Star.
London, England, 1810-01-02 00:00:00

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POLICE, Ere.
GUlNEV;.—Sattirday, at the MansiOn.
House, a Jew of the name of DE Youet-te, was charg-',
ed by the Solicitor of the Mint, under an act of Queen.
Elizabeth, with the offence of selling the current coin
of the realm, called Guineas, at a higher than the'
current "Otte. By the statute in question, it is de-
dared that any person who shall extort, demand, or
receive, for any of the current coin of the realm, more
than the legal current value thereof, shall be esteemed
guilty of felony. It appeared that the prisoner had
sold 56 guineas, for a sum amounting to about 22s 6d.
each, or ls. 6d. for each gninen more than the legal
price and current value. Evidence being adducedto
prove this case, the prisoner was fully committed to
take his trial for the offence.
WOESHIP-STREET.—Yesterday D. Hamill was fully
committed, chatged by Mr. West, cheesemonger, in
Whitecross-street, with stealing a quantity of cheese;:
as were J. Live and T. Williams, for stealing a
full of copper money, from the shop of Mr. Lewis,
of Bethnal Green.
James Styles, driver of the hackney-coach, No. 361,
was fined twenty shillings by the Sitting Magistrates
of this Office yesterday, for gross misbehavour to a
lady of the name of Cundy and five of her daughters,
and for drivin,, them in a direction different from
that in which they wished to go. He was also held
to bail for an assault on one of the young ladies.
UNION HALL.--Alsaheik Smith was on Saturday
finally committed, charged with shop-lifting. It ap-
peared, from the statement of Mrs. Heath, who keeps
a ready-made clothes-shop at Newington, that as she
was sitting in the parlour behind the shop on Friday,
she perceiyed somebody' going out of the door, whom
she followed and laid hold of, when she disovered in
her hand a child's jacket and trowsers, worth 15s. her
property. This is the fourth time Mrs. H. has been
robbed in the same manner, within a short period.
Yestefday William Daniels, the patrole, who was
some time since charged with dangerously wounding
a soldier named Richerd Laws, was brought up for
another examination ; when Laws being sufficiently
recovered, attended at the office ; several witnesses
were examined, from whose testimony it appeared
that Daniels, on the night the assault took place, had
been in Laws' house, drinking with him and some
other persons, and that they were all in a state of in-
toxication; a quarrel aroso between them, and the
n.isoner attempted to take Laws to the watch-house;
the latter resisted, and a scuffle ensued, when Daniels,
drawing . his cutlass, struck at the prosecutor, and
wounded him dangerously on the side of his head ;
Laws being however now considered out of danger,
Daniels was admitted to bail, himself in £2OO, anti
two sureties in £lOO each.
At the Dover Sessions, on Friday last, a young
man, named Beck, lately a clerk in the Ordnance de-
partment, under Mr. Huntingdon, store keeper, was
found guilty of issuing hand- bills, casting some vio-
lent reflections on the character of that Gentleman,
for which the Court thought fit to commit him to
prison for six months, and to find bail for his future
behaviour. A dirk, or dagger, was found concealed
about his person.
The Marquis of WATERFORD'S house, in George.
street, Hanover-square, was, on Wednesday night,'
entered by three men. The porter, who had left thel
blase for half an hour, returned, and found the men
in the second hall ; they ordered hien to shew theft
where there • was any property, but he told them he
was an infirm man, hoped they would not hurt him;
and assured them, as the family was out of town,
there was not any thing worth their notice ; and, if
they would depart quietly, he would not give anyl
alarm. The took his advice, and went away, after,
searching his box, but did not take any thing. The;
porter lodged an information at Marlborough-street,.
the next day.
Tueday last, John Bourn, charged upon the oath of
John Ledwick, with stealing in his shop, in the Blue
Town, at Sheerness, *basket, containing eight pair of
boots, also a boy's great-coat, his property, was com-
mitted to St. Augustine's Jail, Canterbury, by Raw-
ARD TYLDEN, Esq.
Samuel White, a lad, is committed to Winchester
gaol, for robbing the house of Wm. Lawrence, at
Bedhampton, of-property to the amount of about
£3O. He was a servant to Lawrence.
Saturday, as a number of workmen were putting
oats into a granary belonging to the Angel Inn, St.
Clement's, the floor fell in, and precipitated the grain
on four of the mail coach horses in the stable below
three of them were with difficulty got out uninjured :1
the other, a fine horse, worth eighty guineas, was
smothered. It was a fortunate circumstance, that,
the person who had the horses in charge, had only'
just left them, after feeding them ; he had the key
in his hand, looking the door, when the floor fell in.
Wednesday night last the body of Mr. John For-
bes, late Captain's Clerk of his MC;esty's sloop He-
lena, was taken out of the water near Stonehouse-
bridge, and neat day a coroner's Inquest was held;
which returned a -verdict of w found drowned." The
deceased was abogt forty years of age, and has a wife
and son living in ScOiland. Twenty-three pounds in
Bank notes *re found in his pockets.
Saturday night, about seven o'clock, a young man
of 60 name of-Peake, belonging to the Isis, a trans-
port, lately arrivcl at Dover, from Flushing, with
troops, had the misfortune, in getting on board by
the jib-boom, it being very dark at the time, to miss
his hole and fall into the harbour; notwithstanding
immediate assistance was procured, he was drowned.
On the 15th inst. two very unfortunate accidents
happened at Arbroath.—A young girl, about thirteen
years of age, employed at a spinning-mill in the
neighbourhood, approaching too near one of the
shafts, was seized, and killed instantaneously.—The
same evening, two slaters had been at work in the
country, a little without the town. One of them fell
into a ditch, and was drowned, while his companion
had gone to the nearest houses to procure assistance
William Chater, private in the Northampton Mi-
litia, was on Wednesday night found dead in Pem-
broke-street, Portsmouth, in consequence, as appears
by a Coroner's verdict, of excessive drinking.
Saturday last, an inquisition was taken at Moiling -
ton, before Mr. GOUGH, one of the Coroners of Ox-
fordshire' on view of the body of Eliz. Archer;
about three years of age, who, in the absence
mother, in taking some straw from a cradle to '
the flame caught her clothes and burnt her so
ingly, that she /anguished a short time, and

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