Star.
London, England, 1822-02-13 00:00:00

POLICE.

Boar-vrostrr.—Yesterday, R. Carter proprietor of one of the
Hertford stages, was convicted in the penalty of £5, for carry-
ing one more outside passenger than the legal number.
Mattson-Horst.—Yesterday, J. Addams, was charged by Mr.
a jeweller, in LeadenhaU-street, with having stolen a
gold seal from his shop. On Monday night the prisoner went
into his shop, and askad to look at some watch seals, when a
tray full were shewn to him. Ile then deNired to look at a par-
ticular one in the window, which Mr. 131isset showed to him.—
The prisoner said the price was too high, and left the shop. Im-
mediately he was gone, Ilr. Meet discovered that a seal had
disappeared from the tray, which he said must have barn taken
by the prlioner, whilst he was taking the seal from the window.
Ile accordingly ran after, and boought back the prisoner, who
appeared extremely indignant" at the charge. He was searched,
but no seal nor any money were found upon him. The seal was
found near the spot where the prisoner was taken into custody
on the following morning, by a porter residing ite the neighbour-
hood.—Remanded.

Utoox-Hatt..—Vizabah Low, a girl about twelve years of age,
wws yesterday brought before R. J. CHAMIIIR% F.sq. upon the
specific charge of having stolen sixteen-pence out of the box of
a woman named Smith, who lodged in her father's house, and
the general charge of having committed twenty-three robberies
upon her own father. Mrs. Smith stated that she had, upon
leaving the house one morning, left the sixteen-pence in her box,
which she locked, as she was accustomed to do. Upon her return,
she found that the box had been o; erred by some ingenious con.
trivance, and that the money was gone. Nothing but the money
disappeared, and the landlord's child was directly suspected, the
unfortunate and incurable propensity of the girl being well
known to all in the house. Upon being questioned, the girl at
once admitted that she had taken the money and spent it ; but
witness was unwilling to make any public complaint from respect
to the father,who was a respectable man, and had done all in his
power to prevent a repetition of his daughter's conduct. Witness,
however, found in the father such an advocate for the applica-
tion of wholesome discipline to the girl, that she could not help
appearing against the culprit in the hope that something useful
would arise from the complaint. The father of the girl, in tears,
declared that, perhaps, there did not exist a girl of such tender
years whose disposition to theft and dissipation was so inveterate.
She had been between three and four years given to lying and
thieving, and the robberies she committed were followed by the
most extraordinary conduct that ever could have attended the
vices of infancy. She was in the habit of going with her plun-
der to the gin-shop, and calling for glasses of gin; and she de-
serted her home for four or five days, or a week, in proportion
to the sum of which she became possessed in the course of her
depredations. The last person she robbed of anything valuable,
was a lodger in his house, and from him she stole a watch,which
she took away from the house, and hired an old woman to pawn'
for 16s. She gave one shilling to the person who performed this
service, and remained away from home four days. On her return
from the places where she disposed of her plunder, she always
acknowledged that she had committed the theft, and said that she
had spent a good deal of the money in the gin-shop, but she
never mold be prevailed upon to say who her companions were,
or in what public-houses she spent the money. Witness begged,
for the love of Oon/ that the Magistrate would adopt some plea
to afford a hope of reforming the wretched child, who, if toms-
thing decisive were not adopted,would certainly be hanged, after
being wens than banged. He added, that no less than twenty-
three times lad his daughter robbed himself; and his lodgers
were always on the wing, in eoosequence of the dangers to which
they were illade. The Magistrate humanely endeavoured to
web the feeling' of the unfortunate paxentj by expressing a hope,
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who had taken a public-house in Castle Ward,
.day applied, to Alderman 3.J. Satin, the Magistrate of this
(Mice and also Alderman of the ifatesaid Ward for a recom-
mend:Won to the Court of Aldermen, to *dish him to the free-
doms of the City. sail taking his Worship familiarly by the
elbow, concluded his eloquent harangue with, 1, Come now,
Mister, will your The Aldermen asked him, how be could
expect a recommendation from him, to whom be was a perfect
stranger ? telling him at the same time, that a. many complaints
had ken brought against the house that It was in contempla-
tion to refuse the renewal of the license. &mains seemed sur-
prised that the Alderman should be a stranger to Min, as be was
a public chowder, and known to all the sporting Osmium in the
Metropolis, and none of whom could say be ever curred in his
, life. The Alderman regretted his want of comprehending the
*gond language of Seraglios, but said, Ms public dutypuired
him to put down the respechebk house for which be was a ying,
and poor Screggins departed much chopfallen. The ming-
ham Youth, who ncoinpenied him, observed that it was a
g---• bad job.