Star.
London, England, 1814-10-19 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bow matt. —Yesterday Jesetal Bother, who keeps
an eatinghouse in Chelsea, was brought before Mr.
BiaNIN; the Sitting Magistrate, by Nicholls, charged
with wilfully, maliciously, and feloniously throwing
vitriol, or other destructive liquid, upon the clothes
and pei son of Mrs. Bailey, of Grosvenor-row, Chel-
sea. The prisoner was committed for trial.
Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, a linen-
draper's shop in Piccadilly, near Dover-street, was
broke open by forcing• the fan-light over the shop-
door, which alarmed the shopman, who got up and
found the robber with part of his body in the shop,
and with a hooked stick reaching out some valuable
shawls. He armed himself with a loaded pistol, and
discharged it at the robber, who instantly disappeared.
The shoprnan having procured a light, went to the
outside of the shop door, where he found these was
no doubt be had wounded the robber, whose blood
was traced from the door along Piccadilly, down
Bury-street to Pall-mall, Cockspur-street and the
Strand, to the end of Villiers-street, where all trace
ceased. Application was made to Mr. BI!WIC, at
the above Office, who, conceiving the parish constable
' and beadle of St. Martin's parish the most likely per-
sons to obtain information from the inhabitants of
Villiers-street,'directed young Donaldson to snake in-
quiry with them, when they found that a man who
had been shot in the mouth had been taken yesterday
morning from the neighbourhood of Villiers-street, to
the Westminster Infii 'nary, where lie was languishing
in consequence of the shot not being extracted from
his chin. He proves to be the son of a respectable
publican of the name of &triton, who being infle.
med what had happened, yesterday morning found
his son out at a house of ill fame in the neighbour.
hood of the Strand, and had him conveyed to the
Westminster Infirmary.
HATTON GARDEN.•••••Yesterday two boys of the'
names of Squiggles and Ward, were brought up in the
custody of the two Reads for examination, charged
with- stealing a wacky of wearing apparel, linen,
&c. out of a yard an the rear of the house of.L.Borne,l
in Spa-fields. They were apprehended on the intor-
, mation of a third boy, of the name of Na ppy.
Retard Barra, the keeper of an old clothes shop, in
the vicinity of, Clare-street, Clare-market, was also
brought up, in custody of the above officers, charged
on the information of the other prisoners, with. being
the receiver of all their ill-gotten pelf t the articles
alleged to be stolen by the first mentioned prisoners,
were I.ollio Ort.the premises of the last mentioned pri-
sober, Rebecca Barret, together with an immense
, quantity of different articles of wearing apparel. and
upwards of forty duplicates, for gold rings, silver-
spotins, watches, and other valuable articles. On
searching her premises there was a knapsack found,
suarkcd lath Company of St. James's Volunteers. She

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'analke two boys were remanded to prison for anotheil
examination to-morrow.
GUILDIJALL.-.RETALIATION.YeIIterdity J. Par-
kins, landlord of the Red Cow, in Cow-lane, brought
up a poor cobler, named Crowther, of field-lane, for
having his cobled shoes exposed tor sale on a Sunday.
The offence was proved, and the poor fellow was
fined ss. and 2s. costs, which he had no sooner pail,
than he laid an information against Mr. Parkins, fr r
selling a pint of beer on a Sunday during Ci urch-
time. Parkins finding the man would substantiate
his case on oath, paid his fine of ss. and 2s. costs !
QUEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday the Magistrates of this
Office received a letter from the Rev. J. Preston,
Feashy Shipton, in consegnence of the accounts wh,ch
appeared in the papers of the apprehension of Mar-
sward,. Kidd, a deserter from the 47th regiment, by a
;lila man, at Brenthord, stating, that his parsonage-
house had been broken into in August last, and that
them had been stolen therefrom a quantity of pliite,
Ste. by, as was suspected, this Marti' aditke Kidd. lie
was described, and the man having been sent (.1
from the Savoy, it was found that he answered the
description, particularly in having a wounded band,
which was occasioned by the robbery. The Magis-
trates made out an order to the keeper of the Savoy
to retain Kidd, notwithstanding any adjudication ui
any military commission. Prisoner sent back to the
Savoy.
StiurnwAng SESSlONL—Yesterday the Quarter Ses-
sions were held, when Ihnumond Williams was tried for
stealing a three shilling piece, two tighteen-penny
pieces, and three shillings, the property of Qcorge
Barlow, a sailor, and was sentenced to be transpotted
for seven years.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.