Star.
London, England, 1811-11-29 00:00:00

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g-FoggrAD: Yesterdnr Jskaiefferd
waslsiciiight• to the office kJ: re=exirturhalr* on sus,
6iclori of having cerlittiitted'llivers footpaielhheri*
DOnaldSolll9a eonsfable,stated that on Tuesday he Wei
sentfor to a paernbrokOr's,inChartaos-street,to take the
prisoner into custody, on suspicion of having Stolen
the %vats* he offered to pledge. He was proceeding
to search- him, but the prissoner resisting her search-
ing his breeches pocket, he tied his hands, elsongli
un-
fortunately not secure, he having tied* piece of h 4
cleat in with the cord, 'and as he was tut to seetch
his breeches pocket again,the contrived to slip his
hands from the cord, and strike Donaldson a violent
blow on the breast, which nearly knocked him back-
wards, however, he recovered himself and gave the
prisoner a blow, notwithstanding. which he escaped
out of the shop. Donaldson pursued him, calling out
Stop thief ! the prisoner taking up Bedfordbury, into
Hornsby's livery-stables, whichlortunittely was not
a thoroughfare, and Donaldson again secured him
after which he effectually searched him, and I iund
in his breeches pocket that he had such a particular
objectio' to being searched, a pawnbroker's dupli.
cate for a watch.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, who were robbed en Sunday
evening, in a single-horse chaise, on their return to
Kingston, the particulars of which we stated yester-
day, attended, and identified the watch which,the
prisoner offered to pledge, to be the same Mr. Smith
was robbed off, also a pocket-book, ,which Donald-
son found upon the prisoner, to be Mr. Smith's pro-
perty. Mr. and Mrs. Smith
.identified the prisoner
to be the robber; but Mr. Reid, the Magistrate, deem-
ed Mr. Smith sufficient to bind over to prosecute.
Another charge of a footpad robbery was prefer-
red against the prisoner.
! Mr. Charles Pepper, a builder, of Kingston, said,
that on Thursday evening last, between hve and six
o'clock, as he was returning home in a single-horse
chaise, he was stopped by a single footpad at the
top of Robin Hood-hill, weo presented a long pis-
tol, and demanded his money ; he gave him two one
pound Bank of England notes and .a dollar. The
robber then demanded his watch, which he also gave
him, together with a ribbon aid gold cornelian seal,
with the letter P. engraved on it, and which is the
same as produced. by Donaldson, which was the one
that the pawnbroker's duplicate was for, which Do-
naldson found in his breeches pocket, and that which
the prisoner was so reluctant at being found when he
was about to be searched. Mr. Pepper further said,
he thought the prisoner was the robber.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
Samuel Alger, a publican in Long-acre, was charged
with suffering gambling in his house. Caroline At-
kinson said, that on Monday afternoon, between two
and three o'clock, she went to the prisoner's house,
and saw her son playing a game the name of which
she did not know, with balls and, dice, on a table co-
vered with green cloth. James Harris, of Long-
acre, said he cautioned the defendant about sik weeks'
or two months since against suffering gambling in his
house ; but he treated it with inattention, saying he
!got his living by it, and had a right to do so it he
He was convicted in the penalty of 40s. •
I.TeroN Hada..-Yeserday Ann Marcos and Jane
Turale.y were brought Mote the. Sitting Magistrate,
by CoHingbourn, charged by Mary Bishop, landlady
of the John O'Groat's public house, St. George's-
fields ; the first with stealing pewter pots, and the
other, who is a dealer in old iron, with receiving them.
It appeared, that Mason, who lives near the John
O'Groats, was iii the habit of going there frequently
to beg pump water ' • and being well known to Mrs.
Bishop, used to be des'red' to proceed to the wash-
, house, and accommodate herself ; at length it was
'observed, she regularly 'came at a time ashen a num-
'her of pots were deposited in the wash-house fir the
purpose of being %cowered ; and Mts. Bishop having
lately lest a number of pots, suspicion attached to.;
the prisoner. The nest time she came she was
watched, and detected with a pot in her possession ; ;
at first she denied, having taken any other, but on the I
officer being sent for, she confessed she had tau en se-
veral, which she had melted down, and sold the metal
at sd. a pound, to Turnley, the other prisoner. Col-
lingbourn went immediately to Turnley's house, and ,
whilst searching, observed her endeavouring to con-
ceal something, which proved to be a lump of pewter,
weighing within an ounce the same weight as a pint
pot. Several other similar lumps of pewter, which is
worth at least 9.1 a pound, were found by *the officer.
The Magistrates, however, were of opinion, there was
not sufficient evidence on which to commit Turnley
as a receiver, but fined her 40s. and costs, tinder the
Lead bud Iron Act. Mason was fully committed
for trial.,

We understand that eitifit persons were killed by
the explosion at Waltham Abbey, but the dims._ ge
done to the town was not of much importance: The
press-house first exploded, and then'the corning house,
which accounts for the two shocks that were distinctly
felt in Many- parts of the Metropolis.
In the evening of the I.4th inst. a Man went to the
house of Major I'liotnpson, at Smith Shields, and de-
manded from the woman-servant, who was alone in
it, her master's horse, for which he said he was sent
by the Major : she reftised to let him hive it, doubt-
ing his authority. The man Went avhy, and return-
edin half an hour, and insisted peremptorily tiOnn
having the horse, which he said the owns rim:Medi-
ately wanted : the prudent servant as peremptatily, ,
refused, without a note from her master's own hand.
The villain then •struck her a vit,lent blow over the
mouth, which she courageously returned wilt a
i knife, on his face, and he decamped bleeding. The
i servant immediately gave the alarm to the neigh- 1
1 bours, and he was pursued, but without effect. ~
The following very melancholy accident happened
at hie's/cattle' yestertlay se'rrnight i.---,As two maser
joiners, 4 the name of Redhope and Wilson, were
sitting together in the Grey 'Horse public;honse, on
the quay-site, the, wife of the fiwnier enure la, nual in
very intemperate langtillib- upbraided -her husltarid
for sitting there. . This kunduct produced such a vio-
-1 effect upon his mind, that he rushed out of the
1 house with intent to• throw himself- over the quay t
l•whieb ben: tg suspected by his wife and Wilson, they
both followed td pi eveat ir,_ but, so great was their
berry, that they 1,11 thvie fell into the dam together.
Wlistan aid Radhope's wife were both .saved, but
:Ridbospir'itiittself Watfunforttnuttely drisaned. His
body -I* itmead,tesaitaikeriftrdi-iit titi4llll4l. -