Star.
London, England, 1813-08-12 00:00:00

POLICE.

130*-S?REET.-.-Last evening the neighbourhood
East of Covent-garden was kept in a state of riot and
contusion, arising, from a false report being raised,
-waiter the following circumstances :—A • woma'
med Carrol, was brought to the Office, cl.arge t
'[ll interrupting a broker, who was employed to
Amin her goods, in a home in Swan-yard, of whit,ll
ihe had improperly got possession. The house be.
'longs to a Mts. Solamons, who resides in White-hart.
yard, and who employed Carrol to clean it, it being
unoccupied ; instead of.which she removed het goods
and children in, and took possession of it. Mrs. &
refused to acknowledge her as a tenant, and Mrs. C.
refused to quit the premises. After a full investiga.
tion before Mr. BAKER, the sitting Magistrate, it watt
agreed to give up all claim for rent, providing Mrs.
Carrol would leave the home. This she ~greed to;
but afterwards abused her foully, and said, when the
lived with Mrs. S. four months ago, she ( Mrs. S.)
knocked a man down, who frequented her house, and
had murdered him with a quart bottle, and that the
body was either buried in her cellar or the privy. She
continued to .circulate this report in the neighbour.
hood, which drew a considerable crowd of people
about the house, who were about to demolish it, and
threatened vengeance on the person of Mrs.
Clark, the parish constable, soon arrived, but was on.
able to disperse them. He then procured the assist-
ance of a party of the.patrole belonging to the Office,
who had no better success; on the contrary, the mob
continued to increase, and insisted on Mrs. Solomon",
being brought to punishment ; until, under ill the
circumstances, it was thought right that she should
surrender herself, which she accordingly did. In the
evening she underwent an examination before Mr.
BARER, and Mrs. Carrol was, brought forweltd to sub.
stantiate her charge, but in which she totally
The Magistrate, in consequence, ordered her into tits.
tody for raising the riot; and she was committed for
want of sureties.—The mob did not disperse till near
nine o'clock.

Harrort-Gattbm—Yesterday a decently dressed
woman was fully committed, shargeawith going into
the shop of Mr. Gresn..shoemaker, ire Ray-street,
Clerkenwell, on Monday, under pretence of purchasing
a' pair of child's shoes, when she stole three pair of
men's, and one pair of women's shoes.
. UNION-HALL.-1l! Swift, a manufacturer of fire-
works in Falcon-court, was summoned before the
sitting Magistrate, and fineti .165 and costs, under the
Act, for selling fireworks of different sorts, such
traffic being illegal. At the time the information
was laid, Goff, the officer; also seized.ktonsiderible
quantity of •firevarsks.(exceeding .Bcwt.), .which he
found in the defendant's house. Conceising the pro.
fesSicrn in which the defendant was engaged, and, his
keeping.sa large a quantity of inflammable materials •
in his house, to be illegal; and a Matter of serious
portince to the ptiblie.itiasmitch is the safety of the
whole of that .populiiits neighbourhood was. endan-
gered by it, Goff very laudably, and at his own risk
and expense, preferred. a bill of indictment
_against
Swift, at the Sessions,' for a nuisance. The Grand
Jury found a true hill, declaring at the same time,
that it was not only a nuirance, but-a moat dangerous
one. The matter, therefore, stands for trial at the
ensuing Sessions,

Thursday, Mary Chamberlain,
.convicted at the
late Portsmouth Sessions of f4tune-telling, which
pretended art she made subseryieo to the more bass
crime of betraying a, servant girl to the arms of a
miscreant seducer, stood in the pillory, for one hour,
at the Unicorn-gate, Portsea, opposite to the place
which has been defiled by her residence. The popu-
lace were numerous, and they liberally skewed their
indignation at the wretch, by throwing Mud, rotten
eggs, filth, &c. at her. She was aftervards re-con.
ducted to the gaol, for the remainder of her punish.
ment. The poor ignorant girl has been admitted into
a Female Penitentiary near London.
An Inquest was held at the Marlborough Head,
Great Marlborough-street, on Saturday, on the body
of a working man, who fell down in an apoplectic fit.
Monday, an Inquest was also held at the Noah's Ark,
George's-court, Oxford-street, on the body of —\
Lingham, a higler, who was found dead in the street
by a watchman.—Verdict, in both instances—Died
by the visitation of GOD.