Police.
The Times, 1824-08-13T00:00:00

IANSIOY-HltOUSE.-A cae of ~asingular description was heard before the LORD MAYOR and Sir JAMES KieAw. Iinnersley the beadle of Aldgatc, applied for an order of filiation against a Nw, who, aceording to the parish account, deserted his bastard child. '"'hen the father was brought up en a forimier occasion, the mother of the child assured the Lord Mavor that her child was no b:lstard as tihe defendant married her bei'ore consummation. Slhe then showed the ring, which she called upon him to say whe. thier he had not put upon her finger, pronouncing those words which constituted them man and wife. Thle beadle said, that sort of marriage amounted to nothing more than a broomstick marriage, wvhicli the parties had it in their power to dhissolve at wvill. The LonD MAYOR, wham the poor woman appealed to in a very earnest manner for the honour ot'her child, asked whethier such mar- rialres were customary amongst thie Jews, and whether the defendant had performed the ceremony in the manner described. The woman solemiinly declared that a mnarriage of the kind wats hinding until a divorce took place. If it was not the case, she had been betrayed and seduced. -lad she not been convinced of the sta- bility of the botd, she couldl have tmarried another, who was more unexceptionable. But why dispute the propriety of the marriag, when one ot' the OoldsmiSts had been married in the same manner ? The defendant admitted titat he had married the young woman, so far as she tad dewcribed, but tie tie was of no avail. There were irregularities in the cerelioniy which made it impossible to be recog- nized by the Jewish lLw. Indeed, if liis expectation of her had been answered. he would have completled the ceremony before the High Prie8t, and titus put the leality of lher claim to himn beyond all question. LBut she had bitterly disappointed hiis hopes, and as lie had taken her upon trial, and 4he had broken down in that ttial, he woulid reist all claim except that of tile clild, whiich, whether a bastard or not, the Jewish law obliged hikn to supporL ThIe Jewe.ss submitted to thc LORD MAyoR t lat her claim was undeniable, she hiatd given no eatuxe"ordivorce. Her ckild was legi- tmiate. She thien prteluced a variety of letters from the defendant, which exhibitecl his passion in the several stages until it sunk into pssitive itblorrence, andl the epithett, of endearment were gradually reluced to that of " wretched woman." The LOBD .MAYOn, under all thete circunistances, submitted the question of tile legality of the mnarriage to the High Priest, 1romn wtio he and Sir JAMtES SIAW received the following com- inunitration:_ The soleminization of marriages amorongt the Jews is regilated by a code of laws wlhich impose certain ceremonies to be performned, and blessings said under a canopy by a person properly qualified and authoiized for such purpose. Parties, however, surreptitiously C.tntrct theimaselves it, marriages bv the ialo putting a ring ots thle linger of a woman in the presence of witnesses, and declaring its pur- pose; but such marriage is not only disreputable, but occamions mueich inconvenience, as its validity may be questioned, and the law cansiders the wicf of suchI brmation in the same light as an un- clein womain. tier claim fbr maintenanceis likewisacsubject to mucil quesliol,, although there is none for tviat of herchsildren ; and neither tile man nor shc can marry any other person unless a regular divorce has been executed betwecn thelin. Thus, though, the ceremouly is incomplete and subject to dispate, they must. wtth respect to other connexions, still be considered as man and wife."' iir JAims SHAw entertained it very different view of the case fruoii that which the .-igh Priest hail communicated. He considered the case anarlogous to those Scottish cases which were so familiar, and in which it was known the use of a few words of engagemn li %nd acquiescence forned an inclissoluble tie. He did not see how the patislh couldl call upon the defendant to Inaintain his bastard chlild, utider such circumntances, as it appeared to him that the ia- fant was t, all intentS and purposes legitimate. The Loan D .xAYOR was of the sante opinion. He considered the ceremtony that had tcken place a bouaafide contract, which, whatever might be the operation of the Jewish law, lie would not attempt to disturb. He recommended thc parislh to proceed against the de. fi-ndantin the usual way, for having deserted his wife and ciild; and neasiur&s woul.l be speedily taicen to punish the father, who certainly deservetl to suffcr, fbr havinig attemptecI so gioss a deception; The case being clischiarged, the next stelp will be to proceed against thle maan in manner suggested by the Lord Ilayor. GUILDHALL .-The Sitting AIagistrate, Sir JAMES SEHAW, was ocetpied for a eonsiderable timDe yesterday in investigating a case of robbery from the Windsor waggon; the circumstanges of whlich ap. peared to be involved in greatmystery,and pregnant with strong sus. pleien against the driver, Jolin townsend, who had in consequence bcen taken into custody, The prisoner s rras coaniryman froin Oakingham, had been in; trustedtor the ierst ti ondbn Alr. Nortlh, the proprietor of the waggon, to dnYe it to London on ridav last; 'tnd that no, tlsake nsight occur through his want of knowledtge of town, n-iad ot the name df Henry lWcbb, who liad biietr ftequently backwards and forwaML1 was sent to iceompany him. They -took up variouis articles for Windsor at different places in town, and lastly from thq Rese Inn, Pleet-market, where they recciyed 'from Fouch, the book-keeper, to- gether with sundry other articles, ti#o chests of tea1 and ine of colfee, which he maikea dow, n tbe way-bill;anldel]IeV6 thtdse boyWeb. The waggon left the Rote Inn, on Its fet1Mrn, aboout half sfter 11 o'clock in the mrorning, liaving then only one call more to make- in town, viz. at Air. Graves's, in New-street, Covent-garden,where ;t appeared they did stop and take in three bales of bacon. Mr. North, aware that the-prisoner was not the btightest fellow in the world to send to London, had given him wtrictcaution and directions not to suffrcr any thing to be taken out of the waggon on any pretcnce whatever tIl he arrived hiome- and on u.o rccount to pemilt any pers son even to ride in it. MIr North, wtho had Iiimself come to town tliat motrning, oveSttok the waggon on its return at Hounslow, and inqusred of the prisoner if every thing was safe, who replied that it WAS. He rode on to,Coti2brook, and, on the waggon arriving there, again jbiied it, and continued with it home to Windsor. Upron un. loading, he found by reference to the way.bill, thatoneof the phests of tea was missing. He mentioned this to the Prisoner,who said he only took in two chests, andas there were two chests,oneofteaand one of coTee, Ir. North it first supposed tbatthe other chest must have been lelt beilind at the Rose4nb;l ft in queAtone ing the fellow inore minute.. ly, he thieb andntit liefore,said he had dehlycied a boi tow man whom Ar. Bloomfield (the master of the Rose Inn) had sent after him withamessage for it; anti though this occurrence, lesaid, took Place somemybere about Covent-garden, neither he nor the boy men- tioned any thing of the cirfumstance to bir. North either at Houns- low or at olnbroolc. The story told by the boy ~#3ebb was not cal- culated to throwv muich light on the affair. Not recollecting he said, exactly where Air. GraveA's was, they ntojupet the waggon.1iis Long-~ acre, where he bid the prisorner wait, whl e he weut to find out the jtreet. On his return the waggon wasi gonc, and somebody in the street told him it was gone, on to the New-street I-e wcent buick immediately.and found the pri&oaer and the waggen at AfrtIrGves's, when Townsend told him thtat while -he was absent he hid givetlotte of the chests of tea to. a'mall whom Air. -Bloomfield hadl snt to take and dcliver it. If this had. been so, thete 'shduld -seeM to have been no good reason why the -boy, who had heprd his rna.. ess strict injunctons to Towns2nd. 6bould not hare srertitobed iti the fist Instance, and*, -which tends tsstrengthesu tU6 iuspi.~ elan, when sent up by tie waggou :yesterday morning 6ior thbe nt. pose of gviog e-ndence on the exammn intn of ToWnsend1 -hd lpadd his resape, but awita&met by Mtr. Nortibon., his wvay-to towii,wiio secued hm, nd brnght -him b- -: o ustos fthe cht of tea, :-tbe value of- which-was about-41 , notraces have- een discovered. ?TlsgeecPtrntalmly given ithe- sfotfei:sti1 peisutedi*n,addmng,wpn<$r g2rW?,ndiftetence, that he watvhi ln a "country chap, 'Agu,jo r otcee' rih apOit London befuore . i ..rg u NNorth, -Itsoi you t thetimit I rwasrs't. ito t:bgruqed,te1,- av i *, - -; 'The Alderi,ans, frorm ;avW4hthi olgiatwim*Wceii. lean to the oinbion 41I2t ;re.;P&d g endo seyeShi4 ken edt voa ge of tiheA'elw &sgxnoe'zq bu#i~t 41m Nortvn.gS haLvetehi Opotir9reu.ntt .otmekulht5 0g ho rgemaned theSpiso for're.exnistp. **t~-sv.., ~ 5., Ann's Wach-hdfi chigE&d%ith ot de derlybdac the nt&ht before,. in the streeta. -It a2pears that, for the last six weeks, shb'baibten coapkle-elyAike-3- ieh nut of water, having been the wholoof that4lme miiboqt seissg thg inside of a pSllsoa, and co l riot; uniatil ttiesd s !bt 7hs~t, sneffd; wiTh all he flideavourajst] gettihr.R , oie Oce-3nore int thcathey.-s On redrnelay clnoL i,r Ishe_vis taken ro eoewstreet oricn, but, to her preat a jonsat 'his ifte tobe disch&ghd on hea di re oftt anoes,aadeo,sthig to be mitor Forturate in thbiseda tict she cagie landon act,thesame night, ojr I attrpbb a constable of S- Afon'e, a rd she caused such a disburbad- e twhatbe l. coh. ipelted (though hb wouid erther anot) to take her to the wathchenuse. In her defencae,- sFe saiou that she was th e victm of a canspiracy amongst all sorts of cgnstables, watchmen, &p, against her. Since she had been mut of prisn she had been ltvilng very respectablg in| Gray'swihbingadcu atnd so convinced was Ir. Minsbull, of Bow..' street, of her good conrduce, th7at he discharged her on7 her own a r- cognizances.-i 94r. T E, the_hm agiscrate, sald that he t as sorry he enig d not irn this instance, agree quith Mr. inshunl, for she appeareds at this atlice to be so incHrrigible a dltstrober of tt e h peace, that he kust call upon her to fiod.bail. Onhearirg this jutgmeat she burs; into av torren: ot abuse against the w ilaistrate; and on Sciofield, the officer, I attempting to retnove her frore tahe bar, she aimed a blow at him. which. had 2t-notbeen warded If by e c legents anotberoffcerwould havegiven hint cause to rememaerer r ladyship. She wa-u then car- ried lai tain foree out of the office, kicking all the way, till she was lockeed up for uant of bail. f A female, vrery genteelly dressed, with her parasol and reticule ir. her hand, ota matonly appterance, stoolsnilingwatcthe bare charged with being drunk ard rsotous in the street. The watchmtan said, that he found this ldy thie night before, i. the Regents Quadrant, qute drunk, sicging aloud. and abcrowd of peoplebaround her. anmtook hero the watch-hour e, wt ereahen icked ap such a row,t that nothing was ever like it. cilr. beo askedtholadyr who semed to en o b er si o ation Dery much, what her name vas, and if she were married or single?c replied, that shu wa a la rried lady, and her namc eas Jand tHow. hrd but firther she begged leave to decline e aying. Svr. ROE asked her if she acknow ledged hiaing been drutnk Se he salid, certain not, artd she would appeal u omhim if atpigrtof ale nd two glasses of gin and sater could ma5e any lady drank, who had any thing at all of a head; ard this she diecared was all she drank. at the house of a firiend, anhere she dine ed. fr. ROE said, that thetcontae eand watche mn wore she was drunk, and t he must be fincd wa. This stan- she instantly paitd, smiled and curtsied to v ie Uagis- trate, and departed. HAbTwOeenh bauRllin A tine little boy of thie na tc oF Price teil years of age, was brought to the offlce, accompanied by his r ather and mother, ahnd a numitber of the neighbours, to complain of *he child being hit hy a Ferocious dog kept by a woman named arfloera and her daughter, livinig in Tash-court, Gray's-inn-lanec. Joseph Ravner, of ,i Tas-lhstreet, deposed he huad seen the dog, which was deft unmuzzled, bhite three other children, and chat he had also hit the tax-collector in the leg. Several other perstns spoke as to the ferocius disposition oft the dog,fi w as suffered to roama about unmuzzled,dto the great a- noyance and danger of the neighbours. ohe oMae gistrates granted a ;ummons, which t,hey ordered to b served for her immediate appearance. and ordered Thiseltona the offlcer, to brLng thc dog forthwith mo the outice. Th eumrmons gras served; th defendants, after a refuisal, at last attended; the dog v.as brought in srrongl,y muzzled and chained; it was a very strong doc. between the bull aid mastiff bredt he was fioaming at the mouth, and appeared very ferocious, and was dcagged along by force; he was brought into tge yard of the locktopthonse, and tied to an trok staple, where the two rillr*isrrates, clerks, and officers, came to see him; and though ttrongly tiedt every persom wass fearful of np- proaching him, The defeanants denied that the dog wr as their property, although they admitted they kept ani fed him for the lost four months, ane f nally signed their consent to hlavec him ha wer e tis sentence thie aagistrates oruered the officers to put in executiot, awhicha afiter the office was cleareel they immnediatcly attended to. UtTgonst.rAr.L.._l.esterday Th'o7nas Ronilt.:zf the proprietor b. one ot the ou;rgage satge-coaches, was s)ummoned before Lwt B. ALLEN, k:sq., upon ani information tinder the Stage-coachi Act, charging himt with carryini one mere outside rpassenger. and t greater quantity of luggage, than the lew directs which subjecend him to the penaly of 201. The informatiot set or th that the defendant was the o1wrter and driver of the coach. Thomas Rogers, k:sq., deposed. tclat on the 2ch of J.ly he took an outsidehseat on thedefendant-s coach from srhatham to Lmndar. On leaving the former lacet there were on the coach eibtht outsidie passengers trhen they reacheel raesend, two m.ore wo ere fokr, up; and on their arival at Northfledt they were obliged to sube.it, and makxe roomZ outside for another individual, and a contiderable quantity of lugrgage, although he (witness) remnonstrated with tLhe defendant, telling him that itere was one more dassefger than the Lawalloted, andalso stating the very gren t inconvenience .o which they (the passengers) v er put by this inf ingement of the Act. ioweer, the defendant disregarded the caution, and cont;- irued his journey towards towon whit t,he number alreadv etatel, or. aIogers added, that he hadn called at the Saracen-s Head n. where the coach stoppee on his arrival in town, in order to make known the circumstance to th te acw proprietors; but on apagieatior the-e he was treated vtith disrespect, an could have no redress fo r an tiprence which certainli affected the public. Under these circum- stancesd hetexhibited an informatiof against the defendant, to pro- tect passengers from the vanger, nor tO say inconvenience, which they were so labic to, from the overloading of such a vehicr aus a stage-coach. A musicall prnfessor w ho was also a passenger on the co.ach cor. roborated !Mr. Rogers s depiosition. Mlr. i lsMstat sEs, the solicitor for the defendant. rook annie oh. Uections these informattion, but they were over.ruled by tie .ais- ate, who, in conv icting rse defendaut, comenrted in strong terns, on the practice of overlaing stage.cpraches, ar t observe, that h would determine thte amlount of tse penalty le intended to inflict on a fuAture day. In rnitigation of the penalty, a leter was re-sd from Mlr. L ushing- ton, a mnagistrate of the county, in which that gentlen asan gave the de- fe!ndant an extcellent character tor steadi,ness and- courtesy on the road. Under these circutmstances, atid at the request of .Msr. Rogers, wits ltso intercededl for rthe detendant, the magis;trate consented to }.ave the information withdrawn on the paymrent of' the espensses. POLICE.