The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-23 00:00:00

WORSHIP.STREET.

Yesterday Thomas Pdtifor was charged on a war-
rant with assaulting William Watson.
It appeared by the evidence that the defendant
was a baker, residing at Hackney, and contracted
to supply the poor of the parish with bread, It is
customary to give tickets for bread to the paupers
applying for relief instead of money : the complain-
ant was a pauper, and on Tuesday last went to the
defendant's shop with a bread ticket, and requested
that the loaf might be weighed, as he had received
a loaf on the previous day six ounces deficient. The
defendant refused to weigh the loaf, and instantly
struck the complainant, and pushed him out of the
shop.

The other paupers corroborated the complainant's
statement.

The defendant denied the assault, and put up his
maid servant, who swore that no blow was struck,
but admitted that her master pushed the complain-
ant out of the shop.
The Chief Clerk said the defendant was liable to
a penalty fur refusing to weigh the bread.
Defendant—That is when a purchaser requires it ;
in this case the overseers are the purchasers, and not
the pauper.
Chief Clerk—There's the trickery of it.
Defendant—l weigh the bread a hundred weight
at a time, and of course the outside crusty loaves
.
weign lighter than those in the middle : the man was
very insolent, and offered to fight me,
Mr. TWYPORD—But that was after you had
pushed him out of your shop; some allowance must
he made for his feelings as well as yours ; the as-
sault is clearly proved, but if you choose to pay the
costs, and make the man some recompense, it will
not be further gone into : the case of refusing to
weigh the bread i+ not the subject of complaint now.
The defendant gave the complainant half-a-crown,
and paid 35., the costs of the warrant:

IVillium Waters was finally examined for a bur-
glary in the dwelling-house of John Pollard, No. 3,
Wiltshire-place, near the Rosemary-Branch Hoxton.
Evidence was adduced, which proved the find-
ing of a jemmy and several skeleton-keys, which
the prisoner threw away, and corroborated the de-
termined resistance made by the prisoner. A clasp-
knife was also found near the spot where the
struggle took place, which it is supposed he drew
from his pocket to defend himself, but finding he
was overpowed, threw it away.
After the prisoner was locked up, he was ob-
served to write something with a pencil, and endea-
vour to conceal it. Attfield and Vnnn, who had
been watching him, and suspecting it might give
information, went into the lock-up-room, and asked
him to show it them, which he refused, and resisted
them when they took the paper from him. It was
as follows :

" Dear Girl,—l am sorry to say what the prosecutor
has swore to will be sure death, but nothing grieves me
hut parting with you and my child. You can tell Sam
to let Dick and the other know how I have got on, and 1
hope they will do something for me towards getting a
counsellor. Remember me to your mother. lam very
much obliged to Sam for his kindness. Hoping to meet
you in the next world, I remains yours truly till death,

" R. WATERS."

The prisoner gave his name William Waters at
the &lice. lie was fully committed to Newgate
for trial.

'OUTRAGES IN SURREY.

In consquence of the outhouse. and stock of some
of the homers residing at and near Oxted, in Sur-
rey, having been maliciously destroyed by fire, and
information of the same having been given at Union.
hall, Chief Constable Hall, and Curtis, an officer of
that establishment, were despatched to that part of
the county, for the purpose of tracing the origin of
the outrages and apprehending the parties implicated
in them. On the officers' arrival at Oxted, they
ascertained that the barns, and other buildings at-
tached thereto, belonging to Mr. Thompson and
Mrs. Ford, of that neighbourhood, were set fire to
by incendiaries, and the stock of each, consisting of
corn, hay, potatoes, and other articles, totally de-
stroyed. Mr. Thompson's premises, it appeared,
had been attempted seven or eight different times,
before the incendiaries succeeded in their object of
burning the out-houses and property they contained,
and, notwithstanding every precaution used on the
part of the proprietors to prevent the destruction of
their property, all their efforts were unavailing.
The object the offenders had in setting fire to Mr.
Thompson's premises cannot be easily accounted
for, as it seems he neither used a threshing machine
nor ever employed strangers to work in his employ-
ment,--two circumstances which might be supposed
to have operated favourably for him, as it is well
known that the employment of machines, and also
of strangers, in that part of the country, as well as
in Kenr, has given rise to much discontent amongst
the labouring classes in these places. There is not
of the men
in the outrages mentioned, and it is the prevailing
itnheN6llri.glllt Thompson'sP suspicion
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opinion that an organized gang of fellows,—men
disappointed of obtaining work in these parts of the
country,—have, out of a spirit of revenge on the
farmers, determined to do them injury by setting
lire to and destroying their property. Chief
Constable Hall and Curtis were apprised, on
their arrival at Oxted, that a man named John
Blakey bad been apprehended there on Wednesday.
There were found amongst his papers several polls
tical prophecies of his own invention, all of which
prophesied that a revolution was at hand in this
country, and other writings of his were found, all of
a tendency to inflame the mind* of the weak.—
In his examination before the Magistrates, he
stated that he had one brother, a clergyman, in
Upper Canada, and another held a situation under
Government, in the West Indies. With respect to
himself, it seemed that he had been leading a wan-
dering and vagabond kind of life for some years
past. lie was born, he said, in Yorkshire, and was
,
apprenticed to a watchmakerin Lancaster, from
which apprenticeship he ran away, and entered on
board the Thunder bomb, Captain Pell, in which
he served four years. He abandoned that vessel at
Cadiz, and got hack to Liverpool, where he turned
author, and wrote a book on physic, which, how-
ever, did not turn out profitable, and lie then worked
in the brick-fields to a labourer. After having un-
dergone many vicissitudes, he came up to London,
and lived on his wits here for some time, but chiefly
made out a subsistence by selling his prophetic
writings in different public-homes. 'Phis trade,
however, did not answer his expectations, and as
he could not obtain relief either in London or at
NVoolwieb, where he was known by an officer in the
garrison, he determined on travelling into the coun-
try, to exhibit a harpoon and other inventions of his
own, in order to keep him from starving. With
this intention he left London on Saturday last, and
bent his way into Kent, and slept at Woolwich.—
On Sunday night he slept in a barn within three
miles of Woolwich, along with two other men,
strangers, with whom he went to a fair in that
sisco aitfrtyer,
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arms and other weapons. Chief Constable Hall
having heard the account he had given of himself,
ascertained that he bad left some implements be-
hind him at a new-beer shop in Deptford. Hither
that officer repaired, and discovered that Blakey had
left a brass weapon of curious construction with the
landlord. It had several tubes to it, which smelt
strongly of gunpowder, and appeared as if it bad
been recently in use. Hull produced the weapon
yesterday at Union-hall, the accused having been
brought up to that office for re-examination; and in
answer to the Magistrates, relative to the use for
which such a weapon was intended, Blakey said that
it was for propelling a harpoon, and would be of in-
calculable service in the whale-fisheries. Another
long brass tube, with a touch-hole to it, was also
produced, which he said was also of his own inven-
tion, and was intended for throwing shells into the
enemy's flank. It was a portable weapon, and %%as
intended for officers, who in battle would be enabled
to throw small shells from it amongst the enemy,
and create disorder. It was made so as to fit to the
front-part, or crupper of a saddle, and, he said,
might be used with great effect by cavalry officers.
At this stage of the investigation, several farmers
from Kent, whose property had been destroyed by
incendiaries, came to the office, but none of them
were enabled to say that they had ever seen the
prisoner before.

The Magistrates asked the prisoner whether he
could bring forward 9riy person to speak as to his
general character ?—The prisoner replied in the
negative.

The Magistrates told him, that independent of
the suspicion entertained against him, he had ren-
dered himself liable to be committed as a rogue and
vagabond. Prisoner—l am unfortunate,but I don't
come under the denomination of a rogue. I am
willing (added he) to give every explanation, and
although, I confess, I described that one of my in-
ventions was capable of doing much mischief to
barns and hay-ricks, yet I can safely affirm that I
never went into the county with the intention of
trying their effects by setting fire to property.
It was here stated, that a man was in custody at
Lewes, in Sussex, on suspicion of being concerned
in the outrages; and that a woman, with whom he
cohabited, had made some important disclosures. It
was, therefore, arranged that the chief constable,
Hall, should proceed to that place to obtain further
confirmation, and in the mean time Blakey was re-
manded for further examination.