The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLTOENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday a wine-merchant in
the City, was brought before the Loan AIAYoa, charged
with having assaulted the wife of Mr. Henry Capel, of
Little Tower-street.
Mrs: Capel Was stated to be so ill as not to be able to at-
' tend and give evidence.
1 Mr. Capel and several of his friends were present during
' the examination, and he stated that the assault with which
• the defendant was now charged, was the fourth which he
had committed upon Mrs. Capel. Other ladies, be said,
• had been treated by the defendant in a similar manner.
Mr. Capel and defendant were well acquainted, as men
of business, but the former never entertained an idea as to
the person of whom his wife had three times before com-
plained to him, until Monday last when the last assault was
committed upon the lady.
Mr. George J. Mar, of Fenchurch-street, as he was
standing on the steps of the counting-house door, saw a
lady following the defendant as fast as her situation—for she
was in a very advanced state of pregnancy—would allow
her. She said to the witness, as he believed, « Stop
him,—stop him," pointing to the defendant, and was
excessively agitated. The defendant turned round,
looked, as witness thought, contemptuously at her,
and then proceeded down a lane. Witness requested
that the lady would walk into the counting-house,
until she should recover front her fright, and she
did so, requesting at the same time that he would
stop the man she bad been following, as he had as-
saulted her. He immediately went round to the other end
of the lane, and stopped the defendant, who, apon being
told that a lady charged him with having assaulted her,
said, "It is impossible it can be me," west into a public-
house, and, without hesitation, wrote down hie name and
address on a card, and handed it to the witness: The
lady afterwards identified the defendant as her assailant,
and declared that it was impossible she could be mistaken,
as his former conduct could not be easily forgotten.
It is extraordinary that the assaults complained of were
committed in the public streets in the daytime. The de-
fendant asserts that he had no notion that the lady, who
was a total stranger to him, was the wife of Mr. Cape!.
Mr. Capel said, that putting his private feelings on the
subject out of the question, lie was determined to prose-
cute this ease for the sake of the public.
The defendant was then ordered to find bail, himself in
200/. and securities in 1001. each. Bail was immediately
procured, and the partiesleft the Offics. Mr. Harmer at-
tended for the defendant.
Charles Simmonda, a person in the employment of Mr.
Turner, a refiner in Barbican, was charged by his master
with having a wedge of lead, silver, and gold, amalgamated.
The prisoner said that one of his fellow-workmen had
given the wedge to him. He was remanded for a few days.
NATTON-GARDEN.—A LOVING CAT.-Mrs. Mary
M'Fagan, a lady from the Emerald Isle, made the following
ludicrous application to the Sitting Magistrate, Mr.
Routes :—And please your Worship, I got a beautiful cat,
and a beautiful fine dog, and, eh faith, it would have done
your Worship good to have seen 'em looking so pleasant, and
so good, and so amiable, as the beautiful craiters did. Well,
your Worship, I live the next door to a woman, a grate
big craiter, and my beautiful cat, Moll Flanders, happens
to go into that grate big crafter's house ; well, and I missed
my beautiful cat, Moll Flanders, and I goes into her house,
and I finds my cat fairly kilt. I felt myself quite coaled,
your Worship, and I ups and brings her in, and now faith
lam afraid she will die. Now, your Worship, I wants
to know if I can't have no address.
The Worthy 'MAGISTRATE, after listening to this beau-
tiful tale, said he was very sorry he could not assist her.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—James Church, the
driver of a c...rt belonging to a Mr. Swain, in Wardour-
street, Soho, appeared under a summons to answer the coin-
plaint of Captain Garth, of the Guards.
Captain Garth on Wednesday night last arrived in town
from Melton, in Leicestershire, and as he was coming
through Prince's-street, Hanover-square, in his pest car-
riage-and-four, the defendant, evidently in a state of intoxi-
cation, driving his cart, set his horse into a gallop, and
drove in cross-directiens, so as every moment to risk com-
ing in contact with the carriage, which he at length did
with such violence as to do it considerable damage, and
put to hazard his (Captain Garth's) life. He then got
out of the carriage, and with the assistance of some gentle-
men who were passing and saw the transaction, he stopped '
the defendant, and took the number of his cart.
A gentleman named Turner, who witnessed the defend- '
ant's conduct, gave his card at the time to Captain Garth,
and attended yesterday to confirm Captain Garth's state-
ment, which he did in every particular.
The MAGISTRATE regretted be had no power to inflict
aey heavier punishment upon the defendant than a fine of
Os., under the Street Act, for furious driving. He there-
fore convicted the defendant in that sum, arid fined him
besides 55., for having been drunk on the occasion.

The MA GI STR ATEtold Captain Gdrth that for the damage
dane to his carriage, his remedy would be against Mr.
Swain, the owner of the cart.

Mr. Robarts, M.P., Hill-street, Berkeley-square, at-
tended on a summons from the parish-officers of St.
George's, Hanover-square, calling upon him to show cause
why he refused to pay the usual reward for the attendance
of the parish fire-engine on the night of Christmas-day,
when there was a fire, as alleged, at his house.
Mr. Roberts said, that it was not for the amount of this
demand, which was Only Si., and for which he cared noth-
ing, that he resisted this claim, but because he felt satisfied
that it was a gross attempt at imposition. A similar de-
mand, he recollected, was made upon him two years ago,
AS groundless as this, but rather than be losing the time,
which was very valuable to him, in resisting it, he paid
the amount; but he was now determined to resist this
imposition to the last. The truth, he declared, was, that
there was no fire whatever at his house on the night in
question, awl when the engine-keeper arrived, and was ad-
mitted to :the kitchen, he himself saw that there was no
fire whatever, or any appearance of it, in the chimney.
Indeed, there was no occasion for any large fire in the
kitchen on that day, as lie had no dinner-party ; there was
no one dined but Mrs. Robarts, his ion, and himself; and be-
sides, when the engine came, and the alarm was for the first
time given, there was not one person in the neighbour-
hood who had seen even a spark come out of the chimney-
top; except this watchman, who, instead of giving an alarm
at the house, if there was a fire, ran off half a mile for
the engine. Lady Essex, who lives in the adjoining-house
to his (Mr. Robarts's), has declared, that on hearing that
some mention had been made by the watchman that he
was going for a fire-engine at the time, she looked out very
closely at all her own chimnies and his (Mr. Robarts'), and
she could snot see a single spark issuing. He was satisfied,
Mr. Robarts said, that this was one of the many collusions
between watchmen and engine-keepers to practise imposi-
tions of this kind. As he said before, he cared not for the
amount demanded ; for if the worthy Magistrate on the
bench advised him to give 101. or .201. to any charity, lie
would willingly do it, but he would not submit t% such
imposition as this. No man, as all his servants knew, was
more particular than be was in seeing that all his chimnies
were kept properly clean, for he had a great dread of fire.
Turner, the engine-keeper, acknowledged that there was
no appearance of any fire when lie arrived, although he
examined the chimney both at top and bottom.
Mr.
,Robarts said, that if the case be published in the
newspapers, and any gentleman having seen the fire shall
come forward and say so, he (Mr. Roberta) will instantly
pay the denianil.
:IARYLEI3ONE-OFFlCE.—Yesterday morning Mr.
Whittington, assistant-overseer of the parish of Padding-
ton, applied to Mr. Hosxnas for a warrant to apprehend a
groom belonging to the saloon in Piccadilly, charged on
suspicion of having violated his own daughter, a child nine
years old.
Mary Jones, an intelligent and exceedingly well-behaved
child, upon oath, stated, that a good while ago, her mother
went away, and left her and her two brothers at home in
Earl-street with her father, the prisoner. They all slept
in one bed ; and her father during the time she continued
with him committed the above crime, and frequently re.
peated his assaults.
Sophia Hardy, of No. 10, Hermitage-street, Padding-
ton, a?:out seven months ago took the two boys and the
girl in to nurse. Their mother,' who is a respectable
woman in service, brought them to her, because she said
her husband had got a place, and they were destitute.—
Their mother pays what she can for their support, and the
parish the remainder. In consequence of appearances
which this witness discovered about the girl, she asked her
a great many questions, and her answers corresponded with
her statement before Mr. Hoskins. She took her to Mr.
Jaques, a surgeon, in Great James-street, Marylehone, who
found she had not only been subjected to violence, but left
a victim to disease.

The prisoner affirmed his innocence with the most vio-
lent iinpreeations.--lie was remanded for future exarni-

nation.

At Carnwath, on the 4th current, the Cock
Main, which has excited so much interest of late, consisting
of 18 matches, betwixt the parishes of Lanark, Lesmahagow,
Carluke, and Forth on one side, and Biggar on the other,
was well contested in the Freemasons'-hall. The breed
upon the whole, was excellent;
.success was various, till
victory ultimately declared in favour of the latter, and what
was truly remarkable, no champion returned to the ancient
burgh of Lanark.....Scotsman,