Star.
London, England, 1811-09-10 00:00:00

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POLICE.

Yesterday M. Datit, the chimney-sweeper's boy,
charged with stealing a poney, which, from its form
and texture seemed nearly a-kin to Rarinante of
Quixotic celebrity, and which he offered to sell for
15s. as mentioned in our last underwent another ex-
amination, at Bow-street Office ; when J. Hanmore,
a chimney-sweep, of Staines, identified the poney to
be his property, and said,the prisoner had lately wor-
ked for him. He solicited that he might be sent to
sea ; but the Magistrates, thinking the subject very
proper to be sent to trial, fully committed him.
A boy, between 12 and 13, was put to the bar,
having been brought to town from Odiham, in Hamp-
shire, on a charge of being concerned in assisting his
father-in law in forwarding the escape of M. Duval
and other French prisoners, having conveyed them
across the country, at convenient opportunities, in a
covered carta He was committed for further exami-
tion:
At Marlborough-street, yesterday, knot Coombe: I
was charged with having entered the dwelling-house
of Mr. Bagnall, in Bear-street, Leicester-square, and
stealing plate and other articles to a considerable
amount, on the evening of Thursday last. This rob-
bery had excited considerable surprize, as the articles
had been left secure at dusk, and the house fastened,
and in the morning, when discovered, no apparent
breach had been made, nor did suspicion attach to
any person. The prisoner at length was suspected,
but her residence was unknown ; different pawn-
, brokers' shops were then searched, and a part of the
stolen property found, and, atter unremitting dili-
gence, her residence in Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-
fields, was disc-veered, a search warrant obtained,
and part of Mr. Bagnall's property found in her
apartments. It appealed also that Creswell, a con-
stable of St. Anne's parish, found a key which fitted
the prosecutor's door, and by which it appeared the
prisoner had entered. A singular circumstance is,
the watchman on the beat in Bear-street, was applied
to by the prisoner and a female accomplice, to assist
in carrying off the property to a residence which the
prisoner left the next day, and to which he acceded,
for one shilling. Another charge was made against
her by a tradesman in Cecil-court, Strand, for robbing
him of a caddy, containing twelve pounds and some
silver and plate, several months since, which caddy
was found on the prisoner. Several persons in the
Office were familiar with the prisoner's face, and she
was fully committed.
At Hatton Garden Office, yesterdry, N. Briton,
alias Smith, who was apprehended as a suspicious cha-
racter, and upon whom was found £5l in bank-notes,
four guineas, and six half-guineas, a 7s. piece, a gold
. watch, chain, and seals, suspected to have been
stolen, underwent an examination, but was remanded
for a further hearing.
Repeated informations having beep received at
Union Hall, by Glennon the officer, that a house in
the neighbourhood of Tooley.street was in the habit
of purchasing considerable quantities of marine-
stores, a summons was issued for the attendance of
the parties before the Magistrates, under the Lead
and Iron Act ; when Glennon stated, that, in con-
, quence of the information he had received, he, ae-
companied by another officer, went to the defendant's,
who keeps an old iron warehouse, where, concealed in
the cellar, he discovered a large quantity of naval-
stores, consisting of copper-sheathing, new copper-
nails, broken to pieces ; bolts, rivets, and iron fore-
locks, marked with the broad-arrow ; and in the
i yard a cart was standing, partly unloaded, in which
I a quantity of iron nails, also marked, remained. The
defendants stated that they had bought the stores
" fairly, and, in support of their statement, called a
respectable person residing at Deptford, who said he
I was a ship-breaker, and had frequently bought vessels
of Government, for the purpose of breaking them up,
I particularly the Warwick, of 50 guns ; and that he
had sold the principal part of the iron-work belonging
to these vessels to the defendants. The Magistrates
ordered the matter to stand over, to give time for in-
quiring into the circumstance of King's stores being
sold by the Ordnance Board, as stated by the de-
fendants.

A young man named Patrick Reilly, who had
been a servant some months past to P. W. Harvey,
Esq. of Stephen's Gr-en, Dublin, went to the house
on Sunday se'nnight, in his absence; and by means
of a duplicate key, which be had got made when in
his service, opened a desk, and took therefrom up-
wards of three hundred pounds in Bank notes. He
then went to Donnybrook fair, where, making a shew
of his great wealth, he was taken to Duke-street Po-
lice Office. He there confessed• the robbery ; and
also acknowledged that he took nine guineas and
five pounds from Mr. Harvey, when in his employ-
ment, through means of a false key. Two hundred
and sixty pounds were found upon him when taken,
which appeared to.be.part of the notes stolen on Sun-
day. He was fully committed for trial.
The follo wing personc, all of whom resided within
four miles of the dwelling-place of Old Par, in Shrop-
shire, died during last month, at the ages annexed :
Sarah Smith; 90 ; Richard Jones, 80 ; Mary Chand-
ler, 97 ; name unknown, 97. A man is now living
in the neighbourhood upwards of 100 years of age,
and several others about 90 each !

SIMON'S CnovrN PIECE.—At the dispersion of Dr.
Mead's very valuable collection of colas, 1755, this
beautiful piece was purchased by Mr. Hodsol for .112.
In 1752, an impression of it sold at Langford's auc-
tion for £ll 53. ; and at the sale of the duplicates of
the British Museum, on the '29th of last month, ano-
ther, supposed to he the identical piece presented by
the artist to Charles 11. was purchased by Mr. Trattle,
at the advanced price of £lO2.
SLIPERSTITION.—A village in Upper Silesia, having
been for several weeks during the present season with-
out rain, as it well might be, as not a drop had fallen
in any part of the country, the inhabitants took it
into their heads that this long drought was a punish-
ment from Heaven, on account of the female part of
that community having continued their usual labours
during ember week. It was resolved, that as an ex-
piation for this heinous sin, all the females of the vil-
lage should perform ablution in an adjacent pQnd.—
There was accordingly a general muster of the fair
sex, who deprecated the vengeance of the Deity, by
taking the cold bath, in the presence of an
,immense
number of spectators. Three old women, who did
not attend at the time and place appointed, have been
ever since considered as witches,