Star.
London, England, 1821-05-18 00:00:00

POLICE

Unosi-llALL.—Cauat.TY.—Wedne;day, a com-
plaint was made at this Office, by Mr. Gooch, the
Churchwarden of Camberwell, against John Gold, a
milkman, and his wife, residing in Southampton-
place, for their brutal treatment of Ann Gold, a
child aged eight years, by a former wife. Mr. Gooch
stated, that on • the preceding evening, four persons
had waited upon the Parish Officers and Committee
at the Workhouse, and entered fully into a detail of;
I the cruel treatment of Gold and his wife to the child
in question ; in consequence of which, he Emt; the
beadle with him to Gold's house, where he saw the
child, who appeared to have been recent,y beaten in
a desperate manner. He had the child stripped, and I
the whole body was a melancholy spectacle of the
effects of barbarity. Her head was bumped from
blows of a large stick; her face black from bruises, lacerated
from the effects Of a rope with which she had been beaten ; the
right eye was greatly inflamed and bloadshot ; her shoulders
were whaled from the blow: she had received; her hands and
feet were shocking to look at, front the effects of chilblains and •
blows inflicted during their continuance. The beadle took the
child to the Workhouse, where it was fed, and properly at-
tended.—Gold and his wife were then placed at the bar; when
Elizabeth Dunster, residing a few doors of, and Fretkriak
Cause, a journeyman baker, living next door to Geld, d: posed
to the child's having been beat on Monday last, when she was
seen in the yard crying, her body much bruisail and very
bloody ; that the father afterwaidi knocked her down with his
fist, and when down kicked her upon the body with his heavy
shoes; that the child was frequently tied by a rope and chain to
a heavy table, her hands also being confined; that the child had
been seen standing for a great length of time in an erect posture,
her head back, with extended arms holding heavy flat-irons and
weights. as a punishment ; that she had been seen in the yard
naked, and wt frequently turned into the streets, regardless of
the weather, until a very late hour.—Additional testimony was
ready, hut the Magistrate deemed it unnecessary ; and, after a
suitable expression of horror at the wanton and brutal conduct
of the prisoners, they sere committed, for want of hail, to
take their trial at the adjourned Newington Sessions in June
next.—The bail required of the prisoners was, themselves iu
XlOO, and four sat- ties in L'2o each, and to give the Parish
Officer of Canabet well twenty-four hours' notice of the same.
Another case of barbarity came before the Magistrate yester-
day.—.feha House was con,n.itted to the Sessions for trial, in,
default of bail, for a brutal assault. The abject of his fury was.,
• his wife Susannah, who bad been confined iu the Hospital from
the Ist instant, and when brought to the Office was accommo-
dated with a chair and a smehing-bottle. She stated various
acts of cruelty by her husband ; that on Good Friday he so ill-
, treated her that site left him with the resolution of never living
with him again; on the Ist of May she went back to him to get
some books and other little articles ; he invited her in, and asked
her to dinner, but she declined every overthre he made ; she went
up stairs m look.out the hooks, when he followed her, abused
and struck her. She ran down stairs, but found the yard-door
shut ; she escaped into the wash-house, and though the door was
bolted, he forced It open, and struck her with a blunderbuss,
which broke. Here she became exhausted, and took a cup of
water. He renewed his barbarity, and exclaimed, with horrid
curses, " I'll finish you!" This he threatened to do two days
before. She had sustained eleven wounds in the head, the loss
of part of her ear, many bruises and wounds on different parts of
the body, and she was so sore as to be unable to lie on one side;
her screanta brought persons to the spot, who took her to the
Hospital, and hint to Horsernonger-lane Jail. Her clothes, or
the remaining tatters, were shewa to the Magistrates, and were
of a description that excited compassion.
Bow-STRECT.—Yesterday John Eosin:an, aged 15, was charged
with stealing a watch from the house of J. Hattersey. (an
Wednesday morning, about half-past one, the prisoner informed
Avis, a patrol who was on duty in the Strand, that he had been
robbed of some money by a young lady in a pima fore, in a
brothel, in Swan-yard, and severely cut in the hand, which was
then bleeding. There was another lad with hint, and Avis ac-
companied them to the house, where he searched for the girls,'
but they were gone. In the morning Avis brought the lad to
the Office. In answer to the usual question by the Magistrate
—" What are you?' he replied, " 'prcntic'd to the tragedy
line, and learns to spout and act under Mr. (.Cooke." The Magis-
trate immediately sent him with the officer to Mr. Cooketwho
declared he had never seen him before. He then said he was
apprentice to an apothecary in Great Chathate-street, 'Lack-
friars-road. The officer took hint there, but received the same
answer, and the same at two or three other places. At length
he put handcuffs upon him, and said he should again bring hint
before the Magistrate. At this he burst into tears, and said the
truth was, he and the other lad went to Covent-Garden Theatre
the night before, and his companion dratred a Gentleman of his
watch; that they pawned it and went to the brothel, and were
robbed of the money. The other lad, he said, had got the
ticket of the watch. Yesterday morning Avis apprehended the
other, and found the duplicate upon him ' • but he declared he
knew no more of it, than that the prisoner had pledged a watch
before they went to the Theatre, and had given him the dupli-
cate to take care of. Avis at length traced the watch to be the
property of Mr. Ilattersey, in whose house the prisoner and his
parents lived. Mr. Ilattersey stated, that he lost the watch
during a temporary absence from his sitting-room on Tuesday
afternoon. The prisoner was coming down stairs when he quit-
ted the room, and when he returned be missed it.—lie was
folly committed. •
TRANSLATING ANT PAUPERISM !—Sir Benjamin Pas:yell, a poor
one-eyed funny old man, in a ragged flannel jacket, dirty red
night cap, and leather apron, was brought before the :‘ faarktraa•
in the evening, by a constable of St. Clement's Parish, charged
with begging. 'The following is the substance of his examination:
Magistrate—Well, what are you a lrams:ator, your
Worship, regular bred and born.
A What !—A &amain:or, your Honour, and nothing but a good
one. (The Magistrate smiled.)
Do you mean a translator of languages?-No, your Grace; I
translates,old shoes into new ones, almost.

Oh, then, you are what is usually called a cobbler?—Yes,
your Highness, by the teolgar, and those of no hatienan.
But cobbling, or translalinz as ycu cell it, must bc a nevcr-
failing trade ; how come you, then, a. be found berging ?
To speak the truth, tranaloliog is good for nothing, since new
shoes are become so desperate cheap : nuw for instance ;
pose your Excellency's shoes wanted mending—(The Magistra:a
laughed)—they'd cost you 4s. Gd. to have thent well sord, &en],
and welted, and they'd be but old shoes after all; and by putting
another shilling, or so, to the money, yoti might buy a capital
pair of Noce ones ;.and so, your Worship, my trade was knocked
up • and I was translated from cubbliag to begging.
Then why don't you take to making new shoes?—Because,
your Worship, I have but one eye; aild that isn't a very good one.
In that case, I suppose, the best thing T can do for you, will
be to translate you to a prison; and from thence to your par:sh ?
—Thank your Worship, kindly. It's the very favour I was
going to az you, I'm sure I shan't lose muck by that traiss`el.n,
for, alas, with all my begging, I've got but oat poor panty Cc-
day.—He was accordingly ordered to be regularly pa ~d to his
parish at Demondsey.

• - SPORTING INTELLIGENCZ

.nrTTING AT TATTERsALLS TEsTraDAT.

DERIW.
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ro.l t;g:lt an,i Charm
Gr tol agst Treeailhlaa 20 toi agst Rosicrucian.
6 to 1 abet Jock

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4 to 1 agst Augusta. 4; to] apt !Ws

SPA-RUING.

SPlion, a first-rate scientific boxer, had a Benefit at the Theft
Court yesterday, and considering the wetness of the day, h Iva
a tolerably good court. There was a want or artists in the Tsy
fession, four pf the principal boxers being in training, end halfas.
dozen others not in condition. There was, however,-solac glmr.
setting-to. After Tom Jones, 26 Master of the Ceremr,oie,,
finished his preparations, Jemmy Lennet commenced the ;pot
with one of his pupils.

Ren. Barns and Rition had a scientific bout, lint most dccidea;
in favour of the former, whose intruding left malty was neraf
out of hi; adversary's face a minute together, and llit.on was :1/3.
able to return.

Sumpsen and Richmond's Wock.—'Fais was a very irtetese4
match, at Sampson's request. The Black fc"ght once, and met.
since which he has been kept, as it were, in a laJt. S.orae ear
edered hint, from his powers, a match for any of the 1,4; enui,
but this set-to has reduced hint to a mere automaton, and <-144
any amateur fvorn matching him. Sampson turned ill as
him, althooth three stone and upwards lighter, drew the claret
trom his nose, and hit him to every part of the stage.
The sports with a fw bouts between some of die
1 rung tailler.s, and the company departed well satished.

SA DLER'S WELLS.—Nothing can exceed 271 e ex.
traordinary success of this elegant little Theatre, shKe
tinder the able arrangement of Mr. Eccitxox,
Entertainments have been of that superior cast, sel,
dom witnes•ed on the boards of a minor listablist.
meat. The Comic Bailetta of Hockey Weler,
creases in public estimati,m; WILKINSON, as the here,
has discovered a new vein for comic humour. and c&a.
thaws to attract crowded and fashionable andn'lces.