Star.
London, England, 1823-09-23 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Bow_sTaFFT. . .
One JAI Brown, a young man with a light pair of heels, and
brown garments, who described himself as a fiatetan out of place,
Was brought before Sir Itscuartn Meng, from one of the watch-
linitelt, yesterday morning, charged with feloniously depriving one
Ik. Waters of his bat. Before the case was gone into John Brown
isipwd permission to address the Bench, and Sir Tticitann having
anleated, John Brown assured his Worship that Mr. Waters was so
particularly drunk at the time of the allegid.robbery, that he could
neither walk nor run.
That may be," said Sir Rtcsaan, " and it may account for his
being robbed' for I remember a case exactly in point. Sir,' said
a drunken old Gentleman, leaning against a post—' Sir, be so good
as to follow that fellow; he has stolen my hat, and I am so drunk
I cannot follow him!' In that case,' said the person spoken to,
I shall make bold to steal your wig So that you see, John Brown,
your charge of drunkenness makes nothing in your favour."
" I don't know, For the matter of that, your Worship," riTlied'
John Brown, "but I think that a man what couldn't t: ilk, oughtn't
to he allowed to swear to what he :ee'd I"
The Magistrate overruled the objection; and it appeared that
Mr. Waters, having supped with a friend at Westinitibter, wa; re-
turning home between one and two o'clock in the morning, so brim-
full of liqueur that his friend, at parting, said to him, " Flecks,
Waters! you are, my old boy—you arc a walking bumper of brandy
and water!—Go steadily, or you'll spill some of it !" Neverthejzss
Mr. Waters walked as steadily as any Gentleman need to do ; but,
in passing the Admiralty, he gave such a hiccup that his hat fell ofF
his head ; and John Brown, " happening to be handy by," snatclA
it up, and bolted down Buckirgham-court with it ! Mr. Wate's
shouted " Watch! stop, watch'. stop thief ! watch !" with such vi-
gour, that three tullbodied watchmen were in full pursuit b: rc
time; and unlucky John Brown was caught before he could get
into Cockspur-street, having first beep seen to throw the hat into the
porch of Spring-garden Chapel, where it was afterwards found.
John Brown, in his defence, said the whresses bad all contra-
dicted each other. It was a great shame, and a very bad thing for
this country, he said,that almost all the watchmen were Irish, who
would swear anything ; and there never would be any good done
till " those vagabonds" were removed, and their places filled up

with Scotch or Englishmen.
" And pray how did you know that these watchmen were Irish ?"
asked his Worship.
" Oh ! I always know 'em in a minute, by their brogue I" re-
plied John Brown. But, unfortunately fur John Brown's know-
ledge of Irish brogue, one of them happened to be a Scot ; the other
a Yorkshireinan ; and the third, a regular-built cockney I Un-
lucky John Browu, however, stoutly protested his innocence ;
and finding he was not believed, he humbly petitioned to be sent
on hoard a King's ship.
Sir Bynum, observed that this was a strange petition from an
innocent man, and then committed him for trial.
GUILDHALL.

Nebo Alleys, charged with stabbing her husband,* waiter, whose
examination at Guildhall on Saturday we published in our last, Was
again brought up yesterday, when a Surgeon's certificate was handed
to the Magistrate, stating that the poor man was doing well, and the
prisoner was remanded till he shall be sulliciently recovered to at-
tend and give evidence.