The Sun.
London, England, 1812-06-22 00:00:00

DOLICE.

BOW ET Gaming . House. cons e -
qu e nce of all information that unlawful games
were carried on at the house No.
,4i?, in -Pall=-
Mall, Adkins, accOmpanied. by Taunton, Salmon,.
Mance, Perry„ and several others, were dispatch-
ed there, oh Thursday night, with a len:raat to
search the house, and apprehend all in it; • They
got easy access, and some of theMll4l, entered the
back drawing room on the first floor, hefore it
was known that "Officers, were in the hOuse,
general scene of scuffle ensued between -the per-
sons assembled in the room round the gaming-
table and the Officers. A man, who we tinder-
_ stand to be a Gentleman of rank, made his escape-
out of the window. An Officer in the Guards, in
a deSperate effort, escaped out of the room, met
Adkins on the stairs, and being a powerful man,
knocked the officer down, and eventually escaped.
Another Officer in the Guards, in , the general
•' scene of confusion, and'scufft, got
,a black eye,.
had his coat torn, and was robbed.of 901. Salmon,
who was one who assisted in executing the war-
rant, was seized by the back of his neck, so as to
prevent hint nearly froth moving ; he heard a voice
call out to shoot hith ; he was nearly choaked,
till Perry came to assist him: On Friday, the
parties secured, were brought to the above Office,
and underwent an e:;amination before,Mr. Nares.
Adkins confirmed the above, and said that there
bad been playing in the house on that night.=
Taunton produced a great quantity of common
playing- cardS, led cards of the same size
as playing Cards, others with lines, figures,
with a number:of small steel bodkins, with seal-
ing wax fixed On for heads; in pin-cushions. The
officer placed them in the same state, with some,
Bank of England notes, ,as they were when he
seized them on the gaming table, and he bad no
doubt, froth the bodkins to mark on the cards,
with lines; &c.' but the game of Rouge, et Noir
had been played at. Salmon produced a quantity
of.playing red cards, and silver counters, that
pass for ten shillings in that house ; a dice box,
and mahogany money scrapers, which,, no doubt,
had been used to draw the counters, or tokens,
belong- to the house, when playing for 4em on
the table.

Mance produced a number of small tin shovels
with long handles, which no doubt had been us'vd
when guineas
.were in circulation. The green
cloth which covered the large gaming table was
aho produced ;. it was ornamented with yellow.
and -red stripes, 'which- could_ not be explained.
A very largq round, aperture was in tile middle,
which was for what is called the 'well. A twenty-
penny fleet note, which was stuck. Up in the
gambling room, with a written notice under-
neath it, stating that it had been taken on the
14th of last May, in that room, for a twenty
pound note. When the officers first entered the
room, a,number of men were sitting round the
table.

After the evidence of the officers was gone
through, Mr.-ALLEY called iiponthem to produce
the money that bad been taken from the room:
He said that about r)901. bad been taken or stolen
from the room, 100/. from'off the table, and 901.
forcibly taken out of an Officer in the Gudrds'
pocket, and strongly suspected the informer to be
a. man of the name of Coombe,
.and that he was
with them, and had taken the vlimey.
Adkins declared that pp person accompanied
him, but those belonging to the Office, 'and that
he did not know a man of the name of Coombe.
He said, when it was known that officers were
in room, a scene of confusion took place, and
there was a general scramble for what was on the
table.

:The master was held to bail, as proprietor of
the house, himself in 2VI. .and two sureties in
1001. each, for his good behaviour, and not to be
found in a gambling-house fortwelve mouths ; and
three others, suspected of being concerned. in the
conducting and managing: the house, were held to
bail ; themselves in 100/. each, and two sureties
'each in 501. on similar conditions.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—=A NOble Lord charg-
ed a female with sending him letters of a threat-
ening nature:by which his life was endangered.—
The following is the substance of the case :7---the
complainant'stated, that be had corresponded with
the defendant by letter, in' consequence of her
having addressed him as a female who had been
ill-treated and distressed ; and it was to .alleviate
her misfOrtunes that he had rendered her pecu-
niary. aid. A short time since-She inclosed the
Noble Earl duplicates Of property pledged to the
amount. of 500/. and subsequently he received' a
letter, couched in frantic terms, stating, that the
writer. ciisregarded life, and reminded him Of the
act of the assassin Bellingham. It was in conse-
quence of this letter that, he sought the protection
of the laws. The,defendant stated herself to have
been hurried- into a bagnio m the neighbourhood
of Chandos-street, six years ago, 'by . a mats .she
never before beheld, and by hin,Lshe was, hy-vio-.
lence seduced.. She never saw the man again un-
til. some months after, when he. was, at a public--
place in company with the Noble complainant and
his Countess,. The defendant had no claim on hiS
Lordship's benevolence ; but she. addressed him
to/ascertain who the person was that had taken
advantage .of her, stating the barbarous manner
in which she had been treated.. 'The Noble Lord
had, relieved her.by remittances,; but he always,
reminded her jt.was_ in charity to distress;.and not
with any knowledge of her alleged grievances.—
The complainant stated, that the person who -was
with :It the public place was his Attorney,
then present., The defendant was ordered to find
bail ; but on promising to desist from any farther
annoyance of his Lordship, she was liberated.•

On Monday, four of-the prisoners confined in.
Deal gaol, under the sentence of the last-Gene-
ral Sessions, found means to make their escape
by perforating the Wall of the prison at the back
of the Black Run..
•
Two shark's, one measuring nine and the other
ten feet in length, were lately harpooned at.
Kingston. On cutting up the longest, 37 young
.ones were taken out, some of them upivards of
18 incnes in length.

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