Star.
London, England, 1818-08-27 00:00:00

POLICE.

GuiLIDIALL.--Yesterday a person, named Odd-
inrith, the steward of a society of tailors, called the
Blue Last Society, was charged with having defrau-
ded the society of several sums of money by altering i
the dates of declarations respecting periods of illness,'
and appropriating the money set down for the use of
the siek to his own purposes.
Mr. llAammt contended, that as the steward was
a member of- the society, he could not be charged
with a fraud under the circumstances stated by the
complainants, it being absurd to accuse a man of
having defrauded himstlf, an issue to which the case
must come if the defendant was thought liable.
Alderman WAITIIMAN suggested that the steward
tnight beprosecuted for having defrauded the rest of
the society of sums of money, the suns to which him-
self might have been entitled having been deducted.
The on Souctron was clearly of opinion than
the circumstances contained a 'fraud, and that the
case ought to go to a Jury.—The defendant was or
dered to find bull. _ _ _ _

Lydia Green, a respectable looking young woman,
was charged with stealing eight pair of stockings,
the property
,of William Dew, hosier, Chupside.—
John Davis, shopman to Mr. Dew, stated, that be-
tween three and four o'clock yesterday, as he was
serving a customer, he saw the prisoner come into
the shop, and take up the stockings, and walk away
with them ; he followed her and brought her back ;
she did not attempt to run away, b"t carried the
stockings openly in her hand. He delivered her into
the custody of an officer.—The prisoner being called
oa for her defence, said she had nothing to say, as
the witness was correct in every thing he had said.
The officer stated, that on searching the prisoner he
had found on her two letters from her husband, who
is on board the hulks, under sentence of transports.
tion ; the letters were produced, and• merely con-
tained common-place expressions of affection, and re-
gretting his separation from her.—Mr. llzvis, shop-
man, said it was not the wish of that Gentleman to
prosecute the prisoner, as Er: thought distress might
have been the cause of her committing the theft.—
Alderman HEiroivrx observed, that the robbery had
been completely proved, and that it was a duty that
Mr. Dew owed to the public to prosecute the priso-
ner, aad it was his duty as a Magistrate to compel
him. He was the last man that would press prose.
eueons for trifling matters. But this was a robbery
committed in open day, and not denied, or even at-
tempted to be justified. Under every circumstance
he considered it his duty to commit the prisoner fo:
trial, and bind the parties over to prosecute. The pri.
soner requested, with the greatest appearance of
anxiety, that her husband's letters might be restored
to her ; they were accordingly returned to her, and
she left the bar with an apparent air of triumph.—
, This is one of the many ewes where onfortnnate wi wives j

have committed theft, in hopes of joining their bus-
bgnsis %Ow have been transported.
Bow-srapv.—Josejs4 goody was brought to this
office yesterday, charged on suspicion of stealing a
clock, the property of some person or persons un-
known. It appeared that yesterday morning, about
half-past eight o'clock, Thomas Middleton, a patrol
belonging to the office, was passing through China-
walk, Chelsea, when.he observed the prisoner, whom
he knew to be a suspicious character, proceeding up
Manners-street, which not being a thoroughfare, he
had no doubt but he went there to avoid him ; he
pursued him, and when he came up to him, he threw
away a bundle he had tied up in an apron, and ran
off. The cry of " Stop thief" was raised, and he
was stopped and secured. The bundle he had thrown
away proved to be a clock, which the prisoner not
being able to give a satisfactory account of his posses-
sion of, he was committed for further examination.
A young gentleman, residing in Woodstock-street,
was charged by the keeper of Grosvenor-square with
discharging a loaded pistol opposite the Earl of Bridg-
water's house. The complainant stated, that about
eleven o'clock on Tuesday night, as he was coming
through Grosvenor-square, he saw the flash of a pis-
tol nearly opposite the arl of Bridgwater's door,
upon which he ran up, and found the young gentle-
man with a pistol in his possession, and took him into
custody. The defendant said that the pistol was the
property of an aged aunt in Mount-street, who always
slept with fire-arms under her pillow; that she gage
them to him to clean, and he discharged one of them
in the square, not intending to do any harm, nor
knowing that he had in any way offended.—The Ma-
gistrate censured his conduct severely, and convicted
him in the penalty of 20s.

QUEEN MQUARE.—A young woman, about sixteen
years of age, was brought before the Magistrate, by
an officer of Chiswick, in order to be passed to her
parish. On being examined, she stated herself to be
an orphan ; she had no friend in the world, except
one distant relation rasiding at Stratford ; she gained
a settlement at Lambeth by servitude, and the last
place she held was in fleet-street; some young men
in the house behaving improperly to her, she com-
municated the circumstance to her mi,,tress; the con-
sequence was she was obliged to quit her place at
the end of a month. She engaged with another lady,
who went after her character. Her List mistres said
she was sober and honest, but that character not being
satisfactory, she was not taken, and the people where
she lodged turned her out, after she had spent all
her money. She wandered about three days without
food, and strolled into the country, With the intention
of getting into the woods and starving herself to
death. This mode, however, of depriving herself of
life,. being too much .to bear, she thought the most
expedient way to deprive herself of life was to drown
herself, and she went to a pond for this dreadful pur-
pose, when some person rret her and brought her to
the work-house—she wept bitterly, and her tale ex-
cited the commisseration of all present. The Magis-
trate commended her virtue, and directed the officer,
A% 1:o appeared a very humane man, to take proper
care r 4. her, and obtain her such a situation as would
restore her dixrltcter.

UNION Uttering Forged Notes.—The three
following cases of forged Notes upon the Bank came
on to be ,:card yesterday:
.104:1;;; Simp.vnt, a young man of genteel appear-
ance, was brought up for re-examination, char&ed
with uttering a £5 at Vauxhall on Friday, knowing
the same to-be a forgery upon the Bank. The priso-
ner said that be received the note as part of a bet
which he won upon the late fight between Spring
and Painter. Several persons of respectability came
forward to give him a good character, and stated
that he had formerly held the situation )f-Clerk to a
Barrister.—He was discharged.
William Pearson and Mary Pearson were commit-
ted for uttering a forged note for El to Mr. Kidner,
a butcher residing at Bermondsey; and-two notes of
£1 each, to Mr. Giles, a licensed victualler at Ber-
mondsey, on Saturday last.
Sarah CionAhs and Catherine Gorman were charged
with uttering a forged 11. note to Mr. Hone, of the
London-road, haberdasher, and with having two other
forged notes in their possession. From the statement
of Mr. Rooke, solicitor to the Bank, it appeared that
the prisoners were old offenders, and had been taken
before the Magistrates at Hatton garden so recently
as last week for uttering a 51. forged note, when the
prosecution against them was riven up, in conse-
quence of their solemnly undertaking to abandon their
criminal course of life. The prisoners said that their
husbands were at Botany-bay, and they were anxi-
ous to join them. In the pocket of Cloughs was
found a petition addressed to Lord Sidmouth for per-
mission to go to Port Jackson. They were committed.
Ann Williams was committed as a vagrant. She
had applied to one of the Overseers of Christ-church
for relief, who, perceiving her apparently in an ad-
vanced state of pregnancy, had her conveyed in a
sedan-chair to the workhouse : when the parish-doc-
tor and midwife being immediately sent for, the pa-
tient was reluctantly delivered of a large bundle of
rags, which she had most ingeniously fastened under
her apron.
LAMBETII-STREET.—.I. Morgan was fully com-
mitted for a brutal assault on his wife ; first by beat-
ing her with a large stick, and afterwards cutting her
head with a knife.

Wonsittp.srnErr.—Forgery.--Yesterday William
Grcfmes, charged with uttering a forged a note, of
the Gra--l'am 13ank, at the shop of 11r. Arches, in
Winchester-street, was finally examined. Another
charge of uttering a forged note, of the Hereford
Bank, to Elliot, at whose house he had lodged,
was preferred against him.—Fully committed.

Swrsotrn.—A few days since, a young man, re-
presenting himself as nephew of Mrs. House, grocer,
cf. Blandford, called at the Blacking Manufactory of
Richard Turner, 114, London-road, Southwark, and
ordered goods to the amount of £11.35. and tendered
a check for £36. 7s. on Glyn and Co. purporting to
be drawn by Sales, Pollard, and Co. of Aldersgatc-
street, wholesale tobacconists, which proved to be a
forgery, and received a check in exchange on Sir
John Perring and Co. for £25. 4s.—This is to guard
shopkeepers from experiencing the same fraud. He
represented his name to be Kurile/J.
ExEctrrtom—Saturday James Webb, convicted at
the last Worcester Assizes of sheep-stealing, was exe-
cuted in front of the County Jail.