The Sun.
London, England, 1814-09-30 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

Mrrun's ACT.—AiI'ACt of Parliament was:passed- a
few_ye?rs4;ince, for the enforcing of the Coal Meter's Act, by
'compelling renders or carriers of coals, in-Case the purchaser .
are dissatisf.ed- with the appearance of the sacks, and-wish
them measured previous to their being shot, to take a bushel
measure with them, which must be placed on a.cwispienous
part of the waggon or cart, 'Yesterday Joseph How, w;:o-
-keeps a wharf, waggons, and carts, at Chelsea, was brought
up Isy summons, on information, chat-gin." lath wit d.' geoding
out a waggon with :37 sacks of coals,' without a linshtl mea-
sure placed in a conspicuous part of Isis waggon'. • ' • '
John May, of Union-Hall, deposed, that on the r2d.iostant
be saw a coal-wag 4 at loaded with s'ackis with the slek'u-
dant's residence wristen ;in it: and he was pc) dtive that: it did
not contain a bushel :iseasure, as the Act directs. He followed
it to a 65:111.1elOall'3 in Ken,:ingtott-glire., This seas the in-
former's case. ' •";
Sir N. CoYAN'T. s.,nid, that he did not conceive suflicientirad
been proved to con-rict under the Act, which require, pro,:f
that the • coals have been broUght ft otn on hoard a ship; a
lisrhter, a barge, from it wharf, warehouse, &c. for sale; with-
in 35 miles of the Royal F.Nchange; the act did not make it
an offence for coals to be conveyed within that distance, ex-
cept they were from some of those places, and instanced cases
where aGentleman have coals, removed from his town
to his country hoUse, where, it was not necessary to hay a
bushel measure. The evidence only amounted•to' seeing a
waggon loaded with coals ott the turnpike 'road, taken to a'
house, and the waggon without a bushel measure. Dismissed.
Vs() LENT Oct TRAGE.—YesttrdayTka:•aos Weans, the private
watchman at Paddington, 'was brought to this Otliee, and
underwent a second examination; charged with violently,
wounding ;Min Saunders, on the evening of Wednesday
se'nuight, by cutting him with a cutlass; and also w)th en-
deavouring to stout Limberich, the conductor of a
party of patroles *II that neighbourhood, who went to appre-
hend bins. The prisoner was ordered to Sind bail, or_be com-
mitted. •
,QUEEN-SQUARE.

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SEIZURE Or MsTAL.--Xesteiday, Lavender, the officer, ex-
bibitetla charge against James Keate, of frown-street, Soho,-
old-iron shopkeeper, of having in his possession brass, sol-
der, &c. purchased -under suspicious circumstances. -:The
Geer 'produced the property seized. •
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The defendant's attorney said, that what was called:solder
was pewter, and that the cocks were neither brass nor-copper,
and, as such, not seizable under the Act. this.dektice was
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supported -by persons in the same business with Keate, many
of whom attended.
The Magistrates said, those allegations ought to he sup-
ported by unsuspicious evidence. Solder was dallied .to-be
mixture. of instals to promote the adhesion of ones,another ;
and that produced appeared to lbe such mixturcl besides, it
had the. marks of plumbers' irotis On it. At to the • cocks,
they-were made oat of a Mixture, called hull metal, which
came within the Art
Pace, the officer, produced the certificate of a former con-•
viction, which proved this to beg the .second ; and, therefore,
the penalty was 41.; the fourth conviction is transportation.