Star.
London, England, 1826-04-05 00:00:00

I3OW-STREET.

A yoking man named Gone Sidney Gilinsms, a biscuit baker, of
Oxford-street, was brought up on a warrant, charged with a vio-
lent assault, upon an oilman of Drury-lane, named Wm. Moore.
The complainant stated, that on Monday afternoon a person
'called at his shop in Drury-lane, and ordered a quantity of oil to be
sent to the Minor Theatre, Catharine-street, Strand ; witness in the

course of the etening sent the oil by a lad, with Orders not to leave
it without the money. However, the youth, oa giving the message,
was laughed at, and the oil taken from him and he was ordered to
return to his master for two pounds of candles ' • on his return wit-
ness went himself to the Theatre, and inquired for Mr. Cooke, the
:tame the person gave who ordered the oil; the defendant was
acting as door-keeper, and oa his **Mg him his business witness
was told to wait; this he did till near the hour of eleven o'clock,
without being able to see any person who would pay him for his
oil; at this hour be insisted upon seeing one of the principals of the
establishment, and was about to enter the interior of the building,
when about nine or ten perms, habited as petformersvattacked
him, and the defendant was the most violent, having squck him
several times in the face, and knocked him down the steps.
The defendant gave quite a different account of the business, but
Mr. HALL, ordered him to find bail for the assault, and advised
the complainant to sue the proprietor of the Theatre, Mr. Cooke,
for the amount of the oil, at the Court of Requests ; and observed,
that be would make some inquiry into the establishment in question,
as he apprehended it was a great nuisance in the vicinity where it
was situated.

A middle-aged man, of extremely respectable appearance, calling
himself Win. Watkins, was on Monday evening charged on suspicion
of robbing a gentleman named—Adams, of Towcester, Northamp-
tonshire, of a diamond pin.
The prosecutor stated that he was going into the pit of the Add.
phi Theatre, to witness Mr. Yates's performances that evening,
when in the rush, as the doors opened, the prisoner (who was next
to him) placed his arm across his breast, pressing him with some
violence, and in a moment witness missed his shirt pin, which he
had felt safe a minute or two before. He collared the prisoner,
who attempted to get out of the house, and fought desperately to
accomplish that object. It required the strength of several to secure
him. (He is a very powerful looking man.) The prisoner was
taken to the next publie-beuse to be searched, and in the ititerin
the pie was picked up by two ladies. They were showing it, whet.

a " gentientanl' came up and said the °iset Wai tnown to hiin.
he would take the pin to hint. Mr. Adams, however, never s...vr
, the gentleman or the i in. .
The prisoner deelared that he teas wrongly accused, and that Ws
only reason for lighting was th:it he thought an attempt was being
made to rob him of his watch, which he felt nearly drawn from
his fob. In ansirer to some questions he said he was a sea-faring
Man, and bad been several years in the service, of the East India
Company, sailing to and from the Caps of Good Hope. He had
been home .bout seven months.
Sir R. Mauls ordered him to be brought up again yesterday. in
the hope that the ladies who found the pin Might be forthcoming,
but they were not, and be was again remanded until Thursday neat.
He is not known to any of the officers.