Star.
London, England, 1812-11-27 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bow.sTnErr.--Yesterday J. Drab was charged
with stealing a large quantity of wearing apparel and
linen, the property of Lady Sutton and D. Bailey,
Esq. which had been entrusted to Mrs. Brownell, a
laundress in Charlton-street, Somers' Town. The

prisoner was employed to take the property home ;
instead of which he absconded with it ; and being
advertised, which was observed by a police officer at
Coventry, he discovered him near that place, and
went to apprehend him, when the prisoner made a
desperate resistance, which compelled the officer to
produce a pistol, with which he threatened to blow
his brains out, and in the affray be knocked five ef
his teeth out. He afterwards brought him to Lon-
don. Part tf the property has been discovered to
have been pledged by a woman the prisoner cohabi-
ted with, and another part of it has been recovered,
by the same woman offering it for pledge, and, on
being questioned as to how she became possessed
of it ? she ran away, and left it in the shop. The pri-
soner was committed for further examination.

A man was charged with uttering forged Bank of
England Notes, by selling them to Dickons, one of
the patrole belonging to the Office, and was commit-
ted for trial.

HATTON GARDEN.—Yesterday /Inn Illert was
fully committed, charged by a laundress, at High-
gate, by whom she had been employed to iron, with
stealing articles of a pparel, table-cloths, and other linen.
WHITISCHAPEL.—Yesterday J. Smith was charged
with stealing a leaden pipe from the house of Mr.
Lewis, opposite Whitechapel Church. He was over-
seen by the prosecutor cutting the pipe into pieces,
which were found upon him. He was fully committed.
D. Jotsm, a lad, was charged with robbing a foreign
sailor, near the Royalty Theatre, in Wellclose-square,
of his pocket-book, containing bills to the amount of
440, and was remanded for further examination.
UNION HA Lt.—C. Rovlimd was yesterday charged
with having been found in the act of illicit distilla-
tion. C. J. Yorke, an excise officer, went to a house
in Prospect-place, Walworth, on the night of the
22d inst. in company with his brother officers. They
rapped at the door, and on being admitted, found
two stills working, one of SO gallons, and the other
20. The former was charged with molasses or
sugar wash, and the latter with small wine. The
only person found was the defendant, who said he
was merely a journeyman to a person named Smith,
who rented the house, but where he could be found
he knew not. The stills, and all the property in the
house, were, therefore, seized. The Magistrate re-
probated in strong terms the conduct of the defen-
dant, and in despite of his entreaties, and protesta-
tions of poverty, fined him £3O.

FELONS EITRAORDINARY.—There are at present
confined in Durham gaol, a prisoner for felony, at
the age of ten years ; another nearly ninety s and a
female, possessed of one hundred and Iffy thousand
pounds, for stealing an article not worth more than
nestrenitence:
Mr. TROTTER has published a statement of the cir-
cumstances relative to his late arrest, which was for
a debt, and not on any political account. Mr. T.
complains strongly of the conduct of a Rev. Magis-
trate towards him.

Monday last, about two o'clock in the afternoon,
as Robert Young, Esq. of Rogerstown, near Ardee,
was returning to Ardee from the fair of Mullacrew,
he was attacked by that noted offender, Collier, who,
after seizing his horse's bridle, demanded his money.
Mr. Young struggled fur some time, to get away,
but was at length unhorsed, and seizing a stone, at-
tacked the villain with it. Collier kept at a respect-
ful distance, and seeing the Gentleman was deter-
mined to face him, fired a pistol at him ; the contents
of which lodged in Mr. Young's han, arm, and
breast. Immediately after the miscreant discharged
his pistol he ran off. We are happy to say that Mr.
Young is not dangerously wounded.
An unfortunate . accident lately happened at the
tillage of Colingsburgh, in Fife. While a poor wi-
dow woman of the name of PIIILP, was kindling her
fire, which had rather been too much exhausted, she
brought from a press a cannister, containing about a
pound and a half of gunpowder, (which she impru-
dently kept there), and applied a handful of it to
the fire, which immediately communicated with that
in the cannister, and the whole exploded. The hand
that held the cannister was dreadfully shattered, and
the half of the first finger was entirely blown away.
The poor woman, however, is now in a fair way of
recovery. .
Saturday se'nnight as ANDREW LINDSAY, servant
of Mr. ALEXANDER CAMERON, farmer at Taphead,
near Perth, was returning home, with a cart laden
with coals, his foot slipt, and he fell from the foot-
path into a ditch along-side of the road, and both
horse and cart falling on him, he was killed on the spot.
Monday morning last, about the hour of three
o'clock, a number of armed villains attacked the
house of JAMES SORAHAN, at Garbally, near' Duleek,
County Meath, steward to Janamian SMITH, Esq.
while in the act of breaking open the door with a
sledge, Sorahan arose from his bed, seized a pitch-
fork, and resisted the fellows in a gallant style. Du-
ring the conflict hentabbed one of them through the
heart and wounded another. They fired several shots „r
into the house, one of which he received in his right
hand between the finger and thumb. The miscreants,
supposing him to have been killed, set fire to the
thatch, which was happily extinguished by the exer-
tions of the family.

..
/MATH.
At the Cottage, Saintfield,' the Lady of tke Rev. H. H. Wols•
hey, of a son.

MARRIED.
At Clyde Farm, in the County of Louth, the Right Hon.
George Koos, to Harriett, youngest daughter of the late Tho•
Ma. Forum*, Bo*
The litth inst. the Rev. Thomas Carr, to Miss Morgan, niece
to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Limerick.

DIES.
Sunday sennigh; at Halesworth, Maria Smith; and on the
following day, her liter, Matilda Smith, being the two 1w
chil-
dren of the late unfortunate John and Elisabeth Smith, of Cook-
ley, who were at the last Lent Assizes for Suffolk, tried and exe.
euted for starving their daughter Mary Ann Smith.
At luveresk, near Edinburgh, the 13th inst. Sir Alexander
Purees, of Purees, aged 74.
At Southampton, the ath inst. John Burdett, Esq. in the 75th
year of his age, the last survivor of those unfortunate persona
who werr confined in the Blackhole, at Calcutta.
At Cowley, near Oxford, the 13th in the 70th year of her
age, Mrs. Wetherell, relict of the late Nathaniel WethcrelkDat
Dean fg idatatiod, and Master at Vulva-sky College.