Star.
London, England, 1814-08-26 00:00:00

POLICE.

UNtsit HAti.--,Yesterday a yottng man of dashing
appearance and address, was charged with attempting
to defraud a pawnbroker, in the Borough, by offering
Ito pledge a number of watch seals, as gold, they
being only composition. The prisoner went to the
shop, and offered six seals, demanding a guinea upon
each, representing them as worth considerably snore
than that sum. Th,e man appeared with his solicitor,
and said the seals were worth the money he had asked
`for them ; but even supposing them not worth a
IshiMng, he had a right to offer them to pledm fog
!any scan he thought proper. The pawnbroker should
be ,careful, for his own sake, that he did not give,
more than the money they Were worth for any article;
if .hey did, the pawnbroker was 'to blame, and not
,the person who offered the article to pledge. Th
Magistrate observed, the charge here was for offering
'as gold that which was not gold, and thus attempting
to deceive. If the fact of his having represented
them as gold had been fully established, be would,
notwithstanding the argument he had heard, have
held him to trial ; for want of this fact being este.
brished, he must now discharge him, at the same time
advising him to be more cautious in future.
Bow-SrattEr.—A man of the name of Parser,
bailiff to Mr. Walker, of Southgate, was brought up,
on the following. charge:--In the nigh; of the 2d in-
stant, a bliliATPOOthp in the grounds of Mr. Schnie-
der, of Waver fan, Southgate, was broke open, and
robbed of a table, fine chairs, a billiard-table cover,
and other things; one of which chairs was seen at
the lodge where-Parker lived, who being asked bow
he came by it„ said, that he was coining home about
nine o'clock at' night, eight days after the robbery,'
and saw a man' in one of the rides of the wood lead-
ing to his house, that he made towards him, to in-
quire what he was doing there; when the man fired
at him, and ran off: that be went off towards the
spot, and found the chair. He was committed to
Newgate for trial.

Thursday se'nnight, two men, who had been im-
p:isoned in Perth Jail till they should pay a fine for
smuggling, made their escape by breaking through
the roof, from which they let themselves down.
On the PRINCE REGENT'S birth-day, Mr. Frrzuan-
aeliT, of Blackdown, gave a dinner on the Telegraph
Hill. to the-poor of the parish of L?rgarshall, Sussex,
in commemoration of the Peace. It consisted of roast
and boiled beef, and 2001bs. weight of plum pludding,
and as much strong beer as they could drin k. Five hun-
dred men, women, and children sat down to the tables.
A band of musicians played all the time, and they
finished the evening with dancing on the green, and
returned to their different homes perfectly happy.
Friday se'nnight, the day of rejoicing at Belper, a
poor man, an inhabitant of that place,- had made a
balloon, and, though offered a considerable sum for
ii by a gentleman, that it might be sent off from
Derby, refused the temptation, resolving that it should
be launched in his native village. It was loosed and
went off in grand style, amidst the cheering of the
whole population of the neighboulliood. In the
basket attached to k, was a fine piece of roast beef,
and a letter stating the time and occasion of its being
sent up,'and requesting that whoever found it would
give notice to a gentleman at Belp,r. A letter was re.
ceived the following Tuesday, by post, stating, that
the balloon fell In a field near Malden, in Essex, where
some mowers were at work. The beef was eaten, and
the Qentleman who read the account, treated the
people with " good British beer," in which they drank
to the loyal donors of the beef, with three hearty
hums. The balloon travelled the distance, (being
near 200 miles) in a few minutes more than three
hours. •
Mr. Anecrimor, of the Treasury, has just com-
pleted the erection of an agricultural chateau en his.
estate in Northamptonshire, near the seat of his friend'
Lord SACIEVILLE. The farm, buildings, yards, &c. are,
on an improved construction, and well calculated ftwl
the cultivation of a large extent of land, whichi
Mr. A. has taken under his own occupation, ancrscensul
to be farming on a good principle, with great spirit.
There is a huge stone, broken off from a crag near
Bow ther, at the entrance of Boirowdale, Cumberland,
of the following extraordinary dimensions :
Length . 62 feet.
• Perpendicular height as it Iles Sti
Circumference - 89
contalus cubic feet - 23,099
Weight, 1771 tons, 3 cat.
This far exceeds in size the celebrated dwarf stone
(as it is called) which lies in a gloomy valley in Hoy,
one of the western isles of Scotland, whicis measures
lin length only SG feet, in breadth 18 feet, and in
thickness 9 ditto. This stone is excavated, and was
form,erly a hermitage.
Monday se'nnight, as a sloop, deeply laden, was
rmaking for Aberdeen harbour, about midnight, car-
rying a light, it being very dark, a large salmon,
attracted by the light, leaped on deck, where it was im-
"mediately secured.
Sunday, the 14th instant, William Macdonald, Jour..
neyman shoemaker, in Glenbohn, was unfortunately
drowned in the River Tweed, near Radian cottage.
Theriver was considerably swelled by the rains, and
as. Macdonald's master was crossing it at the ford•On
horseback, with his daughter behind him, the young
woman dropt a bundle into the stream, on which Mac-
donald threw off his hat and coat, plunged into the
water, and made an ineffectual effort to recover the
parcel. On making a second attempt, he was carried
down by the violence of the torrent, and perished.
The body was found about a mile below the place
where the accident happened.
Mr. A. J. Bogle, of the house of Bogle and Co. of
Kingston, Jamaica, unfortunately perished at sea in
the night of the 7th June, off St. Domingo. He sailed
in the schooner Maria, for Jamaica, in a night which
at first was remarkably calm, and every thing scented
to promise its continuance; but within halt an hour
after they had retired to rest below, they were alarmed
by the cries of the seamen, when, to their consternation.
they found that the vessel had been upset by a whirl-
wind, without the least warning. In this situation, the
Master and some of the seamen got into the boat, and
called to Mr. Bogle to join by swimming. He replied,
as the vessel was freighted with cotton, he hoped she
would float, but that destruction must be certain in so
small a boat. The Master, however, determined to
wait as near the vessel as possible; when the schooner
went down : of those on board, only one seaman was
saved ; and Mr. Bugle, his servant, and three seamen
perished.