Star.
London, England, 1810-08-31 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday, a humoursome youth,
named Levis, was brought before the Lord Mayor,
on a charge of frequently ringing at the door-bell of
Mr. Upton, in Threadneedle-street, to the great an-
noyance and alarm of the inmates of the dwelling.—
Having repeated his exercise for several different times,
he was watched, and caught in the fact. Mr. Upton
gave him every opportunity of apologising for his in-
decorous conduct, but he chose to add insolence to
mischief, and was finally conducted to the Compter,
where reason came to his aid, and he was yesterday
profuse in his expressions of sorrow. Under these
circumstances, and having enjoyed one night's con-
finement, the Lord Mayor, after a wholesome lecture,
discharged him from custody.
Gou.rmai.e.—An old lady, named Stepping, ex-
hibited a complaint against John Curling, and his
wife, for a most outrageous assault. The plaintiff
opened her case with infinite pathos. She said she
was an harmless woman that would do " nothing
to nobody," and that the defendants were Irish people,
who were as wild as savages, and not to be controled
by law or humanity. On Tuesday, the feniale de-,
fondant came to her house, and putting herself in an
attitude of defiance, swore she would give her a
good hiding."—Witness did not chuse to be
threatened in this " unlawful" manner, and she defied
her to do her worst. In an instant she was assailed
by the " vixen," who tore her cap and her hair from
her head, and beat her most cruelly ; while she was
thus employed, her husband came to her assistance,
and added his strength to the assault. Here the
plaintiff, in order to give effect to her eloquence, pro-
du:ed as much hair as would make a moderated size
wig, which she said had been dragged from her scull;
she chewed various sections of her body, arms, &c. on
which were imprinted sundry bruizes and scratches.
Having finished her complaint, the prisoners were
called upon for their defence. They said that the
plaintiff only was in fault, and that they had been
compelled to violence in their own defence.
Several witnesses were then called on both sides,
who, ia order to make the business short, spoke toge-
ther, and created such confusion in the office for some
time, that it was utterly impossible to slip a word in
edgeways, to stop the current of declamation which
poured from all sides.
At length, however, Sir Matthew Bloxham, the
Sitting Magistrate, gained silence, when he ordered
the defendants to pay half-a-guinea to the plaintiff, for
the damage she had sustained. The old lady expres-
sed much regret that the business was not referred to
the Sessions.

A sort of non-tlescrija agent, between a crimp and a
hidnamer, who keeps a warehouse somewhere about
Qucenhithe, brought up a boy to be disposed of as
the Magistrate should think fit. The complainant,
whose name is Askew, stated that the boy was " con-
signed" to him from Scotland, to he apprenticed on
board a merchant vessel, but that he ran away nn
Saturday last, and pcisuaded ahother boy to accom-
panyhim. After this proof of a bad disposition, corn-
pllinant could net thaik of recommending him to
one of his customers, and as h could not afford to
send him back to Scotland, he was anxious that the
Magistrate should do something with him.
The boy, with his own consent, was sent to the
Marine Society.
The traffic for boys, from Scotland, seems to be car-
ried'on upon a regular system ; whether the unfortu-
nate children are sent to market with the consent of
their parents, is another question.
llow-SrnErr.---Early on Sunday morning, the
coachman of John Ord, Esq. of Walharn-green, on
getting up to attend his horses, discovered that his
master's house had been broken open, by forcing the
bars and bolts of the kitchen window ; he alarmed
his master and the butler, when, on examining the
premises, nothing was missed except a great quantity
of plate, but the whole was not taken. Mr. Ord dis-
patched his butler and coachman to give information
of the robbery at the above office. Pearkes, the offi-
cer, went to the house with all possible speed. On
the officer's arrival, he had no doubt but the rob-
bery bad been com-nitted by persons who knew the
house, and where to find the plate ; and on his in-
quiry as to the state of the servants, he was informed
that the footman, Thomas Hall, bad got leave of ab-
sence for a few dap, to go to see his friends at Marl-
borough, and that he had left there for London the
day previous to the robbery, saying he was going off
by the coach early the next morning. Pearkes hav-
ing no doubt but he was the robber, :let off in
pursnit of him ; he learnt that he had been at Mr.
Ord's town house, in Lincoln's Inn-fields, where be
had melted some pewter spoons into bullets. Ile in-
.

quired at several coach offices, whether he bad gone
to Marlborough early on Saturday morning, but at
length found a place taken in his name, at the White
Horse Cellar, in Piccadilly, to go by the Marlborough
coach on Saturday afternoon ; Pearkes, in conse-
quence,went to the White Horse Cellar some time be-
fore the coach was expected to start,and found the foot-
man sitting on a large new packing case; upon which
he took him into custody, and on searching him found
a pair of pistols, and some bullets made from the
pewter spoons, and on breaking open the packing-
case, it contained the whole of the plate of which Kr. •
Ord had been robbed. Pearkes put handcuffs on
him, as he attempted to lay violent hands on himself;
but he said he would do it, as he had robbed the best
of masters.

Yesterday he underwent a full examination before
Mr. NARES, when all the witnesses attended, and were
bound over to prosecute.
At Union Hall, a person named Barnett, an itine-
rant dealer in earthen ware, charged William Harris
with assaulting his wife, his sister-in-law, and him-
self, and robbing him of a bag, containing upwards of
a pound's worth of halfpence.
It appeared that the earthen ware-man and his fair
spouse and sister-in-law had been wetting their clay at
a public house in Kent-street, in which neighbour.
hood he resided, on Wednesday evening last, in com-
pany with the prisoner. The prosecutor had the
treasure, whose loss he now deplored, and which was
from the day's sale of pots and pans, in his hand ;
and when he left the public house, between ten and
eleven o'clock, he was followed by the prisoner. The
prosecutor reached his own house in perfect safety,
and had just deposited his treasure in the windowseat
of the room, which served him for parlour, kitchen, and
hall, when he was alarmed by a bustle behind him ;
and, turning round, he perceived the fair partner of his
bed prostrate beneath the furious assault of the priso-
ner ; who was brandishing a poker over her and her
vanquished sister-in-law. The prosecutor immedi-
ately endeavoured to secure the prisoner, but in the
confusion he escaped; and what disconcerted him (the
prosecutor) still more, the money-bag disappeared with
him. The prisoner, who is a noted master of the pu-
gilistic art, did not deny having assaulted the females
who appeared at the Office, and whose feature: carried
conviction to the mind of every beholder ; he denied,
however, in strong turns, having any knowledge of
the money, and said he could produce witnesses in
support of his assertion. The Magistrate, in com-
pliance with the prisoner's request, remanded him
for re-examination to-morrow.

Yesterday Elizabeth Thompson, alias Mitchell, was
fully committed from Hatton Garden Office, charged
with stealing two pieces of muslin from the shop of
Mr. Hewett, linen-draper, in St. John's•street.

James Tatter, aged 16, was committed for re-ex-
amination, charged with attempting to extort money
from a gentleman at Pentonville, under a threat of
prosecuting him for unnatural practices.

Last Monday, during the absence of the family,
who were at work in the fields, the house of Mr.
Joh nson,farmer, of Lanvi no, Herefordshire, was broken
open, and robbed of £33 in bills, and two watches.
The thief left behind him, a tyler's hammer, which,
it is hoped, will lead to a discovery.
Tucs lay se'nnight the body of Mr. Willidm Snow,
of Exeter, was found drowned in the river ENe. lie
had breakfasted at Cowley Bridge, and on his ret!:rn
went into the water to bathe, opposite the Red Cow
public house, from which place the body had floated
as tar as the head wear, a distance of more than a
quarter of a mile. The deceased had been many
years principal Clerk in the employ of Mrs. Kingdon
and Sons, and bore an unblemished character.

A few days since an Inqurst was taken at Long-
town, in Herefordshire, before William Petershall,
Esq. on the body of Joan Gwilerain, who was found
in her house on Thursday the 16th instant, so dread-
fully beaten and injured that she died on the Satur-
day following. From the evidence it appeared, that
the deceased was a person advanced in years, and
that she resided alone in a house in the parish of dlo-
dork, and it was generally reported that she always
kept a considerable sum of money in the house. The
murderers appeared to have obtained an entranze into
the house during the night, between Tuesday and
Wednesday, by removing some part of the tiles from
the roof, and the old lady having secured the door of
her chamber, they bad forced up some of the boards
of the flooring of the room over that in which she
slept, and thus obtained admission to her ; when it
appeared from the situation in which she was disco-
vered they beat her with a large stick till they sup-
posed she was dead. She remained in that state un-
discovered till Thursday morning,when she was found
by a neighbour lying near her bed nearly lifeless, she
survived however till the Saturday, when she ex-
pired, without having been able to give any account
of her murderers. The Jury returned a verdict of
Wilful Murder against some Person or Persons unknown.
Three people are in custody on suspicion, viz. a mo-
ther, her son, and a female friend.

A melancholy accident happened near Boston on
Thursday se'nnight. The day having been extremely
sultry, a number of boys, on *their dismissal from school
in the afternoon, went down to the haven to bathe :
they had left the water, with an intention of dressing;
but in playing on the sand, some of them were so co-
vered with dirt as to make it necessary, ere they put
their clothes on, to dip again. On goins into the
water a second time, they imprudently atEmpted to
cross the current in the channel occasioned by the
outfall of the. Witham ; in this attempt (melancholy
to relate !) three out of seven of the boys were car-
ried away by the strength of the stream, and, before
assistance could be obtained, were drowned ! Two
of the sufferers were brothers—sons of Mr. Joseph
Jackson, guard of the Boston mail-coach ; George,
aged 13, and James, 1‘..) years of age ; the other was
a son of the Rev. Mr. Plans, a dissenting Minister of
Boston. More than two hours elapsed ere any of the
bodies were found ; the agonized feelings of the fa-
thers, who paced the shore in pitreuzied anxiety for
the recovery of their children from the water, ex-
cited the heart-felt commiseration of every spectator.
Dr. and Mr. Crane, on the earliest mention of the ca-
-1 tastropbe, humanely hastened to the spot, with the
\ apparatus for resuscitation ; but the length of time
which bad elapsed before the first body was found,
!destroyed all hopes of the successful application ut.
Clair skill.