Star.
London, England, 1830-11-23 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS

llaitirow.llowsw.—A man, named Pollard was charged before the
LORD Metro' with having given John Dixon a desperate blow in
the eye.
The complainant, who had a bandage round his bead, and whose
eye was greatly swelled and discoloured, said c Please you, my Lord,
we've made it up. I don't want to go ;phut him, as he's a poor man
like myselL
Mr. Monica—But you must tell the Lord Mayor why you
charged the man. Although you may be satisfied, we may not.
Complainant—Why, it's all over now. The poor man's sorry for
It, and I forgive him.
The LORD MAYOR—BID I insist upon knowing the particulars.
Ton have got a violent blow, and I don't see why you should pocket
the affront P
Complainant— Why, it was about my wife. He wanted to—at least
he took hold of her, and you see, please your Lordship, I thought he
might as well let her alone. (Laughter.)
Hobler—You mean that he insulted your wife, and like a man
you resented It. Complainant—Yes; that is, I went up to him and
said, what do you mean by that ere; so please you, my Lord, he makes
no more to do but he gives me sit* a whop bang in the eye, that I seed
nothing but fire for live minutes.
The Loam Mawon—And what did he give you to Induce you to
forgive him; how much money P Complainant--None at all; be's a
poor man, and that's the reason I forgive him.
The LORD MAYOR—And so you allow a man to pull your wife
about and to blacken your eye, and then you interpose to prevent him
from being puelsisetL
Mr. Hobler—My good man, you must have bed some good reason
for this kind act of forgiveness s come, now, what" did you get for par.
Boning him P Complainant—Why, you see, my Load, we had a pint
of helf.and.half together, and that settled the hostages (a laugh).
The Loan Liana—Weil he had his amusement cheap; he pulled
about your wife and blackened your eye fora couple of pence; howe-
ver, if you are satisfied with what you have got, I am ; but I think
your wife ought not to be much obliged to you.
Mr. Mohler observed, that many cases had been beard in the Justice.
room, in which the kerbearanee of the injured party was strongly ex.
emptied. It was not very leas since a roan compromised a beaten
head for Is. 6d. but it wee rather a new thing to end a man settling an
attack upon his wife for a pint of haliand-haf.
GUILDHALL.—James Green, the driver of the cabriolet, No. 28, at.
tended on summons, for misbehaviour towards a gentleman named
Hamilton.
The complainant stated that he called the defendant from the end of
the Cheapside rank, neat to Newgate-street,_ stepped into his cab, and
said, " Now drive on, make haste." The alsfeadant looked coolly at
him, and without offering to stir, said I ac's go on tW there is room to
get through. A moment efts: the road was entirely clear, and cons.
plainant said, " U do Omot go on homedistely, get out. The
defendant, to sa him, “ Oh, you
will bask me out, will you? and matmeneed a volley of abuse.'
Ravi. Po time to wrangle with biro, be list out, the cabsiolet
see aeon yet moved two yards, and while be was doing so,
noes ialmamt umeeparred with the 'horse to pass the wheel over cons.
caddissokunes Pea, in Aids= he failed. Whams called to egotist
, and a but the drivers, who ljailobserval what wed between hiss the defendant, only quitted hit&j in reply, say.
ing, "We do not want take money hwe 10-day,7 b4.sad con.
plabant was compelled tom
protest oo toot.
The defendant laughed at this matesient, and belated that the pm.
damn had mistaken the number. *had no recollection of any tieing
of the sort.
The Alderman fined the =v. apteests, 'kith be win'unable
•pay, and was locked *pin
ftw.ataws.r.— If iiiiks .famm. who stated be was dark in the
slice of a solicitor, add resided In Pee=ausli.enaligsm Gravel.pits..
was brought before Mr. blisroausa., with having oomailual a
savage assault Open a little bey, mimed Simmons, and nearly
tearing the ear from Ids bead.

It appeared that the prisoner, while under the influence of liquor on
Saturday night, met the boy at the bottom of Carey-street, Lincoln',
inn-gelds, and with brutal Via the poor little fellow by th,
and dashed his head, in the most savage manna, against the wall,
and not only bruised his bead in a very shockln g manner, but invi
tote one of his ears away from his bead. y
Rogers produced dm little sulfate, whose head presented s
mostilirpli:frable weasels, but who was unable to speak In coulegoince
of the injuries he had received.
Mr. Matsuura. told the mother of the boy at once to take hint home
and procure for him medical assistance.
A person who accompanied the prisoner proposed to compromise the
affair with the boy's parents.
Mr. Materatti. however refused to suffer any such thing, obsm.
that a ease of greater barbarity could not urea; he therefore called
the to put In bail, and give 24 hours' notice.
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very Adttresse,soltoiucoonad-sitvioan7l.—brouUnghfiktitubertaorey eldaDyeri.yezend whh
being in liquor and following gentlemen in St. James's-street.
A police constable deposed that he bad seen the defendant on Friday
night, in St. Jamesse-street, annoying every gentleman who gone wt
of the club houses. This conduct he continued until three o'clock in
the morning, when he made a dead set at one person ; and it sra, only
by taking him into custody that the gentleman was enabled to get away,
The prisoner was, however, very much in liquor.
The defendant, in reply, said that he was waiting to see hi, brother
who was at Crockford's, to endeavour to gamma meaty to enable him,
to return home. His brother was keeping possiosion of his propm,
which, if he had it, would render him indentation ; but being ke,o,"
out of his just rights, be ton reduced to the assessity of dodging
out of the various bells in St. James's. lie was speaking to hi,
brother when the constable came up and took him into custody.
Mr. Disc.—What have you been ?
Defendant.—l have not long returned from Russia, where I was en.
peed in breeding race horses; and I can say without hesitation that
I have exported more race bates than any other man in &giant
Previous to my going abroad I bred a number of the first horses in the
kindom, and owned several of them, until my brother, who was for.
merely in the army, but is now a black Ity,pouessed himself of my pro.
Palt
mr. Dirrit.—But you were in liquor what answer do you make to
that ?

Defendant.—l had not the wherewithal to get drunk.
Mr. Drza.—h is sworn to, and you must pay your fine.
Defendant.—l have not a farthing.
Ile was detained.
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IQUISITION.

Saturday evening an inquest was held in the committee-room, in the
workhouse, Walbrook,before Mr. Payne, on view of the body of Mary
Ann French, aged X
The Jury having returned from viewing the body, the remain, of
which presented an appearance of the deceased having been a floc
young woman.
Mr. Baskin, assistant to Mr. hleggison, a druggist, in Cannon-Ahem
stated, that on Thunder evening the deceased came into the shop and
asked foe two ounces of Epsom salts, which he gave her, after which she
requested to have some arsenic, foe the purpose of killing some rats in
the house, which alarmed the lodgers. Witness recommended her to
have nu: vomica, as they did not sell arsenic. Deceased said she had
tried that before, but without effect. He then consented to give her a
small peed= of arsenic (half an ounce), telling her to be very careful in
using it, and wrote on the piper, " Poison."
Mrs. Mary French, the mother of the deceased (who, from a state of
exha arising from the shock produced by the loss of her daugh.
ter. was ob to be supported into the room) stated that she resided
at No. 11, -lane; that on Friday afternoon her daughter re.
ceived a letter, and on opening it said, " Thank Goo, my dear mother
here is a letter from my dear James. Oh false disgraceful man, I
shall never be happy." After reading it some time she put it into her bo-
son', and appeared like a distracted girl. She then went out to get some
tea, but did not return home until twelve o'clock, when she introduced
to her a gentleman, to whom she handed a chair. Witness asked him
how he could think of paying his addresses to her daughter, when he
knew that he was a married man? Deceased then clung round him,
when the latter admitted that be was a married man. Witness instantly
ordered him to quit her house. He said he would, but desired her
first to examine the reticule she then held in her hand belonging to her
daughter, as there was poison in it. She examined it, and found two
papers containing " salts," upon which the gentleman left. In
• abort time after the decased was taken ill. Witness said, " Good
Goo my deer girl, what have you been taking ?" " Arsenic," she -
piled,, re
sod requested to have some tea. At seven o'clock the following
moaning she expired in agony.
The gentleman alluded to by the last witness being In attendance,
stated to the Any that from the circumstance of having met the de. ceased nine mes ago at a ,ke had since had several interviews
with kw, sad had with her ; and that en Friday evening.
by be urgent request, be again met her, and repeated to her his deter-
mination of sot seeing her again, stating, as a reason, that he
was a untried man. He then took her into a oefee-house,
where they bed some wine. The deceased then pulled out his
last letter, and upbraided him for what he had written, and
throwing esmething into the glass, drank off the contents. Witness
imagining she had taken poison, seised bold of her hand, to possess
himself the of phial, but found nothing. He then accompanied her
bane, when in the way thither she acknowledged she had been se.
duced by a gentleman named Stewart. Witness stated to the Jury
that he was not married, but had said so to the deceased, who, he
perceived, was the daughter of respectable parents, to prevent any bad
consequenoes.--Verdict-- 1 nsan I ty.
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The " Quotidienne" mentions that-the Princess Polignac,
the wife of the ex-Minister, was delivered of a daughter on the 18th inst.
Her labour had been so severe, that serious apprehensions were enter-
tained for her life.

PRINCE TA LLETILAND..-.-Tbis Prince is well known to
be one of the wittiest men of his dar-and wit upon one's self is the
best defence spinet the satire of others. A newspaper correspondent.
giving an account of the Prince's landing at Dover, expressed his sur-
est seeing in Talkyrand, whom he had expected to look nothing
but the cunning diplomatist," the countenance of an open, candid,
and honest character." This was shown to Talleyrand, who coolly re-
marked, " It must have been, I suppose, in consequence of the dreadful
sea-idekness I experienced in coming over I"—Liferary Casette.
SIR WALTER SCOTT.—II is with groat pleasure that
we give a place to the following Interesting particulars--more interesting,
when duly considered, than any that have yet been published of the gnat
and good author of Waverley. It appears that the firm of Ballantyne
and co. with which Sir Walter was connected, and which. througn the
failure of Constable, also failed a few years ago, have paid, in two dirt.
deeds, the sum of b4,000L Of this sum, the whole was contributed by
Sir Walter Scott, except 6,0001. or 7,0001. He has, in addition. paid
up the premium for the policy on his own life, by which a post obit in-
terest of 22,0001 is secured to the credited of the firm ; and he hat tut-
nished the whole of the notes and other addenda of the cheap edition of
his works, which has already realised to the creditors a further AIM of
30,00011 We understand that the trustees on the bankrupt emote of
Ballantyne and Co. have called a general acknowledges the itors, tO
whom it is their intention to recommend, as an ment of the
same they entertain of Sir Walter's most honourable conduct, to request
his acceptance of the library, manuscripts, curiosities, and plate, which
be had placed at their disposal.—Specietor.
STORY OF A QUACK N05TR1.731.--" In the summer of
last (111110), being on a visit to the country-house of a friend near
, I frequently met there an old man, late a farmer, who, thoultb
he had for some time abandoned the plough and the harrow, had neverthe-
less come up to the metropolis in the hope of reaping a golden harvest.
from the sale of a newly-invented snuff, to cure not only weak, but sore
eyes ! The maws, as he said, a compound of various herbs, which
his deep knowledge in botany had enabled him to discover. fhis
' man of science,' being diffident of his own orthographies' power (for
modesty generally accompanies merit), requested I would do him the
favour to correct the prospectus, of which the following is a literal copy.
and through which he intended to recommend it to the public:—' Eye
snut The most astonishing Remedy Ever found out for the Benefit
of Mankind. H.G—the Bottiness Leafe to inform the Publicke,
that by a long Expediment and study, has found out a remedy su-
perior to any Ever yet before dimoveed. It is Proprieted Totely for
the Eyes. It Cures All sorts of sore Eyes, Suckers the Brune. la
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lielps the memory. It is drawn up the nose in the same manner se
Common snuff, and the eyes to be bathed with gold spring water, 04
• 'hula Cloath every morning. By using it six times a day for the
lipase of one wheek it will strengea a whack eye of eather young or old,
and by using it Regular Three times a day it will take a awl of the
Eyes. It is a remarkable strengthener of the Obnoctive nerves, there-
fore there is no doubt but it will Cleere and preserve the Eye-sight
for life.' Whether this snuff has been found to be an efficacious re-
medy for weak eyes I do not know, but it was, a few months after it was
Promulgated, puecitmed with as much avidity as if it bad also been
adapted to weak heeds M./Wes Parkes ifusieal Afituseire.

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DEATH&
Jane, Woof heat.-Colonel R. Jona, Royal Roposers. —The 17d,
law. Is della* years( his age, & Fitsperriek, Req mil years an etni7
loot isikast r Dublin.—At Legheen, Oct. 11, IM 101111 He°. 144,
hobeihs-llosiay , the Very Ray. Dean Ryan, P.P. of Caßliel, feethetq
Ileallient of **lrish College at Paris.—At the Mimes efOathlee, er
die Stb curt. the Rev. L. Littlejohn, minister of that =yet the
Mane of Howarna. as the 10th curt. the Rev. J. Ru tln
Sib year of Ms +SR sod nth of hie atinistry—At ee the
/Mb kast. the Rev. J. Ballaorpte, lenlatar at the wog M Ca-
rnation dun, Is the Slot year of bleep, and Seth of hie abllottp

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