Star.
London, England, 1818-05-30 00:00:00

MANSION Housz.—A well-looking lad, about 15
years of age, named Walker, was yesterday brought
before the Loan Mayor, charged by Charles Camp-
bell, Esq. the Danish Consul, with having repeatedly
challenged him to Samar combat with deadly wea-
pons, and with sending him threatening letters.—Mr.
Campbell stated, that the prisoner was one of dial
' most extraordinary youths he had ever heard of. He
was of a very respectable Irish family, but by 'the'
misfortunes ut his parents he haifbeen compelled to
accept a menial situation. The witness took him into
his service some months ago, but not some part
of his conduct he discharged him, but afterwards
procttred him a situation with a Miss Prince, an inti-
mate acquaintance. I k had not been long there, be-
fore a notion, as extraordinary as it was groundless,
possessed him, that a conspiracy existed between the
witness and Miss Prince to defraud him of his salary,

and to blast his character by the circulation of false
reports concerning him. Nothing could convince
him of the folly of thiisupposition, and Mr. Campbell
received a letter from the prisoner, in which he was
styled a " conspirator," and a " foul slanderer." He
shortly left Miss Prince, and went to Tottenham—
whence he wrote several times to Mr. Campbell,
threatening to have vengeance for the wrongs he had
suffered, and demanding satisfaction. No notice was
taken of these letteri until a few days since, when one
arrived, from which the following is at extract
" I have repeatedly solicited & mating, but you choose to dia-
-1 regard my communications. I repeat that I must have similar,-
thin for the cruel injuries tLat have been heaped upon me by
you led your coadjutor, ltlartlia Prince ; and, thrtefote, f n-
one* that you will meet me to-morrow at one o'cloa, on
'geed ; or, if you art diainclined ycagself, provide a substitute,
and let the matter be hone•arably decided with pistols, or other
weapons. Although you are the Danish Consul, you must not
be permitted to betray a trust, or to blast the reputation a an
humble individual. I again repeat, that you are a swindler and
a slardarer."
Mr. Campbell now instituted a search for the pri-
soner, but could not find him, and on Wednesday he
received another letter to the same effect. This con-
tained the address of the boy, and he was apprehen-
ded.—The prisoner, with much fluency, attempted to
convince his Lordship that the charges he had brought
against Mr. Campbell were well grounded. The Lotto
MAsioit, however, thought otherwise, and ordered the
idly lad to be locked up until some of his friends
came forward and promised to take care of him.
Row-smitte7.-.-Yesterday John Janes was brought
before J. K. CoasaNT, Esq. charged by a beadle of
the parish of St. Giles, with begging in Bloomsbury-
square, and endeavouring to excite commiseration by
chewing a raw cabbage leaf. The Secretary of the
Society for the Suppression of Mendicity being pre-
sent recognized the man, and stated to the elagi-
strate that he had been relieved and clothed, and pro-
tided with employment at the expense of the Societi
besides which, a benevolent individual had furnish al
him with ample means to proceed to Portsmouth. to
obtain a birth under his fi rarer Captain. It appeared
that he bad not only spent the money in liquor, but
had pledged the clothes for the same purpose ; and
as there was evideoce of his former commitments, he
was again committed as a rogue and vagabond to the
Sessions, to befarther dealt with according to law.
John ',Sutton and Sarah Gatelau were at the 5..-ae
time placed at the bar, charged upon the testimony
of two of the officers employed by the Mendicity So-
ciety with'several acts of vagrancy in the parish of
st. Martin-in-the-fields. The charge being substan-
tiated, they were both committed as rogues and rs-
. gabonds, and ordered to be passed to their differ, at
parishes. To Sesmtary of the botiety iaati.d,. that