The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-06-26 00:00:00

POLICE.

: AI Aaiuoaor a 11-STa r ET.—Saturday afternoon, EtVi4
Nutram, irlio was ilescrilted as a half-pay officer, was
brought Wore 11. M. Dyt:a, Esq., the sitting Magis-
trate, char;:ed with breaking the windows of Lady
Anne ll.tmilton's house, in Krtnian-street, the present
residence of her Majesty the Ooeen.
In the course of Saturday interning clouds of people
assembled opposite her Majesty's house, in expectatiot
of seeing the I teputati. u who were to present the Ad-
dress which tilts toted on Thursday night in thr Ilonse
of tionnoots. Ihe prisoner was observed forcing,
it ith great difficulty, a passage through the crowd, till
he got to the notate, No. •23: herr he paused a mo-
tueuf, and then (uparently discovering his mistake)
he left the duiir, and went forward till he came to Lady
flatniltim's. After regarding the house for a few nil-
' mates, be uttered a loud exclamation, and threw a black
' thorn walking stick whirl, he held in his hand with
/ great force against the parlour window, by which he
/ shattered two or three squares of glass, and the stick
entered the room and remained there. Immediately
1 the greatest twin:ion was observable in the crowd,
rand a number of men, enraged at the outrage, were
' oven pressing forward to seise the delinquent. Lady
`Anne Hamilton appeared at the window, and said
something to the multitude, which was understood to
be. that " no:te hut a manidc would commit so nu-
worthy an act,- but those words (clearly applied by
1 vasty of intercession for the prisoner), seemed to fail of
the desired effect, and he was about to undergo the 1
; snannary or 'sal of mob law, when Mr. Gall, a tailor.,
next • door, who is a constable in his own right, came
up. and rescued him from their fifty. The persons •
who saw the prisoner's conduct, declared at the watch-'
house that he used very gross language towards the
Queen, judging from the violence of his gestUre, and
the words " NO Caroline," which he was hea-d to
niter, but none of those persons attended before the
Magistrate.
The prisoner being called on for some explanation
of his conduct, went into a long, rambling, and in-
coherent statement, by which it appeared, that in the
year IStf9, he had been brought to this office and very
illegally treated, as he conceived, an.l that he had
never since iecrivcd justice from any quarter. Of all
his Majesty's Ministers, and other exalted individuals,
he professed to have a perfect knowledge, and fre-
quently spoke of Lord Sidumuth, and Mr. Capper, of
. the Alien Office. He declined giving any definite ac-
count of himself: but some of the parish constables
present, said they knew him as a troublesome charac-
ter, who was supposed to be at times under the in-
fluence of mental derangement.
The Magistrate said, that as the persons who saw
the behaviour of the man had declined to come for-
ward, and as the constable was unable of his own know-
ledge to swear to the facts, he was bound to discharge
the prisoner.
He was accordingly discharged with a suitable ad-
monition. lie appeared between 10 and 50 years of age.

FEN tLi INTREPIDITT.—About a week ago, a very
large fox found his way into a here, on the farm of
Stockholm, parish of Johnstone, attracted, no doubt,
by the smell of what Thomson calls the " feathered
people.' Among the rest, a poor goose sat quietly in a
corner, dutifully hatchiug her eggs; and on her the
brindled felon immediately darted, with all the ferocity
of his species. But the goose, in her turn, set up one
of those classical cries by which her ancestors saved the
lawn Capitol, and being joiped, in fall chorus, by the
whole roost, the wise soon bokamie so loud as to awaken
the people of the house. The first person, however,
that reached the byre was a female, who, although un-
attended and only half-dressed, had the courage to seize
the fox by the throat. Bat this, as she soon found was
a deed of no common daring; Reynard, in his struggles
for liberty, gave ample proof that he could scratch as
well as bite I and by the time assistance was procured,
it was found necessary to dash oat his brains, to save
the hand of the fair conqueror from being literally turn
in pieces.
A CAUTION To SORTANTI.—On Thursday evening
last, between the bourse( lee tad eleven, Mr. Ilarehell's
house, in Queenmplare. was emceed. through the neg.
firms of the cook, who west to a shop in the 'Nigh-
boarhood, leaving the arts gate unlocked. Two
ruf-
flans made their way into the kitchen : one of them in-
stantly seized with one band both the hands of the only
servant then in the kitchen, while be, with the other,
prevented her from giving the alarm, by closing her
swath. His comrade matched the cook's watch, which
scan suspended ever dm dresser, saying " Cook, I have
get what I wanted, some Moo Wises the released
woman's cries were en •e.asl to alarm Mr.
Harebell and his eldest eon, the was in his study,
the latter dressim for a party In hls bed-room on the
wool door. They came instantly armed, the one with
a hammer, the other with a poker, to the woman's aid,
bat not hs time to pretest the elapse the villains, not-
withstanding the windows sonfessed to the cook he
saw two men wasing up the area steps, and this must
have been after the ewe sAO repeatedly vociferated
" stop thief, they have stole the cook's watch."