The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-07-22 00:00:00

PO LICE.

Usforr-lIALL.—John Muller was charged on sus-
picion of stealing a quantity of wearing apparel. It
appeared that the Prisoner was at the Horse and
•Plough public-house, Chaingate, where lie offered
the articles in question for sale. Hall, the Consta-
ble, being there at the time, enquired of him where
be got them ; the Prisoner said he had picked them
up in the road, but could not tell where ; and on be-
ing further pressed, he attempted to get away, and
leave the things behind him; he did in fact get out of
the house, but Hall went after him, and took him
into custody ; he gave no satisfactory account of him-
. self, and was committed for re-examination.

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GOILDITALL.—Friday James Dean was charged with obtain-
ing goods 'under false pretences, and with various arts of
Sw iod ling. It appeared that the Prisoner was the only child of
Mr. Dean, a most respectable bookseller, &c. of Congletun, in
Cheshire, and in whose name he had practised several acts of
frauds upon dealers and wholesale houses in London. There
were a number of persons in attendance, to exhibit charges
against the Prisoner ; one of which only, however, was adjudged
necessary to make nut a case of commitment. This was proved
by the firm of Williams, Cooper, and Co. of West Smithfield,
stationers, from whose evidence it appeared that the Prisoner
bad frequently ordered quantities of goods in the name of his
rather, .which, instead a for warding to the country as directed,
be sold, and applied the money to his own use. In the course
of last week he had repeated his offence, by giving an order for
goods to the mama of 5:91.• Ifs. at wholesale prices. and had
appropriated them the same way. This being drecovered, a
coereepondence took place between his father and the Prosecu. ,
ton, when the 'unhappy parent wrote a letter detailing his son's
toodoet 'is most deprave-stead dissolute for several years; and
be was taken into caStody,
The Prisoner was fully committed for trial.
Mary Purkis and Elizabeth Walker were charged with rob-
bing a Gentlemanimmed Clare, of his pocket-book, coataloing
bauk-smies for 1f 1. and other Property, on Thursday night.—
r The Prosecutor deposed, that when returning to his lodgings
through Aide street, on the night mentioned, he was
stopped by the )r riisoners. who approached him rather familiar-
ly, and affected to commence a conversation. Suspecting their
designs, however, he shortly disengaged himself, but had not
separated from them many yards, when he mined his property.
lie instantly turued round and pursued the Prisoners, when one
of them ran up a court, hut was overtaken and secured : her
companion tied to the protection of a rain who was seen Wa-
in; about, but she wealth* apprehended. When taken to the
watch-house, they were searched, but no trace of the property
was made. •
Page, the officer, however, having gone to the court through
which one of. ilie- Prisoners bad passed, he discovered the .
pocket-book, hot rifled of 911. of its contents. 1
The Prisoners denied having taken any of the property from ;
i the hook, but did not attempt to rebut the charge altogether.--
l The Officer, having intimated some idea of the whole of the
property being restored, the Prisoners were remanded fur a
final examination._
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How-STREET,--Friday Edward M'Evoy, a waterman of
Ilangerford-stairs, was brought before Mr. Pi ARES, the sitting
Magistrate, charged with working a wherry on the river
Thames w ithout a number on it, as directed by Act of Parlia-
ment, and also with taking more passengers into his boat than
the law allows. _

It appeared from the evidence of the Prosecutor, that he and
his wife, with other females, were frequently in the habit of
crossing the Thames at the ferry on Milbank to Vauxhall-
stnirs, and were frequently extremely terrified at the great num-.
her of persons whom they take into their boats • so much so,
that they have got out of the boat again rather than undergo the
extreme terror which they must have experienced, lutd• they
submitted to he rowed over with such 'great numbers is the
tmati. Upon n late occasion, when the Complaisant, wife, and
fi lends, were going over, he remonstrated with him upon the
impropriety of his conduct in taking such great numbers over :
the Prisoner was very abusive; saki he woild take twenty
persons, or any umbel into his boat that he pleased. He took
ten over, being two more than he is allowed to do, and Ike
Magistrate convicted and lined him foreach person. lle pleaded
guilty to the e:targe of not having a number on his boat, Ile
not paying the tines was locked up in the strong-room to be
kummitted. _ _

cot.i.tryinw W. DOcrait.ntrrsoss Anis,wnivro N.
This suit, after ten /ears' litigation, was termi-
Lan:sr-Ist
3.,
sated this day, open a motion for an Order, on he. i IMPOSTOR.
• he;SLAcalirroarß74-sziorri;T.—theleridaarLlMoard O'Neill was charged
half of the Defendants, to dissolve the Injunction
obtained by the Plaintiff some years ago upon the with a misdemeanour. She appeared at et;ersbafr vSetr"y
dressed, and her person being rather genteel, her situation
present bill, %%bids was filed for a specific porform- ex-
cited, considerable interest ' • and this was no little
mace of a cos enant entered into in the year 1805, the circumstance of having in her arms a fine child, the
picture
by
maceof herself, in a-most deplorable condition, having scarcely say
respecting a plil:cular part of Dr. Lettsom's estates,
e o precedingt evening she presented herself at
sit rate at Ca,aberwell Grove, in 'the •county of i:eve:OinrgkilnU°,tie dourtl good deal of affected
Surrey, purchased by Mr. Whitton, the other De- anxiety and alarm, and ts.'ith ItileiirsatsinVinaher arms: She mid its
featilant. . ; unfeeling mother had left-it in the rand, and that as it was in
! danger of being run over, her l pick humanity had induced het to
The covenant was made by the Doctor with A Mr. ' it up; and as it had thus been dropped, the Parish must nod
Stat key, of whom the Plaintiff is assignee, and in should take care ofthe child. The strong likeness between the
cpheinl:lngandthe ieitefdrnimmediate suspicion,ii
that capacity filed his bill for the benefit of the co. that herfe
husband,. and it hap-
venant, as running with the land, although made discovered to be a casual patient in whomthes house,:w'a
fact:flietr 4i
e do, fwi the
before before the sale of the estate. The Plaintiff had child being her own was proved. But she then avowed, and
perst,isateltninniteheexeparpessiaoriati otefehaetadtemtenrmst
genteelinatio and re
Si r. silr-
ma 1:y years ago purchased a part- of the estates,
mit, a fashionable dwelling-house thereon, and pre. that she could not aur would not take care of her child. The
vinocly occupied by the Plainiiif on lease, accom- rbelfiefirtoteiailieying he:fti t to make up her mind, said, if she
infant,oase unphis atut a year old,
passiyd by the curious covenant in question, under she must be contioeed in the Correction to a,hiwer the
which the Doctor agreed not to sell a particular lot offence at the next Sessions.
of the land adjoining to the Plaintiff's house and ; , CURIOUS ROBBERY.
a sword-cutler, and his
land, without giving him the right of pre-emption thm‘deciadaQualtst.—Fridaykl. Nelson,
by fourteen days' notice, and such pre-emption to a the alter, to' werenetis3ol:altwmfoerennsMlLyMbre.LcllalmNeU,p by Po
live pounds in the hundred less to the. Plaintiff than avabtable,...., gold watch, gold chain. and seals, which souse time
idslalia"'" 'lemmas. has Mr. Webber, one of theitown echo-
to atty other bidder, the Plaintiff being fearful of -school, ander peculiar circumstances. That
annoyance or nuisance its the event of erections in Y 60,6 , bigailler with a party of his school-fellows,
the view of his house. a la Milbaiik he tie purpose of bathing In ilk Thames'
I and all of lbws want dab the river, Webber hay* ant very
Mr. Whitton bought all the estates, notwithstand- ' eseerogy his watch in his hat. While the)ouths weee
log the covenant, and a case at law was sent by his swiamainid=i, *bet not without their observation, a boy, a
Lordship to the Court of Common Pleas, to try the ,it !educe is bas,llB4 off sod watsuccchededepedos:nted,. exulting% took
legality of the covenant, when, after repeated argil. ' After hag eagabiest by means,
of the ofbeeress,ariartTsiemt advertisements, 1
oleos, the Court of Law decided that the covenant baoribtits, he. it Was traced to Mr. Thirkle. sword-cutler, '
was illegal, and void in common law. In support New
sea atioret:' Gough-pare, hopes
y ugh:tire, with whom it tdpbuerarettLeefte byl.,; Niel.
or the Injunction, his Lordship said, it was argued Neboo said that his children found it.wrYbe children related
that equity. could enforce it, although invalid at at hisc child 6"
abo s werethree playing
ear. in she fieldsn Iffnltultiltlr neck sister,
common law; bdt be considered it not one.of those heincao eircosostaace 3' to call tre truth of this statement ism
executory or special contracts entitled to such extra- question, and there being every reason to believe that the thief
had dropped it from alarm er accident, on being vociferously ,
ordinary interposition of the jtagjediction of this pursued.
Court, but, on the contrary, properly decided by Mr. Innarra dlowsissed,tbe parties, they being entitled to the
'sloe Court sof Common Law : and on this occasion , 7.r ard of SI. bs. which bad .beea offered.
Mak the liberty of stating that he felt no regret at I
the tensuroof some persons, upon the slownese.ef: A Coroner's Inquest was held on Thursday even-,
ibis decrees end his habit of deciding causes on mo- in, on view of the body of Sarah Brenton, who fell
lion, is he shouts!. the present, without putting the . down and expired on the night preceding, in a fit
parties to ten yeari further delay,
.and.douklipg the 'ef npoplexy.-7•Verdict,—Dird by the visitation of
expences, but by dissolving the injunction and dis- God.