Star.
London, England, 1824-09-15 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

M A NS FON-HOWSE
Mr. R. Daewoo% a ship-owner and merchant, residing at Old
Swan Stairs, appeared to an information for having refuted to pay
a seaman, named Edward Burns, his wages. Morns said, that on
, the 9th July, he was applied to by Captain Moffatt, and having
attended at the defendant's counting-house, he was engaged by him
as cook to goon board the Maria, a voyage to Batavia—his pay was
21. ts. per month. He understood front the Captain that Mr.
Thornton was the owner, and when out at sea he became much
alarmed when Dutch colours were hoisted. At Batavia be requested
to be discharged, which was done with the consent of Miss Thorn-
ton, the defendant's sister, Who said her brother was owner, and
would.pay his wages. He was engaged in the Henry, anti came to
England, when he applied for payment. but. was refused. Mr.
Thornton said be was not the owner of the ship, and had nothing
to do with it.
The Loan Km& Was of opinion that, in point of law, u wlll as
in justice, Mr. Thornton waf bound to pay the demand; bet Mr.
Robinson, who attended for the sailor, claimed the costs that had
been incurred in endeavouring to recover the demand.
Mr. Thornton said he should appeal to the Admiralty Court, and
again said, that he wad not the owner of the ship, but that it be-
longed to a person in Antwerp.
Mr. Robinson declared, that he pursued the case from feeling as
well as from professional duty, and that he would see justice done
to the poor man ; he would carry the cause to the High Court of
Admiralty, and compel Mr. Thornton to pay the demand.—The
parties thenseparated.
BOW-STREET.

The Magistrates were sadly pestered yesterday with a wearisome
argumentation on an often-decided
.quesdon—aris. whether or not
It be lawful for a man to erect an iron railing in front of his house,
without the consent of the Commissioners appointed under Mr.
Michaei Angelo Taylor's Aft being first bad and obtained. It
arose out of an information under the aforesaid Act, by Mr. Stutely,
surveyor of pavements in the parish of St. Martin in the Fuld',
against 'Mr. Charles Pitt, of the Adelphi, for having erected an iron
railing in front of his dwelling-house, in Adam-street, Adelphi,
contrary to the provisions of the said Act, and to the great incon-
venience of the Public. To this information Mr. Charles Pitt
raised so many objections, and argued thereupon so stoutly, that the
mauer was in hand two good hours by" Shrewsbury clock," and I
then be was convicted in the penalty of forty sbillings—from which
conviction he said he should appeal.
Joins Mimes( AND ?NZ EMIDAUt Partoa.—One Matthew
a recently imported Faneralder, was brought to this office the '
day, on suspicion of having stolen four silver tea-spoons, mark*
P.M. one ditto marked A.G. and one silver table-spoon, with tutu,
mark clumsily erased. lie was, working as a pavior, in Pic
and one of Mrs. Coutts's servants had pointed him out to the
as having offered to sell the spoons to a passing Jew, who, barite'
that Mat Kelfey hid not come honestly by them, refused to deal t-1
Be that a. it may, however, wisest the patrol approached Mat Kel-
fey, he tried to bolt down Bolton-street; and this giving some colour
to the suspicion, they brought him before the Magistrate.
In his defence he said, " Faith, I found them spoons when I
corned up in the Limped waggon from Bristol," which being Avery
unsatisfactory defence, the Magistrate ordered that the spoons should
be advertised, and at Kelley detained for further examination.
Shortly after he was locked up, one Mr. John Brown, a very
worthy- and fat Gentleinan from Essex, was ordered to find bail
for a trifle of battery, or something of that kind, and having no bail
ready, he was locked up in the same cell with honest Mat Kelley,
the spoon-finder. This gave them an opportunity of conversing
together, and John Brown, it seems, was determined that their
confabulation should be pro bona publico, for when Mat Kelfey was
brought up yesterday for re-examination, John Brown peesented
himself before Sir Iticnaan Mem, as a witness against the unfor-
tunate Mat. Nay, so full was be of-the importance of his evidence,
that be disturbed the worthy Magistrate, whilst he was at break-
fast, to tell him what a sad rascal he had discovered MatKelfey to be.
So, when Maf, [Liffey was placed at the bar, John Brown was
(called forward, and.be began—When you were plesied to order
me to be locked up; the &bey day, Sir Richard—whicn wag all
very right—twas put -into the some cell with this Mr. Mat Kel-
fey—this tall chap at the bar here; and I said to him—" So $s
come front Ireland, my honest friend?"—" Sure I do," said he.—
" Then," said I, " you know Captain Rack ?"—" Faith do I," said
be, " and a mighty good fellow he is."—Well, thinks I, you're a
nice man, I don't think! Then I said to bim—" Since you think
Captain Rock such a good fellow, perhaps you have been with hint
at some of his burnings?"--" Sure I have," said he, and I got
them spoons."
" You're a d—d liar !" cried Mat Kelfey, interrupting the thread
of John Brown's narration—" Yourre a d—d !—ye didn't ax
me about Captain Rock at all--barrin ye aid me if I bad heard of
him, and I said I lad—but ye toad me his Worship had sent ye
in to me to pump me about them spoons, and I told ye, ye were a
good-looking thief for such a job !—and sure enough its Goo's truth
you are. Didn't ye begin telling me ye were a sergeant, that helped
to smash the Croppies all over ould Ireland? And didn't ye say
ye should like to be after serving them the same that day? And
didn't ye ax me if I was at Vinegar-hill?—and when I tould ye I
wasn't ould enough for that, didn't ye say I was a lying blackguard
Croppy, for ye saw me there amongst the rest orem? And didn't
ye tell me ye'd hang nit., and smash me, and his Wotship had tould
ye to give it to me well ?"
Poor Mat Kelley put these questions with such rapidity, that
John Brown was completely bothered with them—the more cape-
cidly as he did not stem able to answer them negatively. At last,
when Mat Kelley was out of breath, John Brown took up the inters
rugatory,and solemnly asked..." When I first came into your cell—"
" Jfy cell!" cried. Mat Kelley, again% interrupting him—" Yy cell!
sure it was your cell as well as mine that day any huw ! "
" Well," said John Brown, " that's neither here nor there, you
knovi. When I care into the cell did not you ask me what they
could do to you about the spoons ? and did I not tell you I thought
they would haul you at the very knit ?"
" No, didn't ye ! " replied Mat Kelley ; not a word of
it, one side or. %other. Ve're what I call a good.looking ugly pled
of compact roguery—wend bad luck to ye for it / For what should
I say anything about the spoons when I found -them hOnestly iqy
the road side?"
John Brown made no answer to this Miestion, and Sir RicualtD
.--having very good hunouredly dismissed John Brown with thinks

for his services, remanded Mat Kelfey for fatter' ehaninatico.
Pie spoons bore the Lid hall mark, be *aids 304'4t woilld be neees.
nary for him to make further inquiry respeetittgthbniattld their finder.
&I ATTObI-.6 A UDEN.
Willies Roberts, a milk-carrier, in the service &ans-
field and Howell, dairymen, was charged with bade* refused to
perform the contract entered into by.lalm et she period of his ms.
tgagement, and with maliciously exciting Others Wirth the service,
The defendint endeavoured to account for his quitting the see.
vice by charging his employers with mit ihivieg performed soots
promise regarding their finding him is a lodicing.
The prisoner was then committed to the House of Coreectio,
for one month, being a mitigated term of imprisomaiwg,
MA R LBOROU 11-STREET.
Ceram OF ifOßst STlLaulea.—George Withethaft, who &sailed
filmsetf as if horse-dealer, was charged with detaining a hone, who,
75 Owes, which had been entrusted to another horse-dealer named
Poway for sale.—Remanded.
A WY-LA..130N NE OFFICE.
InforMation was given to the Magistrates of a most violent an
brutal assault having been on Sunday night committed on the per'
:son of an old woman of the name of Connor. The vv.:moan, it ay.
pears, is a feniale of the lowest order, and was seen by some pervert
early on the night in question, in the New Road, in a state of ic.
toxication. At run-rise the folloaring morning she was discovered
by some labourers, who were going td their work, in a shed in
111)Ister-place, New Road, with her head severely fractured, and in
"a senseless state. • She was removed to the parish Infirmary, and
certificate front Mr. Goodyeri the surgeon, was yesterday handed
ta the Magistrate, stating that her life was In Imminent danger. The
woman is now sensible, and says that the injury was occasioned by
a blow given to her by a watchman with his staff. A man who
watches pear the spot has been stews to her, and she immediately
declared him to be the assailant. The man was brought before 'he
'Magistrate yesterday, bet there being no evidence to isistain the
charge, it was ordered to stand over.
UNION-HALL
Jobs Groses,O man of respectable appearance, who described
himself as a blacking-rnanufacturer, was charged with felony. The
prisoner ordered 1 cwt. 2 qrs. of nut galls to be sent to his manufac-
tory, aod promised to pay for them on delivery. having refused to
pay the order, Messrs. Bowling and Walker, 'druggists, of Kent-
street, who bad supplied thence, requested they might be sent hick,
and having been threatened with proceedings, he sent back the ar-
ticles, but they were found to be 3 clbs. deficient in weight. The
prisoner declared that he gave up the nut galls withoot swims one of
them.—Remanded.

INFANTiCibt.—A murder of an infant, under cir-
ca mstances of unusual and appalling barbarity, occurred
-a few days ago, near Scot's House, in the county of
Monaghan. A young unmarried woman, the daughter
of a farmer sin comfortable circuritstarices, and rather
above the common class, had been visibly With child for
some time past ; and report attributed k to an illicit in-
tercourse with .a Roman Catholic Clergyman, who was
intimate at the house, and whom report stated to have
seduced and got pregnant another sister, who was some
time ago delivered, though no trace was ever heard of
the infant. A few days since, the young-woman lay in ;
and shortly after, her father, mother, and two uncles
were in the room with the door closed ; and a servant
outside heard the cry of the child, and also heard its
mother say to her own mother, " Oh, mother, don't kill
my child.' There was no appearance of the infant
afterwards. Suspicion was excited, by the general
knowledge that the young woman lay in—the disap-
pearance of the infant—the former confinement of her
sister—and the disappearance of that child ; and from
some hints which fell from the servant maid, it search
was made about the place, which led to the discovery
of a fresh-interred child, and the bones of another, in an
old • fort near their house. The discovery carved ti e
mother of the child, her parents, and her uncles to ab-
scond. Colonel Madden, of Hilton, a Magistrate, has
been exerting himself for their apprehension, and the
elucidating of this dreadful atrocity ; but as yet his ea•
ertions have not succeeded.
Some years ago, a man named Collins, formerly a
teacher, went out to America. His wife, who is dis-
ordered in her mind, was left behind With her relations
in Dundee ; but with the understanding that as soon as
he obtained a settlement she was to Sent for. In
March list year, she and her slaughter sailed for Ns.
York from Greenock; and, on their arrival, were met
by Collins, who, as himself communicated at the time,
carried them five hundred miles up the country: To
the utter amazement of her friends, however, the un-
happy woman made her appearanee ainbtig them yes-
terday (Wednesday). How she made her way through
the trackless paths of America—by what means shegos
acrois the Atlantic—orlow the reached Dindee from
the British port where she first landed —are mysteries
not yet penetrated. All that can be gathered from her
incoherent story is, that she laboured under a delusion
as to the identity of her husband; and the person she
took for him havidg, as she imagines, threatened her
with violence, she left him.—Dundee Advertiser.
Under the .name of exorcism, the Catholic liturgi
contains a form of procedure for driving out devils.
Even with the help of this instrument, the operation
cannot be performed with the desired su:cess, but by
an operator qualified,by holy orders for the working of
this as well as so many other wonders. In our days,
and in our country,the same object is attained, and be-
yond comparison more effectually, by so cheap an ird
Patrument as a common Newspaper. Before this tali,-
man, not only devils, but ghosts, vampires, witches,
and all their kindred tribes, are driven out of the land,
never to return again; the touch of holy water is not so
Intolerable to them as the bare smell of printer', ink.

BIRTHS.
Op the !Sat inst. the Lady of George %ciao°, Esq. of Great
Cerans4treet, Ituasellequare, of a son.
Anglia 8, at Milan, her Imperial Highness the consort of tie
Viceroy of Italy, of a Prince.

MARRIED.
Friday, Major Loftus Gray, late of the Rifle Brigade, -to Mary
Anne, eldest daughter of the late Rev. J. Le Mirchant.

DIED.
Nov. Bth last, after a few hours' illness, in the 75th year of his
age, Mr. William Scrim, of Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Liultcd
States, and formerly 9f the City of London. •
Sept. 5. Miss Patoun,- daughter of the Ilev. William Patna.
late Minister of )gaily.
At Perky's) the 294 ult. Lady Margaret Arbuthnot Ogiley,.sged
three years apd five months, youngest daughter of the Earl of Air iy.
At Trostree, in the parish of Twyaboim, in Galloway, Mare
&Mu*, wife of Ur. Robert Connell, aged 90. 'rigs vwterabir
couple had lived for many years in a lonely cottage, at a consider.
able distance froM any neighbour. On the 2d inst. the old %wenn'
wit to same distance to bring home a burden of pear leasflg !per
aged partner in bed. A considerable time elapsed, and his wile dal
not return. At last his uneasiness became so great, that with mucli
dificulty he got out of bed, and went in quest of her, and, to his
inexpressible grief, found her lying speechlep, 'with the burden of
pests on her trick. 4-le had then to go fully a mile Tor help to !i-
-nane her home, which was accomplished before the vital sinrit,h.sl
fled: but sh!villinall very molt-after; •

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