The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-27 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Last night Alexander Reid, the pugilist, was
brought before Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS, by
Dodd, the officer, charged, under the Pawnbrokers'
Act, with unlawfully pawning one pair of boots, one
pair of shoes, and a pair of boot-trees, the property
of Wm. Jackson, the celebrated pedestrian.
The prisoner acid that the property was ple►iged
at the desire of Jackson. -" The charge, your Wor-
ship," continued Reid, " has been got up to spite
me. I acted in the kindest manner towards Jackson
when he was unable to help himself, and this. is the
return I have met with."
" Who is Mr. Jackson ?" asked Mr. HALLS.

" Lord love your Worship, I thought you knew
Mr. Jackson ; why he is quite entirely a notorious
sort of a character."

"And this gentleman, yoar Worship," rejoined
Jackson, " is Mr. Alexander Reid, the fighting man,
better known by the name of the Chelsea Snob,
who stood his trial for manslaughter at the Old
Bailey. He says that I authorized him to pledge
these things, but he speaks falsely. I was in a
typhus fever at the time, and in a state of insensi-
bility, so that I could not have acted as he says I did."
Reid—l shall be enabled to prove that you au-
thorised me to pledge the property. You know
you are a greater rogue than I am.
Sir R. BraNtri observed, that the prisoner was
very candid in acknowledging that he was a rogue.
Most likely it was six of one and half a dozen of the
other.

The prisoner was remanded to give him an op-
portunity of bringing forward witnesses to prove
that he was authorized by the prosecutor to pledge
the property.
H ATTON-GAADEN.

Two brothels, of the name of Roche, were
charged with assaulting a constable of the name of
Waite, in a riot yesterday, in Gray's-inn-lane. One
of them wrenched the staff out of the constable's
hand, and wounded him with a blow of it so se-
verely on the head, that he was obliged to be con-
veyed immediately to a surgeon, and at present is
considered in very imminent danger.
The prisoners were ordered to give 2 hours' no-
tice of bail.

A hat manufacturer, of the name of Emerlon, re-
siding at Islington, wag charged with having com-
mitted various assaults.

Mrs. Emerton, of No. 36, Gloucester-street,
Queen-square, stated, that on Christmas-day, while
about to sit down to dinner, and having a roasted
goose just ready to be served up at table (a dish
that always graced her board on festive days), the-
defendant entered her kitchen, and insisting that the
goose belonged to him, immediately demanded it,
and absolutely refused to quit the house unless he
were permitted to take the goose with him ; nor
would 'be suffer it to be laid o❑ the table, lest it
should be incised with the carving-knife. Mrs.
Emerton endeavoured to put him out of the house
(without, however, indulging the extravagancy of
his demand), when he became exctzsively impatient,
and struck her a violent blow on the neck.

A young mac, \vho rushed to her assistance, the
defendant, also made a desperate assault upon, and
the constable, who took him into custody, complained,
that while bringing him to the watch-house, he made
a violent effort to get away, and in the struggle his
(the constable's) coat was rent from the collar to the
tail.

The defendant still insisted that the goose was his,
and that it had bean sent to Mrs. Emerton's for
him. When he called there to take it away, he was
certainly provoked to find that, Mrs. Emerton in-
tended it rather for her own use, and when he de-
manded it, even dressed as it was, she was the first
herself to begin the assault by striking him.
This was denied by evidence, and the elefentlant %vas.
fined 10s.