The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday the Churchwardens
of the parish of St. Olave, Hart-street, were summoned
before the LORD MAYOR by a pauper, who complained that
they had refused to give him clothes to cover him. If the
present appearance of the unfortunate man were to be con-
sidered a criterion of the liberality of the parish, the poor
must certainly have some cause to complain. His lower
garments were moat wofully dilapidated.
The Loan MAYOR asked whether the Churchwardens
were present to answer the complaint ?—A female voice
immediately cried out, " I attend for the Churchwardens."
The Loan MAYOR—This poor old man says that he is
in great want of something to cover him. Why is he not
supplied?—The lady then stepped forward, said—" My
Lord, he only wanted a pair of breeches, and I looked him
out a pair and gave them to him. lam sure (casting her
eyes at his inexpressibles) I don't know why he has not the
breeches on."--(A laugh.)
The Loan MAYOR (to the pauper).—Why you have
been already supplied with what you say you want. Why
have you not put them on ? Pauper—Because I couldn't,
your Lordship. Them breeches as the lady gave me wasn't
half big enough.—(Laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR, (smiling.)--That, certainly, is a
bad fault, you might as well have had none at all. Pauper
—I couldn't pull them up at all, my Lord, so I was
obliged to go without.—(Loud laughter.)
The LORD MAYOR..--I am sorry, Madam, that you have
been so unsuccessful in your attempt to fit the poor man.
Lady.—My Lord, when he told me that one pair of breeches
did not answer him, I sent him another, and still he was
not satisfied. Pauper—No, my Lord ; the last breeches
the lady gave me was littler nor the t'other ; I couldn't
heave my legs into them by no means.—(A laugh.)
The LORD MAYOR thought that it would be better to
hand over the poor man to be fitted by some experienced
person of his own sex, and desired that he should be ac-
commodated at once with breeches of a proper size.
BOW-STREET.—Yesterday a chiropodist, practising
in the neighbourhood of Golden-square, was brought to this
office at the suit of a young lady, who holds the situation
of governess in a family of respectability.
Neither of the parties were very young nor very hand-
some; the lady might have seen some thirty winters, or
thereabOut, and looked very cold and indifferent; and the
gentleman seemed to have been passed by about double the
number of summers, for he was fat and rosy, and looked
very warm and tender. For more than an hour the un-
happy defendant sat in front of the Magistrate's table,
waiting for the fair complainant to appear, and at every
opportunity addressing his Worship thus—" I wish your
Worship would have the goodness to let me go; this is only
a love affair, and I'm in the professional line !"
At length, however, the lady arrived, accompanied by an
elderly gentleman, and one of Mr. Harmer's clerks. The
defendant looked unutterable things at the lady; hut she
remained unmoved.

The lawyer then stated the cause of complaint which his
client had against the defendant ; and from his statement,
we understood that the defendant had conceived a violent
passion for the complainant, from having had to cut the
lady's corns one unlucky day ; and that, not meeting with
a return of his passion, he, one day, in a fit of despair,
snatched up the complainant, as she was walking along the
street ; and tucking her under his arm, attempted to carry
her off, but luckily he did not succeed. The complainant,
therefore, fearing he would make another attempt, and per-
haps be more successful, wished that he should give security
never to attempt the like again.
It did not appear hew the lady escaped from the arms
of her inamorato ; whether by kicking, or from an ina-
bility in the defendant to carry her further; the latter sup-
position seems the more likely, when all the circumstances
are considered, and that the attempted abduction took
place on one of the late very hot days.
The defendant was very anxious to be heard in explana-
tion, but,
Mr. Bxcxrrr, a county Magistrate, before whom the
case was heard, would not permit him to reply, observing,
that as the complainant swore that she went in bodily
fear of him (the defendant), he (Mr. 13xcxx,rx) bad nothing
more to do than order him to give bail for his good beha-

viour.
The defendant said he entertained the greatest imagine-
He regard lady, as she well knew, and it was
therefore creel tier to say that she feared he would do
her harm. Ile began to say something about " ingrati •
tude," and having " entertained her four days and nights,"
but the Magiat-ata cut his camplaiuings short, by ordering
the gaoler to laa Lan up until he should give bail ; and
the Icve-s,ek, corn-cutter, having cast one sup-
plicating look at tha insensible and hard-hearted damsel,
a-ve-t sighing to his
Sir Heger Orcaley next appeared, to answer 'the com-
plaint of Abraham Lock, a waterman.
Abraham s'ate's T'aat Sir Roger and a party were rowed
by himself and seven other watermen, on a certain day
named, in an Admiralty barge, to Greenwich and back
again. The watermen charged half-a-guinea each for the
day's labour, and he (Abraham) was deputed by them to
wait upon Sir Roger and obtain payment. He accordingly
waited upon Sir Roger yesterday, but Sir Roger refused to
pay him, and when be (Abraham) refused to leave the
leatnewithant payment, Sir Roger struck him on the back
ct" the held, and Iced bim down stairs.
in tutsver to '-ibis complaint, Sir Roger Greeley stated
that the whole affair ad arisen out of a mistake. The fact
,*-as, the complainant nail no claims upon him, for lie had
hired a boat of another man, and that man not being in
the way when lie (Sir Roger) and his party went to
Whitehall-stairs at the appointed time, the defendant
had taken advantage of his absence to say that his boat
was engaged for his (Sir Roger's) party. The conse-
quence was, that the next day he had the owners of both
boats applying for payment. He was told by one of the men
belonging to the complainant's boat, who applied the first
day, that the boat belonged to the Admiralty, and that it
had been ordered to be got ready for him. Now, he had
never any thing to do with the Admiralty, and, as the
man could give him no particular information, he was to
make inquiries and come again the next day. The com-
plainant, however, came himself instead, and told him a
long rigmarole story about the barge, which it was not
Possible to understand, and he refused to pay him.
Mr. BEcxearr asked the complainant by virtue of whose
authority he made use of an Admiralty barge ?
The complainant replied, that a Waterman who had the
care of the barge employed him and the other watermen
to row it.
Mr. BECKETT told him he had done very wrong to use
the barge ; and desired him to go about his business.
His Worship then advised Sir Roger to lay a statement
of the circumstances before the Admiralty, and Sir Roger
promised that he would do so.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a mechanic named Fuller
was brought up to this office in custody, charged with
having violently assaulted his wife. This was a case
arising out of the profligacy detected in a wife subsequent
to her marriage. The complainant, who held an infant in
her arms, exhibited marks of very severe and unmanly
Punishment. Her head, which was bound round with a
handkerchief, was very much cut, and both her eyes were
blackened and much swollen. She described that her life,
since her marriage with the defendant, was one scene of
the most complete misery and unhappiness. They bad not
been married more than three months, when his conduct
and manner towards her underwent a total change for the
"tie. He was at first good, kind, and affectionate ; but
no sooner had the short period she stated elapsed, than he
became one of the most brutal of his sex. When his work
was over of an evening, on coming house, if there was the
slightest thing amiss, he would fly into a rage, break and
dash to pieces every
thing that came in his way, and ulti-
mately
any
y
vent his rage upon her, by striking her in the face,
o
Part of the body, it mattered not to him, with his
clenched fists.
r.
SwAßly.—What have you to say to this charge of
ill-treatment brought by your wife ? Defendant—Your
Worship, she has brought it all on her own head. She
has told you, that in three months after our marriage, from
being kind and affectionate, I became much altered. No
doubt I did ; and when I tell your Worship the cause, you
will not be
u,
fry. Somasu r Worship,
_have no wish to hear an exposure of
surprised.
ABET—Nothing could justify your beating her
in the manner now so visible to every one. Defendant—
Btshe has cuckolded me, and—
i‘your family concerns. Defendant—Your Worship, she
had a child by her master three months after I had mar-
ried her; was not that a pretty present for me? But I
could have looked over that even, had she not taken to
liquor.
lViriand pawned all my clothes to have her favourite
SWABILY—StiII, all that should not justify you in
her ; that is not the way to reform her. If yen
can'tlive iknng,
happily together, separate—that is the best advice
I can give you ; at the same time you must find bail to
keep the peace towards your wife.
The defendant had no bail in attendance, and was then
taken away in the custody of the gaoler.

A young man, being lately examined by a
Minister prior to confirmation, was asked, ~ Who
is the mediator between Almighty God and his
people ?" After a pause, and scratching his
head, he replied, ~ the Archbishop of Canter-
bury !"—Brighton Gazette.