Star.
London, England, 1807-08-27 00:00:00

.POLICE.

Massone•'House.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor's
Court►ate at a very earl♦ hoar ; and the only par.
titular that traniPired defervinc notice, WAS the ma
Dominion of John Laing, who is bound over to give
evidence at the etifuing Seffions on the trial of But.
lock, a wine merchant, and a bankrupt, to whom he
ems porter. The circomflances ►efpeaing Bullock
having appeared in our Paper on feveral occafions,
we do not think it necefliary to repeat them.
'Otist.ostacs. John Bag —ln this cafe, the aceu.
fere and the party arcufed were both of them of the
family of St.' Capin. and if we may judge of the
valour of the 'stiffener by the thargesof his opponents,
he would have contributed his fhare to the glotions
day of Aginc• tut, had he ferved under the command
of our Fifth Harry. It teems, that two Mr. Dents
live in New Court, Cripplegate, and are engaged in
the ufeful occupation of fhoemakers, but unfortu-
nately do not belong to the eftablilbed fociety of this
trade, which, from its interior dillurbances, has
lately excited fo much attemion. Mr. Ball is in that
department of the trade technically called a boot-
clofer, and is a regular member of that numerous
corporation. It appeared, that Mr. Ball indulged a
little natural jealotify, that thefe perfons fhould reap
the fruits of his lucrative profeffion without having
a formal Diploma, and he was therefore difpofed to
give them frequent indications of leis dtfpleafure ;
until at laft, a little accident octalioned his indigna•
tion to be inflamed beyond all endurance. Mr. Ball,
who lives in the fame court, mingling divertion with
profit. kept (me poultry, which fubfifted en the
liberality of his neighbours ; the Mr. Denis were
willing to participate of the fame amufement and
advantage, and purchafed a male of the fame fpecies,
which intruded upon the repofe of the feathered fe-
males of Mr. Ball's family. Thus irritated, Mr. Ball
throat his fill, and condefcended to expectorate full
in the face of his neighbour. This complaint was
laid before the Magillrate, and witnelfes on both fides
were called, who repeeively confirmed the depofi•
tions of their principals.
After a long and patient examination of the nature
and extent of the charge. and of the teftimony by
which it was fupported, Mr. Ball was permitted to
depart with a revere reprimand.
HATTON CAROM—Hannah Brown was charged

with robbing her furnifh:d lodgings in Saffron Hill,
of two Iheets, a blanket, and a quantity of glares.—
In her abfence, her landlord fcarched her apartments,
on fufpicion, haring miffed his bed clothes, and the
pleas
were found in the room, tied up in a hand-
kerchief, and had been taken from a room up Rairs.
]'he bed clothes were found at a pawnbroker's, in
confequence of force duplicates being taken from the
prifoner. She confeffed the fait, and faid (he was
forced to it by dißrefs.
The prifoner was committed For trial.
Stephen Cooper, who defcribed himfelf as a farmer
of Northamptoo !kite, complained to the Magißrates
that there had been Wien from his fields in the latter

end of June laR, a bode, which he bad put there to
graze ; arid that after long (catching, he traced his
bean, through the hands of a man named Fells, re-
fident in Gofwell (freer, City Road, who fold him to
a man named Thredgow, the keeper of a livery
liable, in whole poffeffion the boric now is. He had
brought Mr. Fells, who, he Paid, came moil readily
to account how he had come polteired of the boric.
Mr. Fells Rated, that he had bought the honk of
a man named Rowden, in Smithfield, for which he
paid him Cs pounds, and bad again fold him with
lime little profit. He believed Rowden paid the
fame money for the horfe to a honk dealer named
Saunders, whom he himfelf had teen frequently in
Smithfield, and particularly on the morning he bought
the horfe of Row•den.
,At this moment one of the officers raw Rowden
paffing by the window, and he was called in, and
proved he had purchafed the bode of Saunders. whom
be knew to be a boric auSioneer and falefman, in
the Commercial Road.

A man named Straightbow, who had originally
Old the boric to Fatnser Cooper, proved that he faw
the bean in Saunders's pc fLiEon within a week from
the time it was Rated to have been nolen.

The Magifirates, upon this, thought proper to or
der Saunders to be fummoned to appear before them.

WORSHIP STRElT.—Yenerday Michael Scales was
convifted in the penalty of 40s. and cons, being
charged by the 'nukes of the toll gate at the
Stones End, Kingiland Road, with paring through
the Paid gate with 34 limp, and refuting to pay the
accunotned tolls. Sadler was convided in the
like penalty for palling through Kingfland turnpike
gate, with a cart, and returning with another, with
only one ticket, with intent to defraud the laid trunees.

Monday afternoon, as early ai four o'clock, fame
•illains broke into the nables of T. Leach, Efq. one
of the Divifirmal Magifirates. at Hampftead, and
carried off all the bridles, faddles, and other portable
articles.

ANECOOTV.—GeneraI MURAT, Grand Duke of
Berg, after his elevation to the rank of a Prince of
the French empire, halted, about the dole of the IA
war, at a (mall town in Germany. The bread pro.
aided for his table happening to be of an inferior qua.
lity, the belt baker in the town was ordered to attend
him, to receive inftruaions refpeeting this neceffary of
life. Accordingly, the Aid de-Camp ordered a ba-
ker, who had been long ellabliflied in the place, to
wait upon the Prince immediately. The baker ob.
ferved, to the no Hale furprize of the Officer—" It is
nfelefs my going; the Prince will never employ me."
He declined Rating any reafons ; but the order cf the
M!ffenger being peremptory, he waited upon Mu a AT,
with whom he Ilaid about ten minutes. As he quitted
the houfe, he obferved to the Aid du Camp, u I told
you the Prince would not employ me ; be has dif-
miffed me with this;" difplaying a purfe of ducats.
On being preffed to explain the reafon of this fingular
conduft—he replied, " the Prince Murat, when a
boy, was apprenticed to a bifcuit baker in the South
of France, at the time I was a journeyman to him ;
and I have often thre(hed the Prince for being idle ;
the moment he Taw me jug now, he inflantly recol-
!died me, and, without entering into the fubjeet of
our old acquaintance. or of that which led me to his
pretence, he heftily took this purfe of ducats from the
drawer of the table where he fat, gave it me, and or-
dered me to retire.

THE ARMY.

The framing is an authentic Copy of the Panto•
SlTioxs relative to the STATE of the ARMY, &C. pre-
fented to the Hotife of Commons on the 13th ult. by
Mr. WINDHAM nn the one fide, and Lord CASTLE•
RIAGH on the other—

MR. WINDHAM.
I. That the et/calve finength of the Army vas,
Regulars. Militia. Total.
On the tft of March, 18.)6-173 6c9. 75482 248.782
On the tft of March, 1807-181.856 77,211 259,067
A redudtion having In the mean time taken place, of a local
corps 013,020 men and upwards, in the Wand of Ceylon.

LORD CASTLERVAG H.

1. That the increafe of 8456 men, as Rated, in the Regular
Army, between March 1806 and March 1807, has been produced
by 2,9 a men received from the frith Militia, and 3 541 under the
Additional Force Ad.—Total 6,450 men ;—vathout which aids
(drdudling our lobes in Egypt and South America, viz. 2.185 men,
which appear in the Effedives of the Army on the IR March,
1807) the Army would have dccreafcd, under the regulations &a-
blillted in June, 806, in the number of 379 men
That the Regular Army has been progrelbvely inereafing, pre-
vious to the eftabliihment of the mew fyltem of kvying men, as
follows; the amount being,
On the aft July, 1804
Ditto =BOS
Ditto 0.06
MR. WINDHAM.

141.70
262,.997
175.997

That the provifions of certain Ade of Parliament pared
during the year ;806, and having in view the better ordering of
the Army, and the Improvement of the condition of Non•eoet-
miQioned Officers and Soldiers. took effeet from the 24th of June
in the laid year.

111. That from the aft of July following. the number of Re-
cruits ratted for the Regular Army, (exelobve of thole railed for
Foreign or Colonial Corps, and 6so men fur a regiment com-
manded by the Hon. Colonel Dillon) was,
In the firft period ef three months, ending/ -. 2 i ..,.1,...0,..
i
on the aft October. ,s. ober. 18°6 -
In the ad period, ending on the zit Janu. _ _. [ .., E 3,490 f, , 13.994
ary, :Soy • - c 4
in the 3d period, ending on the aft April,
3,335 II 5 25,341
day - -
.114 ~i•
In the 4th period, ending on the aft Juiy,t 6,07
8 ff , 244'1
880, - - O,Z