Star.
London, England, 1823-10-30 00:00:00

Mr. Powell, of the Mint, probed the coin produced
to be all counterfeit.

The prisoners in their defence said the half-crowns'
had been brought there by Mrs. Fidler.
The RECORDER told the Jury, that upon this indict-
ment the wife could not be found guilty, as the law
supposed she did this by the influence and under the
controul of her husband, who was personally present.
The Jury found William Nash guilty, and aeritted
the female prisoner.

Ann Nash, was again indicted for selling counterfeit
coin. The evidence in this case was similar to the last
with the exception that the husband was not presint.—
The prisoner told Mrs. Bartram, when she came for
the counterfeit coin, 6e It is wonderful how many of us
live by this trade:" she added, that she had passed fif-
teen bad half-crowns at Croydon Fair.

The Jury found her—Guilty.
The RECORDER told both the prisoners, that if they
were found a second time offending against the law,
the benefit of Clergy would not be again extended to
them, and they must expect to suffer death.

Richard lleghts was tried and convicted on a charge
of having stolen a reticule, containing 17s. from a Lady
who was passing through Golden-lane, St. Giles's, about
ten o'clock at night.
The RECORDER, having ascertained that the prisoner
had been tried in that Court before, sentenced him to
be transported for life.
Prisoner.—" Thank you, Sir; and may they (point-
ing to the prosecutrix and her sister) never get husbands
till I come back."

Michael Sullivan was indicted for stealing various
articles of glass, and George Glover for receiving them,
knowing them to be stolen, the property of N. Moses.
It appeared from the evidence, that Sullivan was the
see vane of the prosecutor Moses, who was a glass-dealer
in Chiswell-street. He carried the property from his
master's house on different occasions, and sold it to the
prisoner. Glover, who was a dealer in marine stores on
Mutton-hill. The Jury found both prisoners pudgy.
. Joseph Hastings was indicted for stealint, a irurse con-
taining some silver, the property of Eliz. Mortimer.
It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner fell
in with the prosecutrix, who was an unfortunate woman,
in the streets, and accompanied her home. He rose in
the mot Mug before the prosecute ix was awake, and took
with him the property mentioned in the indictment. The
purse, emptied of its contents, was found on him.
The prisoner received a very excellent character from
several pet sons with whom he had worked.
The CONIMON SERJEANT, in consequence of the pre-
vious good character of the prisoner, ordered him to be
fined Is. and discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGEA'CE.

MANSION-TIOIJSM

INTO.IITION ON THI Puottc.—lt would appear that there is no
such thing as checking the frauds amongst the servants of inn-
keepers. Notwithstanding the numerous examples that have been
lately made of inn porters, for overcharging the Public, the impo-
sition is daily practised all through the country.
Yesterday, a porter to the Golden Cross Inn, Charing-cross,
named Duscovil, appeared before the Louis MAYOR, on a charge of
having extorttd money, in a demand for the porterage of a parcel.
The innkeeper himself was summoned to appear to spew cause for
having made the charge demanded by the porter.
liis Lordship convicted the innkeeper and the porter in the sum'
of 40s. each, and declared his intention of enforcing the provisions
of the Act rigorously against those who were convicted Of siacb ex-
tortion. Ele gave orders that letters should be written to the several
Clerks of the Peace in all the COUlltie3, requiring them to comply
with the directions of the Act which was passed in 1799, by making
out the, orders and forwarding them to the menopolis.
Some remarks were made upon the inequality of the charges even
in the orders of Sessions transmitted. One of those orders fixes
the rate of carriage at one halfpenny the pound, from a much
' greater distance than Fakrnham. The innkeepers are in the habit
in many instances of fixing the charge of carriage not according to
the weight, but according to the rank of the party, and the nature
of the articles carried. For instance, the carriage of a brace of
pheasants, a present from a Duke, will be charged twice as much as
a couple of brace of pullets made a present of by a farmer, though
the weight and distance: should be precisely the same.
BOW.:ST E ET. •

VSTECUOUS OCCURILIMCL—Yesterday Ruthven, one of the prin.
oillcers. brought two persons in his custody on suspicion of
beint ceoccrned in a murder, supposed to have been committed mi
Friday beat Aldenham; near Watford, Herts. Their names are
niFtel and Hata.
The murder is supposed to have taken place in. consequence of
the report of a pistol Licht heard, which was immediately followed
by the groans of a person apparently in great pain ; and on the fol.
luwirg morning a quantity of blood was discovered on the spot,
anti o4so a piatul, with the muzzle choked up with the brains of a
butnan being. A handkerchief and% knife were found at a short
distance, and a gap had been forcibly made in the hedge through
which It appeared the body had been dragged, as blood and brains
were found on part of the bushes. A strict search was made for
the body, but without effect, and the place where it was secreted
still remains undiscovered, although thirty persons are employed in
different directions making search for it.
Information was transmitted to Bow-street, and Ruthven was
di :patched to make inquiries, when he succeeded in gaining such
Miormation as induced him to apprehend the two prisoners, which
he did yesterday morning at their lodgings in King-street, Golden-
square.. A coat much stained with blood was found in their pos-
session, and also a pistol, which is supposed to be the fellow to the
one found in the helds. Ruthven immediately set off with them int
a chaise to Watford, where they will undergo an examination by
the Magistrates on the spot.
n A TTON.G AR DEN.

T. Wyatt, a potatne-dealer, in Charlotte-street, Battle-bridge,
wis committed for want of bail, charged with cruelly beating his
wife, the marks of which were shockingly prominent in her face.
The brute has been' committed twice before on similar charges,
when the poor woman procured his discbarge,on prontise of amend-
ment ; but he appears irreclaimable.
31 A RLBO ROUG H-STREET.

James Tartan, a pauper in St. James's Workhouse, was charged
with indecently exposing his person to two children.
Mary Smith, a child about eight years of age, stated; that on
Friday last, between four and five co clock in the evening, the pri-
soner called to her from a window in the above workhouse, and
indecently exposed himself, which witness distinctly described. She
called to another girl, about 14 years of age, of the name of Amelia
Leven, and pointed out to her what prisoner was doing.
Amelia Leven corroborated this evidence.
Mr. Harwood, the master of the workhouse, explained the situa-
tion of the window in relation to the yard where the children were
standing.—The prisoner was called on for his defence, and made no
satisfactory reply.
Mr. Ikea then said, in a very emphatic manner, a JamesTurton,
you have been convicted by the clearest evidence of a crime of
which I know not how to speak in adequate terms. It is unnatu-
ral, unmanly, unchristian; and, I will add, un-English. I lament
to say, that from the many instances of such cases, I fear a total
change of national manners has taken place : your conduct was in-
I tended to make those poor children the unwilling victims to your
base and unnatural passion ; your crime is a misdemeanour at com-
mon law, for which I might send you to trial at the Sessions, bin
I have a power vested in me by the Vagrant Act, which, notwith-
lPfanding all that has been said about this Act, I will fearlessly ex-
ercise, by sending you to the House of Correction for two months,
and I am glad to see around me several respectable Gentlemen
front the Press, who will give a correct and faithful account of what
has occurred this day; so that should you, or any friend of your's,
set forth to the Public a 'False or exinsete statement, as has before
been done, they willfind themselves disappointed."
Information was given at this office of a most daring and exten-
sive burglary committed on Sunday evening, at the hoarse of Mr:
Thomas Fisher, No. 1, Caroline-place, Edgeware-road. The family
had gone out to evening Worship; and dbring their absence the vii-1
lains entered the house by means of picklock keys, and plate, money,
and wearing apparel, amounting to upwards of £lOO, were carried
off by the burglars. 1
Mr. Pollard, of Hanover-street, Hanover-square, attended with
his Solicitor, to oppose ball offered on behalf of a Swiss Centleman
named Victor Jaques, against whom Mr. Pollard exhibited article;
of the peace at the last Sessions, for threatening to shalt Mr. Pol-
lard, because that Gentleman forbade any further correspondence
or intercourse between his daughter and W.Jaques, who was pay-
ing his addresses to her. •
The two persons who offered themselves ai bail underwent a lon
lexamipaUee as to their property, by die Solicitor of Mr. Pollard ;
but h4r. Dna, the Magistrate, said, there did not •appear any
thing to shake their responsibility, and they were admitted to bal.