Star.
London, England, 1819-01-07 00:00:00

POLICE.

Yesterday Mr. Serjeant SELLON took leave of the
Magistrates of Union Hall Police Office, and took his
seat this day at Hatton Garden. Bayou ALLEYNE,
Esq. the Master of Dulwich College, is appointed in
the Learned Seijcant's place at Union Hall.
MANSION-HOUSE.—A sailor, of the name of Reed,
was brought up in custody the Officers, on the
charge of being a common vagrant. The officer who
apprehended him said, that the prisoner and another
fellow of the same profession infested the neighbour-
hood of Fenchurch-street ton most aboininahle degree.
Having seen them veil (Atm upon that beat; he ask-
ed them yesterday whether they had ever apiaied to
the Seaman's Commtvee fir relief? They replica in
the affirmative ; and said, that they had seen the Se-
cretary of the Institution at the Oneen's Head, in the
Poultry. This assertion convinced hint that they
were both impostors. as the Committee have removed
to Aldermanbary. lie therefore said that they should
go along with him to the Committee, but this they
refused to do, saying, that he wanted to take them
to the Mansion-House, and get them committed to
gaud. In consequence of their refusal, he seized them
both by the collar, and endeavoured to effect by
force that which he could not obtain by stratagem.)
In the struggle which ensued, one of the sailors
escaped ; but the prisoner was secured, though not
before he had made a most obstinate resistance, and
torn the clothes completely off the officer's back. As
he was not able to give a satisfactory account of
himself, the LORD MAYoR committed him to Bride-,
well for a month, and sentenced him to receive seve-
cal good whippings during that period.
A woman, with two young children, evidently in
great distress, were next put to the bar. She had
been found begging. In her defence she stated, that
she had been driven to that step by the most acute
want ; she had applied to her palish for relief, but.
had failed in chtailsing it. The I.onn Nlavba, on
hearing this statement, ordered the Officers to go to
the Overseers of her parish and tell them of the situ-
ation in which she had been found ; and if they re-
fused to give her this assistance which her necessitie.,
'demanded, to take her, with his compliments, to the
Magistrates of Worship-street Office On whose dis-
trict her parish lies), and to obtain a summons for
the attendance of the Overseers. In the meanwhile,
he himself would take care that site was properly
relieved.—The LORD MAYOR, in the course of this
case, inveighed in very strong terms against a shame-
ful practice which has lately become but too com-
mon with the ditlerert Overseers in the Nletropolis.
They either totally refuse to assist those who apply
to them, or else, instead of giving them that substan-
tial relief which the law requites, dismiss them with
A present of a few shillings, and an order not to
pester them with any future visits. The consequence
is, that many poor creatures, unable to procure work,
are compelled to sA;cit charity to prevent themselves
from starving ; the streets, indeed, swarm with men-
dicants, who have been necessitated to become so,
owing to this custom ; while the business of the dif-
ferent Police Offices has been increased in a most
enormous degree by the introduction of this system,
which is so contrary to every feeling of justice and
humanity.
BOW-STREET.—CRUEL FRAUD.—A few days ago
a respectable-looking female, who had evidently seen
better days, and who described herself as the widow
of Mr. Bland, an attorney, who had died a few months
since, and left her in a state of destitution, with five
children dependent on her for support, applied to
Mr. BiRNIE, in great affliction, under the following
circumstances :—A short time after her husband s
death she became acquainted at a friend's house at
Richmond, with a person who had the appearance
of a Gentleman, and described himself as Mr. John
Lloyd, brought up to the law in London, and has
lately followed that profession at Newark ; he sym-
pathizedin the tenderest manner with her distress, and
called at her residence, 8, Bridge-row, Lambeth, and
trld her be could get her eldest son, a youth about
19 years of age, provided for, (if she could procure
the sum of 4330) in a place under Government.—
She exerted herself among her friends, and a Gen-
tleman very humanely promised her the stipulated
sum. Mr. Lloyd called again when she informed
him she had succeeded in getting the promise of the
130/. he said he should be able to procure her an
appointment for her son in a few days; and shortly
after again caned, and told her to be sure to have
the money ready by the morning of the 24th of
December last, as he had procured the promise of
an appoirtmem cf a Page to the king; she accord.
ingly went to the Gentleman, her friend, who had
promised the money, and he gave her a 1001. and a
30/. Bank note, which she gave to Mr. Lloyd on the
scorning of tits Itth cf December, he desiring her
to accempany him, and he would give the necessary
ducuments and warrant of appointment for her son;
she accompanied him to the Treasury, when he de-
sired her to " toddle" about the passage for a few
minutes. and he would return to her. She saw him
go up the great stair-case, and in a little time return
with some papers in his hand. She afterwards ac-
companied him across the Park to St. James's Pa-
lace, where he told her_ he was going to the Lord
Chamberlain's Office, for the warrant of appoint
ment as a Page to the King. On their arrival at the
Palace, he dasired her to kick her heels about for
a short time, and he would return to her with the
warrant from the Lord Chamberlain's Office." She
waited between three and four hours in the Palace,

when her patience beoame quite exhausted, and she
ventured to go to the Lord Chamberlain's Office, and
inquire for Mr. Lloyd ; but nothing was known of
him or the trausastion—she then began to suspect
that she bad been duped by Lloyd, and that to her
great mortification, she had lost her friend's money ;
she made inquiry of every person she suspected had
any knowledge of Mr. Lloyd, but could not find him
or learn where he was to be found, and afterwards
made her application to Mr. BIRNIE, who without
hesitation granted a warrant against Lloyd for a
fraud. Mrs. Bland had fortunately got the numbers
or the notes, 17,410 is that of the 100/. and 11,041
the 301. and the payment of them has since been stop-
ped at the Bank.—Adkins, the officer, very kindly
undertook the serving of the warrant, and going in
pursuit of Lloyd, whom Mrs. Bland described to be
about 95 years of age, five feet five inches high,
bald head at the top, and wearing powder, pale face,
thin, and very long nose ; and wfiess he defrauded her
of the money, he was dressed in a blue coat,' black

silk waistcoat, blue pantaloons, boots, and mifed great
coat. Adkins has not yet succeeded in finding him.
M A REBOROUGH7-STht Elm—Yesterday a youth,
named Morgan, was examined before JOIIN EDWARD 1
CON ANT, Esq. on a charge of attacking Mr. William
Davis, of Bkti-street, Manchester-square, in the ;
Green Park, and robbing him of a pocket-book, con-
wining a£l Bank note. The 'Prosecutor deposed,
that on Sitturday last, about eleven o'clock, he was
coming throtils the Green Park, on his way to Spring
Gardens, to the house of his Solicitor ; it was very
foggy, and as he entered the Green Park, on the
path to St. James's Palace, he observed two ill-look-
ing fellows following him, and suspecting that they
intended to attack him, he took the precaution of
twisting the chain of his watch, which was worth 60
guineas, throng!' the button-hole of his waistcoat.—
When he was about half-way down the path they
attacked him, one took out his pocket-book, and an-
other, as he had anticipated, made a snatch at his
watch, but failed in his endeavour to get it, and they
then ran away. He followed thetas some distance,
but they escaped in the fog, and he found the pocket
book lying open on the grass, emptied of its contents.
On his return home in the evening he gave informa-
tion to Coates, one of the Mary-la-bonne Constables,
of the robbery, with a description of the person of
one of them ; and that evening Coates took him into
custody in James-street, where he was gambling
with other b:td characters. The prosecutor stated,
that on Monday a man met him in Oxford-street,
and offered him a pound note if he would not prose-
cute, but he gave him no answer ; and the following
day he received a note couched in the following
terms, from some anonymous person :
" Sir—You will weigh well the propriety of prosecuting tit*.
prisoner. You are your own judge ; but if you appear against
him, something serious Will be the consequence.—Your's, fee.
" The prisoner's true and sworn friend."
The prisoner denied the robbery, and called a man
named Trigg to prove an alibi ; but the moment he
appeared, Mr. Davis recognised bins as the man who
offered him the pound note to forego proceedings:
lie was in consequence put to the bar, but no proof
of his being concerned in the robbery could be
brought against him, and he was discharged : Mor-
gan was fully committed.
• Mrs. Capiline Richardson, of Ogle-street, charged
by a watchman of St. James's-street, with disorderly
conduct on Tuesday night last, said, that herself' and
sister had been at the Lyceum, and were quietly
returning home, when they welt: rudely accosted by
the watchman, and without any provocation, she
was taken to the watch-house.
Watchman.—l have instructions from the Watch Committee,
if I see any temales " standing or walking," to take them into
custody.
Mr. CONAwv.—Such an authority cannot be given to you. So,
whether persons stand still or walk on, you are to make them
' prisoners. This Lady must be immediately discharged.
' HATTON GARDEN.—It appears upon a further in-
vestigation, which took place on Monday, that the
charge made against one of the Overseers of Clerk-
. enwell, for an assault alleged to have been committed
by him upon a pauper who had applied to him for
• relief, proved to be a fabrication, for the purpose of
: extorting money from the party accused.

EXCISE-COURT, BROAD-STREET, JAN. 6.

The Commissioners of Excise this day held a meet-
ing, to allow or disallow several seizures which have
lite!), been made by the activi'y of their officers.
The room in which the Court is held was filled by
a motley host of tet dealers, spirit merchants, tobac-
conists, and auctioneers, all eagerly waiting their
doom from the mouths of the Commissioners. Many
cases, of no importance, except to the parties them-
selves, were investigated. Several dealers in spirits,
who had diluted their liquor very largely with
' water, suffered the loss of their stock, owing to that
very dilution from which they expected to derive
unusual profit ; because, lay placing, through it, a
greater number of gallons in their respective cellars
than had been numbered on the previous survey Is)
the supervisor employed by the Board, it rendered
them liable to all the pains and penalties of the Ex-
cise laws. Several tea•dealers who had increased
their stock of tea by means which, though they were
not mentioned, the public knows well, beyond the
amount registered in the exciseman's books, had
their goods condemned, and a penalty exacted upon•
them ; a fate which also befel some tobacconists, who
had employed similar methods of augmenting their
stock. The followingwere the only cases which pus-
sessed the slightest degree of public interest :