Star.
London, England, 1821-10-13 00:00:00

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on this spot Mr. Spicer was robbed and attempted to"
be murdered,- for which offence Edward Lee was con-
victed at the.last Assizes and executed a short time
back. A night or two since, a similar attack was
made upon a Gentleman, who wars nu.st brutally
treated ;but by the exertions of Holmes, the officer,
Qne of the gang was. secured. The-worthy Magis-
trates of this Office have given great satisfa:lion to
the inhabitants of Southwark, by their attention to
the subject. • •
IVonslum-rixrt..--SunnEm AND EXTRAORDI-
NARY DRATIL-Mr. Thomas Bennett; nn 'inhabitant
of the Parish of St. Luke, applied to the presiding
Magistrate; Mr. BEVILL, and stated that a man
died under extraordinary circumstances, ati tt riblic-
house• in 'Foster's-buildings, Whitecross-stranWAnd
that he had been bniied without an InqueA takeifte-
lo-e the Coroner. It appeared, he said, thftt titu.man
was in sound health when he entered the liaise,' and
having drank a pint of porter, he suddenly ex*ed.
In consequence of this information; the of the
Pitri,h, and the landlord of the public-house; ap:
peared at this Office in purivance of summontes
granted by Mr.BEyiit. The Beadle and the land-
lord having been examineiL two men, named Why
and Hart, who were with the deceased at eh:! public-
house, concurred in stating tl;:ne had been no
quarrel and no blows given w hile 1!;e:i• were in the
company of the deceased, and that they believed he
died by the visitation of Goo.. Mr. BIiVILL said, that
after. this testimony he was net disposed to carry the
investigation further, being satisfied that the death of
the deceased had nct been occasioned by violence.

AIAELZ:)EOUO/1- 4TNELT........THE WILD INDIAN
CIIIEF AND Fasigiv.-Yesterday the two foreign
Gentlemen who, it was said, were the persons who
brought over the individuals from the Brazils, now
exhibiting in London, attended at the Office, to as-
certain what mode would be Best to adopt, in order
to regain legal possession of the if ild Mau and his
family, who is the head of a savage u'ibe, called
Boutteoltdos, which inhabit the interior of South. Arne-
lira. The Gentlemen, after having -had some con-
versation with the Magistrates in a foreign language,
were advised, if they felt themselves aggrieved, to
move for a Habeas Corpus, which would give-rise
to a question, whether the parties who brought them
to this Country could gain possession of them or. not?
NI A ItY•L A-BONNE OFFICE.—YetICTday,AIN
Robert Calvert, his wife,%and diughter, the latter only
ten years of age, were brought. up in the custody of •
Michael Morris, one of the officers, charged with
being' common utterers of base coin.—Remanded,,
until the Solicitor to the Mint attends. •

Towle HALL, SOUTHWA inc.—A woman, called ha.
bella Tracey, yesterday applied to the Alderman for
protection against an enemy, who, she said, was bring-
ing her hourly to the gravel The M:i2,,i'arate ex-
pressed a wish to know who this implacaee foe could
be. The applicant stated, that for some time pact her
repose had been disturbed by some malignant and
invisible power, who kept up a constant clatter of
broken glass around her, making such a din as to
prevent her paying proper attention to anything she
took in hand! Sometimes she could see the glass,
and it frequently preceded her along the streets; it
then all at once would disappear, and a noise like
thunderfollowed, attended by the shock of an earth-
quake. She therefore prayed the MagiArate to grant
a summons, for the purpose of citing the said glass
'vision before him, that it might answer for its co-
duct.—Magistrate. " But if I grant you a summons
against the intrusive body of glass, haw is the officer
to apprehend it?"—Mrs. Tracey. "Oh ! very easily ;
everybody sees it following me, and they can plainly
bear the dreadful noise and racket it makes.—Mr.
Alderman SMITH. " Very well ; then I will issue k
warrant, and I promise you that you shall hear no
more of the glass, if you will go home and strive to
think no more about it. Depend upon it, that I will'
inflict such punishment upon Mister Glass, as will
prevent him from offering you any annoyance in fu-
ture."—With this assurance the poor maniac left the
Office, expressing her gratitude for the relief promised
.her.—No .less than thirty paupers this day attended,
to claim relief from the different Parish Officers, and
amongst them was a man who is said to be heir to
forty thousand pounds!
FORTUNE-TELLER.—A lady of the name of Mary
Brown, one of the sisterhood of fortune-tellers, and
reputed to be deeply read in the " mystical lore" of
her vocation, wa; brought before the sitting Magis-
trate, together with a "young Lady," who, it ap-
peared, only came to consult the Fates in the person.
of Mrs. Blown. It appeared that the seat of their
,mysterious rites was a front parlour in .a house in
' Poplar-row, Kent-road, where, on the preceding
evening, they were overlooked whilst in the solemn
'act of reading a pack of cards. The constables seized
upon the person of Mrs. Brown and her customer,
and brought them, with the oracular cards them-
selves, to a neighbouring watch-house. Mrs. Brown,
in her defence, stated that she did sometimes favour
particular young Ladies with a cut of the cards, but
it was all in courtesy. She took no money, and the
only recompense she ever received was a cup of tea,
to which beverage she boasted a long unremitted
partiality. She submitted that this circumstance re-
moved her case from the application of the Statute.
Miss Kitkland protested, in the most simple of tones,
that she bad given the wise woman a little tea merely
to teach her how to amuse herself in the long evenings,
which, at this time of the year, had so many terrors
for the hearts of all spinsters. The Magistrate de-
termining, in his judicial prudence, to give another
instance of the truth of the Poet's maxim, " where
ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be mite," committed
the wise Mrs. Brown as a rogue and vagabond. Miss
Kirkland was allowed to take her departure, with a
suitat,le admonition, upon her pledging liciseif W
provide other arrangements for hertea parties.

, Thursday night, about eleven o'clock, as Mr. Joint I
DISLEY was walking along Chiswell-street, with a
Lady, on his way home to St. John-street, they were
attacked by three boys, one of whom threw somel
snuff into the eyes of Mr. DISLEY, which blinded him
for a few moments; the young delinquents then em-
braced this opportunity, and snatching a valuable
gold neck-chain from the Lady's neck, the gang ran
.off up Whitecross-street, and escaped tin ough the
different alleys with which the street abounds. This
is a new method of facilitating plunder, and is the
second instance of the kind that has been perpetrated
near the same spot; within the last law nights.