Star.
London, England, 1817-08-14 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bows rsetr.—Testeeday Preekeiii Cauf.rirk underwe.! et" (11•
initiation, chard on mtspicion of robbing Merton College. 0?•
ford. The Roe. John Darcey Preston stated that be bekoged
to Merton College, Oxford. On the i 4tt. II Februrry last, to.
tweets six and eight o'clock in the evening, I.e kit hit chambers
In the College. and his desk locked, and turfectly secure. The
desk contained Bank of England notes to the amomt of ild7s;
and he was positive the desk was locked, but he was not we
that be locked his chamber door. On his return home to the
College, be discovered that his desk and its contents bad beet
stolen. An alarm was raised, Inn the robber wee no: detected.
The desk was afterwards found in a field near Henley, on the
London-road, by a farmer, broken open, the contents having
been taken out. A variety of suspicions draw. -tances existing
against the prisoner, he was committed for furl er esandnritic.
-.-Geerge Parma untlerwert
another esarnirat fon, yesterday, upon the charge of having forged
a check for £i2s, upon the banking house 01 Messrs Vaitiar.s
and Co. In Birchimlatre, in the name of N. Acheson. Esq. The
evidence, in addition to that tecelved at the first examination, is
very important. Daniel MtOregsw. errand Ivy to Mr. Deviser,
by whom the prisoner had lain entployed, said, eat he took a
letter from Pearson to a Mr. De fern, a Swiss ni.osengsr, nn rise
morning of the day on which the forgery was altered lire art
ostler from that gentleman was, that ht most either •ee the writer,
or know from him by letter the road he tn• at t to eke to Cam-
bray. Pearson, upon Fearing this, said the le ter related .0 a sol-
dier named Brown, who was going to that plice •he l.tter
was produced. It was upon the slllij•rt of an Ininsedistedepag.
turn for France, and was obvi.,..isis st.,crtet. by the band that
, tots. d the drauebt. Mr. Ach..o, t;s:tared the draft to be a for-
ger, Mr. lie Jean itle,tif:t d the letter 'wide Me had received
..pan the subject of avi• g for ' ambraTs and reptated
Ike answer given by Is ns to the rtesseteget. the 1 0111, TVlsmott
told • hr prisoner that the evidence a. ainst nim tended very muds
coking horde the charge of forgery; and asked whe,ber be bad
now arty thing to urge in I.ls dole et?—.'.bon r Lord.
it was merely out of curiosity I wrote that tattoo h L oat
MATOR advised him to be silent, and ordered tits. be sintold be
tenni/Hied for u w•el., when he will be fully consinitt•ti
K. AT t ILO° CAA CKFIRL—SCIIrraI pet sons were isrour t before
the Lord mayor t.. answer complaants (lately become very gene-
ral) that the Wily of the passenger. through the mow pobliz
streets is endangered by the practice of expind vs Waterloo
crackers. The vsgubonel hays about Muorfields p y tt. grudges
apinst the old and nahrrn by means of this weapon, iront which
a very interemi g girl suffered vusleotly the nth. r day
William Davit was charged by Amefie Daniels whh :be ?1,..
fence of having disc'.argeti tto of the A'aterloo teatimes in her
face. At she went along Cheapside the deten.:ant suddenly
crossed tht street to her, and discharged something orb cif made
I a great noise, and gave pear gain. Upon recovering f out bee
terror, she found that her face was dreadfully burn . When
she entered the Offsce the hi nd was lowing from Ur cheeks,
and her right eye was neatly elo.ed. M. dice! auistanee was ne•
c,ssary. l'he defendant was convicted in the s tun o: Sus. and
ordered to find hail for the assault H- was commuted

A Swede Wa apprehended for having Watelloo crackers fire
sale. In order to colviet upon such a charge, it is tweesrni
that the sale should be witn.ssed by two persons. stock. the
OUicer, was deputed to make the psrehatte; but upon being ;ailed
upon by the Lord Mayor to produce the cracker. tlw case wan
found to be at an end, the (Myer himself her teg been ueable to
resist the inclination to have a shot. The defendm; did not,
however, go unpunished. The Waterloo crackers, ce which be
bad a great quantity, were handed over to Stocks, who seemed
to be very uneasy in the possession. Upoo requeanag to know
what he should do with the fire-works, Mr. hi..hler ilettredtbens
to be thrown i the Thames.
Querat-cgoit a.—Rriert Wed, a private in the Sd regiment.
of Foot ."...uards, was brought to the Office by William Liminess,,
servant to Mr. Payne, chee,• nonger, i York street, Wewesia.
stet, and charged by him with strict •g a piece of bacon of Vb.
or Sib. weight, the property of his said nia.ter. William Payne.
NYirness stased, that he saw pri.oner cones into the shop take
up the bacon, and go out of she shop with It ; witness .ii-taetly
followed prismer, and seized him Ihe bacon was Urtier ifs
jacket, front whence witness took it, and hrought t.otii it and
prisoner direct is the Office. There were two or three persons
more who saw prisoner come out of the shop, and a.ao saw lea
witness seize him and take the bacon frckii him. Patients' was
fully committed.

UNION HALL—A ease occupied the attention of the 'Mimi%
trams tor sonic time yesterday. It was btsught under ti.e Cat.
toms Act, and was In Information at the !Prance ut a man names&
Steele, agairst Hart. for the forfeiture of a cart and ' ass. It
appeared by the evidence of Snow, the Constable, that on the
morning of the 45th of April last, boat five o'clock, he 'Warred
the detendaet at Walsworth with a horse and can, app trendy
loaded with apple baskets, some empty and the whets full. liar.
log some suspicion of the defendant, he ststvprd v e cam and
searched It. Under these baskets he discovered conceived twelve
cases of plate glass. On /tart beind stopped, he tol the witness
that he had nothing bur apples, and was going w Covent Car-
den Market, and at envied to escape At that moment Moo.
rty, a Custom-house Officer, came up. seized the use Of OW SS
nto goods, and conveyed them to the Custom-house Warehouse.
S. Moony, the Officer in question, gated, that the glass .dud
in the defendant's cut was foreign glass, and liable to pay a heavy
duty on importation, and which is allowed a drawback on expor.
tattoo. Some of the eases appeared to have been exported, sad
the drawback allowed, but afterwards were smuggled into this
country. On the part of the defendant, it was contended, that
he had been Imposed topes by some persons, who got bins to
convey the glass in his cart. Ibe Magistrate cool.nmed the
horse and cart.

MA1L101017011.1111M1T.....R10T AT Tit Oeca♦ Hever.—
Tbe St. James's ebarge-book exhibited a complaint against Mr.
Wltlaughten, by lavender. the officer of Queen- sq. are, f .r being
disonierly at the Opera House. I• appeared, that .ea Tuesday
night Mr..M'Naughten presented himself at the doors of the
Opera Hulls., and instated ongoing it: with his boots on; it being
contrary to the rules of the tea to admit any prisms not fad
dressed, be was debarred admittance. He immediately bent into
invectives against every person, and he being partly in the lionw,
the noise be made attract-d the attention of some fit' the audience,
several of whom came to the spa. At lan et vas loured neces-
sary to call in Lavender, who brought a corporal's guard at his
heels, and thrust him out, and then sent him to St. lamet's
Watch•house. The constable of the night now came forward,
and said he had released Mr. M'flaughten on his word of hollow
to appear to the charge, but he had not yet arrived, and as La-
vender had other business to do, begged the we might stand
over until to•inerrow (this day). The Magistrate consisted to
this, and the parties went away: but were scarcely g n'.• when
Mr. hi'Naughtea entered the vface with every mark of anxiety.
He said be was sorry he had exceeded the time ecified, but
would, certainly attend this morning, when he would question by
what authority the fellow Lavender had thrust him oat at tfa
point of fixed bayonets t

BIRTH.
Lady Caroline Cocks, of a daughter, a few days since, at the
father's (the Earl of itardwicke) house in S. Jantes's-svare.

DIF.D.
Friday sennight, in the 29th year of his age, at Truro,
Peter Nettleton. jno. proprietor of the Cornwall Ciasette.

PRICE OF STOCKS YES I'ERDAY.
Bank Stock, I.nce Anr. Si 1-I(ttt f
Spot Ct. Rid. e I India Stock,
Spec Ct. Cons. Sit 801 SIR India Bonds, 140 pr.
4 per Cent. fulfill Excb.Bills (t :t 27 24 $4 Pr.
per Ct. Nary 10.5 fin Cons. for At. saf BIM

COAL MARKET. AUGUST 13.
Ships at Market. Ships sold. Prices.
341 Newcastle 3s} Mk. od. to 415. ed.
It Sanderlaud If Cs. 6dlb to Os. 6d.
1 Stone Coal 1 60s. ed.
S Colas I SOs. 04.

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