The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-04-26 00:00:00

POLICE.

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The Count of Aldermen have abolished the system of hitit
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too frequently to dishonest carman. A number of the carmen have
been pleased to consider this as an attack upon their rights and pri.
tßellfheAAnyiris:carmtov: first, and thus to entrust their goods to uneaferehiciet
vileges, and have determined to resist it, being perhaps of "wee
that if the merchants are left to choose who they think reeu
worthy, they (the mutinous carmen) will not be the perionsche,
sen. The complainant in this case is a carman in the serve:ear s
widow named Andrews, who was applied to by a merchant to re.
move a quantity of goods from the wharf. The complainant noes
that no sooner had he made his appearance at the spot with thew/,
than he was attacked b the defendant, who lashed him, as wellu
his hone, to prevent his taking the load, in which he succeeded.
Mrs. Andrews produced a letter from the merchant, in which he
stated that he could not entrust his goods to her care, 'linty they
would be endangered by the violence of the carmen, who had set
themselves in opposition to her taking goods out of turn. He et.
vised her to get the question settled before the Lord Mayor. she
appealed to his Lordship, and said that her means of subsistence
would be taken away if he did not interfere for her protection.
The LORD MAYOR ordered the defendant to find hail to answer
the charge of assault, and declared that he would do all in his poser
to put • stop to so outrageous a system.
GUILDHALL.
PROCTORS' BARRER/I.—Two men, named Vannes Gill and
William Little, were charged under the City Sewers Act with ob.
strutting and incommoding the free passage of the footway in Doc.
Ws' Commons.
Mr. Charlton, the Vestry Clerk of St. Gregory's, apparel to
support the complaint.
Dyball, the beadle, stated that about I I o'clock yesterday fore.
noon, he saw Gill cross over from one side of Dean's court to the
other, and accost two ladies by touching his hat. They convened
for a moment, but they were too fu off for him to hear what
passed, and then Gill and the ladies went away together. Little
came up to the same spot, and accosted three gentlemen, one after
the other. in precisely the same manner. Ile subsequently took
Gill and Little into custody.
Mr. Alderman WAIT H AN—Then I need be cautious how
touch my hat to a lady in that neighbourhood.
Mr. Charlton—Why. certainly, if you were to stand all day
touching your hat to the ladies, you would be in jeopardy oldie
penalty or the Law.
Mr. Alderman WAITH MAX—I have passed the Common II
thousand times, and never felt incommoded, though these ern
have touched their hats ; whether they suspected I looked as if I
wanted a liceree, I know not. But, Dyball, are there not others
who are equally as complaisant as these defendants ?
Dyball—Yes, your Worship, io Carter-lane, and I have orders
to bring them 13,:fore you as soon as I can prove an offence agues*
them.

Mr. Charlton himself proved several interruptions similar to
those described by Dyball, as did also one William lees, who
saw Gill carry two customers, picked up in this way, to Mr. Clark-
son, a proctor.
Mr. Alderman WAITTISIAN—I feel a difficulty how to interfat
without infringing the liberty of the subject. The Act was ir.
tended only to reach ballad-singers, fruit-venders, hawkers--per.
sons who, by collecting crowds, or by covering part of the tato:.
way by their baskets, &c. obstructed the street. The question
appears to be—Do the passengers find difficulty to pass along in
consequence of the practices of these defendants ? It is a new
Act, and before I go any farther, we will take the City Sol.citor's
opinion.
Mr. Charlton—The defendants were aware of the Act, be.
cause they have been convicted under it for this very offence
have appealed against the conviction, and their appeal has been dis-
allowed.

The City Solicitor having arrived, and after a long discumion,
Mr. Alderman ‘VAITRIIIIII said, the proctors who employed
the defendants placed themselves on a footing with the dealers and
their barkers in Monmouth-street. It was an evil, and extremely
annoying, that one set of proctors, by employing these men, should
deprive the rest of their fair share of business. The defendants
made it their every-day work to ply there, and if a proctor had a
right to so employ. them, every other proctor had an equal right to
send two, and the nuisance would manifestly be intolerable. lie
would therefore convict Gin and Little in the penalty of SI. ear!,,
but that penalty would not be enforced until they offendet. agair..