The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-18 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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years of age, was charged by Mi. Alderman GARRATT with
having incurred the forfeiture of 20/. under the 32d Geo.
cap. 54, h• offering to him a counterfeit certifiCati of
character as a servant:
The worthy Alderman stated that the prisoner called
upon him at Old Swan-stairs some day last week to hire
herself is it housemaid. He made the usual inquiries is to
her character and fitness for the situation, and she stated
that 'she had lived abOut a month before with Mrs. Noon,
of Beddington, Surrey, to whom she referred for charac-
ter. She said also that she had lived for two years with
Lady Uxbridge, at Kingsfon, about five years ago. He
knew this must be false; for he himself had occupied
for seven years the identical house where Lady Ux-
bridge resided, and he mentioned to the prisoner that
Lady Uxbridge had been dead above eight years. The pri-
soner replied, that her recollection was bad ; it might he
longer ago than she had thought. Mrs. Garrett wrote 'to
Mrs. Noon, and on Sunday or Monday received a letter
in reply ; but from the g.,At ral appearance of it, he doubted
whether it was genuine,. and went himself over to Bed-
dington yesterday morning. After much inquiry, he learnt ,
there was one party of the name of Noon in the place, but
it was a poor old • woman who lived in the lodge, at Rey-
nolds's bleaching-ground, who never had kept a servant,
and who knew nothing of the prisoner. On his arrival
in town, be found the prisoner waiting for a reply. He
told her the result of his search, but she persisted that a
respectable family of that. name had resided there, but sug-
gested that they were probably gone abroad: He then
questioned her as to to the situation of the house at King-
ston, and the neighbours, the name of the vicar, Sm., and
found she was an utter stranger to the place. He offered
to forgive her, if she 'would acknowledge her error, but she
refused to do so, and as a magistrate of the city he thought
a public notice of the case would be beneficial as a caution
against receiving written characters.---He did not call for
any punishment.
Sir PETER LAURIE questioned the prisoner, who seemed
determined not to admit that she had done wrong. She
thought it an innocent device for a good purpose, and the
Adlerman had suffered no harm. She had last lived in a
family at Liverpool.
Sir PETER said, he feared this practice was widely re-
sorted to, and with success, and that the prisoner might
have a little cool reflection, and recover from her present
fit of stubbornness, he would remand her till the following day.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday, a man
named, William Pullen, a butcher by trade, was charged
by Michael Angelo Taylor, Esq. M.P., with the following
brutal act.
Mr. Taybir said, that as he was passing through St.
James's-street, he saw the defendant, who was. in a state
of intoxication, seise a little female child that was sitting
on the foot pavement, and in the most wanton and brutal
manner dash it against the iron railings, which fortunately
however, did not inflict on it any serious injury. Mr.
Taylor instantly seized the fellow, and gave him into the
custody of a constable, who lodged him in the watchhouse.
As, however, the defendant seemed now very sorry for
what he had done, and Mr. Taylor heard that he was a
man of good character, he was willing to let him off oa
his paying 101. to the parents of the child, who were very
poor people.
To this the defendant consented, and he was discharged.

UNION-HALL.—Yesterday,, two individuals of re-
spectable appearance, named Jackson and Finch, were
brought up from the Surrey watch-house, where they had
been confined during the preceding night on the follow-
ing charge.

Mr. Taylor, landlord of the Prince of Wales in the Lon-
don-road, stated that on the previous night the two de-
fendants entered his house, and having taken seats in the
parlour, which was exceedingly full of company, it being
fair-time, they finished some glasses of grog, after which,
to the great terror of the whole room, they took from their
pockets, a braceof long brass-barrelled pistols, and began to
take aim at some:individuals composing the company. The
extraordinary Conduct, of the strangers, who were supposed
to be madmen escaped from some lunatic establishment,
gave general alarm in the room, but none of the persons
in it dared approach men armed with such: deadly weapons
fearful of having a bullet thrOugh their heads. At length,
however, the landlord of the house was made acquainted
with what was going forward, who, apprehensive that
serious consequences might result from the incaution dis-
played by the two unruly customers with their fire-struts,
walked into the room,.and-liiiihg approached the place
where they were sitting, under the pretence of wiping the
table, seized the pistols from the defendants, who were
highly incensed at the act, and vowed to be revenged on the
landlord for having deprived them of what they termed
" their :only safeguard during fair time." Having left the
room with the intention .of placing the pistols in a place of
safety, the defendants followed and abused him for depriv-
ing them of the weapons.

Mactsraarz—Were the pistols loaded ? Complainant--
Every individual in the room apprehended they were, but
I subsequently discovered that they were not charged.
The Magistrate then asked the defendants how they
could have been so indiscreet as to -display fire=arms 'in a
room under such circumstances? Finch replied, we now
see the folly of our conduct, 'and sensibly feel our situa-
tion. We, are much obliged to the landlord for the man-
ner in which he conducted hinuielf- on the occasion, and
I. can only add, on the behalf Of 'myself and my friend,
that should we be so fortunate as to get out of the scrape,
We shall be careful in future how we produce weapons of
any kind in a public room. I need not add, that we never
intended to discharge the pistols, from their having been
neither primed nor loaded.
The complainant interceded in their behalf; when the
Magistrate, after having reprimanded both the defendants,
discharged them.
The drivers of several vf.hieles on the Greenwich-road
were summoned for conveying passengers to the fair with-
out having either licence or plates. The charges having
been fully proved against the defendants, they were fined
5/. each for the offence.

The act restricting. the proprietors of waggons, carts, Ice.
from plying for hire without licences has had the tendency
of thinning the present fair at Greenwich exceedingly.
Waggon-loads of holiday folks are now not to be seen

driv-ing down _the road to visit that scene of mirth and fes-
tivity as formerly; and it has been observed that the riots

tumuand lts on on the road to town have increased, owing
chiefly to the operation of the Act which passed during the'
last Session, and which has excluded the fair-going people
from having their sixpenny jaunt to and from Greenwich.

PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH,

BLACKFRIARS.

The annual vestry was held yesterday, in the small
room appropriated for the purpose. Mr. BURSLEM,
stationer, of• Great Surrey-street, in the chair; but
in consequence of the anxiety manifested since the
last year's exposure of the parochial affairs by Mr.
Henry Hunt, the room was insufficient to hold half
the persons present, who were idly standing in the
body of the church, endeavouring to catch a syllable
of the business. At ten o'clock Mr. Hunt came into
the room, and moved an adjournment into the body
of the church, which, after some little opposition,
was carried. The vestry was called for 13 specific
purposes, and vlthough scarcely an hour had elapsed,
Churchwardens had been elected, Guardians of the
Infant Poor, Commissioners of the Courts of Re-
quests, Auditors of Accounts, Workhouse Commit-
tee, Vestry Clerk, Organist, &e., had been appointed;
and the only portion of business not transacted was
the making a minister's-rate, and poor's-rate. The
other business had been got through in the old man-
ner, without debate or opposition.

It was moved and seconded, that a rate should be
made of Is. in the pound for these purposes.
Mr. 'JUST moved, as an amendment, that tht rate
he raised to 25., and was seconded by Mr. Thorne of
Hatfield-street. ' '

The amendment was loudly exclaimed against,
explanation, said his motive in do-
and Mr. Hunt, in
ing so was to compel the parishioners,. by the pay-
ment of a high rate (the only means of bringing
them to their senses), to look after their-own affairs.
The motion, being intended more in irony than se-
riousness, was negatived without a division, and the
original resolution carried.
A vote of thanks was proposed to the late over-
seers,:second amendment from Mr.
Hunt,whuiceh
said he
a
hgedid
not do so with any intention
of defeating the vote of thanks, but. that it was the,
n
would be afforded ,
ioly I
nconsWuretnuenitY that Mtn
of the way the other business
had been managei4 of introducing., a. motion which
It was for the production of
thehe meant to
ac'c'ount-books
,
of Mr. Mackay, the master
of the workhouse, and the baker's book. Mr.
Hunt then entered into a long detail of the proceed-
ings which took place at a meeting of the auditors
appointed last rear, of which he was one. When be