Star.
London, England, 1827-12-12 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Dxcemorm 10.

Miss Macauley applied for stlieertee from the Court
to ensile her to deliver a course of Reltgious Lecture,
at Lisle street Chapel, on Sunday and Thursday even•
inks. The applitar;on wa;levier,which having
been perused by the Chairman, G. W. MA MOTT, E• q.
the following dialogue ensued t

Ca.t IRUAN—What kind of-Ncense Jo you apply frir ?
—Miss 111.-11.0 my word, I hirdly know. It ib for
the delivery of a course of religious lectures.

CHAIRMAN—It is not to preach ? Miss M.—No, Sir,
it is to, give
_lectures on religious subjects only.
CHAIRMAN—A -d not a licence as a preacher?—
Miss M.—Oh !•certainly

CHAIRMAN—What do you propose as tie subject of
your lectores?, Miss M.—Principally the morality of
the Chi istian religion.
CHAIRMAN-4s it a licence for yourself or the pl ice
you want ! Miss M.—lndeed, I hardly know. I apply
because I am told by the proprietors, of the Chapel'
that it is necessary; and really that is all I know. 1
applied first to Sir Richard Boole, but he rs felted me
to you.
Cef Ai RuAN—Your lectures, then, are to be deLvercd
in a Chapel? Miss M.= Yes, Sir.
CHAIRMAN—Do you purpose taking rnor.ey from
those who attend ? Miss M.—Yes, for the payment of
the necessai y expenses.
CHAIRMAN—Is the money to be paid on entering
Miss M —No, but by collections, the contributions to
which sill be voluntary.

CHAIRMAN--Then you makes° demand for admis.
sion? Miss M.—Certainly not.
CIIAIRMA N—What, again, I ask, ate to be the topics
of your lectures? bliss M.—T: ey will be lectures on
the Chti,tian Religion, as associated with the common
duties cr` life. lam t.ld it I have not a licence I have
un ptotcc:ion against any person disturbing me.
The CHAIRMAN, after referring to the Act of Parlia-
ment, and consulting with hi, brother Magistrates on
the Bench Ore in number,) observed that the act em-
powering the Magistrate, to grant licenses, appeared to
include women as well as men ; the words being " per.
son or persons." All the Act requited was, that the
purpose for which the license was granted shoeld be
clearly expressed therein. lie therefore thought a
licence might be gra,aed to this Lady.
Miss M. bowed and retired.

DECIMBCR 11.

John Hotholl, who' was committed to custody the
other day for cheating Ssrah Waters of divers sums of
money, representing himself as a practitioner of the
Court, was put to the bar, found liuilty. and
The CIIAIRUAN (MI. Marriott), in passing sentence,
thus addressed. him :—" John Hods.lll, the evidence
in this canei-shott as it was, left not a doubt of your
guilt
.on the 'Wild of any hearer, and the defence
aggravated that guilt. Your ignorant! of writing,
which in no way disproves your acting in this iniqui-
tous .CA• e, or that habit of iniquity which such a case,
well substantiated, so strongly implies, greatly ag-
gravates your offence in pretending to conduct law
suits. If you have any 'knowledge of law, your gross
and mean practices in violation of it are peculiarly dis-
graceful to you; and if you have none, your conduct is
only still worse. The pretending to a woman that cer-
tioraris and subpoenas, and other legal writs (of which
she can know nothing), are necessary—and when the
one is not used in her tase, and an instrument nothing
like the other is used instead of it—is as mischievous a
fraud as any that can Well be conceived, or for which
this wholesome and comprehensive Statute was intended
to restrain. If a regular attorney is employed, he is
obliged to deliver a bill of specific charges; that bill
may be immediately taxed by the proper officer of the
Court. He has also a character to maintain with the
profession and the world, and is liable to tne jurisdic-
tion of his own Court for any misconduct. But if such
men as you, pretending to be (what. the law knows no-
thing of) licensed persons' in the law, to supersede the
regular practitioners, are resorted to for their alit, they
may make, as you have done, cha-ges in a lump, and of
whatever magnitude they can prevail on ignorant per-
sons to pay; and if they then remove themselves for a
chile, no remedy may ever be applied, and no part of
the money so obtained recover ed. It the ultimate punish-
ment awarded by the provisions of this statute should. in
any case, be resented to, I ti.ink it is in a case like
your's. I think so abstractedly from every extrinsic
consideration; but I cannot doubt it, after the public
warning given from this Chair so recently, the ineffi-
cacy of which proves the high public necessity of ano-
ther kind of warning, viz. that which arises from a
literal enforcement of the threatened sentence on the
second offence. The sentence of the Court is, that you,
John Hodson, be transported beyond the seas for seven
years."

The shop of Mr. CANTON, the dentist, of May's.build-
ings, St. M artin's•lane,was a few nights ago, entered by
means of skeleton keys. It is the practice of the owner
to exhibit single and double rows of teeth and gume, in
the joining of ti hick gold is used, and the shop window
is also dec,,rated with nianygold palates,an article which,
from its great use in remedying defective articulation,
and the extreme nicety tequired in the formation of it,
is necessarily very expensive. The thieves opened the case,
and took away all the teeth and palates they could find,
andamongst the for mer a splendid double row which had
been just tini,hed, for a Lady of distinction, who was
to have received them last Saturday, preparatory to a
and dinner at the house of one of the Foreign Am.
basirdors. Mr. CANTON.aIso lo,t a valuable gold pa-
late, which he had been some time occupied in Making
for a Gentleman. The robbery had not long been dis-
covered when, to Mr. CANTON'S great surprise, a man
called at his shop, anti handed to him a large paper
parcel and a letter, of which the following is a copy:
a, sir—You will receive thole hire grinders what you lost, as they
may be of great 'semi& to you, and my genders Is good enough lot
41 the wiitels I gets ; and to sell them for a trifle would be a pity,
althdoet 1 want a trifle bad enough, and no atistalte. Please ex-
cuse strYaking the gouldoff. From

-"
YOur's, dear Sir. "SIG PING.
" Whoever brings you the grinders borne, met tike a 'gateman to
him, ell e is a stranger to the party.".
Mr. CANTON questioned the bearer upon the subject
of the possession of. the teekh; and-the. tatter said, that
on eormag_down stairs In altOuse ia. Utc'hse)d•street,
the door of. which was generally,open,-be kicked the
parcel and letter before him; and • finding that they
were directed to Mr. CANTON, believed that they bad
been accidentally dropped, and determined to do what,
every honest man would do--carry them •to the tight,
owner. Mr. CANTON so far respected the advice of his
correspondent, as to make the bearer a -present of a
sovereign for his trouble. It is unnecessary to cbserve,
that great injury was clone to the teeth, from the man-
ner in which the gold was taken off.

Last Saturday, another tobbei y of a dentist's shop
took place. Mr. CL tape, of Piccadilly, was robbed
of a case, containing double and single rows of teeth,
of considerable value. •

90'

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MAN
Testioday a eelleting cler 'le'st, Gant% and Co.
merchants, illrebio.lase, and rwent a final ennsiaatima 40.
charges of tinhezalement.
Emil-nee was given on garbs. charges of embezzlement, d.b.a.
us -mall sums of tram four to Seep woes. The firm wet,
5001. debcient. He had a salary of Ist. dd. per week, and bad brwi, :n their omelet three years. He was rlly committed foe Mai.
BOW...STRBET.
Ur. Thomas, tbe.constabie of Covent garden pada, was mi.,
day brought up in custody before Sir R. thaina, the Bitting ,11,46 tem,, up .0 a charge of assault, pre against btm by Nett4n4
a pald constable of Si. Martin's.--Nettleton rated that he a •
young Bond, a patrol Of this °fur, at Drury-Lase Theatre. i.
prey kros eight, after the performances had conchs& d, and whikti;
C°ll.PanT Wei* dePatent. weat out to tint away a Lo.
and front of the 'Matte, occasioned by a hackney cowl, Vo.
I and a Gentleman's carriage. As he w.neu engagkd, the getaly;
(Dlr. Thomas) cause up, and interfered with him in the nen*. MI is duty, and thrust his Ica, which he bad brataihib. g
i.e his (Nettleton's) face, and as the peace was thetehy bratt
ludo
gave bias ( Air. Thomas) in charge to Bond.
Sir RICII•1111 Btatita.....Weit, I am sorry to hear of thee mud
biekerirgs between men who ought to have but one tkiet
6 me Coaneritatiall amuse between Hr. Thomas and Ski 14,44
Burnie revectieg the right of the former to exercise his olio et
COlistable, which it is not necemary to detaiL At length Sur kickl
decided, that the parties might go to the Ses,ionei sodehewQw
the complaint.

Avert; Marten, a ntannfacturer of cord and twine, wasoy bra*
to answer ill ii.farmation under the Hawkers Act, *hid 4,t;
pe4retl he had transgres,ed, but in a very trivial degree.
Sir Lisanni--Well, I declare I regret this pronseding,
although 'yammered, it presses very hard 'sputa tht pout idiaar.*l4
rnanuisc• ores the article which he sells.
Mr. Circumb, the solicitor, said he would widsdeaw is
(irritation
ter Minna.° said he was glad of it; as be was natiritsdlinii
thing tLat smelt even of oppression.
The defendant thanked Ms %Vas*, and widdrew.

HATTON GARDEN.
Yesterday Infirm Themeless, a young tell** well knows nig
police, was placed at the bar, charged with the following se.
coach rubbery
Mr. Sharman attended en the part of the proprietor, d !h,
coach, and Mr. Humphries for the priamer.
Walton, the guard of the TAHOE) day coach. reusing boson
London and Birmingham, deposed, that about siz sickstk es las
Corday evening, as the coach was passing over Holley Comas
Wear denten, be observed a man dressed hke the primer, with a
curt big and s portmanteau' in his band*, ru.Mog away as fait
is ruble. Ho insinediately pursued the mail, crying i• ye,
thist. The man, the course of Ms light, dropped me carpet
he and portmanteau in the read, which were pc.eil up. lo a
'leen dime afterwards be came up with the prisoner, eh., bad
Ism poonimmily secured. He could sot swear paintely tba
dmprismer was the person who dropped the ankles aided to
see, however, believed he was, both tram bin am sad dress. Be
returning to his coach, he foetid that the boot had nee* rebind st
the before-mentloned articles wed two small baskets, all of which
enntained property belonging to a Gentleman who was trawl*
to London by tie Tsbylio. A search brio* mole an the reel,
dse two baskets were found, together With a 'mat "Jeloy,"n
crow bar, and two coach latch keys. Those two I.uer snidest/us
identified by the witness as having been used by Loa far the hen
hod other parts of the much.
A witnees depoesdathat hearing the cry ni ' step chief," sad ow
in the pcbonor rune digg as feet a, he was able, he collirodiallh Lie
brid kim midi a shindahle CAW, into squaw aim* he ism
matted ilea.—Anether wines:Nome similar testier/say.

Mr. 1.11319 cemedvad alias tl<trt was a very susniease of es*.
don against die pelsower._

Th; priaocter,•Who dammed wing any thing in bit ddass, is
then fully deadotttad trinL

MA Y. LA-BON NR
eresiy. a groom, was charged wick &treading .1. thee, d
ham and live sovereigns. He hail been estromed by Cook's esedor,
no the country, to deliver the ham, weight% Nies. Me 'mein.%
and some trilling articles, to her-sam The idles be dad dab,sr,
but the substantial articles he detained. R. girded piky, bet
I urged distress In extenuation. This, however, did ow avail bid
and he was committed.