Star.
London, England, 1814-08-10 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bow-srnstro.Ydsterciai'a ease of wanton outrage,
by a turnpike.gate-keeperii eanie on at this Office to
be investigated. On Mot ty the Ist inst. the day of
the Jubilee, Mr. Freeling, the Secr, tary to the Gene-
ral Post Office, ordered tie mail coaches, s‘ loch
usually leave London through Picea, lily, Hyde-park
Corner, &c. to proceed out of I. union through.ox-
ford-street, by Kensington Gravel Pits, and so into
the Brentford road,. to guard against accideots. Oa
that evening, instead of the mail coaches taking in
their bags. at the White Horse Cellar, the Glotte...ster
Coffee House, &c. they were or-Acre:l to wait at the
corner of North Andleyltreet, in Orford-street, for
the mail-carts to bring their bags, and they arrived
with them soon after eight o'clock. Mr. Lawless,
the Superintendant of mail coaches, was stationed
there to regulate and manage them. After they had
been properly loafed with the bags of letters they
proceeded to Tyburn Turnpike, ace mpailit..l by Mr.
Lawless,the Superintendant, where VanielCallagh
the gate-keeper, p..rmitted some of the m ill coaches
to pass without paying toll, as is custom try, the last
three mail coaches he stopped for
.ahout a quarter of
an hour, insisting on their paying 011. The exertior s
and persuasions of Mr. Lawless, the Snperinen-
dant, to allow the mails. to pass were in vain ;—at
length, after a variety of parleys, the coachmen and
guards finding all argument and p:Tstt..sions useirsr,
they proceeded to force open the it it?s and •Plake their
way through. Mu r C;is James Lillie, to, the gate-
keeper, attacked Mr. Lawless, in avi rats, call
ing him the most opprobrious names, and seizing him
most violently, and also a young girl, his niece, drag-
ged him into the toll-house, where he locked him up
and kept him a prisoner upwards of an hour. He
uas released through the interference of a Gentle-
man, uho convinced the gate-keeper that Mr. Law.
less was the person he represented himself to be. He
was yesterday morning apprehended by Vickery, and
brought to the Office, and underwent an examination
before Sir NATHANIEL CONANT. Mr. Paitactx, the
Solicitor to the Post Office, ce, attended to conduct the
prosecution for the Pcst Office, and the prisoner was
ordered to find,bail to answer the outrage And misde-
meanor at the Session.

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Maori HILL.--Yesterday John OiDonald was
brought before Mr. BIRNIE, by Goff, charged on sus-
picion of stealing a quantity of child-bed linen and a
deal box. The prisoner, it appeared, was stopped by
the officer, in the Mint, with the box in his h
about five o'clock on Monday afternoon. Goff de-
sired to see what was in the box, but the prisoner, in-
st •ad of complying, struck him a violent blow on the
face. The officer, however, persisted, and on search-
ing the box, found it contained a large quantity of
infants' apparel, worth from ten to fifteen pounds.—
A poor woman who lived in the oeighboulhood,
stated that the prisoner brought the box to her house
in the morning, and borrowed of her a knife to
break it (pen. The prisoner said he had been em-1
ployed by a Lady to carry the box for her, but he
could not tell her name or where he was to carry it
to. He was committi d for re-examination.
• HATTON GARDEN.— Milian: #'ocd and ihomar Pen-
nell were brought up yesterday for examination berore
Mr. Tunaok, one.e following charge of burglary
John Hutt, a police officer, deposed, that about a
qu a ter before two o'clock that morning, happening
to be passing the Bagnil;ge Well; Tea Gardens, in
his way lu•me, he perceived a horse and cart backed
in against the door of the house ; he went a few paces
farther and stood, on which the man in the cart drove
off at great speed : witness went up to the spr.t and
saw a man come out of the doer and run away ; im-
mediately the two prisoners came out at the same
door and attempted to follow, but witness collared
both, and alter a great dial of resistance he succeeded
in holding them until he was joined by the watchman,
with whose assistance he lodged both the prisoner s in
the watch.house ; witness men returned and called
up Mr. William Stock, the landlord ; they examined
the premises and discovered that tee cellar ei..or
which opened into the gardens had been broken open,
and several hampers, tilled with different liquots
packed up ready to be taken away in the cart ; wit-
ness found the iron crow bare noW produced, in one of
the hampers, and comparing it with the n:.-.as in the
cellar duo., he found it match, the back door at
which the cart was placed was also opened, ready for
the carrying away ot the property.
William Stock deposed, that be was alarmed abouti
half-past two o'clock in the morning, by the last wit-,
calling to him that his cellar was robbed, lie inn-1
mediately gut up, procured a light, and ACCOM: A- •
nied the officer into the cellar, tlr d'oor of which be
found had been forced open, which he was sure was
bolted by himself about half-past ten o'clock the
night preceuing; the back door trona another part of
the cellar into the street, shuch was nailed up, he
also found open ; and several kegs of brandy, rum,
shrub, noyau, hollands, and gin,- removed from the
place where they usually stood, and packed up in
hampers, just ready to be put into the cart ; thete
was also a keg of gin aril, which was•drawn off the
puncheon ; the liquor so packed up amounted in value
to about £'2so. Rematioed for further examination.

JAn Angling was trought up in the custody if W.
Read, jun. on a charge of burglary.
Thomas Watson deposed, that he keeps' a coal-
shed, No. 9. Great Shire-lane, near 'People-bar, that
when he got up and came down stairs that morning,
he found every thing in his shop and parlour tit con-
fusion, ev.ly drawer had been t pened and ransacked,
which made him immediately suppose he had been lob.
bed. On going to his coal-shed his feet so tick against
something which stii red, which he hound to be a man ;
witness gave the alarm, and the prisoner was found
there and secured. At the time he was taken he had on
a coat, and one shoe, and one stocking, the property
of witness, he also had on two shirts and a woman's
shift, one of the shirts was also witness's property,
and the shift belonged to the witness's wife. Thcre
was a large bag lay on the floor, packed up, with se-
veral lumbering articles, which were witness's pro-
perty, and wa. ready to he taken away.
The prisoner being asked what lie had to say for
him+ell, bald, that on his way from St. Giles's -to
liatkhouse-lane, he met with two men, who employ-
ed him to go with them to fetch away some things.
After packing them up, they said they would go for
a cart, and left him until their return ; in the mean
time he lay down on the coils, and fell asleep, where,
he was found by the last witness. The parties were
bound over to prosecute, and the priioner committed.

PIRTHS
At Cippag, on the 28tti ult. U.'. Lady of the Tion. ar.'. R. v.
A H. Cati.eirt, of a daughter.
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