Star.
London, England, 1819-08-24 00:00:00

POLICE.

BOW-STRUT: SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS.--Yes;
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in his custody, charged with publishing seditious
Wardour-street,officer
publications. Bishop laid the warrant before Mr.
BIRNIS, the Sitting Magistrate, by virtue of which
he had apprehended the prisoner.
The Magistrate asked the prisoner his name ? He
replied, Thomas Dolby.
The Magistrate asked him if he spelt his name
with an a or an o ?—He replied, with an o.
The Magistrate—Where is
your residence ?
Prisoner—No. 34, Wardour-street. •
Magistrate—What business are you ?
Prisoner—A stationer, and sell political pamphlets.,
Mr. Woona, the Clerk, handed to the Magistrate
the information upon which the prisoner was appre-
hended, which charged him with having published
a wicked and malicious libel, imputing the crime of
murder to the Magistrates and Yeomanry Cavalry of
Manchester. Ile also handed to the Magistrate, at
the same time, the pamphlet which contained the
libel. kis entitled " Slferwin's Weekly Political
Register, No. 16, Vol. V." The first page is headed
" Manchester Massacre," printed in large letters, and
the article is made up of the vague, uncertain, and
erroneous statements which have been published in
the course of the week, with libellous observations.
The Magistrate read it as far down as the first side
till he came to where it calls upon the people to arm,
which was sufficient to convince him of the evil ten-
dency of the publication.
The evidence produced was Lewis Lewis, a con-
stable belonging to the Office, who stated, that on
Saturday, after four o'clock, be went to the prisoner's
shop and purchased the pamphlet produced, and
paid 2d. for it, and he believed the prisoner to be the
man who served him.—The prisoner admitted that
he was in his shop, and served the witness in the
way of his business.—The prisoner addressed the
Nlagi_,trate, and requested that he might be allowed
I to wait a little, that he might be enabled to procure
bail, he having called upon and sent for some friends.
The Magistrate, in reply, said, he should compel
him to wait, and if he did not procure bail he would
commit him.—During the examination, .'Jr.
the baker, of Wych-street, had entered the Office un-
observed by the prisoner, and was then sitting be-
hind him, who, it was surposed, had heird 61. his
friend being in custody, and came fcirward vo-
ltintaiily to bail him.—Mr. I:irtlu asked him if he
was already under recognizance for any other Fer-
son ?—Mr. Giles : " Yes, I am for Mr. H. Hunt."—
Mr. BIRNIE : " Then 1 shall deem that an objec-
tion."—Mr. Srarroun asked Mr. Giles if it was in a
criminal or a civil process that he was bail for Mr.,
Hurt ?—Mr. Giles : " In a civil action:'—Mr. Dol-
by was eventually liberated on giving bail, himself
in £lOO, and two sureties (Mr. (ales, and Mr. Tur-
ner, krir.ter, of Newcastle-street), in £5O each.
• M.4IiLnoROUGH-STREET.—Yesterday a soldier in
the Guards was charged by a publican under the fol-
lowing circumstances : The soldier called at the
landlord's house with a respectable looking woman,
and a child, which was from two to three years old.
The woman went away, and left the man with the
child ; and as he denied any further knowledge of
the woman than that the asked him to drink, lie re-
fused to encumber himself with the child.—ln de-
fence the soldier said, that the woman asked him to
drink, and he did so ; and afterwards she decamped,
under a frivolous pretext, and left him with the
child. She was far advanced in pregnancy, and was
a stranger to him. The child was sent to the work-
house until the mother may be found :—the soldier
was discharged.
liNiox-lIALL.—A few days back, under the head
of this Office, we gave an account of an atrocious
committed,
forios h enpi
oetris‘o,
ens of
of
jaeya
loouunsgy. w onmiaeni ia.l
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murder, which a man named Wood, confessed hay.
in
egiceo
gistrates have since made every inquiry into the cir-
cumstances of the case, the result of which has proved
that the Whole of the statement made by Wood was
false. The young woman alluded to is alive and well,
and has not the slightest knowledge of the man.

Not*ithstanding the adjournment of the Kenning-
ton Meeting, announced in the placard, signed by
the ,‘ Committees for the Borough of Southwark;
and the Counties of Surrey and Middlesex," the Ma-
giArates had reason to believe, from certain infor-
mation and movements, that precautionary mea-
sures would be prudent. Accordingly, yesterday,
morning, sundry of the inhabitants were summoned
to attend the Magistrates (Messrs. LETT, of Lambeth,
and HOLMER, of the Borough), at tha Vestry-hall,
Lambeth : and two hundred were sworn in as Spe-
cial Constables.

Mr. Lear afterwards addressed the assemblage,
thanking them for the promptness of their atten-
tion, and adding that he should not call them from
their homes unless circumstances required personal
attendance at the Common. Their warrants and
staves, however, should be forwarded to them, for
they had good reason to believe that an actual Meet-
ting would be attempted, should appearances be fa-
vourable to the parties. He added, that communi-
cations had been held with Lord Sidmouth. His
Lordship expressed the opinion that there would be
no Meeting at all ; that none of the Meetings which
had been talked of, for Smithfield or elsewhere,
would take place; that the persons who should go
to such places would only have their trouble for
nothing ; that, in fact, they could do nothing with-
out the presence of their leader, Hunt !
The Magistrates .had engaged the Horns Tavern,
Kennington, to enable them to be present ; but they
remained at the Sessions-house, Horsemonger-lane.
Mr. Rofey, the High Constable for the Borough,
and the Under Sheriff, Mr. Abbott, however, were pre-
sent ; and they were attended by upwards of 120 po-
lice, Sheriffs' and other officers, and regular con-
stables. All the gates leading on to the Common
were locked and chained, so that any cart or waggon
attempting to enter would have been seized. Not
above ten of the surrounding respectable inhabitants,
who are accustomed to go to the City daily, left
their homes. About twelve o'clock, a lad appeared
on the Corhmon, exhibiting a board, on the end of a
pole, on which it was announced that the meeting at
Kennington wars postponed till a future day, but that
one would lae held at Omithfield-on Wednesday, at
,iota o'clock is th's afternoon.