Star.
London, England, 1824-09-09 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

ll'alto and William Narcy, father and son, were charged with
robbing the Barnet carrier of two chests of tea. The prisoners
stopped the carter opposite the George Inn, and said they had been
sent by Messrs. Bedwell and Yates, of St. John-street, who had
made a mistake about the five chests of -tea which they had deli-
vered to him, and they must take two of them back again. Finch
unsuspectingly let them take the chests, and they made off. Finch
could not swear to William Narey. but Walter was committed for
the felony. William Narey, however, was detained on suspicion
of having robbed the Windsor waggon in a similar manner a short
time since. _

BOW-STREET.
Margaret Barry, a decent looking woman, underwent a final ex-
aminatior. on a charge of uttering base and counterfeit money. It
appeared that the prisoner had passed a bad half-crown to a publi-
can in Hanover-street, and on her endeavouring to dispose of another
near the same spot for a trifling article, she was pursued and taken
into custody.
The Solicitor of the Mint attended, and distinctly proved both
the half-crowns to be counterfeit, and made from the same die. The
prisoner was fully committed for trial.
In our Paper of Tuesday se'nnight, we stated that an application
was made on the preceding day at this Office, by a Mr. John Bull,
of Chelsea, for redress against certain persons through whose mis-
conduct it was alleged his son, a boy about eight years of age, and
another lad of about 15, were drowned in the Thames, near Bat-
tersea Bridge. He was then told that the Magistrates could not in-
terfere, and that be bad better wait until the bodies were found,
and then produce whatever evidence he might be able to procure,
before the Coroner's Inquisition. The body of Mr. Bull's son was
found on Thursday morning last, about eleven •clock, floating near
some barges, opposite to the Duke's Head, at Putney, and on the
following day an Inquest was held before the Coroner for Surrey.
Mr. Bull had been indefatigable in his endeavours to procure evi-
dence, conceiving that the conduct of those who caused the fatal
catastrophe was highly culpable, and ought to. be made the subject
of a criminal prosecution. He was in attendance with a host of
witnesses, but the Coroner, after hearing the testimony of two only,
refused to have any more called. A verdict of " Accidental Death"
was returned by the Jury. Subsequently Mr. Bull sought the ad-
vice of Mr. Harmer, the Solicitor, and upon reference to an Act
of Parliament of the 19th Geo. 11. which was passed for the pro-
tection of the Public against the carelessness or other misconduct
of watermen, a clause was found which enacts that no wherry shall
carry, for freight or hire, on a Sunday, more than eight persons,
and any waterman offending against this regulation shall forfeit, for
the first offence, £fis, and for the second £lO, and be disfranchised
from working on the River, and from all the privileges of the Wa-
termen's Company for twelve months ; " and (continues the sta-
tute) if in any such case onb or more passenger or passengers in the
said wherry shall be drowned, then the waterman shall, upon being
duly convicted, be deemed guilty of felony, and be transported as
a felon." Upon this clause a warrant was applied for against Joseph
Sharp, the waterman who plied the wherry in which the accident
happened, and John Prest, a man who was assisting in rowing at the
time, and they were yesterday brought before T. Hau.s, Esq. the
sitting Magistrate.
In the present case, it was proved in evidence that Sharpe had
no fewer than fourteen passengers in his wherry at the time it was
upset, and Mr. Harmer, who attended for the prosecution, pressed
the Magistrate to commit for the felony. He assured his Worship,
that though Mr. Bull had been deprived of a beloved child through
the gross misconduct of the prisoner, he did not press for his coin-
I mitment from any vindictive feeling, but merely from a sense of
public duty, anti in the hope, that by making an example of him,
he might preserve other parents from a similar calamity.
Sharpe, in his defence, professed great sorrow for what had
happened, but denied that the number of his passengers bad any
thing to do with it. It was entirely caused, he said, by the unskil-
fulness of the people in the other boat ; and as to his boat being
overloaded, that was no fault of his, for he did all he could to drive
some of them out before he pushed off from the shore.
The Magistrate, after some further discussion on the construc-
tion of the Statute, told the prisoner that his conduct, in the most
lenient point of view, had been extremely reprehensible, and as the
prosecutor insisted upon proceeding against him for the felony, he
must take his trial for that offence; but in consideration of his large
family, and his general good character, he would in the meantime
admit hint to bail.

He was then ordered to find bail fur his appearance at the next
Surrey Sessions—himself in 801. and two sureties in 401. each ; and
to give twenty-four hours' notice of such bail.
MA R LBOROU G H-ST RE ET.
Yesterday, Elisabeth Sharp, a young woman of very decent ap-
pearance, who has been some days In custody upon a charge of
robbing her master, Mr. WiUis, the proprietor of the Thatched
House Tavern, St. James'e-street, in whose service she had been
about four months, as chambermaid, was brought up for final
examination.
It appeared by the evidence of Mr. Willis, that having missed
a quantity of plate, silver spoons, forks, &c. he suspected the pri-
soner, and gave information to Clements, one of the officers of this
establishment, and, on Clements questioning her, she confessed
the fact, and gave hint np the duplicates of the property, which she
bad pledged with Mr. ltochfort, a pawnbroker, in Brewer-street,
Golden-square.
Mr. Rochfort's shopman produced the plate,but he could not po-
sitively swear to the prisoner as the female who pawned it.
Mr. Willis identified the plate as belonging to hint; indeed, for
the most part, it was marked with bistutme.
Mr. DVIER, the Magistrate, made some observations upon pawn-
brokers taking in plate so marked, without making inquiry.
Mr. Rochfort's shopman said, that he did question the girl who
pledged the plate, and sbe said that she was sent by her mistress, a
Lady named WilUs, to pawn it.
The prisoner, who while at the bar was scarcely able to support
herself, so deeply was she affected, almost to convulsions, sobbing
and moaning in a most piteous manner, having nothing to say in
her defence, was fully committed for trial, and the parties bound
over to prosecute.
UN [ON-HALL.

Yesterday morning, Sir John Farnahy and Mr. Goodhart, of
Beckenham, came to the office, and informed Mr. Att.'s:4, the Ma•'
gistrate, that since the last examination of Thomas Coombs (now

In custody), the body of James Morgan, the unf,irtunate man whs
bad been shot, was disinterred, and the worth& of Nvldch" he disci
opened by a surgeon, who extracted five slugs, some shot, and three
pebble stones from the orifice. It will be recollected that when
Coombs was apprehended, the loaded pistol found in the privy,
into which be had thrown it, was ex:unified, end found to contaii, a
heavy charge of powder, shot, slugs, and ?Able stones. There Iv.
also found on his person u bright steel chatter, half filled, withssis;
and slugs. The whole of the.abovementioned charges were (chi.
bited to Sir John and Mr. Goodhart, both of whom, after a ctme
inspection, pronounced that they exactly resembled the Shot, slugs,
and pebble stones extracted from the body of Morgan.