The Sun.
London, England, 1836-11-04 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEX

Yesterday Mr. Thomas John Wall, of No. 78, Upper
Seymour-street, St. Pancras, was brought to this office on
a warrant, in the custody of Nesbit, the officer, charged
by Mr. Richard Bond, broker, of No. 54, Seymour-street,
Euston-square, St. Pancras, with having created a dis-
turbance. The complainant, in consequence of several of
the inhabitants of St. Pancras parish having refused to pay
the church rates, was employed to distrain upon their goods
and chattels, and large placards were generally circulated
and stuck up about the streets, in order to excite the parish,
and cause their resistance to the church rates. On Thurs-
day evening last witness was walking quietly through the
street, when the defendant called out, " There goes the
church-rate broker ; that is him who goes about t 9 aistrain
upon the people's goods for church-rates ;" and he took out
his poolto-handliarabirf and blew his nose in a manner of-
fensive and insulting to witness, and by his conduct he col-
lected a mob of about thirty persons.
Mr. Woodman, of No. 23, Crescent-place, St. Pancras,
proved having Lcurd the defendant call out, " There goes
the church-rate broker," and call him a rogue, by which a
crowd of about thirty persons was collected.

Mr. LAlNo.asked him what he had to say to the charge?
The defendant denied it, and put questions to the witnesses,
with a view to prove that he had not made use of the lan.
guage attributed to him, and that no mob was collected ;
but they persisted in the statements which they had made.
He was ordered to find bail, when several of the Radical
party of the parish who were present offered themselves,
and, being received, he was liberated.

Lately distraints have been made upon Mr. Thomas
Murphy, and various others, who have resisted the payment
of church-rates, and considerable excitement has been
created in the parish, and large placards have been posted
in the various streets to incite opposition on the part of the
inhabitants.

John Bassett, a master sweep, residing at Islington, and
Charles Bassett, his son, a blacksmith, were brought up
upon a warrant, charged with having committed an assault
and outrage.

Mr. Cave, a tax-collector of Islington, employed Mr.
Lowder, a broker, to distrain upon the goods and chattels
of Bassett, sen., for poor-rates, and on Wednesday last he
placed John Beaumont, an elderly man, in possession.
Yesterday morning he (Mr. Cave) received information
that the old man had been shut up in a soot-hole, and he
proceeded to Bassett's house with the broker for the pur.
pose of making the seizure, when both the prisoners op-
posed them in a violent manner, and swore they would
murder them if they dared to enter the place, and the
younger prisoner made an attack upon them with a large
hammer, with which he struck them, and at length they
succeeded in giving them into custody.
John Beaumont, an elderly man, on Wednesday last was
put in possession at Bassett's house, when the prisoners
seized hold of him, and forced him into the soot-hole, and
fastened him in.

Mr. LAlNG—Pray' how long did they keep you there ?
Beaumont—All the precious night, your worship ; and I
was nearly smothered with soot.—(A laugh.)
Mr. LAING—What is the prisoner ? Beaumont (point-
ing at Basset, sen.)—What, that gentleman, your Honour?
Mr. LAING—No, not that gentleman, after locking you up
in a soot-hole all night.—(Laughter.)
Beaumont—Why, Sir, he is a sweep by profession.--(A
laugh.)
Mr. LAING—You call chimney-sweeping a profession, do
you ? Beaumont—Vy, its rather dirty vurk to be sure,
your Wurship.—(lmmense laughter.)
Mr. Lowder said, when they released him he was quite
faint, and covered with soot, so that he could scarcely re-
cognise him, and he was greatly alarmed for his safety.
Beaumont—l have hardly recovered my woice yet.—
(Laughter.)
Mr. LAING asked old Basset what he had to say ?
Bassett—He fell in by accident, and I shut the door with-
out knowing he was there. I did not put him in, upon my
honour, your 'Worship.
The son denied the'assault, and said they had no right to
make a seizure until five days after the notice.

He was fined 205., or twenty-one days' imprisonment,
and the father was ordered to find bail.

MARLBOROUGILSTREET.

Dindorat Roby, Casimir Ifryszaniszki, and Johannes
Hicht, three Poles, were yesterday brought before Mr.
DYER, charged with having created a disturbance at the
Salisbury Hotel, Bear-street, Leicester-square.
Evidence having been tendered to show that Hicht had,
in the first instance, attempted to make peace, he was dis-
charged and the other two held to bail.