Star.
London, England, 1822-01-25 00:00:00

JLICE.

BOW.ITREIIT. —A pair of venerably-bearded Turks,
in the full costume of the East, appeared before the
sitting Magistrate, a few days ago, attended by one
of the porters belonging to the • Home Secretary of
State's Office, who informed his Worship, that Mr.
Ilobliouse had desired they should be conducted be-
fore him, they having some complaint to make
against a member of the University of Cambridge.—
Neither of the Asiatics could speak a syllable of,
English, but they were accompanied by a man who
offered himself as their interpreter, and who also
called himself a Turk—though he was an exact per-
sonification of an English stage-coachman—a sturdy,
curly •headed, red-faced, knowing.looking fellow; in
top-boots, bird's-eye, and poodle berrjamin. To
this man one of the strangers talked for nearly a
quarter of an hour, with astonishing volubility, and
most redundant gesticulations; and, having con-
cluded, the man delivered the following narrative—
partly in English, partly in French, partly in Turkish,
3nd partly in a dialect of his own, composed of all
the others :—The Turks, in the course of their tra-
vels, had sojourned some days at Cambridge ; and
whilst there had sold about ten pounds worth of their
merchandize to a " college man," (a collegian—one
Mr. —, of Wandsworth Common, as appeared
from an address written on a slip of paper which
they produced). The " college-man" did not pay
them for the merchandize at the time of their bar-
gain; but promised to be ready with the money on
a future day. When the day arrived, however, he
was " gone somewhere away," and they could not
find him. Some days more elapsed before he made
himself visible; and then another day of payment
was appointed ; but when the day came he was gone
away again. In short, as the interpreter said, he was
" always far off, round about in the countries—some-
times here, and sometimes there, sometimes every
where, and sometimes nowhere at all." In all these
eccentricities .the poor Turks endeavoured to keep
up with him ; and urged the chace so warmly that,
it would appear, he began at length to grow con-
foundedly tired of it ; and, hopeless of exhausting
their patience by this kind of wildgoose chace, he hit
upon the following queer contrivance to rid himself
of their troublesome presence :—Having apologised
for the delay that had occurred, he appointed to
meet them on the following morning at a certain
public-house, about five miles from Cambridge, on
the road to London, The Turks were exact in keep-
ing their appointment, and they had not waited long
before the " college-man" made his appearance. He
was accompanied by a young woman; and he pro-
posed to the Turks that they should escort this young
woman to town for him ; that they should take great
care of the young woman, as she was very dear to
him, and wait altogether at the White Horse Cellar,
Piccadilly, till he joined them ; that he would follow
them in a day or two at farthest, and immediately
on his arrival in town he would give them a cheque
upon his banker for the original debt, and the tra-
velling expenses altogether! This would have been
a comical proposition to have made to an English-
man, but it answered very well with the poor Turks'
—they readily agreed to it; not doubting but he
would keep his word when they had aLady in pawn
who was so " dear" to him—and they took their de-
parture for the Metropolis by the first coach that
passed ; the " college-man" taking a tender farewel
of the Lady, and the simple Mussulmans escorting
her along the road with as much care as though they
had been conducting some fair Circassian to the
Seraglio of the Grand Seignior. They arrived at the
White Horse Cellar in due course, and waited day
after day for the arrival of the " college-man ;" but
to their astonishment he never came, and their patience
and faith evaporating together, they at length sought
redress from the laws.—The Magistrate (G. R. Itltn-
snumt.. Esq.) said it appeared that the collegian, by
this unprincipled trick, had 44 killed two birds with one
stone"—he had disburthened himself of his creditor and
his mistress at once. The stratagem, he said, was the
more unprincipled, inasmuch as it was played off
upon foreigners, who were utterly ignorant of the
customs of the country, but still he was afraid it did
not come within hii jurisdiction.—After some further
conversation, his Worship having learned that .the
young woman was still under the protection of the
Turks, he desired that she might be brought before
him : and the Turks, with their interpreter, left the
Office for the purpose of fetching her; but they did
snot return in the course of the day.
Yesterday, James Price and Henry Clayton were
placed at the bar, having been apprehended, on the
preceding night,
in the neighbourhood of Earl's-
court, with housebreaking tools in their possession.—
They were held to bail under the Police Act.
Last night, Isaac Skelton Richard Powers, and
William Robing, were brought before Sir Rico/ti)
BIRNIE, by Lack and Ambden, of the patrol, who
had taken them into custody an hour or two before,

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observed a hackney-coach draw up at the corner of
Princes-street, Drury-lane, fiom which the three pri-
soners alighted, and. the moment they.perceired the 1
officers, they walked off in different directions. The
officers looked into the coach, and there they found
a new mahogany comp table, a reading or music-
stand of the same Material, a rosewood stool, and a
small red leather trunk, of all which they took pos-
session, not doubting but it was stolen property, as
the men had deserted it, and walked off without pay-
ing the coachman. They almost immediately after
took the prisoners into custody, and brought the
whole to the office.—The coachman deposed that the
prisoners hired him on the stand in the Old Bailey.
They brought the articles with them, and putting
them into the coach, desired him to drive them to
Drury-lane.--In their defence, they said, that some
• man whom they did not know had offered them a
ride, and the property belonged to him.—They were
committed for further examination on Monday next.
Richard Baldwin and John Pay were brought in
by Nicholls and another officer, who apprehended
them about seven o'clock, making their way over the
ruins in Whitconibe-street, Haymarket, with a very
large pier-glass in a gilt flame, for their possession
of which they gime a very unsatisfactory account.—
These persons also were committed for further exa-
mination on Monday next.
Harros-GARDEN.—Yesterday, a very interesting-
looking girl, between 15 and 16 years of age, was
brought to this Office, accompanied by a Setjeant
from the Royal Military Asylum, at Chelsea, in or-
der to have her indentures cancelled, on the ground
of her being in a deranged state of mind. It appeared
that the poor girl was a soldier's orphan, and had
been brought up at the Royal Military Asylum, and
bad been apprenticed from thence, seven months
ago, to Mrs. Martha Pugh, a widow Lady, and dress-
maker, residing in Gee-street, Goswell-street. For the
first three or four months her behaviour was unexcep-
tionable, but subsequently to that time she began to
exhibit various mental aberrations, which were not
at first attributed to the right cause. From being
the most obliging and diligent girl in the world, she
became impertinent and lazy, and, what was rather
curious, invariably followed her mistress from place
to place, and with the most provoking pertinacity.—
On other occasions she had been known to throw
away her food, although she had eaten nothing pre-
viously; to undress herself, and to cut up her clothes,
hoots, and bonnet, in small pieces, and then to t ush
into the public street. Again, she has been known
to take her bed from off the bedstead and make it
on the floor, and her mistress has often been corn ',riled
to set a watch upon her in the 'tight, lest he should
set fire to the house, as she had several times burnt her
clothes in the fire. These acts were attributed to a
malignant disposition, and a complaint was made tc
.Colonel Williams, the Governor of the Asylum, who
recommended an application to the Magistrates of
Queen-square, who committed her to the !louse of
Correction ; but her conduct on her release, 'although
not quite so violent, was marked with the same degree
of extravagance, and the cause of her malady being
then for the first time suspected, a more serious in-
quiry took place, which ended in the establishment
of her insanity. Both Colonel Williams and the
Queen-square Magistrates saw the necessity of can-
celling the indentures ; but here a difficulty arose, for
although Mrs. Pugh was inclined to do all that laid
in her power for the girl, the parish officers had re-
fused to second her laudable exertions, and would ma
receive her into the workhouse, although site had of-
feted to pay .ss. a week for her support, saying, they
" would not make a boarding-house of their werk-
house !" The informations taken at Queea-square were
transmitted to this Office, in order that the Magi-
strates in whose district Mrs Pugh lived might can-
cel the indentures, and enforce the girl's claim upon
the parish. The Magi:trates readily cancelled the
indentures; but there being none of the parish officers
of St. Luke's present, Mrs. Pugh was desired to take
her home that night, and to call again, when an ab-
solute order would be made upon the parish officers
to take proper care of her in future.
• MA RY-L A-Box NE.—Yesterday, a miserably-dressed'
man, named William Jones, was brought before
Messrs. It AWLINSON and fIoPE, the sitting Magi-
strates, by Milani, a beadle belonging to llat y-la-
bonne parish, charged as a vagrant, who heard him
singing, and acting various parts of plays, in New
Quebec-street, New-road, %%here a crowd fti 1.0 bOIIS
were assembled to witness his pet formances.

On the Magistrate asking the prisoner of what profession he
was, he exclaimed, with great emphasis—A miniature painter,
your Worship; but the trade is so excessively bad, that 1 have
been out of employ for a considerable kngth of time. When I
was accosted and taken into custody by that gentleman (pointing
to the beadle), I was only performing to the delight of the by-
standers, Mr. Munden's celebrated part of Jabson, in the Farce
of The Devil to Pay, and.singing that Gentleman's much-admired
song in the piece.

The 114Cstrate asked, Have you any friends or relations ?
Prisoner.—Yes, I have a brother, an Oili:er the Army,
and some friends in the country, who arc respectable, but not
having seen them fur the last two years, I am now ashamed to
make my case known.
Magistrate.—That's a prison dress you have got on, is it not ?
Pritarner.—Yes, your Worship, 1 received it front the New
Prison, where I had been confined for an assault, and came out
about six weeks since.

Alagistratr.—Where have you lodged since your release?
Ptisoner.—At a respectable lodging-house in Short%-gardens.
ilagistrate.—Perhaps you would like to be sent back to
prison again ?
Prisoner.—Oh! dear no, your Worship; a prison is a most
sorrowful place tar a young man'te be confined in, and no good
whatever eau be learnt there, and if you will allow me to go at
large I will apply to my parish for relief; although a workhouse
ia a distressed place, yet I wid put up with,sll its inconvenivocc.s,
and content myself there.
Alagistrate.-11 you will promise to do that, on these c.mtli-
dons you shall he discharged. •
l'risoner.— Yes, I will, repot my honour.
lie then made several theatrical bows and retired.

A man named Henry Anderson has been cpmthit-
ted to Durham Jail to take his trial at the nest As-
sizes, for committing a rape on the body of Sarah
Armstrong, a young woman in the service of Mr.
NAISBITT, of Sunderland, spirit-Mei-chant. Sic was
on her road to Newbottle, where her Mozher lives,
on the afternoon of Sunday se'nnight, v.-heii she wars
overtaken by Anderson, and when passing thrJagh
field about two miles from .Newbattle, he accom-
plished his purpose.
ATROCIOUS ACT: —Last week, a boatman, rending
at Harold's Cross, who had, owing to the nes-essity
of the times, agreed to work at an under-rate on the
Canal, had one of his cart lopped WI by his less coin-
promising companions. Some. of them have been
committed.—Duldin Paper.