The Sun.
London, England, 1817-10-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

tiOW-sTREET
On Montla'y'it case of some ltuporlance to the
Revenue Laws•, and to foreigners trading iit this
country, .carne on to be heard before JOHN ED-
WARD 'CoNANr, EA.
A wotuin was brought tO the office, charged-by
the inspectors belonging to the Haw kers' and
Pedlars'-office with seiling a bottle Of' Dutch drops
at a public-house in the Strand, without having a
Hawker's and Pedlar's Licens4l- and also with
selling bodies of the saint stuff at 'other public-
houses in the sante neighbourhood., They-pro-
duced a number of bottles filled With a of
a similar deseriptiOn, with printed papers-. and
wrappers, rei•resentlng the cootents to be Dutch
drops, with ffirections for using them. •
The woman could scarcely speak a word of Bit-
SO as to oe Ilii4rstood ; therefore her nattit:r,
residence, or any Wing relative to herself, could
not be obtained.
• Alt last
.an, interpreter was procured, through
whom she explained that she had only been in
England five
_Weeks. She lodged in a, street in
Whitechapel, but did! lint know the 'lathe of it
She made the stuff she was selling, called Dutch
drops, herself. - •
A, Dutch Jew, who resides in Middlesex-street,
Whitechapel, uttencted, and stmed, that li bad re-
sided in England 3 years: The wOMitn charged,
with her husband and five 'children, bad lodged in
his bouSt, since their arrival in England, havin*,
been. rectnumendeff by the captain who:brought
them to this country merely because he, was their
countryman. One of her children sucked at the
breast, and was in great diStress when he left
home, ill 'etillsequence of
.her long ab'sence by
being detained at the Office. She and her hus-
band made the-stuff last Thursday she had licen
selling fOr Dutch drops ; be saw th'em making
it. He was asked how he knew what he saw
them making wa3 the tame she had been selling.
lie replied, that he knew they had none left on
Thursday, having sold all ; and, therefore, ice had
uu doubt but that it was some of the same.
The interpreter stated, that he knew what the
stuff sold for Dutch drops was coMposed of, and
offered to lay a wager of 1001. (Lilt he would prove
it. On his beingasked to explain, .he said, it was
composed of garliek and sweet oil, with a toot to
colour it. . .
The Magistrate was of opinion the charge could
not. be supported, as the woman being a foreigner,
and so lively arrived iu this country, she might be
acting ignorantly ; or if she, made the stuff, site
was the manufacturer, and came within the ex-
ceptions of the Act of Pat liament. '
The Solicitor to the Haw;kers' and Pedlars' Office
urged, that she was not the sole manufacturer,
but had assistants.
•
- The Magistrate, in reply, said' he believed that
there was not any manufactory which was carried
on by One per Son only. :Ttie' charge was dis-
missed.

One of the Inspectors persisted in keeping all
the bottles of the s_ttilf, and the printed papers Le
kid found.ttOßn the woman, which was resisted by
the Etmati-yinen of the woman ; and on au api:eal
being wade to the Magistrate, he could not sanction
the luj,cctor itr any, such act : the pr-ciperty was
to eonsetpkettce returnA'to the wompth.
Yesterday -Anit Jant:'sA.44broliglii before Hip fi-
ARD BIRNIE, ESq..trie Sitting Magistrate, having
been apprehended hyUptoWs party OPpattole, be-
longing to the Office, under suspicious circum-
stances, in Boswell-street, with St!'veral articles
•of bed-clothrs, three skeleton or picklock keyS,
and a file saw, capable or cutting iron, in her pos-
.session-,last Friday night.' The account site gave
of the possession of ,such articles Was, that She
had brought them from hey husband in Newgate,,
who was a convict there nudes' sentence of 14 years'
transportation. Inconsequetice of this statement
Mr. Bro‘in„ the Keerter of Neurgate; and-one of
his Turnkeys, attended the examination yesterday,
when the,Turnkey identified the d-11;tries to :he the

sante that she brought out of NeWgSte on Friday
evening, which belonged to her husband, and
which he used there during his confinement

, .
vious to his being sent off to Biaany. Bay. He
stated, that he examined the bed•;clothes very
rarticularly previous to her .bringing theM out of
the prison, and he was positive. the pick-lock-
keys and saw were not among them.
Mr. Brown observed, that it was impossible to
guard against, the ingenuity of woinen, withont
they were stripped entirely naked, as they had
been known to take improper things into Newga,te
in cabbages and bacon.
'rue Turnkey said, be had no doubt but that the
largest pick-Jock key would open the gates of
.Newgate. Mr. Byown asked him which he meant
he replied theiron-gates,' but did not think that

mes would have eventually escaped out of the

prison.

Vickery, the efticer, examined them, anti said
they were the best pick-lock keys he had ever seen.
The largest was made to act both ways, and he

had no cluubt but that it would open any lock it
co►►ld enter. James and 116' father were allowed

to be the best manufac'Erers of pick-lock keys
that were knOwn.' He had. seen a sack full of
their making.
Mr. Brown obserhd, that the nriSoner had ap-•
plied for perinission to accompany husband to.
Botany-bay, but
.her late conduct was not the way
to gain that object. There being no direct charge
against her, she was discharged.

HATTON-GARDEN.
So numerous have bee❑ the depredations torn-
mitted of hate ire Pentonville and its neighbour.:

hood, that they have at length excited the atten-
tion of its inhabitants : in, consequence of which
14 men were apprehended the night before last,
and yesterday brought to the Office. Robert
Roc'k well, Jobti Wiilan; Thomas Nichols, James
Milroy, James Gibbs, George Heftily, John Marl-
borough,. Robert Bishop, William Newman,
Thomas Hardy,. John Reams, James.JOhnson,
.Joseph .lilennedv, awl Thomas Batifurd.. Three
tueli were found Tying on the brick kilns, near
Spa-fields. They wore. found with a'quantitY of
potatoes and meat. Each of them was severally.
ex'lntined, and their accounts agreed in this,
that they cold('
.get no work, by 'which they
would be enehred to- pay for hidgings, and wer,e.
therefore Obliged tor lie in the open air, since
ettch of them- was Ivithout a home to shelter him.

•• ?.5
t ,le appcarrince,t ,ar tiro grcatcy_nrimner of them
‘sas most deplorably wretched. Tile MegLtil'at
, inquired of etcii vdietlier be !tact applieti to ill's,
parish ? in geperal they had clone so, botcOniti
obtain nil relief, being told thely were wiring and
al,le to Wotti.; this they said they tvere niost
will-
;iug to do, if they get it.. ,Tbe Magistrate
having: expres.sied his:CoMmiseration of their un-
happy state, tAitl ihat he was bound to i,"!Ceeilte
the, law updu them,. Ile 'unlit therefore Crittimit
them to the I.louse. id Correction, where they
wtitild be taken care ofltill the Session, eslrich
would be in a fortnight, whfri he, hived they'
‘vould be-each forwarded. Ai the kw diiects, to
his own parish.

I .1.. . ANION HALL
Iresterday:Mr. Ifolhnd, •Overseer of nertrirind-,
sry Parish gave:: e following info; illation to. t
Magistrates. lie to mud a man, natoedVialk-..
net. applied to the parish ofiiceri of Bermondsey:
about three months ago, and. said that hi3.family
%% AS starring, for he had not been able to get a
job of wot k- for. some week. The .Overseers ai-
l Owed Faulkner os. per week, which be .had
.ceived ever -since. • Yesterday he discovered that
Faulkner had been employed all the. tiroe„he hail
received parish pay. and had earned morethan two
pounds a week The Magistrates granted a War-
rant, and Faulkner WO Apprehended. He ti ill
be examined On aJtAt'are clay.