Star.
London, England, 1819-05-31 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANstoe-House...—Saturclay a tailor, named Co.
soy, was brought before the Lord Mayor upon a
charge of beating and kicking his wife. The tailor
said she was the • aggressor, and spewing his face,
asked the Lord Mayor what a man was to do when
a woman flew at him, mad with her nails madepatch-
work of his face? The LORD MAyon said, he should
compel the defendant to find sureties for his future
good behaviour towards his wife. The tailor said it
would be of no use to do so, as he was determined
to quit her and leave the country immediately he got
his liberty. The LORD MAYOR said, that although he
might be determined to quit his wife, yet they would
nut so soon quit him, but would compel him, ere he
went, to find a maintenance for his wife, and to find
bail to answer for the assault at the Quarter Sessions;
in default of which he was committed to prison.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—SatUTdaY, a boy, about
twelve years of age, who is in the habit of peram-
bulating the streets with a monkey on his shoulders,
was put to the bar, with his confidante benufidelle,
charged as a vagrant. The boy was unable to arti-
culate a word of English, but signified in Italian
that he was fatherless and motherless, and had tra-
velled with Pug all the way from Parma, in Italy,
in quest of a livelihood. -Upon being informed by
Mr. Bisson that he was to go to prison, the poor boy
was greatly affected, and earnestly supplicated that
his monkey might go with him. The worthy Ma-
gistrate, Mr. CONANT, said he did not wish to sepa-
rate them ; at the same time he could not consis-
tently make out a warrant of commitment for Pug,
and therefore it remained for the officer who con-
ducted the prisoner to the House of Correction, to
intercede on the behalf of poor Pug, to the end that
he might be admitted as a volunteer.
QUEEN-SQUARE.-MILITARY OUTRAGE.--Mritihrw.
Redmond, a private in the first battalion first regi-
ment of Foot Guards, was on Saturday charged
with wounding P. Pearson desperately with a bayo-
net. Pearson is a journeyman baker out of place,
and on Friday morning he was at a house of call in
Long-acre, where a master baker applied, and sent
him for some yeast to Pimlico. He accordingly
passed through Spring-garden-gate with his bucket,
without the sentinel there taking notice ; but, when
he came to Buckingham-gate, he was going through
on the carriage-road, when he heard the sentinel cal-
ling out. He understood him to say he must not
pass that way, but through the wicket at the side ;
and he, in compliance, stepped off the carriage-
road, and passed through at the side. The sentinel
followed, and without saying another word, stabbed
him in the back ! The blood flowed, and some peo-
ple took him to the Westminster Infirmary, where it
. was found that the bayonet had penetrated about
three-quarters of an inch, near the spine. The wound
was dressed, and information given at this Office.,
The soldier's name, however, was not ascertained,
but the Magistrate granted a warrant, which was
given to an Officer. He went to Portland Barracks,
where he discovered that the prisoner was the man
who had been on the post at the time, and he took
him into custody. In defence, the prisoner said, he
had orders from his Captain to prevent any person
going through the gate with a load ;he told the
baker he could not pass with his bucket, but he became
abusive; in consequence of which he felt it his duty
to attempt to compel him to stop, as he was bourd,
whilst ender arms, to obey the orders of his Corn-
mandiag Officer.—The Magistrate censured the con-
duct of the soldier in very severe terms, and direct.
ed the baker to indict him at the present Sessions.—.
He was then delivered over to his Serjeant, who at-
tended, in order to be tried by military law, if he
had exceeded the orders he received.

At the Old Bailey, on Saturday, Matteo Afitzietti,
who was, a short time since, apprehended in the City
of London, on various charges of shop-lifting, was
tried on four capital indictments. On the first two
he was acquitted ; on the third he was convicted of
larceny only ; but on the fourth he was found Guilty
—Death. It appeared that he had only arrived in
this country two days previous to his apprehension.
S. Salomon; for assaulting the Rev. Mr. M'Leod,
on the highway, and taking from his person a gold
chain and two seals, was also capitally convicted.

Friday se'nnight, about midnight, a robbery of a
most daring, and, in some respects, of a most singu-
lar character, was committed on the person of the
Rev. JOSEPH BARDGETT, Chaplain of Christ Church,
and of Merton College, Oxford, who was returning
from Headington, where he had been spending the
evening with a friend. He had arrived within about
fifty yards of the lane called Marston lane, when he
perceived three men meeting him ; one of them ad-
vanced before the others, and when they came near
him the foremost man sprung at him, and threw his
arms round him. At first Mr. BARDOETT supposed
it was a drunken frolic, and he attempted to push the
person from him ; but he was soon undeceived, by
finding his arms pinioned down ; Le therefore made
a most violent effort to recover his liberty, and find-
ing hin:telf the stronger of the two, he seized the ruf-
fian, and threw him with such force to the ground on
the side of the path next the hedge, that he fell over
the man, and rolled into the ditch. The robber im-
mediately threw himself on him, kneeled upon his
body, and began to rifle his pockets. One or both of
the other robbers then assisted, and one put his hand
to his mouth to prevent his calling out being heard.
The man who first attacked him proceeded to search
his pockets, from which he obtained only a few shil-
lings and half-pence, for his coat pocket, in which
his cket-book, ith- Bank-notes, was
his fall. The
Ad watch from hit;
seals and part of the'
, from certain cir+
;pected of the robbery.
ilea CHANCELLOR,
amination.
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near the winning{
ping down, received -so
of his ribs.
daughter, of Leather-
'ednesday afternoon, in
were pulled over by
Italie near the Hare
which accident his
places.