The Sun.
London, England, 1827-06-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL. —Mary Nash, an Irishwoman, between
30 and 40 years of age, who stated that she obtained her
living by selling fruit in the, streets, was charged by James
Hould, a youth, an assistant in a grocer's shop, with endea-
vouring to extort 51. from him, under a threat of swearing
that he is the father of a child with which she is now
pregnant. He knew she was cohabiting with some min,
at the time when the intimacy occurred with him, in
,December ; but she had threatened him, that if she granted
favours to forty men, she would fasten the bantling upon
him, out of revenge. He did not believe 'she was now
pregnant at all.
Sir P. LAURIE dismissed the case, and told the woman
if she was really pregnant, to apply to the parish officers.
BOW-STREET.—The butler and nephew of a gen-
tleman, residing in. South Audley-street, were brought be-
fore Mr. HALLS, yesterday, upon an assault warrant,
charged with having assaulted a Sheriff's officer, named
Levi, and his son William Levi, a lad. -
Levi, sen. said, it was not the first time the butler had
served Sheriff's officers in that same manner. He added,
that it was not wonderful he should be anxious to go up
stairs- after the gentleman, when it was " next to no-
thing" he would be getting out at the back windows when
he heard who was in the house. _ _

The defendants, and a SOlicitor who attended on their
behalf, repelled this insinuation.
" Yes," said Levi, senior, "but when he did Come to
us, he refused to surrender, and I couldn't get him away."
The Solicitor, with a view of showing that his cliente
were not to blame, inasmuch as when they laid hands
upon the complainants they were not aware of their oc-
cupation ;—among other questions, he asked Levi if he
had told truth in what he said to gain admission to the
house.

" Tell truth !" ejaculated Mister Levi, why we never
do ; I don't know when we should catch a gentleman if
we did !"

Every body laughed except the solicitor and the de-
fendants, who were ordered to find bail.
UNION-HALL.--Summaav PUNISIOIENT.—A man,
named John Piggott, residing in Walworth, was brought
to this office on the following charge:—.lt appeared that
the prisoner enticed a female child, of between seven and
eight years of age, into some fields near the St. Helena
tea-gardens, at Rotherhithe, and proceeded to take the.most
indecent liberties with her, when the child cried out, and
some women hastened to her assistance, and proceeded to
inflict summary punishment on the delinquent, in the fol-
lowing manner :—They selected a deep and muddy ditch,
not far from the scene of his transgressions, thither they
conveyed him, and having secured his hands and feet, flung
him in amongst the filth, and kept him there until he was
literally smothered. They then dragged him out of the
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he " ladies" engaged on the occasion, to-WM_ ifnpo.s-
sible, for his nearest kindred to identify him.. After having
been taken,.out of the ditch, the women, conceiving that
he hnil not suffPred sufficient punishment at their hands,
drove him on before them, with sticks, towards the canal,
and having well soused him in the water, he was taken out
as clean as a new pin, washed of the abominations his
person had undergone in the mud and filth of the dirty
ditch. He was then permitted to crawl home ; but some
of the friends of the child thinking he deserved further
punishment, had him subsequently taken into custody and
brought up to this office, when the above circumstances
having been disclosed, and it appearing that the child had
not received any serious injury, the accused was permitted
to leave the office.

THE UNKNOWN GENTLEMAN.—The individual charged
at this Office on Tuesday with riotous and disorderly con-
duct in Vauxhall Gardens, and who described himself as
the brother of a Nobleman, was yesterday again brought
before the Magistrate. The letter which he wrote to Sir
Richard Birnie, was delivered to that gentleman, but he
disclaimed all knowledge of the writer, and said he thought
the signature of " Limerick" attached to it was a forgery.
The prisoner affected great surprise that his old friend Sir
Richard should refuse to come for card, and said he
thought his letter bad miscarried, otherwise there was that
friendship subsisting between them, that he would have
pitched all business to the d—l, and come to bail him.—
The Magistrate and tlie Officer assured him that his letter
had been delivered.

" God bless my soul," said the defendant, " I am quite
surprised at Sir Richard ; if my friend, Bob Peel, knew
where I was, he would come to me at once. Let me see
(he added, and assuming a vast deal of importance), I
have such a prodigious number of friends, that I scarcely
know upon whom to fix next to inform of my being in
custody." He then wrote three or four letters to persons
at the West end of the town; but the parties refused to
come and bail him, and he was sent to gaol.

MEETINGS 'OF CREDITORS.

LONDON DI ARY.-TUESDA.

Commissioners, B
Almosnino, S. and Co., Be-
vis Marks
Andrews —, Louth
Badnall, ,R., Leek ...... 10
Banyard, C., Deptford 1
Barlee, C., Lambeth .. .
Burkinyoung, P., Old Kent
road ll
Churchill, S. Deddington II
Clemence, T., Truro
Cole, T., Stonehouse, Ply-
-10
mouth
Dunham,CroeG. JlS.,ecwa-rceuyt..; ..... ..

r, JUNE 26.---(At the Court of
lasinghall-street.)
Ella, S., Noble-street to
Finden, J. John-street, Fitz-
it
roy-square
11
Fry, J., Artillery-street
Gibbons and Co., March-
-10
mont.street
Haynes, J., Gutter-lane,
Cheapside
11
Hetherington, Eing,:-
gate-street . 10
Heywood, E., Abchurch-
yard ll
Hill, T. East Grinstead .....

COUNTRYitniG.
,i Button—Bridgeee,i)
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inn, .
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posl DtooAonir ' jU N E 26.
Impenal hotel, Cheltenham I
Cheltenham— •10
gham—Royal hotel, Birmingham 2
Boardman,
10
Fox, T., Ellthalll—Tovrn-hall, &,f0rrca5t1e......... II
George, T., Newport, Moam
and C., Newport .. outhshire—Messrs. Prot hero
Daniel,Ce
nduwpwaldnic:G:,
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Harlan'', J., Bolton—s"w"; .. E.; .. ........... ......... •. • ......... • .... •
Hudson, W., Stan)ford:—.C; r-r" .
Deer G. ffith—Castle and' own, Stamford .... . ........ ..:.. . . ,
Lomax, J. Halesow Ball, Bath .... .......... .. . ... . ...... :
Mitchell, J. Lock en—White Hart, Harnehury ..... .
dersfield ....... wood in Aldmondbury—Court-bouse, Hutt-
................... ll
Phillips, a' Sfepney-oouse, _ElephantYorksh. and Castle,
picicato:rl
-. ._, .9 W., Liverpool--George tiverool 1
lcOulnoori, J., Liverpool—Angel, p i- A ngel: Liverpool l2
Shute, F. and Co.lrlditon, Devonshire—Old London inn,
Exeter ..... .. * .................. . .................... . ............. .
Tilstonand co. 140...,81acic Lioll, Mold ll
Woodward,'G.: Birrningtam—,Hen and Chickens hirr, Bir
tough
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TO . DISCHARGED,,
.house at York, June r, at
Kemplay, R., Bridlington
Knowles, W., York
Mallory, G., Ruston Parva
Nevison, W., East Harkey
Nicholson, F., Catwick
Nicoll, J., Leeds
Oddie, E., York
Pannett, A., Kilvington
Peacock, W., Nupington
Peirson, T., Slingsby
Rin§oh, J. Howden
Simpson, W.; Malton
Wetherill, IL, Newton
Wilson, T., Dunnington