The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-03 00:00:00

M ARLBORO UGH-STREET.

Yesterday an elderly man, having the appearance
of a respectable tradesman, who gate his name
Thomas Robinson, arid said he was a shoemaker by
trade, residing in Bell-yard, Temple-bar, and a
middle-raged female, of still more respectable appear-
appearance, eiressed in a handsome silk cloak arid
bonnet, &c., who said that she was a widow, arid
her name Jane Williams, residing at No. 26, Henry-
street, Hampstead-road, were brought from the
watch-house of St. George's parish, Hanover-square,
before Mr. ROE, the sitting Magistrate, upon the
following charge :

One of the beadles of St. George's parish stated,
that on Sunday, jest about the conclusion of the
sermon, after morning service at St. George's
church, preached by the Dean of Carlisle, an alarm
was given that the pockets of a lady and gentleman
had been picked in one of the pews, and the two
prisoners having, by their manner, and being entire
strangers to the place, excited suspicion, they were
given into custody and taken to the watch-house,
where they were detained, but the gentleman who
gave them into custody did not give either his name
or addres-4, acd was not now forthcoming. The
prisoners, however, having given a very unsatisfactory
account of themselves at the watch-house, it was
deemed proper not to liberate them until they should
be brought before a Magistrate.
Goddard, the officer, said that he knew the female
prisoner perfectly well as a notorious pickpocket,
and the constant companion of a well-known
"swell" thief named Prendergast, who is about
town ; and he knew that the prisoner had been
several times in custody at Bow-street and other
offices on charges of felony.
Clements, the officer, said that he knew the male
prisoner well also. lie knew him to have been in
custody some time ago, with two other men and a
female,'all of whom were apprehended at a Bible
Meeting at the Freemasons' Tavern, where they were
detected • in attempts to pick pockets; and the
female having succeeded on that occasion in cutting
away a young lady's reticule from her arm, she was
tried and convicted for the offence, and transported
for 14 years; and the prisoner, with his male corn-
panions, were committed by the Magistrate as re-
puted thieves for a certain term to hard labetir ;
they, however, appealed to the sessions against this
conviction by the Magistrate, and the persons who
conducted the appeal for the prisoners haring prac.
tised some trick upon the witnesses against the pri-
soners which kept them out of court until the ap-
peal was over, the conviction was quashed for want
of evidence, and the prisoner and his companions
got off. Clements also added that he had been that
morning at the address given in the Hampstead-
road by the female prisoner, but no such person was
known there at all, so that she must have given a
false address.

The fem'ale prisoner persisted that she does reside
at the address she gave, and said that her two
daughters are living there with her.
Both prisoners denied all knowledge of each other,
and Mr. ROE directed that they should be remanded
until Wednesday next, and that in the mean time
every exertion should be used to find out the parties
whose pockets had been picked in church, and who
gave the prisoners into custody.
A woman, who gave her name Elizabeth AP Neil,
*as charged with going down the area of the house,
No. 29, Upper Grosvenor-street, occupied by Lord
Mountehailes, with intent to commit a felony.
It appeared that at a late hour on Saturday even-
ing the prisoner was discovered down in the area at
the bottom of the steps, and when detected she
pretended to pick up some bits of coal that lay
about ; but as a great number of valuable articles
have lately been plundered from the lower part of
his Lordship's house, it is supposed by similar
means, the prisoner was sent to the watch-house,
where, on searching her, although she pleaded great
distress as her excuse for going down the area to
beg, a small bag was found on her, containing 61. in
sovereigns, half sovereigns, and silver.
Scofield, the officer, said that he had every reason
to believe that the prisoner was the woman who
some timid ago robbed an old lady named Metcalf at
Islington, in whose service she was, of 3001., and
absconded with it ; but the old lady was now in
such an imbecile state of body and mind, that she was
unable to attend at the office, or to identify the pri-
soner.

The MAGISTRATE committed the prisoner for
three months, as a vagrant, to hard labour in the
House of Correction.

THE QUADRANT, REGENT-STREET.—Amongst the
charges in the St. James's watch-house book were
several arising out of fracas occurring in the Quad-
rant, Regent-strut. This place, which formerly
used to be a most respectable part of the metropolis,
has become, since the vast nembera of refugees of all
nations have made it their evening promenade, and
consequently
very
v the great accession of females of the
7little better than the precinct of the
I'alaia Royal, and so great
,a height has the total
want of anyt h Mg- like decorum arrived to, that nothing
but the grossest scene of depravity is to be wit-
ucssed every night, which renders it a matter of im-
possibility for any respectable female to pass by
without being insulted by the well-dressed black-
guards which infest it.
A fashionably-dressed young man of the name of
Lockhart, n cabinet-maker, but whose appearance
bespoke that of a member of the army, was charged
laith having assaulted another gentleman of the name
of Scoti, who, upon inquiry, turned out to be a
painter.
The complainant, who had a tremendous mid-
berry-coloured eye, deposed, that on Sunday night
he was passing down the Quadrant, in company
with
a friend, when the defendant came up, end said, " Are
you the
fellow who thrust me down ?" when, with-
out saying another word, or his giving him any pro-

vocation, the defendant knocked him down, and
then his friend.
Mr. ROE—What did he allude to by calling you
a fellow ? Scoti,--Oh I a fellow means a sheep-
stealer, although I am no sheep-stealer.
it; Aft, who appeared somewhat surprised at
this eipla'nafioiri inopired of Plank if this was the
interpretafiotr oldie word fellow.
I,4itidt repli'ed that it was ist a certain class of
• Mr. Rk—bid yo' aft, defendant; or trip
any insulting observationg 1d hirn Scoti-,--I did
neither;
lAi%.l'iluirt; iii reply tO..the charge, said that !,•;4
been to a putn-lion's'e Titehborne-street, where
the complainant and his tiseki Were. They, in the
caurse of their conversation, made t!6Wie allusion to
large whiskers, and which, he supposed, afiAd' to
him. lie asked what they intended, When thil
became quite impertinent, and he, in turn, became
aiso hoe,, and demanded an explanation, on which he
said, he'd Netter come out and settle it."
The complainant thi2n left the house, and shortly
after he passed them in the Cittadrant, when he said
" Don't forget eleven o'clock to-morrow," that being
the hour which was named for the insulted person
to receive satisfaction; on which he said, " Oh, pro,
we had Fetter have a turn-up now,", when he re,
ceived the black e.j'e
Mr. Roe.—ls this tide 7 Scoti--No ; we were
at the same house together, when my friend said to
me, " I wish I had a pair of whisktYs )" on which
I replied, " I hare a pair, but they are not PCP good
as some person's." We then left the how' and
shortly after the defendant came up and struck me.
Mr. Snellgrove corroborated his ft iond's statement,
and also as to his being knocked down.
The prisoner---I hare several friends who over-
heard the whole of the fracas. _ _

Mr. Powlett deposed that he was in company with
Mr. Lockhart when he observed, on the parties
meeting, some words to take place, and the com-
plainant instantly put himself into a fighting attitude.
A. second witness deposed to the same circum•
stances.

A third witness deposed that he saw the com-
plainant place himself in a boxing attitude; and,
from what he knew of the case, it appeared that
Scoti wanted to take a lady away who was under
Mr. Lockhart's protection. Of late it had become
quite a common occurrence for gentlemen in the
Quadrant to endeavour to take away ladies horn
those under whoee protection they appeared to be.
A watchman deposed that, hearing a considerable
noise, he went up to the spot, and observed several
persons quarrelling, and a watchman, No. 27, was
standing by looking at them. lie asked the watch-
man why he did not take them into custody, when
he replied, that he was endeavouring to get his rattle
out to spring, but he had not been able to draw it,
and that was the reason.

Mr. Rot:, turning to the conflicting parties, the
worthy Magistrate observed, that if he did his duty
he would convict them all for riotous conduct. •In
respect to the apsault upon Scoti he should dismiss
it, and for the second he should convict him in a
penalty of 10s.
Lockhart instantly paid the fine and was discharged.

LONDON MARKETS.

PRICE OF BREAD.

The highest price:idireadin the Metropolis is 12d. for the
lib. Loaf. There are others who sell from ;id. to Id. below
hat price.