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London, England, 1820-12-19 00:00:00

POLICE.

1141R.ST11111E4

Yesterday upwards of 30 men, women, boys, dini girls,
were brought before Richard [finite, Rag. charged with being
disorderly in the P 14122 of Covent-garden mud its neighbour-
howl. The charge wa■ supported by Mr. Brandon, of
the Theatre; Mr. Robins, the :auctioneer; and Mr. hey, of
the Pima Coffee.bouse; from whose evidence it appes.ed
that they were constatitly anuoyed by the inf.ttnialis conduct
of the Prisoners day and night, vrlinae language was so Ilil•
decent it was impossible to pass without bring insulted.
They were committed.

MARLBOROUGII-RTRTFT.
ROBBERY.
Yesterday Eliza Minton, a young woman, was !Knutht
f. um the House (4'C...recision, charged wills rubbery, under
the following cirestnittatices :
Mary Mackenzie stated, that she resided at N 0.5, Earner's..
terrace, Chelsea, in the huust of Dr. Bitten, where Mi.•
Bourne, a young lady, wan on a visit. 0;, the evening of
this day (Tuesday) three weeks Miss Bourne went to Ore
theatre, and on her return house on the Wednesday ceciiiiig
they discovered that Miss 11..urne's drawer ball been opened
with a key which unlocks witness's drawer, and trinkets and
other property were .tole• therefrom. Wituess'• drawer was
also rubbed of a silk spencer, two toad rinza,
Miss Bourne stated, that she was 4/II PI %UM ..t the hoes.
where the l'i isoller was housemaid, and during her absence
•t the theatre the roldiery was committed. A satin dray
and Owes, • corueliao cross, garnet car.rings, a morning
dress, and various other articles, were sluirll trout her
drawer.

Several pawnbroker/ attend. fi and produced the properly,
which was sworn to by Miss Bourne, titc.
A female, who keeps a clothes shop in Ilol%well•street, in
the S.ratid, stated, that the Prisoner called to her shop,
dressed in a style of fashion, sod produced the satin dies.
for sale, together with the shoes and necklace. She .aid
that she was in the keeping of Colonel in the neigh.
bourhoud of the Strand, with whom she was going to
Brighton, and he would sot allow her ill wear ►ueh expesi•
sire dresses, which induced her to sell them. She gave her
13s. for the satin dress, and is. fur the uecklsce, and the
Prisoner quilled the ►hop.
&rioter, the °lnter, tiace.l the necklace to the possession
of the above person.—The Prisoner was remanded.

ATROCIOUS ROBBERIRS and ROBBER T. 4 IM

An extreme degree of agitation and terror has been ex-
cited within the Isot fortnight in this port, and all the neigh-
bouring places around, by the comniksion of some deep. rate
robberies by a footpad, who fur a little while evaded deter.
lion, but now stands temporarily committed in our town
prison, until one of his injured victims, Mr. Thomas Gill, of
Plymouth, shall be recovered sufficiently to appear again.t
him, when his place of abode will he shifted to Excit►. The
first of these was the robbery of Mr. Media, butcher, oil
Manadon-bill, in the road to Tavistock, on Saturday, the
2d instant, as mentioned in oar last, which there can be no
doubt, though Mr. Harris, owing to the darkness at the
time, could not identify him, was perpetrated by the shove
man. On the following Saturday evening, the 9th, about
vie o'clock, somewhat nearer In Plywitioth, at a place called
Manadue-hill, as Mr. Gill was reins Mug hoine from Tavi-
stock, and riding very fast, a MAO sprung up from the side
of the road, where he lay concealed, nod seising the bridle of
the horse, aimed a blow at the rider's head, with a stone or
some other heavy substance, which felled him almost in a
state of senselessness to the ground. Ilappily, however, Mr.
Gill had recollection enough, ere the work of murder and
robbery could be consummated, to call out " Murder!"
which being heard by two persons not far shoats., brought
Iltem instantly to the spot, and the rubber fled, cairyiug off
with him, by mistake, Mr. Gill's hat, and leaving his own
on the ground, which proyieltntial circumstance mainly, if
not entirely, led in the end to his being discovered. Mr.
Gill was conveyed to his haute at Plymouth with ■ll pos.
sable expedition, where he is still confined by the effects of
the blow.

True to Iris criminal object, the robber, though disap•
pointed in one case, was trot deterred by it from velftnring
on another robbery, and making his way to that part of the
Dock-road where I hoses meet leading to Peary-tree;
lie encountered Mr. J M. Marchant, purser iu the Royal
Navy, on whom he inflicted a blow on the head, with a stone
or other substance, exclaiming at the time, " Yen are the
man I am waiting for," end then repeating his blows, mitil
he hail knocked him into the ditch, knelt upon hito and
rifled his pockets of some louse silver mad papers, Mr. Mar-
chant petitioning all the while that be miert not be mur-
dered. Our police officers, from the first intimation of these
circumstaneea, had biota on the alert, and en Muuday last
the indefatigable Mr. Wilmot', who is mien( them, having
previously seen the hat of the robber in Mr. Gill's possession,
which he had oilers remarked as n peculiar one, when worn
by the owner, whom he knew, he was ioduced to question
bum upon the subject, and the answers being uneatisfactory,
with the assistance of Mr. Yeo, be took him into custody.
The next day the Prisoner was examined before J. Hawker,
Esq. one of ou► county Magistrates, when Mr. Marchant
having identified him as the man by whom be hail been
rubbed, and Mr. Fuge, the surgeon in attewelsoce on Mr.
Gill, proving thin a mark is the hat corresponded exactly
with the wound in Mr. Gill's heed, he was committed to oar
toe n prison, as before stated.
His name is John Bagwell, a native of Ireland, and his
professed employment in this port was selling Irish linens.
Heir about five leash( filches high,and of a peculiarly strong
and muscular structure, with so exterior, both iu dress and
person, which by no memos convict him, as far as exterior
goes, with the base propensities of a robber.
To the above we have to add another rubbery, hot by the
same man, but by some who may belong to a pug, of
which, perhaps, he was one. Ou Tuesday evening laat, as
the servant of the Reverend Mr. Sleeman, of Whitelsurch,
who had been with Mrs. Sleeman to Admiral Bedford's, at
Stonehuuse, and kit the carriage there, was remising
home with a pair of horses, he was attacked near the
seventh mite-stone on Roburough Down, by two men, who
knocked him off the horse he rude, and after cruelly beat-
ice him, took from his person a pound note and ten slot-
. lings in silver, when they left him as dead. He was shortly
afterwards discovered, and conveyed home, where be re•
mains seriously ill.—(Ploosoulk Telegraph.)

Letters and Papers from the Cape of Good Hone
to the 15th October have been received. The ani-
mosity which had prevailed among some of tl►e
settlers from Great Britain, at Algna Bay, had
almost entirely subsided. Sir lt. S. DONKIN, Go•
veruor at the Cape iu the absence of Lord H. So•
MEASET, had issued a Proclamation in consequence
of the increase of population in various parts of the
Colony, appointing certain liemreeden, ur Magia•
Vales, for the more prompt adm►nistration of jigs..
tice. Similar lierstins have been nominated to ad.
minister justice in the new settlement at Mrs

iNPELIICENCi.

COURT OF CHANC4Iit, I.nutouri
loirsAtr, DimsMt

The Loan CHAser.i.i.oft cruse iota Court tit
half-pest ten o'clock, roll w.e occapied viatil
put three o'clock io cas-s ul iitoisiterrst
rxcapt to the punier cciwerned. rt which Lur Ins
Lordship rose.

COURT OF KING'S BRIICII. Gutsnaiss:.
Hammy, Dicsasaa la.
The *LORD CHIEF JUSTICE sat this elly,st /Viti
Prior. 80me wiirletelid.4l causes were &spewed 01.
but smite of 80, put,he lutrre were gird.