The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-19 00:00:00

FREEMAN V. FAIELIE.

Hor-NE stated that five or six days ago an applica-
tion had been made that a motion to be moved in this
case for a new trial might stand till after the term, for the
convenience of gentlemen at the common law bar to attend.
It had since been ascertained that it would be impossible
for those gentlemen to attend, except before the expiration
of the term. Under these circumstances be was instructed'
to move that the Court would be pleased to appoint the
earliest day it could for the hearing of the motion.
The Solicitor on the other side, in the absence of his
Counsel, said it would be necessary on the hearing to have
certain parish-books in Court from Birmingham, and pro-
bably from Litchfield, but certainly from the former place.
Mr. HemNs: had no objection to have it understood that
a motion at that moment was made for the production of
such books, and that an order, calling for the production
of them, should be made, to which he should consent.
This Loan CHANCELLOR had no doubt, from what
he recollected of the case that an inspection of the original
books of such parishes might be necessary. From the
length of time this case had been pending, and the nume-
rous form■ in which it had already been before the Court,
it was ab,olutely necessary that it should be got finally dis-
posed of with as little further delay as could possibly be
avoided. The order for the production of the books in
question should therefore be made, and Wednesday next
appointed for the hearing of the motion.
The Solicitor intimated that the Court Lad before said,
it would let the parties on each side see the Learned Judge's
notes of the last trial.
The Loan CHANCELLOR observed that he should speak
to the Learned Judge of the Court of Common Pleas be-
fore whom the case had been tried, with the view of ascer-
taining whether he had or not any objection to his notes
being seen, if he had not, a copy of them should forthwith
be supplied to the parties on each side.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 18.
The COURT was occupied the greater part of the
day with cases from the Crown paper.
In the case of the gang of poachers prosecuted by
Edward Corbett, Esq. and convicted at the Chester
Spring Assizes of the present year, the Court re-
versed the judgment, on an objection taken by Mr.
Jervis, jun. that the offence was not properly de-
scribed in the indictment.
Mr. Justice JAMES PARKE went to Guildhall
at twelve o'clock, to hold the Nisi Prius sit-
tings for Lord Tcnterden.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 18.
NORTHAM V. LATOUCIIE.
This was an action by the endorsee against the
acceptor of a bill of exchange for 1,0001.
The hand-writing of the defendant as acceptor,
and that of Mr. Hudson, as drawer and endorser of
the bill, having been proved on the part of the plain-
tiff, it was ►nsisted, in defence, that the plaintiff
could not recover-Ist, because the bill had been
given as a new security for an old debt, from which
the defendant had been discharged under the Insol-
vent Act, and given under circumstances which
would render any contract nugatory; and 2dly, be-
cause the plaintiff was not the bona fide holder of
the bill for a valuable consideration.
The Jury returned a verdict for tke defendant.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. IS.
Hugh Goldicutt, late a Captain in the 2,1 Ceylon
Regiment, was opposed by Mr. COOKE, on behalf
of Mr. Baylis, a creditor.
It appeared fi.om the insolvent's statement that in
September, 1826, he sold his commission, and with
the proceeds commenced dealing in pictures, but his
first purchase proved ultimately to be the cause of
his insolvency. Towards the close of the year he
purchased a picture of a person named Harris, who
represented it to be an or►ginal Saivator Rosa, for
5001., of which he paid 3.55/. at the time, and gave
bill for the remainder, payable at 18 months' date.
However, long before the bill became due, he found
that he had been deceived, and that the picture was
of that trumpery character, that he could only obtain
oh. by the resale of it. When the note which he
had given to Mr. Barris became due, the then
holder, Mr. Baylis, his opposing creditor, applied
for payment, which he (the insolvent) was then un-
able to do. Mr. Baylis then sued him, and he de-
fended the action, because he had reason to believe
that the note had passed from Harris's liana with-
out consideration : but at the trial Lord Tenterden
refused to hear his witnesses, and the plaintiff ob-
tained a verdict for the full amount of the bill.

After Mr. Baylis, the opposing creditor, had been
heard, the insolvent was then disehi:rged.

A BIG Box BED.—" Hoomh !" but it re-
quires a native to give this interjection the true Highland
twang—" floomh !" s.iid DONALD, as he awoke in the
dark, on the night after the last fair of Donne, not recol-
lecting that he was lying " up stairs," on a shakedown
in an otherwise empty closet. lie had, at this moment,
put his feet from under the blankets, with the intention
of leaping down on the floor, but finding no descent, he
'' hunkered" off in quest of the stock, till he reached the
side wail of his dormitory, where, after groping for some
time, lie made assurance doubly sure that he had got to
the red instead of the stock ; of course lie could not l e
mistaken, by taking an opposite direction, and the door
of the room being open, he quickly hirseled into the
lobby. " Iloomh ! to ped's praider nor she's l,ng," mur-
mured DONALD, as he trailed along his legs. One heel
at length overhung the stair head, which had no railing,
and he made sure of getting out over at hot—but, like all
true Scotchmen, although he could not " look," he was
determined to feel " before he leaped." Down ac-
cordingly droppi•d one leg, and thin the other—still no
' floor—exasperated, he was resolved to he at the bottom of
• this adventure, and eliding his body over the edge—
d.,wn—down he went, till he hung by the finger points,
and his outstretched toes were within three inches of the
lower floor. The suepense was intolerable--perhaps
was over the mouth of a draw-well, or a coal-p't. Mt-
, able to endure the torture any longer, lie roared out for
assistance. A light being brought, DoNarm was relieved,
when he wound up the adventures of the night with
" tamerst if she'll ever pe sleep in to muckle law!and pox••
ppd.; no mhore,"— Caledonian Nfireu,y,
•

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Yesterday two well-dressed respeetable-loaking
females, named Mary M!cqua and Elizabeth Ills-

tp, and a young man named William Reid, were
charged with a series of robberies on Messrs. Sewell
and Cross, the silk-mercers and linen-drapers, in
Compton-street, Soho-square.
Messrs. Sewell and Cross have, upon several pre-
vious occasions, been compelled to become the pro-
secutors of persons in their employ for similar de-

predations. -
The robbei ies in the present instance took place
at Navar►no-house, in Lamb's Conduit-street, which
Messrs. Sewell and Cross have purchased of the

assignees of Messrs. White and Metcalf, the late
proprietors there.
It appeared by the evidence that suspicions having►
lately arisen that depredations to a com•iderable ex-
tent had been committed, a person was placed in the
wine-cellar, where some stolen goods were found
concealed, to see and detect the parties who should
come to remove them. Accordingly, a young man,
named Coombe, concealed himself in an empty beer
barrel in the cellar, and, from the discoveries he

made, the prisoner Macqua, who was cook in the I
house, and another servant, named Catherine
Powell, were taken into custody. The girl Powell,
however, not appearing to be so much implicated
in the guilt of the transaction, was admitted as a
witness. She stated that while in the water-closet
on the occasion in question, Macqua came to her
from the cellar, bringing with her a large bundle of
silk stockings and silk handkerchiefs, which she said
had been concealed in the wine-cellar, and which she
stated were given to her by the prisoner Reid, who
was the principal porter in the establishment, and
which he stole for that purpose from the warehouse;
but she said duet as she feared there were some sus- I
picions awakened, she should thrust the whole of
the things down the water-closet, and she accord-
ingly did put all the silk stockings down, where
they were afterwards found; but when she was
about to do the same with the silk handkerchiefs,
she said it was a pity to destroy them they were
lso very beautiful, and putting them under her shawl
she carried them up stairs to her room, where they
also were found in her box. She likewise told this
witness that Reid had been for a long time supply-
ing her with goods of all sorts of great value. It ap-
peared also by the evidence of Clements and Goddard,
the officers who apprehended the prisoners, that Reid
had also admitted to them that he had been for a
long time in the habit of committing these depreda-
tions, and of giving all the property he stole to
the prisoner• Macqua, and another young woman
named Elizabeth Hislop, the other prisoner, but that
he was instigated to all these robberies by Macqua,
who, as an inducement to his committing them,
granted him all the personal favours she could be-
stow. It also appeared, that the prisoner Reid, be-
fore his apprehension, was seen at night to keep
appointments close to Navarino•house, with the
prisoner Hislop, and give her parcels of goods,
which she carried to a house in Old-street-road, to
which she was traced, and where the officers took
her into custody, and found duplicates of property
pledged to a large amount.
The various paw►►brokers, who attended from all
quarters of the town, produced nearly 200?. worth
of goods in silks, satins, Irish linens, lawn, &c., the
whole of which were identified as tl►e property of
Messrs. Sewell and Cross, and stolen from their
warehouse.
The three prisoners said not one word in their de-
fence, and were fully committed for trial, and the
witnesses bound over to prosecute.
Major-General Ralph Oasley, of the Portuguese
service, and a Lieut.-Colonel in the British army,
was brought before the Magistrate under a warrant,
in custody of Goddard, the officer, charged with
assaultieg a young female named Eleanor• Rudd.
The complainant went into the General's service
on Saturday last, as housemaid, but on the very next
morning she left him, in consequence of his re-
peatedly kissing her. She also stated that he seized
her by the heed while he was in bed on the Sunday
morning, and dragged her towards him in rather a
rough sort of way.
The General declared that it was not at all for
the purpose of kissing the complainant that he ap-
proached so near her face, but to ascertain what he
proved was the case with the girl, that she had
teen using a very ruinous and powerful medicine.
tie denied the assault complained of altogether, and
in this denial he was in a greet degree borne out by
another female servant, who also stated that the
complainant had admitted to her having used the
medicine alluded to. General Ousley also said, that
the girl's father had threatened him with exposure,
if he did not pay two sovereigns for the liberties he
took with his daughter.
The complainant's father denied that be had held
out any such threat.
In the end the General was convicted in the full
penalty of eh for the assault, which he instantly paid.
H ATTON. ARDEN.

Yesterday George Crouchnian, William Willis,
John Poivcll, and if Horn, were brought up
before Mr. LAING and Mr. Serjeant SELLON, for
re-examination on a charge of breaking into and
robbing the malt and hop stores of Messrs. Tru-
man, Hanbury, and Co., the brewers.
Mr. Harmer attended for the prosecution.
The prisoners, after being placed at the bar, were
ordered by Mr. LAING to be taken out, and the
office to be cleared, which being done, a private in-
vestigation took place between the Magistrates,
Mr. Hamner, and Edwards, the officer, who was
chiefly employed in obtaining information and ap-
prehending the prisoners. When the prisoners
were re-admitted, Mr. LAING said that the case
should strand over for Wednesday next, and telling
the prisoner Willis that he would be admitted to
bail, desired the jailor not to lock him up with the
other prisoners.

A young woman, the niece of Mr. Ayres, whar-
finger, of the City Canal-basin, came forward and
identified Crouchman. as the person who, on the
Ist of last October, obtained from her, while in
charge of her uncle's business, which is that of a
sack-lender, the sum of 2/. Is. 5d., by means of a
forged order, purporting to be signed by S. Reid, a
person in her uncle's employ, whose business it was
to grant such orders, for a number of sacks alleged
to have been received from Vise and Snell, carriers.
Reid was not present to give evidence as to the
forgery, and Crouchman was remanded on this
charge also.
Mr. Harmer, at the close of the examination,
alluded to the injury which the feelings of Mr. Far-
ren, the retail b ewer, of Exmouth-street, sustained
in consequence of the reports circulated in the news-
papers on the first examination of the prisoners now
remanded, in which Mr. Farren was stated to be
the purchaser of the hops. The fact was, that Mr.
Fat ren had acted by a preconeerted plan fur the pur-
pose of detecting ttie prisoners, and recovering the
property of the owners. The reporters were not
to Warne, for they had given the evidence as deposed
to on the oaths of the witnesses.
Mr. LAING said he had known that.
BOW-STREET.

Yesterday William Davis and Hannah Allen, who
it appears are brother and sister, were brought be-
fore in order to be re-examined.—Re-
inm
Mr. Jonathan Henry Wilson, and Ilia brother Mc.
a VA HALLs,
William Augustus Wilson, the two young gentlemen
who were charged with having ridden over Henry
Carlow, the toll taker at Waterloo-bridge, were
again brought forward, when, after learning that the
wounded man was out of danger, the prisoners were
admitted to bail.
Two gentlemen then came forward and entered
into sureties, each in 250/:, for the appearance of
the prisoners at the sessions, to answer any charge
that may be preferred against them then. The pri-
soners were further held to bail in the sum of 3001.
each on their own recognizaucee.
A LAMENTABLE CASE.—Between nine and ten
o'clock on Tuesday night, just as the sitting magis-

trate, Mr. Mitistiw., was about to retire from the
office, the beadle of Waterloo-bridge brought before
him a young female, named Alice .Yay!or, whom he
charged with. having attempted to drown herself a
few moments previously. The unfortunate woman's
clothes were dripping wet; and she Feemed be-
numbed with cold. Finding that her power of speech
had left her, the Magistrate ordered her to be placed
before the fire, where she soon became so far recovered
from her stupor as to be able to answer questions.
Mr. MINSHULL—Do you not find that the heat of
the fire is much more agreeable than the cold of the
water ? Female—Fire and water are both very well
in their way. I should have preferred being in the
water.

Nir.lNlvismuLL—What! do you mean to say that
you would like to drown yourself? Female—l do
say so, I don't wish to tell you a lie about it, Sir,
for that would be sinful. .

Mr. MINSHULL—You say that to tell a lie is a
sin ; then how much more dreadful is the act which
you contemplated ? Female—Perhaps so, Sir ; but
there are plenty of people in the world without me.
I would not be missed, except by my poor little
child ; and even it would not miss me.
Mr. MINN-FULL—You have got a child ? Then
pray are you a married woman ? Female—l am not.
I was seduced by the father of my child ; but 'tis no
matter; he takes good care of it, and has not been
unkind to me.

Mr. MINSIIULL—Has any one else treated you
ill? Female—No, Sir; no one.
Mr. MINSIIULL observed that it was a lamentable
case, and asked the poor creature what she would
wish to have done for herself? Female—Nothing:
I want nothing but to quit this weary life.
The beadle stated that, hearing a splashing in the
water, he ran down the steps on the Middlesex
side of the bridge, and there saw the female wading
into the river. At the time he saw her the water
had reached above her waist, and it was with great
difficulty that he dragged her back to the shore.—
As she was advancing forward in the water she kept
exclaiming, " Aly baby, oh my poor. baby ! Would
you were here with me, that we might die toge-
ther !" Ile had ascertained that the unfortunate
woman lived in Newcastle-court, as servant to her
sister, who keeps a house of ill fame.
Mr. MiNsuum, asked her if her sister used her
ill ? Female—" Oh no. I've no complaint to
make against any one; but would rather perish than
live in such a situation any longer; that I would,"
she added, at the same time piteously wringing her
herds. . _

Mr. M1N311111.1. ordered her sister to be sent for;
bus:, a considerable time having elapsed without the
sister having made her appearance, he directed that
the poor creature should be taken to the house of
correction, with a request from him to the governor
that she might be made as comfortable as possible
until steps could be taken to pass her to her parish.