Star.
London, England, 1826-09-14 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION HOUSE.

Yesterday morning, Place, the officer, Mrs. Ford, and the cad,
who were charged with having robbed a sailor, underwent a final
examination.
The LORD Maros said, that upon a full conskierition of the
evidence, although It satisfied him as to the intentions of the
parties, yet the sailor being drunk at the time, he doubted whether
there was evidence sufficient to satisfy the ands of a Jury. This
being a capital offence, requiring very strong evidence, he should
discharge the prisoners. He had beard nothing against the cha-
racters of the two male prisoners.
Tuesday, a married woman, Mrs. Clifton, the wife of an ivory
turner, residing in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, appeared to answer a
charge of assault preferred against her by a decent looking young
woman, named Susan King, the wife of a carpenter.
Mrs. King appeared with two black eyes, and her face otherwise
bearing marks of severe contusions. Sbe stated, that she was peace-
ably walking with another female, when Mrs. Clifton, the defend-
ant, whom she had never seendiefore, suddenly flew upon her, and,
after demolishing her bonnet. and cap, beat her about the head and
face, until she put it in a worse condition .than that in which his
Lordship now saw it:
Mrs. Clifton, who could not refrain during the complainant's
statement, making use of the epithets, " Good-for-nothing jade,"
" Hussey," &c. at once admitted the fact of the assault to the full
extent represented by the complainant, but declared that she bad
just grounds fur doing far more towards her than she had done.—
The fact was, that she had been from home on a visit to her native
place (Wales), and in the meantime her husband had had criminal
conversation with this good-for-nothing woman. He had, as she
was informed on good authority, when she returned, taken her home
with bin,. In short, he had confessed u much himself. Could it
be expected, therefore, that a virtuous woman should peaceably
bear such treatment?

The Loan Alarms said, that, at all events, the defendant could
not be allowed to take the law in her own hands; but there was
nothing in the appearance or manner of the complainant to corrobo-
rate the statement made against her.
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The complainant protested that it was utterly untrue. The de-
fendant had incited a number of Wel•h people, of the lowest cha-
racter, against her, and her life was actually endangered by them.
The complainant's hu4sand, a young carpenter, who said he bad
been married to her six months, came forward to state his convic-
tion of his wife's purity of character and conduct.
The defendant assured his Lordship, that she could prove what
she had stated to be the truth, and could undeceive the young man
as to his wife's conduct (if be was not aware of it already) provided
time were given her to produce witnesses:
The Loan Mason adjourned the case until yesterday when Mrs.
Clifton produced no other person than her husband to depose to his
own shame. " Now," said she, "mind you speak the truth before
his Lordship."—The husband then calmly acknowledged that what
his wife had stated was the truth.
The LORD Maros strongly reprimanded him for his conduct,
and his public and shameless avowal of it. " Get out of the room,"
said his Lordship," for I would not believe a word uttered by a
fellow like you, who thus, without a symptom of shame, comes
forward to avow your infamy."
Evidence was then given to prove that Mrs. King, the complain-
ant, who now wore so respectable an exterior, had been, in fact, a
prostitute.
The complainant wept, and admitted that her former course of
life had not been strictly virtuous, but ske declared that since bet
marriage she had reformed. She had seen the defendant in the
company of her husband. She had once met him in her husband's
absence, and had taken a glass of wine with him, but she declared
her innocence of the charge imputed to her, and prayed that she
might not be abandoned to the fury of the defendant, and the females
of the neighbourhood, who had all come forward to support her.
The Loma Maros reprimanded the complainant, who, he said,
I could only stone for her early misconduct by, her. future good be-
haviour. At the same time, whatever the defendant bad suffered
from her husband, she must not be allowed to take justice in her
own hands ; nor was she, because she was virtuous, to let loose her
fury Without restraint. His Lordship ordered the defendant to
find sureties to keep the peace, and also ordered the complainant to
eater into her own recognizances for the same purpose.