The Sun.
London, England, 1812-05-04 00:00:00

POLICE.

ILlMlALL.—OnSattirday the son of a respeE?ib`ic
tradesman in the Old Bailey, Wai charged before Sr, .1 -
SHAW, the Sitting Alderman, with being cotwerp,
with others the night before, in robbing a trad-svii3,l
of hispocket-b(iok,containing five one-pound
&c. The complainant said he was going hone;
between twelve arid one k, through the (Ad

Bailey, and (hat hearing4yiolin, and seeing sever,l
persons eolleFied in a ce)urt, he went past them,
when he was knocked doWbrand robbed of his boc k

by one of the tm,n, who handed it over to the pri-
soner, who ran ~ff with it, and was puriued nd
taken, btit no book was found. The prisoner clew
flied having hid the book, and seemed much affe6l-
- at his situation. The prosecutor was confirmed

in his story by a than in company with him, who
said the' man with !he violin .was surround by
pickpockets, one of whom called out to floor him,
and his companion was immediately knocked down;
lint he did not see his pocket-book taken from him.
The prisoner was- remanded till his father and
friends could appear for him.
• - A genteel •dressed man, who had been managing.
clerk to-a Proctor in Do6tor's Commons, was, charg;

ed by his wife with 'cruel
Sand
,shatneful treatment
to her and his children; and with threatening het
life. This wascanfirnied by the neighbours,. who

said they had been alarmed many nights past by the
prisoner's coming home in the middle of the night ;
and• ntlce he set his bed on fire. Tire man attempt:-

ed to juatity all he had clOne, and appeared in a tie-
ranged state. He was committed to find surety.
W-STREET.—Private information having beeri
received by Humphreys and,Clements, belonging tcl
the Office, that a strong suspicion was entertained
that .a gang of comets resided at a house in Skin:.
ner's-place, St. Pancras, they in consequi:nCe went
.several eights last weel< to watch the tirltise desctib,
ecl ; they were not able to gain any certain informa-
tion, but from the smell that proceeded from it ;
they had a strong suspicion that soap was, being
made in it ; they in consequence applied to,two Ex-;
cise Officers, w,ho *accompanied 1 hem on Friday

, •
night about eight o'clock in besetting the house,
front and back ; one of them got into the area to
force his way in with an iron crow; this alarmed
some persons in the inside, who' were heard run.
ning up stairs. lirealy afterwards the Street doot
opened, and a man rushed out without any hdt or
coat on; he was stopped., Another.man followed
him out of the house in great agitation and confu-
sion, and witnout a hat.- They called out violently
murder, thieves, &c. which culletted a large. mob
of people and a violent scuffle ensued. Humphreys
came op from the back of the premises: where he_
had stationed himself, and secured the men by ty-

ng their arms and legs, and they were conveyed to
the watch-house. Afterwards the Excise and Po-

lice Officers
.proceeded ro search the house, and
found in the kitcrie:r seven vats keparing to make
soap lees. Some of the vats had_materials; and se-
veral instruments charged with soap lees, and grease
used in making snap. Also some frames with the
remains of cleansing soap, others of the fraares fthd
soap in them. , The Excise officers, whr had been
in the habit of seeing soap, had no doubt but soap
had been made in the bourse of that day in the
kitchen. In the vault -under the street, they found
a great quantity of ashes which had la,-en used in
preparation of lees. In the room up- stairs there
were several empty grease tubs.
On Saturday morning the two men, John Ste-
phenson and Georte Simpkin were brought before
Mr. Graham, and conViCted of aiding and assist-
ing in manufaCturing soap hi a place not entered
agreeably to the Excise Laws.. The? were fine.'
201. each, which they not being prepared to pay,
they were, sentenced totwo,months' imprisonment.
In the.course of the afternoon Stephenson paid his
fine and was discharged. Simpkln was committed
agreeably to his sentence.
MARLBOROUGH STREBT.—John Holden, a dis-
. carded servant, was charged by Mr. PLEsTowc, the
Magistrate, with attempting to impose on him a
forged written character, as a focittnan. He sus-
pected him to he an impostor, and desired him to
wait on him on a future day, and he would write
to a Mr. Wilson, in Sussex, who was referred to.
for charaaer. Mr. P. did not write until the day
after he had promised, and then In ,(de Mr. Wilson
acquainted with his suspicions. Mr. W.' made a
.fac simile of the Magistrate's letter, together with
the London post-mark, arid left it at the Post Office,
from whence the defendant obtained it, the post.-
master having been in !he secret. Mr. W. wrote to
Mr. P. and informed him that the fellow was then
in his kitchen, and that he had ascertained, that be
formerly lived in the country, and was of a bad
character. On the day after the receipt of his let-
ter another was received, signet Wilson, giving
Holden an excellent charaaer. On hi' waiting on
Mr. P. again, he was taken into custody. His stsier
lived in Mr. Wilson's family. He was committed
for three months to the Hou.e of Correction, it, de-
fault of paying a fine,ol 201.