Star.
London, England, 1824-10-06 00:00:00

RI. BOROU 11.SlilEF.- T.

Louis' Louis. an 'American was brought-before Mr. Co airy, and
charged vrikk vagrancy. Aids is the individual mentioned is the
Jprinted evidence taken-before the. House of. Commons, on the sub-
ett of tnetidicity. He was there described. as the soap.eaterv--as
one who used to pat soap into his mouth, and, having-softened it,
reamed at the mouth, and excited.coropaasian,•by pretteding tube
in' strong fits. Since the disooverrof his artifice, he bas been obliged
to have recourse tothe parish ; and w.is, on Monday, fumed intoxi-
'cated in the street: He said .be was .born in 'the. United States ;
that-be had =applied to the .Consul of his Nation ;. but that •he re*
(unending him home, on.accannt of his having fought. under the
lag.
Mr. CONANT said, be Lad made an improper use of the relief that
the parish bad given him, and ordered-him to be lucked up unfit he
paid i fl*e of ;is.

. .111.Y.L.A.80N N E DEICE.
Miry Ames was: chargalwitkpluadering silZhelsea pensioner of
the name of John Cos,. under• the following _aggravated eircum.
stances:—The prosecutor, who. is at once old, infirm,: and•blind,
had, about a twelvensomlsegp, consented, at the request ofthis wife,
to• afford :the :prisoner. a temperary asylum, she being at that time in
;great distress, audi having been formenly known to his wife. For
some weeks she sbam4With tketn,their *lender pittance, and at last
evinced her gratitude to her benefactors by taking advantage of
the absence of the• prosecutoes.wife to pack up a bundle, consisting
of all the portable articles she could lay her hands 00, .and which
carte, in fact, almost all her benefactors were possessed of, with
which she•decamped. For a long while nothing was heard of her,
but the vengeance •of abused hospitality at last overtook her; the
veteran wasiwalking along the street, led by his little boy, when
the prisoner happened to pass them, and was immediately recap.
raised and pointed out by the latter, and by the assistance of a per-
eon pining by at the time, was taken into custody.
..4'he•iegal evidence to bring the offence home to her was not very
dear, but was strengthened by a voluntary confession which the
prisoner, conscience-stricken, had made on being apprehended.
She was fully committed fur trial.

QUEEN-SQUA RE.
Mr: Ffrencii, the Barrister, attended at this Office with a woman
of colour, and applied fur a warrant against a person named Vit.
Arms, the landlord of a public-house, in King-street, Westminster,
for taking some money and other property belonging to a black man
named Bryan, the lnisbaud of the female.
circumstances under which the warrant was applied for
ware these :—One.of Lord Byron's black servants, named Louis,
who accompanied the body to England, was seized with the small.
pox. : He lodged at house, and finding himself getting
worse, be sent for Bryan, and requested hint to take possession of
his purse' which eontaised.meney4 and. his trunk, as he was going
into the Small Pox Hospital. Bryan declined doing sus, but the
trunk was deposited in Williams's Ueda. A few days alter Louis.
had been in the hospital,- he sent fee Bryan, salokbe should not live
long, bequeathed to him all hie property, and gave hint the key of
the trunk., On the following day he died. The body was then
'removed-to Bryan's house, and he made himself liable for the un-
dertaker's bIW amounting to aL 11s. On the boa being opened at
Mr. Williams's house ally eight dollars and a sovrreign.were found.-
and these were ftfesed to be given up.
agr..Wasuramauseshlb flat an had been made to Mr.
Quietly-who was out of town, aid heWawid. peweee the ob'
until MI relent.