The Sun.
London, England, 1862-05-14 00:00:00

BILLETING OF MILITIA NEN ON

INNKEEPERS.

At the Doncaster Borough Police-court, on Mon-
day last, before William Chambers (Mayor), Chas.
Jackson, and William Sheardown, Esqrs., a case of
great importance and interest to licensed victuallers
was brought under notice.
Mr. Ilawksworth, the landlord of the Black Boy
Inn, French-gate (long-established in Doncaster),
attended by arrangement, without summons, to
answer a charge of refusing to provide certain pri-
vates of the 3d West York Militia with a hot meal
on Thursday last (the day the regiment assembled
at Doncaster), contrary to the tenour of the act of
Parliament.

The facts of the case on the prat of the billeting
sergeant were these :—On Thursday last, 20 men
were billeted on Mr. Hawksworth, notice having
been given him on the preceding day that such a
number would be sent to his house. As the men
reached the town they were billeted off to the dif-
ferent inns, and towards the 20 to be provided for
by the defendant, six were sent at noon, and the
billeting sergeant followed with three others him-
self. When he reached the inn he saw the six
standing at the gate, and they complained to him
that the landlady had refused to provide them with
the hot meal to which they were entitled. He ac-
cordingly went to see the landlady, and inquired
from her how it was that the meal was not ready.
She told him that when the whole of the 20 men
came she would comply with the law; and as she
declined to find the nine men with something to
eat he marched them off to another inn, and under
the direction of the colonel of the regiment these
proceedings had been taken. Two of the privates
corroborated the evidence of the sergeant, and dis-
tinctly stated that Mrs. Hawksworth refused to
furnish them with a hot meal until the whole num-
ber of men billeted at the house arrived, but who
it was stated could not possibly be sent that day
owing to the non-arrival of the men.
Mr. Wright, in a very able speech for the
was
h r ooet
defen-
dant, denied the charge 1n tote, and he contended
_
that the act of Parliament never contemplated, and
it was never intended, that innkeepers should be
put to the annoyance and inconvenience of providing
at
himself. The men were summoned to appear at
head-quarters at 10 o'clock on the day in question,
and if he
not the fault of the
innkeepers, nor a circumstance for which they could
separtey dinners
did
n forot d each ac
soh militiaman
it was as he presented
be called upon to suffer.
Mrs. Hawksworth was then called. She stated
that when the six men came to her husband's house
they were followed immediately after by the billet-
ing sergeant with three others. From some repre-
sentations made to him by the six Men he came to
her,
to cat them bread
just
cheese, as
as
meal g
was preparing, and
told her that the men must have their hot dinner
i
mmediately, immediately, and that
she
she must prepare them some
beef-steak. She said
she could not think of doing
so, for there was •
and
theira
pike() of beef 231bs. in weight
then roasting before the fire, and puddings and
vegetables boiling,lt would be ready in about half
an hour. She complained to him of the inconveni-
ence of the men coming at different times, but did
not refuse in any way. The sergeant said "If you
don't get them a beef-steak I'll march them all
away," and she replied " Well, then, you must do
so," and he accordingly took the nine men elsewhere.

The Bench referred to the act of Parliament, and
ultimately the defendant was convicted in the low-
est penalty of £2 and costs, the Mayor dissenting
from the decision, believing that there had been
some misunderstanding between the sergeant and
Mrs. Hawksworth, and Mr. Wright applied for a
case for the superior court, which was granted.

TA Es ING WINE.—Let every guest help himself
and challenge his neighbour to wine; it begets good fel-
lowship, and avoids the annoyance of awkward servants
slopping the wine into your glass. People forget that the
good old fashion was abandoned on the Queen coming to
the throne, who, as a girl, could not challenge her guests
to take wine; and thus it became the fashion to imitate
her Majesty in that which to her was a matter of necessity.
[An vEßTlsnmENT.]—Holloway's Ointme
—Dinners and Dinner Parties.
than
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having the care of children should know that Holloway's
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