Star.
London, England, 1817-03-06 00:00:00

PoLre&

MAvstos.l-Torse —Yesterday Mow Myer:, a NW
boy, was charged before the Lao NIAVOIt, with'
having some e.iutiterteit money in his poi si ssion, imi-
tating the new coinave. John Rains-haze, a City
°dicer, stated to his La•rdstip, that bei;eg the
time when the :mewl tail. is held Ilarionl the Jews in
Duke's-place. tie.ir Leadentian-stript. and hearing
;hat a grr..t deal t counterfeit sayer was putting otel
Clete, he wen: with sume taker Oific.rs, to detect
tl.erti if pu,sible. When he SAW ii.41111I01:er, know.
tog hint to be a Otitoi j us sfflasi, r. he took 11'm info
custod), upon %linen iowid three counterleit six-
pences ; that he Ilia! to find out of whom hr bought
them, but this he would give no account nr, or how
he came by them. The intim:ion of the counterfeit
coin is so bad that it may he easily de.e:te..l. The
he.td is much snore clumsy than in 0.. e sterling vein,
and the wiling oblique, and not horizinttal and con-
' tined within the edge. as in the g:nnine. The pri-
soner w.is remanded till the Sotic.tur of the Mint
could atttnd.

HarTae-GA Rom—Yesterday Wm. Miler, waiter
at the Union, late and the Pound, liagnigge
Welk was examined on a charge of highivay robbery.
Mr. James Henry Strdm in, the prosecutor. deposed,
that ab tut twelve o'clock on the preceding night, as
he was going up HiJ')orn..in his way home, he met
six or seven men standing together at the corner of
Red Lion-l.trea; as he was p.o.sing they hustled him.
and pressed him up against the corner !town- ; taro of
them dragged him and pres.ed him up to tre door,
and one of them struck him a blow in the face. The
primer afterwards came and collar-i him, snatched
watch, with gold chain, gold seal, and gold
key, velue 23 guineas, out of his lob and ran away.
The prisoner was fully comniitted for trial.
AllL 'mitotic ti-sr it 'JET—Jame: Fame was charged
with stealing a valuable lace veil from Miss Anne
Neale, a young lady re-Ading in Branswiek-sqoare.—
, prosecutrix was walking along Great Russet'-
street, Bloomsbury, on l'uesdry evening. when the
prisoner overtook her, snatched her veil I tom her head
Arid made off.—Fully committed for trial.
Tows 1141.1., SOUTiItVAUK-4)DPILHATII ASSAULT.
Yesterday a most atrocious case of assault came on
before Aldetmtn J. J. SMITH Michael 'holey was
brought up qn a charge of biting off the ear of Wil-
liam Mort; in, in a public house in Tooley-street, and
of breaking four of his rib,. Some days ego a (par-
iektook place brtwcen Morgan and a man named
Thompson. In the•coniest Morgan had the advan-
tage, but WAS p:elltIVIA from geining a victory by
die prisai.er, ti 111 seiz.td him and bit his ear off.
Morten w.s thrown on the: ground by 'rookey,
who, with ti.e ii,sisiance of sevcial ethers, kicked in
his ribs. Moi g:so Was hronglit to an hospital. His
ear MAS ILUlid by au cfficer in the tap•room of the
•publie !loose. Conitoitti if in default of

SHA DWELL Orrick.--Hugh Quin, and John and H.
Currell, the eldest tun I'2 years old. were cisarged by
.4r. hillier, of the aiont!..s,, veith having! robbed him
on the higliw ty. Prn:ecutor dePoseel that as he was
going alotig Dock abont seven o'cinck
on Titursday night. he %els knocked down by the
prisoners, ►sho, bet .re he co'•ld recover himself, rob-
:.eJ 1 iiu of his hat and his rocket-hook, v. it 4411 COll-
- nice Ss. pieces and some valoahle papers.—
Itemalided.

CORONER'S INQMTS.—Yesterday evening an In-
quisition was held at the Turf Tap, Grosvent e-
quate, net: St. George's Hn,pital, on the host), of
Rich Heath, surgeon of Derhy.—William Bragg,
Esq. of 17, Sioaue-street, one of the Governors of the
Hospital, deposei, that about eleven o'clock, on Mon-
day last, he was coming down Brompton-road, he
saw the decease,' with some men conveyiiir, him to
the Hospital, they stated that they fonoti hint iii a
tit sitting on the steps of the door of the Two 'hewer.
Wetness procured a coach and had him conveyed to
the Hospi!al where-he expired about one o'clock.—
The deceased Was recognised by the porter, he hay-
lag been Comedy a pApil in the fiwspital.-,--Wiliiam
Pitman, fi•suse Surgeon, deposed. that he opened the
body and bound no marks of violence ; he was of opi-
nion he died of an apoplectic fit. Vet diet —Died by
tl:e V,saati ao of Gen.

Anct:licr Inquest was held at the sign of the Duke
,a 1 Wellington, St. George's in the East, on the body
f a seaman, named Jonathan Hodgson, who was
drowned in the London Dock, on Saturday last.-
11r deceased, who belonged to the Union schooner,
in die Dock, was upon the boom, hauling out the
;lot of the main sail ; the sail filled and forced him
trom off the b Ann into the Dock, where lie was
drowneJ. Verdict—Died by the Visitation of Goo
In the tremendous Ininicane of Wednesday night
and Thursday morning, last week, the bottle of Mr.
Joseph Smith, in Oxford-road, Manchister, was ell-
!irely stripped of its roof ; and at the residence of
F. Phillips, E%q. a chimney was blown, and a ser-
vant maid uniortunately killed. Coronet's Vetilict,
Accidental Death.

Yesterday morn:ng the roofs of two old ruinous
houses, in Lrystall-street, Liquorpirnd street, fell in
with a dreldful crish. The garret or orie.of. the
houses was occupied by a poor mini, his wife and
two children, the man was gone to los work, arid
the woman was gone to market, leaving the children
in bed. The poor woman, un her return hortic,
about half-past seven o'clock, was quite in a st:ite ot
dcrangeineat at t'v thought of losing her children.
Same of Mtut's labunrers •ery humanely ascended
the ruinous labile, and began to clear aivay the rub-
ble., wool to their great surprize they discovered
the children fast aslsep in each others arms, in a
Sinail cot in cne come' of the rocm, being preserved
by some ot the fallen timbers resting with their end
against the wall, turming a kind of tt•nt over t':;•tr.-

TDB Five HUNDRED MILES MATCU IN TiN DAYS.
—Lieutenant YANDAIL, w}.o startud at sant, Hem,
!o do the above divance in the given time, for 2(X)
guineas, did G 2 milekon 'Monday, and 57 on Tues-
day. He is a powerful young man, and walks five
miles an hour with much ease; he travelled seven
miles in one of the hours on Tuesday. LIP com-
menced his labour at four o'cli)ck yeslCrday m:;rningi
and at eight he had done '22 miles before Li al:f.os;.
Grplar the boxer, who fought Divis, a prifessor
of provincial fame, near Cloobiiano, on the l(ih ult.
contends this day with Noland. a BcdfordZite wan,
,for ten guineas, at Fteshheld, Olua.