Star.
London, England, 1819-07-31 00:00:00

POLICE.

Mattstog-Houst.—Yesterday a person of gentle-
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he had been long contending. The object was to ob-
tain charity, or the means of working against star-
vation, which the petitioner said was rapidly pressing
upon him. The applicant, who appeared to be 351
or 36 years old, had, by his own statement, entered
his Majesty's service at a very early age, as Ensign
in the 27th, or Enniskillen Regiment of the line.
He had served in Egypt in every campaign, particu-
larly in that engagement in which Sir Ralph Aber-1
cromby lost his life, and he obtained the rank of
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Lieutenant in the field, and was presented by the
Grand Seignior with a gold medal, counterparts of
which were conferred upon the Officers of that army
as tokens of gratitude for their services. In the war
that followed the Treaty of Amiens, he served in the
28th Regiment of the line in the North of Germany,
where efforts were made by the British army under
the orders of General Lord Cathcart, to rescue the
continental dominions from the power of the enemy.
Subsequently the Lieutenant was obliged, from the
pressure of a domestic calamity, to dispose of his
commission. A combination of unfortunate circum-
li
stances, unforeseen and inevitable, compelled him to
enter the service in a situation but little adapted to,
his habits, education, or choice. He entered the 24th 1,
Regiment of Foot as a private soldier, and in that
humble and laborious capacity served in the whole
Peninsular, war, up to the period of the ratification,
of the Treaty at Paris in 1814. In the course of the
campaigns this poor wanderer served in the follow-
ing battles and sieges :—Vimeira and Roleia, Tala-
vera, Busaco, Almeida, Salamanca, Vittoria, Pyren.-
nees, Echalla, Orthies, Thoulouse, Elvas, Ciudad'
Rodrigo, Badajos, Burgos, Pampeluna. Upon the
termination of hostilities, his regiment, which was a 2d
battalion, and a mere skeleton, fiom the iigour and
variety of its services, was disbanded, and he was dis-
charged. Thus thrown upon the world, without pen-
sion or remuneration of any kind for what he had
done for his country, he endeavoured to obtain the
precarious subsistence afforded by attending schools
as an assistant. In his search lately for a situation
of that kind, he had unfortunately failed, in conse-
quence of the great multitude of applicants who
were, perhaps, as needy as and mote eligible than he
was, but who could not be more zealous in attending
the duties of any situation by which the means of an
honest livelihood could be obtained. Under all these
circumstances he had presumed to wait upon the
LORD MAYOR, in the hope that, as his Lordship was
Ithe friend of those who detested idleness and depen-
dence, some opportunity might be afforded to prove
that an unfortunate soldier was actuated by an honest
and manly principle.—The LORD MAYOR expressed
some surprise at the great extent of those unrequited
services, took peculiar interest in the poor soldier's
case, and assured him that if he procured testimo-
nials of his conduct from those under whom he had I
served, a supporting arm should not be wanting to
him in the hour of adversity.—The applicant was ex-
tremely grateful. He was ready to procure testimo-
nials from Sir E. Paget, Colonel of the 28th, and'
from Sir J. May, of the Royal Horse Artillery. He
would embrace the most menial employment by
which honest bread could be earned; was conscious
of his inability, from early habits, to fill a laborious
situation as well as many others ; but his assiduity
should compensate for other deficiencies.—The LORD
MAYOR gave him the means of present support, and
re-assured his hope, lsy stating that the case should
be laid before Lord Palmerston.
Bow-srazzr.—Thursday afternoon, a little before
five o'clock, after the examination of the numerous
prisoners before Sir NATHANIEL CONANT and Mr.
BRERETON, two Gentlemen arrived at the Office to
see the 'prisoners who were in custody, to ascertain,
if possible, if any of them were the men who at-
tacked them and a friend of theirs at West-End Fair.
They described their friend to be still in a dangerous
way, the attack upon him being most cruel and bar-
barous. He had been so severely wounded, and felt
such exhaustion in consequence, that it was at first
feared he was dead. In that state he was carried by
his. fiiends to the house of a medical Gentleman in
Hampstead. There he still remained, it not being
thought safe to remove him in the present critical
state of his health.
Yesterday, the men who were examined before Mr.
BIRNIE on Tuesday; were re-examined before the
same Magistrate.
Richard Harris and Samuel Dickenson were ad-
mitted to bail, they giving a satisfactory account of
themselves, and respectable bail being offered for
them. On Walter Ellis was -found the skirts of two
good blue coats, and which no doubt had been torn
off different coats, being both from the right side,
and differently lined. No person who had been rob-
bed and ill-treated attended to identify them. Ellis
was, therefore, committed for trial, on a charge of
stealing the two skirts, the property of some person
or persons unknown. He will be brought to the office
again to give those persons who have been robbed
and ill-treated at the Fair, or in the neighbourhood
of it, an opportunity of seeing him.
MATRIMONY !—A poor old woman was brought be-
fore Mr. Br RNIE, together with a very handsome floor-
carpet. The officers stated, that they had found her
near Temple Bar on the preceding night, between
ten and eleven o'clock, with the carpet in her posses-
sion, when she either could not, or would not, state
satisfactorily how she came by it , " but," added the
officer, " we have since discovered that it belongs to
Mr. Coates, who is now present, together with Mrs.
Coates, and your Worship will hear all about it"—
Mrs. Coates immediately came forward ; she was a
kind of " strapping Amazonian," of strong mascu-
line features, and amazing em lion point, and she told
the Magistrate that the carpet was her property ;
she had delivered it to Mrs. Jones (the old woman at
the bar) to sell for her, and she had been a good deal
inconvenienced by the officious interference of the-
officers.—Mr. Butrag—" Oh ! I understand all about
it : Pray is Mr. Coates present ?"—" Yes, hi re I am,
(said a little spare old man, at the same time coming
forward to the table), and I came on purpose to ask
your Worship's advice as to what I had better do with
this wife of mine ?" She was, he said, a terrible wo-
man, and would doubtless be his ruin. She swallowed
more liquor in one week than he could afford to al-
low her in a twelvemonth. • All the funds which he
furnished for housekeeping found their way to the