Star.
London, England, 1821-11-07 00:00:00

BASTARDY.

A married man, named Heaver, appealed against
an order of affiliation, made on the. oath of Susan
Gamier, charging him with being the father of an
illegitimate child. The female, 23 years of age, was
questioned by the Counsel for the appellant, whether
-she had not•offered to swear it to one East? She
admitted it, but explained it by saying, she was ad-
•ised not to swear, by her mother, who suggested
the time of her confinement would best indicate the
proper individual. She was confined last month, and
had not seen Mr.. East before the April previous.—
To other questions she said, the intercourse with the
appellant was procured by his wife, who used to come
to her mother, and ask perm►ssion for witness to ►keep
with her, her husband being absent, while in fact he
vas at home, and they all three slept in one bed.—
This was in February, and happened repeatedly.. She
had, however,.another sweetheart soon after.
• The Counsel for the appellant said, he could pro-
duce a bosom friend of the deponent's, who had re-
peatedly heard her w.sert East to be the father ; but
he felt that as he could not call either the wife or the
husband, the Court must decide on the credibility of
the testimony they had heard.—Order affirmed.

MA TRIMONIAL LOTT ERY—Monday last, according
to custom, on the sth of November, under the will tiC
Mr. RAINS, formerly a brewer in Wapping, six
maidens, educated in his hospital, in Fawden-fields,
Wapping, met at the Treasurer's house to draw lots,
tinder the will of the founder, fur a prize of 1:100 as
a marriage portion. The husband of the successful
candidate must, by the rules, be a mechanic belong-
ing to the parishes of St. John, Wapping, St. George
in the East, or St. Paul, Shadwell ; he must not be
a sailor, soldier, or waterman ; and he must have tes-
timonials of a good character. The young woman
must have attained the age of twenty-one, and have
lived three years in one place as a hired servant,
with strict Iropriety. A very decent and pretty-
looking young woman drew the prize.
COVENT-GARDCC—Last night GOLDSUITII.II fa-
vourite Comedy of She Stoops to Conquer, was per-
formed at this Theatre, when Mrs.CIIATTERLaIt, from
the Haymarket Theatre, made het first appearance on
these boards, in the character of Miss Hardcalk.—
This Lady's vise in her profession has been progres-
sive, from her first appearance at a Minor Theatre
to die present time; and she now holds a very pro-
minent station in the line of characters which she
takes. Her reception last night was highly flauerin,
and her performance such as justified the audience in
the approbation they bestowed upon her. Her ir.-
tcrview with younli Marlow, whilst he labours under
the error of supposing her a bar-maid, and in which
he boasts of the rank which himself supported in his
female circle, where he was known as the agreeable
rattle ; and the iirchness of her manner, when dis-
covering herself to him in her real character, were
finished pieces of acting; and the impression which
her whole performance made was extremely favour-
able. LISTON'S Tony Lumpkin was excellent, as usual.
The House was well tilled, and the Flay went off with
&OIL—The Farce of Brother and Sister followed, in
which Miss HALLANDB played Deese hadordlorthe
second time, and was again rapturously encored in
semi of her sour.

POLICE.

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TIRE GAMISTERS.--.A. Barnett, at whose honsfethel
hazard, and rouge et noir tables were discovered by the
Police on the night of Saturday, the 27th of October,
appeared with Counsel, yesterday, at Union-Hall
Office against the information, having been admitted
to bail for that purpose when first brought before the
Magistrate. Two informations exhibited, by Mr.
Reeves, the Chief Clerk of the Office, were read.—
The first charged the defendant with having set up
and maintained at his house, No. 14, Lambeth-road,
a certain fraudulent game, to be determined by the
chance of dice, called hazard, which the informa-
tion stated Mr. Reeves was ready to prove by a cre-
dible witness. The second information charged him
with having played at the abovementioned game.
Mr. TURTON, Counsel for the prosecution, stated,
that Mr. Reeves, in exhibiting the information, was
solely actuated by a sense of duty to the Public, and
a desire to suppress the highly immoral practices that
had taken place at the defendant's house for a length
of time. Mr. Reeves, he added, would not take any

part of the penalties.
Mr. CHAMBERS, one of the Magistrates who sat
upon the occasion, said, that he had requested Mr.
Reeves to endeavour by every possible means to have
the intolerable nuisance caused by the defendant's
house put a stop to. The worthy Magistrate said, he
had done so in consequence of various letters he had,
received from parents, statiag the existence of the,
evil, and deploring the injuries they sustained by it.
Mr. TURTON proceeded.—The case, he said, did
not require any argument. The information had
been copied verbatim from the case of the King v.
Liston," which had been decided by Lord Kenyon to
be clearly within the meaning of George 11. by which
the penalty for keeping a hazard-table was 02,00, and
for playing the game, £5O.
Mr. TuirroN, to prove his case, called Joseph Mil-
ler, a yoeng man of genteel appearance, who was
one of those taken at the defendant's house when the
officers went to pet form their duty.
The witness stated, that he knew the defendant's
house, No. 14, Lambeth-road ; was there on the 26th
of October front ten till twelve; saw a rouge et noir
table in the room he was in : there were several per-
sons present, and hazard was played while he was
there. Callaghan was the groom-porter of the night,
and regulated the game, which was played with box'
and dice. He did not see any one act as master, the
defendant sat at the table and played himself.
In reply to questions put to him by Mr. Coma-
I IRKS (the Magistrate), the witness stated, that when
rouge et noir was played, the defendant paid the
winnings and drew the losings. The rouge et noir
table in the early part of the night was placed over
the hazard table, and was generally removed about
nine o'clock to allow hazard to be played. The rouge
et noir table was removed by defendant's direction.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, Counsel for the tefendant, con-
tended that there WAS no evidence of his having set
up and maintained a hazard table ; indeed, the in-
ference was the contrary, for it was proved that he
was one of those who played at the table in question,
between which and setting it up there was the same
difference as between buying a leg of mutton and
keeping a butcher's shop.
The Magistrates, after a short consultation, de-
clared that the offence was proved, and the defendant
was liable to :he penalty of £2OO, which the Act did
not allow them to mitigate.
Mr. Anot.enes said it was the defendant's deter-
mination to appeal to the Sessions.
The second information against the defendant for
having played at the gan:e of hazard. was then
proved by the same witnesses, on which he was con-
victed in the penalty of 1:30.
Mr. Anosenes Stated, that the defendant would
also appeal from the second conviction ; and he irs
consequence gave bail in the amount of £6OO, to
abide the eveat of the appeal.
Two persons who were present at the, time the an.
cers visited the tables, were also convicted in penal-
ties of £5O each, for having played at it on the night
they were taken.
MANSION-HOUSE.—A warehouseman to Mr. Kemp,
wholesale grocer, in Distaff-lane, was charged on
suspicion of being accessary to robbing his master to
the amount of £2OO. Mr. Kemp stated, the prisoner
locked up the inner door of the collar, as usual,, and
he himself had locked the outer. Next morning, it
appeared, the bar of the outer-door had been forced,
and the inner-door had been unlocked. A locksmith
declared that the lock, which was a patent one, had not
been picked, but opened in a regular w ay, and as the
prisoner had the key in his possession, and did not
come to the warehouse at his usual time that morn-
ing, suspicion alighted on him, and he was appre-
hended. Turupenny, the officer, searched his lodg-
ing, but could not find anything to corroborate the
suspicion. It was ascertained that the goods had
been taken away in a cart, at seven o'clock in the
morning, and that they had been removed from the
cellar by a crane, in the regular way. Tire prisoner
protested his innocence, and urged his former irre-
proachable character to corroborate it. The LORD
MAYOR did not think the evidence sufficient to detain
him, and he was discharged. It is but justice to
add, that some circumstances subsequently came to
the complainant's knowledge, which induced him to
reinstate the defendant in his situation.
A person appeared to answer the complaint of the
Captain of a Dutch vessel for detaining his papers.
It was stated by the Captain, that the defendant
went on board his vessel on its arrival, asked him
who was his broker, and on stating that he should
employ his countryman, Myers, the defendant said
he would do it much cheaper than Myers, and the
complainant gave up to him the ship's papers, under
the supposition that he was a regular broker ; but he
had discovered that he was a mere agent, and wished
to get his papers back. The defendant said, he had
acted as agent, and never represented himself as a'
broker; be had paid the dues of the vessel at the,
,Custom-house, and discharged the pilot at the Tri-,
pity-house, and had done that business which was
done daily by agents : but some one told the com-
plainant that they would do the business a few poundsl
cheaper; when he brought the matter before his:
Lordship with the view of getting bis papers back,
without paying any of the money that-bad been ex-1
pended for the vessel. He was ready to give up the
Mpers on the legal dues being paid. The LORD
AYOR dismissed the complaint, as the dues was
unpaid. The Chief Clerk observed, that the com-

Ohba: of persons usurping the business of brokers,
by obtaining possession of papers against the inclina-
tions of the Captains, had been so frequent of late as
to call for some interference from the Corporation,{
for whom it would be a question, whether persons,
who under another name performed all the business
of brokers, were not liable to heavy penalties?
MARLBOROLIGII-STREET.--A Jew, calling himself
Josephs, was charged with a fraud.—K. Slaney, por-
ter to Lord W. Gordon, stated, that he was standing
at his master's door, when the prisoner informed him!,
he had lost all his money at play, and had nothing
left but his watch, which cost him £lO, but he would
now sell it for £5. The prosecutor, after some chat-
tering, gave him £4 10s. but subsequently found it,
was minus in value IS of the latter sum. It ap-i
peared, however, that a friend of the prisoner had cons
trived to get the watch returned to him after he was,
apprehended, which of course stopped proceedings.
Bow-Sracm—Yesterday, Richard Wood, a boy,
15 years of age, was charged with having stabbed
Charles Setchel Mattock, his fellow-apprentice. The
latter was brought into the Office by his father, and
appeared to be in a very weakly condition. He re-
mained sitting whilst being examined, and seemed,
through want of strength, to experience considerable
difficulty in answering Sir Bierman BIIINIE'S ques-
tions, which were as kw as absolute necessity obliged
him to put. It appeared horn his evidence, that the
two boys are apprentices to Joseph Bartholomew, a
hearth-rug weaver, living at 49, Chur. h-street, Beth-
nal-gieen. Between two and three o'clock in the
afternoon of Wednesday last, an altercation took place
between the two boys in their master's workshop, re-
lative to some worsted, which each party insisted ,
upon getting possession of; upon which a scuffle en-
sued, and some blows were exchanged. The prisoner
then drew his opponent close to the loom of their
employer, who happened to be out of the way at the
moment, upon which were lying a pair of scissors;'
and snatching them up, he grasped them (closed) by
the middle, and plunged the point into Mattock s,
breast ; who then seized him from behind, and en-
deavoured, by pinioning his aims, to prevent him
from repeating the blow. The prisoner, however,
changing the position in which he had held his wea-
pon, opened it, and getting his finger and thumb into
its bows, he continued to stab his antagonist until he
inflicted no less than nine wounds on his arm, and
one upon each of his thighs, which, with the one in
Jiis breast, made twelve in all. Their mistress hearin*
the struggle, called out to know what was the matter.'
to which the prisoner replied, " I hope I have done
for him." The prisoner, when asked what he had to
say for himself? gave pretty nearly the same account
of the origin of the quarrel ; but added, that Mattock
began " clawing and biting of him r upon which he
(the prisoner) said, " Why don't you fight me fairly?
Then if you play foul, I shall play foul," and then
had recourse to the scissors. Their employer stated,
-that the prisoner had been two or three years in his
set vice, and he had never known him to be guilty of
anything of this kind before. He was a very well-
behaved boy, as also was the other. They were both
equally well conducted boys. Mattock's father re-
quested Sir Rimini) Biome to ask him if the pri-
soner was a Sabbath-breaker, or kept late hours? or
whether he would intrust his property to him in the
manner in which he would intrust it to his son? The
witness replied, that certainly lie should not like to
intrust his property to him as he did to Mattock.—
,Sir RICHARD BIRNIE asked him if the boys went to
Church regularly ?—tfe said they sometimes went,
hut not always. Sir Bien A liD BIRNIE: Do you not
know that it is your duty to see that they attend
Church regularly I"—The witness replied that he he-
lieved it was. The father asked Sir RICHARD if be
thought it ailvisable to have the boy's clothes which
he had worn upon that occasion, forthcoming ?—Sir
I RICHARD BIRNIE thought he ought to preserve the
clothes in the same state in which they appeared after
his son was stabbed.—The prisoner's mother, a
wretched-looking widow woman, asked if her son
might not be bailed ?—Sir lticitA no MIME informed
her that the circumstances did not justify his receiving
bail in this case.—A young lad, twelve years of age,
also a fellow-apprentice of the prisoner, stepped for-
ward to describe the affray, at which he said he was
present. He stated, that before the prisoner had
seized the scissors, be saw Mattock's hand inside the
prisoner's collar, but whether he was scratching him
or not, he could not say.—Being here asked, if he
(the witness) had not had a quarrel with Mattock,
and stabbed bins with II pair of scissors twice in the
back, although the other had the generosity to make
no complain: of him? he admitted that he had, but
lie had asked his pardon, and he could have done no
more. The fact was, that Mattock never would fight
fair. The witness, however, expressed his'regret for
what he had done ; and, receiving an admonition
from Sir RICHARD BIRN IE, assured him of his deter-
mination never to repeat the offence.—The prisoner
was fully committed for trial.
J. Birmingham was charged by Mr. Dunn, the
Treasurer of Drury-Lane, with causing a disturbance
at that Theatre on the preceding evening, by forcing
his way in without. paying. The prisoner, who had
been in the watch-house all night, described himself
as a student, residing at present at the Turk's Head,
in the Strand ; and said, that having dined with a
friend, he had taken too much wine, and consequently
did not know what he was doing. Mr. Dunn, not
pressing his charge. against him, as he was only
anxious that the property of the Theatre should be
protected from the invasion, in innumerable ways,
to which it is exposed, the prisoner was discharged,
with an admonition from Sir RICHARD BIRNIR, to
avoid getting drunk in future, which was no excuse
for misconduct, and was a bad mode of pursuing.
one's studies.
Susan May was brought up for further examina-
tion, on a charge of robbing her master. Sophia
AUen stated, that the prisoner had been living, as a
servant, with her father, who keeps the Portland
Arms, Great Mary-la-Bonne-street. On the 80thiof
October, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, hay.
lag asked leave to go out, she went away and never
returned. In the evening of the same day, the wit-
ness missed a watch, a pocket-book with some silver
in it, and severaelpffrarticles
Jeffries,
of fl after a
ahrooersearmsisctwehri'tsohfwhesoeramrinineogdthia.ffiep:-r
cp ula Tt, found James Jefl'ries, after a search of some di -
culty, found the
in King David's-lane, Wapping, and the stolen arti-
cles in her possession. She acknowledged to him
that she bad taken them from Mr. Alkn's.—She was
committed for tEial.