Star.
London, England, 1808-10-03 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW-STREET.—Saturday, Eliznieth Thompson was
examined on a charge of robbing divers ready fur-
Wished lodgings. The prisoner has for some time past
made a practice of. going to different parts of the
town, accompanied by her daughter, about eight
years of age, and with a plausible tale of being just
come to London, and her hitsband living servant in
a family, where he wished to keep his being a married
plan a secret, so 'imposed, as to prevent a reference
for her character being required ; and having thus
gained admittance into a house, she seldom remained
more than a few hours ere she decamped, plundering
the apartments of every thing portable. Several per-
sons identified the prisoner's person, and were bound
over to prosecute her.
MA NsioN-HousE.—Saturday a bargeman, who had
been stopped in Thames-street, with a quantity of raw
coffee, was charged with having the same in his pos
session. The prisoner was seen With another man ;
but it could not be proved which of them dropped
the coffee, and he was discharged, on his master pro-
mising to appear for him.
The Beadle of Christ Church Parish applied for a
warrant to bring up a muter shoemaker, named
Joseph Chapman, for having robbed and deserted his
three apprentices, two of whom belonged to that pa-
rish, and one to St. Sepulchre's. The Beadle stated,
that one of the boys had been bound to him only a
week ; that he had received a premium with him ;
that he used to half starve them ; and that on Wed-
nesday he decamped, after pawning their clothes..and
left them ckstitutz of every Leeessary. „The Loan
MIYO:t ordered the boys to be taken care of, and pro-
per steps to be taken to find out their unfeeling mister.

GUILDIIALL.—Saturday, a woman was examined
on suspicion of child-stealing: it appeared that she
had decoyed a boy, four years old, the son of Mr.
Stedman, liner-draper, in the City-road, from his
father's door; jut while in the act of st;ipping him,
was taken into custody. Several duplicates of chil-
dren's clothes were found on her. She was commit-
ted for re-exataination.

R LBORMAH-STIMET —Saturday --- Smith was
examined on the charge of setting fire to a dwelling.
house, in Beacham-street, Leather-lane. It appeared
that the prisoner aad his wife had uttered some mali-
cious insinuations against some lodgers in the house,
and on Thursday mght,a.quantity ofrags were found
burning under a stair, case,. accessable only to the'
prisoner and his wife ; fortunately, however, the
smother alarmed some of the lodgers, and the fire
was subdued. The prisoner was remanded, but his
wife cannot be found.

Saturday the r.anainsafrarrEa Fiser, late foreman
to the.Phccnix Fi.re,olfice, who died in St. Bards°lo.
mew's Hospa4, in consequence of being so dreadfully
bruised and burned at the fire at Covent Garden
Theatre, were Interred in the burial-ground of the
parish of St Martin in the Fields. The procession
was very solemn. Twenty firemen, with crape hat-
bands and black stockings, preceded the corpse. An
amazing conconrse of people attended in the church
and church-vard.

A child, three years old, of the name of Corbett,
was stolen from the door of its parents in Gresse-street,
Rathbonellace, on Friday evening, and at seven
o'clock it was brought back, and left naked at the
unpeTteived.