The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-30 00:00:00

ANOTHER ICARUS.

A young roan of respectable appearance, who gave his name
zs Joseph Thompson, but afterwards acknowledged that this was
only his travelling name, and that his real name was Joseph
Larnan, was brought from St. Ann's watch-house, charged with
being drunk and disorderly in the street the night before.
The Magistrate haling asked him to give some account of
himself, he said, that at present he lodges at No. 20, Newman-
street, Oxford-street, where he has been about a week ; he iS a
native of Manchester, but has not been there for a long time;
he seldom stops above a week jp, any one place, having given
himself a sort of roving common ; is of no trade, profession,
or calling, but is a gentleman at large, living upon his pro-
petty, which he thinks is nothing to any body else ; has come
last direct from Calais.

" And pray, Sir," said Mr. CONANT, " what might be
your business at Calais?"
Defendant—My business !—a strange question ; why, the
same to be sure as every other gentleman—my own amuse-
ment. •

" Oh! I thought yoU might have gone on some business,"
said the Magistrate.
Defendant _And so I did partly go en business, and partly
on• pleasure.

,::What was the business-part of your journey ?" asked the
Magistrate.

IYelenclant—That's best known to myself; .I don't choose to
tell you my business.

Mr. UONA NT—You really give a very sharp account of your-
self ; I cannot discharge you, until you-send forsome one .who
knows you. ,
Defendant—lndeed ! that's curious, •too : pray, what is my
offence? . _ .

' Mr. CoNANT —Yon ate charged with being drunk and riot-
ous in the street, and at the watchhouse you refused to give
yourinarne.
Defendant—So I did; because 'think no one had a right:to
demand my name. This is an odd sort of busines altogether ;
but I can send for a friend who knows me in • this neighbour-
hood, Mr. Behnes, the sculptor in Dean-street.
The Magistrate ordered Mr. Betimes to be sent for; and in
the mean time the defendant was locked up.
When the officer returned from Mr. Behnes, he told the
Magistrate that Mr. Behnes said the defendant was a conjuror. ,
The defendant was then again brought forward, end ques-
tioned by the Magistrate,• when it appeared that he went to
Dover, and from thence to Calais, to examine the ground a

both-places, with a view of flying from one of the Dover Cliffs
to the French coast ; but h'esaid he had since changed his mind,
and he supposed any gentleman had'azight to do so.
Mr. CONANT asked him if he had his wings about him ?
Defendant—That is a question I shall not answer.
" Because, if you have," said Mr. CONANT, " you may fly'
out of the. Office as soon as
,you please, when you pay ss. for,
being drunk."
The defendant paid the ss. and preferred walking out.
ADULTERATED ' SUGAR. •
'Yesterday another investigation took place before MsCO.
WANT, the Magistrate, of the pickled sugar case, whiclitp-.
peared in our Paper of Saturday.
Mr.. Powell, of Bishopsgate-street-without, of whom the re-
tailer, Blake, of Broad-street, Golden-square, said on a former
' day he had purchased.a greater part of the salted sugar..com-'
plained of, addressed -himself to Mr. Conant, and said, that
having read in a Morning Paper, on Saturday last, a report of
a statement made at this office by a person named Blake, who
was charged with selling sugar mixed with' salt, and that state-
ment being very detrimental to his character and interests as a
'trade; he lost no time in taking all the necessary measures in
his power to prove the falsehood of Blake's assertion, that he
had purchased of him any sugar having a saltish taste. On the
13th of July, Mr. Powell said, he purchased at the Commercial
Mart, of Messrs. Wiss and Ripley, sugar-brokers, in
Mincing lane, a certain quantity of sugar. then lying in
the .London Dock, and of that sugar Mr. Blake purchased
one of the packages, which was delivered to him by Mr.
Powell's porter, driven out of the London Docks, without its
having even gone to Mr. Powell's premises at all, and this was
the only sugar he had sold Blake. On Saturday, after reading
the report in the. Paper, Mr. Powell said; he went directly to
the offi'...; of Messrs. sWiss and Ripley, and took their clerk
(Mr. Warren, who knew the sugars sold from the London
Docks) with him to the house of Mr. Blake, and requested to
be furnished with a sample of the sugar that had been delivered
to him by the porter fronithe London Docks. This lie received -
and then went to Mr. Munyard's factory, in Wardour-street,
and got from the men there a sample of the sugar of which
they complained. He had brought with him from the city a
sample, taken in the presence of Mr. Warren, from the sugar
in his warehouse, where it is at present, purchased of Messrs.
Wiss and Ripley, just as it came from the Docks. Thesa
three samples he took to Mr. Joyce, the 4hymist, in Compton.
street, who analyzed them in the presence of himself and Mr.
Warren; and in the sample got from Mr. Blake, and that got
from the young men at Mr. Munyard's, there was a quantity
of salt detected, but not one grain of salt in the sample brought
from the city, of the very sugar he had sold to Mr. Blake.
Was it not then cruel (Mr. Powell said) to attempt to ruin his
character by a falsehood such as that put forth by Mr. Blake ?.
Mr. CONANT said, that this gave the case a very different
complexion ; but the most satisfactory way would be just to
send for Mr. Blake, and for Mr., Powell to repeat his statement
in his presence. _

Mr. Blake was accordingly sent for, and soon made his ap.
pearance ; upon which the above statement of Mr. Powell,
'which was in very respect corroborated by Mr. IVarren, who
was present, was communicated to him.
Mr. Blake, who seemed to be in what is vulgarly called a
mess, said one thing, and said another, not very intelligible
for some time;..hut at last he came out with a total denial of
laving said that he purchased the sugars in question of 1%l r.
Powell, and 'that he only said he had dealt with Mr. Powell,
amongst other persons in- the trade. He did, however, recol-
lect complaining to Mr. Powell of his sugar having had too
much foot in it (this foot was explained to be .a sort of molasses,
which cakes and falls to the bottom of the cask or bag, but has
nothing whatever to do with salt.)
Mr. Powell said, that every sugar was liable .to have foot. in
it, and was no ground of complaint at all, because it could not
be avoided, particularly in this sugar, which is an East India
sugar, and comes from the Mauritius in mat-bags; butit has
no more of salt in it than the best Jamaica sugar.
Mr. Blake said, that really he did not at all recollect impli-
cating Mr. Powell ; he mentioned several other names as well
as his ; and he must say, that the report of the proceedings in
the newspapers was 'greatly exaggerated and incorrect, and so
the young men at the Factory said.
Mr. CONANT said, that he read that report, and be thought
it in every main point and on the whole perfectly correct; but
it would be very easy to send for the men from the Factory
who had complah.td, and hear what they had to say on, the
matter.

The young men were accordingly sent for, and on being told
that Mr. Blake said they had complained of the correctness of
the account given of i%ie proceedings, they positively •If•nied
having said any such thing. Indeed, there was notl , incor.
rect in the report, except something trifling as to the uumber of
men who were taken ill • but this, they said, was not the only
misrepresentation that Mr Blake wanted to bring forward, for
he had been endeavouring underhand to preVail on the porter
of the factory, who generally bought.the sugar for the men, to
come to this office, and den y that he bought it at his shop, in
'order to contradict the complainants' statement.
Mr. Blake said, he only wanted him to tell the truth, be-
cause he did not believe that till the sugar complained of had
been bought at his house.
_ _

The young man said, that there could scarcely be a doubt of
that; for, independent of their buying it there frequently them-
selves, the porter was always directed to go there, and said he
always bought the sugar at the " old shop."
Mr. CONANT said, that he thought the ex Planation given by
'Mr. Powell very satisfactory, and that it did him much credit
to take such prompt measures to contradict the statement made
respecting him.
Mr. Powell said, he was much obliged to the Magistrate.;
but how was he to disabuse the public mind—would the Ma-
gistrate permit himself and Mr. Warren to make affidavit be-
fore him of the facts they had stated ?
Mr. CONANT said, that he really did not see the use or ne-
cessity of such affidavits; but if Mr. Powell wished to make
them, it would be better to make them before the Lord Mayor
in the city.
Mr. Powell then addressed himself to Mr. Blake, and told
him, that unlesshe made a public apology for the use he had
made of his name, he would make him repent it ; and asked if
he would then apologise in the office.
Mr. Blake said, he had no apology to•make, and he should
do no such thing.

" Then," said Mr. Powell, " you may rely upon , the
matter shall not end liere."-L.The parties then withdrew.
COMBINATION AMONG SHIPWRIGHTS.
Mir ox-El AL 1..-It Will, be recollected that last week several,
shipwrights in the employment of Messrs. King and Co., the
ship-builders of Rotherhithe, were brought up to this Office
for striking work and refusing to perform a contract into which
they had entered with the firm. In the course of the investi-
gation on that occasion, it appeared that all the defendants
were members of the " Union Provident Society"—a society
which, since its formation, has caused considerable dissensions
between the ship-builders and their journeymen, and has
thrown impediments in the way of the latter since the general
strike, of returning to their work, by , holding out encot-
ragement for them to " stick out," and granting twelve or
thirteen . shillings ;per week to those who were unemployed.
The whole of the men, however who were brought up on ,the
former occasion, were set at liberty on their :promise of re-
turning to work and finishing the contract into-which they had
entered with Mr. King. On Suturday last, however, Mr.
King was under the necessity of again making application at
the office, for warrants against several more of his men, under
circumstances precisely similar to those already stated ; and
yesterday morning the defendants were brought up in custody
before the sitting Magistrate R. J. CmaisinEns, Esq. The
names of the men are Edward Coleman Eager, Samuel Eager,
John Avery, Thomas Makan, Samuel Smith, John Phillips,
TVilliam Munroe, and James Barron. The contract into
which the defendants had entered with the above.firra was pro-
duced, when the Magistrate asked them whether .they were
willing to return back to their work on the ship which they had
stipulated to finish, or to work at the Brixton mill for three
months ? One of the defendants (Eager) said that he was per-
fectly willing to work for=.lr.King, if that gentleman gave him
a particular job, which would be more advantageous to him
(the defendant) than that which he had left unfinished.
The Magistrate observed that this was a most unreasonable
request; the defendants had all contracted to perform a cer-
tam job for their ;employers, had overdrawn their wages for
that particular job, and now they wished to relinquish it alto.
gether, in order to be put upon work which they considered
more profitable to -themselves without once reflecting on the
injury and detriment which such conduct was likely to prodUce
on those that employed them.
Eager said, that the work lie contracted to finish, he since
found was not sufficient to support his family.
Mr. etrAmtEns—" Why don't you let that part of your
earnings which you. -subscribe to the Union Society go for
the support of your family ? I don't at all wonder at your
complaints of distress, when you- pay six or seven shillings a
week each to a club that has created nothing but disorder and
disunion between the masters and their journeymen since its
formation."—After the Magistrate had made the above re-
' marks, Eager, Who appeared to be the spokesman for the rest
of his companion's, in a loud and impertinent tone, addressed
Mr. Chambers, saying, " What we give to the Union is
nothing to you—that does not bear upon the question before
you, and I have a right to give my money to whom I think
proper, just as much as you have."—The defendant was pro.;
seeding on in a rude and insolent strain, when the Magistrate
interrupted him, by threatening to have him locked up, if he
did not desist. The Magistrate then Observed, that what
called forth the remark "from him respecting the " Union So-
ciety," was the complaint Eager had just made of his being
unable to support his family on the wages he had from Mr.
King, when it was a well-known fact.that out of them he paid
this society five, six, or seven shillings a week. Mr. Chambers 4,

then put it to all the defendants whether they would consent to
go back and finish their work ?
...

To this question they all remained silent, except the two
Eagers, who said, they would prefer going to Brixton, if any
persons would take upon themselves the responsibility of sup-
porting,' their families while in prison.
Mr. CNAMBERS said, that no two men were ever brought
before him who deserved the punishment of the tread-mill
more than the two defendants, and advised Mr. King strongly
not to take them back again, and he should send them for three
months each to the House', of Correctiort,
Both of:the defendants the Eagers) aNared perfectly indif-
ferent as to the manner in which they should be dislvosed of.
The Magistrate and their employer perceiving this, the former
immediately ordered these two men to he taken from the office,
and locked up, preparatory to their being sent to Brixton for
three months. The rest of the defendants being questioned in-
dividually by the Magistrate, as to whether they would return
to finish their contract, all, with one voice, seeing the fate of
their " mates," proclaimed, said that they would return to the
yard and work, in preference.to working for the county in Brix-
ton, .for nothing at all.
Mr. CHAMBERS desired the complainant to give any of his
men in custody who acted in a similar manner, and he should
send them to Brixton.