The Sun.
London, England, 1820-03-02 00:00:00

POISONOUS SOUP,

ToWN- HALL, SoUTHWARK,-Yesterday, 3 poor
old Irish wom,:ta applied of Ore Justice Room, and
ntatle a complaint to the Aldurman, the subject of
w htc.n ought, o be geJtera
appeared-,
tom herstatemeot, that she went
into a low eating-house in the Borough Market,
where she. purthased t wopenny worth of what
the y called leg of beef soup, tor herself mud child
ren, but on breaking some bread into it turned,s'ud-
dehly black, and a nauseous smell arose tram
which caused her-to think it was. nut good.. The
colour too (being a d,,rk purple, not unlike the
thick grounds of port wine) confirmed her suspi.
dont, and she in consequence refused to ,have it,
or to pay for it. The proprietor of the shop said
he would have the 'money, and detained one tat
her children till it was paid, Whilst she in -thei
mean time came to the office-to seek redress.
The basin was produced in the office, and all
who beheld the contents turned away with dis-
gust from' it, The ingredients were composed
of small bits of bone', pieces of fat and hard
black tnelf, which seemed the leavings of other

Persons. A person in the office said;. that nearly
all the
.meaner sort of cook-shops were in the,
practice of making their soup from the stale bones'
of roast and boiled joints of whatever qualify
or kind, to which was added a little flour-to thic-
ken it, a little allspice, end then the whole' was
coloured with logwoosl, which accounted for the
strong colour of it. -This miserable stuff, when so
prepared, was sold to the more necessitous part
of the public at 2d. for little more than hall a. pits
—a compound (to use the_words at those who
saw it) that no gentleman in England would gi.c
Iris dogs. .
The basin'with its contents was carried up to .
the High Sheriff's Office, and his opinion asked Go
the subject ; he recommended that she poor tvo.
man should make an instant application to the flesh
taster of the palish, wtho'Avould„ no doubt,, cause-
an inquiry to-be instituted, the result would_ be,
that all nnwlanlesome food found on the premises
would he seized and destroyed, as it very justly
ought to he.

The woman went away to seek the flesh-taster,
and in the mean time thc'story having got wind
in 'the neighbour hood,- a crowd of .people sur-
-rounded the shop, and manifested a disposition
to commit violence, but an officer from Union-
Hall arrived in sufficient time to -prevent any mis-
chief the keeper of the shop thought fit at length
to let the child go about its business.
STEALING SILVER-PLATE.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Gibson, a yoong man, is as charged by Mrs. Ox-
borough, a Lady of fortune, residing at-NO:S, in
the Edgware-road, On suspicion of having stolen
various articles of silver plate, her property.---
It appeared in evidence, that the prisoner was
oceasionallyemployed by Mrs. Ox borough, tO,assist.
her servants in the stable, and having gained her.
good opinion he used sometimes to assist in Clean-
ing the plate, various articles of which, were lat.'
telly missing. Upon inquiring into the chat aeter
of the pufsoner n►inutely (upon who'll suspicion
had fallen), it was ascertained that he was an ac-
complice of Jack. Henley, lately executed at the
Old Bailey for the West End Fair depredations,
—l-le was fully committed tor. trial.

The shop-windows of the booksellers and gra-
ers is Cite thetronolis were yesterday, for the
most parr, reith,a it presentation of. the pre-
mkt:, in Cate-street, and tile shurononjor.peigh-
bourhood. Cats-street continues crowded every
dart Earl Grosvenot mid his-son_Were among ;he
thf6ng on Tuesday. The Noble Earl was ad-
mitted into the pet pikes •where t!,e diabolica:"eang
were assembled by a boy in the employ
.of F:rth,
the erswkeeper, who is cOttfined iii Tothillfi,ids
aridewell on a charge of Treason. Lie ex-
emitted the whole of the premises v'erypartiettldr-
ly ; and when lee w)isin'the loft appealed and
expressed • himself- extremely shocked at the visi-
ble appearance of the blood of the unfortunate
Smii hers, upon the carpenter's bench.
It is strongly suspected that most of the
wretches escaped from the
.backpremises. The
occupiers of the adjoining house refused to let
the villains through their premises except they
would say who they were, and what was their
obj,-ef iii escaping-. The banditti, having no rea-
amiable excuse, endeavoured to. pass through by
force,' end the upper hinges of the back door were
broken off ; but they _tiff not wait to finish their
' destructi-o uj o ► the door by forcing the lower
hinges_off, but finding they were closely pursued,
made their way, it has been. ascertained, over a
s ed similar 'u those sshi h a e at the back of all
the small houses. in that inw neighbourhood.
From Or shed .it is etippoted they entered the
one-p.iir of stairs window of a utspeetabie house
in_ John -str-et, and they made their way through
,cite house out at the trout door nonbserved, and
wii hout disturbing the quiet inhabitants.
‘Veste9st, the conductor of . the patrol, who
Onfortunstely was unarmed, tug); his illlied)V011,
_or coi•stabie's short staff, was .one who was se-
lected for the arduous enterprise in consequence
of his. being well acqoainted with the
person of
Tbistlessood, havieg hol the 'care of him, and
being constrinly with 'hint tor ten days when he
was under trial on a charge of. high treason, in
an 4 'Champion, one. of his
patty,of lA, Was also selected for the duty,
in consequence of his having an equal knowleds!e
of Thistlewood's person. Welter); t was the officer
who seized hugs tile butcher, *hien as one of the
sentinels at the door of C,e stable when the offi-
cers entered it: Wescott saw Thistlewood- ilk.
charge a pistol into the stable at random ; a,•d
-.there is no doubt bat that he was, then armed with
two pistols and one stvoid, which his black cloth
belt way made to contain. There were then se-
veral candles borning.in the stable; and although
Westcott had logs in custody in a corner of the,
stable, yet, as Thistlewood discharged a pistol on
coming clown the ladder, his atteniion was. liked
upon him, and as soon as he saw his tare lie had
oo doubt tiCat it was Thistlewood ; and be has
every reason to believeThistlewood knew hint, .
for he saw liimo estlit his second pistol at him;
and at the instant, frOurr be tint taken, the 'im-
pression upon his mind was., that he should be
shot dead, which in,luoed him to stoop down, and
bold op. his left arm and band to defend his head.
The, pistol went off, and he observed Thistle wood
escape out of the front 'door of the stable into
Cato-stn.-cf. lie did not discover the injury he
hid sustained till he tohnd his left h;rnd bleeding,
and on examinat lint lie discovered that a shot had
passed-through the cuff of his coat, and also the
fleshy ..part of his hand, between his thumb and
•forefinger, and immediately after he received a
most violent blow on the left side of his temple,
the effects and swelling of which are still visible,
but by whom, or front what insrrument he received
this blow, he is no; able to decide. Afterwards
three pistol shots passed through the crown of his
bus by whom- the pistols were.fired he can-
not tell—his escape from being murdered is al-.
most a mii•aele. During ibis attack upon a peace
officer, srbo eras unarmed., his prisoner, logs the
buteher,._ made his„- escape out of the stable in
Cato-street, where, however, he was stopped bed_ .
secured. .

liS.vract of a letter from Bury St.Edmtmd'i,
dated Feb. 29.—" I love the satisfaction of no.
(painting you, that a subscription has been enl
tered into by the inhabitants of this place, in con-
scquenct of the laze transactions in Cato-street,
in testimony of their sense of uhe brave and meri-
'Orions conduct of the prilice-officers of the metto.:
polis, lately en.4agrd in the apprehension of the
assassins assembred tlrere. The subscription of
each person not to exceed Is., in order to afford
the opportunity of a more general manifestation
of the feelings excited by the occasion. The
amount to be remitted to the Magistrates at Bow.
street, and 'to be .by them distrititneel equally
amongst those officers. I cannot hut indulge the

expectation that such a subscription will become
general throughout England, inasmuch as it will
tend equally to show tharEnglsnd is not only
true to itself, but that it is ever ready largely, as
well a wisely, to reiliukratc its cieltuddrs."