Star.
London, England, 1817-01-15 00:00:00

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BOw4Totrr.--john Eldridge was Charged with
having broke, open a farm-house on Fortune Com. I
mon, near Hendon, about twelve months since, and
'stealing a siller hunting • watch, the property of
George Revelly, of Fortune-g• en. The priioner
being seen a few days since with a watch answering
the description of Mr. Revelly's, was take f
.ii;o ors-
tody, while he was at work yes:-rday nifening, by
,
Smith, tne conducts of the perole. Mr. 1tt.,:.0y
identified the watch. The prisoner was cormilittf%l.
HarroN-Gannm —Yesterday John itsrilv., txac
brought up and examined ender the Hawkers' A-t,
charged with going from house to house. and di:r-
ing for sale a sheet of printed paper, called Cobbiter
Political Register, price two-pence, the same being
anstamped, and he not having a hawker's license.—
, The charge being proved, the prisoner was asked
what he had to say in his defence ? He stated that he
was a poor man, %she was out of employ, and th:o
he engaged with a Gentleman living at No. 1P,,1
Qsteen.sireet, Nurthamptun-square, to ktwk then
about, and that he would indemnify him from the
consequence--The Magistrate told t! e rrisoner to
send to that Gentleman to come forward-and pay the
penalty fur him. He was then convicted in the pr.
natty of selo, and in.default to be committed for
,litaersossaty‘fri • .Correesiort, 4
711oinor Zero, a l.t tr, w ibiliiittt of IWO e rit-
tarty of Read, jim. and Limlnick, charged with
tearing down some large posting-bills that were stuck'
up in Long-acre, entitled " Mr. Hunt hissed nut ul
Bri.-.:ol." The prisoner was committed till the Set-
sion as idle and disorderly.
George Giles, a young man, apprentice to Mr. Mat-
thias, a surgeon, was brought up on a warrant,
charged by Mary Youni;, servant to Mr. Matthias,
with assaulting her with intent to commit a rape.—
The prisoner was ordered to find bail.
Matu.nonounu-sTitear —Mesas Davis was charged
with having pawned seventeen and a halt yards of
.superfineckith, entrusted to his carte to sell by corn-
Mission, at the shop of.. Mr. Alders. Beta ick-strect,
Soho. Many Blackwell-hall factors having beets
YObbed to a considerable extent, an inquiry was
on hoot, and it was discovered that mach of the t.(ill:11
property had been pledged at the different pawn-
btokers. Actions wsre commenced iyainst
pawabrokets some months since, and the value of
the property so pledged was recovered. In the
sent case it turned out that Davis was employed by
Messrs. Carver and Peeie, woollen diapers in the
City, to sell by commipion, but del fyieg to make
up his accounts, he was taken before the Lord Mayor,
when he con:eyed having converted property to his
own use, ti runt;ll distress, and that which formed
the object of this proseculif n was a part of it. Mr.
Chick, tailor in Moomoutlostreet, having arplied to
the prisoner for a debt of re-2, he gave him the a yen-
teen and a half yards of cloth, worth £lO, to pledge.
He pledged the article fur £lO and returned the pri-
soner ‘B. Messrs. Carver brought an action against
the pawnbroker, but the property was returned, and
the action was withdrawn. Davis was now charged
by Mr. Alder under the 40th Geo. 111. chap. 99,
sec. 8, which enacts, that any person pawning ally
article entrusted to his care, without the owner's con-
oiled, &ail forfeit the value of the property, and bel
convicted in the penalty 'it from 20s. to rES and costs,
to be given to the person injured. Mt. Alder having
established his case, Davis' was convicted in the pe-
nalty of £22.
Mr. Chid was next put to the bar, under the 10th
section of the above Act, which enacts, that if any
person shall pawn goods in a false name, or give a
false address, he shad be whipped or imprisoned for
three months. It appeared that Chick had pledged
the cloth in the name of DaWson, and had cunse-
! quently given a false address. A doubt arose as to
the description of prisons contemplated by the Act,
viz. whether it was COilfillCd to persons pawning pro-
perty known to have been illegaßyobtained.—Messrs.
Cunwoon and NoLAst attended for the pawnbrokers,
and contended that the Act implied general terms;
but the Magistrates were of opinion that the Act
contemplated only persons who had pledged property
illegally obtained. Chick was discharged.
Qtatan-scruatte.--Ronamte.-- Sarah Atkinson, 5,
New-court, Cliapel-street,• Westminster. plasterer,
charged William Murray and llensy Wheeler with rob-
bing him of a complete set of chaise-cart harness.--:
The prisoners were fully committed.
Haczszx Coactimen.—Hugo Wray, driver of the
hackney-coach N 0.1191, summoned A Lady on Ray-
ner-terrace,Chelsea, for refusing to pay him his legal
fare. He stated, that Qlll Thursday, the 9th instant,
he was called by defendant's servant from the stand
at Knightsbridge, to go to Cadogamplace, where he
took up the Lady, and set her down at her own resi-
dence. It was half-past ten at night, and he was
entitled to hack-fare, to the stand he was called from,
fur which he demanded Ss.

The Magistrate (Mr. PLattsrow) askd the driver WI
he had measured the ground and lie confessed he,
had. but not on the present occasion.
The Lady sent her servant to appear for her, who,
wed. that his mistress had no its so abridge the
driver of one WEN, gof his fare, but s!te hAd been
so repe4tedly carried the very mime '4le for 9..5. th4t
she thought the present must be au Unclosing demand.
He was sure tie had paid a dozen or fourteen coach-
men antecedent to this, and none of them asked
more thin `2s.

Mr. PLAtsrow told him that his mi:•tress had been
led into the error which many Ladies and Gentlemen
had been before her, •viz. of judging by what oilier
drieeri, not knowing the ground. had demanded.—
It was evident the rare, with the back carriage, WAS,
Ss. and therefore it must be paid.
There was another mimisions against the same,
Lai,' by John Fagg, dr►ver of No. lt/29, for •tne
same fare on Monual. the 19t.1), which She WAS ASO
adjudged to pay, with cots in both CAWS.

WOUSII
tr-sra Err. —Ye ste r d y Mary Kirby, wife rf
George Kirby, of Hood's-place, George's-g
Bethnal-green-road, WAS brought to this mike by
Mance, in consequence of a warrant granted at the
instance of Mr. remell, overseer of St. Matthew's,
Bettinal-green, tor excessive cruelty towards her own
sun. i boy onsy 12 years of age. It appeared, from
the statement of the officers of theparish, that the
boy was an illegitimate son of Mrs. Kirby's, and Was
taken at an apprentice by her husband, from the
-parish of St. Dunstatiii in the West; the boy haJ no
complaint to make against Kirby, who always mat-