The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-17 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday several Jews appeared before the LORD
MAYOR. to answer the charge of having resisted the autho-
rity of his Lordship, by continuing to sell old clothes in
Cutler-street, in violation of Mr. M. A. Taylor's Act.
The East India Company's warehouses being in the
neighbourhood, the conduct of the Jews, who are to be
seen there in droves, has been a great obstruction to the
labours of those who are employed at the warehouses.__
Although many fines have been inflicted, the nuisance
continues unabated.

The Lora) MAYOR asked Forrester the officer, who is
constantly occupied in watching, giving notice to, and
summoning defendants, how it was that, notwithstanding
the numberless examples which had been made, the prac-
tice was persevered in.
Forrester said that the Jews, after being fined, re-
turned to Cutler-street, and went round with hats in their
bands to collect money to pay the expences, and in some
instances they obtained three times as much as the ex-
pences amounted to. Of course, they made a jest of the
threats used against them, and carried on as great a traffic
as ever.

The Lonn MAYOR said that the fine he had hitherto in-
flicted was ss. upon each of those who were convicted.—
He should double it upon this occasion, and upon any
future complaint he should increase the penalty, until it
reached the full extent of the Act.

The Jews pleaded hard for mercy, and vowed most so-
lemnly that they would never show themselves again in
the city of London, if his Lordship would only indulge
them for once; but they could get no diminution of the fine.
The Loan MAYOR told them that the only alternative
was 14 days' imprisonment.
Soon after they were locked up, they sent in the whole
amount and were discharged.
It was ascertained after they had departed, that each of
them had offered to give as much money to the officer as
had been paid upon the decision of the Lord Mayor, if
he would consent to overlook their offence. It is the
practice of those dealers in old clothes to pretend, when
they are in the hands of the Magistrates, that they have
large numbers of children. They are, it seems, able to
procure the loan of half a dozen or a dozen little boys and
Dirk, who are taught to call any man pointed out to
them "father," and who would swear, if necessary, to
20 new parents in a day:
A respectable tradesman, who resides in Winchester-
street, Broad-street, was charged before the LORD MAYOR,
by an officer, under the following circumstances:--
The officer stated, that on Sunday morning, at half-past
one o'clock, he heard the voices of two men in such loud
conversation as to disturb the neighbourhood. Witness
found the defendant and another person talking together,
and desired them civilly to " move on." The defendant
in a very outrageous manner refused to stir; and after
having heaped gross epithets upon the witness, was taken
into custody, and lodged in the watch-house as a prevention
to any further disturbance of the neighbourhood.
The defendant gave a different version of the affair. He
had, he said, been engaged in conversation with a friend
near his own door, at about half-past 12, when the officer
in the most insolent and dictatorial manner ordered him
away. Having lived in the neighbourhood for a dozen
years, and never having been subjfct to such rudeness, he
expostulated with the officer, who, however, seized him
by the collar, knocked some books which he was carrying
into the street, and although his wife was at the door wait-
ing for him, dragged him off to the watch-house. The
constable of the night, however, refused to detain him.
The officer here stated, in answer to a question from the
Loan MAYOR, that the defendant was intoxicated at the
time, and that he (the officer) waited most patiently for
some time to ascertain whether the defendant would go
quietly away.
The constable of the night declared that the defendant
had been never snore sober than he was on the night he
was charged ; and Le (witness) would not have taken the
charge at all if the officer had not insisted on it. He,
however, immediately told the defendant that he was per-
fectly at liberty to go house, and his (witness's) conduct
was approved by the deputy of the ward.
Tile Loan :Mayors. said, that he could not say that the
officer had exceeded his duty. The defendant was not
justified in disturbing people, particularly at so late an
hour, and the officer might, by a late Act of Parlia-
ment, tike any night-walkers into custody. His Lord-
ship told the defendant, however, that he was disehalged
without paying of fi,es.