Star.
London, England, 1810-12-08 00:00:00

POLICE.

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Hannah. Delaney
on the morning of
Field's house, in Short's-gardens, with a large bun.
dle on his shoulder. She mentioned the circumstance

to her husband, who, from directions he received, ap-
prehended the prisoner Robinson two nights after-
wards, in Drury-lane, and took him to the watch-
house, from whence he was taken to Marlborough.
street Office, and was then committed for trial, toge-
ther with Lydia Feld.

Upon this evidence the Jury, after an able charge
Irom Mr. Justice Gaon, found Robinsnn guilty of
the burglary.—Death—and Field of receiving the
property knowing it to be stolen, which subjects her
to Fourteen Years transportation.

Mary Cavelaird, for breaking and entering the dwel•
ling•house of W. Dean, and stealing a pair of sheets,
was also capitally convicted.
Edward Janes stood indicted for the wilful murder
of Peter Langstron, a Swedish sailor, on the 26th of
November last.

It appeared from the testimony of John Johnson,
who was present .tt the melancholy occurrence, that
the prisoner was a Custom-house officer, and was on
board the New Czsar, a foreign vessel, lying at
Blackwall, on the day mentioned in the indictment.
The deceased and witness were mariners on board
' that t'essel. They had all been chinking together,
and were rather fresh. The prisoner asked for sonic
meat for his supper, which was given to him, and
which he was eating and cutting .with a clasped
knife, when the deceased went to his hammock in
company with his wife. Shortly after the prisoner
made some seise, which induced the deceased to call
on him to be quiet, as he was fatigued with his day's
work, and wished
.to get to deep. The prisoner then
lose and went towards the hammock of the deceased,
and, taking him by the hair, shook his head ; the de.
ceased, irritated at this conduct, iumped out upon the
deck, and struck the prisoner on the ear ; the priso-
ner, without a moment's hesitation, stabbed him in
the abdomen with his clasped knife, which be had not
put out of his hand. In consequence of this wound,
the deceased was conveyed to the London Hospital,
and died in two days afterwards.

A surgeon from the Hospital [moved that the death
of the deceased was occasioned by the wound he..bad
received from the prisoner.

The Learned Judge, eaosx, summed up the evi-
dence for the Jury, and stated to them the law appli-
cable to murder, ander which he did not conceive the
()fence of the prisoner came. He then explained the
law of manslaughter, of which crime only, under all
the circumstances of the case, did he conceive the pri-
soner guilty.

The Jury, after a short consideration, acquitted the
prisoner of the murder, but found him guilty of man-
'slaughter.

Hannah Hamsden was convicted of stealing several
pair of stockings, some shirts, and other articles of
wearing apparel, the property of James Divine, whose
wife is a laundress, and to whose service the prisoner
was at the time the thefts were committed.

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"lane Walter, a piling woman, 25 years of age, of
most respectable appearance, was indicted for steal-'
ing one piece of French cambric, value £3, in the shop
of Richard Rabson, his property.
The prosecutor keeps a linen-draper's shop at No.
71, Oxford-street ;on the 19th of October, the priso-
ner came into his shop to purchase some cambric,
being himself busy with another customer, he desired '
one of his,shoprnen to attend her ; the latter slimed
her some goods -which she did not vprove of, and the
young man stooped down for the purpose of pulling
out the drawer, when the prosecutor turned round and
observed the prisoner hastily close her pelisse. -Sus-
pecting pat she had taken something, he went over
to examiae, lend on opening her pelisse, perceived a
piece of muslin under her left arm; on being detected,
she expressed 'great contrition for her offence, and
entreated pardon. The prosecutor having suffered
by similar conduct before, however, resolved to bring
her to justice.—Guilty of stealing, but not privately.
The prisoner, whose connections are highly eredi-
table, seemed much affected at her disgraceful situation.
The following were convicted of-felony, viz. Mary
Williams, for stealing a bed, bolster, and a variety of
other articles ; y Lee, for stealing a lock, a drink-
ing-horn, &c. •R. Rich, for stealing a quantity of
rum ;R. Cradling, for stealing s£l Ss. 61; and four I
were acquitted, viz. Pedro Antonio, lYm. Munro, and
Francis Ferrara, who remains on another indictment,
and E. Sadler, of aiding and assisting in maliciously
cutting J. Bray.

The grandeit'fieht of animated nature ever pre-
sented to public view, is now open at the Royal Me-
nagerie, Exeter 'Change, since it has come into the
possession of the 'enterprizing Mr. POLlTO.—Almost
every rare quadruped and bird that has ever been
attainable in this climate, have been added to the ori-
ginal collection, such as the Rhinoceros, or real Uni-
corn, the scientific Eliphant, beautiful Zebra Elk,
Egyptian ' Kangaroo, Antelopes -

Thursday evening, as a Gentlemsn of Storey"-
street, was walking in his garden by moonlight, he I,
perceived a man on the roof of his house, whom he
threatened to shoot unless he surrendered. The fel-
low, however, ran over the roofs of several houses,
but the neighbourhood being alarmed, he was 'at
length secured in the yard of a plumber; and Huth-
phries, of Bow-street, being sent for, he was searched,
when nothing was found on him lAtt a purse; contain-
ing a pair of silver sleeve buttons and a gold ring.—
On searching, however, an uninhabited house, through
which it is supposed he tsitAred, a bag containing a
silk gown and divers other articles of apparel, was
found,- supposed to have been stolen, and concealed,
there 'by bim. He was taken to Bow-street Office,
and remanded, to give opportunity to a claimant to
appear.
Yesterday Mary Smith was charged at the Mansion
House, with stealing four pieces of ribbon, in the
shop of Mr. Broughton, haberdasher, in Bishopsgate-
street. W. Hawes, a shopman, said, lit was infurrned
by a customer in the shop that the prisoner had secre-
ted a piece of ribbon; that he followed her out of the
shop, 'when she gave him one piece, pleaded it was
the first time, and begged for pardon ; but on being
searched, three other pieces were finind, concealed,
two of them were proved to have the shop mark upon
them : and also two knives, such as are used for cut
-
dog windows. She was fully committed.
Mary Hunt was charged with attempting to pledge
a silver-cruet-stand, at the shop of Mr. Purse, of
London-wall, which was supposed to'be stolen. Mr.
David Wathen stated, tkat the prisoner offered the
cruet-stand to pledge for 245. and said it was her
' Own, aad that she lived at No. 5, Mason's-alley, but
no -uch person had lived there for many months. The
prisoner said, her husband was a smith, but had left
her in great distress for some weeks ; that he brought
home that stand and cruets, which he said he bought
in Cheapside. She was remanded.

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vase, and it was afterwards titalltdialif was indicted for assaulting Hannah ffar.
tCr. - WU. 'cif appeared in evidence tha the defendant was
ter, the watch house-keeper, %nine:Lex. beattng his wife, and the prOsecatris, observing the
fe stated thatin consequence of informa- batbatity with which he conducted himself-, endeA•
ived, be went to No. 10, Short's-gardens, voured to interpose her good offices to prevent the
searched the house, he found in the pri- 1 further exercise of his violence.' when he turned all
s room a bed, five blank etsjmd a car- !his rage towards her, and with all his farce gave her
were also recognized as partli the pro. so great a blow as knocked her down a flight of stairs,
1 by which her arm was broken. He was found Guilty,
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Delaney saw Robinson, the male prisoner,ol ajid sentenced to pay a fine of st4o.
rung of the Sth of November, go into i
:e, in Short's-gardens, with a large bun. ! . POLICE.