The Sun.
London, England, 1816-08-31 00:00:00

Iliii' 1 \Tif,i4INCE.

501.71(1144RK, AOG. Market is gnick
for all description of Napes that are Sotintt,2—at
,advance►l prices---mouldy Sanwiets an Heavy sale
prices as under .

Kant Podkets 7 to to 1 Kent 11Ags ...... 310 to 9 7
Suwx ditto 6 bto 9 0 sumlx ditto 3 t to 6 0
MAIDATONE, AUG. 27.—The Weald of Kent
plenty of bine, tint the vermin are in.
creit,ed in a most alarming degree, and the honey
dew-standslitite in (hops upon the leaves. Some
grounds are absolutely on'eusive through the itt••
tolerable stench, and are expected to go quite
black it the cold nigas should be succeeded by
liOt &Is. the Moult) is also Very pittlominant,
and the crop must be very partial indeed : not
more than three bags an acre upon an aver ige for
the.‘ehole country. In the Vicinity 'of Maidstone,
the I-l Ops do not come forward in the least, and
ore severelyallecred with vermin and m0u1d....
Duty 00,0007.

Last week. the mountain-, called the -Johannes
Berg, was given up to Cie Agents of his Highness
MOrTeniitt n. this i 3 the mountain Ott
which are the vineyards that produce the cete
brated vine. IinONA#AKTS had given it Count
Kat:LEUMAN.

-.- -
it.LusratthAs Eltiturte-.14-Tbe Right Hon. Lord
Viscount DUDLEY and WIRD has given a noble
benefaction or 20.001. towards the relief of the ex-
isting misery among the poor classes of the coma
Triunity In Dudley, and some of the neighbouring
p arish et. --4-‘( Shrewsbury Chrthiide.)
SAttootteas.-Yesterday, John Hurd, who was
brought to London a few 'days since by Pearkes
and Vickefy froth ltamsgatel charged with shoot-
ing at end won't-ding a marine on the beach at
Deal a short time since, was fully committed fin.
t Hal at BoWonreet Office. The 4.011'1163bl
an affair between the smugglers and the marines;
but the prisoner potitively denied his participating
in it. .

Yestertiny morning Mr. C. GALR. R well hnottri
Merelnult on 'Cltangrovai seized with an two•
plectic.tit, and died immediately. He was taken
ill in his biell-rooms and retained his senses ,so
long AS to be inabted sr, tiog the bellb and to or.
'der the errant to hasten for a dottor but he.
fore assistance was procured be had btcathed his
last.

Sunday last * *Oman oIP the name of Fox, of
.Norwich, aged 100 years, walked to visit a friend
at Great Plnmstead, a distance 6f near live miles.
She commenced her journey et eight o'clock in
the morning and restel three hours at her friend's
house, and 'returned to. Norwich at SeVell o'clock
in the evening.
On Thursday evening a fine infant, about six
weeks old, was left in a basket by its unfeeling
mother,eeposed In one of the streets in the parish
61 St. George, Southwark. The pariah officers
have taken charge of the child,. and ()Were l a re-
ward for the discovery of the person Icy whutu it
%Vas deserted.

; Tie Kent isbpapers state that the wheat harvest
has cOmmenced in several parts of the country,
and that it promises to be most abundant. The Melt.
of Kent are not looking with more anxiety to the
getting of it than are the Lottery Adventurers
to the rich harvest of prices which Dame Fortune
will put her sickle in on the 17th of September,
On Which day the First-drawn Prize will be en.
titled to 40,000/, more, absolutely giving, by this
arrangetucnt, the .chance of obtaining 80,0001.-lo
one Ticket. •

Drs, Conran, MutOmit, and DctwAst,
clans to the Medical Board at Charlotte-house,
Blackfriars-road, have ascertained that upwards
of 5006 .patients are cured annually of prevailing
disorders, that hundreds were in a distressing state,
owing to quacking themselies, and by consulting
men ignorant of the profession, who deceive the
public by their specious prbruises and immoral
advertisements. Eruptiona -on the head, fabes.
and body, ulcerated throat, swellings in the
neck, nodes on the shirt bones, .pains is the heed
and limbs, fretimouly taken for -rheumatism,
swelled uncles, 54 ( I nervous debility, are diseasei
which appear years after, and the .eonsequences
of improper` treatinent.---Meors. Cooran,
ROB, Knd DUNCAN are consulted daily from 8 till
-
£4, or by letter, containing a fee ; and the poor
have advice tau 'fnestiayi, Thatidays, and Sundays,
till 12 o'clock.--. There is a side door and private
rooms for kaiaks.

POLICE OF Tim NIEtItOPOLIS.

tr,xasninahon of Sir NATIIANICI. COSTANT COnliniltd.3

• WATcti'..kt EN.
h it plitit'Of the duty cif th.e pateole to attend til.
the Suite 'al 'Covent-garden dining 'the night ?
'We have a sin all part of the patrole in waiting at
`the office through the night, and by my directions
they go out into the neighbourhabd to secure the.
public quiet.
•
'lave complaints ever been made 'to you, that
the booths of Covent-garden are the nighty
and shelter of boys and women of the worst
description, who 'flock there by ;bine Ituntireds
Itigutly ?-1 think not less than. fitly Perimßs of
that description have been before the magistrates
within a month past, and many of them have
either been, if very young, placed within the Go-.
Ye'rnment of those who are Aely to protect them,
'fir committed to the prisons.
Doest that search take place nightly ;
oceasitioally, w e try to deter them ; by thus ills-
torbing them, it gets clear for H short tithe, and
M.ierwitrtis they return ngaitt, ant we dent more
severely with those SOU are the fitte&t for trx-
ample.
Do not yin) think ft would further the objects
bf potiee if the watchmen were instructed Right-
ly to tAiltuine and clear those places from 4ticli
sembhtge of perSoni ?—They have those
,general'
instructions, both front the magistrates and from
the watch commit tee..
Do you believe that they execute. them ?—They,
flu it:more by driving them away, than by taking
thesis into custody.
IVlien a person is given in charge to the watch-
man., what is the mode of securing him?--Ile is
kept iii the %vat ch-hou.se through the night,
Itqs he is a per*on of appu}rent responsibility, or
sends for iniebody to be answerable for his com-
ing lot ward the next morning before the magis-.
trates.
not common for the police officers to, cot'•
flue persons in 'watch-houses without entering
ally charge in the charge-books against them
If the officer is kno‘vti,' perhaps .they-will take
thent in for `safe custody foe a few hours ; but the
constable of' the "night generally writes CloWn the.
name :of the 'prisoner, and 'of 'the 'Person tvho
brings him, tintrthe charge; felony, or whatever,
it "may be.
"lave they orders to do that 2... They have ;
"is the'ilelenee''agaitist the ehilige of false iinpri-•
to:talent.

They have a charge-book ?—Yes;' it is generally
eiguvci hy.the person • gies the charge, un-
less it is a constable tvlio is well known.

I 5 it .4 fact 'within 'One: ,kniitdedge," that the
—leaves of those' boob -dee defay.ol or torn out
snineThnes ?—I think not ; 1 see thosetiiiiks vvery

day, tbey' are hruaght. before eiu with the pi

tonets, • • • .
'Are !lot the charges.frequently written on, lutm
• paper a—Not frequently ; if thieliarge.tbook
prits_.to have netii,cerried to the_ watch ;totonsittee
, and frit brought 'back they will write it on loose
piece orpaper, and stick it tutu the bOolt after-
. wards.

Are...there not more charges taken to the watch-
Un the Saturday night than ou any other.?
—Thrre are more ch.argea befure the Justices. on
the Monday Morttiog that' ally other,. for that in-

dm:es ttv(, frights •; an►i there. ►ire more diblurb-

Antes an the Naturilay night that) any other). first,
because Sunday is A laisuro.day, and they have nu
Ivor!: to look to early in the morning I. and .au-
othur reason ia"' that tilhottriug people are paid that
%light, and drunkenness is one 01: heir recreations.
:Do .yon not believe that ft muy arise,frum

tralchtntt►, being .able to obta►n 10111CW1110 more
inoOey from the parties, to prevent their being
detained during the Snoday 1-4 think not, because
the parishes at. whose expence the watch-houses
arc kept would restrain inch a practice,- and the
.constable of the night would discover it.

Are you net uvvare that there a constant-un-

derstanding het ween t he watchmen and the women
of the town, und. the -idle anti profligate people
Who are about all night ?—The watch arc a dais.
of men who are-.wiliing, forMteeTt pence, to un-
Alertske that laborious duty, tor it is one begin.'
ning at right o'clock at night,and lasting till suven
iti the morning ; such men Inuit be open to temp-
.rat .but I think it is less than one might
:reasopothly expect. •
When a dangerous person is taken up how is
lie second ; is that not, a' place techniCally:styled
a !' dungeon" in sonic of those witch houses?
'There are strong rooms in the watelr,houses., ;
Some without:liOt,.und almost without air ?
They Ire, better. secured half under
ormiud, and the light comes in .at the-grating.
In those places• people may remain from Saturn-,
slay Monday; at the pleastwe nt the 'Watchman
,Who them,?—At the pleasure of the con-
Atable: of the•night; but complaints of real griey—
since are not frequent.' • ..
,Du yon think 'hut the police of the metropolis
would be under" better management if the parish
'Watchmen were placed under the superintendence
ske the police:?-71. have not the least doubt that
a system of ‘vaLching at .greater vspente might he.
0101141E141 nuclei-Ale. police, .titith better etledt
than the parish watch, as pow provided, furnishes.

Do, •you , not think that 'at: The same. expellee
whieh is)low.incurred by the :pati,l;es., supposing
the welch Wai under the control ot. the police, it
would be better managed fear not ; (stul tam
lurg. it would be attended with great,dissatisfas-
thin •to those who have the:local benefit of it, anll
stirply.theexpsinee.
Why do you, think it would not I—l should
think the.smali payment given at present to watch-
:lien wOuld: not: provirle bet ter men.
,arc y4tum.ol,,,pt opinioN that. by more eirectivc
Men. 'being ca tproyed the Nnnber might be re-
(laced Rio:_ not think • the Numbertshould be
tednixd, And any increase of qualifictitions
AvOueti. be'aifended7 with an expencC• little to- the
Itatistaetion of_those who pay%it, •or arZ: beaefi4cil
by' it. 1 hare sometimes . thought, if you could
got the lower desci-iption of bytiselteepers to:en-
g:igein (he one during •tlic first pert
of the night, and the other towards.the nlormin4,
would double the number of watchmen in the

, • . ..1
ilankeroitt part cif
Other in going to duty and returning home:
tvmtid iucrcase the respectability of the AVatil) ;.
hut such people w nit gd dm for leis than'
half-a-crown for the half night., anti that is uir
expilice which would slot heSatisiic'f6ryto those
who have to pity it. I stipilne :hi 'lumber ot
watchnien in the metropolis is as one to.atiout 70
or 80 houseS.

That is generally an old man and he is
doting in' his watch-I)6x in 'the interval between
crying the hours and when he is ;moving; men
iiatthot walk for 10 hours together; a thief will
Watch him to' one corner of the. street, while the
intehded depredatiOn is perpetrated round another
corner, anti the lantern he carries shows where lie
is at a great-distance.