Star.
London, England, 1817-04-02 00:00:00

POLICE.

QUSZN4QUARIL•v-Monday night Sarjeant Major
Cox, of the Sd Regiment of Guards, and privates
Boden and Warren,belonging to the same Regiment,
came before W. Flume% Isq. the Sitting Magis-1
trate. Serjeant Major Cox stetted, that privates Bo-
den and Warren were on guard at the front gate of
Carlton-house, about one (Moe* on Sunday morning.
when three men of respectable appearance came up to
them, and used such language against his Royal
Highness, that they conceived it was their duty to
take them into custody; they accordingly did so. and
that they might not leave their posts. they called
three watchmen, Clegg, Branch, and Settee. They
took charge of the three men with great promptness,
and were about to take them to the watch-house,
when one of the prisoners took one of the watchmen
*side, whispered him, and gave hint some money.—
The watchman directly afterwards came up to Bo-
deo, and said to him that he did not know the con-
sequence of detaining gentlemen for using seditious
language, that he would know better when a few
more years had passed over his head, and that he
should not detain the gentlemen any longer. Boden
and his comrade insisted that they should detain
them. Settee replied, "tl en you may fetch a cor-
poral's guard and take them to the guard room, and
we will keep them safe till you return." He went off
for a file of men, but before he (linden) had got to
the bottom of the street, he was called to by Warren,
and informed that after a consultation, the watch-
men had suffered their prisoners to go.—Mr. Ftetn-
two ordered the names of the watchmen to be taken
down, and expressed his determination to prosecute
the affair with the utmost rigour.
GUILDHALL.—A CASS ow SINGULAR Daeaaverv.
Mary Farthing, the keeper of a coffee-shop in War-
wick-lane, charged three boys with a burglary. She
stated that on Saturday evening, at six o'clock, she
kft her shop locked most securely. but upon return-
ing, on Monday morning, found that the casement
was broken open, and that an iron bar, which crossed
the sky-light, had been wrenched from its place.—
Upon examining her rooms she found that her prayer
book was uolea, and she also missed a paper bag,
containing two pounds of sugar. The property that
remained on the premises was scattered about, as if
a search had been made by the thieves for every
thing portable. An 'officer Wat immediately em-
ployed. He suspected an abandoned boy named
Se//ivea, who is but 9 years of age, of being a party
to the robbery, weatto the lodgingsof his parents, and
found there a paper bag. containing two pounds of
sugar, and a prayer-book, which the complainant
swore was the one that had been itolen from her
shop. Sullivan was apprehended, and upon being
questioned by the officer, said he knew nothing of
the rdbbery, but had taken the sugar and prayer-
book from two boys, named 414 and Casolly, upon
suspicion they had not come by them honestly ; and
for his part he intended that the property should be
given to the proper persons, as soon as he had time
to make enquiry after them. The officer soon appre-
hended the two boys thus accused, and brought them
yesterday, together with Sullivan, before Alderman
Cox, who entered into a long examination of all the
circumstances, and found hi case against Sullivan of
a very desperate nature. The age of one of the
children accused by Sullivan is 6 years, of the other
7. The Members of a Committee, under whose su-
perintendence there is a frre-school, where tkc three
boys had been received, sta.ed to the Alderman, that ATh4, and
Concolly, were, up to the moment of the present charge, honast
and harmless in their characters, but that liuUivan bad been from
his petticoats, a boy of the most incorrigible habits of theft and
debauchery. The Alderman ordered that the father of Sullivan,
who was, during the eternisation, in the ogee, should be put to
the bar next to his son, upon the ground that It was most im-
probable a child should engage In such dangerous enterprise*
without the authority and Moravian of some experienced
pa-
eon, -and as the stolen articles bad been found at the father's lady.,
lug,, there was reason tosuppose that so depraved a participation
I existed in the present case. The father was, however, proved to
have been wholly unconscious of the boy's conduct ; and it en
asserted by several respectable persons, that be had done all in
his power to correct the unfortunate propensities of his child.
The following was the substance of the account of the rob-
bery, given by the two children. Alley and Ckoneolly—it is =ne-
cessary to state, that the Magistrate and the ether gentlemen
who attended to witness this extraordinary examination were
stuck wish horror at the detail fbe three children went to
school together for some time; Sullivan took every opportunity be
could to Moos Alley and Ceoelly to take'to the more prolitabk
employment sf bouse-beesking. At last be prevailed upon them,
upon an assurance that they would make massy to boy cakes and
apples to most hien at night. He tog them it Will folly to go to
school, and that night was the only time to lean to spell, con-
ducted than to Warwick-lane, where be raised them up to the
sky-light of a coffee-shop, put an iron instrument luto the hands
of sue of them, and made him break the windows with it ; ob-
liged the other, who is a cripple, so tie a dope to a bar which ran
across on the inside; and, with the assistance of both, succeeded
in dragging the bar from its place. He then sent the more active
boy through the sky-light, with orders to steal all the money he
could get, and any thing else be could carry. All that bore a re-
semblance to money In the house wire two had dollars, and a
halfpenny with a hole in it. The other property he took was that
found at Sullivan's lodgings. As soon as the business was dons
Sullivan took all the plunder, and threatened to hang his accom-
plices If they said a word.—A tradesman here stepped forward
and said, the tools wish which the burglary bad been elated
were some time ago stolen from his house by Sullivan, who broke
open one, in order to break open another with greater facility.
Young Sullivan was itentmitted for trial : Lis father was dice
charged. The parents of Alley and ConoUy were bound ever to
mower for the appearance of their children against the prisoner
at the ensuing Sessions.

A Ronny Panvawraw sr A Doc.—On Monday
evening last, as a young woman, servant to Mr.
Cationa, butcher, in the Borough-Road, was re-
turning home from a visit to her friends in the neigh.
bonrhood of Woolwich. she was met in a solitary part
of the road between that and Deptford, by a man
and two women, appearing to be vagrants; she took
the opposite sidlot the road, when the man ran up
to her, seised her by the neck, and holding a blud-
geon over her head, ordered her upon the peril of
her life, to deliver up what =Fey she had in her
possession. The poor girl scrim:led out, and the
fellow plocteded to rifle her pockets, whilit his two
associates stood at a distance upon the look out, and
ailed out to him to take her pelisse, it he could get
nothing better; be bad just takes her beaver hat and
shoes, and given them to one of the women, when a
mastiff dog that bad followed her from borne, sprung
*Fon the fellow, polled him to the ground, mangled
his taw and oars, and would have torn him to pieces,
if be bad not been called off 'by the girl: In the
mean time the two women made off, leaving Abe
beaver bat and' shoes behind them. The gel re.
teived. little or no injury, and continued on her jaw-
, nob leaving bet iimilant lying OR the road.

William Child, who was capitally convicted at the
late Worcester Assizes, and left for execution, but
since reprieved, in consequence of some favourable
circumstances in his case, it now appears, is innocent.
Two men have been recently committed for the rob.
bevy, and one of them has completely exonerated
Child of any participation in the crime.
The number of prisoners for trial at the Devon
Assizes was so great, that a third Court was obliged
to be opened, in which Mr. Serjeant Pats. presided.
Twenty•one prisoners received sentence of death, but
were all afterwards reprieved, except Amon, for the
murder of his wife, who was executed on Monday.
The house Of Mr. WILLIAM WILSON, Brick lane,
Spitalfields, was broken into by thieves on Monday
evening and robbed of a quantity of table spoons, tea
spoons, St/lbs. of black tea, and about an of copper
money out of the till. _ _

Saturday Mr. REED, of Jubilee-place, Commercial-
road, whist passing Church-road about seven o'clock,
was knocked down by two men and robbed of a
piece of Irish cloth.
Monday sennight, a boat, with smuggled whirky
lon board, set sail from the south end of Arran,
on the coast of Ayr. After proceeding a short way,
the crew observed the revenue cutter, commanded
Czptain Dome, lying off, and put about. Toe
cutter instantly sent a boat, manned 'with ten hands,
in pursuit. The smugglers reached the shore, and
1 were in the act of carting the whisky inland, when
they wile overtaken, and the spirits seized. Before
the cutter's men could retorts to their boat, a number
of the islanders collected, attacked them, and at-
tempted to rescue the spirits. A dreadful scuffle en-
sued, in the course of which, two Men and a woman
were shot dead on the spot, sad a boy and a girl
wonadett The two men ktUad are named MiKionoo,
a father and spn j. and the woman's name is !saki
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