Star.
London, England, 1827-08-25 00:00:00

Pot Act INtatlGENct.

MANSION.HOUSE.
The Loan MAYOR, soon after he midi...the Chair in tie Justice
Room, made the following observations:—" I hate asceetalned,
beyond a doubt, that there is a Most aboininable gasping house In
Throgniortottotreet, where gambling is carried on in the most ne-
farious manner, and to a gteat estent. 't shall h lie that house
watched night and day, and do all in my power to suppress so
dreadful a nuisance. I should not perform my duty as a Magistrate,
if I did not determine to make egimples of those who May be found
on the premises, under eireumstaiiers that prose their intention to
be an unlawful one. I have had an oath taken before me that
hazard and other games are played there, and I no* give notice
that I shall send all persons, who May be Mond in this abominable
Hell, as it has been properly called, however respectable they may
be, to prison as rogues and vagabonds. Biery man of them shall
be treated as a rogue and vagabond. I am in possession of the
names of many. persons who are visitors, and I desire that the
police shall at all' hours in the day and night keep Watch over
the hoose, and see what is going forward. The appearance of the
den 'justifies the opinion as to the purposes for which it has been
used. There are two doors, out of which is of enormous strength.
The table, the cards and dice, shew beyond all question that gam-
bling is the trade carried on there."
Soon after his Lordship gave this public notice, a person came
up to Mr. Cope, and told him, in a very polite manner, that be
would feel obliged if the Marshal would send an officer to make
investigation Into a robbery which had been committed in his pre-
mises in Throgniorton.street, out of which three suits of clothes
and a valuable diamond brooch had been stolen, on Thursday night.
The applicant was immediately introduced to the Loup :illl.l'9R,
and, in reply to the observations of his Lordship, he s lid he was
aware that gaming was carried on before he took the house. but .t.
was quite otherwise since he had become proprietor. Hp had ratted
the house about seventeen or eighteen months, but had hot been
there during the last month.
The Loan Maims desired that his officers might have Fee acre's
to the house, also that the strong door should be removed, and said
the premises should be watched night and day.
'fbe knowing ones, who were not in the-secret of the speculation,
have been asttini.hed . for some time past at seeing a great nuothic
of the out.and.oht 'legs of the West End Of the Town walking abo..t
'Mange, and inquiring particularly into the state of the M..x.ey
Market. The Throgniorton.street Hell has been set up in cum..-
titivnee of the comparative scarcity of mouey, and of flats, at :he
West End of the Town.
There is in thestrong door a small hol‘e, covered with a slide. wiii-h
is dr iwn back when a customer taps at the door. Admission is of
course defied to those who are use known as" good'as."
GUILDHALL.
Thorvald was again brought up, on the charge of having stolen,
off Eppiog Forest, a pony, in October last, the property of Henry
Eve, of Cbigwell-row. He was remanded on Monday last, at ill,
request, that he might have an opportunity of finding the person of
whom he said be bought the animal but net having Jam so, he
was continued to take hie trial for the (emir:
• BO W-STR E ET.
Jfr. Williams, Secretary to the late Westminster Dairy Com-
pany, wis charged with nit handing over to Mears. Bicknell and
Rohans, Solicitors to the Company, a check for .50/. entrust d to '
him fur that purpose, on the In of August, by Messrs. Deacon,
Close, and Stewart, three of the Committee of Management, on
sthe ontpany being dissolved. Mr. Williams did tint deny receiving
the check, but stated as his reason for oat having banded it to
Messm. Bickneltand Rattails, that hr had dividends to pay, and
as the Committee were out of town, be had no merits of kruaut lug
money hut by changing this check.
Mr. Humiliates, who appeared for Mr. Williams, contended,
that as he was a Shareholder, he was dealing with his and his
partners ri.oney, and therefore liable to them upon an account.—
His conduct did not bring him within the meaning of Sir Thuntas
Miner's 'uor Lord Eidan's Act.
Mr. MINSINOLL said, he considered him a servant, inasmuch vs he
was paid a salary.—Mr. Humphries—Yes, but out of his own mo-
ney ; he was servant to himself.
Mr. Deacon said, that as it was the desire of the Committee to
give Mr. Williams the fullest possible opportunity to vindicate him-
self, he would not offer to go into the accounts.
Mr. Williams embraced this proposition ; but Mr. Minutest de-
clared that he should have as bail, Mr. Williams's own recogni.
saner, in sf2oo, and two sureties in XI 00 each.
HATTON-GARDEN.
An elegantly dressed female was charged with robbing her fur-
nished lodgings in Smith-street, Battle Bridge, of various articles of
plate and furniture. It appeared that the prisoner's husband, a com-
mercial character now abroad, allowed her .4aoo a ranks addidwa
to which, so attached was she to that grand source of mischief; gin.
drinking, that, she bad nearly ruined several of her friends, who
moved In a respectable line. In defence, she said she had not pledg-
ed the articles with a dishonest intent, as she meant to redeem them ;
but, alas! the promise of a drunkard is seldom realized; and she
was fully committed.
M A RLBOROST G H-ST BEET.
Yesterday a young man named James Richards, was brought
before Sir (home Faaaarir, charged with the following robbery :
John Crowfoot, a servant out of place, stated that he was lodging
at the Dolphin, in Ozford-street, where :he prisoner, who was a
helper at some stables, also lodged. About a fortnight ago witness
had occasion to go for a few days into the country, leaving his
trunk, &c. at his lodgings until his return; but when he came back.
be found that his trunk had been opened in his absence, and all his
wearing apparel, consisting of two coats, several waidcoats, shirts,
stockings, dec. bad disappeared.
Mr. Ball, the landlord of the Dolphin, stated, that on hearing of
the robbery, be immediately suspected the prisoner, who had for
some days absented himself from the house, and meeting with him
accidentally in the street, he charged hint with the offence, and took
him into Custody.
A washerwoman stated, that some days since the prisoner, for
whom she occasionally washed, came to her at a very early hour of
the morning, and gave her the stockings, which she abw produced,
to wash for him.
Crowfoot, the prosecutor, identified these stockings, as some of
those stolen from his trunk.
The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robbery; and, in his de-
fence, said that the stockings produced he had picked up from the
floor of the room where he slept, at the Dolphin.
The Magistrate told him be must tell that story to a Jury, and
committed him for tell.

QUERN- SQUA RE.
R. Bartsets was &ailed with sobbing the house of the Rev. Mr.
Greig, of Vincent-square, Wesubinster. —Mr. G. got up early on
Thursday week, and, after opening the parlour window, retired up
stairs, and soon after was informed the house had been robbed.
On coming down he missed Some 'spoons and a table clock. The
female servant, on entering the parlour, saw two men jump through
the window. Mr. Coles, of Bell-street, about half-past six that
morning, saw the prisoner and another man pass through Cottage-
lane, one of whom had a clock, and that he followed them towards
Lluck.lane, fully convinced that all was not right. He was confi-
dent the prisoner was one of them.—Remanded.
UNION-HALL
On Thursday evening Hales was charged on suspicion of
having murdered Harriet Sweetapple, a woman with whom be
cohabited. Pople' an Officer, said, that a crowd having.assembled
around a house in Kent-street, in which the prisoner and the de-
ceased were inmates, he went thither, and made inquiry of persons in
the neighbourhood, and was shewn into a room where the dead body
of a woman was lying. He examined it minutely, and perceived two
discoloured spots on the throat, as though the deceased bad beet.
strangled. Having ascertained this, he immediately went in search
of the prisoner, whom he found at a public house in the neighbour-
hood, drinking. The prisoner told him, on being interrogated
respecting the suspicious circumstances, that on retiring, intoxicated,
to bed, on Wednesday night, the deceased was with him; when he
awoke, at an early hour in the morning, be found her a corpse, and
he then went out, after communicating the fact to the landlady of
the house.—The prisoner was comatitted until the decision of the
Coroner's Inquest shall have transpired.
LAMBETH-STREET.
Yesterday three youths, named Crib, Mate'ey, and Hankitu, the
oldest of whom did not exceed fifteen years oi age, were brought
up for final examination, on a charge of stealing irons the person of
Ilr. Samuel Moron, on the public highway, a silver watch and
appendages, of ca.isiderable value.
The prowcucar, an aged and rather infirm old man, stated, that
on Friday se'nnight, between four and five in the evening, while
passing along Whitecbapel lligh.stteet, he was surrounded by a
gang of boys, when he presently received a blow on the back, and
on turning to ascertain who it was that bad committed the assault,
his watch was drawn from his pocket. Tile prisoner Crib he se-
cured at the time, and also the person who struck hint, 'but the
otheis ran away, hut had beets subsequently recured.
A very intelligent boy, who had an apple-stall near the spot
where the robbery took place, inittitifisd all the prisoner, as being.
those around the prosecutor, and they were fully conuni4rd to
Newgate.