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

POLICE IN7'ELLIGENCE.

Outtnstatt..—The system of depredation so extensively car-
ried on by some of the draymen in thy employ of Messrs. Hale
and Co. brewers, Redcross street, in the purloining of empty
tasks, underwent further investigation before the sitting Alder-
man, Sir C. Ftowsw, Ban. yesterday.
The prosecution was conducted by Mr: Hamm.
The prisoners, were John Waters and John :dicey, the two
draymen; Join Purdue, the servant at Clark's brewhouse, in
York-street, and James Turner, the porter at the London Work-
house, who had been taken into custody since the last examina-
tion. The Latter two prisoners were charges:l with receiving the
property at those respective places, knowing it to be stolen.
The former evidence having been read over, Clinton, the
officer employed to watch by Messrs. Hale, identified Turner as
the person who received the casks at the London Workhouse.
He had apprehended Turner, who positively refused to go with
him, and had indeed made so desperate a resistance that he had
found it necessary to handcuff him to secure him.
Mr. Lynn, a partner in the house of Messrs. Hale, deposed,
that they had no dealings whatever with the London Workhouse
for the last two years. On searching Clark's premises, he had
seised no less than thirty empty casks, which he could identify as
the property of Messrs. Hale and Co. There were numbers of
other casks on the premises, with various marks, partly obli-
terated ; and he verily believed the whole of them, from the
butts to the pins (the names of the smallest casks in use), were
stolen property.
Clark has not as vet been apprehended, and Pardue, acting as
a servant, without any guilty participation, was liberated.
The prisoners were now separately asked if they, had any
thing to say ?
Lacey, on behalf of himself and comrade, said that they had
permission to pitch empty casks at the London Workhouse, and
that they did it when their drays were overloaded. They were
in the habit of occasionally taking up empty casks belonging to
other brewers. and those left by them at Clark's were his
(Clark's) own property,which they had so taken up in the course
of that morning.
The latter part of this defence was successfully rebutted by
Clinton, who swore to having seen Messrs. Hale's mark upon ,
the four casks.
The prisoner Turner was in the same story. The draymen,
he said, were in the habit of leaving empty casks there occasion-
ally
when they were overloaded, and had the permission of Mr.
Gardener, the Master of the Workhouse.
Waiters and Lacey were then committed to take their trial
for stealing the four casks deposited at the London Workhouse,
that offence being within the City ; and Turner, for receiving
the same; knowing them to be stolen.
• Bow-warm—A very stylish dressed buck was charged with
erebutiog a disturbance in the Strand, by giving the lie to the
watchman—as thus :—" Past eleven o'clock," cried the watch-
man, in the sober exercise of his calling. " I'ts a d-4 lie !"
bawled the prisoner. This was repeated two or three times, to
the great amusement of the ladies on the pare. The watchman
told the " gentkinan" it would better become him to go home :
whereat "he shewed fight," and was taken to the watch-house.
Before the Magistrates he made a very abject apology, and
was directed to find sureties for his better behaviour; but, being
utrable to do this, he was, after remaining locked up in the strong
room till three o'clock in the afternoon, discharged.
Another town blode was charged with having amused himself
by making an indecent display before the wife of an honest trades-
man, as she was opening her window shutters at six o'clock in
the morning. The indignant matron, it seems, endeavoured to
cooling courage by throwing a cup of cold water upon him ; and
without more ado, he struck his Hessian-booted foot against her
door. 'aud shivered it into a dozen pieces.
This worthy admitted having destroyed the door, and also
having " stared" into the woman's window ; but he denied
having made any unnecessary or wanton display : and he began
a cross-examination of the poor woman so grossly disgusting that
the. Magistrate indignantly interrupted him, by observing that the
steeper of his defence proved the justness of the complaint.
lie was reprimanded and ordered to pay what might be neces-
sary for the repair of the broken door ; and he withdrew under
the surveillance of the officers for that purpose. . .

CAUTION TO COACT! PROTRIETORII.—ther question between the
Proprietors of Hackney Coaches and those of the Short Stages, as
to the right of the latter to ply•for passengers within the Bills of
Mortality, underwent a long discussion yesterday at this Office,
before G. H. Missittn.r., Esq. the-sitting Magis.rate. The de-
fendant in this case was James Morris, jun. owner of a Pad-
dington stage coach, who was summoned upon the information
of 'Mr. Henry Clements, an eminent hackney-coach proprietor in
Brook-street, Holborn ; and the information charged the de-
fendant with having, on the 9th of September, plied for pas-
sengers for hire in the parish of St. Mary-la-Bonne, within the
Bills of Mortality, he nor being licensed to do so by the Corn-
missioners of I lackney Coaches.
Before the case was gone into, Mr. llitvsnt•.cr. said he under-
stood the same question had been decided by the Lord Mayor
the other day, and expressed his surprise that it should, after
that decision, he brought before him.
Mr. Dews, the Solicitor for the complainants, said he was
not at all satisfied with the decision of the Lotd Mayor, which
he considered to be erroneous in point of law, and in the teeth
of the Statutes.

Bin ALLEY, for the complainant, addressed the Magistrate,
and said the information was laid under the Ist Geo. I. cap. 5,
and the words of the clause upon which he should rely were so
plain and conclusive, that no rational man could entertain a
doubt as to their intent and meaning. The clause said, " No
person or persons shall presume to stand, ply, or drive for hire,
itri4h coy coac4 whatsoever, except such person or persons
shall be licensed by the Commissioners of Hackney Coaches, as
required by the Act of the 9th of Anne." This Statute, he con-
tended, was not repealed by the 55th Geo. 111. cap. 185, sec. 12,
upon which the other side relied ; and even if it were, he would
take the clause of that Act itself, and, upon the wording of it,
would contend that the defendant was liable to the penalty.—
These were the words of the last-mentioned Act :—" None of
the provisions of any Act or Acts of Parliament relating to hack-
ney-coaches shall be deemed or construed to extend to prevent
the owners or drivers of stage-coaches, duly licensed by the
Commissioners of Stamps, and paying the mileage duty, from
raking up paisengers within the Bills of Mortality, out of the
paved streets of London, Westminster, and the Borough of
Southwark, and any continuation thereof, so that they do not
deviate from their regular road for that purpose." The little
monosyllable " out" was that upon which he relied, for it was
quilt clear that it was introduced for the very purpose of pre-
venting that of which he now complained, and that stage-coaches
write to be allowed tow for passengers only " out of the payed
tercets," and not within them. To show that theist of Geo. I:
was not repealed, the Learned Counsel read a portion of.
5d of Cleo. IV. cap. 95, which had a reference to it in the pream-
ble. 'file kin Statute enacts, " That if any coach or other car-
riage used for the purpose of conveying passengers for hire, shall
take up any passenger after such coach or carriage shall have en-
tered the paved streets, and shall carry and convey such pas-
senger along such paved streets, such person shall be deemed as
}Bing for hire, within the full intent and meaning of this Act." '
Ur. Alley, after souse further remarks, called
;dr. I lenry Clements, who proved the case as alleged in the
information. Ile was taken up by the defendant at the Bank,
and set down at Mary-la-Bonne Church. The defendant plied
for passengers.
For the defence, nearly the sanse arguments were used as at
the Mansion-House; the reliance of the Solicitor on that side
being on the clause of the 55th of Geo. 111. quoted above.
Mr. Svcs; Solicitor to the Stamp-office, made several ob-
servations to the Magistrate, expressive of his opinion that the
defendant was in the right, and that a conviction cook! not take
place. The Act of Geo. I. was passed undoubtedly to give the
whole of the business within the Bills of Mortality to the hack-
siey-caches ; but since that, the population had increased in an
enormous degree, and the 55 Geo 111. was passed to empower
short stages to take passengers in the manner complained of.
;Ir. Alorsittn.t, after a very lengthened discussion, proceeded
to give his decision.. He understood that the point at issue had
already been determined upon by the Lord Mayor, for whose
decision he had the highest possible respect: but be could not
consider himself at all bound by it, and he therefore should
leave it nu T of the question. ft was in proof that the defendant's
coach yeas in tlw,paved streets, and that he plied for passengers.
That This was an offence under the Statute of Geo. I. upon
which this information was faid, there could be no doubt, but
then came the question, whethet that was repealed by the 12th
section of 55 Geo. l 1. ? Now, the marginal note to this clause,
and dm was generally a pod criterion upon which to form a
judgment as to the Meaning of the clause itself, was in these
words :—" Stage-coaches not prohibited from taking up passen-
ks within the Plls of Mortality." Taking this with the clause
lfalie was clearly of °pluton, that by it the'provision of the

Act of Ceo. T. which had teen gaoled, was repeated, and that
the defendant had a right to take passengers in the manner
charged in the information.--Cotnplaint distifiked.
In the course of the morning Mr-Thema .I,,,,talban ranter,
proprietor of the Bfack Dwarf, who was convicted with 'Major
Cartwright and others of a mistlemeittouri-ie aseembling near
Birmingham for an illegal purpase, namely, to• elect Sir Charles
Wokelcy " Legislatorial Attorney" for that place, attended be-
fore the Magistrate for the purpose of entering into recognizance'
for his good behaviour, pursuant to the terlns of his sentence.—
His two sureties were, a Mr. Simmons, OE Croydon, and Mr.
Cleary, of Westminster Election notoriety.
Twain Pontes—Catheriaa ponottan and Thomas Murphy, the
hop-pickers, were yesterday brought rep for re-examination, for
robbing the house of Mr. Pitcher, of Barming, in Kent, during
a late fire. The prisoners bad nothing to say 'for themselves, and
were fully committ,d to Newgate for trial.
UNION- HA I.l.—Yeaterday, Mary Ann littylock and Phillis Chip,
two girls of the town, were charged by Charles Hamlin, a man
about silty years of age, of very yore deportment, who for the
last eighteen years has served the office of Constable, In Notts-
field, near Ryegate. He.arrived in town on Friday, and spent
the evening with some friends in the Borough, with whom he
parted after twelve o'clock. As he was passing near St. George's
Church, he met the two prisoners, and inquired of them whe-
ther they could direct hint to a lodging? They accordingly con-
ducted him to a house in Kent-street. Ile bad In his breeches
pocket at* the time a purse, containing nine sovereigns and six
country notes, and five shillings in silver, and had also a silver
watch. Soon after they entered the house, the complainant and
his two new friends went into bed, and he put his breeches
under his head. In the course of the night his companions got
up, and left him, and he discovered that. he bad lost his pro-
perty. Ile immediately gave information of hisioss to a consta-
ble, and on the same evening, as he was sitting at the Dog and
Bear public-house, the prisoner (Chip) came to him, and gave
bins his watch andi five shillings, and declared she knew nothing
of auy more money having been taken from him. The com-
plainant saw the other prisoner outside the door, and immedi-
ately had them both apprehended.—The Magistrate committed
both the prisoners for trial.
QUEEN4QUA FREE AIM EAST..."-Hatry Slirgey, a lad of
some notoriety among the police, was brought up from the
watchhouse on a charge of assaulting a young man named James
Rawlins.
The complainant stated that on Tuesday evening, at half past
eight o'clock, he went to a " Free and Easy," held at the Wind-
sor Castle public.house. kept by a man named I larpur, at the back
of Tothill-fields prison, where ham/as placed in the chair as Pre-
sident for the evening, there being also a Vice-President, and
between thirty and forty persons assembled. In the course of the
evening the prisoner entered the room with three companions,
and they made themselves exceedingly disagreeable to the rest of
the company. At eleven o'clock the landlord called for " the
hammers," (the official implements of the President and Vice,)
which were given up, and then desired the prisoner and his party
to go away, which they refused to do, and were turned out.
Shortly afterwards the company broke up, and the complainant
had no sooner stepped into the street than he was attacked by the
prisoner's party, one of whom struck him a severe blow on the
face. The prisoner then caught him round the neck and flung
him on the ground, and two or three of them fell upon him.
Somebody, he did not know who, raised him up, and he was then
again struck on the face by another of the party. Some watch-
men then came up, and a severe struggle ensued, in which the
party escaped ; but the prisoner was presently afterwards secured
at some distance from the scene of action, and conveyed to the
watchhouse.
Jonea, one of the turnkeys at Bow-street, stated that he lived
near the public-house in question, and was frequently obliged to
sit up till twelve or one, sometimes till two o'clock, by the riotous
conduct of the bad and desperate characters who frequented it.
The prisoner was ordered to find bail; and a summons was
issued to the landlord of the Windsor Castle.