Star.
London, England, 1812-01-13 00:00:00

POL ICE.

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Gottramt.t...—Saturday Rhode: was charged
with obtaining a quantity of stationary under false
pretences, and was remanded for further eiauftina-
lion. Two men named Cooper and Steward were
also examined, accused of having counterfeit Bank
tokens of ss. 6d. and Ss. each in their possession;
they were comreiued for another hearing. Taylor
and Boat were charged by Mr. Hedges, me confec-
tioner, in Ludgate-street, with offering counterfeit 3s.
pieCesin his shot , and were fully committed.
Ha TTON-G annex.— Saturday, John Dorwrit, alias
Shepherd, was fully committed, charged with stealing
imack from a field, at Islington, the property of
Mr. Hale, of Newpse-market.
Jame William: was committed for re-examination,
charged with felony, in robbing a sailor of a leathern
purse, containing three pounds in bank notes, eight
shillings in silver, and his liberty ticket.
Bow-saay.er.—lffer. Vermilloe, the landlady of the
Peartree public-honse ; and Turner, who lodged
in the liothe.of who was barbarously
murdered, have attended at the Office within these
few days. Several other persons have attended at
the Office within these few days, by order of Mr.
Graham, and hare undergone private and strict in-
vestigation,before that Magistrate, which caused him
to dispatch Lavender, Vickery, and Adkins, on Fri-
day evening, to apprehend a man of the name of
Hart, who, it has been ascertained, worked in the
lu of Mr. Mare on the (lay the murders were coin-
mitted at night, and he was seen in the company of
Williams, between ten and eleven o'clock, as the mur-
deteri are supposed to have entered Mr. Marr'l house
about twelve o'clock. On Saturday Hart•tmderwent
a private examination before Mr. Graham, after
which he was ordered into close confinement, and a
man to take care and sit up with him. On Saturday
the privy of the house where Hatt lodged, was emp-
tied in the presence of Vickery and Adkins, but no-
thing particular was found.

STATE OF TILE METROPOLIS.—The best Arevenfire
security against every Danger is a £20,000 Prize in the
present Stare Lottery, m hich any Person may ,obtain
for a flw Pounds, it bought 'on or before Monday,
the :70th, as all the Lottery will begin at 9 o'Clock
the next Morning, and finish the s .me day.

ALIENP.—The recent circular letter from the Se.
cretary cf State's Offi..e, calling upoothe Magistracy
to c Iry y into effect, as far as they are concerned, the
rovtsions cf the Alien Act, against foreigners re-
siding here without the anew: icy of Government, has
already been attended with beneficial consequences,
and no less than f rty for..igners were on Ft iday
_last
apnrclunded at tl e east end of the town, who have
Inthlrto evaded the Alien regulations.
WILLIAM SIIAW, Esq. was tried at the Grand
Court in Spanish-town, Januica, en ele 23J Oc:thcr
last, chargt.d with assuming to ItittFelf the character
cf a British agent, through which means a corre-
spondence under false pretences was kept up with Rt.
GAUD, in St. Domingo. After a minute invt stiga.
tion, the prisoner was I and—Guilty.
About eleven o'clock on Weinesday night, some
thieves broke into the house of Mrs. Fishenden, in
Run ington-lane, near Canterbtary, and there being no
person therein, they ransacked every drawer, and car.
ried off property to a considerable amount.

The nightly attacks of robbers have been so fre-
(pent of Lite in Maidstone, that the inhabitants have
held a meeting, an I fumed an association of house•
keepers only, for their mutual protection.

A few mornings since early, the house of Samuel
Salter, Esq. of Riekmansworth, was broke optn, and
robbed of a quantity of plate, jewellery, and other
property.

A few mornings since the house of Miss Davis, of
Twickenham-Green, was broke open and robbed of a
quantity of linen and other property.
The house of C' lonel B:rutt, M. P. in Upper ,
Grosvenor-street, was broke into a few nights past;
but the female servants hearing the noise, got up, I
and the robbers decamped iltliout their booty.
Late last Tuesday night, as Mr. Arundel, of Duke-
street, Bloo:nsbury, was returning home, he was stop-
ped and robbed by four or (ive n.en in Castle street,
Holborn, of his watch, with which they made off.
Early last Mon.dry morning, the hotise of Thomas I
Cobb, Esq. of Ellstree Hill-house, near Edgware,
was broken open, and robbed of plate, jewelkry, and
other property, to a considerable amount.
Fri-day night last, ;threat ekwen o'chick, as Mr.
Mason, carpenter- and builder, wis going to his I
house, No. 9, Hill-street, WindmilLstreet, near Fins.
bury square, he was suddenly attacked, when opposite
the door of Mr. Cooper, tea-dealer, the corner of
Windmill-street and Providence-?ow, by two ruffians,
by whose repeated blows he was knocked down; and
as he lay on the ground, rile of the monst-ro with a
knife, or some other sharp instrument, was in the act I
of cutting his throat, when, providentially, the shop-I
man, who had lust shut up the shop, and was then in
it, hearing the tall of Mr. Mason on the pavement,
and immedia'ely al terwards some groans, came out t
of the shop, on which the fellows, who heard the
door unbolting, ran off. Mr. Mason was then conveyed
home, and on his being attended by t surgeon, the-,
wound was discovvred not to he mortal, the incision,
though deep, not having reach-td the fatal part,
Nothing was taken from the person of Mr. Mason;
but it was, doubtless, the intenth of the ruffians to
have deprived him of property and hie, had they not
been _disturbed.

The robbery of notes from Mr. Stephen Hobilay.
of Folkstone, has been traced to a woman named
Sarah Court, his maid servant, and she has been coin-
:clued to Folkstone gaol, with another woman, named
Tumber, who received thet.property knowing it to '
I
be stolen.
On Wednesday mlrning, about two o'clock, the
house of Mr. Cumming, at Christleton, was attemp!
ted to be broken into by two men and a woman, but
were providentially prevented by the courage of an
old lady, who snatched op a sabre, and immediately
attacked the villain who WAS tittering the window, by
cutting his hand in such a determined manner, as te
cause lim to let go his hold and fall to the ground,'
leaving seieral marks of blood behind hhn. It u sop.
poied the wounds may lead to a discovery of these of.
feneeri. They were seen after the attempt by dm
wagcbman, aiming through Ronghtom