• . A deputation from about two hundred and fifty
seamen engaged for the service of Don Miguel, but disbanded since the news of Napier's victory arrived, applied at the Mansionbouse on Saturday, for advice . from the Lord Mayor as to what means they had best take to procure the fulfilment of the engagements made with them by a Captain Elliott, who was to have commanded them, and had agreed to pay them from five to ten pounds a month for their services. Their spokesman was a,boatswain, who said they were aware that they were engaged to fight against their own countrymen in the Pedroite squadron but they had no choice, they must either do that or starve : great numbers of seamen in the neighbourhood of Wapping and the Decks were in the most wretched state for want of food. The provisions which bad been sent -down to them to the steam-boat in which they lay off Gravesend, bad
been carried off by some Jews, who pretended that they had authority to do so. Lord Peter said— “Exactly so. I never expected any thing else. Any thing for that people but honest labour. Why don't you look after them ?” Boatswain—" It is all useless, my Lord. A. Jew would beat the Devil any day. They are getting more power every day., and I know well that they'll have every thing their own way by and by. But for Mr. Reynolds, who gave us (d. to get bread, out of his own pocket, 'our condition would be indeed des- perate."
The Lord Mayor told the deputation that he would Make inquiry, and endea- vour to procure some satisfaction for the poor men, who had, notwithstanding their great distress, been as quiet as possible.
The boatswain said, they had some thoughts of waitinr upon Lords London- derry, Aberdeen, and Ellenborough ; but the Lord Mayor gave them no advice upon the subject.
Lewis Keene and Martha his wife were charged at 'Bow Street, on Wednesday, the former with stealing a letter containing 50/. in Bank of England notes, and time latter with disposing of the notes, knowing them to have been stolen. The male prisoner had been for many years a letter-carrier of the Twopenny Post-Office, in the Gerrard Street district, and was greatly respected, all the authorities of the establish- ment having the highest opinion of him. On Friday last a parcel of Bank of England notes, consisting of three for tee pounds and four for five pounds each, was made up at the banking-house of Messrs. Prescott, Grote, and Co., and enclosed in a letter addressed to Miss A. M. Denison, No. 2, Portman Square, which letter was put into one of the receiving-houses of the Twopenny Post-Office, in Corn- hill, on the same morning. On Saturday morning the female prisoner went to several shops and passed some of the notes that were enclosed in the letter, which notes the male prisoner asserted he had found, though it was stated by the witnesses that the letter had passed through his hands in his official employment at the Post- Office. They were committed to Newgate for trial.
Mr. Bond of the Athenmum, in St. ktmes'S Street, was fined 51. at Bow Street, on Tuesday., for assaulting Mr. Sewell, a stable-keeper in the Strand, and one shilling for assaulting Mr. Sewell's son. The parties had quarrelled about a bridle, and Mr. Bond happening to see the complainant in the street, leaped out of his phaeton, and struck him several blows, asking him if he thought he had behaved in a tradesman- like manner.
John Hunt, the man who was remanded last week from the Queen Square Office, on a charge of fraudulently obtaining timber from Mr. Warburton's yard, was brought up for re-examination On Monday, and committed to take his trial. An old man about sixty, who has been much itt the company of the prisoner, is suspected of being the prime agent in this business.
Charles Reynolds was examined at the Queen Square Office, on Sa- turday, on tne charge of shooting at Sarah Parry, at Hammersmith. The circumstances of this case have been already detailed in the Spec- tator. lie was fully committed to take his trial. His father attended, and stated that his son had been for some time previous to the commis- sion of the offence very ill, mentally as well as bodily. Sarah Parry stre- nuously denied that she had had any illicit intercourse with the prisoner, as was presumed to have been the case, from the contents of some let- ters found upon him., -,She had only been acquainted with him three months.
On Wednesday a child, seven years of age was committed to the House of Correction for seven days, by Mr. White, time Magistrate of the Queen Square Office, for begging. His brother is already there for the same offence. [If these children are not thieves already, they will have an excellent opportunity of becoming such in the course of the week.]
John Fitt, a pipe-maker, was examined on Tuesday, at the Maryle- bone Office, on a charge of running away with the wife of a shoemaker at Norwich. The woman carried off money. to the value of 4301., be- sides some jeweliery and her clothes : she was also examined, but dis- charged. Time male prisoner was remanded.
Mr. Henry Hervey, a young gentleman or fortune, residing in Manchester Street, was held to bail at the Marylebone Office, on Thursday, to take his trial for assaulting Mrs. Anne Turner, a bonnet- maker. The proseeutrix had some altercation with the lady's maid of Mrs. Rochefort about the price of a bonnet, which she had brought home to her at the residence of the defendant,. where Mrs. Rochefort was on a visit. Mr. Hervey, having inquired the cause of the distur- bance, took the complainant by the shoulders and turned her out of the house with great violence ; and for this offence he was brought before the Magistrate.
T. Lloyd alias Dashwood was yesterday, fully committed for trial from Marlborough Street Office, charged with having twenty-eight gilt sixpences in his possession, intending topass them 'as half sovereigns.
On Friday week, Henry Wyatt, the driver of a hackney coach, was charged at the Lambeth Office, with running his coach over a girl of four years of age. It appeared that the prisoner, on that evening, was driving across Tower Hill to take up a fare at. the St. Katharine's Docks, and the deceased and her sister being playing. on the hill,. the former ran across the carriage-road ; both the wheels passed over her body, and she instantly died. No blame being attributed to the coach- man, he was discharged..
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