Star.
London, England, 1802-03-12 00:00:00

POLICE, &c.

Gu r Lona tt.—A journeyman carpenter, of the
name of Green, was committed for trial, being
charged by Mr. Moffat, of Pater-notler-row, with
Reeling fixteen deal boards, which were found con-
cealed in the cellar of the prifoner's honk.
Samuel Green was charged with going into the
warehoufe of Mr. Hamilton, printer, in Falcon.
court, Fleet-greet, on Tuefday lag, and Realinga
large quantity of type-metal, which was found up.
on him as he was going from the prernifes. He
WAS folly committed for trial.
MANSION Houst.—Tuefday three women who
had been taken up on fufpicion of robbing Mr.
Loxland, of Lea&nhall-greet, of a quantity of
plate and money, were re-examined before the
LORD Mayna--This was a cafe of unparalleled
depravity. The principal and only evidence againft
thefe women was a girl named Alice Mintier, be.
men 14 and 15 years of age, of genteel addrefs,
and apparent innocence. She had ken in the ha.
bit of occafionally vifiting at Mr. Lox)and's before
and after the lots of the property, when, by acci-
dent, a circumftance tranfpired that induced Mr.
Loxland to think the knew the partieswho bad from
time to time been pilfering from him. She wastaxed
with Inch knowledge, but at firft denied it ; at
length, however, the confeffed that the was at-
quainted with thofe who did know of the robbery,
and who had made away with the property, men-
tioning the names of the women at the bar : they
were apprehended accordingly, and underwent fe-
veral examinations, at all of which this girl pofiti rely
(wore to their guilty knowledge of the robbery,
and to their having pledged feveral articles of plate
with different pawnbrokers whom the named. To
imernborate this wickednefs on the part of the wo-
men, and to make her Rory be believed, the told
his Lordfidp that one of them, Mrs. Aullin, had
tied her do in to a bed while the was on a vifit at
her houfe, and that in that date a man war ad-
mitted toher for improper purpofes, Mts. Auftin
all the while fianding•by the bed fide with a drawn
knife, threatening her dettru&ion if the cried out.
—After fome time the was releafed, when Mrs.
Auftin and the man went to bed together before
her face. A Rory fo extraordinary and improba-
ble at once excited his Lordfhip's fufpicion and
determination to lift it to the bottom ; he accor-
dingly perfevered in his interrogatories till he led
this abandoned girl to a full confelllon that the
Rory the had been telling was a fabrication, and
that Ore had done it to make. his Lordfkip believe
they had aaually robbed Mr. Loxland, when An
point of f.idi the had, committed the thefts bedsit.
A number of pawnbrokers attended with various,
articles of plate, all pledged by this girl,Who Rated
herfelf to live at No. q, Little hfootields, what ,
in point of fag, the lived with her mother in
Wood-itreet, Chcaplide.
His Lordlhip obferved, that a fimilar cafe of
wickednefs, artifice, and depravity, in fo young a
creature, with a countenance of fuch apparent Gm-
plicity and ingenuoufnefs, could not befatalieled ;
And but for the molt fortunate eirenn*Mals,
;joined to extreme
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trey had fu eyed niurb, both in binly 111 d mind.
but they ihnuld be rewarded. They were at
liberty. A for the girl, the lbould be detaieed to
sewer for her wiekeducfs.

HAtTOPI-GARDEN.—Yeftefday a Solicitor ap-
plied to the Magiltrates to have the following per-
fame admitted to bail, via. Harcourt, Mackey,
Keddiek, Henniker, and another pectin), to give
their appearance at the enfuing fetitons, fir a Nto-
lent affault committed on James Jackfon, in the
employ of Mr. Travers, fogar-refiner, in Qsen-
, Ilreet, Clicapfide, about five months finer, in Chit--
11 well-drcet. He not being. yet confidered out of
danger, the ptifoncrs remain (till in cullody.
WltirEcHAFEL.—Yc(lerday two men, cif the
natnes of Jenkins and Williams, were fully cow.
mitted, charged with being in the common prac-
tice of iiTuiug counterfeit money. I'he SOlicitor
of the Mint attended as a profecntor, when it ap-
peared upon evidence that they had been b,..fore
conviaed at the Old Bailey lemons, for which
they fufTered imprifonmenL . The Second offence
is made capital.
THAMES °rms.—Two feamen were brought
up for examination, on a charge of mutiny on
.board a letter of marque, in the Month of 06tober
left, a little to the wellward of the Cape of Good
Hope, where they instigated )the crew to plunder
the cargo of the veffel, which contifted df wane and
fpi:its: the Captain, by a vigorous exertion, fe-
cured them in irons, and fent them home on board
of another ship, the Captain of which Sated, that
[ in his paffagelunne,his veffelbeing in great ditirefs,
the two prtfoners rendered Win everypotEble airit-
ance,cn which account he recommended them to the
clemency of the .Magiftrates : their own Captain
acquiefcing, they were difcharged, with a fuitable
admonition.

Thurfday night, about eleven o'clock, while a
hackney coach was returning from Newhaven, a
little beyond Leith Fort, where the road is ex-
tremely narrow, the darknefs of the night pi evcat-
ing the coachman from difeovering his way, ui:.
fortunately the coach was precipitated into the
lands ; the poor man remained there all night, be-
ing fo much broiled as to prevent his being able
.to rife, and, it is feared, will not recover the !hock.
One of the horfes was killed on the (pot, and the
coach !battered to pieces.
Lately a Mr. Macklin, of Milllone, Wiltlbire,
imprudently left a loaded gun in the room where
his family was ; Mrs. Macklin concluding that I.e
had.of condi drawn the charge, incautioufly took
up the gun ; James Macklin, a youth of thirteen
years of age, was fitting on the fame chair with his
fillers ; Mrs. M. in fport, pointed the gun at him,
and repeatedly (napped the lock ; it went off, and
lodged the contents in the body of her fon. The
unfortunate boy expired in about three hours after.
The girl was not hurt. The coroner took an in-
quell on the body. The Jury returned a verdiel
of accidental death.

Early on the morning of Saturday fe'nnight, a
fire, the caufe of which is unknown, was difcovcr.
ed in the newly erefted part of the horfe of C.
Hanbury Tracy, Efq. at Toddington, Glouceller-
fhire, which raged'with confiderable fury for feve-
ral hours; but it was at length happily extinguifh-
ed. The damages will, it is fuppofed, exceed i tool.
Monday morning a fire broke out in the bake.
houfe of Mr. Barker, in Blackfriargate, Hull, and
confumed the roof of the fame; but by timely al-
filiance was got under before it had done any ma-
terial damage to the adjoining buildings.
Tuefday morning a tradefman, of Oxfori-road.
in puffing along the Strand, had his pocket picked
of a memorandum-book, containing (mall bank
notes to the amount of 191.
A molt fingular robbery has occurred in the
Canton de Vaud, in Switzerland. The volumi-
nous archives of the Caftle of Sarray have been car•
ried off without any one knowing by what means.
It is fuppofed to have been done with a view to
dcitroy the tide deeds of the Barony, by thofe
againa whom there are claims on account of
tenths and other Baronial dues. Domiciliary vi •
fits have been made throughout the difiria, and
every means adopted to difcover the offenders.
There are in circulation at Paris a prodigious
number of Louis d'ors, ingenioufly manufaaured
of platina and copper, fo well gilt as to deceive
even a aria examination. There are faid to be
manufaaured in London. If this charge be jua,
thole who mean to vifit France will do well to be
on their guard.
The horfe without hair, which has been fo long
exhibited in Germany as of a peculiar breed in the
ifland of Cyprus, and of which a, very particular ac-
count may be found in different periodical Journals
of the Continent, and in the Phi/ofijoiricalMagaziar,
turns out at laft to be a real German horfe, cf
which the following is the hiftory, according to the
latter This animal, of the common breed of the
country, was formerly furnilbed with hair, and be.
longed to a coach-ownei of Hahenloe Oehtingen, in
Franconia, by whom it was fold to a neighbouring
peafant, in whole poffeffioit it continued while th 4
change by which it has become fo celebrated was I
going on. Being ill of the botts, his mailer mixed
with his food for a whole year the leaves and
young (hoots of favine fonts after the commence-1
went of this regimen, the horfe changed his rough
coat and became covered with fine Wiring hairs ;
encouraged by this, the peafant pulbed his new
medicine with vigour, and in a fhort time the new
hair fell off. A coat not lets fleck than the former
however loon fucceeded; but this in a few months
fell off like the other, and the animal remained
naked. A third effort was made by nature, but
in vain ; and the boric became irreparably de-
prived of hair, eacept on the mane, the fetlock
joints, and the tail.
The peafant, afliamed of the tubje6taliseaperi-
ment, fold him ; his new mailer plunked, out the
few hairs that were left, and difpofing- of him to
an ingenious. Italian, he was led about as a fhsw
from town to town, by the name of tbe.Wonder-
.. ful Horfe from the ifland of Cyprus; the zoologias
,t eagerly adopted this 'dainty-fraud, and, bat for
ohs clifarreey of the luchlefsfubjea. of!the
t! • .'sdexpenment, it might have occupied

ECCLE3TA3TICAL PROMOTION.

A Difig.ufAtion has pafiud the Great Seal, to e whit the
G. tteradurd, A. Rettur uf 34=14, in the county of
se:ter, to seerpt and bold the Redtory of Bedworth, it
county uf Warwick, to whieh he is preftuted by the Right
toe Earl of Aylcsford.