The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-06 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.—The stewards of the United British
Society, meeting sat the Peacock, .in Whitecross-street,
attended befure Sir PETER LAURIE and Mr. Alderman
.4.ISLET, to show cause why they had refused to pay the
usual allowance per week to a member named Brooks.
A sick member is, to receive 1/. Is. per week for the
first half year, and 10s. 6d. per week thereafter; and, if
he declares himself well, and before he has been " free from
the stock" one year, declares himself to be ill again, he is
not to receive the full allowance, hut merely the half-pay,
10e. 6(1. Brooks had declared himself off the sick-list in
1826, afttr receiving the 26 weekly guineas. In 1827
he declared on again ; but the stewards finding he had
been off-the box only 49 weeks, tendered him the 10s. 6d.
.per week. Brooks learning that he was mistaken in his
reckoning, and that he was not entitled to the guinea, re-
fused the half-guinea, and by so refusing, considet!ed
self eligible to- the full allowance, after the expiry of the
'Whole year, inasmuch as he was, in fact, free of the stock.
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Brooks had declared on the club again a fortnight ago,
and claimed that the sick allowance shotild be fixed at 11. Is.
The stewards now insisted that the declaration of illness
in 1827 ought to be taken into account, although Brooks
derived no benefit from it. That he did. not dertie benefit
was his own act, and for the almost fraudulent purpose of
taking a larger sum out of the society's funds. The sub-
scription was 365. per annum, and Brooks had been a mem-
ber 18 years, during which he had drawn 1501. There
were about 60 members in the society, whose contribution
money produced about 1101. 'a year, while the out-goings
in the last two years, taken together, amounted to 1,2001.
The Recorder had refused to • listen to an application for
amending the scale of benefits. When one steward called
on Brooks, upon receiving his declaration of sickness, be
was told the poor man was as bad as he could be to be alive.
The same evening the other steward called with the half-
guinea, and found Mr. Brooks serving as usual in his shop,
and was heartily abused by him.
The MacrsptArEs decided that there was nothing in the
articles tcr prevent Mr. Brooks from taking advantage of
the society by declaring on and off as best suited his pur-
pose: He was therefore now entitled to the guinea per
week. If the' steward hid left the half-guinea instead of
taking it back again, another decision might Inve been
given.

BOW-STREET.—SOon after Sir RICHARD BIRNIE
took his seat upon the bench yesterday morning, he said he
had received a communication from the Editor of The
Times the night previous, relative to the restoration of the
Warwick notes; upon 'which he was determined to act, and
for which he felt himself obliged to the editor.
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William Nichols, a young man who appears is a regular
frequenter of the flash houses nithwhich theneighbourhocd
of this office abounds, appeared to prefer a charge of assault
against a man named Lambert, who keeps a coffee-shop in
Bow-street, . open the greater part of the night for thieves,
black legs, prostitutes, and blackguards of every description.
The complainant on Tuesday morning, about half-past
three o'clock, went to the defendant's house, and on pro-
ceeding up stairs to ' the saloon," was accosted by the
defendant, who told him that he wished to speak with him
in the next room. The complainant refused, because be
knew that a number of persons were assemblA there who
were engaged with dice and cards. The defendant then
asked him for os., which he said he owed for a bottle of
wine. This the complainant denied, and offered to bet a
sovereign that Lambert was wrong. He drew a sovereign
from his pocket for that purpose, and put it down upon
the table. He had no sooner done so, than he was sur-
rounded by the defendant and three or four persons, in-
cluding one of the. waiters, who was now present. The de-
fendant
.struck him three times, and the sovereign disap-
peared. A woman who was present endeavoured to pre-
vent Lambert from striking him (the complainant), but he
told her he would fling her down stairs and break her
breast bone if she attempted to interfere, and he ordered her
out of the room. The complainant concluded by stating,
that he was severely beaten by the defendant and his party,
and was robbed' of 255. in the scuffle.

Mr. Hit:t.sj—What time did this happen?
—Between three and four o'clock in the morning.
Mr. HALLS—And your house was open for company at
that hour ?—Lambert—lt was, your Worship.
Mr. HALM—Have you a wine-license ?---Lambert—
No, Sir.

)—Lambert

Mr. Haus—l now tell you, Sir, that your room shall
be visited by our patrols, if you continue to keep open at
such hours, and you and your company shall be taken to
the watch-house.

The complainant arain asserted that Lambert wanted
the price of a hot;;Ie of wine from him, which another per-
son lost on Sunday morning.

Mr. Hr.i.i.s•told the complainant that be ought to lay
an information against the defendant for selling wine with-,
out a licence. As to the assault, he advi:cd him to go
down to the Sessions at once, and prefer an indictment.
The complainant said he should follow.the idagistrate's
advice, and he left the office for that purpose.

HATTON-G ARDEN.— William Smith, Esq., No. 9,
Conway-street, Fitzroy-square, was charged by Robert
SoutlUili, a watchman on the Harrison estate, Gray's-inn-
lane, with having violently assaulted him, on the night of
Tuesday last, in the exerciso of his duty.
Hutt, watchlumse-keeper, observed to the Magi-
.tmte, that Southall pictured to him the Ghost of Hamlet,
when he. entered the watehbonse covered with lime, and
having his cutlass drawn in his hand.
• Mr. Smith denietl having committed any assault._ _

Mr. ROGERS, however,- thought proper to hold him to
bail,' and John- Saunders, Esq., No. 2, Compton-street,
atyl.Richard Frankham, Nc. 12, Wilson-street, Gray's-inn 7
lane, came forward, and entered into recognizances for his
appearance at the Seisions.

MARYLEBONE.—One • of the Bow-street patrols
very late on Tuesday night, stopped a tradesman in Pad-
dington-strect, Cavendish-square, with a basket, which at
the time he suspected to have been stolen, and on exami-
ning it at the watch-house, it was found to contain a bare,
with a seal on the head, bearing the initials of W. H.,
some celery, beet-root, and several kinds of herbs, the pos-
session of which the tailor, (for such was his trade) ac-
counted for, when brought before the Magistrate,'by saying
he had been to spend the evening with the butler of R.
Wilmot Horton, Esq. M.P., of Richmond-terrace,
Whitehall, who had had these things sent him from the
country, and had made him a present of them.
I don't wish to make any unjust insinuations, said Mr.
RAWLINSON ; but you are certain they were the butler's
own property, and not his master's, are you ?-0 yes,
indeed they were, cried the tailor. _ .

The patrol said that the tailor told him,, when he was
stopped, that he bad taken six bottles of brandy to Mr. Nor-
ton's house, and that, as there was company there, he
stayed to supper, which made him late in returning home.
He was much the worse for what he bid drank.
Mr. RAW LINSON wished to know for whose use the
brandy was meant.

ThC.tailor said it had been purchased by the butler, for
Mr. Horton's use, and was left for him to take to the house.
Mr. RAWLINSOI4 much doubted if Mr. Horton had not
a better mode of purchasing his liquors. lie rather thought
it was for the company below stairs; he would, however,
send for the butler, and have the matter better explained
before he parted with the charge.
Shortly before three the butler waited on the Magistrate,
and on the question being put to him to state fairly who the
contents of the basket really, belonged to, he said that they
had been sent'to himself, from the country, and he, from
friendship, gave them to the man; whom he hid known for
many years.
Oh, that's it,• is it? observed the Magistrate. And is
it your custom to have company to supper with you when-
ever your master is entertaining his friends ?
My master dined out yesterday, said the butler ; but I
don't know that he would have allowed of my friend's be-
ing there if he had known it.
Your friend, as you term him,. said Mr: RAwuNsow,
says that your master had company at home yesterday, and
that was the reason of his remaining so late. Now, let
me ask you who was the brandy for?
The butler replied, for myself.' My friend got six
bottles of brandy from a smuggler, and when he brought
them I gave him the things I had froth the country.
Mr. RawniNsosn—Well, I think it is very right that
Mr. Horton should be made acquainted with these goings-
on, and I shall certainly take care that he does know it. I
shall now discharge the man, but the officer did right in
detaining him, as it has brought to light a very suspicious
circumstance:

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday a young
man, named Richard Hart, a servant in the employment
of Mr. Mitchel, the landlord of the Crown public-house,
in Broad-street,
Golden-square, was brought before H. M.
DYER, Esq. the 11fagistrate, charged with robbing his mas-
ter's house, and attempting to set it on fire.
, It appeared.hy the evidence of Mitchel and others, that
the prisoner carne. into Mr. Mitchel's service about six
weeks ago, and that on Tuesday morning last, about six
o'clock, he took 4 candle up stairs under the pretence of
cleaning himself, bid not making his appearance for a 'con-
siderable time, be was 'inquired after, when it was found
that be had absconded, carrying with him the contents of
a chest of drawers from Mr. Mitchel'S bed-room, consisting
of a sillt-dres4, nine under garments, stockings, stays, pet-
ticoats,
eer B4e., belonging to ;qrs. Mitchel, together with
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table-cloths, towels, and other articles of property;
several
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