The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-21 00:00:00

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MANSION-HOUSE--Tai GnEiti Claim—The
Hon. Wm. Erqkine `Cochrane was summoned to answer
the complaint of Mr. Francis Higginson, for having, con-.
Crary to the Act of 59 Geo. 3, cap: 69, engaged Higgins=
to be employed as an officer under Lord Cochrane, in aid
of the Greeks. The complainant stated, that he had been
a Midshipman in the British naval service, and was applied
to on the 20th June by the defendant, who professed that
he should go to the Mediterranean, in order to join Lord
Cochrane, in the naval service, or to conduct the ordnance
stores. He was to take out ten men with him, over whom
he was to have the command, and he was also to carry out
some papers, which were to be signed by Lord Cochrane
and delivered to the British Consul, by whom they would
be transmitted to this country. He was desired to call
upon Air. Spagniolacki, and from him he understood he
was to have the command of the ten men, but they were
all to go out as passengers.

Mr. HARMER; who appealed for Major Cochrane, said
that the . complainant had. brought an action against the
Major, and arrested him ; and, in a,fit of desperation, he had
resorted to this course, having been disappointed in his aim.
Complainant—My motives are strictly proper. It is
true that I have arrested the Major, but it was for a debt
which he owed to me.

Mr. HARMER said that it was evident, from a note
which the defendant sent to the complainant, that the for-
mer intended to resort to this course, if the money he de-
manded was not paid.
The following is the note alluded to :
" 30, Paul-street, Finsbury July 11, 1827.

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" Sii—Finding you have given bail, I merely write to
say, that I cannot allow myself to be played with ; neither
will I. It consequently remains for you to determine ;
should the money be sent to my attorney by noon tomor-
row, it will prevent further unpleasant consequences to all
parties concerned.
" 1 am, Sir, your very obWient servant,

" FRANCIS HIGGINSON."

" Major the Hon. W. E. Cochrane."
Mr. HARMER said, that Major Cochrane and the Agents
of the Greek Government were anxious that the matter
should be investigated. The complainant had himself soli-
cited to be sent out, and had no claim whatever upon the
parties.
The LORD Mavoa, having perused the Act of Parlia-
ment, was of opinion that there was nothing in the evi-
dence to prove that Major Cochrane had violated the Act;
and therefore ordered the information to be quashed.
GUILDHALL.—Henman, the beadle of the parish of
St. Alphage, London Wall, applied to Mr. Alderman
ITENABLEs yesterday, for a warrant, to compel some female,
whose name he did not mention, to appear and declare
herself to be with child, and submit to an examination
touching the father thereof. He said the young woman
was obviously pregnant, and upon being questioned, had
alleged that she was a married woman. She, however,
did not produce her husband, and the applicant had no
doubt that she was, in fact, a single woman.

Mr. Alderman' VENABLES said he would not listen to
the application. Henman was not certain that the young
woman was not married, and if encouraged, such inquiries
would be extended to all the pregnant ladies in the parish.

The Overseer, who was also in attendance, said he had
not the least doubt that, if the Magistrate did not interfere,
the child would be born in the parish and become burthen-
some. He stated some other reasons in a low tone, and
at length the Alderman said, the beadle might take a sum-
mons, but if the party came the matter should be men-
tioned privately to him.
In a few minutes Henman returned, and announced that
he bad delivered the summons, but the lady said she would
not attend Alderman Venables or any other Magistrate of
the City of London.
" Very well," said the Alderman, " then I have done
with it. I will not go a step further. It would be a prac-
tice capable of great abuse."
The parish authorities made their bows and retired. .
Frederick Thompson, the book-keeper of the George
and Blue Boar, Holborn, appeared to account how a 101.
note, which had been stolen, came into his possession.
It appeared, that a Mr. Pembroke's house, in Queen-
street, was broken open on the 21st of June, and be-
sides a number of articles, 701. in notes had been stolen.
One of these notes had been traced through the Bank of
England to Mr. Thompson, and he said he had taken it in
the regular course of business, but when or from he could
not say.

The ALDERMAN said, that he ought to have marked on
the note from whom he received it, hut as he now could
not give any account of it, Mr. Thompson must be dismissed.

Henry Johnson, the assistant-overseer of St. Bride's,
and John Johnson, his brother, an assistant street-keeper
in Fleet-street, were ellerged with grossly maltreating a
poor Irish woman.

Mr. Woodroffe, of the Temple, said, he saw Johnson
driving the woman along Fleet-street, with a child in her
arms, and he said, "Be off, you - Irish -." She
replied that she was not a -, and Johnson then knocked
ber down, and attempted to beat her bead on the atones.
Mr. Ely, a clerk in the Bank of England, partly corro-
borated this statement.

The charge was, however, met by Mr. Burn, the Over-
seer of St. Bride's, Mr. Pitman, the oilman, and Mr.
Marriott, of Fleet-street, who said the woman was drunk,
and created a great noise in the street ; that the officers
did not strike her, but that she struck them, and flung
herself on the ground. The officers treated her with as
much forbearance as possible.
Mr. Alderman VENABLES admonished the officers
against resorting to extreme violence on any occasion, and
said they should never lose their temper. The case was
then dismissed.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday William Ternan and
James Sturgeon were charged with stealing four oxen, the
property of Messrs. French and Waller, cattle dealers, at
Plaistow, Essex ; and Francis Saville, the foreman of
the slaughter-house of Newport market, was charged with
receiving them, knowing them to have been stolen.

It was proved that, on the night of last Sunday week,
the oxen were safe in a field at Plaistow, belonging to the
prosecutors, called the Abbey Marsh, and early on the fol-
lowing morning they, were missed.
Joseph Pilgrim, a boy, who on the night in question
kept the Iron-bridge turnpike-gate, in the Commercial-
road, stated, that at about the hour of two o'clock, a tall
man, whom he believed was the prisoner, Ternan, drove
four oxen through the gate towards Loudon, and witness
gave him change for half a crown in payment for the toll.
The cattle appeared to have been hard driven—they foamed
at the mouth, and panted very much. In a few minutes
afterwards, the short prisoner, Sturgeon, who was dressed
in a round frock, came up to the gate, and inquired if a
man had passed that way with four oxen ; he told him that
they had passed through the gate a few minutes before, and
Sturgeon said, " Curse him, how fast he drives them."

Harrison, a butcher, stated, that he saw Ternan bring
four oxen to Newport-market, at four o'clock on the mor.
nign of Monday week. Other evidence proved that the
prisoner, Saville, received the oxen into the Newport-
market slaughter-house,, and slaughtered them.
John Aldridge stated, that, he was employed by the
prisoner, Ternan, to carry away the fat and offal of the beast.
Mr. Hausgsta attended on .the past of the prosecution,
and Mr. HUMPHREYS for the prisoner, Saville. _ Sturgeon
said, that be could bring sufficient evidence to prove where
he was on the night of the 'robbery. Ternan, who goes
by the name of the " Romford Baker," is a tall thin man,
with a very remarkable face; and Sir R. Biam observed,
that if any one saw him once, they would not be likely to
forget him. Ternan replied, that although the gentlemen
present must, if they believed the evidence, conclude he
was guilty, yet he avowed to God, not only that he wai
innocent of the charge, but that, on his trial, he should be
able to make his innocence appear manifest,
The prisoners, were all committed ; but are to be agaii
examined, befinie they are sent to the Old Bailey to take
their trials.

UNION-HALL—A man named George Allen, was
charged with having
robbed Benjamin Elkins. The com-
plainant, who resides in King-street, Southwark, was re-
turning home a few nights ago with a large roll of cloth on
his shoulders, when he was knocked down at the end of a
street that leads from the Southwark Bridge-road in the
Mint, and surrounded by a gang of six or seven men, who
robbed him of 151. or 16/., and the roll of cloth.

A female, named Dando, proved that immediately after
the cry of " murder" was raised, she saw the prisoner
running away with the cloth.
The prisoner attempted to prove an alibi, but failed, and
was committed!

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