The Sun.
London, England, 1809-10-13 00:00:00

POLICE.

MARLSOROUGE•,STREBT..--A person who styled
himself Sir G. Thomas, and Capt. Thomas, was yes-
terday charged with an offence, at this Office, by,the
principal waiter at Hatcbett's Hotel, Piccadilly, of
which the following are the particulars :—The .
toner called at Hatchett's Hotel,'""ana talked about
lodgings, -on Wednesday morning, and inihe even-
ing he returned and engiged a room for the night, as
Sir G. Thomas. Yesterday morning, whilst the head
waiter was lying in bed, he Observed the Prisoner
open the room door, and steal gently into' the bed-
room, but on seeing him the latter retired. The waiter
suspeCted a thief had got into tile house, and he lost
no time in alarming the family at' the hotel. Th'e
doors were watched, and it soon turned out that a
Gentleman's room had been entered, and his trunk
broken open, but the Gentleman was at Blackheath,-
and consequently the content, of the trunk wetki,not
precisely known but the•pnsoner-Was taken into cuS
tody .as a suspicioo character. This was the evi-
dence on the part c the prosecution, and the • pri,
sutler was asked "for his defence. . He stated himself
to havelately returned from America, and that he
bad also'bten in Sweden, where he was knighred
for -Iteroi,n, in the Swedish -armor. He talked. a
goed deal about persons Of -'rankY7tatit he acknow._
lodged that he was witbottr cash, and denied. the
imputation from Hatchett'i'Hotel. He went- on to
state that ,he had a trunk at the Blue- Posts,- in'Ox-
ford-street wLich • contained doculnents sttliCient
satisfy the Magistrate of his- credibility. • The pri--
suner wasdetained whilst the-sdid:trunk wits obtained,
which contained mere rubbish, and it. turned out that
this trunk. had also.been seized at the suit of a tavern.
keeper for his expences. The prisoner was remand-
ed for another examination. He is about 34 years of
_age, slight made, and of a dark complexion.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
Bow-STUEET.-"ffilliat/i Barslem was charged by
Townsend, the ofliLer, who said, that. during the
performance on Wednesday night, he heard a whis.,
tle blown, and going inio the,passage between the
basket boxes and tpe front, he saw All. B. standing
in one of the basket boxes, and- after some short
'time, saw him put tt;e whistle to his mouth, and
whistle very loud. Townsend then went round Into
the box, and stood near the Prisoner, who again
whistled twice in the same way, but not so loud.
He then laid hold of him, and with the assistance of
a party of the patrote, who were in attendance,
took him out of the boxes; the audience having
been much annoyed by the noise that he had made.
He was ordered to find hail.
Charles. .Pocock, of Cheapside, was charged with a
similar offence. .

Mr. Gibbons, of Mary-le-bone Park, stated, that
be observed Mr. Pocock in the first circle of the,
boxes blowing.a whistle, which disturbed him and.
the rest of the audience very much. There was a
great noise and disturbance in the house at the time,
particularly in the pit, which Mr. PocoLk, encour-
aged by calling out encore, and kiciiing the seats
with great violence. he was ordered to find bail.
James Silverthortze, of Kensington Gravel Pits,
belonging to the Post-Orlice, was charged with a si-
milar offence.

Thomas Hunt, one of the patrole, •said., be ob-
served the Prisoner in the one-shilling gallery, in the
second seat trotu the front, blowing a whistle ; he,
in consequence, got down from. the WO: add secured
hitn, when the Prisoner dropped the whae.
Or-
dered to tad •
_ . _

S'aingel Stallard, of Smb hheld, Stock-broker,
was brought in the custody of -Smith, one of the
patrole, charged with blowing a-horn.
George White, jun. of .Park-street, 'Westminster,
said, be heard a horn blowing in one of the dress-
boxes, by the Prisoner; he had no doubt of his
identity he blew it very bad. He got hold of the
horn, and endeavoured to wrest it from him, but he
received a violent blow upon his arm, which obliged
him to let it go. -The door of the box was soon
after opened, when he gave• charge of the Prisoner
to the patrole..
Mr. ,Gibbons said, he observed the Prisoner in one
of the dress. boxes; his conduct was extremely,
violent; indeed, he encouraged the disturbances in
the pit, by leaning over the trout of the J./ox and en-
couraging the audience in the pit to go on. Mr.
Gibbons .remonstrated with him upon the impro-
priety of his condo, , as there was no disturbance
in other parts of the house at. the time., The Pri-
soner replied, that the Managers were a set of black-
guards, for he had purchased 'of, one of their hired
ruffians in the street, an order signed by Mr. Harris,
for five shillings to admit two to the boxes;. and
that this business would end in blood, for the Ma-
nagers had hired a gang of Jews, and all 'the ruf-
flans in London.
Several Gentlemen proved his blowing a horn.
MC. GRAHAM, the Magistrate, ordered him to rind
bail, hituself in 500 L
and
t.WO sureties in 2501. each.
Yesterday morning they were all adtbitted to bail,
and entered into recognizancei themselves in tool.
and two sureties in 501. each, except Mr. Stallard.
Mr. HUMPHRIES is engaged by the M'anagers to
condua the prosecution.
The following are the names of some of the per-
sons taken into custody last at Covent Garden
Theatre, and ordered by the IN:3gistrates of kow-street to find bail; to answer for their conduit :
John Desmardryb, Alexander Cheeke,. and Thomas
Waugh.

L. 17- REPORT.

SHERI FF'4 COURT, Ocr, it;

szioxE CATOR7 ESQ. UNDER SHERIF!, AND A.
SitCIAL JURY.
BERKELEY HUNT--MORE DAMAGES.

RIDGE V. OLDACIIIIS.
Mr. HARRISON stated., that 'the Jury in thii-caie
was called upon to assess damages between Samiiel
Ridge, a farmer, renting a considerable quantity of
land in the neighbourhood of Louden., in an aEtiOn
against the Defendant, who was huntsman to the
Berkeley Hunt. He had, he Said, thehatiour of ad=
,dressing a considerable nutnber of the Jury.upon a for=
mer occasion, in an anion against Mr. Salter, one of
the proprietors of the hunt, and he had hoped that
-the result of that proceeding, and the verdiCt which
-was afterwards given at the last Hertford Assizes
against the Hon. Mr. Capel,' would have prevented
'the necessity of any other Jilry being applied to pn
the same snbje6t.- -It was necessary be should Prp-
perly explain the reason why the Plaintiff, in defence
of his own property, had deemed it necessary to
execute this 'inquiry. Soon after the late verdi6t,
the- Berkeley hounds were carried to Tattersall's, ap-
'parently for the purpose of being sold. It however
tamed out that they were bought' in by one of the
former proprietors, and then, before the leaves were
off the trees, and before the hunting season general-
ly commenced, the same peisons, who before com-
posed the hunt, returned to their favourite diversion
of pursuing foxes, and 'seemed determined to enjoy
it, whatever might be the consequences of it. * The
Jury would be astonished tp hear that the Plaintiff, in
the course of a few years, sustained a loss of upwards
tof 3001. in consequence of the persons composing the
Berkeley Hunt. continually riding over his
The Learned Counsel proceeded to state, that the
-systeM of under-drainage, and the general nature cf
cultivation in the neighbourhood of Edgewarebury,
where the plaintiff resided, rendered hunting much
inure injurious the farmer than probably it might
i be in otter parts of the Country.. He observeth that
the hunt was • not 'now concluded .as when it was
under the management of Lord Berkeley or Lerd
Sefton.. At those periods it wits composed of per-,
sons who were themselves large proprietors, who
'studionslyAvoided doing any-thing that. was,•calcu-,
hued to injureor annoy the farmers. The hunt was
t •
1 now concluded in a manlier widely different—the
day of turning out was advertised--a splendid din-.
tier was provided to regale_the hunters with after-.
wards, and the spot seleded was in the immediate
vicinity of
„London—the consequence was, that
the hunt,, instead of being' altogether- compos-
t ed of Gentlemen of rank and lottune, who
were known, .. and
_were col petent to pay. . da-
mages if they committed trespasses, was made up.
of a mixture of 'persons from London—horse,:
dealers, clerks, and people who having.no substance
of their own, out of which- they-could' indemnify
the farmer, well knew that the farmer would never
consider it worth his while to seek indemnity from
them. He should haVe no difficulty in proving, in
aggravation of the case, that the defendant, who
was huntsman to the former owners, was likewise
huntsman to the present ones,' and that his employ-
ers were determined to hunt, let the consequences
be . what they would ; he trusted that. the verdict
would be such as would shew them, that the law
laid down by a Learned Judge was not to be treated
with contempt, or violated with impunity.
These facts were clearly proved by •the evidence
produced on the part of the plaintiff.
Mr. Ammer, the Defendant's solicitor,in theab-
sence of Mr. MARLI ATT, his Counsel, addressed the
Jury, with much ability and ingenuity, in mitigation
of damages. The argument on which he principally
relied was, that the 'damages already recovered by the
Plaintiff amply compensated him for any injury he
might.have sustained, and he therefore trusted the
damages
.in the present instance, would be merely
nominal. .
There was another aaion against Cowley, the
Vyrliippersin,. but as the .circumstances and evidence
were exactly the same as in the for Mer case, it was
agreed the two atiions should be consolidated, that
the verdiEt of the Jury should refer to both, and
that :the damages should be afterwards apportioned.
Mr. UNDER-SHERIFF repeated the evidence, and
accompanied. it with a few observations. •
The Jury consulted a Short time, and assessed the
darnages at 601. awarding 301. to be paid by each
Defendant.

A letter from Riga, dated the 20th tilt. has been re.
ceived, and fit:an its silence on the alleged storm i*
the Baltic, we have reason to believe that the report
of the dispersion of the convoy in that sea is unfound-
ed. Sonic le.w additional ships had taken their depar-
ture, and from the faVourable winds, it is presumed
that they have already cleared the Sound. Apprehen- •
sions were entertained from the eitiivity of the Danish
privateers, 'but it was hoped that the.vigilance of our .
navy would prevent their depredations, at this season,
when the valuable returns from the north depend upon
the faithful discharge of its duties.
Yesterday an Inquest was held before ANTHONY'
GELL, Esq. at the King's Head, James-street, Pim-
lico, on the-body of-Michael Casile,carman to Messrs.'.
Rickman and Russ, wine-Merchants, in Hunget-ford--
market, who, it appeared, met his deatli'lay acciden-
tally falling out of a cart on Monday last, near Ald-"'
gate Church.—Verdict---Acridental death.
A few days since, an Inquest was taken at Ciren-
cester, before Wzt. Tam°, Gent. Coroner, on view
of the body of Wm. Horton, a child about five years
.of age, who, whilst amusing himself on a chair, roll-
into a skeet in:which his mother had just poured a
quantity of hot elder-berry wine, and was so dread-
fully scalded, that he died soon atter in excrcLciating
pain.-7-Verdict—Accidental death.
The rage for sharing the TwO :Hundred Thou-
sand Pounds Prize-Mtiney on Friday next is scarcely
to be credited. Hoxersal and Co-expe[ience a sale'
of Tickets and Shares to an unusual extent ; they.
therefore take the liberty of saying as inuch to the
Public, in order that no disappoitatuent should oc.
-cur to those who intend having-So valuable a chance.
In 1807 and 8, HORNSBY and Co, shared thiee of
20,0001. two of 10,0001. three of 5,0001. one of
4,0001. one of 2-,0001. three of 1,0001. 6of Awl.
Sze. at the it old established State Lottery ptfices,
No. 26; C ; and St. Margaret's;hill, Bo-
rough.
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