Star.
London, England, 1826-08-25 00:00:00

GUILDHALL.

A poor woman, a widow, with one child, was brought before
Mr. Alderman %LITMAN yesterday, charged with obstructing the
highway, by placing a stall thereon for the sale of oysters.
Canham, the beadle, stated, that he had not proceeded to seize and
divide her stock, but bad merely required her to attend before the.
Alagistrate, and bear from him that she was acting contrary to law.
The stall, it seems, was placed with consent of Mr. Chamberlain, of
Milk street, the manager of a Chapel in Little Charter-lane, Doc-
tore Commons, against the wail of that building, and did not, in
fact, incommode the foot passengeri.
Mr. Alderman WAITIISIAN asked if any of the inhabitants had
complained of the woman ?
Canham said two persons had complained, both of them dealers
in oysters close by, who said they could not pay their ratei and taxes
if they were subject to this competition. One person lived in Ser-
mon-lane, the other in Carter-lane, opposite the stall.
The Alderman inquired if she had stood at the same place for any
length of time?
Canhant replied she was there last year; but the oyster dealing
neighbours objected then as they did now.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said, that where there bad customarily
been a stall, or a person had been allowed to stand, be should
be sorry to interfere where the public were not really inconvenien-
ced, and the party had not misconducted themselves; but neverthe-
less, while Acts of Parliament were in force prohibiting such stalls,
when the-Magistrates were pressed, they bad no alternative but to
put them in force. Regulations were necessary, or all sorts of goods
would be vended along the sides of the footways, all the streets
would become common markets, and shop-keepers might as well at
once close their shutters. The officer had brought this woman here
in the mildest way certainly; but the streets abounded with nui-
sances, and he was sorry he did not venture upon larger game. As
Cattkam's complaint was not supported by any of the inhabitants,
he should dismiss it.

BOW-STREET.
Wednesday evening, great curiosity was excited at this Office. by
the cit cumstance of Monsieur Louis, the " French Giant," attending
as the prosecutor of a youth named William Even., for picking his
pocket. The occurrence, which took place in the Strand, attracted
a crowd at the time, and a vast number of persons followed M.
Louis to the Office, and he was glad to take refuge in a room until
the Magistrate came to the Office.

Sir Irscriaao Maids having takes his sea:, and the prisoner being
placed at the bar, a bus of anxious curiosity in the Office, which
was crowded to excess, announced the entrance of M. Louis, and
certainly the highest expectation that could have been formed of
seeing something wonderful was fully realized. He stood amongst the
comparatively diminutive spectators (and there were some good tall
men too), like our London Monument, towering above the dwell-
ings by which it is surrounded. A capital scene took place when
be presented himself before the Magistrate. Sir IL Brame, who
Jens writing on the bench, was not aware of. his approach, and on
perceiving some one standing before him, be raised his eyes, and as
soon as he bad time to measure the amazing attitude of M. Louis,
he started back, in astonishment, but in a moment recovering him-
self, be bowed, and said, lam glad, Sir, to see so fine a produc-
tion of our common mother before me." Al. Louis modestly re-
plied to the compliment.
Ledbitter and Gardner, two very tall officers of this establish-
ment, placed themselves alongside of M. Louis, but they did not
reach to his shoulders : he stood leaning his elbow upon the top of
a partition, over which Gardner (who is six feet two inches) could
scarcely look.

The principal witness was a waterman' named Richards, whose
head reached to M. Louis's trousers' packet, and it appeared from
his statement, that the prosecutor was walking along the Strand, near
Exeter 'Change, with Mr. Cross, when the prisoner followed behind
him, and standing upon tip-toe, quietly dived his hand into the pro-
secutor's pocket, and drew out his handkerchief, which he handed
to a companion, who made off with it. The witness called out to
M. Louis, " 1 say, Sir, that ere chap has picked your pocket of your
property." Al. Louis turned about, and seeing the prisoner, said,
" ou rascal, what do you mean by robbing me ?" and giving him
a tap oil the mouth, he staggered for three or four yards and fell
down; he, was then seised by Richards, but he refused to stir, and
was carried all fours to the office. _ _ _

Ike prisoner had nothing to say, and was fully committed for trial.
Sir it. BIINIS ordered An °Meer to procure a coach for M. Louis,
and to keep the passage clear, that he might be protected from the
aonoyance of the crowd.

A Clergyman of great respectability attended yesterday morning
before Sir iticualo 13taNtis, to answer a charge of disorderly con-
duct and abusive language to a watchman, named Sands.
The complainant stated, that while going his rounds in the Savoy,
on Wednesday night, calling past eleven, he saw the defendant
standing at the corner of the street, close to Exeter Change, in con-
versation with a person dressed very shabbily; and bearing them
talking about money, he suspected that the defendant bad been
robbed, and therefore went up to him, and inquired whether that
was the case, when the Rev. defendant called him an impertinent
fellow, and otber opprobrious names ; he therefore conducted him
to the watch-house.

Sir liscssitain said there was no riot, no disorder, no breach of the
peace proved; he, therefore, considered that the watchman bad
acted in very improper manner.

The Rey. Gentlemen now begged to state, that on his return to
his lodginp in Bloomsbury he was accosted by a person wbo said
he was in great distress, and had tasted nu food the whole of the day ;
he gave the applicant 6d.wbo returned many thanks for the donation,
and ran off in the very view of the ddendant into a public-house,
which was open, and there probably spent the money in drink.—
Scarcely had the defendant passed the house it, question before he
was importuned by the same man with the same pitiable story, and
being determined to see whether or not the fellow would return to
the public house, be gave him some halfpence, and went slowly on
for a short distance. On turning round, be saw, u he anticipated,
the object of his charity again go into the public house, be, therefore
loitered about for the purpose of remonstrating with him when hC
should come out, which atter a lapse of a few minutes be did ; and
it was at this time, while he was speaking about the abuse of his ,
charity, that the watchman came up, and placing his staff in his face,
inquired what the conversation was about, when be certainly did
call him an inipertbsent fellow, for which he was collared and taken
to the watcbhouse, where he preferred a charge against the watch- ,
man for his unjustifiable conduct ; but reflecting that it would be
inconvenient to him to attend the next moralog at this ofice,he was
induced to withdraw his charge, sod the watchman immediately
preferred the present complaint against hhia, but not wishing to
trouble any person at that hour of the night to become his bail, nor
to be absent from his lodgings during the Aide oldie night, be left
his gold watch and appendages with the aoostible of the night as a
guarantee for his appearance in the sisornbag, and now attended to'
'redeem his pledge.
:air B. &ante remarked severely on thi conduct of the watchman,

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defendant left tilt
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Yesterday, AA* *Da, a UtW in7ltio Sot snores4ri Oriels 'years
old, but who lies • been at hest 20 times in c g, on various
charges of robbery, Was once more plated at tke ar of this once,
accused by Ms own fathet, a poor industrious nano, residing in
Maiden-lane, Settle Bridge.
The father, with taus in his eyes, entreated Mt. Serie= Sawn
to get the little wretch sent out of the country, of be would most
assuredly be Monied. He Mod already been three times privately
whipped, and bad spent nearly two tears in confinement, bet with-
out effect; it setlmed as if a propensity to thieving was.lografted in
his very nature, and be was completely tallow. to teeporeal pu-
nishment.
Mr. Serjeant &twit declared that be ba4 never met with such
au incorrigible little wretch in all his experience, but unfortunately
he bad as yet evaded the grasp of the law.
The father said, that on a resent occasion he bad kitked him up
6, a room by bintsFif, to try what effect solitary confinement would
have on him; bit he contrived, while there, to force open a desk,
where money was sometimes placed; and toeing disappointed In his
expectation of finding any, he made a bundle of his &thee/ clothes
and threw them into the yard. He then took a silver watt& out of i
the desk; and there being no other mode of escape, he resolutely
ascended the chimney, and got out on the roof, where he was de-
tected by one of the lodgers, and secured, with the watch concealed
in his bosom.

Mr. Serjeant Sat.s.mt regretted that be W 33 net suffered to depart,
as the case would then have been complete against him, and there
was no doubt but he would have been sent out of the country...
I iowever, at present he should be committed to the House of Cor-
rection for three mouths Vlore; and the conviction should be re-
corded, and sent to the Sessions.

The young villain seemed very glad to go back to his old lodgings,
probably in the expectation of meeting some of his companions in
crime. It is calculated that this Turpin in miniature has committed
nearlyone hundred petty robberies, aims of them of a peculiarly
daring character, considering his age.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

lames Hughes, hackney-coachman, was charged with stealing a
sovereign from Mr. Daniel Roddrick.
Mr. Roddrlck stated, that on Wednesday evening week the pri.
sober drove him and a friend front St. Paul's Churchyard to 7, St.
James's-street. He had no silver with him at the time, and his
friend went to get some change to ply the fare. In the mean time
be handed a sovereign to the coachman to pay himself. His friend
came up at the instant and told him not to give the coachman any
gold, for he might get bad silver in the change, and that he had pro-
cured change to pay the fare. Witness asked the coachman to re-
turn the sovereign, who appeared surprised, and said," What sove-
reign, Sir ?—you gave :ne no sovereign." Witness insisted that he
gave the sovereign, and his friend told him to call the watchman.
The prisoner was observed to toss the straw in the coach in great
confusion.

The watchman and assistant watchhouse-keeper stated that they
examined the coach, and found the sovereign under the straw.
Mr. lion said, that in his opinion the circumstances of the case
would not warrant him to admit the prisoner to bail.
Ilall, a tall, thin, middle-aged man, clerk to Messrs. Allen,
Gylby, and Allen, Solicitors, iu Carlisle-street, was brought up on
Wednesday evening fur robbing his employers of 1701. in notes.—
The pri,onet, we bear, formerly kept a shop near Newport Mar-
ket, and failing in business, was reduced to the necessity of seeking
parochial relief from the parish of St. Ann, Soho. Mr. Allen, who
is Vestry clerk of the parish, commiserating the distresed condition
of the prisoner, took him into his employ, and about a fortnight ago
he decamped with the money from the Counting House : it consisted
of a note of 100 t. and 701. in small notes. They heard nothing of
the prisoner till a clerk in their employ met the prisoner in Peck-
ham Fair on Wednesday, where he gave him in custody, had him
taken in a coach to Mr. Allen's, and,fromihence to this office, where
he was remanded for another hearidg.—The prisoner's wife, hearing
of the caption of her husband, followed the coach from Mr. Allen's,
to learn where her husband was taken. The coachman„-knowing
Mr. Allen wanted her also, to hfar of the property, proposed to
take her to her husband ; but when she got into the coach he took
her to Mr. Allen's. She also was detained.

EITZIISIVI Ro or LADY C. Durross.—Mary ASA Poe.
'tints's, late housekeeper to Lady Caroline Hondas, was brought
before F. A. line, Esq. the Sitting Magistrate, by Reed, the Oa
cer, charged with having committed robberies and frauds to a very
extensive amount en her Ladyship.
Reed deposed, thatin consequence of information which he had
received from her Ladyship, he proceeded to the prisoner's lodg-
ings, when, on teat chin, the apartments, he discovered in one of
the prisoner's bores a small parcel, containing 211 n. of rice, which,
being addressed to her ladyship, he took under his charge. He
however was not able to find any other property which could be
identified.

Lady Caroline deposed, that the prisoner lived in her service,
at various times, for fourteen years; that having discovered that
peculation, to an extensive.ismount bad been carried on, she was
induced to have an investigation made, which ended by her dis-
charging the prisoner. She was very much surprised by having
several bills from tradesmen, to a considerable amount, brought
in for payment, and which she thought had been discharged
—This, at first, she felt inclined to pats over; but a week had not
elapsed before she was inundated with bills, osAny of which were of
three years standing, which the more surprised her,as she was in the
constant habit of settling her accounts weekly—at least she gave the
money to the prisoner to do so. On enquiry, she discovered that
none of them had been paid, and which she 114t1 again to pay, to the
amount of 4200 or £3OO.

Mr. Roe here enquired of ber Ladyship it she could state in what
monies she gave the prisoner to pay the accounts with ?
Her Ladyship replied in the negative, and proceeded to state, that
the two pounds of rice she could not swear to, not knowing whether
it had ever been sent to her residence or not.

A shopman to Messrs. Davidson and Newman, grocers, in Fen-
church-street, deposed, that the parcel now produced was sent to
the house of Lady Dundas three years since; the rice was ordered
by the prisoner, in her Ladyship's name.
The prisoner, who made no defence, stood crying, and begged of
her Ladyship for mercy.
The Worthy Magistrate observed. that unfortunately the only
offence which was brought home to the ptisooer was that of petty
larceny. which being clearly proved, he should feel it his duty to
commit her for trial at the Middlesex Sessions.
The prisoner was then committed, amid her Ladyship bound
to prosecute.