The Sun.
London, England, 1828-12-18 00:00:00

liOW-STREET.

Gorge Page, the map who stands charged with
a burglary at the bouse of i%Jrs. 11,1otrutain; of Whet-
atone, was yesterday placed at the bar for 4nal exan►i-
nation.

Hannah Morley stated, that she was servant to
Prfr.l. Baker, of the Saracen's head public•lionse, Et
Finchley, Recollected hearing that Mrs. Mountain's
house had been att3ed on the morning of the 23d
of October. About halfpast four o'clock the pre-
vious day, four men, one of whom was the prisoner,
called at her mistress's house, and had a pot of beer
between theiri, which they drank outside of the door.
They Stopped about a quarter of an hour, and had
pipes and taw°. They went away smoking. The
prisoner had been three liiyies at her mistress's house
since the robbery at Mrs. Mountain's, The first
:time he came to sell fish in a cart; the secoNci time
he wanted to buy a cow; and the third time, in
consequence of information which she gave, the pri-
soner was apprehended by Mrs. Mountain's gardener.
Thomas Harris, a labo.irer, residing at Whetstone,
deposed that he saw the prisoner, in company with
three other men, going through the turnpike at
Whetstone, on the 22d of October, 4bo4t halt-past
four o'clock. The four men were smoking, They
wera. wAdking in the direction of Mrs. Mountain's
house. Witoec,s heard next morning of the burglary,
and saw the man wircgo Fardener was conveying
to town in a cart. Knew ni immediately to be
414 a the four men he bud observed the preceding
day. - - - -

In reply to It ques,tion by the Magistrate, the wit-
ness said he was quite positive that the prisoner was
one of the four men.
Mr. MlNsttum. said that there was now sufficieo
evidence to send the prisoner for trial.

Mr. Shearman, the solicitor for the prosecution,
said that it had been ascertained that the four men
divided themselves, two going to one public-
house, and tw of thetn to another. He should be
enabled to bring forward 4her witnesses to identify
the prisoner, but would reserve them form trial.
Mr. Missitun then asked the prisoner if he hail
any thing to say, us he was about to be committed
for trial 4'

Mr. Wooler, who ;,.Mended for the prisoner, told
him to reserve his defence for a jury',

prisoner accordingly declined saying any
thing, and w' .s fully committed.
WiUirtnt Hantoi, a journeyman cabinet-maker,
- was brought up by Upson, one of dip Dow-street
patrol, on an assault warrant, wherein he was gharge4
viPt assaulting and knocking down a man named Geo.
Stadlow,
071 so a journeyman cabinet-maker. The
assault arose out;,; one .of those combination's of
journeymen which is so disgrappful to the partie3
implicuted, and injurious to the interests of the trade.
'The complainant stated, that he was in the on!,
France and Banning, cabinet-
ma gegept-street. On
Monday evening last he was walking near nn*Pg-
Pita°kifrsenatn ft; upholsterers,
with a young woman, when the defendant
pteto them, and pretending that he knew the
she,
,eaa:m:-.lgetaii
addressed her by the name of Mary. Corn-

plainant told Minter that he was mistaken in the
person, but the latter repeated his offensive behaviour,
and was very insulting and abusive. As soon as iLe
complainant and his companion had reached Buck-
ingham-gate; he was attacked by the defendant and
two men who accompanied him; They knocked
down the complainant, and beat him severely. They
also. knocked down the young girl.
The defendant denied that he had committed any
assault, and said he was not nigh Buckingham-gate
at the time stated.

The female by whom the complainant had been
accompanied was then called, arid her evidence fully
corroborated the statement of the first witness.

Sir R. BIRNIE said, that a few words from Mr.
Bunting might be necessary to show the feelings
which had influenced the defendant in attacking the
complainant.
Mr. William Ranting was then sworn. He stated
that the complainant was in the employ of himself and
partner. The quarrel between the complainant and
defendant he had no doubt arose out of a feeling of
jealousy on the part of the society men, as they were
called, and those journeymen whom he and his
partner had thought proper to employ, in preference
to the society men, who were generally - very ill-
conducted.

Sir R. RIRNIE—Do you believe that the conduct
of the defendant and the rest of the society men was
meant to intimidate you and your partner from em-
ploying any journeymen except themselves? Mr.
Banting replied, that he believed such was the
object of the society men. He then added, that he
had frequently observed the defendant Hunter walk-
ing opposite the premises, apparently in wait to way-
lay some of his men.

Sir R. BIRNIE—That circumstance will form
part of the case against the prisoner at the sessions.
It is quite evident that these fellows will not stop
combining until some of them are sent across the
water.

'Stowe!, an officer attached to the Marylebone•
office, told the Magistrate, that two men had been
examined at that office under the combination laws,
and he had a warrant against Hunter on a similar
charge.
Sir R. 13tamE observed, that a case had been
made oat against the defendant before him, and he
should therefore commit him for trial. A detainer
might be lodged against the prisoner upon the other
charge.

Stov►el observed that the master cabinet-makers
had been served in the same manner by the society
men.

The prisoner was then held to bail for the as-
sault, and directed to give 24 hours' notice of the
persons whom he intended to offer as his sureties.

MA RLBOROLT GH.STREET.

Mr. Price, the lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, ap-
peared yesterday at this office before Mr. DYER, the
sitting magistrate, to answer a charge of assault
preferred against him by George Hutchins, late a
servant in his employ. The warrant under which
Mr. Price attended had been standing over in the
hands of Ballard, the officer, for nearly a fortnight
past, owing to the inability of Mr. Price to appear
sooner, from a severe attack of gout.
The complainant stated that he had been for some
months in the service of Mr. Price, up to Sunday
the 7th of this month. On that day Mr. Price had
a party of 16 gentlemen dining at his house, No. 9,
Pall-mall, and he (the complainant) with other ser-
vants, waited at table on that occasion. Between
one and two o'clock, after the party had broken up,
and all the gentlemen had gone away, Mr. Price
rang the drawing-room bell, which he (the complain-
ant) immediately answered, but he had no sooner
got up to the drawing-room door than Mr. Price
met him there with a lighted candle in his hand, and,
without the slightest provocation, thrust the candle
lighted as it was into his (the complainant's) face,
and repeated this violence towards
_him three times,
calling out at the same time, " your eyes, you
rascal, take that !" He (the complainant) at last
thought it necessary to resist any further repetition
of this attack, and he seized hold of Mr. Price to
take the candle from his hand, but he had no
sooner done se, than Mr. Price ran to the fire-place,
snatched up the poker, and gave him (the complain-
ant) a desperate blow across the small of the back.
He then grappled with Mr. Price, and both of them
fell upon the
.stairs, and struggled there until the
watchmen were called in, and he (the complainant)
was taken off to the watch-house, and brought to
this office the next morning, when he was discharg-
ed, nobody appearing against' him.
The complainant called as his principal witness
Maria Barlow, a housemaid in the service of Mr.
Price, and a very zealous witness she seemed to be,
for it was almost impassible to restrain her from de-
scribing her master as the most violent of rnen, and
the complainant, out of whose book she appeared
to have been very recently reading, as the best be-
haved and meekest of his kind. She commenced
by swearing that she saw all that passed on the oc-
casion alluded to. She saw Mr. Price, without the
least provocation, thrust the candle lighted three
times into poor George's face, and set fire to one of
his whiskers.

Mr. Price then stated, that on the day in question
he had a party of gentlemen, about 15 or 16 in num-
ber, dining at his house, and the complainant,
amongst other servants, was attending at table. In
a very early part of the evening, he (Mr. Price) ob-
served that the complainant was in a stt.te of intoxi-
cation, for he was constantly committing mistakes
about the table, particularly with the wines, substi-
Ruing port for claret, and claret for port, and mix-
ing one with the other, so that he -(Mr. Price) at
last gave directions that the complainant should not
be admitted into the room any more; but still he
would come in, and threatened violence to any of
the other servants who opposed him. Not wishing
to have any disturbance in the house while his
guests remained, he (Mr. Price) looked over for the
moment the complainant's conduct, but determined
to get riq of him the next day, and had that inti-
mated to him. After the dinner party had broken
up, and the gentlemen had ail retired except Sir
Andrew Barnard, Mr. Calcraft, and one or two
others, with whom he (Mr. Price) -was just then in
a particular conversation, he heard a violent uproar.
He rang the bell to know the cause, when who
should come pp stairs but the eomplaiaant, in a still
worse state of intoxication than before, and, rush-
ing into the room, had the impudence to seat
himself upon one -of the chairs; he was ordered
instantly to quit the room, but for some time
refused until he got his wages. He said, at last,
he was turned out of the room, and he (Mr.
Price) followed out on the lobby to give direc-
tions that the complainant should be immediately
turned out of the house altogether, upon which the
complainant flew at him, seized him by the breast,
and being very feeble at the time, from the effects of
gout,
he (Mr: Pricg) fell down ppqn the stairs, with
the complainant on the top of him, and he was very
near being seriously hurt. " As for my thrusting
candle" in the man's face," said Mr. Price, " or
striking him with a poker, if they were the last
words that I had to utter, I most solemnly declare to
yCitl? Sir, that I never did or thought of doing either.
Indeed, was but ill-qualified for any violence of the
kind, for I am sure if I gpt-an empire for it, I could
not on that day, nor for many days before, lift pri.q
pound weight with either hand. "With respect to
my being intoxicated, as has been sworn, it is well
!plow') to my friends that I never drink any thing
but a little sherry and water; and, on the day in
qaest;OP, Dome laf my friends remarked, that even of
that weak beverage drank much less thig 4stl4)?"
Mr. copier m.,#5 then ext.mined 'as p witness, and
stated that he tlittga with the party at Nr. Price's
house on the day in question, and airing and after ;
dinner it was quite. observable that the complainant
was intoxicated, for he was constantly making mis-
takes about the wine and other things at table. He
(Mr. Cooper) went away about twelve o'clock,
leaving only three or font gentlemen with Mr. Price.
and at that time the subject oftlie present complaint
1,41 not ()mum!, §0 that he (Mr.'Pooper) saw ng-
thing of it. Mr. Prism, daring that day? drank nor
thing but a little weak sherry and water, %VIM) is

his usual drink, and was not in the slightest degree
intoxicated; indeed it was almost impossible, that
he could have been. Mr. Price had been for Several
days previously labouring under a very severe attack
of gout, particularly ►n the hands, so that he (Mr.
Cooper) was obliged to write all his letters for him,
and indeed he feared that he should have been
obliged to put off his dinner party in consequence ;
and as for Mr. Price being able to wield a catidle-
stick or a poker on that day, it was out of the ques-
tion ; it was as much' as he could do to lift his wine-
glass.
One of Mr. Price's. men-servants, who had
.at-
tended at table also on that day, confirmed the
whole of Mr. Price's statement as to the intoxication
of the complainant and his violence to Mr. Price,
and said that Maria Barlow was not present at all
at whit she- undertook to describe.
Two watchmen, who were called in to Mr. Price's
house to remove the complainant, said that when
they went in, they found Mr Price on the ground
and the complainant on the top of him holding him
by the breast. When they released Mr. Price,
.and
heard what had happened, they remonstrated with
the complainant, and advised him to beg his mas-
ter's pardon, but he said he would not, although he
admitted there never was a better master than Mr.
Price, but he said that .Mr. Price owed him 71. for
wages, and he would fight him for the amount. He
then threw off his coat, and wanted to fight Mr.
Price. The girl, Maria Barlow, was not present
when they (the watchmen) first went into the
house, hut she came up soon after, and said " what
a shame it was for George not to have gone to bed,
he was so tipsy," and she too wanted him to beg
his master's pardon. The complainant was so
drunk that he could not stand without holding by
something, and he himself it was that insisted upon
Bing taken to the watch-house,
.Mr. Price haVing
only given directions to have him taken out of 'the
house.

The constable of the night and the watch-house-
keeper both stated, that when the complainant was
brought to the watch-house he was in a most riotous
state of intoxication, and continued an uproar all
night in the place, although he was locked up in
,a
dark cell; he.wanted to fight every body for 71., his
wages, he said, ,that his master owed him.
Mr. Reynolds (the solicitor) said that he had,
several other witnesses in attendance to the samefacts.

• Mr. DYER said that he had heard quite enough;
he should discharge the warrant, and Mr. Price was
at liberty to depart.
Mr. Price thanked the Magistrate, but - said he
wished for some protection against the violence of
this man, the complainant, who scarcely suffered a
day to elapse that he did not come three or four
times to his (Mr. Price's) house, knocking loudly
at the door, ringing the bells, and even at night dis-
turbing the family in the same way, and uttering
the most violent threats ; so that really he (Mr.
Price) did net consider his person safe, unless he
was secured in some way against this man.
Hutchins said, that he only called two or three
times for his clothes that remained at Mr. Price's
house.

Mr. DYER asked Mr. Price if the man had now
removed his clothes from the house,
Mr. Price said that lie really did not blow any-
thing about the man's clothes.
Hutchins here said that he had now got away his
things.
" Then," said Mr. DYER, " you can now have no
pretence for going to Mr. Price's house; and depend
upon it, if you do so again, or in any other way
annoy or molest Mr. Price, you shall pay dearly
for it."

A man of respectable appearance, who had hitherto
refused to give any name, but who now gives the
name of Robert Barton, in custody, charged with
uttering a variety of forged cheques on different
bankers all over town, was brought up for re-exa-
minat ion.

The prisoner, who is a tall roan, about 40 years
of age, dark complexion, and long visage, has un-
dergone a great change„ in his appearance for the
worse since his first examitmtion.

Mr. Snow, secretary to the Literary Fund Society,
in Lincoln's-inn-fields, deposed that the prisoner
called on him and said his name was Grant, and he
wished to subscribe .5/. to the Literary Fund, and
gave the cheque now produced, signed " Robert
Grant," and drawn on the bank of Mitterman
and Co., for 10/., and the witness gave him the
change in five sovereigns.
. _

Jan Davis, a clerk •in the house of -Mastertnan
and Co., deposed that there is no such person as
Robert Grant who keeps cash or has any account
at Messrs. Masterman and Co.'s bank. The cheque
produced is certainly one of their printed cheques;
but how it got into the hands of the prisoner wit-
ness does not know.

James Phippin deposed, that the prisoner gave
him the cheque now produced, signed " Alexander
Hope," and draw❑ on the bank of Messrs. Bosan-
quet and Co., for 51, in payment for two seats in
one of the Bath stages, at a booking-office in Hol-
born, where the witness is clerk ;. the prisoner said
that Mr. Hope, the drawer of the cheque, was his
master, and lived at St. John's-wood. Witness
gave the prisoner three sovereigns in change out of
the cheque.
George Stuinsby, a clerk in the bank of Bosain-
quet and Co., deposed that no such person as
Alexander Hope keeps any account in the house, nor
has any one of the name done so for 15 years past.
The prisoner, for whom a solicitor named Taylor
attended, was fully.committed for trial on these two
cases; but after some opposition on the part of the
prisoner's solicitor to such a course, he was again re-
manded to be brought up on Wednesday next, as it
is supposed many other cases of a like nature will be
brought forward,