Star.
London, England, 1801-01-30 00:00:00

.COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, lAN. sq.

This day the Court met, bnt owing to fonsi
mifunderflanding abe^t feveral motions which
wire to have been confiJered, bloke up without
doing any bufinefs of the fmallea public interea.

PoL.IcE, &c.
Bow-Srarrr.—Yesterday Sammel Merryfielat,l
.706 n Pallet, and Ann Carter, othetwife Athvarth,
otherwife Stalk, were brought before T. Rost a-
sox, Efq. by Townfnd, one of the Bow-ftreet
patroles, who apprehended them on fufpicion of
having flolen and killed a number of dogs.
s From the teftimonyof Townfend it apnared,
that on Wednefday evening, in confequence of a
private information he had received, he went to
the prifoner Carter', houfc, in Bennet's-row, Black-1
friars-read, which confab only of two rooms,
Where he found, in the,back room, the carcafe of a
dog, apparently juft fkinncd. On ripping up the
floor Of both rooms, he difeovered a number of
dogs carafes, without their &ins, buried there;
in the heufe, a hammer, knife, &c. stied in killing
them, and two fmall bitches of the terrier kind ;
alive; that while they were there, the prifoners 1
JWcrryfield and Pallet came in to enquire for Carter,
and having reafon to believe they were concerned
is the buttnefs, Pallet being father to the boy ap-
prehended at the other houfe where the dead dogs
were found, wharfs took them into cullody.—
The two terrier bitches were produced ; but it is
frtppoied they were ufed for the purpofe of (e-
-ducing dogs to follow them, by being rubbed with
a certain preparation. A woman who lived near
the houfe, declared the had teen dogs follow them
home, and immediately after heard them killed.
The pilfoner Carter had a young child in her
arms, the father of which, fhe fitid, was the pri-
foner Nerrlyield, though the at prefent cohabits
with another man.
AferrrAdd, *a his defence, raid, that be went to
fetch the child away from her, and that Pallet
went with him.
Their account of their way of living not being
by any means fatisfaflory, they were committed
for further examination. •
MANSIONII.OOIII.-Arefierdß, Roi. nottutt, drift'?
Of a cart, Was examined before the Lord Mayor,
charged on fidpicion that he had wantonly driven
his cart over a man, on Wednefday evening, in
Lower Thames-beet, who, in confequence of the
hntifes he received, was immediately taken to
Guy's Hospital, where he died of his bruifcs.—
The priToner was committed to the Poultry Comp-
ter until the Coroner's Jury (hall return a verdia.
Got LDHALt..—Wednefday Stephen Caen was co-
ntained a fecond time, being charged on the oath
of Mr. Roberts, with frequently coming to his
houfe in St. Paul's Church-yard, calling for liquor,
and paying for the fame in counterfeit filver ;
upon the eleareft evidence, he was fully commit-
ted for trial.
jay, Mallsip and Joke Tab the olde ft net
twelve years of age, were fewei;llly charged on
furpicion of having committed a burglary in the
Shop of Mr. Mnggndge, thoemaker, in Thet.firret,
by cutting a (quart of glafs of the (hop window,
and Reeling thereout a pair of (hoes, which were
taken upon them, and (worn to by Mr. Mog-
gridge ; they were fully committed for Dial.
Yefterday Elt•nalktb Prefer was charged by Ni.
Valentine, thoemaker, in Roend-court, St.
Martin's le Grand, with goinr: privately up
and (leafing a variety civet-a-ring-apparel and bed-
firniture, ttle of which the pledged, which were
produced by the pawnbroker, and identified by
Mr. Valentine. She was fully committed for trial.
7ein Ilorrir was charged by Mr. O. Silcock, of
the Bolt-in-Tun inn, in Fleet-fireet, with picking his
porket a (ilk handkerchief, the corner of-Ser-
jeants Inn, Pleet.ftree, on Tuefday night bill He
was fully committed (or trial. .
Ussom-liatt.—Wedoefday jrchn Mikhail!, a
waterman, was examin .d on the charge of Mr.
Dutton, rocaboan, in Hurfrlvdovrn. with robbing
his srarrhouie of a fact of ilonr, in conjunaine
with S.siss.l Doom Harris, before committed for
the Art'. offet.cti ht was folly couunatc4 for trial..