A Menis MATE'S INFALLIRILITY.—A person was fined at Guildhall on
Thurs- day, by Sir Peter Laurie, for driving furiously through the streets. The suffering party declared that he should recover the money by an appeal. "Make your ap- peal and welcome," quoth Sir Peter, "but know that no decision of mine MS ever reversed."
A Mr. Warden, of Finch Lane, Cornhill, chanced on Tuesday night to meet a debtor of his in the Strand, and took the opportunity to demand his money. The debtor gave Mr. Warden in charge for an assault, and had hint confined in Covent Garden Watchhouse for dm night.
Among the vagrants brought before the Mayor on Monday, was an old Irish- woman, who had got riotous on gin, with the money which some charitable
persons had given her to purchase bread with.. The Mayor said as she had been confined for two nights be would not visit her offence with any farther punishment—he would discharge her. Defendant—" But I will not be discharged ; I will not leave prison until some better place is provided for me ; I like a prison better than a workhouse." The Lord Mayor said he was not surprised when gin was preferred to bread; idleness in a prison would be preferred to
everything else ; she was yet capable of work, but if she was determined to go to Ireland, she must apply for a pass to the officers of the parish where she last slept. The old woman refusing to stir, except on condition that she should be taken back to prison, or to some place she liked as well, the officers were obliged to remove her and eject her by force from the Mansionhouse.
A poor creature was brought before the Magistrates at Worship Street last week, on a charge of pawning some articles of furniture, the property of her landlord. She had been married in 1816, when but sixteen years of age, to
a person named Sloan, a surgeon. She produced the certificate of her mar- riage. Her husband and she were Catholics, and they had been married by
a Catholic priest. They lived together for ten years, and had several children, when her husband, who had two medical establishments in London, put her away without cause, and for eleven months he has allowed her nothing; he even de- nied her clothes to enable her to go into service. The landlord said the state- ment was perfectly true, and he had no wish to harass the poor woman. He had summoned the husband, who makes 9000/. a year by his praession, for the
amount of his wife's lodging, but he refused to pay it, because they had been married by a Catholic. The Magistrates expressed their sympathy for the poor woman, and recommended her to the care of the Parish officers.
William Mating and William Adams were committed at Marlborough Street on Wednesday, for robbing the house of Miss Musgrave, Park Lane, of a quantity of plate. They had visited Miss Musgrave's female servants on Christmas eve, and taken that opportunity to committhe robbery. George Frederick Seymour, and Thomas Junk, were charged on Wednesday at Union Hall with an intention to break into the house of Mr. Hedger, the Magistrate, at Stockwell. Mr. Hedger had been warned by an anonymous letter of a project to rob his house ; and his brother had been on the watch with fire-arms to protect it. As he was returning home on Tuesday, Mr.
Hedger was told by the watchman that two suspicious-looking persons were lurking near his house. The prisoners immediately afterwards came in sight, and were seized by Mr. Hedger and the watchman. A portable_ladder, a
pistol, a purse of sovereigns, and a bundle of love-letters were found upon Sey- mour. The prisoners disclaimed all intention of robbing Mr. Hedger's house ; but Seymour admitted that he meant to elope with a lady who lived there,—and pro- duced certain letters in a female hand, urging the attempt, in the execution of which he had been apprehended. Mr. Hedger stated, that no such female re- sided in his house: there were no female inmates of it, in fact, but kis wife and daughter. A gentleman in attendance deelared that the prisoners were persOris of respectability; but as Seymour and Junk were assumed names, they were re. manded.
On Thursday, the prisoners were brought up again. The man who called hint- self Seymour stated, that the letters which had given rise to the plan of operations
which bad been so awkwardly disconcerted by Mr. Hedger, were left for lihn at,
a watchmaker's in Fenchurch Street. The watchmaker was summoned, but he declared that he was not in the plot, and that the letters were left at his shop by a female dressed like a servant. Two of the patrol declared, that Seymour had told them his intention of carrying off a lady, and given them money "not to see" what was going forward. The Magistrates came to the conclusion that Seymour had been hoaxed, and consented to discharge the prisoners—without insisting on learning their real names. Charles Sherwood was committed at Guildhall on Wednesday, for swindling Messrs. Hutton and Co. of Newgate Street, of fringe and lace to a large amount, by means of forged orders. William Jobbings, a private watchman on the Fulham Road, was committed at Marlborough Street on Thursday, for robbing two of the kouses which he was paid to protect.
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