Star.
London, England, 1827-12-22 00:00:00

POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS.

ito important Circular, of which the following is a
Copy, was yesterday transmitted to the different Police
Offseessithe Metropolis, fro the Marquis of LANs.
reseed to the Magistrates :

(cietcmta.)

WhitehaV, Dee. 20.

Ossetaren—l am direckell by the Marquis of Lansdowe to
desire due too wM (lathe neealary orders for making out a de-
tailed report, sunsuit, drib* proceedings of the police-office at
.......=,tobiewritten by one of the clefts, and to be signed by one
el the Magistrates in attendance at eight o'clock every evening.
TbeYeritt is to contain a short statement of the substance of all
infientatienereceived at your Office in the course of the day. in cases
of feleriekand of all misdemeanours of an aggravated nature, and
of aU loformatioas against receivers of stolen goods, reputed thieves,
amt. Kfll offenders who may have escaped from custody.
Your Report will also state the time, the place, and any particu-
lar circirmstance marking the offences, the names of persons not in
custody. who are charged, if known, or if not known, their appear-
ance or dress, or any mark of identity that can he describeS; the
easentilao of 'memories, together with any other particular that is
knoweenthich may lead to their apprehension.
Your Report will also ,lee the names of all persons put before
the. Magistrate in the 'cintei of the day charged with any of the
offencet above mentioned, and state whether they are committed
for trite or re.exanrination, or whether otherwise disposed nf.
It mill also contain a description of property that has been stolen,
with as much particularity as can be given, and should state every
circumstance with respect to stolen property that may be useful fur
the purpose of tracing and recovering it.

The particular evidence given by witnesses is not to be stated, nor
their names, except only the name of the prosecutor who makes the
charge.
Your report, when signed as above directed, will be sent to Mr.
Stafford; at Bow-street, the editor of the Hue and Cry, so as to be
received by him by nine o'clock In the evening.
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• proper direction will be given, that the reports of the several
races will be kept and printed consecutively in one sheet of paper,
ready for delivery the next morning to a messenger, to be sect by
you tffreeeive the same.
If the particulars above mentioned do not include all that may
be suggested, it may he sufficient for explaining the object which
Laid Lansdown bas in view. which Is, that a daily report of the
proceedings of the several oflices should be drawn up as to the most
imps/tam particulars of offences and offenders, for the purpose of
their detection, and that thus there may be a full and complete
communication and interchange of useful information between the
severaLPolice Offices.
Leifd Landow's desires that you will give the necessary orders
for citifying into.efect the regulations on the Ist of January ; and
his Lordship hopes that this plan, when carried into effect with zeal
and activity, will be productive of public benelltn, and contribute
to tketteretik and improvement of the Pollee System.
am, Gentlemen
Tort most obedient humble servant,
(Signed) S. Id. PHILLIPS.

A"bighwaf rohbery of a very aggravated description
took place yesterday morning at three o'clock, near the
church at Brixton. Mr,Campsyne' a respectablehutcher,
residing in Clare. market, was proceeding to Kennington,
where he keeps a slaughterhouse, when he was attacked
opposite the church by four armed ruffians, who instantly
knocked him down, and succeeded in robbing him of
SOW A boy belonging to Mr. Campayne, who had gone
befog him with a cart, being alarmed at his not at+ iving '
at Kennington, hastened back, and found him so
'Seemly beaten and bruised as to consider him in a
dying state. His pockets were torn away, and at the
tinsel* Was found he was so weak as to be unable to
speak. Information of the affair was given at Bow-
street at an early hour, when peace officers were sent to
Mr. Campayne's house, to obtain, if possible, such intel-
ligence as may enable them to apprehend the persons
coact' nod in this transaction. .
About five o'clock on Thursday evening, Mr. Brae-
sire, residing in Plumber's-place, Clerkenwell, was
alarmed by the screams of a child, and proceeding to
the passage.leading to the street-door, discovered the
child of a lodger at the first floor in flames. With
gnat promptness he wrapped a piece of old carpet
round the girl, and extinguished the fire, in doing
which, he was severely burnt in one of his hands. It
was subsequently ascertained that the mother of the
child had stepped out for a few minutes, leaving a fire
and light is the room. During her absence, the fire
getting kill, the child went to get some coals, in doing
which she' placed the light on the floor, behind her, the
flame of Which eaughther cambrick frock behind, and
beret upirards with great rapidity, in which state she
ran down stain. The child was severely burnt in one
of her arms, and slightly about her neck; but the body
was preserved from the effects of the flames by a flan-
nel petticoat, proving to a demonstration the utility of
woollies to cotton clothing for children at this season of
the year.


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Tuesday sad Wideman, an Inquest wai held at the
Bell Inn, &islet, by F T. evant.ert, Gent. Coroner fat
the liberty of the Divetry of 'Lancaster. off the bday of
William Moore, sti .boy *bootie years of age. It apa
peared that the deceased was. nd in a ploughed field,
in the said parish, on the Monday morning, irith his nick
stabbed or cot in two or three places, and a bandage tied
round so as to strangle him; his body was ripped open
from the breast to the lower part of the abdomen, afid
his entrails torn out; his liver was torn )n pieces, *ad
part of it laid by his sides Tike deceased lived with big
cousin, Jacob PoWley, Of Litettam,cordwainer, and was
vent by bim on a donkey, on Sunday morniag last, with a
parcel to be left at Bintry Royal Oak. A man ntuned Jahn
Kenney overtook the boy on Briiley Green, from whence
they proceeded together I passing the Royal Oak' at
Bantry, Kenney told the deceased it was Twyford ; upon
inquiry he found himself at F, olsham, where he staled
that Kennedy had led him out of the way..-he asked
at Foulsham if that was Bintry, when he was told it was
not, and was directed the way to he Royal Oak, abets
he had some refreshment, and corn for his donkey.
—While at the Royal Oak he stated that Kenney had
s 4a he would murder him. The landlady asked him to
stay alt night, but he said no, fam not of raid. He left
the Oak about three o'clock. in the afternoon to return
home, when he was soon overtaken by Kenney, who was
seen lurking near the house during the boy's stay, when
he followed him through Billingford and Etroham, to
a place called Elmham Hurdle, on the road leading
towards Briley, when they were seen together at five
o'clock. The murder is supposed to have been com-
mitted about six o'clock the sarie evening. Three
witnesses deposed to their having beard screams at the '
time when, and apparently proceeding from the quar-
ter where, the sanguinary deed was afterwards disco-
vered to have been I.erpetrated. Monday morning Ken-
ney was apprehended on suspicion of being the murderer,
as he was seen with the deceased as before stated from

11 o'clock in the forenoon till five in the everting of the
same day. After an examination of the Witnesses, the
Jury returned a verdict of 41 Wilful Murder" against
the said John Kenney, who was forthwith committed
(under the Coroner's warrant) to Norwich Castle; and
was yesterday conveyed to that gaol by Mr. Johnson,
keeper of Swaffham Bridewell.

COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.

The tragedy of Othello was performed last night at
Ccfeent Garden Theatre, with a force which attracted
one of the fullest audiences that we ever recollect to
have witnessed. Evrry place in the house, from the
pit up to the slips, was filled before seven o'clock; the
lobbies were crowded with persons during the whole
eveng, unable to obtain seats; and many hundreds, from
the boxes only, went away from the theatre. Part of this
anxiety was no doubt excited by the understanding that
the present will be the last season of the performances of
Mr. KEAN ; but, from the demeanour and appearance of
the coamany, it was evident that a desire to see a tragedy
really well acted had been the attraction which brought a
very consideiable number. It is almost a work of supers.
rero zation,, at ais time of day, to speak of Mr. Kartri's
Othello ; but we may be allowed to say thus much.—
that it is mere trash to talk of "trick," or any thing short
of " talent," in such a piece of acting ; the mere recite.
tion—such a mere reading of the character—could only
be imagined by a most gifted (though, perhaps, irre-
gular), and even by a highly poetic mind. How the
actor manages—subjected as he is, no doubt, to almost
constant illness, and often to physical soffering—we
cannot explain; but certain it is that he retains the
full command of all his faculties. We never sew
him play with more admirable di-criminatioray tad
scarcely ever, if ever, with more vigour—long and as.•
duous as the character of Othello is—aan last night.
To particularise upon such a performance is quite
neeiless ; and to attempt to do so, with any desire to do

justice, would carry us far beyond our limits ; suffice it
to say, that it is difficult, as the play proceeds, for the
sp etator to determine, whether the more fierce, or the
more tender and impassioned scenes the bursts which
breathe nothing but fury, and rage, and death, or tie
deep sorrow of that exquisitely delivered passage—the
" 0 now, for ever,
" Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content !
in the thitd act—develops the more extraordinary de-
gree of command in the performer, wh le they all evince

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the great variety of power which he possesses. On the
whole, those who have not seen Mr. KEAN'S Othello,
have not seen, and probably never will see, the pease.
tion of tragic acting: when he quits the stage—it he is
going to quit it—tithePo,-Rithard, and Sir Giles Over-
reach, will quit it with him. Mr. Yesuao's logo is one
of his most curious and successful efforts—a perform-
ance fit to take rank with his own Mr. Btverky, in the
Ganteskr, and to stand by the side even of the eztra-
ordinary display which it assisted last night in Mr.
KEAN'S Othello. He makes logo, with the aid of bis
neat figure and accomplished deportment, a very
highly-polished ruffian; whose natural villainy of heart
seems often totally unaccountable; but whose elegant •
manners, and very amusing conversation, render him—
against ones conscience—interesting as long as he is on
the stage. In fact, Mr. YOUNG, in logo, keeps ,the ear,,
of the audience that is, Jae is as much listened for,
(WI ich is a very different thing froth being listened to)--
as Mr. MEAN does is Othello; and the scenes with Eolith,
and Roderigo are often very highly eamic: the scene in
which he reproves Letitia, and takes pos4ssion of the
handkerchief, is above all piaise. The tragedy, through-
out, was most admirably acted; and one of the effects,
for the honour of public taite, deserves to be, noticed:
• audience, during the whole evening-.--even in the
galleries—were as quiet as an audience at the Italian
Opera House. Mr. KUIBLE raised the early, part of the
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play mater by his Cassiod ~rliich we .wjll not be
content to see him give up,-., ' he...fi..xls somebody
else that can play it with. affiliti. -11, drunken
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scene was, as usual, inimitable; Ind, the moiety,
from the drunkenness—the business of eadually be-
coming sober in the conversation that follows with Ingo
—still better : it was a conception of great nicety, and
very successfully executed. We have only room to add
farther, that Miss JARMAN was pleasing in Dosdenrona,
and is very competently good. The whole play was
heard. with close attention, rather than with noisy op-
please, until the last scene, when Mr. Kew's fall (wfiich
was firm lad fearless) brought down loud and repeated
cheers from all parts of the theatre. Mr. C. KEMBIA
then stepped forward, and, after announcing the Chador.
mas pantomime for. Wednesday, stated, that as Mart
after the holydays as the arrangements of the• Hair
would permit, Mr. IRAN would have the hosokof.
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appearing again before the public. .

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GiIMIN Room Jots.—" Pr ay, Tom, didn't I strike
oat some new beauties in Hamlet last night ?"—"Faitat
my boy, you struck out every beauty in kber.bwraetor.‘
In Vienna, which; with its suburbs, compriseco. air.. '
cult of 15 miles, there are published only one .Serviiip* .... ,
one Latin,. and one Hungarian Journal, builds: thoi , •
Court Gazette and the Austrian Observer. 4 If

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