The Sun.
London, England, 1809-09-02 00:00:00

POLICE.

GUILDUALL. - William Anson, servant to Mr.
Jackson, leather-cutrei, Little:. Windmill-street,
W▪
estminster, yesterday charged Matthews art Of-
ficer befougi, g to Hatton-Garden Police-Office,
with violence odered to his person, by seizing on
Imit, dragging him into a public-house in the neigh -
bout-1)00(1.ot Smithfield, Were searching lino with-
tut arty warrant or authority; and at last setting him
at liberty.. The violence: complained of wok place
eight days ago. The Complainant had been going
about his master's. business : on crossing Hatton-
Wall, he inquired 'the way to the part of Saffron-
hill cearest to Srnitlitcid, and was soon afterwards
dragged.into lite public tapi7room of a .public-house.
in West-street. • He refused to be searched in the
tap-roorn,.and was Carried into a private room where
he was searched by Matthews, who then told him
who he was. The Complainant went the same day
to the Hatton-garden Office,' claiming redress, but
receive. none. His master was resolved to have
justice done to the Complainant, and to his charac-
ter, if the law would afford him any, and he now
same to the worthy Alderman, understanding the
illegal imprisonment to have taken place in the-city.
Matthew s, in his defence, stated that he esteemed
himself, by his office, entitled to stop and search all
suspected persons. The,manner of the Complain-
ant, and the place to which he inquired the way,
beinur a common receptacle for rceivers' of stolen
good's), induced him to stispeet him., Finding no-
thing upon him, however, which supported the sus-i
4;icion, he immediately set him at liberty. The pro-
secutor, • immediately complained of the supposed
ontraocTi...-, at the poiice,othe&, Hatton-garden, and.
Mr. Leach, the:Magistrate, was pleased to dismiss
tie charge, theteby approving of his (Matthew's)

coildtitt:

The bitting Alderman (Sir R. Carr Glyn) could
by no means agree in the interpretation put by
Matthews on the nature and extent of the powers
vested in biat by virtue of his office. According to
Ins (tt;e officer's) conception of Ins powers, he alight
from any ut.defined and absurd suspicion of his own,
seizit ot,, and search, any 9r every Gentleman whom
lie met on the,streets. Such, however,, was by no
;neatis the ndture of the trust reposed in him, andy Bich
•was•to be exercised for the convenience and protec-
tiOna not fort he annoyance of the public. The respon-
sibility 'undertaken by an officer was great; it was,
-thirefott-, at all firms., hislSir R. C. Gtyn's) wish to
poled Inrin in the due discharge of their ditty. if
they choke, Low;ever, tii encounter any extraordinary
risks they ,:uust abide the Consequences ; and ;n this
case, be could not help thinking that Matthews had
. greatly over-stepped tus duty.
Mathews was -accordingly bound over to take
his trial at.the Sessions.

WORSHIP-STREET..—Yesierday, a woman of the
narne.ot Ilorrice, underwent a second examination,
bcing charged with uttering 'fictitious two pound
notes; purporting to be West Ham Bank notes,
dray% n by. one Davey, and made payable at Messrs.
Puitlewhite, No. 2, Church-yard-alley, Tooley-
street. ' She v.a. committed for re-examination.

UNION-BALL.-Several shopkeepers residing at
Newington and Walworth were yesterday summon-
ed by 'he-Society for the Suppression of Vice, for
serving in their .shops during Sunday. They were
cod. toted, and it being their first offence, they were
• sevrally tined five shilling'', and tour shillings and
sixpence costs,. which they paid, and were dis-
chArged.
tiARLB6ROUGH-STREET, SEPT. I.—A Lady of the
first fashikiti,'residing in the neighbourhood of Soho
ware, charged John Thompfon,• a carpenter, with
being.cor,twied in her house. She stated, that she
had been in tho country for some weeks, and had
lett a female servant in care of her house ; that she
-returned last evening, and, on examining her house,
she found one of the bed-chambers locked, and after
some difficulty • she obtained- the key of the room
,from her maid-servant ; on opening the -door, she.
v.-as surprised and shacked to see a naked-manlying
on the bed.; net nerves had received such a shock,
that she could not say when they would be' in a state
of convalescence ; -she • ran down stairs affrighted,
sent fde k:wetchrnan, and ordered -him to take•the
:vile beast- itito' custody:
The prisoner, in hicdefence, said, that the 'servant
left in-care of the house was his wife, and the-family
being out; of towd, he did not conceive it would he
thought a harm to sleep with his wife.
The Lady declared, upon her honour, that, 'al-
though Anne Jones had lived with her ttefo‘Yeati,
she never understood she was.martied.

Iths. Jones llwn carne forward, and prodtc.ed.glie
tertificate of her m: with the 'Prisoner.

- The worthy Magistrate accordingly desired the
Prisoner be di ,charged.—The Lady walked out of
the Otlice, apparently much chagrined, and conti-
nued expressing:- her disapprobation; until she got
into ber etwiot.

A baker, in Chapel-street, Gross'enor.place, was
summoned before thy: Magistrates on Thursday, at
the suit of a housekeeper in allobleinWs falnily in
Grustettor-place, for selling a quarters loaf-defcient
ur weighrtnaounces. In consequence of this defi-
cit:My. about, 4;venty-six loaves were seized', ‘.3.7ltich
were ek.ricienrin, weight forty ounces: The Corn-
plainaot -slated, that She had Pten' suspeaed the
to be short bfk.veight, wliich induced her to

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wegh the one in question, and to''proseente for the
'Albite gook!. It was contended by Mr. ALLEY,
soLjci-
tar' for the,Deiendliti t hat he eould not be ConviCted,
not having received .the assize frotri the Burgesses
Ot'We,ittr.inster that 'week. As that body had, how-
ever, to alt precisely the same as the Lhrd Mayor
in the City, •it happened that thew tad been no'al-
teration in the price of bread last week, and conse-
quently the assize had not been sent as -it should
hive been. The baker had been convicted of a si-
milar offence; but the Magistrate gave it as his opi-
nion that the obje6tion proved fatal /to the case,-,-.
The exatninaliou was strl&ly private, not a person.
but the parties and officers having been admittech •

Thursday evening last, Mr. Hayward, Grocer, of
Motint•rui.v, Lambeth, without any previous.illness,
dropped down in his shop, and almost instantly ex-.
pked.