The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-05 00:00:00

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NUISANCES.IN WARWICK-LANE.
CMILD.HALL.—It is well known to those who pass
-throogh Warwick-lane, that the nose is liable to the
most odious offence In consequence of the slaughter.
,ing of beasts there, and that the coach-way, and
sometimes the path-way, are inundated with offal,
blood, and filth. This nuisance has been long a sub-
ject of private conversarton, sod was, until yester.
day, confined to the animadversions of individuals.
The respectable inhabitants who bad the nerve to
stand to .this time the continuance of these " bloody
scenes,!' having, however, found that the slaughter-
houses of Warwick-lane were contemplated, in a
peculiar manner, iu Mr. Taylor's Bill, were deter-
mined to avail themselves of the law ; and, therefore,
instructed Mr, Henry Niacin, who is employed under
the Commissioners, of Sewers, to remonstrate with
the carcass-butchers upon the subject, and show them
the necessity of compliance. No attention having
been paid to the frequent admonitions of the Officers,
Mr. Ninon summoned several of the carcass-butchers
to:attend, to answer upon informations laid upon va-
rious clauses of Mr. Taylor's Act.
Thomas Saddler, carcass-butcher, 12, Warwick-
lane, attended upon the first information.
Mr. ALLEY stated, that the subject was brought
forward merely upon public grounds, and that the
officer could have no reward whatever for the evide'ece
he was to give. One conviction would therefore
answer the purpose,. and the Lee shoild be the
lo wess possible.
The officer swore, that several beasts were, on the
11th of August, &ken into Mr. Saddler's slaughter.
house, And that soon after he saw great quantities of
blood and filth flowing from that place down War-
wick-lane.
Upon the part of the Defendant, it was Sworn by
his foreman, that the blood was an article of profit
and was always sold by the carcass butchers ; that
the stuff flowing down the lane consisted merely of
the washing of the slaughter-house, and that the
offal was always turned into a cess.pool in the slaugh-
ter-hoose. The witness denied that the washing of
the slaughter-house could be called filth, and declared
that it was merely stained water.
Mr. HARMER, upon the part of the Defendant,
submitted that this deposition altered the case mate-
rially, the Act having expressly mentioned " blood
and-filth," and there being a great difference between
those and whit flowed down Warwick-lane.
Mr. ALLEY said, the defence would not ao. He
refused to come to any compromise, for it was time
that the stink should be-put down.
Mr. Crowder, of Warwick-square, and Deputy of
the Ward of Parringdon Within, confirmed the ac-
count of the general effect of the nuisance. Ile said
that numbers of respectable persons had been corn-
pelled to leave the neighbourhood in consequence of
its violent influence upon their nerves, and that
many, in coming to his counting-house, had slipped
in the lane, and been so bedaubed as to render it dif-
ficult to do business with them.
..Alderman Cox said, the nuisance was clearly
proved. lie recommended to the Corporation, as an
effectual mode of removing the nuisance, to remove
the market. lie also advised the carcass-butchers to
apply to the Court of Sewers, it being incumbent
upon there, if the
.market was to be. continued, to
mak a drain, far the slaugter-houses.
The Defendant was fined 40s.
BOW-STREET.—ADO Thomas was CllarZed with attempting to
steal a Wallet from the' house of a butcher In Clare-court,
Dary-Ihne. The Prisoner did not deny the thatie. but raid
that her object in committing the crime was to be either hanged
or transported. She was committed to Newgate to take her trial
at the nit SMSIOOI.
QUEEN•SQUA RE.—On Friday. W. Brace and J. Neil were
fully committed, for robbing Mr. Sawyer, a boat.builder, at
Hammerithith, on the 6th ult. The Prosecutor bad been to the
Bank, where he paid in 1,0801. He had still 1-201. about him
when lie gut upon the Hammersmith coach, in Ilemming's-row,
where he sat between the Pi isoners until the coach arrived at
the White Horse-cellar, where the Prisoners left it. Soon after
they were gone Mr. S. missed his pocket-book and his money.
Three 101. notes and a 351. note had been recovered. Two of
them were proved to have been pas ed by a girl who cohabited
with Neil, to tradesmen in the Almonry and Tahiti-street The
third note was proved to have been parsed by Bruce to a hatter
in Bridger-street, Westminster. _

hl A IaBOROUGH-STR It ET. —0 n Friday Jaseph.Blanshard was
fully cominitted,upon the charge of an intended burglary.—
Morris Ilaytie, of .9, Seymour-street, said, he was the owner
or a house, at present noinhabited, being 45, in the above Newt.
About half-past 11 o'clock an Thursday evening, his grandma
informed him that some person was in the area; upon this he a eat
to the house, havibg called a watchman to his assistance. Upon
searching, they discovered the Prisoner concealed in the coal-
hole; he, however, contrived to escape, but being pursued he
was taken in Cumberland-street. There were several fi stores
in the house, a copper, &c. which witness believed it was the
intention•of the Prisoner to steal. Henry Howard, a watchman,
said, he secured the Prisoner ; a well.-known character was
waiting near the house, who had been convicted with the Pri-
soner for a robbery spine lime sinet. The Prisoner said he had
no lodgings, and only intended to sleep in the area.—He was
fully committed.

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CO RONEKS' INQUEST'S •
Friday afternoon an Inquisition wag held et the White Horse,
in the Strand, within the Liberty of the Melly of Laiscastet,
in the county of Middlesex, before 11. Lewis, Esq. on view of
the body of Chows Yosing Waterman, who unfortnnatels came
to hi, death by falling out of bi. boat whilst in the net of push-
ing it from the shore, on the :forth side of Waterloo-Leidge, in
fit. on Wedhesday last.
Joseph Hartley, u waterman, stated, he was acquainted with
the deFeased ; always considered him a remarkable sober,
steady man, hut subject to fits. Oo Wednesday last, about( half-
paSt three o'clock in the tftermson, he was informed that the
deceased had just landed it fare from the Surrey side of Water-
. 100-bridge, and while Putting his bout from the shore, it being
high water at the time, he ludo' Innately fell out of it, supposed
in a fit. and was drowned. Witness went immediately, accuse-
panied by several others., in search of him, and succeeded in a
short lime in bringing the body on shore; he appeared warm
wf,en taken out of the water.
Witness stated in his evidence, that the drags from the Spotted
Dog, in Strand-lane, were instantly resorted to, and that those
situated tin the-Surrry shore are useless; and observed, hint from
the number of accidents which occur at (be bridge, that if pro•

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per drappere stationed. oear tke-TOMpeeaesretstriAralidgat
be preserved. The doxeased wants expert .swilmase!? and his
agewbaut 30 year,. ' - "
T. Hesketh, an assistant of Mr. _Staaatos, suZas, of the
Strand, deposed, that on Wednesday last, allitat o'clock,
he attended with Mr. Staunton to view the eerased. The body
appeared moron but life was apparently extinct. The means
*Fed by the Ittoyal Henrosae Society were immediately resorted
to for upwards of an hoar and a half, but withaat elect. There
weren't external marks of violenceobserved on the de-
ceased, eveept an iudention.at the eye, where the boat-hook
had wrack him.
The J tory, without the least hesitation. relented a verdict of
_Accidental death, by falling out of his boat in a fit, near
Waterloo-bridge.
An Inquisition was taken, on Friday: before T. STIRLING,
Esti. Coroner, at the King's Arms, Weymonth-street, on the
body of William Morgan, late servant to Mr. Mitchell. of
llarley-stoeet, who was well in health nu the morning of his
death, bet having exerted himself more than he was accustomed
to do. and bring of a plethoric habit of body. he was seised
with a fit of apoplexy ; several internal blood-vessels ruptured,
and he immediately expired. Vei diet—Died by the Visitation
of God.