Star.
London, England, 1801-08-28 00:00:00

POLICr, kc.

Yeßerday and the day before feveral conviaions
took place. Ist the' Thames Police-office, againft
waternscn and feamen refining from on board Weft
Indiatneth for having fugar and other Weft India
produce in their poireflion, which they could not
account for. _ _ • _ _ _

Yelicrday at she Public Office, Union-hall, John
Kenyon, Efq. belonging to the Alien-office, and
John Botts, connable, charged a man of fofpicious
charafter with cutting the flap of Mr. Kenyon's
coat wish a Tharp inftrument, fo that the pocket'
might drop, as he was coming out of Afiley's
Amphitheatre, on Wednefdsy night tali, but by a
fnuff-boa and, loose paper, being in the pocket the
attempt was fruttrated. flue Firmer being the
perfon ncarell to the gentleman, furpition was at.
incited to him Being called upon for bit defence,
he Paid t'lat he was a journeyman tailor ',that he
was innocent of the charge ; that there were two
young men dote by at the time, one of whom he
had a flight knowledge of; and that the °fence
Might have been committed by them without his
hiving the leall fttfpicion of them t however, In
the buflle they difappeared. Upon the officer
fearching him, only fourpenee halfpenny and i
thimble were tOund on him. He was detained un-
til he ps(c'ucs fuldbantial (arctic' for his future
good behaviour. otherwife he will be fent on board
the tender, as a !comity to the public at large.
Monday lan. between twelve and one o'clock.
fever4l bullock-Militate atterribled in Blakfrisis-
road, to the great aAnoyanci of the Inhabitants,

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flotriti iffe nia•ttretl"4oP so
:Mid as a shore Lof bulloits were palling, they fet
leCtif two of them, veined at Sol. whielf the Vil-
lains were &Wing. tenni& Peckham,' bui being
roltowed by forms drovers *lnd ehnitables, the beaks
were recovered mid the eillaine
FORGIR.Y.—At a late hOhr oat Wednefday teen-
! ing, two men, of very- genteel appearance. Itete
brought to town from St. 41ban's, at whiei plate ,
they had been tat-eh-up,. On fulpicitin of forging
and uttering forged Bank-Notes. It being too
late for them to be taken beforethe LORD MAYOR,
they were lodged by.ordet of the Solicitor of the
Bank at Mr. Willier's, who keeps a public houfe in ,
the Poultry•Compter Yard. About ten o'clock
yefterthty morning, on fome perfons going into the
room where one of them flept, he was flowered
hanging. Surgical affiance was immediately
procured, and every means ufcd to recover him,
but v ithout effect. He had accompliihed the fatal
deed by means of his pocket-handkerchibf. The
other perfon was mount:: privately before the
LORD Mavoa refpeeing the forgery : the refult of
the examination was, that he was taken back to !
St. Alban's in cuftody, in order to dircover fome
of his accomplices, as there are a great number
concerned, and the forgeries are fiid tfrhe to a
very large amount. Notes to the amount Of,spaL
were found upon the two men apprehended.
Wednefdey morning a countryman from St. E-
dmund's Bury was acciofted in Oxford-greet, by a
very refpeaable looking man, about 6o years of
age, who, after Come converfation, perfuaded bun
to take a glafs of Lifbon at a Public-houfe in the
neighbourhtiod. On their being thivin into a
room, a Diamond Crofs, with • a bill valuing it it
1201. was produced,. which the Sharper lighted
the Ceinntryman he had picked up in his company,
and that of comic he was entitled to half. At this 1
infiant, fortuhately for the Farmer, a Gentlemnn
who had noticed the traii4iftiop in else 'ftreet, Co
far forgot the riles cif goad breeding as to obtrude,
on their privacy, which' fb offended the Sharper
that he immediately pocketed his valuable Crofs,
and beaked out of the room, leaving tile Conn-,
trymao to difcharge the demand for Lifbon and'
bircuits.
Tucfday Taft an unhappy accident happened at ,
Wrigglefworth, in liertfordibire. As Mils Hon-
DIN ern, the daughter of a refpeeable parlour, in
Spa-fields, who was on a vifit to her grandnicither,'
in liertfordfhire, was amufing herrelf with her
coufin, a fine young man, about 24 years tif age,
fhe inadvertently took up a loaded gun, and jocu-
larly pointing it at his breaft, it unfortunately went
off. The contents went through his heart and
killed him on the fpot.—The poor girl, who is not
more than 16 years of age, has been in convulfions
ever fince the fatal accident took place.
A (hocking misfortune happened at Stanley col-
liery; near Wakefield, on Tuefday lail:—The earth
and coal in one of the pits giving-way, fell upon
four men. who were at work, and killed two of
them on the fpot; a third died Cann after; and the
other, who had received a dangerous fracture, was
brought to the General Infirmary, and had his leg
amputated the day following..
Sunday a young man bathing with feveral others
M a pond, near the Goldftnithsalms.houles,Hack-
ney-fields, was kited with the cramp, and unfor-
tunately drowned.
On Sunday tall, as a boat was croffing from
Limehoufe Hole to Deptford, with a Gentleman,
his wife, and child, it was unforttinately run down
by a lighter, with fuch rapidity as to catife it to
bulge ; and before affiance could Is, procured,
they were all drowned, except the Waterman,
who kept himfelf above water till a boat arrived
to his relief.
As a cart and four horfes were employed •on
Wednefday lag week in drawing timber alhore near
Newealtle, the carman threw a brick at the lead-
er. which hitting him on thehead, (funned him fo
much that lie fell back upon the refl. Being all
chained together, and in deep water, a ftruggle.
enfued, which ended not until the four horfes were
drowned.
Monday, about ten o'clock in the forenoon, as
the Brentwood (loge was coming to town,the axle-
tree broke near Chigwell, when the coach was
overturned. Mr. CRAC-Rallt Le, the proprietor. was
thrown off the box, by Which one of his legs'was
broken : a female infide paffenger had -both her
legs broken; a Gentleman an arm; two children
greatly bruited ; and hardly any of the paffengers
efcaped unhurt. Notice of their calamitous cafes
being fent to feveral Gentlemen of the faculty
neareft at hand, they readily came to their affi-
ance; and after dulling their wounds, they were
feverafty fent to their friends by .the moil eafy
conveyance. The • luggage of the broken coach
was taken by other carriages coming by, and de-
livered according to their addrcfs.
Friday as the Leeds coach was turning down
St. Martin's-le-Grand, it unfortunately was over-
turned, and feveral rd the paffengers were hurt
dangerously; there were eleven outfide and fix in-
fide paffengers.
As a Gentleman was driving a one horfe chaife,
ott Tnefday evening, down PallMall,the honk took
fright, and fet off at full (peed. When he came
into Cockfpur-fireet she tnrned short to the right,
the driver having loft all power over him. and I
rallied on the pavement, where lie fortunately fell
down, or he certainly would hate driven his head ,
through a (hop-window. The Gentleman fell upon
the horfe, but, to the afionilhment of every body
who witncffed the accident, efcaped unhurt.

A hackney-coach driving towardiCharing anis,
et me day, broke down by one of the wheels cow.'
Mg offs the lady and gentleman -who were paf:
impel received no isory, but were exceedingly
friened.
The many fatal accidents that are vritneffed al.
mail every day, aught to be a futficient warning
to perfons when they are rue away with in a car-
riage, not to jump oat et the fele, but, if poMble,
behind. On I'hurfday. D. H. Dar, Efq. of Ito;
chiller, was driving on the New Road in his gig,
in company with Mr. Sass, when the boric fud-
deftly took bight at a dog and ran off in f all !Peed;
Mr. liar in jumping nut it the fide, hid the tnJ
(online to break his legs Mr. Sass got onr bar
hied, unhurt.

At 211, A r Oske, cgs Vi ;god* re'ratlibt. C4T
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MAgaiErt.
Laic at &try amidst deatOefpdit, Hance, tgelzetea,
Ilfqt of the aBth fteriment, to DAM Baty.
, Lately. at s(7t Rofehire,Colonel Robert ?Rackets.
ale, of the Hem aft india Company's fervice, to Mils Caere
rise Sutherland, eldeft danghter Of the late Lipiten.int-Col•mei
James SOthetialmk,'Of Vihriste,
DIED.

•Co Weed fiennight, st has lodslogs,in Look, Bentantis
Ltunlty, Efq. of Stoekta!, Banker.
Lately, et MinliLre. Major &Dent.
At Calcutta, Bowl, on the 29th of becanber laft, Robert
M•Fark,ne Efq. aged 75 years. He watthe oldenßritt& lulu-
blunt in India,
. hating refided 48 year. in that country.
tin the z7tA of June lait, Pete Imes, EST of Kiogftoo, is

Jazitaio-
At Edinburgh, on the t yth inft. Mr. James Miller, preacher
of the gofpei, who for many yearn part has (erred the office at
chapbln to kraal of the public charities in that city.
A levr day. ago, itt Ilia 115 tit year, Mr. David Stewart, lea.
of LAseghgilly. He la (arrived by hia wife (whit whom he lived
61 years) eleven children, eighty grand-children, and thirty-
di grat-grand children.

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