Star.
London, England, 1801-11-19 00:00:00

POLICE, dm
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Elow-Srasax.—Tuefdal evening three young
men were brought in cullody to this Office, ap-
prehended the fame evening in the fields near the
Shepherd and Sheplierdels, City Road,. on fufpi-
ptcion of being footpads : on the examination of
the prifoners it appeared, that they were found
Rending together ln a field, at which time it is
fttppored they were loading their piflols, one be-
ing fotgict on them, with a quantity of powder,
nnd another with fome cartridges' f powder, dole
to the fpot where they flood. The prifoners names
axe Thoutarduchighturr, Dotal Buchighaue, brothers,
and rag,. MN:. The account they gave of
thernfelves to the Magiftrates not being at all fatif-
faaory7-Cosotnitted for further examination.
A farmer was conviaed of felling 33 trace of
hay iliort of weight, and was adjudged to forfeit
the penalty of ss. per trufs, and coils.
Yefterday an informetion brought again& a
pawnbroker, by a common informer, for taking
more Mterett than allowed by the late AR of Par-
liament, came on to be heard.
Mr. AL4III, the Clerk of the Peace for Weft-
minfter, who attended for the pawnbroker, took
an objellion on this ground, on account of there
being a claufe in the A& of Parliament. which
rays, that when the party is aggrieved, they (hall
apply to a Magiftrate who Iluilfdirea the Church-
wardens and Overfe;rs of the parith where she
. party refides to carry on a profecution, and in cafe
of conviEtion, one moiety to go to the party, and
the other to the poor of the pasilh..
Mr. Jittery, in reply, contended thatthe mean-
ing of the wills officersbeing diretted to carry
on the profecution was, that in cafe the party was
too poOr to par the expense, the pawnbroker should
not go unpunifhed betide:, there was another
claufe, which faid, that nu perfon haring been
found guilty of a fraud, extorting money under
Falk pretences, or felony, lipoid be capable of in-
forming, which certainly mull have had in view
an informer.
The Maliftrates not agrcoinz: in their opinion,
the queffion was adjourned to a Suture day, and
en this will depend 47 other informations, which
are commenced by the fame informer -again& a
number of other pawnbrokers.
Harrow-Oaensx.--,Yefterclay 54aalroch Hutch.
tick, a lad of 16 years of age, was charged by
Mr. Bent, a chinaman, in Holborn, with dealing
a china bowl, value half a-guinea, from his win-
slow, on Tuefday night. which a& being obferved
by a lad belonging to Mr. Rem, he patted the
prifeiner into Southampton-beet, when he dallied
the bowl again& the pavement and broke it to pie-
ces- He was, however, teemed, and the *Ur
meats of the bowl picked up, by the marks on
which it was identified by Mr. Bent to be his pro-
perty. The prifooer was fully committed for trial.
Parser limper, a pen-maker, was charged by a
poor woman, on Saffron-hill, with entering her
vartment, and Reeling a tea.cheft, containing 13
fhfillings and a quantity of pawnbrokers' duplicates
to the amount of 31. which being found uponhim,
be was committed for trial.
A baker was oonvieed in the rnalty of 3s. an
ounce, for breed deficient in Weight. amounting
to three guineas.
A young woman charged a safpciftable gentle-
man in the city with having committed violence
upon her perfon, on Thisrfday night Lift. !top.
peered, that between Thurf4ay and Monday a
perfon, by her inftruttion. had applied for an in-
demnification, to the amount of :cool. As the
could not fupport any of her allegations, he was I
difeharged.
A few days fine a man named Comber was
committed by W. MAILKWICIC' Efq. to Horfham
gaol, charged with Reeling a horfe near Farelight,l
In confequence of information given to the Mayor
of Neu:cattle, a gang of young thieves, confining
of apprentice boys, none above fixteen years of
age, were apprehended let Thurfday morning on
fevers! charges of felony. It appeared on their
et.imin.tim that they had for a cnnfiderable time
p.i a fr.slated for the pnrpofe of robbing their maf-
ye-s of rra.r.cy, &c. and plundering goods lying
t:pon the (play, in which latter-depredation, par.
twilarly upon iron and flint shill, the,/ had b.cn
very fiteceNni. By the ex.:rtiuts of 'the Police,
el the m.ccivers have l_•endifeovered.
On Irithlay night as James Jackfon, carman to
Mr. l' rnj. Ti vcrs, of Queen-flrect, Cheaptide, was
set.uning L. •nc through Chifwcll-dreet, in tom.
puny with ti' n tuber perfons, they were :Vl:whet!
by a gang of villains, to the number of twAve or
tiften, r.ho knocked them down, and attempted
to take Jackson's %%Jui, lie tattling, one
of the villains cut him acrofs breaft with a
tag.: knife dr ctit'.af, in lo defper.ite a manner, thatl
tic now lies in St. Bartholomew's hoijiital without
hope% of recorery.
TticfJay George r:per, lately waiter in Mr.
Mar.'s ern, Multei:l,lr,-h, was brought to Edin-
bin heiii:; a.:ett (c.l of the murder of David
Wlats, an 1.t;!..1- Si th.tt inn, on Saturday they tit
ult. It i, iii u, that i n coptequence of fon- e differ-
ence which o.:s.csrs..l, difoute enfued, Alla blows
folloWtd. when t' poi (hock and wounded \I-Licit
with a poker. annlcr %.hicia ire languifised till 'fuer-
day, whe:, J^ .J.
,1.
Early on I:: May min the (hop of Mr. Wit-
ten, was bur-
gl.srioafiy t.:141 (.4 the caucafes wf
r Nu the:p.

On the fame morning, the slaughter-houfe of
Mr. Marthall, butcher, in Ship-ltreet lane, was
broke open and robbed of the kidneys and a part of
the flefh from one of the flanks of a bullock, which
had been newly killed, and was hanging up it..
fides in the Daughter honk.
On Friday night fume villains broke into the
King's Bench Office, Temple, by getting over
two gardens from the River, and opened all the
dents and drawers, but found nothing of value.
On Saturday night, or early on Sunday morn-
ing, a Manchefter-warehoufe, in Lawrence-lane,
Cheapftde, was burglarioufly broken open, and
robbed of dimity to the value of upwards of 3col.
by thieves at prefent unknown, v.rho.it is fuppofed
carried away the fame in a coach.
Early on Sunday morning a gentleman's houfe
at Cowley, near Uxbridge, was broken open and
robbed of feveral articles of plate and wearing
apparel.
Lail Saturday fen'night a boy belonging to Mr.
RomGtt, a taylor, in Grays-inn-lane, was defraud-
ed of two black coats, in Great queentireet, Lin-
coln's-inn-fields, by a young man who looked like
a fervant, laying he came from the gentleman
whom they belonged to in Leicefter-fquare.
On Saturday the 7th inftenti an inquifition was
taken before Mr. NEWLYN. at Blackwater, on the
body of Benj. Kadin, who was found dead near
she turnpike road there. No marks of violence
appearing about him, the Jury returned a verdict
that he died by the Vifitation of Goes.
On Saturday laft an inquifition was taken .at
Kidlington, in Orfordihire, before Mr. BoeaseaN
one of his Majcfty's Coroners, on view of the
body of Walter Rock, who was difetwered dead
on the preceding day in the bolting-room of Mr.
Hanwell, where he had been at work.—Verdia,
died by the vilitation of GOD.
On Thurfday, Mr. Wmirscaase took an inqueft
ou a Itranger, found dead on balifbary-plain, in
the liberty of Shrewton naafis. Nothing was ,
(mind in his pockets but fourpence. By his drefs
he was a journeyman in Coyne trade.—Veidia, Vi-
fitation of GOD.

A melancholy accident happened on Friday in
Harley-ftreet, As a young gentleman was mount-
ing his hock, the vicious animal endeavoured
to bite him, and the moment the gentleman had
placed himfelf upon the (addle, he fet off full
(peed up the (beet, and dallied his rider with
'loch force upon the pavement, that little hopes
are entertained of his recovery.
Laft Friday morningys s the Peterborough coach
was going along Old-fireet, two men got up be-
hind, while it was going at a great rate, and fue-
ceeded in flealing a trunk, containing wearine ap-
parel and other valuable articles, with which they
efcaped.
On the day of the late Parfi in Fete, a Mocking
accident interrupted the public joy. An Amphi-
theatre railed over the 'bites broke down, and 8o
perious who were in it,fell into them. The wound-
ed were carried into the Offices of the Cuter Coe •
sot., where they received all the affiliance of art.
Monday afternoon, at a gentleman was riding
through St. George's Fields his Nate took fright,
and at a little &dance from the Obelilk Rum-
bled, threw him off, and then fell upon him, by
which his leg was broken, and be was other wife
much bruited.

Same day a gentleman's chariot, with two ladies
therein, broke down at the end of Hoinaditch.
The ladies were exceedingly terriFed on the occa-
ion, but fortunately received no injury by the
accident.

Notwithftanding the precautions and care taken
to prevent accidental fires in factories, on Thurf-
day night lan, one of the lads in the cotton fac-
tory of Meflrs. Watfon and Co. at Roach-bridge,
near Preßon, having carelefsly left the fnulf of a
candle unextinguiaed on the floor of one of the
rooms, previous to the doling of the faaory, it
communicated to Come of the cotton, and the flames
were got to fo great a height before they were dif-
cov
ered, that the whole of the building, and moll
of the contents, to a eonfiderable amount, were
confumed, a; well as fume of the adjacent houfes.
On Wednefday fe'nnight, a fire happened at the
dye works of Little Mill, near Dunbarton, which
in a very (hors time, confunicd the whole premiks.
Same day, at nine o'clock in the morning, an
alarming fire broke out in a thatched tenement
in the 1 ownhead of Selkirk, and front the num-
ber of thatched roofs and corn Racks in its vi-
cinity, threatened a moll dreadful cooflagration ;
but owing to the prompt and laborious exertions
of the inhabitants, the flames were fubdued with
the loft of only two houfes, the property of Dea-
con Ewes's, inhabited by Deacon rim Score,
wearer, and others.—Almon all the furniture,
clothes, and weaving ntenfils were conform:el, but
fortunately no lives were 1011.
Saturday morning about two o'clock, a fire was
..likovered in the upper room of Melfrs. Holmes'
herring-houfe, in the Hay-market, Liverpool. but
by timely aillilance was fortunately got under,
!without much damage.
A curious circumflance, connthed with the In-
come Tax, has lately occurred with refpeft to
Gentlemen coming from India, when they have
be landed at Cork, and made the bell of theirway
rQ London by the route of Holyhead. Several
! informations have been laid againfl the pat gingers
Int the BaLVIDLRE and other (hips for not return-
ing an account of their income till the aaual ar-
rival of the flaipe in the Downs.
Derrepse.-7'he Academy for fit fkionable and
private Dancing atCoachmaker's Hall, Fofter-lane,
Cireapfide, under the direcfiomofbi.l'loralfts, Rill
continues we find toreceive that refpeaniale Patron-
a.:e it has long merited; and, where Ladies and
Gentlemen whohave never acquiredahisacconsplifb-
ment, or tlsofe who have not obtained the preterit
fathionable mode, may be expeditionny inflanited,
I in the moil private manner, in all the elegant and
fafhionable Reps now in ufe to qualify them foe the
firs AtTemblies.—Young Ladies and Gentlemen
are alto taught every fathionable Dance. and every
attention exerted to give the snoft ekgaat added'.
Every fuceefs is therefore due to fo refpcift..bloaw
inftitutronowhich has for its objeft to cultivate and;
improve the graces necetary w form and embellifti
tht nfurg generation.

DUBLIN, NOi;.

Yeflerday, in confequence of an attachment ba v.r
ing gone againfl hint, Mr. Steel, a Magillrate of
Cavan, was committed to the. New Gaol, by thei
-Conn of King's llench, for fome ritifconditet at
the eleftion betWecn Mr. Cove and Sir CAP Et.
Motv tisavx, and was ordered to be brought up
on Tuefday next, to receive judgment.
The polldsoy conveying the mail from Carrick-
matrofs to Ardec, was flopped on the 9th inflant,
betweestthe mill of Louth and Tallonliown, by,
two armed men, who knocked him off his horle
and robbed him of the whole of the mail, contain-
inr the poll bags of Auglmacloy, Ballybay, Car-
rickmacrofs, Conte-hill, Derry, Monaghan, N. T.
Limevady, N. T. Stewart, Omagh, and Strabane.
The Coroner's Inqueß fat on l'horfday upon
the body of Mr. Barry of Frederick-fireet, North,
and brought in their verdia, wilful murder by per-
fons unknown, attaching fufpicioti, from Come
Rrong clreumflaisces, to a fervant-man who 1) /u 1
lately lived with the decanted. The man, it ap
peared,was Peen by a Gentleman abOut two o'clock
on that day, waled up in a cloak. entering 'Mx.
B's houfe, and the maid admitted him. On exam-
ing her, the denied havin4 feenhim,for five weeks,
on which the was committed to Newgate. The
fervant man was teen on that evening in a public
houfe in the neighbourhood, and blood was obfcrv-
ed upon his heads. The deceafcd's pock.ets were
rifled, it is fuppofed, of about 4001. Thcr.: Were
debentures in the houfe to the amount of 30,0c01.
but theft were all kft behind from dread of leading
to detection.

John Bird, the Navan Newfman, has been mif-
fing fence Wednefday morning, the 4th init. and it
is feared has been robbed and murdered ; he was
Peen that morning early on Glaffnevin mod, and
in his potreffion feven suineas and a half in bank
mites, and fume filver, • He was a harmlefs inof-
fentive man, and has left i wife and eight helplefs
children in the utak heaKt-rending.aflli*ion. He
had been upwards of thirty years in the habit of
carrying newfpapers. with which be fupplied molt
of the Gentlemen of the count• of Meath.

BIRTHS.
On Friday, the Lady of Henry Augußus Le-re/ter, Efq. of
Annon.Haycs, Chethire, of a fon.
Mrs. W. Parlth, of Guildford-ftreet, of a fon.
On Monday let, Mrs. J. Coiling, of Liner Fitzroy-fired,
at a daughter.
Sunday kit, at Bowden, near Teen, Cs, me Lady of Baldwin
?altars:l, of Great Fulford, Eft'. of a fon and ycir. .

MAIO( IF.1).
On the 15th Inftant, at Vic Collegiate Cliureh, hcanclefter!
Samuel I.ueas, Efq. of Lark, Stzlifordamv, to lira. Gaunt, of
the former place.
On the 9th loft. at Zoltorsl*Sand‘, Edward Pentdristan, of
Kendal,Flq. a Lleaterant-Colonel iu the Earl India CsKapany's
fervice, to Mifs E. Sparling, datkohtsr of Richard Sprling, of
Bolton aforrfaid, Efq.
In February lail, at Calcutta, Captain Thomas Thonsas, of
'he Navy, to Mils Sprott, daughter of the late Major Sprott, of
Salilbory,
Oo the 9tl inttant, at I luntingdan, Vrliam Clack, Efq. of
Water-lane, Tows-ftreet, to Mih Sarah Edit, .Laughter of
Matthew EilL, F.fq. of the former place.
On the t sth tnitant, at Lainbeth Church, Preiierielt Perkins,
Efq. of Park•Breet, Southwark, to Mitt Sanders, of Denmark-
kill, Camberwell, Surrey. •
Tucfday, at St. James's Church, the Rev. John Myers, totter
of Walton on the HUI, Surrey, to PAM Woodman, daughter of
John Woodman, of Ewell, Efq. raid county, and niece to War.
am liaftiap,Efq. lain GoVcroor Oencral of kook