Star.
London, England, 1818-07-21 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bow-rrnstv.-1n consequence of representation
from Lord Viscount .Sidmouth and Lord William
Gordon, the Rangers of St. James's and the Green
Parks, of the disorderly conduct of persons, both men
and women, Sir NATHANIEL CONANT issued a search
warrant to Perry, Nicholls, and others of the Park
Constables, to apprehend all persons of a disorderly
description found in the two Parks, on Sunday night,
between eleven and one o'clock, when they appre-
handed no less than forty-seven men, women,
gr
and boys, in the Parks,--and confined them in different.
watch.houses, and brought them to this Office yes-
terday -morning, when they were all ordered to be
committed as rogues and vagabonds for 14 days, or
no and bail.
GUILDUALL,-.-..EXTENSIVI DEPRIMATIONS.Yes•
terday a young man, very elegantly dressed, named
Frelliam Plomer Daniels, was put to the bar, charged
with having fraudulently obtained property to the
amount of several hundred pounds. The prisoner,
it appeared, was brother to Mr. Daniels, of the firm
of Bull and Daniels, silk-mercers at Daventry, who
had been in the habit of ordering goods to a large
amount from different merchants in the metropolis.
The prisOner who had formerly been to sea, had for
some time lived at an expensive rate in London,
without any visible means of support. On the 9th
iast. an order purporting to come from Mr. Daniels,
Daventry, then in town, was brought by a potter
to the warehouse of Adams and Cu. silkmen, in
Dread-street, Cheapside, directing them to send about
f.. 59 worth of sarsenet by the bearer. The sarsenet
was immediately furnished, and in two days after,
another order was received for a similar quantity,
which was also furnished. About the same time par-
As of silks and other articles were obtained in the
dame way, from Corter and Co. in Lad lane. In a
few days the fraud was discovered, and the prisoner,
`from his hand-writing, beitil; known, was found to be
the depre4ator. Search being made for him, he was

apprehended by Leadbetter, the Mitshalman. The
letter, efOli inquiry, discovered that all the property
mentioned had been pledged with the prisoner at diffe-
rent pawnbrokers on the days upon which it was ob-
ta;necl, and he also found other property of consi •
sable value, which had been pledged by him.
prisoner, who seemed much affected, declined saying
any thing, and was fully committed for trial.
A tall and masculine woman, who give her none m MAP
*path, was brought up, and being placed at the bar, the follow.
tog ,whimsical conversation took plactsi—Vagistrate, " Who
complains of this woman ?"—A little • fat smartly dressed mac
whose cheeks, seamed with dark brown stripes. made it evida*
he had lately been in a desperate affray, skipped lightly into the
witneas's box, and very tritely replied, " I do, of course.' —Me-
ek:ate, " hy of course, Sir; pray, who are lon ?"—Prose.
tutor, M Me, Sir ; I am Mr. Nightingale."-A-Magistrate, " And
what are you Mister Nightingale ? What business are you ?"
—Prolocutor," A hairdresser, of course: Magistrate (snaing)
" And yotreharge the primp s. with an assault ?"—Prowcutor,
t' An assault, of course:'—gdagistrate, " Why do you add of
cosine ;* how am I to know all that happens between you ?"
Prosecutor (stroking big, faara, " It's plain enough, I think."—
Magistrate, " Why, trues you bear some marks of violence,
certainly. Pray how &tilt happen Y'—Prosecutor, " With her
nails, of course."—Magistrate, " I don't care whether it Was
With her nails or not; I want to know why she assaulted you?"
—Prosecutor, " Oh, a love matter, of course ; what do women
assault men for r—Here the Magistrate lost all patience, whilst
the persons in the Office could scarcely oppress their laughter.
Mister Nightingale, however, nothing moved, either by the
anger of the Magistrate, or the tittering of the by-standers' stood
with his mouth half open, ready for the neat reply. At length
the Magistrate said, " Is there no person here who will unuer-
take to tell this Gentleman's tale for him?" When another
dapper spark took the place of the prosecutor, and announced
himself as " Mister Nightingale's owe brother."—Magistrate,
" Well, Sir; am! now I hope we shall be able to understand the
business. What do yo know of this affair ?"—Witness, " Why,
Sir ; I knows her to be a very infamous character I"—Mags-
*trate " Let her be what she may, she appears to have had to
deal ;with a pair of wise ones. How do yon know her to be an
infamous character ?"—" Why, Sir ; of course, she can't be a
very good one, when she has lived with my brother these eight
years?"—(Lattgeter, In which every body joined, except the twu
blister Nightingales.)--Magistrate (nigher angrify)". Pray, Sir,
can you give a direct answer to out simple question ?"—Wii-
ness, " try my best, sir."—Magistrate "Do so. Did dds
woman, the prisoner, live with your brother as his wife, or
.—Witoess (iecareplie6 4 As his ccuseubine, Sir, of
course."—Magistrate. dm. Gentlemen, as th.s appears
to be a matter of course shispdier, I shall, of course, discharge
the prisoner."—And she Wes dkalorged, of course.
Wonsuir-evexer.—Yesterdey two well-dressed young teen
were convicted in the penalty of five shimtsgseach for getting
drunk on &tag I •

Aft Inquest wag held yesterday at the Ten Bells,
George-street, Christchurch, before J. W. UNwIN,
Esq. on the body of James Tremor, aged 60 years.—
Charles Huggins, landlord of the Black Horse public-
house, Geor -street, deposed, that on Saturday night
the was at hislouse, drinking gin and beer,
and was so intoxicated that he was unable to go
home by himself Witness conducted him home, and
left him in the passage at the stair foot to go up to
bed, and then returned home; next morning, at seven'
o'clock, witness went to collect his pots, and on going
into the passage of the deceased's house for that pur-
-1 pose, he stumbled over the body of some person in
the dark, which, on examining, he found to be that
of the deceased, lying on the stairs with his feet up-
wards, and quite dead.—A Surgeon gave his opinion
that his death was caused from suffocation, produced
from excessive drinking or a fall. Verdict—Acci-
dentally suffocated.
SINGULAR DISCOVERY CY A MURDSR BY DREAM-,
two !—Friday night, Mts. Peat, the Landlady of the
Cemented Arms public house, in John-street, Tot-
-Ithfiam-court-road, retired to rest, about 12 o'clock,
but had not slept many minutes before she dreamed
`that some person had given three knocks at her cham-
ber-door, and she fancied she heard a female voice
exclaim—" Mistress! Mistress! here's some one put-
ting a child down the privy!" During the whole of
the night the idea haunted her, and she arose ex-
tremely troubled. On coming to the breakfast-table
she related the circumstance to Mr. Peat, the brother
of her late husband, who treated the idea with ridi-
cule; but, seeing that k had made more than a com-
mon impression on her mind, he endeavoured by
every means in his power to divert her thoughts from
such an improbable circumstance. In order to gra-
tify her curiosity, she determined to explore the drain
of the privy. For this purpose, she provided herself
with a stick, and, after about a minute's search, suc-
teeded in bringing. the arm of an infant above the
surface of the drain!! This terrible confirmation of
iher dream had such an effect on her as nearly to
overpower her: she could only call her brother-in-
law, who, with another prson, came immediately
to her assistance, and, after a few minutes trouble,
succeeded in getting the body out, which had every
appearance of a full-grown child, and did not seem
to have been long placed there. As the story got
wind in the neighbourhood, the utmost consternation
prevailed, and various and many were the conjec-
tures formed. Information was at length sent to the
Parish Officers, who caused proper steps to be taken
to investigate the matter.—Saturday evening, at
nine o'clock, an inquest was held at Mrs. Peat's
house, before T. STIRLING, Esq. and Mr. RAYNS•
FORD, the Police Magistrate, with many other Gen-
tlemen. The first witness examined was the Maid-
servant; but, after a most ingenious examination, se-
zhing could be elicited to throw the least light upon
the subject, and, from her manner, the girl seemed
to have no guilty knowledge of ie transaction.—
Mrs. Peat detailed, in a firm unhesitating manner,
her singular dream to the Jury ; and her brother-in-
law confirmed her in that part which related to find-
ing the body.—lsaac Moodie, the Waterman at the
Coach-stand, stated, that en Saturday he was in the
Carpenters' Arms: he heard Mrs. Peat scream, and
aecompanied her brother-in-law to her assistance:
she told them that she had found the body of a child
in the water-closet ; but although she said she had
found it in half a minute, witness could not find it in
'fire minutes, or more! He was afterwards told that
she had dreamed over-night that some person had
buried it there. Mrs. Peat had been for some time a
widow.—Mr. Upham, a Surgeon, said he had exa-
mined the body : it appeared full-grown, but he could
not positively say whether it was still-born: the nails
on the fingers and toes were perfect, and it seemed
in every respect to have come to its full time. This
witness, at the request of the Coroner and Jury, exa-
mined Mrs. Peat and her female servant, and he gave
it as his opinion that neither could have been recently
delivered.—The Coitonna charged the Jury at some
length, and at two o'clock on Sunday morning they
brought in a Verdict of—Wilful Murder against some
person or persons unknown,
The following arcdie full particulars, as they have
appeared on the Got =l's Inquest, of the late unfor-1

ttlll2t2 siccident which happened to tile litto Ports-
mouth Coach, on its way to London, as briefly no-'
ticed in our Paper of Saturday. The first inquest was
oa the body of the coachman, Abraham Pitmoss
Mary Whittle deposed, that she observed the Hero Coach
Sinning up towards her, apparently heavy laden ; that whilst she
retas looking at the Coach, she sate the right-hand or off faro-
wheel fly from the Comb, anti it appeared as if the Coachman
made a spring to save himself from being thrown off; his coat
get entangled and threw him down ; he fell upon his head In the
road ; the Coach went over upon its side, and all the passengers
were thrown off, and several of them severely hurt ; deponent
immediately ran to the spot, and took taie of the passengers and
her child into her house.
Mr. Quintom deposed that he went to the Coachman's anist-
ince, and assisted to placelim in a chair; be appeared to breathe
very bard, but never spoke; be shortly afterwards expired.—
When first he saw the Coachman, he was on the ground, bleed-
ing most profusely from his temple and eyes.
Mr. G. Vicat, jun. deposed, /hat he was sitting on the coaeh-
box with the deceased ; this deponent HI alongside the deceased,
but his hat remaining on his heed, prevented his receiving any
material injury. The deceased's hat dew off as he was Ewing ;
that this deponent looked carefully at the linchpins before the
Coach left the Fountain Inn, and they were all in, but whether
they were fastened or not, he could not say—if not, the linch-
pin was likely to come out ; that the Coach is the property of
Messrs. Williams, Horn, John Kirby, Charles Robinson, Geo.
Vicat, and White; and hat the horses belong to Mr. Robinson

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and this deponent.
The next Inquest was on Mr. Milk
Mr. WdliamSarey, of Kingston, deposed, that he was called,
about nine o'clock on. Wanesday morning, to the assistance of
Mr. John Mills, one of the passengers in the• Hero Coach, which
had been overturned. He found Mr. Mills at Mr. Quintom's
house ; his left shoulder was dislocated ; he was much braised
about his hip, thigh, and back, and he complained of great pain
in his loins ; be set the Shouldis, and applia a lotion to the
bruises ; he however continued worse, and expired next morning

about eleven o'clock.
Virdizt in both Inquests—Came to his death accidentally, ea-
maiy, aae by naprtone.
On Saturday afernoon, Hearn's Hemel-Hempsted
Coach was overturned at Hunton-bridge, about three
miles below Watford, owing principally to the care-
lessness of the driver, in dashing rapidly round the
corner of the bridge, with the overpowering weight
of seventeen outside passengers, when, shocking to re-
late! a respectable young woman, and a young man,
the servant of a gentleman in the neighbourhood,
were so dreadfully injured, that they survived only
a few hours, and several other persons were also se-
verely wounded.
Sunday night, about eleven o'clock, as a party of
two men, one woman, the wife of one of the men, and
a child, Were in a pleasure boat passing under one of
the arches of Londoa Bridge, the boat overset and
threw the whole party into the water ; there was no
waterman on board, and it being high water, it is
supposed the boat struck against he side of the arch.
The men being expert swimmers reached the shore ;
one of them seized the child as it was sinking, and
bore it to the river side. Every exertion was made
by watermen to save the female, but it was ten mi-
nutes before the body was found, and she was quite
dead; The body was conveyed to the Green-man
and Bell, Darkhouse-lane, Billingsgate.
CONSPIRACY AT MANCHLSTER,—From the Mae-
chafer Papers :
" THE SPINNERS.—This great body" of labourers
still continue in idleness. Their conduct is peaceable,
'but marked by a steady adherence to the rules of
combination. They meet daily, superintended by
leaders and delegates, move in procession, And ma-
nage their pecuniary arrangements by special appoint-
ments. To obtain the necessary supplies for mainte-
nance, they solicit subscriptions, and are also aided
by weekly levies upon other tratles. Their plans are
regularly organized. They watch those factories in
which business is partially or wholly going on, by
certain portions of turned-out men placed as guards
by night and by day, who are relieved by others in
due succession ; and means are taken to seduce those
away who are willingly at wort. On two days in'
this week great numbers have marched in regular
military files to the large factory of Messrs. LEE and
Co. in Salford, to induce the females employed there
to leave their duty. For this object they waited at
the dinner hour, drawn up in line before the build-
ing; but we are happy to state, that very few of the
women have yet followed the example of the men.
The employers, we presume, feel it to be not merely
a private, but a public duty to withstand this forroU
able illegal procedure ; and we fear that many spin.
nets and'others, who do not think for themselves,
but who are led by the evil counsel of others, will,
in the end, draw down upon themselves consequen-
ces which may be very injurious to their future con-
dition in life.
" It would I* a great pleasure to us to close our lei:
formation here: but we are compelled to add, that
in Stockport the public peace has been broken for
two or three successive nights, by meetings of re-
, 6-aceory work-people, power-loom weavers we be-
lieve, who assemble at the close of the day. These men
will not allow others to fulfil their engagements, and
have directed their vengeance against one particular
factory, by attacking it, and demolishing the win-
dows. On Wednesday night the Riot Att was read
by Mr. HARRISON, of Cheadle, the Magistrate, and
part of the Cheshire yeomanry cavalry were called
out to act; and such was the unrestrainable fury of
the mob, that this Gentleman and several of the ca-
valry were wounded by stones and brickbats thrown
The police of the town is, however, determined on
doing its duty, and additional constables are sworn
in for aiding in this object; whilst their hands .are
strengthened by the arrival of troops from our bar-
racks. More of the Cheshire yeomanry are also on
their march for the same destination ; and the most
vigorous means will be used to ensure due obedience
to the laws. Many offenders are in custody.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

" We are much concerned to state, that Stockport
has been a scene of serious disturbance this week.
The evil disposition of a numerous body of work-
people, who have struck for an advance of wages,
has manifested itself by attacking the power-loon,
factory of Mr. GARsIDE, " the head and front" of
whose offence was giving employment to some fe-
males, who were engaged at Burton-upon• Trent, to
continue that occupation which they had spontane-
ously relinquished. The windows were all demo-
lished. The yeomanry cavalry were called out, but
they were inefficient in numbers, and several of them
'were hurt by the populate. On Thursday, at noon.
a troop of the 13th Light Dragoons arrived from
our barracks, and exerted themselves; upon which
occasion serjeant Carleton sustained a serious iii.a.tny
One and twenty persons have been apprehended on a
charge of rioting, six of whent have been c9inmit-
ted to Lancaster Cas:le, and the others ore remanded;
for further examiaation."