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The Times, 1824-09-14T00:00:00

BOW -TRFRTY..-A tra-in whe stated his namre to bhe John p4anfbln~, and whio d-escribied him'self to be "1a gentleman )lv 18 u'ris,OPertY5 &ppeared beforethemrrgi3trate inl the cut-s f .jdfHrring, the oMcer. acconipanied by. a serge n -ajr. a e~~rL and s,pelsate. iif the 2dI regiment o FotGuardls. SirR.IIftIEproduced ~a letter, signed "J.ohn Cape.i Connit;- bury," an adrsed to Colonel Freemantle, cotornaniding officer of the battaLlio,adte thve prisoner if thlat wvas wrritten by him ? He renlied inteafraie, and P-ir Richard then said. ` I believe, slccorJing to heoro this letter, thiat-you have some charge to piefer agatust this soldier hesy not ?" Therrisonor said hie liad as slight charge to prefer, bu eseed extreetney reliuctant to make any statentent, andi from some cause or other he trembled exces- sively. lie did at ler.gth state, thlAt on Saturday week, in the morn- in,g, he was at Storey's-gate, entering St- Jamies's-park, whien the priatesolie no prsen, ho was then on duty as; a sentinel, ac- cosed in', ed, s wll s e (prisoner could hear, (for he was a litle eaf) sid omehin tothe effTect thiat. he imight do as he had a min secli it. Jst t 'attime the relief-guiardI camne up, andi prisns? all&l aay-He subsiequently wrote the letter in ques. tio tothesoiftendigofficer. Sir R. BI RxnwE..-Ad was chat nil that passed ? Prisoncr.-Yest, that was all. Sir R. Bi3mnauE.-WVhy, Sir, in this letter you charge him distinet- ly In so mnany words with saying to you, " 0ive me five or six bher t~hillinxls), and you may do with me us you have a mnind at any timc Did he say that ? Prisoner.-_Somietbing of that sort. Sir R. Bilas roen...-Cone, Sir, a plain answer, if you please. ]Did ire 3y itor not ? Prisoner.-He said something abouit doing as I had a mind. Sir R. BmaRcan then read the whole of thelettcr, the Orthography and composition of which, considering that it Was written by "1a gentema liinguponhispro~y,~ ceated a good deal of mierri- men. I ttres insustace hathe asaccosted as above described by he entnel an tat he ublc wrenot safe, if such conduct on he at o sodirs as otproery punished. 14e also com- plaied f beng buse bythe orpralof the guard, wheon hie asked Sir R. BlixtsrxE.-Pray, Sir, whiere do you live:? Prisoner.-No. 19, Souith .street, Lamnbeth. Sir A. Bsnatai.-Then how comes it that your le!ter is dated Abingdon-3treer ? Prisoner..-Because I wrent into a public-house there to write it. Sir R. BsstNer.-Then how were you to be found to substantlata! this infamous charge ? I can siee plainly into thte whole aff'air : it is a base attempt to rutin the character of this soldier. Pray, siergeant- major, what character does this man bear in the regimnen't? ~ergeant-major.-Tfhe-e is not abhatterc-run in thecorps, Sir. He! has been' in it twelve years, and was rever once reported for ruis- conduct. Sir R. Bsntet.-.Are you a married man, soldier ? Soldier.-! amn, Sir, a6d have three children. Sir R. BiasesE.-Really this is a shamieful piece of business,I Swear the soldier and corporal.I The soldier was sworir, and stated his namne to he Edward Wil- liams. On Sa-usday week he was on duty, wheni the prisoner, juist at the timne thiat wiitness was receiving hiis instructions from thec other! sentinel on the post, mnade a de-Ad stop close to them. 'Witness de - sired him to go on, and he refused, and began calling, himi ad- scoundrel, and ot her opprobrious names. lie agatin oirdered him ott', but he refused to go, and repeated his abusive language. Trhat iras all that passed. In consequence of' the letter in question, witness determnined to watch for the prisoner, whlichl he dtid every day until yestetdsy,when he saw him, followed himn a long distance, not knowing wlat to do, but at length lie made himi accomipany rim, toI the guard-house. The Copral stated, that when he came up withi tire relief, be fotind wilpliams ordering thie prisoner to) move on, the latter abusin!: Iiim in the worst language. Thie prisoner f'ollowedi the guard along the street, and abustei themi in the lie inanner. Sir R. BtRwtgE as;ked the prisoner if he had any thiing so say Prisoner.-! don't ktnow that I hiave donie aniy thing wrong. Sir R. Bmn.sxEs..-Yes, youi have dlone very wrong ;you hiave en- deavoured to deprive this soldier of his chiaracter. A soldier has a character to lose asi well as another man, andI is equaelly entitilEd to the protection of the lawv whien it.is unjustly assailed, I Shall Order you to give goodI sureties for your fuiture appearance, anti I trust. thle regiment wvill prosecute you for writing this infamous libel, and for insulting the soldiers in the execution of their du,y The prisoner was locked up until he shiould find hail. AlARLBOROUG5t-ST REET.-A few days ago a genitleman of very respectable and reverend appearance, about 511 years of age, (dresseed in black,~ andi wearing powder in his hiair, whose profession under the present circumistances it is imipossible to tell. came to thiis office, and appli6d to Mlr. COaeAN'T, the sitting magistrate, 'or his advice and~ assistance to recover a 61. note, of whicir he stated himselr to have been robbed in the following manner :-He said, thtat about eight o'clock ott the evening before, as ne was sauntering slong Oxfo rd- Street,he writ accosted by a poor girl, who said she. hail nota farthing in the world so hellp herself' with. Feeling for thie unhaappy girl's; situation, -he consented to accompany her to some house, whiereth said she could be cormforted and relieved at a trifling expense t him. He had some loose siilver in hiis pocket, which hts thought wopild be sufficient to relieve thie poor girl's wants, anld as he wras a stranger in towtr, ainti a still greater stratiger to ite hiou se he was going to, he took the precaution, as the)y walked along, of depositing a 51. note, whbich lie happenied also to have hastl about himi, at the very bottom of hris fob, with a shilling wrapped sep in it, to keep the note down with its weighit.. having arrivedt at the house in question, himself and his conipitnioni were shown into ani apirtment, very respectably furniislied ; bitt he hiad trot been above a quarter of an hiour in tire room, whe-n ail on a sudd"n he found, a, if by magic, his fob turned inside out, andI the 51. itote and its cconaningshilingvanshe threfrom. Hlis first suspic;ons natuall fel upn hs cmpanon,altough he thought it sitrnrising how Ite ouldso qicky case hs los bt lie determi-nied, without makng ny nsteabuttne usiess toascrtain, to his own personal satsfatio, wethr he irlwasguityor innocent, anti accordrtingly, withut hesighest esitane o her&sr, medea Mi.-Otti search abosmt her dress, but could find no trace of ct inOte, fudrther titan ex- tracting a shiilling from her bosomn, wihslling he liad no doubtt had been 'he comipanioin of ties note, as the girl had pv&o ytl hint that she had not a farthing in the weirIdI. By, this discovery otf the sihillinir, itis suspicions were considerably strrngthened, anti thinking, perliaps, the lady of the house mighit be more expert in examinations Of thisg nature than himself, lie rang site hell, andl the hostess comin.g up), he hanided his companion over to her for furtimer inetigation. The necessary measures were accordingly taken by the landladly in his presence, but still no trace of the 51. note, and li e was ultimaiely obliFed to quit the house without recoveringr it. He has since been tuming the subeject in his mind, and his, conviction was, that thie girl must have concealed ithe note in lter mnouth, and thnat whien the landladv searchedl that orifice, she extracted the nuts, and aprprae itohr owvn use. Thie applicant, thierefore, begeed to know if he could have any remedy against the landlady. Alr. COXANT asked wity he did not give the girl into the custodY of a watchman, and have her detained until tke circumnstances shiould be properly investigated. The applicant said, that so thoroughly convinced was he that ithe girl could not possibly have the note about her when alms left" the house, that he did not think it necessary to detain lier. Mfr. CONANTr said, tltat the woman of the house coultd be sen fr to hear what she lmad to say upon the subject. Accordingly, an officer wais dleslatcitest for the latndlady of the house, No. 23, Shepherd-street, Bond-street, and in a few minut,es a rery fashrionably-dressed female made lier appewarace at tire offie and on the msagistrate's relating to her rite circtutmstancese stated by the complainant, anid hiis charge of suspicion againist her, slits related,I in the gentleinan's presence, lier version of th e transactiont, asi fol- lows t--This old genitleman,she said, came toier hootse(whlich she~ supposd ihis -Worship knew was a, house of a certain description but althoughi it was so, and altlioulgh she saidI it, there was not a better cond'ictced house in all London.) Wiell, tinsq gentlemian cariise so her hortse, about ten o'clock at might, and a little girl with htim. He calle fr a bottle of sherry, and a bottle of sherry he had, atnd paid for, as well as aU other accomniodations. In about half an hour bsh heard a terrible ting of the bell, and as she always; herself attends upon such looking gentlemen as the present, sire wenti up stairs and asked what wag wanted. The gentleman told hier to' walk in, wvhichi she accordingly did, and titers, to her astott ishment, (indeed, she was ashamed to mention such a thing befoDre hiis Woe- ship) sh'e found, the poor girl fitarkc naked as she was born, and her! clothes, almost picked to piece, by the gentleman looking fior his 81. note, as he said ; and he wasi just then finishing 'With ~ the toe of a s;tocking. Ide requested her it) search the girl's; person again, as perhavies ithad not becrn so minintte in his search himself as was ne~cessary. She did then search the girl ; but there was no note, or any thing else about lier, anti tshe renion-1 strated againsqt keeping the poor girl,who showed us anxiety, to go away, standing naked solon in th'cld. Tue getitleman, however, still was not.satisfied ar leintewatchmen, whom he also de- sfred to serch the gr;bttewchapoively refused to do pO, or event to stayithromsvigthtitegnteanwhd to bave the girlfuteserhd fhwolgiecaeofirse shoiuld be talcken to tIre watch-houseg n hr erhdb h vsatch4house-keeper's wifet in the usulwy Thgetma,hw ever, refiisetl to give any charge of thgil and te ohlf h houe Teanldynow declared tha seaw Rohn f h oe ad fothserhshe had made, she thought it impossible that th groadhvhad it either. Mr. oc~NT akedher if she knew the girl, or could procure bet--attendtance. Sh rele,tat she had seen the girl at tise houSe two br three times bfr;utse knew jiot where she iived.-she hdthe aperncefasrat The gentleman himself, however, bad thie girl's namneand address ; for he took it dowen [most carefully ins his pocket-book. MVr. C0s9AseT asiked thie gentIeman if this were true. He sai'd it was arnd pulling out lilt poicket-book, and deliberastely turning over tIre leaes, he read, "M Aary Thompsoti, 9, Winyard-street ;" but he said that he was quite sure the girl had not the note, Pand this charge I was against the landlady only, whom he believed to have found t ire note, and kept it. Air. CONeAN T then asked hire if he meant to charge this woman with being concerned in robbing hin.--lie meplied, "Moat certainly." The agitrat baing ow adepreparation to take down the compainnt' depsiton,aske, i th usal hatnisrer, as a prelimni- nary hisnese an adress-" ily-ameor address," said thae "~ut" sid M. CaANT "yu mut, ir,give your name and adressbefer I ca takeyour videne.-"ly residence," saidthe entlman,"isaconiderble istac ot',In th count of Kent, but my name I Psust not mention." " What," avid AMr. CONANT, " do you supposc, Sir, that I am to take the. evidence of a person upon a chtrge of felony without knowing who that per-on is? I must, Sir,-know vho you are. Wltaterofessibn aregyoa of?"-" This question, said the gentle. "mi'hcnI Sir" asid-5r.CsRsaneoA2T, af~oit~efutotell mewhoaind what yout are,! -alss,i detain you in -istody5Stuless youbring for- ward responsitble baiD 'o . gnswer for your aprance as a witness. YXrs come here, 8,-a inaiske a chargb offelony a a nst this wo. anests who,. wntever her Uhavasctr may;h,Ub is neDt toe be accused of a robbeiy w7ithout knowring who that accuser Is; anad vet, Sir, you wrish use to take your dtarge against her, without telling uae who you are that make it. Do. yog sot know, Sir, that in this country no ones character or liberty eau be encroached on byan anonymous aceas&x?" "'1Tlen,Sir,"said the complainant, ss 1 shs opihe busi. ness altog,ther, and withdraw-the c argg; formy name, or address, or Xofestton. I cannot_I must not mention." " Where,"said AIr.C(rarAWTr,'are you stopp ing In town P" "I slepv Lapt night at a hotel, andaonlyarrived in Loudet yesterday morn i% mr vwy to Celais. I have becn sto,ping a few days at theGef lfbudd at Greenwich. Further than this, respecting myself,I can-1 -not tEention ; and I beg yon, therefore, Sir, to diemiss the charge, and siaer me to depsart wtlTiout-malsing further inquiries." "Indeed, Sir," said llt. CoWi2si, I' 1 '1shldld6i noasuchtiing.. I baveacharge of felony brought here before me, andit must be investi. gpted. How do I know, Sir, but yeutr ob6jietnay be to eXtort, by this ssatiou, 51.1froi this oroman, uni' ashuw snethat you arrea perrmn not lf'seli t do mttcls r act? 7TA-etee WUn,l91r. 6n be sivorn."_" I must. Sir," said the gentleman, " deelne idso to bE sworn." "'As; notd,,ubt, Sir,`" satill r. COatAHT, 'd 701 hva5o2 ie?fix motivc for thas concealing M 'bo and what you are, aDtn as I havesit tviel ro expse yrour n,nme~r or ofesien beyondw what publie justice requires, if you will retire -with an officer into the private zoom, aifd wrnte down your name antd addrs. I shall, flr the present, be aa- tisfied to receive it in that way. If'vou refuse thia, Sir, once for all I tell vou. I shall commnityou -urtil1ihscharge is fuilly inweatiated.-t The Gertleman, whose face rtretgred with perspirationi and who sppeared In the utmost state of aspiety. aTta etation. nou ,etfired nto the private room with PJank, tie chief oJPN 'r, iwftirnisbed tim with a-sheet of papet and tns and Ink. He twok-u-seat at the able, but instead of writiog-tis name and address, le penned a ett,r, covering three pages, so the lagistrae. wrhith, w1in finish- id, he wait about to attarA a signature to, but su ideny starfing fra tis seat, he exclainied,- "I cannot sign a false namre; and I must tot-I dare not sig-n>y own;" and dashing th peFt upon the rro'ind, hc paced the ra om in the greatest 5gitatfon. The letter, it this unauthenticated stare, was taukeh by Plank to lIr. COoeANT. who. after perusing it very attentsively, evitlently vith spine surprise, retired into the privaei room, and for some time teld a conversation wvith the writer. r. CQAYT asgain too k his seat hto the Benchband addresing hegentleman, aid, " Nov, Sir, although I anm stll In ignorance t y our narme, you have infirrmed me sufitcientdy to know thLat you tre in a rank of life w4hich is likely to prevert~ yoor violaing your vord and honour, and on condition thtat you pledge mte your prO. nise, as a gentleman, to come forward on 3 future day, when tbe )ther parties, the girl and the watchman, shallhe io2ttendance, I ;vill dispense with your evidence at this moment." This pronmise the mysterious gentlernan gave, and an ofcer was lirected, with the assistance of the landlady, -to find out the girl and zring her to the office, and the ne:t Tuesday was a ppointed for ththt )urpose, when all Ehe parties were again to attend. Tuesday came itlr passed away without' the appearance of the gentleman (com- plainant.) Another adjournment took place to Friday iast, when ll the parties again camne forward but still thexe vras no account of hie complainrant, altliough by direction of the magistrate every in- luirv had been made after him and the whole case was, therefore, lismissed altogether, after a severe reprimand to the 'watchman for not having, when called in upon a charge of felony, taken the wbole sf tile parties to the watch.house. and there got their names. TowV-tLAe.L.-The fbllowing case occurred yesterday before the litting Magistrate, Mtr. Aldertman J. J. SaIT i :-A peor old filI low, namaed Thomas AMurray, apparently between 60 and 70 years if nee, anplied for th- interference of the magistrate to compel the psrish officers of St. Olave's to relieve hint and his family. lie bad tpplied to them that morning, and they refused to do anything fbr 7im. He was hirnself out of' employ Ic hade wife and three clil- lren, one of them an infant in arms, which consequently prevented As wife from being able to do anything to assist herself. The Alderman a-ked Little, the beadle of St. OleWe's, who wvas iresent, whether, there was any question as to the settlement of the 'amily being with their parishl. Little replied that there was no doubt that he belonged to them, )ut their nverseers had obtained work for hint at breaking stones for 'lncadamizing the roads, and had furinshed bim wvitb gs to buv- ianmuners. butl instead of buying the haTnmers and going to work, he sad appropriated the money to his own house, and ha;ving founcl iim emplovment, the overseers considered they were not bound to elieve him further. Mitrray.-What he speaks of was a fortnight ago, and I have had so relief trom the parish since. I made inquiry at the place, and 'ound that the mnst I could possibly earn at stone-breaksng was not nore than 6is. a week. IY not that tnie, hir. Little ? The beadle allowed that Gs. was the utmost a r:lan of AlMurray's uge and strenelhi woald be able to earn. "And thatr,"continued.5urrav, "not beirg enoughofitself to krep ne and my family, I thoughtt it' would be beat to try and sell h little 'riit, and instead of buying hammers. vour worship, I bought a few tlts. When the parish did make me an allowance, they never gavc ne inere than 3s. a week_a shiilling every other day, and nothing on Sunda F." Litte allowed that the pauper had not squandered away the mo- ley, butt that it hatl been applied in support o' his wife ansl fanlily. Mr. Aldennan SItITH.-This man and his family must not be muffered to perish. There is no ground for refusing to relieve him. rbie employment you offer Iiim vwould occupy the whole of his time, tnd produice him, but 6s. a week, whici is certainly not sufficitnt to ;upport his fanilv. " You are rot " said he, " so very old. Can you get nothting to do, .lurrav, in the way of' employment i" M urray replied, he was onlv ahlabourer, but if the parish would 11low him a shilli-ng a-day, with what occasional jobs he might get, le would try to make it tlo. Mr. Aldternan SM1ITH thought that extremely reasonable, and nade a peremptory order ulpon the parish for the payment of a shil- ilg a dav to the pauper, or, in the alternative, to take him and his Arnily into the workhouse. UNIO's-sALL.-Three men, named Dilloct Glenister, and 3!aton, were charged, on suspicion. with having stolen a dark-browa torse, about 13 hane', and a half high. A constable of St. George's stated, that on Suaday last he saw thC :hree prisoners tagether in Kent-street ; that one of them was snounted on a nice little horse. The constable, knowing their charac- ers. went towards thiem but the moment he approaclhed thefellow in t6rseback put spurs to the horse, and attempted to gallop off, but sot being an expert rider, he w~as thrown aut of the saddle, and *asilv tikett itit custody and pliced ini the care of av watchman; vhile the constable mounted the nag and rmde after his companions, 3oth of whoti he came up with, apprehended, and brought back to he watchhouse. Dillon, the f0low wvho watt on horcehack when the constable first taw them, in reply to the Magistrate's question, " Where did youi ,et the horse ?" sail, as he was walking along Charing.-cross on Sun- lay. a genteelish kind of a chap camne up to him and said that he wouald give him sixpence if he took the horse over to the H.adlf-way- ltouse in the Kent- oad, atnd leave limn there; he was, he s :id. pro- ceeding to that place, when the constable, in a very ungenteel kind of a way, came up anti frightened the animal, which ran away with him, atnid he -,aw tossed off bis back in she kennel ; when tih constable, not satisfied with this. moanteel the horse himself, and rotde away, leaving him (the prisoner) in the hands of a C/warleu, for horse-steal- ing. At the conclusion of this eloquent defence. Dillon declared that he and his friendi were as ibnocent as babes unborn. The Mazristrate directed iMr. Staples, the clerk. to advertise the horse, and remanded the prisoners untii an owrner is fourid to prorr- cute them. POLIrCg.