The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-01 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor sat yester-
day for the first time since the death of his son.
William Gammon was charged with assaulting sail
abusing Mr. Jones, a respectable zuerchant on the Royal
Exchange, and afterwards with repairing to his house in
Upper Thames-street, and smashing his windows and
creating a riot.
Mr. Jones stated that he had, unfortunately, been left
trustee, jointly, with another gentleman, to some property
under a will, from which the prisoner was entitled to
about 2/. per week; but he (Mr. Jones) .never interfered in
the business, but the other trustee managed it. The pri-
soner was, hoWever, regularly paid, /but when his money
was exhausted, he universally came and created a riot.
The Loan MAYOR admonished the prisoner, and told
him that if he received V. per week; and was only a single
man, if he was in want, it must he his own fault ; he
cautioned him as to his future conduct, and discharged him.
MARYLEBONE.—An information was brought by
Atkinson against Alexander. Hamilton and John Clarke,
proprietors of the stage-coach driving from the George and
Blue. Boar, Holborn, to Mill-hill, for not having marked
on the outside of the same their Christian and surnames,
and the names of the places the said coach drove from and
to, in letters of one inch in height, &c., agreeably to Act
of Parliament. The defendants pleaded riot guilty.
Atkinson, who on this occasion was his own witness,
was amusingly interrogated by. Mr. RAWLINSON, who
the came, as`.tii h.s"residenee'end.occupation, before
he allowed him to proceed on his charge. He lived at 56,
Park-street, Regent's-park, was a stationer, or rather bad
been, and was now an informer. He did not expect to get
any thing by what he was going to swear, which he endear
voured to prove, by saying that there was a kind of co-
partnership between himself; one Podger, Goodman, Oxley,
and others, in which they agreed mutually to act for each
other's benefit, on laying the information, and the other
proving it, and they then divided.
Mr. RAWLINSON, good humouredly, inquired if they
were • not liable to cheat, one another ?—But Atkinson
scouted this idea, and seemed fully impressed, that the
maxim of " Honesty amongst thieves," applied equally,well
to informers. .
. .
The Magistrate_ continued to probe hiM with great good
nature, observing, that he should much like to get into the
histoey of-these things ; but Atkinson was close.
The substance of his information was, that the coach in
question had the proprietors' names painted on the proper
parts ffbere they should be, together with "Mill-hill," and
the wOrds " George and Blue Boar, London ;" but that the
writing was so faint, in parts, as hardly to be legible; and
that on •one aide, London, instead of being at' length, was
abbreviated to Lon.—

Mr. RAWLINSON cut him very short. He asked him
the plain question, whether, if he had looked at the coach
as a stranger, he should not have known from the inscrip-
tions, defective as he described them to be, who were
the proprietors of the coach, where it started from, or
where' it went to ? and, on his acknowledging that he
should, he told him that the spirit of the Act had by no
means been proved to be evaded.
A second information, by the same informer, was against
a pawnbroker', named Cottrell, whom be charged with not
having a printed table of rates of interest placed in a con-
spicnoes part of the box or place in which customers
enter for the purpose of pledging or redeeming goods, as re-
quired,also by Act of Parliament.
The pawnbroker was, convicted in the lowest penalty.
of forty shillings. _
Chiments, convicted on Wednesday last of stealings
great (insanity of snuff-boxes from the shop of 11fr. Mick.:
lam, tobacco-manufacturer, near St. Dunstan's Church,
Fleet-street, was again brought up, and finally committed
to Newgate for trial.
The prisoner declined saying any thing.
A young man who applied to the Magistrates as he was
about to be removed, stated that his master's shop, Igr.
Fisher, gun-smith, of No. 8, Princes-street, Leicester-
square, had been broken open, and robbed of guns to the
amount of 2001., which they had some reason to think the
prisoner knew something about; but he was unable to
offer any decisive evidence. They had had an intimation
that two boxes had been sent off from a certain wharf to
Glasgow, under very suspicious circumstances. ,
The Magistrate (Mr. ItamusrsoN) could only recom-
mend the young man's master to try to trace where these
packages went, and their contents, as the most likely
moans of throwing light on the affair.
In the ease of seduction which we reported from this
Office, and inserted in The Sun of Saturday last,
it was stated that Gibbs, an officer, proceeded, by the Ma-
gistrate'S directions, to Bury-street, to endeavour to dis-
cover the residence of the individual alluded to, for the
purpose; of informing him that an application had been
made to the Magistrates, and to give him lit opportunity.
of appearing at the Office to justify his conduct. .Gibbkl
succeeded in finding the gentlemsui at his Joilgings• in :II
Little Border-street, St. James's. Of course .he was,not
desirous; of appearing at the Office, neither did the unfor-
tunate young lady wish lto compel him. The affair was
therefore settled to the lady's • satisfaction, by his making
her (we.believe) some pecuniary-recompence, and she re-
turned with her master (if be can be so designated)' to the
lodging-house in Cumberland-place.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Yesterday Eu-
stace, a stayinaker, in King-street, Holborn, was charged
with assaulting Frances Weare, his servant girl; 'by enter-
ing her bed. against her will; &c. It appeared that the
girl is tall and pretty, and about fifteen years of age. She
had been only a few days in .the service of the defendant ;
and on unday morning, about three o'clock, she was awoke
by the defendant being in her bed, and clasping her in his
arms. pile cried for assistance, and he said he meant no.
harm." ! She got up, and called the watchman, and some
of the difendant's wearing apparel were found in her bed-
room. !A watchman stated, that he went to the girl's is-
sistanee,i on hearing her call from one of the windows. The
defendant said, that he was a moral and abstentious'
man, and he entered the girl's room taget some water, and.
stumbled upon her bed:accidentally. The girl denied his
asserticas and said that she had placed a pig. of water in his
.bed-room on the preceding,evening.
Mr. Rot ordered the defendant to find bail toanswer.the
charge; !but, upon
.discovering afterwards that the: father
of the girl had received 51. from the-defendaot to eomPr°-
wise thc:runtteri be bed Ithal Is, mid I,liecligrged