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POLICE.

MAIISION-TlOtfr, AUGUST 21--A native of Brussels, who
served under Merrill° in the rank of Lieutenant. applied to the
LORD Avon for advice as to the course he should pursue to pre-
vent the sale of all the clothes his sister owned, and which were
seized for rent due by him to his landlord.
He stated, that after 31orillo turned traitor (the word used by the
Spanish constitutional party in describing a revolter from their
cause), the troops under that General dispersed. The applicant
was amongst those who came to this country in consequenca of the
failure of the cause, and he contrived to support himself for some
, lime by industrious eng.tgements. The difficulties of gaining a
livelihood, however, became so great, that he was oldhzeil to live
upon one meal on every alternate day. At a very critical moment
! his shiterarrived in England, gad an she had been brought up in
comfort and respectability, lie did not disclose to her the exact state
of his circumstances. She lodged with him at a house at Pimlico,
where unfortunately he had contracted a debt for rent of 4!. Os. for'
which his landlord became very importnnate. His sister, whom he'
' had supported by the sale or pledging of hit effects, was informed of
the condition of his finances in a manner not the most agreeable.'
1 She had, upon rising one morning, put an old gown upon her, and
almost before she had a stocking on her toot, in walked an officer,
and seised her little trunk, which contained all the rest of her
clothes, the landlord having taken care not to send in the distress
until the poor girl had not anything upon her that was worth a pin.
I The appliesnt said he belieyea his landlord might be prerailed upon
I by the Lord Slayer, who had already done so much for distressed
foreigners, to abal to the suddenness and severity of the pro-
ceeding.
The Loon MATOR regretted that the calamities of war had
thrown into such dieculties so ninny brave and generous men, who
manifested upon so many occasions the most noble disinterestedness.
ais Lordship then contributed from his private purse to the assi,t-
-•aisce of the officer, aid procured his address, which is \e.:l,
' Whig-street, Soho.
ADULTERATED SUGAR.

Ale. Clarke, of Apothecaries-hall, in the course of some conver-
sation which lie hail this day with the Lord 3layor upon the adul-
teration of tens, stated what, lie said, lie thought it important the
public should be acquainted with, in order that they might be on
their guard againat the article. A lady, who resided, he believed,
in Berwick-street, Soho, applied to Dr. Brookes to analyse sonic
sugar which she had purchased in the neighbourhood, and the
Doctor' not having time to do as she requested referred bey to hint.
She stated that she was in the habit of sweeiening pies and pud-
dings with the sugar of which she produced a sample, fur the
children, and that the children always fell sick immediately after
their meals. She had renutreed that it was necessary to use a great
quantity of this sugar before it had arty effect upon that with which
it was mixed, and that when the pies or puddings tasted sweet,
they also tasted salt or brackish. The twang winch this contino-
dity gave to ten was also very extraordinary, and she felt a grievous
sickness in her stomach. The sugar. nevertheless, was extremely
bright. Upon analysing the commodity he found that it contained
about one-haltof common salt, which was about a halfpenny a
pound. This ingredient, when applied in such enorausua quan-
tities, must excite excessive thirst and fever in children, and could
not he very serviceable to grown people, putting out of the question
the immense per centage gained upon the adulteration.
The Loan Illa Ton said, the public were certainly indebted to
Mr. Clarke for this piece of intelligence, and would, no doubt,
consider the obligation increased by the information as to the means
of discovering the adulteration.
Mr. Clarke said, a person had to do no more to detect the
adulteration than to put a little of the suspected article into a cup.
and your a little spirits of wine upon it ; the sugar would imme-
diately melt, and the salt would remain at the bottom.

BOW•STREET, Arr.. 22.—rmsiness commenced at the office
this morning as early as ten o'clock, leconsequence of a number of
persons having been apprehended last night by Perry and Taunton,
and a posse of officers, at the Barley Mow public-house, Strand, on
suspicion of iiie:tit.g at that house i'or a purpose not to be named.
The officers, in consequence of information that hail been re-
ceived. apprehended the whole of the persons they found in a room
nn the first floor of the Barley Mow public-house, and conveyed
than to Covent-garden watchhoure. This morning, at an early
hour, they were brought to the Grapes public-house. Bow-street, its
onler to prevent them front being molested by the crowd. fly nine
o'clock this morning a great number of persons had assembled in
front of the office, and the publicthouse where the prisoners were,
and testified their opinion of the prisoners by various epithets, and
lotid and repeated hooting, and ycllings.
Si, It. Manila, on taking his neat on the bench, directed the
landlord of the Barley Mow to be brought before him previous to
the examination of the other prisoners.
He said his name was Grange, that he had been formerly waiter
at the Angel Inn, tit. Clement's, the tap of which house he kept
for some time betWre taking the house of which he is at present the
landlord. The loom on the first floor of his house was opened on
Sunday and Monday night for the accommodation of company ; a
select party of " gentlemen" also meet there every Sunday. Ile
did not know the names of more than halt a dozen of them ; ltr
was seldom in the room, on account of his being obliged to attend
the bar. lle had one child, and was a married man ; any liquor
which might be ordered by the gentlemen up satairs was taken to
them by the servant girl. lie had no idea that they met Inc any
criminal purpose, and he was afraid it would be the ruin of his
house.

tin R. Suture—But how could you be so careless as to let a
party of this kind assemble at your house ?
Thistleton, a patrol, said that he had been several times in the
house ; the lamilord used to sit in a chair in the room, and observed
what was ggoing on.
Sir R. BIRNII: remarked, that it was a very unusual thing to
have a sofa in the room of a publie-house.
Deane, another patrol, Said that a gentleman whc went into the
room on Friday last, came down stairs, and said he had seen such
a sight that he would not atop another moment in the house.
A young man. named Morgan, who was the person who gave
the first information at this office of what occurred at the Barley
Mow, was here introduced. The prisoner denied any knowledge
of him.

Morgan said that he well knew the prisoner. One night he used
expressions which lad him to suppose he must have known what
was going on.
Sir It. BializE now ordered all the prisoners to be brought Into
the office; they were nineteen in number, and Sir Richard called
over their names one by one, and questioned them as to what they
were.

Ten of them were discharged, not having been known as fre-
quenters of the house.

John Lewis. Alex. (hove*, John Brady, Thos. Distance, John
Riley, Wm. M•Oontild,Wur. Powell, Rob. Armstrong, and John
Orange, the landlord, were the only remaining prisoners.
Oeorge Thistleton, the pstrol, was the first witness. He de-
posed. that by direction of Sir R. Birnie, he went on the 24th of
July, in company with Dean, another patrol. There were a num.
ber of persons in the room on the first floor. Ile 'poke to some
suspicious circumstances, which are not tit to nicer the public eye,
implicating Brady, Powell, and .11'Donald.
John Henry Morgan was next sworn.—lie corroborated the
evidence of I'histleton, arid spoke to the guilt of the prisoners
Armstrong and Lewis.
Dean's evidence was to the same effect.

The witnesses not being able to state any thing decisive against
either Riley or Distance,
Sir R. Birnie discharged them, after giving them a suitable ad.
monition not to be seen again in such company.
The prisoners contented themselves with denying the charge.
Perry, the officer who took the prisoners, said that a ladder was
placed at the back of the public-house for the purpose of facilitating
the escape of the prisoners, but they were prevented by the officers
who accompanied him.
Grange said that the ladder was always standing there.
Sir R. Br It IS It: said that he should commit them all for trial;
it wait a bailable oftnee, but he should require them to produce
goOd sureties to a heavy amount.
The whole array of prisoners was shortly afterwards brought
back and again placed at the bar, In order to unable an officer who
attended from 31arlborough.strect, to identify ere or two of the
prisonets.
Ile immediately stated that 91'Donald and two others, whom
he voluted out, were well known to him as infamous characters.
Ihe landlord of the Barley Blow persisted ha declaring his
ignorance of the practices charged upon the frequenters of his
house.

Sir R. BIINIIS assured him that in a case of this kind he felt
great teluetanee in sending a man to his trial, the result of which
might be indelible disgrace and rule. He did not, however, feel
that he ought to hesitate for one moment on the present occasion.
The house in which Pie prisoners had been apprehended had tor
many weeks been under the trirvrillence of the police ; and it had
not otiginally attracted the attention of the Alagistrates tioln any
anonymous intelligence ; but from the information of the tow re-
spectable inhabitants of the neighbourhood. As to the evidence
upon which the present proceedings of the effice rested, it was not
of a nature upon which any doubt could be raised. The witscases
sere not all police officers; and it was to be observed, that this was
not a rasa in which any reward was given for apprehension. There'
I was no such thing as blood money here. As to the landlord being
I implicated in the charge, it appeared on the face of the evidence
that he possessed a guilty knowledge of what was going on in his
house, at the least, lie should, therefore, give hint an opportunity
of clearing his character before a Jury of Englishmen.
The landlord (Orange) declared that lie was as innocent as the
child unborn. _ _

Sir It. NlE—You are comntiucd, neret theless. After the
evidence given it is impossible to believe your assertion.
The prisohers were again removed and kept in safe custody.
Sir R. Dram iz desired the clerk to let him know who those per-
, sons were who should happen to offer themselves as bail.
The prisor.er M'lMnuld is not more than eighteen yesrsof age.
The other prisoners appear to be between thirty and forty years
The house where the prisoners were apprehended was sur-
rounded by a liege concourse of people during the whole of the.
morning.
At lialf.peat two o'clock the void had becomes° dense, and an.'
peered to be so much on the increase, that it was deeuied advisable

to remove the men widtout.any further deldy. Aft this purpose
two hackney-coaches were drawn up to the door, and the prisoners
immediately placed in them, amidst the hooting, and execrations
of the assembled multitude. It was with gnat difficulty that they
were got without personal injury down the steps of the office into
the vehicles. When there every species of obstruction wan offered
to their further pmgresa. The horses were forcibly held back for I
a considerable time.. and the doors of one coach were several times
forced open, and noti I
ung but the exertions of a strong body of
officers preserved the wretched offenders - from an immediate i
punishment.
The coach drove to Clerkenwell prison.
CAUTIOIII TO SHIPWRIGHTS.
Act:. 22,—A journeyman shipwright, named
N.-ughlt was brought before R. J. Chambers, Esq'
charged with having unlawfully left his work. It appeared. that
he entered the service of Messrs. Oordon,of Deptford, ship-builders,
about four months ago, just when the shipwrights of the river com-
menced their stai.d.out. lie, however, only worked a short time,
and that diappeared without completing his engagement. 111 r.
&Jordon applied at this office for a warrant, and the man was
brought before Mr. Chambers. In the course of the examination
it was strongly suspected that he had been kept away by sonic of
" the l:nion Men." This. however, he denied, and stated that he
had been drunk every day before the apprehensiqn . since lie left
Mr. Gordon, but that lie wax willing to return to his work and pay
all the expenses incurred if slr. Gordon would advance the money.
Title was agreed to. and the man was allowed to leave die office,
the warrant still remaining open against him, in case of his not re-
turning in work. He again absented himself, and the oiliness Bp-
prehended him on Saturday eveninglast. Ile now declared that he
had been persuaded by the other shipwrights to leave his work ;
but that he would return and pay all expenses., if again pardoned.
• The magistrate would not admit of thin excuse a second time, and
declared, that it was a moat aggravrded case : that tie had entered
most fully into it when it was previously brought before him,
and had then allowed him to go without punishment, only at the
earnest request of Mr. Gordon. He now felt it imperatively his
duty to commit hint. on necount of his gross misconduct, and he
hoped this would prove a warning to other journeymen. that the
laws of the country and the interests of their masters were not to be
thus trifled with.. 'flte defendant was then committed to Alaid-
, stone gaol for three months, to Ward labour.

SUSPECTED MURDER AT WJIADDON CHASE.

I It is much to be feared that Whaddon Chase has been
again the scene of murder. The circumstances which in-
duce the suspicion are as follow :—A man named James
Shawe, a Seotchman, has been for the last three years in
I the practice of hawking tea in the villages in the lower part
of the county of Bucks, and, having conducted himself
with steadiness and propriety, had succeeded not only in
establishing a little connexion with persons to whom he
sold his goods' hut had gained the good will of the publi-
cans at whose houses he was in the habit of stopping. On
Tuesday fortnight he did business at Little Ilorwood, and
left that place in company with another hawker (whose
name we have not been able to learn) to proceed to Swan-
bonnie, about three miles distant ; they were seen to enter
Whaddon Chase together by some men who were reaping,
but front that time all trace of (it is to be feared, the un-
fortunate) Shawe has been lost. His companion reached
alone the house of a publican, named Doe, at Swanbourne,
and he is reported to have there made use of an exclama-
tion indicating the greatest uneasiness and agony of mind.
This man afterwards went to Winslow, and on the follow-
ing Saturday attempted to terminate his existence by draw-
ing a knife across his throat ; in this he so nearly succeeded,
that he is still in a state which renders it doubtful whether
be will recover. In the mean time poor Shawe has been
missed at all his usual haunts; he was expected at the
Angel public-house in this town on the evening of the day
he was seen with the other hawker, but he came not ; and
on last Tuesday, this time again came round for his coming,
but Shave was still away. The idea of foul play is
strengthened by the previceus habits of the man, which, as
has been before observeftnvere steady ; indeed so much so,
that he seldom failed in arriving at his usualresting-places,
not only at an appointed day, but also at an appointed
hour. Inquiries have been made for him at every place,
where there was a probability of his being found, by a
person named Hutchinson, with whom Shawe was very
intimate, and it has been ascertained that on Monday, the
day before he was missed, he was at Northampton, and,
left money with the person at whose house he lodged, to
pay for goods he expected by the canal. Ponds in thel
Chase, near which he must have passed in going to Swan-
bourne, have also been dragged to ascertain if he had been
thrown in, but nothing was found ; his disappearance is
still enveloped in mystery. The man who attemped self-
destruction at the Windmill, is not sufficiently recovered
to be questiouel—Bucks Chronicle.