Star.
London, England, 1802-10-02 00:00:00

POLICE• &e.

GMLDHALL..—Yellerday three very young girls,
apparently not more than fixteen years of age
each, were charged by a man, named Smith, who
defcribed himfelf as a taylor, refiding in Surrey-
toad, near BlackfTiars, with having robbed him of
ft variety of articles of wearing apparel. This man
Rated that the girls came to his houfe about fix
weeks fince, and two of them engaged to lodge
and hoard with him ; they flopped with him, as
he Paid, about a fortnight, when they took an op-
portunity, while himfelf ancLhis wife were abfent,
to decamp, taking with them the articles which
he had enumerated. At this time they owed him
above (even pounds. When the bufinefs came to
be invefligated, it appeared that this man kept
what are called &eft ledgers, and that he had pro-
enred thefe poor gills to officiate in that capacity ;
they were in the nightly habit of earning money
by proftitution, and the whole of what they got
they were obliged to give him. They faid that
fometimes they gave him three or four guineas of
a night. One of them Rated that fhe had been
advifed to follow this unfortunate way of life
through the perfttafion of his wife. The Magi 'rate
afked him what had been found in tbe polfellion of
thefe gills when they were 'apprehended ? He
then produced an old velvet bonnet, which, he Paid,
he could favear to ; this, however, the girl raid,
bad been given her by his wife, and which he well
knew. The man could not deny tr. The Ma-
giftrate fitid his conduit was infamous in the
bigheil degree ; he lamented that he did not live
within the jurifdiftion of the City, as in that cafe
he would molt certainly have committed him. He
then gave fume excellent advice to the poor girls
as to their future mode of life, and laid he hoped
that they would purfue the means of obtaining an
hone' livelihood : as the charge had not been fub-
fiantiated, he would difcharge them. They were
then difmilfed.

MANSION Hoy s —l.lrefierdny a hackney:coach-
/ man was charged by a Gentleman with refuting
to drive him. a hulling fare, which the gentleman
put in his own power to go as far as he convenient-
ly could go for a ihiiling, but Jarvis ob(linatcly
refuted to take him at ail„\ nnlefs the gentleman
would name the place. The,Loan Maros( repro-
bated his conduct, and fined him in the mitigated
penalty of ics. and the expences.
WORSHIP STK —Yefterday a man of the
name of Chid was charged upon oath with (top-
ping a man a few nights fence, in Ilethnal Green-
road, and taking from his perfon two cod fish and
a gold ring ftom his finger. He was committed
fur trial.

Seven men, charged with being part of a gang
of bu:l,:ck hunters, were ft;v:rally convicted agree-
ably to Act of Parliament.
The ynong woman who Rood charged of
haviNg (Wen a chilJ from its mother, and who
was appt2ll:ndt:d a firer days flue, in Kingfland-
road, with the child in, her arms, was finally ex-
amined, and committed for trial, for (killing the
clothes.

Yeac:rday the LORD MAYOR went to the Court
Houfc, at St. Nfargaret',;-Hill, in the Bcrough,
he'opened the Section for Southwark, at
w:lich no burinefs of any confequence occurred.
ROAD:, —ID a carafe tried at the WI Lancatter
*lilies, ROAD:.
v. Wilton, Mr. Jutlice CHAtit-
hr.F, in fumming up to the Jury, Paid, that an
uunaerrupted ufige of a road for upwards of 20
years, was in law a fufficient ground for a Jury
to prefume a grant from, and that it did not fig-
slily whether a grant was rroJucedibefore.them or

nor, if they rere fatisGed that there had 6-en filth
uninterrupted ufage of the road in qucaion for
upwarlis of zo years.

Saturday ha five p:rfons belonging to the parith
of Box, were brought before Tit ()rims Bu R G Efq.
one of his Majefly's Jullices of the Peace, at Melk-
tham, for infuiting and diflurbing the Rev. Geo.
Bouriter aiid.;a,congregation of Protetlant Ditren-
tersodifernbled for religious worrhip at Middle hill,
in that parilh : upon promiting never to be guilty
of thinlike condua in future, they were forgiven
and lititated.
Mon4y left Eilquird Allen and C14.-les Riley,
two yotooks about fifteen years of age, were taken
up and :lodged in prifon, at Birmingham, charged
with piolag the pocket of a farmer, in the market,
of his pain:at-book, containing a Bank of England
five potibili Find fmall country notes, to a confi-
derabk%ninitht. Fortunately for the owner, nearly
the whole efthe property (upwards of 6o1.) was
recovered.' •"' • * .

On Tuefday, the following perfcars were com-
mitted to Warwick Goal clutrged with dealing in
forged •Bank of England notes, &c. Vontas Mor-
Iy, alias HirW.alianiiiacekr, alias Old Tor:, alias
Loa: Tom, *has, Oki ifoi,"*.alias Thoiapfon ; William
Gosinger, alias Lapp+, and Mary Lanpidge.
Sunday4ght about eight o'clock, as Mr.
J. Boulter,dturrier,.o4Brillol, was returning home
froth Marktirteir, he was knocked off his bode by
a footpad;o/FeeyntliA-lien, between Burnet and
Keynlham, and robbed of nine guineas and 2s.
On Monday night, between five and fix o'clock,
a lad, who was conveying two one-pound notes
from his matter to a houfe in Camomile-Ilreet, Bi-
Ihopfgate lireet, was flopped by a thief, who at•
tempted to rob him of the notes ; in the attempt
the notes were torn. A perfon accidentally palling
at the time, and feting the tranfaaion, feized the
villain, who laid he did not mean to rob the lad,
but if the ftranger would accompany him to his
mailer's honk, he would give the lad 21. in lieu of
the torn notes ; upon this the credulous man, with
another rerfon, went with him to Stiff-alley,
Houndfditch, when the viilain drew a knife from
his pocket, with which be (tabbed them, one in
the back, and the other in the face, and made his
efcape.
Lail week the levant of Mr. Stapleton at a vit.
(age near Sittingt•urne in Kent, being left alone
in the houfe, the family having gone on a vifit to
a friend's houfe, in the Ifle of Sheppy, was waked
about twelve o'clock at night by the noire of
thieves breaking into the houfe. Shc immediately
arofe, and going to the window, difcovered two
men endeavouring to force the window fhutters
of the ground floor: the called out to them, and
aflred what they wanted ? They replied, they
knew the family was from home, and intlited on
having whatever plate and valuables her mallet-
was poffeffed of," adding, " that if the made a
no:fe, they would h',ow her brains out." She
told them there was no occafion to threaten her,
for the had long determined on revenging herfelf
on her mailer, and that if they would wait, the
would throw the plate out of the window to them.
In a few minutes the appeared at the window with
a filver tankard, which the had in the interval
nearly filled with aqua fortis belonging to her
matter; the defired them both to (land direelly
underneath the window, and endeavour to catch
it, as it was full of-dollars and curious pieces her
matter had colleEted. The thieves put themfelves
in the attitude to receive the prize, when the
emptied the contents full in their faces. The
agony the poor wretches were inttantly thrown
into can only be conceived by thole .who are ac-
quainted with the effeas of this burning liquid.
They bellowed out revenge, fwearing with dread-
fill imprecations as they went away. they would
return and let fire to the bottle. The girl, how-
ever, followed up this firatagem by al.arming her
neighbours, Come of whom kept watch during the
remainder of the night, but law no more of the
robbers or their companions; nor have they find
been traced or heard of.

A fcene of very great ditly!fs was laa week wit-
nelli4 in the family of Mr. I.Loyn, an eminent
Clothier, cf they, Gloucclterfhire : his three chil
dren were ill.of a fever ; on Toefday, the eldeil,
aged eight years, died in confequenee ; on Wed-
nefday, the fecond, aged fix, alio died ; and in a
few hours after, the young:a, aged about two.

On Saturdzy kit as Mrs. Wateis, of Wick near
Worcelter, was procuring Ibm'e water for her
cows, from the river Teme adjoining, the unfor-
tunately fell in and was drowned. When taken
up, the was in the potture of holding her hat with
her hand.

On Monday a farmer's man near Windmill
Common, at Hallow, within two miles of Wor.
cefter, was Co violently kicked by a horfe, that he
died a fhort time after.

A few days fince, a young child having been
imprudently left by the mother in a corn-field, in
Markeatod, near Derby, where the was gleaning,
was accidentally run over by a waggon, and un-
fortunately killed.
The Coroner's inqueft was taken on Wednefday
on the body of a woman, who was found dead in
her room. in the Racquery, Eticlaireet, Britiol,
on Monday morning. It was reported that the
had died in confequence of blows received in a
quarrel with her daughter, on Monday night;
but on diffeetion of the body, her.death appeared
to have been occafioned by the irritation conk.
qu•lit on a violent fit of paffion. The Jury,
therefore, returned a verdid—Died by the virtu-
,
tion of God.
In the nei ;hbourhood of Rouen lived two bro-
ti.,:rs, both bachelors, fuppofed to he rich, and,
notwithlianding the proverb, tarn confordia fratrum,
very much attached to each other ; two villains
went, fume nights back, to their houfe ; and, as a
meafure of precaution, unchained, and carried off
the watch-dog; they returned the following night,
and attempted to break into the dwelling houfe,
but the vigilant brothers obti.rved all their motions,
and at hitt Ihot one of them dead upon the fpot ;
the other they fecured, put the dog's collar round
his neck, and completely fettered lairn with the
vacant chain.