The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-01 00:00:00

WORSHIP-STREET.

Yesterday morning, immediately after Mr. TWYFORD
had taken his seat, a professional gentleman, accompanied
by the rent-collector of a Mr. Heath, a gentleman residing
at Hackney, applied to the Magistrates under the following
circumstances :

It was stated that Mr. Heath had called on one of his
tenants at No. 40, Oval Cottages, Cambridge-heath, about
half-past nine, for the purpose of receiving half a year's
rent due to him, accompanied by his collector, when the
tenant refused to pay the rent, and expelled the collector,
vowing Mr. Heath should never have his liberty unless he
unconditionally signed a receipt for the rent.
The collector was sworn and deposed to these facts.

A sergeant of police said that the parties in the house,
consisting of a man, his wife, and a servant, had effectually
barricaded the windows and doors, and a mob of several
hundred persons had congregated round the house, so that,
without further assistance and the Magistrates' authority,
they could not extricate Mr. Heath from durance.
Mr. TWYFORD instantly granted a warrant, which was
placed in the hands of the officers, who went forthwith to
put it in execution.
James Brown, in whose hands the warrant was placed,
without loss of time proceeded to the house, and after knock-
ing several times at the door without its being opened, he
procured the assistance of the police, and then made a for-
cible entrance ; and having released Mr. Heath, proceeded
to search for Mr. King, the defendant, whom he ultimately
found concealed in a bed-room at the upper part of the
house and took him into custody, and conveyed him direct
to this office.
On the arrival of Mr. BENETT, the second mag,istrate,
the case was called on, and Mr. TWYFORD having made his
colleague acquainted with some of the extraordinary facts
of the case, •

11Ir. Heath, the prosecutor, deposed that the defendant
had for some days past been moving his goods in a very
clandestine manner, and in consequence of that, and fear-
ing that it was Mr. King's intention to leave his premises
without paying him his rent, he gave instructions to Mr.
Rawlins, his broker, to put a distress in without delay, but
Mr. King took every precaution to keep such an unwel-
come visitor out of his house. Yesterday morning, soon
after nine o'clock, prosecutorgot permission to pass through
an adjoining house, which also belonged to him, and got
into the defendant's yard by climbing over a wall, and
opened the back door ; and just as he had got to the street
door, which he was about to open to let in the broker, the
defendant rushed out of the parlour and seized him by the
collar, and, with the assistance of two female servants,
dragged him into a kitchen, where the defendant took from
out of a cupboard a pistol, which he said was loaded, and
he would shoot any person that entered the house, and
that he would keep the prosecutor prisoner till he had
given him acknowledgment that he had received half a
year's rent.

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'Tie defendant interrupted the pi.,;seeutor, and asked 'Ulu
if he did not in the first instance tell him as a friend to go
out of the house the same way he entered ? The prose-
cutor denied it, and said that he was violently knocked down

the kitchen stairs, and dragged into the kitchen by the de-
fendant and his servants.

Defendant—Did I not offer to pay your rent ? The
prosecutor replied that he took a purse of sovereigns out of
his pocket, and two Bank notes, one for 101. and the other
for 51., at the same time saying, " You see I don't want
money."

The defendant said that on Monday last he sent a written
notice to Mr. Heath, stating his determination to quit the
premises within the expiration of six months ; but Mr. Heath
refused to accept it, on the ground that it was " too late,"
being after twelve o'clock on quarter-day.
Mr. TWYFORD said it was a very serious charge against
the defendant, and asked the defendant what he was The
defendant declined answering the question, as he thought it
had nothing to do with the charge before their Worships.
Mr. Rawlins, the broker, deposed that as the prosecutor
was about to open the street door to let him into the house
he heard a great scuffle in the passage. He distinctly heard
the prosecutor call out " Help ! help !" and, from the faint-
ness of the tone, he thought he was being strangled. Wit-
ness went through the adjoining house, and ascertained that
Mr. Heath was forcibly retained in the kitchen.
Mr. BENETT—Are you positive that you heard the de-
fendant say that Mr. Heath should not go unless he gave
him a receipt for half a year's rent ?—The witness replied
that he was.

Police constable 123, of the N division, who was on duty
near the spot, stated that he knocked at the street door
several times, but no person opened it or made any reply.
Mr. TWYFORD said that the case was of too serious a
nature for them to deal with it summarily, and it must go
to the Sessions.

There being no further evidence for the prosecution, the
Magistrates called on the defendant for his defence. There
was only one outrage that they recollected outvied the
present case, and that was the late outrage upon Mr. Gee,
the solicitor.

The defendant said that a few minutes previous to his
discovering Mr. Heath in the passage he heard a knock at
the door, and one of his servants answered it out of the
window. The person at the door was the broker, who said
that he had brought the " notice to quit" back ; but his
servant replied that she had had orders not to accept it.
He told the prosecutor several times .to go out of his house ;
but he thanked him for his advice, and said he should not.
The defendant-called his two female servants to give evi-
dence in his behalf ; but they failed in so doinm, with the
exception that no furniture had been removed off the pre-
mises.

Captain George Feale, of the East India Company's ser-
vice, was called by the defendant ; but proved no facts
either in favour of the defendant or the prosecutor.
Mr. BENETT said it did not appear that the prosecutor
had used any violence in effecting an entrance, and there-
fore nothing could justify the defendant's outrageous con-
duct, and the highest penalty that they could inflict on the
defendant would be inadequate to the offence.
The prosecutor said he did not wish the case to be se-
verely dealt with, and he would much rather that their Wor-
ships would dispose of it without sending it before a Jury.
Mr. TWT Foßn, after consulting with his colleague for some
minutes, said they would not be doing their duty if they did
not send the case before a higher tribunal. They had,
therefore, come to the conclusion to call upon the defend-
ant to find good bail for his appearance at the next Gene-
ral Quarter Sessions.

In consequence of forty-eight hours' notice of bail be•
ing required the defendant was given into the custody o:
the gaoler.

It was stated that the defendant was a superior officer in
the navy.

QUEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday a grey-headed old man, of every respectable
appearance, named John Croker, apparently of about 70
years of age, very infirm, having recently lost the use of one
side by a paralytic stroke, was brought up in a hackney-
coach by the beadle of Chelsea, before Mr. White, for the
purpose of being passed to his parish.

The unfortunate man had been living in the parish of
Chelsea, and had been reduced to apply for parochial relief,
and taken into the workhouse for a time.
In answer to questions by Mr. WHITE the unfortunate
man said that some years ago he rented apartments yearly
in Great Barlow-street, Marylebone, for upwards of a
twelvemonth, for which he paid 201. per annum : since that
time he had never gained any other settlement.

Mr. WHITE—I am extremely sorry you have been so
unfortunate to be reduced to this state.

Croker—l little expected it, Sir, atone time ; but the
best of us may, by misfortune, be reduced to a workhouse.
Mr. Wln'rE—May I ask what situation of life you were
in when you lived in Marylebone parish ? Croker—l was a
butler in a Nobleman's family. I had a wife then, and I
took the apartments for her and furnished them myself.

Mr. WHITE said that he was extremely sorry to see him
so reduced, and signed the order for• his removal to Ma-
rylebone workhouse, where he was taken in a coach by the
beadle.

A recruiting sergeant in a regiment of the line anti a
young man came to the office in a very violent passion with
each other. The sergeant charged the young man with
swindling him out. of a shilling, and he charged the sergeant
with having cempletely done him out of a valuable snuff-box.
The sergeant said that he had met the young man at a
public-house, and being on a recruiting party he was look-
ing out for recruits. The young man wished to enlist, and
he asked him if he was " free, able, and willing." He said
he was. He took his hand arid again said, " Are you free,
able, and willing le" He said he was, and he clapped a
shilling into his hand and enlisted him. Soon after he'
found out by one of the recruits that the young man was
disabled, for the first joint of the fore finger of his left
hand had been cut off, and the surgeon would not pass him
in consequence. He accordingly demanded his shilling
back, but he would not give it him ; at last he gave him
an old snuff-box in lieu of the shilling, and in about a
quarter of an hour afterwards he demanded his snuff-box
back again.

The young man said that he was now free, able, and
willing to enlist. He lost the first joint of his fore finger
when he was only four years of age, and it was not the
slightest detriment to him. The sergeant saw his hand
when lie put the shilling into it, and he immediately spent
6d. of the money with the sergeant, and it was all gone by
the time the sel geant demanded the shilling of him again.
Sergeant—As to this valuable snuff-box, as he calls it, it
is not worth a farthing. I asked the landlord of the public-
house where I enlisted him if he would give a shilling for it,
and he laughed at me, and said he would not pick it up.
Recruit—Why it once cost two shillings.
Sergeant—You give me my shilling back, and I will give
you your very valuable snuff-box. I feel myself regularly
swindled out of my shilling.
Recruit—Mind, I charge you with holding my property.
Sergeant—You may have the valuable box at any time
on payment of a shilling.
Mr. WHITE adjudged that the sergeant should keep
possession of the box until the shilling was paid, which
from the look of the article it is more than probable will
remain a long time in the sergeant's family, as there is very
little fear of any person stealing it.

THAMES OFFICE.
Yesterday Frederick Vantine, a dealer in marine stores,
residing in the Back-road, Shadwell, was charged on an in-
formation laid by Shewing, the common informer, with
having omitted to make a written entry in a book of a cer-
tain quantity of old iron sold to him by the informer's
witness. The penalty is 201.
Daniel Burn proved that he sold twenty-two pounds of
old iron to the defendant, and that he never asked any
questions or made any entry of the same in a book.
Mr. BALLANTINE said that neither the informer nor his
witness could say that the defendant did not make an entry
of the purchase five minutes afterwards.

Sheaving said he was bound to do it at the time, and
quoted the decisions of other Magistrates bearing him out
in his argument. He read the clause in the Act applicable
to the case, which said that every marine-store dealer
should from " time to time" make entry, &c. of every thing
he purchased.
Mr. BALLANTINE.—Yes. I have looked at the Act of
Parliament, and it says nothing about doing it at the time
the purchase is made. Because you did not see him make
the entry you infer he made none ?
Sheaving—But, your Worship, it is for him to show that
he did make the entry.
Mr. BALLANTINE—Then I shall not call upon him to
show that, and this case is dismissed. •

MR. BECKFORD'S " ITALY."—" Mr. Beckford is
a shrewd observer of manners, and strikes off a sketch, or pens
a satire, with all the force and brilliance of Pope, or Horace
Walpole. He is a virtuoso of the first class, not alone in ar-
chitectnre and painting ; but in music also, he appears to be a
practised proficient, while, for his descriptive talent as regards
the glories of the external world, we know not any writer
whatever who surpasses him in eloquence and poetical fervour.
It is a pleasant feature of this work that it should partake of
the nature of autobiography. It may, indeed, be considered
as a sort of history of the author's life for the number of years
occupied in this Continental sojourn, during which are recorded
not only the incidents that befel hrin, and abundant anecdotes
of the personages with whom he came in contact, but his feel-
ings, thoughts, and emotions. In anecdote and wit, the mag-
nificent creator of Fonthill Abbey is at least equal to the hero
of Strawberry-hill, and is not excelled even by Cowper, over
whom he has also the ascendancy in the fineness of his taste
for, and in the perfection of his knowledge of art."—Morning
Post.

VEGETABLE PRODUCTION.—A pumpkin, which
we4ll(-3 awl measured Z;7 :lidit; in dieltlr
lately grew in the garden of Mr. Alexander Beer, of Apple-
dore ; and on the slender stem of the smile plant were six
others, one measuring 63 inches in circumference, and the
others nearly of the same size.