The Sun.
London, England, 1809-12-19 00:00:00

POLICE.

nOW-STREET.---The following are soma further
particulars of the riot which we yesterday noticed
A few nights since an Irishman, who resides in
Whitechapel, went to the White Hart public house,
in Charles-street, Drury-lane, where he sent .for
one of his countrymen, of the name of Murray,who
resides in. St. Giles's. On Murray entering • the
house, the Whitechapel man charged hint with hav-
ing ill-treated him, and taken his chara(er away,
for which. he challenged him to fight. Murray de-
clined, assigning as a reason,- that he had only been
_three weeks out of an hospital,...aoel was trot well
enough. The Whitenhapel man replied, he was
as strong as he ever had been, or would be; and
Murray then proposed that •they should fight in a
room, each of them having a triend as a second.
The Whitechapel man objected to this, and said, he
would fight in a: field; Murray replied, his party
(meaning the Whitechapel Irishmen) were too strong
lathe field. It was at length agreed that they should
fight in a field, and they, tossed up for who should
fix upon the groundi. Murray won, and appointed a
field near the Adam-abd Eve, at the end of To:ten-
ham Court-road, and to meet at eight o'clock on Sun-
day morning; Murray, •and, a number •of the St..
Giles's Irishmen, went to the field at the time ap-

pointed; they waned for some time, and none of the
Whitechapal men appearing, they left'the and
returned to Sr. Giles s, and meeting with the White-
chapel men, a despbtale tight took place in Short's
gardens, there being about two hundred Irishmen

engaged in it.
One man was carried away for dead ; and the
neighbours were so much alarmed for the conse-
quences, that several set 'nfr to the Public Office,
Bow-street, where they fortunately -met. with An-
thony, who accompanied them with- all possible
speed, and saw them in the a 1 of fighting with.
large sticks, and rioting, in Sboit's-gardens. It
was impossible for him to attempt to quell such a
desperate assembly ; he therefore went and idiom-
ed Mr: READ, who was at Lincoln's-inn Chapel ;
he came out, and went with Anthony and Mahew,
one -of the katrole, to the spot, but was informed
•th4t a number of them, particularly the ringleaders,
hixi retired to the 'Rick Dog and Still, public-house,

in Short's-gardens ; they 7:accordingly went there,
and knocked for about a quarter of all hour, before
:• they could gain admittance; on their entr:nc-.• they
went up stairs to a -large room on the first liner, the
door of which' was last ; Mr. READ told them he
was a Magistrate, and he demanded entrance; a
voice answered, you shall repent coming here if you
enter. Those in 'the room continuing to refute to
open the door, it was at length forced open by the
Magistrate and the landlord. A. number of Irish-
. men and women were found in the room ; several

escaped out of the windows, top of the house, Ike.
Anthony proceeded to search for their sticks,'. or
shillelaghs; he found several on the ground, and
two put up the chimney.
Mr. READ ordered all the women to leave the,
room ; they were going out accordingly, but two of
the men, Timothy Murray and Daniel Croney,
claimed two of them of as their wives, and told the
Magistrate they should not go out when Mr. Read
seized theM by the collar, and gave them into the
custody of Anthony. After that six others of the
men were.secured, and conveyed to the watch-house
by a party of the patrole, who Genie to the assistance
of Anthony.
Yesterday they were brought to the Office for ex-
! amination, when, in addition to the above two men,
Patrick Donolatugh, Patrick Regan, Cornelius Cal-
laghan, Maurice APDonald, Patrick Cashman, and
Daniel Leary, were put to the bar.
Mr. READ bad his knowledge of the transaction
taken in writing and signed it.
eleven Thomas Summer, of Houghton-street, Clare-mar-
ker,sa
idd'Cltohc.ak, that
on Sunday morning, about half past
he saw a great number of persons
principally Irishmen, assembled together, in Short's-
Gardens and Belton-street, making a great noise,
riot, and disturbance, also fighting ; he saw one
man knocked down into a cellar, which was open,
and several with broken heads, end the blood run-
ning down, their backs and faCes. There were be-
tween twenty and thirty men fighting together at -
one time. The prisoner, Timothy Murray, is the
person who knocked the man down into the cellar.
He thought he remained a spedtator. of their riot-
ous condati about an hour. Several of them were
armed with bludgeons. After the arrival of the Ma-
gistrate he saw several of them escape from the pub-
lic-house, out of a window. One of the men who
was beaten, was.earried away apparently.lifeless.
Henry ,Bell, .the High Constable, said, he saw a
great number of people assembled together in Buck-
eridge-street, as he was passing by accident; he
supposed .it to. be previous to their going to Short's
Gardens. He conjettered they were going.to aEt
improperly, ,-td desired them to disperse ; they re-
moved from thence towards the Pound, at which
time the Prisoner, Timothy MUrray, had a bludgeon
in his baud ; he held it in the middle, and flourished
it about. Several of the other men also had blud-
geons, Which they flourished; and, they jumped
alyaut as if they were mad. •
They were all committed for further examination.

SUICIDE.--On Saturday morning, as Mr. Hop-
kins, of Greek-street, was shooting tip Albany Wood,
adioinitig .Finchley-Common, -with a friend, they
discovered a man hanging. on one of-:the trees by a
rope. He was cut down, and removed to the
nearest public-house to be owned. He was yester-
day recognised to be a man who was seen begging in
Tottenbatmcourt-road, with. a woman and 'a young
child... His.nan4e was Smith, and distresi.and hunger
'were supposed to have been .the cause of suicide.

.
S‘NINDLI.NG.-Within these few day , mall }:as:
•
appeared in Londoni and, defrauded Gentletna and
Tradespeople
..of Various4onsideraple turns of tni)noyv
by.representio& hansl.cll in divers ..-cltaratters. 'He
hisinuated.himelt. into 'the einiiitifliance at a.
tletnan's family in Bottcr-stsieel, .and *defrauded
Gentlenwn (.4 cash for the payment 01 test, valuable
horse.4,_un:ier prvtene that le ‘‘as a .Major
who had I:stely returned frost, she .West' Indies, and
that he IA o 3 -the bearer of cunt-taunt:li connwini. a
t ons troco an Odices. the,e, 1,, - e Lss-tIN or she use

loi4 sister. His artift.le was so well managed, that
the Major W:ts an associate in the family for si-eral
days, and during his stay he appeared in Wimpole-
swot, under the appellation of Sir S. H‹atne, and
he porchased a chariot and a pair or horses, the latter
of which he got possesion of, and sold them to a Up.
very-man for 60 guineas the same day. Several
tradesmen in the neighbourhood of Manchestet...
square have suffered materially by the Swindlo
contrivances, amongst whom is Mr. B. Swain, -
fancy worker, in Portland-street, who furnished the
Gentleman with goods to the amount of 401. which-
were sent to the house in Baker street. He. has
lately been at work in the considerable towns in the
North of England, it has been ascertained, where he
assumed the character of a Merchant, but he made
a precipitate retreat from Liverpool. He is about five
►licet tea, slight made, and wears large whiskers.

SHIP NEWS.

GRAVESIND, DLCEMBIR. 17.

Arrived—the Eliza, Sutton, from Oporto; and the Peg-
gy, Colley, from Mogadore.
Sailed—the Freedom, llarnrie, from Grenada; Fanny.
Prouting, for Cadiz; Rose in tune, May, tor Oporto;
Lustre, Smith, for famaica ; Medway, Watson, Myrtle„
Popplewell, and Scilly, Lewnigtim, 'tor Gibraltar ; artd the
Draper, Gowan, tot Belfast.