Star.
London, England, 1828-01-10 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL,
La= Tasiouts.--Mr. Thomas Robins, a punchy book-keeper out
of employ, was placed at the bar to answer the complaint of a
hackney coachman.
" At twelve o'clock last night this ere JokUentori calls me off of
the stand lin Sinsgus•street, and stuffs two Ladies and his-self into
ilia:ch, and takes and orders m to Rastcheap ; but as we was
s long through Little Britain, the Ladies pulls me up, and said
they wouldn't ride any further with seek a blackguard.' --So they
an got gut ; and as Mr. Robins had no money to pay his fare,
coachee gave him in charge to the watch.
Mr. Robins, in his defence, very solemnly averred that the
Ladies intruded themselves into the coach without his knowledge;
and that if the coachman had driven him to Rastcheap, he should
there have found the Means of paying him.
" That is not true, your Worship," said the constable who bad
him in chat ge, " for he put me to the trouble and expense of send-
uot-only. to Rastcheap, hut to tieveral other places, after money
and friends, but nobody would own him. Besides which be was
very abusive, because I wished him to refund what I had paid the
messengers on his account ; and, though I am net in the habit of
saying much about my expenses, I hope you wiU allow them against
such a fellow as this.
" Fellow:" exclaimed Mr. Robins—" now, since you have hurt
my feelings by calling me a fellow, I will give you tit far tat. Your
Worship, be was drinking girt hot all night long, and could hardly
see what be was about."
The constable admitted the gin but, but denied its consequences,
affirming that they bad only half a pint of gin among four of them,
and be pleaded an excessively cold night in excuse of it.
The A I.DZIMA N ordered Mr. Robins to pay the coachman's fare,
and also his less of time in attending to its recovery ; and directed
the Clerk to report the constable's giu hot to the Deputy of his Ward.

BOW-BTREET.
•
Mr. Thomas, the constable of Covent Garden parish, whose
acceptance of office seems to have got him into" a sea of troubles,"
bad a private interview with Mr. Mewl, on Tuesday evening, for
the parpose of .Informing him of an infamous attack which had
'been made upon the peace of his family by a ruffian on that day.—
While be was absent from home, a tall fellow called at his house,
and told his wife, in terms or the roughest kind, that her husband
was a d—d informing rascal, and that be might prepare for the worst,
for he would not be long an inhabitant of this world. He went on
in this style for some time, and by bullying and menaces so frightened
Mrs. Thomas as to make her seriously ill.
Mr. HALLS expressed the strongest indignation at this ruffianly
attack, and ordered a placard to be immediately posted, offering a
reward for the apprehension of the offender.
MARL BOROU G 11-STREET.
Yesterday Colonel M--= and Mr. Richard C— were brought
up to this office from St. Pancras watchhouse, charged with not
having paid for their dinner at a coffee-house the day before, and
also with not having paid for a drive in a cabriolet.
William Snell, waiter at the Symond's Inn Coffee-house, Chan-
cery-lane, stated that the two prisoners came to his master's
coffeehouse the day before, and ordered dinner for Colonel hl7-
aud his friend. After dinner, and a good potation to wash it I
&vet?, witness observed the prisoners making some movements,
which led him to suspect that they wished to go away without'
paying their account, and he, the tefore, immediately furnished
them with their bill. The Cokbiel said that it should be paid,'
but that they wanted to have a cabriolet first called. When k
arrived, it was announced to die Colonel and his companion, who;
put on their bat', and went to the door, followed by the witness, be
expectation of being paid. They. however, instead of paying himoull
making any apology, jumped into the cabriolet, and ordered the
driver to drive off as quietly as he could to Kentish Town. Thal
driver accordingly gave his horse the whip, and drove off in gallant
style. The waiter followed, and though on foot, kept them in view
till they arrived at the turnpike, Hampstead-road. There they
were obliged to make a halt, as the gate keeper would not let then,
pass without paying • his toll. The prisoners had no change, but
desired the driver to pay, and said they would settle all at the same
time. He, however, suspecting that he had got bad customers'
refused, and made the prisoners alight. In the meantime witness
came up, and on telling how the Colonel and his companion be-
.haved to him, he and the driver called a watchman, and gave them
In charge.
Richard Box, driver of the cabriolet, No. 52, confirmed the eel-
dente of the former witness as far as he was concerned.
The Magistrate said, that as for the non payment fur the dinner,
and the potation which followed, that did not come within his
jurisdiction. But with regard to the driver's fare, he was autho-
rised to compel payment of it, or to punish them for refusing to
pay it.
The Magistrate then asked what was the driver's charge? and
he was answered 45.
The waiter proved that Colonel IL was drunk, and the driver
corroborated it.
The Magistrate ordered the Colonel to pay ss. for being drunk,l
and also ordered him and his companion to pay 4s, the driver's fare.
The prisoners, however, had no money, and were relieved only
by the arrival' of a baker from Kentish Town, who lowered the
Colonel into a Captain, and paid both the ss. and the 4s. for the
prisoners; and they were discharged.
QUEEN-SQUARE.
Yesterday considerable interest was excited at this Office, in con-
sequence of t S informations having been laid by Byers against Mr..
itlumtord, late the proprietor of several of the Vauxhall stages, for
running his coach a different route to what was expressed in his
licence. Mr. Law, however, who appeared for Mr. Murnford,
urged three objections to the information, which, the Magistrate
deemed fatal, and condemned the worthy informer in costs.—Byers
then wished to know, if he had laid his information in a certain
way, if it would have been deemed right? but the Magistrate said
he did not sit there to answer questions, and Byers made his exit
in dudgeon.