The Sun.
London, England, 1827-10-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Yesterday, Kyd, a street-keeper at
Charing-cross, charged the driver of the Greenwich stage,
No. '7,529, under the Paving Act, with obstructing the
pavement, and being abusive when directed to move his
coach on. The offence complained of was committed on
the Bth, and the length of time the obstruction continued
was only twelve minutes; which was three minutes short
of the period specified in the Act of Parliament.
The defendant was not guilty of the obstruction ; and
as for the abuse, he was, he was satisfied, fully justified in
using it. He had had the misfortune once to be charged
'with felony ; and Kyd told a gentle Man, who wag about to
ride on his coach; not to go with him, as he would be in
danger of getting his pockets picked.
Mr. White, a gentleman sitting with the Magistrate,
had frequently seen instances of Kyd's partiality.
Mr. HALLS thought it would be a kindness to the
public if Mr. White would represent the matter in the
proper quarter, and have such a fellow removed.
Mr. White said lie would now do so; and Mr. palls
discharged the defendant.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday William Scurgoy
was agr.:.n brought up for a second examination, touching
the death of his wife, Margaret Scurgoy, on whom the in-
quest was held last week, on the application of Thomas
Stirling, Esq., the coroner• for Middlesex. The office was
again crowded, and the most intense interest prevailed.
By the order of the magistrates, the body of the unfor-
tunate woman had been taken up. In addition to the evi-
dence of Nash, the private watchman belonging to Lady
Charlotte Denys, in the New-road, Chelsea, who en-
tirely contradicted the evidence of Elliott, was examined
on the inquest as to there being no blows struck by the
husband.
Martha Dvke lodged in the same house with the deceas-
ed and her husband, No. 2, Chapel-court. She was called
up to assist to get the deceased up stairs. She was quite
insensible, and never spoke, Her husband behaved. very
kindly to her, and medical aid was sent for.
Mr. WHITE--You are positive she never spoke? Wit-
ness—l am ; for I never left her until she died, which was
about two o'clock the next morning. •
Mr. WHITE-Did you observe any injuries about her ?
Witness—She had a few bruises about the legs, and there
was a mark on the neck ; but that was an old blow.
Mr. WIIITE-Did you examine the head ? Witness—
There was a small cut at the back of the head, which was
bound up with a shawl. She vomited something like
liquor, and it appeared to me that she was relieved by it.
Mr. WHITE—That, does not satisfy me that she was in-
toxicated. Have you any other reason to believe she was
intoxicated ? Witness—l have no other.

Mr. Edmund Bowden, Sloane-street, surgeon, stated,
that from the external appearances of the deceased, he saw
nothing to cause death.
Mr. WrrITE•:-,Have you seen the body since it was
taken up Witness—l have, but it is in such a state of
decomposition, that it is impossible to ascertain any thing.
Maybauk, the head constable at Chelsea, stated, that
when he saw the deceased at halt:past 12 on Monday morn-,
ing, although she was rather tipsy, she was perfectly sen-
sible, and talked rationally. •
Mr. Wirers, addressing the prisoner, said, that after the
evidence of the surgeon, it would only be wasting the time
of the Court and Jury to send him to trial.
Mr.. WHITE now ordered Wm. Allen, the sergeant of
the watch, and Samuel Elliott, the watchman, to stand
forward, and said that he should dismiss them both at
once, ha unfit for their situations.---,Elliott---Wliat was I
to do, your Worship,—if I had taken
,her to the watch-,
house, they would not have taken her in?
Mr. Wrirre—You should have tried, arid if they had
refused, we should have known how to have dealt with the
watchhouse-keeper. This woman's life • might have. been
saved, had you done your duty. We will employ some
persons who will do it.—Elliott—l did all I could.
Mr. Wurre—lf a person was to drop down in a fit in
the street, I suppose you would leave them there.
Allen and Elliott both addressed the Magistrate, but he
refused to alter his decision.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Purersto AMONG
THE MlDDlES.—Yesterday morning five swell reefers, alias
midshipmen, were brought before F. A. ROE. Esq. the
presiding Magistrate, from St. James's watch-house; in
charge of a constable of last night, in whose custody they
had been delivered by certain watchmen of the parish of St.
James, for disturbing the peace of his Majesty's most peace-
able subjects. One of the defendants seemed to be rather
hard-up, being in stays; the Pest were very well rigged,
and appeared not to have been long lying in ordinary.—
The complainant is a watchman, whose beat lies. in the
fashionable part of the town denominated Regent-street;
and he stated, that while he was conscientiously announcing
the hour of the night, and the state of the weather, as yes-
terday was fast merging into thit day, he perceived the five
defendants proceeding in the most riotous manner down
the King's hthway. Each was armed with a cigar, which
teemed forth clouds of smoke, that made him fear the ap-
proach Of a land steam-boat ; but as they neared him the
fire of their backey looked more like quintuple noses of
13ardolph on Gadshill, or ignes fatui. He recognised their
persons as individuals who had for several nights succes-
sively disturbed his beat, by attempting to kick up a shindy,
and as he had repeatedly remonstrated with them, he con-
sidered that it was now high time, (pariicularly as it was
near one o'clock), to take them into custody. He forth-
with commanded them to surrender in the King's name.—
About this there was some hesitation ; he immediately
sprung his rattle, and the lot were towed into St. James's
watch-house, where they remained in quarantine until yes-
terday morning.
Mr. ROE inquired respectively of each were he resided ;
but each appeared to have no local habitation nor a name.
He told them, that, under the construction of the Vagrant
Act, they had been manifestly disorderly; but, as they
had been already confined all night in a place less comfort-
able than the ward-room of a King's ship, or the caddy
of an Indiaman, their misconduct would be overlooked
on the present occasion, but they must not look out for
" letters of marque or reprisal" in future.
Previous to the discharge of the defendants, the neces-
sary fee of a Is. a-head was payable. Each of the defend-
ants appeared to be hard-up ; but, on overhauling their
lockers, the necessary " browns" were produced, and they
all "cleared out" down the accommodation-ladder, chuck-
ing at the luck with which they had pushed off their boat.

On Tuesday, the foundation-stone of a new
church was laid at Doncaster, towards the erectionof which,
Mr. Jarrett, of that place, has contributed the sum of 13,0001.
A splendid procession took place on the occasion, and the
concourse of spectators was unusually large. The principal
novelty of the day was, an interruption of the proceedings
by Mr. Baiter, an attorney, who protested against the prc-
sence and assistance of the masonic body, on the ground of
their being a secret society. He was replied to by Sir W.
Coolie; and the Vicar, in the course of a suitable address,
also reprobated his interference. An elegant entertain-
ment was afterwards given at the mansion-house.

Most of our readers arc, no doubt, well aware
of the outcry which the ultra-Tory papershave raised respect-
ing an alleged increase in the proportion of foreign to English
shipping, in the Baltic trade, since the treaties of reciprocity
were made with the not them States. If, in any one week,
the arrivals of foreign vessels at the port of Bull happened
to exceed those of English vessels, the whole illiberal press
was in motion, and the fact was pointed to as a convincing
proof of the mischiefs resulting from the reciprocity sys-
tem. So far, indeed, was this mode of reasoning carried,
that, immediately after the opening of the Baltic, when
nearly all the vessels arriving from that quarter must of
necessity be foreign, one of these scribes (either from gross
ignorance of the cause, or from a deliberate intention of
deceiving his readers) actually pointed out the fact of a
considerable excess of foreign -arrivals in the month of
April, as one of the fruits of the new system. For some
time past, however, these gentlemen have maintained a
most laudable and eloquent silence on this subject. When
that period of the year arrived in which English vessels
began to return from their first Baltic trips, they found that
it would not serve their purpose to talk about the arrivals
at the port of Hull ; and we shall proceed to show that
they had very good reason for their silence. In the
flail
Advertiser, October 5, there appears the following state-
ment of the arrivals at Hull in the first nine months of the
present and of the last year .-
1826......... 532 British
1827 ......... 812 do.
So that, whilst there has been an increase of 280 in the
number of English vessels, there has been a decrease of 52
in the number of foreign vessels ; and yet the last year was
decidedly the most favourable, as to the proportion of Eng-
lish shipping, since the year 1811 ; when, of course, ow-
ing to the long war, English shipping had acquired a pre-
ponderance which cannot be expected after several years of
peace. Such, then, have been the consequences of the
system of reciprocity at. the port of Hull. In the year
1826, there is a great increase in the proportion of British
shipping ; in the year 1827, there is a still greater in-
crease ; and, as the opponents have chosen to rest their case
on the trade of Hull, as they have over and over again re-
ferred to the arrivals at that port in a week or a month, as
decisive of the question, they must now be content to take
the progress of the trade for a longer period, as a test from
which they cannot, without gross inconsistency, reeede.----
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