The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-20 00:00:00

POLICE.
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OptLeStaLL.—The Sitting Magistrate at this Jollied
Room (Mr. Alderman WArrztatati) was occupied *petards
of three hours on Saturday in hearing arguments from
Counsel, as to the interpretation of the Statute, ?Maud 40
Geo. M. cep. IN, commonly called the Pawebnikers' Act,
upon the question with regard to the resteratioo of property
pledged without the privity or consent of the rightfti *wiser.
The foots of the case were these:—ln the latter end of
April, or beginning of May last, Captain John Pete► Wil-
son, of Ste Myths, east Indianian, sent his wearing apparel
•and lines., to the amount of *Md. to Mr. James Wilkins. of
Dove-row, Hackney-Melds, a bleacher, to be scoured ; they
having lost their colour from their being used on a voyage
to the East indlis. In the early part of December lest, es
Captain Wilson was going on another voyage, he stint a
man, named Bilgh, with ao order for the goods ; upon
Bligh's prodeeing the order to Wilkins, he said that dilleul-
ties had overtaken him, he had been obliged to pawn them,
and Ise gave the cluplie,tes up. Pail of this property had
been pledged with Mr. Chatters. pawnbroker, Watlinr
street, and the question to he decided was, Whether under
the circumstances the Magistrate was legally empowered.
under the Statute, to make as order for the re-delivery of
the goods to Captain Wilson, without Mr. Chafers being
reimbursed the money lent upon them?
Mr. Mesita. with Mr. lidossuicd. es Counsel. attended
for Captain Wilson, and Mr. APlatilfg and Mr. Anotretm
on the part of tke pawahroters.
Mr. Alderman WAITI&MSN decided the question in the
same manner as it had previously been determined by the
Magistrates at the klarlhoroegh-street sad
made an order for the property to be delivered up to Cep.
lola Wilson.

Bow STOZET..--IM AAAAA NT TO COACH Beyond -71(r.
Stringer, ,Rreper of the Rid Lien Politic ilouseAbiud.'
attended by a young counsellor from She Setter Kieglibm,
speearitd to answer a summons for haring his lusiodispes;
at illegal hours.
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Mr. Taylor, the Counsel. took some exceptionild
to the wording of the summons. which, being over by •
the Bessie, en informer of the name of John Went sif dill. '
ed ;* this werthy,lbotigh otitis most humble statue, was s
no sataß personage in his own estimation. Rs gnontiliog
himself as Inspeistor of Romberg and Pedlars, eon gips" ate
address No. I, Waterloo Road, fit. George's Fields. norm.
Stated that he was emPloyed by'Sokission,*of mitntiOns ism
glory le the antiols of inforniatious, at the Awl:A/Within
pas day, sad had no pecuniary 'introit Mlle 'fats' cif lie.
protein eine. .:i i . ...
lie deposed that on the 131 i of the • ant month,
at ten iniantee past twelve o'clock. he wont into ttt..
Bar of the Red Lion Putlic Beni", *bite

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was drinking a glass of, ram and water, and anether,ii
glass of beer. Mr. Taylor, made a very spirited &lime
for the accused publican—Waisted, that the Red Lisa
beitig an lon, as well as a puldic elobee, the pretties,
was •platedin is, very distressing. ,suasion, that it *ere ;
fined refreeMeent at any bony to a traitilerphe wie.4olo
to be lidicted, for so doing: ir - It gee@ that' relleihriliat
hAwatOpen at a defined peribd to inforinatitintl laid IA the.
iiiifstser of the present.
It never (mold be the intention of the legislature, the
learned gretlensan insisted, to place a respectable indite
trims individual at the mercy If such reptiles as that
before them, who though tolerated sow as a mower,
evil would is time become as iosufferable pestilenae. Me
called T.Catmore, a Greenwich coaches's, thet bin *each
did not leave the door of the Red Lion aid!! litlf-past
It o'clock on the night mentioned, and Mr. Seely: Ike
Comedlin who deposed that the theatrical performing
that evening did not finish till after 12 o'cleek.; •'•' .:
to cross questioning the informer, it eathertippeir•d
that he had watched the time wises pergolas eentiog•frise
the theatre had gene down to the public kens, isques-
tiomln purpose to take eeate.for•Ureenwich, sad as flop
his own acksowledgement, he was dressed in a drab
great coat, there seemed a feeling on the beagle to Shp-
pose be had got his glass 'of rdm from tie hiallerd
under the idea that he was *traveller.
This the Monate strongly relived, and stilled that
he always were bit /11essjomits at nights. and. that the
femme who were drinking, west towerds the city is
place of going by the Greenwich- Coach.
. The Oottosel urged strongly that the cooriction should
take place, while the Magistrates signified that the law
was imperative, but that the rime bearing so 'slight a
shade of eriesioafity, the fine; Would be made propor-
tionally light. They cautioned Mr.'Stringer to quer
tion every person be4ereeti• with Hotter after the Wl*
of closing, as eci whether hi was a coach passenger ere
not, and signified, though they were reluctant to penis's'
a perms§ in Mr. Stringer's 'situation ' • it was still their
duly to see that the stoppage of coachesllel at hls door was
not made the means of giving him an advantage over,
bit brother publicans, by allowing him to keep, opt&
lio4l rt f 4 t orhats4 'betides teach passengers:
d , • •
Mr. lew was fined in thefaifigatki poltalty'elf 11.1
end ord * never to offend again. Seeival tniell'ef
stAnor interest were then called and disposed at is a
' miler way.
Isaac Newlo*, the proprietor of the Register
Office in Southampton Street, Strand, &petered before
E. . Rowland Minsisull, Esq. the sitting Magistrate, to
aver the complaint of Wm. Henry Williams, Esq. of
ord Place, New Road, for obtaining the sum of
e
e shillings and sixpence by false and fraudulent
illeetences. .

appeared, from the statement of Mr. and Mrs. Wd-,
es, that having occasion for a lernale servant sso
.ka ago. Mrs. W. applied at the Office of he defrodirit
I having entered her name is a book for 14 days;llre
31. 6d. to a elefk, leboge name was Ueldunith, and
aodsrtook to mild.* servant of good character, sod in
dry respect switaldete her house. Having waited a
r dap. aid no sor,woty being mint, Nrs. Williams called
sikst the othce,,iiid yas iltewp -op stairs, where she
I#,terri littlii.glils,'_nir_dier:Of,Sfbrior would at snit
'IIV int

that period, and they could not create servants". Mr.
Newton, however, promised to send Mr. Williams a
servant, bit did net, and when the fourteen days had ex.
pi red, he called, and demanded to have his money
'returned, but was answered by a torrent of abuse from
both Newton and,his wife, the latter especially.
Newton in his defence pleaded the impossibility in
•" so great a concern as his' to give perfect intiefaction to
fiery 'vivify. Ile emlesvoured, he said, to do as much
Imo possible, and his establishment was conducted as
!fairly and honourably as it could be, but he could not
please all the world. It was a mistake to suppose that
hs undertook absolutely to supply servants to those who
paid money at this office, and it was totally against his
rules to send servants to the houses of gentlemen. •Ite
kept large rooms in which all is out of place
who chose to pay the fees assembled, and persons who
wanted to hire were at liberty to make choice amongst
them. If he seat servantn out it wns a m Atter of fiyour;
and could not be claimed by subscribers as a right.
Mr. Misieut;:.l. observed, that in the cards or tickets
which Nettion issued to kitcyitomere it was expressly
elated that servants were " provided" upon the par-
sten t of serial., rune Sherri. ..adorned. Every hotly
who saw one of those tickets most imagine that be nue
dertook I," to provide" • ieriants . and if he did not he
hail no right to receive 'nsolsey. :le (Mr. Minsbull) wad
of opinion that in the resent case the defendant bad
not done that which he engaged and received money to
do, and that therefore he Mad obtained the sum men.
Honed by false pretences. He must give bail to appear
at the Sessions unless he could prevail upon Hr. Wi!.
hims to withdraw the charge.
The parties retired, and it was afterwards understood
that Mr. Williams consented to stop. proceedings upon
Newton's refiteding ihe3s.6l. sad paysog ell costs.
Naturday, after the Magistrateshssl tikes their seats,
the half animated subject, soinewhist relieved floe the
load of tieneYa which pressed ortwhls stotosch yester-
day, was brought into the office, in:Sabah., by-two of
the officers.

Cause!ford and Beery reeve put to the bar; and Scotch
Jeaoie, with what of old Forkee's looney Valet remained
tied up i• the foot ofiin old stocking, was also forth.
ceasing. Twenty-two sovereigns had, by some means,
however, gone astray, which nobody could account for.
The worthy Magistrate .(Air. Mittahte.l) took inbuite
trouble in enestioning,'antitfirriadvising the old wretch
as to the future diaptwal of his prdp;•rty, after its rather
perilous recovery, suggertod. •he should go into the
wotichunae, and the money he placed in the hands of
as overseer of the pariah. This. Yurkee. by no means.
opposred to relish. He mattered something about black
des, and water gruel, and sunk agaiu into his half tor-
pid state.
While the resurrection men were 'stag their sub.
jest no the one hand, and the • WOnfir -Magistrates,
•ffth a very different intention, isipeared relnc.
taut to part with him, a claisisiint *swept forward
i*liitape-of a blarshalsea Officer, whose authority was
401 40 be disputed, and declared that he arrested old
,Iferts* at the suit of Stillsoo his former landlord.
trodin m two found he got rather a queer customer,
4e as the crowd began to draw as:de be found Old
Invite squalled on his latter end in the flour of the
yilico;ansf nobody apparYntly willing to assist in his
sPotiobal. John looked wisely atoned Min and sounded
petty, omit mach inclined to dirty his cioaths for Jobe
lean 'a bit of ,s dimly, and lroCke. Ear from the most
hate)), of its bled. Ho proptoed a compronsiie, and
adwised Stilloos to accept half of the saw included is
the writ, by way of compromise. 'Flu* the worthy Ma-
Oltenia appal/0404 ia. mitt poost,Forkel-AtitVied thus es
ceped peril. ars it twiseetob Ante I or Men, witfi
'tieWee of both their limbs, was eentigitel to the car.
iftile' Magistrate, whe baring,at last overcome hit sera.
plea to the WDtkhdose. Waft %watt* promised to pay
YtiYt a visit in the beginning of the week to see how he
relished his now habitation.
blenhilonorms 814111 t T. --A :Kira or THL
'lrlaeard Ealeridge, the alas who was tried at the last
(Nd Bailey Session. for committing a rape on his dough-
, let-in-law, appeared yesterday to answer the chargeut
Mary brows. a young woman respectahle appearance.
I for an indecent and painful attack upon her person on
Friday night last.
The Prosecatrix deposed to her walking on the New
Road, on the above evening, with a yon.::: man, of her
legialotance, wises the prisoner in passing, took a very
.gross liberty with her. upon which, her companion
gave the old offender in charge. to the first watchman,
who consigned him to the moral-mending chill of the
litarkie, for the night.
Ederidge, who appears a man about .50, stonily denied
every word of the charge, but, in default of bail, was
corothii tea for trial.
Sarah Daniels was eintained, and remanded till a futons
day, ebarged with robbing her master, Mr. William Tribe.
No. Sib, Mortimar-straet, Cavendish-square, of sheets, cam-
bric handkerchiefs, and other property. So:sena of tits ar-
ticles were produced,wlth the place where'd tr. Tribe's dame
had been cut oat.

Woosatr-STnerr.—T. Whitney IV3I en Saturday
brought before the Magistrates, S. Twy lord and John
inward, gagn. charged with assaulting and menacing
James Dowsett, the younger, and demanding his money
with intent M steal the same, and threatening to charge
him with ao abominable offence.
Th 6 prisoner, in defence, admitted he'sras the person
..who was standing near Dowsett on the night in question
-4-hut that Dowsett did take some freedom with his per
la and that the other man came up, s►rying he n a
'nu o6cer, and would take them both to the watch-
'blow, if they did not pay him 101. each. The peiaoner
'mid he offered him four sovereigns. tie admitted aim
the west• ts•Doirost►'s house, with Dorsett and the
other ass.

Mr. Tertettan.—Who are yen, and how 4e von get
year living) Prisoner. My name is Thorns' Whitney
—1 am a obituary sweeper.
All the witnesses then stated that the prisoner the
same mornisg told them be was a satiating and book-
binder.
The prisoner was committed for farther examination
on Friday nest,
THAlllell Pomon.—frillicena Afrkiviwas on Saturday
brought from Atdgate watchhouse, by Harrison„ the
beadle, as a rogue bud vagabond.
Harrison stated, that on Thursday night list be irse
in the Anchor Tavern, Lower East Smitldieldoehen the
prisoner came in sod presented a petition to the land-
lord. together with a small book, with sums subscribed
amounting to 261. 12s. The statement in the petition
was, that himself, wife, and two children had been cut
*way In their voyage from America to England, and
were picked
.up and brought to Dover by • Captain
TkoMpson. Annexed to the petition was a pass signed
by Magistrates of Dover for 99 days, to any part of
*haat Britain, Witness queationed him minutely as to
the circumstances of the wreck, &e. and as he eqnivo-
cated a great deal, he took him to Aldgate watchhouse.
and "from thence to this Office.

On being restioned as to the circumstances contain.
ed in the petition, he said he ha.l picked it op ie rh•
road, and was making use of it in the manner described
by the witness, as in asking alms, it strengthened his
iskasst.
• •Tha Magistrate committeil him to Cold Bath Fields
willows to hard !show, for two wombs.

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she igAitt.oalied. Rodin the *alias room, u ft was
'ihe,saw thi#gtoe two little Ogre, iod" to' otters.
litnenstreied will Goldsoiitb, the 'eferk, aid be
reit her tPere,:rni eerylacier/ ni4 the boikr;sod
woird. iesed•iierseteoson is 'OO ei,lred. 'Still, how.
g.,0, iervait.:i.iittpent, iLed *belt the fotir44l daks
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ittoalettli Yiltmi tiaiiiiig rskini, Where hi roand
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