The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-08 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

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MANSION-HOUSE.— William Corp, the son of Mr.
Corp, of Great Tower-street, was charged with having
robbed his father of three or four shillings.
Mr. Alderman TuomrsoN, before whom the lad was
brought, endeavoured to persuade Mr. Corp not to prose-
cute his son, but 31r. Corp said his son had promised him
so often to reform, that he was now determined to send

him to the Old Bailey.
The prosecutor then stated, that his son had in his
absence broken open the till or drawer where some silver
Ilay, and taken three or four shillings, with which he de-
camped. His son had acted very improperly before, and
soon after his departure with the money sent him a letter
acknowledging and lamenting the robbery, but assuring him
that he had got a birth before the mast in the Isis, which
is lying at Chatham, and requesting that money should
forthwith be transmitted to him for equipment for the ser-

vice. To this letter no answer was sent, whereupon the!
prisoner became impatient, and threatened to return to
town. No notice having been taken of the second or even
of n third communication, the prisoner sent for the witness
from a neighbouring public-house, but an officer visited
him there instead of his father, and took him into custody.
The prisoner made no defence.
Alderman TLIOMFSON.—Then, Mr. Corp, your son is
fully committed to Newgate for trial for robbing you.
Mr. Corp signed his deposition, bowed to the Alderman,
thanked him, and departed. The prisoner did not say a
word, but he looked at his parent as he passed off to New-
gate in such a manner as cannot easily bd forgotten.

BOW-STREET.—An elderly man, named Wm. Ed-1
wards, a schoolmaster at Derby, was brought to this office'
for the purpose of having an order of affiliation made upon
him; to compel him to maintain his female bastard child.
The mother of the child was a remarkably pretty and very
delicate small-sized woman, apparently about 14 years of
Wage, and had her infant in her arms. She said, that when
she was ten years and a half old, her mother died, leaving
her and two younger children with her father. Her father
was acquainted with Mr. Edwards, who keeps a school at
Derby, and sent her to his house to be educated and taken
care of. On the 29th of April last she was delivered of

the female child which she held in her arms, and of whicl

the defendant was the true and only father. She was 141
years of age in June last. In reply to the Magistrate's'
question, she said it was about a year and a half ago when
the defendant first began to behave improperly to her.
The defendant had nothing to tay against the statement.
of the mother, and the Magistrates made the order of affi-
liation, adjudging him to- pay all expences that had been
incurred by the parish, and 7s. per week for the support
of the child.

The defendant said, the amount ordered to be paid
weekly was too much, and more than he could afford.
Mr. MiNsuum. said, it should not be lessened one
farthing. In the whole course of his experience as a Ma-
gistrate he never had so scandalous a case before him.
The defendant was locked up until he paid the money.

George Boskin, driver of the hackney chariot 173, was
charged with a gross assault upon a married woman,
named Brown. The complainant was returning home on
Sunday evening, and engaged the defendant's coach at the
rend of Sloane-street, to drive her to Brompton. On the
road, however, the defendant took a strange man up into
the coach, who began to take liberties with her, and when
she insisted upon leaving the coach, the defendant demand-
ed 3s. for his fare, and insulted her because she refused to
pay it.—He was ordered to find bail.
HATTON-GARDEN.—John Taylor and Mary Dea-
kin were yesterday morning finally examined on the charges
of starving and cruelly ill-treating the male infant of Taylor.
For the purpose of preventing the concourse of persons
who had assembled on the former hearings, Lee, the jailor,
brought the prisoners from the New Prison at ten o'clock,
and placed them in the lock-up room of the office. Not-
withstanding this precaution, some hundreds assembled
round the office, anxious to know the result. At twelve
o'clock they were again placed at the bar, and the child
not being considered in any immediate danger, though in a
most precarious state, both prisoners were committed to
take tkeir trial for the misdemeanor at the ensuing Middle-
sex Sessions.
Their progress back to the New Prison, in a hackney,
coach, was marked by the hootings and execrations of the,
assembled hundreds.

MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.---Yesterday, Willi"
Taylor, a shabby-looking artisan, was charged by William
Gibson, of 29, Ogle-street, with seducing and robbing his
daughter.
It appeared that the defendant, who is a married man,
having at the present two wives, according to the evidenceof
the accuser, occupied for two years part of the same house
with William Gibson and his family, and by that means
became acquainted with the complainant's daughter, Cathe-
rine, a creditable-looking girl, 18 years of age. A short
time ago the prisoner persuaded thisgirl to leave a situation
which she held in a gentleman's family, and live with him
in a lodging at No. 2, East-street, Finsbury-square, under
the assumed names of William and Catherine Watson,'
where she was discovered on Friday by her father, and
brought home, robbed, as he said, and naked (meaning
that, excepting a few rags upon her back, her clothes ware
all at the pawnbroker's.)
The girl answered questions put to her by Mr. Gitirmu •
with great reluctance ; she said the prisoner promised to
marry her, and persuaded her to pawn her clothes, when he
wanted colours (he is a painter and japanner), and he had
repeatedly threatened to run her father through, or do him
some personal injury, if he endeavoured to take her from
him.
Mr. GRIFFITH regretted that he could do no more than
require the prisoner to find good bail to keep the peace.--
The charge of seduction must be tried elsewhere ' • and that
of robbery was not supported ; for it appeared that the girl
herself had pledged the clothes, in her assumed name of.:
Catherine Watson.
TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK.—On the pauper
cases being called on, a reputable-looking man from among
them presented himself to the Magistrate's notice, and re-
' quested to be passed to his native country, Ireland.
This unfortunate person's case is singular. About six
weeks ago, he rushed wildly into a house in Mill-lane,
Tooley-street, and requested to be saved from assassination
by being taken either to a guard-house or police-office, as
several persons in the street had fired at and wounded
him ; and exhibited such unequivocal proofs of a disordered
, mind, that he was conveyed to the Borough-compter oppo-
site, where coercion was necessary to prevent his commit-
ting mischief; from whence he was removed by the parish
officers the same day to their asylum, Lower Edmonton,
and now returned with a certificate of perfect recovery.
The Magistrate, Alderman J. J. SMITH, questioning
him as to his claims for consideration, received for answer,
that for 13 years he held the situation of a revenue officer,
in Ireland, during which period he received, in the dis-
charge of his duty, in detecting illicit stills, numerous
an sabre,
,d gun-shot wounds in every part of his body ; and on',
one occasion was passing from Dublin with his party, when'
'they were attacked and fired at by two footpads, whom
they secured, after a severe conflict, and took before the
Mayor, who committed them for trial; and that in cone-
queue of otteudipg to give evideuce WWI thew 4or eight,

'days, without thinking it necessary to obtain leave of ab-'
Isenee, he was dismissed from his employment, and came
to London to petition for his restoration ; but his endea-
vours had proved unsuccessful, and all the money he had
was exhausted.

His name and connexions were then asked ; but he de -1
dined mentioning them, unless to the Magistrate in
private, to whom he handed several letters from Noblemen!
and gentlemen, in reply to applications for their interest in,
getting him restored to his situation, to some of whom it
was stated lie is related. _ .

The Alderman, on this showing, granted him a pass, for
which he expressed his thanks ; but on learning that he
must travel as a pauper, seemed much shocked, and pressed
the Magistrate to interfere with the parish foe his being
conveyed to Bristol by the coach ; but this the Alderman
told him he had no power to do. We afterwards under-
stood his name was Kirwan.

. UNION-HALL—Two young women, named Mardi
Jones and Emily Jenkins, WC re brought up, charged with 9
!robbing one Mr. Elias Wilson, a man advanced in years, of
a silver watch and 18s. in silver.
The complainant, in a melancholy tone, stated his case
as follows :—" I am truly sorry a man at my time of life
should have been compelled to appear in this public place,
but I have a duty to perform, and it must be done. Well,
Sir, as I was going home last night I met with the two
young women inside those bars, and they prevailed on me •
to go into a gin-shop, from whence we all three went to-
gether
to a house in Frying-pan-alley." Here the com-
plainant paused for a time, and then asked whether he was
bound to state every thing that passed while in the society
of the ladies in Frying-pan-alley.
The Magistrate informed him, that all he wanted to hear
was the manner in which Le had been robbed.
The complainant then resumed—" Well, Sir, there was
a fatality attending me last night, as I &Lid before. I went
home with the women, and, indeed, went to bed with them
both ; but had not been long there, when, on waking out
•of a nap, I found both my bedfellows had left me. I got
up, poked about the room in the dark for my clothes, but
found they were gone also. I then called cloud for the
landlady to bring a light, when I discovered that my
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breeches, containing my watch and money, were missing.
Those are the two women," added the old man, " who
took my breeches and money; I'll swear to them." He
, then, looking towards the magistrate very gravely, said,l
" Your Worship, you know the frailty of us poor mortals ;"
adding, with peculiar emphasis, " human nature will be
human nature still." The two sentences were pronounced
in such a manner as to excite roars of laughter.
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The Magistrate—Were you drunk at the time ? Com-
plainant—l can't say I was sober.
A constable proved that he was very much intoxicated ;1
in contradiction to whose statement the complainant ad..l
duced as a proof of his sobriety, that he only had taken two'
glasses of rum, two glasses of gin, and a pot of porter.
Mr. CILIMBERS-What became of your breeches?
Cotaplainant—The landlady lent me a pair to go home with.
Mr. CiIAMBERS-I shall not hear any more of this case :
you have disgraced yourself by accompanying those women
to a brothel ; besides, you were drunk, and therefore ren-
dered incapable of identifying who robbed you.

GERMAN AND HAMBURGH PAPERS.

BERLIN, JULY 81.

On the 2.6 th of this month, the marriage of her High-1
ness the Princess Augusta of Satins Braunfels, daughter of
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland, with his
Highness Prince Albert of Schwatzbarg, was solemnized
in the Royal Palace of Schonhansen, in a very private
manner, only the Royal Family being present, because the
death of the Prince of Tour and Taxis, brother-in-law of
the Duchess of Cumberland, prevented e.ny display of pomp
on the occasion.

HANOVIR, JULY 31.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam-
bridge returned yesterday from Pyrmout to Montbrillant,
but will go the day after to-morrow to Rumpelheirn.
A Convention has been concluded between our Govern-
ment and that of Brunswick, for the regulation of several
points relative to commerce.

STOCKHOLM, JUNE 27.
M. Von Ihre, our Charge d'Affaires at Constantinople,
.ias set out on his return to that city with his Majesty's
ratification of the Treaty of Navigation concluded with the
Porte.
The Norwegian Storthing has applied for his Majesty's
permission to prolong its session till the 9th of August, if
it should be necessary to complete its labours. It is un-
derstood that his Majesty hue complied with this request.
naEsostr, JOLT 24.

The ceremony of taking the oaths and doing homage'
to the King, will take place next month. His Majesty
will receive it in person here, at Leipsic, Freiburg, and
Bautzen; commissioners will be appointed to receive it in
the other towns. It is thought the ceremony will take'
place at Leipsic, on the 13th August.