The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-10-05 00:00:00

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M Awnsite..itavie Sate edgy 'W. Tomlinson, a
porter belonging to one of the principal inns (Nir.
Witeitease's) 'of the •city;. was summoned before
Aldeimair WeiTtilit AN (who rit for the Lord Marie ),
en the ?Anteing charge:—
• It appeared that 'Tomlinson tiaa taken from a Gen-
tleman'24. 2d. for a parcel, and upon examination of
the honks at the church-office le. 83. only were
charged, The Prisoner, in his defence, urged it was
a nriatake.
The Worthy Alderman, on consulting the Act of
Parliament respecting 'the delivery of parcels, lotted
that any overcharge was liable to a discretionary
penalty from twenty to five shillings ; but it appear-
ing that, owing to the hurry of business, or neglect
of the clerks, the porters themselves frequently made
out the ticket!, this gave rise to a point of law whe-
ther the Prisoner came within the meaning of the
Act, and whether the Magistrate could inflict the pe-
nalty on him: If he did oot, it amounted to a fraud,
at the Prisoner must take his trial for it according-
ly ; but the Worthy Alderman observed, he was
inclined to take the lenient course; and, es an ex•
ample, be time& the largest penalty should be in.
dieted upon him.
The Prisoner preferred being fined, but declared
his inabitity to pay the above suns; and that he hod
been four years in his present situation, and was
I never summoned before. It was all a mistake.
The ALDERMAN replied —" It is no mistake. You
know better, it is a fraud. This circumstance ought
to be blown' over the Metropolis with a trumpet, that
every person may hear it. It is a most grievous
thing spot] the trading part of society la particular,
whose time is so precious in general, that they suffer,
these impositions to be prectissil upon them rather
then quit their business. The Gentleman who has
thus brought this charge deserves the thanks of the
Public. It is a very pretty trade for yru p .rtes
should you have fifty parce.a to deliver of a day. to
add an initositien of 61. upon each of them, thus in
realise 255. It is a growing evil, and an 'sample
must be made."
The Prisoner was ordered In attend on Tuesday, as
a f. ether intestigation must take awl tie clerk
of the conch-office also eseinined. His word oes
taken, hay ng no bail at hand.
Two fishermen were convicted of having unlawful
nets in their pit‘session.
FICTITIOUS DINTS WA.
A man named Ilargrare was Chafe.' 111 Sir Rohl.
Wigram with having attempted to obtain money Ir•o-
-dulently, by being the twiner of a woo- written In
excite compassion fora fictitio a object.
Sir Robert produced a letter *lnch had been pre.
eioualy brought to his hooey, and be hail vermin to .60.
pect by the same person. representing dentesses the
most heart-rending ilescriprienr. Fists pipe.. of at •.
quence. which was wri ten In the hind that primed
the application, fora ing the ground of the presets
charge, was answered tts a Ronk-note for 101. T• OS
imposition was town deterred, and care was take., to
secure the bearer of any other messochnly communi-
cation; When, therefors, the Pr homer, • hos* coun-
tenance well accorded with the tiding' he had brought
appeared, he was dereined.
One of the tette.* exhibited by !lir Robert pro.
fe‘sed to be 'he application ref the widow of a Cap-
tain who commanded one of his soil's; bet it was anon
found that the lad) had newer made such a disclosure
as the epistle contained.
Mr. Aldsrmen WatvsimAs was happy that a case
of this kind was brought foreard, for his owe ise
• ell a• for the saktiof the Public. Ile had received
a number of letters adtiresaed to his feelings, but to
roue dui he pa) the slightest attention, except he
knew the applicant to he a •rmil object. It was a fart
that there were men who modes livelihood by writing
appeals to the feelings, h% making she humane views
of tithe's a complete tied... Those stories of mitifor.
tune were fore frerldeflll) successful, especiall) when
directed In men wh,,, like siir Robert, Lent a willing
ear in persona seeming to base a claim epos their
comps-sine. A case of a carious nature, which oc-
curred some time ago; now struck his recollection.
A person came to him withal Into; list of nonissiottating
that a (Nett/tie Clergy matt had been taken in • fit in the
pulpit, and that it was maliciously reported that the
Learned Divine was drunk ; that the consequence of
tbis shocktog calumny was an indispensable necessity
to raise e sutiscription for the injured and unhappy
man. r Seeing a number of highly respectable names
in the paper,earb of • hich ass pledged for a guinea,
he (Mr. Waithinkn) would not he behind-head. Ile
'put down his guinea, and snoo after, on meeting
some of his neighbours whole signatures were at-
tached to the paper, he said, 66 Good God, what
isad thing has happened to our Curate!" His trivia'
having seemed to have forgotten with tree' Christian
liberatity the benefits I bey had conferred, he repeated
what had been said to him by way of helping their
memories. and spoke of the Petition with their signs.
lures. Ile was instantly assured by theta all that
they knew nothing whatever of the inatter.—The
Prisoner was remanded.
CONDUCT OF PUBLIC-110CSES.
BOIV•STRELT.-001 Sliterdry the landlord of the
Antelope public-house, in White ,tart-yard, was
Summoned to appear before the• Magistrate under the
following complaint :—One of the [wrote of St.
Martin's stated, that for a very considerable time
past the house of the Defendant was kept open nearly
the whole of the night. At all bouts persons of both
sexes wete admitted, end there were frequent dis.
tarbances in the ueighboarhood. Such was the con-
duct or the house a year since,that it was with much
difficulty the Defendant obtained a licence. The
witness and others had since that time remonstrated
with the landlord, and he promised amendment;
but on Friday morning, about three o'clock, a slum-
ber of men and women, who had previously gained
.admittance after 12, issued from the house. and cons-
Jammed a" row." The witness came up, interfered,
sad eadeavoored to disperse them; hut of that nio-
' ment the Defendant also cause up, took part with that
crowd, and using his arms and hands, told the witness
be would give him a hiding, &e.
The Defendant, in reply, said that the Complain-
ant bad come all the way from the Haymarket for
the purpose of raising this charge against him; and
that 'the persons who had gone oatr of his house on
Friday morning were merely a party who had re.
mottled Iq trap, apt} w (sold !cave gone home %eV: but
for the Copplainaat's interfereuce.

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The Migtsttere said, he would tiratitt rits.tite
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any steps with regard to the Defendant's liceirce; but
he would warn him to beware of being again coni•
plairsed of in this way. '4le could assure the De-
; tender's, end it- would be•-wal tlust usher fat&litltur
should know it, that if therews,toet a very nisterial ,
reformadou In the, conduct of public-houses, Mid.
theses and Westminster would not present half their
present numbers sifter the neat licensing day:*
The Defetsdatit was thew ordered to enter Ws sure-
ties, himself in. 801. and two others in 4JI. easdh. to
answer the charge of assaulting the pirate,.
Bartholomew Keats and 011liam GrOn pyre
brought to the Orlice from Abingdon, in Bertsliire
being charged with leaving their work untissisbeds
which they had undertaten to complete. •
John Thomas Dsgwell, of Earl's-court,. O 4
Brumpton, a master•weeter, stated, that the Pr,.
600644 were journey men weavers, and hid been its
his and his partner Robert Sewell's employ. On
18th of September last they undertook to mike end
finish some canvass, six yards wide, which they be.
gin, and on the following day they abscoutled„ and
left their work unfinished.—The Magistrate. cows,
victed the Prisoners of the offence with atiich•they
were charged, and sentenced them to cue month's
imprisonment in the house of Correction.
Thomas Baskerville, a porter at. the Ooldinii-dross
Inn, Charing-cross, was convicted IA &resin:ling and
taking excessive porterage on a parcel he ihad•to de.
liver, snore thou had been charged by the book.
keeper at the Office. 'The same Prisoner was charged
with another offence its charging for the airship of
a hare which had beers paid in (lie country. Ifi'lvas
also convicted of this offence, with costr.'•il^-Iling

STAGE-COAVHDRAI r qa.i futistio
George Aladin, the driver of °Lisa RiSkll4ood
stage., appeared to • summons, shawl hist upon
an information with furiously driving his horses, so
as to entailer the lives of his Majesty's Subjetti, on
the 45th day of Septelnlieriest, at Queen's Elms; 'fog
el.kh the llefennaol pkaded sot .To:freaei
the chsige, Thorns. Stewart, of the• Kiwg'4
Monet:toss-street. stage.coach•mastee, listed, that
Friday,,ifw 25th of Sept. last he anis ditvinghis
t at Queen's Elms. The Dolentlaut' was behind
tut, thianig his coach, when he eudeatoisred to pass
and in (bunk stanch be (bogs the iiitati.wilmei of
hi, eo.th againet his olf.side leatk.i.huse, by• Abli;sh
the pa,,en4ets' lives write much endangered.. *rite
U.4..1..141.1'4 leaders then set ott gallopptugt, and the
F'tt.. drove them very turinual)•
The Deletulaot was convicted iu the penalty, With
coat 5.

ft [SUR ECTION I €N.
II ATTON HA it HEN. Saturdfil William
Ito; ,nit and 'humus Allure, two notorious
eserfcction men, were brought up. for 'mai-
a ion, charged by Mr. Teesdale, constable for
b• palish of Si. Pancras, on suspicion of stealing
toe nod) of a mail triini some hinting ground.. Mr. T.
deposed, that a; an early hour that oaoruiug, as hell
ea. taking his 1'904 to see that all was right, he sae
Ihe Pi isoners going across Rus sqvare, ruir9 ipg a
heavy hamper, •itud from their cautious manner of
going along, he suspected they had got some stellee
pi ()petty ; he stopped them, and questioned timid
respecting what they bad got ; their evasive itHrstoE.
COntictiird his suspicions; he took them into custod,y,
and, with the asaistance of some watchmen, he con-,
'eyed them to the watch-house, where, on searchleg
the ba roper it was found to contain the body of *I
man, apparently. fresh taken from some burytuld
ground.
Mr. I.EACH, the sitting Magistrate, asked the Pri-
soners what they had to say in their own defenfr, or
whether they would tell where they got the corpse
from. One of the Prisoners answered vet), cava-
lierly, he begged to be excused, as their never told,
bat left that to be found out by them who could.--
"I be Prisoners were then ordered to be committed
until they found good bait to answer the complaint
at the Sessions.
UNloN•HALL.—Satiordly Mr. Burelem, one of the
oversseers of Christ-church, residing 'in Illsckfriaree
road, preferred a charge against Mr; Brown, landionlif
of 4‘ The 'Logi" public•beese, under the Sia,4ol.
James, cap. 2, for suffering divers persons to
nue drinking and tippling in hie house during Divioe
Service on Sunday last.
Mr. Iliesten, Solicitor for the Defendant, ads!
dressed the Alagistiate on his behalf. He shriekd bet
able to account for persons being in his house oa the'
dsf is question, in tech a. manner- as wonid inducer
the Magiatrate to dismiss the complaint. On 'llturs7
day the family of the Defendant were plunged into a
state of lairnsprebbible misery and grief by the loss of a
favourite child, a buy about three years of nee.
Friends, ntbighbontS, and relations were dispatched in,i
every direction to obtain intelligence of tim infant,
but without success. The parents remained law state
of distraction until Saturday, when the child was re.
stored to their embrace by a person who had disco.
awed it at the west end of the town. The joyful'
'lees spread among his relations apd friends,
and eight or nine of the former called on
[the morning of Sunday, to congratulate him on
the happy circumstance. In the oveiflowings
of a grateful heart fur their kind exertions and con.
gratulations, he invited them to partake of some re-
freshments, which they were enjoying when the parish
officers called between twelve and one. The persons
'so discovered eating and drinking were not cos.
comers. They bad not paid, nor had they been re-1
gaited to pay. for the provisions they consumed.—
If that sort of entertainment was to be construed into
a tippling, fineable by law, it was tantsmount to ,
declaring, that a victualler had not the nine rights as
other men, and that, by undertaking the management
of a public-hoose, be incapacitated himself. for silty
of those enjoyments in which his countrymen
'bilged,. and deprived himself of the pleasure of re.
ceiving and entertaining his friends iu such•a manlier
as his feelings of personal regard and gratitude would
dictate.
i• Me. Borelem intimated, that there were ether days
besides the Sabbath for the reception and entertain.
mina of the Defendant's friends. He coosidered the
defence that sort of Please which any publican might
„make for. • similar offence. '
o,llr. IlAnsimt brought forward a young man, who
lodged with the Defendant. He stated out oath, that
the loss cad recovery of the child, as stated
„Ilarteves were facts, and, that the persons W,I
enterthiecti by Mr.Mst ea* were his blend


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