The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-12 00:00:00

POLICE.
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MANStON•1110111311.-A Frenchman, warned Kaight,
who had been 20 years in the French army, was cbarged
by a citizen and his wife with havin4 committed assaults
upon both of them, and threatening to kill them and cut
his own throat. _ . .

The male complainant stated that the Frenchman
lodged in his house, and had not regularly paid him the
rent ; the consequence of which was a distress upon the
furniture. ►air promises ha►ing been frequently made
and broken, en the part of the Frenchman, the proems
was alternateV taken off and renewed, and at length the
witness was obliged to think seriously of selling ar the
goods for the amount, which was 31. Bs. The violence
of the defendant was to be traced to this soarer, and the
witness and his wife really apprehended the worst from
Lim.

The female complainant appeared to shrink from the
sight of the defendant, who pleaded his own cause in a
manner that etched much sympathy. He said the
cruelty of the Milan (his brotliord) could be only ex •
ceeded by that of his landlady, In whom breast there
could not exist a spark of humanity, for she had encou-
raged her husband, whom she bad moulded into a tyrant
on others, to press him for money in the most distress-
ing of all exigencies. He had a wife and children, who
had nothing to eat; and one of his poor children, he be-
lieved, was dying in the measles; and the whole were
almost destitute of clothes or covering, as be bad sold
every thing to procure food, except the beds and Weil-
-1 ketik, which the landlord wished to strip them of. Be-
-
sides, as he was a Jew, be could not put his lands to
any work by which he could gain a livelihood. as one
of their feasts was kept at this season most strictly. He
regretted, and so, he said, would his country, if they
could he brought to believe that an Englishman and
his wife could be capable of such barbarous conduct.
The LORD MAYOR asked whether the family of the de-
fentlant were is the state described,.and having learnt
that there was no exaggeration in the statement, he
4 asked the female complainant whether aloe had children
herself, and could not feel for rs pa►ent rattail' Is sack
extremity ?
She replied that she waitinitisar, tilt`olte felt foe,
the misfortunes of the defendant as she ought, bet she
declared be was such a savage in his temper, that no-
body could be found to entertain the least pity for him
after he began his abuse.
The Frenchman then threw a look of horror at the
lady, and said to her etnphatically, "Oh ! Madam !
! You have no soul. You are not above the in-
stinct of a brute; you have no conception of the feelings
of a father."

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The LORD MAYOR said it was evident the unfortunate
Frenchman had been treated with the most " un-Eng-
lishinanlike" harshness. He advised the complainants
to learn humanity, and the defendant to leave his land•
lord and landlady as soon as be could.
GUlLDBALL.—Yesterday a gentleman applied for a
warrant against a man for obtaining money ander false
pretences.
The gentleman sated, that his agent in London had
granted a lease, and given possession of a Louse, to a
man, who no sooner got the key than be set to work to
strip it of the gutters, stoves, sinks, cisterns, locks, bolts,
Ice. The agent was alarmed at this, and having been
legally advised that it was only matter for an act' n
of trespass, be thought it best to stop the destructive
work hy compromising matters. He therefore told e
latter that things must have fetched a mere trifle, as they
were chiefly valuables as belonging to the house, and
that he would remunerate him handsomely if he would
bring them back. The roan assented to this proposal,
bat said that the fixtures were already disposed of, and
i the cash spent. lie did not doubt, however, that ifs fair
profit were allowed to the purchaser, they could be got
back. The Arent intrusted the man with money to re-
deem them, aid the consequence was, that be kept that
too ; and neither the money nor the goods had since
mad their appearance. The applicant now wished for
a warrant against the man for having obtained money
under a false pretence.
The Magistrate considered that the act of taking away
the goods before the compromise was felony; but the
Chief Clerk and legal adviser of the Maeistrata cited au-
thorities to show, that if the walls, and floors themselves
bad been taken, as *key belonged to the freehold, it
would have been only a matter of trespass, for which a
remedy could only be Lad by a civil action.
The Magistrate regretted that he could reader the
gentleman no assistance.
BOW•STRERT.—On Thursday night and yesterday a
great portion of the time of the Magistrates was occupied
io hearing the following curious affair:—
Mr Smith, a respectable butcher, at Hampstead, was
the leaseholder of an inn at that vi11e,.,,,e, called the Old
White Hart, which, however, has been abut up for a
considerable time.—Some mouths ago, there being then
twelve years of the lease unexpired, he made an assign-
ment of it to another person, a Mr. l'ardoe, it was under-
stood, who had it hut a eery short time before lie was
found to be in insolvent circumstances; and he employed
one Sharp., a broker and auctioneer, to dispose of it to
the hest bidder. Mr. Sharpe soon found a purchaser in
the person of Mr. Ilahkiss, who, in his turn, authorized
Sharpe to employ men to pull down the house and sell
the materials. this work Mr. Sharpe immediately com-
menced. Up to yesterday, the interior, since the com-
mencement of the dilapidation of the house, purasant to
this Mr. Sharpe's order, has been occupied is a ler' es of
occupations and expulsions from the premises of the
workstien of Sharpe, and Mr. Smith and his adherents;

and on Th. rola), an attack %vas flatiron Smith's people,
then in possevsion of the house, which ended in much
bloodshed and the infliction of several severe wounds.
Sharpe's people, seven in number, were beaten off, and
yesterday he and they were held to hail.
I.)antNti RODDERT.—Yesterday Ilia Smith, a boy