Star.
London, England, 1831-06-23 00:00:00

POLICE REPORTS.

GUILDHALL.—Marin Shuissier, a middle.aged French.
man, was brought before Mr. Alderman A ?ISLET yesterday,
charged with attempting to murder Louis Henry Marche, a
French merchant, in ths dark staircase between the stone
gallery round the bottom of the dome of St. Paul's, and the
iron gallery at the top of it, about four o'clock on Tuesday
afternoon.

The complainant gave his evidence in his native language.
He had shipped his property to go to Brazil, and intended
to take the prisoner, who bad been his servant ten years,
with him as a companion. They were to sail in the same
vessel with the goods, and everything was on board, as the
ship would leave the Docks as early as Satuiday next. On
Tuesday afternoon, lie and the prisoner went to view St.
Paul's, and nothing remarkable occurred till they descended.
Witness walked first, and while he was going down he felt
his hat knocked off: It rolled down two or three stairs, and
while he was stooping he felt himself seized from behind
by the collar of his coat, and at the same instant tome dread.
ful blcws were inflicted on the crown of his head. Ile
shrieked, and broke away from the murderous grasp, with.
out looking round to see who Isis assailant was, being
satisfied in his own mind, at the moment, that it must
be his companion. He was not aware that any other
person was on the staircase. As he pursued his way down
the stairs, his cries alarmed some person below; he was led
into the vestry, where his wounds were attended to, and
the prisoner was detained. He did not wish to prosecute
the prisoner, as the detention till the Sessions would cause
bin, to lose ha passage.
Wm. Folager, of 12, Fisher-street, Red Lion.square, was
sitting at the bottom of the lowest staircase, when he heard
a cry of murder and um running up about 120 stairs, he
met the complainant with the blood streaming from him in
all directions. He was crying stop the wait! but no one
had come down that staircase for sometime, nor did he ob-
serve the prisoner following, and he did slot come down till
seven or eight minutes afterwards, when he produced his hat,
in proof that he also had been attacked. The side of his
hat was broken, and the lining was protruding through the
hole. The lining was stained with blood, but there was no
cut or bruise on the prisoner's head. When the prisoner saw
his master in the vestry, he went to him and embraced him.
The complainant, on the contrary, as soon as he perceived
him, shook his stick at Min, and expressed great alarm lest
the prisoner should leave the church, run home to his lodg-
ing, add carry off some valuable property.
Mr. Munton, of Windsor-terrace, Mile End-road, said
ihe took his daughter up to the iron gallery on Tuesday
afternoon, and they found three persons there, the two
Frenchmen, and a third who was dressed in a blue coat
and white ►rowsers. They were talking together. Wit-
ness had occasion to pass them three or four times, and
the look of the prisoner made him fed singularly no.
comfortable; it so strongly bespoke a feeling that their
presence was very unwelcome. He did not hear the cries
of the complainant, but when a man came up and said
there had been an attempt to murder, lie perceived the
three persons bad gone down, but he did not see them go.
Langworth, an officer of the cathedral, who is stationed to
show the visitors the ball, if required, stated that there are
seven flights of stairs between the iron and the stone gallery.
He stands about ten stairs down from the top, where the
passage is narrow, and only one person can pass at the same
time, and by running to the bottom of the second fight, he
can command a complete view of the other five. The
prisoner had been up two or three times before, and as he
and his friend came down, he asked them if tncy would see
the ball ? They passed on, and in about two minutes and a
half he heard some dreadful screams. He ran to the bottom
of the second flight, and caught sight of the prisoner's back
just as he was going out into the stone gallery. The com-
plainant had gone on before him, and hearing no further
cries, he concluded it was a specimen of French vivacity—a
mere joke, and returned to his post. After this the gentle-
man with a blue coat and white trowsers came down, and he
could swear most positively that no other persons were on the
staircases at the time the complainant screamed, than the
complainant and the prisoner.
The vergers were examined, but their evidence did not
carry the case any further.
Two knives were found on the prisoner, but there were no
marks of blood on them ; nor had any flint-stone or other
thing by which the mischief might have been committed
been found, either on the staircase, or in the stone gallery.
The complainant's head seemed to have been dreadfully
mangled., but the surgeon was not sent for to speak to the
nature of the wounds.

The prisoner vehemently protested his innocence, and de-
clared the attack was made by a third person. He had not
quarrelled with complainant, and could have no motive to
commit such a deed.

Mr. Alderman AXILCY kindly falling in with the com-
plainant's desire not to prosecute, deliberated for some time
on the best mode of disposing of the matter. The com-
plainant, dreading a further attempt on his life, seemed to
wish that the prisoner should be detained till the ship had
sailed ; but Mr. Alderman Ansley did not like that the poor
fellow should be turned adrift destitute In this country, and
it might be troublesome to get the Consul to pass him. The
Alderman proposed to discharge him instanter, on com-
plainant's landlord undertaking not to suffer him to sleep in
his house again t but finally, as we understood, his Wor-
t ship remanded the prisoner till this day, then to be liberated,
his clothes given up to him, and his passage secured to
France.

Ustiost.iffar..—Yesterday, a respectable married woman,
named Taylor, the mother of three children, was brought
up in custody, on a charge of shoplifting.
From the evidence, it appeared that the prisoner went into
the shop of a Mr. Griffiths, a silversmith and pawnbroker,
Ossulston.street, St. Pancras, to make some inquiries re-
specting a watch. On her entrance, a coral necklace, with
gold clasps, value ten guinea*, was lying on the counter ;
and while the shopman was taking pains to give her all the
information in his power relative to the article about which
she inquired, the prisoner nutnaged to slip the necklace into
I her pocket. She left the shop about ten minutes before the
article was missed, and, although pursued, *be escaped.—
Some days after the robbery, the prisoner took the necklace
to a shopkeeper In the Borough, where the article was idea.
tided by the shopkeeper, who had received a description of
it in the Police Report; and she was detained until the ar-
rival of Mr. Griffiths, who gave her into custody.
The prisoner vehemently asserted her innocence of the
offence with which she was charged, declaring that she
was never in Mr. Griffiths's ahop in herlife; and accounted
for the necklace being in her possession, by stating that abe
had been presented with it by some individual who lodged
in her house.
She was committed.
QUEEN-sou atm.—Yesterday, Sassuef Dukes, a porter
In the employ of Mr. Whitehouse, a coach.plate manu-
facturer, was charged with absconding with bank notes
and sovereigns, to *a amount of fifty pounds, and also
with stealing a valuable mare. On Monday afternoon,
Mr. Austen, the peelesswe's clerk, gave the prisoner fifty
pseuds la bank ewes and sovereigns, to go to Lombard.
MINI to take up a bill se that moat, and in order that he
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clothes with part of the money, and gave up 13 stmereio.
and 10s. but on searching him a 201. bank note was fout.d
concealed in one stocking, and a 10L bank note in the other,
and afterwards a sovereign was found in his mouth. The
mare was also found at a livery stables. The prisoner was
fully committed for trial.
THAMES POLlCE.—Yesterday, a final examination totk
place of the five youths, named Stenicken, Stapleton,
Thomas, While, and Perkins, charged with having excited
James Pink, aged 11 years, the son of Mr. J. C. Pink, of
the King's Arms, Green Bank, Wapping, to rob his father
of upwards of 1001. in money, during the last 15 'youths.
Perkins was apprehended on Monday morning, on his re.
lease from the House of Correction, where he had been con-
fined on another charge. He confessed to Ellis the office'.
that he had received fifty pounds in gold alone, at various
times, from young Pink, and that he had extorted in all
from the boy about ninety pounds. He also said that the
other prisoners were in the habit of coming every day,
and getting money from the boy, besides liquor.—
Several witne‘ses proved that the prisoners had been in the
habit of frequenting the house before Mr. Pink got up in tit(
morning ; and others deposed to selling a pleasure-boat lot
81. to Stenicken, and a snuff-box for 255. which was paie
for with money abstracted by the boy from his father's cash-
box. The prisoners were committed:to Newgate for trial.
THE ASTELL EAST INDIASIAN.—Tuesday Mr. Henry
Wise, the chief of of the Astell East Indianian, waitn!
upon Mr. BALLANTINE, the sitting magistrate, respecting
the application of two seamen of that vessel, for a summons
against Captain Lawrence, their commander, who they
alleged had kept them on short allowance while at sea for 21
days, and refused to allow them any compensation since they
bad been ashore.

Mr. Wise, who was accompanied by the other officers and
20 of the crew, said that one part of the report of the pro.
ceedings mentioned that he had " expressed himself favour.
able to their (the sailors') claim, and told the crew to enforce
It by legal means." He begged leave to state that he had
never given any such advice to the men, and the statement,
unless contradicted, would do him considerable injury.
Mr. BALLANTIXE said he was not the Magistrate to
whom the application was made, but he had been informed
the report was strictly correct, and he was confident that the
respectable journals which had published the statement com-
plained or, would give publicity to the explanation of Mr.
Wise. At the same tome he was of opinion, if the appli-
cant had given such advice as that mentioned by the sailors,
his character as a gentleman and an officer of the Honourable
Company's Service, would not have been at all com-
promised.
Mr. Wise said it would have been incompatible with his
duties as chief officer of the ship, to have excited the crew to
lay a complaint against their captain, and he had nothing to
do with their alleged grievances. It was a question over
which he had no control, and it ,entirely rested .between the
ship's company, their commander, and owner.
The sailors present declared that Mr. Wise had never given
them any advice on the subject, or spoken to them about their
short allowance.

The officers of the ship made the same assertion.
Several persons who were preheat' when the application
was made by the two seamen on Friday last, stated that they
had beard them distinctly declare that Mr. ',Vise had ad.
vised them to seek redress by legal means, and that 'no.
thing could have been more correctly given than the report.
Mr. Wise said the men had told a falsehood, and again
declared that he bad never spoken to them on the subject.
Mr. BALLANTIXE said the two sailors had no dJubr
made an unwarrantable use of Mr. Wise's name in order to
strengthen their application for a summons, aid he was quite
satisfied he had not given them any advice about their short
allowance compensation. •
Mr. Wise thanked the Magistrate, and retired with bit
brother officers.

iaAWBET 11-S T .—Yesterday a youth, named Henry
Brown, was committed to Newgste for trial, on a charge of
having stolen a quantity of tools belonging to revcral jour.
neymzn carpenters, and a part of which were found in his
possession.
TOWX•HALL.—Rober: Gray, an old man-of-war's.msn,
was charged with not maintaining his wife. The wife had
been in the pow-house for 12 years, the husband being no.
where to be found, having, it appears, ban at sea, on board
several ships of war, and at the battle of Trafalgar, and lastly
on board the Louisa frigate, and was now laid up in ordinary
upon a pension of 81. per year. The parish officers disco-
vering it, lodged a warrant at the Pay-office, on which he wu
taken. The assignment of the pension being the main eta
in view, that matter settled, the veteran WAS discharged with.
out further security.

COURT FOR RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Pri-
soners hereinafter named (the same bowleg been filed In
the Court) are appointed to be beard at the Court-house,
in Portugal-street, Lincoln's lon-fields, on Tuesday,
July sth, at nine in the forenoon.
ohn Scholefield, late of 26, High-street, Wapping, pew-
terer and beer-engine manufacturer.
Chains Hawes, late of Adam-street, Rotherhithe, out of
business.
Henry Crane, late of 19, Counter-street, Borough Market,
and of the Talbot Inn- yard, High-street, Southwark,
coffee-roaster and keeper of coffee-rooms.
Thomas Sawed, late of Tonbridge A ells. tailor.
Frederick Rainger, late of 40 and 41, Burlington Arcade,
Piccadilly, milliner and jeweller.
George Bagley, late of 24, Rockingham row, New Kent
road, warehouseman.
Benjamin Hall, late of King-street, St. Gorge's in the
East, coffee roaster.
James Chilton, late of 18, Queen.square, Bloomsbury, at-
torney at law.
George Heard, late of 3, Kennington lane, Surrey, hair
dresser.
George Hutton, late of 3, Dobson terrace, Kennington road,
Surrey, topographical writer.
Robert Cross, late of 10, New Inn yard, Shoreditch, coal
dealer.
Wm. Vere, late of 2, Allen's place, Stratford, Essex, stone
mason and surveyor.
Michael Ryan, late of 21. Marine square, Brighton, and of
Little Pultency street, Golden square, Middlesex, car-
penter and builder.
George Andrew Fox, late of Little Hermitage street, Wap-
ping, shipwright.
R. Prichard, late of 1, Park row, Mill's buildings, Knights.
bridge, merchant's clerk and accountant.
E. Jones, late of the Butter Market and Northgate street,
Canterbury. Kent, and also of Edmonton, Middlesex,
common brewer.
Wednesday, July 6.
William Mayon, late of Friday-street, Cheapside, out of
business.
James Launder, jun. late of Gray's Inn-lane, painter and
gluier, and collector of the sewer rate.
John Martin, late of Walthainstow Essex, farmer.
Thomas Kettle, late of 143, Minories, stationer, wife car-
Tying on the business of a pork butcher.
Win. Delves, late of Belgrave-place, Pimlico, gentleman.
Thomas Jones, late of St. James's-place, Hampstead-rood,
out of business.
Edward Horne Morgan, late of 20, Brook-street, Rattling-
ton-road, journeyman coachmaker.
John Mepham, late of 8, Green street, Paddington, jour-
neyman carman.
James Matson, late of 7, Park-street, Poplar, carpenter and
chandler's shopkeeper.

The 22d inst. at St.James's-place;the wife of Archdeacon
King, of a daughter.—The 21st Inst. in Southampton-row.
Mrs. Frederick Skey, of a son.—At KUlermont, North Bn.
rain, on the 17th inst. the lady of John Colquhoun, Esq. of
a son.

MARRIED.

At Leghorn, on the sth inst. in the British Chapel, A.
Homfray, M. D. son of Sir J. Homfray, to Eustatia, daugh-
ter of Vice-Admiral Donnelly. and sister of Lady AudJey.--
The 21st inst. at Henley-on-Thames, the Rev. P. B. Mod.
M.A. student of Christ Church, Oxford, to Agnes, fourth
daughter of the Rev. J. G. Busaell, of the sibove place.—
The 22d inst. at Battersea, T. A. Harkey. Esq. of Fen-
church-street, to Elisabeth, eldest daughter of G. Green.
Req. of Blackwell.

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The 29th of April last, W. Gilchrist, of the Wand or
Antigua. Req.—The 20th lost. at Brighton, Ann,
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of
T. 8 Hewitt, of Clareinont.Teerace,
The lBth inst. Edward, the eldest sou of Mr. Teary, of
Hattoe-garden, aged 11.—The 21st. inst. at Clarence.pisee.
Camborwell, Mr. Skilbeek, for many yams an ialsabbant of
Vhaapsides Jo the 71st year of Ibis
18, at Priors Marston, the Rev. U. Harwood, AN. Ite7:
years, upwards of twenimlght years Canoe of
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