The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-06-25 00:00:00

LONDON POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Joshua Btitterworth, the foreman in the watch department?,
Mr. Jones, the silversmith of Cornhill, was brought UPI°.
final examination upon the charge of having robbed his maser
t
of
_Property to a very large amount.
The pawnbrokers who lent their money upon the articles a!'
leged to have been stolen by the prisoner, whose appearance is
as respectable as that of any silversmith, appeared, and having.
refused to give up the property without proof at the Old ]39'
of its identity, were bound over to appear at the trial.
Application was made by the friends of the prisoner to the
Mayor to remand him for another examination.
The Lord Mayor asked upon what pretext the application
was made?

The friends of the prisoner stated, that if the prisoner was rek-
manded for another period, the confinement in Newgate, Which
must follow his commitment, would be less severe previously to
the trial.

The Lord Mayor, in the most positive terms, refused to delay
the commitment of the prisoner a day longer. The moment
(his Lordship said) any very heavy crime was committed, a crY
of compassion was raised. If the offence was not extraordinary,
the accused person would enter his dungeon without raising the
slightest sympathy; but Fauntleroys, and Thurtells, and abet;
robbers and murderers, were sure to command sympathy and
commiseration, and gather together crowds of advocates.
The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial.

THAMES POLICE.
INHUMAN TREATMENT OF AN APPRENTICE.-012 Wed[lei;
day Capt. John Wilson, the master of the ship Henrietta 01
Sunderland, lying off Shadwell, was charged with cruelly Henrietta, of
John Preston, an apprentice. The-boy, who appeared to
be suffering the most acute pain, stated that on Tuesday even-
ing the Captain went ashore, and came on board between one
and two o'clock, after he and the other apprentice had turned
in. lie complained of one of the boats oars being. laid athwart
the deck, and made him turn out of bed to put it in its proper
place, which he had done before he had turned in. ne
then went to sleep again, and in a few minutes the Cap-
tain called him, but, being asleep, he did not hear him, and
the Captain came below in a great passion with a thick rope,
which he had doubled, and aroused him. He had no sooner
got out of bed than the Captain laid on him as hard as he was
able, and, in spite of his cries for mercy, continued flogging him
for upwards of ten minutes, until he was " wealed" from bead
to foot. His body was so sore that he could not bear his clothes
to touch it.

Mr. Ballantine—Were your clothes on when he flogged you?'
The boy said he bad nothing on but his shirt.
Mr. Broderip said that when the lad applied for the warrant,
on Wednesday evening, he never saw or heard of anything so
shccking as the state of the boy's person. It was a most fero-
cious and entirely unprovoked assault, and he ordered the Cap-
tain to be taken into custody directly, wherever he could be
found, and he hoped he had been locked up all night.
Mr. Ballantine directed the boy to putt off his clothes and let
him see the state of his person.
The apprentice did as he was directed, and the appearance of
his body caused an involuntary shudder from all present. His
arms, shoulders, and back, presented one mass of bruises. The
boy said he had received severe stripes on other parts of his
person.
Mr. Ballantine—What do you mean by this cruel punish-
ment ?

The Captain, who was greatly agitated, and could not look at
the boy's back without shuddering, sakd in a low tone, "I an'
extremely sorry for what has happened.'
Mr. Broderip—Sorry, indeed! How can sorrow atone for
what you have done in flogging this poor boy for ten minutes,
on his naked person ? What do you mean by being sorry ?
I am sorry that the boy should have been so flogged, and that
such a case should have come before me.
Defendant—l was very drunk, and did not know what I did.
The boy has been with me three years, and I have never flogged
him before.
Mr. Broderip—Look at your own dreadful work, if you have'
any feeling about you, you ought to be ready to sink to the
ground.
Defendant—l have feeling, Sir; lam indeed sorry.
Mr. Ballantiue, after a long consultation with his colleague,'
said that after such complete evidence of the defendant's bru-
tality and want of temper, he would no more trust the boy with
him again than he would his own child, and the owner of the
ship must be sent for. The Magistrates could not pass a sen-
tence under the summary power entrusted to them sufficient
to meet the offence; and if they did the penalty would not find
its way into the boy's hands. If the case was sent to the Ses-
sions, and the boy still possessed those marks he had just dis-
played, the Court would, in the event of a conviction, inflict
the heaviest punishment in their power to award; but no Eng.
lish Jury would believe, unless they saw the thing with their
own eyes, that any man could have been guilty of such cruelty;
and as the defendant had power to traverse the case, and after-
wards to postpone it., the boy's person would probably by that
time be healed ; and the case then resolving itself into a mere
common assault, the defendant might escape with a slight pu-
nishment. Under these circumstances the Bench would, be•
fore they came to a decision, allow the defendant to retire with
the boy, and see what compensation he could make him. After
he had done so the Magistrates would give their judgment.
The parties then retired, and in a few minutes hingham, a
land-officer, said the Captain had offered the boy £4.
The Magistrates said that would not do; it was nut one-half
enough.
The Captain eventually gave the boy eight sovereigns.
The parties were then brought into the office, and Mr. Bal-
lantine, addressing the Captain, said, " We hear that you have'
been in conversation with the boy; and that being the case,
we shall dispose of this under our summary jurisdiction. We'
fine you ls. for the assault, besides all the costs. The boy will
stop here."

QUEEN-SQUARE.
BYERS V. THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL.—The Earl of Liverpool
appeared before Mr. Gregorie, on a summons issued against
him by Byers, the informer, for not having his name and place
of residence properly painted on one of his breaks, according to
the late Act of Parliament.

His Lordship, who appeared in person to defend the cause,
pleaded nut guilty.
Byers stated that there was no Christian or surname on the
break. The words were " The Earl of Liverpool, Buxstead,
Sussex," and that they were black letters on a yellow ground,
instead of a white ground.
The Earl of Liverpool—Pray did 3 ou see the break yourself ?
Byers—l did, my Lord.
The Earl of Liverpool—When did you see it ?
Bvers—Why, my Lord, I saw the break on the 6th of. June,
at Kensington Gore.
The Earl of Liverpool—I believe you are fatally correct.
Mr. Gregorie then fined his Lordship in the mitigated penalty
of 20s. and costs, which he immediately paid, remarking that he
should, for the future, endeavour to keep himself out of the
grasp of Mr. Byers.
Several owners of carts and cabs were fined for having they'
names painted in Old English letters, commonly called German
text, the same not being considered legible letters according t°
the Act of Parliament.