Star.
London, England, 1818-07-08 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bow•9TßlET.—Yestenlay William Cliarker under-
went a final examination before Mr. BIRNIE, on a
charge of uttering a forged 11. Bank note, knowing
it to be so, and with having others in his possession.
The pi isoner has hitherto been a very respectable
young man, and there is some mystery attached to the
charge ; it has been under investigation since the
14th of June, on which day he tendered a 1/. note
to Mr. John Brown, the landlord of the Southamp-
ten Arms public-house, in Camden Town, in pay-
ment for some liquor, through the waiter; and there
, being some doubt as to the note being good, from
the paper being thick, &c. it was refused being taken.
He requested Mr. Brown, the landlord, to advance.
him ss. as he had not money enough to pay his
reckaning, which was done : but the landlord having
some doubt as to his conduct respecting the note, he
informed.l. Smith and his party ofthe patrole of the
circumstance, who searched him, and round 15s. in.
silver, two 11. notes, and part of another, in a pocket
book ; these were running numbers or sequents, and
another loose in his pocket; this has-proved to be
numbered next to a note he had uttered at a grocer's
in the city. He accounted for asking for the loan of
ss. on his watch, when he had 15s. in his pocket, by
saying he wanted to pay 15s. to a shoemaker. Mr.
Brown did not give him in charge of the Officers,
and there was no proof that the notes found upon
him were tOrgeries ; he was not detained in custody,
hut he voluntarily attended at the office at the time
appointed, when the account he gave of himself,
being in the employ of Mr. Jones, a jeweller, of
Cornhill, proved to be correct. The notes found
upon bins proved to be forgeries, and he said he
took them from his master for wages, which was de-
nied by Mr. Jones, and the prisoner having no other
account to give yesterday respecting them, he was
fully committed fur trial.

Ile.ll.L.—Smnitel Thornton and J. Rich,
young men of fashionable appearance, were yes-
terday brought before the Magistrate, and charged
with creating a disturbance at Vauxhall Gardens,
yesterday morning, about three o'clock, assaulting
Clark, the officer, and refusing to pay the waiter the
amount of the expenses incurred for refreshments.—
Collingbourn, the officer, stated, . that the prisoners
attempted to obtain admittance to theme dens with-
out paying, and during the whole of the evening
conducted themselves in a riotous manner, Clark
remonstrated with them on the impropriety of their
conduct, when they assaulted him. The waiter de-
posed, that they ordered supper about three o'clock,
which he served up to them, and that they after-
wards refused to pay for it. In the early part of the
evening they occasioned a serious disturbance, by
crying out " Burdett for ever," a gentleman who
had served under Captain Maxwell answering their
exclamation by vociferating " Maxwell for ever."—
! A conflict ensued, in which Hall, the officer, was so
seriously hurt as to be obliged to have surgical as-
sistance.—The Magistrate s: id, that if such disor-;
deity conduct could not be prevented, the gardens
must be shut up. The refusal of the prisoners to pay
the waiter's bill was a case not within his cogni-
aance, but for the assault upon Clark, the officer,
they must find sureties for their. appearance at the
Quarter Sessions. The friends of one of the prim-
nets entered into sureties, the other was committed.

AesAtl.TtxoW.Arcutwex.—.Captain T. A.Edwards,
of the Royal Navy, Lieut. Edwards, of the Army,
Mr. Grant, of Conduit-street, and Mr. College, were
yesterday held to bail upon the following charge Holmes, the the constable of St. George's, stated, that on
Monday week, at a late hour of the niht, the pri-
soners sallied from the house of Captain Edwards,
near the Kent-road, extremely intoxicated, and de-
troyed a great number of panes of glass on the pre-
mises of Mr. Lewis, an extensive floor-cloth mann-
, factory, by throwing stones. Mr Ray, the person in
care of the premises, rose from his bed, begged them
to desist, and called upon a tvatchnian who was near
the place to prevent the continuance of such con-
duct ; the watchman was knocked down imme-
diately upon his interference, and four others who
came to his assistance shared the same fate. The
defendants denied that they threw any stones, and
said that they were extremely irritated in conse-
quence of the watchmen presenting pistols at them,
and threatening to shoot them unless they surrendered
themselves.

Friday night the warehouse of Mr. SMITIE, tallow.
chandler, Battersea-road, was broken into by some
thieves, who carried off a large quantity of fat. The
warehouse is near the bank of the Thames, and the
property was conveyed away in boats.
Saturday morning the house of Mr. Paralcit, sales-
man, in Arrow-alley, Iloundsditch, was broken into
and plundered of plate, linen, and other articles.
BEI.PAST, Jose 30.—Sunda the 14th nitimo a
SWAMI of bees, the property of WILLIAM K. BAILLIZ,
of Greyabbey Mills, Esq. came off from their parent
hire, and were, by the usual means, put into a straw
bee-cap, with which they seemed at first to be per-
fectly contented, and in which they had actually
commenced the formation of combs. But on Tues-
day following, an alarm was given that the bees had
deserted the cap and were Hying towards Mr. MONT-
uomgav's demesne at Rosemount. Several of Mr.
Baft.t.fes labourers who happened to be at dinner
at the time, pursued immediately : the bees, how-
ever, gained rapidly from them, and at last got out
of sight. But, it is supposed, not finding a con-
venient resting-place, they wheeled snddenry round,
and in their return met those who still continued the
pursuit, when, strange to tell! they instantly settled
down upon one ofthe men, and collected in a swarm
upon his thighs and the lower parts of his body.—
It may be easily conceived that the poor fellow (who,
from the heat of the weather, had thrown off most
of his clothes) was not a little alarmed and incom-
moded by this unexpected compliment ; however, his
uneasiness was much increased, when they began to
creep up towards his face, where they finally settled,
and completely covered his eyes, mouth, and cars;
but what was most extraordinary, several of the in-
sects crept into his nostrils ; an.' it was in this in-
stance only, m hen unable to bear the irritation, he put
up his hand to brush them from his nostrils, that he
suffered from their stings. Though every exertion was
used to free the man from his troublesome compa-
nions, it was more than an hour before he could be
entirely free from them ; they were at last *ot into a
bee-cap, and are at full work in Mr, BAILLIE s garden.