Star.
London, England, 1816-09-25 00:00:00

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Inorstou • House. Yesterday, several persons
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brought parcels of shillings and sixpences before the
Loab MAYoa, saying the Bank had refused them,
and which they bad taken as good silver, and believed
them to be so : they wished to know wh3t they were
to do ? A Gentleman from the Bank told his Lord
ship that the confusion at the Bank kr these three
days had been very great ; that they were obliged to
have several Police Ofli:ers attending, and it was im-
possible for the persons employed strictly to examine
every shilling. He looked at the silver, and picked
out many that were very good, and thought if they
were silver, the public ought not to be so particular ,
in the circulation, till the new coin should come out.
A Billingsgate Fishmonger was summoned for refu-
sing a silver sixpence in the sale of two salmon, and
detaining nine shillings aid the salmon, until the
purchaser brought him a better sixpence. The Lottol
Maeou reprobated the fishmonger's conduct, and
desired him immediately to return the nine shillings,
as he had not parted with his salmon.
BOW-STREET.—Mo;iclay Mary Reynolds, who had
beea in custody several days on a charge of setting fire
to her master's house, was fully committed for trial
by Sir NATHANIEL CoNANT. 4 appeared by the
evidence of Mr. Trowinard, of the Strand, that the
prisoner had been but a short time in his service ;
'that in the evening of Wednesday, the 11th inst.
about eight o'clock, a quantity of paper was found
upon a table in the back parlour. burnt to pieces, and
the same night, about ten o'clock, the prisoner was
sent up stairs to fetch from the three pair the lodger's
candlestick, in readiness against he came home. She
took a lighted candle up stairs with her, and was
some time gone. Soon after she came down Mr.
Trowinard obseaved a along reflection of light
against the wall at the hack of his ho Ise, and went
up stairs fearing there was a fire. He discovered that
the bed furniture in the upper room was in a com-
plete blaze, and it was with much difficulty that he
succeeded in saving his infant child who was asleep
in the bed, and in extinguishing the fire. The prisoner
denied having been in that room, and that she only
went into the lodger's room for his candlestick. Tke
following Feiday, about eleven o'clock in the nh•r-
\ening, a strong smell of fire and much smoke issued
from the lower, part of the house, and Mr. T. sent
for some firemen, who searched about for some hours
without being able to find the cause, and it was not
until four o'clock in the afternoon that Mr. Trowi,
nerd himself discovered that it proceeded from an
old cupboard uses for nothing but lumber, in the
back kitchen, where he found a great quantity of
rags burning upon a new piece of board. Frosn this
last circumstance, his suspicion became stronger than
before, as no one but him;elf; Mrs. Trowinard, and
the girl, were in the house, the other part of his fa-
mily being front home on a visit. He called in two
or three of his neighbours, and strictly interrogated
her as to this fire and the preceding. From l'er pre-
varication they brought her to this Office ; and, since
her confinement in Tothill•fields Bridewell, she has
confessed to the Chaplain, in the presence of Mr.
Trowinard and other Gentlemen, that she wilfully
set fire to the paper on the parlour table and the
bed furniture, and also to the rags in the cupboard,
for the purpose of burning the house, and, that she
was persuaded to do so by an old woman, a fortune-
teller, who had frequently spoken to her at her
master's door early in the morning, and advised her
to *t fire to the house. She is about 16 years of age ;
land her mother, who lives near Mr. Trowinard, is an
honest and most industrious woman.

QUIEN.SQUARIL—Hntry Binghans and John Marsh,
remanded on Thursday, were brought up to the Office
for further (gemination, the first for having in his
'possession fifteen bottles of wine, which had been
stolen from the Office of Mr. Barber, wine merchant;
the latter for being found in Bingham's house (the
cheap coffee shop), in earnest conversation- with him
and his wine, and on whose person a picklock key,
newly forged, was found, with which, if was suspec-
ted, the above Office was opened, and the wine taken
away. Both the prisoners were remanded.