The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-06 00:00:00

POLIC E INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—Two cunning looking Jews, named Joseph
Davis and Joseph Levy, were brought up for duffing.
Bond, the Petrole, had been watching them at Craig's-court,
where the Military Pensioners are now receiving their pensions,
trying to sell a very large silver watch, which appeared to weigh
half a pound, but, in fact, did not weigh more than three or four
ounces. The price they asked was two pounds, though it was
not worth more than ten shillings. After watching them some
time, Bond secured them and the watch.

' Sir R. Birnie asking Levy what he NVB6 ? He answered, " a
Jew," and taking Yip the watch, was coolly proceeding to put it
in his pocket, when he was stopped by Bond. The pensioner,
to whom they were offering it, declining, however, to attvod,
Sir R. Birnie directed him to be proceeded against, for offering
for sale without a hawker's licence.

WORSHIP-STREET.—A person named Burmedge, a silk-1
weaver, attended before Mr. 9SBORNE, respecting the disposal of
hi.female apprentice, Caroline Roney.
Several decent-looking women, who reside near Burmedge's
house, had obtained a summons against biro, two or three days
since, on the part of the apprentice, whom they represented to
have been very cruelly used.
When the Magistrate asked her age, she said, fifteen. The
Magistrate could scarcely credit her statement, for her emaciated
and care-worn features rather resembled those of a female ad-
vanced in years. It was afterwards explained that she was betw,eu
!seventeen and eighteen.
Mr. OSBORNX then examined her as to the way in which she
had been treated, and it appeared that she was frequently and
severely beaten by the mistress with a thick stick, kept the greater
part of her time confined to the work-shop, and very wretchedly
; fed. In the mornings she generally received two slices of bread
I4nd butter, her other meals consisting of a scanty portion of pota-
I toes and a little dripping, and very rarely a morsel of meat.
The parish officers of Bethnal Green, who were present, under-
took the care of the poor girl, whose miserable appearance excited
eneral sympathy. She was Scarcely able to stand without sup-
port, and when she spoke, her hollow and scarcely human tones,
seemed to indicate an interior decay.

The master was 'ordered to attend whenever his presence should
IR required, and the indenture will of course be cancelled.
MARYLEBONE.—A respectable looking young man, named
John Erford, an excise officer, was charged by a watchman
with tracing indecent language in the snow.
It appeared, that as Charley was on his duty, at 11 o'clock the
previous night, in Montague-street, Portman-square, he observed in
the snow, on the stela;., several doors, the language complained of,
which his modesty, beautifully sensitive, forbade him to repeat.
lest, peradventure, he might wound the delicacy of the constables
in attendance.

The Worthy MAGI STRATI, though highly delighted with the
purity of the watchman's morals, dismissed the case.

WAR IN PORTUGAL.

(From the London Magazine.)

The marching of the Foot Guards, or, as Mr. Hume
would phrase it, the throwipg off of the dogs of war, for
Portugal, has given occasion to divers explosions of senti-
ment. Miss Anna Maria Amelia Sophia Porter haS" writ-
ten some verses on the subject, and the Literary Gazette
has been surprisingly fine on the same touching theme.
The writer who does,the sentimental business in that most
curious publication, saw "the dogs " drawn up in the
Birdcage Walk on the morning of their departure. It is
proper that the world should know.what kind of morning
it was:—

" In the south the clouds were heavily rolling away
from the path of the god of day, who now for a moment
dispersed them in their rapid way, and anon withdrew his
glory beneath their veil. The eastern sky was streaked
with lines which exhibited his faded track of rising bright-
ness; while the north and the west were shared between
the cerulean path, which seemed to invite his advancing
course, and the shades which were waiting to succeed the
departure of his setting brilliancy."
This appears prodigiously fine, but it is poor compared
with what follows it :

" There were (and who could have had the heart to pre-.
vent then?) collected around the column many male and
female relatives : the women, almost like Rachael, rtfus,,,
ing to be -comforted,' wedded wives, and betrotherroiers,
fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, all the ties of
consanguinity and of heart stretched on the rack of leave-
taking and of separation.'
_ _ _

I This passage sets the morals of " the dogs," in a most
respectable light, for it will be observed that they had
none but " female relatives," " wedded wives," and
," sisters," about them—nothing paw-paw—all ties of
eonsangunity "—extremely proper and decorous con-
nections. Alack ! alack ! I have seen these same " dogs;"
mustered' for a march with a very different assemblage
about them. " Good Lord," as Pepys would have exclaimed,
such shoals of trulls and queens !' And so much more gin
than tears shed, so many more oaths than sighs ; so many
more eyes " blasted " than wet ! But the dogs have, we
learn, changed their ways; they have become moral, and •
have to do with none but—" wedded wives " and sisters.
See how they comported themselves—
" Here was an old man exhorting the child of his pro-
mise to emulate his father's dearly-treasured courage in
the same righteous cause—that of his King and his coun-
try ; there a' youth, pledging to a brother the vow of "
filial duty, and protection to their aged and common sire;
and in another direction was heard the deep-drawn poig- ,
nant burst of.sorrow poured from the wife of his bosom
into the struggling heart of many a manly mould. ' Don't
Ihe unhappy, Mary,' said one fine young man to a pale,
fair girl, whose grief,•depieted in her gaze, was at first too
acute to relieve itself in tears ; don't be unhappy, you will
lire with mother, and you will write to me, and I shall,
perhaps, sometimes find time to write to you, and a
soldier's letter, you know, travels over the world for a
penny ; and we shall soon settle the matter, and come back ;
they won't dare to stand their ground long, when our bay-
onets
touch them—and then, Mary —" Ah exclaimed
Mary, bursting into tears,' but they may stay long enough
to kill some of you, and how can I tell that you
Oh ! no, no replied the brave youth, many chances
before my turn, .Mary, come, be cheery, you'll love me
all the beiter when I have fought for King George !'
Fought for King George ! Fought for a fiddle-stick !t
Did mortal man ever hear the like of fighting for one', ;
King at this tithe of day ? For King George read six-
pence a day ; that is what soldiers fight for—and if King
Dick paid it to them, provided it passed current at the I
gin shop, they would tied his service as good as another
gentleman's, Here is something of a still finer water--ri
cure pleurer.
" You'll get- half my pay,' whispered a man, with an
accent of more tenderness than his appearance seemed to
warrant the expectation of,—a tall, hard-featured, strong-
limbed figure, with a Waterloo medal suspended by the
usual ribbon at his breast, upon which he looked down as
if the sight of it nerved him to some great exertion.
get half my pay,' said he to a pretty young
`woman who carried an infant on her arm, while with the
other hand she held a blooming boy of six or seven years
old; ' and as we cannot spend any' money in Portugal, we
shall save the other half to Send Johnny to school, and
make a clever fellow of him ; shall we not, Johnny ?'
stooping down to kiss the rosy boy;--`
and he shall take
care of his sister when hg, grows to be a man ;' and I
thought I saw a tear fall from his full eye as he raised it
towards heaven, and added, and when I come home I
shall get my dise'a:lrge and my pension, and we'll go and
live at the old viiidge, and make all the country folks stare
with the stories of all the battles and sights I have seen."
It is perfectly astonishing to me that a man can sit down
and invent those mawkish taradiddles, and then have the
impudence to attempt to pass them off as facts, and take
credit for the fine sympathies which he swears they have
excited in his feeling breast.

RARE NEWS FOR THE LADIES.—The fashion of
matrimony seems to be reviving in Wales ; a correspondent in-
forms us, that the Gentlemen Bachelors of the town of Llandilo-
fawr have lately formed themselves into a society, called " The
Matrimonial Association," by the rules' of which each member
binds himself to enlist in the Benedictine corps within ene year
from the period of his initiation ; several of the gentlemen have
already shown themselves good members, and many others are
;preparing to break the ice.— Carmarthen Journal.
•

bt:z;SEX WINTER ASSIZES.

LEWES, JAN. 4.

The winter gaol delivery for this county commenced here yes-
terday afternoon, before Mr. Justice BAILEY and Mr. Justice
GASELET. There are seventy-two prisoners for trial; very few,
however, of whose cases are marked by enormity.
Richard Chapman was indicted for assembling, with other
persons, armed with offensive weapons, on the 7th of December,
at the parish of Fair Light, and rescuing certain contraband goods
after seizure, and wounding George Kent, an officer of the Cus.
toms, in the execution of his duty.
The Jury, under the direction of Mr. Justice Gasstli, found
the prisoner 'guilty. lie was sentenced to be transported for
Seven years,

Henry Barnard was indicted for assisting in making a light
on the coast at Worthing, in the night of the 29th of September,
for the purpose of enabling other Persons to laud uncustomed
goods.
The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.

John Kelley was indicted for feloniotaly intermarrying with
Ann Turner, at Brighton, on the 18th of September, 1826, his
first wife, Bridget, being then alive.

In 1817, the prisoner was married at Christchurch, Surrey; to
Bridget Brennan, who was proved to be alive a month since.—
In September, 1825, he married a second time to Ann Turner, a
spinster, in Brighton church.

The prisoner, soon after the marriage of his first wife, had dis-
covered that she had been married before, in Ireland, to a man
named Walsh, who was now living; ant that she had run away
from him (prisoner), carrying off his watch with her. No wit-
nesses were called to prove these facts.

Lord George Lennox had known the prisoner for 12 years, as
a private in the 9th Lancers, and no man in the regiment bore a
better character.

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. He produced certificates
of an excellent character. Sentent4 was postponed.

MEETINGS OP CREDITORS.

LONDON DIARY.-:—TuzsDAY, JAL 9.—(At the Court cf

Commissioners, Basinghall-street. )
Anderson, A., Walworth, baker-11
Applegath, A., Stamford-street, printer-11
Archer, W., Hertford, oilman-11
Ashton, .1., Tottenham-court-road, mercer-11
;arker, A., Pancras, apothecary-11
Baugh, J., High Holborn, clothes-salesman--I1
Bstrkinyoung, P., Kent-road, coach-maker-11
l]tiellop, J., Isle of Sheppy, farmer-10
Bowers, • J., Spitelfields-market, victualler-11
Chaffey, .1., Bow-street, victualler-11
Coales, W., Wisbceh, grocer-12
Cousens, G., Gray's-inn-lane, merchant-11
!Coates, J., Bermondsey, tanner-12
Crafts, G., Wycombe, paper-maker-11
Dow, J., Bow-common, rope-maker--11
Fisher, J., Canterbury, brazier--11
Franklin, W., Jermyn-street, tailor-11
Gordon, .J., Spring-gardens, army-agent-10
Gunn, J., Foley-place, eoachmaker-11
Haycock, J., St. Albans, grocer-11
Hetherington, D., Cheapside, warehouseman—l 1
Hooper, H., Bognor, grocer-11
, Jafferson, J., Carnarby-market-10
Jones, S., Wood-street, lace-manufacturer—lo
Jones and Norris, Budge row, stationers-1 1
Langdon, J., jun., Walworth, broker-11
Leigh, E. and E. Chiddingstone, Kent, victualler-11
jLe Roy, C., Pall Mall, haberdasher-10
Mackie, M., Maidenhead, saddler-11
Moojen, J., Marklane, merchant-11
Naish, J., Bristol, auctioneer-1
Pearson, R., High Holborn, seriveuer-1 1
Perrin, W., Chatham, grocer-11
Price, W., Baldwias gardens, glace-manufacturer-1 1
Riddick, T., Pentonville, baker-11
Roberts, T., Manchester, draper-11
Rodel, R., Threadneedle-street, wine-merchant-10
Robertson, J., Tottenham, surgeon-11
Rohde, S., Mantel-street, dealer-11
Shirmer, J., Shirley, cattle-dealer-11
Smith, T., Kentish Town, bookseller-12
Sweetman, W., Norwood, carpenter---11
Woeds and Williams, Hastings, grocers—lo

COUNTRY DIARY, WiDNESDAY, JAN. O.
Brown, J., Liverpool—Messrs. Parkinson, Liverpool-12
Champion, G., Bristol—Commercial rooms, Bristol-1
Clarke, J., Worcester—Messrs. France, Worcester-2
Harrison, W., Nottingham—Ram, Nottingham-11
Morris, S., Cheltenham—Royal Hotel, Cheltenhaw-1
Pickering, S., Worcester—Mr. Hill, Worcester-11
Strange, T., Cheltenham—Royal Hotel, Cheltenham-1 I
Stanley, I, Charlton Kings, Gloucestershire—Fleece, Chelten-
ham—l
Wynne, J., Stafford—Star, Stafford—J

,COUNTRY.--At the Court-house, Cernarvon, January 11

at Ten.
Jones, F.., Pant Awlehderwm, Clynog, widow

THE MARKETS.

1 Su c( &Far G---mTthheesLuognardonmNarekwetPoprienceedCmwrirtehntsoafrueF
b'deins.),lo2)eso
on
Friday.)
'.,
Tuesday last, but the t equest has since become limited ; the laet
prices are, however, fully supported. The public sale of Metal-
, tins yesterday, 4,466 bags, had an unfavourable effect, the whole
'sold Is. a Is. 6d. lower, except the inferior, which sold high in
proportion to the fine, the prices 565. a 635. ; the whole were pe-
remptorily to be sold at whatever prices could be obtained, they
were in consequence sold under disadvantageous circumstances.—
The Sugar Market this forenoon has been firm, but the sales were
not extensive till a late hour, when the buyers came forward and
withdrawn,
w
purchased on rather an extensive scale; the sales to-day are esti-
mated at 1,000 casks, and during the week the sales are estimated
at 4,000 casks; the prices ace rather higher; and the Market looks
brisk. The Refined Market appears reviving; the inquiries for
low goods for expert have been rather extensive, the wholesale
grocers have not bought fine goods to any extent. Molasses
'teady. The request for low goods has been continued this fore-
noon, and the buyers are now contracting for parcels to be ready
a few weeks hence; the Lumps taken lately for crushing are
as breeleitntlerevparoriteedd.. In Foreign or Eut
ratherndi
an extensive Sugars
n. n
businessAlo ll i Molasses a
s h
CorFau.—The first public sale this year of Coffee took place
yesterday, it went off heavily, it consisted chiefly of Dutch de-
scriptions ' no
buyers appearing. There were no public salts of Coffin
c;0
natifne few e lotsto
b ofe I
na
de Jamaicafor inst
.the
Domingosale we raen vid
Brazilthout this fore-
noon, and generally the Market has a languid appearance; but
inquiries
50s. which will probably lead to contracts of some
TEA.—There is no ,alteration in Tea; the consumption is re-
ported to be greatly increased lately by the low
prices.
COTTON.—The accounts from
MMancbest
con-
tinue very favourable for Cotton, but the 'V er
an
thd Liverpool
by the declaration for the the India sale 1 larkeere is checked.
beide the business previous to that period 12th inst., and it is pro-
. The purchases for the week ending last night inclusive, will
notbeextentive.
consist
of 800 Surats, sd. a sid. ; 26()
~ sid. ; 800 Egyptian, 17d. • :Madras, 5-0. ; '7O Bengal, 51d.
duty paid.
SPICES.--Tll5 purchases of Spices lately are confined to incon-
siderabletoo limited
Market • some t to be given as a criterion of the
, -- buyers a r
holders do not accept*' appear for Nutmegs at 3s. 10d., but the
the public sale that price. Pimento is rather higher; at
;, a 10d. yesterday 102 bags, the good quality sold ifid.

hint Paovistorrs.—The late advance of 54.- a 10s. in Beef is
maintained, and the Market looks firm ; Pork is rather heavy at
the late advance. Bacon is little varied. Butters are in more
request on account of the severe frost.

WotE.—Winei;noreinden;;lsince the political mats in
,Portugal took plaice; but there is little improyetnent in the
prices.

RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The Spirit Market is firm,
but few sales are reported ; proof Leewards and four over hare
been sold in small parcels. We have not heard of any &den 9f
Jamaica. At a late hour to-clay no sales of Rum or Brandy were
reported. The holders of the few parcels of Geneva at Market
are asking higher prices on •accouut of the Excise sale having
I gone off 2d. psr gallon higher 2s. 2d. a 2s. td. the last sale was
2s. a 2s. 2d.

HEMP, Ft.ax, AND TALLow.--The Tallow Market, which has
lately been languid, reviviA considerably last night, and the ad-
vance of fid. which was reported, appears to be firmly maintained
to-day ; the trade anticipate that the supplies of Candles, Soap,
Ste. 'for the West Indies, which were previously sent from Ame-
rica, will be shipped from this country, which will enliven the
demand. Hemp and Flax are little varied. At a late hour the
Tallow Market was hrisk, and 9d. a Is. higher for March and
—The demand lately has been limited, the prices
continue
rl iic‘r
to be
e
s .
quoted a shade lower.
Irtnico.—The quantity now declarNl at the India House ex-

ceede 7,000 chests, the further declaration will be inconsiderable,
and the extent of the sale in April will be limited. The report
of the number of buyers coming to the sale is favourable, Lot
no decided opinion can yet be given. There is little or no bus:-
ness doing, and the Market will probably remain in the same lan-
guid state till the sale commences.

TonAcco.--LThe salei for the week ending last night inclusive
do not exceed 160 hhds., the whole are for the home consump-
tion. The holders of Tobacco are more firm than formerly, on
ac:•count of the warlike message of the President.
Ons—The Oil Market which was excessively brisk early in
the week haFi again become languid ; there is, however, no altera-
tion in the prices.

FaulT--The scarcity of new Currants begins to he felt mate-
rially by the grocers ; there have been no arrivals lately, and none
remain in the importers' hands. Figs also are in good demand,
as there is also a scarcity of them ; such of the Importers that are
disposed to sell, are demanding higher prices : in the other de-
scriptions there is no alteration.

WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Jan. 4.
725. Od. to 10.5 a. Od. I Ott. to 36.. Od.
Clover SU. Od. to J. Od.

PRICES OF HOP
Pockets.

i (per Cwt:)--.lan. 5.
1 liags.
Kent 31. Bs. 4/. Oi. to X. q;.
Sussex 3/. 3s. 31. Ws. 6.) Si. WI:.
Essex... 31. tis. 31. 16e. to 411. 143 g.
8/ 124.—Sseond4, 61. Us. to 71. u,.

Kest 41. Os. 41. to or.
14 4,1• K ltio. 41. 4m. to 41. Itls.
Essex—. 41. OS. 41. 15s. to St 56.
Farnham, tine (Pockets) 71. 71. to