The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-11-27 00:00:00

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POLICE.
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-11/11111110N•110131.—Alderman Thouspsoe, when the
Recorder transmitted the order to Newgate for the
ex-
ecedou of the eight persons whose names and crimes
were specified is the last report, was applied to in his
character of Sheriff by two of the unfortunate moo,
Pardon) and IV. Watsoo, to Mager* for them for the
sake of justice, and procure at least a commatatios of
punishment. The ground on which they mate the se.
pllestisio was that of their total letsoceace of the crime
I with whisk they were charged, arid they poisted
two men who had escaped accusation, as the real 6(
fenders. One of these men, a well-known thief, bathed
Walsh, was taken into custody. sud the other weekend
Ito he is Coldbath-fields Prison, to which he had hen
sent as a rogue arid vagabond a short time ago.
Walsh was placed at the bee. and a female. who was
in the neighbourhood of the public-boom when the rob-
bery was committed, swore that she believed him to be
one of these who ran from the leouse•wheo the alamelerns
1 given. She, however, said not a word against thermen-
tion of Porthole and Watson.
Another witness stated that he had gone to see Gee-
LAW io prison, and believed him to be one of tEe ro§-•
Witness bad seised one of those who ran owei,
*Zs arms, sad believed Gerard to be the Stab. •
we further inveellepation—
MATO* antra; aka Of
tbrieglit forward oak
iVortuome erreriets, • riser
be quite ettiough to justiftlie •
the robbery.
It was afterwards agreed to postpone the further eon-
sideration of the charge, and Walsh was seht back to
peison.
The Keeper of the prison in which Gerrard is confined,
I upon being applied to permit his Owner to go with an
officer before the Lord Mayor, said, that the Magis-
trate's full discharge, or a Habeas Corpus, was woes-
sari before be could be removed.
UVILDHALL.—Garratt, the porter at the White norm
Inn, Fetter-late,appeared yesterday on summons before
the Sitting Magistrate. Mr. Alderman Cox, to an-
swer the complaint of Roach, Ft:faint's-ha, for
an offence under the statute regulating the rates of por-
terage in the Metropolis and environs.
The complainant stated that he was in the freqaeat
habit of receiving game from the cosatry, anti although
be resided so short a distance from the White Horse
len. he had invariably been charged 4d. ler porterage,
the sum allowed by the statute being only 34. Upon as
occasion of an overcharge for the porterage for tome
'game from the White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, be bad
upon inquiry forted that the fault was with the potters,
who had altered the ateoupt in the ticket delivered to
him from the inn, and they were in consequence die;
charged by the proprietors. Judging that the circuita-
-1 stances might be the same in the present case, he
I had taken the trouble to inquire at the office of
the inn in Fetter-lane, where het o
treated
somewhat cavalierly, and told they were aware that the
44. f
allowed by the statute was3d ,faut they always allowed
44.f0r the porterage of small parcels, and never delivered
asy, even at the shortest distance from their 1 ne, for leas.
He (Mr. Roach) thought it ass necessary the public
should be made acquainted with the imposition that was
practised upon them. The statute expressly stated the
charge for porterage for parcels not exceeding the
weight of 501 b. delivered within the distance of a quer-
ter of a mile front the inn, to be 3d., and as the prac-
tice of charging the extr,s peony was not only petsistrif
in, but justified, be felt it his duty to lodge the present
complaint.
William Bayles, the book-keeper, acknowledged that
they were in the habit of charging fourpence for the
porterage of all small parcels, although they were aware
that where the distance did not exceed a quarter ore mile,
the charge by the Statute was three-pence, and he seemed
inclined to justify the charge upon the ground of the
uniform practice of doing so fur the last 20 years; but
finding that ground untenable, he doubted whether the
charge was out legal upon the question of distance, and
expressed a wish to have it mensured.
Mr. Roach was very ready to consent to that made
of decision, hnt upon its being hinted to the clerk that
a qnarter of a mile was 410 yards, and that the distance
from the Inn to Mr. Roach's chambers could scarcely be
200 yards, he submitted, and was convicted in the pen-
alty of 20s. the
Roach of which, due to him as the in.
forwent, Mr.left to be disposed of at the disc's.
Lion of the Magistrates.
Bow.iornerr.—Yesterday, a tall, squalid looking we-
man. named Anne Francis. was brought to this office.
at the imitative of the parish officers of St. tides's, to
answer for most unnatural conduct towards her chil-
dren. She bad a healthy looking child at the breast,
but she was accompanied also by three other children,
the eldest about five years of age, whole appearance
would have excited pity, in the heart of a savage. Mi-
sery and.starvetion were stamped upon their faces; their
bunts were almost literally piercing through their skin;
they had scarcely any clothing, and any thinte like clean-
liners had been so totally avoided with respect to them,
that it was difficultly stand near them. They were cow-

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