Star.
London, England, 1802-12-28 00:00:00

POLICE, &e.

Bow-rraxar.—Yefterday the four men who
were examined before Mr. BOND, on Sunday laft,
repeßing the forgery of the S:otch Bank Notes,
were again brought up for examination, before the
fame Magiftrate. Mr. ALLaY attended as Coun-
fel for the prifoners. The forged notes found up-
on two of the prifoners apprehended in Scotland,
and brought to London on Friday laft, and the
plates from which the notes were made, found in
the poEeffion of one of the prifoners apprehended
in London, were again produced and identified be-
fore the Mapftrate; a long examination was en.
tared into by the Magiftrate, who was attended
by Mr. Kaye, the Solicitor far the Bank, and who
is alfo a Solicitor for the Britith Linen Company,
whofe notes wereforged. It appeared that molt
of the parties were well known to the Magiftrate
and the Solicitor of the Bank, and they were te•
manded to the Honfe of Correction for further
examination on a future day, which was not ap-,
pointed, as feveral evidences were necerary to be
brought up from Scotland.
A fhort time fence the (tables of Mrs. Horfely,
of Harleyford, were broke open, and her two
coach horfes, harnefs, and the livery of the coach-
man ftolen. The horfes were feels the following
day at Barnet, in the cullody of a man who was
known, and he was traced to Northampton, where
he fold one, of the horfes. Here all trace of him
was loft. Yefterday the man, as defcribed by the
perfons at Barnet, was feen at sheperton, in Sur-
rey, when he was fecured and taken before Mr.
Jullice BOND, who committed him for further ex-
amination.

WrilTllCKAPlL.—Yefferclay Captain Scott, rt.
tiding in St, George's in the Eeft, nade. a charge
of being flopped at the corner of George ?aril,
Whitechapel-road, about five o'clock on Monday
evening, by tome young men, who thruft him
againft a wall, and forcibly took from him a fil-
ver watch l upon which iafiirmation the officers
apprehended trio. men, of the names of Pyfock
and Joyce, very fufpieioin charaEters, as being
caneerned•in the rObbOry ; after a fhort examine-
'tiOn, they were committed for a re hearint.
Sarah Walker, wal.fully committed fir '414
On literal charges of 4tealing bed forilturel !ben.
Meets, quilts, blankets, ta6re"clotits,' lad other
articles, to a totifiderabya*r,
Weiesitir.steeet:Tifirerday a ran
,of the,
name of Itelnitad underwent an exlimbiatioii,
charged on"fii picion of going into a Sop; ik
talfieldis, on Monday evening, and Itealing
tplabtitf Of bacon and other things ; the cafe be-
ing made Oat itgniali him, he via folly committed
for trill: *. • •
A young *Moan was etinekiitted for trial,
charged byter tfillitefs, with ibbbing her of a
fecten Chilling piece.
A bullock hunter was committed, charged with •
an afault upon an officer, and obitrating him in
thteitictitinti of his duty.
MiatioadWelf-STRlZT.—Mondayayoungenan,
named-TiOtercue, applied to the Sitting Magi Orate
for redrefs, having (as he:expelled himfeif) 'been
very cruelly robbed and treated. He Paid he
was a porter, and work4ezteedingly hard s that
by his indultry. he had farad up Otte'. 7s. pineal!,
and monerelettgh to boy rptinndof tea, which he
had defigaid, ati zehrilintniprefeat to his aged and
iiierm parent, who lived at w village in. Stafford-
ea,- He accordingly poi the 7s. pieces and the
tea'into a parcel, and. Waked It at the Green Man'
and Stillyin Oxford-Coadnt° go by the mail coach.
The parcel had' been delivered according to the
, diration but the money had been taken out it
had proved a fetious dicappoistment to his father,
and had made him very unhappy. He 'sand the
Magiftrate to tell him how he was to ad, as he
could get no redrefs.. The book keeper at the
Green Man and Still had referred him to the pro.
prietors of the coach by which the parcel was tent;
but on liming his cafi to them, they bid hinso
about his bufinefs, and. et the money as he could,
He hoped be might get it back,,asit,wmild break
his poor father's heart to think to smith money
fikould be 1011. The Magifirate veAumantly
told him he '
would make every ppUible enquiry
for him, and immediately iffued his watrant toap-
prehendthe coachman who drove the mail.
Jofeph Jackfon accufed Maw Clara* of robbing
him of his match. An enquiry took place, the
hrifoner was feized, and the watch found upon.
im: The Militate committed him for a fecond

examination. • •
Maasioa Hon ss.—A well drilled woman, who
called herfelf Seiub Spesirr, with a little girl in her
arms, was charged before the Loafs MAYOR with
having robbed her furnithetilodgings. It appear-
ed that this woman had taken lodgusgs for herfelf
and child, at the lsoufe of a Mr. Charters* in Sion
Gardens,stear Whitecbapel, burin two. dsiTs after
left them:taking with her the bed furniture and
every other moveable thing ihr could carry away,
which Come days after they found-pledged at the
Ihop of Mr. Windfor, in the Miseries, at which
hop the was deteeted on Friday laft, (Offering ants.
'her bedfurnittsre, &c. to pledgelin the sialea of
Warren, and-had-taken the lodgings in, the name
' of Walker. Wisea appreben&d, the told many
contradi&ory which :induced his Lordthip
to order this bed furniture, -Ike. to be advertifed,
fufpeEting them to be holes, which proved to be
.the cafe, for a perfon came forint:l and owned the
furok tire' which the had Bolen front his funnithed
lodgings the day 'before Ike offered to pledge them.
A Mrs. Barber, from Peutoneille, likewife charged
her with robbing her ksdgiap. woman from
Webbersrow, -GeoVo field* sad a great

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papers.. Same of them &Li away lisfpettea this
lit* Earl was not her child, but had been pro-,
cored the better to carry on heidecetas. The,
prifoner faid the child was her Oita, osofeffeki
her guilt, and pleaded for mercy. The perfons,
who claimed the property found not living in the,
City, the was remanded to a County Magillrateo
and thole whom the had robbed in the City could,
not, as yet, find their property.

BIOAMY.—A Mr. *Cann, a gunner in the;
navy, and a hoary veteran, Rands charged at
Union Hall with marrying three wives, all now
living. The Recd.:try proofs of the two firfk mar-
riages were adduced, and'a warrant granted fOr
1
his being taken into caliody to anfwer to the
charge.
Lail Thurfday a coafidential fervant, in the
employ of Mr. Shawe, Attorney, in Broad-ftreet,
Old Gravel-lane abfconded with cafh, which he
obtained under
•
Life pietences.

On Friday evening, during the abfence of the.-
ihopkeeper, Come young girls got into a (hop in
the Gallowgate, Aberdeen, and before they were
difcovered had filled their pockets with a variety
of trimmings, &c.
Between Tuefday night and Wedneilay morn-
ing, two sheep were ftolen from a park at Craig-
ton between Marlow awl Padlfy, by foine dar-
inifellows, who had dogs along with' than.

About half paft four o'clock, on Tuefday even-
ing, the 14th init. as a fon of Mr. Samuel Picker-
ing, of Stittenham, near York, who is. about 12
years of age, was returning from fchool, he was,
much furprifed and frightened at a We about half
way on the foot road from Sheriff-Hutton to &it,
tenham, on feeling fomething like a fudden touch,
or grazing of his hair upon the top Of his head..
He looked about but could fee nothing; he heard
no report, nor could he Conceive how fo fingular
a fenfation could be occafioned. His parents,
however, were greatly alarmed to find, on his ar-
rival, that a ball had penetrated his hair, and h'ad
paired through both fides of the crown of his hat.

Laft Wednefday evening, as a lad in the fer-
rite of Lieut,-Col. Ns 'nom, of Southover, Suffer,
was going with a letter to the Polt Office, he was
t at the bottom of Clare-hill, but a few Reps
from the Colonel's haute. by a fellow, who feized
Until the throat, fluffed a handkerchief into his
Atkin* and carried him forcibly into an adjoining
field, where he robbed him of 43. 6d. and after
threatening to blow his brains out, if he furred
from the fpot in lefs than half an hour, made off
acro4 the fiefs.

The fame night Mr. Baker, fhopkeeper at Ring-
mer, near Lewes, was flopped on the public road,
between Bridgewich and Ringmer turnpike-gate,
by two footpads, who knocked him down, and
robbed him of two guineas. Being funned by
violence of the blow, he did not know he
bad been robbed, till he arrived at the gate, and.
found one of his breeches pockets turned mfide out.
James Tyrie, lately appointed charity reboot-
.
mailer, at QoarfF, in Shetland, by the Society for
Propagatingi..hrillian Knowledge, lately return-
ing home from Lerwick, in the evening, miffed
his way, fell into a fwamp, where he perifhed.—
His body was not found until three days after.
On Friday morning, at the Seaton of Broad-
, rea, near Fraferburgh, as two young lads. filter- ,
men; were employed in their ufual practice of
firing at fea fowl, the malkee of the one,. being!,
on, half .cock, went off, and the fhot went through
the boydy of the other., vifiO, died on the fpot.
. . La& Friday tfi. Whitforil, Coroner for Won,
held an Inqueft on the,bo4y of one of the misfor-
tunate fifhermen of a trawl boat, who was washed
autare in Yalm river a few days fince.—Verdid of
the Jury, Accidental Death. LA Thurfday a
miner, of the name of James Bennett, aged 86
years, having been milling Come days in an old
tin 03;14 near North Buckland Abbey, Roborough
downs, !cis. dragged for by come miners labourers,
and after fotne fearch found under a heap of rub-
bitlhihaving falleikdowirneav ,134 n feet from the top 1
of the theft, ()Wing,. it is fappofed,' to his great
eagernefs in trying to gni& the. job by tatk•work ;
he was a hale thong man, and eiteeMect a good
miner.—Verdid. Accidental Death. The mine
had ceafed.itericititthree Centuries. •
An old both fell in Upper Kevin. hen.
on MonclaT'fennight, two perfons were nuforta-
natelf tinned in the ruins.
. Sunday fe'nnight, about feven o'clock, a Lieute-
nant of the iBeh regiment of foot, and his wife, re-
turning from Dundalk in a poft-chaife' were flop-
ped by four villkins, armed with horfe piaols,
little more than a quarter of a mile from Droghe-
da t the gentleman fired on them, which was as
fuddenly returned ; the ball palling clofe by his
head, penetrated. the roof of the carriage. The
villains fired a fecond time, broke the windows and
pannels of the chaire, and his wife fainting,he was
obliged to fubmit; they were then plundered of
their watches and money, and they alto took his
fword and one of his patois ; they ;tilted for the
other, but did not wait to fearch the carriage for it.
From theiimanner of fpeaking, he Conceives they
were above the common level of robbers. They
appeared much agitated, and made a very preci
pitate retreat.

Between thirty and forty Fears ago, a Gentle.
man, now one of the molt emsnent.Bankers in the
Metropolis, being then about nine years old, and
in the country with a Lady of Family, tor his
health, few at the door ofa poor houfe a fine map
pye, which he .was fo eager to purchafe, that the
woman to whom it belonged was fent for the next
morning with her bird i the brought with her a
blooming boy about; three years old, whom Mr.
no fooner fase;;;than be exclaimed. 14 I will
buy the boy too." :The bargain, however, was
deferred till his father knew of his &fire, which,
like that of molt children of fortune, grew the
fironger oppofition ;—he languithed for the
beautiful child, and fuch propofals were made as
the mother joyfully accepted. It is not in our pro-
vince to gist a hiaory of the progrefi. oft trotegei's
advancement...du Ray. De. who now holds

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Ntoraers That pr6eeed either from an inti
Rate of the blood, of a relaxed (fate of the nerv%, haviag, in ibsturnerahle inftances, fulAded by :I
courfe of Smssuty's Antifcorbutic Drops, rol
much cannot be Paid in praise of that invainabi2,
preparation.. 'This unparalleled .fticcefs, in the
molt complicited cafes; has eaahliated its celebrity
througitourthe imiverfe ; indeed, where is it poffi.
We to obtain fuch a reftorerof.the con flitution and
infallible cure•Of the Scurvy, Gout, Rheumatifmi
Evil, Leproff, and a variety of other complaint%
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too generally incident to human nature ? The e
Dropi are fold iiv bottles of ss. and 6d. tos. ago
11. 2b. each, withsa black (lamp affixed to each hot.
tle, by the following venders' in London : F. New:
bevy, 45; Bt..Paul's ; Dicey and Sutton, B.
Church-yard ;E. Newbery, corner of St. Paul's ;.
Chinjp*d ' Butler, Cheapfsde ; Wray, Birchip.:
Jane' 11•Zolots, Royal Exchange; Evans and Co.
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wark; and at the Difpenfary, No. 15, Soho-fquare

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