Star.
London, England, 1809-11-09 00:00:00

FO LIC:7.

Bow-STREET.—After the conclusion of the per-
formances at Covent-garden Theatre on Tuesday
night, a person, who said his name was Robert P:td-
a7.ison, and that he was an Attorney at Louth, in
Lincolnshire, was brought in custody to the Office,
on a charge of exciting the audience to tumult in the
Theatre.—Two respectable witnesses proved, that,
after the curtain had dropped, and most of the com-
pany were quitting the Theatre, Mr. Paddison stood
up in one of the boxes, in the second tier, and ha-
rangued the audience for some time, cn the subject of
the new prices, and the private boxes, and concluded
with saving, that he and his friends would come again
and again to the Theatre, and make a noise till the
private boxes were pulled down, and the prices re-
duced. This condact, the witnesses declared, tended
to increase the noise and tumult, and was the cause
of a number of persons returning, who were quitting
fie pit when he got op to speak.
Th.! def,:ndant wished to apologise for his conduct,'
and observed, that he was not in London more than
once in three years ; he had no opinion of his own,
but he had heard it was a public cause.
The Magistrates thinking Mr. Paddison's conduct
very reprehensible, directed that he should find bail to
answer the complaint at the Sessions, himself in £lOO,
an.: two sureties in £5O ; but it being then a very late
hour, he was not able to send for his friends before
the Magistrates left the Oiiice, he was obliged to re-
main in custody till yesterday, when two very respec-
table Gentlemen appeared, and entered into recogni-
zance for him.

M LsonoCCII-STREET.—Yesterday, 7 homas Mcd-ris
called at 'Tuthill-fields Bridewell, to visit Butler, in
custody for obtaining a horse at Marlow, by paying
several counterfeit notes ; when Butler observed to
the turnkey, that he did not think it right that the
rope should be fastened about his neck alone, when
others v.eic implicated in the same transaction:
amen st whom was Morris, of whom he had receiv-
ed the notes with which he had paid for the horse.—
r orria was consequently brought with Butler to this
Ofilce yesterday ; but although the latter persisted in
his statement, he did not choose to have him exami-
ned as a witness. Butler pleaded hip ignerance of
I: tters, and consequently was not aware of the had
nol.es. He, however, WaS fully committed to be tr:ed
in Buckinghmeshire.—Morris then gave information
o:at he had received the notes \vhich he gave to But-
ler of one Davey, in Fleet-lane, by whom the notes
were signed, and Frported to be payable at a re-
spectable banking-house in the City, with a : al-
tetatien in the name of the principal ',Linker.—
Davey, the net lane cheesemonger and banker,
to the office in tie custody cf the
drn of the Fleet Prison, he being in the Rules.
h,,t,..pr:!sented himself as having a house in West
Vatn, Essex, and that the firm was G. Davey and
Co. ‘e:ohle, a Police Officer, On searching Davey's
house, found dozens of fictitious notes, of £lO, £3,
and :e2 ; and also plates for fabricating them. Da-
vey and M w orris ere th.!:';:i.ore scat to Queen-sejuare
Office, to be examined on Inrther matters.
UNIMN HM.l,—An information lodged against
/I:rahain B3riang, a tallow-chandler, was yesterday
heard, charging him with having, on the 29th of Au-
gust last, made a larger quantity of candles than he
had given notice of to the Excise Officer.
It appealed that, on the above day the officer saw
noo rods of candles, about one-sixth part made ; and
at the same time observed '2O rods, apparently con-
cealed behind a chest. Ile, in consequence, watched
the premises, and daring the night heard the defen-
dant and his brother at work, and the rods laid upon
the arms ; he surveyed again at six o'clock in the
morning, when he perceived the candles were nearly
in the same state they had been the evening before ;
he told the defendant so, who said his brother and
himself had laid down oat the carpet, in the garlour,
about twelve o'clock, and slept till four in the morn-
ing ; it was between these hours that the officer had
heard them at work. On looking into some boxes
which stool round, he observed there was a greater
nnmber of cAndlcs than there appeared to be the even-
ing before, and tit tt more tallow had bean used than
would have been sufficient for the 39J rods ; the
candies in the boas appeared to be newly made. In
oi!syquence of these ciecumstances, 163 rods of!
candles hal been seized.
A number of respectable tradesmen stated, that it
impossible such a quantity of candles as 163
rods could have been made in hot weather, between
t+e time of the officer's surveying, in the evening of
the (2,9 th, and the morning of the 30th, and that in
weal her candies which had been some time
retained the appearance of new made candles.
Wag filiCti 440.