Star.
London, England, 1824-07-30 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGSNCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Terse, re rag Crrr or LONDoll.—.it will be recollecteittliat some
time since Mr. M'Dougal, the Lay Impropriaror of St. Helen,
liishopsgate, applied to the Lord Mayor for a warrant for tithes
against Mr. Hargtave, a member of the Society of Friends, for the
payment of tithes, under the Statute of the 7th of Henry VIII.
the decree under which is now forming an important question as to
its validity, for want of due enrolment; and that that question is
now pending in the Courts of Chancery and Exchequer. It will
also be recollected, that although Mr. M'Dougal confined his claim
on Mr. Hargrave to a small amount, yet that he stated his title to
be founded under the before-mentioned Statute; fur which reason
the Lord Mayor thought it his duty, in a question of such magni-
tude, affecting the citizens of London, to decline granting the war.
rant pending the doubtful legality of the statute and decree. Mr.
M'Dougal having, however, proceeded, not simply for an ancient
customary payment, but having asserted his claim under the sta-
tute, the warrant was declined, although it was understood that the
Lord Mayor would not have refused granting it for the customary
payment, as the whole of the parish of St. Helen are now paying
ancient sums of that nature, with which former impropriators have
been content, and the parish thereby protected from the enormous
claim of 2s. 9d. in the pound, save and except as to such buildings
as have been erected on vacant ground since the date of the statute.

Mr. Hargrave having denied the propriety of any claim for
tithes, the usual course for the recovery of a customary payment
might have been adopted, without resorting to a proceeding, likely
to plate him in jeopardy, fur any reserved claim for 2s. 9d. in the
pound. Instead, however, of taking that step before the Lord
Mayor. Mr. M'Dougal has filed a long bill in Chancery for the pay-
ment, it is understood, of I Its. 9d. only, to communicate which fact,
and to ascertain in what manner to meet the emergency, Mr. Har-
grave waited upon the Lord Mayor.
Mr. Hargrave stated to his Lordship, that the costs of the suit,
however heavy, resulting from proceedings of a compulsory nature,
he was most willing to pay, but he could not conscientiously pay the
18s. Od. In the shape of tithes. He therefore felt that bad the
claim been originally confined to a customary payment, the usual
compulsory process might have been issued against him, and there-
fore he complained of the disingenuous manner in which Mr.
M•Dougal bad proceeded.
The Loan Maros said he was most willing to save all parties un-
necessary expense and trouble, but desired it to be distinctly under-
stood, that from the nature of the claim under the statute, he would
not affect the rights of the citizens by granting a warrant under that
statute, whilst the question of its legality was so pending, but would
have been willing to have acted otherwise in the case of a customary
payment, if his powers authoei.ed him so to do, and Mr. M'Dougal
had shaped his claim accordingly.
Mr. Hargrave again complained of the course adopted by Mr.
M'Duugal, which had already put hint to the expense of £2O. lie
then retired, upon the suggestion of the Lord Mayor, to see the
City Solicitor on the subject, which is now becoming every day,
more and more alarming to the citizens, and will so continue,
unless the Legislature interfere to put a stop to the extensive litiga-
tion now pending.
It is well known that Parliament, in several instances, has
already passed Bills for the protection of particular parishes from
the !monied claim of 2s. bd. in the pound, under the statute
37th Henry VIIL and amongst others in the parishes of St. Dun-
stan, Fleet-street, St. Andrew's, Holborn, and St. Bride's; but
that the question is now most prejudicially left open in the parishes
of Cripplegate. Aidgate, Bishopsgate, Allhallows Barking, St.
three, Hart-street, St. Botolph, Aldersgate, and various others.

HATTON-GARDEN.

Excasstvx RIZAIATION rams Srumr.— A fashionably dressed
young man was brought up from Saffron-hill watch-house, accom-
panied by Miss Mar garet Welsh, who has been long the pride and
ornament of Saffron-hill, charged with disorderly conduct last night
about twelve.

The watchman stated that be observed the parties in a very
unclandeatine" manner, in that romantic spot, George-alley, Field-
lane; and, on his desiring them to quit this Elysium, the Gentleman
exclaimed, " I have lost my watch and money." On taking the
woman into custody, neither watch nor money were found on het ;
and, as the Gentleman was rather in a conglomerated state of in-
, talect, both parties were invited to the watch•house. 't There,"
continued the watchman, • the Gentleman could indemnify'
nothing."
The Gentleman said that he had quitted a friend in Holborn,
with whom he had been spending the evening, and was seduced by
the charms of the female prisoner, and positively insisted that she
I stole his " twenty pounds silver hunter watch."
The Magistrate regretted that it would be a wild goose chase to
look for it, and ordered the prisoner to be discharged.
The young Doctor, in rather a dejected state of mind, then
withdrew, determining to spend more time with his old friend Hip-
pocrates, and study female beauty from Ben's Anatomy alone.