The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-25 00:00:00

at Woolwich. He had also a brother a ceptain in
he army, who was then with his regiment in Ca-
nada, and another brother wss a Captain in the navy,
anti hal served the battle of Navarin. The
family of the prisoner was highly connected, and it
was under the conviction that no step, short of send-
;lig the young man out of the country, would have
the least effect in checking the _course of fraud and
imposition in which he had been for a long time
engaged.
The prisoner, whose name, on account of his
family, we for the present suppress, appeared to be
about 24 years of age : he was brought before the
Magistrate, in custody of Thomas Satwell, street-
keeper, of the ward of Bishop gate. He is lams
of his right leg, and walks upon .a crutch.
Mr. HALLS asked if any person was present who
had a charge against the prisoner?
Mr. Wilson replied, that although his sister was
the principal sufferer, she having been robbed of all
her jewels by the prisoner, yet she did not like to
appear as the prosecutrix of her own brother. A
lady, however, was present, whom the prisoner had
defrauded of 61., by falsely representing himself to
be a half-pay officer in the navy, and perhaps if
that charge could be brought home against the pri-
soner, it would have the effect ilf,tsetudinghim out
of the country, which 'Was the earnest wish of laitu
most respectable family.
Mr. HALLS asked if the prisoner had obtained the
money from the lady by representing that he was a
half-pay officer ?
Mr. Wilson replied in the affirmative, and added
that the prisoner had told the lady he had been at
the battle of Navarin.
Mr. HALLS—Did he produce any document, upon
the faith of which the money was advanced ?—Mr.
Wilson said, that the prisoner told the lady he was
about to receive his half-pay at Somerset-house.
Mr. HALLS—And are you prepared to prove that
he has no pay to receive there ?—Mr. Wilson an-
swered that he could prove this fact—namely, that
the prisoner had never been an hour in his Majesty's
service.
The prisoner, who appeared to treat the matter
very coolly, said he could prove that he had been an
officer in the merchant service.
Mr. HALLS then directed the lady to be called
forward.
She stated that she was a married woman, and
her name was Lupton. She was the mistress of the
Mitre-tavern,: in St. Martin's lane. She first be-
came acquainted with the prisoner at the Stag's
Head, Wandsworth, of which her brother-in-law
was the proprietor. The prisoner had then repre-
sented himself to be a naval officer on half-pay, and
upon the faith of that representation site (the wit-
ness) had lent him sums from time to time, amount-
ing to 6/., besides which he ran up a score of 20s.
In proof of this statement Mr. Wilson handed to
the Magistrate a letter which the prisoner had
written to the witness, with a view to borrow the
sum of 1/. The letter was as follows :
"My dear Mrs. Lupton,--I am very sorry to inform
you that 1 have been after my half-pay this afternoon,
and when I left your house yesterday morning I went to
Somerset-house, and from thence to the Admiralty to get
my certificate, but as had luck would have it, it WAS not
signed by the agent ; and when I got back to Somerset-
house again I found the office closed, and a note left for
me, so I tun under the necessity of borrowing another IL
to pay my day's expences. If you doubt my word, John
will be with me on Monday to receive my half-pay,
amounting to 54/. rbut I do not expect that you will
doubt me, although I have not kept my word.
" Yours truly, " C. H. H."
Mr. HALLS observed that the lady had used very
little caution in giving credit to a young man merely
upon the faith of his representefons. He doubted
very much whether this case was sufficiently strong
to send the accused for trial, although there was no
doubt whatever of his dishonest intentions.
Mr. Wilson'said that if the prisoner were remand-
ed, therevould be no want of evidence to establish
a case against him, as, in fact, he had swindled
several individuals. His family had lately taken him
home for the purpose of reclaiming him, but he
broke open his sister's drawers, and robbed her of
all the jewels and money they contained.
Mr. HALLS asked if there was any evidence to
prove that the prisoner had committed this robbery ?
Satwell, the officer, upon searching the prisoner
found upon his person seven duplicates, all of which
were for articles of jewellery, which, of course, be-
longed to the sister of the prisoner.
Mr. Wilson said, that the father of the prisoner
was then waiting the result of the examination at a
neighbouring coffee-house, in a state of mind bor-
dering upon distraction.
Mr. HALLS having taken the constable's evidence
as to the finding of the duplicates, remanded the
prisoner for further examination to Monday next.
MARLBORO!) GH-STREET.

A rather curious scene was yesterday exhibited
at this office, in the case of Mr. or Captain Edward
Harvey Foster, who was brought before Mr. ROE,
the sitting Magistrate, for final examination on a
charge of having either feloniously or fraudulently
obtained possession of a grey horse, the property of
a Mr. Collier, the son of the army-agent of that name.
Mr. RoE, after hearing a repetition of the cir-
cumstances of the case, as they had before appeared
on several previous examinations, and all the ad-
ditional evidence that was forthcoming, said that he
found so much disingenuousness on the part of all
concerned in the affair, and he (Mr. Roe) felt him-
self so ill treated on every side by the system of
trifling with his time from day to day under the pre-
tence of bringing forward witnesses, that he should
now clean his hands of the case altogether by
discharging the prisoner as far as the case was gone
into at this office; but the prosecutor might, if he
pleased, still give charge of the prisoner to an officer,
and have him taken berme a Magistrate in Berk-
shire, ss here the offence was alleged to have been
committed, the prisoner having obtained possession
of the horse at Reading.
Mr. Collier said, there were two Sheriff's-officers
waiting in the passage to meet Captain Foster, on
an execution for 1.50/., at the suit of a Mr. Green,
and if once the prisoner got into the Sheriff's bands,
he (Mr. Collier) should lose him.
Mr. ROE had nothing to do with that, and or-
dered the office to be cleared; but this order was
much more easily given than obeyed, for what with
the pressure of a dense mass of persons within en-
deavouring to get out, and the resisting pressure of
criminal and civil officers of justice at the outside of
the door, each urging their way forward to get first
hold of the captain, it was for a long time impossible
to get even the door opened, but when it was, so
violent was the rush and struggle, that it could only
be likened to an attempt to get into the pit of a
theatre on a crowded night. At last, however, the
captain, the object of so much solicitude, was forced
outside the door, and was instantly seized by the
sheriff's officers, who it was admitted laid first hold
on:him, and carried him off to the King's Bench
prison, and here the matter ends for the present.
HATTON-GARDEN.
Mr. Samuel Burgess, who described himself as a
wine-merchant, residing at No. 10, Canonbury-
street, Lower-road, Islington, was brought up in
custody of Lloyd, the officer, on a warrant, to an-
swer the complaint of Elizabeth Lockwood, a girl cf
about 14 yews of age, a pauper in St. Andrew's
workhouse, for an indecent assault.
The complainant on Thursday, the 29th of Oc-
tober, entered the defendant's service. The same
eyeing, while sitting with him in the parlour, Mrs,.