Star.
London, England, 1812-01-20 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW-STREET.—On Satnrd.iy the bloody knife and
jacket belonging to NVilliams, were brought to tins
'Ace. The Officer belonging to Sitadwell Police-
Office who found them, underwent a private investi-
gation before Mr. Graham. The 1 indlord of the
Doke ci Kent public-housc has also given evidence
upon the subject before the s..inat Magistrate.

The character of Mrs. VEttsiti.vr, in whrse house
Williams, the suicide, lodged, havistg,b4..en reflected
upon as having heen an accomplice in the murder
supposed to have been committed by that inhuman
wretch, she has deemed it prudent to publish the fol•
lowing letter.-- -
" —ln justice to an unfortunate and persecuted woman,
which I consider myself to be, I request you wit a•ate to the
pohnc, that the puagrapli iii.eited in a Morning Paper of yeeter-
diy, to the put port that I had made a verbal confession of hav-
ing parlc;pat.d in the tue shoekin 'mad: r. of Mr. Mart's and
Mr. Widiroson's families, is totally without foundation ; I have
in truth mullet., to eagle-a, etc. pt what all the country knows,
tkat it has been my pisiortune to have had fur a lodger a man
chsrged with the moo atrocious climes. How the Paper in
qu-stion will be enabled to juicily it .1-If by thus prejudicing the
public mind against me, lam totally at a loss to imagine. I ant,
Sir, your most obedient servant, " SAKAI! VE113411.1i/t.
U Pear-tree-alley, near New Grava lane,
"January 18,1812."

Saturday 26 Chelsea pensioners, suspected of being
Concerned with Gawler, who is not yet taken, in the
late practices in the Navy Pay Office, were brought to
.the above Office. Thirteen of them gave bail, and
the others were remanded.

UNION HALL.—On Saturday morning, about four
o'clock, as the constable of Bermondsey parish was
going his rounds, he observed a man in Snow's-fields
driving a horse and cart ; he went up to him, stop-
ped the horse, and inqu;red what he had got ? the
man replied goods which he had brought from the
country; this answer, however, not satisfy;ng the offi-
cer, he proceeded to search the catt, which he soon
discovered contained no less than four dead bodies,
two male and two females quite naked, and apparently
just taken from the ground ; he secured the man,
and conveyed the bodies Co the workhouse, and in
the course cl the morning, the man was taken before
• G. HICKS, Esq. by whom be was held to bail to an-
swer for the misdemeanour at the Sessions.

OUTRAGE AT Mu. PRTOR'S.—George Hatton and
Moe: Clark, the men in custody on suspicion f being
concerned in this transaction, were again examined,
as was a man named Sam. Allan, who was apprehend.
ed by Goff and Clark on Friday last ; %then taken
into custody, Allen had a piece of black silk conceal-
-ed in the crown rf his hat, and was dressed in a cor-
'dem). jacket. He answers the description given by
Sarah Wilkins of the man seen loitering abcut the
door of the shop on the evening bet', re she was woun-
ded. The prisoners underwent a long private exa-
mination before Mr. Chambers and Mr. Hicks, and
were all remanded for another examination.

At the Surrey Quarter Sessions on Saturday Mast,
Jaws and Stoliea Stone, father and son, were in-
dicted for waling a quantity of oak pipe stares and
scantlings, the property of Mr. Alexandtr, timber-
merchant. Ihe staves were piled en the waste to
season, at New. Chapel, near Godstone, at which
place the prisoners (master wheelwrights) resided.—
Mr. Alexander hid frequently lost property. and his
suspicion at length attached to the prisoners. ' He
procured a search-warrant, and part of the property
missing was found concealed on shedder Stone's pre,
mists. The Jury acqui,Ld the son, but found the
father guilty. The Court, in consideration of his age,
(he being near seventy) enty sentenced him to sir
months haul labour in the House of Correction.

A numerous gang of notPrious pickpockets were
busily engaged on Saturday. in the neighbourhood of
the Strand and Cockspur•street.

The money4aker at thegallerydoor ofthe Sans Pawn
Theatre, was robbed on Friday night. While he
turned his back in the box on some trifling lai,iness,
the drawer was opened, and cash taken away to the !•
amou It of fif,een pounds.
A few days ago, the passengers in a Yarmouth
coach going from the metropolis, were stopped at the I
till-gate bear Colchester, and on enquiring the cause
of delay, were informed that they had travelled the
last stage nine miles (through Kelvelon) without
coachman or guard.
Sunday a lodger in the house of Mr. Colclough, at
Stoneybatter, near Dublin,having been alarmed with
a smell of fire, came down stairs, and saw some-
thing like a tar barrel in flames in a china-clo;et.—
After having ascertained that the fire was confined
to that spot, it was examines), when it appeared.to be
Mr. Colclough's wife, who was literally burned to a
cinder !—An inquest was held on the body (if it
might be so called, being but a mere call), and re-
turned a verdict—Accidental Death.
- The Ancients personified the Dcity,n-ho presided
over the fortunate destinies of 'mankind as a Female.
'lr is a singular circumstance that distingnishes the
Lottery to he drawn To-morrow, that a Female dis-
tributes Tickets and Shares to these who wish (by
the amparalelled bet eficial Scheme of the present Lot-
tery) to acquire wealth and independence.—Lady
ARAI*COMni No. I, Holbornßars, the corner of
Middle-row, and 23i1, St. Margaret's-bill, Bore ugh, is
theperson to wham we allude ; and we acknowledge '
that her name alone is sufficient to procure the
tronage of all classes of Persons, who- wish to share
in the advantages of the present Lottery.
TII F. L ATE COM Elf.-A curious paper was last week
read by Dr. Herschel], at the Royal Society. Dr. H.
in observing the Cornet, in October last, noticed a
. highly lammons appearance near the centre of its
head, which Astronomers would call its nucleus.—
This luminous disk, however, he found to deviate
considerably from the centre, and to be at one time
brighter than another. This led him to be more par-
ticular in his observations, with langer telescopes, and
higher magnifying powers; these he varied from 7
to 10 and 20 feet, with magnifiers up to 600, when
be distinctly-discovered it to be a planetary • body,
which appeared so bright in the centre of the Comer,
and that it was 'evidently surrounded by a Cometic
atmosphere. On the 16th of October, when the Co-
met was 114 mitosis of miles distant from the earth,
by a series of observations and calculations, he as-
certained the diameter of this planet to be 428 miles,
with an atmosphere subject to the vicissitudes of the
Coitet.