Star.
London, England, 1814-02-03 00:00:00

fdLICE:

BOW-STREET.—.Yesterday Patrick Warne 'Vs as
brought to this Office, in the custody of Mr: Cham-
bers, the High Constable of the Holborn Division,
charged, on suspicion, of being concerned in the
riotous assembly, in Bainbridge-street, St. Giles's, on
Sunday evening, when Edmund Hill, better known
by the name of Ned WI, was most barbarously
murdered. Elizabeth Skiffington, the wife of a bar-
ber, in George-street, Bloomsbury, stated, that she
happened to be present, in Bainbridge-street, on Sun-
day night, about nine o'clock, when the riot com-
menced, and described the furious manner of the nu-
merous assembly of persons cording out of the pub.
lic house, armed with different weapons, threatening
destruction to every person they met with, who did
not come fron their part of Ireland, accdtpanied
with the most horrid and blasphemous oaths. The
neighbourhood was so extremely alarmed, that the
inhabitants shin up their houses. Some of the rioters,
however, who were not armed, forcibly entered some
of the houses, and took up the first thing they could
lay their hands on. The deceased was an elderly
man, whom they attacked without any provocation,
and in the most barbarous and cruel manner, and
having laid him in a gutter apparently lifeless, one of
them observing him to move, desired another to give
him a blow to finish him, which be accordingly did.
She observed the prisoner among them, to the best of
her belief, but he was not armed with any weapon.
The prisoner being called upon for his defence, denied
the charge on the ground of an alibi, and stated, that,
on Saturday night, he was engaged in a friendly row
at the White Bear public house, in Field-lane, for
which he was sent to the watch-house, and was kept
there till Monday morning, when he was taken to the
Police-office in Hatton Garden, and was discharged.
.Mr. CAPPER, the Sitting Magistrate at Hatton Gar-
den Office on Monday, happening to be in the front
Office, was called in, and he recollected the prisoner
having been before him, but was not certain whe-
ther it was on Saturday or Sunday night that the
prisoner was described to have been engaged in the
friendly row, as he called it, in Field-lane. It was,
however, afterwards proved by the watch-house-
keeper and the publican, to be Saturday night. Mr.
Nmtes, the Sitting Magistrate, in consequence, dis-
charged theprisoner.

Thomas Williams, the well-known character who was
detected on the evening < f th. 27th of last monthLby
Bacon's party of di.: patrol, in robbing the Exeter
coach as it was passing through Phillimore-place,
Kensington, was brought to the dace, and underv, 9.;.
a second examination. Mr. Willan, the ovft,ler of the

coach, was bound over to prosecute, as the nominal
owner of the proi..rty, and the prisoner was corm
mitted for trial.

MA RL BOROVGII-ST R • --C/4.!g1. Et.ICTRAORDINARY.•-•-

An affidavit of the following singular occurrence, re-
lative to the desertion of an infant child, abryut four
months old, was yesterday made at this office :
Honora Thwaite, who resides in Cumming's-rents,
George-street, parish of St. made oath, that
on Friday morning last there was much bustle in the
neighbourhood amongst poor people, receiving the
charity of bread and coals. Deponent was standing
at her door, when a Woman, dress-d in a shawl, with
a small candle in bet hand and a child in her arms,
asked deponent to admit her backwards for a minute

or twos and, at the same time, begged she would be
kind enough to hold the babe. Deponent did so, and
since that time she had never seen the unnatural pa-
rent, but had fed the infant with bread and milk.—
The Parish Officers had refused to take the child into
the Po: a- house, until this affidavit was sworn. The
child was delivered over to the Parish Officers, but
no trace has been had of the unnatural parent.
MANSION-HOCSC.—G. Burnell, a waiter at the new
City of London Tavern, was yesterday charged, under
Lord Ellenborough's Act, with stabbing Sophia Webb
in the. arm with a knife. The prosecutria, who is a
servant in the Tavern, stated, that as she was tout-
ing some bread at the kitchen fire, the prisoner came
beside her for the same purpose : he placed a plate on
the fender, whict‘ she accidentally threw down, when
he immediately etruck her two blows on ahe breast,
knocked her doWn, and, just as she was rising, he
stabbed her in the left arm with a knife which he had
in his liand, saying, " Take that, you b.—ch, and go
to h—ll I" The wound which he inflicted was about
two inches long, and one inch deep. Agnes Wood
corroborated the statement of the complainant. The
prisoner, in his defence, said, the wound was entirely
the effect of accident ; and a boy, who was present,
deposed to the same effect. The complainant, how-
ever, said, there were other persons who could bear
testimony to the malice of the prisoner.—Mr. Terry,
the master of the prisoner, attended, and spoke in his
behalf, but admitted that he was extremely passionate.
The LORD MAYOR said, the offence imputed to the
prisoner was of a capital nature, and he feared be
:mot be under the necessity of committing him to
take his trial under that charge. He was, however,
remanded till this day.
HATTow.oAßDEW.—.sarak Jones, for the robbery of
Mr. Richard Jefferies, of Shoe-lane, of ,61.93, was yes.
terday brought up and committed to Newgate, in
order to be sent to Horsemonger-lane, to take her
trial at the next Assizes for the comity of Surrey.

At Colchester Quarter Sessions, a bill if indict-
ment was found by the Grand Jury against Isaac
Marsden, as printer and publisher of a poem, called
The Guild," for a libel on William Smith, Esq.
one of the Magistrates of the Borough.—At the same.
Sesrions, a bill of indictment was also found by the
Grand Jury against John Blaze, for a libel and mis-
demeanour, in sending to the present Mayor a gibbet
inclosed in the case which should have contained the
mace belonging to the Corporation.

A depredation of the most daring order was disco.
vexed in a singular manner, on Wednesday last. A
man of the name of Thomas Moore, of vagabond life,
seeing the street door open of the house of Mr.
VAUGHAN, carpenter, of Eton, walked in, and enter-
ing a room occupied by Mr. Cox, a Gentleman of
Eton College, took from the table five volumes of
classical books. He proceeded with his booty to the
College, where offering the books for sale to a Gen-
tleman he met with, they were recognized as the pro-
perty of Mr. Cox, who at the instant was passing by.
The mass wait ekes into custody, and committed to
Aylesbury coluny gaol.

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• TO TRB tDITVA OF TEE STALE.
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THE CUMBERLAND AND BEIJ?ORD.
Stn—A variety of reports being in circulation re.
lative to his Majesty's ships Coarearu.axo and Bata.
FORD, to relieve the minds of those who have frieeas
or relations on board, you are requested to publish
the following statement of the miraculous escape of
both ships, which may be relied ou:
The CUMBERLAND and BEDFORD formed part of
Admiral FERRIER'S squadron, in Hoseley Bay, when,
on Thursday, the 20th January, during a violent
gale and a very heavy sea, with a very strong lee
tide, the Iheivoao parted her small bower, and dropt
so suddenly on the hawse of the Comuatar.een, that,
notwithstanding the sheet-anchor was instantly lei.
go, which parted also, and every possible exertion
being made by both ships, destruction seemed io(yi
table, had it not been for the operation of the bt
FORD'S jib, combined with the CUMBERLAND'S
away cable, and the BEDFORD'S cutting her hest
bower cable, in order to facilitate their keeping cleat
of each other, they would have come in contact in
such a manner as to have rendered their separation
impossible, and consequently their destruction certain.
The velocity with which the CUMBERLAND'S cable
ran out, precluded the possibility of Capt. BAKER'S
order to cut being effected; in consequence of which.
the BEDFORD could not clear the Custasittetsu's bob.
sprit, whicli she threw over her larboard cathead,
and in the course of. two minutes left her a petted
wreck. At this awful moment, when the safety of
both ships was despaired of, the &memo was prowl.
dentially disentarigkd, and was observed to seat
and make sail, which relieved the minds of thetvlaile
squadron fur her safety; but having only One anchor,
and no cable bent, and the weather, though hazy,
enabling her to keep sight of the Maze, and there)),
to shape her course for the buoys and beacons, Oat
fortunately escaped the surrounding dangers of that
critical navigation, in t mining for the Nure, and for
ereater security she proceeded to the Thants.—
Meanwhile the CUMBERLAND was left in the leolt,
awful situation, which was increased by lee
the cable she rode by ; and the sheet.ancliar being
intangled in the wreck, it was some time Lef(at it
could be cut away. The best bower not 'winging
her up, she drifted so near the Cutlets as to,occasioo
the greatest apprehensions for her safety. Forte.
nately, the sheet-anchor being at length cleared, was
let go, which brought the ship up, and saved het
from being lost -upon that dangerous shoal. The
weather moderating, with the assistance sent by Lein,
Admiral Fte' net ER, and the exertions of her own of.
tic,'rs and crew, she was enabled the following gnu.
ning to move to a place of safety, when it was faund
that the stoe.k of the best bower-anchor was broken.
Having got up lerymasts, she arrived at the Nure
in safety on the 25th instant.
It is a singular circumstance, that the Comm.
LAND and BEDFORD arrived at the Nore at the same
moment, when they mutually greeted each other's
safety with three hearty cheers. It is also worthy of
remark, that the*CpNineitLAND on this alarming oc.
casion lost no lives—five men only were wounded,
and no one dangerously. The BEDFORD had her
mizen-mast sprung, and received some injury in lbr
quarter, but I am happy to state no person. was her.
EYE-WITNE.N.s.

. .
tgrOM the unsettled state of the weather, the sup*
of wheat at Norwich market on Satardiy was raker
scanty, and but• few bargains were tb.tde prices
much the same as the last. But little business was
done on the Cattle-hill; the slew of stock quite in-
considerable. •

A gang of thieves, four or dye in numher, made
an attempt to rob the house of Mr. TORREN, at Ash.
ton Park, Herts, on the fright of Saturday last. They
were discovered in the act of forcing the shuttervo iit
consequence of the alarm given by a Newfoundland
dog howling up the stairs. Mr. Toiren fired upon
them, when the whole clecansped, but one was after-
wards taken in the pursuit.