The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-20 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.—A young man named Josiah Lucius
Benbow, a son of the notorious Benbow, the publisher, was
brought in custody of Bond, sen., charged under the Wilful
Damage Act with braking, destroying, and carrying away
various fixtures, &c., attached to the lower part of the
house, No. 255, Holborn, let to the defendant's father by
Mr. Watts, the landlord, at the yearly rent of 70 guineas.
A warrant has been issued against a brother of the prisoner,
for aiding and assisting in the said damage.
Mr. Watts stated, that Benbow's object was to compel
16m to pay a scm of money to induce him (Bcubow) to
give up poSsession.

Mr: liliNsuett. having referred to Air. Peel's new Act
(the ease of wilful damage being proved), found that he had
power.to inflict on the prisoner a tine of 51. and costs, in
default of paying which the prisoner was ordered to be
committed to hard labour in the House of Correction for
two months. He begged, however, to be allowed time
until evening, to send to his father for the amount of the
penalty ; and the Magistrate ordered him to be locked up
in the interval.

Reuben Josephs, the Jew dealer, was brought up for a
re-examination, and the various article% found at his house
%ming exposed for inspection, Mr. Matthew Waller, whose
premises were robbed of a considerable quantity of sloth in
June last, swore, that to the beet of his belief, four pieces
of the cloth now produced were part of the property, so
stolen. He begged for further time, however, to produce
his ahopman, and also the manufacturer of the.eloth, who
could swear to its identity.
On this evidence the prisoner was remanded until Friday,
but- he was told that good bail would be taken for his ap-
pearance in the mean time. _

The Magistrates have ordered the various articles to he
advertised.

ATTON- G ARDE --Yesterday, Thomas Knight,
driver of the hackney-coach No. 11', wbo stood remanded
on a charge of Stealing the trunk of John fienrich Hase,
Esq., from No.' 8, Anne-street, Pentonville, was brought
up for final examination, before W. L. ROGE ILS, Esq., the
sitting Magistrate.
Mr. Rounts committed him for trial.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-A .man named
Enwright, • a shoemaker, residing in Oxford-buildings,
Oxford-street, was brought forward to answer the com-
plaint of a Mrs. Ostiff, a respectable elderly lady living at
No. 73, Davies-street, Berkeley-square.
Mrs. Ostliff, who appeared in a state of great agitation
and alarm, stated that on 'Monday night last, about nine
o'clock; the defendant came to. her houtigand demanded to
see a little do; belonging to her, which he said had bitten
t
his wife thaday in the foot, and she, -Mrs. Ostia, not
doubting but his object was merely to examine the dog,
and satisfy himself and his wife that it was_not mad, did
not hesitate to produce it, and: brought, it up ,from the
kitchen in bar arms to the. passage, where she presented it
to the defendant to be examined by him ; but, instead of
doing so, he tore it from her arms, dashed it upon the
ground, and jumping with both his heels upon its head,
killed the creature on the spot.
As soon as she could recover from the shock, Mrs.
Ostliff remonstrated, but the defendant,. instead of offering
any explanation, abused her in the foulest, anguage, and
swore that if she said another word he would crush her
head in the same manner. Her hand was severely lace-
rated by the furious violence of the defendant ire dragging
the animal from her arms. •

Mrs. Ostliff gave directions that the body of the dog
should be buried the next day in some hole, but before
there was time to do this, the defendant came again to the
house, and insisted upon having the body of the dog given
to him ; and so much alarmed was-she by his threats and
manner, that she ordered the body to be delivered to him,
upon which he took out a knife from his pocket, cut the
animal open in her presence, and dissecting out the heart
from it, clapped it into his pocket, and walked off with it
i❑ triumph. After this act, Mrs. Ostl►ff said, that she did
not know what the defendant might take it into his head to
do next, and her alarm became so great that she was coin=
pelled to apply to the Magistrate for protection.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said, that he con-
sidered himself perfectly justified in all he had done, for
that the dog had bitten his wife in the instep, and lest it
should go mad, if not so already, he thought it necessary to
kill it, to save his wife from going mad also, and it was in
case the animal should have been mad at the time, that he
cut out its heart to give it to his wife to eat, as he under-
stood it was an infallible preservative apinst hydrophobia,
and added, that his wife had eaten the heart, since when
she found herself much more comfortable.

The Magistrate ordered the defendant to find good bail,
to Answer at the sessions for assaulting Mrs. Ostliff, and
lacerating her band in the manner it appeared. •
After the defendant had been locked up in default of
bail, Mrs. Ostliff very humanely interceded for him, and
said, that as he was a working man, and had a family to
support by his labour, she should be very sorry to have
him sent to prison, and begged the Magistrate to discharge
him.

The Magistrate told Mrs. Ostliff that the defendant was
very undeserving of her intercession, but, as she wished it,
he should be discharged, on entering into his own recog-
nizance of 507. to appear ,at the Sessions. .

MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—.4. charge of assault upon
a female was heard in private at the above office, on Mon-
day, by Mr. Hosturrs.
The defendant, a man of fashion and of fortune, is up-
wards of 60, and lives in E— place. The complainant
is a delicate and modest-looking girl, of 17, and the follow-
ing are the particulars of her statement. She was hired
by the defendant as housemaid and her mother took her
to his house at noon on the 4th of this month, where no
other servant was at the time; but a fresh cook was ex-
pected that day. As soon as her mother was gone, the
defendant ordered her to,follow. him into the drawing,
room, and take a seat by his side on the sofa, that he might
tell her what she was to do. He took off her collar, and
tuinwistiin
n_ned hetrigogws;n
I will have
tsialiedm, "ayllott off,
shaallnndotelwotelaier
you throughout. If you. will take 5 (meaning him-
self) by the hand, you shall have a friend and protector for
ever." She said she came to be his housemaid, and
did not expect such indecent behaviour. He said he
took her with no intention to make her his servant;
he fell in love with her the first moment he saw her,
and then ordered her to follow him up stairs. He un-
locked his bed-room door, and threw open the next
door, which wag a bed-room. " There, Madam," said
he, "is my bed-room, and there is yours ; I think
it proper that you should sleep in the next room to
me because I may want something in .the night."
He went into his bed-room and ordered her to come in
and get a tumbler of water. There was no water in the
jug. She went to fetch some; he followed her down
stairs and up again, and some one rung at the street-
door. She asked if she should answer it; he said, " No,
I will go down myself;" and while he was gone, she
made•his bed. He came up, shut the window, pulled,
down the blind, and shut the door. He then took her by
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time, he desisted. She followed him down stairs, to the draw-
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with him to dinner. He placed her
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her plate, made, her go with hint to the cellar for bottled
beer, and endeavoured to persuade her to drink some. At
this time the bell rang a second time, lie looked up the area,
and said it was the new cook; he insisted upon opening
'the door himself; he took the cook up to the drawing-
room, and while he was doing so, the complainant made
her escape by the area-door, which happened to be open.
This statement was followed by the evidence of her
mother, that the girl was engaged to go to the place at ten
in the morning, but could not. When Mr. .8. found that
to be the case, he said if she did not come by 12, he would
not have her at all, for he was going to take a ride, and had
no one to leave in the house.
The defendant said the charge was untrue, and treated it
lightly.
Mr. IrosirtNs told him it was likely to prove more im-
portant than he'expected, and held hint to bail, himself in
100/., and two sureties in 50/. each.
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday a young woman, with
her hair dishevelled, bare-footed, and only clad with an old
gown and shawl, was brought up from Chelsea watch-
house, having attempted to destroy herself in the Five-
fields,. Chelsea.

The appearance of the miserable young woman .was truly
pitiable, and excited commiseration from every one pre-
sent : her manner and looks showed evident symptoms of
a total aberration of intellect.

" My name is Emma Matilda Montgomery," said the
poor maniac : " if you wish to know where I was born,
it was at Virginia-water; and 1 could tell you more, but
I have done nothing,—make haste, for I am faint, very
faint indeed, and want some brandy and water to support
me."

The poor ereiture now ran on in a most incoherent way,
and Mr. Mattaxorr, the Magistrate, inquired whether any
person knew any thing of her.
Vorley said ho understood that she was related to a
family of rank and fortune. She had once' before been in
the watch-house, when a servant of that family, he tm-
derstood from a con: table, had been down and relieved her.

Mr. MARRIOTT directed her to be taken cars of for the
present, until something could be done.
THAMES POLlCE.—Yesterday Captain Allen, the
Commander of the United States ship Nimrod,, was
brought before the sitting Magistrate on a warrant 'charg-
ing him with haring assaulted and falsely imprisoned
James Robson, a British subject, on the high seas.
Hobson entered as a seaman on board the Nimrod, and
some weeks since, when they were off the Scilly Islands,
he had charge of the helm. He was compelled to quit it,
for one minute on a pressing occasion, and in the mean-
time leave it to another. °The defendant, without any
provocation whatever, knocked him down elan to the
wheel, and drove hiss back. At another tia4e he did not
pertOrm some work in such a manner as to please the de-
fendant, who put him into irons, and for a long time kept
him in close confinement. The defendant's conduct, the
complainant represented, was generally exceedingly tyran-
nous towards him.

The defendant begged to submit thit this was not ti case
withiu the Magistrate's jurisdiction, inasmuch as the com-
plainant was an American citizen, or had entered the ship
as such, and all matters between them were cognizable
only by their own Government. Some surprise had been
expressed by the Consul for the United States that the
Magistrates had issued the warrant.

The ship's articles, attested by. a notary public of the
United States, were here handed in to the Magistrate, who
declared it certainly appeared, from the complainant's sig-
nature, that he had entered himself as an American citizen
of New York.

The complainant, who Lad a northern accent, which
proclaimed him at least to have been born a British sub-
ject, acknowledged his signature. •

Mr. BALLANTINE said this act of the complainant's un-
doubtedly put the case out of their juriadiction. Redwes
must he sought from the Consul of the United States for
whatever wrong, if ally, had been committed.
UNION-HALL.—A man named William Matthews,
a coal-porter in the employment of Mr. Burradaile, a coal-
merchant, of Rutland-wharf, was summoned before M.
SwAuEv, 1114, on an information charging him with
having refused to measure certain sacks of coals which were
delivered tea customer, and which were suspected of having
been deficient in measure. The defendant having pleaded
" not guilty," Mr. Jemmett, the barrister, whd attended
in support of the conviction, observed, that he should be
enabled to prove the ease satisfactorily against the de-
fendant. lie had refused •to re-measure sir al sacks of
coals bent from his master's wharf to the pre es of a gen-
tleman named Morris, all of which were susiected of being
grossly deficient in measure ; and although perhaps the de-
fendant was not the chief aggressor, yet the present pro-
ceeding was adopted as the best means of pttufshing an of-
fence of such magnitude, and which was calculated to be of
such injurious tendency to the public at large.
Mr. Morris was then called. He stated that in the
month of August last he purchased SO clialdrons of coal,
pool measure, of J. Borradaile, the employer of the de-
fendant.

Thomas Pook, servant to the last witness, at the period
above mentioned, recollected the defendant coming to his
master's house with a waggon load of coals, containing 34
sacks. Witness requested him to measure one of the sacks,
which he did, and it was discovered to be one peck deficient
in the meistire,' upon which witness expressed his determi-
nation of having the remainder measured, but the defendant
positively refused.
The defendant declared that the evidence given against
hint was greatly exaggerated. The aggregate would have
been found to contain the legal quantity. •
Magistrate.---Then why did you. refuse to measure them.
I am bound to ballets those two men who are upon' their
oaths, and shall therefore inflict a penalty of 10/. and costs
on yon, for the offence:
Iu coerce of the day William Cobbdtt, jun., applied for
a summons against Thomas Whitehead, collector at the
King's Bench-gate, to answer to his complaint, for having
on Sunday, the 16th inst., on two different occasions,
taken from William Wells, each time for a hackney coach,
the sum of 6d., under the name of Sunday toll, the same
not being authorized by„, law, whereby he had incurred a
penalty of 51. and costs for each offence. The applicant.
also applied for a summons for CAarles Rousell, clerk to
the trustees of the said roads, to attend the hearing of the
complaints, and to produce the 'counter-part of the lease by
which the tolls are held to farm by the trustees.

A TURKISH CEMETRY..:=Our return was
through the Turkish cemetery, which is situated
nearly at the top of the hill ; it is marked by pe-
culiar neatness rather than by great extent, and
its groves of lonely cypresses, each at the head
of its marble-turbaned- tomb, produce an effect
.of ,melancholy sadness and repose, much more
affecting than the gaudy monuments and frippery
decorations .of Pere la,Chase,. or the " storied
urn. and animated bust" of Westminster and
Santa Croce. It is in those spots that one feels
truly in the East, where all around reigns the
stillness of death, and the only gaudy objects to
allure the eye are the calm cloudless heaven and
the glittering sea—where' the, hum of the bee,
amid the thyme-covered graves, and the stately
which
the
waving of the funereal cypresses, alone disturb
the solitary grief of the mourners who frequent
them, and who are
.seen in melancholy groups
too,e d a
frl o
rd anotheri hand,
e flowers
proof
o f
seated in tears beside some fresh-made grave, or
spring above some earlier tenant of the tomb.—
watering,These scenes, t h
superior gentleness of heart and fervent affection
i
friendly ha
of woman. It is seldOm they visited by
are mita men,
and I never remember to
leave entered one of
them without seeing sth
ne sorrowing female scat.
ed by the green mound
or marble shrine, which
sheltered some Once loved and still dearly che-
rished being, to
whom she fancied she had
already bade an eternal farewell, the precepts of
her religion debarring her from ally hope of a
re-union in another world with those on whom
the portals of the tomb had closed in this. Nor
are the Turks by any means divested of domes-
tic afThction either ; but national cu-stoin, and 'a
fostered feeling of male superiority, have taught
them that it is unmanly to make a womanish
display of sentiment. With a Greek, who seems
to copy all the gaudy exterior without the solid
virtues of the Mussulman, this idea of male su-
periority surmounts every suggestion of love or
lasting attachment. The Osnianlee teaches the
inferiority of woman in another world, yet grants
her her due sphere in -this ; the Greek, On' the
contrary, inflicts present degradation, as if in-
culcating submission here as the purchase of
happiness hereafter ; with the one it is' an error
of the head—with the other a tyrannical theory
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