Foaciens.—George Skelton was on Tuesday committed for trial from the
Mansionhouse, on the charge of having attempted to utter a forged bill of exchange for 200/., with the intention to defraud Mr. Roope, tinman. There are other charges of a similar kind against the prisoner.
FRAUD.—Martin, a Jewish confectioner, in Mitre-street, Aldgate, has been committed from Lambeth-street office, on the charge of knowingly taking a 501. for a 5/. note front a tradesman's wife who could not read.
Assatax.—Mr. Cane, jun. of Pall-mall, hosier, was brought to Marylebone office, on Thursday, charged by Admiral Maitland with a breach of the peace. The defend ant called that morning at the Admiral's house to ask payment of a bill for goods, said to have been delivered fourteen years ago. The Admiral demurred to the demand : the defendant refused to leave the house, frightened Lady Maitland and her daughter, presented his umbrella at the Admiral, and collected a mob : the butler interfered to prevent the Admiral from using violence to the defendand and he was given into custody. Mr. Cane asked the Admiral, upon his oat,h, whether he did not fetch a stick for the purpose of thrashing him ? Admire. Maitland—" I fetched a stick to enable me to get you out of the house." Mr. Cane—" Was not I entitled to call upon Admiral Maitland for the payment of a just debt?" " Certainly," said Mr. Griffith ; "but you were bound to treat him as a gentleman ; and when he told you he would not pay you, you ought to have left his house in a peaceable way, and not have created all this disturbance." Mr Cane—" This debt ought to have been paid fourteen years ago ; and the Admiral has been out of the country. Mr. Griffith—" If the money is owing, there are lawful measures for recovering it." Mr. Cane—" Am I not at liberty to ask him for it when I meet him in the street ?" Mr. Griffith—" It would be very unlike a tradesman to do so." Mr. Cane—" Let me ask the Admiral one more question. Did you not make thrusts or blows at me with your stick before I lifted up my umbrella ?" The Admiral—" I did not." Mr. Griffith told Mr. Cane he considered him as the aggressor; and he required bail of him, himself in 40/. and two sureties in '201. each.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—Timothy Hurley was examined on Saturday and Tuesday, at Queen-square Police-office, as implicated in the attempt to burn the Abbey. He had wrought at the Abbey, but was discharged about six months ago on suspicion of stealing lead. It seems that some of his acquaintances had been " chaffing him about the Abbey;" which led to his arrest. His shoes are said to have exactly fitted the impressions of foot-step marks on the stairs in Henry the Seventh's Chapel. The examinations on both days were of considerable length ; but, except the slight circumstance we have mentioned, there was nothing to implicate the prisoner. He answered all the questions put to him with much frankness ; and behaved with that happy indifference which is usually considered the characteristic of innocence. He was remanded; and in the mean time his wife and children are kept by the parish.
A reward of 2001. has been offered for the information necessary to convict the offenders, to be paid by the Dean and Chapter.
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