Star.
London, England, 1818-08-25 00:00:00

POLICE.

3fatalcm Houss.—The case of a man and wo-
man, named Ryan, charged with obtaining a quan-
tity of tea and other articles, by fraudulent means,
from several wholesale dealers in the City, was again
investigated yesterday. The principal witness called
to fix the charge against them was a man named
Isaac Bull, whose appearance and manner were
rather outre, and whose conduct was still more ex-
traordinary. He was the porter who carried the
goods to the supposed warehouse of the prisoners,
and afterwards retired to a public house to meet and
settle with the parties. Being asked to swear to such
facts as he knew of the matter, be stammered and
hesitated ; shook his head most gravely, and at
length assuming the character of a Quaker (whose
dress he partly wore) protested against taking an
•ath. He was-ready, he said, to affirm any thing !
The LORD Mayon said, that in a criminal case that
would not do, and inquired if the witness belonged to
the Society of Friends ?—lsaac rep'acd, No ! he had
been for years endeavouring to gain admittance
amongbody,
that
but as yet had failed. His father
had struggled to do the same, but waitlisowned by
" the faithful," in consequence of his marrying his
(the witness's) mother, who bad b,!zni previously dis-
enrolled from the Society. IL was himself, how-
ever, determined to persevere, and as his acceptance
depended solely upon a st...ict and stern obedience to
certain rules, he must decline the dangerous risk of
swearing upon oath.—The LORD Mayoa remonstra-
ted with Isaac upon the folly of such conduct, and
pointed out the 'difference between: a mere declara-
tion of the truth upon oath (in order to the attain-
ment of justice) and the obstinate adherence to a
form, for the Test-pose of pleasing a party, who for
years, it appeared, refused to recognise him.—lsaac
said he considered himself at present " more than
half aQu titer." Ile was determiiiid to be one alto-
! gether, whenever he could secure admission among
" the faithful," and nothing, therefore, not even lite
itself, could tempt him to swear !—The LORD M A YOU
seeing that all hopes of extracting evidQnce from this
extraordinary clemi.gnakrr were vain, ordered the
prisoners again to be remanded, in the hope of ob-
taining better testimony.
BOW-STRECT.—Yesterday Mr. William Ford Yes-
frr, who keeps a boarding and day school in the vil-
lage of Feltham, was charged with brutal and cruel
t‘latment to one of his scholars—William Henry
Pritchard, a boy between five and six years of age,
the son of John Adam Pritchard, who keeps the
Thatched House public house, in Webb's-lane, Ham-
mersmith. The circumstances of the case, as de-
tailed by the complainant, are at once so disgustingly
filthy, and so frightfully savage, that we spare our
Readers the detail ; nay, we hope and believe that
the alarm of the parent has exaggerated the case be-
yond all resemblance to the real truth, as well as
beyond all probability.—The prisoner was ordered to
find bail, to answer for the offence at the Sessions.

Ai~nteoneuGm-srrteer.-The greater part of yes-
terday was taken up in re-hearing cases of uttering
Forged Notes, and most of the Ft isoners were fully
committed for trial.

W. Mappersley, the hot who was unfortunately
shot in the hand a few dayi ago, by some gentlemen
who were firing at sparrows in the Target ground
near Bagnigge-Wells, is in a fair way of recovery.
Mr. arming, of Oxford-street, and Mr. Roam, of
Holborn. , two of the gentlemen on the ground at the
time the accident happened, have each presented the
boy's father with ten pounds, and satisfied the officer
for his trouble. In consequence of which all other
proceedings have been waived. The Magistrates
have taken the proper means to put an end to such
dangerous proceedings in future.
A few days since, the dwelling house of Mrs. Gil-
lingham, at Milford, Hants, was discovered to be on
fire. An express immediately went to Lymington, for
an engine, which arrived in time to save the adjacent
buildings, but the whole of the interior of the house
was consumed. lebeing strongly suspected that the
house was designedly set on fire, Mrs. Gillingham
was immediately taken into custody, and on Monday
se'naight underwent an examination before the Ma-
gistrates at Lymington ; when the evidence adduced
was so strong as fully to commit her for trial at the
next Assizes.

Ixutmsr.—Yesterday an Inquest vrai held at the
Bridewell, for the City, on the body of A. Fowler, an
African youth, 17 years old, who was committed by
the Lord Mayor, for a month, on the 24th of July,
for acts of varuicy, and who died on Thursday last
of a diccrJer in Ms bowels. In the course of the exa-
mination it turned out, that there was no hospital in
the prison, nor any to sit up with the sick, which the
Governor remedied by paying one of the prisoners
oat of his own pocket. This called for the animad-
versions of the Jurymen, and the Coroner allowed
them to record their sense of the impropriety of such
want of regulation being suffered to be continued,
by entering the following verdict. " The deceased
died of a bowel complaint, in Bridewell Prison, aad
the Jurors beg leave to add, that they conceive it to
be of the last importance, that a part of the said Pri-
son
should be used as an hospital, and that persons
should be immediately appointed to attend upon the
sick who are committed to the said Prison.

DUBLIN, AUGUST 21.—1 n consequence of the rob-
bery recently committed at the house of Mr. Lucas, at
Woodlands, the Police have been on a sharp look
out: early yesterday morning the peace officers Gil-
bert and Smith, apprehended Patrick Dalian and
Michael .111,1Ccon, in French-street, and confronted
them with the clerk of the pawnbroker, where Mr.
Lucas's watch had been pawned, who immediately
identified the prisoners as the persons who pawned
the watch ; they were in consequence committed.—
Mr. Ateormick, silk manufacturer, of Bridge-strict,
in the city of Dublin, was summoned before the Ma-
gistrates of the Head Office of Police, on the com-
plaint of Sarah Bannin and Anne Ryan, silk winders,
for paying them less wages per pound for the wind-
ing of silk, than what was allowed and settled by the
Dttblin Society, agreeatly to the Act of Parliament.
After a long andtedious discussion, there being three
adjournments, and Counsel being heard on both
sides, Mr. M'Cormick was convicted of giving less
wages than was aiEred in the Silk-winders Sche-
dule of prices to these poor women, and judgment
passed accordingly that he, M'Cormick, should for-
feit 50/. agreeable to the flit of Parliament for the
bents regulating the Silk Manufacture al in that ca-,e
made and provided.