The Sun.
London, England, 1801-11-02 00:00:00

PUBL C..b.P.PICE, BO 117. TPEET.

LATE last .144riday. evening Rolk;ri Jferrrnq, anj
Mau, his wife, were befbre NICIIOI,Aj
BOND, Esq._ and Sir• AM i'AusoNs, eilared
with keeping an ill-governed, di;,orderly house (.4:-
ill. fame; in Denmark-court, in the Strand. A
number' of witnesses proved the ill governed stare
of the house ;. that a ntumber of prostittiteS went in
and out of the house, and men with them, &c. The
warrant that was issued authorised the officer to trke.,
into his custody disorderly persons ; he therefore app
prehcnded six girls in the Louse. On the girls being
placed at the bar,one of them in a very fewminutes felt
down in a fir, and a gentleman who,haprmed to-be iri
the office accounted for ir, by saying she had just
caught his eye; that he knew her extremely ,veil; that
her parents and friends were respectable people. She
had left them about a month since, and they had
never been able to learn any tidings of her. On, her
coming to herself, she. promised to return to her
friends, -and she was delivered into the care of the
Gentleman: It came out in, the examination of the
girls, that the Prisoners received part of the money
which they got for their prostitution.
The Prisoners were ordered to find bail, them,-
selves in tool. and two sureties in vol. each ; and
the Constable of the Parish, and Parish-Officers,
were bound over to prosecute at the next Westinin„.
ster Sessions.

The Book-keeper of the White-hart Inn, in the
Borough, was charged, under the Porters' Aft of
Parliament, with improper behaviour at Mr. Crow.-
titer's, in the Haymarket, on Thursday evening.
The Prosecutor stated, that on Thursday evening
the Prisoner came to .his house with two parcels,
one directed to his house, and the other to be left
till called for. A dispute arising about the charge,
the Prisoner made use of the most abusive language,
called-, him a blackguard, swore several oaths at
him, and behaved in a very riotous manner. On
his going to take the number of his cart, he attempt.
ed to blow the candle out.

The Prisoner stated in his defence, that having
learned that the porters frequently ha 4 disputes with
the Prosteutor, who has a great number of parcels
from the country, he confessed that he had volun-
teered himself that evening to go out with the.par-
eels in the cart, for the purpose of insulting the Pro
secutor. This condu6t, the Magistrates reprobated
in the strongest terms, as they did the insolence of
Book-keepers in. general, and observed, that he was
not content with sheaving his insolence in his office,
but must sally forth to: Insult the Public at their
own houses ; they therefore convicted him, in the
full penalty that the Mt of Parliament would
of twenty shillings, and ten shillings costs.
jam Rutledge, a boy about twelve years of age;
was charged with feloniously stealing two valuable
parcels in Mr. Hatchet's warehouse, at the WhiteL
Horse Cellar, Piccadilly.
The Warehouse-keeper stated, that about eight
o'clock that evening, the Prisoner and three other
boys came to enquire the time the Brentford and
Newbury coaches went off ; they went away, and
came a second time ; soon after they were gone, he
went into the- warehouses where the' parcels are-
kept, and found the Prisoners concealed, and two
parcels removed from the place he left them in. He
was committed fo'r further examination.

On . Saturday evening William Everard St,
Ledger, a German, was brought before - GRA-
HAN", Esq. the Siting Magistrate, in the.-custody of
Townsend, the Officer, who apprehended him -that
evening at his apartments in the Westminster-road,
Lambeth by virtue of a Warrant from Mr. FORD,
charging him with challenging to fight Charles
Lullin, one of the Clerks in the Alien Office.
Mr. Lullin attended, and stated, that the Pri_
sober had, for these several weeks been making ap-
plications at the Alien Office for a Pass to go to
France ; that he repeatedly told him. he could not
have one; that he would not be satisfied, and -at ,
length demanded one, saying, if he did not rece;v-,
it, he would apply to his Ambassador, Count Sta-
remberg, for proteftion ; the Prisoner not taking an
answer, he had several disputes with him, and on
Saturday about ope o'clock, the Prisoner came to
the Office to demand a Pass to-go to France, when
he informed him on account of the imprud.mt letter
he had sent to Lord Pelham, on Friday, he .should
not have it, but if he called in the course of next
week, he would be indulged with a Pass to .go to
Hamburgh ; another dispute now arose, and the
Prisoner left the Office extremely angry, and threat-
ening the Prosecutor.

James Walsh, the King's Messenger, said he w4s
at the Alien office at the time the Prisoner was
there, and described a variety of conversation that
passed between him and the Prosecutor ; when the
Prisoner left the office, he held up his stick in a
threatening manner, saying the Prosecutor was a
coward, and he would have satisfaction of him.

The Prisoner in. his defence said, it was of .the
utmost importance to him that he should go to
France, • and he thought by peace being made with
the French Republic he had a right to a pass, or he
should not have ailed in the manner had done.—
The words he acknowledged to have used when he
was leaving the office on Saturday, were, " If yoit
are a man of courage you will give me satisfaCtion ;"
upon which the Magistrate observed, that these
words spoken to a person holding a situation such as
the Prosecutor's, he considered as a challenge, al-
though he should not have so considered them, if
they had been spoken to him when cut of his official
duty. He was only ading ministerially, and it
was not in his power to grain passes, without the
permission of the Secretary of State : he should
therefore call upon him for
_sureties to keep the
peace, unless he could make satisfaaion by wav of
apology to the Prosecutor. The Prisoner offered to
make every possible atonement for his misbehaviour
to the Prosecutor and Lord. Pelham, as he said, if he
was kept in this Country upon bail, it would be the
total ruin of him. At length, it was agreed, he
should remain in custody of Mr. Walsh, who ;:poke
in the highest possible terms of him, when he was
in his custody as an alien, except as to his being of
a very irritable and warm temper.

On Thursday afternoon, a gcntleman from Sheet*
ness had his pocket picked in the Park,,while 116
MA J tisa Y was going in state to the House of Peers,
of notes to the amount of Baol, .