Star.
London, England, 1812-01-07 00:00:00

DEAL, JANUARY 6.

Arrived his Majesty's ships BELLEROPHON and
ELEPHANT from off Flushing, and the Mitiorroziss
frigate from the Riven—Wind N.W.

YARMOUTH, JANUARY 6.
The ETIIALION frigate (mentioned yesterday) pro.
ceeded with her convoy, consisting of several sail of
ships from the Baltic, for the ports to the westward.—
Sailed the DARING and SNIPE gun-brigs, and the
PROVIDENCE armed ship.—The SOLESAY, BANTERER.
and.Guteere remain.—Wind W.N.W,
LEITH, JANUARY 4.
Arrived the EGERIA sloop of war, Captain Har.4
bringing in the privateer mentioned in our last to be
on our coast. She proves to be the Alvan-, 14 guns
and 38 men, out three weeks from Bergen, without
making a single capture. —A line of battle ship is
now working into the Roads, st.pposed to be the
ZcaLous, from the Nore, with French prisoners of
war.—The Renown, from Bristol, with tr." arrived
yesterday in the Roads.

TOE LATE MURbERS.—SOADWELL POLICE OCFICt.
—With a view to identify the articles found in the
privy of Mrs. Vermilloe's house, with the suicide
Williams, the Magistrates ordered Mrs. Vermilloe,
John Harrison the sail-maker, and Margaret Jewel,
the servant of the late Mr. Mart, to attend yesterday,
and give such information touching them, as lay
within their knowledge.
Mrs. Veen:Noe stated, that' she had often seen
tray..sers of the description .produced
-before the Ma..
histrates, but she could not pretend to say that she
ad ever before seen the identical pair in question._
Sailors in coming from the East Indies, used to wear
such trowsers on board ship, and they generally had
them on when first landing; but she thought they
were too shabby for Williams to have worn when on
shore. He was always very smart in his dreis, but
particularly so when in the house.
John Harrison said, he had frequently seen the
trowsers throwing about the lumber-ro, In in the Pear-
' tree public-house, where seamen, on landing, used to
throw off their sra apparel, deposit their chests, and
other lumber. He could nnt, however, undertake to
say that he had ever seen them worn by
He might have worn them, but he had never seen
them upon him.
Margaret Je4vell said, she knew nothing of the
scissars pi-educed. Iler late mistress had always need
a much larger kind ; and had she ever had those in
question, she certainly must have observed dons; and
with respect to the part of the hussif keimilolhe pro.
fesscd equal ignorance. . •• .

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POLICE.

14.Asstott-Rotrae.—Yesterday, Charlotte lifognay, the
person.fr9m Gosport in %those possession the stolen
child, young Dellow, had been found, was again
IF examined.

:The substance pf the late evidence against her
brig g read, the Lnan MAYVB, after some comments
ors tie nature cf the offence, told the woman, that
she evidence against her was not sufficient to sustain
fle charge of felony ; but she was held to hail to
t ike her trial at'the approaching Sessions for the mis-
demeanour.

An elderly matron present, whose name we could
not learn, but who seemed to be a friend of Mrs.
Russell, who was fotmotly tried for this offence and'
::quitted, remonstrated with some energy on the
hardships if Mrs. Russell's case—the sevete injuries
her character and fe'elings had sustained, by her pub-
lic and repeated exposure, by her imprisonment, by
her le pealed danger of hei.ig torn to pieces by the
molt ; and by 1... r being brought forward, at consi-
derable expence, awl the risk , f her liberty and life,
to he tried as a criminal at the Old Bailey,—upon
which, however, she had the good fortune to be ac-
quitted. The advocatrix desired to know, vyhether
-Alm Russell w, to have any compensation or satis-
faction for the injury' she had sustained ?
'rile Luau Mon expressed hit regret that Mrs.
Russell, or any innocent person, should be exposed
to injury or inconvenience on account of an unfoun-
-0 charge; but such had been frequently, and might
t ftin unavoidably be, the case of many innocent in-
dividuals, where striking similitude of person, and
the positive (though erroneous) testimony of wit-
mess( s, combined to fix upon them so strong a susei-
cion of guilt. The witnesses in Mrs. Russel's case
had sworn strongly and positively to the identity of
h r person ; ,and the corroberattng circumstances
t weighed so forably against her, that he felt it indis-
p usable to commit her for trial. He had much sa-
tisfaction, however, that she was acquitted, as it now
appeared by indubitable facts, which could not have
bratir known at the time, but which proved her per-
fectly innocent cf the charge.
hour men, named Primdry, Robinson, Price, and
6oulding, were charg,el with breaking and entering
the vautts of Messrs. Ingall and Mann, in Queen's-
street, wine-merchants-
' S,me of the gentlemen of Tower Ward having
entered into an a.sociation to parole the streets, in
order nu re effectu.:lly to detect nightly depredators,
Gh Satard ty night eight set out, four of toem going
one way, at..d tour another ; when Messrs. Barnes,
White, Smith, and Tentpland heard some voices ap-
proaching, on which they stood up in a passage un-
observed, and soon saw four men of a suspicious ap-
pearance; in consequence of which they followed
them until they saw them enter a house, No. 15,
11/files's-lane, Cannowstreet, kept by one Johnson, a
cook. Shortly after the four men entered this house,
Cie gentlemen heard the noise of bottles being broke
i i the cellar. Robinson then left the house, and was
t tken into custody by the party, and carried back
to the place. After being joined by others, they
proceeded to search the house. On the first floor,
they found one Hill and his wife in bed, and were
told there were no others there ; but when they were
leaving the loom, Mrs. Hill pulled one of the gentle-
men by the coat, and whispered, that there was a
man in the room who did not belong to the house.
The gentlemen then took the man (Priestley) into
custody. They then proceeded up stairs, and in the
garret they found two men in bed, who seemed as if
awakened from a sound sleep ; but upon searching
-the room strictly their clothes were found wet, and
their shoes soiled with flesh mud. Ta the cellar a
-number of broken wine bottles wcte found, and some
of the wine spilt. The seals on the corks of the bot-
- ties which were found broken corresponded wilt the
seal used by Messrs. Ingall and Mann, in whose
.vault were found crows and other implements for
'house-breaking, together with several bladders for
taking away the wine. Near one binn 18 empty wine
hottlesvvere found, which corresponded with the num-
ber missed from an adjoining binn. From another binn ,
15 bottles had been taken. In the house in Miles's.;
-lane, under the chair in which Robinson sat, the
tentlenien found two empty bladders.
The prisoners said they had been out all night,
having been drinking ; and that they went into this
house in the morning to get some soup. They were
remanded. ,
Bow-seem.—Yesterday Lavender apprehended
another man, charged with being concerned in the
mal-practices at the Admiralty, and took him to the
public-office, Bow.street, where he underwent a long
rivate examination before Mr. Read and Mr. Gra-
ham, the Magistrates; Mr. Croker, and Mr. Bicknel,
.the Sqlieiter to the Admiralty.
Isliettitiottoeurresenerr.— Yesterday a Mr. Thomas,
a law-student, was held tri bail for en assault on Col.
Wetn.yse. It appeared the defendant had, by mistake,
an aft *mimes mood, knocked at the door of a house
in Itueliellteluare, after I'2 o'clock on Sunday night,
and on it being opened be was had into a parlour,
where the Colonel was spending the evening with a
Party. An alteration ensued, and the defendant was
.conveyed tb the watch-house, at which place he struck
the Colonel in the mouth.
J. White was charged with uttering a £5 forged
note, at a public-house in Windmill-street, and re-
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mended for another examination.
Messrs. Hunt and Sons,
card-makers, in Morti-
mer-street, charged several labourei s in their employ,
with conspiring together to prevent their work being
done ; when order was re-established by committing
the rerglea.der.