Star.
London, England, 1826-12-27 00:00:00

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION.HOUSE
Yesterday, a dashing looting young man,"was brought up for exa-
mination before*. Loito NIAYOII, on a charge of fraud.
Mr. Chafers? the pawnbroker, of Wading. street; stated, that the
prisoner came to his house, and offered to pledge half a dozen mas-
sive silver table spoons, of- what is called the King's new pattern.
•He wanted 101. upon atem—gave his word of honour, as a Gentle-
man, that they had 'cost much more--and said he would call again
for them in the evening. Mr. Chaffers examined them carefully,
and finding them tab* good silver, he offered to lend him 6/. upon
them. The pristine, failing in obtaining a better offer, took up the
spoons, and went from the counter, but returned spin, saying,
" Well, he must take the sum offered." He then put down his
half-dozen of spoons upon the counter. Mr. Chaffers, in turning
them out, detected them, by the ring, as being counterfeit ; be im-
mediately had the prisoner taken into custody. On searching him
the balf.dozen of goal were found upon Mm. The coun-
terfeit
spoons were 'llth a coat of silver, over a species of
Britannia metal.

&-veral pawnbtfikees time forward and stated that they had
bees defrauded by a slight-of-hand trick, similar to that which the
prisoner' had played off.
Mr. Charles Phillips attended as Counsel for the prisoner. He
thought it unnecessary to say anything on the marks of the cue •
but submitted that in law the prisoner must be discharged. inasmuch
u no money had passed to him, and no offence had therefore been
committed.

The LORD Marna admitted the Learned Counsel's objection to
be pod, and discharged the prisoner—who, however, was imme-
diately taken in custody, charged with having completed the offence
in anotherjurisdiction, to which he was conveyed.
GUILDHALL

A boy, named Charles Assnacht, was brought up for final exami-
nation yesterday before Mr. Alderman e. SMITH, on susiiicion of
having stolen a parcel containing two .CYO &Asbury bank notes, a
'5 note of the same description, and four sovereigns.
The stolen notes have not yet been offered at either the banking
house in town or country, where they are payable; and the evi-
dence being deemed too weak to warrant his comassiunent, the pri-
soner was discharged.
Upon him were found two letters from discarded mistresses! one
of them directed to.himself, and the other, it appears to the present
object of his attentions ; and when we say he is nearer fourteen
than fifteen years of age, and stands only four feet and a half high,
the perusal of this document will, perhaps, create a smile :

" TO MISS HUIItIPHkLYS.
" Miss--I am astonished to think as you should keep company
with such a low lid as Charles, for when be first spoke to me he be-
hived very well, but when he completed his, desire he used me
very ill. I have got over my confinement. I hope I shall lie nu more
trouble to him. I take the liberty of writing this epistle to you.
hoping it will be a warning to you, as Be has seduced two young
girls. 46 ANN 1.--."

" Dear Chvles.—This comes with my kind love to you to no
whey I have offended you that you did not speak to me lust night.
I did not no that I had. if I have let me now. You seams to say that
I care nothing about you but if I did not I should not took the
troble to warte till nine o'clock last night. Pleas to send it anser as
sun as you can. By doing you wiU mutch oblige. Yours

" E. 0-."

A person Was brought up for re examination, charged with
stealing a valuable saddle-horse. Mr. Humphreys attended as his
Solicitor.

The evidence was to the effect, that on the 26th of February,
the prisoner bArowed the horse for one month, at the rate of eight
guineas per month, at Mr. Tinthrey's• livery-stables, in Parl-lane.
lie left a set of harness as a securitylor the hire, but the ostkr
never saw the horse or the Gentleman again, until he dropped in
upon the latter accidentally, a Few days since, at a coffee-house, in
Fleet-street. Two or three letters, however, had been received
from the prisoner, asking for an account of the hire to be forwardkd
by letter to the Plough Inn, Cheltenham, whence, after a few days,
'he said, he should proceed to the &ar at Southampton. Mr. Tirn-
brey not only sent letters to both places (which were returned by
the post-office), but immediately took a trip to make personal in-
quiries, withow:, however, gaining the least information.
The prisoner's defence was, that he kft the horse at Mr. Pardoe's,
the Boar's Head, Severn Stoke, near Worcester, for some time,
and that Mr. Paidoe had, without his authority or consent, sold
the animal to pay for his keep.
Mr. Berestord. the Magistrate's Clerk, wrote to Mr. Pardoe on
Mon .ay se'oni6ht, to Icirti if this statement was true, but as yet
no answer has been received. At a former examination' however,
the prisoner prodwed a letter lions a Solicitor in Worcester
to a Solicitor in the Temple (sit acquaintance of Mr. Johnson's), in
which the arrival of Mr. Beresford's ktter is noticed vend it is
stated that the answer, which was delayed through bustle, arking
out of the contest for the Coronership, would reach Guildhall on
Christmas Day ; but, as we before stated, the letter has not yet
come to hand.

Mr. Alderman C. SMITH directed that a second letter should be
written to ?Jr. Pardue, stating that the prisoner was detained
through his delay in replying; and he remanded the prisoner for
further examination on Thursday next.

11A TTON-G ARDEN.

A well known character, named .kA* Davis, was brought before
the Sitting Magistrpte, charged with knockingdown an elderly
Jew, named Levy, and robbing him of a werviin and les. Gd. in
silver.—Committed.

Henry Williams, a rusty, dusty looking little man, with a big nose
and little peeping eyes, was brought before Mr. Sergeant BELLow
yesterday, in a state of obstreperous •toxicadoo, charged by one John
Way, with the following offence:
Mr. Way stated, that he keeps a lodging-house In West-street,
Clerkenwell, and that for the last six weeks the giattensais had been
his lodger; hut that on Saturday night he bad come home beastly
tiosicated, and talked wery ones conically, and behaved wery ob-
stropermss, to the grievous disquiet of the other inmates of the
house, who couldn't believe as how Mr.Villiatns bad so committed
himself, seeing as how he had been such a decent soul of a body
store ; but true it was, and Mr. Way was willing to take his Bible
oath of it—he was so diabolically altered, like, as the player4ssaa
said, " e Satire to Hiperon," to what he used to be.
Mr. Henry Williams, who had many times cut short the amid
of Mr. Way's complaint, by vociferous appeals to the Magistrate to
be discharged, now being called on for what he bad to answer to
the charge, commenced his speech, which was interlarded with in-
numerable hiccuping.:—" Your Vorship, lis a Gentleman—a bin-
dependent Gentleman; I was clerk to Sir Villiam Curtis, late
Holum and Curtis, but now Sir Villiatn Curtis.—(Hiccup.) Now,
Gentlemen go vheresoever they pleases; and I did go, as this here
man says, to lodge in his house six veeks ago; * fie upon hit house
—its a house, your Von*.
MAGISTRATE Why did you go there, then?
Defendant,Nhy, as I vas saying afore, Gentlemen goes There
they pleases, and I is a Gentleman, and shall be worth 2,0004 a
year in time, though, at present, rave but 2001. I'm independent,
your Vonhip, and now I means to go.
The worthy Magistrate informed the defendant that money
would not insure his independence at this °Ace, and therefore be
, should net let bins be discharged until he had found good bail.
Mr. W. upon this staggered out, all the way appealing to the al-
ters, in the figure which logicians call—" arguing in a circle."
A great number of disputes of the same calibre as the above, were
dismissed during the morning." Black eyes, bloody noles,and naughty
words being the never-failing results from stomachs replete with
roast beef, plum-puddings and Christmas jollifications.