Star.
London, England, 1818-08-21 00:00:00

POLIO.

Mnininntaottait.--Tirs aanx.—Yesterday,
Benjamin Smart, jeweller and dealer in coins, at 55,
Prince's-street, Leicester-square, applied to the LORD
Mayoa for advice under the following circumstan-
ces:—ln the course of business, his son had taken a
Bank Post-bill for £5O, in payment for coins. He
neglected to ask the name or address of the person
Who paid the bill, and upon presenting it at the Bank
of England for payment, it was declared to be one
which had been last or stolen some time before, and
of which payment had been stopped. The original
owner of the bill was Mr. Noi'ris, surgeon, in the Old
Jewry ; and when the loss of it was discovered, ap-
plication was made to the Bank, and the amount of
the bill was paid by the latter to the owner, upon his
ving a bond of indemnification. The Clerk of the
Bank, after stating these circumstances, took the bill
from Mr. Smart, and refused to give it up. These
were the facts which had given rise to the application,
and he (Mr. Smart) wished to know whether the Lord
Mayor had power to compel the Bank to give up the
Bill, or what other remedy he had?
The LORD MAYOR—" I cannot take such a view
of the present case. I certainly do not think the Bank
have acted criminally, and it appears to me that you
have no other remedy than to enter an action against
the Bank for the recovery of the bill, unless you can
find the person of whom your son received it. lie
should not have taken a bill for such an amount with-
-out. knowing the name and address of the person
who paid it."
Mr. Smarr—" The idea of contending at law
with so powerful a body as the Bank of England, is
so appalling to an humble individual like myself, that
I would sooner submit to the loss than commence an
action. Ido think, however, that my case is one of
excessive hardship, and that the conduct of the Bank
is oppressive and unjust."
The Lono MAyon--e, f agree with you perfectly
that the case is a hard one; but for my own part I
think the conduct of the Bank quite justifiable, the
amount of the bill having been paid by the Bank to
the owner. I cannot in any way interfere."
Mr. Smart then withdrew.
MARLA° no tic n- srrneET—Lieuten ant GeofFry Night-
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ingale, of the Grenadier Guards, was brought up to
this Office, yesterday, charged with a breach of the
peace, under the following circumstances : Mr. De-
nison, of Edward-street, Manchester-square, deposed,
that about 12 o'clock the preceding, night as he was
sitting with his wife and some company in the draw-
ing-room, he was alarmed by hearing a noise like a
pistol at his window, which threw the ladies into such
a fright that Mrs. Denison fainted. He went to the
window, and found that some person had thrown up
a large stone, which had shattered the frame, broke
two squares of glass, and might have done great mis-
chief to some person, hadit not been thus retarded in
its progress. Soon after a watchman informed him
that the person who committed the outrage was in
custody, and on going down into the st'ivet, he dis-
covered the prisoner, who acknowledged that a Gen-
tleman who was in his eolnpany, and intoxicated, had
thrown the stone, and had made his escape.-IThe de
fendant admitted that his friend had broke the win-
dow ; but he felt himself in honour bound to conceal
his name—Ordered to find bail.
A journeyman taylor, calling himself Mason, but
whose real name turned out to be Brakes,' charged
Captain Townshend Dame with knocking him down,
late on Saturday night last, in Hanover-square. The
I Captain stated that he was walking with a resikecta-
' ble lady at t:-.0 time specified, when the defendant,
passing by, pinched her arm so violently as to cause
I her to scream out, and this led to the assault com-
plained off.—The Magistrate dismissed the case.
HATTON-GARDEN. —Joseph Turner was fully com-
mitted for trial, charged with passing a forged Bank
of England Note to Mr. J. F. Johns, linen-draper,
North-place, Gray's Inn .lane-road.— Catherine Carm-
an was charged with ft-and. She had gone to the
Jerusalem Cotfee-house, in St. John's-square, and or-
dered a dozen of wine. The waiter carried it with
her to the door of a public house near Temple Bar,
where she desired him to give it to her, and she
would bring him out the money. • Ile did so, but
followed her, knowing that there was another door to
the house, and took it from her. As the woman gave
up the wine, the Magistrate said he could not com-
mit her ; but he ordered her to be locked up until
the waiter could inform Mr. Hodgson, a wine mer-
chant, who had been swindled out of a dozen of
wine in the sane manner. Mr. Hodgson and his
man arrived soon after, and recognised a man named
Murphy, who had come to ask after the woman, as
the persdn who had swindled him. Murphy was
committed, and the woman discharged.
J. Leach, of Circus-street, Mary-la-Bonne, was
fined El 1.55. for selling.bread short of weight.
LAIMITII-STREET.—YeSterday Benjamin Tatham
Willis, a young man of most respectable appearance,
was brought up ironed from the House of Correction,
4 to which place he has been committed three times
since his being taken into custody, for final examina-
„tics, charged with being an utterer of forged Bank
IV England Notts.—He was committed for trial. .

A fire broke out at an early hour yesterday morn-
ing at No. 2, Potter-place, Mary-la-Bonne-fields, at
the nursery of a Mrs. Groves. Two children of five
and seven years old were much burnt, and their lives
are despaired of. Mary Alter, the
,servant, is also
much burnt.
Wednesday night Mr. Curry, of Webb's County-
terrace, New Kent-road, was returning from Cam-
berwell in a chaise, he was stopped by three fellows,
who called upon him to deliver up his property ; one
held the horse's head, and the other two stood on
each side the chaise, and rifled his pockets of his
watch, some papers, and a pocket-book, containing a
bill of £250, and several one pound Built of England
notes, with which they decamped,
MURDER AT EPSOM.—May the officer since the
committal of Osborne, the supposed murderer of Mr.
Tessier's gamekeeper, visited him at 1-lorsemonger-
lane jail, when he took off his shoes, and on a minute
examination, he found that the sock, which was cut
out of an old hat, exactly corresponded with one he
had in his shoe, both having some small chaff on
them, and the one as is supposed that was substitu-
ted in its stead was rather longer than the others, and
not the one that was found, as was before stated.—
May at present keeps the 'boos, in his possission for
the trill.