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London, England, 1825-08-22 00:00:00

HATTON• GARDEN.

Saturday, Mr. Bodkin, Secretary of the Mendicity Society, ac-
companied by some of the members of the Institutica, appeared to
prefer a charge against a person of the name of Clarke, for obtaining
money under false prenrces,by writing begging letters. Mr. Bodkin
produced a letter written in the name of Clarke's wife to the Deke
of Northumberland, picturing the deepest distress, representing het
husband and one child out of six as in a dying state. Wm. Pig-
gott, the Duke's porter, deposed to his having been sent with five
sovereigns to Mrs. Clarke, which he delivered to her at the house of
Mr. Wood, in Seymour-street. Mr. Wood, the landlord of the
house, deposed, that the statements contained in the letter produced
were ail false. Clarke was at work at his trade (a tailor) at the
time the letter was written, and on the night of the day the ses was
received from the Duke of Northumberland, the most drunken re•
velry took place antoesst Clarke, his wife, and their associates.
Clarke denied any knowledge of the letter, and the Magistrates, not
thinking the charge proved, discharged him.
MABLBOBOUGH-STREET.

Mace PLAZI.S.—Don Francis de Sales Blotto, charged with de-
frauding several pawnbrokers by pledging mock for real pearl, was
re-examined this day. lie had agreed to repay the pawnbrokers,
and Mr. ileulard, his employer, had :treed to advance the money
to settle the business, during the week, and he expressed his indig-
nation that Blass* should have implicated him in the alleged frauds.
Mr. Fleulard put Advertisements in the Morning and other
Papers disclaiming having given authority to Blasco to say they
were real pearls. Mr. Fleulard, however, did not appear accord-
ing to his promise, to pay the money. Blasco would have been
committed, but for the intorferen:e of a Gentleman who had known
him for eight years, and was personally acquainted with him when
beheld a high and responsible situation in Spain, under the Liberal
Government; and who stated that it was distress that had driven
Blasco to commit the offence imputed to him, and - the Gentleman
advanced a sum of money for the purpose of compromising the
transaction. The Magistrate said, that as Blasco had kept his word,
and attended from time to time, he would allow him to go at large
for another week, and by that time he hoped he would be able to
settle with the pawnbrokers.
One Mr. Edwin (not Ilumpbry) Clinker, by trade a hair-dresser'
and by locality a lodger in the house of Mr. Smith, a glass-cutter,
in St. Andrew's-street, Seven Dials, was brought before the Ma-
gistrate on a peace-warrant, charged by his landlord as follows :
Mr. Smith said, that he has had the misfortune to have had Mr.
Clinker in the house for the twenty-five weeks last past, and he has
had the stilhgreater misfortune not to have received one farthing of
rent during the whole of that period from Mr. Clinker, notwith-
standMg that be has made repeated applications for the same in va-
rious shapes, and on the last occasion in the shape of a broker ; but
on entering Mr. Clinker's apartment, be found that there was no-
thing for his broker to do, unless he seized one or two old wigs.
Since this last visit, however, which betrayed the" nakedness of the
land," Mr. Clinker has taken up quite a hostile position against hint
(Mr. Smith), and has laid himself down sedulously to annoy him in
every possible way, to the total neglect of every other occupationi
even the shaving of the few customers be has.

Mr. Clinker'S first step was to place in his shop-window a bust
bearing a most hideous • resemblance to him (Mr. Smith), on the
head of which be placed a still more hideous wig ; thereby hold-
ing: him up tattle laughter and ridiculli of the whole neighbourhood.
But not satisfied with this, Mr. Clinker had placed a rope round the
neck of this bust, with the noose placed exactly under the ear;
thereby insinuating a very awkward exit to tbe original. Nor is
ibis all; for Mr. pinker, not content with annoying Mr. Smith
himself, hod also stirred ap his Muse to do so, and has actually
composed a long string of verses exposing Mr. Smith ; and having
got them printed, he employs a set of fellows to sing them about
the neighbourhood, and exactly under his own window, occasionally
apostrophising tbe bust, to whom they are chiegy addressed ; par.
ticularly a dialogue introduced between each verse, as taking place
between a landlord and his tenant. These proceedings, Mr.
Mr. Smith said, collected such a mob about his door, that his life is
made a burden to him; and unless something were done to expel
Mr. Clinker altogether from the house, he (Mr. Smith) could not
remain in it.

Here Mr. Smith banded in a copy of Mr. Clinker's poetical
effusion, regularly printed, and consisting of about a dozen stanzas,
headed " A Landlord and his Tenant;" and a dialogue, as dc.
scribed, between each two stanzas. It commences thus :
" The landlords now lately so great they are grown,
" If they have an old house that is fit to pull down ;
" If you can't wake year rent op against quarter-day,
" Then who looks so big or so stately as they ?"
Mr. Clinker simpered and smiled the whole time, apparently
mueb pleased at the recital of his ingenuity and poetic genius; and
made no defence, -but that Mr. Smith was perpetually tormenting
him for rent, and that the bust in the window was not at all like
Mr. Smith.

The Magistrate said, that Mr. Clinker's conduct was highly
improper, and tended to urge Mr. Smith to commit a breach of
the peace, and be must find bail.
It was afterwards arranged that Mr. Clinker should quit the
lodgings, and silence his Muse.
MARY.LA-BONNE.

Puottram.--Ned &echoes and Agnes Rainie, two of the Corps
Pugilistic, were charged with committing a breach of the peace.
It appeared that on the evening of Monday, the I ith of July, a
quarrel took place between a bruiser called Beefsteak Billy and a

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