Star.
London, England, 1823-07-18 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIG4NCE.

ihnow-141.1.--,A.uomaa Meson or MU. Comantsrls.„„
Yesterday Ads who had been discharged, after the vet cli;:,r
the Coroner's Jury, from prison upon bail, attended to node.,
an examination before M. Swaatrr and J. CLF.LI,:c, Psi".
Overseers of Bermondsey Parish having learned some ',awe,
lays with respect to the death of Mrs. Chatrkerlayne calcal.4
to increase the suspicions against the accused. The investigate,
lasted the whole day, but nothing occurred to -xarrant the pi.
loner's linal eonunittaL

Mr. Wade, the master of the prisoner, of whom he h:,
high opinion, and in whose case he feels a very strn-g: inteTe
was in the Office. He stated that his servant girl told iii be:
fore she heard of the death of Mrs. Chzmberldyne, tS.4
had killed two fowls the day before, and that hi.. hauds wtrem,
vered with blood. The girl again stated this fact.
Mr. Swatter remanded the prisoner until Sat ui eay. am „h.
served that he should on that day either discharge or comfit him
M4III.IIOROUGH4ITRZICT.-•- Townsend, the Duke of Names,
coachman, who so peremptorily refused to make any apology fat
his misconduct in upsetting Mrs. Blackburn's carriage, tent
principal of the Duke's household yesterday, to irterce4ewip
Mr. Hos, the Magistrate, that he might he permitted to sine,
publish any apology that might be dictated. Mr. 110, Said, fh,.
when the offer was so liberally made to him before aYa v
dence was given, by Mr. Blackburn, he rejected it, and the'bee:
ness Was now entirely out of his (Mr. Rot s) hands. lle migtf,
he thought proper, apply still to Mr. Blackburn. In the ente.„,
of the day Mr. Blackburn came to the Office, and said, that frail
the extreme contrition of the man, and learning that he had pre.
viously borne a very good character, he still felt ioc4uid ta
gR
him the same terms he had first offered, and on !hoe codifies
expressed his intention of not following up the pioiecutio.

Wednesday night, the premises of Mr. Alm 1141,
bury, of Bartlett's-buildings, carpet-manufactur;
were broken into and plundered of 24 ponderous
rolls of carpet: Each of which w,.uld requite two me/4
to lift out of window, and must have been toure;e4
away in a cart.

l':-...terday morning a young mart was employe,'
cleaning the w iildnvs of a house in Saatford-plare,
Oxford•street ; while standing •outside the first
floor window, his foot slipped, and he was pettio.
tated headforemost to the pavement with peat no.
leace. Ile was conveyed to the Middlesex Ilnspita,
but on hi; arrival there he was found to be (pa e teat
Ara, drr.r 10.—Sunday everittg, about vine o'cloek,
Nl`Cluie, weaver in Ayr, when returning from a sucranteul
occasion at Ochiltree, was attacked near Holeastone
two men and two women, who were sauntering along theron,
apparently ill a state of intoxication. Their names are inn
Ander.am, collier, David Glen, weaver, Margaret rresred
Margaret Anderson, all well kt.owncharactets in Ayr. I'a
attack was made without any provocation, as the deceneki
religious, sober, inoffensive man, was walking gristly lota
_without disturbing anybody. After the mast cruel treatmers
beating him with stones, and kicking hint, they nearly pet,
period to his existence on the spot, which they would have en
accomplished, had some people not come up and rescued bis
The milicroants made off. M'Clure was brought into Ayr, be
expired in the course of two hours. An immediate pursuit toot
place, and the• whole of them were secured in the planting et
polite Craigie House, and safely lodged in gaol. They baseline
uncle:tone an examination before the Sheriff, and are ikons.
mitted for trial.
INQUBsT.—The 35th Inquest since January last eat
yesterday held at the Penitentiary; Millbank, on the
body of B. Johnson, aged 28, who was sentenced to
transportation, at the Old Bailey, in January, 1823,
but whose sentence was commuted to five years la.
prisonment in the above place, where he was ro
ceived, in good health, in February.. 111 r. Preterit
surgeon. said, he was received into the Infirmary Oa
the 12th of May, for a diarrhea, of which he died os
Tuesday last, though he was attended daily by Dn.
Roget and Latham, and by the witness three times
a day. He had nourishing food, and port and sherry
wines. The witness was asked what medicines were
prescribed in these cases ? which he declined to an•
swer. Did the witness consider the diet to have bees
the cause of this fatal disorder? This question the wit.
ness refused to answer, but said, there ate now 400 is
the Infirmary. One of the Jurors observed, that the
diet is tolerable now. Another said, that at a forma
Inquest he took a piece of bread home with himavhicit
the next morning was so sour as not to be eatable.—
The Jury expressed a wish to see a healthy prisoner,
and for that purpose retired to a visiting cell, is
which one of them was brought, and also some
bread, of which each Juryman tasted, and the prise.
ner was asked if such was the bread they were 4
lowed? to which he answered in the affirmative, aal
added, that for breakfast they had three quarters al
a pull of milk, thickened with flour, and the same is
the afternoon, and six ounces cif beef, and three quy
tens of a pound of potatoes for dinner, with which)*
-was satisfied. Another prisoner was then broegbt.
up, who had been in the Infirmary, and imputed Dli
disorder, which was also diarrhoea, to the former
diet, but which is now much improved. He said that
when in solitary confinement he had nothing butts
boards to lie upon. On being asked what he was?
he said he was a Wardsman. The Jury then 04'
jeered to his further examination ; and a prisoner not
in office was then brought in, but his evidence corm.
berated completely the former. The Jury then el•
pressed full conviction that this fatal disorder had
been brought on by the former state of the diet; ad
on being called on for their verdict, eight were ix'.
Natural Death, and six for adding the words " °VP
stoned by the former bad diet." The CORONER stre•
nuously impressed upon the Jury the discontent winch
such a verdict would occasion out of doors, an4ol4'
mately succeeded. in obtaining from them a verdictuol
Died a Natural Death, brought on by.diarrher.a.

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BIRTH.
Yesterday, of a daughter, the lady of Richard Dukes 14
Burton Crescent.

MARRIED.
Yesterday, at St. George's Church, Hanover-spares CAI
Mackinnon, to Anne Jane, eldest daughter of J. Denr,74440:.
Tuesday se'nnight. at Stamfordham, the Rev. Ralph
A.M. of Trinity College,and Head Master of the King'ssl
-Sherburne, Dorset, to lizabeth, geovad dinghter Mr'
Goodfellow, of the former place.
Tuesday, at Speldi•••rst, Kent, Major Brook Bridges raft
of the Madras '`iv Maria Plumb.

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DIED.
Monday, the 14th inst. at Ha swell Grove Middlesex, Serhial,..
-eldest daughter bf Edmund Henry Lusbi;igton, Esq. of 1.1"'
place, aged la years.
On 'Tuesday, the 15th July, at Bosworth Park, Leiter
111n.4Pochin, relict of the late Colonel George Pochint of 861°
Abbey, Lincolnshire, and eldest danghter and ultimate/ 9.•
heirs!! of Sir Wobton Dixie, Bart. formerly of Bosworth
--, 6, at Peckham, aged VS, Jane, the wife of Llinst.lo'
Mai Young, R. N.

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