Star.
London, England, 1825-11-08 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

THE (litigator.: or " Go ng," DlClllll).—Saturday morning, a Gen-
damn was brought from Covent-garden watch-house, charged with
improper conduct on the preceding evening, and not going on when I
directed by the watchman. The statement of the latter was this:
—lie had seen the defendant talking to a gay Lady in the street,
and required him to move on. Ile re losing to do this, he was taken
to the watch house, and insisted on being detained. The defendant
requested to know from ?dr. HALLS, the sitting Magistrate, whether
the watchman was authorised to direct hint to move on, while
talking in the street ? _ _

Mr 7 I larrs told him he was. If persons, however respectable,
would remain talking in the street to women of improper character,
who were generally connected with thieves, the watchmen might
and ought to order them to move on. If any doubt on the point
existed in the Gentleman's mind, the Magistrates would send him
before a Jury ofhis country, and then he w ould he convinced.
The defendant said be had no objection to this authority being
exercised, but the peremptory and rude manner in which he had
spoken, was extremely unpleasant.
Mr. Harts told him that watchmen were generally selected from
the lowest ranks of society, and, therefore, could nut be expected
either to be always temperate in the exertion of their authority, nor
polite in their manners.
A well-dressed man, of the Jewish persuasion, named Thomas
Route, was brought up charged with committing a robbery at the
Garrick's Head Hotel, Bow-street.
The prisoner, it appeared, had been in the habit constantly of
supping at the Garrick's Head, and one evening, the week before
last, after he was gone, a silver saltceUer and spoon were missing.
On Friday evening last, he supped there again, and about au hour
after he had left, the waiter missed a silver saitceller and two spoons
from the table at which the prisoner had taken his supper. On
Saturday night he came once snore, and when he bad finished his
supper, but before he departed, the waiter missed a saltceller and
two table spoons troin the table. He informed Mr. Thomas, the
proprietor of the hotel, who sent for an officer and pointed out the
prisoner, desiring him to take hint in charge. The officer went up
to him and said," I want you, Sir; you must come with are.'
" Want me !" said the prisoner, in seeming surprise, " what can you
want with me ?" The officer said, he would soon learn, and re-
moved him from his seat, and underneath where he had been sitting
the missing articles were found.
The prisoner made no defence, and was fully committed for trial.
Yesterday, Henry Thumwoul, the proprietor and driver of one
of the Windsor stage-coaches, appeared to answer to a complaint
preferred against hint at the instance of the Adjutant of the Grena-
dier Guard', tor an assault upon a soldier of that corps.
The case was heard, in part, on Thursday last, when the de.
fensLiit admitted the offence, and offered any apology that would
not degrade him as a respectable man, and Sir R. 8110411, post-
poned the hearing, to give him an opportunity to make his peace
with the Adjutant, but that officer termed to accept of an apology.
It was stated by the soldier who was assaulted, and a sergeant
of the Regiment, that on Monday sennight, a detachment which
had been at drill in the Bird-cage-walk, in St. James's Park,
was returning to the King's Mews, and the men were crossing the
carriage-road to the Mews-gate, when the defendant drove his leaden
directiy into the file. The complainant seeing the horses, as he
thought, about to run over him, held up his firesock to defend him-
self, and one of the leaders ran his bead against it, upon which the
defendant stood up in his box, untwisted his whip, and laid on upon
the shoulders of the complainant with all his might.
The porter at the Mews-gate corroborated the above statement.
The witnesses were asked by Sir R. Brame, if they were sure
that the defendant was not striking at the horses, and so bit the
complainant by accident'?
They replied, that he took deliberate aim at the complainant.
In answer to the charge, the defendant admitted that be had
struck the soldier, and Sir R. Brame said he must find bail, which
was prdcured, and he was discharged.
A Gentleman was summoned by the driver of the cabriolet No.
11, for the remainder of his fare, amounting to I s . 6J.
The Gentleman said he had told the driver that, as he bad •
number of places to call at, he wanted to hire him by the hour, and
if he did not like to take him upon those terms he should not engage
him. The driver, after considering a short time, agreed, and after
going his rounds the Gentleman paid the complainant 4s. 6d.
though he knew the fare to be 24* The driver demanded Is. 6d.
mere, stating that the distance was over five miles.
Sir It. Mean said the driver bad the option either of charging
by the hour or distance.
The (gentleman submitted that when an agreement was proved,
the driver must abide by it.
Sir It. Braun looked at the clause relating to that point, sod then
said that there was no part which gave the option to the driver to
charge for distance, when an agreement was proved.
The driver did not deny that he had made such an agreement,
and the case was dismissed.