Star.
London, England, 1830-09-11 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.

Mr. COXAXT, the Sitting Magistrate at Madborough-street Polka
of was yesterday occupied for a considerable time in the investiga-
tion of the following singular charge of alleged robbery; the history of
which will be better told by condensing the particulars into ashen narra-
tive, than by entering into the various statements, counter-statetnents,
and alterations of a multitude of persons who filled the office, and ap-
peared engaged or interested in the transacdon.
It that eta respectable licensed house in Oxford-street, called
the " Vorth Pole," the mesdngs of a benefit societirstay-makere are
held, and at one of these meetings= Thursday n t last, a certain
member of the club was expelled, or scratched, wi a view to his ex-
cloaca from all future benefits of the club, for some irregularity of
which he was alleged to have been guilty, inconsistent with the rules of
the" society. By no means satisfied with the decision come to upon his
ease, the examember determined, it seems, as he was to have no future
benefit flan the club, acting on an erroneous view of the case, to take
unto himself as much of the present advantage as be could; and having
submitted quietly, apparently, to the sentence, ordered a bed for
the night at the " North Pole. The club broke up at the usual hour ;
the members, all except the scratched one, went to their respective
homes; the landlord closed his house, and went to bed at a seasonable
fir; and the scratched member, having previously paid for his 04
that he might have no delay in the morning, retieW to his rest until
about huff past four o'clock in the morning, when the landlord was
amused from his slumbers by the loud ringing of his street-door bell,
and putting his head out at his bed-room window to know the cause, be
saw a policeman and another man sanding near the door, and the police-
man hailed him thus—"l say, Mister LandWd; do you know this
mai? Be says he is a lodges in your house, and that you know him."
" Let me look at him," said the landlord, and giving a sharp look out
for the lodger, " Oh, yes," be continued. " I know him, he slept here
last night, and be is a most respectable man." The landlord then
learned that he was stopped by the policeman because he was
a pod sized box under his arm.—" But I say, mister lardrlenikr7lll
saM the policeman, " he has got a box her with him and a inma
mat, is that right ?"..." It's all right, you may be sure," mid
the lendlad, who was romedfrom his dumber. The ladled CIS
shut his window, and went to bed again, and the " emaldier
member, with the assistance of the policemen, put his box and
himself into a hackney-coads, on the opposite stand, and drove
ofC The landlord began to ruminate upon what the polies.
man said about a box. " Mho's," said he, " I don't think, now I Gen,
side: of it, that Mr. —.-- (naming the member) brought any box
with him her last night, I am sure he did not, and what box can he
have taken out with him." No sooner did this reflection come upon
the landlord, than he hastened to the club-room, where, to his
amazement, he found the dub-box, with all the treasure of the society,
bad vanished. An instant alarm was given by the landlord; the police
were called in, and the stewards and the secretary of the club were im-
mediately sent to and roused out of their beds, and in fact the whole
fraternity were in an uproar.
The policeman who helped the " scratched " member Into the coach,
recollected that the latter undisguisedly pm directions to the coachman
to drive him to Skinner-street, Somers' Town, and thither a pursuit
was directed. When the policeman got into Skinner-street, be saw,
sure enough, the Identical coach standing at the door of a house
there, and on going into the house he saw an old lady, who, on
being questioned, said that her nephew had just arrived in the coach,
mentioning without disguise the 64 scratched " member's name,
sad was gone with the hackney-coachman to the public-house
appetite to refresh themselves; but as for the box, there it was
tinier the table. The policeman, and those who accompanied
him, then wised the box, but on examining it they found that it had
he* leek= open, and its contents, amounting to about 461. taken out.
They then hastened to the public-house, making sure to find the se-
Ow there; but they were disappointed, for they found the hackney.
emehman alone, and he told them that the " gemman" had gone away
&Weed bit ago, and no further account could be had of the "scratched"
masher or the contents of the box; and the consequence was, that the
"old lady," the hackney-coachman, the landlord, the policeman, the
stewards and secretary, and a multitude of staymakers, all tame to the
office about the matter.

In the middle of the exdtation' and confusion of the business,' as if
to add a still more complex feature to the case, one of Mr. Harmer's
clerks made his appearance, and said, that the " scratched" member
had been that morning with Mr. Harmer, and told him what be had
done as to carrying a the box, breaking It open, and talti out its
contents, and seemed to consider that be had aright to do so, without any
fraudulent intention, in order to pay himself back all the money that
he had subscribed since he became a member. Mr. Harmer, however,
bad told him that he had acted imprudently, in seeking redress in
such a manner, and advised him, at all events, to return all above
the sum that he supposed he had a legal claim to, if he had any
and, in accordance with this advice, the clerk said, the " scratched"
member was now ready to return the surplus over what be claimed as
his own.

The Society, for they were almost all present, declared with one voice
that they would listen to ao such terms.
The hackney coachman said, he could give no information, more than
having set the man down at the house in Skinner-street.
After a vast deal of discussion, which it would be useless to detail, the
Magistratebefore him that he could do nothing in the matter until the accused
par.
The Stewards of the Society applied ex a warrant 'to apprehend the
Paße Magistrate said, that no warrant was ,as any body might
apprehend a man on a charge of felony ; and thus affair rests for the
present.

THE MUTINY ON BOARD THE INGLIS BAST
INDIAMA N.

Yesterday morning seven seamen belonging to the Inglis East India.
man, Captain Dudman Commander, were- talon out of the Vansittart
and Charles Grant, Honourable Company's ships, which arrived in the
river on Thursday night. They are charged with being concerned in
the mutiny on board the Inglis on the 6th of June bat, and have been
in confinement and heavily ironed since the let of July last, a
period of seventy-two dayi. They were conveyed in the Thames Po.
lice galley by Hawkey, Galloway,
and Shields, surveyors of that mes.
blislunent, to the office, where they were released from their irons and
placed in the lock-up room. The names of those brought home in the
Vansittart, are John Harrison, John Murray, George Well, and ifor.
ris SPCsanom Three were taken from the Grant, viz. John Steele,
Samuel Cole, and John Carter. They are all fine able-bodied seames.
and expressed great joy at being released titan their, heavy irons end
long confinement on board.
Soon after they were brought to the Office, Mr. Plower, Furnival's
Inn, their Solicitor, made an application to Capt. Mabel!, the lit
true, to have the investigation of the ass postponedfor a few days, in
order that
their defenceCouncil might be retained in of the men to condom

Capt. Richbell said, he could give no answer to the application until
the snivel of the witnesses, none of wham were in attendance to pare
Themes
eu against dte prisoners.
Moody, one of the prindpal oleos of the Timms Pollee,
was despatched to request the attendance of the witnesses, but the
only one he could meet with was Captain Damen, the Comm.
der, who refused to coon forward without a summons Rom the
magistrates. Moody informed the Captain that the seven men were in
custody at the ofilat, and were the same who had been charged by him
with mutiny at St. Hama, and inquired what was to he done withtbsent
Captain Dudman replied, " Oh, d—n it, do what you like with them,"
and the aka departed. Moody informed the magistrate of the result
of his applicant to Captain Duciman, and the Bench wafted undl eight
o'clock in the evening, when
Mr. Evans, the ref other, was directed to make Inquiries outside
the °Moe it any witnesses against the primate were in attendenes, but
no
cue answered.
The prisoners were then placed at the bar, and Cape Richbell sofa
asked if any person was present to pain any charge against then, ton
no one answered.

Moody, the oMeer. was then saws, emi mod dime& of his appli.ll
auks to Cspudu Dudmau, the Crmelhe if the loglia.
Captain Itrcaoru..—Did he refuse to Mud ?
• Ilepdy.—lle did, your Worship, and sold, I shall not come same I
as auldssoned r and on being told the prisoners were lazed up, said,
0 Oh, d—n It, do what you like with theta."
It& Et seid Meer of the Thames Police, swot Ilsat he
had seen Mr. John Unison, surgeon of the Inglis, who ales lies& to
attend. . .

—Mr. Flower, of Furnivars Inn, the Solicitor tort the prisobers,:mede
tome remarks on the entanordinoryisoduct of Captain Dudman, who
had caved the untertunate men ar the bar to be sent home in korie.
They bad been Is onthwesent upiraids at two months, and were reedy
to meet an semth antics *bleb might he festared ; but, os no Qua cap.
peered t em, they sight to be thOundy libevetia
catins
t. Ittcanti ollitasstl tho pdenum, and said be had ease-
fully ova the &peskiest mint lima St. Helena, and found
that the charge against them did set mead to any thing more serious
than what was petered spinet the tins Idlers who were committed
for trial for a misdemeanour en Wedasediy,as Captain badman did
not appear.
Here the worthy Iteglstaarnas Inisentpted ,by an =Lunation from sailors, who called out, Os • knows he's in the wrong,., your On-
Doer ; he's ashamed to coins forward; wi have been' flogged roost
unmercifully."
Captain Ricanzu.—l have nothing hi tiliwith you .aiiiitell pi*
snow.. Had the against you bash ens at a ley seeloto astue,
I should have cam the attendance of . the Than*
Captain Dudnian not appear I shall & charge yea, end Yea
*
now hee.
The primness, after rabbi a mantled biew 'le. the `> crew,.
'
dented and capered, and mobil into the meet, whore the of die
Iftlie, and a greet number of ether
onkel Moinbled, tereiVal then
or three duns. ;
A committee, casikohig at sense et the Moses tad wow it
die Ines, held. been kneed few thr takhig-thhisissiiiir
Manures to deka the men who wen committed frac the Thames re:
liopoilieo, is Wedmsday.

IFISTMINSTER MHO" Friday, Sept 10.:
TIM XING V. CLAMP.
1010 an iippell against a conviction of Mews. Mfushull and
Beckett, magistrates of Bow-meet, under the 9th Goo. IV. which
fclatrootteazellanbiat
cwhistrhactarrsintgo„ on %s is
tifis Auguettetivrift;
Lion, Wycluatreet, Strand, between the hours of twelve at night
and four in the morning; for which he, woe adjudged to pay a pe.
nal of SI and costs. _

Lr. Cr Painucs appeared for the appellant r and Preece, the In.
of pollee, the prosecutor, called htiwitnesses to support the con.
when an objection was taken by Mr. Phillips, that the charge
was for acting contrary to the tenottr of his licence; and Mr. Preece,
who had thought proper to be his own lawyer, had not produced the
licence, nor given the aellant notice to produce it.
The CHAIRMAN Na the objection was fatal, and quashed the con.
viction.

Blisab•tli Smith, aged 68, was indicted for stealing, on the filet of
August, one drinking glass, of the value of Is. the property of the ex.
Champion, Tom Cribb.
Mr. Cribb stated, that he Is the landlord of the Penton Anna, Pan.
ton.street, Haymarket, and that the prisoner was employed b his wife
in the equity of charwoman In that on the. day mentioned the in.
dictment he had occasion to go into the yard, for the purpose of getting
some water, when he discovered a rummer lying among the rubbish;
and having missed a great many, he had the curiosity to see whether or
not it was broken, and found it to be entire ; he marked it, and placed
it again in the position in which he found it, and secreted himself in
the wash-house. In the course of a few minutes the prisoner, who was
about to go on an errand, came into the yard, took up the evrpusdelied,
put it into her apron, and was leaving the house, when be (Cribb) lidd
bold of her by the arm, charged her with the theft, and then gave her
into the custody of an officer.
The prisoner, on being called upon for her defence, admitted the theft,
adding, however, that it was her first offence.
The learned Czainair said he should not trouble the jury by
recapitulating the evidence t and they returned a verdict of guilty.
The COURT sentenced her to be !Ironed for fourteen days longer,
having been In durance since the of August last.
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