Star.
London, England, 1821-01-20 00:00:00

ATTEMPT TO RESCUE.

A daring outrage and attempt to rescue took
place on Thursday. Immediately after Mr. !Fan LIP-
SON had passed sentence of seven years' transporta-
tion on Williams, Cbick, Gosling, Sibley, Miller, and
Castle, for assaulting, with an attempt to rob, a Mr.
Milner, at a coffee-shop near Dover-street, Black-
friars-road, one of the prisoners knocked down Lee,
a Constable, who was a principal witness against
them, and who was then standing in the witness.
box, and an attempt at rescue and escape imme-
diately commenced ; but, by the prompt exertions
of 'the Police, Sheriffs'-officers, and Constables, as-
sisted by the Magistrates, Barristers, Attornics, &c.
they were secured and conveyed back to prison,
double ironed, and confined in separate cells. The
appearance of the Banisters in their gowns and wigs,
with constables' staves, the Jury, and the Magistrates,
all fighting and driving out the rabble, the screaming
of girls, and the general confusion, made the Court
present a most singular appearance.
The Cum amAN ordered Lee a reward of £lO
for his exertion and asEiduity in apprehending the
prisoners.
Mr. liartntsmr, in passing sentence on the pri-
soners, observed, that they formed part of as nume-
rous and desperate a gang of thieves as had ever
infested that part of the county of Surrey. Of this
gang, which was called " The Walcot•place gang,"
Chick was the Captain, and if the prisoners were
sent out of the country, it would in a great measure
break up the gang.

Q.CEEN-SQUARE.—Yesterday, a Solicitor from the
Admiralty atteaded to prefer charges against .1. Reed
and a Jones, two privates belonging to the Marines,
who had confessed themselves to be deserters from
the Militia at the time they enlistA. The cas: having
been made cut against the prisoners, they were or-
dered to be imprisoned for three months each (their
previous confinement in Bridewell being taken tato
consideration). They were then ordered to be re-
turned to Regiments (the South Gloucester and
Buckinghamsliire Regiments of Militia); and after
having served on: their proper time in them to bo.re-
turned to the Marines.

Bo W-ST ( "01f...c Shops.— Four tremendous
looking•fellows, with black eyes, swelled noses, cut
lips, and bloody clothes, were yesterday brought be-
fore Mena RD BiHSIE, Esq. from St. Clement Danes
Watch-house, charged with riot, and assaulting the
watch.--These worthies, it seemed, had been taken
into custody in that nest of coffee-shops and brothels
in Shire-lane, Temple-bar, under the following cir-
cumstances:—About two o'clock the same morning,
Spikeman, one of the watchmen of Sr. Clement s,
heard a furious uproar in one of the coffee-shops,
and proceeding there immediately, he was met at the
door by some persons who gave a man in charge to
him. The man resisted violently, and Spikeman
sprung his rattle, which instantly brought other
watchmen to his assistance. At the same moment,
however, forty or fifty fellows, the greater part armed
with short thick sticks, rushed from the different cof-
fee-shops, and attempted a rescue. A general battle
ensued, in which the watchmen were repeatedly
knocked down, and many broken heads were given
and received; the prostituits from the upper win-
dows screaming all the time, " Down with the —.
watchmen !'", Murder the —!" Scc. At length
the ruffians began to give way, as more watchmen
were continually coming up, but they did not depart
till they had rescued the man first given in charge.
The four prisoners now brought in were taken by the
different w atchmen, and carried off to the Watch-
house during the affray. One of the watchmen pro-
duced a large kitchen poker before the Magistrate,
which he picked up on the scene of action.—The
Magistrate, called upon the prisons to give an ac-
count of themselves. After some hesitation, they gave
their names John Noble, Thenzas Hyde, James Kerni-
son, and Charles Harris. /Coble said he was a green-
grocer, living with his mother at Horton ; Harris
also said he lived at Horton, and was a bookseller
" upon his own end." Hyde described himself as a
carpenter ; and Kerrison was also a carpenter, " when
he had anything to do." They all denied having any
thing to do with the affray ! and said, that they merely
went to the coffee•shop to have a cup of coffee, after
having been at the Play, and they added, that it was
" Dudfield's gang" that attempted the rescue, and
attacked the watchmen.—All committed.

LAMBETH-STREET.—Yesterday, AI. Smith and J.
Keen, shopmen to Mrs. Cole, a linen-draper, near
Wellclose-square, were charged vita violating the
person of Esther Little; ber se, vast. They sent the
girl out for some porter, when their mistress had
gone to bed; and according to the girl's account,
they kept her in the shop ail night, she not liking to
make a noise. In the morning, she told her mistress.
the prisoners were held to bail for the assault, as the
prosecutrix made no alarm.

UxIos.HALL.—J. Pearson was charged with a
robbery in the house of S. Davies, at Bermondsey.
The prosecutor was alarmed whilst in bed on Thurs..
day night, by a noise in the cellar. He got up, struck
a light, and went down stairs, where he found the
prisoner concealed in an old hamper, and on search-
ing him, he found a crow-bar, a dark-lantern, chi-
sels, &c. in Iris possession. The prisoner first slimed
fight, subsequently offered to apologise for his
take," as he called it, and lastly, pretended drunken-
ness, and contended that he 100ged in the house !
He was remanded.

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PI ED.
January 4, at -Newport,' Isle•of Wight, Lieutenant
'Thomas, lade of the Royal Artillery Drivers, ::gett
Saturday, at the Green, Richmond, Norkshire, Catherine,
vtidow of biz. Robert ccrartl, ti ttaawoutl, flan,