Star.
London, England, 1817-08-04 00:00:00

POLICE.

?Ammo,: Hoc:me—Saturday P. Mobey, S. !FAA,
Mary Welsh, Nay Byrn!, and Mori Deglstrty, were
charged with threatening to take aw .y the life of P.
To illy, who was, some time ago, examined on the
subject of a robbery, in which two men, now in
prison, are sopvsed to have been concerned. A
very respectable person addressed the LORD MAYOR
in favour .1 the men, whose behaviour, he said, was
uniformly mild, and observed that the quarrel was,
in his opinion, a mere Irish row.—The Loan Nlmcost
said, he viewed the case in a different light. There
were many melancfmly instances among the lower
orders of the Irish, of their threats being the forerun-
ners of their actions; and he was the 'More struck
with this application to him, from the resemblance
this case bore to that dreadful prof,: of ferocious re•
venge w:;ich occurred in Ireland—the burning of
whole family. It is a spirit which must be sm
dieted ht re.—P. Tool); said, the defendants had
run up to him in the sm.', called him an infor-
mer, anti other names, and said that his time was
coming ; that he should soon have " a daisy qtliti
over him ;" and " never be waked till tie devil stuck
a firebrand in his jaws." This language, which
meant a violent death, without a moment for sere-
Lance, was accompanied by a gesticulath.n which
never fails amongst the low Irish, to shew that the
intention correspouds with the w:.rds. All those who
made the threat spread out their arms, anti let then
hands drop on their thighs with a loud slap ; and
one of the women discharged the moisture of inn
mouth into his eye.—The defendants denied that
they knew any thing of the matter, but the Loan
MAYOR having allowed them to speak until they
wese encouraged by his attention to shew a little of
their feeling towards the complainant, the women
began to let fly such a volley of abuse, as sliewcd
that he was in very bad hands.—The Loan
" You have convicted yourselves, a; d must fitid bail."
The Gentleman in whose employment the two men
were engaged, became sureties for their good conduct.
The women, however, found it more difficult to ob-
tain bail.

Gust.hum.l..—F. ',wing, aged 16, was charged
by T. ?rant, hisemployer, with embezzling the sum
of agl4 1 Us. Gd. his property. Mr. ?rant said that he
' sent the lad to Sykes and Co.'s banking-house, to re-
ceive the mmey, which he did, hut absconded with it.
A few days after he gave himself up to an Officer.—
He was fully committed.
J. Brown was charged with cbtainining six table
spoons from Eley and Co. silversmith, of'Paternoster.
row.—Mr. Eley, jun. stated, that on the Ist ultimo,
he called and said he wanted six table spoons for his
employers, Bird and S m, of Bartlett's!buildings.—
Mr. Eli recollecting him to have been in Bird and
Sen's employment, deliveteJ him the spoons, but told
him if he came again without a written order, he
would not let him have any thing.—Bird and Son
proved that the prisoner had been diszharged from
their employment eighteen months, and that they had
given him no order to receive goods. The spoons
were found pawned at Fleming's, in Newgate.street.
The priso”er came ten times more to Eley and Co.'s
Ind each time obtained something ; but he always,
sfter the first time, brought written orders. Mr. Eley,
stn. humanely declined prosecuting on any but the
firm fact, for hear the others should amount to forge-
r' s.—Hr was fully committed.
J. liarrir was charged with attempting to extort
money from Mary Norris, who stated, that on Fri.
Jay night the prisoner came to her with a basket, as
it from a Co ich-ofEce, and demanded 2s. 4d. as the
carriage of it. She asked him if he had a ticket; he
slid he hail not, but would fetch one. She told him
she woad yen it ; she did so, and found it to con-
,ain a large paving stone packed up in some straw.
she had not paid the prisoner any money, he
could n .1 be detained on this charge ; however, J.
Perryn.an, servant to Mr. Badcock, bookseller, of
Pat• rnoster.row, stated, that the pres...ner brought a
,irn:lar basket to him, for which he recedaed Ss. 6/1.;
ard when he ..pened it he found in it a stone packed
a, before. The prisoner was formerly a ribbon ma-
out acturer in Foster-lane.—Committed for trial.

J. Baler, a tr)y, was charged with stealinga watch
from noose in Hosier-lane; he watched till the
woman of toe house went to the back-yard, and then
ran to and took the watch from the chimney-piece
she observed him running out, and followed him,
when she saw him give it to another boy, who ran
off with it. The prisoner too might have escaped,
it he had not been injured by a dreadful disease,
which minks the snore his early depravity.—He was
remanded.

Harrah-GAIIDEN.—T. Baler, a jobbing porter,'
was charged with stealing a pocketbook. containing
/317 in Bank-notes, out of the dwelling.house of
Mr. Roberts, Stock-broker, then residing near Bat-
tte-bridge. Mr. Roberts being reinov.ng from Bat-
tle-bridge to Highgate, employed several porters,
and amongst them the prisoner. On getting up that
morning, Mr. Roberts put his pocket-book (met.: the',
head of his bed. In his hurry to expedite the porters
he forgot it. The porters packed up the bed, &c.
and aft:. pocket-book was not missed until the next',
day. Mr. Roberts informed the prisoner of his loss,
who promised to get him the addresses of the other
porters employed. Mr. Robert:, in the mean time
gave information at this Office, and Readjust. learnt
that the prisoner's wife had purchased, since the rob.
berg. several articles of furniture, in consequence of
which he took the prisoner into custody, and searched
his person, when he found the pocket-book concealed
between his shirt and skin, and that it contained a
Bank.cote for 0300. On searching further be found
430 more in notes, concealed in the seat of his ragged
small-clothes ; and in the crown of his bat 445 more,
being within £42 of the sum stolen. The Officer
then took the wile into custody, and on inquiry he
Lund she had bought 46 worth of goods, and reco-
vered the remainder to within sel Ifis. including the
money paid for the goods.—Prisoner was remanded.
Tuesday, Messrs. DaNNISTOUN and,to. Bankers,
Glasgow, were swindled out of a considerable Sum
in 45 and £2O notes of their own bank, by a young
man who came to the bank under pretence of being
Clerk to a commercial house for ' whom they were
Discounting. The sum thus obtained was upwards
of £1,300: on Thursday £9OO of the money was
returned to the bank through the medium of the post
office. The person is not more than 19 or 20 years
of age, and notwithstanding the greatest vigilance,
he has not yet been detected.