The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday a number of exten-
sive wholesale warehousemen, resident in the Ward of
Bread-street, waited upon the Lord Mayor upon the sub-
ject of the numerous nightly robberies which have lately
been committed in the City ; and requested that his Lord-
ship would use his influence to effect such an improvement
of the City Police as might afford effectual security to the
property of the citizens. One of the applicants said, "We
arc in the most dreadful state of alarm. My premises
have been broken open twice. If there is not some very
important alteration made in the Police, it will be impos-
sible to live in the City ; there is no security now what-
ever." Another said, "We are obliged to barricade our
lenises, and even then we are not safe. Our houses, in
fact, are snore like garrisons than dwellings."
The Loan Mavoit recommended the gentlemen to apply
by memorial, to the Court of Common Council, and added,
that a Committee had. been appointed to inquire into the
state of the Nightly Watch, who had agreed on a Report,
Which was to be presented to the Common Council the next
Court day. The gentlemen departed apparently with the
intention of following his Lordship's advice.
Within the last four years eight respectable houses in
Bread-street Ward have been broken open. One of them
was robbed of goods to the amount of 1,6001. An extra-
ordinary discovery respecting one of those burglaries took
place a short time ago. The owner of the house that was
robbed had some time previously failed, but his creditors
finding that his conduct had been marked by integrity, ac-
cepted a compromise. The house was robbed. The un•
fortunate bankrupt was unable to make his payments good,
for he was stripped of every thing. Some of his neigh-
bours hinted that the robbery was self-co'nnsitted. The
calumny was believed until the house of the notorious Ikey
Solomons was searched, and, amongst the goods found, there
was part of the property which bad been stolen from the
premises of the injured man.
BOW-STREET.—James Ducks, the driver of the
Sunbury stage-coach, was charged with assaulting Mr. W.
West Timbrell, a corn-merchant.

Mr. Timbrell, having occasion to go to Hampton, got
upon the coach which is usually driven by the defendant;
but which was then under the care of another man, who
was employed to drive the coach from the office in the
City to Piccadilly. On the coach arriving at Piccadilly,
the defendant mounted the box, and ordered Mr. Timbrell
to quit the coach, as the coach was booked full, and he had
passengers to take up. Mr. Timbrell told him that the
former coachman had told him there was room, or he
should not have got upon the coach, and he remonstrated
with the defendant, but to no purpose; for the latter
seized hire by the collar, and would have pulled him off
the coach, had be not descended. _ _ _

The defendant said, that he thought he had a right to
remove Mr. Timbrell, because his coach was booked full
at the office in Piccadilly, from whence the coach started.
Sir RICHARD RIRNIS said, that as the first coachman
had told Mr. Timbrell that there was room, and had per-
mitted him to take his seat, and had afterwards driven him
to the coach-office in Piccadilly, it was rather too much to
say he (defendant) had a right to remove him by force. He
ordered the defendant to find hail to answer the charge at
the Sessions.

The defendant agreed, finally, to advertise an apology in
the newspapers for his conduct to Mr. Timbrell, and that
gentleman consented to drop proceedings.
WORSHIP-STREET.—Several hours were consumed
by Mr. Twyroan, in the investigation of a case, in which
practices were imputed of a nature so deeply iniquitous, as
to excite a mingled feeling of disgust against the wretched
perpetrator, and of humiliation for the outraged dignity of
human nature. The person accused was a man who ap-
peared from thirty to forty years of age, and the principal
evidence against him consisted of the testimony of his two
daughters, the one about sixteen, the other an intelligent-
looking child, apparently of nine or ten years of age, both
of whom, it IS understood, have sustained in their, own Per-
sons the melancholy effects, and furnish inconsistible proofs
of their miserable parent's bestiality. The wife of the man
and other witnesses were also examined. The hearing was
conducted with closed doors.

The small-po ow very prevalent in Lora
don and its environs.