The Sun.
London, England, 1812-12-25 00:00:00

POLICE.

GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday -the guardsman of the
Leeds maiicoath was brouglit before Mr. Alder-
man woos,, the presiding Magistrcte, accused by
Mr. Jones, a respectable jeweller, residing in Tri-
nity-court, with haying clamorously required ad-
mitt,nre ate his mother's-house, at two o'clock in
the mcrning, demanding in a menacing tone that
a young w,,lraan who lodged there shouldhe-sur-
rendered to him for the purpose of conveying her
to heriparents at Leeds. Mr. Jones expostulat-
ed With the guardsman nn the impropriety of .per
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witting a young defenceless woman to wander
abroad at that early hour with a stranger ; upon
which the guardsman- amused himself in applying
a profusion of epithets, not xemarliable• for the
chastity of their meaning, toMr. Jones and his
mother, to the annoy ance of them and the whole
neighbourhood.
In his detente, the guardsman admitted that he
was a little elevated with liquor, but he had got a
peremptory order from the father and mother of
tv young woman who lodged in Mr.'Jones's house,
to call upon her and convey her to their house
near Leeds. It was in the execution of this tom-
mission that he had occasioned all the present
cause of eoznplaint. He bad brought the young
woman to London Sbine-weeks ago; and she had
not got a place. - Her parents were, in good cir-
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cpri st n ces.

Mr., Alderman Woon having satisfied hiiitself
that the young woman was lodged in a house of
respectability, inquired if she was desirous of re
turning to her parents ?
The damsel came forward, and displayed con-
siderable personal comeliness and modestysof de-
meanour; She declared that her .father warned
her . how much she would regret her journey to
London ; but she hearkened to the .solicitations
alady, of the mune of Gibson, wbo desired her,
when she wanted a place, ,to apply to her in Len-
don, and she Would place a respectable
situation. She had appl!ed to this lady,, and had
got a place in Pall-1111.1, to which she would go
on Wednesday next. She would, rather remairrin.
Lilndon than go home, unless that, .her mother
happened to be taken ill.
The prosecutor very generously forgave the
guardsman, on his promise that be would cease to,
alarm his house any more with- such unseasOnahle
visitations ; and the worthy Alderman -declared
that he would call himself on Mrs. Gibson con-
cerning- the young woman, and likewise satisfy
himself that she had procured her an admission
into a respectable family.
. Michael Cunningham, was fully 'committed for
trial at the Old fia.ilcy Sessions, for having stolen
the hearing" brasses of Mr. llaiumorid's sawing-
Machine, at Bankside.

-Bo Vir-STRMET .--Yesterdav Edward Connelly was
brought to the office, charged with bcing con-
cerned in working a private still, hißolton Mews,
St. George's, Hanover-square.
`William Butterworth, one Of,the conductors of
the patrole belonging to the office, said, he went
on ‘Vednesday with some excise officers, and
Hooker,. one of the pap.ole, to Bolton Mews, in
scarchof a private distillery. They gained admit-
ttince into a stable whiCh goes under,Bolton-yard ;
and a few yards from the stable-door, on the out-
side, where they prOceeded.so far, without mak-
ing any noise., when Hooker had she misfortune
to fail down, which caused the prisoner to run out
of a smail cave, dug in the earth, Where there was
a fire and a bed, which convinced them he lived
there.—He had a lighted candle in his hand, and
I:.ppeared vecy much alarmed.' They: asked him
xtho the place belonged. to. lie refused to
On their telling him they would make him,
he called out murder, and appeared very much
-frightened

John Allen, an excise officer, said, that in con-
sequence of private, information, and by virtue of
the warrant, he went to the above.premiSes, and
found the•prisoner .as' described by Butterworth,
with a lighted candle in his -hand. in a. stable
under Bolton-yard they fovnet a horse and a dog;
and in au, inner stable, both of them being under
ground, they found a private still, which was not
at work, nor was it charged ; but there was a
quantity of coke and wood in the fire-place, . laid
ready for lightning. On searching the premises,
they found seven casks, with about seventy gal-
lons of wash in a completi, state of. •fermentation.
Three empty caskS, and about half a Inindred
weight of raw sugar, which they believed. to be
for the purpose of distilling. Also a still in a
complete state ready-for working, which appeared
as if it had lately been worked.
The prisoner was convicted in the penalty of
301. which he refusing to pay, 'he was committed
to the House of Correction for six months. •

Rob. Juhnson was charged with a similar offence
by Samuel Meadows and Thomas putney, Excise
Officers.

Putney said, that by virtue of a warrant, he went
to the house No. 5, in Popham-street, Islington_
not being able to gain admittance by fair means,.
he got over a wall into- a yard, and went down to.
the kitchen, and in a temporary shed adjoining it,
he found a' copper still, a copper head, with a
complete worm, and the whole at work distilling
of low wines. In the kitchen he found kil:Mt
seventy gallons of wash, and about thirty gallons
ref low wines, and-the same quantity of raw spirits:
several casks, a number of tin vessels in the :ihape
of sugar limns, and three square wash backs.
Samuel Meadows said, he gained admittance by
getting- permission to go through the adjoining
house, and got over a wall, and in at a back door,
and on his entrance he met the prisoner, and asked
him what he was cluing there ? lie replied, no-
thing ; he had not been there long ; the premises
were not his, and refused to tell whose they were,
or to give any, further account:--He searched the
premises, and found a still.
The prisoner being 'convicted in the penalty
of thirty pounds, hich he refused to pay, he
was" committed to tlie House of Correction fur six
months. .

UNION-HALL .—Wm. !Jewels was brought up
yesterday by-poff, charged with having in his
posseision .a large quantity of King's naval stet-es.

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