Star.
London, England, 1811-09-12 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSTON Housx.—Yesterday T. Abbott, a rag-
merchant, charged his servant, Jane Hawkins, with
stealing from his shop a qttantity of rags, valued at
cod.. He informed his Lordship that the prisoner
bad been several years in his service, and had hither-
to conducted herself with 14anesty and propriety.—
His Lordship recommended the prosecutor to with-
draw the prosecution, in consideration of the girl's
previous good conduct ; but this he refused to coo-
ply w:th, so the prisoner was remanded for further ex-
amination.

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Ma RLSOROUGII•STREET.—Yesterday Coderill,
a hackney-coachman, was charged with having sop-
ped a female, who resides in the neighbourhood af
Fitzroy-square, and robbed her al a ridicule, con-
taining eighteen shillings, and two diamond rings, on
Tuesday night. The pmsecutrix was returning from
a public place, about 12 o'alock, in company with a
female friend, when the prisoner came up, snatched
the ridicule out of her hand, and attempted to get
away. She, however, held fast by his coat, and was
thrown down, when the prisoner kicked her on the
breast. Fortunately a respectable tradesman, in New-
man-street, was passing at the time, and saw the
prisoner cast the ridicule from him, and assisted in
securing him. A person afterwards brought the purse
to the prosecutrix, but it contained half the Silver
only, without ,1-e rings. Whilst in the Office, and
the prisoner's it lends were tampering with the prsse-
cutrix to settle it, the sings were ofiered to be pra.
sicced, if the proposal was agreed to ; but the man
who made the offer had retreated when asked for.—
The prisoner was fully committed for :a ial.
Woastur-sTiturr.—Yesterday Elizabtas Brown was
fully committed, charged by Mr. Hughes, of Basing-
hall-street, with whom she had lived servant, with
having stolen linen, and other articles, part of which
wet e found in her possession.
A baker was summoned up, .on a complaint ex-
hibited against him, for selling, and 'exposing for
sale, bread deficient in weight, and was convicted in
the penalty of 2s. Gd. per ounce, and the bread for-
feited • he was likewise convicted in the, penalty of
£lO, for having alum found oh his premises.
Umoss HALL.—Yesterday a complaint was exhi-
bited against an eminent shipwright, b; the mother of
one of his apprentices, under the following circum-
stances : —From the statement of the complainant, it
appeared her son had served nearly the whole of his
time, and was now upwards of 20 years of age ; by
the agreement between her and the defendant, at the
[ time he was bound, it was provided that, during the
last three years and a ‘..alt of his apprenticeship he
was to allow her son 10s. per week board wages ;
and this slim had been paid till within tire last fort-
night, during which time it had been withheld, in
consequence of the following facts. About 12 months
since the boy, whilst at weak iu his master's yard, re-'
ceived, by accident, a sevete wound in his leg, which
tendered bins incapable of doing any thing tar several
weeks, during which time a surgeou attended him.—
His master, however, whilst he was confined, still
aliovved him his board wages; and on his recovery he
returned to his work, but the surgeon's bill for linen-
! dance amounting to upwards of .E.Sa, he refused to pay;
in consequence of which the son of Esculapius had
proceeded against the boy in the Court of ltequ:sts,
''and the Commissioners made an order that he should
pay it hy instalmeats. These payments he was not
able to keep up, and an execution issued against him,
sunder which he was arrested and lodged in prison,
where he still remained, and since his bating there, his
master had refused to allow any thing for board-
Wages. On the part of the defendant a professional
man attended, who submitted to the Magistrate that
his client was not liable to pay the surgeon's bill.—
When the accident happened he wished the young
man should have been sent to an Hospisal, he being
a perpetual governor to two, for the sole purpose et
having the power of obtaining admission for any per-
sons who might meet with accidents in his t tuploy.—
This, however, was opposed by the mother, who em-
ployed the surgeon in question contrary to his express
desire, and therefore he conceived that the mother
only was liable for the debt ; and as he was deprived
of the young man's services by an act of the mother,
he conceived she had no just claim to the board-
wages. The Magistrate said, the question who
should pay the surgeon's bill was not for him to de,
Bide. With respect to the hoard wagei, as the young
man's imprisonment and consequent prevention from
labour did not arise from any act o( impropriety on
his part ; but in fact from an untortthiate injury sus-
tained by him in his master's service, the defendant-
was bound to pay the sum stipulated in the inden-
ture. He at the same time suggested, whether it
would not be more for the advantage of the defen-
dant, if he could enter into some compromise with
the surgeon, and thus set the young than at liberty,
than, by continuing obstinate, keep him in prison, and
suffer the loss of his services ? The defendant ac-
knowledged the justice of the Magistrate's observa-
tion, and said, it was not the object of the lxiard•
wages which had caused their being withheld, but
the fear that, by paying them to him in prison, with-
out a Magistrate's order, he should acknowledge the
debt to the surgeon, and thus put a stop to the legal
steps which he was taking against those who, by 11Tl•
prisoning his apprentice, had deprived him of the be-
nefit of his services.
HATTON-GAltDem.----,-Nesterday, a Mr. Dixon;
was put to the bar, before Mr. Justice Leach, under
I a charge of having on Tuesday night last, between the
I Instils of nine and ten o'clock, timed a pistol shot, and
I driven a bullet through the wind" of his opposite
neighbour, one Henry Earl, a coachman, whose wife
was at the time washing,. with her head within the
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distance of one foot from the hole made by the bul-
-1 let, which passed close over her head, Mrs. Earl
fainted at the shock, and, upon recovering herself,
went into an adjoining house, where she sornained
till Wood, the Officer, who lives-in the same place,
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called Garden's Walk, Clerkenwell, had an ived.—
, The prisoner refused to admit the Officer, and three-
: tested to shoot him if he entered forcibly; but Wood,
regardless of menaces, broke in the &or, and secured
' him. A Mrs. Smith, of the same place, stated, that her
window was some nights ago broken by a similar firing,
and herself thrown into tits, to Which she is subject.
—The prisoner appeared so composed and indifferent
to the charge, that the Magistrate asked the motivt
{ of such indifference—whereupon
,the prisoner stated
his great pleasure at the happy event of Mrs. Earl's

escape, who well knew that it was a mere orcidenr,
since neither she nor any one living ever could or did
in his '.ife time impute an idea of malice or on
his pint towards any one. The cause of the firiii3
was the annoyance he suffered from an erttaordiriarr
great coPKe of cats that surrounded his c ttage .ipon
the roofs of the neighbourir.g houses, and which ho
endeavoured to disperse by the filing; but lie p.rceiv-
ed his error in firing to disperse them. and most sin.
cerely exulted in the merciful Interposition of 9aove.
DENCE, which prevented an evil that would la. 'e at.
flitted him sorely.
The Magistrate laid down the law to be, tl:at, if
the party were killed, it would be mar,slangtpet ; mad
had any kind of quartet or dispute ever beim: fette-
red betwe^n the prisoner cr his wife and Mrs.
in cese uf her death by rite shot it v.ould be
murder. The prisoner was mistaken in his nf,
malice, as such carel..,s firinp impsied malice ;
he ordered him to find sumacs ut the peace, or start
committed.

, A forgery to a cci, iderable went has been die.
covered in one of the first houses in the vicinity of
Bond street. Upwards c.f iIiGUOD has been obtaiutd,
and one of the first Jerks has ansented himself.
A Gertleman was st ,ppe I and robbed of hi. watch
and AI on Sunday night, by four ruffians, in Fti.ham-
fields. An attack was Asa made tn a lady and gen.
tleman in a chaise, laaween Clapham and Battersea,
on Thursday last, but they escaped in great danger.
Monday !light, Mr. C. Davidson, of Totterh,rn-
court-road, on returning home ahntg Holloway-1 ne,
Islington, in a cur rich:, was attacked by two footpads,
dressed as sailors, and masked, who proareted
and robbed him of wh it cash he had about him.
Monday night, Mr. Wardley, of Mounc.aueet.
Grosvenor-square, was hustled at the corner of Fleet.
Mat ket, and robbed of his watch and pocket-book,
containing bank notes to the amount of A/.
.A DARING HIGHWAY %,AN..—On Tuesday evening,
about halt past seven o'clock, as two farmer's men
were returning from wand 111 their empty carts,
where they had been to market with two loads of
straw, one of them wad stopped by a highwayman at
Tottenham-green, at a time when the road was crowd-
ed with toot-passengers and carriages. He demand-
ed the man's motley in a threatening tone—that
which he had received for the hay he had sold. The
carter answered that it was straw, and not hay, which
he had been Co mat ket w th ; and that instead of mo-
ney he had received a ticket for it. Hoping to suc-
ceed better with his companion, who was anointed
on the fore horse et the team, a short distance nettind,
the highwayman rode up to him, and resentino A
pistol to his brew-4 with horrid impraca .ons, 'de-
manded the money he had received at mat k -t for his
hay or s:raw : the alarmed me denied his having
any that lie -had received at market ; but the few
shillings which he had of his own he offered to deli-
ver up, if the robber would allow him time to dismount
for that purpose. Just as he war about to perform
his promise, his comrade who had been first stopped
came to his assistance, and loudly calling out stop
thief, the highwayman was glad to gallop off with-
out his treaty. A hue and cry was immediately rais-
ed in the village, and the robber was pursued to-
wards Stamford-hill ; but unfortunately no horsemen
were at hand to assist in the pursuit, in consequence
of which the villain made his escape. It was ascer-
tained in the course of yesterday, that the highway.
man had come a considerable distance on the toad
from Ware; and that he mbhed a gentleman oft
horseback near the Cock-inn, on the other side of
Edmonton.
On Monday, as Mr. and Mrs. Staines, of Cheap.
side, were going to their country residence at Eppii g
Forest, by sudden jolt Mr. Staines was throat'
out of the !liaise, and so much hurt, as to cause his
death in half an hour.
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has been so long proved, that nothing of the present
day can bear a competition with it, in all the diffe-
rent stages of a certain disease, which it effectually
cores and eradicates from the habit, without exciting
the painful feelings and exposure that attends saliva-
tion—without debilitating the constitution in any de-
gree, or even requiring confinement from business or
restriction of diet. The radical virtues of these ines-
timable Drops hive proved their claim to pabl c ap-
probation for more than 30 years. In all the debility
of both sexes they prove a never-failing restorative—
whether the debility is produced by too free use of
mercury, by illicit pleasures, or the effects of a warm
climate To travellers and those going abroad, they
cannot be recommescied too strongly, as they will re-
ceive a safe, speedy, and complete cure, in all olp
stubborn gleets, and every weakness that affects the
bladder and organs of urine. By its efficacy many
women have become mothers, who for marry )eart
had been deprived of that happiness.—. Sold wholesale
and retail, at Mr: Butler's, No. 4, Cheapside, corral.
of Paternoarer-row.; and retail, by llelam and Skarp.
Portsmouth • Hall and Johnson. Gosport ; Antrim,
Weston, Mallory, and Jones, Portsea; Trevrtnan,
Exeter ; Cookworthy, Glenville, Gilbert, and Hos-
land, Plymouth; Newbury, Dublin; Baxter. and Mac-
donald, Glasgow ; Smith, Manderston, Scott, and
Cargill, Edinburgh ; u:well, Bath ; Ross and Peck,
hull ; Grevon and Billinge, Liverpool; Stains rod
Lynch, Manchester; Bowen, Norwich; nett and
Lloyd, Birmingham; Gregory, Brighton; and most
Medicine Venders. in bottles, at es. tad. 4s. 6d. k

DIED.
At Ayr, Scotland, on Sun Jay, the 25th ult. Primrose tt.
nedy, o;* Drum:Rau, In the 78th year a 1 is age.
On the tnh lus:snt, at his seat at Nun-Appleton. .n Yo;kJ 're.
in the S7th year of his age, Sir Wm. Mordaunt Milner, ear.. •
He seas chasm representative for the city of York in four mere*.
sive Parliaments. lie is succeeded in his tides and 8-slates by Lit
eldest sun, now Sir WM. M. Milner, Bart.
On the 29th ult. Mr. Joseph Barnet, of Ennis.—Thk gertk•
man came by his dea:h In consequence of his !lasing atterrt.ted to
come across the end of the lake between Rocksuount and Eden-
vale, county Clare, whereby be was drusintd.
Saturday night, at Stralgways Hall, near Manc;:ester, larch
Hanson, Esq. formerly Lieutenant. Colonel Cognomentaut of the
Manchester Volunteer Rifle Regiment.
Wednesday setwight, at Maidstone, In Kent, of a typhus fever.
Captain Lucy, of the West-Kent Militia.
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