The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-29 00:00:00

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floW Muth soever the A.gniar commerce of the
cutsatty is Unpaired by the present pressure, there
is no qiie?tion that tLe smuggling trade continues
in extreme vivacity._ This extraorduhry traffic
appears to he comincted witla a public;tY that
could scarcely be credited but on the, testimony of
one's own si.tht. Toe smugglers, or, as they are
Si vied from tone manner of conveying,tbe whisky,
Flaskers, go in large bands on the high toads in
open day,. and laugh at the Traveller, who, in his
looks, expresses wonder at,contraventilus at the
Liu. so .undisguised, and yet so undetected,—'
On Monday night, for instance, 9 gang of twenty-
four,. with the order of so many Soldiers, and
under the directions of is leader *lit) fiegnently
called-on those lagging behind "to keep up,"
marched .through .(31).tiogbank and the' neigh-
hooting hamlets to ,Coweaddens, (in the sit-
barbs of. Glasgow) where, in the (ace of num-
burs of persons, some of whom ha led ant " Sne,
cess to snuggling;" they entered a house* and
deposited their laden flasks, until the shades of
night would enable them to penetrate in safel to
their rosetters in Glasgow. We are informed
that . the ol4ces of distillation are nearly as nOto-
;ions to the. Inhabitants in their vicinity as the
Methods of conveyance ; and whoever of the
neighbours ehOose to make a visit to the popular
distillers are regaled with undiluted ipirit, When-
WWI to drink confusion to the ihciSe. Smuggled
whiky, it is said, has fallen recently 4s, or ss, a
gIIO n Glasgoia Pufier.)
On Nimiday a ',arty HI Excise Officers from
Glasgow discovered in Cameron Glen, a consi-
derable distance to the northward of that city,
three illicit stills, 50 gallons allowance;
wiilt N5O gallons Of wash, they destroyed.' A
quantity of aquayitae, copper, &c. and a prisoner
were lodged in the Excise Office.. Some of the
-smugglers made a, slight attempt to oppose the
officers.

SINGULAR WEnnt NG. —Tuesday evening the
• in
to
the of Drury-lane was thrOw n
the utmost •confusion, in consequence of an ex.
tramdinary phenomenon very seldom Witnessed.
Some sweeps residing n Charles-street having
been married, they re‘olced'tp celebrate the d iv,
and about eight o'clock in the evening the bride
and bridegroom, attended by 11 couple more; all
mounted On asses, and followed by several bun.
dreds of spec ators; with tin pots, horns, (last
bells, watchorem' rattles, • flatubeaux; Ac.' pro,
ceeded through I)r.nry-lliii, and made their grand.
entrance inr.. floib:wn Newtou.Street to the
Bunk puhli...ionse, where they stopped to get
sbme refreshmeot ; but in fortning the p'rncession
agttin,, the bride's Arahian was '.rinfortonately
thrown down by the presinfe'd the aoli, and the
tioly precipitated in the mini. This enraged the
bridegroom, who immediately dismounted, and
began several blows amongst Iris neigh.
boors with extreme fury. The consequence Was;
that a -general ibattle ensued, and several
.heads
were. broken.. t'llarriner, the beadle Of ihat','dis.
trier. came Op, backed by about a doien Knight's
of the Lontharn, who succeeded in securing•'seve-
ral of the sable warriors, finally dh.pc#ifl
the merry group. •

. •
Soictosa—Yesterday morning a than of ,gan-
tee! appearance as .seen- loitering about Pork
lane, evidently in a very dejected state ; he was
spoken to by several persons, but he refused to
answer any questions. At last he was observed
to go into the Park at Grosvenor gate, and to
walk round the Queen's Baton, repeatedly look.
ine. over the iron railing, and qcasionally witting
his hands in a ;mauve of prayer ; in 1114 Manner
he continued for two hours, at last be Sprang
over the railing and into the water, sorbe.persom.
Who saw the transaction rad. to his asitistanceand
gift him out, but he was (Ore :lead,--Saturday
young min named T. Smith shot himself through
the bead with a musket, at West, Fin e, Susstix.l
The deceased bad nceivetl a most violent pas-
sion liar a young wothan in the service of Lady
thAttp but, being slighted, he had. recourse ,td
the above dreadful eipedient. A packet diet.
ter*, written by hlmi .were found the a.t, subse-
tpient to his death. One of theM,,direeted to the
object of his unhappy love, is filled with the bit-
terest reproaches l'he accuses having trifled
With his afFection..i..of having driven him to the
public-housetioti, 6nally, to self-mitrder. a He
was about, 23 years of age; the girl is only 16.;-=.
Verdict, Lunae#:

li7t trust it is uutiecesSsry to urge spoltstnen
In postpone the commencement of the shop ting
season, for at least three weeks or a month. A

later-season is not witlikL the memory t) man,
though we hope that theft- is the prospect of an
abundant harvest. 'Let not the hopes of the fer-
nier, tilts, be disappointed by the roaming of
does and
.sportsmen through the standing corn.
Perfiaps, for the present yeat. Gentlemen shill, by
common consent, agree that partridge and phea-
sant sfiCiOting shall conitueOge oti chic same day.
_ .

VOLICE OF ttl

rXE `fO POLTS.

[Eraisiirt atioh HANTEG CoN ANT rontinme,l 1

'lt lia 11.11va, beeit thought thar;ttrc Ciry or
'Loudon, end the other .part4'4 the Itlctropolii,
(th'e City 'of LonAn Ming very jealnits;uf their

. ,
"pri'vileges), impeded 41-;e-senrch,';ifter fern!, to a
certain degree; tint in 'Poitit of fact, the City
saifittatel tiave always been 'Very desirouit of fa-
inrsnit of riffenders','ited to a (fedi('
•
'that 'greatly .reitioves po e once.
inceiirence.
It 'is net necessary that it warrant by nie.
Ace should be eannteriinetthy 'the inkgistiate
of the neighhoming office, befate it can be ci:e.
cute(' within
,his `diff,aeni
,diations it is necessary hot, 'cite,' atrociquit
felonies, .every body
,inay take lite offender hy._
force and carry him betniea reagifstrate, and the
effect is inokered witheni a wArt.on't.
~,I.yerytnitgistrate
.engt4feil the :Pence is in.
'chided in tite'Conneis'sion of the four (iour;ttes sir..
rounding the nietrdpolts; Ind a magistrate
kriging to any one, Of the Relicts-offices has power
to issue a warrant that will rut( throilgit those
counties.
.
In point of 'ffict, there is tut feenlitrcornmnni.-

cation kept up between the office in Bow-street
and difiet'ent parts of
.the country ;
.but Where, the
country, magistrate's wish to desmbe an offender
who has escaped. or 'to have any other aids diet ,;
write to the magistrate's in 130 w-street, who de
all theY•cifi to prothOte the object.
The police offices make a report telhe Secretary
of State every month : So matfy`iithrtiers, and the
names ,of the "parties; so many biteglaries, auii
the name and situation of the house. in each
trict so many lar4taies, as
.far its they liare'come
to the knowledge of the office '3 and so of other
offences. .Titis,rePor't coMptjtes elit whole of the
counties of Middlesex and &they. The retort%
is pade upon a broad sheei of Viper, upon which
tlitaffences are sepeately ape'cified ; the Offences
are.naMed in the margin, and the names of the
parties aggrieved 4 and the niimber of offenders)
either diacharged or coinmitted,, particularly spe^..
vified. . ,

The Magistritee tediffe;rent districti Meet anal
a 'fortnight or once a Month ; and it is asked,
.;
whether it woOld not be of greal advantage to have
an eCcomit.Uf the prOCettlings at such diVisiow'
meetings transmietedt4o BoW-striet-, and that the
Magistrates B6w-street should comniunicate
with thetnaeistra`tiS. at those meetings on snhjecte
of police 341 The answer is,. that in general the
objects before that, division Meetings of migisr
traces iii the country ars such ea wonld not at alt
touch, the general policy of the kingdom ; the
commitments fur important felonieef,of a whole
county in a year may, not amount to 20, atilliuses,
upon matters Chiefly lueid.—A report of cot ituort
larcenies. would be of c fleet ;if it was a high-
way robbery, or a burglary., or a murder', if the
Orties suspected could be described, and bad as•
caped, such a cOmminfication might be useful : irs
cases of consequence the magistrate's generally
have these cotumwlicationi.

If any. offence arises in a tlistric't, the magic.
traces sometime 4 cominunicate witl• the officers
at Bow-street, and sometimes with the Secretary
of State. Thereare a great many letters come to
•

the Secretary of. State alinost every post, which
Sir Nathaniel E'recitently `sees; but it there is any
think important, perhaps the magistrate writes to
Bow-street', givirq,. a description of the offtlitter,
and desiring that-, if. stich a person is found, they
may have notice gilt : pertaps this Ii rliiioist the
s:ilue'practiCal tient fit as if an instiuttiori of Ibt
natine alluded to •Wai established.

There is it -gt‘ette in the native of a hue and
cry Babette, Which Is sent s(gratuitonslY) to all the
niagistraA in .the kingdom Who desire it and 'to
the clerks of the peace of the counties, anti mayors
and functionaries of the 'great towns : it deScribeit'
offenders wFose destrijition has been rnitur
nil ports ofthe kingdom, by advartiiement. There
is an editor of this gazette. appointed by the Se-
cretaty of State ; the :present eaitor is the chief .
clerk in flow.strcet, 'The niagistra`fes never ,see
, it hat the editor wo,ild throw out any mattet
that itelhought,eli'eeptionablei and inspects the
advertisements -that are sent, before their inser-
tion.. Money is paid for the insertion of Adm.-
tisementi, but the profit does not go to the editor.
l g ;is pasts 70/. a . year as. editor, The proffer
charges for the pr;nting, and gives credit for the
Money received 1,,r advertisinteutS, and the bill,
like any other trm!etinan's, is paid. The balance
of the account i 3 paid out of the funds of the of.
lice, and is Charged in the account of the office.
The establishment at liow-street lies increased
Of late years; the inniiher Of patrole, and of course
the , I,.*perrce for many :yours cent about,
i 2,0001. and now about 1.1,000/, hut that includes
occasional repsits. , -
Thete Are three Police Clerks in, the. Establish-
Mem, and an extra one occasionally. Some of
ihem practise as ettornies, but Sir Nathaniel does
'riot think that they are induCed to take the office
of clerks front the prospect; it holds out of ob.
taining theM business. In point of fact, they
May, in the office in.i3ow-street, and in other
offices, be freptetitty employed as attornies by
parties resortintto.the_office. It does not occur
to his recollection that the clerks at How-street
have at tiny time within his observation been sv
employed .as attornies as to impede the public
Serviee in arty way. When be was at Marlbo-
reugh-street, and concerned in the conduct of
tbikt office, the clerk there occasionally certainly
had business that abstracted. him from the duties
of his office iii a -certain degree; at the same time
he does not think the public service was ever int-
petted fora moment. Ile thinks in general, how-
ever, it Would be better if they were not so ewe,
ployeti, but that sufficient salaries should be givers
tai intince intelligent men to fill these situations,
WhowOold devote.all their time to, the duties of
the office, and Would not devote any part. of their
time to other businesis for private emolument.
Might it not happen, if a clerk WAS employed,
to copdoct the case of a prosecutor as an attorney,
that he might have an opportunity, if his views
were to
_harass the Prisoner, which sornetimet;
is
the case, to afford-an improper facility, he ad-
vice given to 'the magistrate to remanil the pri-
sonar for Ireveitt asszsiestioss, and ultioately

is
lutolt`for trial, whet: peptiqui there tnight be
•
'prospect ot• convict ion i I think it very tftilately
that the ntagibtrate 4outd--be. influenced hy
condnerin dire clei+
4t Ot eilll4lt is is not curtest to..*opprrse that If
'the magistiAte iiiuc acquauted with the motive
701 the clerk he coiltd he so indtiviteedi luirmipt
not the sit nation in %Witch the ..eler MIS filtictii,
'acting as into' the prosecmion, give him
the power, withont the.ntgistrate discovering his
luotive, of ateVaiicitit %that• he might' think the
interest of his e me contrary to the hubstantial
jostice,-of the easel—The interests of the prose-
cutor, as he is betore the magistrate, ate in•
terests of the {AMIN:, end therefore the clerk
firing coneetned for the prosecutor could not be
detrimental to the public ; if he Was on the part
of the defendant, he might make a use of that
knowledge of the prosecution which Le has in
. liis'office agaiOst the public Interest " .
" Do you not see that there are two interests
--the public inters:Ai and the interest of the party
amused 1 Though the public interest might not
be interTheid Mar., might not the private interest
be °Weise(' might not the clerk make an de•
cused hoMidoiti, supposing him to he innocent,
tiffer, ~lit'riar`titherwiae, it the party prosecuting-,
had not that be could 7Have net« locillty
'for so llottig 1.-4 think the:dtity (tithe Magistrate,
in giving the le44V ptoteetion to the olieuderi
,would prevent the clerk front ,introducing that-
but it is certainly desirable to- avoid
".Might he not, from his situation us clerk
flnri attorney for the prosecutor, obtain an advan-
tage' detrimental to the interest of the. prosecuted?
—I really do not think lie could I think the Jus-
tice wo,,id took to his o%vo duty, and could not
be governed by such hiterferent
" Are not the dolts consulted occasionally by
the nigistratcsc von tittestions of law that may
Arise, tti the correctness vi the inhumations i
Yes,'eertaittly."
" Those clerks then, acting us attornies, pre-
pare sometimes the informations themselves 1-11'
is their duty, it is their d:rect employment."
" So that they may be called upon to give their
opinion upon a do:ttonent prepared by themselves ?
—Beyond ei
'' Do they tutu prepare informations, which are
lodged by the °diem to recover pecuniary penal-
tikl—Yes." _

H Du 1!:ey patieilnitc in any part of the money,
received ver. '
" Have you ever 11.1,1 any instance 4 before you
of comphint to that effect ?.—Never the least ; I
never satleied a clerk to appear nominally as the
informer, or hove ,any thi.g &o do with the in-
tirests of the informer ill any respect ; he teceives
*lee, and that not to his own Fockei."

Sir Nathaniel-does not think there art now any
-jimlousies i►r the officers belonging to the (litre-
irt►t office: against-each other; At the beginning
of the establishment one Officer Would do his own
bu►tiness without cfitttmut►icatlon, in order to pre-
vent °the' front having the credit or the profit,
or ‘Nitatever it might be, of detecting It ; but he
th:ukt now that iealousy is wholly over.

In individual CaVell, incOnVellieliCC must often
have happened front the want, of immediate coin-
municatien between office and otlice. 'He has seen
Liei►tielfthat such a eonotiitnication woiddliave been
desirabie atone part of the town, ofan Otenee corn-,
snifter! at anOther, because they would have
covered an important offender who was aftilwards
found to have escaped into that neighbOurhooil.—
Thir might have been forwarded, if there had been
a daily report tom central office; and there must
bare happened particular instances in.which, if
every police officer in London had known of a
particular offender heing suspected to have com-
mitted. a certain offence, he would have been
taken, but for want of such communicatiov lie es-
caped t bnt it is not in one offence in twenty that
the peron is known who has committed it. He
hasoften thought that such communication, but
eipence attending it, would have a bon-
tidal effect. He has thought of recommending,
that one of the clerks of every office at'three to
the afternoon, shonld pot upon-paper a minute of
important offences, and send it in the penny-
post to each office : it would teach the offices
• in two hours, and would answer many useful pur-
poses.
There is no sort of pre-eminence in Ilow,street
over the other offices. Nothing can be more
diStinct. Every magistrate aids and assists in the
general *object, without the least idea of stye-
riority or importance in one more than the other.
Ile is not quite sure that he did not feel his own
importance as great when he was an individual
magistrate at Marlborough-street, as now that
be is entitled the chief magistrate in Bow-ttreet,
excepting that it brings him mote immediately
within the confidence of his Majesty's govern-
Melt.
It has been matter of great satisfaction to the
magistrates at Ilow-smet, and he believes at all
tbe public offices, that other:magistrates should
attend with them. They look in as private friends,
anal as county Magistrates, to communicate and
toiler with the magistrates at this office upon
lawleit which' have (mewed in their neighbour-
. hood ; many country megistrato also (region-illy
foOk in for the same end.

APRIL aft, !81M
[Air KiIIIANIIO4 CONANT aril* crumbled.]
[The following printed paper was first delivered
lit,, awl read.)
" Tyburn /Idiot :—.Ttr be Sold, al'yburit Ticket
for. tile parish of Ash, in the county of Surrey...,
Apply to A. H. (post paitl),. Na. 11, Orange.
wall, 13ertnoollsersquare. The purchaser of tire,
above ticket will have the -valuable privilege :nf
being exc'tsect serving any parish office; ; and arty
person, although at present chosen, by pitrehas•
fug before they ere sWurn in, will be equally et-
,
cused.".

Having stated in his former evidence, that it la
not at all a general practice that
.the police ant.
cersshintld take rewards from individaats, but
that the Magistrates alvtrays.controttl them svh.en.%
ever they can, and recompense them from -tither
funds; he is now asked, what kinds art those to
Nvllich lie slatted ?---'He replieli. that he cliarge4
them in' the current account or the otkcc to the
Coverninent. Ile has no power to do that.; but
in the examination of ,the accounts i they are ge-

allowed. thi'y do not RlllOll It, iii tin.
course of,the year., to 4 very great stmt. •
(Sir )7.44,1b6...itiel then delivered in the aectlotioti of
the ti,edri,,,,r y,:ars, in which all that has been mint
in that'erCrioti is specified, with all the ttameis sit
the officers.
The sit uof '4701. is charged in this account
for eNpeoces and trouble incurred by the different
officers and Oatrole in the execution of their pub-
lic duty, in one quarter : was this motley paid- in.
the nature of travelliug expellees, or in the nature
of rewards tor the apprehension of faints ?—lr
is a bill, m maile by the individually, itteluding onea
guinea -day for the trouble of any of the eight
police officers, and half•avtineu a•day to the
conductors of patrole who are so employed."
"'Theo, in this account, there is nu money
charged in the nature of reward for the apprehett-
slot) of felonsi--No."
is these any separate sum allowed to the dif-
ferent individuals hi the office beyond what. is
{mid by act of-, parliament for that purpose
The guinea tr•day is supposed to include a gratuity
fur the specific service : if an officer is wounded
a StlrgColl is provided for his cure."
" In point of fact, there is no allowance made
to the police-officer, nothing given in the nature
of present or gratuity, for any important service
be May render to the execution of his public duty ?
I do nut recollect any,"
.); be;t a person taken upon suspicion is brought
'131)W.-street, the officer always searches his
person for the discovery of the stolen property
and against the danger of his being armed, lite
officers exercise their discretion aS to taking (rota
him, not only the stolen property, but what moiloy,
etc. he may have in his pocket ; but the magis.-
irate always has it produced at the moment of his
examination, and restored to hint, excepting where
it is likely to furnish evidences; anti then other
money to the sante amount is given him as an
equivalent. It has happened in many instances,
.that persons who have hcen discharged from prison,
either by proclantithm under an acquittal, have
come to the riffice to demand propel ty that has been
calico from them, which has been refused, because
at the time of their examination they sensed the
property to be theirs ; as for instance, that they
hate found it, that they kid:ea their foot againet•
it in going along the street, flint picked it up : on
being acquitted, they have conic and deninited
that property, which has been denied them, as
it would he an encour.gement (0 (heft. The pro-
perty remains in the hands of the prosecutor; it
is generally given in Court to the proserntor, who
in evidence claims it. The police officers never
get any share of it by any arra►lgeanent of the
Magistrates,' and never within their kiwis ledge.
The conduct of an officer for such rohhery wouild
be reprobated in the highest degree : but it is an
event which has never occurred with Sir Natha-
.niel's knOwledge.