The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-16 00:00:00

POLICE.
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MANSION Hovey, YISTSIDAT...—SorreI Brisseti. a
cooper, was charged with havlog raised a cry after
Was. Hart and HenryHamingdoo, two soldiers of the
Guards, stationed in the Tower, by crying out " Sol-
diers, what ?" One of thew immediately seiz-
ed the pri , sod gave bins is the eustodyof a con-
stable.
The defeodan► declared that, is what he bad said,
he made no allusion to the soldiers.

A publican said th■t Brissett had been drinking,
and was very much intoxicated ; hut that he was a
steady man, sod he world be bound for him.
The Loan MAYOR accepted the surety. and the
prisoner was discharged, on entering into a recogni-
zance with bis friend for his good behaviour for the
future.
A porter in the servire of Messrs. Crossley and Co.
of Peter's-laae, was yesterday c►arged by hie em-
ployers with having stolen a quantity of tee, value 7s.
Mr. John Crossley said, that some time ago, on
taking stock, he missed a quantity of tea, to the
amount of 401bs. On Monday last be again missed
a considerable quantity. and suspected the prisoner to
have t.ken it. On Wednesday morning Le same down
stairs rather earlier than usual, and perceived the pri-
soner's great coat hanging is the cellar, and on ex-
auditing the pockets he discovered a quantity of loose
tea; and on Thursday morning complainant's bro-
ther scented himself in the warehoue.
Thomas Crossley said he, was is partnership with
Lis brother; he perceived the prisoner go to the
cannis:cr, and take out some tea and put into Lis
pockets ; he thin took some packages of tea from be-
Mod the counter, and put them in his hat.
The prisoner said he certainly did not mean to de-
ny taking the tea, but be did not take it off the pre-
mises.
The officer who searched him found spot Ms per-
son ten sovereigns, U. 3s. in silver, and as old guinea.
He was committed- for trial.
BOW-STREar.—Afre. Boiler, who*, ease we noticed
a few days since, was yesterday brought up for re•exa-
oina'ian.

This lady was charged with stealing from the desk
of a Captain Drew, at a boarding house, in Surrey.
street, Strand, bank notes to the amount of 754 -

The Clerk read over the evidence produced on Mon-
day last, but nothing additional was offered.
The priroorr strongly denied the gailt Imputed to
Ler, and said that the twenty sovereigns found in leer
own nook were her own property, end given to her
by a gentleman, who was nor, however, at present in
London. Her bed-room was always open, and any
other pers .n could have put there the two 5/. notes,
which were found in the bed-clothes. In addition
she stated that an offer was made that the prosecution
would be given ap, if she would give op the sovereigns
is Lich were found in her trunk—this offer she refined.
The solicitor to Captain Drew here denied that he
made any such offer; brit the lady continued to insert,
►hat the offer was made two or three times, by parties
connected in the business, for the credit, as they said,
of Mrs. Cottrel, the keeper of the bearding-house.
The Magistrate very humanely recommended to
1111. Butler to procure the advice of a solicitor; be
wield be happy to afford her every indulgence con-
sistent with the ends of justice: and would, if she de-
sired it, remand her for another examination.
The prisoner expressed her thanks to the Magis-
trate, Lrid took advantage of his goodness.
'lke parties, by consent, fixed on to-morrow for an-
another examination.

The lady is tolerably well-looking, a small genteel
figure, with a good address, and command of language.
She wore I handsome blue•striped silk dress, with a
dashing straw bonnet, ornamented with blue flowers,
very.dail hair, crossed In well arranged braids on the
forehead.

H•T) ON•GARDIN, Tesvennay.—A young woman.
of very decent appearance, made the following com-
plaint before the blugistrate. She stated that she
Lad lived t with a ge.-tleman keeping a large
house in Old Burlington-street; that, between four
and five years since, she had a male child by him,
open which occasion be sent her to Henry-street,
Hampstead-road, to lay in. About two years since
she bad another child (4, female) by the same gentle-
man. when he sent her to Ossoltoo-street, Somers-town,
to lay in. He had continued to provide for the child-
ren, from the time of their respective births until about
seven weeks Sitar?, when he bad discontinued the allow-
ante be had regularly made previously. Being unable
to support the children herself, she was compelled to
apply to the parish-officers of St. Pancras for relief,
when tl ey obliged Ler to swear to the Gentleman as
being the father of the children. This she did on
Saturday week last; and on that day a warrant was
granted to the parish to apprehend the Caller. which
warrant was delivered to the parish officers in the
usual way: they hail nut, however, yet thought pro-
per to execute the w•errant, because the father was a
Ueotleman ! She had made repeated applications to
them on the subject, and had demanded relief ; but
they bad always pet her eff with some evasive answer,
and ri filmed to give her any thing.
The Worthy Magistrate icquired if the complainant
know say cause why the father had all at once dis-
continued the allowance ? She said the reason was
the father had expressed his determination to send the
two little infants abroad to he brought up, and she had
refused to accede to it.

The Worthy Magistrate then asked her, that pro-
♦ided the parish offered to take the children into the
workhouse, would she hare any objection to it? She
replied, that she would here no objection, it she was
allowed to see them, and provided that the parish
would undertake not to part with them to the father.
Mr. Sergeant Sett.o:v expressed his doubt whether
the sbgistrates uad the power to impose such tertus
.upan the parish.

One of die Magistrates observed, that this was not
the first coutpkint of a similar nature, that lied been
made against the parish officers of St. Pancras; when
the parish officers carne to that office and got either
warrants or summonses granted, it was the duty of
the parish to put such warrants in execution, and
rot to delay them until such time as they thought
proper.

-The complainant ob d, that i■ consequence of
having the care of the children thrown upon her, she
was now prevented from going to an excellent situation
as nt to a lady.

It was suggested by •ne of the Magistrates that

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the children being illegitimate ones, until they arrived
at a certain age, the mother bad a right to the custody
of them.
The Magistrates granted a summons calling upon
the parish officers to explain the m in which
they had acted.
Yesterday °forgo Mammy. a •an who had been
committed ender the Vagrant Act for being liana
sleeping in t►e open air in Spa•tielJs, and on whom
Ito razors, two sovereigns, and six shillings is silver,
were found, and who refused to give aoy account of

►imself, but from his descriptio;answeis that of •
man who robbed and murdered • was in the county
of Devon, who was Ding from Sandy Mount to
South Zeal, on the evening of Tuesday, the 30th of
July last, wu brought up from prison in custody of
Wainrigfit the officer. On the prisoner being put to
the bar, the office was ordered to be cleared, w►en a
long private examination took: place, the particotan of
w►ich we were precluded from learning, further than
that the prisoner 'hewed great agitation, and refuted
to give ■ny account of himself. A letter had bees
sent by order of the Magistrates to the overseen of
the parish of Morton, where the dreadful act was com-
mitted, describing the prisoner, and the raise of sus-
picion against him. The prisoner is remanded until
the answer to the letter is received.
ISIZURIII OF MTBT•RIOVS ARMS,

After another case of a trifling nature bad bees die-
posed of, fifteen muskets were now placed within the
bar.—Litnbrick, the nicer, informed the Magistrates
that he bad been applied to by a person, who bad rah
cently taken a house in Cursitor-street, and who, upon
examining the house preparatory to repairing it, bad
found the muskets in question all with bayonets fixed,
in a very dark closet upon the garret landing place.—
Tb• masket barrels and the bayonets were ail covered
with rust, and bad every appearance of having been
there a considerable time. They all bore the Tower
mark upon them; they were tied up in a bundle, and a
large sheet of brown paper was tied round the bayonet*,
upon which was written, in a large hand, " Messrs.Wil-
tou and Son, with a figure of fl underneath, about the
centre of the line.

The gentleman who had taken the house saki that be
understood the house bad been empty for t great many
months he did not know who last inhabited it. The
honse was in a very ruinous state.
The muskets were deposited in the office, and Lim--
brick was directed carefully to search the house, and
make all proper inquiries upon this mysterious subject.
A man was charged with feloniously stealing a emir
tit y of dimity bed turniture, the property of Mr. Hugh
John Mortimer.

It appeared by the evidence of Mrs. Mary Ann Met,
timer, and three other witnesses, that the articles in
question had been washed that morning, and were lying
wet is the front parlour of the prosecutor's house, in
Camden- rrrrr ce, Kentish Town, the front window being
about half open. Mrs. Hayes having occasion to go
into the parlour, saw the prisoner there ; she ran away
alarmed, and eallyd out, when another witness went to
look and saw theNrisonerescaping out of the window.
He called out " Stop thief," and the prisoner was 111%
eared by some persoa in the street. • The property cow
misted of the furniture of a four float bedstead ; it was
quite wet, and the prisoner had tied it up in a yellow..
handkerchief of his own, for the purpose of taking it
away.
Mrs. Mortimer and another witness swore positively
to the prisoner being the man whom they saw in the
room, and the prisoner admitted that the handkerchief
is which the dimity was tied up to be hie.
Upon the prisoner being asked what he bail to say,
be answered he had nothing to say, but that he-sup-
posed It would be rather a troublesome business.
He was fully committed for trial.
A g•entleettn nest appeared to answer the charge of a
lady. The former was a wholesale slanchterer of horses
at Battle bridge; the latter was a retail dealer in food
for the canine race—or, in other words. a barrow hawker
of cats' and dog's meat.
It appeared that the parties were man and wife, but
that of late " divers unhappy differences and disputes
bad arisen between them. The complainant was in
the habit weekly of disposing of some three,' or four
pounds worth of' horse-flesh, in the way of her trade,
and there being a pretty decent profit attached as well
to tbe wholesale as the retail dealer, the defend int thought
it was nothing but fair, as be was the romplai,a.ut's
husband, and a wholesale dealer in flesh, that she
should come to him to buy her meat. Vie complainant
had, however, thought proper to carry her ready money
to another market, and the defendant, being displeased
with this bad treatment, threatened the complainant
with what he would do, provided she persisted in this
course. it was for this that the present warrant bad
been granted.
After hearing the parties at great length, Mr. Ser-
geant SELLON observed, that it appeared their object
was a separation ; but be had not the power to separate
them.

The defendant replied, that the Magistrate was quite
mistaken, for he wanted his wife to come back and live
with him and be comfortable.

The complainant—" Yes, yes, your Worship; he wants
me to come back and live with hint, and than foelrny
earnings to go to support another woman and a young
family of children, that lie will have by her; but that's
what I'll never do, your worship."
ARLOOROUGLI-STRZET.---Yesterday two Horn
l3oys were brought from the watch-house, charged
by a watchman of St. James's with having caused •
great disturbance in the public streets crying the
Death of his Grace the Duke of Wellington.
It appeared in evidence that, at about half-past ten
o'clock, on Wednesday night, the prisoners were qu
inn through the strews, bawling out is a moss violent
and hideous manner, th.t the Duke of Wellington
had been shot in France by Marshal Nev's son, and
" Further Particulars of the Death of Lord London-
derry." The noise they made alarmed the whole
neighbourhood, and the watchman succeeded in se-
curing the prisoners with their bills of intelligence,
and carried them to the watch-house. The bills were
sold at a peony eacb, and the top bore the Royal
Coat of Arm?, and commenced thus—

" A Report that the Duke of Wellington is shot.
" A report having been circulated this morning in the City
that the Duke of Wellington h.:a ben "hot on ltis arrival at
Calais. by the son of the late Marshal Ney, we feat it our
duty to ascertain as nearly as possible the aectvacy of the
report. We inquired at every place where wo thought It
probable we might ptesume correct information, and st e are
happy to announce that there does not exist the slightest
cause to suppose the report to be correct." They then
stated particulars of the Marquess of Londonderry's death
from the papers, signed "Catuach, printer, 9, MosamouMni
court."
The Magistrate severely censured the conduct 414
the iadivirloals leaning such infairruns report.% as they
were only calcaloed to worm! the feelings of re-
spectable families, and to cause great injury. The
prisoners offence was recognised in the Vagrant Act,
and they conhi be severely punished.
The prsoners begged hard for forgiveness, pro
mi-ing utter to offend again its future. Oa these cos