Star.
London, England, 1824-08-16 00:00:00

110 W-STREET.

A TOUCH or " rus Faiscv."—One Mr. Light was brought nut
of darkness from St. Martin's watch-house, on Saturday mousing,
to answer fur haviug taken the liberty of knocking down a hackney-
coachhian in front of the Haymarket Theatre on Friday night.
Mr. Light is a country Gentleman, of light weight, much muscle,,
and real respectability ; his age some thirty, or thereabout ; mar-
ried, and now on his first visit to town with his Lady, and, though.
married, able to come and go wherever and whenever he pleases—
just as though he was still a bachelor—which is saying a great deal.
"And please your Worship," began the complaining coachntan—H
a stout, twelve-scone, woolly-beaded, large-lipped, Young- Iluffianish
sort of subject—" And please your Worship, I was engaged to
take a party home from the Haymarket the-hater last night, and
while I was waiting for 'em, this ere Gentleman (Mr. Light) and
two more squeezes themselves into my coach, and becoz I told 'eat,
says I, I'm hired, says I, this ere Gentleman (Mr. Light) jumps
out o' the coach and gives me a comfortable knock=down blow—
just in no time to speak of ; and, as I was'nt a going to he knocked
about a thaens for nothing,l give him in charge to the watch-house.",
" May I be allowed to ask this fellow a few questions ? " said
Mr. Light.
" Yes," replied Mr. I.lllxsnuu, " but do net call him a,/'e/low."
" Bei your Worship's pardon," said Mr. Light, with a light bow ;
and then folding up his arms, so as to Concentrate his cross-examina-
terey powers, he addressed the coachman with a " Pray, my good
man, where wese you when we first came up to your coach?' .
. Why, not far off," replied the , coachman, " else I don't know
where my coach would have been by.this time. Sonic of you talked
of driving it to a rum sort of place for a coach to go to, I think !"
at And. yon say 1 knocked you down r ailed Mr. Light. "I day"
replied the coachman.
" You may stand by," said Mr. Light ; " I will discuss you more
at large presently."
The Coachman's statement was corroborated by Stephen Winter,
one of the link-men of the Theatre; who added, that Mr. Light
put himself in a fighting attitude, and exclaimed, " I am a Bris-
tolian--a milling sum, and can lick half a dozen jarvcys in no time !"
Mr. Light—l bog your pardon, I saidjarney-men.
Witness would not undertake to swear whether the word used
wasjarsays or jarveymen, but he was quite sure that the words were
no sooner spoke than Mr. Light knocked the coachman down.
Another coachman. who had offered to carry Mr. Light and
Ids friends anywhere, deposed to the same effect.
Mr. Light, in his defence, admitted having got into the coach,
bat be denied the abusive language and the knocking down. lie had
merally pushed the coachman away, when he rudely Attempted to
drag him from the steps of the coach by his collar. Ile then called
the other two Gentkmen who were with him at the time, and they
both denied that the coachman was knocked down, though one of
them admitted that he 6trid not speak to the fact very positively,
because he was knocked down himself, and could not exactly see
what was going wr ; It* ~,d th• oth•re alikairetpcl that noshing of
the kind would have happened if the coachman bad been with his
coach, as be ought to have been, when they first got into it.
The Magistrate said the coachman was certainly to blame for
leaving his coach for a moment, and he might be puni.hed for it, brit
not by being knocked down and as the assault had been clearly
proved, Mr. Light must find bail to answer the coachman's com-
plaint at the Quarter Sessions.
The parties retired ; but in a few minutes they came In again—
the coachman saying he did not wish to press thh matter further, as
the Gentleman seemed sorry for what he bad done.
The Magistrate accordingly acceded to a dismissal of the case ;
but unfortunately for Mr. Light, he was imprudent enough to ex-
claim,
" Thank you, Sir; and I'll bet a guinea he would take such
another blow for half-a-guinea more I" and he no sooner said so,
than his Worship directed the coachman to return whatever money
he had received, and ordered Mr. Light into the. custody of the
gaoler ; at the same time observing, that the remark was a most
indecorous one, and he was determined the matter should not be
made' up. Mr. Light tendered all sorts of apologies, but his Wor-
ship refused to listen to them, and the gaoler took the unfortunate
Gentleman away. He was, wever, eventually liberated, upon a
very contrite re-application to the Magistrate for that purpose.

WO RSH I P-STRE ET.
A Nest or Satassmas.—For a considerable time pasta traffic, as
injurious as it is fraudulent in its results, has been (in various puts
of this metropolis) carried on with considerable success, namely,
that of prepaying ham: coin for circulation. Informations having
been for several days past lodged with the officers of this division,
that a nest of such a deemiption was to be found at a Mrs. Cow-
dell's, No. 6, Loot-alley, Noorbelds; anti that they generally car-
ried no their nefarious practices tivlight, the state of the weather
eti last Friday evening induced the officers to think it a faVoorable
time to execute their warrant. Accordingly, Oulan, chief officer,
with Vann, Waters, and Hanley, repaired to the room, with all
the suddenness of a " sunburst where they found James lid!, the
proprietor, Mary hill, likanariuckley (a visitor, or in other words,
a culiner,or a purchaser, if you like, on whose person some base
coin was found) with Julio Hyatt, and Sarah Handbanks. They also
found in the rues part of a sword blade, from the appearance of
which it would justify a belief that it had been used as a " healer,"
for the purpose of giving the base coin a sound, and on which was
dearly discernible some remains of quicksilver, as well as a quantity
of cream of tartar, which Mary Hill threw out of a cup into a pail
of water, for *be purpose of concealment. In the rcom and on
their peruses were also found a quan.ity of hall-cruwns,
and sixpences.
Mr. fwvroao, in order to give the Public, the officers, and the
Solicitor for the Mint, an opportunity of making further inquiry,
remanded them for a week.