The Sun.
London, England, 1822-09-13 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGtNCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.--Yesterday a question of considerable
importance to the City Carmen, in the vicinity of the London
Docks and East India warehouses, came on before the LORD
MAYOR. It .was a question as to whether the East India
Company and the merchants having business at the East India
Company's warehous-es, at the tobacco warehouses, and all
those public warehouses near the Minories, Crutched-friars,
Saiage-gardens; Cooper's-row, &c., should or should not be
compelled to hire the carts as they stood in their turn. The
question was considered to inrolve the fate of numbers of small
carmen who, if it was declared that merchants might employ
whom they please, would scarcely ever get employment, as
property would be naturally intrusted to the care of the more
opulent and responsible owners of carts.
A carman was brought before the LORD lIIAYott by one of
the servants of the East India Cdmpany, on a charge of having
obstructed the Company's servants in their business, and
created a disturbance to the annoyance of the public.
The complainant stated, that the prisoner, with other car-
men who said they were the first on the rank, and that there-
fore they ought to be employed first, insisted that a carman
who had been engaged to take away some goods from the Com-
pany's warehouse, as they said in violation of the rights,
should not be employed, and they were ready to prevent him
by force from doing the work. A riot ensued, which, as it
was amongst carmen, could not be done justice to by descrip-
tion. The business of the Company was during the whole of
this time entirely suspended, and it was so often obstructed by
disputes amongst the carmen, not as to the right of the first on
the stand to take the job, but asi-to who was the first on the
stand, that the Company had determined to break through the
rule of hiring the cart in rotation, and to hire whom they
pleased, as they conceived that the carmen could make no
claim whatever of such right under the act, but that it was a
mere private regulation, formed originally with the view of
maintaining peace, but which, as it was found to have a con-
trary tendency, it was absolutely necessary should be put an
end to.

The carman admitted that he had done every thing in his
power, as stated by the complainant, to prevent the cart hired
by the Company from being employed, in violation of their un-
doubted rights, out of its turn. He complained that one of the
Company's officers had arrogated to himself the right of de-
stroying the privileges of the carmen at once, by hiring whom-
soever he pleased. It was, the defendant said, for the ex-
press purpose of resisting this infraction of the carmen's pri-
vileges, that his master sent him to aid in preventing carts from
working that were not regularly taken from the stand, and
the defendant, who is a powerful man, admirably calculated
for such a business, admitted that he had fought zealously in
the cause.

The LORD MAYOR requested the carman, who were present
in support of their brother at the bar, and in defence of their
own interests, to point out the law which authorized them in
their claim to be hired in rotation.

The carmen, or rather cart-owners, pointed out an order I
made by the fellowship carmen in 1771, as the one under which
they now acted, and which, they said, had been strictly carried
into force from that time, and never before been questioned. In
this order it was declared by the Fellowship company, that in
the district comprehending the East India and other public
warehouses the carts should be hired in rotation as they stood
upon the stand.
The LORD MAYOR admitted, that for the sake of peace no
one had thought it worth while not to conform to that order ;
but his Lordship asked, who gave the Fellowship Company a
right to make laws that were to force merchants to intrust their
property to others than whom they pleased ? The fact was,
that it was mere waste paper, that was binding on no oue.—
The act for their regulation, the 30th of George 111., intrusted
to the sessions only the power of making by-laws, and the by-
law which had been made upon the subject only authorized the
carmen, to claim to be hired in turn at the Custom-house, and
the adjacent wharfs. Had the carmen continued to adhere
peaceably to their own regulation, probably their employers
would have continues to acquiesce in it ; but from the miscon-
duct displayed by the carmen, and their repeated obstruction to
business in their disputes, as to who was the first, it became ne-
cessary to declare, that excepting at the wharfs mentioned, no
merchant was bound to take the carts in turn according to the
right assumed by the carmen ; but that he might intrust his
property to whomsoever he chose • and this, his Lordship said,
he should take an opportunity of again declaring in a more
formal manner. As the defendant had acted under a mistaken
notion that he was defending a legal right, his Lordship dis-
charged him with an admonition, but bade him caution his
brethern against any repetition of the offence in support of the
regulation which was now at an end.
His Lordship's decision excited a strong sensation amongst
the carmen, who exclaimed that their privileges were cut down
at once by it. One of them said he had recently given 1251.
for his admission into the Fellowship, that now was not worth
a shilling.
GUILDHIILL.—ROBBERY BY SERVANTS.--Every week's
occurrence at this Justice Room afibrds fresh instances of the
alarming increase of robberies by servants upon the property of
their employers. Since we had last occasion to notice the fre-
quency of these charges, two other individuals, the one a porter
to a tradesman in the Old Bailey, and the other a lad in the
employ of a stationer in Cheapside, have undergone examina-
tion for offences of this nature, and been discharged, from
the unwillingness of their employers to. press a prosecution ;
and yesterday two other persons, viz. Abraham Skynner
and Joseph Peachy, were brought up before the Sitting Al-
derman, Sir RICHARD Cann GLYN, upon a charge of the
same description.
The prosecutor, Mr. John Lawton, gas apparatus and furni-
ture manufacturer, No. 35, King-street, Snow-hill, stated that
the prisoners were his servants, the former having been in his
employ about three years, and the latter two ; that he had the
highest opinion of the integrity of both of them, and though
property to a considerable amount was missing at different
times, no suspicion whatever had fallen upon either of them.
Latterly, however, Skynner appeared to have more money than
usual, and frequently indulged himself to intoxication. This had
caused him to make some inquiry, and he soon learned that he
was in the habit of doing jobs in their line on his own account,
and that he had lately, together with the other prisoner, been
engaged in fitting up a gas light at the Bull public-house, in
King-street. Thither he (Mr. L.) accordingly went, and, upon
examination, found the brass branch pipes, and other materials,
to be his property. Skynner's basket of tools was also found
in the house, and in it certain other articles, the property of his
master. Search had also been made at Skynner's lodgings, in
the Borough, and there also sundry tools and materials for fit-
ting up gas lights, Mr. Lawton's property, were discovered.
Mr. Spencer, the landlord, deposed to having employed the
prisoner Skinner to fit up an additional gas light, which he
said lie could do at after hours in his own time. The prisoner
Peachey had assisted Skynner in doing the job, but he Mr.
Spencer) had no engagement with the former, the amount of
the expenca being to be set off against a debt due to him from'
Skynner.
There being reason' to suspect that this was not the only case
in which the prisoners had been using their master's materials
for their own profit, and that they were not the only persons in
his employ who were carrying on trade upon their own account
at their master's expellee, the prisoners were remanded, to give
time for the necessary inquiries.
BOW-STREET.—ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—Yesterday
Thomas Jones, a -middle-aged man, was brought before Sir
R. BIRNIE, charged with robbing his master, Mr. Dunn, a
tailor and woollen-draper, in Bedford-street, Covent Garden,
of 14 skeins of silk and other articles. It appeared from the
statement of Mr. Dunn and his foreman, that the prisoner had
been in the employment of the former for several years, and
had always maintained an excellent character. Latterly ar-
ticles of almost every kind in which Mr. Dunn dealt had been
missed, and although a vigilant eye was kept upon the actions
of all the servants in the establishment, no clue could be
obtained to tix the crime upon any one of them until yes-
terday morning, when it was brought home to the prisoner be-
yond the possibility of a doubt. The prisoner was fully com-
mitted.

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.—Yesterday the thirteen Irish-
men were brought up, and underwent another examination on
the charge of the disgraceful riot in Oxford-buildings on Sun-
day night last. No further evidence was adduced, with the
exception of Daniel Morgan, the boy who was so unmercifully
beaten, and he could not positively identify any of the pri-
soners.—The Magistrate severely admonished and discharged
them upon their own recognizances to keep the peace. Four
were held to bail for the assault upon the officers.

WORSHIP-STREET.—DEPRAVED HABITS IN LOW LIFE.
—A man named Lupon., residing in Hare-street, Bethnal-
green, by trade a dollmaker, was yesterday brought up on a
warrant before WILLIAM BENET T, Esq., the presiding Ma-
gistrate, for indecently assaulting and ill-treating Caroline
Morris, a young girl, 14 years of age. It appeared that Caro-
line Morris was hired to the defendant, and for him she cried
water-tresses through the streets, for which she received her
food and some clothes ; but so poor were the friends of Caro-
line, and so poor was her master, that as the latter had but one
bed in the house, the friends of the former consented, to her
sleeping in the same with her master and his wife. It was in
this situation the ill-treatment arose.

The mother of this nirl, with two half starved children in her
arms, said she let her daughter go to her master, knowing there
was but one bed, but the master had promised there should
soon be another.
The defendant had only his poverty to plead in excuse for
having the girl in the same bed, and said he would /not have
her for a servant in future.
Mr. BENE TT expressed his surprise at this scene of depra-
vity. It was almost incredible that a man would thus disre-

gard all ideas of decency ; and more on this account thin
that of the assault stated by the girl, he should hold the ug"
fendant to bail. In the mean time, the girl was given to thf
care of her mother, who had a summons to the parish for relic'
The defendant was committed for want of sureties.

Ugrox-HALL.—In some of the papeis of yesterday the/
appeared an account of the conduct of a set of very " despera,.,te
fellows, who were said to have forced into the house o a 'I'!"
Passey, in High-street, Newington, and demanded rrioas”
with the threats generally. used by housebreakers. The
count, however, closed with stating, that neither blood
been shed, nor money taken, although the band of desperadw.
had the command of the house, and were armed ; and we we:
happy to see that the watchmen have so high a character r
Newington as to set to flight a gang of villains to the numb
of 20 or 30 without ever making their appearance.
One of these terrible fellows was fortunately taken into CO'
tody, and the following elucidation of the circumstances was

given : he, William Sharpe, apprentice to Mr. Passey, who is a prin
said, that about half past ten o'clock on Monday nigilL --b,
heard a knock at the hall door, and upon asking who was t...„"`5,'
was answered, from without, that his master was wanted.
ness opened the door, and several men rushed into the 104`,
some of them carrying cleavers. He at once called down Pid
master to turn' the fellows out. Witness did not complain • •
having received any violent treatment. He identified the Pe,l-,
soner, who is a butcher in St. George's-market, in Southwell"
and whose name is William Locks, as the first person wh°
tered the hall with a cleaver on his shoulder.
Mr. Passey said, that upon hearing the noise became d°Wnis:
stairs, and some voice called out " Mr. Passey, We have cellirt
to drink your health." Witness, who knew that his YieiWy
were butchers, and judged that they came with their roarr,l,
bones and cleavers, under the impression that a wedding O'"i
taken place in the house, assured them that there had heell
wedding, and desired them to leave the house or theyshould
to the watch-house. The prisoner was very conspicuous,
a cleaver on his shoulder, and refused to leave the house wi
out money or drink. He added, that there were 24 of the elfin.
pany outside, and that if the witness let loose his dog at the:lbl;
as he threatened to do, the dog should certainly die. All hi
butchers, with the exception of the prisoner, retired, Ihe
persisted' in demanding drink or money for some time.
dog was let loose; but nothing more ensued. The prlse_m
soon after left the house without money or drink. The wit 'l7.
stated that Mrs. Passey was excessively terrified at the dist.oo.
bance made by those savage fellows, and went into hYsteri
He added, with tears in his eyes, that her alarm had that
ing caused a miscarriage ; and that about 12 months ag° ho
same consequences had resulted from similar conduct

believed, the part of the very same fellows.
The prisoner was apprehended, at the desire r)f Mr. r 1,:;
in St. George's Market. He denied that he bad been
party to Mr. Passey's house.
The fellow was remanded by the Magistrate (R. HEI3°LI..
Esq.) until Mrs. Passey's medical attendant dull bele, t
nounced upon the state of her health. The Magistrate saiu the
the practice described was most unjustifiable, and that if
prisoner had received money, his situation would have bees
extremely serious.
Henry Marshalt; alias Moore, was again put to the bar
bo
charged with having stolen the pistol out of the Cl''P
watchhouse. •
The case receives additional interest at every examination'
The constables who identified the pistol made some intlui
respecting the character of Marshall, which were answere'
such a manner as to•add to the impressions against Win- us.
The constable said, that he had called at the house of a pr.
dress, in Peter-street, Westminster, with a letter from the_LA
toner, requesting the loan of some money, which the viu'isl
was too poor to lend. She told the witness. that Market, he
been but five weeks discharged flom the Penitentiaryz viz t,"'oo.
had been imprisoned five year's. She said that she knew
a;
thing of the young man's parents or friends, or indeed 0' 50
self, but what she said about the confinement. Witness slid
detailed the particulars of the robbery of the pistol in
waThhtchouseriso
e pner was again questioned in vain as to rstialsa
and address., He varied from his former account, by „sti
that his father lived near Norwich. He said that he lived
no particular house, hilt slept in different public-housetw:
that he was inliquor when he hired the coach to drive to
ham-common. 010
The prisoner said it must be evident that he had no inte
of stealing the pistol, or the report of it would scarcely '-
been heard in th a
e officeClaphamtrust,
Mr. Franks, Gentleman connected with the Clapha
took the trouble to make many inquiries relative to thie oce•
soner ; but he found- that every thing the young man had oil
tinned to him.was false. Marshall was then fully c°llll/1
for stealing the pistoL

THE LATE MRS. DONATTY.—IR COnSegliel
of no heir being found to lay claim to the Pro";
perty left by the late Mrs. DONATTY (Who
readers may recollect was barbarously murderebo
GEORGE MAULE, Esq., the King's Proctors en
administered in behalf of the Cro.% n, and
possession of her house and nil niture, in Rob the
street. A catalogue has been printed, of
ingg
effects, among which are several original pain le
and drawings from the pencil of the late ce

brated GEORGE MORLAND.
DESPERATE AFFRAY AND A MAN KILLE".O
Saturday, between ten and eleven o'clock la
night, a party of young men, about thirti,too
number, from Langley Burrel, and /(ing;ith
Langley, entered Chippenham, armed loft
bludgeons and other weapons, when they ass° oft,
and most dreadfully beat all persons they
t°ote,
without any distinction. We are sorry t° 5 as
that Mr. Hall, a respectable saddler, vv"„ sag
called out of bed by the cry of " Murder, lag,
taken up and carried home dead. Mr. 1011°00
a brazier, lies without any hopes of recovery' able
Noer, a constable, lies also in a most dePl°rs are
state, and upwards of twenty other Pers°Peoti
suffering under severe contusions. Nearly t 0110
of the assailants, including two ringleaders,todp
are most respectable farmers, are now in °so
to
This shameful and desperate outrage is:bglei
have originated at the last Kingston cot'
Revel, where some offence was taken at t"efloi#
duct of some young men of Chippenhau't
Paper, Sept. 11.) o'hOr
On Tuesday afternoon, as Mr. TogLISs re'
Seymour Lodge, Sydenham Common) villord,
turning home from town, on entering the Ziouig
young horse, which was loose, began, before
furiously at the one which he rode, and for his
the servant (who had opened the gate to OP
master) could drive him off, we are sorry.
struck Mr. TOMLINSON with such violence
break his leg.
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Mrs. Blowfield. Chaci" frYl-
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