Star.
London, England, 1824-12-29 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
M A INSTgr-TiGUSE.
Ever sinceJelgph Ady, who has been so long,an annoyante at the
Unclaimed Dividend Office in the Rank, sueeeided in quashing the
conviction against him, under the 'Vastest Act, in the Mayoralty of
' Alderman Heygate, be has used the name of that Gentleman in his
communicatinns to all parts of the country, as • sanction to his
trade as a findet of claimant to stock. The repeated complaints
made against this person by poor men who have been inen:ed by
his assurances to come to town from distant parts of the country. in
order to receive money in the Untainted Dividend Office, have
been no check whatever to him, as he writes to Noblemen and
Gentlemen with as little hesitation as he does to :he mechanic
and the labourer.
The following note from Mr. Ady, addressed to the Earl of
Marchmont, Scotland, was received a few days ago
" The undersigned is able to inform you of something, he be-
lieves, considerably to your advantage, on receipt of twenty
shil-
lings for his trouble. - " Respectfully,
" JOSEPH ADY,
" Hatter, 16, Hounsslitch, London.

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" No letters received, unless post-paid.
" Referee, William Heygate, Esq. M.P." •
William Hume Campbell, F.sq. the Gentleman claiming the title
.f Earl of Marchmoat, on receipt of this, applied to Mr. Alderman
Heygate, as to his knowledge of Ady. The Alderman, in conse-
quence, addressed a letter to Mr. nobler, requesting him to make
' the fact public at the Justice-room, that Ady never had the re-
motest authority to use the Aklernian's name.
The Loan Alarms regretted that it was not in his power to act
upon the occasion in any other manner than by publicly reprobating
the liberty which was so impudently taken with Alderman Hey-
gate'; name.
BOW-STREET.
Yesterday, I. 01. cowman, a tailor, was charged with committing a
violent assault ;pet Charlotte Williams, servant of respectable
appearance. 'the complainant stated, ;hat she was passing down
Sc. Martin's-court, about nine o'clock, and accidentally pushed
against the defendant, upon which Chapman immediately seized
her and threw her down, beating her while down, and tearing her
clothes and bonnet to pieces.—The defendant pleaded intoxication.
Sir It. BIRME observed, that the generality of tailors occasioned
him a great deal of trouble, and, to make an example of them, be
ordered the defendant to find bail to answer the charge.
MA RY-L A-BON N E.
Citadel hominy, dressed in the uniform of the HUStai Brigade,
was charged with the following ingenious frauds : A few days
since, be made his appearance at the house of Mr. Severn, at Han-
well, and represented I ' self as a son who bad, about eleven years
before, entered into the misty, but who died in the East Indies,
and his family received at the War-Office his arrears of pay. He
assured them, the account of his death was a fabrication, and wanted
to borrow £2O to buy out of the regiment, in which be said he
held the rank of Troop Serjeant Major ; but he did not succeed,
and was given into custody as an impostor. He had played a simi-
lar trick upon the family of 3lr. Bates, at Acton ; and early in
November he paid a visit to a Alts. Sullivan, of Yeoman's-place,
Rrompton, &el bring himself to be a long lost son, who had, when
a boy, run from home and was never after beard of. He obtained
from her a night's Imigine, and in the morning decamped with a
small gold watch. On the latter charge he was remanded till to-
morrow ; on hearing which, he ('hinted.
UNION-HALL.
Yesterday morning, when the sitting Magistrate, R./. CLARE;
Esq. entered the office, Hall, the Chief Constable, upon present.
ing his daily report, stated particulars relative to a man who is sus-
pected to have been knocked down and robbed. The unfortunate
man now lies in Gay's Hospital, with data head dreadfully frac-
tured, and with scarcely any hopes of recovery. A man (who has
absconded) with whom he had been drinking, is suspected to have
committed a dreadful assault on the poor man.
The Magistrate, on hearing Hall's statement, directed hint to go
down to the Hospital and ascertain whether the injured man was
able to give his deposition ?
The chief constable returned and informed the Magistrate that
Fry was raving mad in consequence of the fracture of his skull, and
that but little hopes were entertained of his recovery.
Hall is now collecting all the information he can with respect to
the manner in which the poor man came by the dreadful injuries.
WORSIIIP-STREKT.
Yesterday, a young man, with his bead bound up, presented
himself before the sitting :Magistrate. Mr. Tweroan, with an ap-
plication for a warrant against John Vann, of the Bow-street pa-
trol, stating, in support of liii application, that :Jun ten o'clock
on Monday night*, he went into the King's Arms public-house, in
Sclater-street' Bethnal-green, to fetch a pint of herr, and as he
stood at the bar to be served, John Vann, of the Bow•street patrol,
and Goodwin, the conductor of a party of the patrol, entered the
house, and drawing their cutlasses, proceeded to flourish them
about at every one they came near ' • and the former gave him a se-
vere cut on the head, without the slightest provocation or a single
word being spoken on his part.
This statement having been confirmed by Thomas Bonney, who
keeps the house in question, the Magistrate ordered Goodwin and
Vann, who were in the neighbourhood, to be sent for.
The complainant, Bonney, the publican, and Irons, a witness,
all concurred in declaring that both Goodwin and Vann were in-
toxicated, and that 11 y, whose head was cut, received his
wound interfering to defend Vann.
Both Vann and Goodwin declared that, although they repeatedly
.called for Bonney, they did not see hint at all during the affray ;
and Richard Vamps and another constable of Bethnal-green deposed
that they saw Vann and Goodwin at 12 o'clock, after the affray, at
which time they were both perfectly sober.
MAGIsTRAYK said, that in his opinion, the officers had had a
very lucky escape. After what he had heard of this affair, he
would not interfere; but would refer the parties to Sir Richard
!bride, at Be.a•-street, who, if they felt themselves sufficiently con-
fident in the jostler of 'their cause to make an apillication to him,
would certainty sift the whole affair to the bottom, and see that
justice was done to all parties.

The Sessions under the Insurrection Act for the
County and City of Limerick stand adjourned to the
:Id Jsnuary. We are glad to find that not a single person
is for ti ial under that Act in either county or city jail.
Thursday evening, Mr. Kiev. performed at the
Glasgow Theatre. Ihe house was exceedingly crooned.
During the performance, a band of miscreants who had
taken their seats in the upper gallery, compelled several
Ladies to retire from the front boxes, by continuing to
throw peas and small pieces of stone from some kind
of machines constructed to give them great force.
One Lady had her hair comb broken by a piece of stone
thrown in this manner.

The Mink of Messrs. PRODDERS, of Ludlow, did not
open on Wednesday. This house drew upon MARSH,
FA U fiTLEROY, and Co. London.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
An experiment was made on Wednesday, at the Dis-
pensary, Chichester, by giving a dog two ounces of
laudanum, and about two hours afterwards extracting
it from his stomach by means of the newly-invented
' pump, which completely succeeded, and the animal is.
perfectly well.
A letter from Irvine states, that the Colliers about
Ayr had struck work. The Carters at Irvine have also
combined to raise the carriage of coals in price. A
few if them, however, refused to join the league, in
consequence of which, the whole of the cirtsbeloniging
to them have been broken to pieces by the others. Short
work, we think, might be made with the perpetrators
of such outrages.
The colliery at Flint still continues burping and on
Sunday week the gob in the Sampson Engine Pit, be-
longing to the Sneyd colliery, at Burslem, took fire, and
communicated to the coals, which continue to burn.

Lately was caught in Loweswater, by Heart' Pratt,
fisherman to Mr. Marshal, (Lord of he Manor), a pike
of the enormous weight of 2911b5. of 16oz. per lb. in
which was found a trout upwards of 31bs. This is the
fourth pike caught in the same lake within the last
twelve months, the aggregate weight of which amount
to 801bs. _ __ _ _ _ _

When Dr. JouNaow was asked his opinion of seduc-
tion, he said it was the greatest injury a man could in-
flict on a woman ; but that if her seducer deserted her,
instead of marrying or providing for her, if it was
his power, it was, nest to murder, themost inhutt to
valainy that could be committed.

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POACREAL
DESPERATE AFFRAY Al Latex Cotner.—About ind
o'clock on Tuesday se'onight, the gamekeepers of P. j,
Miles, Esq. M.P: being on the watch at the Old
Deer Park, perceived two men placing nets, and soon
afterwards three hares were caught. The keepers then
sprang from their ambuscade, and the poachers fled.
Riddle, the head keeper, however, came up with the
poachers, and seized one of them; but at this moment
he received several blows on the head horn the bled.
geon of the other men, and fell to the ground, stunned
and bleeding. The villains continued to beat Riddle,
and would no doubt have murdered him, if the helpers
had not come to his assistaace. One of the pont,'"
made a blow at Riddle's brother, but missed' hirril,upda
which the latter levelled his gun at the poacher, why
seing himself deserted, surrendered. The racher aim
fled was closely pursued, and one of the 14,1ers Nita
snapped his gun at him, but he escaped. The fello*
who was taken is named Man6eld, and be has beer;
committed to Shepton Mallet jail, until the fate of the
keeper (who is dreadfully wounded in the back pan of
his head) is known.
The game preserves of Mr. Ley, at Trehill, nat far
from Exeter, having lately been ravaged by poachers,
the gamekeei er took two of Mr. Let's own labourers to
keep a sharp look•out. While they were thus emplojed
the game war safe; but the gamekeeper being unable
from illness to continue watching himself,left his trusty
companions to perform the duty. One of the Gentle-
man's tenants passing through the preserves at night, to
reach his home by a nearer cat, heard a gun fired, and
having procured assistance, succeeded in apprehending
one of the very men who were employed to guard the
preserve, with several pheasants in his pockets; and
.uspicion falling on the other, they proceeded to his
cottage, and detected him with similar proofs of guilt.

BURGLARIES.--A daring burglary was committed in
the house of Mr. MORTLOCK, boot-maker, Regent.
street, Vauxhall-road, on Sunday evening, when the
robbers entered, and stole twenty-five pair of new boot,,
besides an immense quantity of wearing apparel and
other linens. Another burglary took place on Christ-
mas night, in the house of Mr. WARDELL, No. 28,
Dartmouth-street, Westminster : here the villains broke
open several apartments, and after forcing a number
of locks from drawers and chests, they made their
escape with property of every description, including a
writing-desk, containing trinkets, silver spoons, and a
will relative to considerable property.
POST °MCC ItgouLaasvv—ln the year 1768,
letter was put into the Post Office at Chard, Somerset,
by one Joan Sparkes, addressed to Mrs. Susannah
Toucher, Wine-street, Bath, containing an enclosure of
half a guinea, coined in that year. The usual means
having been resorted to by the Directors of the General
Post Office, to find the-individual to whom the letter
was addressed, it was a few days ago returned to the
Post Office at Chard, to be delivered to Mrs. Abigail
Poole, of Wadford, the sister Mid representative of the
late Joan Sparkes.
The rosary of beads, borne in the hand for religion
purposes, exhibits one of the most ancient and universal
customs of the human race. Such rosaries are found
buried in the catacombs of Egypt. They are still used
by all the Eastern nations, and may be observed among
the natives of the Islands of the Pacific Ocean. Balls
of chalcedony, similarly arranged upon strings, are
brought from India and China,
A grey Phalarope, or Seallap-toed Sandpiper, was
discovered on the 28th ult. by Mr. Reeves, of Taunton,
on the beach at Sidmouth. arly tour are mentioned
as ever having made their appearance in our latitudes.
The bird is now in the possession of a Gentleman of
Taunton, who intends adding it to the collection of the
Taunton and Somerset Institution.

Itudelsheim has ceased to be habitable: the waves of
the dreadful inundation have destroyed the houses en-
tirely, as appears by the Report of the Commissioners
appointed by the Government to examine the spot,
which could not be dune till after a laisse of four weeks,
and after a passage of three-quarters of an hour in
boat. The excess uf the misery uf the wretched inimbit•
ants, who have lost everything, cannot be described.
Waits were originally musical watchmen, the word
implyin oboes. They were minstrels at first annexed
to the King's Court, who sounded the watch every
night, and in towns paraded the streets during winter,
to prevent theft, &c. They were set up with a regular
salary at Exeter in 14.00, and, though suppressed by
the Puritans, were restored in 1660.
When Fenelon was informed of the total destruction
of his books by fire, he tranquilly replied, " I should
have derived no profit from them, had they not taught
me patiently to bear their loss."
The Greenlander); lay a dog's head by the grave of
a child, considering that as a dog can find its way every
where, it will shew the ignorant babe the way to the
land of souls.
In the picture of the death of David Rizzio, origi-
nally exhibited in the Shakspeare Gallery, in which the
terror of the Favourite and the distress of his Royal
Mistress are so admirably pourtrayed by Mr. Om, one
of the assassins, who is in the act of inflicting a deadly
wound ou the unfortunate musician, is a portrait of Dr.
WALCOT (INTIM PIN DAR), for which be sat at his own
Ilexpress desire.

BIRTHS.
Wednesday, at the Vicarage, Sutton as the Forest, the Lady et
the Rev. William Bosch, of a sea.
Friday, at Packingten, Onrentry, the Countess of Ayinterd, oh
a sock and heir.
Dee. 21, at Godard, Lady neap, of a daughter.

MARRIED.
Dec. s 7, Clarks Heard Beatles Isl. loyal tr Wags
eldest daughter of ths hts MOrsetesund Ja•ls Meg% it
India Conspires service.

DIED.
Dec. 14, at his home, Tambora. in tie county of Ilk lb de
Slit year of his age, Captain James Manse, of the Hessen&
East India Company's service.
At Richmond, on Christmas Day, Harriet Mary, Meet en.'
ter of Colonel Carrington Smith.
Within the last sir womb. two its children, at LAMM iR
consequence of haying lahalerl the steam of boiling water from the
spouts of tea-heules which were left as the fire, in the abeam et
their parent..

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