The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-22 00:00:00

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RIOTS IN ST. GILES'S.
MA R 13020 u u. sv n E wr. Yew rday no less than
10 persons, most of them respectable tradesmen, were
charted with cresting a riot, and violently smelting
the watchmen endeavouring to quell the same, at bull-
pen one o'clock on Sunday morning. The appear.
auce of the watchmen showed plainly that much Tin-
lence had been committed, one of whom, named
Uppenhall, was nearly murdered; he was brought
into the watch-hoofe apparently lifeless ; it is 'tweed.
ugly doebtfel whether the violence was committed
by the watchmen or the Prisoners. Several of the
'watchmen swore to three of the Prisoners. named J.
anise, Jas. Roberts, and Chas. ilaringloa, and by
their statement strongly implicated the whole of the
Prisoners in being engaged in the affray. Mr. Weil•
derborne, a respectable Gentleman, said, that he was
passing St. Giles's at the above hour, he saw nearly
40 watchmen fighting with their staffs • a crowd be-
ing collected, the persons appeared indiscriminately
to be forced into the watch-borne • be had been de-
tained, hot was afterwards released, although he had
not been the least concerned ; and he believed several
of the Gentlemen charged were as little blameable as
himself. Mr. Mackey, one of the accesed, said,
himself and sit of his friends bad spent the Saturday
evening et the Angel, near St. Giles 's church • that
when they were going home, they beard a distort:sac, ;
and, withoet any interference therein, they bad been
charged, sod be appealed to all who were present,
whether be bad made any riot whatever ; this was
admitted ; bat this Gentleman was then charged with
attempting to escape. It appeared that, thieskieg
himself untawfally detained, be endeavoured I. force
himself out of the watch-horse. The whole bow.
ever were, after a long cumin/lion, ordered to And
bail, to answer any complaint that might be preferred
against them at the Sessions.
FRAUDS UPON BREWERS.
THAMES POLICE•OFFICE.— Robert Mon, nephew
to the poulterer of that name in Loadeuhall-market,
was charged on Saturday with having committed
many frauds upon the house of Tickell, ale-brewer,

in Whitechspel.
A Clerk to the brewer stated, that the Prisoner
came to the house, and saying that he was a poul-
terer, and had extensive connections in the country,
ordered several hogsheads of ale and porter toe Mr.
Mayhew, in Ipswich. The porter and ale were ire.
mediately sent toe wharf, and shipped for Ipswich.
It was also stated that Mott contrived to reach
Ipswich in time to receive the articles, which hedis-
posed of to his own advantage, end that Mr. May.
beer neither had given any order, nor had received
any thing from the house of the Complainant.
The nest case was one in which evidence was
called to prove that Mott had ordered three hogs.
beads of ale to a publican named Chapman, at East
Grinstead.
Mr. Chapman denied that he had any sort of deal.
leg with Mott, and that the ale had reached his
house. The ale, it seemed, had been sent by the
direction of Men to the Cathann.Wheel in the Bo-
rough, and the carman who took it away from that
place said, be left it by the order of the person who
Employed him, but to whom he could not swear, at
the house of a poblican named Dottridge, io Nightin-
gale-lane.
Dottridge said, that a person, whom be believed
to be the Prisoner, bet to whose person he could not
swear, came to him and asked him to buy some ale.
—Tbe publican, knowing that it was the custom of
ale-brewers to sell their ale in that way, bought some
hogsheads of it at eighteen-pence a gallon The seller
told him that the brewers would send oo a future day
for the casks.
Mr. KINNARD wished to know whether it was the
practice of honest publicans to purchase ale in such a
manner 1-
The publican replied, that it certainly was. The
ale-brewers sent people shout to dispose of their
commodity, and the pohlicans purchased it at the
cheapest rate they could for reedy money.
Mr. KINNARD said, he thought his conduct highly
censurable. It was, he observed, a difficult matter
for any home, to stand, if melees of that kind were
resorted to upon the pert of publicans; and he asked
whether Mr. Donridge had his licence
The publican having replied in the affirmative, Mr.
KINNARD expressed his regret that he had not known
the publican was in the habit of doing these things ;
if he had, the licence should certainly have been
stopped.
The publican said he defied any man to say a word
against his character, which stood high in the neigh-
bourhood where he resided. lie bought, he said,
his ale at the cheapest market, and found it to be an
inferior commodity. He could purchase Cherington's
best ale at 41. per barrel. This ale he bought at Hs.,
and he believed he should not make his money of it.
The casks were in his cellar, and at the disposal of
the brewers.
Mr. KINNARD asked, whether the publican's house
could bear iuch losses as Mr. Tickell's bad sustained?
The publican said that was a matter of doubt. lie
should, Lowever, have acted with more caution that.
the brewer had done.
The writing of Mott, in a receipt given to Mr.
Dottridge, was proved by a person named Parker.
A. Clerk at the Catharine Wheel deposed that
Mott took sway some hogsheads of ale that were
left there directed to Mr. Chapman, and said be was
going to bring them back to Mr TickeWs.
Another case by the same Prosecutor was brought
fr Ord.

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Mr. Rica, Solicitor to the Prisoner, contended
that neither felony nor tread had been committed,
sod that the matter was a mere contract debt.
Mr. KINNARD bound over all the parties to pro.
mute. lie first demanded recognizances from the
Prisoner of 4001. for each offence, and two sureties
Its 2001. each. The amount of the whole would has.
heed 2,4001. He afterwards reduced the demand to
to half theism, fur which bail not been forthcoming,
the Ptisioner was sent to prison.
BONNITIIIIRT.—We yesterday gave a long account
of the frauds committed by a number of persons,
chiefly Irish, by means of forged passes. Five of
these impostors were yesterday fully committed for
trial, viz.:—James Williott, Barney Me Bengali
Ann 11,14Dottgalt, Mary Fisher, and Catharine Quin.
fIATION•GARDLN.—Yesterday J. Walker, a youth
was feakiettlid for stealing a watch froth the bootie of
Dirt. Renwick, of Burton Crescent.