Star.
London, England, 1826-03-13 00:00:00

POLICE MEL LIGEgCE.

B 1 A RLDOROUGH-STREET.

Joon!, Dixon and John Scott, were brought before Mr. Dees, on
Saturday, from St. James's watch house, charged with having in-
jured the wrists, derailed the curls, and broken the tortoiseshel
comb of Miss Mary Anne Witmore. Mr. Scott, is a busby-wigs.
kered shapely exquisite, just out of his five-and.tvienty or there.
about, and a likely.looking subject to be rather rumbustical among
the midnight belles; but his friend, Mr. Marin, is altogether
another sort of person in his appearance.-so M. wetly, so el-
derly, so sedate—such a propriety in the opt of his black suit, and
of such an umbrageous breadth i:s hisbrints, that we really wonder
he had no more wit titan to meddle with Miss Witmoree-ar any
other Miss of Miss Witmore'spcculksr caste.
The Gentlemen-having been placed side by side at the bar, Miss
Witmore, arrayed in a yellow-lined purple Opera ch,ak, a French
white bonnet, crowned with rose bud:, and her dainty Aligkir en-
veloped in a choice chinchilla, advanced before the beach in mea-
sured steps supported by another of the sisterhood, by name Miss
Marian Jocasta Jones; and, having made a " finishing stonieurt
obeisance" to the Magistrate, she said, " May it please yourWor.
ship—l hope I will be allowed to speak r
" Speak on, Madam !" said his Worshi?—" speak on--then is
no one Interrupting you ;" and Miss Witmore having again made
her very best curtsy, proceeded as follows, whilst all bet rose-buds
trembled as she spoke:—
" May it please your Worship, then—last night w 24 at the
theatre—of courses and after that I went to sup with some gentle-
men at the saloon—of course; and of course, while sue and the
'gentlemen were supping, these gentlemen (111essrs. Dixon and
Scott) came in ; and they also asked me to sup, which If eostrse
refused, as I was supping already with the other geodes:en.; and I
make it a point not to encourage two sets of gentlemen at once—
became I think it would be extremely unfair to ocher ladies. Then,
after supper, my own gentlemen having bid nee good night, these
rlof gentlemen asked me to take a gime of wine, and if course
alyttii It. The gentlemen are quite strangers to me, but I
admitted their civilities ?course; and they were afterwards polite
enough to say, they would see me and my friend, Miss Jones, home
in a toad. Well, Sir, a coach was called, and me and Miss Jones
andthese two gentlemett got into it, and I ordered the coachman to
drive to Carmarthen-street; but we had not gone many yards, be-
fore these gentlemen began to proceed to greet lengths, which tf
router I was not going to submit to in such a situation. Then, Sr,
called to the coachman, stop; but he didn't heir me, it seems,
else he would have stopped of course; upon which, the mall gen.
tie sun there (Mr. Scott), griped my wrists so as to pain me
im-
ttsensely, and the large one proceeded to be very rude, quite Lathe.
coming in a gentleman of hie age. Also he deranged my hair—also
h; took improper liberties--airo he broke my tortoiseshell comb—
also be was extremely rude. ly norm I cried murder out of the
wipdow; and at last the watchmen stopped the coach, and I gave
the gentlemen in charge to them if course."
Miss Jocasta Jones corroborated Miss Witmore's statement, and
so did the watehmen--one of whom assured the Magistrate., that
when Miss Whitmore stepped out of she coach " her curls was
wherry much ruffled, and she was quite knfidded' at it welt."
The Gentlemen were now called epos' tor their defeuce, an*,
though both of them spoke at once, Mr. Dixon, the elderir,
overpowered his young frienti.—" I declare, upon my honour and
veracity, it is no such thing as these ladies have represessted," 'said
Mr. Dixon ; indeed, the vixen was too tipsy to know anything
about the matter, fur she wan mad—absolutely mad wish drink ;
and Ido assure you, Sir, we ought to have appeared as complain.
ants, instead of standing at this bar to defend ourselves against
these most pernicious women. Woolen, indeed!—they are she-
wolves, in women's clothing."
Here Miss Witmore shook her rosebuds very angrily, and thrust
her arms up to her elbows in her chinchilla, whilst Miss Jones
contented herself with drawing down the corners of her mouth, and
ejaculating " Poor mats I"
The Magistrate observed that the complaint of the Ladies was
sorroborated by the fact of their having called for assistance from
the coach window; and therefore, unless they could now come to
some understanding between themselves, the Ge,ntilesnetinassatzput
in bail to answer the complaint at the Quarter Sessions. For,"
said his Worship, " whatever them women' may be, th, i are entitled
to the protection of the law,:and are not to be il.o ,atei with
impunity." • .
MI parda seemed satisfied with this " gernsicsion to, arra nee,*
and after an hour and a half's talk in the waiting roma. Messrs.
Dixon and Scott purchased their peace by paying Mite Wintiore
a couple of sovereigns Co buy her a new comb and another bottle
of champaigne.

Charles Thorns, shopman to Messrs. Hodge and Lowman liven-
drapers, Regent-street, was fully committed to take his trial,•for
stealing the property of his employer, to a considerable extent.
The delinquency of the prisoner was accidentally discoverd in the
following curious manner:—fir. Duthuit, of Bow Church Yard,
a Short time ago, attended a sale by auction at Jr. Bailey's,
in Wood-street, and was surprised to find some pieces of lace
amongst the lots which he knew had been recently sold 1)y himself
and his partner, and suspecting something wrong, he went imme-
diately home and examined his books, and discovered that the pro-
decutors, Hodge and Lowtnan, had been the purchasers, whereupon
he communicated. the circumstance to those Gentknun ; and on
their applying to Mr. Bailey, they found that the prisoner had sent
a large quantity of goods to him to be sold by auction, which he
represented as the stock of his sister, who was leaving off the bassis
ness of a haberdasher. Some of these goods the prosecutors traced,
' and identified as theirs ; and on going to the prisoner's house, they
found several valuable articles on which some of their private marks
remained, although others had been cut off i'videutly to prevent
identifiation.