Star.
London, England, 1822-10-11 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Harrow-.GA RDRILMIII. the Lady who stood remanded
for stealing a piece of gingham out of the shop of Mr. M. Med.
calf and Co. linen-drapers, 308, Higlk firstborn, was brought up
again yesterday in 'the custody of the Governor of the prison,
anti underwent another long private examination. Bail to a
large amount was offered and refused ; she WAS again committed
for further examination on Tuesday next.
Mmsstost-Housz.—A fellow, named Davis, who pretended to
be mad, was brought before the LORD Maros, charged with hav-
ing committed a robbery in a fishing-boat, lying off Billingsgate.
Thomas Ingram, one of the owners of the boat called the
Prince Regent, stated, that in the morning he left the boat be-
fore eleven o'clock, and upon his return found the cabin broke
open; his box also broke open, and 3/. stolen. Another box
was likewise forced open, and the contents taken away. There
were missing, besides the money, some of the wituess's clothes,
and the register and license of the boat.
An officer stated, that he apprehended the prisoner In a pub-
lic-house iu Ddikhouse-lane, with the clothes of one of the com-
plainants upon him ; he had no money.
The prisoner, upon being asked whether he had anything to
say? began to talk nonsense, with the view of passing for a mad-
man, but suddenly stopped, on being told that be was perfectly
well known:—lle was committed for trial.

Girsuntia.L.---Rusutav Iv Szawrra.—Yesterday, Lucy PlTT-
sans, a motherly looking, woman, and Samuel Parsons, alias
Stokes, were charged before Sir C. FLOWER, the sitting Alder-
man, under the following circumstances :
The female prisoner was engaged in attending as nurse upon
Mrs. Spriggs (the wife of a hosier in Fleet-market), who has
lately lain in, and Stokes, her pretended nephew, was iu the
habit of calling there very frequently to see his aunt.
Nurse was called down to him on Wednesday evening, and
after a short conversation together, she borrowed 6d. of Mr.
Spriggs, which she gave to the nephew, in order, as it seemed,
to get rid of him. lle was then evidently drunk, and on quitting,
Nurse begged her master, if the nephew should call again that
evening, to say she was not at home. He did call again about
half an hour after, rather more intoxicated than before, insisted
on seeing his aunt, would not believe she was gone out, and, in
short, conducted himself in so disorderly a manner that it was
found necessary to have him taken to the watch-house.
When taken to the Compter and searched according to custom,'
two pair of stockings were found in a bundle he had with him,
which Mr. Spriggs recognized as his property; and on his per-
son three duplicates two of them for property, which, on inquiry,
in the morning, turned out to have been stolen from Mr. Sptiggs's
shop. One of the pledges, a remnant of very fine flannel had
beeti previously missed.
As the fellow had never been permitted to go into the shop, it
was concluded that be mutt have had the assistance of his aunt,
and a constable was dispatched to take her into custody.
In the interim the fellow's lodgings were traced out, where it
it was soon learnt that nurse and he were not at all related, and
she had supplied him for the last six weeks with the means of
defraying the rent of the apartment.
Stokes prudently held his tongue, but the female prisoner was
extremely voluble, and had prepared herself with a very plausi-
ble defence. She allowed she had given the flannel to Stokes to
pledge, but had bought it of a Mr. Stone, the person whom Alt..
Spriggs had succeeded in the shop, and whose stock he bad taken.
It was no wonder, therefore, her master thought it was his, as
it was probably cut off tht: piece, the remainder of which was
I among the stock he had subsequently purchased.
Mr. Spriggs was, howev-r, enabled to swear that the flannel
had never formed part of the stock of Air. Stone, but had been
purchased subsequently by himself.
As Mr. Spriggs stated that various other articles had been
missed, the prisoners were remanded for a few days, in order to
give time for the necessary inquiry, whether anything further
could be traced to their possession.
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Mermanloucu-svaage.—Yesterday, a good-looking girl at-
tired in a very handsome dress, was brought to this Office by an
elderly man of respectable appearance, who requested the •Ma-
gistrate's advice how to act. The girl had, he said, some dresses
not her own.
The applicant then related the following affecting story:—
The girl was his niece, and an orphan ; he had brought her up
since she was eighteen months old, and had, some time since,
when she became of a proper age, sent ber to a very excellent
seminary, within a few miles of the metropolis, and was to pay
a very heavy sum for her education and board; but he lamented
to say, a kind of fatality attended her. He had, not long after
she was at school, received a letter from her Governess, stating
that the girl had evinced to a very alarming degree an iinfirtu-
nate disposition to pilfer ; she had filched from several other scho-
lars a number of articles, and in many other respects displayed
a disposition inclined to depravity. The Governess concluded
by requesting him to take her immediately from the school :
consequently he was obliged to bring her home, and then she,
for the first time, seemed inclined to rebel aga.nst his authority.
She often expressed a dislike to controul. He, however, again
placed her in a situation at a school. where she remained tur a
short time; and at the time of Bartholomew Pair, she obtained •
leave from her mistress to go there to see the amusements.
This kindness, the applicant with great emotion observed, he
had reason to deplore, as since that time, until within two days.
he had not seen or heard of his thoughtless niece; and although
every Inquiry was pursued, no trace could be obtained of where
she was. Having a suspicion that site bad been inveigled into
I some haunt of infamy, be and others nightly perambulated the
public haunts of the victims of profligacy and distress, but
not among these wretched women could he find his niece.—
Ills distress of mind at the prospect which appeared to him of
, her future vice and misery, almost laid him upon his bed In a
I fit of severe illness; but he was aroused by the recollection of
his dying brother's Instructions and injunctions respecting- his
daughter; and he again pursued most unremitting inquiries; he
sought again all the haunts of the poor, friendless, houseless, l
un-
pitied victims of seduction, and endured all the miseries of many
inclement nights, in the hope of finding het. His search was at
length successful; •he met her walking the streets In a spleudid
idress, and he, on accosting her, was affected by the alteration
in her appanage, which was then so ihercepstbis, she berstieg