The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-31 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.— Thomas Thompson was committed to
Bridewell for three months for having a crow-bar in his
possession, and not giving a satisfactory account of himself.
He seas stopped by Lock, one of the city night patrols, at
two o'clock in the morning, in Maidenhead-court, Alders-
gate-street.
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John Wheeler, the driver of the hackney-chariot, No.
895, was fined 20s. for (hiving furiously down Holborn-
hill on Sunday morning. He had completely lost the ma-
nagement of the horses, who ran upon the pavement in
Fleet-market, to the great terror of his fare, a lady taking
her first airing after her confinement.
BOW-STREET.—In the Chronicle of Wednesday ap-
peared an account of some proceedings at Bow-street, arising
out of a charge of Mr. Humphreys, Riding-master, at
Lambeth, against Mr. Henry Parr Pope, relative to a gig
and gig harness. We have since been waited on by Mr.
Pope, who complains that the account is partial and incor-
rect in the extreme, and calculated, if not corrected, to in-
jure him. Mr. P. has left with us the following statement
of the transaction. Not a word was said of his being a
traveller for the Sun Newspaper, which he has not been
for a considerable time, and no admonition was delivered to
him by the Magistrate :
MR. POPE'S STATEMENT.

" A horse and gig were hired from Mr. Humphreys,
and the horse not answering the purpose was sent back,
with 101. on account, and with an offer to purchase the
gig. No debt was contracted at the inn at Woburn, the
horse belonging to Mr. P. himself (which was worth 40
guineas) and the gig were left at Woburn, and Mr. P.
wrote to his partner in town, saying where they were left,
and requesting they might be seat for, as he pursued his
journey by coach. This letter was never received ; and the
horse and gig were sold five weeks afterwards, to defray
the expences incurred, and sold for less than a fourth of
their actual value. On Mr. P.'s return to town, Mr.
Humphreys refused to take the sum Mr. P. had offered,
and would insist on having so much per week, from_the
the hired

time _ gig was up to Cho star-erry:',...- arrived
town. This Mr. P. refused ; and after a lapse of a year
and a half, Mr. H. took out a summons. No conversa-
tion whatever took place as represented between Mr. P.'s
father and Bond, Mr. P.'s father being out of town. In
fact, Bond never spoke during the time the investigation
was going on. Mr. Halls said, there was nothing whatever
to substantiate the case, and told Mr. P. he was discharged."
,Sir Gregor Gregor, as we stated yesterday, has not
as yet been able to procure the required bail. Messrs.
Williams and Perrin, the two gentlemen named as his sure-
ties, and who were willing on Monday last to come forward
in his behalf, have, we understand, declined to appear in
the business, although we believe that the objections raised
by the solicitor of Lieutenant Spong, with respect to the
competency of Mr. Perrin to become responsible for so large
a sum as that which the-Magistrate required, exist no longer.
The General, in the meantime, has shifted his quarters in the
prison, from " the Cadgers'-yard " to a small paved passage,
surrounded on all sides by walls of immense height and
thickness. The place is allotted for the exercise of mis-
conducted apprentices, to whom the punishment of solitary
confinement might serve as a warning for their future con-
duct. In the centre of the massive door that leads from
this passage is a wooden grating, through which the pri-
soner may catch a partial glimpse of passing objects. In all
other respects the place is perfectly solitary. The Gene-
ral, however, prefers the loneliness of his present situation
to the coarse and noisy merriment of the " Cadgers'-yard,"
where the increasing familiarity of his companions began to
get somewhat troublesome; added to which, the greasy
rogues having learned that their new associate was a Gene-
ral and also a Prince, made all sorts of extravagant demands
upon his pocket, and even took to their old vocation of
prizing, in order to obtain some relic to remind them of
him whose society they once enjoyed. In fact, they looked
upon the General's arrival among them in the light of a
" God-send," vnd as long as lie remained with them they
took special care, on all occasions, to profit by the circum-
stance. The General, however, desiring to be " left alone
to his glory," was accommodated with the place we have
described ; and here the Prince of Poyais may be seen,
stripped of the inciimbrance of a coat, walking to and fro
within the narrow limits of " the Apprentices'-yard," from
the ringing of the first bell in the morning until it sounds
for the last time at night, as a summons to " turn in."
THE PRIG AND HIS PALS—F. Pitt, a notorious cracks-
man, who returned a short time ago from transportation,
was brought before Sir. HALLS, charged by Elizabeth
Townshend with committing a violent assault upon her
person. It appeared that Townshend had lived with
Pitt, but he had left her, and was now cohabiting
with a female named Margaret Reynolds ; and the
latter, who is one of the most desperate of her sex--
a perfect virago, as the sequel will show, came forward
to give evidence for Pitt. Pitt, it appeared, had se-
duced Townshend from the protection of her father, who
is a respectable tradesman ; and a few days ago, wishing to
house,itt mcsahee in as
beat her severely,
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into
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and locked 'up the apartments.—The Magistrate ordered
Pitt to find bail, and Ford, the officer, Cainea up to him to
remove him to the lock-up room. At that moment
Reynolds clenched her fist, and sprang towards Townshend
with the fury of a tigress, and said, " Curse you, if he is
sent down, we will both go down together, and she struck
Townsheml a tremendous blow under the eye, and drove her
head within a short distance of the face of the Magistrate.—
Mr. HALLS ordered the " fury" to be placed immediately
at the bar, and Townshend having given evidence of the
assault, Mr. Halls ordered Reynolds to be locked up till
she found bail to answer the charge at the Sessions.—
As she was leaving the office, she turned round, and said
to Townshend, " By heavens I'll do for you; if I don't
stab you, and run a knife into your heart's blood, may
I be struck dead'." She was dragged to the lock-up
room, cursing and swearing. She , had not been locked
up many minutes, before a tall gaunt-looking woman,
named Isabella Harwood, was conveyed into the same
cell, on a charge of assault, and soon afterwards the
office was again thrown into confusion by loud cries of
" Murder !" Ford, the gaoler, instantly proceeded to learn
the cause, and lie found Harwood bleeding very profusely
from her eyes and cheeks ; and she said that she had been
used in that dreadful manner by Margaret Reynolds.—
The face of the poor wretched woman was in a
most deplorable
state, and Reynolds avowed that she
had done it because Harwood had abused her. Mr.
HALLS told Ford that lie ought not to .have put the
woman in the same room with Reynolds ; but the officer
said that Harwood was very desponding, and had threatened
to hang herself, and he thought it prudent to put her in a
room where there was another prisoner, to prevent her
putting her threat into execution.—Reynolds was hand-
. cuffed, by order of the Magistrate, and placed at

the bar; she was committed upon this charge also,
and ordered to find bail, herself in 1001. and two sureties
in 50/. and to give 48 hours' notice of the bail.—This in-
famous woman has had three of her " fancy men" banged,
and several have been transported.—The prisoner, Pitt, is
the husband of the woman who, it will be recollected, was
some years ago charged with murdering a sailor, by
throwing him out of her bed-room window.
HATTON-GARDEN.--Yesterday, in consequence of
the publicity given to the fact of an immense quantity of
jewellery, consisting of gold and silver watches, trinkets of
great value, gold rings, &c., together with other property,
such as lace, silks, and crapes, having been found at the
house of the wife of the notorious lkey Solomons, in Pet-
ticoat-lane, a vast number of tradesmen, who have re-
cently been robbed, came to this office to see if they could
identify any of the property thus strangely brought to light.
Amongst the number was a Mr. Jones, a pawnbroker, re-
siding in Wood-street, Spitalfields, who, on Saturday night
last was robbed of 14 gold and silver watches, gold rings,
seals, brooches, &c.

Limbrick, the officer, in obedience to the orders of the
Magistrates, took every pains to gratify the wishes of the
various visitants by an exposition, as far as practicable
under present circumstances, of the heterogeneous mass of
goods; but, from their multiplicity and variety, it was
found impossible to give satisfiction, when this day was
appointed for a general inspection, against which time the
goods were to be arranged in regular order. Three pieces
of lace and a few articles of jewellery were, however, re-
cognized by a tradesnian whose name did not transpire, as
his property, and stolen from his house within the last
Week only. The base coin found upon the premises of 3lrs.
Solomon's, consisting entirely of sovereigns, amounted to
the sum of 600.

It will be recollected, that to get at the base coin,
watches, and trinkets, it was found necessary to break up
the ground-floor. Of this circumstance Mri. Solomons
takes advantage, and declares that she was totally ignorant
of any property being concealed in her house, until it was
exhibited by the officers; but amongst the watches thus
found was one actually going when Kirby, the officer, took
it into possession.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.---Yesterday Captain
John Jebb, late of the 16th 1-4;ht Dragoons, was brought
to this office upon a warrant, granted at the instance of
Col. Lygon, of the same regiment, upon the charge of
endeavouring to provoke the Colonel to fight a duel.
Colonel Lygon said that he was compelled to take the
present proceedings in consequence of the hostile feeling
Captain Jebb entertained against him, arising from a
court-martial held in 1822 on Captain Jebb; since which
period the defendant had taken every opportunity of in-
sulting him in public. On the 27th April last he was
passing down St. James's-street, when the Captain came to
him, and nourishing a large stick over his head, said he
should insult him wherever he met him. The Colonel in
consequence, applied for a warrant or► the following clay,
but the officer had not been able to meet with Capt. Jebb
until yesterday.
A Mr. Coventry, a friend of the Colonel's, bore testi-
mony to the conduct of Captain Jebb, which was evidently
intended to produce a breach of the peace.
Captain Jebb said that when he met Colonel Lygon he
only repeated the sentiment of the whole army as regarded
Col. Lygon's conduct at the court-martial, when the laws
of his country were violated.
Colonel Lygon replied that he acted as President of the
court-martial, and did no more than his duty.
Captain Jebb said that his Majesty had been pleased to
direct that the sentence of that court-martial should be re-
considered.
The Magistrate said that he had nothing to do with the
merits or demerits of the proceedings at the court-martial;
but it was his duty, from the facts brought before him, to
order the Captain to find securities to keep the peace. He
required two sureties in 6001. each, and the Captain himself
in 1200/. _

Captain Jebb complained of the hardship of being called
upon to find securities, when most of his friends were
from town, and for an offence committed so far back as
last April.

Here Colonel Lygon said something to the Magistrate
in an under tone.

Captain Jebb—Ah, that's the way he whispered Sir
Herbert Taylor at the court-martial. He is a coward, and
no gentleman.
The Magistrate said that the Captain's conduct there
was such as to compel him to demand heavier securities,
and he must therefore find two responsible persons as bail
for his keeping the peace towards Colonel ,Lygon in 10001.
each, and enter into recognizances himself to the amount
of 2,0001.

Captain Jebb remained in custody at the time the office
closed.

QUEEN-SQUARE.--For the last fortnight the neigh-
bourhood of Little College-street and Ward-street, near
Westminster Abbey, has been a scene of considerable
tumult, owing to the following circumstances :—lt ap-
peared from the statement of Mr. Thomas, a solicitor, in
Gray's-inn-lane, who made an application yesterday morn-
ing to G. W. MARRIOTT, Esq., to grant him a peace-
officer, that a number of houses in those streets had be-
longed originally to General Baker, but bad latterly come
into the possession of C. N. Pallmer, Esq., the Member
for Surrey. The leases of the houses had expired about a
fortnight ago, and the tenants bad quitted. The property
was incumbered when it came into Mr. Pallmer's posses-
sion, who had paid off the mortgages, and was in posses-
sion of the title-deeds; but a number of persons had
within the last few days broken into the houses, and for-
cibly kept possession. He had been empowered by Mr.
Pallmer to act as his agent ; and he now wished for a
peace-officer to eject the parties in possession.
Mr. MA It R lorr instantly granted the request; and Wood-
berry and 'Neale, two officers of this establishment, were
despatched with Mr. Thomas, to take possession of the
houses. Some of these usurpers forcibly resisted, and it
was no easy matter to throw the furniture into the street.
A large mob of persons collected, but the officers contrived
to effect their object without any serious obstacle. Those
persons who surrendered up quiet poistssion were allowed
a few days to remove their furniture, on a promise to quit.
No sooner bad Mr. Thomas quitted the office with the
officers, when a barber, named James Roberts, was brought

up charged by a Mrs. Champ, residing in' some of the
houses, with an assault and battery on the previous evening.
This was a very long case, and occupied the Magistrate
a considerable time.
It appeared that the parties, the witnesses, &c. had all
conceived an opinion that there was no owner to the houses
And that having once got possession they had a right to
keep it. One of the houses had been stormed, and an
opposite party got in. There was an acrimonious dispute
between the parties about " my door" and " my passage ;"
some yards belonged to two families, but it was quite im-
possible to make head or tail of the dispute; suffice it to
say, that the assault was distinctly proved.
A person mined Fell, who had got possession of two of
the houses, and had actually put a tenant into one of them,
deposed that Roberts bad only pushed the complainant.
Another witness, on being questioned by the Magistrate

as to what business he had in the house, said that his
solicitor had recommended him not to give up the key
until the rightful owner came.
The Barber in his defence made a very long speech, de-
clared it was all a piece of spite : he never could have done
such an hact, he only pushed her, and sitivated as be vas,
be scorned to strike a woman.

A respectable gentleman here stepped forward, and stated
to the Magistrate, that the disturbance which had lately
taken place in that neighbourhood, was increasing in a most
alarming degree, and the defendant was one of the most
riotous. Mrs. Champ was a very peaceable woman.
The defendant was ordered to find bail, and give 24
hours' notice : he was then removed to take possess►on of
another kind of residence much against his inclination.
WORSHIP-STREET.—A decently-dressed mechanic
complained of the termagancy of his better half, who by
his instrumentality was placed at the bar to answer for her
numberless misdeeds.—Benedict detailed, his story with a
countenance and tone of the most woe-begone description.
He was told there was no help.—But he had taken his fair
rib " for better—for worse !" and, therefore, the case was
discharged.

HEAD POLICE OFFlCE„—Tuesday, three
rakish-looking personages, namely Paddy _Kelly, Bridget
(his wife), and Terence 0' Flyn, the latter a KerrYrnan,
but apparently as if he had been last on Palmerstown-green,
ushered themselves, sans ceremonie, into the Board-room
before the Bench, all prepared to swear most devoutly to
the veracity of the contents of the following elegant speci-
men of Terence's orthographical and legal acquirements:—
County of the Sity of Dublin, Path Kelly came be-
to With fore me on of his Ma-
- jeesties Justicis of the
race and rnaketh oat on the Holy Evangelist that he will
never strek or imprison his wife unlest in case of drunki-
ness, as they are both prone to it Biddy Kelly, or evor
spoke to Terence Flinne and his wife, and he further saith
that he has never committed any breach of his mattrimo-
nol vows against Mary Kelly his wife since he Was marred.
Terence Flinne has accused Biddy Kelly of keepin a cull
Terence Flinn acknollegges he does not knoe nothing im-
prudent of Brigget Kelly.
The whole trio being evidently in the state which two
of them were ready to swear they were prone to, were in-
stantly expelled the office,....Dublin Evening POSt.