The Sun.
London, England, 1830-09-22 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, SEPT. 21.

Julia Joreplts was charged with keeping a
brothel, and in another count she was charged with
keeping an ill-governed and disorderly house.
Mr. ADOLPHUS opened the case as one of peculiar
aggravation. In this case children of a tender age
had been allured to the place, and the fact having
come to the knowledge of Mr. Rawlinson, that
Magistrate had directed the present prosecution.
Charles Cooke, lately a police constable, on the
evening of the 13th of July, heard a noise ut the
house of the defendant, No. 8, Dean-street, New-
road. On going up, he saw a girl, named Eliza
Burrowes, standing outside the door, and three little
girls standing in the passage. The girl Burrowes
was abusing the defendant, and telling her it was a
scandalous shame for her to harbour such children
as those. The defendant gave Burrowes in charge
for creating a disturbance, and witness took her to
the station house, but at the same time conveyed
the three young children there. On hearing the
statement of Burrowes, the inspector detained the
children, but discharged her upon her promising to
appear at the Marylebone police-office the following
morning. She did appear according to her promise.
He had long known the house as a disorderly one,
and had often seen common prostitutes and low
fellows, cads and others, going in and out at all hours
of the night.

Mr. PRENDERGAST, on behalf of the defendant,
here stated that she had already left the house,
which was now shut up, and offered to plead guilty
if the Court would consent to her discharge upon
entering into recognizances not to offend in Uwe.
He denied that the children had been taken to the
house for any bad purpose.
Mr. ADOLPHUS should most indisputably resist
the application made.
The CHAIRMAN certainly could not entertain it,
until the Counsel for the defence had removed the
fact of the children having been taken there for the
infamous purpose stated.
Sarah Chester, the eldest of the children, was
then examined. She %wilt in her fourteenth year,
and was walking with the two little children now
standing by her side, when a footman came up and
told her, that if she and the children would go with
him, he would give them a shilling each. They did
go with him ; as also did a bigger girl, named Ann
Norman, to whom he promised 3s. On getting to
the house, the footman and Ann Norman went up
stairs, and mittiess and the two little girls, were sent
down stairs by the defendant, at whose desire the
servant undressed and put them to bed. Some time
after the defendant came and asked them if they had
any money, and, on learning they had not, slapped
their faces and turned them out of doors.

Ann Norman, the big girl, apparently about 16,
confirmed the evidence of the last witness, and
added, that after going up stairs with the footman,
the latter blew out the candle and locked the dour,
but she got it open and came away.
The CHAIRMAN said the evidence of the intention
of the defendant with respect to the children was
not quite clear. To say the best, the affair looked
very suspicious, and he should require the defendant
to enter into her own surety in 801., and find two
sureties in 401., to appear and receive judgment when
called on.

COURT OF REQUESTS, KINOSGATE-

STREET.

Yesterday morning, a man of extreme old age,
named James Evans, wns summoned before the
Commissioners, for the sum of 12s. 8d , due for
beer, brandy and water, and pipes of tobacco, to a
licensed victualler.

The plaintiff stated that the old gentleman was a
customer to most of the public-houses in the neigh-
bourhood of Gray's-inn•lune, and usually paid for
what he had. It was, however, to be feared from
his late conduct, that he was going to change cha-
racters with some notorious impostor, for after hav-
ing drunk and smoked to the amount above stated
one night, he refused to pay, and actually bullied
every one in the house.
COMMISSIONER—What ! did he incur this debt
in one night ? The plainriff—Yes. He is a most
extraordinary person. When I thought he had his
whack, I refused to give him any more; but he
said that he drank to keep his bones free from the
rheumatism, and if he did not get his quantum, I
should be summoned in a few days before the Go-
roner.—( Laughter.)
Costattsstomm—And so you allowed him to get
so deeply in your chalk ? Plaintiff—Why, Sir, he
is 107 years of age, and he was with general
Wolfe at Quebec, and I couldn't refuse him.
The defendant—l owe no more than six and a
tanner, please your Worship, for I had only five
glasses and six pipes, and a pint of beer, and old as
I am I don't like to pay double scores.
COUMISSIONHR—WeII, arid are you able to ;my
that ? Defendant—Not a halfpenny your Worship.
1 was so mad at being so treated, that I never
stopped till I drank the rest.—(Loud laughter.)
The plaintiff, upon whose feelings the venerable
appearance of the old man had a visible effect, said
well, I will be satisfied with that. Suppose you
pay,part now ?
The defendant replied that it was wholly out of
his power, but he would endeavour to pay it at a
shilling a month.

This proposition was accepted by the plaintiff,
who, it appeared, had summoned the old man merely
for the purpose of preventing him from repeating
such trests, for nobody could resist the eloquence of
his snowy locks, or the downward attitude of his
shrivelled and bony frame.
The COMMISSIONER then asked the defendant
whether he had been advised by a medical man to
apply brandy as a cure for the rheumatism ? De-
fendant—No, please your Worship, not to cure the
rheumatism, for I never had it in my life, but to
prevent it from coming at all.—(Laughter.)