The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-30 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Eliza Goswell, a woman of loose and desperate
character, was charged with having wilfully broken
the windows of Thomas Westlake, general dealer,
Vernon -street, Bond-street.
Some time ago the parish authorities of St. James's
took steps to suppress the brothels in Sheppard-street.
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whose infamous traffic was put an end to through his
instrumentality. The defendant, who has for years
been known as one of the lowest class of unfortunates,
on several occasions wilfully broke the complainant's
windows, and not having money to pay the damage
and the fine, has been sent to prison to pay in person.
On Monday evening she paid the complainant a fourth
visit, and smashed windows to the amount of 7s. 6d.
The complainant no sooner entered the witness box
to give his evidence than the defendant levelled a
volley of execrations and threats at him, and continued
her disgusting conduct to the end of the proceedings,
' in spite of the efforts of the officers to restrain her.
Mr. _MALTBY asked her what she had to say in
answer to the charge ? Defendant—Say, why that
I shan't leave this world happy until I've put my mark
on that (pointing to the complainant). I'll
smash every window in his house, and I'll scratch him
too, the first chance I get. I wonder the Jews of
Sheppard-street don't go in a body and knock his
brains out. You may send me to prison, but as soon
as I come out I'll be at the
again.
The complainant having declared that he went in
bodily fear from the defendant's threats,
Mr. MALTBY decided on requiring the defendant to
find bail to keep the peace for three months.
The woman paused for a moment as if meditating
mischief. She said, however (looking at the magis •
trate). " No, I wont blackguard you, but (fighting
her way through the constables to the complainant)
I'll have the heart of that Before she could
execute vengeance on the complainant, she was seized
and her arms forcibly pinioned. She was then
locked up.
About an hour or two after this, Thomas Westlake
himself was brought into Court, and charged with
having grievously wounded Ellen Barry.
The complainant is another of those wretched
creatures who haunt the streets ; and she too has long
been known to the police as one of the most drunken
and desperate women about town.
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which were covered with blood.

The defendant said the woman had just been to his
house and smashed three of his windows. lie went
out with a stick to protect his property, when he was
attacked, and he then knocked her down by a blow on
the head.

Several witnesses were present who saw the trans-
action. They said the defendant had what appeared
to be a life preserver in his hand, with which he struck
the woman many heavy blows on the head which ren-
dered her insensible.
Mr. MALTY directed the woman to be taken to the
hospital to have her wounds examined, and remanded
the defendant until next day in order to have the
surgeon's certificate.

Louis Woodcocka gentleman of property, who is
known at this Court from his disputes with various
hotel-keepers, with whom he has at times taken up
his abode, was charged with having broken two lamp
shades, and also assaulted Mrs. Cocquerell, landlady
of the European Hotel, Leicester-place.
It appeared that the defendant went to the Euro-

pean Hotel to obtain some linen he had left there, but
the linen was refused to him until he had paid the
balance of his bill. This excited the defendant, and
with his stick he broke the glasses in question, and
then afterwards struck the landlady a blow on the
mouth, and two blows on the body.
The defendant said he was attacked by the waiter,
who had a carving-knife in his hand, and he was
obliged to defend himself with his stick. It was
while using his stick that the glasses became broleen.
He denied having assaulted Mrs. Cocquerell.
Mr. MALTBY asked the complainant if she had
noticed the state of the defendant's mind when he
lived at her hotel ?

The complainant and waiter both said they believed
the defendant's intellect was affected.
The defendant denied that he was of unsound mind.
Mr. MALTBY was informed that the defendant had
been confined in a lunatic asylum in France.
The defendant was fined 81., or one month's impri-
sonment.

QUEEN-SQUARE.
A young man of colour, whose attenuated figure
and threadbare garments indicated the extremes of
disease and poverty, applied to the magistrates for
relief.
Applicant, who had evidently received a liberal
education, was, he said, a native of Derr Tara, and
came to this country at a very early period. On the
death of his father, who was connected IA ith the West
India trade, applicant, who was educated for the me-
dical profession, was obliged to relinquish it on account
of pecuniary difficulties, and the prejudices he had to
contend against as a person of colour. In consequence
of long-continued ill health, which had now assumed
an asthmatic form, he had been reduced to very great
distress, and, with a wife and child to support, was
compelled, by dire necessity, to make the present ap-
plication. _ _

Mr. BOND inquired how long his father had been
dead ? Applicant replied ten or eleven years.
Mr. BOND asked his means of support since that
period ? Applicant replied that he had carried on
business as a chemist at Liverpool for about eighteen
months, but was unsuccessful. He had visited other
parts of the country, and had exerted himself to the
utmost to obtain a living, but had been most unfortu•
nate, and his slender resources having become ex-
hausted, he had supported himself by the sale of a
few engravings, until having parted with all he pos-
sessed, he was left in the most lamentable state of
destitution.
Mr. BOND asked whether he had any relations in
England ? Applicant replied that he had not.
Mr. BOND inquired whether there was any person
to whom he could refer him, who could confirm his
account ?
Mr. Taylor, the second clerk, observed, that he
could speak to the truth of a portion of his account.
He had been made acquainted with the circumstances
connected with a part of his painful history by a
friend who had gone to school with the applicant,
and had at times afforded him some temporary relief.
Applicant said he had been engaged for a short
time by Dr. Sutro, of Beaufort-buildings. He had
been transcribing a German work from that gentle-
man's dictation.
Mr. BOND observed that the assistance that could
be afforded him from the poor-box would be but tri-
fling, and inquired how he intended to employ himself
for the future ? Applicant replied that he hardly
knew. He was competent to any work in an office,
but in his present deplorable state it was not likely
that he should succeed in obtaining any employment.
Had he the means of procuring a stock of engrav-
ings, he might manage to procure a subsistence as he
had done before.
Mr. BOND commiserated the unfortunate man's
condition, and gave him a trifle to relieve his present
necessities, at the same time desiring him to repeat
his visit in a day or two.
In the course of the afternoon inquiries were made
at his humble abode in Westminster, where it was as-
certained that he had resided for a long period of time,
was a very honest, sober, well-conducted parson, but
was afflicted, and in such distress that he and his
family had not had food for many hours previous to
his application at this Court.
LAMBETH-STREET.

SEIZURE OF SMUGGLED TOBACCO, &c.—Mr. J.
13. Thomas, a tobacco and snuff manufacturer, of No.
115, Ratcliff Highway, appeared Lefore Mr. Henry,
to answer to two informations charging him with
having on his premises 173ilbs. of smuggled tobacco,
which had been found by the Customs' officers on the
sth and 7th instant.
C. A. Davis and other officers of Customs deposed
to having found the tobacco seized upon the two days
beforementioned. They also deposed to having found
seven empty canvass wrappers, such as are used for
smuggling, and contained, when full, 501bs. of tobacco.
The defendant said he knew nothing whatever
about the bags produced, which he said had been
found in the lumber room.
The officers and the gentlemen who attended from
the office of the Solicitor of Customs particularly
directed Mr. Henry's attention to the appearance of
the canvass wrappers, and observed that by their
newness and the glossy appearance which they bore
it was perfectly evident they had been recently used
and emptied, an opinion in which his Worship per-
fectly coincided.
Mr. Thomas, in defence, said that, in the first
place, the house in which he resided and carried on
business had been upwards of half a century in his
family, and 'that such was the competition in his
business at present, and the means resorted to by
smuggling and adulteration, that goods were sold at
much less than they could be fairly manufactured for,
and he should throw himself entirely upon the consi-
deration of the Court.
Mr. HENRY—Then what you mean to say is, that
you cannot carry on and live by your business with-
out smuggling.
Mr. Thomas—Why, Sir, I did not say that ex-
actly ; but I have said that there is so much smug-
gling and adulteration in the trade that there is no
getting a living in a regular way. The competition
is, I assure you, Sir, so great, that goods are sold
at much less than they can be manufactured for.
Mr. 'finally—Your defence is, I must say, a most
extraordinary one. A thief charged before me at that
bar might as well say that robberies were carried on
to a very considerable extent, and that he could not
live without robbing also. The charge of the tobacco
found being smuggled is not at all disproved ; and 1
have very little doubt, also, that these canvass bags
found upon your premises contained 501bs. each of
tobacco, so that you have had the benefit of and profit
on 170Ibs. of tobacco. I, therefore, see no reason why
you should not be convicted in the full penalty.
The defendant was then convicted in the penalty on
both informations of 1681. 18s. 6d., or to be impri-
soned until such sum was paid.
The defendant asked for time to pay the penalty,
upon which
Mr. HENRY observed that he was frequently
called on and obliged to send sailors and other per-
sons to prison in default of such penalties, and he
could make no distinction in the present case.
The defendant was then taken in charge by Cook,
the gaoler, to be detained until the money, which he
had sent for, arrived.

The law requires that proceedings for the five cwt.
of adulterated stuff should be taken before the Com-
missioners of Excise, which will be immediately done,
and the defendant upon this will be liable to a penalty
of 6001., if fully proved against him.;

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday Mr. John Quincy Harris, late M.P. for
Newcastle-under-Lyme, was charged with using lan-
guage of a threatening nature towards Mr. Philip
Roberts, of Upper Montague-street, Russell-square,
with intent to provoke him to commit a breach of
the peace.

The complainant stated that he was married to the
sister of the defendant, who on frequent occasions of
late had used language of a threatening nature to
him. The defendant called at his house at a most
unseasonable hour, between one and two o'clock in
the morning, and ultimately challenged him out to
fight. Complainant of course refused to accept such
a challenge, and as the present was not a solitary in-
stance of the defendant so conducting himself, he
(complainant) considered it necessary to adopt the
present proceedings, with a view to &event it in
future. The complainant produced some letters
which he had received from the defendant, to prove
that he had been menaced by the writer.
Mr. num, having perused them, and the de-
fendant having admitted he was the writer, the Magis-
trate asked the complainant if he was apprehensive
that the threat* contained in them would be carried
into effect ?

The defendant objected to the production of such
evidence. The letters related to matters of a family
nature, and he contended that they ought not to have
been exhibited in Court.

Mr. TRAILL said that the complainant was perfectly
justified in producing the documents containing
threats against his personal safety, and written by the
defendant.

The defendant—But they are of a private and con-
fidential nature.

Mr. num—But you had no right to send letters
of a private and confidential nature containing threats
against the individual to whom you have addressed
them.

Defendant—Mr. Roberts is a professional man. I
am not, and therefore should wish to have the case
postponed, in order that I may have an opportunity
of consulting my solicitor on the subject.
Mr. TRULL here read a passage in one of the let-
ters, in which the writer said, in allusion to the com-
plainant, that when he met him he Nyould make him
bitterly repent his ungrateful conduct. The magis-
trate said this was all confirmatory of Mr. Roberts's
complaint against the defendant, and showed that he
was perfectly justified in the steps that
had adopted against the writer
.
the com"..l:Zant, in answer to Mr. TRAILL, having
stated that he was apprehensive of personal violence

at the hands of the defendant, the latter was asked
what he wished to say in answer to the charge ?
The defendant declared he had no intention of com-
mitting any violence, and he again expressed a wish
that the case might be allowed to stand over until he
was prepared with professional advice. The process
taken against him was done so instantaneously, he
having no intimation of it until the officer called at
his house that morning, that he had no time to consult
with his legal adviser.
Mr. TR.'. said he could see no reason whatever
for an adjournment, and that he should therefore call
on the defendant to find sureties for keeping the
peace.

- Defendant—lf I give my word of honour that I
will not touch the complainant, and have no commu-
nication with him except through my attorney, will
that be sufficient ?

Complainant intimated that he should not be satis-
fied with such an assurance unless security was given
that he should not, in future, be subjected to such
treatment as he had already experienced at the hands
of the defendant.

Mr. TaAILL asked the complainant if he would be
satisfied if the defendant was adjudged to enter into
his own recognizatces to a considerable amount?
The complainant answered in the affirmative, upon
which the defendant exclaimed, " Oh, make it 500/. ;
I am willing to be bound in that amount to convince
him that from henceforth all communication between
us ceases."

Mr. Tamil. said as the defendant was satisfied
with the former amount, he should therefore call an
the defendant to enter into his own recognizances to
that amount.

The complainant expressed a hope that it would
have the effect of keeping the defendant away from
his house, and also of preventing him from sending
any more letters of a threatening nature.
Mr. TRAILL said that if the defendant forfeited his
recognizance it would he estreated at the sessions, and
he mould be compelled to pay the amount.
The defendant having entered into the required re-
cognizances, the parties then retired.