The Sun. — 1836-11-04 (London, England)

HATTON-GARDEX  Yesterday Mr. Thomas John Wall, of No. 78, Upper Seymour-street, St. Pancras, was brought to this office on a warrant, in the custody of Nesbit, the officer, charged by Mr. Richard Bond, broker, of No. 54, Seymour-street, Euston-square, St. Pancras, with having created a disturbance. The complainant, in consequence of several of the inhabitants of St. Pancras parish having refused to pay the church rates, was employed to distrain upon their goods and chattels, and large placards were generally circulated and stuck up about the streets, in order to excite the parish, and cause their resistance to the church rates. On Thursday evening last witness was walking quietly through the street, when the defendant called out, " There goes the church-rate broker ; that is him who goes about t 9 aistrain upon the people's goods for church-rates ;" and he took out his poolto-handliarabirf and blew his nose in a manner offensive and insulting to witness, and by his conduct he collected a mob of about thirty persons. Mr. Woodman, of No. 23, Crescent-place, St. Pancras, proved having Lcurd the defendant call out, " There goes the church-rate broker," and call him a rogue, by which a crowd of about thirty persons was collected.  Mr. LAlNo.asked him what he had to say to the charge? The defendant denied it, and put questions to the witnesses, with a view to prove that he had not made use of the lan. guage attributed to him, and that no mob was collected ; but they persisted in the statements which they had made. He was ordered to find bail, when several of the Radical party of the parish who were present offered themselves, and, being received, he was liberated.  Lately distraints have been made upon Mr. Thomas Murphy, and various others, who have resisted the payment of church-rates, and considerable excitement has been created in the parish, and large placards have been posted in the various streets to incite opposition on the part of the inhabitants.  John Bassett, a master sweep, residing at Islington, and Charles Bassett, his son, a blacksmith, were brought up upon a warrant, charged with having committed an assault and outrage.  Mr. Cave, a tax-collector of Islington, employed Mr. Lowder, a broker, to distrain upon the goods and chattels of Bassett, sen., for poor-rates, and on Wednesday last he placed John Beaumont, an elderly man, in possession. Yesterday morning he (Mr. Cave) received information that the old man had been shut up in a soot-hole, and he proceeded to Bassett's house with the broker for the pur. pose of making the seizure, when both the prisoners opposed them in a violent manner, and swore they would murder them if they dared to enter the place, and the younger prisoner made an attack upon them with a large hammer, with which he struck them, and at length they succeeded in giving them into custody. John Beaumont, an elderly man, on Wednesday last was put in possession at Bassett's house, when the prisoners seized hold of him, and forced him into the soot-hole, and fastened him in.  Mr. LAlNG—Pray' how long did they keep you there ? Beaumont—All the precious night, your worship ; and I was nearly smothered with soot.—(A laugh.) Mr.