Star.
London, England, 1817-01-04 00:00:00

POLICE.

MANSION HOUSIROINIERY ON WARD ,THE HlL-
DER.—Yesterday Christian Frederick, a German, one
of those wretched sailors who were sent to the HMI•
der as a place of refuge, was brought up on a charge
of having run away from the ship, carrying with him
not only the clothes by which his own taatered waist-
robe was substituted/ but also the coats, hats.
&c. of several of the other loreignerso
The Prltoner had been for some days industriously
employed in qualifying his fellows for the improve-
ment in their dress, by shoving them, and had re-
ceived some marks of favour for his services, which

it seems were performed with singular expedition.
The Clerk of the Helder complained, that the
spirit of Insubordination had gained much ground.
and that he apprehended it'would become general if
a check was not immediately applied. A constant
watch, he said, had been kept, for the purpose of
preventing robbery and flight; and the Serjeant of
the guard appointed to the Welder declared, that his
twelve men could n't be responsitde for the conse-
quences of the proximity of the ship to the Tower
Wharf.

The LORD MAYOR said, if the sailors rejected the
protection offered to them, and preferred starvation
and cold to the opposite comforts, he thought it un-
necessary to force them to their own advantage. He,
however, should take care that those who were in-
dined to run away should have cause to dread the
consequences of taking with them what they had no
title to, and ordered the prisoner to be sent to Bride-
well, and whopped.
GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday Michael Jones was charged i
!before Sir CHARLES Flowitt, with defrauding Ann
Jones, under the following circumstances:
Thu- prosecutrix, an interesting young woman, de-
posed, thet she was servant to a respectable trades-
MAD on Bread-street Hill. The prisoner also resided
in the same neighbourhood, and had got acquainted
with her on last Lord Mayor's Day, when, an inti-
macy increasing between them, he prevailed 'upon
her to quit her place, and give him up what money
she had saved, which amounted to about £2O. This
he got from her under a pretence of buying goods to
open a small shop in business, and to convince her of
the purity of his intentions, he purchased a little cot-
ton, and some few other articles, amounting to about
£5. , He afterwards took her to an inn, where he
pretended he was preparing to depart to the country
to commence trade I but she soon discovered, not
only that the residue of her property was spent, but
that her lover was claimed by other females.
Several women in Court immediately vociferated
charges of a similar nature against him ; and among
them a married woman, who stated that he had long
endeavoured to seduce her from, her family, under

while he-was him-

the host infamous _
self livingg with a reputed wife.
The Magistrate reprobated, in the strongest man-
ner, the infamous line of conduct pursued by the pri-
soner ; and regretted it was not in his power to visit
him with summary punishment. He, however, re-
commended the prosecutrix to proceed against him
by civil process.
The prisoner was about to be discharged, when
Mr. Willis, the proprietor of the Inn where he bad
slept, stated to the Magistrate. that the latter had
with him a number of trunks, filled with goods of
various kinds, which strongly excited suspicion.
The Magistrate, in consequence, ordered the pro-
perty to be examined, and the prisoner was re-
manded.

Bow-erftm.—Fmtway.—Yesterday Wm. Hahne:
was brought to the office, and Underwent a long
examination, charged before Mr. BIRNIS with for-
geries too a considerable extent.
It appealed from the evidence of Mr. William
Haydon, of Tower-roy al-court,Watling-street, broker,
that he had known the prisoner for about seven years,
during which time he had. resided near Ashford, in
Kent, but since that time he had resided A the White
House Farm, near Eden-bride; and after that time
he had no transactions with him for several years.—
He had only seen him of ce in company with Mr.
Crispe„ of Maidstone, but should not have
known him again if he had seen lilm ,• and if he had
applied to him, to sell out stock, he should have re-
quired him to be identified. On the 27th October,
1814, the prisoner applied to him in the behalf of a
man whom he introduced to him as Wm. Crispe, of
Maidstone, in Kent, to sell for him, and the person
lie represented as William Crisp., the sum of £5OO,
Navy 5 per Cent. Annuities, being part of a large
sum in the names of the prisoner and Wm. Crisp*.
In consequence of this false representation, that the
man is company with the priioner was Wm. Crispe,
and that he was a joint trustee in the stock et the 5
per cent. stock, after the transfers were regularly
prepared to, different persons, they were signed by
, the prisoner and the man whom he represented to be
William Crisp., as a brother trustee, ans 7 who signed
Jeis name as William Crisp*, and who was not doubt-
ed to be so from the representation of the prisoner,
as the stock-holders. He afterwards met the prisoner,
and the man represented to be Win. Crisps the stock-
holder, at the Black swan public-house in Lothbury,
where he paid him the amount of the stock sold, in
Batik notes from Messrs. Colton and Campbell, and
a draft for £194 on Messrs. Everett and Co. the
bankers; all of which were paid to the prisoner, in
the presence of the man representing himself to be
William Crispe; and the same man requested him
to sell stock to the amount of 4200 in the 5 per cent.
Annuities, which he accordingly did, into the name
of George Bolton, of the Stock Exchange, a broker,
who bought it for William Dixon, of the Stock Ex-
change; the prisoner, and the man calling himself,
William Crispe, attending the transfers to execute it,
as is regularly done, and the whole of this transaction
was made by the prisoner representing falsely the
man with him to be William Crispe.
The prisoner had undergone a former examination
previous to yesterday, and was again remanded by
Mr. 131111114 who complied with his solicitation to be
again committed to the House of Correction, in pre-
ference to any other prium, for a fortnight.
W. Crowds, was brought up, charged on suspicion
of being one of the five persons concerned in robbing'
the house of Mews. Brockbank and Co. cloth mu.'
, chants, Bocklarsbury, in July last, of cloths to the
amount of 4700. After a long examination he was
remanded.
Mmu.soaouon-:matt?.—Yesterday Sarnia Water-
,field, a shoemaker, at No. 2, Hogan-street, Foley-

place, *as examined upon a charge of feldniousit
taking and. applying to his elm use a £5O Bank of
England note, the property of Mr. Cisurton, hosier,
°Mord-street.
Mr. George Smith, an assistant to Mr. Cherton,
said, that on the evening of the 16th of September
last, about seven o'clock, he took a £5O Bank of
England note, No. 10,753, to Mr. Price, Oxford-
street, to pet coanged. He could not change it, and
!;e ( witness) went to Mr. Haggars, and not getting
'it changed there, he put it, as he supposed, into his
pocket, and went home. When he got into the shop
he loth:d that he had either lost the note or had his
pocket picked of it. He had fortunately taken the
number of the note, and knew that the name of Mrs.
M.tnners was written upon the back of it, the Lady
who paid him the note the same day. On the fol-
lowing moiwing he went to the Bank of England to
stop the payment of it. About a month after he re-
ceived a letter trtim the Bank, informing Lim of the
nose having been paid into the Bank from the house
of Messrs. Robarts, Curtis, and Co. He traced the
note through tivedifferent hands to Messrs. Hodges
and Co. Lottery Office keepers, 147, Oxford-street.
Mr. George Hodges said, he took the note in pay-
ment for a 16z11 in the Lottery, on the evening of
the 16th of September, between seven and ten o'clock.
.The prisoner was the person who purchased the 16th.
It was drawn a prize the neat day, but had not been
claimed.

Mr. Smith said, the note was advertised, and band.
bills were printed, offering AO. Ss. reward to the per-
son who had found it. After he had traced the note
to Mr. Hodges, he was informed that he had received
the note from the person whose name was written
upon it next his, which was 4, Samuel Waterfield ;"
but the place of residence was not mentioned. He
made it known among his friends that he suspected
a man named Waterfield was the person who had
found the note. About a fortnight ago he was in-
formed by a Gentleman belonging to the Association
for the Relief of the Poor in Maryla•Bonne, ti,at a
man named Samuel Waterfield had applied for re-
lief. address had been taken ; he (witness) got
a warrant to apprehend him, and eb officer took him
into custody.
The prisoner acknowledged that he was the per-
son who purchased the 16th. He said a man named
Howell promised him the 16th if he would change
the note. Howell at that time lodged with him, but
since he had the money he bad gone into Worcester-
' shire to his friends.

The Magistrate said, it was to him clear the priso-
ner had the knowledge that the note WAS not the pro-
perty of Howell, if there was such a person as
Howell, which he thought was a query. The priso-
ner was evidently a participator in the crime, by hii
having the 16th for getting the note changed, and
also for not having applied to the Lottery Office for
his share of the prize; the cause was; tbat•he was
afraid of being detained. He, however, thought .it
was his duty to send the case before a Jury;'and•ct+m-
mitted the rimier for trial.

CAUTIn:I TO SINIVANTS.--.LSSS Sunday evening,
about nine o'clock, a sharper knocked at a house near
Russel.square, and enquired if Mrs. (mention-
ing the Lady's flame) was at home ? the woman
servant who had incautiously opened the door, with-
out the chain being up, answered-0 No, Sir?"—
" Dear, how unlucky ! (exclaimed he) why I sup-
pose the family dined out"—" Yes, Sir." I came
upon official business, my name is Johnson, (iejoined
he) and I must see her early tomorrow morning ;
dear me how shall I manage, I had better write her I
a note, pray give me a pen and ink," upon which the
servant 'hewed him into the drawing-room and ran
down for pen and paper to the parlour, where two or
three young Ladies were sitting. In a moment she
heard him upon the stairs and went to meet him.—
Never mind, my dear, I will not trouble you,
said he) be sure to remember my name is Johnson,
I will not writs, but call at eleven to-morrow," and
hurried ofF. This caused suspicion, and it was dis-
covered that he had snatched up a watch which was
lying 4m the mantle piece ; he probably fancied it
was gold, being in a leather cover, but fortunately it
was Ohly tut old shabby metal watch, worth very little
to him, though really a loss to the owner. The man
appeared about fifty years of age, with powdered
hair, pitted with the small pox, rather under the
middle size, and looked something like a gentleman's
butler. This servant had been repeatedly desired
never to open the door without the chain to any one,
but would always take it down for a double knock,
thinking h rude to keep gentle folks waiting.
Merrinuous Odeueitrecx.—An investigation took
place yesterday at the Three Jolly Butchers, Wood-
green, Tottenham, before J. W. lizwitt, Esq. Coro-
ner for Middlesex, on the body of Henry Webb, who
was found in the New River, near the Jelly Butchersi
public-house, with his throat cut.—From the evi-
dence adduced, it appeared that the deceased was
about 40 years of age ; he bad lived in the service of
Mr. Eiphiastone, and sioce of Mr. Nichols, of Whet-
nose, as a coachman, but be had been 'lately out of
place, in consequence of some imputation on his cha
ratter, and melancholy and dej-ction tud seized his
mind. On his body being taken out of the water he
was completely dressed, with his hat on ; no ap-
pearance of blood was on his clothes, but on being
taken to the public-house and his pockets searched,
blood was discovered upon his shit:, and upon un-
tying his neck handkerchief a deep wound was found
in his throat, which had completely severed the
windpipe, yet neither on his handkerchief nor on the
external part of his dress was there the least appear-
ance of blood. The witnesses, however, supposed
that as his person was completly immersed in the
water, the stains might have disappeared ; yet on the
other hand the labouring man who found him, and
who wonted in the employ of the New River Com-
pany, thought he had been in the water but a short
'time, and to the view of the Jury he seemed to have
been very recently dead. No rs. oney-was found in
' his pocket, but a London Hospital ticket was taken
from him, by which it appeared that in February
last be was an out-patient there, and had received
medicines from that Institution. The Jury, after
a very long deliberation, returned the following
Verdict, which leaves the case open to further inves
tigation That the deceased was found dead in
I the waters of the New; River, with a mortal wound
in his throat ; but whether the mortal wound was in-'
• flitted by himself, or by sane person or persons un-
• known, no evideucd appears to the Jutors.'.

PRICIiA OF GOLD AND SILVER.
Portugal Cold I Coto, per oz. .E 3 13. ed.
Foreign Gold in Bars 181 r tt.
New Ooni.lcions ' . . 0 0.4 Cd.
New Dollars 0 4s

It has been found by different I xperiments, oiar 11,
mixing CO or SO grains or common maguesis
e:4ch poiand of the worst &sir, it will ruske brad ti
the hest y1,11;1.