Star.
London, England, 1808-05-17 00:00:00

POLICE.

MAXSION naM.—Saturday a schoolmaster, froMl
Coleman-street, charged two decent looking women
with collecting a rnob round his school, and obstruc-
ting him in the exercise of his dtity. lie said that
when he used to correct'any of his boys for their mis.
conduct, these women, who lived next door, used to
make great disturbance, and cast reproaches against
him for this necessary exercise of scholastic discipline.
The Knight of the Birch exhibited before his Lordship
the gentle weapon he had used on these occasions, ,1
and entered into a learned harangue on the necessity
of what he had done.
The Loin!) MAYOR told there indignant ladies That
they must not in future disturb the schoolmaster, and
then dismissed the complaint.
• Some says since, as some workmen were cleansing
the cistpools of the London Tavern, they found in one
of them the body of a female infant, which appeared
as if it had been put to death. The Coroner's Jury
did not find a verdict of wilful murder, but the In-
quest Jury of Bishopsgate Ward, hearing the circum-
stance, laid the case before the LORD MAYOR, in con-
sequence of which a young woman, a servant in the
tavern, who was suspeeled to have been pregnant,
underwent several private exarn.iiiiiii=.
A 4•" r mi-
nute investigation, and a confession on the part of the
young woman, she was fully committed on Saturday,
;.:,der Lord Elknborough's Act, for concealing the
birth of the child.
'ramie; Pouts.--'Saturday Humphria alias G.
Anus, was fully committed, charged with uttering
base money to several'shopkeepers in Wapping.
SHADWELL Os-mt.—Saturday R. Williams and J.
Carrol, were fully committed for a highway robbery
in Poplar fields, on Captain Green.
Bow-sraur.—On Sunday evening, about half
past seven o'clock, William Bacon, who has the care
of Kensington Gardens, received information, that a
young man, genteelly dressed in black, was behaving
in a very disorderly manner close to the Palace.
In consequence of this information, Bacon went
there, and found a young man acting as he had been
informed ; who wanted to gain admittance into the
Palace, and to see the Queen. He stated he had been
very much injured, and her Majesty could see him
righted. Bacon asked him to walk with him, which
he readily agreed to, but uttered very few more words.
Bacon then took him to the nearest public house,
searched him, and found in both his coat pockets a
quantity of stones. He afterwards took him to St.'
Paul's, Covent-garden, watch-house, where he pro-
cured him a bed. On their way he attempted twice
to make his escape, once in Leicester-square, and
iu Covent-garden. Yesterday he was taken be-
fore Mr. Ryan. He appeared in a very low state.—
He said his name was Michael Smith, and that he was
a clergyman, of Rochester. He proves to be the son
of the late Dr. Smith, Curate of the Temple Church,
and Lecturer of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster.
MARLROROUGH-STREET.—John Taylor, a mariner,
wa; charged with wounding Sarah Wood, in a street
in Mary-la-bonne, with intent to kill hes. It appeared
by the statement of two witnesses who were passing
along the streets where the offence was committed,
that they say/ the poor woman standing against a
bow e, bleeding profusely ; she pointed to the priso-
ner, who was standing near her, and said he had
stabbed her. On examination, she was found to have
several wounds, and a knife covered with blood was
lying by her side. The watchmen immediately took
charge of the prisoner, who, it appeared, by his own
words, meant to kill her. The prisoner had recently
returned from sea, and a.ppeara to have been actu-
ated-by jealousy. The wounded woman was taken to
the Middlesex Hospital, but her recovery. is very
doubtful. The prisoner was remanded forcanother

doubtful. 1
examination.