Star.
London, England, 1820-08-16 00:00:00

POLICE.

Mattstos-flout—A young man, tinned Bortmes was yes-
terday charged with having robbed his employers, Messrs. Wil-
son and Co. silk-mercers, of property to a considerable amount.
it appeared that considerable quantities of silk, Su. had re-
cently been missed from the stot.k of Messrs. Wilspn, and that
the circumstance of a pawnbroker's ticket having been acci-
dentally dropped by the prisoner, who was in their employment
as a porter, caused suspicion. to fall upon him, and he was
ac-
cordingly searched, when the duplicate of a piece of silk, 70
yards long, was found upon him. The sbopman to a pawn-
'broker deposed that the primmer pledged a piece of silk, 70
yards long, en the 7th ibitellt. The piece was produced and
identified by one of the firm as their pmperry.--Comositted.
Guaratata.—G. Watkins was filly committed for stealing'
I two reams of paper from the door of a stationer's shop, in
King-street, Smithfield. He admitted the charge, and said he
I was in a state of starvation.

G. liele,tritepresentd a cheque for paymeit at Messrs.
Chiles, -Aida had been stoien.froun A. Mortis, Rog. the High
Bailiff of • Westminster, was reexamined and committed. No
net► evidence was adduced against him.
Hemrox-Gaanix.—Yesterday se►eral lads were examined,
charged with bathing after eight o'clock In the Regent's Canal:
taey were severely reprimanded for the Indecency of bathing
at so late an hour of the day, when many females walked• that
way, and threatened to be convicted in the penalty on a repe-
tition of the offence. They were then discharged.

Thursday a forgery on the Bank of Scotland's
guinea note made its appearance in Glasgow. Two
of the notes were passed, they are very coarsely en-
graved, dated, May,
Monday night, a daring gang . of robber! broke
into the bacon drying-house of Mr. Wilwood, bacon-
merchant, in Goswell-street, and succeeded in carry-
ing off several flitches of bacon.-
Sunday eycning, as Captain WATSON, R.N. was
retulning to his house in Nelson-square, just as he
turned round by the Rev. Rowland Hill's Chapel, he
happened to make a.false step, when a person came
up and pretended to be very anxious about Captain
W.'s safety, and in two minutes after the Captain
missed his watch, gold chain, seals, and key.
An impostor has been lately attempting to defraud
several country bankers in the County of Kent, by
means of fictitious cheques and bills. One of the bills
was drawn from Bruxelles on Messrs. Dunlop and Co.
Glasgow, by whom it is pretended to be accepted,
payable at the house of Sir P. Pole and Co. bankers,
London, who have pronounced it to be a fiction, by
stating that "they have no account with any firm of
the name of Dunlop and Co. Glasgow."
Last week, John Armstrong, who was shot by a
soldier of the 6th Carbineers, lately quartered in Car-
lisle, died in consequence thereof, a mortification hav-
ing taken place. A Coroner's Inquest was held on
the body, when, after an investigation ofsome hours,
and an examination of several witnesses, a verdict of
Wilful Murder was returned against the soldier,
Asherst, for the offence.
An Inquest was held at the Triumphlnt Chariot,
on the body of H. Turnbull, an ostler at Tattersal's,
who was killed by a stallion falling on him that he
was exhibiting for sale. Verdict—Accidental Death.
Wednesday, as a fkm-servant from Eccles was
crossing an arm of the Tweed, with a double horse
fart, near Birgham, he and the shaft horse ware
drowned, owing to the River being much swelled
by the late rains.
Monday evening. as Mr. Cunningham, of Essex-
street, Strand,. wine-merchant, in company with.
another Gentleman, was driving along Holborn in
a single horse chaise, one of the wheels cam* in Con-
tact with a stone fired before a street post 'opposite
Gray's Inn- ate; the shock threw' them both forward,
by which Mr. ,Cunningham lost possession of the
reins, the horse took fright, and set off at fall speed:
—The shrifts broke short; and -both the Gentlemen
were throivn out. Mr. Cunninghamunni had some othis
ribs fractured, besides receiving many severe braises
on various parts of his body. His frisnd wiped-
', with a few coatusussa

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