Star.
London, England, 1810-09-19 00:00:00

• POLICE►, W. •

•
.Sunday morning a number of vagabonds mom,
bled in Copenhagen-fields, for the purpose of d(1.
fighting ; when several Police-officers repaited to the
spot, and apprehended 16 of the most active, who
were conveyed yesterxiay before the Maglaratts
Hatton-garden ; when two of them producing good
characters were discll*ged ; four were sent nn lewd
the tender; and the recommitted for want of so„ oboe,
Gemottata.. Yesterday Mr. Hill, hutch r, io
Fleet-market, charged a young man, •a- wagv,ostr,
with stealing a neck of mutCon, six pounds in
from the door of his shop. The prosecutor did 11,1
See the prisoner take the mutton, but, having
it from the spot where he had hung it up, he
diately went out, and, following the prisoner, who w
driving his waggon at a quick pace, he found t:,t
neck of mutton concealed in the prisoner's apron.....
The prisoner alleged that he had purchased the gr.:a.
ton of a boy, and had given him a shilling for it.—
The worthy Alderman (Hunter) gave the prisoner
the alternative of serving his Majesty or tak;iig hi,
trial for the offence. The priioner preferred the lat:
ter, and was accordingly committed to take his trial.
MA RLIVIRO 11-SiTH EXT.--Y!Sterdab James C
thorne was charged wiAr having obtained a ,itn„ti,n
in the service of a gamily, in Wimpt)le-street, by means
of a false character, and afterwards pilf:ring m4s.
ter's property. 'l'he prisoner had been not more than
a fortnight in the service, whet; he was ~iispected,anl
it was ascertained that the firnily to whom k had
referred. fur a character, in Surrey, was not in es.
istence, although a written character had been receiv.
ed, but which turned out to be the pris arm-'s
writing. The prisoner was committed till tl:e Sessions.

Another escape from Cold-bath-fields Prison was
attempted on 'Monday night, by a pi :soner under con.
finement for two years for a misdemeanor. On Mr.
Newport, the officiating Govtinor, going round to
lock up at the usual time, he missed his prisoner. He
immediately called together the turnkeys and other
'servants employed in the prison, and informed them
that he would not suffer one of them to leave the po.
son until the lost man was forthcoming, or some in-
formation given relative to his escape; search was
made and the lost prisoner was found, concealed in
what is called a drying room, with a rope and a huge
stone at the end of it, by which he might hare scaled
the prisol wall. The prisoner was lodged more se.
curtly, and the possibility of his escape prevented.

A maltster, in the neighbourhood of Andover was
lately fieed €2.(X) for damping malt while on the floor,
contrary to the Act.
On Saturday last, as J. Price, Appatitor to the
Archbishop of York, was•returning home to Bishop-
thorpe, from York, on an ass, just after passing the
Crown at Gusebridge, he perceived the danger he
was in, from the Trafalgar York and Leeds coach
driving quickly behind him, and consequently endea-
voured to urge his ass to take the causeway on the
right of the bridge. Unfortunately they bah came
down, and Mr. Price fell with his body across the
brielge, when the wheel of the coach went over him,
and. occasioned his death in a few minutes.

A few days since, as a young woman, servant to
Mr. Harwood, of Sheffield, w:►s bathing upon tle
North Sand, at Bridlington Quay, by the strength of
the back water .she was taken a considerable distance
into the sea. Mr. J. Bullock, of .Bridlington, seeing
her danger, took a horse from Messrs. Stephenson
and Co's new bathing machine, and, at the risk ci
his lite, swam the horse a great distance into the sea,
and ilragged the young woman on shore. Medical
assistance was immediately procured, and she has now
nearly recovered.

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