Star.
London, England, 1811-08-09 00:00:00

ROBBERY AT THE POST-OFFICE.

Daniel Davis, a letter carrier in the neighbourhood
of Soho, was brought to the Office in the custody of
Mance, charged with feloniously stealing a £lO.
Bank of England note, sent in a letter horn Liver-
pool to London.

It appeared that in the month of May last, Mr.
John Scholfield, of Liverpool, was in London, at the
house of Mr. Thompson Raine, perfumer in King-
street, Covent• Garden. His stay in London being
longer than he expected, and his cash running short,
he wrote home for a supply on the 27th of May,
which was answered on • the 29th of the sante
month, and which ought to have been received on
the 31st in London. Mr. Scholfield waited several
days in London for an answer, but none coming he ,
borrowed some money from Mr. Raine, and went
home. On his arrival he found that a letter, con-
taining a £lO note, had been sent him, which he
ought to have received on the 31st of May. Appli-
cation was made at the Post-office there, and it was
ascertained that the letter had been regularly sent to
London. A letter was in consequence sent to Mr.
Raine, requesting him to apply to the Post Office in
London, and to stop the payment of the note at the
Bank, which he accordingly did. The note has only
within these few days gone into the Bank, and it has
been traced to Wm. Rose, the keeper of the Crown
and Two Chairman public-house, in Dean-street,
Sohn, who, on examining the note, said there was a
memorandum on it in his hand-writing, " Postman,
May 31 ;" and that the prisoner was the man who
paid it him, to discharge an account he owed him of
£3 or £4. The prisoner denied the charge, and was
committed for further examination.
Mr. Parkin, the Solicitor to the Post-office, attended
to conduct the prosecution.

Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, Salmon
and Mance received information that two common
prostitutes had been seen looking at a watch in
Duke's-court, Bow-street, which appeared to be a
valuabk! one. The Officers having ascertained that
they were gone into Drury-lane, traced them from
a gin-shop, and found a watch upon one of them,
and finding it to be a valuable one, had no doubt
that she had not come honestly by it. On search-
ing her, he found a watchmaker's paper in her bo-
som, which led to a discovery that it belonged to
Mr. Baines, of St. Paul's Church-yard, who bad been
robbed of it the preceding evening in Lincoln's-Inn-
fields, when he was seized and surrounded by se-
veral women. The woman's name is Ann Hilly. She
was committed for trial.
William Jones, a well-known character, was yester-
day morning brought to the Office, having found
means to enter the house of Mr. Peak, in Black-
moor-street, Clare-market. Yesterday morning, be-
tween seven and eight o'clock, he was observed going
up the second storey, by Mr. Peak's sister—she sup-
posing him to be a lad employed in the house, called
to him but received no answer, which caused her to
suspect him to be a robber, and went into her
room on the first floor, and ascertained that a time-'
piece had beets stolen. She went on the stairs again,
at the same time the prisoner was returning down
stairs ; she gave an alarm, and the prisoner missing
his way into the street, a search was made in the
horse, and after some time he was found concealed
in a closet under the kitchen stairs, and the time-piece
in the kitchen. He WAS committed for trial.

Yesterday 45 male convicts were sent from the
Hulks, at Woolwich, on boas d the ship Guildford •1
55 more are to be, embarked in her from Sheerness,
and 100 from the hulks at Portsmouth : she then
proceeds to New South Wales. Supplies of agricul-
tural and other useful implements and materials are
now in readiness to be sent out in three vessels ex•
pressly taken up for that purpose.
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