The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-27 00:00:00

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

BOW-STREET.--Thomus Sutherland was .charged.
by Mr. Jalyies lir,indon; who stated, that during the
performance on Wednesday evening,,and at thecom-
nicncernent of the tourthaet, there was much noise
and disturbance id the pit,« here several persons ,w were
th,n standing on the
,benches. The prisoner was
one of them, and was making• a noise by howling
.and hooting.
John Lines, one of the patrole belonging to the
e,,,s<lid, that he l'Ook the prisoner into custody
by the desire of Mr.,Branduti, for waking a great
noise. ,

John Smith, another of the patrole, stated, -that
he a.,i-ted in taking the prisorTer into cpstody, that
he searched his pockets, and found upon ,him a pa-,
per with the tollotving words upon it—" Old Prices
•trid New; Managers."
Mr. Sutherland admitted that he went to the
Theatre at-half-price, and -ioined the audience in
hissing, and crying " Off."
Magistrate... ordered him to be discharged,
Upon entering into his own recognizance of 501.
.4ines Hills was brought in the ctistidy of John
Clark, one of the eatrole„from Covent-Garden
,T,: eatre, who stated, that he was, in the pit during
the pertormance, when there was a great noise and
(list ul bance, and observed some, of the persons who
eie the teo.t aitive, striking cue of.the pairole be-
lt aging to the Office, and on his, going to his assist-
ante the prisoner struckhim.
Mr. GRAHAM recommended the prisoner -not to •
go to the Theatre any more to behave in a disorderly
manner ; which he agreed to; and Mr. Graham dis-
charged him.
Thomas Carpenter was charged with assaulting
Chris.opher Richmond, of Scotland-yard, in a box of
cuvent-garden Theatre, the same evening ; which
being satisfactorily proved, he wes ordered to find
bail.
. Last night Alexander Chenis, of Stanhope-
street, Clare7market, master tailor, was charged by
Mr. Brandon, of Covent-garden theatre, and J.
Lyoni,' a police officer, with having obstruited an
officer of justice in the execution of his duty.
It was stated that the play went on very peaceably
until about the middle of the fourth a6l, when a per-
son in the pit becanne very
,noisy, barking to the
gr at inconvenience and disturbance of the rest
of the audience. M. Brandon came into the..
_.pit, and pointed opt. the person accused, a very
tall; tat man ; when the officersWere_about to take
him into custody; 70te Defendant swore that they.
should not have hiM ; then struck the officer, and
in the confusion which ensued, the person who was
accused of riotous conduit in the first instance,
escaped; The Delendaut was then secured and' taken
to this Office.
On the other hand the ljefendant denied that he
had either made use of any.oath tespeding the ay;
preh&ision of the other person; or that he had struck
the Officer.: He complained that he had been very
il.7treateu ; that he had been knocked' down, tram-
pled ipon, kicked arid bruised severely ; and that
:he 1:1d been robbed of his bat.
,He.had been guilty
of no offence whatever, unless it could he'deetned
an offence that he ha.i joined iii -elaPping a part ot the
performance—a species of conduit 4n the visitors of
theatres which authors, proprietors, managers, and
adors had courted for center its put.

.The Magistrate obServed that he was not charged
with being guilty of., any riotous opposition to the
measures of the Proprietors. or Managers ; he was
charged with an offence of mach greater magnitude,
namely, that of interrupting an_ officer in the exe-
cution of his duty, and committing an assault upon
him. Me fads were sworn to, and he must either
find bail or go to prison.
Yesterday Joseph Prentice and IVin. Porter were
brought,to•the Otfice in the custody of Pearkes, and
charged on suspicion of having broken open and
robbed the house of Mr. Harrord, at Wethertield, in
Sussex, a short time since. •They were committed
for further examination.

Gu um! esterclay Charles lilalleer was
charged by a Gentleman with picking pockets in St.
Paul's ChurChlare, •in the forenoon of the' day of
the Jubilee, during the Procession of the Corpora-
tion of London to the Cathedral. The Gentleman
stated, that, having obs(uved a gang of pickpockets, to
the dtri,ber of about twenty, in different parties of
two or three each,. employed in' committing clepre-
dations on the crowd-assembled to view the proces-,
sion, he resolved to watch their motions. His atten-
tion was chiefly direeled to a party consisting of the
prisoner and two others. He allowed them to com-
mit some depredations of a more trivial kind, till,
observing the ,whole three press `hard on a young
man whom they had surrounded, he followed them
more closely, and soon perceived the prisoner draw
in lai's hand with a watch in it.Phe Gentleman then,
as the best way of sew, ing the prisoner, seized him
by the hand in which he held the watch;and calling
out at the same time, the watch was claimed-by:the
young man whom he had seen pressed .on ,by the
prisoner and his coMpanions. Two or three officers
who then eßtmlbp, were extremely anxious to take
charge of the prisotier, but the gentleman refused to
lose sight of him till he had seen him safely lodged,
A young. lad of the name
.of Lennon, proved the
watch to be his,• and that he had not discovered
the theft till the alarntwas given by the.gentleman.
• The prisoner said he had gone with a friend to see
the procession, but had lost him at the other end of
St Paul's Church-yard. Observing a crowd, he
Went,up to see what was the matter, tvhen the watch
in ' question was puiheil into his hand. Fie was
thunderstruck by the Circumstance, and had not re-
covered Irom his surprize when he was seized on by
the gentleman who no-,Z; charged him with the theft.
He was fully committed for trial.

On Friday last a race was run between two gen-
ttemen,of Dumfries for a considerable.bet.i One of
them was to run 50 yards with a person on his back,
weighing about 13 stone,,in the same time that the
uther was to run too yards without any weight.
The loaded gentleman Won the race with_great ease,
Anothtr match has been taken by ths,fierne- gentle-
but,iostead of 13 he is to carry 23 stone.
Lourtig is still in his favour.

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