The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-08 00:00:00

HOW.STR NET.

Yesterday two girls, notorious for their disrepu-
table character and bad behaviour, were brought up
on a charge of btiog disorderly, and conducting
themselves in a most indecent manner during broad
dad -light.
Mary Forest, one of the defendants, after the
charge had been made against them by two constables
named Tipper and Johnson, said that she was
constantly hurled about by the latter policeman and
his comrades, whom he excited so to do, in conse-
quence of a spite he owed her. She had once kept
him for four months—he ate at her table and slept
in her house till she found she could not do it any
longer. When she declined keeping him at her
house, he turned his spite against her, and endea-
voured to annoy her as much as possible. This
was the reason of her being taken into custody the
preceding night, although she had not been guilty
of the least indecency or disorderly conduct.
Johnson, the constable, denied this, and said he
should have brought her before their 'orships long
ago, had she not managed to escape from him;
Her conduct had been repeatedly complained of by
the inhabitants of Chancery-lane, where his beat
wigs; but she hail hitherto eluded his efforts to take
her into custody by running into Fleet-street, where
she was aware he had no power to act.
A short, bullheaded, fat individual, whose name
we understood to be Jackson, here presented
self before the Magistrates, and said he came to give
the girl a character.
" Pray, Sir, what are you ?" said Sir RtettAßD.
Oh, Sir Richard, I keep a house--an accommoda-
tion-house—in fact a brothel—far which I am to be
tried in the City next week. Mr. Johnson may
then come against me, and I will
give him as good Na
he sends.

Indeed you seem to be quite at your ease (ob-
served Sir 'butAnn). on are a perfect beauty.
[The brothel-keeper was ugliness personifted.]-
Why, Sir Richard (he exclJimed, in a tone extremely
bland), 1 did come hero to make some explanation
but if you do not intend to hear me, 1 will walk Ofr.
Sir RICHARD—Then do so at once,— Watlk off,
your 'Worship (cried Mr. Jackson !) who had nut
expected that his words would be so soon taken in
earnest.

Fes (replied Sir IbctiAbu) immediately, we want
none such as you here.
Sir litettutu then made some observation on the
disgraceful conduct of the females, and committed
them to the House of Correction fur a short time,
It is worthy of notice that these girls, who arc well
acquainted with the feeling that is against the New
Police in genera), make it a practice to charge the
policemen who take them into custody with having
cohabited with them, and subsisted on money ac-
quired by their unhappy course of life. This is not
the tiro nor second time that they have at this office
attemptea to turn the tables on the police.
Patrick APeabe' who stood charged with haying
forged the name of William Quinn, the foreman of
Mr. Wood, the coal-merchant, to a WO of exchange
for .501., was brought forward for a final examina-
tion, and the evidence having been read over, and
the witnesses bound to prosecute, the prisoner was
fully committed to Newgate for trial;

THAMES POLICK
Yesterday Captain Joseph Dodnian, the Com-
molder of the ineisEast Indianian, appeared before
Mr. BALLANTINZ, at this office, on a summons issued
against him foe retailing to pay to John Steel, un

The offieers and- crew of the ship were present,
and the proeeedings excited very great interest.
The case was to 'decide a similar claim on the
part of siS others, who, With the complainant, were
charged at Sr. Helena with mutiny, and taken from
the ship, but on beingbrought to this office, were
disch•Arged in consequence of uo one appearing
against them.
John Steel, the complainant, proved that he had
signed marks with Captain Dttdman, on behalf of
the owners of the Inglis, at the suss of 1/. 15s. per
month for a voyage to. India, China, and back to
London. There was a balance of about 18/. due to
him,Jor which he had applied to his Captain, to
Messrs. Borrodaile, and also:to-the East India-howe,
but Inid been- refused payMent. He had been pre-
vented completing the voyage by Captain Dudrnan
taking him ashore at St. Helena on a charge of being
inutinous, although he had never refused to obey
orders. Six of his shipmates, who were discharged
at the same time,.and nose, Lally, and Jordan, who
had been held to bail, bad also been refused payment
of their wages, Ho had been unable to procure
another ship for the want of his money.
Mr. Lowle.s said he was ready to prove, by the
evidence of the officers, that the complainrtit had
fotfrited all right t • the amount claimed, by his mu-
tinous conduct on board, and by his not completing
the voyage.
Mr. Langham, on behalf of the complainant, con-
tended that Steel was entitled to his w.iges for the
whole of the voyage. In the first place, tinder the
articles and by the common law, he had been guilty
of no act of mutiny; and, secondly, if he had, the
Captain hail waved the right of forfeiture, by con-
tinuing him on duty after the alleged revolt. The
only ground of forfeiture, in the articles wa; that
of quitting, leaving, or deierting the ship. The
complaining had not left the ship, but had been put
ashore by Captain Dudmon at Sr. Helena.

Mr. 13A1.1..4:N71NF: said the contract was an entire
one, but the complainant had- stopped short by leav-
ing the ship ut St. Helena, whether by his own act,
or that of his commander, was not hi, province to
decide. It was clear, however, he had not com-
pleted the voyage for which he had signed articles,
and under tho4e cireinn.tance,, no magistrate could
decide upon the case under the statute for work and
1 ,hour done.

Mr. Langhlim referred to " Abbott on Shipping,"
and several eases decided in the courts of law, where
it had been held, that if a seaman was prevented
completing the voyage for which he had signed
articles, by the act of the Captain in leaving him
ashore, or taking him out of the ship, he was en•
titled to the whole of his money for I hat voyage,
although be had not actually completed it. In this
case he was prepared to prove that Captain Dudman
put the complainant and his aix companions a-shore
at Sr. Helena. Ile was also prepared to prove that
Steel had merely made use of some expression
during the time the crew were making some resist-
ance to Lully's being placed in irons by the officers,
an expression which could not by any possibility be
construed into a mutinous act. By the Act of 59
Geo. 111., the Magistrates were empowered to
summarily order the payment of seamen's wages
where the amount claimed was under 291., and be
contended :hat he lind made out a sufiicietit ease for
the Bench to award Steel's wages for the whole
voyage.
Mr. BALLANTINV said, the arguments enforced by
the solicitor further confirmed him in his opinion,
that this was a ease which could alone be decided
by a jury, and did not come under the statute for
work and labour done, and that he had no jurisdic-
tion in the matter, although an action of assumpsit
could be brought, on the ground that the defendant
had prevented the seamen from fulfilling the con-
tract which they had entered into with them. Cap-
tain Dudman asserted that the seven men had been
guilty of mutiny. He could not eater into that
question, as he understood that the prosecution was
still pending; but he hoped, and he doubted not,
that if the sailors convinced a jury of their innocence,
they would be paid their wages by the East India
Company, or by the owners, immediately afterwards.
Mr. Lowless said, that the respectable firm of
Messrs. Borrodaile and Co., which lie had the
honour to represent, would pay every farthing of
wages to the seven men, anti the three who had been
held to bail, if they were acquitted at the Admiralty
sessions, where it was intended to indict them before
the Grand Jury, for a revolt and resisting the autho-
rity of the Captain; but they felt it their duty to
resist the claim set tip at present, as they had good
proof that the men had been guilty of mutinous
conduct.

Mr. Langham Again enforced the claims of the men
with much ability, ai d was answered by Mr. Lowless.
Mr. BAMANTINE suit', that, in dismissing the
summons, he begged that he might be understood as
giving no opinion on the merits of the case,, over
which his jurisdiction, he conceived, did not extend.
His decision would not affect the claims of the men
in a superior court, where the question could be
more ably discussed than in that office, and be set at
rest by the verdict of a jury, under the direction of
the. Judges. •
Mr. Wooller had received instructions to request
that a summons might he granted against Ceptain
Bettie, the Commander of the Lowther Mille, for
refusing to pay, the wages of James Hawkins, a
seaman of that vessel, who bad been lied to bail for
assaulting one of his officers, who prevented him
hailing the kiadneinsit of seer, off St. Helena. His
cleinirested on simisr grounds to those of the sailors
of the Inglis, anti as the summons had been cFs-
missed, it would be uieless to prefer the complaint.
Mr. BALLANTINK hail already refuwed to grant a
summons to Hawkins, who had mude a personal
application respecting his wages.
A lunetic, named Charles Hedges, a sailor lately
belonging to the Lowther Castle East Indiaman, was
brought before .Capt. RICIIIIELL and Mr. DALIAN.
TINE, for the purpose of being passed from the parish
of Sr. Paul, bhadwell, where he had become charge--
11We, to St. James's, Westminster, the place of his
legal settlement.
The unfortunate maniac, a fine young man, on
being brought into the office, uttered a few blear-
rout sentenees,,and stared wildly, armed.. .
• Mr. BALLANTINE directed that ha should, be re-
moved, and kept quiet ip:onk of the private rooms
of the office during the proceedings.
Maria Hedges, an intelligent young woman, the
sister of the sailor, 'whoistated herself to be a servant
in the family of Mr.- Gladwin, it respeeteble trade...
man in Leicester-square, said that, lifter the arrival
.of the Lowther Castle, 'her- brother had been laid
hold of by a lodging-house-keeper in Shadwell, who
bad received his wages at the India-hoarse, where
he had taken her brother, and had brought in
a bill for W. 9s. for board, lodging, and clothing,
although her brother had only been in the house
three weeks, and had no other clothes but what he
stood upright in. Ifer brother .was afterward* ye-
moved, by an 'order of sr. Brod,:tip, one of the. M-
agistrates of this office, to Shudwell workhouse,: on
her making an application for that purpose. • site
bad' heard that his insanity was brought on by the
ill-treatment he received on bowl the ship.
inquired if the -
young mull Was

Mr. BALIANTINE—Hare you ::ny certifleve ofh's
insanity ?---Mr. t!iejeittit handed to the Bench :t.tyt,,.
tificate from Dr. BaterritiO, the parish ,surf ri~ii,
which err ifled that Charles fledges was of wiiou
minds. owl unfit to. be 10' large.;
Jr.N lltt.t.stertsto: said the proper. course ftthrc
adopted in this case was to eruct the unformalc
man at once ton 11111116 e allum, and tsr order tnust
be made no the, parish to which he fietouri,
support him. The Act of the 9th Georg* 1
cap. 40, Wagi applicable to tl i < ca•e, and the 6'4'44.7
seers, on referring' to it, would learn what cool ti
they haft to pursue. The poor Maniac oui,ht to Le
immediately placed in a proper asylum.
Mr. Sericaut•ssid the coof,e pointed Out by
worthy Magistrate should be immediately,adopted.
The sister of the poor sailor, who appehred mock
affected at the situation of her unfortunate brother,
said they were orphans. Her father was formerly
a.tea-dealer and grocer, carrying On an ortrosive
business in Duke-street, Sr. James's. Her mother
mei father died within n few month% of each other,
leaving herself and four brothers nearly destitute.
Three of her brothers, who had received a good
education, afterward% went to sea, and she was com-
pdled to go to service. Another brother bad been
ill•used at ace, for which the Captain was puaitheil.
She had reason to Llieve that her brother, ,who
teas insane, had never been ptovided wilt proper
necetsruies in the lodging-lit:use by the landloid,
who had received 17s. at the India House, and
brought him in debt all but Sc.
Mr. BALLANTINE directed Mr. Evans, the chief
offic,r of the Thanies-pace, to make inquiries buts
the affair, and summon the lodging-house-kceprt
before him.

Tie young woman thanked the Magistiate, and
said she should consult Mr, flamer, the solicitor,
on the propriety of inoituting procettlings against
Captain Bettie, the commander of tine 'mother
Castle, East Indianan, for tlo:ging her brother,
whose insanity, it was alleged, had been brought on
by the ill-treatment he received, and who, she was
fetultd, would never recover his intt fleets spin,