Star.
London, England, 1826-12-05 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday a watchman appeared to answer the complaint of Mr.
Israel Alexander, a respectable horse dealer.
Mr. Alexander stated, that about two o'clock une morning last
week he left the Castle Tavern, Fore-street, in conspany with a
tipsy friend. lie (Mr. Alexander) was conducting his friend home,
when, without the slightest ground whatever, the defendant seized
them, and conducted them to the watchhouse. There the night
constable heard their case, and, seeing no cause to detain them, dis-
charged them. The watchman, however, was not to he disappointed.
He followed them, recaptured them, and lodged them in the watch.
house again. On their way thither he kept nudging them In the
ribs with a shot t stick, manifestly with the intention of getting them
to strike him and enabling him to make money of the assault.
The watch;nan, in his defence, declared, that the complainant,
with two others, came out of the Castle Tavern in a state of riotous
'drunkenness. 'hey kicked up such a row in the streets, at the
unseasonable hour mentioned, that he took them to the watch-
house, and he would have been censured if he had not. They were
let out of the watchhouse, in the hope that they would go along bet-
ter ; but they repeated their conduct, and he was compelled to take
them back.

Mr. Alexander positively swore that he was sob& when attacked
by the watchman.
, The night constable declared, that they were all drunk.
The Lotto Maroc—As the assault was positively sworn to by
th. complainant, ordered the watchman to enter Into his, own recog-
nisance,. His Lordship commented on the conduct of Mr. Pledger,
the landlord of the Castle Tavern, in allowing parties to remain
drinking in his house at so late an boar, and requested that his
opinian as to the hopttleiety of the practice, should be notified to
him by the Ward Officers.
Mr. Alexander said, the house was a tavern, and not within the
;scope of the common regulations for public•houses, any more than
;was the Londnn Tavern.

The Loan Havel' declared, that if the Sheriff of London kept a
tavern, and was proved to have suffered
,tippling lo his house at a
forbidden how, he would am him. He (the Lord Mayor), shOuld
at all does be ready to prove, that there was not one law for the
rich and another for the poor.

Alive l'ivicipas, the driver of the Blackwall coach, NI. 6011, was
charged with having furiously driven the horses of his coach, to the
great danger of his Majesty's subjects.
Wheeler, Mr. Martin's late factotum, appeared as prosecutor.--
On Tuesday week, at about a quarter before seven o'ckrck in the
evening, the defendant was driving his coach at a furious rate down
LudenhaU-street. When he (witness) went up to the coach at the
stand, to take the number, the coachmen came round him, and cried
out—" Bonnet him ! Bonnet him !" _ _ _

The defendant denied that he had, on any occasion, drive, furl-
wady ; the charge was brought se long after the alleged commission
of the offence, that he could get no evidence to meet it.
The Leas Maros asked Wheeler how it was the charge was not
brought before?—Wheeler said, he reported cases to the Committee
as they occurred, and they, after taking them into consideration,
selected those *hick he should prosecute.
The Loa* Melva expressed his dissatisfaction. at such interfe-
rence. It was staking the purse of a Company against the means of
defence possessed by an individuaL
The coachman called the street•keeper to prove that it was not'
his time of driving the coach when the fact was said to have been
eonunitted, but the street-keeper could not establish that point.
The Loan Metes, as the fact was distinctly sworn to by Wheeler,
convicted the defendant in the penalty of a. His Lordship at the
same doe declared, with respect to time short stages, that they
were oat, affected so stand in the streets upon sufferance, and that
it Instances of misconduct were repeated, he would undoub:edl.

prevent their standing there at AL ife bad some days since d,
dared this to be his intention with regard to the Paddi•tgton
He now wished to have it distinctly understood. tbAt he entcrta
the same intention with respect to all others samilArly m
log theoaselsges.

M AftLBGROUGH-STft PM

1310:1110? &oda, alias Webster, the blind beggir-woman of ga,
vWespassage.,„whow cause was so warmly espoused at this one,
some short time ago by Lord Maryborough, w..s yesterday agaht
brought before the 'Min Magistrate at this office. chargrd as a
vigrant upon the same grounds as before, namely, standing in Sa,
ville•passage, with her hand extended in an attitude of supplication
for charity. It appeared that Mr. Wield, a solicitor, whn rrtitiq
in the passage, and sear whose door the old woman t..kes her
station, has been so much annoyed by her presence there, that on
Sunday be directed Buckland, one of the beadles of Saint James's
parish, to remove her, and take her into custody upon a charge
of vagrancy. Buckland accordingly conveyed her to the watch.
house, where he deposited her as a prisoner until she should be
brought before the Magistrate.
Sir GEORGE FAILItANT said, that had it not been for the revert
from the complainant, Mr. Wield, he should certainly have seil
the prisoner to the House of Correction, as he intended ; nut
if again she should ever be brought to this olilice upon a similar
charge, she slight make up her mind to a severe punishment. who
ever the sitting Magistrate might be. The old woman waititen
discharged, upon a promise net to go near Saville passage again.