The Sun.
London, England, 1821-09-28 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE•

Bow.STnEET.—Ycstmlay Morning the eceentric'personage
who has for some time been seen about the streets of the Metro-
polis in the habit of a -Quaker, and wearing- the tri-coloured
cockade in his broad white hat, made his appearance at the door
of this office, and presenting a large packet to one of the officers,
desired him, in a tone of authority, to lay it instantly before the
Magistrate.
The officer, staring first at the pack2t, and then at this sin-
gular visitor, obeyed the command, and presenting it to his.
worship, said it had been given him by a " queer sort of a gen-
tleman," who was waiting at the door for All answer.
The Magistrate, Mr. MINSIIIILL' opened the packet, and
found it to contain a sort of political caricature, in which the
Quaker himself was represented riding on a velocipede over the
necks of certain well-known persons, and distributing, as he
went along, copies of the Spirit of Despotism,' and. other
works of a similar cast. Underneath appeared, in large letters,
" The Radical Quaker."
Mr. NI IN SHULL desired- that the "queer sort of a gentle-
man" might he shewn into the office.
The " Radical Quaker" entered with a large bundle of
papers under his arm ; and with an air of infinite importance li
walkul up to the table. Re kept his hat on his head.
Mr. M N HIT L L (taking off his spectacles.) Well, Sir, pray
who are you?
Quaker.—Who am I? that's an odd sort of question ;, what
matters it who I am ?
Mr. MINSK you won't tell me who you are, be kind
enough to inform me of your object in coming here. with this
packet.
Quaker.—Why, I merely wished to let you know how things
were going on. Sly object is. to• convey information to those
who may happen to be in need'of it. But I had forgotten that
Iliad another motive for coining. I was informed that if. I
ventured to show'my face here, I should be taken into custody;
and 1 should have no objection to that.; I assure you. .
Mr. Mixsiium.—lndeed ! but I shall not mdulge you in
that particular.
Quaker.—As you please.
Mr. illirrsnuia..—Are you aware that you are standing
here with your hat on ?
Quaker—Perfectly so.
MINSII L —You ought to. knoW that •it is very inde-
corous.
_ _ _

Quaker.—l think otherwise.
Mr. Mucsitutt—Perhaps it is in conformity with your
scruples as a Quaker that you keep it on.
Quaker.—Not exactly. I shall keep it on, unless you 'Can
shew me any law that compels me to take it off. I wish to be
informed upon that subject.
Mr. 31 rNsntrl.L.—My authority is law sufficient in this case,
and I desire you to take it off.
Quaker.L-Excuse me ; but I cannot subMit to that authority
on this particular occasion. • • :
Mr. MissnULT..—Then yoti had better leave the office.
Quaker.--That I will do certainly; for I haVe no desire to
'occupy: your valuable time unnecessarily. The Quaker then
turned upon his heel, and, with head erect, stalked out of the
office. •
•
HATTON-GARDEN.—Edwara Bowes, of Church-row, !lamp-
stetul-road, way brought up fi•om Hampstead watch-house,
where he had 'Open confined all night, charged with; shocking
cruelty to his wife. Several neighbours attended and support-
ed the charge, and the prisoner was committed for want of bail.

SutctnE.—.--The -body.of John Irwin, .an -un-
fortunate journeyman baker, .who is .supposed to have.commit-
ted suicide, was found yesterday: morning,in a ditch near Green-
lane, Stoke Newington, with his throat cut from ear to ear.
The rash act is believed to have ;arisen from the profligate con-
duct, of a young woman la whom he was attached. Some few
months back he formed an acquaintance with a female who lived
servant to two foreign gentlemen in. Finsbury-place, Fins-
bury-square, and he was received as a lover and as her intended
husband. Within a few days past. it - was insinuated to,
him, that she had been ..carrying on a criminal inter-
course with one of her masters; and. tha-
state she was in a gtate of
pregnancy. This intelligence,so affected his mind, that he be-
came melancholy, and_ appeared quite dejected.. About six
o'clock• on the evening preceding., ne called on his faithless in-
t,-tided, and remained nit her -till six.,o'cloek in the morning,
when lie-left her, and proceeded to the place where'he commit-
ted the dreadful act. It is said that overtures had been made
to the unfortunate man by the master Of the young woman,
that he would give him 1001. as a portion with -the young wo-
man if he married her in the state she was in;;.l,mt this he in-
dignantly refused.
FlRE.—About .seven. o'clock last, night, an
alarm of fire was brought to the Police Office by a carter, say-
ing,- that Mr. Ewing's Cotton-mill; at Mile-end, was on fire.
—The- engines were dispatched with
.the greatest alacrity,
being drawn by horses, at the rate of ten -miles an hour, a
plan which Mr. Black has newly adopted, and in less than
fifteen minutes the engines were at work. ' The flames had
reached two flats of the mill, but, by' the exertions of the
firemen, it was soon extinguished; notwithstanding the al-
arming appearance it had- • when ' the engihes arrived.
The workers belonging to the Mill were particularly useful
in supplying the engines with water; some of them were
upwards of two hours up to the middle in water in the
burn, and contributed much to the saving of this valuable pro-
perty. The fire originated from one of the workera having
taken a light and applied it to one of the pipes to find out an
escape of gas, which immediately took fire, and running up the
pipe, communicated with some loose' cotton in the flat. above...-7
The premises are fully insured. -To slew the activity of the
carters'and firemen when any alarm of fire takes place; one of
' the carters iti going with great speed down the Gallowgate, his
Inns.; came in contact with a hurley cart, then standing on the
street, and was killed on the, spot.—(GlasgOw Courier, Sept. 25.)
The herring fishing on the west coast has been
rather . unsuccessful hitherto. 'For the first few
weeks Loch Duich was the principal -resort ;
during the last week the fish were found-in greater
abundance in Lochcarron, and many of the boats
took six cranes each, which sold a.t from 12s. to
14s. per crane : there being about 100 vessels in
the Loch.--(lnverness Journal.) •
Writs of Inquiry were executed on Thursday
last, at the Town Hall, Chichester, before Gno.
MINT,-Esq. Under Sheriff, in four actions brought
against- the City, under the 57th GEo. ill. for
damages done by the mob, on the night of the
illumination winch took place in consequence of
the Bills of Pains and Penalties against her ,late
MAJESTY being withdrawn. It was stated, on
behalf of several plaintiffs, that their main in-
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ALLEM) MUIIDVA
BY A. SON-IN-LAW UPON HIS FATHER.

• It is our painful duty thiS day to record another
fatal event arising from the effects of violent pas-
sion. Wednesday night Jtmes Allingham and
his son-in-law, both corn-porters, the latter well
known by the river side as. Dcint% Jack, went
into the Three Tuns, in Back-street, Horsley-
down, to take some refreshment. About ten
o'clock a dispute arose between them, supposed
to be' upon family affairs. They both left the
house at the above hour, the altercation still con-
tinuing, when the son-in-law gave hiS father so
:severe a blow on the bead, that in falling he
struck the kirk-stone, which killed him on the
spot. The offender did not attempt to escape ;
he was immediately taken into custody, and the
body of his father placed in a shell, and con-
veyed home.
Yesterday John Lambert, the young man in
question, was brought to the Town Hall, South-
wark, in the custody of --- Harvey, night con-
stable of Si. John's, Horseleydown,
.before Al-
derman J. J. SMITH, the presiding Magistrate,
j charged with slaying J. Allingham, his father-
in-law. The prisoner, when placed at the bar, j
seemed sensibly affected. He appears to be
about 25 years of age, and has lost the sight of
one eye.—The first witness examined was the
constable, who deposed, that on Wednesday
night, between nine and ten o'clock, he saw a
man on the ground, apparently in a state of in-
sensibility; and on witness inquiring of the by-
standers what ailed him, some of them pointed
to the prisoner, and said, " That's -the• man
that struck him ;" to which the latter replied,-
" No, I did not strike him, I only pushed
him." Deponent desired them to lift the
man off the ground, and carry him'into the
public-house, and he then told the prisoner
he must- accompany him to the watch-house,
which he did not. object to. Having _left him

in security, he returned to ascertain the Condition
of the other person, whom he found stretched on
the kitchen floor, at the Three Tuns public
house; he still appeared inanimate, and no medi-
cal-man had attended him. He requegied a-sur- '
peon to be sought for, and returned to the watch
house to look to the state of his prisoner; he
not been there for above five minutes, when the
landlord „came in, and said a surgeon had seen
the. body and declared the man. dead. The
prisoner seemed deeply afflicted at the intelliL
gence, and frequently, declared that he had no.
animosity -against' the deceased, who had as-
saulted him fi:Fst,-77Mr. Wm. May stated, that he
kept the Three Tuns publiC house in Rack7street,
and had known the deceased and prisoner for
some time. On Tuesday night, a little before
nine o'clock, they
.were drinking in his house,
accompanied by the wife, of the latter, who Was
the daughter of the deceased, and appeared very
friendly together. Soon afterwards, a dispute
arose between the deceased and prisoner, about
some money transactions, and. a very warm alter-
cation ensued ; however, the old man afterwards
shook hands with him, and they had a pot of
beer together by way of making the matter up.
The whole party then left the house. In a few
minutes a 'scufille was heard outside, and witness
on going out saw the deceased fall on the ground.;
but he could not tell whether he had been struck
or had fallen by accident. At the moment he
fell, a coach drove along quite close to him, and
some one said, " The coach had gone over him."
Witness ran up, and finding that he could. not '
speak or Move,- concluded he was in a fit; as he•
.was subject to fits when inebriated, and..accord-- •
ingly assisted in carrying him into his own house,
where he applied :wati,,r to his temples; but find-
ing that it had no effect; he went out to -fetch, a
surgeon. On returning he examined the deceased
and discOvered a wound on the baCk- of his head ;
however, it was neither' deep nor"dangerous, and
had scarcely bled any. The surgeon came in soon
afterwards,• and said the man was dead ; ha( he
thought the wound could have hardly produced
such consequences,..especially as he could hind- no
fracture.—James Stamp, of Butler's-buildings,
Back-stfeet, was in the Three Tuns bet Ween
nine and ten o'clock on Toesday night. The
prisoner and deceased had some .words, and the
former advised the old man to go 'home, stating
that he himself could not accompany him home
just then, as'he had some business to settle ; but
the deceased refused, and struck him a blow on
the face ; the young man asked him if he was not
ashamed of himself to behave so ;" on which the
deceased again struck him. The prisoner then
left his seat and went to another, whither he was
followed by the deceased and his (prisoner's)
wife ; and after exchanging a few words they
got up and left the house together. In the
course of five or six minutes he heard a scuffling
noise in the street, which was followed by the
screams of the prisoner's wife ; but he knew no-
thing of what passed out of theThouse.—Here
the constable informed the Magistrate, that
Richard Vaughan, the driver of one of the
Deptford coaches,- knew most of the matter, as
he _was passing at the time. This witness was
not present; but would be forthcoming on eext
examination. The prisoner declined asking any
questions, and voluntarily .stated that after leav-
ing the public house, the deceased again inter-
rupted him, on which he pushed him from him,
anti this unfortunately led to the dreadful result.
In conclusion, the prisoner.said, " I,assure you,
Sir,.l had no malice towards him. I never did
hith the least injury, and-would sooner die than
attempt .it."—lle was then remanded till the
result of the Coroner's Inquest is known.

The body of Mr. MACKENZIE, master of the
Julia, a vessel trading between Newcastle and
Perth, was found on the shore of the river Tyne,
near St. Peter's-Quay, apparently having been
drowned. The circumstance, however, of the
hat, coat, waistcoat, and boots of the deceased
being missing, and his head much injured, ren-
dered the cause of 'his death doubtful. A Coro-
ner's Inquest, was on :Monday held on the body,
when the Jury returned the following verdict:—
" Found drowned, but with marks of suspicion►
of having received some violence from a person
or persons unknown."----(Country Paper•.)