Star.
London, England, 1820-08-24 00:00:00

POLICA

Bow-sTairr.—Yesterday, a person dressed katit a
i sailor, and who gave his same John Brown, was charged v.itt
picking pockets among the crowd assembled in St. .I:tniass
square to witness the Queen's return from the House ,)r
John Napier, of Grand Junction-street, Whicart.sts,
that he was standing among the crowd in St. Jamess-tilt ,-r,
when his watch was snatched from his fob ; he directly saw :•;,§
watch in the hands of the prisoner, and immediately seized b.st
round the waist. The prisoner made several intffectual
to disengage himself from the prosecutor, bit findrig it iinpr.s.
ticable, he dropped the watch cn the pavement.—lie was ft,4
committed for trial. _ _

John Ryan and krael lams, fwo notorious pickpockets, -a-c.
fully committed on similar charges

ROBBERY AND MURDER.—Saturday se'onTghr,
about half-past nine o'clock, as Mr. William flan-
cock,- a farmer, who resides in the palish of MuLica
(Cornwall), was returning from Helston market, oa
horseback, he was met, about two miles and a halt
from that place, by three men on fo6t, each canyiali
a musket, who desired him to stop; at the same tnnie
one of them laid hold of hi, bridle. Mr. Hanc‘ci
spurred his horse, and the animal trod on the foot
the fellow who held the bridle, Tad who let it
One of the others immediately fired, and sever,'
slugs entered Mr. Hancock's side, just above the hip;
he immediately fell from his horse, and the ruffians
came up. They took a new hat which he had bought
at Helston, and rifled his pocket,. in whicit, how.
ever, he had but two shillings. They kicked, and
otherwise ill-treated him, and then made utf, leaving
him tbr dead. In this situation he was found by
some of his neighbours, and removed to a house a
al-Carter of a mile from where he was fotttid. About
ten o'clock the People in the house heard a slurn tire t,
which was followed by the shrieks of a woman but
knowing that there were three armed ruffians on ft:
road, they did not venture out. The second
was occasioned by an attack made by the same el',
lains on a labouring man, named William Jose, a:..d
his wife, who were also on their way home from
Helston market, and who, On resisting the atteirT:
made to plunder them, were fired at by one cf e
ruffians. The contents of the gun chiefly ludi;ed :a
some meat which was in a basket that the
carried on her arm, and was the means of saving Irssr
life; she was, however, dangerously wounded hi
of the slugs, a number of which u ere found in t'.^
meat, and her husband also received a slug in the
face. The woman's screa:us induced the villains to
decamp without effecting their object. Jose and his
wife were able to reach a neilitontring house ; and
as both they and Mr. Hancock had recognised
robbers, the next morning, a bellow, named
Barnicoat, and two young men, broilters, named
John and Thomas 7'hompsod, were taken into cus-
tody'. Barnicoat's foot war injured by the tread of
Mr. Hancock's horse, and the hat that M-. H. hat
purchased at Helston was found in the home of the
Thernpsons.—They have been committed to Bodnar
gaol.—Mr. Hancock died, from the wounds he re.
ceived, on Thursday morning.
EXECUTIONs.—Fi i.fay Janie: Lijhy;),t sufreie 1 tlle
awful sentence of the law, at Cal lisie, 1i r the wilful
murder of T:.omas Maewell, on the 15th of Al4y.
During the short perial allowed him to prepare let
eternity, he was visited by several pious Clergymen,
both Churchmen and Dissenters, who faithfully :h.:-
ministe: cd to him those instructions and exhort:nig:is
most suitable to his awful situation. Their visits he
at first received without any emotions of gratitude,
declaring that theie was no occasion for player cr
reading the Scriptures there ; that he never co :id
forgive those who had borne testimony against him;
that his life was sworn away, and that he would die
innocent. He wrote two letters, one to his mother,
and another to his wife, in which he stated, that hr
was as innocent of the crime for which he was that
day to suffer as the child unborn; that he, at the
same time, forgave all, and hoped his death would
be no reproach to his relations. This warn tunate
,man was about 21 years of age—in person he was
tail and stout: he had a wife, with an infant about
twelve weeks old : she was delivered only two. days
before he was` apprehended, and has not yet reco-
vered from the shock which that occasioned her. His
mother, who had her husband accidentally killed
about a year ago, visited him the day previous to his
trial. She has had 19 children, 15 sons and four
daughters, nine of whom are still in life.
James Cribb, whose age did not exceed 19 years,
was executed on Friday last, on the new drop at Ere-
ter, for altering one pound Bank notes to tens.
Daniel Hartford, condemned at the late Assizes
for Sussex, for horse-stealing, was executed on Sa-
turday last, on Horsham Common, and died truly
penitent. His wife is at this time confined in Horsham
Gaol, under sentence of transportation, for having
forged Bank cotes in her possession.

MARRIED.
On the 92d instant, at Harrow-on-the-Hill, by the Re.
W. E. Caldwell, B.A. G. H. Macartney, Esq. Royal Sect!, to
Selina Harriet Cotton, only daughter of the late John Ca:u
brook, Esq. of Tetbury, Gloucestershire.
Thursday, at Tichfield, 'Captain T. W. Carter (of the late
Wasp), to Harriet, eldest daughter of Admiral Sir A. Dixon.
August 9, at Feddle, in Perthshire, John Graham, Ist'. 10
Isabella, second daughter of the late Captain Robert CampbP,
of Kippendavie.

DIED.
August 14, at Cheltenham, in his 58th year, T. Burton F....z-
-gerald, Esq. Commissioner of his Majesty's Stamps in Irdird.
Saturday evening, after a short illness, Mr. John Addisa
Newman, late Keeper of his Ma' y s Gaol of Newgate.
Suddenly, in London, Captain E.Barker, R.N.
Wednesday, at Hinton-house, the infant son of the Rev. C. n
Winnington.
August 9, at Liverpool, the celebrated Miss Margaret 14C
whose faculty of distinguishing colours, &c. by the touch, gave
rise to so much discussion about three years since.
August 12, at Dumfries, in the 23d year of his age, Mr. David
Jefferson, writer.
August 8, at Kirkbean Manse, Allis Isabella Little, date:Ea
of the late Mr. Little, Minister of Colvend.
Friday se'nnight, in St. Margaret's, Norwich, aged 46, Car
tain Robert Tinkler, of the Royal Nam who signalised hintscll
by his intrepid bravery in several engagements, in whidt
had received twenty-one wounds. Captain Tinkler was ct
boy on board his Majesty's ship Bounty (Captain Myth) a: tt. e
tine the crew of that ship mutinied in the South Seas, in •.e
year 1789, and was one of the twelve persons who, with •te
Captain, were turned adrift in a boat by the mutineers. It wii
be recollected that Captain Myth and his companion% olite':*
voyage of 1,200 leagues (during which the only subsistence the/
had was one ounce of bread and a quarter of a plat of w-t':
each day), had the good fortune to arrive safe at the Dutch t,t•
Clement of Copan, in the island of Timor.

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