Star.
London, England, 1810-10-20 00:00:00

POLICE, fie.

CO S IV.ACES.

• The circumstance which we stated on Tssisdai last
of the very gnus and quid process for a divorce, which
is now in progress in the Commissary Court of,Edin- •
burgh; at the suit of Lady I'. against her husband, has
given rise to considerable .curiosity and discussion in
all the fashionable circle:. •
WltAt! it is inquired, Can an English couple, born •
and tharried on the South side of the Tweed, without
property or habitual residence in Scotland—and even .
where the faux par has taken place in England, by
merely passing over the river, and taking up their
abode for six weeks in that dekeujii/country, avoid all
the trouble, expence, and difficulty of 1

1. A process in Doctbr's Contwns for a Divorce a mci,:a et
there ;
Y. A suit in the King's Bench on an Action of Damovs for
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"..an Application to
,Parliament for a divorcee vincule matri-
nrwill ? _ _

Yes—and by the sentence of the Commissary they
may be as perfreqy disjoined, separated, relieved, and
made single and happy, as if they had. undergone all
the notoriety and inquisition of that most :crop:lour or-
deal the House of Lords.

The fact is aetually proved in this memorable in-
stance.• Titre, it requires a certain degree of COM /1.41.7 ;,.
:ante on both sides. If the Lady means to-complain,
the. Caro Sposa must be so accommodating as to be found
within the Jurisdiction of the Court, that he may be
served with a summons to com/sear; and on the other
side, that he may be able to marry the object of his
Criminal passion, his earo Silota must not name her in
the tibeii but must declare her perfect ignorance of the
creature that has robbed her of all her happiness—
unless, indeed, to satisfy her conscience, the husband
should be so polite as to submit to an extra infidelity
with some :tray beauty wh.) may allow for a guinea
Or two, the requi.,:te proof to be given; and that the
Lady may safely take the very solemn oath which'is
required on the occasion.
We should be glad if any of our Scots Correspon-
dents would transmit us a copy of the oath ; fir, we
believe, that the party complaining, imprecates on his
or her head all the curses contained in Deuteronomy,
if there is any collusion in the case.
1 Our readers well recollect the moral and rigorous
obstacles to divorce, which have .been established as re-
gulations to the order of procee:!inp,,s in the House of
Lords. It is now a treinstz lour tribunal for any fashion-
able pair to resort to. There are nr: f.icititie: to be
found there ; and we should not xvon,:gr, W in the ;
next Session of Parliament this northern door should.
be made to creak on its hinge:.

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to*-liittPL-7Yesterdity Memel and 13ory.
The eldest not 14, were charged: with cutting the shop
window of Mr. Wakelin, jeweller, in Holborn, and
stealing therefrom three zoll seals, and were commit-
ted for re-examination.
MANSION House.—Yesterday G. Wier, 14 years of
age, was charged with stealing a great number of
vahiable account books, from the counting house of
Messrs. Corry and Co. at No. 63, Broad-street, which
were purchased by a Mr. Yarrow, cheesemonger, in
the same street, at the rate of 4d. .and sd. per lb.
Mr. Corry stated, that luspicion filling on Weir,
he was taxed therewith, and under promise of for-
giveness, confessed the robbery, and stated that he
had sold them as above described.
, Yarrow pleaded ignorance of any thing improper
in the purchase, and that being unable to read writing,
he was unacquainted with the value of the articles.
The LORD Matoa, however, deemed it necessary
to hold him to bail, .and bound the parties over to,
bring forward Weir as an evidence.
Wood and his wife,charged with robbing the coml.,
ting-house 41derman Atkins, were again. put. to
the bar, when thefoilber evidence was read over, and
the husbana fully committed, and his wife discharged,

being a femme eairuirte. •
GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday two slaughtering butchers
were charged with placing their carts on the foot-
path, in Warwick-lace, to the great annoyance of pas-
sengers. The nuisance arising in this neighbourhood
from the stench and filth emanating from the slaugh-
ter houses and carts, as well to the comfort as the
health of the inhabitants, h.ts long been a subject of
serious evil. The present complaint, however, was
brought forward by the parish, merely as a caution,
and not by way of punishing the parties. The Al-
derman, therefore, informed them that .their carts
might have been sent to the Green-yard, and them-
.selves subject' to a ',malty ; but, owing to the leni-
ency of the complainants, he would discharge them
for this time, warning them not to be guilty of the
same offence again, and hoping they. would also CAD-
lion theiracquaint ance not to be guilty of a like offence.
HATiON GARDEN.—Yesterday S. Clements under-
went I final examination, charged with stealing out of
a field at Stoke Newington, a brown gelding, the pro-
perty of Mr. Thomas Jarmain, and was fully com-
mitted to Newgate for trial.
Sarah Pulley was likewise fully committed, charged
with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, the pro.
perty of Susannah Tidswell, of Tash.street, Gray's-.
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Lieutenant TAYLOR, of the Maker Signal Station,
Inn-lane, in whose house she lodged.
ACLEOROUGH-ETREET.—Yesterday Elizabier Rii: 1
is appointed Head .Warden of the Plymouth Dock 4. '
us:, the wife of a jeweller, was charged by above.a.
Yard, in the room of the late Mr. WHARTON. The
dozen. pawnbro, bers with defrauding them, by pledr
tituetion is lucrative, end what is commonly termed"
. .. • . : ing watch-chains and seals, purporting to be gold.—
ra:4g. The laic poeseseor, who held the situation up-
Wards of 2'f during Which period 'he discharged. The articles were manufactured so well, that the fraud
was ractised to a considerable extent before it was
the dunes of itwith fidelity and attention, obtained.
discovered. She was fully committed.
his appointment in the. 'following way :—He was
:-‘l7 head-coachman tsa Lord Seatiewien, during the time UNION HALL—Yesterday Abraham Payne was
1. that Nobleman Was Tint- Lord of the Admiralty ; charged by Lockie, the constable, with aSCAlltringaild
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~ 's and having the ;good, fortune to win his Lordship's interrupting him in the execution of l:is duty,. akthe
lelfeed,4eis 'favour by his faithfUt ceindtict, the latter promised tci ;Surrey Theatre, on Thursday eve: ing last. , :...,
do something substantial fOr him, the first convenient 1, The officer stated, that there being a fight.in ..the
vi. opportunity.that might present itself. In the interim pit he endeavoured to coe.il it, and was proceeding to
e the situation of Warden of the Plymouth Dock Yard apprehend one of tl-.e ringleaders, when the &fere.
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became vacant by the, death of ti e former Warden. daut said it was his brother, and threatened- to sd's)
A person belonging to Plymouth, immediately set off the ?fficer out ; upon this the officer took him ineacus.
post for town, strongly recommended, to solicit the tody, when it appeared that the person was atreritite
place - and proceeded to Lard SANDWICH'S residence stranger to him, and that lie did not even know tilie
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for that purpose ; -but•his- Lordship' not being in the name. He was held to bail. .
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wayt,hesommunicated his errand to the butler, who, .A miscreant belonging to the Vere-street triter-
instead of preferring his claim, reminded his Lordship nity, was brought up by Wortly, the offiter, charged
that. if was then a favourable time to lan assault provide for his eti than with t intent to commit eif.. a detestable
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• coaelnnan. His Lordship took the hint ; anei'Mr. fence ;he was committed, but is since 4dmtued to
WIIARTON was appointed to the Situation. which he bail, himself in £lOO, and two sureties in £5O each.
filled with credit to himself and patron, and died turi- • Thursday evening, at the early hour of half.sast
venally respected.
The following story related by the learned Mr. six o'clock, as Mr. William Hill, poulterer, of *-
spur-street, was passing throng!' Blue Lion passage,
HENRY STEPHENS, in his Preparatory Treatise to He- in Gray's-Inn-lane, leading to Bagnigge Wells, he
rodotus, p. 238, is a remarkable instance of the• ex- was, met by two stout ' lrishmen, who with most nor.
treme ignorance of some of, the persoas who applied
for orders in his days. 'He says, that a man applied I ri.h ie threats and oaths,demanded
diem presented a pistol to his mouth, and the other
to a Popish Bishop, and being asked this question, to et a pistol to his left ear. He gave them all the cash
try his_ learning and sufficiency, Who was father to i pet
had, and they made off.
the four sons of ATSION ? and knowing tat what to •
answer, was refused as insufficient : who, returning Another daring footpad robbery was committed on
home to his father, and shewing the reason why he the same evening,, about nine o'clock, in the Duke of
was rot ordained, his father told him he 'was a very Bedford's private roecUi.--*- As Mr. Bayley, of St.
ass, that could not tell who was father 'to- the four Martin's-lane, was passing through there on -his way
sons of Avetou ? " See, I pray thee, (quoth he) home, he was met by two.men ; each of them seized
yonder is GREAT Joux the smith, who has four sons ; him by the side of his collar; demanded hii m,oney,
if a man should ask thee, Who was their father ?land each presented a pistot at his 'head ; he gave
Wouldst thou not say, that it was GREAT JOHN the them his watch, a one podhd Pink note, and four
smith ? Yes.(quoth he), now I understand it. There-1 shillings. One of the robbers desired. the other to
upon he went again, and being asked a second time, I return, the watch, but he refused. Be, however, le-
Who was father to the four sons of Mime ? 1-? e an- i turned the four shillings, and, they ran of towaxds
steered, I: war Great John the smith I" some new buildings.
• Monmouth Races were renewed on the 11th, after Bill Seamen.—lnformation having been given to Mr..
a cessation of thirty-three years. The sport was par- i Naldtr, one of the City Marshalls;that a gang of pick-
ticularly good. Mr. PEA Barbara was winning l pockets infested the neighbourhood of Crutchedfriars,
both the tfembers' Plates very easily, when she bolted I and more -particularly an alley called Pepper-alley,
each day at the same post, and was distanced. The Ileading from Crutchedfriars, through the India Ware-
company was very select, and the entertainments,l houses, to Fenchnrch-street, which is the usual track
under the direction of Lord Annum Someasate,arsel . for the foreign ship-masters on their way to and froth.
Sir C. Monnate, Bart. the Stewirds, very grand. ' I 'Change : some of die City Police were placed yes.
The boxing-matches so pompously announred la : terday afternoon to watch the motions of these daring
some of the Papers, are merely contrived as a mode of depredators, _oho the day' before had the audacity, at
gambling, in which theepassions of the" brute" and .4 o'clock in the afternoon, en pick the pockets of a
the " sharper" may be gratified at the same time. foreign Captain, while two of the gang stood behind.
Or. Josneson was in company witls•a very talkative him and pinioned his arms : and also a gentleman of ,
lady, of whom he took little notice. She, en pique, ' his banker's book. At about half-past 4- o'clnek.
. . . said to hint-, " Why Doctor, I believe you are not • yesterday afternoon, J. Browne, one of the City Po-1
The following are among the latest arrivals at very fdnd of the company of the Ladies." o You ' lice, a most active officer, obsvieved Bill Soames, at-
Chelteeliiipe; are much mistaken, Madam," said he, li I like tended by fuur of his gang, lurking about the place
- Lord 'Henri Fitzgerald, Lord Gorrnanston, Honourable Mts. their &hairy* and like their vivacity, and I like their above.mentioned, upon which he immediately at-
Creizlion,"bir Rohert Gunning; Sir. Ricliiiid I;ktooke, Adridral j;kna.,, .
i tempted to take Semmes into custody. This the /at.
tetspeulat, Ntujor-Geberal Gunmen, Colonel •Dniacht, Mail!.
D'Arcy,JMaior. 4:14c1, CaptAins. Wilososs and Belk, Hon. Captain A Gentleman observing to his friend the other day, ter resisted. Fortunately, however, a gentleman was .
Soutimell, Capt. and Mrs. G.. orr,ter, capaias Grant, J. Tito- that be thought the Bishop of —'s subscription to a passing by, and seeing the danger and embarrassment
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onyhotOnifiehl., gunlock; Sal; ;.-Dto. Gillespie,' Brad;haiv, Pill- certain institution was very small. You forget, replied of the officer, who in vain called on a number of bye- ;
lianiaon;Trathr; gev:. Dolman, Mr. Dimint a 0 cdnilly; Mr. we- . other, that, besides the many charities, he sub. standers for' ssistance, he immediately came forward'
• and Mrs. Mears, Mr. and Mrs. Clarke, Mr: and Mr< Sims; Mr. • . :. • • ' .. . . • . •
scribes to tntrty nine articles ! • to the officer's aid, and after a desperate resistance on
ane Mrs. Riebarea, ear,: vet '.‘ere. Bar-opt. Witte, Iwo,
Mackeniie, Webb, Hume.' Clark, M'Creary, HewAon, Douglas, The project of making•ao arch-way through Shoot. the part of Scatmes, he was with much deliculty se-
Rodrigues. Mr. Lopes da Cuulk.A. Wilson„ Levfis,torsen, tborali en's fill is said to be agaia revived. ,What with cured, and upon, the arrival of -some brother officers, i
M'Neillt Wrigbt, Leckie, Hopkins, S. H. Cid.man, Tanner, Car- arch imp among the men - and arch 'way: among r '
toll, Copping&, Packington, Braithwick, Tbair, Waltham, Hind- i .
ditch, mcchcrt„ Brrwieke, unwell, corinitint• Fraser 4 J. vaidaiti the women, honest John Bull will not be left a plain
Ilaq, lk•r.' !iodate, Warren, Suagg, 'Coupille, Sandys, Stephenil way to go, by. .
Oltlaker, Vincent, I.yncli,Kiernurteathcart,; Mistresses Miiortt, On ihe Kith instant, a .I. Cramp, engineer, was
Junes, Waterford, O'Reilly, ;antaovit, Willie, Bostaker, Glossop, lakeliikt a screw to sous .part; of the engine in Bed-
* Kayasford, Woeskii 11144CiaTillif, Niniaoll, Sinlih; •Millail 1 wiiath ato '. •11 t
Insiesai. lanes, Pynn, Briide, Taunton, Strickland, 11Whiesen, :' leg?
.1,.. e Icy. . Ipt.Aff ibe. nee, and heaves.
Lour, Hooey, Mutes, Bersolt, RQUirt4,Wais lreisiest Wolf, • lettallqy
~ wn nitq the-pit, which Was sixtea_n yards
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111,4 S itg' ' atilt ill 'water. The bieely was not fouad 101 Tneedera
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put into a-coach, and safely lydged in the Poultry
Compter. We- understand be is to be brought. up for .
examination this day at the Mansion House, when .
some of *eludes who have. been robbed within diesel;
few daTsatem the apt in-question will attend. It is
to be hoped that good care will be taken of Bill.
Somme, whole public dePreditions are too weft kabwn
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