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London, England, 1821-11-03 00:00:00

be perceived that the punishments of transportatiosn
for life have much increased, and those for 14 years
greatly- diminished. This is partly owing to the very
few'Bsesk cases which have been tried this §ession. as
the punishment for the minor offence of having forged
notes in the possession is transportation for 14 years.
After the close of the Middlesex Sessions, there were
no less than 161 prisoners discharged from the New
Prison, Clerkenwell ; where 120 still remain.

POLICE.

Matcatotc-House.--Yesterday, three men were
trrought before the LORD MAYOR, on a charge of
having
.uttered a bad sovereign, at the shop of Mr.l
L. Honiton' law-stationer, Chancery-lane. An Attor-
ney came forward and said one of the prisoners was
a client of his, and that he had authorised the other
to buy a Ss. law stamp.—As the defendants were not
known to the Police officers, it was presumed they
were not common utterers, and they were discharged
with an admonition that the present case would be
evidence against them if they should hereafter be de-
tected in similar practices.—There has lately been an
extensive issue of bad sovereigns from Birmingham,
which have been in circulation in. London about ten
days. That offered by- one of the prisoners was of
this coinage. They are vet y badly executed, the
milling is clumsy, arid the letters indistinct. The
head is also very different; and on the whole the
counterfeit is easy of detection. The utterers, we are
informed, pay ss. 6d. each for the counterfeits.
RLBOROLIGII-STREET.—Yesterday, Thomas Bel-
cher, a respectable looking man, was charged with
stealing fifteen wine glasses from the Egyptian Hall,
Piccadilly, under the following circumstances :
There was a choice collection of wines, the property
of a Gmtleman of fortune, to be disposed of under
the hammer of a respectable auctioneer. As* cus-
tomary on such occasions, there were samples of each
wine in great abundance, and as usual there were
more taster; than bidders. One of the waiters ob-
served that not only wine was missing, but glasses ;
and a signal being given, there was an extra look out.
The prisoner was observed to enjoy all the -wines and
to [wicket all the glasses! He was walking. away from
the auction room, when one of the waiters called him
on one side, and reminded him that he had made a
mistake in not leaving the glasses after he had drank
the wine. A constable was sent for, and no less than
fifteen glasses which he had emptied were found
upon him. The defence was distress: the prisoner
stated himself to have been a master hatter, in good
business, at the East end of the town. He was fully
committed for trial.
MARY-LA-BONNE 0FF1CE......•TW0 children, bro.
thers, were brought up from the watch-house for
being found sleeping at the door of a tradesman's
house, in Oxford-street, the preceding night. The
poor fellows, on being placed at the bar, presented a
most appalling sight, as they were without either
hats or shoes, or scarcely anything to guard them
from the inclemency of the weather, and apparently
in a starving condition. After the watchman had
made his complaint against them, the elder, about
ten years old, in a flood of tears, stated that lie and
his little brother were without relations or friends;
and had, on the morning that they were taken, been
discharged fi 'is the Sessions by proclamation, where
they had been committed for stealing a piece of
bacon; and having nu place to go to, and being very
tired, they bad sat themselves down at the step of
the door to rest,- and had fallen asleep. At the age
of five years, he and his brother were obliged to seek
a shelter where they could, on account of their father
running away from them (at this time they lived in
a small cottage in Ponland-gieen, Mary-la-bonne)
and their mother died in Middlesex Hospital with a
broken heart. They had since been outcasts, and
wandered about the streets, living by pilfering what-
ever they could for sustenance; they now had no
other means of supporting themselves. The affecting
narrative, which was told in a very artless and dis-
tinct manner, drew tears from many of the females
present, several of whom gave them some pecuniary
assistance.—The Overseers of the Parish agreed to
relieve the poor little lads, And the worthy Magis-
trate signified his intention of getting them into the
Refuge for the Destitute, in Huston.
Uti lON4I A LL.—Mary Maulky, a pretty looking
girl, was charged by her own father and mother with
pawniug various articles of wearing apparel, the pro-
perty of her mother and sister.—She was committed
under the Pawnbrokers' Act to the Brixton House of
Correction for a month.

Yesterday a Gentleman got out of a one-horse
chaise at the door of a house near the Obelisk, and
entered the house without leaving some person at the
horse's head. The animal took fright, galloped along
Blackfriar's-road, and came in contact with a Gen-
tleman's carriage, the concussion was most violent,
the shafts of the chaise were broke off, and the body
dashed to pieces. The horse ran along the foot pave-
ment on one side of the Blackfriar's-road with the
shafts attached to the harness ; two elderly females
wete shockingly injured by being struck with the
shafts. They were carried away in a state of insen-
sibility. The horse was stopped at the bridge with-
out doing further mischief.
As Mr. S. SORRY, of Dean-street, accompanied by
his friend Mr. BREINGBOROUGH, were returning to
London from Twickenham in a single horse chaise,
on Tuesday evening, the chaise was driven against
the wheel of a coal cart in the King's-road, when
travelling at a quick rate, and upset with a crush,
which shattered it in pieces. Mr. SORRE, who was
driving, was taken up in a senseless and hopeless state,
and Mr. BENINGBOROUGH had his arm and collar-
bone broken.
The late HARVEY ASTON associated much with
the Royal Family, and, when he was going out to
India, where he lost his life, the Kttro enjoined his%
most affectionately, never more' to fight a duel. In
the fatal meeting with Colonel ALLEN, HARVEY 4
TON was shot through the body and back-bone ; but,
with the greatest firmness continued standing, his
arm extended and pistol presented, for about a couple
'of minutes, and sensible that he had received his
death, exclaiming—" It shall never be said that the
last act of my life was an act' of revenge," gradually
lowered his arm to his side, and sunk down for ever !

Some very extraordinary documents, respecting
the latter days of King CHARLES IL have been lately
found among the Records of the Herald's College.