The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.--A middle-aged, portly little personage,
named Robert Clapton, was brought before Mr. Alder-
man WAITIIMAN, charged with assaulting Mr. Griffiths, a
schoolmaster residing in Spitalfields.
The complainant was passing through Golden. lane, at
half-past 11 o'clock on the previous night, and seeing seve-
ral persons going into a gin-shop, among them the prisoner
and his wife, he followed them to obtain a little refresh-
ment. The prisoner's wife complained that some one had
trodden upon her toes, that she was insulted, was entitled
to satisfaction, and expected her husband to take revenge.
Without waiting to inquire by whom the offence had been
committed, the prisoner struck the complainant violently
in the face.

The prisoner begged pardon, and expressed his sorrow
for his precipitation on the previous night, with much ap-
parent sincerity.
What are you, inquired the Magistrate? Prisoner.—l
.am the pot-boy at the Lion and Lamb, in Golden-lane.
" You are a good large boy," replied the Alderman,
" and an old boy too. Now you are a pretty fellow.—
While many a man is struggling in misery because he
cannot keep his wife out of the gin-shop, we find you actually
engaged in familiarizing your wife to go into one."
The prisoner regretted that it was true that he was rather
inebriated at the moment, but it was because he had too
much that he thought he had not bad enough.
Mr. GRIFFITHS consented to receive the apology as a satis-
faction, and the prisoner was discharged.
BOW-STREET.—Mr. Lee, the High Constable of
Westminster, was yesterday summoned before Sir RICHARD
BIRNIE, to answer the complaint of Charles Giles, a cor-
poral in the second battalion of Grenadier Foot Guards.
The information upon which this summons was issued,
chaiged Mr. Lee under the Mutiny Act, with refusing
to act upon a requisition signed by Captain Stanley, the
Adjutant of the above regiment, calling upon the High
Constable to provide a billet for Francis Edwaids, a private
soldier.

The Corporal on Wednesday last went, by order of Cap-
tain Stanley, to the residence of Mr. Lee, in Charing-cross,
for the purpose of obtaining his signature to the requisition
in question. Mr. Lee, however, refused to sign it without
stating any reason, and shut the door in witness's face.
Mr. Lee called upon the corporal to produce the requi-
sition, and then pointed out to the Magistrate that it was a
defective instrument, inasmuch as it was not signed by the
Quarter-master, according to the provision of the Act of
Parliament. Mr. Lee added, that for the ten years he had
been in office, he had never known any regiment to give
half the trouble that this regiment had given in Westminster.
Sir R. BeRNIE dismissed the information, observing that
Mr. Lee was perfectly right in requiring the signature of
the Quarter-master.

QUEEN-SQUARE.—Monsieur Rouge, of No. 39,
Marsham-street, Westminster, a teacher of the French
language, was brought to the office on a peace warrant, by
Woodherry the officer, before G. W. MARRIOTT, Esq.,
charged with beating his wife, awl continued ill usage.
Madame Rouge, an interesting young lady, was then
sworn, and with considerable hesitation deposed to frequent
beatings which she had received from her husband, to
whom she had only been married about a year.
Mr. MAauxoyr desired the lady to state the day.
Madame Rouge stated that on Saturday last he had beat
and kicked her in bed, about a candle burning.
Monsieur, who appeared in a violent agitation, said
that lie was a very passionate man ; his wife would not do
as he desired her, and he certainly beat her, but not to
hurt her, as she could show no marks.
Madame—He has beat me nearly every week since we
have been married.

Monsieur—Oh, my dear, my dear, I will behave myself
better; indeed, my love, I will; pray, dearest, forgive me.
Madame—My life is in danger.
Monsieur—Oh, no, my dear lore, do try me this time,
pray do.—Madame—No, I will bind you over to the
Sessions.

Monsieur—Oh, my dear love, no ! Oh, Mr. Magistrate,
do speak to her ; here Mr. Magistrate, here, before all the
spectators in the office who shall all be witness, I will now
go down upon my knees in the office and beg pardon to
behave better. Oh, dear, lam so passionate; pray, my
dearest love, consider.

Mr. MA nitiorr now interposed, and thought these
strong assertions would be sufficient.
Whereupon Madame Rouge's youngest sister, a spirited
little girl, about 17; stepped forward, and addressed the
Magistrate. She declared if her sister lived with that man
it would cost her her life, and fully confirmed her sister's
statement as to his frequently beating her. "It will make
you laugh, gentlemen," said the sister, " but I must tell
you he has now got into the habit of having two kinds of
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was very dainty. He then went to the cupboard for the
loaf, and finding the top cut gone, he flew into a violent rage,
and stormed in the most dreadful manner, and committed
the assault." This recital excited loud laughter.
Monsieur—She has been told by others to do this.
Come, my dear love, do make it up.
Madame looked at her husband with the most ineffable
contempt, and was inexorable.
Mr. MARBAorr said it was his duty to hold him to bail.
Upon this declaration, Monsieur's entreaties to his wife
were doubled ; he begged and prayed, and would go down
on his knees that very moment.
At last Woodherry, the officer, suggested, that as he
lived opposite the defendant, perhaps all purposes would be
answered if the warrant was allowed to stand over.
To Monsieur's infinite satisfaction he was then discharg-
ed, after being cautioned by the Magistrates as to his future
conduct.

Woodberry said, when he went to serve the warrant he
flew into a most violent rage, and was the most passionate
man he ever saw.
Madame and her sister then retired.