Star.
London, England, 1824-07-12 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCt

BOW-STREET.
G. Cant, a post-boy. was charged with assaulting General Sir C.
Doyle. Sir Charles stated, that on returning from the Review,
through Brentford, in his tilbury, on Wednesday last, a carriage
and four horses-came behind him with great speed, sad he beard a
voice from within the carriage say—" d—n the --, flog him, and
drive over him!" when the prisoner, who was postillion, literally
obeyed th orders, by applying his whip very powerfully to Sir
Charles's b d and shoulders, and neatly overturned the tilbury on
the pavem t. Being determined to know the author of this out-
rage, he f wed the chariot, and applied to a Lady (for there was
no Gentlemist within) to know the name of the proprietors of the
horses, and if she had any objection to give her name . To this he
was courteously answered, that he was " a d—d blackguard."—
' Sir Charles came up to the chariot at Hammersmith, where the as-
sault was repeated. The last outrage was so gross, that several Gen-
tlemen passing gave Or General their cards; and his name being
mentioned, the prisoner and the person who drove the wheel horses
(whom we understood to be , the prisoner's employer),
begged the prosecutor's pardon in the most abject manner ; but the
prisoner still refused to tell bil employer's name, and Sir Charles
mounted the horse of a friend, and followed the chariot till it ar-
rived at Curzon-street. where he learnt that it was a courtesan,
named Stopford, and her female attendant, who occupied the cha-
riot, and there ascertained the name of the prisoner and his employer.
A Gentleman who saw the outrage at Hammersmith, said, that
he there applied to Mrs. Stopford for the names of the parties, which
she refused, saying, that the post-boys, by G...), should not make
any apology, and if Sir Charles followed her to Curzon-street, she
would flog him herself !
The Ladty's footman attended, but only confirmed the outrages.
Curd was locked up until be found good bail, &c.

Lova, Pinson, PrITOI3. Poem's, &c. One Thomas De m, a
coachman out of place, was brought to this office, charged with
having threatened the life of Sarah Pearson; and this charge in-
volved three other charges, viz. raising a riot at a house in Meads-
court, Bond-street ; making a disturbance at Mr. Serjeant Onslow's
house. in New-street, Spring-gardens, and endeavouring to provoke I
Mr. Serjeant Onslow to fight a duel !
Thomas Dean. as we have already said, Is a coachman out of
place, and he ire also out of flesh—a very gaunt and awful-looking
person, six feet high, constitutionally scraggy, with a mouth out of
all reasonable longitude, and about forty-five years old. Sarah
Pearson 'is a dressy, little, nut-brown maid, In the service of Mr.
Serjeant Onslow • and love for her has almost driven poor Thomas
Dean out of his ;tits. --
Thomas was brought in by a couple of constables—neither of
them much higher than his elbow ; and Sarah was accompanied by
Mr. Serjeant Onslow's butler, and other of his servants. When the
case was called on, one of the gaoler* led Thomas forward to the
table, and Thomas attempted to knock him down for his pains.
So they placed him ?Atkin the bar, with a gaoler on either side of
him, each grasping him by a wrist; and he stood between them,
sighing like a blast-furnace, through his nose—for, as he said, he was
* desperately in love, and too good a man to live in this world !"
Whilst Thomas was thus awkwardly situated, Sarah told her
tale; by which it appeared that she Slit became acquainted with
biro about five years ago, when they were fellow-servants together
in the house of a Gentleman in Bedford-row. During that period,
Thomas had thewn her many attentions; but there had been no-
thing between them which could warrant him in presuming to sup.
pee that be bad any right or title to her person. She never gave
him any" parlicutar encouragement," and yet he continued his as
more and more; until at length they became so disagree-
able to her, that, about nine months ago, the " gave him orders"
' never to visit her again. But these orders he disobeyed, for he was
continually pestering her, and she could get no peace for him, at
home or abroad. At length, about a month ago, he suddenly dis-
continued his visits, and she was just beginning to hope that be had
given up ail thoughts of her, when last Friday afternoon, he came
to her at her master's house, and pulling a little bottle out of his
breeches pocket, he said to her, " Look here, Sarah ! this 'ere bottle
is full of poison; and if you don't leave your place, and do me kw
' dee, dash me !if I dou't drink every drop of it!" Poor Sarah was
sadly alarmed at this awsothe threat, and thinking it would be bet.
ter to temporize a little, she requested him to go away for that,
time, and keep himself quiet, and she would consider of it. He
went away, but it was only to adjourn to the house of a relative of
her's, in Mead's-court, Bond-street, where he conducted himself as
strangely, that she was sent for. When sbe went there, she found
I Thomas insulting everybody in the place ; and when she endra-
toured to peify him, he told her that, unless sbe would consent to
be his, he wonid murder her—or himself—or both. So saying, he
took up the prier, and brandished it over ber head—it was taken
frmn him, and be was ejected from the premises by dint of constabks.
This was all Sarah had to say about the matter, and when she
hid made an end of speaking, Thomas sighed more heavily than
betas*, and said. • Sarah! is this you ?" But Borah took no tto-
, flee of him.- •
' neat witness was Mr. Serjeant Onslow's butler; and by his
etvidence it appeared, that as soon as Thomas was ejected from
Mead's-court, he made the best of his way back to Serjeant
°aglow's* and there boldly demanded to see Sarah—though he well
knew he bad left her at Mead's-coup. The butler told hiss Sarah
was nut at home, and ordered him to go along about his busi-
ness. upon pain of being given in charge to a constable. Thomas
defied the constable—if all the constables in the kingdom were
there, he would answer them by law ; and forcing himself into the
hall—in spite of the butler's struggling to prevent—it, he took a seat
in one of the parlours, and swore he would not move until he had
seen Sarah. The astonished beam ran up stairs to his master, and
the Learned Serjeant went down to remonstrate with Thomas;
but, to the butlers still greater astonishment, Thomas defied even
the Learned Serjeant himself, and "talked to him just as he would
have done to one of us !" Nay, he even went so far as to say, that
if he had a brace of pistols the Learned Serjeapt should have one
of them!

" And so he should," exclaimed Thomas—furiously endeavour-
ing to writhe himself out of the grasp of the jailers—"-and so he
should !--Land I would have another ! and I'd shoot at him-aye,
like a man ! I've found it out bow I've been circumvented; and
I'd be hanged up at Newgate to-morrow morning, with pleasure,
I would ! for I'm too good a man to live any longer in such a
world as --"
Here one of the jailers relinquished his hold upon his wrist, and
offered him a pinch of snuff; and poor Thomas was so thankful
fur the kindness, that he forgot to finish his speech. So the butler
went on with his evidence, and it appeared therefrom, that when
Thomas began talking to Mr. Serjeant Onalow about pistols, mad
was manifestly resolved to make a great row, the Learned Sesjesust
senior the couple of constables abovementioned, and they bodkins
away to the watch-house.
In reply to all this, Thomas made but a slender and rather hi-
' whereat defence, as the following colloquy between him and die
Magistrate will abundantly testify :
What have you to say for yourself, Mr. Dean?
Why I've found her out—l've found her out, your Worship !
I'm a circumvented man. There she is—let her say if I'm net
proper man. and a good man. circumvented
Admitting that you are a circumvented man lost am; ieg
threaten to murder people.
I never did threaten to murder anybody but myself, and I wide
It was done now l • for I've found bee out, I've found her out, I've
found her out ! and can't bear it ! but I've no notion of saw•
tiering her.
Then why did yea take up the poker?
Never you mind that.--Perhaps I took It up for a fancp-4o
bring her round into a right way of thhaking—to brlag her to do the
thing that's right by as—as live hippy as she promised lost
What, did you mean to marry the girl ?
Never you mind that—iou are agentionsts, and am a ceoebesoa,
and it can't matter to yon what I mean.
Have you lived in London long?
Yes, I have—for I'm a good ma, and a proper Elsa, sad I've
lived in me place live years, and in another seven; and this last
alas weeks I've been owe of breed, sad I've found her oat, I tell you!
And what have you been doing these last nine weeks?
What have I been doing! why Tee been drinking—and I'm un-
settled—l are !
And yea wished her to drink something, It seems-the beide,
you know?
Never you mind that ! exclaimed Themes, with a demonine
lascOs and his Worship being of opinion that be was either mad
or drunk, committed him for further ezaminatim. Bat Thomas
seemed resolved not so be committed ; for It was as mush as three
stoat fellows could to to remove him from the bar.
al;a1=11111nam
Loxo Votraoa.—.The following communication from
the agents to Lloyd's relates the longest passage per.
haps on record, considering the actual distance of the
two places. The voyage from Lisbon to Terceira usually
occupies about six days ; •
" Idead'of Terceira, June Id.
on I bag haw to Wino righter the informatics,* of the Com-
islemo,ol the atrial day of the Salim ship Borns. J. G.
lisafebna In the grate* &trees for want of provisions. and loss of
and 9011$ Lk; out ISO days front Lisboa, bound
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