The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A constable, who had, he said,
apprehended a man in London, on a warrant from the
Lord Mayor of York, charging him with having absconded
from that city, and leaving behind him his wife and child-
ren unprovidad for, applied yesterday, to the Lord Mayor,
to have the depositions of the man taken, in order that he
might be sent back to York.
The LORD MAYOR asked to see the warrant.

The constable said, in reply, that be had it not about
h:m, nor had he it at all in his possession : but he was
aware that it had been issued, and the prisoner's own
confession was tantamount to an acknowledgement of the
fact.

" That may be," said his LORDSHIP, " but you must be
aware, that, in apprehending the man without a warrant,
you have acted a very injudicious, and almost illegal part,
however well meant. I shall not, certainly, under such
circumstances, without the production of the warrant,
take the depositions of any man against himself." ,
The constable again addressed the Lord Mayor, and
intimated' that an officer might be sent with the prisoner
to York.

His LORDSHIP declared that he could have nothing to do
with the cave, as it stood at present.
" Well," said the constable, who, with the true persever-
ance of a thorough-bred Yorker, was resolved to try
every way to accomplish his object, " what would your
Lordship recommend me to do?"
" That," said the LORD MAYOR, " I shall not give any
advice about, as, if I happened to give you advice of an
illegal nature, you would endeavour to shelter yourself
under the authority of the Lord Mayor of London ; but
this I will say, that the same authority by which you
took the man into custody without a warrant, or even
with it, unless it was backed by a Magistrate of the city of
London, will allow you .to send him into custody to York.
You have begun this matter unadvisedly, and you are 'at
liberty to terminate it as you think proper."
The constable withdrew baffled, but not defeated, as he
still kept possession of his prisoner, who is, no doubt by this
time, on his travels to the North-Eastern metropolis.

A decently dressed female was placed at the bar, charged
with having made an attempt on the life of a waiter, at the
New England Coffee-house.
A whole host of witnesses appeared in defence of the
prosecutor, and one of tbem stepped out of the crowd,
and, with a valiant and courageous look, addressed the
Lord Mayor :
"My Lord," said he, " this is a case, which we are
anxious to have heard in private, as it concerns no one but
ourselves."

" We shall see that," said the LORD MAYOR ; " but,
first, I must know that it would obstruct the ends of jus-
tice to bear it publicly before- I adopt your recommen-
dation."

" Well, my Lord," resumed the applicant, " I won't
go so far as to say that ; but all the parties, including the
prisoner, are anxious that the investigation should be private."
The LORD MAYOR having ascertained from theprisoner's
own mouth that this was the fact, consented to have the
examination gone into in his private chamber; premising
his wish that, as it was to be so, none of the parties them-
selves would send a garbled statement of the particulars to
the Papers. . . . . _ _ _

With this intimation the parties went into his Lordship's
private chamber, and the result of this investigation we can
only learn from the fact that the prisoner was held to bail
on the charge; and, in default of sufficient sureties, she
was committed.

GUILDHALL.--Richard Coster, of Staining-lane,
was again brought up for examination yesterday before Mr.
Alderman LucAs, on suspicion of uttering a forged bill of
exchange for 3541., purporting to be accepted by Pearce
Power, Esq., of Rosskeen, near Mallow.
After a long investigation, it was determined that the
prisoner should be again remanded, to allow time for
bringing evidence from Ireland respecting Mr. Power's
handwriting.
The question was then discussed whether the prisoner
should be remanded for eight or ten (lays. Mr. Burke
said he would start for Cork the next morning, but Mr.
Power was a fox-hunter and country farmer, and he might
not meet with him the first day he reached Mallow. It
was ultimately settled, however, that the prisoner should
stand remanded till the 7th of July.