The Sun.
London, England, 1827-01-30 00:00:00

might he Aned every day until they made their servants attend to
the state of the foot-way before their doors.
On Saturday evening one of Mr. Harmer's clerks came to this
office in a violent hurry, to inquire if the report in that morning's
Times under the head of this office, of what was stated. by a young
man named Waddilove and his father respecting a public-house
called " the Harp," was not an untrue and false report. He was
informed in reply to his inquiries, that the report, as far as it
went, was perfectly correct; but that it fell far short of the bad
character and description which yodbg Waddilove and his friends
gave of the house. Just at this moment, Waddilove, his father,
and uncle, happened to . enter the office, when Mr. Harmer's clerk
was referred to them, and they soon satisfied him how subdued
the report was, as compared with their representations. His spe-
culation of course was at an end.

UNION-HALL.—A man named Alexander, who described
himself as a French Jew, was charged with having committed the
following fraud on a poor weaver of Bethnal Green :—A few
days ago the prisoner called upon the complainant, with whom he
had been previously acquainted, and said that a parcel, containing
a variety of valuable articles of French manufacture, had arrived
in this country for him (prisoner), but that they were in the
hands of a woman in Petticoat-lane, and who refused to deliver
them to him unless he paid her a debt he owed her; he .therefore
requested the loan of 21. 165., and he promised to repay it when
he received the goods, and also to present the complainant's wife
with a crape shawl and a piece of Brussels lace. The poor weaver
raised the money by pledging his wife's clothes, and then ac-
companied the prisoner to the house of the woman in Petti-
coat-lane. . There a brown paper parcel was. exhibited to them,
carefully tied up and sealed, and the only obstacle to ite
being delivered up was the sum of 21. 16s. claimed by, the
female, who asserted she had been at that expenee herself in pay-
ing the carriage, &e. from a distant part of the south of France.
The complainant then gave the 2/. 165., and the prisoner went
out under pretence of procuring a receipt, but did not return._
The parcel, which was produced, contained nothing but old rags
and straw.

The prisoner was apprehended on Saturday, at the time he was
endeavouring to play off the same trick upon a poor shoemaker.—
The turnkey of Brixton House of Correction said, the prisoner had
recently been liberated from that gaol, after having suffered twelve
months' imprisonment. -

Mr. Staples, the clerk, said, the prisoner had been brought to
the office at least twenty times.
Macsey, the constable who apprehended the prisoner, said, that
he paid for his dinner on Sunday, and his breakfast that morning;
he hoped that he should be reimbursed.

The prisoner (imptil?ntly)—Well, that shews what a fool you
were—you knew that I had more money in my pocket than you
were ever possessed of. Then addressing the complainant, he
said, " As for you, Mr. Weaver, you must go to school again
to learn common sense. Take me where you will; I don't
care; fur I know that you will never be able to make a ease
against me."
Mr. CHAMBERS..-. 4 only regret that the circumstances did not
take place in this district; otherwise I should certainly commit.you.
The Magistrate then directed the constable to take the prisoner
into the city where the case occurred.