The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—John Thacker was charged with ut-
tering as true a certain forged cheque at the banking-house of
Messrs. Williams, Moffatt, and Burgess, of Birchin-lane, purport-
ing to be drawn by " James and France," for the payment of
151. Ss. 6d. to a Mr. Jones " for rent."

Messrs. Williams and Co.'s clerk stated, their firm had no ac-
count with any such persons as " James and France," nor did
they know any such persons were in existence.
The Officer stated, that when he was sent for to take the pri-
soner into custody, the prisoner stated, that he had received
the cheque from a gentleman to get cashed, and that be was to
meet him in Cornhill ; he also stated, that he was a store-house
man in the Ordnance-Office in the Tower, which latter assertion
proved to be correct. The officer accompanied him to the spot,
where he was to meet the gentleman who gave him the cheque,
but he was not to be found, and after the prisoner was brought
to the Mansion House, he said that he had received the cheque
from a man named Peters, who lived in Tureer-street, Com-
mercial-road. The officer waited on Peters, who stated that he
received the cheque that morning from a man named Green, who
lived in Ivy-lane, Houton, and Peters promised to attend be•
fore the Lord Mayor, but he did not do so ; after the prisoner
was apprehended, a man came over to the Mansion House, and
he stated that his name was Green, and that he was the man
who had paid the bill to Peters. The officer in consequence de-
tained Green, and he was now placed at the bar with the man
who uttered the cheque atthebankiug-house.

Thacker admitted that he had told a falsehood regarding the
mode he came by the cheque, but denied that he had any guilty
knowledge of it, or that he intended any fraud.
Green gave an account of himself, and said that he had picked
the cheque up near the London Apprentice Turnpike, in the Old-
street-road, Shoreditch, and that he had paid it away to Peters,
for what lie owed him.

Both prisoners were remanded until Saturday.
A man named Richard Oakley was next charged with pre-
senting at the same banking-house a cheque for 101. ss. under
similar circumstances : this cheque purported to be signed by a
" George Manning," and payable to a Mr. Young.
This prisoner also pleaded, that he had picked up the cheque iu
Old-street.

The prisoner was remanded until Saturday.
There appears to be hut little doubt, but that some mischievous
persons have been filling up blank cheques, and dropping them in
the street by way of joke, to impose upon the ignorant.
GUILDHALL.—In the case of the old woman who was run
over in Skinner-street, by Mr. Goodchild's carriage, Mr. Alder-
man Lucas noticed that Mr. Goodchild had sent her 5/., and he
ordered the City Solicitor to move at the Visions that prisoner's
recognizance should be respited until the following Session. The
gentleman of Gray's-inn, who had come forward from humanity,
ought not, the Alderman said, to be put to any expence in the pro-
secution, which would, therefore, be taken up by the City. The
affidavit of Mr. Wise, the house-surgeon at the Hospital, upon
which the motion was to be founded, set forth that she would be
unable to attend at the present Sessions. He stated that the fever
increased in the course of Tuesday, and he considered her to be
then in danger. A gentleman of the name of Scott tendered his
evidence for the prosecution ; but it was not deemed necessary at
present.
BOW-STREET.—John Oliver alias Johnson Edward Lay-
cork and John Laycock, were yesterday re-examined on a charge
of horse-stealing.

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William Crocom, landlord of the Three Keys, Thomas-street,
Bristol, deposed, that on the Ist of February last, the prisoners
Howard and Laycock came into the stable-yard with four horses,
fin• which Oliver, who soon after arrived, ordered corn and paid
for it. He also ordered stabling for the horses, and paid for the
keep of the other two prisoners, who appeared as his servants.
Howard and Laycock had been to his house on other occasions
along with Oliver, when they had horses with them. Oliver al-
ways paid for whatever refreshments his men consumed. The two
geldings claimed by Mr. Walker were two of the four horses which
the prisoners had with them. Ou the 17th of Jan. last, Howard
came to hie house with a mare, which Oliver offered for sale at
271., but told witness he might sell her for 24/. The mare thus
offered for sale was the same which Mr. Maides had claimed.

James Morgan was servant to Mr. Maides, and proved that he left
the mare safe in his master's stables on the night she was stolen.
He did not discover the robbery until morning.
John Grant, coachman to Isaac Walker, Esq., of Palmer's-
green, Edmonton, sworn.—Last Monday fortnight, in the night,
his master's two geldings were safe in the stables, and at six o'clock
on the following morning they were gone. The stables had been
broken into, a piece baying been cut out of the window, and the
lock wrenched from the door, L. consequence of information be
received, witness proceeded to Bristol last Sunday week, and
brought back the two geldings so stolen.
Other eases against the prisoners were ready to be brought
forward, but it was considered that the evidence already taken
would he suffeeient.

The witnesses were accordingly bound over, and the prisoners
were fully committed for trial.
Charles Preseot, alias the Jumper, who stood charged with
robbing a gentleman in a coach while in a state of inebriety, was
discharged for want of evidence.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—At the evening sitting yes-
terday, a young female of prepoasing appearance, named Harrison,
residing in Seymour-crescent, applied to Mr. Cunantsfoohroh_sqisua4.e,
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vice under the following novel circumstances :
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when she was robbed of her reticule, containing some silver, &c.
by two fellows, one of whom snatched it from her hands, while
how-
ever,ing at the time, and he succeeded in apprehending the fellow, who
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was by writ of Habeas Corpus, but that would be an expense of
51. to some party—she, applicant, must indict the prisoner herself
to save her own recognizances; but, in consequence of Mr. Dovey
being a material witness, the bill would probably he thrown out if
he did not appear, and then he was liable to forfeit his recog-
nizances. The Judges were the only persons who could authorize
the removal of llovey by Habeas Corpus.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday Baxter, the constable of Cam-
berwell, was summoned by a hackney-coach driver, for refusing to
pay the hire of his coach in conveying the two young men,
Faux and Goring, who, it will be recollected, were charged
with. uttering two counterfeit sovereigns, on Friday last, at this
office.

The coachman stated, that on Friday last he was called off the
coach-stand by Baxter, who, together with two other persons, got
into his coach, and the former desired to be driven to this office.
On setting them down an altercation took place betweed the par-
ties, relative to which of them should pay the fare, the two
young men (Vaux and Goring) refusing, on the ground of their
having been illegally taken into custody by Baxter, and the latter
contending that they were the persons to look to for the hire of
the vehicle, as it was for their accommodation and not his that it
was engaged. He (the coachman) tried hard to obtain his fare,
but could not ; and, as the constable was the responsible person,
he having called him off the stand, to him, of course, he looked
for the fare, and therefore obtained a summons against him for re-
fusing to pay it.
Baxter said he considered it a very hard case that he should
be summoned for refusing to pay the hire of a coach under such
circumstances. The day on which lie brought down Messrs.
Vaux and Goring to the office in custody, they expressed a desire
to be taken from the watch-house at Camberwell to the Police-
office in a coach, observing that they did not relish the degrada-
tion of being publicly walked through the streets as felons ; he
at once, far from wishing to put them to any inconvenience, com-
plied with their request, and they were accordingly indulged with
a coach, on the understanding that as it was for their accommo-
dation they would settle the fare. Baxter added that he did not
call the coach off the stand himself, some friend of the young
men's having performed that task.
The Magistrate observed that he should defer deciding .on the
merits of the case until the other parties were present.

The Prince de Ligne, older than me by twenty,
years, continually astonished me by the vivacity of his imagina-
tion, and the youthful activity of his mind. At an early hour in
the morning, knocking at the partition that divided his bed from
mine, he awoke me to listen to a song or some impromptu verses
that he had composed ; and; a short time after, his chasseur
brought me a letter of four or six pages, in which wisdom, folly,
politics, gallantry, military anecdotes, and philosophical epigrams,
were blended together in the most original manner. As he re
quired a speedy answer, nothing could be more continuous or
exact than this strange species of daily correspondence between an.
Austrian General and a French Ambassador, lying alongside one
another in the same galley, not far from the Empress of the North,
and floating on the Borysthenes, through a country of Cossacks,
on a visit to the Tartars..—Seuur's Memoirs.

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