Star.
London, England, 1811-09-03 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANstow•Hovn.—Yestetday, Maio Autos was
brought before the LORD MAYOR, and underwent a
long private examination, charged with stealing and
attempting to utter a bill of exchange for 41500. It
appeared that this bill had been drawn at Baltimore,
in Virginia, upon the house of Baring, Brothers, and
Co. in Eishopsgate, and been left at that house for
acceptance; that the Prisoner, being a servant to Mr.
Baring, had somehow got t ossessien of this bill, after
it was accepted, and while in his situation had offered
it on Monday to a Silversmith in Prince's-street, to
be discounted, to pay for a silver urn, but which bill
was not taken. Next day he called at an eminent
finp-merchant's in Union-street, in the Borough, pre-
.e,,ding to be s brewer, near Brighton, and purchased
' £5O worth of hops, and offered this 41500 bill to be
' discounted. The Gentleman suspecting from his
manner he had not come honestly by it, gave a hint
Of it to Mr. Calet in the same line, who told him the
-Prisoner had been with him, pretending he was re-
, commended by some of his friends to get the Bill dis-
counted, but he soon found out the deception, and
dismissed him ; and the Prisoner having gone from
his situation, and the Bill being missing, an adver-
tisement in the newspaper, describing the Bill, and
cautioning any person from discounting it, different
informations were given of the Prisoner having offer-
' ed it ; and on Saturday a young man who had been
seen with the Prisoner, was taken' up as an accom-
' plice, who, to clear himself, took the officers to where
he was, near Islington, where Thomas Sapwell ap-
prehended him, and found in his posiession the bill
for 41500. While being conveyed to prison, he at-
tempjed to escape, and while in the Poultry Compter,
tried to get of by climbing up the chimney, but was
stopped by the iron grating, and was soon discovered
when missed. He said he had this Bill from another
person, whose name at present we decline mentioning.
The prisoner was remanded for further examination.
Getumau..—Yesterday, W. Wats was charged
with having been found, about half-past twelve, on
Sunday morning, with a large deal on his head, for
which he could give no satisfactory account. In de-'
fence, he said, he was accosted by a man, who seem-
ed to be in liquor, and asked him to carry the board
to Smithfield Market, where he was going to erect a
stall.—For this he received a shilling ; but when he
was taken, his employer ran away. J. Graham,
clerk to Mr. Hacket, who keeps a timber-yard, at
Whitefriars, deposed, that on Friday morning he
missed three deals, and, on Sunday morning, six.
He believed, from the texture of the wood, that it
was one of those deals. One of Mr. I-Jacket's Men
was positive that it as a board which belonged to
Mr. Hacket, and which he had in his hand on Satur-
day evening. The Prisoner's master, a patent lamp-
maker, in Shoe-lane, • we him a • ' characte

, gay A very good s
for ten years that he had worked with him. He was
remanded.
D. O'Keefe was brought up by White, a
Recruiting Serjeant of the York Rangers, for an
assault, after he had enlisted him. This descendant
of the famous Kite, of recruiting celebrity, said, that
he had endeavoured to make his man as easy and
comfortable as he could ; but he would not be so, for
he hided aft a row in a public-house in Fleet-lane, and
-beat the Serjeant, as well as two Officers that came
to take him. In his defence, he pleaded drunkenness,
and a wife and three children, and said, 44 By the
Powers, I'm better contented with them, than to go
for a soldier." The man not having been attested, the
Alderman was of opinion that the Serjeant had no
right to detain him ; but he committed him until he
found bail for the assaults.
HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday, five young men
were fined in the penalty of 20s. each, at this Office,
for hunting a bullock through the streets, to the
great hazard of the lives and limbs of his Majesty's,
subjects.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-The two servants Or a
Lady in Manchester-street, who, it was stated a few
days since, were in custody for robbing the house of
their mistress, during her absence at a watering-
place, were fully committed from this Office on Sa-1
turday last. The property stolen was of the valuta*
from five to W6OO. -
Bow-srazrr.—Yesterday, William larkr, johal
Perry, and Edward Camitiell, were brought to the
above Office, in the custody of Mayhew's party. of
the Patrole, and charged before Mr. READ and WI.
NARES with robbing the garden of Mr. Smith, Pare
disc-row, Newington. It appeared, that about nine
o'clock on Saturday night, as the patrole were on
duty between Ball's Pond and Newington-green, they
met the Prisoners • each of them baying a bundle,
. the Patrols asked them what they had got in their
bundles ? they acknowledged that it was fruit, and
that they had stolen it. The bundles, on being exa-
, mined, were found to contain peaches. The Prisoner
i Barber agreed to shew the Patrole the garden from
, whence they had stolen them, and conducted them to
the Prosecutor's garden. The same garden, it ap•
peared, had been robbed on Friday night of peaches
and other choice fruits. The Prisoners were convict-
ed in the penalty of in.
. John Hearn was charged with uttering forged dol-
lars, and committed for further examination.

We are sorry to learn that Lord SPINCERNI Game-
keeper, so often mentioned in the papers as having
been desperately wounded in his Lordship's Park; died
on Saturday night at Wimbledon.
The premises of Mr. T AYLOR, silversmith, of Church-
court, Strand,were broke open yesterday morning, and
robbed of every moveable of plate and gold rings. It is
said the communion plate of the Church is also taken
away, having been deposited in the premises. The
thieves have got clear off. Mr. Taylor has been Sexton
to the Parish many years.
In May last, some robbers broke open the tomb of
the mother of the Sultan Serim, at Constantinople,
and robbed it of gold cloths and precious stones to
the value of one hundred and fifty thousand piastres.
Suspicion alighting on some Schvonian slaves, they
were taken up and put to the torture ; two of? them
refusing to make confession, were impaled in the
streets of Constantinople, and remained alive, but in
dreadful agony, 22 hours.
Sunday afternoon, as a stout healthy looking young
man was walking along Whitechapel-road, he slid-
' denly fell down, expired immediately. He was taken
into an alms-house adjoining the spot, and, speedily
recognised by his brother, residing in Petticoat-lane.

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