The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-12-09 00:00:00

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Senor; NG.---% lad named Field was brought before
Sir It. ItaKzu,at Bow-street, yesterday. charged by two
of Lord llollands's under gardeneis with sporting ou
his Loidship's premises, at Holland House.
The gardener dersed, ;hat they f otiol the prienner,
accompanied by another lad, in a certain field with a
dog and a gun ; upon which they, the gardeners,
went up, and seizing the prisoner by the collar, or-
dered Lim to surrender his %rills ; lint instead of obey-
ing them, he handed his gun to his companion, who
leaped over the hedge and laughed at them; whilst
the prisoner said, " if they did not leave go of
he would certainly knock one or both of them down.
Ile was prevented putting his threat in eceention,
however, by a reinforcement of gardeners coming
up, and they assisted in taking him prisoner.
Sir ROBERT BAKER asked those witnesses what I.iml
of gun the prisoner had with him, " was it a fowling-
piece or a musket
The witnesses professed themselves ignorant of
the distinction between these two species of fire•
arms.

Sir Rourwr—ff What kind of dog was it—was it
a game dug ?'
Witnesses —if Oh ' Ter, your worship, it was a boll-

dog ; a thorough bred one."
Sir Ito tostrr.—" Are there any corers. or preservers
of pheasants or other game at Holland House, that
you supposed he meant to trespass upon'?"
Witness.—" 0, nu! your Worship, there's no phea.
sant nor nothing of that sort, but be might have shot
the sheep, your Worship !"
A decent-looking man now stepped forward and
begged to explain the circumstance. The prisoner,
lie said, was a poor lad just come up from the country
as an assistant toll-keeper at the Kensington-Gate, and
being off duty for an hour or two, he wet with another
boy about his own age, who had the gnn with him,
and to him he offered a peony or two, to let him have
a shoot at souse s:tarrows. For this purpose they went
into one of Lord Holland's fields, the fences of which
were so had as to lie almost open to the road ; and
they had not been lire minutes in the field before the
prisoner was captured by the gardeners. lie added,
that he had come to the office purely in charity to the
lad, who had nut a single friend in this part of the
country, and, in all probability, his baring been taken
np world cause him to lose his place at the toll-

gate.
Sir Ronzny flAzza said he hoped not ; and, after
a suitable reprimand to the young sportsmen, dis-
missed the charge, as not cognizable under the chat-
ing game laws.
ALLECID MURDER..--On Monday night last, Mr.
Storms, a respectable inhabitant of Kensington, was
brought before 31r. 31iNstict.t., at this office, charged
on the oaths of Christopher North and others with
having canard the death of J. May, a patrole
in the employ of the trustees of the Kensington-
road.
The following are the leading circumstances of the

affair :
One night, at the beginning of last week, the de-
ceased was fighting in the road, near Kensington
Oravel-pits, with a man named Cooley, when Mr.
Sturm, who happened to be passing, interfered to
part them. Mr. Sturm was very mooch intonicated at
the time, as were both the combatants ; and in the
scut& the decease 4 fell against the bank; and the
witness abovemeutioned (C. North) swore positively
that lie saw Mr. Sturm kick the deceased several
tithes on the side, whilst he was down. On the fol-
lowing day the deceased complained of a pain in his
side, and continued getting worn and worse till Mon-
day last, when he died. It appeared also that a Mr.
Tuck was engaged in the brawl ; and it was stated
that be also had been guilty of same foul play towards
the deceased.