Star.
London, England, 1826-09-11 00:00:00

UNION-HALL

There was not one night charge at this •6ce—a singular and al-
most unprecedented circumstance, considering the extent of the
very populous district of Southwark and its precincts.
On Saturday a letter was handed to blauexx SWAM, Esq. the
presiding Magistrate, by a person who, at the same time, inclosed
his card of address—" Mr. George Meeves,s3, Southampton-street,

Strand"—the contents of which were as follow :

" Gentlemen—Can you be good enough to send an order to the
watchman of the Vauxhall Trust, to deliver up some keys which
formerly belonged to a man of the name of Black?.
The Magistrate not knowing what this very singular epistle could
mean, desired Mr. Burnaby, the Clerk, to return the letter, with

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an answer to that effect, and to say, ~ that if he (Mr. bleeves)
wanted art interview with the Magistrates, he could obtain the
same, by coming to the office any time between the hours of one
and three."

Mr. Meeves accordingly appeared at the office, fashionably attired
and produced thEletter be had just received, and read it over aloud,
commenting on it as he proceeded; and, after talking most in-
coherently, the Magistrate at last collected from his discourse, that
a Mr. Black was formerly a lodger with him; that, about a month
since he went to Vauxhall Gardens (" that enchanting place of
fairy-land," exclaimed Mr. Meeves), and indulging too freely in
strong potations, he had been lodged in the watchhouse, and while
there, had cut his throat. He was immediately taken to St.
Thomas's Hospital, where he died. Mr. Meeves said, his object was
to get the keys of the watchman, for the purpose of securing the
deceased's property, and rendering an account of It to his relativek
The Magistrate said he could not grant an order for any such
purpose. On learning which, Mr. Meeves exclaimed, " You are
here for the preservation of the peace, and, on an applics.tion of this
sort, should render me every assistance. What is to become of us,
if, in a state of civilized society, suck things are permitted." After a
little snore similar expostulation, he added, " I am a courosizoa of
music ; I have suns compositions far beyond Handel or Mozart t
what hurts me is (lifting his hands up), they refuse to print one
word of my compositions, while they print and distribute six or
seven hundred copies of other compositions very inferior to 11T.
sate." Ile now quoted Othello, where, in the 6th Setae of Ztl Act,
Logo says—

" You are well tun'd now;
Bat I'll let down the pegs that make this music,
A> honest as I am."

Ile then quoted Hamlet, and entered a tirade against him, but
landed the play of OtitelUi to the skits. lie said, " Ilhntkt io despi-
cable in the eyes of all good judges, and in the eyes of Nature itself;
and it is to me quite incredible how such a man as Shakspeare
could write such a stupid, sue:► a vapid play ; a play much lister fur
the senoulboy's exert* than calculated to warm the kc hogs of a die.
criminating audience."
With tlt. greatest dAculty he was prevailed upon to give over
his harangue, anti requested to quit the office. I le said he disliked
Hanks on account of the ghosts it ; there was nu real substance iu
these aerial personages, and so very unfit for histrionic exhibition.
lie several times returned into the office, making a thousand apo-

logieq to the 514gistrates for taking up their time.—Some one re.
marked, 2, he was going out of the passage, that he appeared as
mad as the man who had cut his throat; op,w hick he became fa.
riously indignant, and at length walked away.
The poor man evidently labours under some mental infirmity..
but some parts of his address completely upset the gravity of the
bench, while it lasted.
L A M BET El-STREET.

Messrs. Woolf and X. Alexander were again placed at the bar, a,
%%1s also &mon Voinon, charged with an outrageous ascault oe
T. Lazarus, at the Jews' Burial Ground, when Mr. Isaacs applied
for their admission to bail; hut a certificate being produced of the
dangerous state in which Lazarus still remains, the application Iris
refused, and the prisonereremanded.

TOWN HALL
Marcus Falk was fined 101. under the Hawkers and Pedlars Acti
or offering to sale a variety of articles of jewellery in the Borough,
without a licence.
Margaret Ellice was sentenced to Brixton flaol for a month, aa
disorderly. She was brought up, with 13 others, by the Pari;'r,
Officers of St. Olaves, and had been eight times previously for:
given, on promises of amendthent.
THAMES-OFFICE.

Love ra AN Amta.—On Saturday, a disciple of Jehu. nantli
Slammed, and a smart buxom damsel, calling herself Moe
were placed at the bar, under the following circumstances: -
A trusty guardian of the night stated to his Vorship, that tal
calling one that morning in Shade street, he saw the figure of a 1n43
in the corner of the area of N 0.7, seemingly trying to conceal hit...
self. fhe railings were all secured, and the way in or out tru,t
have been over them. Not being quite so young as he used to he,
he did not choose to make any attempt to get at him; hut knowing
the prisoner could not very well escape, he alarmed the family,
when, to their utmost astonishment, the kitchen table bore evidect
marks of a recently-laid out elegant supper for twn ; and, oa a far.
then search, the damsel, who acted as housemaid to the establisl...
meat, was found concealed in the wine cellar, and cons;7,c,l to
durance vile,' with her gal:ant, in the adjoining watchhouse.
It being understood that the girl had paid for the treat, and se-
veral persons giving Stannard a most excellent character, they were
discharged, with a strict caution as to their future behaviour.