital, beteg depfived of sense, speech, and motion, and also of her
mental faculties.
" Sir, your direction under bees Cifcumstantes will he ac-
knowledged with gratitude, and confer a tasting Obligation on
your Lordship's obedient servant, &c. •

" HANNAH MOSS."
The toot *brnan being interrogated by the. Lord Mayor, pro-
ceeded to state, that her daetghter had been about three months in
the service of the person against iilinnt she complained, and that
in consequence of one of his daughters, railed Mies Mary Ann,
having dressed` herself up as a ghost, and entered the complainant's
daughter's bed-room, after she had gone to rest, she so frightened
the complainant's daughter, that she went into fits, and was com-
pelled to be taken to the Hospital. That she had not yet rie•
eevered ; but she was required to be removed from the Hospi-
tal ; hut she, the complainant, not having the means of pay-
ing a coach, could not remove her. She had applied to Mr.
-, but he had refused to render her any assistance, although
his daughter bad been the cause of all her daughter's misfor-
tunes, acid he well knew the complainant's distressed eircum.

stances.
The Loan MAYOR, under these circumstances, directed one of
the officers to call on Mr. and to direct him to attend his

Lordship.
Mr. now attended, and totally denied the truth of the
complainant's assertions; he was, he said; the father of eleven
children, and therefore not likely to encourage any thing wrong
in regard to treating young persons. This poor girl, lks admit.;
ted, was very ill, but so far from her having contracted her Mans
in his service, she (the girl) had herself declared that the whole
cause of it was a blow which her father, in a moment of passion,
had inflicted on her head, which had caused temporary derange-
ment of intellect, and that she had been discharged front a former
situation on the same account ; at the time in question,' his wife
had long been confined; and it was well known that this girl had
been subject to these fits, and it was not considered raft, that she
should be entrusted 'with a candle; therefore, after she went up
to bed, he sent his eldest daughter up stairs to get the candle away
from her; his daughter, who being half undressed, this young
girl construed into a ghost, and hence arose the present charge.
His conduct had been merely cautionary, and in truth he was a
man " more sinned against, than sinning," This was not the
first instance of her aberrations of mind, and she had always been
treated with the greatest kindnes. She had been before confined
to her bed for days, and the same doctor and nurse that attended
the family, attended the young girl, and she had been always treat-
ed as one of the family..
The Loan Mayot having left the Justice Room to attend a
Court of Aldermen, Mr. Nobler stated that he really thought
the complaint was completely answered, and the complainant left

the room. •
A poor ill-looking countryman was charged with uttering base

coin.
The complaint was, that the prisoner had upon reveral occa-
sions uttered counterfeit shillings to a tobacconist in the Ward of;
Aldgate, and the last occasion of uttering was on Sunday last, at .
half-past four o'clock, when he presented a bad shilling for a quar-
ter of an ounce of tobacco, he at the same time having
money, and plenty of good money about him. other bad
The Loan MAYOR, addressing the complainant, " Really this
is too bad ; you are, yourself, one of the City officers, and you
have, to my knowledge, preferred many complaints against poor
tradesmen for opening their shops on Sundays, and now you come
to complain against this man for uttering bad money on*Sunday
afternoon--now are you not ashamed of yourself?"
Complainant—l certainly did make some complaints against
shopkeepers for keeping open their 'shops on Sundays, but this shop
is net mine, but my son-in-law's, and I was merely assisting him,
and there is but little business.
-_ • .

The prisoner was committed for trial.
An ex-Lieutenant Colonel in the Spanish Army addressed a
letter to the Lord Mayor, stating his willingness to accept the
situation of tutor in any family or public seminary. Ile et/act'
that he had a very sick wife and two children, and that he was a
perfect master of the French, Latin, Italian, Spanish, and Porto-
puss. languages.
MARY1.V.11(11,14..-41ridget Curtain, a young Irishwoman,
the servant of Mr. David, a perfumer, of Crawford-street, Mary-
lehone, sought for redress under the following circumstances:—
She stated that, on going into the parlour on Tuesday night,
about twelve o'clock, after a hard day's washing, for the purpose
of sleeping on the sofa, her usual bed, she found her master, who
had come home tipsy, had thrown himself on it, and was sound
asleep. On mentioning this to her mistress, she wee desired to
make up a bed in the kitchen, assigning, as her reason, that she,
did not wish to have Mr. David disturbed. The girl objected to
going to bed there, sa the male servant of a gentleman in the house.
was continually coming into that room, but offered, :in pre-
ference, to sit up by the fire-side for the night. This Mrs.
David would not suffer to be done, and in a rage put out
the firs and candle, and threatened to ' turn her into the
street if she did • not do Cs she was desired. The girl being
determined kr resist the command, she was dragged up stairs
'and violently turned out-of the house. The night was extremely
wet, and, as she had no friends near, the young woman begged
her mistress not to use her so harshly ; but this request more,
highly excited Mrs. David's auger, and, in addition to thrusting,
her into the street, she had her taken to the watch-house. The'
night-constable, however, refused to detain her there; and as she
WAS thus deprived of a lodging, and the watchman to whom she
applied having denied her a seat in his box, she was compelled to
lie on she flag-stones for the remainder of the night. About four
o'clock in the morning a woman, who was washing, had compas-
sion on her, by taking her into her house, lighting a fire to warm
her, and making some tea ; and through this assistance,;,
the girl said she really believed she was saved from dying, as
she found herself fast sinking from the cold and wetness of
the night.
Mrs. David admitted that she ordered the girl to sleep ut the
kitchen, but denied that she ever struck, or turned her into the
street. She left the house of her own accord.
Mr. Ilawmison did not think it possible that the girl would,
by choice, prefer walking the 'time of a wet night, being com.
fortably' housed, and ha wished to know why she was taken to the
'watch-house.
Mrs. 'David said she wis taken there for using abusive language.
Mr. ilawrattsow considered the mistress had acted a very tutj
natural part, by tenting a poor girl into the open streets at that
late hoar of a miserably cold and wet night,;
Ides. David said she offered to taka her servant home with ber
from the watch-house, hilt she would not return.
The girl, in reply to a question put by the Magistrate, said
she could not think of returning to the house of such a cruel
woman.

The 01410 was finally disposed of by Mrs, David's being ordered
to pay 10s. for the assault, and to ray the wages this up to AA
16th of the next Month.
The girl having inquired if she could compel her mistress to
give her a character.
Mrs. David mid that she could not accuse her (if dishonesty,
but as to her sobriety, she would say nothing either one way or
the other, further then that she bad frequently found her drink.
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to be very intimate.
" And it seems," said a relation of the girl's, who came with
her, i‘ that you wished to make them more intimate, by
but
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her to sleep in a room to which that man had access whenever he
liked." .
" Upon my word," said the Justice, " it does seem so indeed.
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rired.,,„mich,diesatisfied. with the aim" of the
i retired,
girl's applicat►on. '
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Joseph Gardener underr►enl a final
examination before IV-
wilfully and maliciously cutting mul stabbing Samuel Knight, for-
M galser ly & Serjolant in the ar"adier Guards—Committed to New..
for trial.

bank of Jones and Co. at
bills at' 4 per cent., ought to
be explained, otherwisemight lead
it
0115Epnegr cent., and a commis-
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unfounded, that the rate of interest was about to
be altered. The fact arises from the opposition of
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land, which discounts
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:ion ; the reduction to 4 per cent. with fi, commission,
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makes the rate nearly 5 per cent. to the public ; but
it Was a necessary measure to meet the new establialt-
merit, and transact business upon nearly the same
terms•