The Sun.
London, England, 1827-03-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-MOUSE.—Yesterday it young man, °of
genteel exterior, named William Harden Lewin, was
brought before the LORD MAYOR% in custody of Forrester,
jun., on a charge of felony. Forrester had, in the course
of last week, been sent down to Liverpool to apprehend
the prisoner, on a charge of having uttered a forged cheque
for 1601. at Messrs. Esdaile and Co.'s. Forrester appre-
hended the pi isoner a he was about to embark with a young
female (his wife) for America. When the case was called
on no prosecutors appeared.
The LORD MAYOR ordered them to be sent for. After
some time had elapsed, Mr. Wolf, of the fitria of Wolf and
Dorville, merchants, in America-square, came forward,
with Mr. Thomas, his solicitor. Mr. Wolf, being sworn,
stated, that the prisoner had been in his employment as
clerk, and that he bad pretended to have paid several sums
of money for Custom-house dues, when in fact no such
disbursements bad been made. The prosecutor had no
books here, and was unable now to state the particulars.
Mr. Hobler apprehended that the case at present stated
against the prisoner amounted only to a breach of trust.
Mr. Thomas requested that the prisoner might be re-
manded for a few days.
The Loan Mayon.—l am willing to allow him to be
remanded, but I think it requisite to state, that I will not
allow the Police to be made use of to male up any de-
ficiency which may have occurred. I consider it my duty
for the sake of the public, to see that whatever charge may
have been brought against the prisoner is investigated.—
The prisoner was then remanded.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--krramrreD StacinE.
—Last evening, soon after Mr. CONANT had taken his
peat, a gentleman, about twenty-five years of age, who, it
was said, holds a commission in one of the regiments of
Guards, was brought up in custody of Boothman and an-
other patrol, on a charge of having attempted to commit
suicide, by swallowing poison in a chemist's shop in ,the
Quadrant, in Regent-street. The circumstances of this
transaction appeared to be as follow :-1n the early pact of
the evening the gentleman had been drinking rather freely
at several taverns, and between six and seven o'clock he
went to No. 62, in the Quadrant, and requested to be sup-
plied with sixpennyworth of laudanum ; but, previous to
this, he stated, at one of the taverns where he called, that •
he had swallowed two ounces of oxalic acid. The shop
man asked him what he wanted the laudanum for, and not
receiving a satisfactory answer, refused to let him have any.
He then proceeded to another shop, with no better success,
but at a third he obtained the laudanum, and was in the
act of raising it to his lips, when the people in the shop
interposed, and called in the assistance of the patrol, who
brought him to the office. In the office he said it was his
determined resolution to destroy himself, and when Mr.
CONANT humanely attempted to argue with him on the
folly of his attempt, be merely replied that he thought every
man had a right to take away his own life when he became
tired of it. After the Magistrate had consulted with the
gentleman's friends privately for a few minutes, the gentle-
man wa4 called into the Magistrate's room, and we under-
stood that it was arranged that an officer should proceed
immediately With him in a hackney coach to his residence
at Brompton. Severe losses at play were alleged to have
been the cause of the unfortunate occurrence.