The Sun.
London, England, 1827-08-02 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Mr. Hearne, the proprietor of
the King's Arms, on Holborn.bridge, came to the Justice-
room to apply for a licence for a house which had been a
public-house in the liberties of Saint Bartholomew, and
which had been lately rebuilt. He produced-a recommen-
tion signed by Sir James Shaw, a great number of the
most respectable inhabitants of the parish, and the Gover-
nor and Deputy-Governors of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
He stated that he had, as far as he found it possible, com-
plied with the new Act of Parliament on the subject, by
putting tip notices, &c. anti he hoped to be able to sur-
mount the difficulty of applying on the regular licensing
day. The house had been, up to a few years ago, 'licen-
ced, but it had beeii allowed to go to ruin, and it had
become necessary to rebuild it. The applicant thought
that the fact of the house having been licensed for a number
of years would operate in favour of his claim. No house
had been licenced instead of it.

The LORD Mayo& said, that he had very atten-
tively studied the new Bill respecting the licensing
of public-houses. He had, he regretted to say, found
it extremely defective in, the very point to which
his attention had been drawn upon this , occasion.—
If the public-house of an individual happened to
be burnt, the owner had it not in his power, by this act,
to act upon his licence in any other house until he should
build another. The Legislature evidently intended accom-
modation of the sort, but the provision was so clogged that
nothing could be made of it. The act professed to give to
the Commissioners of Excise the power to grant a licence
under such circumstances, but the act was so worded that
the authority was found to be merely nominal. This error
of course extended to cases of the kind just described. His
Lordship said that the applicant had no alternative but an
application .on the regular day of licensing.
Mr. Adkin, the proprietor of the Ben Jonson public-
house, in Shoe-lane, was summoned by Foster, the Marshal.
man, for having his house open at an unseasonable hour.
Cathie, the officer, stated, that on Friday night, at half-
past twelve o'clock, 'he saw some gentlemen drinking in the
defendant's house. He understood that they were connected
with the press.
The LORD MAYOR.,--I know nothing at all of newspaper
men in a case of this kind. The house ought not to be
open to any body.
A clerk of Mr. Harmer appeared for the defendant, and
stated, that it was the custom of Magistrates to grant indul-
gence to licensed victuallers, circumstanced as the defend-
ant was. _ _

The Loan MAvoa.---I shall impose the smallest fine,
10s.: I can't help it.
Mr. Harmer's clerk said, that the defendant merely ac-
commodated those who were obliged to sit up at a very la-
borious profession.
The Loan Mavon.--Those who are connected with the
press must have their stuff from the public-house at an early
hour. Public-houses must he shut up at 11 o'clock.
The solicitor stated that the Magistrate had a discre-
tionary Power, and that such power had been uniformly ex-
ercised towards those who opened their houses to persons
connected with the press -with indulgence.
It was stated to his Lordship that a reporter, who perhaps

had written 14 or, 15 hours, at night' would sometimes
willingly pay five times the value of a pint of wine to save
himself from exhaustion. This was as pressing a case as

that of a traveller.

Mr, Adkin submitted to the Lord Mayor that his house

WAS as well conducted as any in the city of London. He
had never opposed in any way the authority of the police. He
had never allowed any person of questionable character to
approach his bar, as all his neighbours could testify.
It was admitted tkat the house was extremely well con-
ducted.

The LORD Mayor—Very well, I shall fine you the very
lowest fine.

Mr. Adkin—My Lord, I trust that you will consider
the consequence of recording a penalty against me before
you decide. If I have erred, it has been an unintentional
error. It surely could not be the intention of the Legisla-
ture to fine for a mistake arising from the observation of
the practice of magistrates, who made allowances in cases
of this nature. _

The LORD MAYOR—There is something in the argu-
ment which you have just advanced, and I shall not fine
you ; but yott must close your doors at 11 o'clock.
Mr. Coils, of the Rainbow tavern, in Fleet-street, was

summoned for a similar offence against the Act.
gentlemen were found sitting there after 12 o'clock.
The LORD Mairoa—Your house must be closed at 11

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o'clock. I cannot allow you to have an exclusive privilege.
Will you promise to close at eleven ?
Mr. Coils said that he might as well clOse his house alto-
gether. He begged to know why the coffee-houses were
not visited by the police as well as his house? Coffee-
houses were allowed to do as they Incased.
The Loan MaYoa said that be would not hear of any

distinction. 'Will you close your doors at that hour ?
Mr. Culls—Certainly, my Lord.—Ne fine was imposed.

GUILDHALL—Dor.Lr's TAP. —One Mr. John
Thomas appeared before Mr. Alderman T:►omrsox, among
the bibulous disturbers of the King's peace, yesterday
morning, charged with having grossly misconducted him-
self at Dolly's tap.
Dolly's tap is an appendage to Dolly's chop-house--a
chop-house almost as well known as' St. Paul's Cathedral,
and highly appreciated by all lovers of mutton chops in this
mutton-eating metropolis. The tap is, as aforesaid, an ap-
pendage thereunto—a place in which the chop-eaters may
moisten their chops to their heart's content, with any liquid
they may fancy, from Champaigne or Bon: Rethib, down
to Deady's" cordial or Barclay's entire butt. Of Dolly's
tap, one Mistress Oldfield is the comely landlady; and on
Tuesday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, just as
she was contemplating closing her tap, and quietly setting
down after the fatigues of the day—in pops this Mr. John
Thomas, and demands a glass of port. The portly pro-
prietress of Dolly's tap instantly handed a glass of port to
Mr. John Thomas—and down his red lane it went at one
gulp. Mr. John Thomas then smacked his lips and de-
manded a glass of gin and bitters. The glass of gin and
bitters was handed to Mr. John Thomas, and he chucked
it down his throat so suddenly that Mrs. Oldfield verily
believed it must have overtaken the port before it got
half way to the bottom. Mr. John Thomas then demanded•
a glass of porter ; but Mrs. Oldfield refused to let him have
it. Perhaps she thought it was a strange anti-climactical
declension from prime port, through gin and bitters, to plain
heavy wet; or perhaps she thought John Thomas had already
imbibed more moisture than enough; but so it was, that
she peremptorily refused to let him have any more, alleg-
ing that she wanted to close her tap, and desir;ng him to
pay for what he had swallowed, and depart in peace.
But Mr. John Thomas was not to be so put off; he
wished for porter to make the port and the gin and
the bitters sit easy on his stomach ; and as Mrs. Oldfield
persisted in refusing it, he stalked into her bar, and began
pumping some himself. Mrs. Oldfield became alarmed,
and called in the watchman. Mr. John Thomas vowed he
Would knock the watchman down ; and the watchman,

being a very ancient and quiet watcliman,very prudently

abstained from coming within the reach of such a conse-
quence. Mrs. Oldfield called her husband. Mr. John
Thomas swore he would knock her hiishand up; and her
husband, being much indisposed, declined running the risk
of being knocked in any way. Finally, Mrs. Oldfield
called a constable ; the constable came at her call, and
called John Thomas to come out of the bar ; John Thomas

defied the constable; the constable collared John Thomas;
they struggled together for a moment, and away they went
scuffling out at the door of Dolly's-tap, and irito the door
of the watch-house nearly opposite--something after the
fashion of Punch and le Diable in the show-box.
Mr. John Thomas—when the Alderman asked him what
he was, said he was a surgeon ; and when asked what he
had to say in excuse for such extremely unsurgeonlike
conduct, he replied, in a sort of touch-and-go style,—
" I was walking—had been drinking—rather thirsty—
said to the watchman, " watchman, come in here, and I'll
give you something to drink."—Don't know if he followed
me—if not he behaved very ill—certainly very ill.—
people rather hasty—Man especially. Very thirsty—
wouldn't go--pushed out—and into watch-house in a mo-
ment—no idea how—but in a moment, as it were !"

" Then," said the worthy Alderman, " I convict you,
for having been drunk, in the penalty of five shillings for
the benefit of the poor of the pariah."
Mr. John Thomas did not half like this—" I assure
your Worship," said he, " the charge is a made-up charge
altogether—a very villanous thing !" But there was no
remedy ; the penalty must be paid ; and having paid it, he
departed much out of humour with everybody ; and espe-
cially with Dolly's tap.
MA RY LEBONE. —Ann Beff, a canal boatman's wife,
dressed in her hest, with Leghorn hat and artificial lilies,
was charged with being disorderly, and breaking five panes
of glass in the bar window of the Red Lion public-house,
at Westbourn-green.
It appeared that the defendant's husband manages the
boat in which the Grenadier Guards embarked yesterday
morning at Paddington for Liverpool, and on the happy
occasion she had taken one or two, perhaps three, glasses
more than sufficient. In this condition she applied to Mrs.
Priscilla Tomlin, the landlady of the Red Lion, for a little
more.

" I will not serve you," said Mrs. Tomlin, " for you are
tipsy already ; and if you do not go about your business,
Tomlin shall make you."
" Ile.make me !" replied the boatman's wife ; " if he
comes near me, " I'll give him such a scratch on his face
that lie shall be ashamed to go to bed to you."
, An attempt was made to turn her out, when, instead of
scratching the landlord's face, she broke the window as
before stated, upon which Mr. Tomlin sent a mes-
senger on horseback to Marylebone office for assist-
ance, and Mr. Rawlinson sent Buckeridge and Webster to
take her into custody. She is detained until she pays for
repairing the window.
HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday a tall young man,
dressed in sailor's clothes, and reluctantly giving his name
Thos. Morris,was brought from the Foundling watchhouse,
before the Sitting Magistrate, charged by Wm. Wells, a
private watchman, with attempting to force his way into
the house of Whitmarsh, Esq., Guildford-street,
and assaulting him (Wells) while in the execution of his
duty, on the previous night.
It appeared that the defendant, who had just returned
from a visit to the distant shores of Battersea on the,efight
in question, had either missed or forgot his way home, and
by mistake drifted into the wrong port. Being rather un-
ceremoniously repulsed by the Philistine (Wells), who was
there stationed on guard, he made desperate resistance;
1 and if the marks inflicted by hint on complainant's coun-
tenance might be adduced in proof of his lineage, we
should have no hesitation in putting him down a Hittite.
It having been ascertained that these was no felonious
intention, and that the defendant was highly respectable,
he was ordered to find bail for the assault, or settle with
the watchman.
The latter course was preferred, and a piece of the pre-
cious ore was administered in the shape of a sovereign re-
medy, at the sight of which complainant seemed to forget
all his former troubles.
On quitting the bar, our hero was advised by the Magi-
strate not to venture on that dangerous coast again, with-
out an experienced pilot.
UNION-HALL.—Yesterday a gentleman named Orme
appeared at this office to answer the complaint of Mr.
Cook for having assaulted him, under the following cir-
cumstances. The parties had each a solicitor in attendance.
The complainant commenced by stating, that on the
-preceding afternoon the defendant called at his house at
Camberwell, and having requested an interview was shown
into the parlour, where, after having alluded to some family
matters, he began to abuse Mr. Cook in such a manner as
to induce the latter to order him out of the house. The
moment the complainant had opened the door to give his
tincourteous visitor an opportunity of withdrawing, he was
immediately attacked by the defendant, who struck him
right and left in the face with his fists, accompanying his
blows with these expressions—" You villain, I'll knock
your -- head off your shoulders, before I have done
with you."
Mr. SwAßEY—Pray what offence had you given Mr.
Orme, to act ill the manner you have described ? Are you
related ? Mr. Cook—We are not related. I was formerly
paying my addresses to one of his sisters, but,—
Mr. Swansv—l suppose he considered you had de-
serted the lady, and therefore felt 'irritated.
Mr. Cook-4'revious to the assault having been commit-
ied on me, Mr. Orme accused me of having paned his

sister in the.CanaberWell-road, and treated her contemp-
tuously. I repelled the accusation : upon which he struck
Me, and during the scuffle above related, I at length suc-
ceeded in getting bum down undermost, and whilst 'I was
holding him in that position, he bellowed aloud, " For
God's sake; let me rise : consider my wife and family 1."
I, however, held him down, until one of the servants went
for a constable, into whose hands I handed him over.

Mr. SWABEY-Tbere appears to have been a regular
affray between you. Now the question is, which of you
struck the first blow ? Mr. Cook—l am on my oath ;
Mr. Orme did ; and I should not have proceeded to these
lengths, had he not, in an emphatic manner, on leaving the
house,' ejaculated, " I shall make you repent before lomy."
Mr. Cook added, that he considered that threat implied
that he would do him some personal injury.
Defendant—l am happy now my family have escaped
connexion with such a blackguard, and shall de-
cline entering here into his conduct respecting my family.
Mr. Copk—He threatens to horsewhip me on the Royal.
Exchange.
The Magistrate reprobated the language, just made use.
of by Mr. Orme, who was ultimately held to bail in his.
own recognizances to appear at the sessions.