The National Register. — London, England, 1820-06-11 00:00:00

COURT OF EXCISE, Joss 6. A PRSPURATIE tisrEaussiwr UPON BEER. George lir iiiiii alids John iiiihboelr, was charged them ihiorielahun with having used a certain destructive compound at beer. with Intent to defraud the Reveiu Mr. Berry stated, that he was lately landlord o f the King's Head pia:rile-house, in Queen-street, Cheap side, a nd that on the Ylst of August last, the defendant introduced himself to Isim, and told him he cookd put hint in possessioli of makilig three butts of porter out of two. The witness listened to the proposal with apparent pleasure, and agreed to an experiment upon one oi his bulb. Accorthugly nil the 2311 of the saute month, the defendant Caine again to his house bringing with him a gallon stone bottle, containing a composi tion of burnt sugar, cuih, rr capisc , copperas, and oil of vitriol, and other ingredients of a similar kind. The tl.:femlatit was introduced to ihe cellar, where the operations of •encreastrig two into three butts, were to go forward. 'Cue particular butt 10 be put under process was poitiod out to him, and he drew from it twenty galluas ul beer lie then oink eighteen gallons of water, and poured into it the gallon of his patent crimpound, as he called is, and a gallon of linings. the whole was well mixer' tip and incorliorated, and ordered to be sith stititted lor the twenty g Aloha or beer winch had been abstracted from the butt, and the delettdant assured the witness, that the saleaule qtiality of the beer would not be deteriorated, the taste and colour remaining as good as when the beverage was in its pure state. The de fendant had another brittle wills him which, lie said, lie was going to take to another putilicatt to use in the same manner. and for tile sante purpose. The witness was not prepared at that time to expose the defendant, or to punish hint in any other matuter; but that lie might have an opporttimiy of doing so as soon as possible tie told him, that he soma(' want whither butt operated upon in the same malmer, an; the defelidant pi unused to call again Mt the 26th. In the locals time Mr. Berry informed toe officers of the Excise of the transaction, and a plait WAS arranged for the detection of the defend ant, wins cause on the day appointed, and went through the whole process, as 1w had done before, on another butt of beer. Just as he had finished. the Excise Otfi eels, who were concealed in Inc cellar, cause forward, and seized the compound, which was ready to be inter iii aed. The price detnawled for the patent liquid, which the defendant made use of, was 10.. a gallon, and the wit ness was to have the recipe for WI. AnOtficer of the Excise deposed, that he and a brother officer went to the public house, kept by Mr. Berry, and were placed by him ill the spirit cellar, next to the beer cellar. They had not been there long before they saw Mr. Berry and Ilse defendant conic into the beer cellar. The beer wits drawn off, and the ingredients were pre pared, when witness stepped forward and seized a gal lon stone-bottle in the hands of the defendaut, as lie was in the act of pouring it into the cask. The other officer corroborated the evidence of the last witness. The bottle which bad been seised was here produced, and its contents were exat ll itt ed. It contained a very black adhesive liquid, of an extremely bitter taste and extreme pungency. It was highly concentrated. A Surveyor of the Excise stated, that the liquid in question had been brought to him by one of the officers. Ile believed it to consist mostly of burnt sugar, or molasses, together with chili pepper, and other ingredi cuts of the Sallie pungent nature. Mr. Mayo, Solicitor of the Excise, asked whether there were any malt or hops amongst the iogredieuts. Witness answered in the negative. The compound was handed for inspection to Mr Calvert, jun. and to Air. Foster, of the douse of Calvert and Co. ?liner brewers. Mr. Foster said, he could give no accurate imittion as to the nature of the compound. He behest-41 It tO CU:111151 uso.tly of molasses, and ingre dients of gem puogency, but there certainly were no traces of any prepatatiun of malt or hops in the stuff produced Souse Officers of Excise said, they went to the pre mists of the defendaut, who was professedly a capillaire maker ill William Street, Lambeth, on the Zito of August, and they seized a qua n tity of liquid of the ...inie kind as that produced. together with a quiaiiiity of green copperas, atid slime drugs, app.ireitily of a powerful de scription, with the precise stature of which they were sot acquainted. The &known, it appeared, had decamped, and jail, ment was pronounced by &fault. The Court c tttttttttttt him in the penalty of 3801. firs the two Alcoves which he had eonuu Lied. The Court paused a high euloAtuatt thi the conduct of Mr. arty, to %vitriol they said the public Wu re t rreali indebted inr t awning a system which it has to be leant was hut too prevalent. His activity its pi, ling a stop 4.4 he career of all Piglet...int vender of prisms, fur such it', tefendaiit was, was most praise worthy FRIDAY, JUNE 9. William Coates, residing in Mary Antic S:rect, S . George's in the Lau, was charged nit information IN [Li. vending a spurious liquid, prohibited by law, tor the purpose of adoberatitic beer, and defrauding the res nue, for which cift:hce he had forfeited the penalty 01 Agoo. The defentlaat did not attend, and judgment went by default. Mr. Richard Berry (who was the cause of detecting the infamiiits irdlic of a similar nature, isiter't was tried before the Commissioners last week) stated, that he was formerly the proprietor of the Queell'a Bead, public house, tit Queen Stteet, Cheapsitic. In the th of Octob:r last, the defendant called at his house, and the convelsr,iiiti .rroe respecting the colouring of beer ; tlefendaii snit he was in the habit ill shaking a liquid tot the purpose oI colouring, anti the ',rice Was 5s 241. per gallon. %V ittiess agreed to have a gallon of the com pound, and the defendant went away. Mr. Berry in stantly gave information to the Excise, and an officer _ -....-• THE NATIONAL REGISTER. attended at hia house on the Ist of ()ember. the day 1 the defendant w .5 to bring the deleterious compound. defendant arrited about I I o'clock, and delivered It is our painful dui the intxturc, together with the directions how it was to be used, and a bill of parcels. Toe directions were as follows:—" First, take 1 . 10111 the brut ten gallons of beer; after you have drawn your beer, take nine gal lons of water, to which add the gallon of colouring, and then put the water and compound into the butt ; put a little linings in afterwards, and stir it round well."— The 'taker, • diately on the liquor bring delivered to withess seized it. The sniff was here produced ; it was a very dark coloured mixture, of all extreme nauseous flavour, and of a frothy nature. The compound was handed for inspection. to .Jr. J. Martineau, the brewer, who tamed it, and gave it as his opiniou that it consisted of burnt sugar and other deleterious ingredients, but what he could not say ; he was positive there were no malt and hops in the mixture. Mr. Fos er, Mr. Calvert, jut'. and several eminent brewers, were present. The Court ordered the defendant to pay a fine of Police. --•—• MARLBOROUGH STREET. RlOTl.—Friday, William Mackenzie, Thomas Rabb, Julio M'Adattis, John Walling, John Clayton, Trau mas Chandler, and Edward Sidney Augard (some of them very decent young melt), were Moneitt up by Plank, Wales, Jetteries, Valentine, and other officers, charged with riot, and making a desperate attack upon the home of Lord Sidmooth, on Thursday night last. The facts are briefly these :—On Thursday night last an extensive mob of persons left South Audiey Street,. and on their road down Hill Street broke the windows of the inhabitants, and, crying '• lights," made a great riot. On • arriving in Berkeley Square, they demolished the whole of the windows on the west side. lu Clifford street, they stopped opposite Lord Sitlinouth's residence, where a party had been entertained. Tney assailed toe house with stones, mud, and other missiles, and com pletely demolished the whole of the windows. The imitates were naturally alarmed for their safety; and Lord Exmouth, who was one of the party, made his appearance, and addressed the mob, requesting them, as reasonable men, to desist from their violent proceed ings, and retire to their habitations. They abused his Lordship, especially Mackenzie, who was resolutely taken by Plank and Wales, the officers. The violence of the mob not being abated, but increased, Lord Ex mouth intimated that he and the other gentlemen were armed, and that farther outrage must necessarily urge them to use their arms. His Lordship was hooted; when he, with the rest of the party, sallied forth on the mob, and they were ultimately overpowered and dis persed. Adams, w bile his Lordship was pursuing some fellows, was exciting the mob to violence against him, and he was taken by Valentine. A similar attack was made at the Marquis of Hertford's, Manchester-square. In Portman-square the conduct of the mob was so infs. mous, that the officers using their cutlaises, some of the rioters were desperately wounded. The officers proved the above circumstances, and were corroborated by Captain Wilson, of the 20th Light • Dragoons. They were all ordered to had bail. Time Magistrates held a comerence, and, in order to I pursue necessary steps for the preservation of the public peace and the property of indiiiduals, Messrs. Lee and Smart, the high constables, were sent for, and received instructions to have extra parish officers, 12 from each parish, one of whom should be stationed at the above office, for the purpose of conveying necessary intelligence to the police, if the outrages were repeated. DEATH OF MR. GRATTAN. to record the death of the qty Right Hon. Henry Grattan. This melancholy event took place at a late hour on Sunday night, at his house in Baker-street. It has been for some time expected with mournful anxiety by his family, the whole of whom watched, with•the tenderest solicitude, the death-bed of this distinguished cha racter. For the last five months Mr. Grattan la• boured under a severe dropsical affection in the chest, which, though attended with acute pain, he bore with the utmost resignation. The disorder bad attained so oppressive a height that Mr. Grat tan for the last three months was obliged to seek rest in a sitting posture ; any attempt to sleep in any other manner brought on an asthmatic affection which immediately threatened fatal consequences.— Mr. Grattan, anticipating the fatal result of his dis• order, adopted, contrary to the advice of his friends, the determination of making one more effort on be half of the civil and religious liberties of his country. To use his own emphatic words, in reply to the Address of the Catholics of Ireland, presented to him in Dublin not many days ago, he owed " Lie last breath to his country," and with unerring► huts has that melancholy augury been fulfilled. On Monday night it was the intention of Mr. Grattan to have made the effort to take his sett in the House of Commons, and to close his eminent career of public services, by laying on the table of the House of Commons a series of Resolutions declaratory of those principles of civil and religious liberty which he thought became the high mural station of Great Britain, and the eulightened•character of the age in which we live. Mr. Jame.; having curried his Election for Carlisle by a majority of 86, is a convincing proof of the increasing strength of the independent interest in that City. The chairing of the Hon. Member was witnes.sed by an immense multitude, by whom he was hailed with acclamation. Some unexpected difficulties have, it seems, arisen respecting the occupation of the Dublin Theatre by Mr. Harris; in consequence of wnien NIL Saul has left London, as the agent of that Gmtleman, to fit_ up the old Post Office, which he intends opening under his patent instead of the old house, if any further delay is made to the acceptance of the terms he has r‘ropused. _ _ The new Bank notes, it is understood, will be ready to be issued in time to pay the dividends in Ottuber next. A dye is sinking for a new silver coinage of the present reign, which, it is said, will be issued oa the day of his Majesty's Coronation A beautiful new frigate, of the largest class (the first round-stern frigate built in England), called the Minerva, wall be launched at Portsmouth dock yard on Tues:lay, the 13th unit Duel between Mr. Grattan and Lord Clare.—The following statement is from authority Mr. Grat tan having, at a public meeting in Dublin,. made use of expressions which Lora Clare conceived to reflect upon the late Lord Clare, his father, and having declined either to explain or qualify them, the parties met on Tuesday morning, when Mr. Grattan, having received Lord Clare's fire, instantly fired in the air. The friends present having given their opinion that. the affair could proceed no fur ther, Mr Grattan came turward in the. handsomest manner, and stated, that having now met Lord Clare in the field, and having given the satisfaction re quired, he was then willing to admit ne was wrong in having made of such expressions, on which the parties immediately shook heads, and the affair ter. minuted." The first stone of a charity school at Costessey, which is to be erected at the expence of Sir Geo. Jerninghuru, Bart for the education of the poor of that place was laid ou Thursday sc'nnight. On Tuealuy evening the trazedy of Douglas,' with the farce of The Nlayor of Garret,' were per. formed at the Bungay Theatre by a party of ama teurs, who benevolently :T i died the surplus rcecipta to the benefit of the pour of that town. Bztween two and three o'clock on Friday morning, as the watchman was going his rounds, lie perceived two men carrying a heavy load, crossing the New Road near the end of Cumberland-place, and sus. pecting they had some stteen property, he went ta wards them, on which they threw down their load, run Aland effected their escape. 11'hat must Le the watchmaii's surprise to find it contained the doad body ofa man without a heal. Hit was a body stolen out of a church-yard, it would not want tl:e head. The body was taken to the dead house, and the circumstance has given rise to diliarent report:, A Coroner's Inquest is already summoned to ii.v , !•;- tigate this case. The loyal trilesmen of Fulham, when informed of the arrival of her Majesty, welcomed her ret with a merry real and a Royal Salute of Wu: tones, 1: BOILING. A mat& off !Land took place on Wednesday even ing, after Cribb's benefit, in Harper's Fields, Pad dington, between W Abbot, a boxer of some note, and a Birmingham man, who strongly fancied him self. His prowess had been talked over at the Fives Court, and afterwards at Craw's. Tne Countryman boasted that he cured but little about weight, and he was a match tor most of the fighting inen. An amateur present, nut willing to overmatch, proposed %V. Abbot, lie was sent tor, and he soon arrived in a costerusunger's dag. The men were willing to fight in tne nearest fiel t, ..nd at eight o'clock they peeled on the chosen spot.—Turner and Sampson seconded Bruwoligens, and Richmond and foul Junes picked Abbot up. I o.• 1 .hewed That the Countryman hail more sello.l ; Abbot kept eautioti, amid in ewswg ' dire.* ins ...is r sly. t. A omit drew mood by a lett•h•ulded tot upon the ivory, it was partmoy retoriacil, awl the CuiUltl,lll.l6l, 111 clo.tog, kitapped upon the %seas nig system, and hr st a. 10. 1 3. 1•Ite Comm - 311141 i wag in much contusion, 01111 be was .160 1 1 1 ell oy 4 tiglit-hauled lacer ; and it was a liulbe to .1 Five. ' row nest thiee rounds the Coniolysions war knocked and I•outet, one of his seconds, lett hint, It.• 110 1144 no Cliailre, Allll Kllll tlli. 11111VS1/1111 antics. Iltal It would kaap it nurse .n emtsr round, wilt 0 was the ca-e. lie toogni 10111 oilier tuntil., NittlUllt a s unncr, auJ roold ❑Ol be uruitgot dg•1111 ,ClatCll, anti AUout Non it in 11 •e, %%1111..111 a 111111. There appears a new issue of one-pound forged notes in circulation. The engraving of the figure of Britannia, if viewed through a glass, is clumsy; the paper has a silky feel, and the water mark is nut clear, but confused. '1 he name et the bottom of almost all the forged notes is not writto with a rep, but engraved. : ~.__ ~_ ~. I 1