Illicit soap-manufactory

EXTENSIVE SEIZURE. - Early on the morning of the third, four revenue-officers, went to Belvedere-cottage, Warm-lane, Willesden-green, in consequence of a suspicion that illicit transactions were going on there. After considerable hesitation, occasioned by the very respectable outward appearance of the place, they resolved to do their duty as far as their information went. No notice was taken of their applications for admittance at the front door, and, upon going to the back part of the premises, they found that the only accessible point was protected by a dog. Ridding themselves of this difficulty, they gained an entrance by the back door, and in the parlour, coach-house, and stable (all connected with each other), they found a private soap-manufactory, in which was a copper capable of making at one boil about two tons of soap, a vast number of frames, nearly a ton of manufactured soap, twenty-two cwt. of tallow, four cwt. of rosin, about eight-hundred gallons of strong lees, and other materials and utensils used in manufacturing soap. It appeared from documents found upon the premises, that this business had been going on for four months.