The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-31 00:00:00

DROITWICH PATENT SALT COMPANY.

A meeting of the Shareholders of the above Company was held
yesterday, at the City of London Tavern, on special affairs. The
shares of this Association are held almost exclusively by Members
of the Society of Friends.

On the entrance of the Reporters, who attended to take notes
of the proceedings, they were addressed by one of the Society,
when the following dialogue ensued :.._.

Quaker—Friends, what dart thee want here?

Reporter—We attend for the purpose of reporting the pro-
ceedings.
Quaker—Why, we have no particular objection to the publica-
tion of our business, but we would rather that thou absent thyself.
We do not wish to have our proceedings published.

Reporter—Then I suppose we must withdraw.
Quaker—We would answer in the affirmative.

The Reporters accordingly withdrew.
The Shareholders appeared to be transacting their business in
the most comfortable manner imaginable, passing accounts, and
drinking wine, &e.
The Company. is repVeseuted to be a flourishing one, and the
full amount of the Shares has been paid up. A short time since
the Directors offered a premium of iio/. (we believe) for the best
essay on the advantages resulting from the use of salt for agricul-
tural purposes.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A poor man, named William Fore-
man, applied for his Lordship's assistance under the following
circutnstances:—

About three years since, he sent a step-son of his to go on
board a vessel hound from the Three Cranes Wharf, London, to
Leeds. The boy went and returned; he was engaged as cabin-
boy. The owners of the vessel were Me:Ars. Wood and Co.
The Captain's name was Carr. The boy went a second voyage
in the same vessel, but never returned ; and upon application to
the owners, all the information that was got, was in the following
letter :

" March 26, 1826.

" Yours came to hand this morning—we feel for both you and
your family; but we are extremely sorry that it is not in our
power to give you any information respecting him. We have
made several inquiries but to no purpose. If at any future time
we should get any information respecting him, you may rely that
we will immediately communicate to you. Your's, &c.,

" JOSEPH WOOD and Co."

The LORD Mayoa remarked that such an answer was very far
from being satisfactory, because the log book would immediately
show what had become of the boy, and that book ought to be
produced.
His Lordship then immediately wrote a letter to Messrs.
Wood, on the subject, and the poor fellow went away in some
measure, satisfied.

GUILDHALL —DISUPPOINTBD LOVE.--M 199 SafermethalEe Emma
Harwood, a genteelly-dressed, handsome
put to tlllyeithbafirrinygesatepridsatoyl,
him grievous bodily
siding in Friday-street, with intent to
months;.ri he had met her pro-
known the prisoner about sixteen
was residing in the neighbour-
es Lewendon Randall,
a She •
harm. The prosecutor gave his iiain!d.taam_.
manidscsutoautesdjythiant hteheliv._ed at r y street. He said he had
and a connection commenced, which
a t beforelllr. Randall, Sir
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hood of the Coburg Theatre,
it off, and on ell:,
he saw Miss H. on the opposite side of the
about face o'clock,
her—she crossed over and followed him, and
street.
ble-eci-ne near, lie asked what she wanted? Her reply,
continued some mioognothost.
of..A htislernesgtidheolicee iolenterAmioinneddayteovebnrienagk,
when
nwshat do you want ? Ha desired her to go about her• busi-
ness,2 and as she appeared to be withdrawing her hands from
hermuff, he began to run, having some intimation of her inten-
tions. Having gone a few paces, he looked round and saw her
returning something to her muff. He went to Mr. Howell, a
friend, at Qucenhithe, and related the circumstances ; they re-
turned together to Friday street, and they found her loitering there
still. They followed her to Cheapside, and again to the bottom
of Friday-street, where Mr.. Howell made an observation, which
induced him to obtain the assistance of a constable. He also saw
the prisoner draw something from her muff at this spot; and she
was given in charge, to ascertain whether she had not loaded fire-
arms upon her person. There was an elderly female then in
her company, whom they had not noticed before. There was
some delay at the Bread-street watch-house, in opening the door,
and while standing there the prisoner presented a pistol in the
direction of his face, within two feet of him, and it snapped.—
The flint struck fire, but the powder did not ignite. He bobbed
his bead when he saw the flash, and Mr. Howell seized the pri-
soner's arm.

Mr. Howell, a coal-merchant at Queenhithe, said he saw the
prisoner draw the pistol from her muff, and then he went in
search of an officer. While waiting at the watch-house door, the
prisoner drew a pistol with her right hand from the muff, and
extending her arm across witness's chest, levelled the pistol at
Mr. Randall's head. Witness seized her arm with his left hand,
and the barrel of the pistol with his right, and just at the instant
he raised the muzzle above the line of direction to his friend's
head, she pulled the trigger. He got the pistol from her with
much difficulty.

The pistol was loaded with powder to within an inch of the end
of the barrel, but there was no bullet. There was powder round
the touchhole, and the mouth of the pistol was presented within a
foot of Mr. Randall ; but he thought, if, instead of snapping only,
the priming had caught, the contents would have passed above his
friend's head, because he had elevated the barrel at the moment.
Matthew Carter, the constable, produced a full-sized duelling
pistol, and the powder with which it was charged, but he had
lost the wadding. He said he had tried the pistol, and it would
not fire ; he took charge of the two women, and conveyed them
to the watchbouse.

Dlr. Howell put his hand into the prisoner's muff, and took
out the pistol, saying, " Here's a pistol !"
Sir JOHN PERRING—What ! he took it very quietly then?
Witness—Yes.

Mr. HARMER—Did you see no struggling ? Witness—None,
Sir.

• Mr. HARMER—Were you sober ? Witness—Yes ; AS sober
as I am now• _ _

Mr. HARMER said the witness had a very confused notion of
the business, seeing what did not happen, and not seeing what
must have been evident

The witness stated that the prisoner unloaded the pistol herself,
because there was nothing handy in the watchhouse to do it.
She picked out the wadding with a pin or a nail.
Elizabeth Broadhurst, a laundress, living in South-street,
Lambeth, said she bad heard Miss Harwood declare, about two

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