Police.
The Times, 1824-03-31T00:00:00

?lAwSION--l0t1sOE.-TheRev. MIr. Brackley Eennet, (thevgrand- son of Brackley Rennet, Lord Mayor of London during the riots in 1780, who was fined 10,0001. for having neglected the city, and abandoned his mrnnsion to the populace, against whose fury the chief magistrate should have arrayed himself), appeared to com- plain of the cruelty of a felow named Anhtony Pearson. illr. Brackley Kennet stated, that on Saturdav at 2 o'clock, as he was walking along Thames-street, he saw a crowd of people look- l iDg down a gate.wav, where the defendant, who is a carman, was most unmercifully beating a horse, which appeared to be overloaded, and tumbled down two or three times witness spoke to the defeu i dar,t and begged that he vwould spare the Door animal; but the only reply le got was low abuse and a push alminst the gate-way. The efcendant continued to deal the most cruel blows on the horse. William hnill, who was passing at the time, confirmed this account, and said the defendant must have known that the horse was overloaded, ut the moment the punishment was inflicting. The defendant said he used his horses tenderly: as to the over- loading, there was no such thina, it was scarcely a loatd. The defendant was finel 21. 10s. for the wanton and crutel assault upon the horse, and ordered to find bail for the assault on Mr. Ren- net, who, however, very readily withdrew the charge of assault committed against himself. Rth=a Young, a poor voung woman, was charged with having abandoned her child, Sy leaving it in the gallery of the Vine Inn, Bishopsgate-street. The Churcliwarden of the parish of St. Ethelburgh stated, that on the morning of Friday the 12th instant, between 9 and 10 o'clock, a male child aged about 5 months was found in the gallery of the above-mentinned inn. Sarah Elizabeth N'Vebb, who resides in Bottle-alley, in the house in which the 'prisoner lodges, stated that the poor 3-oung woman's husband was a sailor, on board the Antelope, in which he hatd sailcd some time ago and that she had been turned into the strects with two children, one of whichl was her bis- ter's, the other her own. Witness's husband, however, swore she shouldl not be cast away and slie was accordingly supplied with a place to live in. The ciild now produced was the prisoner's own | child, and the child sbe had in her arms was her sister's child, of whichl she seemed more fond than of her owvn. On Friday the 12th inst., she left the house, declaring that she did not know what to do. On her return she had but one child nith her (her sister's), and she said she had put her own to nurse, with a 'woman who was to have a half-pay ticket. Bright, the beadle, broke open the door of the room in which the prisoner was concealed, and was told by her that the child that had been fbund was hers. The prisioner said she had abandoned her child in consequence of her most despere te condition. She was a Scotchwoman, was allowed 12s. 4d. a month, out of her husband's pay, and had not any other means of suxpporting herself and two ehildren. Obliged to give up one, she determined rather to resign her own flesh and blood tbah her poor sister's child. The Lonin IAyOR ordered that a lettet shiould be written to Scotland on the subject, and, in the mean tiine, ordered that proper care should be taken of the prisoner and the-children in the Compter. Eight boys, aged from nine years to 14, were brought before the LORD MAY on. They had been found in an old house, in the parish ofAldgate, quarrelling aboutapiece of bacon, which aparty of them ha( stolen. 'IThey are wholly destitute and have been nest- ling together for some time in a roomn in the old ruin. Three ofthem have been frequently at the Jt stice-roomn on charges of theft. They were sent to be cured of the itch, and to be washed, previousfly to exa- mination, OIL LDhRALt.-A sort of general meeting of drovers (for there V cre ten or a dozen of them assembled) took place yesterday, at this tustuce-room, in consequence of Mr. iMartin's Smithfield Intpector .aving given them notice, that if they did nut attend to witness the magistrates' feeling upon the ill-treatment of cattie, and taka wiamth. ing by the examnple that would be then made ff iWo bifenders of this descnption, he wotvld apply to thet 1'tteslian for a summons against the absentees, each of thenn hdvlng committed acts that had rendered them liable to the penalties of the law. htpon the case of the defendants, Thiomas WVright, the drover who holds the badge of 541, and Robert Read, the wearer of No- 610 being ealled, Whe_Itr, the lnspeetor5 stated4 that the fotrnet haa been guilty of great inhumiianity towards a sheep; and the latter, towards SO2he bullocks in Smrtbhfcld market., oI Macnday vvCCBtI but they had since expressed, atid he belleved really felt, mucl con- trition for their misconduct; and he therefore begged they might be discharged, with an admonition which, he trusted, would proVeser- viceable to a number of the fraternity now present, Mlr. Alderman BfRcis said, as tfie case was not pressed againrt the defendants, he should dismiss them; but he energeticaly de. cared, that if ever an instance of wanton cruelty to poor animals was proved before him, such was his detestation of the offenice, he would in'dict the highest penalty the law permitted him to do. Those for wvhom this notification was intended seemed quite awo. stricken wit the extreme earnestttess mat2ifeted by the worthy Al. uetrtmean, owhincth, l is Isto be hoped, will have & proper effect .auptt theh, fuur cnut 1'OICEa.-