The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-05 00:00:00

MA RLBOROU GH-STREET.

A young man of genteel appearance, and under-
stood to be very respectably connected, named John
Hamilton, was brought before Mr. ROE, charged
with receiving a valuable flute, the property of Mr.
Milhouse, a music-seller, in Oxford-street, well
knowing it to have been stolen.
The prisoner, in his defence, declared that the
flute was given to him by a young man named Fer-
guson, for the purpose of pawning it, and who told
him that the flute was his own property. He gave
Ferguson, he said, 255. of the money for which he
pawned it, and kept the other .ss. to bimself for his
trouble : he could not, however, tell where Fergu-
son was to be found at present.
Mr. ROE said, that this was a different story
from what he had told Mr. Selby, to whom he said
that the flute was his own, having bought it as a
bargain; he must therefore take his trial for receiv-
ing it knowing it to be stolen. The prisoner was
then committed for trial.

It did mot appear that Mr. Hilhouse knew any
thing of the prisoner, or that the latter had any op-
portunity of stealing the flute himself.

MARYLEBONE.

A boy was charged yesterday morning, before
Mr. RAWLINSON, with having stolen a saddle and
bridle, belonging to Mr. Higgins, of No. 38, Coch-
rane-terrace, and the evidence given in the case was
extraordinary.

Martin M'Carthy, an Irish lad, said, " I am ser-
vant to Mr. Higgins. Master gave me orders two
days before )esterday, never to lend his saddle and
bridle to any body; but the boy came yesterday
morning to tire stable and got them."
Mr. RAwuNsoN asked him why he disobeyed his
master's orders ? "He brought a bit of a note,
your Honour," replied Martin, "and I gave it to
Mr. Johnson's groom to read it for me, and he said
it was all right. This is the note,:your Honour."
It was handed to Mr. Rawlinson, and he read—
" Mr. Higgins, have the goodness to lend me your
saddle and bridle for an hour of two.
YOUPS COWELL."
" Martin,—Let Mr. Cowell have the saddle and
bridle."

This induced Martin to deliver them up. He
knew Mr. Cowell was a friend of his master's, and
he thought the postscript was addressed by his mas-
ter to him. Two or three hours after, Mr. Higgins
desired Martin to saddle his horse, and " How will
I saddle your horse, Sir," said Martin, " when Mr.
Cowell has borrowed your saddle and bridle ?"
This brought the fraud to light, and Martin being
confident that it was committed by the prisoner, he
was apprehended.
Mr. RAwuNsoN—Are you sure this is the boy ?
Martin—As far as my senses and my eyesight is
upon me, it is the same, your honour; but his
clothes are different.

Mr. RAWLINSON—Did you notice his features ?
Martin—He's got the very same face, your honour.
Thomas Pocock, Mr. Jackson's servant, was in
the stable where Mr. Higgins's horse stands, when
the note came, and he read it to the last witness.
The boy who brought it said he had taken it from
Mr. Cowell to Mr. Higgins at Cochrane-terrace,
and Mr. Higgins had written the lines at the bot-
tom, but that boy was not the prisoner, he was
taller, was freckled, and had a round and more red
face.

Catherine Carson, a young Irish woman who lives
above the stables, said she opened the yard-gates to
let out the boy who got the saddle and bridle; she
had an opportunity of observing his countenance,
for he looked at her and smiled, as he left the place,
and she could swear that the face and the hair of the
prisoner were the same,but he wore different clothes.
The boy, in his defence, said he was elsewhere at
the time, and it was so far proved by his father and
mother, who were called forward and examined
separately, that he was discharged.
A young man requested Mr. RAWLINSON to assist
him in recovering a watch. He bought it, he said,
of a man named Levy, on the 26th of February, at
an auction-shop in Leicester-fields, and he promised
to take it back and exchange it for another, or give
him the value in some other articles, if within three
months he had reason to be dissatisfied. The watch
did not please him, and he returned it, and now
could neither get his watch again nor its value, and
Levy had since then removed to the corner of Ber-
ners-street, Oxford-street.
Mr. RAWLINSON asked what kind of a watch it
was, and if it was warranted to go ? Applicant—
Mr. Levy warranted it, and said it was a double-
bottomed silver one, engine-turned.
Mr. ItAwLlNsoN—What did you give for it ?
Applicant—Eight-and-twenty shillings.
Mr. RAwurisoN—lt was not dear if it was good.
Did it go well ? The applicant made all around him
look merry', and even smiled himself when he re-
plied, " It would not go at all."
Mr. RAWLINSON ordered a summons to be served
upon Mr. Levy, requiring him to appear before him,
and show cause why he detained the property.