The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-09 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.--A respectable-looking young
man, named Wm. Reid, was yesterday brought before
the LORD MAYOR. on a charge of having fraudulently con-
verted to his own use a promissory-note, the property of
George Wilson, for 1001. which had been intrusted to the
prisoner's care for the purpose of recovering a balance of
201. due on it from one William Winton, the drawer of it.

Previous to the charge being entered into, Mr. Reid
asked the Lord Mayor if be could not he indulged with a
private hearing.
The LORD MAYOR.—Pray on what ground do you make
that application?
Mr. Reid, in an embarrassed manner; replied that be
did not well know, for he was quite unacquainted with
matters of that description.

The LORD Alavoa repeated his question, and Dlr.
Reid then said the transaction was one which had taken
place betiveen himself and a friend whom he had long
known, and whom he had thought would never have
treated him in thiS manner; besides, being himseelf in
respectable way of business, he did not wish the matter to
be made public.

The LORD MAYOR replied that was no reason why he
should depart from his usual course of subjecting all such
matters to public examination.
'the case was then gone into.

George Wilson resides at 11, Brunswick-terrace, Isling-
ton. He stated that he is now out of business. He had
had many transaction with Mr. Reid, and amongst others
he gave him the promissory note in question, which was
dated in May, 1823, and upon which there remained 201.
due. He gave it to Mr. Reid for the purpose of recovering
that sum, and desiredlim to arrest the party, as he did not
like to do it himself. He then indorsed the note to Reid
fir that purpose.
The LORD Klima here inquired what Reid was? The
complainant replied, a watch-maker.
Mr. Hobler asked, how it happened that he gave a
promissory-note to a watchmaker to recover the balance of it?
The complainant replied, that not expecting to recover
it himself, he-thought he might employ whom he pleased to
do it. He applied to Mr. Reid, to know what he bad
done with the note, who said that he bad employed Mr.
Rush, an attorney, to whom all the mosey had been
paid, with the exception of six pounds, which was the
amount of the interest due upon it, and which Winton re-
fused to pay. He had frequently applied to Reid for the
money, but had never been able to get it, or to get back his
note.

The Loan MAroa. asked Reid what he had to say in
reply to this charge ?
Mr. Reid asked leave to put a question to Mr. Wilson,
and was told he might put what gamic= he pleased. He

then Asked Mr. Wilson, whether it was not his intention to
lend him the money if he recovered it?
Mr. Wilson replied, that'•he did once say he would per-
haps lend him this money, but denied any specific promise
to lend it him.

Mr. Reid replied, that he could not arrest Winton, as he
(Reid) had never given any value for the note to Wilson,
and therefore he was obliged to' hand it over to another per-
son to arrest him.

The LORD MAYOR--I shall say nothing.as to the credit
due to this transaction on the part of Mr. Reid ; but this
is not a case of embezzlement of which I can take cogniz-
ance. Mr.' Wilson had certainly given Mr. Reid a pro-
perty in the note, by indorsing it to him, and I must there-
fore dismiss the complaint. The parties then retired.

GUILDHALL.—Mr. Simmonds, the assistant vestry-
clerk of Cripplegate, appeared with the Inquest of the
Ward, to take the Magistrate's opinion relative to a seizure
they had made in' the shop of a baker, who was not named.
They found the scales accurate, and also the weights, but
if the 41b. weight was put in the proper scale, it would be
balanced by placing only•a 31b. loaf in the opposite one, in
consequence of some machinery concealed beneath the latter
which was acted upon by merely throwing the weight in
the weight scale.
The difficulty was, that the weights and scales were in
themselves 'perfectly honest. The Alderman at first sug-
gested the baker should be brought before him in custody ;
but afterwards recommended that it should be first ascer-
tained how lie might_ best be punished,—whether by the
general law or some peculiar jurisdiction attaching to the
city, or to the Inquest as body.
BOW-STREET.--DESPERiTE OUTRAGE.-Last night
a Powerful-looking young man, n the dress of a mechanic,
named James Myttahon, was brought to this Office, fol-
lowed by an immense concourse of people, and examined,
on the charge of having forced his wife, Hannah
INl'Malion, out of a second-floor window, and severely in-
jured her. _ _ _

Mary Parker, of Printing-house-yard, Coleman-street,
the wife of a printer, deposed that she was passing through
Nottingham-court, near Long-acre, that afternoon, when
she heard cries of murder" proceeding from a room on
the second floor of No. 8, and, looking up, saw the pri-
soner having hold of a woman's head by the hair, and beat-
it with great violence against the sill of the window. He
had hold of the hair in front, and was beating the back
part of her head against the wood. She was crying out
dreadfully. He let her go for a moment, and she suddenly
sprung out of the window, and fell upon the pavement,
and broke her leg. Witness saw her put upon a shutter,
and conveyed to the hospital.
Anne, the wife of John Wood, a tailor, and several
others, corroborated this evidence. .

Jennings, a patrol, stated, that on seeing the woman
come out of the •window, he ran up stairs and found the
prisoner coming out of the room. He stopped him, and
on examining the room, found all the plates, &c. broken,
and every thing in confusion. He found the poker in the
middle of the room.

The prisoner in his defence said, that be went home to
dinner at the usual hour yesterday, and found that his wife.
was out. He was told she was gone to a public house at
the corner of Plumtree-street, with another man. He
went there and found that she had gone. He returned
home, and finding her there, asked for his dinner ; but she
said there was none, and he might go elsewhere and find a
dinner. He said he would, and was leaving the room when
she abused him, and he turned back and gave her " a
slap." He was again going down stairs, when she again
abused him, and he returned once more and gave her
another " slap," and she all at once jumped out of the
window. He had not the least idea that she was going to
do such a thing.
Mr. HALLS.—AII that you have stated cannot be true.
You seem to make very light of the matter ; but let me
tell you, that if any thing happens to this woman, you
will be in a situation of a very awkward kind. Nothing
that you have said is any excuse for your conduct.
Prisoner.—l must bear the smart of it.

Mr. HALLS ordered the prisoner to be remanded for a
week, and directed the officer to procure a certificate this
morning from the surgeon of the hospital (Middlesex.)
HATTON-GARDEN.—John Taylor and Mary Dea-
kin were again brought up yesterday, before Mr. Sergeant
SELLON.

Maria Caldwell, the daughter of
‘Mrs. Caldwell, one of
the witnesses who was examined yesterday, stated, that she
was eleven years old. Before her mother removed, in
June last, from the house in Brigiston-street, Where the
prisoners lodged, she frequently looked through the key-
hole in the kitchen-door, and saw the child, James Peter
Taylor, tied in a chair. The prisoners were nut at home
on these occasions when she looked through the keyhole.
She beard the child cry for bread several times, and she
went to her'nother and got bread and butter from her,

which she (witness) put under the door, and the child al-
ways took the bread and butter, except when it was tied in
the chair. On one occasion, she saw the female prisoner
beat the child with a rope, or strap, and the child moaned
dreadfully. She knows nothing of what happened since
her mother left the house.

Mrs. Deakin begged to say a few words. She said she
had been deserted by her husband about six years ago, and
she went to live with . the prisoner about fifteen months
since, and continued to live with him up to this time. She
denied beating the child, and repeated, that she did not use
a hand-broom, as stated on Tuesday by one of the wit-
nesses.—(lt was only,said by the witness alluded to (Mrs.
Caldwell), that the father of the child said that Mrs.
Deakin had beat it with a hand-broom, and not that the
witness said she saw her do so.)—She confesSed that she

had neglected the child ; but, in extenuation, said she had
taken to drinking, which caused her to neglect the child.
The prisoners were soon after removed to Clerkenwell
prison, but they were taken out of the office separately,
and by different doors, for the purpose of avoiding the
notice of the people. They were recognised, notwith-
standing, on their way to a hackney-coach that was wait-
ing in Cross-street to receive them, and tuiey were hooted
and groaned at, in a similar manner as they were on the
previous days. It was not generally known that the pri-
soners were to be brought up yesterday, so that the crowds
were not so great as on Tuesday. When the prisoners
were removed on Tuesday evening in a hackney-coach the
coach broke down on their way to the prison. The peo-
ple fol)owed the coach with dreadful yelling and shouting,
and at the breaking down of the coach, the officers who
were in charge of the prisoners were apprehensive that the
people would wreak their vengeance on the unfortunate
creatures. In such a situation, being nearer the prison
than the office, they thought it more prudent to take the
prisoners to Clerkenwell at once than to return to the
office, and then be obliged to go over the same ground
again. At all hazards the officers took them through the
crowd, and reached the prison with much difficulty, not,
however, without being very much knocked about, and re-
ceiving a great portion of the peltings of the mud and dirt
intended for the prisoners. Such a scene has been seldom
witnessed in this part of the town ; and it must have
struck terror into the minds of the unfortunate persons
who were the cause of it.
MARYLEBONE.—Yesterday a man, named Eaves,
appeared to answer the complaint of a poor woman, named
Mary Ann Ansel', residing in Princes-street, Lisson-grove.
—lt appeared that the complainant, on the 9th July, pi o-
ceeded to the Sessions. House, Clerkenwell, for the purpose

of withdrawing her recognizances, and on the steps of the
Sessions House she was met by the defendant, who intro-

duced himself as a Bow-street officer, and told her that he
was empowered to withdraw her recognizances, on paying
him Bs. 6d. She gave him half-a-crown, and on the
following Sunday he called upon her, and brought her two
bits of paper, one of which was his bill, amounting to 90. 4d.,
part of which sum was stated to.have been paid out of his
own pocket, and upon his representation, that her recog-
nizances were withdrawn, she paid him 7s. 6d. more, for
which he gave her a receipt. In the following week she
received a notice from the office of the Clerk of the Peace,
that her recognizances were forfeited; and she was obliged
to pay 14s. 6d. to get one of them withdrawn, and the other
was in force at the present time.
The defendant said he was a surveyor, and denied hav-
ing represented himself as a Bow-street officer, and he
would have withdrawn the recognizances had he not been
prevented by severe indisposition.
Mr. RAWLINSON remarked that a number of persons
subsisted by plundering the unwary, under the pretence of
withdrawing their recognizances ; and ordered the defend-
ant to find good bail, as he should, undoubtedly, be pro •
secuted.

UNION-HALL.—ConnyrT AND THE TOLL CoL-
"Lrcroas.—On Friday last Mr. Cobbett attended at this
Office, for the purpose of obtaining ninety-seven sum-
mouses, under the 3d of Geo. IV. cap. 112, sec. 30 and
*3l ; also under another Clause in the same Act, cap. 126,
'sec. fiS, against 17 toll-collectors stationed in the county
of 'Surrey. Yesterday was appointed for the attendance
of all the parties concerned, but soon after the snivel of
the Magistrates, it was amounted that Mr. Cobbett bad
arranged the matter with the lessees ; and thus the affair
ended.

Mr. ABBOTT, who is the Director of the new
and splendid English Theatre, in Paris, it is said, has
offered Miss Poore fifty Napoleons per night, for twenty
nights, to. commence the-first week in October. She will
(to use a theatrical phrase) .be an immense hit with the
Pariiia

DEVON HAYTOR GRANITE COMPANY.

. _
A meeting.of the Shareholders of this Company
was held yesterday at the London. Coffee-house,
Ludgate-bill, for the purpose of receiving a Report
from the Committee of Shareholders, appointed at
the last meeting to investigate the Company's affairs
generally.
Sir FELIX AGAR having' been called to the chair,
stated the object of the meeting, and observed, at
the last meeting there was an opinion that some
errors had been committed in the Company's
affairs, and therefore the Directors at that time
spoke with caution on the subject. They had now
however, the satisfaction to state, that .what was
considered wrong arose from an error in the ac-
counts which had been since discovered and
corrected, and that the Company's affairs* were
in a much more prosperous condition than bad been
expected. The Directors had also to inform the
proprietors, that an advantageous settlement had
been come to with the house of Jolliffe and Banks,
by which the Company were now enabled to make
a dividend of 6 per cent.

The report of the Committee was now read. It
took a very extensive review of the Company's af-
fairs from the commencement. From this it ap-
peared that 11,0001. had been paid for the interest
now possessed by the Company in the granite quar-
ries, and ,that that sum could at the present moment,
be very easily obtained for them. For the gear and
implements on the property, the sum of 9,3021. had
been paid, but as the Company was at that time short
of cash, an arrangement was made with Messrs.
Jolliffe and Banks, who advanced the sum

through the intervention of Mr. Henfrey, who,
was one of the proprietors, and had been ap-
pointed managing director. The report went on to
observe, that great irregularities had ensued on Mr.
Henfrey's appointment to that situation, and that
two persons employed by him had been dismi 3sed
for their improper conduct. From one of those
parties (a Mr. Whittaker) Mr. Henfrey got the
books, but Whittaker contrived again to possess
himself of them. They were, however, recovered
from him by means of a magistrate's warrant, and it
was then found that they had been interpolated in
several places. A discrepancy, it was added, ap-
peared in the accounts of lgessrs. Jolliffe and Banks,
and those of the Company with them. That
discrepancy could be explained only by Mr. Henfrey,
bnt that gentleman died before it could be made. The
Committee had an interview with those- gentlemen
(Jolliffe and Banks),who, without admitting any errors
in their accounts, consented to a very considerable
abatement of the balance due to them. In conse-
quence of this very liberal and handsome conduct,
the proprietors were now able to partake of a divi-
dend of six per cent. .The report then went on to
review the state of the Company's affairs, which it
described as likely to be very prosperous, with per-
severance, care, and economy. It recommended that
a sum of 2 per cent. should be laid aside as a sort of
sinking fund for the payment of the original capital, and
that a managing Director be appointed to superin-
tend the affairs of the Company, under the controul
of the Directors; and that such managing Director
should, for the present, have a salary of 1501. a year.

On the motion of a Shareholder, the report was
received and agreed to ; and in pursuance of its
recommendation, a managing Director was ap-
pointed.

Captain Fullarton was then proposed, and unani-
mously elected the managing Director.
Mr. FULLARTON returned thanks for this mark
of the Company's confidence, and expressed his
intention of doing his best for the interests of the
Company.
In answer to a question from a Shareholder,

The CHAIRMAN stated, that the proposition
laying aside a fund of two per cent. was prospective.
He believed, however, that there would be found
sufficient to do that at present after paying six per
cent. dividend.
Thanks were then voted to the Committee of
Shareholders for their valuable labours, and to the
Chairman for his conduct in the chair; after which
the meeting adjourned.