The Sun.
London, England, 1827-04-19 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

• MANSION-HOUSE.—On Tuesday while the
Lord Mayor was receiving the annual young visiters
in the saloon of -the Mansion-house, a foreigner of
very respectable appearance rang at the bell, and in
a state of great agitation requested to see the Lord
Mayor upon, he said, the most urgent business.
Upon being informed that his Lordship would trans-
act no Justice-room business on Easter Tuesday, the
applicant's agitation increased, and he declared that
the circumstance which he had to relate was of so
peculiar a nature, that a moment's delay would be an
inexcusable postponement of justice.
One of the household said, that he would, if the
gentleman had no objection, be the medium of com-
munication between him and the Lord Mayor.

" The fact is," said the applicant, " I last night
committed an act of assassination on Vauxhall-bridge.
As I was passing over the bridge, I met a person
who insulted me, and I struck him twice with a knife,
and then threw him over the bridge into the water.
I have been miserable ever since that moment, and
wish to meet with punishment for the offence."
An attempt was made to soothe the feelings of
the unhappy applicant, who was asked what his em-
ployment and who hie friends were. He replied,
that he had been employed by a churchman, in his
profession of a German scholar, but he had received
his dismissal in consequence of some doubt of his
qualifications as a translator. • As for his friends, it
was unnecessary to say any thing about them.--
They would all know him and acknowledge him
when he lay lifeless, as he certainly would soon, for
the satisfaction of justice and of his own conscience.
The state of agony to which the feelings of the
poor German seemed to be excited, by, it is be-
lieved, the picture of his own imagination, was truly
deplorable. upon being asked the nature of the
insult he had received, which led to the act with
which he charged himself, he hesitated, and seemed
rather to be planning an answer to the question
than to be drawing upon his memory for what had
actually occurred.

The LORD MAYOR gave some directions with re-
spect to the unfortunate self-accuser, and yesterday
had a conversation with him in a private room iu the
Mansion-house, after which his Lordship desired
that particular care should be taken of him in the
Compter,-and that Mr. Box, the surgeon, should be
consulted on the state of his mind.

A Mr. West, of Kensington, was yesterday
brought before the LORD MAYOR under the follow-
ing circumstances.
Mr. Bridges, of Broad-street Mews, stated, that
the prisoner called at his house on Sunday morning
between twelve and one o'clock, and asked to see
the servant girl. The witness, to whom the pri-
soner was wholly unknown, called down the ser-
vant to the visiter, and retired. He was not, how-
ever, long in another part of the house when he heard
the woman's voice calling for help. Upon running
to her assistance he found her and the prisoner on
the ground together. The prisoner had his arms
round her neck, and evidently intended to violate
her person.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether the girl was
present to give her evidence ?
Mr. Bridges answered in the negative. All that
he required was, that the prisoner should be pre-
vented from going to his house. The only charge
he had to make was, that Mr. West rang his hell,
and called out his name several times aloud in the
neighbourhood.
The LORD MAYOR said, that the case must un-
dergo a little more investigation for the sake of the
girl and the public; and desired that the girl should
be sent for.

The young woman, upon entering the justice-
room, and being questioned by the Lord Mayor,
gave the following account of the transaction.
She had formerly lived with Mr. West as his
wife, and she had by him a child, that was now liv-
ing. About four months ago she separated from
him, and desired that their intercourse should for
ever cease. She then went into service, but Mr.
West followed her, and she lost her place in conse-
quence of his frequent and unwelcome visits. She
eftererardi Warlsired-lai-Mr., Bridges, and she en-
deavoured to prevent Mr. West from finding out
her place of.refuge. The attempt, proved, however,
ineffectual, and she was now doomed to lose a
second place, on account of those inhuman importu-
nities.

The LORD MAYOR—Did he upon this occasion
attempt to commit any act of violence upon your
person.
The girl described what had taken place, in terms
similar to those used by Mr. Bridges. Mr. West
began by speaking of their child, who was now 17
months old, and then proceeded to violence.
Mr. Bridges—l found them on the floor together,
struggling. When I appeared, they separated. The
man declared that he had the means of shooting
himself, and he certainly should do so.
The LORD MAYoa—Uponyour oath, Mr. Bridges,
is she merely living with you as your servant.
Mr. Bridges—Upon my oath she is living with
me as my servant, and nothing else. She shall leave
my house to-day.
The prisoner, upon being asked what he bad to
say in answer to the charge, said, that the story was
a long extraordinary one.
The LORD MAYOR refused to listen to any thing
not immediately relating to the charge of assault,
which was a very serious one.
The prisoner declared, that he had intended no
violence to the young woman, who had lived with
him four years, and whom he had considered worthy
of being made his wife; that he had commenced ar-
rangements for the purpose of making her his own
by marriage, but some embarrassments interfered,
and it was agreed that she should go into temporary
service; that he had visited her with her own con-
sent at the house in which she had been previously
servant ; and that he had written to her father about
their marriage, and was ready to take her home.
The prisoner added, that he had called upon her on
this occasion in order to inform her of these facts.
The connexion was, indeed, a very unhappy one for
him.

The LORD MAYOR-It was a much more unhap-
py connexion for the poor girl. It appeared that she
has been living in a disgraceful state with you, and
now that she repents and is determined to get an
honest place, you follow and route her out of it ; and
not content with inflicting such injuries, you commit
a most brutal assault upon her.
The prisoner—lt is my intention to take her down
to her father, and to marry her.
The LORD MAYOR asked the young woman whe-
ther it was her wish not to have any thing more to
do with the prisoner.
She replied that it certainly was. She had gone
with him to his house in Kensington, in order to
induce him to stay away from her master's house ;
but the moment he got her inside he locked the door
and fastened up the shutters, and if she had not
been released by the neighbours, she would have
thrown herself out of the window to escape from
him.

The LORD MAYOR then bound over the prisoner
to answer the charge, in his own recognizance to the
amount of 1001., and in two other recognizances to
the amount of 50/. each.
A big fellow, named Ashford, was charged with
having knocked down two persons in the street,
without having received the slightest provocation
from either. One of them is a mere boy, and the
ruffian was near destroying the poor fellow.
He said in his defence that somebody had struck
him, and he thought it hard to be knocked down
without giving a benefit of the same kind.
He was committed for the two assaults.
GUILDHALL.—WiIIiam Edwards, a porter at
the Blossoms Inn, Lawrence-lane, appeared upon a
summons yesterday, charged with demanding and
receiving 3s. more for the carriage of a box than he
was lawfully entitled to.
Mt. Daniel Deacon, one of the proprietors of the
White Horse Inn, Cripplegate, stated the complaint.
He said the overcharge was in fact 3s. twopence
having been illegally claimed for booking ;)oth by the
innkeeper in the country and in town, but be would

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confine himself to showing that the defendant had
made out a ticket charging 10s. 2d. for the carriage
of the box, while the charge made by the coach pro-
prietors was but 7s. 6d., and the defendant bad only
accounted to his employers for 7s. 10d., 4d., as he
had before stated, having been laid on for two book-
ings. The box came to the Blossoms-inn from
Dover, where it had arrived from France, and it was
brought to the White Horse Inn, to be transmitted
to Mr. Newton, of Norwich. The porter who brought
it, presented a ticket demanding 3/. 75., which was
paid to him, and the box was duly forwarded. Mr.
Newton, however, wrote to him complaining of the
overcharge, and upon inquiry at the Blossoms Inn, it
turned out that the porter had accounted for only
3/. 4s. 4d., had himself made out the ticket for the
larger sum, and had pocketted the additional 2s. Bd.
The admitted charges of the inn were made up
thus : To the customs at Dover, 2/. 165., booking
at Dover, 2d., carriage to London, 7s. 6d., booking
in London, 2d., porterage to the White Horse Inn,
6d. These items made a total of 31. 4s. 4d. The
book-keeper at the Blossoms Inn would prove that
this was the amount for which the ticket ought to
have been made out, and, his own clerk would prove
the payment of the 31. 7s. to the defendant.
Edward Lofershue, from the Blossoms Inn, cor-
roborated Mr. Deacon's statement as to the amount
due, and stated that he believed the ticket produced
had been made out by the defendant himself, and
there was an overcharge of 2s. Bd.
Charles Twiss, clerk to Mr. Deacon, produced the
defendant's ticket for 31. Is., and deposed to paying
the money to Heygate, the defendant's fellow-
servant.

James Heygate swore he received the ticket from
Edwards, and paid over to him all the money he
received.

A Solicitor for the defendant urged that as in
the ticket delivered there were but two items, " car-
riage 2/. 6s. 6d., porterage 6d." it was impossible to
distinguish whether the overcharge was upon the
money paid at Dover, or the carriage to London ;
unless it was upon the carriage or the porterage,
the Magistrate had no jurisdiction under the por-
terage act.
This difficulty was overcome by a suggestion from
Mr. Payne, the second clerk, that the defendant
might be committed for obtaining money under
false pretences.
Mr. Alderman ANSLEY committed the prisoner
accordingly for trial at the Old Bailey Sessions, when
he will be liable to transportation for seven years.
- Donaldson, a porter, in the employment of
Mr. Lambert, Ludgate-hill, was charged with hav-
ing had secreted on his person nine pounds of
common soap, the property of his employer, with
the intention of stealing it.
Mr. L.'s assistant stated, that Donaldson had been
in the service for two years, and that during the greater
part of that time, soap at various times had been
missed. On Tuesday suspicion fell on the prisoner,
and, upon witness's charging him with it, in the cel-
lar, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning,
he at first denied it, but at length acknowledged that
he had taken the parcel now produced, containing
the 91bs., which he delivered up to witness.
Mr. Alderman ANSLEY fully committed him for trial.

BOW-STREET.—A man named George Wil-
liams, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged on
suspicion of having committed a burglary.
John Reynolds, a constable, stated that he met
the prisoner at half-past five in the morning in the
neighbourhood of Hammersmith, carrying a bundle
containing vegetables. The witness stopped him,
and on searching him at the watch-house, he found
on his person a dark-lantern, a bunch of skeleton-
keys, a jemmy, and other articles of house-breaking.
He also found in his pocket a silver purse, and
l/. 12s. 6d. in money, together with a plain silver
watch, to which was attached a small seal in the
shape of a bird's cage, on the stone of which was
engraven a large D, with a dog hanging within it.
The prisoner had also in his possession about a pound
of tea tied in a silk handkerchief. He could give no
satisfactory account of himself, and the Magistrate
ordered him to be remanded for a week in the ex-
pectation that evidence would be forthcoming to
identify some of the property found upon him.
MARLBORO UGH- STREET. Yesterday,
WM. Condel and Elizabeth Harman, who have lived
together as man and wife, and George Plummer,
who have been in custody for about a fortnight, and
have undergone several private examinations, were
placed at the bar before Mr. CONANT, the Magis-
trate, charged with being concerned in a number of
very extensive robberies that have of late been ef-
fected by means of burglary at the houses of several
pawnbrokers in town. The most extensive depre-
dations of this nature have been committed at the
houses of Mr. Balfour, in Chandos-street, St. Mar-
tin's-lane ; Mr. Dobree, in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-
square; and Mr. Wood, in St. John-street, Clerken-
well.

The chief witness against the prisoners was a
young girl named Mary Vaudeville, an accomplice in
all the robberies, and who lived with the prisoner
Plummer. She gave a detailed account of the
burglaries at the above three houses, which were
effected by the male prisoners getting on the roofs
of the houses, and forcing their way through the
skylight windows. At each of these houses, they
had the accidental facility of . access to the roof by
passing through an adjoining empty house, and
when the property was got away, the female pri-
soner and the witness assisted in conveying it to
the lodgings of Conde!, from whence it was, from
time to time, disposed of by selling or pledging at
other pawnbrokers, for the general use of all the
prisoners and the witness. A vast quantity of pro-
perty was yesterday produced, consisting of male
and female wearing apparel, silks, laces, &c., which
had been pledged by the prisoners at other pawn.
brokers, and were yesterday identified by the real
owners, who had originally pledged them with
Messrs. Balfour,Wood, and Dobree. Clemente and
Avis, the officers, who apprehended the prisoners,
produced no less than 2,000 yards of lace, value se-
veral hundred pounds, which, with other property,
Mr wier.elvfoouondd Condel,iadtenthtiefieloddagsinghsavoinfgbeena
tken from his and which
premises on the night of the robbery. There was
also produced several complete sets of house-break-
ing implements, found at the lodgings of both the
male-prisoners.
The prisoners declined saying any thing at pre-
sent, and were remanded until next Friday week,
when they will be again brought up, but all the
witnesses who gave evidence were bound over to
prosecute.

MARYLEBONE-OFFICE, Yesterday Mr.
Jacob the lessee of some toll-gates in
Camden-town,
was charged with having obstructed
a private in the Ist Life Guards, and demanded toll
for his horse while on his Majesty's service.
John Staplehurst stated, that he was sent as a
mounted orderly to the Post-office, by his corn.
mending officer, on the 14th instant, and was de-
tained upon his road at the Jew's-harp-gate, Re-
gent's-park, by the defendant and his man, because
he refused to pay the toll. After a delay of 10 or
12 minutes the defendant inquired particularly into
the nature of his duty, took his name, gave his own
card in return*, and suffered him to pass.
Mr. Hewlings said it was impossible for him to
know whether a soldier was on duty or not, unless
be made inquiry; and if Staplehurst had explained
the nature of his duty more willingly, he would not
have been detained so long.

Mr. RAWLINSON replied, that no one possessing
common sense could see a private soldier,mounted in
full accoutrement, and not know lie was on duty—
" And what right have you, or I," added the Magis-
trate, " to ask what is the nature of his duty ? You
will in the next place stop an Ambassador's bag,
and inspect his foreign despatches. This is not a
solitary case. The farrier belonging to the barracks
meets with the same impediment almost every day,
and your obstruction .may prove detrimental to the
public service. Considering it, therefore, as a very
aggravated offence, and in order to deter you and
others For the time to come, I shall inflict the full

penalty of 51., against which decision you may ar
peal, if you choose to do so."
TOWN-HALL---James Davis, an ill-favoured
young fellow, was brought from the Borough Comp'
ter, charged with robbing Captain Robert Little, of
the Alert schooner, of Whitehaven, of his silver
watch, chain, and gold seal and key.
The prosecutor stated, that on passing down
Tooley-street on Tuesday night at ten o'clock, be
saw the prisoner in conversation with a girl at the
corner of Dean-street, Canterbury-square; on mai-
ming up to them the girl asked him to go with her,
which he refused. Whilst he was speaking the
prisoner made a snatch at his watch-chain, and dreg
the watch from his fob with such violence that the
pendant broke, and the watch fell to the ground, the
chain, seal, and key remaining in the hands of the pri-
soner, who ran off down Mill-lane, he pursuing him►
calling" watch," and " stop him." He never lost sight
of the prisoner till he was taken in Peacock-alley by
the watchman. He was at no time during the pur-
suit further from him than twelve yards.
William Davis, the watchman, said, he stopped
the prisoner running up Peacock-alley,. closely pur-
sued by the prosecutor and a waterman named
Wood. He was taken to St. Olave's watch-house
and searched, but nothing found upon him, the chain,
seal, and key, he afterwards picked up on the steps
of a Mr. 'Wilson's door, shout six yards from where
the prisoner was taken.

Charles Wood said he was coming from Mill-lane-
stairs, when he heard the cry of " Stop him," and
saw the prisoner running towards him, whom be
seized hold of, but he broke away. Witness pur:;
sued him into Peacock-alley, repeating " Stop him,
when the watchman intercepted him.
The prosecutor was several times desired to look
at the prisoner, and positively swore he was the
man, and that the watch had passed from his per-
son when the pendant broke.
The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robber!,
and was fully committed to take his trial on the
capital charge. He was known to the officers as ee
old offender.

MR. GREEN'S ACCOUNT OF HIS AERIAL

VOYAGE AND DESCENT.

At ten minutes after six o'clock, the balloon
ascended from the Golden Eagle Tea-gardens, Mile
end-road, amid the cheering of 'the populace, which
could be heard by the adventurers until they arrived
at a considerable height from the earth, when the
sound died away like a distant echo. On quitting
the earth there was slight rain, and the machine
glided slowly through the air, taking the direction
due north, until it was precluded from public vied
in consequence of the density of the atmosphere.
In order to gratify public curiosity, Mr. Green
opened the valve, and through the emission of go,
the balloon descended with extreme velocity, when
it became stationary immediately over Bethnal-
green, about 2,000 feet from the ground, and re-
mained in view for some minutes, when it again
ascended, in a north-west direction, and finally bent
its course westerly, and on their arrival over the
neighbourhood of Clerkenwell, where Mr. Green
resides, he again caused a descent, when the hal'
loon came within 1,700 feet of the earth. The
aeronauts perceived the inhabitants running in every
direction, under the impression that that neighbour-
hood had been decided upon for the final descent.
The machine was suffered to remain in view for A
short period, when they gradually ascended to the
extreme altitude of 7,000 feet, when the barometer
was at 29 8-10ths. During their progress through,
the clouds they endured the most severe cold on
heavy falls of snow, which dissolved in the car, and
filled it with water, while the balloon was consider',
ably more than its original weight in consequence 01
the wet; indeed, Mr. Green states that he enter.
tained considerable fears, at one period of their '
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invented the means of the escape of water at the
bottom of the car:

Had it not been for the continuance of the swill,
it was the determination of Mr. Green to have made
a night descent, but at 2.5 minutes after seven o'elOcic
he contemplated the choice of some convenient spec
to descend on, and having expended the whole of
the ballast, he opened the valve, and let out glo,
when they gradually came down, and found there'
selves hovering over the village of Fulham. The
grappling-irons were thrown out, and they came in
contact with a tree, in the field of a market-gardener,
and several brickmakers, who were employed aditel,
cent to the spot, ran to assist, and the parties alights
from the car' in perfect safety and good spirits.
The churchwardens of the parish, who were at'
tending a meeting, hearing that Mr. Green had dr
scended, proceeded to the spot, and rendered him
the kindest attention, until the balloon was packed
up and deposited in a postchaise, when the aeronaut
were invited to take/refreshment, after which thef
proceeded to the Golden Eagle, Where they arrived
at between one and two o'clock yesterday morning'
The gentlemen who accompanied Mr. Green express
themselves highly delighted with the excursion, not'
withstanding the unfavourable state of the weather,
and have pledged themselves to take another trip t'S
an early period.
Yesterday Mr. Green was afflicted with cold and
head-ache, with pains in the limbs,andkept tohis bed.

THE MARKETS.

COAL MAR.
Adairs 34s Od.
Beaumont 33 * 0
Eighton Moor 32 0
Hebburn Main 36 6
34 6
Killingworth - 36 6
Liddell's Main 30 9
Percy East _ 3O 6
Pontop Windsor. _ 3l 9
Shipcote.. _ 31 6
Townley
33 9 .owpen
Willington
Wylam 34 0 Hartley 30 6
WallsEndßewicke&Co. 38 0 Eden Main 35 6
„
Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 36 6 Russell's Lyon's Main 35
Ditto Burraton Helton.
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6 Walls End Hetton-- 36 0
Ditto Carr and Co.- 35 0 Ditto Lambton 38 0
Ditto Hilda
Ditto Northumberland 36 6 Ditto Stewart's -- 38 0
Ditto Peareth 3.5 9 Russell's Hetton's W.E. 37 3
Ships at Market, 119—ii,hips sold, 5'L--Unsold, 67.

ET.—April IS.
Walls End Newmarch 37$•Q
Ditto Riddell's 3'7 "q
Ditto Russell's 37
Ditto Walker 37
Tanfield Trader 32
Foreign small IS °
Londonderry small 20 yi
Lambton small 18
Blyth Main 27
Culm Cox„., 29 b
Co, 30

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—April 17.
There were several parcels of Wheat fresh up for tbl'
day's market, and on the whole a good display of sample°
of all Grain except Beans and Pease. The sales of Wheo
have nearly kept pace with the imports. Barley command"
fell prices. Malt is rather more difficult of sale. The
sales of Beans have been small. Several parcels of White
Pease have arrived since Tuesday, and found a ready sale'
IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Weeic ending April PI 1,
Wheal Oats. Barley. Malt. IBeans. Pease. I Rye. Oatn3da.
Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 14'8,„,
5,652 12,713 514 1,227 906 I. 574 uu.
Flour, 3,000 barrels, 3,007 sacks.
EXPOIITS.—Wheat, 450 qrs. ; Pease, 12 qrs. ; Flour, 1000 bane*

BIRTHS.
On the 15th inst., at Carlton Hall, Northamptonshire,
the Hon. Lady Palmer, of a son.
On the 17th inst., the lady of Mr. Robert Carter, of
Cooper's-row, Trinity-square, of a still-born child.
On the 12th inst., at Hambrook, near Bristol, the IA
of Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, of a Son, who only sue
vived a short time.

MARRIED.
On the 18th inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, by the Rey.
J. H. Mapleton, LL.B., John A. Fulton, Esq.,
rence Pountney-lane and Brixton, to Ellen, sixth daughter
of the late James Green, ES, of the Falcon Glass Works Holland-street, and of Brixton, Surrey. of Lam'
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On the 17th inst., at Warblington, Hants, by the Red'
Dr Davies, b
Gray's Inn, to Misgi il
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Francess,vorKnight,t, JoIn
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DIED.
On the 17th inst., after a long and painful illness, 111.1;
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jiler-street, Golden-square'
Hale, of Parson's green-lane, Fulham.
noster-row, son of the Rev. J. Hughes, Battersea, Surreird;
On the 17th inst., in Soho-square, William Yaill°
I:lle6:orPtBthih6oirftieihnnlYismsiyt:'•e: Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Matthavi
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