Star.
London, England, 1826-07-24 00:00:00

BOW-STREET.

A respectable-looking man, named Williams Hall, late a merchant
in Clement's lane, Lombard street, was brought to this office on
Saturday, on a warrant, by Bishop, the officer, charged by Mr.
Cameron, a pawnbroker, in the Strand, with a fraud, in having
pawned at his shop a watch, the property of his (the prisoner's)
assignees, under a commission of bankruptcy.
Mr. Williams appeared as solicitor for the pawnbroker, and
proved that a docket was struck against the defendant on the 17th
of January; and said that he should be able to prove th it the
prisoner was fully aware of this when he pawned the watch on the
19th, which was two days after.
Powell, clerk to Cameron, stated that the prisoner came
to him on the 19th January, and produced a gold watch and chain,
fur which he desired to have lei. advanced him. The witness said
he could not advance more than W. and the defendant agreed to
take it. When asked his name arid address, he said his name was
Cross, and that he was a 11Mieekeeper in Whitethapel. The money
was paid him and he left the ihop. On the 15th of March applica-
tion was made by the clerk of the solicitor to the bankrupt's assig•
nen, to have the watch given up, on pain of an action. This Mr.
Cameros refused to do, till. a proper application in writing was
made ; and then he gave it up, without receiving either the prin-
cipal or interest of the money be had upon it.
Thomas Sparks, clerk to Mr. Ferris, solicitor, of Surrey street.
produced the proceedings under the commission of bankruptcy ; from
which it appeared that the act of bankruptcy %vas commuted by the
defendant on or about the 2d of January ; and that on the Mir he
was absent from his dwelling house in Cie toys lane, and. secreting
himself from the Sheriffs' officers.

Mr. Williams said he should be able t• produce, if time were
allowed him, further proof of the defendant's knowledge of his
insolvency at the time of pawning.
Mr. HALLS said he should certainly not be satisled with the
'Orient evidence.

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The defendant was then held to bail, himself in 401. and two
sureties in 201. for his reappearance on Monday week.

An elderly Gentleman applied to the sitting Magistrate, G. R.
Mtssuur.t., Esq. for redress, under the following pecoliar circum-
stances ; He stated, that on Friday, as he was passing along Oxford..
street, it heing.about his dinner hour, he went into Fladong's Hofel
and ordered his dinner, which having finished, he rang the bell, for
the purpose of calling fur his bill. For a considerable time no per-
son came to him, although he rang repeatedly. At length the waiter
came, and having been informed of his wish, left the room, as he
supposed, to comply with it.. In a few minutes the waiter returned,
accompanied by the proprietor of the hotel, and addressed the Gen-
tleman in the following manner : " Sir, we have lost a great deal of
plate here, and when you seated yourself at the table there were
two silver forks, and now there is but one; perhaps yon will have
the kindness to go into a private room ? you will excuse this liberty,
but it is actually necessary." The applicant, astonished at such a
request, refused to quit the public room; however, he divested
himself of every part of his wearing apparel except his shirt,
and nothing being found, he paid his bill and ktt the house,
from which he was proceeding on his way to the Regent's
Park, to the house of a friend, with whom be is residing, wh•.n
casually looking round, he discovered the waiter behind him.-
-The applicant, who was surprised at being thus followed, told
the waiter that he could not enter the house to which he was going.
The latter replied, " If I am not allowed to enter, I shall procure a
Police Officer, and force an entrance." The Gentleman, not liking
to return home, after such a threat, turned back, and called on a
friend in Regent-street, to whom he related the circumstance.
Saturday, a person, styling himself the brother of the proprietor
of Fladong's Hotel, called at the horse in Regent street, and there
stated that he was sorry that suck a very unpleasaut affair should
have occurred, and hoped that no further notice would be taken of
it. The applicant, who was present, said, that nothing short of a
public apology in the Newspaper' would satisfy hint for so un-
founded an *cessation. This proposition, however, was declined;
he, therefore, now requested the Magistrate to inform hint what he
could do to obtain redress.

Mr. Mismaat.t. observed, that as no actual assault had been cont.
mined, be had no jurisdiction, which he very much regretted, as be
should have been most happy to render the Gentleman his assist•
ante; as the dernier resort, he advised him to apply to his legal ad.
viser, which the Gentleman said be should most assuredly do, were
he not compelled to leave London in a few days.
In order to correct any contradiction which might be offered to
this report, the Gentleman left his address at Bow-street

The Latona, of London, James Paterson, Master,
arrived at Greenock on Sunday from Cape Breton, with
timber. When at the Mull of Kintyre, Captain Pater-
son discovered a small boat with two men and a wo-

man on board, labouring bald to bear up against a
tremendous sea. Vith genuine sympathy he bore down
to relieve them from their perilous condition. The
plain story of this frail bark, of about 13 feet keel, and
her worn•out crew, is no less remarkable thin it is in-
teresting. Samuel Adamson, master of the boat, pro-
ceeded from his abode at Birsay, in Orkney, with lob-
sters, for Mr. Davidson, in Stromness, on Friday the
7th current, accompanied by John Sinclair, who was
eigaged with him in this employment, and his wife,
who went to Stromness to procure medical advice.
After delivering their fish, they set out from Stramness
on the evening of the same day, directing their course
to their native haven at Birsay, but were soon enve-
loped in a most impenetrable tog, by which they lost
every trace of the land ; and then, under the influence
of the strong currents that are so remarkable in those
seas, without the aid of compass or any other guide,
surrounded by a dense atmosphere, and the wind in such
circumstances generally treacherously variable, they
kept steering such a course as they concluded would
catch some part of the land; but the wind having
shifted during the night, and being misled by thisincon-
stant agent, they were carried by the tide through the
—About two P.M. of Saturday the fog cleared up, but
Pentland Firth, which completely changed their course.
being then out of sight of land, they took the sun as
their guide to recover their native shore, but having re-
versed their position during the night, they were ra-
pidly extending their distance from it, and in this way
they kept, unconscious of their error or their danger,
till seven, r.w. when they were picked up by the Eli-
zabeth, Munson,i master, a Prussian ship, from Memel,
bound to Wexford, in Ireland, with timber—then 40
miles oot of sight of land in the North Sea. Captain
Morison behaved to them with great humanity, and
kept them for eight days on board, till at Adamson's
own request he was turned off between the North of
Ireland and the Mull of Kintyre, with the intention of
landing on the latter coast, where, as has already been
mentioned, they were again picked up by the Latona.

DIED.
At Westbourne, on the 18th instant,
Miss Anguish, sister to her
Grace the Duchess Dowager of Leeds.
A few days since, in Tavistock-r
Wybrow, the once favourite Cohnniase.

r, Coventiarday Mrs.

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