Star.
London, England, 1829-12-21 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
A tailor appeared in the Justice-room, to know in what way
the LORD Maros would give redress against a swindler, who had
fraudulently obtained a suit of clothes.
Mr. Mohler : He can give you no redress ; you have trusted a
swindler with a suit of clothes, and you must now take the conse-
quence. One half of the tradesmen in London have reason to
complain of you tailors, for affording the means of fraud. Yoer
promptitude to give credit for clothes fosters a disposition to extra-
vagance in other things beyond the means of payment. Your reg.
dines, to supply all persons gives to swindlers the exterior by
means of which, they cheat honest tradesmen. By your high
prices you make the honest pay the bad debts of spendthrifts and
swindlers, who do not pay. Sir, you muse not expect the LORD
AUTOS to assist you, by criminal process in recovering payment
for your geode, and must do u other tradesmen do. Send the bunt-
bailiff after your debtor.
The Tailor; I do not want payment.
Mr. House : Indeed! You are really a very good-natured
fellow to give your goods away. I think I shall allow you to serve
me on those terms.

The Tailor : I want justice.
Alr. Houma : Well, you have it, in hearing the consequences
of giving without due caution the means by which many other
tradesmen fray be injured.
The tailor made no further responses, and left the office.
GUILDHALI.
Saturday John Sebastian Felger, a German, was charged with
endeavouring to impose upon the Society for Relieving Foreigners
in Distress. The prisoner represented himself to the Society as a
subject of the Emperor of Austria, and produced a passport with
the forged signature of Prince Esterhazy's Secretary, and a forged
letter from the ume gentleman recommending the bearer to the
attention of the Board. He had received 31. from the Society
about a year ago, to cam him to his own country. Among the
papers in his pockets were passes, obtained in different names, from
the Austrian Consul, the Hanoverian Consul, and the Ministers
from Prussia and Wirtemberg. He was committed for a month,
u a rogue and vagabond.
BOW-STREET.
Saturday a middle-aged female, named Sarah Betts, was, brought
before Mr. Haim, charged with having rubbed her master, Dr.
Robertson, of Long-acre, of plate to the value of £3.
It appeared that the prisoner had only lived in Dr. Robert-
son's service for a week, and that she was hired in the capacity
of cook. On Thursday last she wrote to a labouring man,
named George William Beavington, whom she knew by having
lived for some months in the same bouts with him, request-
ing that he would call upon her on Saturday morning, as
she had something to give him which she wished him
to keep, for her. She fixed the time for his coming at
seven o clock on Friday morning, and she added, that be
was to tap at the kitchen-window, which he would find open.
Suspecting something, Beavington communicated with Mr. Tho-
mas, the superintendaut of police, who directed him to keep his
appointment, and he accordingly went to Dr. Robertson's house at
the hour specified, when the prisoner handed him a parcel through
the kitchen-window. She begged that be would keep it carefully
for her for a few days, and gave him a shilling, with a promise of
more when she saw him again. They then parted. and he handed
the oarcel over to Ur. Thomas. who found that it contained five

table-spoons, two soup-ladles, half-a-dozen tea spoons, and some
few other articles of plate. Mr. Thomas of course ac-
quainted Dr. Robertson with the circumstance, and took the pri.
soner into custody.
Mr. Thomas said, that the prisoner, although latterly obliged to
Ml a menial occupation, was well connected, and had been in af-
fluent circumstances. Her son, by her deceased husband, was s

ward of Chancery, and bad an allowance of £lO a-week.
The prisoner confessed her guilt, but pleaded in extenuation that
she was induced to commit the act in consequence of having a sum
of money to pay for the support of a child.
Mr. Hain said, nothing could extenuate a servant robbing her
muter, and therefore fully committee her for trial.
MARY-LA-BONNE.

Rickard Wyau, a porter belonging to the Old Wbite Horse Cal.
lar Coach-office, Piccadilly, was fined by Mr. Rawuroson 20s. and
costs, for overchuging twopence in the delivery of a parcel, at the
police station, Mary-la-bonne-lane.
H ATTON-G A R DEN .

Ames Chandkr and Elizabeth HaWaggon were brought up, the
former charged on suspicion of breaking into the house of Mr. G.
Walton, grocer and oilman, Tottenham-court-road, and the female,
who is servant to the prosecutor, with aiding and assisting.
It appeared (row the evidence that the prosecutor's house had,
during Friday night, or early on Saturday morning, been entered
from the back premises in Chapel-street ; some of the brick had
been removed from the area, and a rail taken away sufficient to
admit a boy. The thieves had by this means entered the kitchen,
and proceeded up-stairs to the parlor, where they picked the lock
of a cupboard, and itesie five silver table-spoons and a coat. The
female discovered the robbery when she was about to set out the
breakfast-table ; the grounds of suspicion,however, were not strong
enough to warrant the detention of the prisoners.
TOWN HALL.
A pour miserable wtetch, named Elise Palmer, In the last stage
of disease and want, was brought before Mr. Alderman J. J.
SMITH. Dutton stated, that he found her on Friday night laying
in a state of insensibility in Tower-street, Westminster-road. He
aroused her with difficulty, and believed, had be not, she would
shortly have been frozen ; he took her to the Surrey watch-house,
placed her before the fire, and gave her food, which she devoured
with avidity ; when she came to herself, she declared that she had
applied to the officers of St. George's parish some days before,who
refused to receive her, and for three nights she had slept in the
open air, without food having passed her lips. Temporary relief
was afforded her.
THAMES-POLICE.

Thomas Jones was charged with the commission of a daring
burglary. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Paine, a gen-
tleman residing in Shakspeare's-walk, Shadwell, that early yester-
day morning, he was alarmed by a noise in his house ; he imme-
diately arose and perceived the prisoner in the rear of his premises,
with a bundle under his arm. The prisoner was afterwards seen
to go into the privy, where Mr. Paine followed him, on which the
thief placed himself in a lighting attitude, but the proseeutor making
a blow at him with a poker which he had taken for defence or at-
tack, the risoner offered no further resistance, and was secured.
Mr. Paine s house had been broken open, and money and plate re-
moved ready to carry away. Setcra articles of wearing a;:parel
were found in the prisoner's possession, which Mr. Paine identified
as his property. The prisoner was fully committed.