Star.
London, England, 1802-04-15 00:00:00

POLICA, fie.

WHITECHAPEL.—Tuefday a cafe was bpened be
fore the Magi lirates, wherein their officers charged
a man and his wife with making a great difplay
of Bank notes, at feveral ;hops in the vicinity of
Whit echapel, beyond their appearance in life, up-
hich they were apprehended. Soon after a
Gentleman gave notice to the different offices,
that on the preceding day, going along Tooley-
it reet, in the Borough, he loft his pocket-book, con-
taining bank notes and bills of exchange to nearly
the amount of I Scol.

It was proved in evidence, that this man and
his wife went to a shop, to make fome purchafes
of a trifling nature, and offered a 251. note, which
they fuppoied only to be a sos. note ; on this the
officers apprehended them, with the property of
2;ool. upon them, but the deficiency could not be
traced out. The man being called upon to ac-
count for the polfellion of 11) large a property, re-
lated, that as be was dragging a truck after him
along the Street, he found a pocket book, lying
open on the ground, which a boy was pooping for,
but which he took up firft, and went on ; that af-
ter he had come home he filmed it to his wife, but
neither of them being able to read, he (hewed it
to another woman, who recommended a third.—
During the time of looking over the notes, 3001.
were Paid to be loft, but it was fortunate that, t sod.
was fecurcd by the officers. As there was no ant
of felony proved again( the man he was difcharg-
ed, but liable to a civil salon.
SnADWLLL.—Yefterday Thomas Chambers, a
rude mendicant, about thirty years of age, was
brought to this offiee, on fufpicion of felony.
It was depofed by Mar7,aret and Mary Brown
that they fulpeacd the pnfoner had Stolen a pair
of Sheets and other articles from his ready fitrnifh-
ed lodging. On fearching the prifoner, upwards
of tool. in Silver and penny-pieces, weighing nearly
forty pounds, were found on him, Sewed in various
parcels, and concealed in his ragged clothes. He
appeared to be indifferent about the charge again(
him. He was, however, committed for re-exami-
nation.

Ephraim Jacobs. al'as Black Effey, underwent
examination, charged on fufpicion of having fold
a great quantity of counterfeit guineas and (even
Milling pieces, at a lower rate and value than their
denomination imports.
Simon Doyle alto underwent examination on a
fimilar charge. They were both committed for
re-examination, when the Solicitor of the Mint
will attend.

Daniel Granger was committed, charged on
fufpicion of robbing a tailor of bank notes, to the
amount of 151. in a honk of ill fame.

MAIL Roa Blt y.—ln the cafe of John Nutchcr,
tried and convided at the laft Affixes at Lancafter,
for the robbery of the IVigan Mail, the circum-
fiances of a fad which occurred fevcral years ago
arc fo extraordinary As to be worthy of particular
detail. The prifoner, who lived with hi; father,
on going out to rob the mail, took o iii him a
(word belonging to an officer who then lodged in
the I.r.tife. On attacking the poft-bny, a flruggle
enfued h:twecn them, in which the fword was
drassn from the fcabbard, and Nutcher, in his
hurry to fini(h the bufinefs, and carry home the
bags, inadvertently left the fcabbard behind him,
which was fccured and taken to the Poll Office.—
This eiictimaarce occurred to him on his return
home, at.d of ccurfe he was very much alarmed,
as the officer to whom the fword belonged was ex.
peeled home in a few days; and on his miffing the
lcaLhaid, he might make enquiries which would
lead to very difligrecable confequences. In this
dilemma, Nutcher applied to a friend of his, an
ingenious mechanic at Wigan, to whom he con-
fided the whole affair, ar.d intreatcd his Alliance.
This friend, after much hefitation, promifed his
Alliance and fecrcry, but exprefsly on condition
that he previoufly rettored the • sole of the letters
and property taken from the po.t-boy, which was
accordingly done without delay, by throwing the
bags in the Poft Office. He alto referved to him-
felf a right of publaing the whole tranfaition in
cafe Nutcher fhould at any time in future be guilty
of a fimilar crime, or any other flagrant breach
of the laws of his country. Having made thefe
flipulations, the artift went to the Poll Office, ob-
tained a fight of the fcabbard in queftion, and in
a very fhort time completed another fo exaftly like
it, that neither the officer on his return, nor his
servant (though the latter had occafion to clean
the new fcabbard feveral timepftrwards) had the
lean fufpicion of any changeltAng taken place.
The matter thus remained entirely concealed; and
about a year or two from this time Nutcher mar-
ried ; &only after which, his mother, in a mo-
ment of confidence, communicated he circum-
fiances refpelting the robbery to his wife. She not
living very happily with her hufband, ott occafion
of a quarrel which happened between them, threat-
ened, in her anger, to divulge the affair to the
Magiftrates. After this, Nutcher became extreme-
lyuneafy, and having, it is faid, made fome vio-
lent attempts on his wife, which threatened her
life, le made a public difclofure of the tranfa&Ont
above related, in confequevce of which he was
brought to trial. The ingenious artift above men-
tioned was, of courfe, fummoned to appear againft
him, and his humane, honctt. and dignified con-
aus in the bufinefs, was warmly admired by the
Court. Nutcher was of courfe cony iited, and will
be executed in a few days.

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FE. MALI MONSTER.—A yowls woman and her
only child, aged nine months, were palfengers in
the Swaffham waggon to London ; when they
arrived lafi Friday at Littlebury, the inhuman
mother privately eloped from the little innocent,
during its unfulpeeling fleep, leaving its future
want,' and cares to the *furprifed and enraged
waggoner !

ExEcurioris.—Wednefday fennight was exe-
cuted at Nottingham, purfoant to his ientence at
the lit affixes, km highway robbery, Ferdinand()
Davis. He met his fate with uncommon fortitude
and jefignation ; and (ince his condemnation Jill
clofed matly circuniaances which fully evinced the
incaity of hi:. repentance.

Weduefday fe'nnigbt Geo. ',Wray, lately con-
demned by the High Court of Julliciary, for the
murder of John Allan, a dragoon (as formerly
mentioned), was executed at the ufual place of ex-
ecution, Edinburgh.
On Saturday fe'nnight William Wright and
John Bullock were executed at Cambridge, purfu-
ant to their fentence, for uttering as true forged
Bank of England notes. They were both penitent,
and met their fate with becoming refignation.—
Bullock was the bon of a perfon of confiderable
property in Bedfordfliire. By the death of a rela•
tion fince his apprehenfion, he came into poffellion
of an eftate of nearly 4001. per annum. Wright
was an inhabitant of Foxton, in Lincolnfliire.

Same day John Coats, for horfe•ilealing, and
David Ventrief, for thee') healing, were executed
at Huntingdon; they evinced great contrition for
their crimes.

On Saturday morning F. Jones, W. Hooper,
and W. Thomas, for boric fleabag, and S. Young,
for a burglary, were executed in front of Shrcwf-
`bury county, gaol, according to their fentence at
the affixes.

J. Manning, who received fentence of death at
the LA affixes for the county of Warwick, for a
burglary at Meriden, and who was ordered to be
executed on Monday next, is refpited during his
Majefty's pleafure.

On Thurfday a fire happened at Bottifham in li
Cambridgefhire, on the premifes of Mr. Flack, a
blackfniiih, which confumed the dwelling houl,
barns, (tables, and out houfes.
On Wednefday fe'nnight a fire broke out at
Hilton, in Cambridgefhire, which confumed the
dwelling houfe and barn of a Mr. Winders, car-
penter.
Tuefday fe'nnight, about half paft one o'clock
in Ca.: morning, a fire broke out at a houfe in Ivy:
lane, Canterbury, ufed as an office by the contrac-
torsfor the army forage, but through a Providen-
tial timely difcovery was happily got under with-
out
doing very material damage.
Sunday night a fire broke nut at a faftory in
Whitechapel, which at firft burnt with confider
able fury, but was fortunately extinguithed in about
half an hour, after having done confidetable da-
&sage to the premifes.
A young gentleman at Doneafter, on Sunday fe'n-
night, fell afleep while reading in bed ; the cur-
tains caught fire, and the bed-head, floor, &c. were
in flames when lie awoke ; his face, neck, &c. are
horridly burnt.
The American papers Hate, that the College of
New Jerfey was burnt to allies on the 6th of
March : and as nothing can be allowed to happen'
by accident in the United States, the misfortune is
afcribed to ,s fome wicked incendiary."
One of thole fires which are fo common in Con-
ftantinople, lately confumed about two thoufand
houfes in that city. It happened in a quarter of
the town that was principally inhabited by mer-
chants, and deftroyed property to the amount of
fome millions.

A riot of a ferious nature happened at Port
Glalgow, on the evening of Monday the s9th ult.
an attack wls made on the Tolbooth and Guard.
houfe a number of diforderly women, aided by
a Otit-.11;:er of tailors and trades.people; who were
goaded oa to it. Their object was to liberate two
deferters from the Driver hoop of war in Leith
roads, fecured in con;lluence of a printed informa-
tion from the Captain of the Driver; and they
had aCtually begun to demolifh the prifon by
means of firing a cannon, and ufing (pars and lad-
ders to force both tides of the prifon, when the
Chief Magiarate, aided by a few volunteers, in.
terfered, and luckily fucceeded in difperfing them.
One of the female ring-leaders was afterwards
polled in the jugs, and feveral others of both
texes have fince been punifhed by fine and impri-
fonment for this daring outrage. A company of
the Glengary Fencibles have fince arrived there, to
allill in prefers'ing peace.
On the afternoon of Wednefday fe'nnight, about
four o'clock, a negro boy, who lately came to Port
Glafgow from Tobago, and an Englifli boy from
Grenada, had gone out with mulkets to !hoot at
birds, and returning by the Clune Brae, were met
by a carrier, who had a calk of whilky, which was
leaking, and the carrier having promifed them
Come of the contents if they would ant him in
turning it in his cart, they both Allied in putting
the calk into a fecure prifition, and the negro hav-
ing a gimblet, was permitted to pierce the calk,
and, by means of a ftraw tube, fucked out fo
much liquor that he was intoxicated : after going
into the houfe of a Mrs. Pitfield, in the Old Bay,
and eating-tome dinner,they (allied out with their
pieces both loaded, but only with powder. The
white boy fired off his piece againft the wall, and
tome of the wadding recoiled, and (truck the ne-
gro nightly on the head. The fellow being infu-
riated with whale'', and imagining that the boy
intended to hurt him, inflantly took up a handful
of (mall gravel hones, and put them into his gun,
(wearing a dreadful oath that he would (hoot the
boy ; and having aimed his piece and (napped
twice at him, the boy became alarmed, and was
making off ; but the negro, by means of a (lone,
fharpened the flint, and prefenting a third time,
the boy, then only eight or ten yards diftant, the
mulcinet went off, and the contents lodged in the
boy's back and fide, having made 18 or 20 deep
wounds ; and it has defied the power of furgeons
to get any of the hones extracted. The boy
now lies dangeroufly ill, add the negro is fecured
in jail.
ENGLISH STATE LOTTERY. Thirty.nintli
I) iy.—The following Numbers were drawn Prizes:
N0..0,318, a Prize of so,oool. No. 4126, a Prize
of tool. Nos. 36,347, 53,538, Prizes of 501.
No 48,318, a Pt ize of Twenty Thoufand pounds,
the thirty-ninth day of Drawing, was fold in a
whole Ticket and regiftered by RICHARDSON,
CoonLocx, and Co, on the 29th of March laft,
who have all() told, in the prefent;Lottery No.
411,752, a Prix,. of Twenty Thoufand pounds, in
two fourth, two eighth, and four fixteenth (hares.
No. 39,471, a prize of scool.—No. 36,058, wool.
NO. 2361, 50c1.—and No. 34,914, pool. all in this
Lottery, have likewife been fold by RiCHARDSON,
GOUDLucK, and Co.