Star.
London, England, 1828-10-07 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

M A NSI ON—HOUSE.
PAUPERISM Exibaoitonimer.--Vesterday a rare of pauperism,
which can +candy find a patallel, was heard before Sir Press
Lao sir, who sat tor the Lord Ilayor.
A young man, named Webb, of respectable appearance, mow
to complain against the Churchwardens and Overseers of the parish
of St. Alary Wouleburclo, Lonibard-street, for having refilapt to,
give him the nn-ans or supporting nature.
Sir Pena Lavoie expressed surprise at hearing such a complaint
from a person who seemed to be so much above a pauper in ap-
pearance, education, and address.
The Vestry (leek of St. Mary Worolchureh stated, that tbe,case
stood completely by itself. It was one of the most hicredible de-
scription. The pauper was the son of a Clergyman, whose income
amounted to at least 2,0001. a year, and who s' dated amongst the
most exalted rank% sit society The autbuitties of tbe parish were
of course unwilling t., support the pauper, wisest the indlykluat
upon whom he Kid so powerful a natural claim, Was so well able
to contribute to his 10ve...1:ie..

&r Pam LAUNlC—Cett.inly not ; but let us hear the air-

The Vestry Clerk stated, that the Rev. Pair. Webb was, accord.
ing to the pauper's description, a Minor tlllO4l of Sr. Paul's, a
Minor Canon of Westminster, Vicar of Langley, in Ruckitighans-
shire, Minister of the Chapel Royal at Windsor, and at the (-lapel
Royal at St. James's, and was also possessed of a living in Hertford.
shire. rise pauper :ad applied two years ago to the parish fur
assistance, and had candidly stated the flourithitqf ;stare of his
father's circumstance.. Upon that occasion the parish *Seers
wrote to the Rev. Gentleman, representing the condition of kis
son, and their eapectatioe that some measures would be imme-
diately taken to remove such a burden from the parish. To this
application the Gentleman replied, by declining m give the slightest
relief to his son ; and stating that he obtained a &pod situatiou for
the pauper, which the pauper lost by his own misconduct ; and that
he (the Reverend Gentleman) had other family claims to which be
was obliged to give his attention.
Sir P. LAURIE (to the ;satires )—Are you the leiitimate child of
your father?" Pauper—Certainly.
Sir Prna—And is your mother alive ?—The pauper replied in
the negative. Hick:her-had married a second Wife, and he bad
not seen nor bad any communication with the Rev. Gentleman foe
six years.
The Vestry Clerk said that the Parish Olken did not at ant
credit the unfortunate pauper, his story was so completely at
variance with human feeling ; but they found that it was Hue.
Sir PET'S Lao What was the misconduct by which you
lost your situation ? Pauper—l was clerk at Messrs. Everett's,
and a person in their employment took some money ; I knew of
the fact, and did not mention it ; I was discharged on that account.
Sir PETER LAUalle—.Was that the utmost client of your miscues.
duct? Pauper—The only offence I ever committed.
Sir Pares—And your father knew it? Pauper—He did; my
1 employers can bear testimony to my irreproachable conduct in
every ether respect. The best proof of their good opinion is. that
they have at various times given me employment; when they had
no employment for me as a clerk, in order to keep me from com-
plete destitution, they employed rue as a footman; that kept me
from starvation.
Sir Prrsa—llid you write to your father about your privations?
Pauper—Repeatedly ; but in vain.
Sir Prma•—Did he give you oo relief ? Pauper—Since I lust
my situation. be perme a. Six years have elapsed since that
time. I wrote to him that if he did not du some little thing for
me, I must apply to my parish. to prevent me from resorting to
any desperate extremity for the support of my elistente.
Sir Psraa—Good Gen ! and did he give you nothlog? Pauper
—Nothing; not a farthing.
Sir Pares—Young man, you must either be a very bad son, or
your father must have a'very hard heart. Which is it? l'aoper—
My father was aware of my wretchedness. He even refused to
pay me in my distress the money he owed me. When be was taking
-the benefit of the Insolvent Act, in 1821, I advanced 30!. to men(
the expenses. and he would nit pay me one farthing.
The Vestry (.lerk stated, :hat the representation of the pauper
upon the present occasion differed in no respect from his statement
to them. There was no reason to doubt it. The palish authorities
bad, upon the second application of the pauper, wi Wen agate to the
Rev. Gentleman, and stated to him, that if be ?misted is refusing
to aid his unfortunate son, the case must' inevitably appear before
the public. No notice wait taken of thii appeal, and the young
man must either be supported by the piirids, er die in the streets
of hunger.
Pauper—l have tiled every means of getting into bread; I went
to Brighton, and get a place at one of the libraries, which I kept
till it wai shut up. I wrote to my father, that it he did not do
something for me, I must goto the perish, or do something worse.
Sir Parses—And he refused you?—Pauper—He Dever took no-
tice of my letter.
Sir Prrca—And what were the debts whkb be whitewashed,
as they call the passing through the Insolvent Courts?
Pauper—l believe about 3.0001.
Sir I'sraa—And did he give up any of his siteations to pay his
creditors? Pauper—Not one; he agreed, I believe, to pay annoatly
something for the liquidation of his debts. Ile pays Curates for
officiating for him, for lie seldom or never acts himself. lam an•
xious to accept of any situation which will preserve me from a
degrading dependence upon the with, and my former employers
will speak favourably of nit, notwithstanding the error into which
I unfortunately fell.
Sir Peres—To what do you attribute this strange perversion of
nature—ls the Rev. Gentleman penurious 2—Pauper. No • the:
reverse. He keeps an establishment, and is expensive in his habits,
I believe; but I know but little about hint, out having seen him
for six years.
Sir PETER—Hu he no f. ding for your forlorn condition?—
Pauper. Not the most distant ; no more than if I never existed.
He never casts a thought upon me.
The Vestry Clerk said, be supposed that another application
would be attended to.
Sir PaTER—I dare sly it will. It will probably be made &rough
a more commanding channel. It Is rather too much for poor per.
sons, who can scarcely pay the rates, to be supporting the son of a
Clergyman, who has such pluralities.
The Vestry Clerk—We shall continue to assist him until we hear
from his father.

Sr Prue—Certainly do. You will hear front his father, and
his father will, depend upon it, hear from you. If be has no touch
of humanity, he probably has sonic sense of shame.
Mr. Mohler—The parish can compel him to assist bit ton, and I
think they must compel him. The parties their k It the Justice-room.
GUILDHALL.
Jump's Howard, aged 19, who has been employed for the last
four year. as a porter 011 the premises of Mr. Lynch, a wholesale
ileakr in coffee, in She-lane, was brought up on suspicion of having
stolen forty pounds in notes, and seventy porn& In gold and silver,
out of a tin cash box, in his master's desk, on Saturday last.
Mr. Lynch stated, that he entered his counting-house in the
morning while the.prisoner was gone to breakfast, and found a
sovereign and a small Spanish gold coin (which be had leftin his
cask-box) lying on the desk. He found his desk unlocked, and his
cash-box, which contained £234 iu cash and bills, entirely cleared.
He .hadnoticed, in passing the warehouse, that a skylight window
was left partly open, and the rain was coming through upon some
bags of coffee. When the prisoner returned, be taxed hint with,
the robbery. as he alone had been in the warehouse that morning;
but he strongly denied it. hi the course of ten minutes, the pd.
cotter went up to the kitchen en the lint inost..to get through the
window upon the leads, and close the sky-lighsa'and as aeon as be
returned, he !tesented Some pipers folded up to Miss Lynch,
saying be bad just picked them up on the leads. 'Them papers
were pan of the contents of the cash boa, including some memo-
randums, a country note, a bill, and some cheques, value together
about £ll4. It was his practice to beep his desk locked, but be
had not a distinct recollection of locking it db Friday nigin.
Martin, an officer, said, he had examined the premises, and
ienradno marks of house-breaking. 'the smith was of opinion
Het die Ink bad not been violently opened. but that Mr. Lynch
bed leik,k eideeked that night. Ik was sure no person had en.
Owed by Ike skylight window. , He bad searched the prisoner's
Mill the boxes of the female servants in the house, with.
10 go/ dew'.
led.slamasr
,io his defence, said, be found the sovereigns and
the aped& piece en the counting-house floor. In the morning be
carelessly left the warehouse.dour ajar several times before be went
to breakfast.—He was remanded.
• ED W-STREET.
A Riervesign " Lats.".—Yeatirday Ellis, one of the principal
'dicers of this establishment, brought before the Magistrates a tal-
low who has been a thief for at least a dozen year., sod who is well
known to the Police, and bee been twice trapaported. The names
which he has assumed are as numerous almost as the times he has
been in custody: The prisoner heel during the last three months
bent in the House of Correction, (-lei-Semen. He was committed
from Worship-street (Mice under the Polk, Act, lot attempting
to enter the bed-room of a, public-house. the Bull's Head, with
intent to commit a felony. About seven years ago he was tried
with a man Dialed Heading for committing a robbery in the house
of Mi. Barlow. a publitan in Doswell-street. lie was soon after.
wards rried for returning front' transportation and was acquitted.
to leo be was vied and found guilty in committingi a burglary at
Bristol, and his sentence of death was cuniniuted to transportation
for life: Ellis laid that be his been for sonic time in search of him,
and discovered 'OW de was in the Houle of Corrections. 'fester.
day the term of his 'MIMIC! of three months imprisonment expired.
Ellis wilted otirside the prison gates, and as sea's as he was libc..
rued apprehended him tot being a return convict. The. prisoner

did not deny that he bad returneJ from transportation, but he slid
that it bad been ceased by acrid at, and not by design. Ha WI.
at !Mk as a markt in an span hostess a WY in. New Bowl.
Wiles when be was carried out by the tide, 'and was picked up
by a vessel 11 bids bumph' isfea to lifaditad.--fie was ceasssitted t..
Newsate.
/lechery Coachte.—Mr. Hairdo Lewis. of Whitechapei.road.
was summoned before Mr. Hasse. to show cause Why he should
not pay the value of the window of a hackoet coach, at which one
Joe Arnold, of Wiethinster, wee a prim fighter, Is the driver
and owner. _ _

-..-- -.—.
OM Joe said, that no the evening of the 29th of lasi month Mr.
C
IlAwit hired his coach. to Red Lion-street. Wkitecharl. and
ordered him to drive tooetasei -road, to take op a Lady. He
did so, ' lied Mr. Lewis and a y named litdines got' into his
coach, and ordered him to drive to Llverpotilstreet•• itioad-itreet ;
the Lady pulled up the kit-hand window with mesh twee and
broke the glass; he told her she had done it, and the slid she: lkaal
not. On arriving with the coach at Liverpool street, Mr. Holmes
(the husband of the Lady) came to the door, and be (witness) a._
minded his' and the price of Ms window, and hi inetivell
,nothing lint'ahuse In return; se be gave Mr. ondo Lewis into
the cuatod) isf a watchman; and be was taken to the vracckhonse.
kl:igiirrate—Did he remain there all night?.
Jo• Arnold—No your Worship, I did not want to keep him
dim ; Mt. Holmes hint, and I sintinotted Me for the value
tit the window.
Mrs. Holmes—l am certain the window was broken when I
entered the coach.
Joe Arnold—liegee to let that Lady be sworn.
Mrs. Holmes being sworn, said she thought the window was
broker.; she believed she did not break it.
Jae Arnold—And I swear positively it was whole when you
and the Gentleman entered my mach; for I bad bet a short time
before cleaned it. .

The Magistrate ordered Mr. Lewis to pay the value of the glare
and the expenses, which be did; but pretested ageism the equity
of the decWuo.
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QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday, Themes ~ma was held to hall for refusing to assist
the deft power in quelling a riot, and for aiding and abetting the
rioters. Same men belonging to the Clas.worka hi the Vaeaball
Road, had quarrelled and agreed to fight. ,O• Swart they wiled
at the King's Head, in Marchana-street, where one of *am as.
milted 3lrs. Scott, wife of the landlord. Whets they attorwards
congregated on the YaushaU Road, the racer who attampeild to
put an ,end ter the meeting was Wined, aid Phelan
upon, refused to at‘ht.— Mr. Wawa addressed Mr. Scutt=
he 'tithed to give timely nutke to aU baited victiollers io
the distrkt, that at the new Acta Parliament, which would alum
into fits cc un the 10th inst. alibied all licensed victuslleri to keep
open lb. ir houses to any hour they thought proper, proilded no
riot or kli.ottler rook place; be *maimed all to beware of what
pehout they had in their b.sters, (or an a complaint being laid of
any disordir taking place, the besetest penalty would be levied, aid
if any officer nee cted to report any disorderip conduct be would
be d' s-ed his situation.

HATTON.GARDEN.
Smog Lupe, an Italianotas yesterday brought up before A. S.
!AIM and G. B. Boons ilisqrs. charged with a violent and brutal
assault upon the person of Joseph Brightman.
Tbc complainant stated that he was proceeding down Holborn
on Saturday evening, carrying an umbrella under his arm ; the de-
fendant came up. and struck him two or three vio'ent blows on the
face ; be fell &win. and the defendant struck hint again, and bit
lall lip whilst he was down; In a savage and ferocious inmate,.

Ni. Luau asked the drfendasit wh:t he bad tip say to the charge?
The It.lian replied tbst he was talking to two other friends ;1
and herr be described as writ as be could. in broken &Wish. that
he bad bee' touched with the umbrella which the complainant had
wider his arm, mid then that he struck him.

Mr.lllllll4i fined the delendant 20s.
The Italian here eaelainted...-" Is dat de way you use de poet
stranger?"
Mr. Lama replied that if it had been an gag:Mean who bad
committed the assault) be would have been more heavily lbed,
WORSHIP-STR BET.

Yesterday two urchin boys, named Dye and Gukiesa, were
charged with strafing, on last Saturday, two pigs, value £5 10s.
frost the premises of Mrs. Rook, Bethnal-green.
It appeared that Tyrrel, one of the Mow-street Patrol, saw the
prisoners drive the pigs through Swan-street, soul although Dye is
not more than ten years oki, yet he has been four times io custody,
and when hr saw the °dicers be ran swap—They were committed.
Janes West sea. charged with brutally ill treating &manna Tyrrel.
appeared the parties lived together as man and wife for some
years, and had four cbiklren living, and as last Saturday night she
took sts. from his pocket, for which be peat her an severely as obliged
her to go to a Doctor's to be bled, and on her reigns be renewed the
same kind of usage.—He was held to bail, in the absence of which
be was cosnmkted.

LAS'

A Cnamaav Butrua.—Pretty treatment for a Lady, eselalnied
Mrs. Burnie, a tall masculine dame, recently imported from the
Emerald Isle, as she bounced into the caSce, exhibiting the
tattered flounces of what bad once been a vet y gay .ilk goeire
Pretty treatment indeed for a lone woman, and she toe a atria
among ye !
Mr. Wrart— Why, what is all this about ? lithe WOMB mad ?
Oh, not at all, your Vorship (said Walker, a watchman) bat she is
way obstropulons. Thu morning, about twg o'clock, I found that
ere Lady quite tossicsted, and rolling about in the mud ; 1 raised
her co her lege, awl based her vat she was a donut of, but Inetead
of her giving a polite answer, she laid to. and scratched am this
ere manner. (The watchman hen protruded his onantenstee to-
wards the Bench, and in its curved scratches exhibited an India-
potable/roof of Mrs liarnie's handy work).
WTATT-...Was she very drunk at the time?
Watchman—Very, your Vorsbip.
Mrs. Burnie—l certainly did take a little drop. which quite
overcame rise, and was the cause of my not being able to bog out
my way to my lodging; though a little elevated, I was sensible, 1
and placed myself ander this watchman's protection, but instead of
lending me auy assistance, he treated me in this ungenteel manner.
Watchman—l used no more force than was necessary to take
her to the watchhouse.

Mr. Wvarr—it is clearly proved that you was drunk, and also
that you committed an assault upon the watchman ; you are there-
fore lined ips.
Mrs. /Linde (dropping a low cartsey).—Thank Lour Wild
that sum 1 can easily procure from the agent who is
my suit in Chancery. _ _ . -

The privet), in the dike stared at this deelaradon; but she was
as good as her word, and in a short time, the Ink being forth-
coming, she was discharged.