Star. — London, England, 1821-10-04 00:00:00

. UNCERTAINTY. There is a strange mysterious fear — A boding voice that chills the heart, Though no apparent ill is near, Nor present sorrow makes us smart! If Sow'rets in our path should spring, If we but taste the cup of joy, Some latent thought, with scorpion sdng, Gives the presage of sad alloy! When Pleasure's sweets around are shed, And Mirth proclaims respite from woes, A sigh is heard,—a tear is shed, Although we know not whence it Rows! It is, that black Uncertainty, Veiling the future front our eye, Still damps our joy, represses glee, And draws from us that tear and sigh ! Uncertainty ! we sure should fall, By thee beneath Despair's grim sway, Did Hope not free us from thy thrall, And yield with joy the future day ! Tea. POLICE. BOW-STREET.—Tuesday ening a young man, of genteel appearance, affecting to be well known to, l l and said even to be related to an Officer high in the confidence of his Majesty, was charged at this Office, with obtaining £2OO under th.:. false pretence of pro curing for Mr. W. Shirley, a surgeon, Searcher N ino. 16, Rockingham - row , Ke nt-road, a place of the' Custom-House, which the prisoner told him would be worth £ 5OO a-year, and which he said he could procure through the interest of Sir B. B. and the collateral interest of the Earl of Liverpool and the Marquis of Headfort. The whole sum to be ad vanced by the complainant was to be £6OO ; but in advance he paid £2OO on a bond for repaynient if the place was not got for him. This turned out to be the case, and when he applied for repayment of his money under the stipulation of the bond, he was treated with insult by the prisoner. The case being proved, Sir IL 131 8 NIE said, he was reluctant to take bail ; for this case was only a small matter, com pared with about a dozen others which had reachd his ear. If he did take bail, it must be that of two respectable housekeepers in £2OO each, and the pri soner in £400; and he should require twenty-four hours notice. The prisoner was then remanded until • he could give the requited sureties, and will undergo a second examination on Tuesday next. MANSION-lloes&-.-Mr. Todd, of the respectable firm in Fore;street; appeared to answer an informa tion founded upon the 34th section of the 28th of George 111. commonly called the " Wool Act," charging hint with having on the 221 of September, in the Port of London, shipped a quantity of worsted yarn without having procured a license or provided that an officer should be in attendance. The officer of Customs, who had thought proper to push the de fendant to an extremity upon an Act generally con sidered to be extremely unnecessary and injurious, gave his evidence upon the subject, from which it ap peared that the foifeiture upon the yarn that had been shipped was 3s. a pound, besides the loss of the yarn itself, the bags, Bcc. Mr. Todd said the thing had been done entirely in ignorance, and pleaded guilty. The Loin" MAYOR was very anxious to know whe ther he could not reJuce or do away altogether with the penalty? He knew the circumstance originated in mistake, and that an hundred such cases were likely to happen every day. The Act, however, was imperative with respect to the penalty. Mr. Todd o bserved, that the penalty was g reater than the yarn Was worth. The officer here observed, that if he, chose to follow the matter lip, the ship in which the offence had been committed might be forfeited.— The LORD MAYOR assured Mr. Todd that he regret. ted that the Act spoke of no mitigation.—The con viction was then established. PICKPOCKETS.--TWO very dashingly dressed lasses, entirely new faces at this Justice room, who gave their names Mary lVilliams aril Ann Gordon, were brought up yesterday before •Mr. Alterman ANSLEY) charged as pickpockets.- 1;y the description given of their dexterity and ad dress by the prosecutor, a respectable married man . of the name of Kernot, residing in Paul's-court, Hug gin-lane, these female professors have arrived at an eminence in the art which bids fair to surpass the male competitors; for in the short space of not more than a minute and a ha'f, which it took him to get rid of their affectionate importunities, in Skinner street, on Tuesday evening, the nimble fingers of one of them had contrived, unperceived by him, to ease his pockets of four sovereigns and some silver.— Though the manners and appearance of the girls. were little calculated to excite suspicion, he put his hand instinctively to his pockets in getting out of such company, and instantly. •missed his money.— Being scarcely three or four yards from them, he im mediately retorned and charged them with the rob bery: the ladies affected to be quite shocked at so vile an insinuation, but Mr. Kernot having more re gard for his sovereigns than to the delicacy of their feelings, persisted in the charge, and the Giltspur street Compter being nigh, he fficiated as his own officer, and lodged Miss Gordon and her friend Miss Williams safely therein. The whole transaction had not occupied five minutes, yet in that time they had managed to get rid of the money, no part of it being found on either of them when searched in the Comp ter. One sovereign, however, was discovered on the floor near where they stood, which, as . it •is not the cu stom in the Compter to strew t he looms with gold, was suspected to have been slily deposited there by one of the prisoners. In the glove of the girl Wil liams, a note was found, which she, too illiterate to decipher it, said was a one-pound Bank note a Gen tleman had made her a present of just before; but which, upon inspection, turned out to be a £lO country note of the Rye Bank, No. 5210, dated Oc tober 1, 1818, and payable at Messrs. Percival and Co. bankers, London, and no doubt the produce of some previous similar act of dexterity. While this evidence was being detailed yesterday, the girls af fected perfect innocence, occasionally lifting up their eyes and hands in surprise, that such shocking things should be laid to their charge. This affectation of simplicity, however, did not serve their turn, for Harrison, the Marshalman, then on duty, recog nised them as well-known practitioners, whiS had only strolled out of dkeir usual how, their regular scene of action being Cornhill, Leadenhall-street, and about that neighbourhood; and although new comers at this Office, very well acquainted with the'JUstice room at the Mansion House. The prosecutor, Ker not, was so positive as to his having the money the instant before he wits accosted by the two prisoners, and the impossibility of any other person's taking it from him but the girls, that the Alderman was about to commit them both for trial ; it was, however, sub sequently deemed more advisable to afford the op portunity of discovering the owner of the Country Bank note found in the possession of Williams, and they were therefore remanded for another examina tion on Saturday next. HArros-GAanaw.--Yesterday, William Hyde and Charles Clifford underwent a long examination, being charged.with committing a most daring robbery at the Angel Inn, in St. John-street. It appeared had on the examination, that the fir st named prisoner been under waiter at the abovemamed inn, and con sequently was well acquainted with the ways of the' house. He absconded from his situation at the time of Bartholomew Fair, and did not return. On last Saturday evening, whilst the servants of the house were busy, the prisoner Hyde went unperceived up to the waiters bed-rooms, forced open their boxes, and stole the whole contents. The prisoner Hyde having carried them off in several parcels, which he delivered to the prisoner Clifford, who was loitering at some distance at the corner of a street, they to gether pledged the property at four different pawn brokers, and divided the money. On the robbery being discovered, inquiry was made on Monday at the different pawnbrokers, and the whole of the pro perty was found pledged by a person suspected to be the prisoner (Hyde), who was taken into custody.— He immediately confessed that he had stolen the pro perty, and implicated Clifford, as above stated, with whom he divided the spoil. The prisoners were re manded for further examination, in hopes that fur ther proof might be brought against Clifford than the statement: of the other prisoner. Two Italian boys, who were found begging in So- Two Town, carr ying each a racoon in a b ox, were brought up by the constable of the Mendicity Society, and committed for a month each, under the Vagrant Act, to the House of Correction, at which time it is expected they will be passed to their native country. ' 1 MA RLBOnouGH-sr REET.—Yesterday,aninteresting little girl, about thirteen years of age, was placed ati the bar on a charge of robbery, preferred by Mr.' Atkinson, of the Eagle Fire Office, at the Mr. corner al dertnyn and Regent-streets , Piccad ill y . Atkin.' son stated, that the prisoner's family was very respect. able, residing in Hampshire, from which place he took her into his house in the capacity of a servant. She had lived with him for the last seven months, during which period several articles were missing.— He was at a loss whom to suspect. until at length a Gentleman who resides in the house Visas robbed of a .1.75 note, &c. his bureau being ut yesterday liecould scarcely make up his mind to suspect the prisoner, from the artlessness of her manners; but determined on instituting every inquiry, he sent for Clement, the officer, who, after closely questioning her as to the robbery, and threatening to take her before a Ma gistrate, induced her to coafe,s that she had com mitted the robbery, and that she had hidden the note under-one of the stairs, where it was accordingly found. Ilse (Mr. Atkinson) was urged, from a feeling of humanity towards the girl and her friends, to bring her before a Magistrate, in the hope of reclaim ing her from a propensity for thieving. Ile had no desire to prosecute her, but merely requested that she might be placed in some asylum until her friends were made acquainted with the circumstances under which she was placed. He could never consent to suffer her again in his house; and unless she was placed somewhere until her friends were informed, she would ultimately be involved in ruin by being forced to walk in the streets, without a friend or a home to go to. The poor girl's case excited much commiseration, and during Mr. Atkinson's statement she was convulsed with grief. Mr. DYER, the Ma gistrate, could not listen to any compromise of felony, and in the present case he was afraid, if he were to enter into it he should be compelled to commit the girl to take her tiial, unless there happened to be a deficiency in the evidence. However, the charge was taken, and the prisoner, whose name is Ann Price, was remanded. • JUVENILE DELINQUENTS.--/k/lry Harris, aged 13, Richard Pendegrass, aged 12, and Michael A nderson, aged- 10 years, were charged by Mr. Wright, bookseller, of Broad-street, Bloomsbury , w ith robbin g his child of its necklace. Mr. Wright stated, that his child had scarcely been out of his sight ten minutes when he heard that it had been robbed by the pri soners, and oh the child being confronted with them, she pointed out Anderson as the person who took the necklace from her neck. Mr. Shaw, of Drury-Lane Theatre, stated that he saw the prisoners enticing the little girl away from her home, and suspecting them, he noticed their manoeuvres until they arrived in the Green-yard, Drury-Lane, when the prisoners took off the necklace and ran off; he pursued, and over took them, and brought them to Mr. Wright's shop, where one of the prisoners told them that lie had thrown the necklace on some soil, where it was af. terwards found. Kenrick, an officer, received the prisoners into custody, and brought them to the Office. The prisoner Anderson, who was the youngest of the party, behaved in the most hardened manner, although a mild and prepossessing boy in appearance. He checked his companions, who were shedding tears, for their weakness, and spoke in a very bold tone. He told the Magistrate that he did not take the neck lace, although pointed out; it was his companions who took it off the child's neck, but if he told of them they would give him a good mopping ! . The other prisoners said in their defence, that they had not been out of place above a week. They were fully committed for trial. A DANCING MASTER AND A MUSICAL LADTe-.•AA affair of crim.con. came upon inquiry. The dancing master described himself as living upon good terms with his wife at an obscure village in Buckingham shire, and on Saturday last be accompanied her to witness an exhibition of strolling players in a barn.— The husband left hisfrail rib to see Pizarro, while he took a glass of comfort with a neighbouring farmer, and did not return home till after the play was over ; and, to be brief, the musical lady had be come enamoured with the performance of Rolla 8 • mid site eloped with him in a neighbont's chaise cart. — The husband discovered the retreat of the fugitives 'at Somers Town, but the wife refused to leave Rolla, and the former sought advice how to make her. The only answer given was—By an action for criminal conversation. " What," said the husband, with mach emphasis, " an action against a strolling player !".= The former immediately quitted the Office. MA RY-LA-BONNIL—A youth about 16 years of age, very genteelly attired, and Who appeared to have been well brought up, was brought before the Magistrate by George Huggett, butler to the Hon. Miss Forbes, in Baker-street, Portman-square, charged under the Vagrant Act. The poor fellow on entering the Jus tice-room made his obeisance in a gentlemanly man ner to the Magistrates, and was then placed at the bar. The butler stated, that yesterday, about one I o'clock, he was in the kitchen, when the prisoner de -1 scended the area steps, and in a most pitiful manner I implored his charity, at the same time presenting a petition. His habiliments not appearing like those of a beggar, and having read in the Papers of yesterday (under the head of this Office) of a nest of thieves who plundered the passages and areas of Gentlemen's houses, he considered him to be one of the gang, who had assumed that character as a cloak to facilitate plunder. He therefore considered it his duty to bring him before the Magistrates. The Magistrate asked the prisoner what he had to say why he should not be committed to prison? The poor fellow, shedding tears, stated, that he was an orphan, and a native of Herefordshire ; that he came to London four days ago to get employment, but could not; and having no friends or relations to assist bins, be bad written the petition, thinking he was not offending the laws. The above narrative was delivered with great expres sion, and excited the sympathy of all a:ound him.— The worthy Magistrate told the butler that his con duct was very commendable, and eat:messed his wish 1 1 that every person would act with the same discretion. The examination of the prisoner was then taken, and he was ordered to be passed 0 his parish (Bulling ham) in Herefordshire. WORSHIP-STREET.—The Office and the street ad joining were crowded all day to excess, in consequence of the interest excited by a young girl, calling herself' Catherine Jones, who was charged with robbing three' persons, with whom she had lived as servant. It , would appear, that in the course of a few months she' 'robbed three successive masters of property to a con- 1 1 , siderable amount, and without exciting the least sus picion of her honesty. The mistress of the house where she last lived began to suspect her, and sent for an officer to search her trunks, where there was, found money to the amount of £lOO. The unfortu-, nate girl, who had previously borne a good character, was unable to stand during the examination, and when she was committed for trial, fainted away. TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWARK.—J. Lambert, the pri soner in custody under the warrant of the Coroner, on the charge of Manslaughter, in killing his father in-law, James Allingham, was brought up yesterday for re-examination before Mr. Alderman J. J. SMITH, agreeably to the order of the Magistrate, as pre viously noticed in our Paper. Mr. Shelton, the Co roner, was in attendance ; and, previous to the com mencement of the examination, a long consultation ensued between him and tire Alderman, in which the Learned Gentleman endeavoured to impress on the Mind of Are Magistrate the propriety of the ge neral custom of considering a commitment under the Coroner's warrant, by virtue of a verdict of a Jury, as removing a prisoner out of the further cog nizance of the Magistrate before whom he might previously have been examined. On the Coroner's quitting the Office, Mr. Alderman SMITH desired to see the authority by which Mr. Lawes, the keeper of the Borough Compter, detained the prisoner Lam bert; and having fully ascertained that he was in custody under a full commitment from the Coroner, he formally communicated that fact to the prisoner, with the information that he would be tried for th; offence at the Surrey Sessions, in March next. Ap plication, he said,.had been made to him by some of the prisoner's friends, to admit him to bail, in conse quence of the lengthened period which must elapse before the Sessions take place. If the prisoner were innocent of the crime imputed to him, he regretted much that he should be detained ; but it was his uni form practice in all serious and important cases, to refer parties making such application, to a higher authority, namely, a Judge, at his chambers, who, upon proper affidavit being made before him, would call Cpr the evidence taken before the Coroner, and make his decision upon the full consideration of the subject. One of the friends of the prisoner was very desirous of pointing out an incorrectness in the evi dence given by the coachman before the Coroner's Inquest, but was immediately stopped by the Alder man, who observed, that he could not listen to obser vations on evidence that was not regularly before him. The prisoner, who appeared greatly affected, was exsremely anxious that the coachman should be called and examined. He was the only person who had deposed that he (the prisoner) had violently and wilfully pushed the deceased down. He was very desirous of seeing him, and thought he might be per mitted to ask him a question or two. It might be most important to him in his present situation.— Alderman SMITH replied, that be (the prisoner) now stood fully committed for trial by virtue of the Co roner's warrant, and he could not now re-argue the prisoner's case. His friends must interfere for him in the way already pointed out. Lambert, who was attended by several very respectable individuals,who appeared to take great interest in his fate, was then taken from the bar. He is a respectable looking young man, and was much agitated while in Court. The feelings of commiseration which his situation excited, were greatly heightened by the distress of his wife, an interesting young woman, who was in attendance. From their poverty and inability to pay for a Judge's bail warrant, it is to be feared that the prisoner must be incarcerated for several months before trial—a hardship from which a little pecuniary assistanc u-H ewouaLlL.,loh would relieve him. Gorr UNION-HALL.—John at, a powerful young man, a navigator, was brought up, charged with having committed a burglary and robbery in the h A o r u m se s, o s f y M de r nh . H am ood eom a in pu on bl o ica hi n r.aHoothed Dartmouth that outh on Friday morning. as soon as he got up, he found that his house had been broken open, the shutters wrenched o h o a ff d . h U ro po h n en go r iz e g u t th o t e he h b a ar n4 , b o e or f , ou a nd nd th be a in t g thi taken the contents of the till. They also took two large b alf glllon bottles , contni ninglirandy and e 0 % ,. a quantity of tea, sugar, and.cotiee, a lar ge c h e ,„; Ste. WiLiam Vatigllan, a watchman, stated, tilt ; about six o'clock on Friday morning, he m et the pr;. er com i ng e in k to i ent ii - t ro n a te d r , with two b un dle,- The n prisoner -street, and Was lowed by the watchman , wh o, upon overtakinglia t , sacigtuup the i said, Shipmate, where do you come from .H e replied from Sevenoaks ; and that he w as go i ng to take the things he carried to his brother, in Be rme ,* sey-street. NVitness told him he lama go to th e w atchhouse. The prisoner immediately dropped the bundles on the ground, and ran off. Witness /014 lowed, crying “ stop thief." William Smith that he lived in Wilderness-street, that as b e was coming out of his house he heard the cry o f u tat thief." Saw the prisoner running with great Tapidityi followed him, and brought Iwo to by hitting him yak a brick-bat. Witness found on his person a qu aa i ty of halfpence tied up in a handkerchief, two sl it bones, and a brass pipe-stopper, in the shape cf a k g , lie saw under the prisoner's coat a crow, made upon the most ingenious plan, and asked him for it, h a s the prisoner raised it up, and struck at witness sere, ral times, making the most desperate struggles tops off. Vaughan then came up, and the pnsoner w as secured completely. The landlord of the public house identified a part of the property. The trinities which were dropped in the road were tlnYe whi c h held the bottles of cloves and brandy, and the cheese, The prisoner said he had dropped no bundles, an t i that he found the crow in the road. Fully coo. mitted for trial. James Roa!fe, lately apprehended as being coo: cerned in the late affray between a party of smugglers and the Preventive Service, near Margate, has, seems, given information against other persons, one of whom, named Bithin, , ,, , ,fcm, has been apprehenrlei near Witham, and conveyed under a military mat to the Barracks near Canterbury. Roalfe, it is stated, has bcen conveyed under a similar escort to tie county jail, Maidstone, to which he was commits by the Justices at Margate: this is the second offend' in this transaction, who has been taken and fully cia, witted for trial at the next Assizes. Yesterday the neighbourhood of St. Giles's vas thrown into the greatest confusion, in consequence the following circumstance ;—A young man decently dressed was observed going along the streets, knock. ing down the stalls of china and apple womenod in other respects conducting himself in a very= sort of manner. He seemed to h ave an ex nary antipathy to china, for whenever he camea to a stall or china-shop, he would seize on the tides and dash them on the ground. A mob offer. sons assembled, and Bartlett, with Kenrickole beadles, on passing by went to take him in cosh, but he took to his heels, and in B.oad-street,ll rushed into a cellar, where, after remaining force time, he came up armed with a knife, which ht brandished, and dashed through the crowd by ohm he was followed; he ran on with the greatest* aiming blows at everybody he came near, and tie. ing all before him. He made an aim at one who narrowly escaped. He was at length taken 42 custody after a desperate resistance, and the knde taken from him. He was brought to the Police. Office, Marlborough-street, where he wastentiwi to be the son of a most respectable Gentlemanbcl4 ing a public situation, and was stated to be insane.- He - ordered ' find bail, and his friends totes care Mt. Moore, rant the the . Dennis place, Drir bane. at a was , tow: musks char' stic call for that positi not to At hat off, Mt_ suddenl! son, stand, g a public situation, ana was statea to vo m..— fe was ordered to find bail, and his fri ends totals rninl d i i ire of him. IN MURDER IN IRELAND.—Wednesday se'nnight,Jekt Lath, [Dore, one of the constables of Cork, receiv ed a we _.9 " int from Alderman Nzwsoss, to arrest a pesseed s:: ie name of Michael Lehane, of Rochestown, wine TE to liberties, on a charge of assault, at the suite My I lennis Driscoll. He accordingly proceeded totli di _Tl lace, accompanied by his son, John Moore , jun. al ' friscoll, who went for the purpose of identifying t ane. Upon arriving on the lands, they saw a t a short distance, and having ascertained that c Pas the person they were in search of, the patty'. in wards him. Ile was standing on a ditch, wit! lusket . and bayonet in his hand, in a position barging. Moore had also a musket and a s a , tick, and when within six er seven yards of Le ailed to him, and said that he had a King's w Or his arrest, and requested him to surrender, say -: con i hat the offence was bailable, and n o t to g ive any `ibm xosition ; at the same time, to shew that violence • )• , Ai rot intended by his party, Moose dropped his m. , I oan order position, and put the stock under his us r_d_ At this time Moore was upon the ditc h, oppositelk liwtiiixit bane, and his son was in the rear of Lehane, fa* ' off, being also armed with a musket. After t heekk L Moore had rested his musket on the ground, Lebo ta,, - e l suddenly turned round, and deliberately fired at* , h e m son, who, exclaiming, "Oh! GOD, lam shotr a gi p. steady fell dead. Lehane, however , e sca p ed Pain e_ . Vi - ___.-1 I - . EAKE'S GENUINE PILLS, justly &nook it pu curing, in all its stages, the VENEREAL DISIII • One small Pill Is a dose, and the taking of one &go hill i i. 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