The Sun.
London, England, 1830-10-12 00:00:00

1'11A:11p POI.ICE.

Yesterday Afichael Weir, a seaman of the Sealekti
Castle East Indianian, was brought before Mr. BRO.-
AERIE', charged with assaulting Joseph Lancaster,
the gunner of that vessel, on the high seas, on the
12th of August, 1829.
The complainant deposed that on the +lay named
the prisoner had been way of ' scone act of disobe-
dience, and the 'Captain ordered him to 'take Weir
to the poop and place him in irons. lie approached
him on the starboard side of the quarter-deck for
that pnrpose,. when the prisoner made use of dread-
ful language, and stturk him several times in the
face. A struggle took, place, when the prisoner
seized his shirt, the front of which he tore to pieces,
and hit him alTiolent blow-on the eye, which cut it
open. kle.suffered from the _eirects of the Mtreat-,
ment Thr some days afterwards.
Mr. Wooller cross-examined the complainant on
behalf of Weirrand elicited from Lancaster that he
had been in England six weeks, and should not have
come forward but for some words which took place
bet wren them in the street.

Mr. Wooller—Had not Weir been on the poop
in the Morning released, and formally forgiven by
the Captain F--,-The Complainant RIINW1110(1 in the
talinnittive; bUt it was for some fresh offence he
was ordered -to place him there again. He swore
that he did not strike Weir, but only laid his hand
gently upon him.

M. Wooller—Was not the grating rigged, and
Weir tied up to be flogged the next day ? Lancaster
—He wee, Sir ; but the ship's company prevented
the puni►hment from taking place, and Weir was re-
leased.

Samuel Bacon, the boatswain, was standing by
the cap stern, and witnessed the assault. :He sub-
sequently heard Weir threaten to jump overboard
with the complainant, and drown both.
Mr. ViTooler cross-examined the boatswain, who
expressed great reluctance in answering:thy qaestions.
The prisoner in defitici, Lanca!ter seized
him by the neckerchief,tWisted it round, and nearly
strangled him. He ,resiited this ill-usage, but not
in the violent manner mentioned, and was struck
fiist by the complainant,.
Mr. SVooler said, the present charge would not
have been preferred but for the feeling .which
existed on the subject of naval discipline, and .which
Lancaster had taken advantage, of. He had good'
•evidence to show that his' client had been much M-
ited, but would advise him to reserve his defence
for another place, as he was prepared with bail.
Mr.IIRoDERIP observed, that as the assault had
been distinctly sworn to, and not disproved, it was
has duty to bold the defendant to bail, himself in
201., and two sureties of la each, to answer the
charge at the next Admiralty sessions.
UNION.HALL.

On Sundaymnrning, between nine and ten o'clock,
a riot of a very serious nature took place in Kent-
Hatreet, between a mob and several of new police.
In the course of the above morning several men had
been drinking in a public:Annie, and a disturbance
having commenced amongst them, three men belong.L.
ing to the new police went into the house with the
view of suppressing it. They,'bowever, had seincely
entered the place when the fury of the rioters was
turned on them, and they'Were driven into the street
'Awl attacked by the party. The riot still ContiOing
io ;he house, the policemen' 'deterrnined on doing
their duty, again attempted `to ,take the principal
rioters into custody, and in their endeavours were
again repulsed by the mob, until a strong reinforce-
ment from the lit t ion-how e came to the .apot; and,
after a most determined resistance on the' part of
the mob, the poliee succeeded, at ltngth, iu securing
twenty-two, of the principal ringleaders. In escort•
ing the party of offenders to the station-house, the
police had the utmost. difficulty, as, they were hooted
and pelted with mud and stones by the enraged
multitude, whose feelings awned: to be excited; to
the highest degree
.against the constables. The.
police, however, succeeded in lodging the whole of
the above number in the station-house, and they.
were brought before Mr. Hoax and Mr. Evion-,
)esterday morning, and thos'e who were prominent in
the utiftir were held to bail.

It) the course of the investigation, a paper signed
by. twenty-three of the inhabitants of Kea-street,
was banded to the magistrates, stating that the
police themselves were. the chief cause of the riot
and disturbance that had occurred on the preceding
morning, and that those Individuals whose signatures
were attached to the paper ‘iere. ready to come for-
ward to prove' the truth of ►heir statement. The
papei alluded tor contained a charge of eery great
violence on the pert of piiticemtin No. 158, letter M,
towards a man named' Harvey, who, it was alleged,
had been unjustifiably beaten about the head and
body with a truncheon by his assailant.

Some of the inhabitants, ►were examined, and they
described that the police behaved with violence, and
asserted that one of them ;Was drunk on the occasion.
This assertion was, however, denied by the super.;
intendant and inspectors, who declared that the
charge of drunkenness was without foundation. None
of the inhabitants were enabled to state that Harvey,
the defendant, was not engaged in the riot.
The Magistrates said that the neighbourhood of
Kent-street was notorious for riots and other offences.
It appeared that the. policemen had. not in this in-
stance by any means exceeded their duty which was
attended by much peril, particularly in the place
spoken of, and they should uniforinly meet with that
assistance they required when they conducted them-
selves with firmness and propriety in the execution
of it. An immense crowd assembled during the
day in the street before the office, in consequenee of
the proceedings of the rioters.

Anonymous letters, signed' " Swing," have
been received by past, by two individual* in Dover, threat•
ening the destruction of their ,premises by are, which has
caused great alarm in their. families. The dead walls all
through the town, and for wine miles on the road to Can-
terbury, all hear the same rignificant word, " Swing,"
written in chalk.—..Kentish Gazette.

The Darmstadt Gazette, of the 2d instant,
contains the following the amine of last eight and
the night before a band of 4 or 11,000 men appeared at
ltielbach, and committed serious excesses. The inhabitant,,
being too weak to resist, remained quiet, but during the
disorderly proceedings of the insurgents, the inhabitants of
Ssdel and Wachtenbach came to the succour of those•Of
Melba* and having joined them, drove out the rebels
from the place and made nine of them prisoners, who were
conducted to Friedberg under escort. The prisoners main.
Cain that they were forced y the rebels to march with
them, which they lenient, and implore pardpo. Another
column equally large arrived, at about ten o'clock the
same night at Florstallt, where theisounded the tocsin,
and entered with horrible threats into the Alinor.house of
Law, which they ravaged. The inhabitants- of FlOrstadt
having Assembled in . the interval, fell upon the rebels,
drove them out of the town and mid, six prisoners, who
were likewise taken to Friedberg. The column of the
insorgents who m 'robed upon Vogelsberg, arrived at
Schoten at half.pest eight o'chick the night before last.
'They c.mnitted atrocious excesses duringithe whole-night
in severed public headings, and almost entirely 4ium9li4bed
the house of the iiiceiver of the }lentil'. The PiovineLl
enameller, the Judge of the Tribunal, and all the Clerke
of the Office were compelled to telte to flight to avoid be-
ing ma sacred. The inhabitants of the district of Schoten.
beheld theme 'proceedings' with horror, but took no part in
them. Yeeterday'rnorning the hind quitted Sihoten, and
proreeiled -further towards the Vogelsberg. But a small
portion of the rebels had Are-arms, the rest had bludgeons.
he insurgents are of the loweet class of the people, and their
avowed object tends to nothing 'short of anarchy. 'fluty
seek to annihilate public order, to' oierthrow the sotto.
cities, and bring on a state of complete licentiousneter in,
whisk every toe may du AS he pleases.