Star.
London, England, 1824-08-17 00:00:00

BOW-STREET

MELANCHOLY CASE.-1 poor woman, who stated her name to be
Margaret Jones, was yesterday brought to this Office, on a charge
of stealing a piece of bacon, of the value of 10d. The poor creature
was clad in a devout and cleanly manner and held in her arms an
infant child, at her breast, and by her side stood two other chil-
dren, the eldest of them not more than four years of age. The ap-
pearance of the unhappy groupe was peculiarly interesting, although
all seemed to have suffered from the want of proper nourishment.
The mother was bathed in tears. The charge against the prisoner
was preferred by the shopman of Mr. Careless, a cheesemonger, in
Clare-street, the rotundity of whose well-fed chaps afforded a strong
contra,t to the famished looks of the accused. From bis statement
it appeared that the woman had gone into the shop on the Saturday
night, and after cheapening a piece of bacon she went out. Suspi-
cion arose that she had taken a piece with her, and she was pur-
sued. The moment she was questioned, she dropped the bacon
now produced.
Sir Iticu.sen Mune seemed deeply affected by the spectacle be-
fore him, and exclaimed, " Good Gon! must I commit this poor
woman for trial ?"
The prosecutor, with great coolness, said, his muter had fre-
quently been robbed: in the like way, and if these things were per-
mitted they would lose all their profits.
The husband of the woman then come forward ; he was absorbed
in the deepest grief, and said he was a fringe-maker by trade, bat
could get no employment; he added, that Ws family were literally
starving.
Notwithstanding this statement, the prosecutor persisted in Ms
charge, and Sir R. Blame had no alternative but to commit the
woman to take her trial for the petty larceny.
. The man then applied for en order to have the children received
into the workhouse ; Sir RICHARD advised him to apply to the
Overseer of the parish, who would, no doubt, do everything in his
power to alleviate their distress.—The wretched woman was then I
sent to jail.
The scene which was presented oh her taking leave of her help-
less
offspring, and her affectionate and heart-broken husband, was
of the most agonising description.
CHARGE or Aitsol.—Yesterday, ltibert Ball, a young man of
rather genteel appearance, was charged with setting fire to the house
of Mr. rearne, a tailor, No. 97, Strand.
It appeared from the statement of Mr. Feasne, and his servant,
that the prisoner had lodged in his house about six months, and
that a short time since he brought into his apartments a great qoen-
tity of boots and shoes, with which he stated he intended setting lip
in badness ; that he bad imaged his property in the Sun 14re Office
for 450/. but that the whole had since been removed. On Saturday
night he left home about ten o'clock, and shortly after the place was
discovered to be on the. On breaking open the room door they
found it on life in several places, and a quantity of cloths, soaked
in turpentine, alight in dilfrrent parts of the room. The prisoner
was apprehended at Walwortb übout two o'clock on Monday morn.
Mg. lie was committed to prison fur re-examinutiou.

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The Eberly part of yesterday morning was take,. up In tibe hostas
of Irish rows, from the neighbourhood of Saffron-hill and Cow-
cross, which occurred on Saturday night and Sunday morning. Se-
viral of the rioters were committed in default of bail.
•
I)ati-1 Frost, a lad fifteen years of age, who, the °M cers stated,
was frequently in custody, and was the captain of a gang of juve-
nile thieves, was remanded, charged with privately stealing to the
dwelling-house of William *Fallen, of Royston-street, a silver watch,
his property.
Two men and a woman were brought up in the custody of
TLlsel-
ton, charged on suspicion of being concerned in the burglary and
robbery at the Cross Keys, Caxton, Cambridgeshire, where the
barn was broke open, and a cart, loaded with fourteen boxes of ha-
bertia.liery and other goods, to the value of 6001. the property of
Wm. Steward, a licensed hawker, was completely carried off.
They underwent a long private examination, no part of which was
suffered to transpire, and were committed for another examination.

Ilarris, the mulatto, who was charged on suspicion 0 the same
robbery, was discharged.

A respectable-looking man, named Noon, a clerk, residing in Clerk-
enwell, was brought up yesterday, charged by Mundy, a
watchman of Cleikenwell, with assaulthig and obstructing him in
the execution of his duty, on last Saturday night.
The watchman stated, that about twelve o'clock on that night,
he observed a tradesman and his wife coming down Coppice-row
and at the corner of Crawford-passage the female was seized with
a fit, which naturally attracted a crowd around her. He went to
give every assistance in his power, and to procure water and other
restoratives, when the defendant most officiously interfered, ob-
jeered to the recumbent posture in which the woman lay, and in-
sisted upon placing her in an erect position. He was, under such
circuoistancei, compelled to give him a slight *me, when imme-
diately the defendant struck him a violent blow on the eye. He
was of course obliged to abandon his humane occupation, and take
the prisoner to the watch-house.
The defendant briefly denied the charge, and referred the Ma-
gistrate to the evidence of his witnesses, as a more satisfactory way
of rebutting it.

Mr. Leach, a respectable watchmaker, of Vicki Terrace, liattle
Bridge, deposed that he was totally unacquainted with either party;
but that observing the conduct of the watchman on the occasion,
he felt it a, duty which he owed to the public to interfere. Any as-
sistance which was offered to the poor woman came entirely from
the hy-standers, and as the crowd was excessive, the defendant re-
quested that more air should be admitted to her, upon which the
watchman shoved him three times across the street, and at last
struck him a violent blow on the head with his stick. [Here Mr.
Noon produced his hat, which was quite cut through, and be also
exhibited a large tumour on his head, the effect of the blow.)—See-
ing the defendant so wantonly outraged (although they were per-
fect strangers), he bailed bim at the watch-house, where the con-
stable of the night expressed a reluctance to take the charge.
The husband of the woman seized with the fit corroborated the
preceding statement.
The Magistrate, Mr. Lam, said, that he was astonished at the
effrontery of the complainant in daring to bring forward such a
charge, and expressed his readiness to hear Mr. Noon's charge
against the watchman for this gross assault.
The parties being sworn again, the same facts were stated ; upon
which Mr. Laing ordered the watchman to find bail, and expressed
his fear that be was acting too leniently in out suspending him.

UNION-HALL

Captain Ciithberison, an °Meer on the retired list of one of
the West India Regiments, was charged with committing an
assault on a tobacconist named Halley. The defendant was dressed
in the most miserable plight, having neither shoes nor stockings to
Isis feet, and his upper garments were not Worth Si. His appear-
ance was wretched in the estreme,and in the neighbourhood where
he resided, he went by the name of the " Mad Captain." Having
walked into the tobacconist's shop, be asked fora particular kind
of tobacco, and being Informed that they had none, he gave the
tobacconist a blow on the eye. A Constable of Newington said,
that the Captain had received a wound In the bead when abroad,
from the etts of which he was.quite delirious when he drank
spirits. Unfortunately, from the moment. he received his half-pay,
be continued drinking until every farthing was gone, and than be
would dispose of his mat or breeches, and. walk.aboi* wrapped IR
in an o.ld blanket or counterpane. He had on some occations been
divested of this coveting by the boys, and thee he wZuld walk home

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Upon shiarstadectaking be was discharged.
Two Clerks in the 'War bake, and four other
persons, were lately arrested for having foi ged a great
number of brevets' of Knights of fit. Louis, and of the
documents necessary to obtain them. Three of these
persons have been set at liberty, and the others are to be
tried at the Assizes. The details of this affair, which it
expected to come on in September, will be extlemely
curious. A great number of persons belonging to the
most honourable classes of society, whose confidence and
credulity have been most scandalously abused by thew
criminals, will be exartsioed us witnesses.—Freucli paper.
Count Luton, Peer of Prance, was, on Wednesday,
while walking in the Roe Neuve-des-Petits-Champs,
at Paris, thrown down by an English carriage, and
left weltering in his blood. The carriage was at hut
stopped, and Lady Caner:rotor; got out, and made
room fur the wounded Count. Two persons paid geest
attention to Count Liscit. He was conveyed to one
of their houses, and is now much better.

LIMSRICK,Jtrtv 31.—Wednesday night last, a dwell.
ing-house, cow-house' and stable, on the lands of Clon.
curry, county Clare, the estate of Mr. Arthur, of Glene-
mer a, were maliciously burned ; they were all un.
tenanted. The annexed Rock-notice was found posted
on the door contiguous r—"Sir,—General John
commander of and Chief of Ireland, gives warning to
John Flute to quit the place ; or else if he does not, hat
he will get a worse death than Ryan; or if he gives his
Majesty the trouble of coming any more, that he s ill
consume both houses and cattle to ashes. His Majesty
gives orders to James Madden in like manner; to quit
the place from his herding."
The Court of the County of Limerick was occupied
the entice of Saturday sennight with the trial of Mu--
tough and Daniel Flinn, send Charlet Ansley, for the
murder of their nephew, Jobn Hartnett, at Coulna-
madda, near Abbeyfeali, on Thursday, the 15th of
January last. The prisoners were found guilty, and sen-
tenced to be hanged on Monday last. •
DRCADFUL ACCIDENT NUR 1317XT0N.--SatUrday se'n.
night, as two men, Abraham Brown and John Bennett,
were preparing to blast the rock is a tunnel at which they
were working, the gunpowder took fire whilst they were
in the act of ramming down the charge, and instantly
exploded,and the poor fellows received such dreadful in-
jury, that Brown died the nest day, having one of his
legs nearly blown off and his body shockingly mangled.
He has left three children totally destitute, his wife
having been dead two years. Bennett had one of his
legs broken in three places, is at present quite blind,
and his whole frame very much brntsed end lacerated ;
hopes are nevertheless entertained of his recovery. After
the accident, no person being near, Bennett crawled
upon his hands and one knee, dragging the broken limb
after him, a distance of 100 yards, to the tunnel's mouth,
tressed a river, and proceeded a quarter of a male fur-
ther in this state before any assistance could be hal
Brown, by some means, got into a small waggon, used
for the purposes of mining, which he found near the
spot, and propelled himself to the mouth of Vo tunnel
by using his hands against the roof of it, and was found
in the cabin wizen assistance ;mired, in a most de.
plorable state.

BIRTH.
Thursday, at &iglus*, Lady POIVIIe, of a som.

ILIA RRIED.
Yesterday, at Cranford, the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, sun of ;he
late Burl of Berkeley, to Caroline, youngest daughter of the late
rain DenlntA, Esq.
Tuesday, at Mary-la-bonne Climb-, Captain Rowley, li.N. to
Charlotte, daughter of John Moseley, F.sq.
Matuirg sennight, at Ayr, W: A. Smith, Esq. Adjutant 11
Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry, to 31Iss George Elizabeth Crawford,
of Doonside.
Saturday, at St. James's Church, Captain read, R.N. to Hein
Mary, daughter to the late Robert Scott, Esq. of Shinclife
'ill the county of Durham.
At Prince of Wales's Island, on the lath of February, Lieut.
J. C. Coffin, of the Madras Army, to Miss AI. Harington, eltie4:
daughter of T. T. Hariagtoo, Esq.
DIRD.

Thursday, aged 61, A. D. Stone, M.D. late of the Charterknuse.
August 11, at Nloilbury, aged 15, William, only sou of the lie►.
Villiam Stackhouse.
Saturday se'nnight, at Hornsea, in Yorkshire, aged 21, norms
Tifton Garland, a Lieutenant in the East York Militia.
Friday, at lodgings, ki Portsmouth, George ItKay, Req. lately
nded from Jamaica, aged 37.

NEWOATE sop LIidDENHALT. MARKRTS. August 16.
Beef
Mutton ...... 2. 84 to 3s 8d Pork 34 Od to 44 64
Lamb 4. Od to 41 6d,