Star.
London, England, 1817-12-27 00:00:00

POL .'C

MANNON-1101:3E......Yesterday, a nuentrlor of persons•
were charged before eke Lor MAYOR., and 4lder-
, man Seu-,Lev, who wete the sitting Magistrates at
Guildhall i the complaints against them were for
totes and disorderly conduct, on Christmas night, at
a late hour. Most of them being assaults arising from
intoxication, the Magistrates gave them an opportu-
nity of settling their dispotes. Upon making recom-
pence to the injure., party, and promising not to con-
duct themselves so in future, ti ey were discharged.
Two very re, pectable young men, named Hopes
and Bell, were charged by a constable and a watch-
' man, of Bishopgate Ward, with disorderly con:lnce
in the street, at a late hour in the evening of Christ-
mas-day. The wife of one of the defendants here
stated, that herself and husband, and Mr. Bell, had
been dining at the house of a mutual friend, and
were returning home. They merely stopped to say,
,4 good night, when the watchman, came up, and
in a rough manner bid them go home. pit Haynes.
remonstrated civilly with the watchman, but he be-
c-irne the • more peremptory, and at. length took
them all to the witch house, where he gave charge
of them. They were about to proceed to the Comp-
eer, when the watchman hinted that, for a certain
sum of money, the defendants might be liberated.—.
This was indignantly refused by the letter, and they
were conveyed to the Comptes.. Here both Constable.
and Watchman ..ffered to forego the charge if the de-
fendants would pay either 4s. or Gs. but the latter
prehrred the justice and discernment of i Magistrate;
and were locked up tot the night.
The Constable being amain questioned, at first de-
nied that he bad heard the proposal, but afterwards
admitted the facts

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The LORD MAYOR--11 I know that officers, who
Ate well paid for their trouble, too often make use ot
their authority to ez;ort money from the public, but
the police of the city shall not be disgraced by such
practices, and wherever a case of tnis kind corces
before me, rely on it I shall mice it in the severest
manner."—:klis Lordship ordered the delendAnts
in-
stantly to be discharged, and the name of tile consta•
bk and watchman to be taken down.
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QUSEM-SQUARIL--BUSGLARY.--Mithad Jona and
Jorgioi Jones, two brothers, who live with their father,
a Jew, in Old Pye-street, Westminster, were brought
up in custody of Bly, the officer, charged before the
sitting Magistrate, by Thomas Button, of No. 12,
Old Pye-street, with breaking into his house, and
robbing him of a watch, a time-piece, and several
other articles, on Sunday night-last. Bly, the officer,
said, be went with prosecutor, on his application, to
examine the premises, at ten o'clock on Sunday night,
and found the cn•ry had been made by climbing the
wall, and then breaking open the c ,sement, by tear.
ing away the lead, &c. The prisoners were remanded
• fur further examination.
UNION HAUL.—CAUTION TO Poserens.—Yesterday
Mown Alliat, rorter at the Swan with Two'Necks
Inn, Lad-lane,, attended to answer the complaint-Olt
a gentleman named Blake, residing at Belvidere-
place, Southwark, for exacting for the porterage ot,
a patcel more than he was allowed by Act of Parlia-
ment. The porter, was convicted in the penilty-cir.
sa. and costs... .
fel.taLa lawou•sragat.—A'nian of the name of
ssitier was charged with violently assaulting
,and.
letting and maiming blary'Comw.ll7, With tiehoonte
had lived toe the last nine years. The pucks "bad
been tippling together at 'different public-house dii-
ring the morning of Christmas day. The. man, e
home to his lodgings in BoWl-yard, belton-sue St.,
in
Giles's, about three o'clock in the afternoon, licit
he sharpened a razor, an waited till Connelly come,
which was in about, ab hour afterwards. A watch-
MAN who was in. bed. in a room contiguou4, 'heard
the. parties quarrelling, and blows struck: The woman
called oot murder repeatedly ; from her • faultering
voice the watchman autpected she was dying, and
he broke open the door,• which was. locked. The ,
woman was bleeding .tront a deep incision on the I
side of her head, her hair was. all cut,. and she pre-
sented an appearance as if she had received violent
blows with a fist. The prisoner was secured. and,
lodged in St:Gilas's watch-house, and the woman
was conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital in a very
dangerous state. The offender was committed until
a surgeon's report of the sweet/Connelly le received.
WoRiIiIMTURET.--INTIROLSTIN4 TO PAwN/IntoKlas
AND °MUM -.The shop Of Mr. Goodbourn, a pawn-
broker, in 'Paternoster-row, Spitalfields, was lately
broken into, and property to a large amount stolen.
Such as found. their .articles had been lust, wished
the pawnbroker to indemnity.them ; 'which claim the
pawnbroker resisted on the ground that the property
bad not been lost by any mistake, but that he had
been robbed of it; that.he had lost property himself
to the amount of 4500, and he could not bear the
loss of others.-,-Joho Connor, a sailor, who ha.
pledged his watch on the 22a-of last Noyember, and
which among the rest had been stolen, now sumo.
mooed him for the value of it. —Mr. Wttuantsts,
the attorney, attended for the pawnbroker. Mr.
DICK:MOS said, this was a case of a nature seldom
brought before a Magistrate,. and of very great im-
portance ; therefofe he would not make •a hasty de-,
cision,.such as would preclude him. from alteringlis 1
I opition.—Liecision deferred till anodic: day.
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On Christinas night; a young man residirg in
Drury lane, fetiviiingifnme to has residence through
the Seven-W*llr Wei ;ducked by it gang of. tbietes.
who knocked'hins down, And 'robbed hied of his watch
land seal% and about nine shilling's Myer. They
beat him so severely that be istonSned so' his bed.
• About tune o'clock on Chrittnias niiKftta as John
King, a young man,'wis standing-It tie corner of
Burfeigh-strett, in the Strand, talking to bis*viife; on
his leaving her, a can will driven iR a furious manlier
along the Strand ; end before the Pont felßnii could
get out of the way he was knocked down. in the road;,
. horse gave him a terrible kick oil hii side, which
batiks two of his ribs, the Wheel Oise& over his liefad,
audjeist it in:a terrible manner. He viertilece 'to %
sorketin's in the Strand. and from (lima to Sc. liar-
tbotonsew's Hospital, in a dying state.
Tiseriley night, between the hunts of four ati..
seek* o'clock, and during the absence of the lamilyi
(wt* it is supposed were watched boat hpuir),
boss. 4f Mr. 14)toa, in Groat Sufftok-laueet,
rough, was broken open by a number ut thieves, ww.
pillaged the premise, of every etttide that was nali
ciently talsublesull portage for dm:: pi post•