The Sun.
London, England, 1820-11-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

PUBLIC ILLUMINATION.
MANSiOi-HOUSE.—Yesterday Mr. STOKES, of
Lombard-street, attended by his Solicitor, Mr.
ELME, a Member of the Court of Common Court-,
tit, appeared before the LOltll MAYOR, to an-
swer the charge. of having printed, and ordeNd
to be circulated and placed against the walls
within the City, a certain Placard, Of which_th,e,
following is a Copy
_ _ _ _

" A GENERAL ILLUMINATION
EXPILESSIVE OF THE PUBLI•C OPINION

THE QUEEN'S INNOCENCE,
So fully and satisfactorily established at the recent Close.Of
Her Majesty's Defence, is expected to take place I
ON MONDAY, 7 E1K..6111 NOVEMBER.
Stokes, Printer, 6, Lornbard-street.'
The Tiill•slicker attended also at the Mansion-bons, and
was put to the Bar.

• Mr. Aidern►an SCHOLEY was present at, and took a part in
the investigation.

Brown, the officer,. said that tte had the day before gone
tabula the Cite, by order of the :14arshals, to down 'the
Biils'that had i-een.stuck up respecting rite illumination. He
pulled down It or 15, and upon returning to-the Mansion-
House, heard that the Bill-sticker war its a neighbouring
public house. The officer immediately- went to him, and was
told by him that he had perforated the office of sticking the
bills, and that he had been autism iced to do so by Mr. Stokes,
who, he believed, had liven induced to print theta by a Gentle.
inatrin Abhintanburv.

•The Bill•st;cker said, be 61 not like the business froM the
first, and that he went to cor,nit Harrison, the-?,!arshalmat,
the night before, upon the propriety of putting the order into
effect. Harrison ad:lsed him not to do it until he hod con-
sulted Mr. Wont ner, but he (the bill-sticker) could not see
the Marshal at the time, and Mr. Stokes had promised to in-
demnify 'lino for any injury he might sustain ; he therefore
thought nothing mischievous could take place; and accord-
ingly stuck the bills. •

The LORD MAYOR—The responsibity of Mr. Stokes does
not exonerate you. If Mr. Stokes has committed an illegal
act in printing this placard; .you are certainly ithrticeps cri-
M

Bill-sticker—My Lord, I hare stuck tip bills in favour of
p.m Lordship many a tone. • -
Mr. Stokes then admitted that be was the printer of the
placard.
The LORD MAYOR—Did you print it from your own mind,
or at the suggestion and by the command of any other person ?
Mr Stokes—l decline answering that question, but am
ready to-answer for the offence of printing the„bill, if it be
any offence.-

The LORI) MAYOR—I feel it to be my duty to interpose
upon this occasion. There are, in my opinion, persons who
might take advantage of a public invitation of this sort. The
rabble might be excited to a disturbance of the peace of the
City, of which I
.alp Chief Magistrate, and 1 am bound to
prevent such an occurrence.
Mr. Stokes—May I ask your Lordship in what light you
consider this bill ? How can it tend to a breach of thy public
peace- ?
The Loan ALlvort-The tendency of it no one can doubt.—
The lionse of Lords has not yet thrown'out or assented to the
measure. This is anticipating the judgment of that tribunal.
It is anticipating a possibility for which there may not he the
‘slightest ground. It is our duty to wait for the decision of
their Lordships, before we set the town upon illuminating.
Now; suppose the converse should take place, and that the
Bill should pass, how do you suppose )eau could justify your-
self from the charge of holding.ont a false persuasion to the
people, that I he- Qraen was innocent? Consider for a moMent
the mischief that might ensue. Au illumination might partly
take,place, and those who would not light up their, houses,
because they considered the Bill a presumplion of guilt,
would be subject to great injury, In fact, there might be a
necessity for calling the soldiers again into the City.
Mr. Fiche—MY Lord, this placard is not calculated to Pre•
duce any disturbance. It contain, an expression of that
which your Lordship is aware is the public opinion of the
Queen's innocence.

The Loan MAYOR—I shall not stiffer apublic assertion to
be mad, tinder such circumstances within the City.
Mr. Eiele—W by, we may as well calculate upon a disturb-
ance on Lord Mayor's Day, in consegnence of the show. I
should feel obliged if your Lordship would state under what
:let of Parliament this pltward is cognizable as an offence?
The Lunn MAYOR—I repeat that 1 will not allow it, and if
;iny more placards are stuck tip the person shall be taken into
custody. It is necessary, that under all circumstances. I
shonid priseive the'peace of the city. I shall neither suffer
bills to be stuck up against nor fur the Queen. -
Mr. Eiclie—This bill cannot he icalled_ for or against the
Queen. It expresses, in common With the opinion of my fel-
low-citizens, my conviction, which is, that she is completely
innocent. The citizens of London have in Common Connell,
and in Common Hall, expressed themselves to this effect, and
,the bill is gronntted upon that decided opinion. If I think
proper I shall
Mr. Alderman Scholey—Not one in ten have expressed
thenisches in that way. I would tint illnminate.

Mr. does nut eali,11ioo;;OW to do so. It
mils, says that such a thing isexpected.
Mr. Alderman Seimley—Well, well,. if the hill-sticker per-
sists, he shall be taken into custody and punished.
Mr. Eieke—l shotild be glad to know, what character your
Lordship gives the placard. Whether von call it treasonable
or seditious, or what ? I am anxious to khow this, that I may
he enabled to advise those who may hereafter consult me, and
plevent them from getting into dangers, which may other-
'wise overwhehn tbt m. Your Lordship will consider, that upon
this very subject, you have called meetings in the City your-
self, and nobody imputed to you a seditious or treasonable
purpose. •
Tlce Loan MAYOR—I have given this bill no character of the
kind you speak ot, and I think it necessary here to state, that
a very general misapprehension has gone abroad as to the fact
of my having called out the soldiers. I had much to appre-
hend from the various circumstances that co-operated at

the:period .alladed tee to Pzcife Iniaets 'cif violence, Lhei
did not know what sort of rabble might have thrust themse ro
into the City with the most flagitious intentions. I had ,nc
to do my duty, and in adopting the—Measure of applying
military assistance, I performed that duly co:iscientious
As to the placard, I shall take advice before I pronnni,l,
upon its'cluiracter ; lam certainly of opinion that it is'
ciliated to excite to breaches of the peace. I shall not deL3lOl
M.r. Stokes, who I know will not refuse to come a c4l
upon, but I prohihir the placarding.
Mr. Stokes and the bill-sticker then left the office.

DREADFUL MURDER.
UNIoN.-HALL.—Yesterday 'Mau Ann Roble:
a young woman of rather interesting appearan
about 25 years of age, was. brought before the
Magistratesof this Office, charged with the oil'
ful murder of Mrs. Ann Elderson a
St,
middle aged woman, residing in Union-street,
G eorge's-fields.
It appeat,d in evidence that-the deceased kept a bottle
Union-street, • which is situate in the immediate vicinity
Dover-street —a place which is the resort of vagabonds of ef,e'ea
description. The prisoner, and a roan who kept her, 1071..
in this house. It series that a grudge of long standingeg"'„
edhaetween them, with respect to this man ; the puls°a
,I,e
Conceived that he paid more than necessary attention to e
decetased, and on every occasion than preSented itself, slieg3cs„
loose to her jealousy, and evinced a strong dispositiott
quarrel with the deceased on the subject. About eight e'Ci',.C4
no Tuesday night', the prisoner went OHL, and on her
about the' hem of nine„was told by an old woman, alcdger
'
the loatse, tlait Mrs. Elderson !rid been up to her room, af,
had taken away the key she'llew immediately to the decear
rd's room, and taxed her with this act, which the latter c,
trawl,- denied ; hut her denial only traded:to increase the 15
ritatiou of the prisoner. A great dial of angry feeling 1,
expressed on both sides, which at length ended in the{'r,
saner. assaulting thr Ileceaseil,'who was far advanced in Pre;',
saucy, and within a feW.days of her TecouChement ; the:o
Ceased returned Ihe bloW4 apd a scuffle took place, ill ,
course of which the prisoner knaektd the other down With
poker. The deceased. tittered a groan or two, and almnst,'
eg
stantly expired. I)uring tfie Whole of this fatal proceediveie
crowd. of abandoned' wretches who', to the disgrace of ti;f
power of this district, are allowed to settle about P.,
spot without molestation) assembled ; but ,o• far ft,.°l.'t
attempt* to give any assistance, they seemed to 11`,,
the greatest deli,rht in the murderous Strife, and a few I:,
spectahle individuals, whit came up to ascertain the e,(1,,
of qiaarrel, were knocked down and 'Mist inhonni,lY 1"-.3te,:r
son rubbed of what property they chanced to have in 11,1`1i ,
possession. At length some humane persou, who coneltre!,
that the woman was killed, sent fur Mr. Holmes, of the 11,
don-road, who is a constable. He art ivrd in a short tit
and forced his way into the .house, where he found the
t•-e
erased in the front parboil' stretched on her back and 01';' tor
dead and cold. The prisoner seemed disposed to tual;e a
escape, but the officer took her 4110 custody and !neve,
her design. Having, lodged her in t Inc watetibous,,, he rent°,
ed again to the home of Mrs. Elderson, and sent for ti
sue
goon. Mr. Rutty, of the London-read, soon afterWardsa'i
rived, and after A - slight examination of the boil!, deelaref
her to be quits, dead ; seeing., however, the advanced state 'it
pregnaney which slits appeared to be in, he promptly set about
opening the holy, with a view of extracting the infant fo:a
nb wnno); but the deceased being a corpulent ,womari;
having received great ill Osage, her fall was so !Iraq he
have accelerated the child's death, so that when cut out thff
Womb its dissolution was approaching fast, and it expil.e"..ki
short time afterwards. rt here was about the heart a
quantity of extravatated blood, which, in the method ge"'l,l,
man's opihion, was caused by-the bursting of a blood-ve`Th
The deceased was the mother of several children, told ``-
ranch respected by her neighbours.
in her defence the prisoner said, that a woman named rttrf
ney had _ isiformed her that the deceased was in the habit
piing into her room during her ahsen.ce, for us hat porpoiv%,
could not divine, and thaton -the evening when the
tsate rencontre took plact, she had been into it, and
brought the key down : she was vexed at such auspiciuns",',
duct, and went to get some explanatinu of it,' en t "f,
ceased attacked her in a ;mist- furians mariner, clawed 111.1
face, tore her gown, and other Wise ill used her brfore she
anv thing to her. She then struck in her own defence,
had the misfortune unintentionally to kilt her upponcut
tike was remanded for another exao•ination.