The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-01-12 00:00:00

PGLICE.

BOW-STR VlT.—Yesterday, Elliott, 2 coach-spring
maker, in the employ of Mr. Catkin, of Islington, was
sentenCed by R. taria, Esq. to one month's imprison-
meat is the Homo of Correction, for having left bis
work tuifitiisbed, -
After the case bad been dismissed, and the refractory
workman .committed to durance, a short fat dirty man
made his bow to the Magistrate, and begged to " say
an observation or two to him on that 'ere coaeli-spriug
ts. The prisoner, Weft," he observed, " was as
a fellow as ever lived; he was an excellent work;
man, and had a wife and the children, all which matters,
' being tt profsssioxil man,' he was Able to speak to."
The Worthy Magistrate regretted that be had not of,
feted himself sooner, but advised him to speak to the
me/tutor, with whom perhaps the argument. of " a
prekssionallllllJl" might hove some weight.
Two young men, named Phillips and-SitcMisiry, were ,
brought up yesterday by a party of the Mile-End patrole,
charged by them on suspicion of being implicated in an
attack upon them, some time in December last.
One of the parole stated that be had his jaw fractured
on the occasion, and his cutlass broke into four orlive
pieces.
None of the party, however, could swear that the
prisoners were personally implicated in the attack,
though they 6rlievad them to he present, and the Magis-
trate of course discharged them.

RI-EXAMINATION DI JOHN ROBERTRPS, POR NORSE-

ITIALINIU.

MARLISOROVCII-STREET.— The prisoner, who stood
eommittkl on twe charges, was again brought up, and,
as usual, the office was much crowded by livery-stable
keepers, who had lost their horses.
Mr. Austin, of Windmill-strut, entered a new charge
against the prisoner, for stealing a clo-sittit mare, on the
Nth of Derenther. He bad preriou,lv hired and re-
turned with a horse, for which he paid half a guinea ;
but in this second instance he hired *for a mere ride in
the Park, and never returned. Mr. Austin had given
twenty-fire guineas for the mare, and had not since
heard of her.

The ostler, who delivered the mare to the prisoner,
corroborated the testimony of the last witness, and both
were positive as to identity.
An seller, at the Angel Inn, Reading, proved, in cor-
roboration of Mr. Richard's ease, on a former occasion,
that the prisoner was the man who •old a black horse at
Reading for IW., and this testimony went to corrobo-
rate the evidence of Mr. Hilliard* on a former day.
Another charge was preferred against the prisoner by
James Brett, ostler to Mr. Andersen, of Little Otav's-
inn-lane. This witness proved that the prisoner hired
a horse on the lid of October, 1t5.17, whirl' he never re-

limed. It wawa Itimod .horse. and the prisoner hired it
far a mere ride, far twelve shilling*, and gave a False
wldress, as Mr. ll'ilson, of No. 11, Grave-ina-elfre.

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in that the witnetwes were mistaken ; and support of his
arennient he rioted a ease where many respectable wit-
nesses were mistaken in a rase of forged notes, lately.—
The prisoner was committed to Newgate on four charges.

TORCIIIRY.

Snaowtit..—Thooree Weldon, a middle-aged man, of
genteel exterior, and of a highly respectable family. was
brought before the Magistrates, yesterday, charged
with forging, and uttering as true, a bill of eschaoge,
drawn by himself, auil purporting to be accepted by Mr.
Samuel SVelsion, a respectable brewer at Camberwell,
the brother of the prisoner.
Mr. Joseph Parkin, late of the George Tavern, White-
chapel, stated, that the prisoner contrac'ed a debt with
him to the amount of the bill. The prisoner told him
he could give him an acceptance of his brother's for the
amount. Subsequently the prisoner paid him the bill
of exchange then produced before the Magistrates.
which he afterwards paid to Messrs. Ilanbury and Ca.
brewers. When the bill became due, it was presented
fur payment to the supposed acceptor, Mr. Samuel Wel-
don, at Camberwell ; he declared that the accivenca
was a forgery, and that he knew nothing whatever tif
it. The prisoner was in consequence taken into COIF
Wily. Upon his being asked if he had any thing to sap
why he should not be committed, he strongly persisted '
that the acceptance was the hand-writing of his brother;
he was asked by the Magistrates if be had any evidence,
to prove it to be so. The prisoner then called two other
brothers of his to prove the fact. Upon the bill of ex-
change being shown to and examined by them. they
steed that they could not positively say whether the ac-
ceptance was or was not the writing of Mr. Samuel
Weldor, their brother.
The Magistrate expressed great surprise that they
should be unaequainted with their brother's hand-writ-
ing; but theta was evidently on their part great reluc-
tance to give evidence against the prisoner.
A Solicitor, who attended on the part.of the prose-
miter, stated, that be had received a letter from Mr. Jo-
seph Weldon, is+ answer to one that hail been written to
him, In which he pronou:iced she acceptance to be a

IP4is avOsrostn.—Twenty-fonr chambers, three stair-
-11 snore, the ball, with the saleable pictures, and all the
musical instruments for the intended concert, fell a prey
to the &roaring Santee at Magdalen Hall, on Sunday
ineeniwg. All the inmates escaped in their shirts; ire
rodents had nearly lost their lives in making their
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The following circumstance took place at the house of
a gentleman in Dish t, Bristol, last week. The
younger children of the family were in bed, engaged in
a childish altercation as to which had most room, when
it was finally agreed to drier the decision of this question
until the arrival of an elderbrotht r (who slept in another
bcd in the same room) with a candle. A thief, who had
secreted himself under the boys' bed, heltinfi of the
candle, and thinking propably that he should be more
secure ender the other bed, made a movement foe that
purpose, and touched the leg of une of the children. An
alarm was trickly given = but the thief escaped free: a
window In tit attic. We are sorry to add that the cir-
cumstance excited so much terror in the pint) of a lady
its the adjoiniag bons; as to bring on premature labour ;
sod the lady in dill In 'try precarious state.

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forgery.
The Solicitor produced Mr. Samuel Wridon's letter,
tits hoodisoitpf pticii being compared with that of
the aereptance, My-were found to be very diisimilar.'
The Solicitor requested the Magistrate to remand the
prisootr to a rotate day, when Mr: Samuel Weldon would
attend.—. Remanded to that day week.