The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-11-23 00:00:00

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B twcen seven on.l eight o'clock, s Mr. D. Fur.
eter, of No. 66, lissingliall.s.reet, was charged
with riotous conduct in the Pit. Ills accusers,
George Ir.irmery and John Goddard, haviug de-
tail.•d the acts of insubordination, Mr. F. was held
t►► bail. The Magistrate expressed much dissatis-
faction at the freedom of Mr. F.'s conduct.
Mr. tlinlell Johnson, grocer, of Gracechurch-
streeS, and Mr. John Tyler, ftsh.sslesn►an, of
Bull.ligsgate, being charged by the Profess9r %%WI
tit:um:ding ►► Silence !" were also held to bail.

}Jr. Tyler having, in the warmth of his defence,
expressed himself rli ongly, wa► fined two shillings
fur rrufane swearing—tu which was added the
sum of three shillings fur cots.
Mr. 0. Jones was held to bail for assaulting
two Bow.strect Officers.

Mr. Forster again made his appearance on a
charge, supported by a Mr. Egerton Cutter,
of Bluoinsbory-square, of speaking to the I►eople
in the Pit (Mr. F. was trapped in coming ont of
the Theatre). BAli wa►s again given by Mr.
Forster.

Gnildard, the witness in the first cm, then re.
quire' a warrant against one Bryan, who had
pointed him oat q tile Pat ',llan informer, iu con-
skittence of which his clothes were turn. The
warrant was granted, and Bryan duly dragged
unt 4( the Theatre, attended by a great cunsusirse
of 0. P.'s. Mr. Bryan denied the charge, and
offered to iii,priiTe it by two witnesses, b*t be
Tas ordered to bud bail.

Mr. WIEN HOLT.
Our readers will remember, that the hat of
this Gentleman was snatched off his be in
the Pit Some nights ago, and that ho In vain
sought redress at the Public Office. Some
hints bad been dropped that this hat might be
heard of at the Harp in Little Russell-street ;
there Mr. Wiettholt went, but the Landlord de-
nied all knowledge of the hat, or of the center.
cation said to have been held there by two teen,
nue of whom had said, he had " got a hat,
which he had pawned for 7s. 6d. ;" to which
another milled, " I)—n it, I have only got
a little brioche in the row" Fur twe whole
Jays, Mr. W. persevered in his inquiries, and at
length found his hat safely housed at Messrs. Page
and Co.'s, pawnbrokers, in Little Russell-street.
Met Page, with great promptitude, assisted in die.
covering the party, who turned out to be a man
of the name of Shone. On being examined at the
office, he said he was a smith, out of employment,
but.admitted that he had been at the (hewn, almost
every eight since it hail opened, and that he had
gone in with orders signed by Professor Brandon,
but how he had obtained those orders he wuujii
nut tell.—The hat he said he had picked up, and
afterwards had held up, calling-out for an owner.
To corroborate this, the Landlord of the Ilarp.l
stated, that he saw him pick up the hat, but did
not sec him hold it tip. Mr. GRAHAM, on being
informed of his previous declaration of knowing
nothing about it, rejected his evidence, and con-
victed Shone in the mitigated penalty of forty
shillings, 'which, together nith 21 shillings,
the value of the hat, confirm,] by the testimony
of Mr. Hare, of the Strand, at whose shop it had
been bought, Shone was ordered to pay, or pass
one mouth in the House al Correction. He plead-
ed his utter inability to pay : he was destitute,
had neither money, nor friends—but lo I within an
hour, to the admiration of even the Bow.street
Officers, the whole amount was paid, of which
twenty shillings went to the poor of the parish,
and the remaining two pounds tour shillings
were presented by Mr. Wienholt to the "Sub.
scriptioa," as will be seen in the Advertisement
in this Paper. Mr. Graham, on hearing of the
paymcet by Shone, eaclaitued—" Could I have
conceived this possible, I would not have miti.
gated the penalty—he should bare paid the full
penalty."
This extraordinary transaction must convince,
even the must incredulous, of the arts, to which the
Managers resort to subdue the Public. Here is a
journeyman smith out of employment, nightly at-
tend.lig the Theatre or Covent-Garden, where,
as he says, he pick: wp a hat, pawns it, is fined,
and, though peonyless, in less than an hour finds a
good ftiend, who pays down three pounds four
shilling:---good.—The Public are highly indebted
to the manly perseverance of Mr. ‘Vienholt, ba
which a hired ruffian has been discovered, and
contribetion levied on the coipt rofflunique, to
be applied in aid of those individuals who have
anfferel by their brutal outrages I
It ought In be remarked, dist Mr. Wienholt
applied at Marlborough-street Office for a war.
rant against the man who originally took the ha.
whoa name is Smith ; but he was there informed.
that ai he, Mr. W. had already applied at another
Office, the Magistrates at Marlborough-street could
not, consistently with Police etiquette, take cog-
nizatice of the complaint.