The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-22 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.--Yesterday a person of military ap-
pearance, named Pobert,Phillips, was brought up under Sir
Thomas Vintner's Act, on a charge of having violated the • trust
reposed in him an an agent, by fraudulently selling out a quantity
of stock, belonging to John Donnelly, and appropriating the pro-
ceeds to his own use. .
John Donnelly, the prosecutor, deposed, that he is a retired
Lieutenant of the 2d regiment of Royal Veterans. He had em-
ployed the prisoner to receive anti transmit his pay to him. Wit-
ness resided in Jersey. In •1821 he remitted, DM to the pri-
soner, to invest in the Navy Five per Cents. This was done.—
When the Navy Five per
•Cents. were paid off, it was recom-
mended by hint that this money should be re- invested in the Three
per Cents. Witness sent him a power of attorney .to sell it out of
the Five per Cents., and a request to re-invest it in the Three per
Cents:, as he had suggested. The charge now preferred against
the prisoner was, that be had re-invested the money, not in, the
name of the prosecutor, but his own, and that lie subsequently sold
it out, and made use of the proceeds. .
Two solicitors attended on the prisoner's behalf. One of them
contended, that the case did not come within the meaning of Sir
T. Timer's Act, as an agent. He bad received no money.
The Prosecutor.--I can prove that I tendered him money, which
' he refused.
Sir JOHN Pritaitfa said, that to his apprehension, it did not
appear that the payment of money was requisite. He considered
that a man was an agent who tindertook to net for another, whe-
ther he was paid for it
.or not, and that the statute did not con-
template any limitation of the nature contended for by thelearned
gentleman.
The solicitor said, that at the most the offence, upon the prose-
eutorti statement, was a inisdemeamir, and not a felony.
The other solicitor spoke in a tone scarcely audible, but we un-
derstood hint to say, he should he able to prove it only a debt.

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After some further discussion on the act, the prisoner was
remanded.

• GUILDHALL.--Oliver Saville, the driver of the hackney-
coach No. 94, was brought before Mr. Alderman Warruinaw
yesterday, charged by Mr. Savage, the Com Mon Councilman, with
being in a state of beastly intoxication.
The complainant stated, that about seven o'clock on Saturday
evening, he was croattiag from Fetter-lane to the Temple, when
he ottserved the prisoner, evidently in a state of intoxication, ly-
ing across his coach-box, the coach itself being drawn tip against
the pavement in Fleet-street. - Ile ordered tile •waterman of the
coaelitstand there to keep hold of the horses heads, while lie went
in search of the streatikeeper ; and upon his return, he found •
chariot drawn up alongside the enact, and a fare he (primmer) had
taken up was getting into it. While this was going forward, the
prisoner rolled off the box, between that and the body of the
vehicle, and fell between the wheels, but he fortunately sustain-
ed no injury, and with come difficulty he was forced into his
own coach, and conveyed to the Compter. On the way, how-
ever, a strong body of hackney-coachmen endeavoured to rescue
the coach from'the officer; but he succeeded in taking it to the
green-yard.
The Alderman inquired for the owner, and as he showed symp-.
tomss'of alarm as he approached, he told him he was not going to
punish him for what his man had done—he ,only wished to know
something of the prisoner's character, and to be sure that his
master was aware of hie conduct on this occasion.
The owner said, the prisoner was not in the habit of refusing
liquor when offered to him, but it roust be an extraordinary quan-
tity that would take effect upon him, and he had not been in-
capable of hie duty from drunkenness for a year past. Ile was a
very poor man, and spending every day the gains thereof.
AU the prisoner had to say for himself, was, that lie knew he
had had a slip.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said, he never Suffered hackney-
coachmen to escape their deserts; not that he had ally anti-
pathy to the race; not that he punished coachmen, be-
cause they were coachmen, - but, because he knew that they cal-
culated upon impunity in their misdoing* in one hundred cases
to one where they rmit with punishment ; and they calculated
rightly, for the public did net like the trouble, and could not spare
the time, to sustain their 'complaints, and the city police neglected
their duty. If rim officers would walk with him, when he left
the justice-room, he would venture to say he could in a quarter
of an }tour point out twenty persons who ought to be summoned,
though they could never see them of themselves. He fined the
prisoner tca, for being drunk.
BOW-STMT.—Robert Marshall, who keeps a cheese-
monger's shop in Rosemary-lane, East Smithfield, was charged
•by Joseph Sharpe, of Albion-road, Union-street, Borough,
I broker and appraiser, with an attempt to stab him, while in the
execution of his duty. Mr. Morahan, whose head was bound up
,in consequence of a blow he received from the complainant, was
`attended by a professional gentleman, and Mr. James Dowling,
the barrister, appeared on behalf of Mr.. Sharpe.
The cAmtplamant.istoted, that in consequence of instructions he
received to,levy a distress on the goods of Mr. Marshall for non-
payment of rent, he went last week to his shop for that nurpose,
and immediately proceeded to execute his day, by formally dis--
' :raining the goods which he found upon the premises : while so
engage,l; Mr. Marshall advanced from behind him counter, and
brandishing it, large knife, lie swore he would kill him if
that nbe did.o
not latently quit Ai rrentioes, declaring kill
h
distren should lie levied UPlrrti ail long as lie held such a
weapon to defend it. if in the perform-
Mr. MINSHTILL here asked the complaintlt
ant* of his duty he had said any thing insulting Yarahalls
or tending to provoke him; to which question Mr. g::594 Fl-
owered in the negative.
Mr. Marshall's legal adviser then cross-examined Mr. Sharpe
at some length, with a view to prove that he acted as a broker
under an assumed name, and that, in fact, the act of distraining
was rendered illegal in consequence of such assumption ; but it
did. not appear that Arr. Sharpe had changed his name, or had
acted in any way to annul the distraint. It, however, appeared
that the complainant, believing that the defendant was about to
put his threat into execution, for be saw hint advancing towards
him with the naked knife, and fearing, as he said, that his life
was in danger, took a two pound weight front the counter and
hit Marshall on the head, who fell from the force of the blow.
A crowd collected round the house, and Sharpe was glad to
forego his seizure, anti escape from the fury of the mob. It
also appeared that Marshall
took out an assault-warrant
-against Sharpe, and that the complaint bad been heard before
the magistrates of the 'flames police-office, who held Sharpe
to lied.
Mr. Mufisopta, sail that, as the business bad already been in-
ir-
egrtirstastuf.le,a,thdav,
veallgated, he thould refer the complainant back to the Thames-
Pfdice-offiee, which was tha propermSturter to apply to, the t.
iing,_occurred within the district over which
the ma-
tte saute illa4law."l" Presided. Had he been snow aware that
have
ilieutv34.4 itnt troghe forward at another office, he should
that he gi.,re ant beggfti loth parties to take notice
trate, beri„., whartvin.l,(_, either ont way or another. The magis-
tigured, bad
already ratter had been in the first instance in-:
should now refer it.. Y na4e a decision in the case, and to thou he
It seems that the tides of
several iii disputed, and that digms4 lionesslin".`"q-lane are
varmuts )4Vr been issued against all