The Sun.
London, England, 1827-11-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—The accident which occurred
on Friday, on the occasion of the dinner at Guildhall, and
which was likely to have proved of so serious a nature,
prevented the attendance of the new Lord Mayor on Satur-
day in the Justice Room, and in consequente Sir PETER
LAURIE sat for him. There were numerous inquiries after
the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress. by Sir Charles
Flower and other Aldermen and members of the Corpora-

tion,; and the answers given were, " that neither of them
were seriously hurt."
James Bell, the man who was charged on a former day
with exposing for sale to Mr. Dobson, of Leadenhall-street,
a silver salver, under very suspicious circumstances, the
coat of arms upon the said salver having been obliterated,
was on Saturday brought up for further examination.
He, however, persisted in his former account, that the
salver and other articles had been intrusted to him by a
man named Williamson, whom he had seen in Scotland,
and whom he had occasionally met at some place near the
Royal Exchange in London. It however appeared that in
consequence of some information obtained by the officer,
he had found it necessary to write to Scotland, and as
there had not been sufficient time to get an answer, the pri-
soner was remanded until Friday.

Josh Hudson, the celebrated pugilist, was charged with
felony—viz., having robbed one Samuel Henry Lear of five
shillings.
Mr. Lear resides at Walthamstow, and the, prisoner keeps
what is called " the Tap" of the Half Moon Tavern in
Leadenhall-market. On Friday afternoon the witness
went into this " Tap," and in the parlour of the " Tap "
he found amongst others the prisoner. There was a vast
deal of sporting conversation going forward, and upon one
subject a question arose, and witness offered to back his
opinion by betting a bottle of wine; upon this Josh Hud-
son rose and exclaimed with an oath, that the witness had
not got the price of a bottle of wine in his pocket?
" What," exclaimed the witness, "do you mean to say
that I have not got five shillings in my pocket?" " Yei,"
says Josh Hudson; " I mean to say that you have not got
five shillings in your pocket, and I will bet you a bottle of
wine that you have not." Mr. Lear now said, " Sir Peter,
you will bear in mind that I knew well enough what Josh
Hudson meant about the bet of five shillings, and I was
determined not to be taken in, because, if I had get five
sovereigns, or five crowns, or five half-crowns, or money
to any amount, and could not produce five single shillings,
the room would have decided the wager against me ; but
I just happened to know that I had five single shillings in
my pocket, and therefore I took Josh Hudson's bet ; and
in order to convince him that I bad won, I pulled the five
shillings from my pocket, and placed them on the table,
and immediately Josh Hudson takes up my five shillings,
and puts them into his pocket, and then laughed at me. I
demanded my *ye shillings back, and also the wager of the
bottle of wine ; but Josh Hudson would not give me either;
but at length he said that if I would stand a pint of wine
out of the five shillings he had got, he would give me back
the change—(Loud laughter); but I would not do that ;
so I gave him in charge for stealing my five shillings."
It was suggested in the earVpart of the proceedings
,that the matter had been previously arranged amongst the
parties, and that a restitution had been made of the pro-
perty ; but it being a charge of felony, Sir PETER insisted
upon having it heard ; and Mr. Nobler now observed, that

an affair of this description was no uncommon occurrence
in what is called sporting houses—in fact, it was termed a
" good lark," and the charge of felony had consequently
fallen to the ground.

A gentlemanly looking young man, whose name is Peel,
and who is a notary public, applied to Sir PETER, to grant
him a summons, or warrant, against the driver of a van
for assaulting him in Leadenhall-street, on Lord Mayor's
day.
Mr. Peel had a vast desire to see Gog and Magog, and
the men in armour, and all the other nonsense which com-
posed the Lord Mayor's show, and for that purpose he took
his post in Leadenhall-street ; but wishing to have a better
sight of it than those who surrounded him, he climbed up
the wheel of a van that was standing in the street. The
driver of the van did not like this innovation of his rights,
and so he immediately applied the horsewhip to Mr. Peel's
shoulders, in the same way that a hackney-coachman
would flog any mischievous boy, that will try to steal a ride
behind his coach. Mr. Peel, howevever, considered this
to be " rather too bad," for he found that lie had lost the
sight of the show, and instead thereof he bad got a sound
whipping; and he now wished to punish the driver of time
van, and thereby compel him to make compensation, as well
for the loss- of the sight as for the whipping.
Sir PETER and all present laughed heartily.
' Mr. Peel stood amazed; as if he supposed that every
person present would commiserate him ; at last he very
coolly said, " Why, Sir Peter, I would not have minded
it, if the man bad only told me first to get down, but that
he did not do." .
Mr. Hobler—Sir Peter, the gentleman wished to have
a peep, and, like most other curious people, lie has paid
for peeping ; and, you know, Sir, if he had only had the
good sense to have held a sixpence up to the driver of the
van, he would certainly have escaped the whipping.--
(Loud laughter.)
Mr. Peel then took his departure.
MARYLEBONE.— Thomas Cobb, a coachmaster,
who had stables at the hack of Wilmington-yard, Totten-
ham-court-road, was charged by Mr. Withers, of Green-
ford-green, near Harrow, with receiving a load of hay, out
of which his servant had been swindled by a person, not