Star.
London, England, 1811-08-31 00:00:00

POLICE.

MAXIIIOII Hons.—A well dressed woman was
charged before the Lord Mayor, for attempting to im-
pose upon the Society. for the relief of the wives, Ste.
of Wounded Sailors in his Majesty's Sehice. The
Secretary of this Society; which is held at Lloyd's.
Coffee-house, attended, and produced two letters
given him by this woman, which letters he suspects,
from several reasons, are all forgeries. The prisoner
said she Lad these letters from Cox and Greenwood's,
and that she was the wife of an officer of the 58th re-
giment, and that she was just come home froth abroad,
and gave a very incorrect account, either from a dis-
ordered brain, or the unhappy situation in which she ,
Was placed. She was remanded for further examina-
tion, and the Secretary ordered to take these letters
to Cox and Greenwood's, and make further inquiry
about her. .
GUILDHALL—An information was heard before
Alderman Avrcrvs.siglinst !Warn Webster, a hay-
salesman, 43 Smithfield, charging him with keeping
back six shillings in a load of straw, and giving the
carman a ticket with the money six shillings less than
he sold it for. This information was by the Rev. Mr.
Fenshaw, of Degenham, in Essex, who was attended
by his Solicitor, who called forward different wit-
nesses, who clearly proved the defendant guilty. He
did not appear himself : a Gentleman appeared for
him, and said Mr. Webster was very sorry for what
hWd happened, and would submit to the Magistrate's
decision. The Solicitor pointed out the Act of Piir•
liament against this offence, the penalty for which is
ten pounds, and which his client had no objections
might be appropriated as the Alderman thought pro-
per, and sail this was not the first offence.
Eleanor Hugh:4 a poor woman, was htsought up,
whose husband had obliged her to lodge an informa-
tion against a woman who had inveigled her into the
destructive vice of gambling, by getting the poor
creature to risque what little money her industrious
husband was able to afford her for the support of
themselves and three children, in some Lads Cwt.
1 The poor man seeing his little funritute and bedding
going by degrees, naturally inquired of his wife what
I had become of them ? when the simple creature con-
lessed the whole of the infamous contrivances that
had been practised against her, almost to the ruin of
them both. A Mrs. Benson was also brought up, to
whom Mrs. Hughes had that morning paid, oa several
numbers, Is. which had been previously marked by
the officers ; and a Schoolmistress, in Stonecutter-
street, was also brought up, at whose house the
business was transacted. Mrs. Hughes, however,
could not prove that Mrs. Benson was the principal,
it being now contrary to the etiquette of those experi-
enced hag: to let their deluded victim be present at
the drawings. The fact of having received money,
Mrs. Benson could not deny, but she asserted, that
she neither was the principal, nor did she know who
I was ; and, although threatened by the Magistrate
• that she should be sent to prison as the principal, she
would not peach. She was therefore ordered, either
sto find bail or to go to prison, and to be brought up
again, to see whether she may not, by that time; be
disposed to give up thenam,s of the principals.
Manusonot:on.syterr.—Two female servants in
, the employ of a lady in Manchester-street, Mulches.:
I ter-square, were charged with robbing the house of
their mistress of plate, jewels, Etc. to a considerable
amount, during the lady's absence a few days at
I Weymouth. In defence, it was stated by the :tr.'
rants, that they had pledged the property during the
absence of their mistress for safety ; and some cit.
cumstances came out in corroboration of this sin-
gular defence, particularly as no part of the money
advanced had been made use of.

PEIOURY.—Mary Ann Gwill was committed for
wilful and corrupt perjury in swearing falsely relit.
ti ye to a case of burglary before the Magistrates at
this office. The prisoner, it appeared, swore to her
having been at Camberwell Fair with a man of the
11:4MC of• Towers oil the night of a burglary at the
house of Mr. Raymond, in Cadogan-place, for which
Towers has been committed for trial. The perjury
having been proved, the pri....nier confes.sed her guilt,
which she attributed to the persuasions of a friend 01
Towers, to get the latter out of custody.

Early on Monday m,orning last, J. Allen, a convict
in the city gaol, Norwich, effected his escape, by bur-
rowing tioder the door-way clhis cell, and ascending
the wall of the prison.

Saturday night a young man was knoeked down in
Drury lane by g footpad, and robbed of a onee-pousnd
note and seven shillings in silver. The robber was,
however, pursued and taken.
Thursday night, Mr. Ferguson, of Brick-lane, Old.
street, wa► hustled, by a gang of fellows near the
Charter-horse-wall, and rubbed of his watch and a
silk umbrella.
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