Star.
London, England, 1819-08-06 00:00:00

bata's OUtrageOUS and infamous coladuet in this pad-
cubit cam, but said, that their conduct in general
win soettrensely bad as to be* public scandal. The
llsgistrates confessed that they would sooner put up
with any inconvenience than go into a boat. It was
impossible to satisfy them with money, for their de-
mands had no bounds, and their general insolence
and misbehaviour was not to be endured, and which
was not confined to the man employed, but he was
joined by bodies of them spending their time in idle-
ness at the top of the stairs, hooting and insulting
people.—Day was convicted in the penalty, with costs,
and Abel ordered to find bail.
Yesterday the boy named Browne, who was on Mon-
day last charged with stealing a hackney coach and
horses, was again brought up, when the prosecutor
said, that from the tender years of the lad, and his
apparent contrition now, he had no wish to prosecute.
—The father of the boy produced a letter from a re-
spectable individual, giving him a good character,
and promising to' get him sent out to the Cape of
Good Hope. The Magistrate advised him in future
to be honest, and the boy fell on his knees, cried bit-
terly, and exclaimed several times—" Indeed, indeed,
I never will be dishonest again r He was discharged.
Gortasmaw..--aYesterday the driver of one of Bar-
clay and Perkins's drays was fined ss. for negligently
driving against and upsetting a cart, and driving on
the pavement in Fleetastreet.
Mr. Nicholls; dentist, in Fleet-street, was charged
with horsewhipping and kicking his servant-boy, for
sonturaacy.and neglect of duty. The defendant sub-
mitted that every master had the power of coercing'
his servants : and it would be particularly hard on
him if he had not, in carrying on a high and impor-
tant profession, a power to castigate a boy to whom
he gave a livery, worth £lO. The Magistrate said,
'however skilful he might be in his high profession,
he did not seem to know the law ; but he would tell
bid, he must not beat or abuse any man. If his
servant misbehaved, he could discharge him; but
the law gave no man the power he thought he pos-
sessed.—The defendant was ordered to find bail.
SHAM POSTMEN, PORTERS, &c.—Four young men,
named Emery, Green, Broughton, and Hodgsell, were
charged with having obtained money under false pre-
tences from Mrs. Gould, of London-wall, by means
of a sham letter. The prisoners, it appeared, from
the confession of one of them, were part of a gang
that subsisted by plundering shopkeepers and others,
by presenting heavy parcels, which ihey said arrived
frum the country, but which were found to consist of
bricks, and other weighty things of no great value,
except to the firm that lived by them. They were
furnished with printed tickets, and before suspicion
was entertained, were out of reach with the exorbi-
tant profits of their speculation. They were General
Postmen too, and were successful to a great extent in
obtaining postage for blank and nonsensical letters.
Their business was arranged upon a complete sys-
tem. One wrote the letters, another made up the
parcels, a third looked out for directions, and a fourth
delivered the paper and received the cash The booty
was represented as very considerable.—The prisoners
were remanded, at the request of the officers, who ex-
pect a great number of charges of a similar nature
against them.
HATTON autism—Yesterday Margaret Ring, a
respectable-looking widow woman, was charged by
' the Collector of the rates for paving, lighting, and wa-
tering the streets on the Lucas estate, St. Pancras, for
refusing to pay the sum -of 15s. assessed on her, and
removing her goods, so that no distress could be dal
'tamed. She admitted the charge, but pleaded her in.
ability to pay it. The complainant was inexorable,
and represented to the Magistrate the necessity of
making an example. According to the Statute of
5`2 Geo. LII. c. 29. the Magistrate, on the charge being
proved, must commit the defendant for a term not
exceeding. one month, and not less than ten days.—
The Magistrate, thus situated, was necessitated to con-
vict, and sentenced the defendant to ten days impri-
sonment in the House of Correction.