Star.
London, England, 1821-08-01 00:00:00

POLICE

111Assro-HousE.—Yesterday IL Lennart!, a stout
hale-looking young seaman, was charged with having
stolen a shawl from the shop of Mrs. A. Jackson, of
Cannon-street, linen-draper. The prosecute ix stated,
that on Monday morning she was sitting in her shop,
when the prisoner ran in aod snatched a shawl from
the line on which it hung, and ran off with it. He
' was pursued with the cry of Stop thief !' when he
threw the shawl away, but, after a smart pursuit, he
was taken. The prisoner conducted himself with the
utmost indifference as to the charge that was made
against him, and appeared careless as to what was
done with him. It was only after repeated questions
had been put to him that he could be got to give any
account of himself. He stated that he was twenty:.
one years of age, and belonged to Halifax ; that he
had been discharged some time since from his ship,
and could not get another, although he had tried re-'
peatedly. Having no means of relief, he had been
obliged to wander about the streets, catching a day's
work where he could, and was ultimately reduced to
begging; but this having failed him, he must rob or
die, and lie had chosen the first. The LORD MAYOR
commiserated the situation of the young man; but
whose case, it was to be feared, was that of hundreds
who had been driven into a career of crime from si-
milar causes, and from having no resource from tem-
porary want. The prisoner was remanded, and orders
were given that he should be well taken care of.

13ow-F.TaErr.---Yesterday William Sprott, a water-
man on the Thames, appeared before Sir R. BAKER,
to answer the complaint of A. S. Slater, Esq. a Gen-
tleman residing in Green-street, Bedford-square, for' '
his having used abusive language. It appeared by
the evidence for the complaint, that Mr. Slater and
two of his friends hired the defendant and his boat
at Old Swan-stairs, and directed him to row them to
Hungerforsl. He accordingly rowed them to Hun-
gerford, and his legal fare for so doing would not
have been more than one shilling, but Mr. Slater gave
him two shillings, observing that the wind was high,
and it had been a heavy pull. The defendant re-
plied, that it had been " a cF—d heavy pull, and that
he aught to give him more!" Mr. Slater objected,
and was walking away, when the defendant called
after him, " You are a shabby rascal!" The defen-
dant pleaded guilty, and Sir ROBERT BAKER fined
him in the mitigated penalty of twenty shillings and
all the costs, which he paid, and was discharged.
.1. Clements, a master chimney-sweep, in Chapel-
place, Coram-street, was brought before the Magis-
trate, charged with ill-treating his apprentice, a boy
of only eleven years old. The little fellow, when de-
sired to state the nature of the ill-treatment, burst
into tears, and said—" Why, Sir, he's always a whop-
ping on me; and Missis and Ann's always a whopping
on me too. They takes me down in the cellar, and
whops me over the legs with a cane till I can't stand
hardly."—The mother of the child, and several per-
sons who live in the neighbourhood, corroborated the
boy's account.—The master accused the boy of idle-
ness, and running away from his " profession;" but
he denied having corrected him improperly. He drew
forth from a pocket, curiously contrived for the pur-
pose, a birch rod, which, he declared, was the only
instrument of correction he had ever used. He also
inveighed in strong terms against the ingratitude cf
the mother and son, in bringing this suit against him,
after he had " kindly consented to let the child learn
the religion of a Roman Catholic!" and, finally, he
declared it was nothing but a conspiracylo rob him'
of an apprentice, now he had had the trouble of
1 teaching him " a ?lava profession, by which lip.

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