Star.
London, England, 1820-09-20 00:00:00

MANCEIE:STER POLICE.

Two Members ofthe Committee for obtaining sig.
natures to the Address to the Queen, from the Arti-
sans and Mechanics of Manchester, were taken into
custody on Monday se'rinight, on a charge of va-
' grancy, preferred by Mr. Heffor, who keeps a barber's
shop in Market-street.
It appeared from the statement before the Magis-
trate,, that Mr. Lang and Mr. Tetlow, (the two gend-
ers in question) were soliciting subscriptions to defray
the expenses incidental to the obtainment of signa-
tures. Passing from shop to shop, in due course they
arrived at that now in the occupation of Mr. Heffor,
by whom they were instantly seized, and delivered
over into the custody of an officer, Heffor, at the
same time, inveighing in the most gross and scanda-
lous language against her MAJESTY. Mr. Lang and
Mr. Tetlow were immediately conveyed to the Police-
office, whither they were foamed by some friends,
who arrived almost at the same moment.
As no Magistrate was sitting, it was proposed to
send them at once to the New Bailey, where they
would remain confined until the next morning, when

their case would be-decided.
One of their friends strongly objected to this pro-
ceeding ; he said no doubt could exist, even in the
mind of Mr. Shawcross (who was the highest person
" in authority" present), that this was no common
case of vagrancy : it was an arrest for political pur-
poses. The very appearance of the two respectable
men in custody, he remarked, was sufficient to refute
the charge, which was trumped up to annoy and in-
jure them ; besides, the box in which they received
the subscription, and which was brought with them,
indicated by the inscription upon its outside, what
was the object they had in view. He added, that
whatever bail for their appearance the next morning
might be required should be instantly furnished, and
urged the extreme hardship and injustice of confining
them a single night under such a charge.
Mr. SIIAWCROSS replied, that he had no power to
interfere ; his duty, he conceived, to be simply to
detain them in custody. He could not take bail, nor

could he liberate the Prisoners.
The same Gentleman then suggested that Mr, -Shaw-
cross should step over to Mr.Norris's house, to ascer-
tain Whethet he could not accept the bail that evening.
Mr. SHAWCROSS accordingly left the Office, and
after an absence of 40 minutes, returned. He said,
he had not been able to meet with Mr. Norris, or any
other Gentleman qualified to interfere, and there re-
mained, therefore, no choice as to committing the
prisoners to the New Bailey. He however promised
that they should be well treated, and suffer.as little
inconveeience as possible. The box was then sealed
up, and Mr. Tetlow and Mr. Lang were removed to
the New Bailey.
The next morning (Tuesday) at twelve the case
came on before Mr. Norms. The Boroughreeve was
sitting on the bench. After some trivial cases, Mr.
Lang and Mr. Tetlow were placed at the bar, and
the seals on the subscription box were broken. On
three of the sides it was inscribed " Subscription boa
for the Queen's Address," and in the front a • paper
was fastened, stating that the Committee requested
the assistance of their friends, to defray the expenses
which they had incurred.
The officer who took them in custody being sworn,
deposed that Lang and Tetlow entered Heffor's shop,
and begged money from him, pretending that it was
for the Queen, and that he was immediately directed
to take them into custody.
Mr. fouunts, who appeared for the defendants,
asked the witness whether he was not told by them
that the money solicited from him was to be applied
towards the expenses of the Address to the Queen?
He replied that they did not ; they asked for money,
and he was directed to apprehend them. _
Mr. FouLxxs.—Have you not already stated that
they pretended it was for the Queen? Yes ; they said
so afterwards but not at first. They asked for money
without saying for what purpose.
Mr. MILNE gave it as his opinion that this was cer-
tainly an offence under the 17th Geo. IL cap. 5.
wherein one of the descriptions of idle and disorderly
persons was, " All persons going from door to door,
or placing themselves in streets, highways, or pas-
sages, to beg or gather alms in the parishes or places
where they dwell." He submitted that the defend:
ants fell within this description.
Mr. FouLKEs denied that the Act which had been
quoted could be fairly applied to the case of the de-
fendants. Alms meant personal relief. These men
were not asking money as alms, that is, for personal'
relief. They were engaged in collecting subscriptions
for a public object. He remembered a case which
had occurred in the South of England, completely
decisive of the point at issue. A subscription was
opened in the neighbourhood of Margate, to enable
the poor to enjoy the benefit of bathing. Collectors
were sent round to gather in contributions for this
purpose. A Clergyman interfered, and caused some
of these Collectors to be imprisoned. An action was
'afterwards maintained. against the Clergyman for
false imprisonment, and damages were recovered.
Mr. NORRIS inquired if that case was reported?
Mr. Foymes—Not in the-books, Sir ; it was re-
ported in the Newspapers.
Mr.Nortais-1 cannot allow it then. The reports
jport of Newspapers are not sufficient authority.
Mr. BAIIROW- said, the case had been regularly r
ed. He had seen it himself.
Mr. Fr:KILL/a said, that without reference to any
case already decided, he would appeal to the mani-
fest design and principle of the Act.
Mr. Nonsus—lf you do so, I cannot hesitate a
imoment in saying, these men have committed no
offence against the law. Let them be discharged.
Mr. Four.xxs—They ought never to have been
brought here.
The defendants were immediately set at liberty,
and the bqa having been returned to them, they
departed out of Court with a numerous body of their
friendi, who had attended to witness the proceedings.

On the night of Friday last, the house of JOHN
THORNTON, Esq. of Allam's-terrace, Kensington, was
broken into, and a considerable quantity of plate
stolen therefrom. The entry was effected by means
of perforating with a centre-bit several holes in the
shutters of one of the rooms on the ground-floor, and
breaking the holes into one, an aperture was thereby
made of sufficient magnitude to admit the hand and
arm of a man. and the bar which fasteh4the shut-
I hers was then easily displaced.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Friday last we inserted a letter from one of the
Emigrants of rather a gloomy complexion—partly to
be attributed, perhaps, to the writer having lost his
wife. The subjoined is from a Mr. JAMES RICII A NIP.
SON, formerly a earn-merchant at Sheffield, who,
with his wife and family, and a number of other
persons from that place and neighbourhood, emi-
grated to the Cape of Good Hope in December last :
Algoa Day, June 17, IS2O.
Data FRIEND—We an safe at the. Cape, after a ve-y
tedious, though not unpleasant passage, on the 9th of Apri
after staying there about three weeks we all embarked vgail fur
this place, from whence we immediately proceeded to the place
marked out as our new Settlement, which is about seventw
English miles from this. We all enjoyed tolerable good heaps
during the passage, and were well supplied with good provbirns
all the way. Our friends all continue in good health ; and, net-
withstamiing the change of climate, 1 think there have beers,
fewer cases of sickness than there would among an equal num-
ber of persons in our own country. The soil here is er:trentely
fertile • and we have an abundance of fresh meat and.iish of
vo
rious descriptions. The earth yields forth its crops of vatieus
kinds almost spontaneously. We have already a comfortable
place of warship erected, and many good dwellings, with out-
buildings for our stock, &c.
" I have met with so many old acquaintances, that I could
sometimes fancy myself in Old England ; but, alas ! there is a
vast distance between us and the lane which I had often vowed
never to quit.—' Oh! England, with all thy faults, I love thee
stilL'
" Yes, my friend, I am not so much of a Stoic as so soon to
forget the land of my birth; and though there is every prospect
of myself and fellow.emigrants enjoying comfort, and eventual
affluence, in this land of our adoption, yet we often heave the
deep sigh after now unhappy England, and the friends left be-
hind us. The uncertainty whether we are ever to meet again
in this world, is the chief alloy to our otherwise comfortable
condition here.
" My journey hither is to wait the arrival of some vessels-
from England, on board which we expect acme essential ~upp-
lies; and shall probably be joined by an accession of fr,,,ls
Emigrants. There are two vessels now preparing to sail fur
England, on board one of which 1 shall send this letter. When
you write, you may either direct to the Cape or A lgoa 13ay, as there
is a Commissary at each place, with whom each settler's name- is
regi stet ed, and through whose departments our letters come safely
to hand. 1 should like to see you here ; but I will not persuade.
You may tell all inquires s that the country and our prospects equal
our most sanguine expectations, and when the regret for absent
friends, and the leaving' home, shall have worn trE, we shall all
feel more comfortable. Adieu! "J. IL,"

The late F. Poem, Fog. of Bath, has left a sum, said to ex-
ceed Forty Thousand Pounds, for erecting on a field he pur-
chased a short time ago, thirty neat cottanes, far the free resi-
dence (with endowments) of the Widows or Daughters of ten
poor Clergymen, and the Widows and Daughters ot ten reduced
Professional Men, and the Widows or Daughters of tet decayed

Merchants, for ever.
Homy &mous, Esq. gave an entertainment a few daysago
on his estate at Tun, in Somersetshire, to upwards of four hun-
dred poor inhabitants of the Parish, on account of the coming
of age of his Lady, when the happy assemblage were regaltd
with a plentiful dinner at roast beef awl plum-puddings, and as
much cider u they thought proper to drink : during the rep'st a
band of music played on the green, and the church bells at in-
tervals rung during the day.
CHIMNEY4S EIEPERSoOa Monday se'nnight, an
Inquest was held at Sunny Hill, in the County of
Kildare, on the body of a male child, aged about
seven years, who was found dead in a shrubbery at
Sunny Hill, and supposed to have lain there about
three weeks. From the evidence, it appeared that
the deceased was the apprentice of three sweeps,
brothers, of the name of Stone, and had been sold to
them for two guineas; that he received from them
the most brutal treatment at different times. It was
sworn, they used to bury him in a sand-hole, and
when he was thus almost suffocated they would draw
him out again. The body was discovered accident-
ally, the sods that covered it being partly washed
away by the rain. Marks of violence were per.ep-
tible on the head, and a blow, as if from a sweep's
scraper, was visible on the right temple. After exa-
mining a number of witnesses, the Jury found a ver-
dict of Wilful Murder against Patrick Stone, John
Stone, and Michael Stone. These men have been
since apprehended and committed by the Coroner to
Naas gaol, to abide their trials at the next Assizes.
BIGAMY.—A few days since Mr. G. Carroll, of
South King-street, Dublin, attorney, was brougl4
before the Magistrates, at the Police-office there, on
the above charge. What appeared on examination
was as follows:—From the testimony of the Lady he
had last married, it appeared that she and her former
husband had gone to reside at Brussels, that in the
month of November las; her husband died, and she,
wishing to return to Ireland, wrote to some friends
in Dublin stating that wish, and that if they knew
any person or persons on the Continent, or who had
to pass through Brussels on their way to Irelan4
whom they could recommend, she would take ad-
vantage of their escort and revisit her native land.
—Mr. Carroll being acquainted with the contents,
stated to the Lady's friend that he was going to Lon-
don on business, and would think it a trifle to go to
Brussels; he obtained the Lady's • letter, and pro-
ceeded to that city,- and by it obtained an introduc-
tion to her, where he acted the part of an unmarried
Gentleman with much gallantry, and escorted her to
London, where, on the 4th of July last, they w ete
regularly married according to the rites of the Esta-
bhshed Church ; here they lived as man and wife
until about three weeks back, when he came to
Dublin to provide a suitable residence for her, and had
the folly to make a request of her friends that his
fast wife's being in existence should not be told to
the Lady; her friends indignantly but silently ap-
plied at this Office, where they were advised to wait
until die unconscious dupe of the transaction should
arrive in Ireland, which she did on Saturday last by
the steam packet, and was escorted to lodgings in
Harold's Cross by her supposed husband. info-.
,mations,were immediately sent to Mr. Farrell, chief
peace-officer of Dublin, who instantly dispatchei
peae cers Lynch and Mauly, who arrested the
Gentle at dinner, on the charge of bigamy, to
the great consternation of the Lady, who for the
first time was made acquainted with her real situation',
and that he whom she looked upon as her husband.
bad a wife living in his house in King-street, to
whom he was married, several years back, in Rath-
drum Church, and whose family are as respectable
as any in that part of the County of Wicklow. These
facts being sworn to, the, prisoner was sent to NOV'
gate, to abide hi; trial at the next Commission.

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DIED.
At one o'clock on the morning of Monday, after a short but
severe illness, aged 56, James Chas. Mottley, EN. of Portsmouth.
September 14. at Dover, after a short and sevLse lieu-
tenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Allan, But. of Baker-street, Port'
nun-square, aged 56 years ; one of the I)irectora of the Eat-
India Company, and late M.P. for Berwick-upon-Tweed.
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