Star.
London, England, 1824-08-28 00:00:00

HATTON-GARDEN.

A Lady, whose address and habiliments bespoke her of foreign
extraction, appeared before the Magistrates to prefer a request for
an order to view the tread-mill at Cold Bath-fields Pri.on. The
singularity of the application, and the no less unique manner of the
applicant, made Mr. Bones* pause before he replied. The Lady
again repeated her request.
Magistrate.—ls it any of the confined you wish to see, Madam?
Applicant —No, Sir.
Magistrate.—ls yours, then, merely a visit of Inspection ?
Applicant.--Yes, Sir, just so.
Magistrate.—The proper persons to obtain orders from are the
visiting Magistrates ; and neither I nor my brother Justice on the
Bench are visiting Magistrates.
Applicant.—l made application at the Prison, and was referred
to the Magistrates at this office.
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Magistrate.—We may certainly grant you an order; but do you
go alone ?.---Applicant.—Yes • surely, in a Metropolitan Prison
there is nothing indelicate or oensive—nothing, I presume, which
a female might not, with the strictest regard to propriety or deco-
nun2 inspect.
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Iliagisirate.—Certainly nothing indelicate is permitted ; but your
request is rather singular. May I take the liberty of asking, do
you come from the country ?—Applicant.--Yes, Sir; and as I
stay not very long, I was anxious to see everything worth seeing—
indeed, I was particularly desirous to see this treadmill.
Magistrate.—What name shall we grant an order for?

Applicant.—,ilia Lyster, if you please, Sir.
The fair applicant was just then proceeding to state something
of a more particular nature, with respect to the motive that led her
to examine this machine, when Mr. LAM ordered the office to be
cleared. It turned out that Miss Lyster was actuated by a wor-
thier motive than mere curiosity in nuking the request, which was
ultimately granted by Mr. Rooms.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET. •
A young man, named Bradley, was brought' yesterday from St.
James's watch-house,charged w►th robbing a Gent leinan of his watch.

Lieutenant Hickman, of the 11th Light Dragoons, residing in
Eaton-street, Pimlico, said, that between two and three o'clock
that morning, as he was passing through Pall-mall, rather intoxi-
cated, he fell down, when the prisoner, and several others with him,
came to lift him up, after which the prisoner was walking away,
but missing his watch, he charged the prisoner with taking it, and
had him lodged in the watch-house.
In refutation of this charge, the prisoner said that he had been
spending the evening with several friends, all of whom were now
present, at the Rainbow Tavern, In Fleet-street, and they walk A,
after leaving that place, as far as Pall-mall, to sec one of the party
home.. While passing along, Mr. 'Raman, whom they had never
seen before, hailed them as a lot of " runs coves," and asked hi?
way to Pimlico. As lee 'w..iquite drunk, the prisoner tuck hold
of his arm to show him the way, and while they we-re walking
slang the complainant told him that he had just beiore been
robbed by a woman of the town of his watch. After putting him
In his proper road, they trete about to leave the complainant,
when he suddenly accused the prisoner of takiqg his watch, hut, as
for lifting him off the ground, tile complainant never MI a all
while in their company.
This statement was confirmed by the party of friends who were
with the prisoner.

Mr. Cozamet. had no doubt but that the complainant had been
robbed by some woman of the inwn, and that the prisoner was per-
fectly innocent of the chsrge.-r. Bradley was discharged.