The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-26 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

bIANSION-NOVSV,
• A licensed victualler waited upon the Loan
MAYOR cm Saturday, to communicate to his Lord-
ship the particulars of a vile and most base conspi-
racy against the licensed victuallers of the metro-
polis and its environs, by which great sums of money
had been already extorted from them, Some time
ago. a great noise had Nell made about music ii-
permed, and Mr. Adolphus, the banister, had at the
I,ondon Sessions intimated that if the informers
were aware of the existence of the Act, which in-
flicted a penalty of 1001. upon a publican who should
&low; without a licence; Instrumental music to be
played in his house, those vermin would soon be at
their dirty work, Scarcely had this information
been given, when the publicans were beset upon all
sides. If a sound of u piano-forte was heard in the
upper part of a public-house, or even in Ora next
house; that was considered a sufficient ground for
legal proeeedings. But the informers had, on oc•
casions of this kind, called in the aid of some of the
law, and instead of proceeding by information before
a Magistrate fur penalties; flung the pahlicena into
4410 Bench; Whera the expellees
soon became enortuouS,
The LORD MAYOR expressed his surprise at this
statement. Tie Act of Parliament was most
grossly abused by this concert between informers
and their satellites? (helm attempt g, It; was made
as th,9 PrP4Tble sttited; kir the better preventing of
thefts and robberies," which were numerous in low
pot-houses, where fiddles and drums were used for
the purpose of encouraging drunkenness; and never
was meant to apply to such cases tEs f9ig4 casually
occur in respeatable houses of public entertainment.
The applicant said that in one instance, which
occurred a day or two ago, a licensed victuallcri
who keeps a celebrated theatrical kouse, was served
with a proeess; In which the informer claimed, as
penalties for 30 imputed violations of the Act, an
immense sum. The paper ran thus :—" The plain-
tiff in this suit complains before the King himself,
against the defendant; that he to render to him the
soul of ,toooi, of lawful money of Great Britain,
which he owes to, and Imjnstly detains from him, for
that whereas the said defendant, on the ?Qth of Oc-
tober, was ind*ed to the in divers (to
wit, 36) sums of money, of 1001. each, being for-
feited by an Act,entitled,&c. &e., whereby, and by
force of statute, an action hath accrued to plaintiff,
to demand and have of the defendant the sum of
3i 6001."
The Loan MAYOR said, •he never heard of such
•
an instance of outrageous impudence.
The applicant had to mention one thing which
showed the nature of the conspiracy between the
nformer and the low pettifogger. The pablican
ent an attorney to the fellow who brought the ac-
tion in the case above alluded to, and the informer's
friend said, " We'll give up the eq4., a@ ypw client
is 4 P°°l' with a 41refimily, if you give us 4/.,
and 6i. costs," A compromise of 3,600/. for 101.
This proposal was rejected, and the publican was
determined. if the plaintiff dared to go into Coen,
to defend it hirpSelf• fjpip.g% the most atrocious
ption.

The 1..0f.,pR1A-fot asked whether many pnblicans
had beep induced to accept of those terms of com-
promise ?--rfhp applicant replied, that ipwards of
ISO° actions had, to his knowledge, berm hrought,
and he-thought- that 200 of those had been compro-
mised. In some instances 20!. ttnd, even 00?, had
been given to get out of the serape, -
The Ltotp IVI9/011. said, that if it were thought
that he could be of any service, under circumstances
of this kind he woldd rrio4t readily eacrt himself to
prevent the gross-imposition practised. His- Lord-
ship most strongly.recommen44 the Licensed Vic-
tpallers to call a meeting, and agree to apply to M.
Peil upon the subject:
• It appears that in the ease specified, a piano-forte,
which the licensed victualler kept in one of the upper
}pours for his children, bad beep removed for tem-
porary convenience to the co'ee-rootn, where it re-
mained ‘vithopt having been touched by env persons
The appearrp,:e of •it was, litiwever, trope enpoet
19r the Informer,

114330-1:475-41Pili,T,
Mr. He!sham, a surgeon in Whitechapel-road,ac-
companied by his assistant, on Saturday waited on
tl.o Magistrate for the purpose of swearing an affi.
tlavitt to lay before the fjolpmigisionets of taninfi-
A few fi,kys up; a peilpp. of low stature entered
81r, lielsharips shop, and complaining of a violent
complaint iti'his boWels, and a nausea in his mouth,:
1114P504 to be supplied' with a bottle of soda-.
W4tPt; Pe agiscupt told hint that they had none
in the house, and that it was an article in whiph
they did not deal. • The applicant then oquested
to be supplied with something that would have the
;Arlie effect? and he added, " I am cursedly out of
tha way)? placing ltis bawl pp his pio!plw1).
assistant' instantly prepare 4.11 eiteryp?FiFg draught,
composed of crystallized salts of lemon and.carbp-
nate of polass, which the
.man drank on the pre-
miies. 4 short time afterwards Mr. Helsham re-
ceo-p4 fforp tltp Forn tnis!iiopers of
Stamps, for selfing spda-water w titout thP
fluty; and to rebut the evidence of the. iiiforrpert
Mr. Ifelsham and his assistant made an affidavit,
stating the real facts of the case, which they in-
tended to lair before the Commissioners of Stamps.

By the letters from Hamburgh of the 16th
instant, the price of gold is 1021 per ducat, which, at the
English Mint price of 3/. 17s. lOid. per ounce for stan-
.4aFd ;011 gives an exchange of 13. 121. ; and the ex-
e,hange n flatidlurg4 i; f.ppdop! Et sliort being 13. 7i.7
it fOlli.vs Oat gold is .oifier cent. higher fiamhurth
than in Lonaon. •

In most ptpts of the country there balm beeti
deep falls of an t, ihongh in apd !bout Lun,lon there hp
hitherto been but very littie.

To produce a gentleman, it find (a French
lady sail) la noblesse et la simplieite dun An4dais, avec la
grure et l'Nyance d'un Francais.
A,t 4olya, a liwtle set; pert town on the western
coast of Pemiffokesitire, during the i;tte gals the tide rote
to an unprecedented bright, su Mupl; so al to reach the
dwelling-how,e of Mr. w.* Kemp (agent to the malls
Lights),
,ity**(l poo a iii.stanoe above the level
of tha sea, and of which it burst open the bolted doPrz,
overflowing the rooms, and spoiling the furniture. On
the "retiring of the waters" great was Mr. Kemp's
surprise to find a large fish, with several smaller ones,
gappng their then useless tails en a fine Turkey carpet."
!LP 13'R!IR'!:•- Trchis ePlal-r4ed philosopher was
frelnently the dupe of his 4414 'betievOignt:F: A 7 PPP
occasion he, by painful exertions, obtained some favour
for a young man of the name of Riviere, who 4: counte-
nance and eloquence bad interested him. Riviete called to
thank him. When he was going away, and they were on
the staircase together, he stopped Diderot, and said to
M9nsienr:pideyot, erg riq agmaipted payral
histoi-Y?" ; know a cabbage from a lettuce,
and a pigeon from a sparrow." " Are you acquainted
with the history of the fermacaleo?" (‘ No." " fie is a
small and ',Fry industrious insect. He digs a bole in the
ground, of the shape of a funnel, and covers te surface with
fine light *anti. . When a foorqh inset allows itself to fall
into this hole he seizes it, sucks it, and tiu:n says to it,—
" Monsieur Dideroo have the honour to wish you a good
utorniag." •