The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Saturday a sweep, named Wingfield,
was brought up in custody, charged with assaulting Mr. Cannon,
a druggist, in Lothhury. Mr. Cannon stated that the prisoner;
and a wretched looking little boy, about eight yeari of age, that
was in the Justice-room, came to his house to sweep the chimneys,
between three and four o'clock that morning, Before day he was
awoke by hearing a person crying, as if in great distress, and sup-
posed it was one of his own children. He ran out of hie room,
and called to his servant to know the cause, and was informed
that the young sweep was crying in the chimney. He imme-
diately went to the kitchen, the chimney of which the boy had
gone up, and was there informed by his servant that the boy had
been up an hour and a half, and that the prisoner had refused to
allow him to come down. He then desired the prisoner, who
stood by the grate, to call the boy down. The prisoner refused,
and also refused to allow him to go to the grate for that purpose.
The crying, which had been growing weaker, hating by this time
ceased, lie became alarmed for the boy's life, and put his hand to
the prisoner to push him from the grate, that he might speak to
the boy. The prisoner instantly commenced a most outrageous
assault on him, from which he was the less able to defend himself,
being in his shirt. The prisoner, who had strong shoes on him,
kicked him so violently in the legs as to cause lacerations that re-
quired surgical treatment, and it was not till two servants and his
two sons, young men, came to his assistance, and brought ropes,with
which they tied the prisoner, both feet and hands, that his vio-
lence could be restrained : a watchman was then called in, to
whom he was given in charge. The little sweep, on being cared
down from the chimney, showed that his feet were in such a
diseased state that he was wholly incapable of climbing up the
chimney, though he bad been compelled to attempt it.
The prisoner, in his defence, gave the little victim of his cruelty
the character of being an idle bad boy.
The LORD MAYOR observed, that no misconduct on the part of
the boy could excuse the prisoner's assaulting Mr. Cannon, and
ordered him to find bail to take his trial.
GUILDHALL—George Cleeves, a journeyman silk-weaver,
and Joseph Morris, a small silk-manufacturer, who resided in
South Conduit-street, Betlinall-green, were charged, the former
with stealing a parcel of silk shag for covering hats, value 401.
and the other prisoner with receiving the same, knowing it to
have been stolen. It appears that Cleeves is in the employ of
Mr. Haynes, of Lawrence-lane, milkman. Ott the 30th ult. a
parcel containing the goods in question, was sent to Mr. Haynes
from Kettering, but Cleeves called at the coach-office and received
it, and, it is presumed, disposed of it to Morris. About an hour
and a half after the parcel had been obtained from the coach-office,
Morris took the shag to a hawker named Durrant, and instructed
him to sell it for whatever he could get. Durrant thought it was
the property of some ruined man, and therefore did not inquire to
whom it belonged ; he gave it to a man named Padbury, who sold
it to Mr. Heath, a hatter, in Oxford-street, for ss. 6d. per yard,
the market price being 6s. to 6s. 6d. Mr. Heath having heard
that Mr. Haynes had lost the parcel, informed him that he had
purchased the shag from Padbury.
Goading, a constable, said, that when he apprehended Morris,
he denied knowing any thing about it for a long time; but at
length exclaimed, " I will not have it upon my shoulders; I had
it from the landlord of a public house in Bethnal-green." Thither
the party went ; but the landlord denied all knowledge of the pro-
perty, and even of Morris himself. -He said, " I'll just step down
into my cellar for five minutes, and then I'll go any where with
you." Goading, at the moment, gave credit to the landlord's
declaration, and let him retire without hesitation, since -which time
he has disappeared.
The prisoners denied the charge, but they were committed
for trial.

BOW-STREET.—GANG or HORSE STEALERS.—On Satur•

day Joha Oliver, William Howard, and Edward Laycoch, the
latter a mere boy, were charged with stealing three mares and two
geldings, the property of different persons, residing in and near the
metropolis, which had been stolen by them, and taken to Bristol
for sale. The prisoners were brought from Bristol on Friday, with
the stolen property, and this morning they were placed before Sir
Richard Birnie and Mr. Minsbull.

Mr. Mays, the landlord of the Bell Tavern, Smithfield, stated,
that he had his stables broken into, situate in Brewer's Yard,
in the parish of St. Sepulchre, on the night of the 10th January
last, and a valuable bay mare stolen ; which he found on the Bth
inst. in the possession of the prisoners, in the stables of the Three
Kings public-house, Thomas-street, Bristol, with two other mares
and two geldings. He knew the prisoner Howard ; his real name
was Johnson, and he had formerly been a drover in Smithfield.
David Morgan, a constable of Bristol, deposed to having taken
the prisoners into custody, and finding the mare, the property of
Mr. Maya, with the other horses, the owners of which he had
discovered. Two of them were stolen from a gentleman at South-
gate, who had offered 100 guineas reward for their recovery.
The prisoners were remanded.
MrsTaitions DISAPPEARANCE.—The wife of a farmer and
miller, named Davis, residing at Dunning's Hill, East Grinstead,
Essex, applied at this office, for the assistance of the police,
under the following circumstances. Her husband came to
London, about a fortnight ago, to receive considerable sums of
money, which she had ascertained he had received ; but to her
great surprise, and to the distress of herself and family, he had
not returned home, 'nor had lie been seen or heard of since
last Monday week, when he transacted business at the
Abingdon Wharf, Millbank-street, Westminster. She described
her husband as a man 50 years of age, about five feet four inches
in height, dark complexion, dressed in drab coloured coat and dark
frock, with plush breeches and boots with tops. She said that he
had been subject to a disorder in the head, which at times deprived
him of his recollection, and she was afraid either that he had got
into bad hands, or that some fatal accident had occurred to him.

The Magistrate suggested, that if publicity of the occurrence was
given by the Press, some information might be obtained on the

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The defendants denied the charge, and called' witnesses,ho.
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give forty-eight hours' notice of the bail.2

UNION-HALL.—Saturday a man named Barrett, and a
female, were charged with robbery. It appeared that, on Sunday
last, the house of Mr. Smith, upholsterer, of Blackman-street,
was broken open during the absence of the family at Church, and
a cheque for 1251. and twenty-seven sovereigns stolen. A con-
stable having received information that the prisonefa had been
concerned in the robbery, apprehended them at their residence;
and on searching Barlett, the cheque was found upon him. The
external appearance of the prisoners indicated that they had re-
cently come into the possession of money; they were dressed in
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THE PONTINE MARSHES.—The road through

the Pontine Marshes is nearly in a straight line for twenty-eight
miles, with high poplars on each side, and at regular distances huts
for soldiers, who are placed there for the protection of travellers.
About the middle of the marshes the traveller stops for refresh-
ment at a wretched place called Torre tre Ponti, the Appii Fo-
rum of the ancients, where the brethren from Rome met Paul.
A convent was built cn the spot, consecrated by his feet, but the
place is so unhealthy that the Monks soon deserted it, and it is
now going to ruins. There is not a pane of glass in the inn, and
all the people of the place, with the exception of the landlord and
his wife, are labouring under the direful effects of malaria. The
countenances of the postillions resemble, in every feature, those
of corpses. The cattle and fowl, however, are healthy and
thriving. The extensive green plain, intersected with nu-
merous canals and streams, is covered with young horses,
cows, buffaloes, and sheep, At one place I saw a herd of
fourteen bulls of a greyish white, in the most healthful
condition, and of the most beautiful and regular form.—
The pools and streams abound with wild fowl of every descrip-
tion. On the left, towards the sea, wood abounds, and on the
right is a high ridge of hills, with towns and villages placed on
the declivities, half concealed by trees. After passing Velletri,
through a woody, hilly country,
we reached Albano. On the
right is the Alban Mount, covered with wood and interspersed
with white houses and villages ; on the left is an extensive plain
extending to Ostium and the mouth;f the Tiber; and in front is
the Eternal City, at fifteen miles distance, spreading along the
banks of the river, with pillars, and towers,
and churches, and
ruins innumerable, and St. Peter's dome rising majestically above
them, at the furthermost extremity of the city. Scarcely a house
is to be seen in the intervening space. The Appian Way, now
deserted, with the wrecks of tombs for miles on each side, is the
only object that attrscte the eve,