The Sun.
London, England, 1817-09-12 00:00:00

INT,ELLIGENCS.

. INFORMATIONS-UPON PENAL STATUTES•
111*.atisditouGH.Srituair.--SetreraFlnfortnationi
of mueltimportance..to tradespeople
in general..
were beard,before GEORGIS:FARRANT, Esq.occupied the whole afternoon. The complaint:
were preferred at the instigation of the POtisit
Officers of St. Giles's, to prevent persons, under
the Metropolis. Paving Act,:from exhibiting goo"
for sale outside of their shop windows.
•
Mr. ANDRaws,. in support of the Informattonle
stated that the object of the. is passing
this Act was to prevent, first, the nuisance of cum.
strutting the foot-ways of the Metropolis ; and,
secondly, to abolish the- inticement to peculation"
and plunder, by exhibiting articles otetsideslopsj
The tisth Section of the Act of .Parliament stptedp
that any person who exposed to sale, or permitted
to be exposed, meat or. offal, or any matter or
thing without their shops, after having receiVea
notice to remove the same, should be liable to s.
fine of 40s. for the first offence, 51. for the second,
&c. Ste.
The first inforniwion- was against J. Harvefr"i4
salesman, in Broad-street, St. Giles's, for expo,
ing 10 coats-for sale outside his shop. " window,
the Bth of September.
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Won. Dorrell, Surveyor under the New Act or
pointed by the Committee., proved that "'at*
in question were exhibited tor sale oteati horizon'"
t .rail over the area in frodeof defendant's houPq
suspended upon a stand. AVitness.had
the defendant, and given him notice .to remoir'
the eArments, but he neglected. to do, :so. Li°
observed, when witness desired to renl9o
the goods, that it was a very hard case upon him,
On being cross-examined by Mr. BAratY's wilt;
ness said that the clothes by no means iallie"
the footway, and it was admitted that other per'
sons even blockaded the fronts of their houses froiu
the curb stones.
Dorrell's testimony was corroborated by Stuitil,
a beadle.
Mr. BARRY, for the defendant,.stated that "be
case was of the greatest magnitude to the tradil
part of the community, inasmuch as they, had
great stakes at issue upon the Magistrates decision
'on this, which teas a new case. The defendant
had taken his house with the advantage "jell •
was now complained of, and which had never be
fore been disputed ; and the Legislature; said lire
Leann(' Counsel, never would have passed the Act
into a law, had they been aware of the oifficulties
it created. The question was, was the mere a
etmistanee of hanging' Out these coats over the
defendant's own area a- crime within the conte.'
plation of the Act, which, in his construction,
was meant to prevent the impeding of the pave.;
ment. The defendant, by being derived of thia
benefit, would lose 25/. a year. Mr. Barry argue,
forcibly against the oppres..iive Act, and coutemie%:l
that the Legislature never had it in tiew to ovel'
whelm a family, in ruin, because a person clic! Oct
best he could to support them within the precis;
c
of his own house.
r. Donaldson-, of Bloorrisbury-square,surveY°r:
who made a drawing of the premises,- which w".:
exhibited, proved that 6ere was no obstructi°l
to the foot passenger.- • oh'
Mr. A tvCiasws replied to Mr. Barry, ~e
served, that there was n local Act, the 47(1)
King, which held out the same restrictions g 5
present Act. He maintained that this 43.'CL'irC
57th of the King, Went to protect tiadesiliet3.-:110
plunder,* and that it tended to promote the a
intercourse and benefit of trade iu general.
tf
• The MAGISTRATE observed' , that ne was
determineopon the alleged hArshuess of t4e
The words of the Act were strong and unolthv
raid
cal
t0...d
"over any area," was expressly eta 114
the Art was as much infringed upon by 1t41,4
area being covered, as if the whole WAS SU'
livalbhip to exhibit articles for sale had beiOttteSn of
great; lhat the Legislature saw the proPl.l°Yvvol
retrenching.such inticements. The defendant
convicted its the penalty of 40s.
,ourt"
'Mr. Wood, ironmonger, Totteobanl----
road, was convicted in the like peualty, fur al;
biting three stoves on his area.
Mr. Lacock, of 6t. Giles's, for exhibiting b°
for sale upon his area railing and ikir. )'Assn';
of Russel-street, Bloomsbury, were cone icted .00
the like penally of 40s. each,.after much discuss'
between Counsel.

BURGLARY.—Wedoesciay morning, abo„t thra
o'clock, the shutters of Mr. listalls, grocer, tr
Bermondsey-street, opposite Russel-street, sve,eui
forced open, the windows broke, and a (1"3111hf
of nutmegs stolen. The thieves were soPriseLoa
the watchmen and patrole, and decamped-
the same morning the shutters of Mr. Sm"„ 0
re
shop, haberdasher, in Bermondsey-street' `ve
forced open, and the windows broke, by the save
ele
gang, as supposed. They were surprised byhte
family ; and the watchmen being 'very near. t
made off without any property.

BITHS.
On the 7th inst. at Sir Chaßrle s Coote's, R TrelOA
allyfiont --
Lady Crem of a son heir.
On the 26thorne, ult. at 11.161. an coduntry seat, in the quarter o
Pierre, near Marseilles, the Lady of Captain Robert 13ftri
C. B. It. N. of a son. 11161
011 Wednesday last, Mrs. 1. Gore, of Bedford-place,
sell -square, Of a son. of Bef
On Monday last, the Lady of Henry Earle, F.sq*
ners-street, of a daughter.

'lbis morning, at Enfield, Ci H. Ward,
MARRIED.
eldest daughter of the late Dr. William Saunders, I`J• D: le
Yesterday, by licence, the N
at New ('hunch Ot. St• Malr
of
bone, John Jones, Esq. eldest son of John Jones, Es(Ltt,
Llauarth Court, in Monmouthshire, to Lady Harriet Plunisi4
only daughter of the Earl 0 Fingal. The ceremonY it'he
been previously performed at his Lordship's house, by co,
Her. iNir. Gerrard, according to the rites of the Roman
tholic Church. Esq.. to Mary, tai-:"
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On the sth inst. at HacknDlED at
. 'd 61, George Hill' •Es4l
forinerly of Watling-street Ll'
et
On Wednesday, the 3inst. in the 35th year of her --
Eliza, the wife ;,f,' the Rev. Benjamin George Heath, ec°
of Creeting, Suffolk. jgfir
On Tuesday last, Mary, the wife of George Collings'
of Hampstead, aged 64. . 0(96
Lately, at Leghorn; near Lontb, at the ft dranced age At
William Portus, who enjoyed his• faculties to the last.
too
his request, a favourite ass, which he had de to id° he
rode ,„t t,
market for Upwards of 30 years, was shot, and boric
a .a
same time.
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