The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-07 00:00:00

E%-i.ARTE CHAMBERS.

Mr. CAMPBELL moved for a rule to show cause why a
writ of habeas corpus should not issue, directed to the
Warden of the Fleet Prison, to bring up the body of
Abraham Henry Chambers, in order that he might be dis-
charged out of custody, under a warrant of certain com-
missioners of bankrupt.—Rule nisi granted.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDIIALL.

Thomas Edwards, the lad who attempted to poison
himself, anil who said he did not know his parents, but in-
timated that he had been educated at the expence of the
Earl of Shaftesbury, was again brought before Sir PE NCR.
LAuntg. The gentleman of Brixton who intended to take
him into his service was present.

Sir Prrra asked him if all he had stated before was
true„—The primmer said it was.

The Alderman.said he was a very bad boy; the state-
ment of his bring in the King's school at Canterbury was
entirely false. Dr. Birt, the master, had written that
tin buy of his name had been in the school for the last
fourteen years.
The prisoner assured him he had been in that school
three years, and upon looking again at the doctor's letter.
it appeared it referred only to the name of Edwards, and
not that of Henry Staples," by which the prisoner had
said he was known. There had been a mistake upon that
point in the note addressed to Dr. Burt, and the Alderman
directed that he should he written to again.
Sir Pares, holding a letter from the Earl of Shaftes-
bury in his kinds, said, he denied knowing any person of
the name of Staples. He asked the prisoner if he bad
been a fifer in a regiment stationed at Chatham.

Prisoner said it was true.
Sir Px:r.x. said, the letter intimated that the writer,
from the account the lad had given of himself, suspected-
his real name was Henry Medhurst ; that his father (his
stepfather, According to the prisoner's account,) formerly
kept the Aiichor in Coleman-street, in the city ; that he
had. once atteinpted to desert from his regiment; and he
stated these facts-that the benevolent gentleman might not
take an improper person -into his service. Sir Peter said,
he suspected the prisoner was a deserter.
The prisoner said, he ran away from his uncle, at CFl-
ton, four months ago, and entered the Ist Regiment of
Foot as a lifer. He was discharged, six weeks ago, for
being subject to fits ; but he had lost his certificate or dis-
charge. He persisted .that the account ke had given of
himself was true.

I'FTFR said, he would write to the regiment ti as-
certain whether he was a deserter, and
Mr. \Vollmer, the governor of Newgate, undertook to
write to a Mrs. Parnell, formerly of the High street, Can-
terbury, with whom he was acquainted, and to whom the.
prisoner said the mywery elf his birth arid manner of his
education were known.

The prisoner was remanded till Tuesday. The gentle-
man of Brixton declined taking him into his service. •

BO W.ST R Err.

Yesterday, a young woman, named Jane was
charged with having stolen a sovereign and a half from a
roan nanyed Elias Cragg, in a house of ill-fame, in Whit-
comb-street. The prosecutor not having appeared to sub-
stantiate the charge, a summons was issued to compel his
attendance, and the prisoner was remanded to a future day.
The history of the prisoner is curious. For three years
she wore the dress of a boy, and actually officiated as waiter
at ROwbottam's celebrated "finish." She-also lived as
pot-boy at the Queen's f-lead public-house, in James-street,
Covent-garden, after which it appears she went upon the
town, and lived by thieving. 'When in service she was
knois;n by the name of Jem Vincent. She had been con-
fined on three 'several occasions in the House of Correction,
Coldbath-fields, for petty thieving, and she was committed
to Newgrite for Stealing a silver tea-pot, and took her trial
for the offenec at the bar of the Old Bailey in boy's idothes.
She has ken' frequently charged at this office, and on no
occasion that Ford, the gaoler, had to search her, did he
discover her sex, or consider her in any other light than as
" Jeri' Vincent, the noted young thief." In consequence
of a robbery of which she was suspected, she was taken
into custody, and the constable having made a stricter
search, discovered for the first time that Jean Vincent and
Jane Kinky
.were one and the same person. After this
discovery she resumed her woman's habit, and went down
to Plymouth to see her friends. She then became ac-
quainted with a young man by Whom she bad a child ; soon
after which, finding herself deserted by her lover, her family
and friends, she came once more to London to walk the
town as a prostitute, which she had formerly traversed as
a thief. She is a slight and rather well-looking girl1 and
her age is said to be not more than 19.

WHITECHAPEI, I-IAT M ARK ET.—Feb. 4
Od. to St.. 0.1. t lover 654; (Al. lo 105,.

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