Star.
London, England, 1818-01-13 00:00:00

Maple, lanclicett-ettho-King's Arms, Gray's Inn-lane,
with havingliirearionsly and feloniously broke open
his dwelling-house on Saturday morning last, with
a;visttent to rpb the lame. The prisoner was com-
mitted for trial.
Wonstrie-sTBEET.—john May, apprehended by
Grittori, the officer, was yesterday examined before
Vin.talimDsekrssoN, Esq. on the following charge
ofhighway rob'oe:-y. On the Bth of December Jo-
Froob. Gallaway, a silk-weaver, in Bethnal-green,
. About eleven o'clock at night, was going through
wn-street, Finsbury-square, when he was attacked
by four men, who dragged him through the mud,
and robbed him of a bag containing eighty yards of
,silk; he grappled with one of them, who was secured,
and conveyed to the watch-house, two more were
subsequently taken, and the three were fully com-
mitted from, this Office. The prisoner was now sworn
to by the prosecutor's son, and by Chrke, a consta-
ble, who came to Mr. Gallaway's assistance.—Fully
committed for trial. . .
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On Sunday mornir.g, between twelve and one
o'clock, while the family were at church, the dwel-
ling-hone of Mr. B. Lancaster, No.-9, Chester-place,
:Kennington, was entered at the kitchen .door in the
area, and a quantity of silver pla:c, comistitigitf
',navy, table, and dessert spoons, and other articles,
were stolen. The robbery is supposed to have bean
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committed by a scFpicious looking man, who was,
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observed lusting about the neighhuurhood during the
morning. .

On Friday last, betwaemnine and ten o'clock nt
night, a boy named William Thompson was stopped
on the Waterloo Bridge road, leading frem Stam-
ford-street, by two men.; one of them struck him a
violent blow on the head, and held his hand over his
Incudi, while the other took a half-crcvm piece from
him, which was'all the money he had about him.—
One of the fellows said, 0. D—m him, let's kill him,"
the other said, " No, him, throw him into the
ditch." After beating him till he was totally bereft
of his senses, therthrew him into the garden of Mr.
Bickerton, Overseer:Of Lambeth. Two hours afcr a
person was passing, heard a groaning, and having
procured a light, discovered the boy, ‘..ho is cnly ten
veers of age, in the state described. He was eon-
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veyed, by the Overseer's orders,- to his friends, by
,Birch, the beadle of Lambeth.

At a late hour on Tuesday night, the Police Pa,
trole, in going their rounds in Bridgegate, Glasgow,
found a woman lying there in a state of drtinkenne,:s
and idsensibility, thinly clad, and drenched with
rain; and, being conveyed to the Police-Office, the
Medical gentleman of the establishment was instantly
I sent for, and arrived etpeditiously ; but the poor
wretch had, in the mean time, breathed her last. There
were no marks of violence upon her person, and her
death is attribited to the circumstances above-men-
-1 tioned, added to her dissolute habit of life and con-
stitutional debility. t
Thursday aninquest W2S held 'at the Royal Hos-
pital, at Haslar, before JOSIPIt Galva, Esq. Coroner,
on the body of George Wood, late a seaman of his
Majesty's ship Vengeur, who was accidentally that
through the body, while asleep in his hammock, on
di board the Hawk tender to the Vturur) during a
mire after smu lers, at the back of the Isle cf
Wight, on the 1 of December last, in' consequence
of which wound he died in the above Hospital -on
the 4th instant: Verdict—Accidentally shot .tlraugA
the carelessness and fzsprover conduct if Wilic:sis Hol-
land, seaman, of the sash skip.'

Jammy and fiesiere--412Ppy couple in lowly life,
who hale lived together, Os these names as man and
wife, at colasbill, for the last twenty years, got an
humble living as drovers. Hester, though long ac-
ctistomed to drive herned.cattle, was deemed faithful
tai jemmti bed, and a short time AgO they were inu-
wally blessed with a pledge pf :their: happy lbves.
Hester %vas brought to bed or a fine child, and Jemmy
was the kindest c.flathers. , A rely dayi ago Jemmy
was taken ill and 'died ; and the. neighbours, in per-
forming the last ceremonies fat_ the deed, discovered
that Jemmy teas a -seaman ! Tbe"wicroni bewitched
remains inconsolable with lierlat4triess dull! She
has since confessed that her hatband was her sister !
Hester is again" is a ihriviaguay

' BIRTHS.
'Yeattrday, the Lay Of 0. IL Fretting, Req. of the General
Post-offiee of a no. •
The 7th inst. the Lidy of Capt. Rosner, Ito; truitery, of
a daughter.
The sth inst. at Dunbar, Mrs. Capt. Htoster, of • Oill-born
daughter.