Star.
London, England, 1830-09-28 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

Gunstuau..---Yesterelay, a respectable looking old man, named
Risch, was brought before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY, on suspicion of
being insane.
James Shaw, the Inspector of the Watch of Faningdon
stated that he found the defendant on the steps of one of the clergymen's
houses adjoining St. Paul's School, at two &clock in the mornift, and
bearing he had been standing there some time, he asked whet ha he
knew anybody there, and was waiting to be admitted ? Prisoner said
he knew the gentleman who resided in that house, but he had not
knocked yet. Witness rang the bell, although the prisoner attempted
to prevent him, and he learnt from one of the inmates who opened a
window, that this early visitor was unknown and nnwekome. The pd.
stoner then said he had,only stayed in the door.way for protection spume
a gang who were punning him, and which he kept off by exhibiting a
pocket pistol; and he then pulled out what he called the pistol—..a
pocket handkerchief tightly twisted up into a rolL Doubting his unity,
he took him to the watch-house for protection, and by papers and cards
which he found upon him, he discovered he was a native of Hanover,
and a professor of music. There was a copy of a letter to the King, ap-
plying for an engagement in his Majesty's private band; and a note
from Major-General Wheatley. His Majesty, it appeared, had made
him a present of 61.
In reply to questions from the Alderman, the prisoner said be had
been Master of the band of the Ist regiment of Royal Dragoons for 22
years, but as he was hired, and not a part of the corps, he was not en-
titled to any pension on quitting the service. He came to London to
press his application to his Majesty, and walked about till he was be-
wildered; and he had been standing an hour and a half at St Paul's
School, because he was afraid to proceed, being followed wherever he
went by some man.
Mr. Alderman ANSLEY concluding he had been drinking a little
too freely, dismissed him, with an admonition to keep better hours, and
not to be found in such a situation again.

Bow.sTUUET.—Mr. Clarks Newton was yesterda Charged by
Captain Thomas Hopkins, with having threatened to do him some pet.
sonal violence.

Captain Hopkins stated that he resided at No. 6, New Ormond.
street, and that at an early hour that morning the defendant called at his
house, and declined that, unless he (Captain Hopkins) gave him a sum
of 608 L he would adopt means to enforce his demand. He (
Hopkins) refused to let the defendant have any money, and the =
ant thereupon became exceedingly violent, and uttered threats which
left on his (Captain Hopkins's) mind serious apprehensions for his per.
scowl safety.
Sir R. Burris—Are you not related to the defendant, Captain Hop.
kips P

Captain Hopkins replied in the affirmative, and went on to say he
had ample reaton for believing the defendant to be labouring under the
influence of insanity, and that he was in an unfit state to be suffered at
large. He had received a communication from the Duke of Welling.
ton on the subject, and four medical gentlemen, residing in New York,
bad forwarded certificates to that effect.

Defendant—l ani ready to contradict all that has been stated against
toe on oath.

Sir It. Ilium—But I cannot swear you s you are the party charged,
and cannot, therefore, give evidence; but if you have any witnesses
they shall be heard.
Defendant--I have no witnesses; no one was in the room but Capt.
Hopkins and myself, and he has not spoken truth.
Sir It. BIKXIE said he had received a letter from the defendant's son,
Charles Newton, enclosing the certificates of medical men, to prove that
he (defendant) was of unsound mind. This letter was written at the
request of his distressed mother, Elisabeth Newton, the defendant's
wife.

The defendant declared the letter to be a fabrication, and added, that
so far from his family being in a state of destitution, he had since
his arrival in this country remitted them 6,000 dollars, besides hav-
ing left 1,200 dollars with his eldest daughter, before he took his
departure from America.
Captain Hopkins regretted that he should have been compelled to
come forward against the defendant, who was his nephew, in that pub.
lic manner. He did so, however, for the unfortunate man's own good,
and to preserve for his family the little that remained of a considerable
property.
Sir R. Btaxiz said that the only alternative left him was to call on
the defendant to find bail to ke2p the peace.
Defendant.--That I cannot do. I have no persons wbo would give
security for me.
Sir R. Butwir.—Then you must go to prison.
The gaoler accordingly removed the defendant, and locked him up.
The night charges at this office were numerous yesterday morning,
and were disposed of by Sir R. Birnle and Mr. Halls, the former of
whom sat in the public office and the other in the front room, but none
of them possessed any feature that was either interesting or novel. In
the ease of some persons who were charged with picking pockets, Mr.
Thomas, the Superintendent, add that a report was on Saturday circu-
lated that a large sum of money had been abstracted from the pocket of
Lord Tenterden, near Contra's bank. There was no truth, however, in
the report, Lord Tenterden not having been in town.

Quxux-suusus,—Mary Miltotti Elisabeth Layeack, and Mary
Parker, were charged with robbing Mr. Alexander, of the sum of 441.
13s. Mr. A. bad dined at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, when Mil.
ton seeing him with his purse in his hand at e door, took the oppor-
tunity when he came out of the house to accost him, and pressed upon
him, and shortly after she was gone, he missed his purse, which contained
four lOL notes and four sovereigns, and some silver. Milton was ap.
prehended in Kent-street, but none of the notes were found upon her.—
She was remanded, and the other prisoners were discharged.
Thomas Bealsisr, a lad, was charged with stealing one sovereign and
some silver from George Long. They were locked up together in the
station.house of Christ Church, Surrey ; Long being very drunk, and
the prisoner having been found wandering about destitute. In the
morning Long missed his money, which he found concealed about the
prisoner. He was committed.
Laren2Tll-STlligT...—Two mechanics, named Millar and Chts4lB,
were charged with being riotous and disorderly at the Green on
public-house, Stepney, on Saturday night.
Mr. Polleniser, the landlord, stated that the:prisoners came into his
house on Saturday night, and called for some liquor, but perceiving
them already tipsy, he refused to serve them, on which they became so
riotous, that he was compelled to give theta into the charge of a
policeman.
The prisoners having conducted themselves with much propriety at
the watch.house, and expressing much contrition for what had hap.
penal, they were ordered to be discharged on the payment of the usual
fee of a shilling.
Maar.z..a-zoitsz.—Yesterday Martha Adams, a young woman
pitted very much with the small.pox, was charged before Mr. Raw.
Ltirsox with stealing a little boy.
Mr. James Matthews, of Augusta Cottage, Regent's Park, builder,
stated, that bevies occasion to go into the City that morning, he took
the child with him fora ride. He stopped to look after some of his
men who were upon a job In the New-road. and while his back was
turned the child was stolen from the garden gate. He applied for in.
formation to a woman who kept an apple stall on the opposite side of
the road, and she told him a young woman had carried it away in the
direction of Mary.la.bonne Church. He overtook the prisoner with the
child in her arms, between Mary.la.bonue Church and the Yorkshire
Stingo, and he gave her into custody.
George Ball, a policeman, No. 21, of the Division 8, received the
charge, and when he stopped the prisoner, she told him she had taken
up the child out of compassion, for it said it had lost its father, and it
was crying in the road, and she meant to carry it home after she had
called upon a gentleman for some clothes at No. 3, North Baker-west,
and take care of it until it was advertised.
Mr. RAWLINSOY asked the child what the woman said to him ?
He answered.—She say she take me for a walk.
Mt. Hawr.rxsou asked Mr. Matthews whether the child appeared to
be distressed when he recovered it ?
He answered.—Yes ; very much so.
The prisoner was remanded, that further Inquiry might be made re.
sporting her.
Wonsure-sraxzr.....George MOWS was charged with a fraud upon
the parish of St. Luke, Olthstrest. Mr. Price, the relieving overseer,
, stated that for six months past the prisoner had been receiving relief
from the parish, upon his representing that he was out of and
had a wife and two children depending upon him for support.
a person employed in St. Luke's parish as a sort of overseer of the
working paupers, stated that the prisoner was employed under him, and
received after the rate of 10s. Id. a week, and had received money so
lately as last Thursday.
The prisoner was committed in default of bail, for his appearance at
the Sessions, on the charge of fraud, and the parish offioers seemed
determined to remote.
MAKE, PoLics.—George Davis and WilliantiPatt, two athletic
excavators, were charged with assaulting several paeans, knocking
down four police constables, nearly strangling • publican, breaking his
windows, and other acts of outrage and disorder.—They entered the
Bell public-house, and OD Mr. Burton, the landloni, refusing to serve
theta with liquor, Potts seised him by the neckerchief, and nearly
strangled him ; while Davis insulted the customers, and broke six
panes of glass. Four officers bore the marks of the severe contusions
they received in the fray.
Mr. 13souxiun sentenced each of the prisoners to pay a fine of 401.
or to be imprisoned one month, and topsy for the six panes of glass they
hed broken.

Lova! Lora !—Verbatim copy of a love letter lately
sent by an enamoured swain to his beloved in Leeds. The buly, not
having partaken of the march of intellect (u petticoats are excluded
from the Institute,) handed it over to her master, who deciphered it foe
her; and we publish it as a model for Yorkshire Corydon. Dem
BessymrA Ido bike thee—My love is stronger than iver-1 nivir had
ale of sleep sin lum at Leeds--Sun way melt mountains--and
sand may run wick before I can change try love again—l ilk Poy better
nor oughtibut I bike thee better than Poy—therefore thou may make
up the mind to let me put spurring. in—and we will be wed and gang
home in a chaise at Martinmas."..Leeda Ntellionacer.

MIIRGIAM ON TIRE MARRIAGE GT TWO LEAN kLOPLL.

But one-half of marriage alone,
Can this married couple rakish ;
Though he may make bee bone of his bone,
He never can flesh of his flesh.

MARIE MIONOT.
Miss !Marie 111 ignot was a nice little maid,
Her uncle a cook, and a laundress her trade,
And she lovid, as dearly as any one can,
Mister Legardie, a nice little man.
But oh! but oh!
Story of woe !
A sad Interloper, one Monsieur Modeau,
Ugly and old,
With plenty of gold,
VI? Made his approach,
In an elegant coach,
Her fancy was chann'd with his splendour and obi N,
And he bore off the fable-hearted Molly Mignot,
Monsieur Modeau was any and old,
And Monsieur Modeau caught a terrible cold,
His nose was stuffed, and his throat was sore, '
He had physic by the quart, and doctors by the save ,
They sent squills,
And pills,
And very long bills;
But all they could do did not make him get well,
He sounded his 11's and his N's like an L.
A shocking bad cough,
At last took him off,
And Mister Lagardie, her former beau,
Came a courting again to the Widow Modeau.
Mister Lsprdie, to gain him eclat,
Had cut the cook's shop, and followed the law ;
And when Monsieur Modeau set out on his journc-,,,
Was an articled Clerk to a Spwial Attorney.
He gave her a all,
On the day of a ball,
To which she invited the and all ;
But "poor dear Lagardie,"
Was still too tardy,
For a Marshal of France
Had just asked her to dance;
In a twinking the ci-devant Madame Modeau
Was the wife of the Marshal, Lord Marquis Dinot.
Mister Lagardie was shocked at the news,
And went and enlisted at once in the Blues.
The Angola Dinot
Felt rather so so,
Took physic, grew worse, and had notice top..
He died, and was shelved, and his Lady so gay
Smiled again on Lagardie, DOW placed on full pay.
A Swedish Field Marshal with a guinea a-day ;
When an old Ex-King,
Just show'd her the Ring,
To be Queen she conceived was a very fine thing ;
But the King turned Monk,
And Lagardie got drunk,
And said to the lady with a deal of ill-breeding,
" You may go to the d—l, and I'll go to Sweden.'
Thus, like most other fools,
Between two stools,
The lady came squat,
On—l must not say what,
So she cried and she stamped, and she sent for a Ilea,
And she drove to a convent, and never came back.

SCINTILLA?.

EXCZLLENT MAXIMS. See much—admire lade
hear much.—belleve little; know much—speak little; shun much—
fear little; give muchtake little; work much—commanklittle.
Hem! ur TURN.—A. 4 Henry the Fourth was tra-
velling through a small town, several deputies tame to meet him, L.
order to welcome him. When one of than had began his speech, he
was interrupted by an ass, which stood twenty paces off, and began to
bray. " Geniteasett," said the King, " lei cads speak in his turn, i'
you please—otherwise I can not understand you."
AN EMINENT BANKER,,—known by his great wealth
and still more so for his stupidity, bad a fancy to have himself sculp-
tured In marble. When the statue was finished, he showed it to one
his friends, and asked him whether it resembled him ? Exactly
answered the latter, " both is body and wand."

A wAIS SCHOOLMASTEIt, ILI Paris, wished to prove that
he was the handsomest man on the face of the earth. He argued thus
.—Europe is the finest vitt of the world ' • France is the finest country
in Europe; Paris is t e finest city In Prance; the University is the
finest quarter in Paris ; my room le the finest in the University ; 1
am the finest thing In my room—therefore, I am the handsomest man
in the world

TON. —There is no limit to the fanciful extravagances and
freaks of fashion. I .of.ntttomsleeves, untied laced caps, capacious
bonnets, and short ded extremities, are all exceedingly becoming in
women s—but behold I the gestknten. The other day, one of the fret
and independent electors of a certain rotten borough in the north et
Scotland, made his contpearanoe—era it is there called—ins cocked hat,
a long coat "of many colours," a kilt of the same material, and topped
boots, armed at the heel with iron spurs ! The figure of the toter—
not the merits of the candidate—gained the day; and the starched Lt.
shims of Consul Brunnucl are undone for ever I

Queen Mary, having dealt severely with the Protestant:
in England about the latter end of her reign, signed a commission t.
take the same course with them in Ireland, and to execute the sane with
greater force, she nominated Doctor Cole, one of the commissioners.
This Doctor coming with the commission to Chester, on his jourmy,
the Mayor of that city, hearing that her Majesty was striding
messenger into Ireland, and he being a churchman waited on the Doctet,
who in discourse with the Mayor, taketh out of a cloak hag a hat her tm
saying unto him " here is a commission that shall lash the heretics of In-
land V calling the Protestants by that name. The good woman of the how,
being well affected to the Protestant religion, and also having a bre,tto
named John Edmonds, of the same, then a citizen in Dublin,was muc:
troubled at the Doctor's words,thut watching her convenient time, whit
the Mayor took his leave, and the Doctor complimented him down ti t
stairs, she opened the box, takes the commission out, and places in Ile:,
thereof a sheet of paper with a pack of cards wrapped up therein, the
knave of clubs being placed uppermost. The Doctor coming up to
chamber, suspecting nothing of what had been done, put up the bra
formerly. The next day, going to the water side, wind and ram
serving him, he sails towards Ireland, and landed oa the 7th of October.
1658, at Dublin. Then coming to the Castle, the Lord FitzwalLr, being
Lord Deputy, sent for him to come before him and the Privy Council,
who coming in—after he had made a speech, relating upon what account
became ova, be presents the box to the Lord Deputy, who causinj, it to
be opened, that the Secretary might read the commission, there w-It
nothing save a pack of cards with the knave of clubs uppermost !
which not only startled the Lord Deputy and Comcil, but the Doctor,
who assured him be bad a commission, but knew not how it was gone.
Then the Lord Deputy made answer,' Let us have another commis-
sion, and we will shuffle the cards in the mean while.' The Doctor,
being troubled in his mind, went away, and returned into England, and
coining to the Court, obtained another commission: but news came to
him that the Queen was dead, and thus GOD preserved the Protestants
of Ireland I"—Cor's Hibernia Angllcona, voL
" Queen Elisabeth was so delighted with this story, laic!)
was related to her by Lord Fhzwaltcr, on his return to England, that
she sent for Elizabeth Edmonds, whose husband's name was Matters-
bead, and gave her a pension of 501. during ha lira.—llarkion
MisetiJany.

B 1 RTHS.
On the 25th inst. in Cadogan.place, the 13.1 c ell A. Frvoch, Esq. of
son.—On the 26th inst. at Stanley House, in the county of I/lona-sta.
the Lady of D. Alaclean, Esq. of a daughter.

MARRIED.

On the 25th inst. at Carobritige,&iv. .1. Athawes, of LougAwn.
Bucks, to Mariam, youngest daughter of the late J. Browne, Esti, u
Milner's-hall, Bluth Hunts.—On the 2Cth inst. in the Church of b:.
Botolph, Aidgate, Mr. T. Cansdell, of the Hoop and:Horse.sboe T 3.
'ems Tower.hlll, to Mazy Ann, third daughter of Mr. M. Cooke, law of
Ketninghall, in the county of Norfolk.