Star.
London, England, 1802-02-17 00:00:00

!LICE, tlfc.

rOW•S T atvn—On Monday the s t footpads who
have lately been apprehended by the police patrole,'
underwent a final examination. Four of them were
fullyconEniued for trial on a charge of a tbbbery
near Edmonton ; five of them were fully commit-
ted for trial, on charges of robberies in Kent and
Surrey; one was admitted to bail, the charge
being only on fufpicion ; and one was difcharged.
The five men who have been apprehended in St.
Giles's, on fufpicion of robbing M'fs De Camp I
lak Thinfday night, in Tottenham.conrt Road,
were again examined, and Mils De Camp and her
filler attended, but couldnot identify eitherof their
perfons ; three of them, were, however, fully com-
mitted for trial on a funilar charge, and the other
two %vete difcharged.
On Sunday night, between nine and ten o'clock,
Thomas Francis, a labouring man, in the employ
of Mr. Brandon, a gardener, near Bermondfey,
was flopped by three footpads, and robbed of all
the propescy he had about him.
Early* few mornings fince, as S. Terry and Ro-
bert Pittman, in the employ of Mr. Cooper, of
Pedlar's Acre, were out on their mailer's bufinefs,
they were flopped by five footpath, near Peckham-
gap, who robbed them of their calls.
A few evenings fince, as Mr. Heighington, of
Bow-lane, Cheapfide, was returning home through
Ealt-lane, Walworth, he was (topped and robbed
by three footpads of his watch and cafh.
Lail Friday evening, as Mr. Gardner, of Caftle-
ftreet. St. George's in the Eall, was palling
through Crown.Rreet, Seven Dials, he was
knocked down by a tall man, in company with
three others, and they ran off with two (mall par-
eels, containing combs and other property to a
cenfidcrable amount.

As the fervant of William Taunton, Efq. of
Downfrome, in Dorktfhire, was returning home
from Beaminfter, he was (topped by a tingle foot-
pad, who jumped from behind the bulls and feized
the bode by the bridle, and with a (harp inftru-
ment fevered the reins, fo as to render the bode
unmanageable, and then took hold of the fervant
by the great coat, and violently ftruck at him.—
The fervant very fortunately avoided the blow by
leaning forward on the neck of the horfe ; but he,
completely cut off the tail part of his great cz-at.
The footpad made no demand of money, and it
is rather remarkable that the fen ant had received
a confiderable firm on that day. It is alto a me-
lancholy ciroiniftance, that a few months ago, a
woman was found murdered near that place, with
her thrcat on from ear to ear.

Timislay fennight, a boat going from Water-
ford to Duncannon, with a man of the name of
Grant, his wife, and a young woman on board,
upfet near Paffage, when they were all unfortu-
nately ltd.
Several farmers around Windfor and its envi.
row, !for fume time pail have had their barns
broke open, and corn of different kinds taken out.
Thefe depredations appear to have been commit.
ted by a gang of 16 dein:rate fellows, four of whom
are now in cultody in Windfor gaol, and are to be
examined this day before the Magiltrates.
On Tuefday evening hall, the loth infiant, was
committed in Nevgate-ftrcet, a moll daring rob-
bery on Mr. S. of Afhby de la Zouch, by feveral
ladies of ear), virtue in company, one of whom
fecund his pocket-hook, containing feveral Bank
notes, betides a draft to a ccnliderable amount.

Foto ay.—For tome days pall fevcral perfons
have undergone private examinations on charges
of having forged certificates, purporting to be cer-
tificates for feamen belonging to the Bengal India.
man, now lying at Gravefend, to receive their
wages at the counting-houfe of Mr. Gillett, the
agent, in Bilhopfgate.ftreet. There perfons had
aaually received money on the falfe certificates to
the amount of upwards of Sol. On Tucfday
Mr. Sharpe, the Chief Mate of the Bengal, hap-
pened to be at the agent's when fume of the par-
ties came with the certificates, on which his ligna-
ture was counteifeited to exactly, that he fhould
hardly have known the difference between them
and his own hand-writing,• if he had not been cu.;
tain that there were no fuck perfons on board the
fhip as thofe to whom the wages were pretended
to be due. After various fep.irate examinations,
two of thcfc perfons, a man and his wife, turned
King's evidences, and difcovered the perfon who
had forged all the certificates. The perfon was
brought before the Lord Mayor on Saturday by
two City Officers, who produced a book found on
him, and in which was written an exact copy of
one of the certificates in queftion, with Mr. Sharpe's
fignatnre exaCtly imitated. This perfon is a young
than, who pretend% he was a broker ; and that he
wrote the certificates at the defire of the other per-
Cons ; that he knew not what they were; and had
received no money. The witneffes fwore he got all
the money which they received ; that they were
employed by him; that he ufed to give them a
dozen or two of certificates at a time, and ufed to
flop at a public-houfe until they brought him the
money. All the reward they received was two
guineas and a ftlk handkerchief. This young man,
for forgery, and two others for uttering, were
fully committed for trial.
On Monday fe'nnight an inquifition was taken
at Brockenhurft, on the body of an infant, about
four months old, belonging to Mr. Hatchett, who,
in travelling from that place to Brockenhurft, with
the father and mother, in an open chaife, the pre-
ceding Friday evening, on their alighting at the
inn, the child was dead, and fuppofed to have pe.
rifhed by the fiverity of the'weather. Verdia—
Vifitation of God.

A few nights tince a woman going from Green-
ock, when it was very dark, fell over, the breaft-
work of Delingbnrn bridge, into the burn, and
broke her leg, which was Chattered in a dreadful
manner ; very fortunately the tide was not in, or
the mull have been drowned : the was relieved
from her diftrelling fituation by a young gentle-
man, who happened to trots the bridge fome time
after the fell ; hearing the moans of perfon in
dillrefs, he made for the fpot, leaped into the ri-
vulet,and raifed her up: affiftance being procured,
the was carried to a neighbouring boufe, and fur-

Fria die LONDON GAZETTE, 114. 16.