Star.
London, England, 1820-03-21 00:00:00

POI.ICE.

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lisw-strarar.—Yeaterdsy a gentleman came into the office,
rat presented to-the Magistrate a portable deadly instrument, ,
which he had picked up in Great Ormond-street. It consisted
of zbout half a bayonet of the point end, with a brass screw at
the bottom, to he strewed on to a handle. The point and sides
.?.ppeared to have been lately sharpened. It was in a black paper
case, similar to those used for knives.
A person of the name of Avery was accused of throwing stones
at the carriage of the Hon. George Lamb on his returning from
the tasting. in Covent-garden.
James Ab.,: was also charged with being one of a party who
Hied to rescue the other prisoner from the custody of the officers.
Me. LlTilb attended himself, and said, a I am determined net
to tolerate such attacks. The abuse, the jokes, and all the lan- '
guage used towatda me I can bear ; but when any such actual
offence is committed, I think it due to future candidates to pro-
secute the offenders. lam determined to prosecute these men."
Mr. Maxis, after hearing all the evidence, ordered the pri-
soners to stand committed, or to find good b.iL
Ysster.lay, Mrs. Thistlewood came to the Office, and re.
quest.ol Air. BIRSIE to order that certain articles, which had
beet taken from her lodging at the time of her husband's appre-
hension, should he delivered up to her, as they were things
which could not possibly have any relation to the charges against
him, :4:1 would be of material service to her. Mr. Ihsait asked
what articles she alluded to, as he knew nothing of the matter?
Mts. Thistlewood said, they were all of trifling value, but she
should like to have them. There were several papers, consisting
chiefly of Physicians' prescriptions, of great use to her, several
pieces of rope of different sizes used as packing cords, some tri-
fling articles of wearing apparel, and two portraits of Mr. Henry
Hunt. Mr. Maxie asked her, if she knew what Officers had
seized them? Mrs. Thistlewood said, she believed Lavender,
litshJp, and Salmon. Mr. Blasts directed that these Officers
should be called, but thtv were not in the way, and Ruthven
was applied to, who said he knew that some papers were brought
away, arid he believed they were taken to Lord &clmouth's
Office. On an application to Mr. Stafford. the Chief Clerk, this
was found to be correct. Mr. Masts said, as that was the case
he *could only refer Mrs. Thistlewood to Lord S:dmouth. Mrs.
Thistlewood—" Are all the things there, the topes and every
thing?" Mr. Britatt--" Certainly, everything." Mrs. Thistle-
wood (with a sigh)—" Then his Lordship may keep them ;
and as for the ropes, he is perfectly welcome to make use of ,
them as soon as he pleases; the sooner, I be:irve, the better :"
fle then curtsied and withdrew.

MAstsonotrou-sTastr.—Yesterday the examination •f Sarah
Kw, for having act fire t 3 the house of Mr. Walsh, the King's
Messenger, of No. 7, Charles-street, •St. James's-square, was re-
sumed before J. E. CoNANT, Esq. the sitting Magistrate. The
principal evidence was that of Plank, the officer, who stated,
that the prisoner bad told him privately, when ordered by Mr.
Conant to take her aside, that one day last week, a woman, who
was a fortune-teller, came to Mr. Walsh's door, with some
Bowers in a basket ; she forced herself in at the door, and would
nut leave until her mistress turned her cut; she beckoned the
prisoner to follow her. Mrs. Walsh shortly after gave her six-
pence to buy a myrtle from the w.;nian ; ,he followed her to
Waterloo-place, when she began abusing her mistress, and said,
.11e might want a bit of bread herself, and persuaded her to set
firs t• the house, and threatened her, if she did not, that she
would do it herself, ;he being a fortune-teller ; and the fear that
she would do something bad to her if she did not set the house
on fire urged her to it. She said she did not d• it from hatred
or !Alice towards her employers. In ;her first confession of
setting the tots: on fire, she said it arose from a quarrel wth
her mistr:ss. She was folly committed to Newgate for trial,
and the parties were bound over.to prosecute.

Saturday, the Earl of DERBY left his house, in
Grosvenor-square, for his seat, the Oaks, in Kent,
where his Lordship was met by several of the sur-
rounding Nobility and Gentry, when a stag was
turned out on Seven Oaks Common, which afforded
an excellent day's sport : his Lordship joined in the
Chace, and in the evening returned to town to dinner.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S YESTERDAY.
The alterations in the Derby are of the kit Importance to the
Spotting World.
to I agst Arbutus, gone back from • to 1.
12 to 1 agst brother to Blucher, come forward from IS.
16 to 1 agst c. oLt cf Cat, Br:gels, Pindaree, Duke, &c.
18 to 1 agst Sailor, gone back from 12.
OA ICA.
4b to 1 apt the Sorcary I to 1 apt Flam

1111')D1.12SWORT11.
4 to 1 agst Mr. Wortley's colt I 11 to I 23st Pindaree.
5 to 1 apt &lima
The second Annual Sermon upon the duty of
kindness to dun;b animals, was preached, on Sunday
last, at St. Martin's Church, Birmingham, according
to the will of the late THoMAs INonAm, Esq. from
PI ovetbs, c. xii. v. 10.—" A righteous man regards
the life of his beast, but the tender mercies of the
wicked are cruel."

StIOCKINO OCCURRENCE.—Thursday morning, as
one of the northern stages was (hiving into an inn-
yard at St. Alban s, to change horses, a woman, ac-
companied by her husband and live children, who
was on the roof, instead of stooping forward threw
herself backward upon some luggage, the conse-
quence of which was, that her head came in contact
with the upper part of the gateway, and fractured
her skull so dreadfully as to cause immediate death.

FBCUNSITY.—The wives of Messrs. Forger and Little, far-
mers to John Hodgson, Esq. of Fenton, in Cumberland, have,
within a day or two of each ether, ben delivered of twins,
and their joint (grilles amount to Y4.—The other good women
in that neighbourhood are not less prolific ; for in the near vi-
cinity of Penton, within a very short space of time, six far-
men' help-mates have been delivered of 13 children, viz. one
of three at a birth, 'ad the others of twins.
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Exact:nos AT liZAzuma.—On Saturday, at twelve o'clock,
George Wiggins, convicted of robbing and creelly beating Mr.
Leach on the highway, near Thatcham, underwent the sentence
of the law. Although only in his twenty-second year, he had
beta long practised in iniquity, and confessed being concerned in
eleven highway robberies, eight burglaries, and forty *minor
offences. lie was accompanied to the platform by the Chaplain,
who Ltd been indefatigable in religious attention to prepare him
for the aeleson change ; and the unhappy man was also visited by
the Rev. Dr. liana:. He deported himself in a becoinilig
Ammer, a:- d app a:A very penitent. '