Star.
London, England, 1803-11-12 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bow•srxrcr.—Late on Thurfday evening Moms
Sims and Lewis Kum were brought to this office, and
u.lderwent a long examination, on fufpicion of felo•
rfoufly dealing a boric the property of the Count de
Vandes.

It appeared that the prifoners occupied a ready-
fornifhed houfe in Brompton-row, at fixteen guineas
a month, kept a black livery fervant, and appeared as
men of fafhion• The Count having a boric to dif-
pole of, the prifoner Sims applied to It m to purchafe
it, and after examining the hole, told the Count it
was not for hitrifelf, but he would fend his friend who
wanted to look at it; the prifoner Minim called a
(port time after, and having infpeEled the horfe, laid
it would fuit him if it would run in a gig, and re-
pelled to have it upon trial; to which the Count
contented ; the boric had never been returned, but
, the charge of felony was done away by the prifoners'
Solicitor producing a note written by the Counters de
Vandes, respelling payment for the horfe.
The Magifirate called upon Minna to return the
horfe, which be tefufed to do, declining to give any
farther account, than that it was in his (tables, but
pofitively declined telling where the (tables were. He
was at length perfuaded by his Solicitor, when he
agreed to do it. The hfagifirate calling upon him
to give an account of hirnfelf, he laid he was a native
of Bohemia, and had been in this country nine years;
was an Officer in the army, and produced a warrant,
figned by a Major Hacket, appointing him quarter
mailer, but could not fay he bad ever joined the re-
giment. The Magillrate, on perceiving the name of
Hacket, raid this was the third time a fimilar infiru-
meat had been produced before him, by fwindlers,
and he th. uld certainly apply to the War Office to
know who Major Hacket was.
Sims raid he was at. lurveyor, but could not give
any reference for whom he had done bilfinefs lately.
A filverfenith made a charge againft Sims for ob-
taining a filver tea-pot ; he listed, that the pvifoner
called at his &op. and ordered leveral to be fent to
his hook, for his wife to choofe one, which he ac-
cordingly did, when the prifoner defined his fervent
so ieave one for his wife's approbation, as the was
sot come to town as be expetted. which the fervent
was induced to from the appearance of a livery fer-
vent. and every thing refpeetable about the heufe ;
he made feveral applications at the houfe,, ►ut could
neither obtain the teapot nor money; the left time
he called be found that the prifoners had been preffed
by fo many people that they had made their efcape
from the back of the boule. No felony being proved,
the Magiltrates were compelled to dikharge them.
Mamma Hou sx.—Yefterday the book keeper, and
two porters, of the Bull Inn, Bifhopfgate•llreet. were
fummoned bfore the Lord Mayor, and underwent a
long examination, concerning a (mall paper parcel,
which had been fent by the Bury coach to that Inn,
but was never delivered; which parcel contained 6001.
in country bank notes, and was direeled to Mr. Price,
Maidflonebuildings, Borough. It appeared there
notes belonged to Mr. Kemp, a maltiler. at Sible
Hedingham, in Effex, who had then. as well as
many oth r times. entrulled the coachman with par-
cels without having them booked. This parcel, it
appears, was given to the coachman as what they call
a pocket parcel, who not knowing what it contained,
or the value of it. gave it to the porter to deliver
with carer parcels. . _ .

Thomas •Seres, one of the porters, laid, he remem-
bered teeing a brown paper parcel lying in the ware-
honfe, direded to Mr. Price, on the asth of Oftober,
that the book keeper laid, as it was not in the weigh.
bill he &mild not book it ; but be having the weftern
diftrie to attend to, it was given, with others, to
William Wittman, in whole department it was.
William Wifernan told his Lordatip. he had been
porter at the Bull 1.. r eight or nine years, but had now
left it. He remembered, while there, to have car•
tied many parcels to Mr. Price's ; that he carried
one on the lath of Oaober, another on the 13th.
and another on the ,4th ; that he did not know what
either of them contained ; that when he delivered the
one on the i3tho he was told there thould have been
two delivered the day before, and that the one Duf-
fing contained food. in notes ; that is they had been
given to the coachman as pocket parcels, he did not
take any notice of them till he few the coachman, of
wham be enquired. if he bad parcel from Mr. Kemp
on the sub ? who told him, be did not remember
whether be had or not, but if he had, he left it at
the warebonfe.

Robert Lyal, the book-keeper, being fworn, de
Glared. that be never few any fuch parcel. nor beard
any thing of it, for tome days after ; that no fuch
parcel came in the waybill, and that the coachmen
frequently took up fmaU pocket parcels by the way.
which they fuffered the porters to deliver without
bis mailer having any ernoltunent therefrom.
Mr. Glover, the enachtnaller, confirmed what the
book-keeper had Paid of the coachmen being allowed
to take up p..cket-parcels by the way, as a perquilite,
with which they never troubled themfel ves, not thiak-
ing any perfou would fend Inch valuable property
in that way.
The notes 101 l are of the Braintree, Sudbury. and
Stowmarket, Banks,rione of which have yet appeared.
The perfons were all difcharged upon i:omiling to
appear again, when called upois.
WIIITPCM•PIL.—YeiIerday Miami Brawn, alias
(KWh., was committed for trial, rii4rged with re-
turning from tracfportation before the expiration erf
his tint.