Star.
London, England, 1824-08-23 00:00:00

POLICE IN2ILLI&ENCE.

BOWISTBILST.
Cu: OUT AND OUT.--tlWr. *gene. Pitmaiss was brougtt Up from
At. Martin's tivatelvbosisconcday last • week, .charged • with (Laving
incurred hackney-coach fares to the amount of thirty shillings, with-
out the means of paying one singletarthing.
. Mr. Burge Flemings, it appears,-had been ".taking his ease itt
his inn," somewhere near Charing crow. and feeling himself coma
fortably tucked out, he wished to belt. " No," said snine host,"-t
can't stand that--.-mutton chops ,are-muttors chops now-a-days, acct
if you can't pay I must have pawn." Now the most gentlemanly
pawn in such e.ses is a *arch or a snuff-box, or a brilliant, or even
an umbrcila---provided it be a silk one : but Mr.l3eorgellemings
had none of these superfluities, and therefore he offered hiseMist-
coot. " Let us see it?" said mine host; and Mr. George Remisigs
pad and handed the waistcoat to the over-particular landlord ; but-
toned up his blue coat,,ala Sir Robert; and looked quite as well with-
out a waistcoat as with one. But mine host did not much admire
the waistcoat; it was rather run to seed, it was out of nap, and un-
washed, and in his opinion by no means a sufficient pawn. What
was to be done? A decentish 'bandana might have answered the
purpose, but unluckily Air-George Fleetness happened at that mo-
ment to be bandana-less, •and to say the truth, altogether urnhand-
k erchiefed. Then as to a skirt, that was neither here nor there, as
Phelins O'Gorman said by his modesty, or a shirt might have been
useful in such an emergency ; for there are gentlemen in town who
do sometimes make shift to turn a shirt to account in this way. .So,
as neither shirt nor bandana was in the way, Mr. George Flemings
relinquished the lid of his knowledge box, u the thing he could
most conveniently do without;—the said box containing nothing
of value. This done, he called a hackney-coach, and sallied forth,
sans chapeau, sans mate, and without one penny in his pocket, to
look up his friends for a replenishment. It was about four o'clock in
the afternoon when he thus sallied forth, and the coachman drove
him about and about to seventeen different friends without the
slightest success, and then, becoming tired of the job, be drove
Mr. George Flemings to the watch-house, where he left him in
pawn for both fares—amounting to thirty shillings, as aforesaid.
These matters being stated to the Magistrate, Mr. George Fle-
mings was asked what he had to say in his defence ? and he acknow-
ledged that the demand of the coachman was a very just one, and
he would pay it, but unfortunately he was not in a condition to
pay it at peseta. lie assured his Worship that he was a gentleman,
and would pledge his honour fur the payment as soon as it was
his power.
There was so much gentlemanly resignation in hia demeanour,
that his Worship directed he should remain in the watch-house in-
stead of being committcd.to the common jail ; and he was sent there
accordingly. Next day it was communicated to the Magistrate,
that Mr. George Flemings was in danger of famishing in his con-
finement, there being no allowance of food at the watch-house, and
he having nothing wherewithal to purchase any. Upon hearing this,
hie Worship kindly directed that Mr. George Flemings should be
,furnished with bread and cheese and porter, at his cost. Still the
money was mot forthcoming, and at last his Worship sent for Mr.
George Flemings, and urged him to write to his friends. " Cer-
tainly," said 31r. George Fleming and he instantly wrote a note
to Mr. Greenwood, the army agent ; in which note the Magistrate
had so much faith that h. suffered Mr. George Flemings to go at
large, upon his pledging hislonour to return on the following day:
and Mr. Richmond (one of the clerks of this office), not to be behind
his Worship in liberality, lent Mr. George Flemings a very stylish
white hat ; which hat Mr. vffieorge Flemings pledged some more of
his honour to return when he railed next day. The note was deli-
vered to Mr. Greenwood, who returned thirty shillings by the
bearer; saying that was the last money Mr. George Flemings should'
ever have from him, and be desired never to see or hear from him
again. This thirty shillings was divided between the two hackney
coachmen; but, as Mr. George Fleming forgot to redeem the
honour he had pledged at this office, the Magistrate eventually re-
mained minus the bread and cheese and porter, and Mr. Richmond
his chapeau blanc.
CHILD STRALINC.—A poor Irishwoman, named Anne Burke,
living in Church-street, St. Gilts's, complained to the Magls-
trat e, on Saturday, that her infant, only a [cernight old, had been
stolen from her by a strange young woman, who met her acciden-
tally in the street, and having enticed her Ingo a public-house, on
Friday afternoon, under pretence of taking her to a Lady, who
would be a great friend to her child, sent her out on some frivolous
errand, and during her absence abaconded with her child.
The Magistrate directed Nicholls and other officers to use every
exertion in discovering this unfeeling woman, who is described as
being about the middle size, genteelly dresstd, and having a parti-
cular blue mark under one of her eyes. The infant is a boy, and
has one of its eyes blood-shot from a cold.