The Sun.
London, England, 1835-05-21 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

POLITICS AND BLACK EYES.—On Tuesday a tall man,
of gentlemanlike appearance, was brought up from the
station-house in the Southwark-bridge-road, having been
discovered in the neighbourhood at a late hour of the night
with his head and face very much disfigured.
A policeman of the M division stated that, between
twelve and one o'clock on the preceding night, a man of
respectable appearance called at the station house, and gave
information that a gentleman had been very much beaten,
in the road, and that his adversary had ran away. Witness
proceeded to the spot, and found a gentleman there with
his head and face cut and bleeding profusely. He appeared
to be stupified, but witness would not undertake to say
whether it arose from blows or liquor. With a view to
take care of him he was conveyed to the station-house.

The gentleman on hearing the statement felt much
obliged to the police for the care they had displayed on the
occasion. He begged, however, to state that he was not
under the influence of liquor of any description at the time
that-he wo so brutally used ; the facts were that he was a
Tory from principle, and happening to meet with a man
;.-pposed to bin, in politics, they entered into an argument,
in the course of his opponent, finding that he (the
gentleman) was gett:ng the better of him, and that he had
fl,,,red" him on the Lpiestion of the late change in the
Administration, his cowat.dly. adversary then had recourse
to brute strength instead fair argument, and attacked
him with his fists.
re the discussion took
The MAGISTRATE inquired whi:
place The complainant said he met ti!.ie Whig in the street,
that he was a stranger to him, that they entered casually
into conversation as they happened to be gob:g in the same
direction, and that as he (complainant) never disguised his
principles, he advocated them as strenuously as his abilities
would allow, and the result was, added he, " the bend and
face I now exhibit."
The MAGISTRATE said that the complainant had not ex-
hibited much discretion in entering on politics with a
stranger in the street, and asked him if he was affected
with wine or any other description of liquor at the time
—Complainant—l appeal to the policeman whether I was
drunk.
The policeman really could not say ; Ile (the gentleman)
however, appeared to have more strength in his head,
than in his legs ; for they were obliged to carry him to the
station-house.
Complainant—" I can explain the reason of that. I ant
martyr to the gout, and the brutality used towards me by-
the Whig who assaulted me brought on a fit of my old
complaint. The complainant then exclaimed " I'm a Tory
to the back bone ; I exult in it, and don't care what I suffer
in the good cause. I was once attacked and half killed by
a Whig in Manchester, but I don't ere for that, we'll get
the better of them yet."
Sergeant M'Craw said that the complainnt appeared to
be labouring under great pain in the legs when he was
brought to the station-house, and he was provided with
brandy, with which he fomented them. Care was taken,
the Sergeant said, that he did not take it internally.
The MAGISTRATE regretted much to see a respectable
man, let him be of what politics he might, placed in the
situation that the complainant had been. He, however,
had in a great measure brought it all upon himself, in con-
sequence of his folly in making an acquaintance with a
stranger, and then entering into questions of party feeling.
As, however, the complainant could not identify his as-
sailant, or give any infrirmation where lie was likely to be
found to answer for tile assault, the matter must there-
fore drop.
The complainant, having made his obeisance to the Ma-
gistrate, and expressed his thanks for the attention paid him
at the station-house, then withdrew.