Star.
London, England, 1805-09-02 00:00:00

POLICE. 111.

Bow•systsr.—Chs Friday evening yain Driver
and 71xwas Gol&tr were brought befuiva Ntcuotas
Bonn, Ely. the fitting Magillrate, charged on fuipiL
;cinn with •having been guilty of divers burglaries,
which have lately been committed in the County of

Stirrey.
It appearcd om the evidence of a party of the
patrole, that they were on their duty near Kenning-
ton Common on Friday morning, between twelve
and one o'clock, when they met the prifoncrs, in
company with another man, and fufpefting them to
be robbers, purfned them. They ran off, but the
prifoners were fecured. The third man made his
efcape. The officers having no doubt but they heard
the pi ifoners throw fcveral things from them, and
having procured a light, they found near the fpot an
iron crow, a gimblet, Come matches, and two pieces
of candles. There are deemed implements for houfe
breaking. They were committed for further exami
nation to-morrow.

BASTAIM CNlLD.—Saturday morning, about five
o'clock, a woman was obfervtd climbing over a wall
'which divides the yards of two houfes in Caroline.
court, Saffron Hill, with a canvas hag in her hand,
and who, on finding Iterfelf difcovered, retired, and
dropping the bag down the 'teeth-ivy, returned to her
yoom. A cr3 ing was foen after heard to proceed
from the place where the bad dropped the bag, and
on examining it, was found to cantain a female child.
A mob coon affembled, and White, an officer of Hat-
ton Garden, went in purfuit of the unnatural mo.
ther, whom he found concealed, and who, together
with the child, he conveyed to St. Andrew's work-
houfe. The wretched woman, wit° is 35 years of
age, we underhand, had but two months ago joined
her hulband in 'town, after a long abfence, and was
defirous of concealing from hinther pregnancy. The
circumfrance was, however, known to her neighbours,
who watched her with attention. She delivered her-
fell a (ho t time befire (he was on the wall, and is
fo much exhatified by her exertion on that oecifion,
and by her :übkquent atartn,that the is not expated
to live. T:le child is likely to do well.
Saturday 7. Upton and Aim Hood were committed
from Hatton Garden Office for trial, for receiving a
large quantity of wine, the property of F. CaLv KT,

Efil. -
A porter in the fee vice of Mall. Ba3C!witta and
Co. of Smithfield Bars, was conviaed in the ',malt?
of 405. for having a quantity of glue in his poffealon,
for the obtaining of which he would not account.
Saturday three deferters from the dragoons went
on board the tender at the Tower, as volunteers for
tlte Navy ; hot being recognized, *ere fent under an
I efcort to the Sav^y.
A curious Robber? hapr.ened A few days fir= ti^ar
Newbtur, Berks, of a boy of Mr. Lot KITT'S, of the
Cotton Manufadlory, Donnibgton, who was going
with a parcel of about 31. value to Sheen, when be
was flopped b 9 two men, one of whom fnatched the
cared out of his hand, *built the othel whipped a
tack over his head, and tying it at the other end,
threw the boy and the lack over his horfe, and carried
him in that (late to Witkham Heath, where they (hot
the boy out of the lack; made off, Ind have been hi-
therto unAtcovered. _ _

On Friday as Mr. Robinfom Of Sydenham, was re,
turning from town in a angle horfe chaife, the horfe
took flight near New Crofs Turnpike, when Mr. R.
in attempting to leap frorn the chaife, received a corn
pouLl fradure in his leg:
A fhocking catalirophe occurred after the race at
Reading r n Wednefday. A young woman, ill years
of age, the daughter and nisly child of a refpedable
tradefinan at Reading, was walking with a party of
friends near the coming-is poll, when two forts of
Edward Golding, Efq. of Earls Court, were tun=
ping a race with their honks, without the knowledge
of the Clerk of the Connie, or the generality of the
company. The bode rode by Edward Golding ran
over the young woman in, quellion, and killed her
en the fpot. A Coroner's ilnquelt fat on the body on
Thurfday, and returned a undid of Accidental Death.
Yetierday morning au apprentice to a bifcuif baker,
near Limehoufe, while bathing off Mill-wall, funk
in the mud, where he continued half an hour before
he was difcovered. The ufual refufcitative proccfs
was reforted to, but without effed.
Dr. Mixxlit, who was unfortunately &twined ma
his return from the ifland of Foulnels to Wakening,
was a gentleman much refpeded and regarded : he
refided at Wakening, about fix miles from Southend.
On the unfortunate day ha had dined with a friend
at the lfland, and on his return in the evening Sias
overtakes by the tide. The intermediate fpace be-
tween Wakering and the Hand is, at high water, co.
vered by the tide, which, on its retreat; leaves a paf-
Lige for men, horfes, carriages, acc. between the two
places, over the land. This palfage is, at all times,
dangerous for firangers, who, ignorant of the track,
might be liable to mifs the way ; but the Moil fatal
accidents generally occur to thole who may happen
to loiter on the return of the tide, which, flowing
both ways, and intercepting their efcape, they mutt
be inevitably 101 l ; particularly in the night, when
they can hope for no afiillance. The bode was found.
on the common early next morning, and the Dodoes
family flattered themfelves he had remained all night,
and that the horfe had got loefe and returned home;
hut thole hopes were loon removed, by the body being
found on the Saltings, near the Haven, lying on his
face. It is thought he got bewildered, and got on the
black mud, which would occafron the boric to plunge,
and Throw him. lie has left a wife—a molt amiable
woman—and nine infant children, who totally de-
pended on his indultry.
Coaris cies INT,' F STS.—On Monday lag an inqseft
seas taken at North Alton, by Mr. GOUGH, on the
body of Thomas Fowler, who was thrown from his '
ho,fe, and expired, after languifhing a few hours.—
On Wednefday another was held by the fame Coro-
, nor at Bicelter, on the body of W. Jeffop, who was
killed by a fall from his horfe. And on Thurfday
a third inqiiifition was held by the fame Coroner, at
Iflip, on the body of Ether Kettle, who was found
dead in her bed, in confequence, it is fuppofed, of an
:: poplexy.
A vet y awkward accident occurred in Hamoaze,
' 1 on Wcdocl:iay, in lowering a lick man from one of
. I the veffels into a boat, in order to his being convey-
s ed (.r the 1-adoit al, by means of a rope under his arms;
' ir flipped rotird his neck, and ftrangled him before he
could he refcmd. Tile Coroner's jury have found
a verdid of—Accidetaull/taitn.