Star.
London, England, 1821-09-21 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bow-srnm.—The notorious Vaughan, of blood-
money celebrity, was brought before Sir RICHARD
BIRNIE, yesterday. Our Readers will recollect that
this fellow was sentenced to five years imprisonment,
for a diabolical conspiracy, by which he and his con-
federates procured the condemnation for a capital fe-
lony, of two or three poor innocent Irishmen, and
who in all probability would have suffered death
but for the humane exertions of Alderman, WOOD,
in bringing their persecutors to justice. The term of
Vaughan's imprisonment, it appears, expired yester-
day, 'and he was brought before the Magistrate, pur-
suant to his sentence, for the purpose of giving bail
for his good behaviour for three years longer. Two
dirty, mean-looking men, who described themselves
at porters, became his bail, and he was discharged.
A respectable-lnoking man, named William Birk:,
has been brought before the Magistrates at this Office,
on a charge of absconding from a Commission of
Bankruptcy, which was issued against him some six
or seven months ago. This person, previous to his
bankruptcy, tesided at Charnes Hall, Staffordshire,
where he carried on very extensive dealings as a
cheese-factor, and was supposed to have absconded
with property to a very large amount He was ap-
prehended by Bishop (of this Office), on Thursday
se'nnight, at Wapping, and it appeared he had taken
his passage on board the Hope, a vessel now lying in
the River, bound to Van 'Norm's Land. For the
first three days after his apprehension he obstinately
refused to take any sustenance whatever, and when
urged on this 'subject, he invariably replied, " I
cannot eat—What is the use of my eating?" In con-
sequence of his perseverance in refusing food appre-
hensions
were entertained for his life; he became
dreadfully emaciated, and constantly in a state of
miserable abstraction ; but on Monday last he was
prevailed on to take a little refreshment, and he was
sent off to Stafford last night, by the Chester mail, in
custody of Bishop.
Mmuasottouon-srazar.—Yesterday, a horn-boy,
named Compton, was charged with using seditious
language, and inciting the populace against the King
and Government. Pepper, a constable, produced a
bundle of papers he had taken from the prisoner, who
was crying them about in Jermyn-street, on Wednes-
day night. They purported to be The sorrowful and
last lamentations of three mere and one woman, ordered
for execution at the Old Bailey, on Tuesday next. At
intervals, when giving out it was their last farewell
to the world, he occasionally harangued the mob,
which collected about him, by damning the King,
whose agents, in his absence, brought the unfortunate
creatures to an ignominious death ; and the King him-
self, whose first act, when he arrived from Ireland, was
to order them for execution. His language towards
the Royal Family and the Ministers, the officer said,
was too scurrilous to repeat. The prisoner was or-
dered to find bail.

Mmcsiox-Hnusr.—George Peterkin was charged
with having imposed on the Overseers of several Pa-
rishes in the City. He was in the habit of dating the
time of his servitude, upon which he founded his
claim for relief, at periods so distant, as to render it
difficult to detect him, and he generally fixed on per-
sons, whom he pretended to have served, that had
been long consigned to the silent grave, consequently
he was safe from contradiction that way. In one in-
stance he claimed a settlement from having been
eighteen years ago a servant to Mr. May, an ink-
maker, in London-wall ; and when baffled in that
pursuit, he attempted to shift his object to Mr. May,
a distiller, but there not having been any distiller of
that name in the neighbourhood, he was thrown
aback. A number of Parish Officers attended, but
it being supposed that there were many more who
had been duped by his schemes, he was remanded
till Tuesday. Among other artifices to excite corn-
passion, he was in the habit of binding halfpence on
his legs, by which he had brought them nearly to a
state of mortification.
GUILDRALLI. Smith, alias Saxton, who was on
Wednesday acquitted at the Old Bailey, on a charge
of returning from transportation, of which offence
'be bad been previously tried at the same place, and
also acquitted, was yesterday brought before Mr.
Alderman &tower, at the instance of Mr. Stafford,
Chief Clerk at Bow-street Office, who strenuously
contended for his detention, for the purpose of being
remitted to New South Wales, to complete his origi-
nal sentence. The worthy Alderman urged his ac-
quittal of the offence of returning from transporta-
; Mr. Stafford contended, that this had nothing
to do with the present charge; but the Alderman
thought otherwise, and discharged the prisoner. It
is remarkable, that although the rewards generally
upon the conviction of felons (the blood-money, as it
was termed) are abolished, the £2O reward for pro-
secuting an individual to conviction, for returning
from transportation, was not done away with, but
may still be claimed under the Statute.
MARY-LA-Borxa OFFlCE—Yesterday Mr. L—,
a master carver and gilder, residing in Carburton-
street, Mary-la-Bonne, was brought up from the
watch-house, and charged with violently assaulting
and beating his wife, who appeared in the Justice-
room, and exhibited a frightful spectacle, having a
pair of black eyes, a broken nose, a cut mouth, and
lacerated jaws. It appeared from the evidence ad.
duced, that as Smith, the watchman, was going his
rounds, crying ten o'clock, on Wednesday night, on
passing the defendant's house he was alarmed at
hearing the cries of Murder" vociferated by a fe-
male inside. He knocked at the door, but was re-
fused admittance; he listened for a time, and hear-
ing a bustling noise, and the cries becoming louder
and more alarming, whilst an immense mob col-
lected in front of the house, he hastened and gave
information to Purford and Wilson, two constables,
of the circumstance, and they went back with him.
Purford knocked at the door, and after a little time
it was opened by the defendant, who appeared with-
out coat or waistcoat. Ou espying the constables hu