The Sun.
London, England, 1829-04-28 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday a common informer, named Milton,
appeared before Mr. BROUGHTON, the sitting Magis-
trate, in support of a number of informations against
proprietors and drivers of stage-coaches.
The first information called on was against Mr.
Winder, proprietor of a coach ; and the Magistrate,
it appeared, had received information that a com-
promise had previously taken place.

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After some further remarks made by the Magis-
trate, the defendant was called into the witness-box,
and examined. .

MAGISTRATE—Have you paid any money to the
informer ? Defendant—Yes, I have paid hini .50s.
MAGISTRATE—You received a summons upon this
information, what passed between you afterwards ?
Defendant—l saw him and told him that I had only
seven grown persons and a child upon the coach.
MAGISTRATE Well, you told him your defence.
What was said about money ? Defendant—Why,
he asked me what I would give ; and I said 21., but
he said he could not take that, and I paid him 50s.
MAGISTRATE—WeII, you will give evidence in
the case. •

The informer said he was very willing to meet
such evidence, for he had done nothing that he con.
ceived to be wrong.

Mr. BROUGHTON—I have often before remarked
upon these practices. If the office can be made, as
I believe it has for some time past, an instrument in
the hands of the informers, it is nothing more than
a mockery of justice. It is worse than a mockery
of justice if a police-office can in this way be made
a mere engine for extorting money for the benefit of
an informer or any other individual.,
Evidence was then given of the informer's mode
of proceeding with the defendant, from which it
appeared that he had had the audacity to insinuate
to his victim that the very administrators of justice
were to participate in the spoil.
Informer—l admit that I did rective the man's
money. He offered it to me, and I took it with the
understanding that I should not offer evidence against
him. I admit that I did so, and I considered it
lawful. It has been decided before the Judges that
there is no offence in doing so.

Mr. BROUGHTON—Youmistake • there is a cer-
tain statute which makes it a highly penal offence
to compound penalties, and after a long argument
it was decided by the Judges of the King's Bench
that that statute did net apply to the case then be-
fore the Court. There has been no decision that
an information before a magistrate may be made an
engine for the purposes of individuals.
The informer, who seemed perfectly at his ease,
and laughingly commented upon the practice in
question, said he was quite satisfied that he had
committed no offence.

Wyse, another informer, said it was no offence to
compound a penalty in the manner stated, as his
Worship would see by referring to the case of the
" King v. Crisp," in the King's Bench Reports
of 4th George IV. U added, that he himself had
been concerned in a similar case at this very office.
[The fact was stated to be, that between two and
three years since the evidence of this person( Wyse)
was rejected by a Worship-street Magistrate, on the
information of Matthew Ilale, a convicted person,
he, the witness Wyse, having been convicted and
punished for some offence.]
Mr. BROUGHTON having looked into the case men-
tioned, said that the decision of the Judges was
only to the effect that the case before them was not
within the meaning of the penal statute 18th Eliza-
beth, ch. 5, which applied only to cases before the
superior courts, and net to informations before a
magistrate ; but they did not say that it was no
offence to lay an information before a magistrate to
make it an engine for extorting money.
Informer—l merely received the money not to
offer evidenpg. I have not been in the habit of
doing it, but hundreds of informations have been
compounded at this office and others. In fact, I
did not know that it was an offence.
Mr. BRouGnToN—What becomes of the nume-
rous informations that are laid, Mr. Heritage ?—Mr.
Heritage said that there were then many informa-
tions in his possession, the parties to which he had
never seen since the informations were laid.
The information in question was dismissed.
An information, by the same informer, against

Mr. Glover, was then heard. The informer's wit-
nesses, Skinner and Wyse;• swore that there was
one more than the legal number of outside passen-
gers, including three persons in the dicky.
On the part of the defendant, a respectable per-
son proved that only two persons, he and a friend,
occupied the dicky.
The evidence for the defence was indisputable,
mid the information dismissed: Other informations
shared the same fate.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

War-Office, April 27, 1829.

MEMOILANDU.M.

His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the 53d
Regiment of Foot being permitted to retain on its colours
and appointments, the words " Salamanca," and " Penin-
sula," in commemoration of the distinguished services of
the late 2d Battalion of that Regiment at Salamanca, on
the 22d July 1812 ; and in the Peninsula, from April,
1809 to February 1813.

War-Office, April 27, 1829.

7tu Regiment of Dragoon Ouards—Cornet Robert
Richardson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Buller,
pro:noted. Dated April 9.

Audley Lovell, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Richardson. April 9.
4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Capt. Alexander
Houstoun, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Robert
Ellis, who exchanges, receiving the difference. April 2.
6th Regiment of Dragoons.—Lientenant Walter Cope
Sheppard to he Captain, by purchase, vice Orme, who re-
ties. April 9.

Cornet Robert Douglas Barbor to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Sheppard. April 9.
William Fitzherbert, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Barbor. April 9.
10th Regiment of Light Dragoons.—Cornet Honourable
William Horsley Bcresford to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Musters, who retires. April 2.
Charles Fitzherbert, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase,
vice Beresford. April 2.

7th Regiment of Foot.—Captain William Hope, from
the 96th Foot, to be Captain, vice Frederick Prosser, who
retires upon half-pay, receiving the difference. April 2.
22d Foot—Serjeant-Maj,‘r William Merchant to be
Quartermaster, vice William -Mansfield, who retires.
April 9.

35th Foot—Captain Robert Mortimer Cochrane, from
half-pay Glengarry Fencible Infantry, to be Paymaster,
vice Newton, deceased. April 2.
45th Foot—Ensign Andrea, Clendining to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Sykes, who retires. April 9.
George Morehouse Metcalfe, Gent., to be Ens'gn, by
purchase, vice Clendining. ' April 9.

49th Foot, to be Captains.—Lieutenant Joseph Stean,
without purchase, vice Danford, deceasetl. April 1.
Captain Percy James Leith, from the half-pay, to be
Captain, vice John Sewell, who retires. April 2.
To be Lieutenant.—Ensign Averell Daniell, without
purchase, vice Stean. April 1.

To he Ensign, without purchase.—Henry George Hart,
Gent. vice Daniell. April 1.

To be Adjutant.—Lieutenant James Simpson, vice
Stean. April 1.

53d Foot—Lieutenant-Colonel James Considine, from
the half-pay, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Sir William
Plunkett De Bathe, who exchanges, receiving the dif-
ference. April 2.

Captain John Henry Baldwin, from the half-pay, to bit
Captain, vice John Steuart, who exchanges, receiving the
difference, April 2.
60th Foot—Hon. Henry Littleton Powys to be Second
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fitzherbert, whose ap-
pointment has not taken place. April 2.
64th Foot—Ensign Charles Stuart-Barker to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Du Pre, deceaSed. April 2.
D'Oyly William Battley, Gent. to he Ensign, vice Bar-
ker. April 2.
65th Foot—Captain John Alves, from the half-pay, to
be Captain, vice Martin, appointed to the 67th Foot.
April 9.

67th Foot—Major Hon. Henry Richard Molyneux to
be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Burslem, who
retires. April 9.
67th Foot—Captain John Snow to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Molyneux. April 9.
Captain Samuel Yorke Martin, from the 65th Foot, to
be Captain, vice Snow. April 9.
60th Foot—Ensign Samuel Lettsom to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vihe Kellett, promoted. April 2.
John Smith, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Lettsom. April 2.
93rd Foot—Lieutenant Lionel Neil Ford, from half-pay
sth Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Boalth, whose appoint-
ment has not taken place. April 2.

96th Foot, Captain Hugh Fergussen Kennedy, from
the half-pay, to be Captain, paying the difference, vice
Hope, appointed to the 7th Foot. April 2.
Rifle Brigade—Ensign Hon. W. F. Cowper, from the
half-pay, to be Second Lieutenant, vice E. H. Lloyd, who
exchanges. April 2.