The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-25 00:00:00

POMCE.

GUI LDII decent looking lad, abort 17;
years old, was brought !tit before the Sitting Magi-
strate, Alderman Magsay, yesterday, on a charge of

felony.
The prisoner, it appeared, was s waiter out of place,
and having called by accident upon au hid master of
his, Mr. Chandler, the sign of the Peacock, in White.
cross-street, on Monday, to ask for a job, was /aced
by him for the day to assist in waiting upon the
Society of Millwrights, who held their annual feast
there that day. As soon as dinner was ever, the land-
lord began to look up the little plate which had orna-
mented the tables, when, out of the dozen table
spoons, ten only could he found. Unknowing whoa
to suspect, the host ordered a general search of all
the servants and attendants, regular and saperan-
merely, in which, of coarse, the prisoner was in-
cluded. He submitted to the ordeal with great readi-
ness ; his colt, waistcoat, small-clothes, and even to
his hat and shoes, underwent minute inspection, but
without elect, and he was about to be pronounced
innocent, when it was observed that his legs did not
exhibit their usual symmetry, and, upon close,- exa-
mination, the two spoons were discovered, one witbiu
each stocking, packed with the hollow part of the
bowl of the spoon immediately at the termination of
the calf of the leg, so as scarcely to disfigure the shape.
—The prisoner was remanded.
BOW-STRERT.—llestry Smith, a private soldier in
the Coldstream Regiment of (Wards, was brought be-
fore Sir Kwitny HIKER, yesterday, on suspicion of
exciting a boy to rob his father and participating in
the produce of the robbery.
Bond, the officer, stated that the landlord of the
Black Lion public-house, Vinegar-yard, (near Drury-
lane Theatre,) sent for him to say that a lad, who was
loitering about his house, had more money about hint
than he believed be could honestly account for. In
consequence of this information the officer interro-
gated the boy in question, a youth only fourteen years
old. Ile confessed that he bad left his father's house
on Sunday last, after purloining .115 of his property :
that he had given two .£5 notes of it to a lad, named
Green, to take care of for him ; and that the reuniti-
ng( .C 5 he had spent at Stepney fair.—Green was
easily found, and be declared that he had deposited
the two notes with the soldier quartered at the Black
Lion (the prisoner) desiring him to keep it safely till
he (Green) wanted it ; and giving him a shilling for
his trouble in so doing. Upon receiving this int.rnia-
lion the officer waited for the soldier in order to roes.
lion him upon the subject ; but lie did not return to
his quitters the whole night, and he therefore
searched his box, wherein lie found one of the .C 5
notes in question ; and therefore as soon as the
soldier came in yesterday morning, he took Lim into
custody, and brought hit► before the Magistrate, as

aforesaid.
The whole of this story was substantiated before
the Magistrate by the boy tlreen, and Mr. Baker, the
father of the young delinquent.
The soldier, in Isis defence, said, he received but
one .t 5 note from Oreen, instead of two ; that not
knowing but it had been honestly come by, he
thought he was right in taking care of it for them;
and that as to his having stopped oat from quarters all
night, his Commanding Officer would set all that right,
and give him as good a character as any man in the
regiment.
Ile was remanded till this day; and Mr. Baker was
ordered to produce his son.
On Monday evening, a man and woman, both of
them very respectably dressed, who gave their names
as John Clerk and Sarah Prince, were brought up in
custody of Ruthven, one of the principal officers, and
underwent an examination before Richard Birnie, Esq.
the Sitting Magistrate, charged witls having, know-
ingly, in their possession, without lawf►tl excuse, a
forged £1 hank note. The prisoners were committed
fur re-examination on Monday.

On Monday sennight, a young man of the name of
Mallard, residing at Bilswurth, near Northampton,
undertook for a wsger, to run 16 miles on the turn-
pike-road, in two hours, which lie performed with
ease in one hour and 49 minutes, having eleven

uutes to spare.
It is requisite to call the attention of the Police to
the scenes nightly exhibited in Catherine-street,
Strand. This, which is one of the greatest thorough.
fares in London, is, particularly on the East side of it,
scarcely pas able from nightfall until two o'clock in
the morning, in consequence of the improper women
and pickpockets assembled at the entrance to Swan-
yard, Bedford-court and Russell-court. No one, in-
deed, can pass without the sacrifice of a pocket book
or an handkerchief; and it is vain for the sufferer to
exclaim or call the watch, as the facilities for retreat
are so numerous, especially in Swan-yard and Bedford-
court, which are full of brothels, coffee-shops, and
other rendezvous for thieves. For some time this evil
was somewhat checked by the activity of a street-
keeper, who was paid by the inhabitants of the street,
bet sine* he was withdrawn it is become intolerable :
and the aggravation of the misfortune proceeds from
this, that as each side of the street is in a different
parish, the watchman on the one side does not appear
to feel himself bound to pay attention to any riot or
outrage on the other.
I/imamate, A ram 2I.—A man named William
Brown was on Wednesday apprehended in this town
on suspicion of having stolen a lad, apprenticed to a
chimney-sweeper, in the neighbourhood of St. Giles's,
London. The prisoner and the boy (whose name is
Thomas Lewis) were proceeding by the coach from
London to Southampton, and the appearance and pen-
sive manner of the latter induced one of the paSsetigers
to interrogate Brown relative to hint, and his answers
tending to confirm the suspicions which had been pre-
viously excited, he was taken into custody, on the ar-
rival of the coach in this city, and the case investigat-
ed before the Mayor. From the boy's statement it
appeared, that lin Tuesday afternoon. when standing
at his master's door, a man named Smith introduced
him to Brown, who furnished him with a snit of
clothes, and next morning took him in the coach, on
which they were to proceed to Southampton, and after-
wards to embark for Jersey, at which place the prisoner
exercised the occepation of a chitnney-sweeper. Ile was
committed to the county Bridewell, and a letter
written to the father of the b..y. who is a slater, re-
sidle( in Iliad:friar's road, London, from whom no
Answer has yet been received.