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

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. W. H. Inglis wished to
make affidavit in regard to an application which be bad
made to the Secretary of State in favour of the Vauxhall
Coiner. who were lately executed in HorFemonger-lane.
The LORD MAYOR refused to take the proposed affidavit
as it might tend to the prejudice of a gentleman of high
character who probably could not be aware that any pro-
ceeding so irregular as the present was likely to take place.
GUILDHALL—James Jesse Beresford was again
placed at the bar, yesterday, charged with having fraudu-
lently obtained money from divers persons, by falsely repre-
senting himself to be an authorised agent for receiving
newspaper advertisements.
Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER observed that he had reminded

the prisoner in order that he might consider hit case; and
he was of opinion that he could not take cognizance of any
of those cases in which the prisoner was alleged to have
obtained money by representing himself as the agent of the
John Bull Sunday paper;—because it was admitted that
at one time he actually was the accredited agent of that
paper. But if it could he proved that he had obtained
money by falsely representing himself as the agent of any
newspaper-office which never did employ him, he should
have no hesitation in bolding him to bail to take his trial for
the misdemeanour.

Evidence was then given of his having obtained seven
shillings from Mr. George Henry Der Wort, by falsely re-
presenting himself a.s authorised to receive advertisements
for the Morning Chronicle newspaper, as detailed in our
paper of yesterday.
The prisoner repeated that he had no fraudulent intent;
and asked the Clerk of that newspaper, whether it was-not
a common practice with newsmen to receive advertisements
for the newspapers ?—" Yes,—hut not to put the money
in their own pockets."
" Have you not frequently received advertisements from
me ?'—" Yes, but not as our appointed agent."

Sir CLAunius HUNTICR.-.." In fact he never was autho-
rised or appointed to take or receive advertisements for your
paper ?"—" Never."
" And he never brought Mr. Der Wort's advertisement
to your office?".—.." He never did."

Sir CLAUDITIS then said he thought this a very fit case to
go to a Jury, and directed that the prisoner should give bail,
himself in 401., and two sureties in 201. each, for his ap-
pearance to auswer it at the Sessions.

Mr. John Crump was charged with having been disor-
derly at two o'clock in the morning:
" Please your Worship, Sir,";said the accusing watch-
man, " I found him settin asleep at the door of a vine
vault*, without ere a bat. 14insidered, in ray own mind,
as he was stupid drunk, sot lays hold of him, and gives
him a bit of a shake, and 'hallo ' says I, ' where's your
hat?' and then he jumps up quite sensible, and calls me a
rascal, and tells me I'd stole his hat, and I'd picked his
pockets, and I don't know what all."
" My good friend," said Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTER, "you
are telling me a very crooked story ! First, you say he was
stupidly drunk—then he became sober—then he jumped
up like a man of sense, and called you a rascal 1 Now,
what am Ito understand by all this? Was he stupidly
drunk—or was he sober—or was he a man of sense?"—
" Why, your Worship," replied the Watchman, " it's a
hard matter for me to say purcisaly what he was—in a
manner of speaking, but if I was called upon to speak my
mind partickler, 1 should say he was--sensible in drink."
" Very well," said Sir CLaunitls ' " now I understand
you—you mean, he was insensibly drunk ?"—" Exactly
so, your Worship ;" replied the watchman ; and thereupon
Mr. John Crump was called upon for his defence.
" And please you, my Worship," said Mr. John Crump,
" I'm a carpenter; whereby I'd been out drinking with a
foo friends—hut I hadn't drinkt myself drunk—l deny
that. I had been robbed, and knocked ahout, and very
much ill-treated, your Worship ; by which means I eat
down upon the step to consider about it ; and when I felt
the watchman pulling at me, I naturally thought it was
the rascal that hail robbed me. But if I was wrong
and I dare say I was, now I come to think of it, I ask
the watchman ten thousand pardons."
" Then satisfy him for the trouble you have given him,
and go about your business," said the Alderman : of
which order Mr. John Crump instantly availed himself,
and there the matter ended.

A very comely personage, tightly buttoned up in blue
broad-cloth, was next placed at the bar, charged with har-
ing been disorderly at the Guildhall Coffee-house; and
Mr. Ivatts, the proprietor thereof, appeared to substantiate
that charge.
" This gentleman," said he, "came into my coffee-room
last night, very drunk, and called for a bottle of wine.
Tile waiter, not perceiving he was drunk, gave him the
wine ; but the moment I discovered it, I had it taken from
him ; he had no money to pay for it, your Worship."
" A very good reason for taking it from him, certainly,"
said Sir CLAunms. " Well, Sir, go on."
Mr. Ivatts added, that the gentleman was so angry at
having his wioe taken from him, that he refused to
quit the house, and made such a disturbance that it be-
came necessary to hand him over to the watch; and the
watch, having exhausted all their eloquence in vainly en-
deavouring to prevail upon him to go home, took him to
the Compter.
" Now, Sir, I will hear what you have to say," said Sir
CLAUDIUS to the wine-bibbing gentleman.
The gentleman looked as though he would willingly
have said something if he could. He moved hie lips a
little—a fine claret-coloured blush overspread his counte-
nance, and he remained silent.
.‘ Really all this is very stupid," said Sir CLAUDIUS ;
and the gentleman having nothing to say to the contrary,
was directed to pay his discharge fee, and go away.—And
he did.

John .Reading, a pure Emerald, was charged with har-
ing been drunk at twelve o'clock at night, and in that state
kicking the shine of Thomas Ap Rice, a Welsh watchman'
of the parish of St. Sepulchre. "Hur was full of drink,
ant disturbing the neighbourhood; and when bur told hur
to go home to bed, hur kick'd hur shine quite cruel, and it
was a mercy bur didn't kick bur somewhere else, above,"
said the watchman.

" What are you, Reading ?" inquired Sir CLAUDIUS of
the prisoner.
" A poor man, Sir—a bricklayer's labourer, your
Honour, with a wife and three email childer at the foot of
her, your Honour, Sir," was the melancholy reply.
" And how came you to be drunk at that time of
night?"—" It was in Gray's-inu-lane, to a wake I'd been,
your Honour."
" A wake !—what do you mean by a wake t"—" It was
a corpse lay dead, your Honour."
" Well ?—go on !"—" An we was waking it, your
Honour."

" What, by getting drunk ?"-.—" We wasn't gettin
dthrunk all the time, your Honour."

" What then were you doing ?"—" We smoked, between
whiles, your Honour."

" And what else did you do ?"—" We cried, a good bit,
now and then, your Honour."
" And then you got more drunk r.-" Indeed an we
did, your Honour."
" And bow many were there of you ?"—" 06, there
wa• a power o' people, your Honour."
" What you were watching the corpse before the fu-
neral ?"—" Indeed, we was watching it, intirelb your
Honour."

" And was the corpse any relation to you?"—" It was
my own cousin's brother, your Honour, laid out mighty
dacint, and every thing plinty that time, your Honour."
" Really it is a shocking thing that a parcel of people
should get together about a dead body—to laugh, and to
sing, and to get drunk, and to smoke, and to cry," oh-
served Sir CLAUDIUS." I have read of such things
in books, ages ago; but we have heard so much about
Ireland of late, that I thought they were quite done away
with !"

" Not a bit of 'em your Honour ;.—it's the custom of the
country intirely, and always will be_plaze God !" replied
the melancholy defendant. " Well, but what had all this
to do with your kicking the watchman's shins?" asked Sir
CLAUDIVS. " I didn't know I kick'd his shins at all,
your Honour—an sorry I am that I did, but I hadn't my
rinses about me at that 'time, sure, or I wouldn't any how,
by reason of the wife and 'three small cliilder at home plaza
the parties
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oRYLEBONE.—Yesterday Mrs. Jane Evers, of
No. 63, King-street, in the Borough, was charged with
threatening to shoot Miss Ann Mallison, of No. 8, Devon-
shire-street, Lisaon-grove.
" What is all this about," said Mr. GRIFFITH to the
fair complainant, after he had read the warrant..—Miss
Mallison—Jealousy, Sir.
Mr. GRIFFITH—Who is she jealous of?—Miss Mal-
lison—My uncle, Sir.
Mr. GRIFFITH-Your uncle ! Who is your uncle?-..-
Miss Mallison—Mr. Evers, Sir.
Mr. GRIFFITH-What, is she your aunt?—Miss Mal-
lison—Yes, Sir.
Mr. GRIFFITH-Has she done any thing to you? Miss
Mallison—She has not had it in her power, but she
threatens to blow my brains out.
Mr. GRIFFITH-What, with a pistol?-.,.Miss Mallisoa
—Yes, Sir; she carries one in her pocket for that pur-
pose ; I have seen it.
Mr. GRIFFITH-But she has not attempted to do it ?
Miss Mallison— She has not had an opportunity ; the
lodgers in her house tell me she is determined to do it, and
my life is in danger.
" It's all false, your Worship," said Mrs. Evers, without
being asked the question; and added very emphatically,----
" I caught that young lady in bed with my own husband.

I have iistols; but not in a state that they could act in
any way."
Mr. GAIFTITH—Were they loaded /—Mrs. Ewers—
Never.

A person, calling himself a peace-officer, said he could
explain the whole proceeding, if his evidence was heard :
Last week, your Worship, I was employed by Mr. Evers,
who is assistant clerk to the vestry clerk of St. Saviour's
parish, to apprehend Mrs. Evers on a charge of bigamy.
The case was heard on Saturday at Union-hall, and die-

missed by Mr. Swabsy for want of living evidence. 14r
Evers then told me, if Le could not bring home that chef',,
against his wife, Ann should proceed and swear her
against her. He has formed an attachment with his
this Ann Mallison.

After hearing this, Mr. GRIFFITH dismissed the charge,
and desired the parties to go about their business.
Thomas Smith, alias Miles, a carter, was finally eo.'
mined on a charge of stealing hay, the property of
t
master, Mr. William Welch, a farmer and salesman, '
Southall, and was committed to Newgate for trial, together
with Christopher Sewell, the ostler of the Swan leo,
Bayswater, charged with having received the same With 0
knowledge of its having been stolen.