The Sun.
London, England, 1828-09-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—The Loan MAvon. received
intimation fr An the family of: i gentleman who transacts
business on the Istoyal Exchange, that a duel,- which pro-
mised to he a=•sanguinary one, was about to be fought on
Sunday morning, at a short distance from town. The
parties, it appeared, had quarrelled over a bottle of wine,
and a challenge was the consequence. The invitation was
accepted without delay, and every preparation was made.
Two surgeons were engaged to attend with the lead-ex-
tracting instruments. One of the City Marshals was sent
to break up the matter, and he apprehended the challengee,
who was evidently mortified at such interference. The
Lord Mayor, finding that there was no disposition to paci-
fication, ordered the gentleman to find two sureties for 250/.
each, and to be hound over himself for 500/. The bail
were in readiness, and the defendant left the Mansion-house.
A foreigner, who did not mention his name, applied to-
the Lord Mayor for advice in what manner to act, in order
td compel Mrs. Cooke; the celebrated swindler, to make
restitution of a harp which she bad hired from him, and
had pawned. The instrument was a very valuable one.
The LORD MAYOR desired him to go before the Grand
Jury, and prefer a bill of indictment against her at once.
A Mr. Creed, who has some connexion with the Society
for discountenancing swindling and fraud upon tradesmen,
then addressed the applicant, and told him, that if he would
call upon him, a prosecution should bo at once commenced
against the woman by the Society. The applicant follow-
ed this advice, but the result was so dissatisfactory, that
he found it necessary to resort to the LORD MAYOR this
day, for the purpose of obtaining restitution of a sovereign
from Mr. Creed. He stated, that when he went to Mr.
C. eed, that gentleman produced a book of subscriptions,
nod told him it was necessary for him to put down a sove-
reign before any thing could be done in the case. The ap-
licant consented to pay the sovereign, but he might as well
have let it alone for any service that it rendered to
him. Upon his pressing the necessity of the society's tak-
ing up the prosecution, Mr. Creed said that they would
determine upon some case out of the variety that presented
themselves, and that his should not be that ease. " Then
give me back my sovereign," said the foreigner. " Not I,
indeed," replied Mr. Creed ; " you are a subscriber, and
you will be balloted for on the next night of meeting." The
foreigner by no means relished this way of disposing of his
cash, and thought that if the society countenanced such an
act, they must adopt a more appiopriate name. Mr. Creed
still refused.
The LORD MAYOR thought such conduct extremely un-
justifiable. The Society had no right to detain the appli-
cant's money under such circumstances. It was evident,
by Mr. Crees own showing, that the applicant was not a
member, for he was, it seemed, to be ballotted for first, and
therefore the money ought not to be kept as a subscription.
Mr. Creed said, that he certainly would not give up the
sovereign. Ile considered it to be the property of the
Society. They were ready to prosecute any case that
seemed likely to be followed by conviction, but they were
not bound to take any doubtful matter up. He would not
return the sovereign.
The LORD MAYOR pressed him to give the man his pro-
perty. His Lordship did not think the Society would
relish such an interference.

Mr. Creed still persisted in his refusal. Nothing should
induce him to give up the money. As for the applicant,
the great probability was that he would be blackballed.
GUILDHALL.—On Saturday William Jordan, clerk
to Mr. Joseph Fothergill, a solicitor in Clifford's Inn, was
charged with embezzling various sums, the property of his
employer.
Evidence was given that the prisoner, who had been a
year and a half in Mr. Fothergill's service, bad received
sums amounting to 431., and had accounted at this time
for only about 301., but upon finding, subsequently, it had
been discovered that he had received more, he sent in
an account of the real animmt, but claiming as due to
himself a much larger sum than he had detained in his
bands.

The prisoner's solicitor asked Mr. Fothergill whether
be had not undertaken, when he engaged the prisoner,
to share the profit with him of any business he might
bring to the house ?—Mr. Fothergill replied " Never."
The Solicitor asked if he had not signed an agreement
to that effect ? Mr. Fothergill repeated his negative.
The solicitor then exhibited a document (which was not
read) to Fothergill, and asked him if it bore his signature ?
Mr. Fothergill said he would not hesitate to admit that
it did bear his signature ; but he, wrote it without know-
ing what he signed, while lying upon a bed of sickness,
from which he never expected to rise. The paper was
placed before him folded up, except as to the place he was
to sign, and being told it was upon official businew, be
wrote his name without examination. This paper now
proved to be an agreement to give prisoner half the profits
on certain business.

The solicitor for the complainant intimated that his
client's mind was not in a state to enable him to do busi-
ness at the time the paper was signed, and the signature so
surreptitiously obtained would go for nothing. The con-
tract was of so unprofesssional a nature, that his client
would be struck off the rolls if he were to admit that he
had agreed to it.
Prisoner's solicitor (Mr. Hanson) replied—Whatever
might be the consequence, the agreement was an answer to
the charge, for by the account the prisoner had delivered to
Mr. Fothergill, it appeared that half the profits on the
business he hall obtained for Mr. Fothergill would amount
to 681. more than ho had retained,

The prisoner wept, and said he had quitted a respectable
situation, where he was earning 2/. a week, to join his ac
cuser tt a salary of only 1/. a week, but it was upon an un-
derstanding that he was to share the profits of all the busi-
ness he could get. lie at first could get only 6s. or 7s. a
week front Mr. Fothergill, who admitted that he had no
business of his own. After a time they carte to a new ar-
rangement, by which he was to receive 16s. a week in term
and 14s. in vacation. In June, Mr. Fothergill became se-
riously ill, and prisoner became alarmed lest, in the event
of his death, the representative should dispute his right to
participate in the profits of 160/. debts then on the books,
and he therefore drew up the agreement to the same effect
as their verbal contract, which he read over to Mr. Fother-
gill when he went to take instructions for his will, and he
signed it voluntarily. This charge of embezzlement was
pressed to defraud him of his right to half of the profit, and
of his valuable connexion.

Mr. Alderman ANSLEY advised the prisoner to say no
more ; and after some conversation, the case was ordered to
stand over till next week, the Alderman expressing a hope
that some arrangement would occur in the interim.
MARYLEBONE.—On Saturday fortnight, Mr. John
Linton, a stable-keeper in Marylebone-lane, came to Mr.
RAWLINSON for advice under the following circumstances :

In April, 1823, Captain -, R.N. of Belle due Cot-
tage, near Fulham, hired a pair of horses of him for four
months, at 101. a month, and a bargain was made, that if
they were kept for a longer period, the price should be re-
duced one-half. In June following, the captain returned
one of the horses, and gave Mr. Linton his acceptance
for 251. 10s. on account, payable at a month, but before
it arrived at,, maturity, the captain left the country,
without providing for its payment, and without return-
ing the ether horse, and also, as Mr. Linton was in-
formed, without paying his servants their wages. Although
he is nearly related to a noble family, Mr. Liston could
gain no tidiiigs respecting the captain for more, than five
years, but he was seen at the list Eglialn races, and " if I
can find him, your worship," said Mr. Linton, " what
shall I do?" < - • •

" Why," replied Mr. RAWLINSON 4 "if what you have
stated is correct, and you are lucky enough to find him,
give him into custody."
Mr. Linton ascertained that the Captain had a confi-
dential friend in Thayer-street, Marylebone ; and after
" keeping a good look out," he found him there late on
Wednesday night, and sent him to the watch-house. The
Captain then declared he had given his principal servant
instructions before he went to the Continent to return the
horse to Mr. Linton, and money to pay for the hire of it,
and if his servant had not done so, he said he was willing
to. pay 70 guineas for the horse, and the stipulated price
for the nse of it as long as he had it ; but Mr. Linton con-
sidered himself entitled to 51. a month for more than five
years, which made the bill upwards of 4001., and the
Captain was brought before Mr. Griffith the next morning,
charged with felony.
" Well, Sir,"said Mr. Gairrint, " unless you can give
a good explanation of your conduct, you stand in. an awk-
ward predicament:"

Captain--I know I do, Sir, but if you allow an opportu
nity, I can prove that before I left the country, I gave my
servant orders to return the horse, and I gave him money
also to pay Mr. Linton's demand.

Mr. GRIFFITII—How will you prove that? Captain—
I understand, after I was gone, be kept the horse at livery
for his own use until he eat his head off, and the stable-
keeper sold him to remunerate himself. That man now
lives at Knightsbridge, and on Saturday I will produce him
0,3 a witness.

The time was granted, and the Captain gave bail for his
appearance, himself in 200!. and two sureties of 100/. each.
The Captain came to the office on Saturday, but he
had [not been able to find his witness, and his case stands
over for a week.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday Mr. and
Mrt. Grindall, wham names Lave so repeatedly appeared

k the police prooeedings of the metropolis, were both
brought to this office under a warrant in custody of West-
cott, the officer, before Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate,
charged with assaulting a gentleman named Hughes.
It appeared that Mr. and Mrs. Grindall are residing in
a house at Kensington which belongs to Mr. Hughes, and
that they carne in there as the successors of other occupiers
who were the real tenants of Mr. Hughes, but whose
term not being expired, they gave possession for the
Unexpired time to Mr. and Mrs. Grindall. This pos-
session, however, had reference only to the part of
the house which the former occupants themselves
held—namely, a suit of apartments; the remainder of
the house'still continuing unlet and in the hands of Mr.
Hughes, the landlord. Mr. and Mrs. Grindall, however,
were not contented with the possession of the part of the
house to which they had a proper claim, but, according 'to
Mr. Hughes's account, they took upon themselves to exclude
him from the house altogether, and not suffer bins to enter
his own apartments there. Mr. Hughes did, however, at
last gain admittance, and when he did, he, as the landlord
of the house, took possession of the key of the street-door,
and for presuming so to take possession of it, Mts. Grindall
flew at him in a very unfeminine manner, scratched his
face, lacerated his nose, rent his shirt and shirt frill, and in
other respects very much dilapidated his wearing apparel ;
and in all this very uncivil treatment Mr. Grindall, Mr.
Hughes said, also took a part, by not only aiding and abet-
ting in the same, but also committed an assault by seizing
Mr. Hughes by the collar.
A gentleman who witnessed the transaction corroborated
Mr. Hughes's account of it.
Mrs. Grindall, to whose character nothing of taciturnity
belongs, went on in the defence of her husband and herself
at a rate of volubility that it would be difficult to keep pace
with, and she ended by declaring her utter despair of ever
meeting either on this or any future occasion with that
which has never yet, she said, fallen to her lot—anything
like fairness or justice at the hands of any human tribunal;
and after this declaration was over, both Mr. Grindall and
herself were ordered to find bail for the assaults on Mr.
Hughes.
Henry Warner, the driver of the hackney-coach No.
372, appeared upon a summons:, to answer the complaint
of a lady named Cooke, the widow of a clergyman, resid-
ing in a distant part of the country.
Mrs. Cooke stated, that having come ep to town for the
purpose of placing two of her children at the adult asylum
in the Regent's-park, she hired the defendant's coach to
convey the children and herself from Webb's hotel, in Picca-
dilly, where they were stopping, to the Regent's-park
When she got into the coach, the defendant asked her
where he was to drive to, and she told him to the asylum
in the Regent's-park, she believed on St. Andrew's-ter-
race, hut being, as she told him, a total stranger in Lon-
don, she could not give him any more accurate direction.
The defendant then drove on and kept driving away for a
very long time, but where he drove to she could not tell,
farther than that she passed through two turnpike•gstee,
which she had to pay for ; at last she got to the:place of
her destination, and having there left the two children, she
was conveyed again by the defendant to the house of a
friend in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, where she was
set down, and where the defendant demanded and received
as his fare 55., although the family of the house told him
that they knew it to be an imposition, and took down his
number.

• The defendant, in his defence, said that he considered
himself entitled to the ss. for the distance he had gone.
The MAGISTRATE fined him }Qs. together with 33. 6d.
costs, and ordered him to refund the overcharge, Bs. nut of
the 53., his legal fare being only 2s. ; all which the coach-
man hiving reluctantly dune he was discharged.
BOW-STREET. —On SAurday, Frederick Broughton,
Esq., a gentleman who resides in Southampton-street, ap.
peared before Mr. HALLS, and charged Mr. James Hud-
son, of the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, with
outrageously assaulting him in the boxes of the English
Opera-house, on the previous night of Friday, and wilfully
tearing and destroying his coat.
The complainant was sitting in the boxes quietly wit-
nessing the entertainments, when the defendant, who oc-.
copied the seat immediately in front, stretched himself at
full length, in order to converse with a woman of the town;
who eat on the same seat with the complainant. It hap-
pened, in doing so, that the defendant's back came into
contact with the complainant's knees, and the former• in
a peremptory tone desired him to remove them. The
complainant refused to do so, observing, that the bOx was
large enough for the defendant if he wished to indulge
himself without interfering with those who plid their
money to be amused in another way. The defendant
immediately jumped up, and applying an insulting epithet
to the complainant, seized him by the collar, and by su-
perior strength dragged him from the seat which he oc-
cupied to the box lobby. In conseqnenes of the *listen-
dant'a violence the complainant's coat was literally torn
from his back.

Mr. Thomas, the conaahle of St. Pant's, Covent-gar•
den, hearing a row, in the theatre, came to the spot just
as the defendant had succeeded in ejecting the complainant
from the box. The parties were at high words, and had
exchanged cards. Witness expressed his determination to
take them both into custody; but Craig, a police-officer,
who was present, advised him not to interfere, as other-
wise he might subject himself to an action. -
Mr. HALLS told Mr. Thomas, that whenever he wit-
nessed a breach of the peace he was empowered to take
the offending party into custody.
Mr. Thomas then produced the torn coat, which Mr.
Broughton declared had cost him five guineas only a few
days before. The coat was literally torn to fritters.
Mr. HALLS said that the defendant had been guilty of
a most unwarrantable assault. It was not to be endured
that the company at a theatre were to be annoyed by per-
sons lounging at full length upon the seats. If the de-
fendant wished to exhibit his person in a reclining position,
he ought to have hired a private box. It appeared that
the complainant had a coat which he valued at five
guineas torn from his back. The value of the coat he
(the Magistrate) called upOn the defendant to pay, under
the provisions of the'Act inflicting fines for the wilful de-
struction of property.
The parties then retired, and the defendant paid five
guineas to the defendant for having destroyed his coat.
The latter, however, expressed his determination to indict
the defendant for the assault, which the Magistrate told him
he might do.

At a late hour on Saturday night a squalid miserable-
looking young Elan, was placed at the bar before Mr.
MIAs, charged capitally with having conspired, with
another man not yet in custody, to extort money from Wm.
Goodhall, butler to Mr. Warren, the Chief Justice of
Chester, who lives at 15, Bedford-square, by means of
threatening letters, imputing to • the prosecutor the corn-,
mission of an unnatural crime.
The prisoner, who appeared not to be aware of the seri-
ous nature of the charge, was then remanded, and Wheat
ley was directed by the Magistrate to use every exertion to
secure the other party.

UNION-HALL.—George Bowen, a carver and, gilder,
was, on Saturday, charged before Mr. HONE, the sitting
magistrate, with assaulting Sarah Colbrooke, under the
following circumstances :
The complainant, a young creature' about 18, stated that
she resided at Bath, where her connections were highly
respectable. She there became acquainted with the pri-
soner, who represented himself to be an unmarried ma's.
After_paying his addresses to her for_ some time, on his
leaving Bath, be prevailed on her, by promise, of marriage,
to accompany him to London. They had not, been long
there when she discovered he had a wife, but
,having no
place to go to, she continued with him. For the last six
months his conduct towards her hail been most infamous ;
on one occasion he attempted to cut her throat i'vitlt a knife,
but her cries bringing some persons to her assistance, he
was fortunately, frustrated in his,diabolical,attempt. Last
Thursday night he turned her out of doors, and on her
entreatini, him to afford her the means of returning to her
friends, he knocked her down, kicked her, and otherwise
treated her in the most savage manner.
Mr. HONE animadverted, in very severe terms, on the
prisoner's inhuman and ruffianly conduct, and asked the
poor creature what she wished no be done.
" I only wish," she. replied, " that he will give me what
will release my clothes, out of pawn, all which I have
pledged for his use, and to pay nay fare to Bath."
hI
kindnesslo in
r.lgsaidatehtng so leniently
that she treated the
hire.
prisonerl with too
much
The prisoner said he. was satisfied to comply with her
request; and the parties retired to arrange the matter.

A case of imprisonment for bastardy, hardly,
we should think, to be equalled in the kingdom for dura-
tion, is now actually taking place in the city gaol of Chi-
chester. A young wan having been already incarcerated
there between five and six months, for the want of sureties,
although the female has not been confined ; and during the
whole of which period his only subsistence has been bread
and water! Five of his friends, called last week to see
him,' and all the money they could muster for a treat was
tenpence-halfpenny The guardians of the city were 'once
imposed upon by a girl, who swore herself pregnant by a
young man she wanted to inveigle into a marriage, and
who was committed to gaol under similar circumstances
with the abcive, when it afterwards turned out the girl
had actually rolled a flannel petticoat about her to cause
the appearance.--BriOton Ihrukt.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

EAST

The York, Wilkinson, from Bengal, in the Downs;
sailed from thence March 30, Sand Heads, April 2, Man"
ritius, May 26, and St. Helena, July 19.
Prince Regent, Murphy, from Bengal, in the Downs;
sailed from thence April 19, Madras May 19, and St.
Helena, July 19.
The Henry, Westmoreland, from Bombay, off Ports-
mouth ; sailed from thence 21st April, and St. Helena
July 14.
The Marquis of Anglesea, Stewart, from Souray-baya, at
Cowes ; sailed from thence --, Batavia, April 18, and
St. Helena, July 11.
Sitars SPOKEN WITH.--The Lady Raffles, Tucker, from
London to Bombay, Juno 26, off Madagascar.
The Cornwall, Aldham,_ from London to Bengal, "d
the Conshrook, from Liverpool to ditto, July 21, tat. 10
50 N. long. 23 30 W.'
The Lon! Hungerford, Heathorne, London to Bengal,
July 25, lat. 10 7 N. long 23 55 W.
The Hon. Company's ship, Macqueen, Walker, (tom
London to China, April 19, lat. S 9 S. long. 27 18 W. ;
all well.

ARRIVALS AT BENGAL.--The Gmcordia, Clan, from
Stockholm, and the Heroine, Hackman, from. China, sth
April. Wm. Wilson, Carmichael, from the Mauritius
and Point de Galls on the-Bth. Georgiana, Moor, from
London and Madras, on tho 7th.
SAILINGS FROM BENGAL.—The Princess Charlotte,
Stephenson, for the Mauritius, April 7. Clifton, Mitfordr
for the Mauritius, en the 13th.
ARRIVALS AT MADRAS.—His Majesty's ship Satellite,
Laws, from London, April 8. Indian Oak, Rcid, from
Alipee, on the 12th. Louisa, Harris, from Sumatra and
Tranquebar, on the 16th. Sophia, King, from Padang,
on the 18th. Hashing, Lee, from Bengal, on the 20th.
Reliance, Heyes, from London, on the 23d. Alacrity, Fin-
lay, from Colombo, on the 27th. Cartha, Lindsey, from,
Bombay, on the 29th.

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