Star.
London, England, 1828-08-02 00:00:00

POIACE INTELLIGENCE.

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• • GliftiFIALL
Greet Was tamed Width steads* two ends of chnh.--14rs
Lacy, clorh-facters et Basinglialbstteet. stated that ve Thursday btu
went with his buy to a warehouse in Wood-street for two lengtiti
of black cloth. Having received thentohe. boy set off far ANIL
counting-hohset by the way of Lad:lane, white complainant tank
another route, through Aldermanbury, where he was astonished
to find the prisoner in the possession of the cloth. He asked him
bow he came by it, when with an air of confidence he said he was
going to a 61r. Clementson's, in Bisbopsgate, where he bad been
hired to carry it by a stringer in Lad-lioe. Complainant then
secured him. Fisher the boy saki, as he was passing through Lad-
line, the prisoner told him he would give him sixpence if he would
fetch • coach, and he accordingly threw down his load in the door-,
way, where the prisoner was standing, and ran for the coach, but.
when be returned both prisoner and cloth were gone.—The
pri-
wner, in his defence, persisted that he had been employed by some
person in Lad-lane, and that all the boy had stated was falser-
Fully committed. . .
George Pritchard, a dark-looking man, between forty and fifty
years of age, was charged with a rape by Anne Warman, a delicate-
lookihggirl, who said she was fourteen years of age, but who ap-
peared to be much older.
Mr. Harmer attended on behalf of the prisoner.
The proircutrix being sworn, stated that she lived servant with
Mrs. Hart, in Wych-street, and that on Wednesday last, between
six and'seven o'clock, she went. with her master to lilackfriar's-
road, to help to carry one of the children, but her roaster sent her
back to tell her mistress that be should return in half an hour. When
she got near Temple-bar, she met the prisoner, who took the chili
from her, saylng he wanted to speak to her, and would give her
halls sovereign. He went to a bad house in Apollo court, near
Shire-lane, and gave the child to a gill in half-mourning. Witness
went to the house after the child, and the prisoner went up stairs,
and told her to follow him. She went into a room on the, second
fluor; the prisoner shut the door, threw her on the bed, and erected
his phrpose.
• Mr. Alderman Fa essaciensa---Diti you cry out?'" • •
Proseceirix—No, he stopped my breath with his Mouth.
Did you tell your mistress what had happened?—When I got
home my mistress said that a friend of her's hadauld her that she
saw me go into a bad house, and so mistress turned me away. I
told her what the prisoner bad done.
Where 414 you go after that ?—1 went to my sistefs, and slept
with her.
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Mr. Alderman FARLSROTHER—The prisoner's conduct has been
most disgraceful, but there does nut appear to be any ground for
this charge.
H .rmer—l do not defend the prisoner's conduct; but your
Worship will perceive that she said.nothing about it till her mistress
made the discovery and dismissed het. Vie fact was, she met the
prisoner by 'appointment ; and, after shE was sent away from her
place, she +mist and slept at the prisoner's, for her sister lives at
his houpe.
Mr. Alderman Faessareritast-.-Well, he must be discharged ;
but the evidence of this girl will be sufficient to support an indict-
ment against this' house in Apollo-court ; and I hope the officer will
take care to collect the other necessary facts.
Officer—Your Worship, the prisoner keeps a brothel.
'Mr. Alderman Fratutaoleaa—A more disgraceful transaction,
I think I sever knew, and 1 trust, officer, that you will not cease,
till you get stilficient evidence tti convict the wretch who now stands
at the bar also. Then addressing the prisoner, the worthy Alder-
man said, you are dismissed from this charge, but with the deepest
disgrace, if you can be disgraced lower than you are already.

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BOW-STLLEET. . .
Fortune- ruuem—Yestmday, a young Lady, of very interest-
ing appearance, who gave her came Miss Louisa Pearson, applied
to the sitting Magistrates, Sir Itscuum Staxia and Mr. MIKSIIIILL,
under the following circumstances t On Wednesday last one of the
servant maids informed her that she knew of a fortune-teller who
could most positively fortell all things, as she told herself many
which were most positively correct. She was induced bj the solicita-
tion of the maid to have an interview with the agent of futurity
in her chamber, and from the prospective information she gave, she
was indimed to treat her with great civility. At length sbe disap-.
geared, and her disappearance was also accompanied by that of
twenty sovereigns.
Sir Ricstaim—l regret you have been so simple u to be !imposed
on by such a false prophetess. Do you think you have any chance
of ascertaining her residence?
Miss Pusson--011, yes, Sir; I understand she is to be found
at Charles-street, Drury-lane.
Sir It. Buicia—Very well ; all the assistance I can give is to
direct some of the officers to go Where you think she is to be found.
There is Fagan, let him make every inquiry about the affair.
Miss Pliallital thanked the worthy Maglitrate, and left the office
to give Fagan the necessary information.
A wretched looking elderly man named Edmonds was brought
up by Mr. Thomas, the constable, charged by the coachman of E.
Rose, Esq. with being either prinsipal or accessary to the abduc-
tion of a box-coat from the coach of the aforesaid Mr. Rose. The
complainant, alter sundry wry faces, intimated that be was on
Thursday night waiting for his master's party at the English Opera
House, when the defendant very civilly asked him if he did not
want something to drink ? Witness certainly at that time felt an
inclination to moisten his clay, and on the oche/ offering to hold his
horses, and still more to be answerable for the property to the
amount of a hundred pounds, he Way willingly availed himself of
his politeness.
Edmonds, who had been fidgetty for some time, here interrupted,
with—" Now I only offered to be answerable for fifty."
Sir it. Bias's observed that " fifty" seemed a round sum for a
man whose clothes seemed worth less than that number of farthings. '
Edmonds, however, looked quite of a different opinion, and ea-
claimed—" I beg your pardon, your Worship ; I am a very inde-
pendent man; and though you may like your sitivaiirts, 1 like mine,
and like to earn an honest penny, and hansust myself as you do. 1
pays silty a year lent, and thirty taxes."
Sir Factual, smiled at the Lomparison, and the coachman re-
sumed his tale.—He had hardly got a pint of porter to his laps
when Edmonds called out in a solemn tone, " Hnlloa, madman,
your coat's menu off." W itttess, however, being unwilling to leave
the porter, and thinking that the cad was larking bim, Mashed his
draught, and found that his coat had moved off in good earnest.
The cad, of course, saw only the coat, and could not leave the
horses to look after the thief, as he was afraid they would also he'
" movin off." The coachman called in the aid of Nr. Thomas, who
assisted the "way independent man" to the watcbhouse.--After
some vain efforts to lend out the thief, Edmunds was discharged.

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HATTON-GARDEN.
Juka Dams was fully committed, charged with stealing four
book., the property of C. Cot, ut Mehemet- place,Gi ay 's Inn-road.
Two lads, named _Reynolds and Flanugas, were committed for
passiog base coin.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday a person of respectable appearance, who gave bis name
Amanda Coleasoy, was charged by a watchman with sleeping
under the walls ut Chelsea Hospital, and having no place of abode.
Mi. 6. stated, that he held a satiation, as Mathematical blaster at
the College of Sandburte, but had been improperly ejected lately,
and bad no means of living unless be was restored.—He was re-
nianded.lanii his friends were apprised of his being in custody.
WORSHIP-STREET. .- - -
• C. Painter. driver and part proprieior of a Colchesier coach, sues
charged by Byers and a Dew aseletant with carrying two more out-
side passetsgers than the law allows, and was convicted in the
!twat penalties, subject to. a point of law started by delendaut'a
Solicitor.
• • UNION HALL.
i C. Ogett, a waterman, pleaded guilty to basing in his posseades
13 poends of smuggled tobacco. The Magistrates told him that hi
seletter retract bis plea, as the penalty would not be mitigated..
defendant said it waii of DO use. The Magistrates convicted,
' in three times the value of the article; when be requesrAd, •
kw days to raise the money, and four were allowed him—the N.o.
glstrate at the same time observing, that the fall penalty *sull
bate been five years service in the Navy.
, A respectable looking man was charged with keeping an illegal
aoap manufactory. The premises in question are situatedia a re-
dred spot at .tam.laill, Clapham; and the defendant, on seeing
Ow dicers approach the peerages came from the cottage, and pre-
tended to be at work in the garden. The slicers, however, en-
tered, and found that a vast quantity, sf soap had been manufactured
in the above place without paying Olt duty; the retired woad=
and the etternarappearance of the couagehad prevented the dies,:
very of the Illicit voile that =rya's on, until the present occasion.
ed.frboa the officers sae:speed to take the prisoner into custody, be
altened to split. their skulls with the spade, and made great re-
He decktred in his defence; that the prettifies helot:gad
timber posam, and that be was only employed to work in the
garde's. }kiwis fined 39f.
hl All LBOR OU 0 H-ST It E ET.

A lisiononget, iA Walier'ocuurt hobo, was charged with at-
' troipting to murder r liendadan, a street•keeperof St. Antis. d
It aPpeered. that Kenelallan bail btu ass infonnatknoaplost.44.
*ismer lest Week, fur ilia:his fist betotebla door,' riatlbe vase
Meted in the addirated'penekfcetwenti etiiiiistti: 'Keine then
fibs 'Osumi bad fermaliy declared this kw avoids* murder Xesidal:
lan,aticl in cnosequeticis of ,bissillyeato,Kesuistsagopplivd eve arace
warrant isilost hloi tvorniqs, Mr. Itor.rourr4ed tp. vats
de e wettest. but Kend is' be swain to the Keiji* Ma
eteremest, and the Fiedler §ivailitscrerbre sot taken isito enstpdy..:—
On Kendallao tete:sing to his duty in Berwiee-'greet, tie prisoner
came op to buns unmet wits 1001' kW*, sviiok he plooted into
the • unionnisate man's tarost, and then cut his face open
a dreadful manner. Kciatiallui was inatantly acetyl& to Me.