The Sun.
London, England, 1810-07-10 00:00:00

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existence df a Club or So-
ciety for a purpose so dete-stable and repugnant to the
common feelings of our nature, that by no word can
it be described without committing an outrage Upon
decency, has for some time been suspected by the
Magistrate of Bow-street, who, cautiously conceal=
ing the odious secret, abstained from taking any
steps on the information they bad received, until:an
opportunity should offer of surprising the whole gang.
About two o'clock yesterday morning, three sepa-
rate parties of the patrole, attended by constables,
were detached from Bow-street, upon this service,
and such was the secrecy observed, that the object
of their pursuit was unknown, even at that tudinent,
to all but the confidential agents of Mr. Read, who
headed the respeCtive parties. The enterplize was
completely succesful.--We regret most deeply,
that the information giNien at the office was 'found
to be so accurate, that the Officers felt their:selves
justified in seizing no fewer than 23 individuals, at a
public house, called the White Swan, in Vere-streeti
Clare Mat icet.
They were taken to the watch house of St. Cle-
ment Danes, and from thence conveyed in hackney
coaches, between 10 and 1 I yestelday morning, to
Bow-street, for examination. • Such was the fury
of the crowd assembled; in consequence of the cause
of their apprehension becomi3g known, that it was
with the utmost difficulty the prisoners could be
,saved from destruction. The Peace officers,who reso-
lutely defended their priioners,• behaved at the same
time with great propriety.' Their forbearance to-
watds the enrage) multitude, the majority of whom
were females, was exemplary ; for the showers of
mud ua ith u filch the carriages were assailed, ren-
Ave t the officers who attended behind, and on the
coach boxes, any thing ,but human in appearance.—
Tney were literally plaisteted over from bead to foot,
as were the carriages, and even the horses. Bow-
Street was crowded so as to be completely im-
passable ; and Such was the pressure at the Public
Office, that the -Magistrates bound it necesssry to
clo-e the doors.

The following persons were first put to the bar,
and gave their names and descriptions.
Esau Hay cock, keeps a shop near the Yorkshire
Stingo, New road.

Jane Amos, alias Fox, lodger at the White
Swim, the huuse in question. A servant out of
place, disabled in the artn,..,l-IqAitr4 conviated and
pillored some iittie'Since for unnatural prattices.
Williarwrhompson, waiter, at a hotel in Covent-
Garden.

Henry Toogoodj•serrant to, a;Gentieman Port-
land-place.

Robert Aspioall, lodger, at No. 1, Brewer's-court,
Great Wild-street, tailor.

Richard Francis, a Corporal in'the 3d Regiment
of Foot Guards. •

James Cook, landlord' of the house, anti Pl,Lip
Dot, the !Naiter.

Samuel Taunton, the officer who had the execu-
tion of the warrant, slated that he and other 'officers
went last night to the house, about eleven o'cloCk,
and appveliended the before-named persons, except
the landlord and waiter, in a back parlour.
Tv, oof the patrole gave an account of their being
in. the I Pose last night previous to the execution of
the warrant, and stated the particulars of the con-
versation and actions that passed while they, were in
the
,parlour, but it is of too gross a nature to meet
the public eye. These witnesses also stated their hive
lug. seen similar proceedings in the saute parlour on
the night of Sunday week, and identified several of
the prisoners. as having been present at that time.
They were ordered to find bail for the misde-
meAnor,..a*till in default wete Committed to prison.
.James Spittle, a servant, in Coancery-lane; Mat-
thew Saunders, of Duke-street, Aidgate; 'James
Done; of Curtain Shoreditch Bricklayer ; W.
Barrow, of Forilital's Inn ; John Reeves, of C.istte-
street, Leicester-fieids; traveller wit hgoods ; James
Griffiths, Union-court, Hoilabrn, a servant out of
place, (well known at Bow-'street);. Ed. (Lia,rie,
a 'soldier in the 3d Guards; George Beal, a waiter'
out of place, Judging at tire-leVnite Swan john
Clarke, Union-court, Holbot n, a. servant- out of
itiace ; 'Timothy .I\l:)rris, of Ternple-street, White-
iars, servant out. of place; Barnard Hovel, a sol-
dier in the Ist Guards ; Thomas Dixon, a soldier in
the 3cl,Guards ; Michael Hays, a servant out of
place.

Al these prisonerS, except Dixon and Hayes,
who were in a dark. kitchen, were bound in a room on
the first, fl,Jor, but there being .no evidence of what
took place, they IA eie all discharged except Done,
who was- proved to have been in the hack parlour
with the others, on the night of Sunday se'nnight.
He was committed.

- The crowd had by this time become•so great in
Bow-street, particularly facing the Office, that it
was almost impossible to pass, and most of those
who were discharged. were very roughly handled ;
several of them were hunted about the neighbour-
hood, and, with great ddiculty, escaped with their
}ivies, although every exertion was used by the Con.
stables and Patrole to prevent such-dangerous pro-
ceedings, and in doing which, many of them were
very roughly treated themselves.

SWIMMING.-Yesterday, Blackfriars Bridge was
covered with spectators, in consequence of an ex-
traordinary exhibition on the River. Two water-
men swam against each other for a considerable
wager; towing their wherries by ropes, which they
held in their mouths. The contest was against
tide, and in their passage through the arch of
Blackfriars Bridge, the competitors displayed won-
derful strength and perfection in the art of SW 411..

Fl II F.—An alarming fire broke oat on Friday last,
on the premises of Mr. Harrowby, a farmer at East
Upton, Essex, which destroyed the house and a
very extensive range of out-houses, cattle, rick-
yards, &c. The flames were first discovered issuing
from a bake-house, over which labourers slept, about
a quarter before twelve o'clock; bur how the fire
happened has not been ascertained. Such was the
rapidity of the flames, that in less than half an hour
the out-houses in the several parts of the yard, at
fifty yards distance frhm each other, were all on fire,
and the whole had the appearance of a village on
fire. About twelve head of cattle were destroy et,
chiefly valuable horses. The flames were not sub-
dued in the rick-yard for two .days„