Star.
London, England, 1821-10-29 00:00:00

POLICE.

Bow-rraerr—Saturday Janie: Saul and InEra
Rockwell, two miserable looking young fellows, one
of them with a wooden leg, were brought up in the
custody of Nesbitt, a street-keeper of St. Clement's,
charged with the double crime of sedition and breach
of the peace. Mr. Woods, the Clerk, informed the
magistrate, that the fellows at the bar had been ap-
prehended by the street-keeper for collecting a mob
of people in the street, by shouting out the contents
of a Printed paper, now produced, which was evi-
dently directed against the King and his Ministers.
The crowd collected by the vociferation: of these
men, Amounted to 200 or 300 people, and the public
peace was in imminent danger, independent of the
obstruction offered to the free passage of his Ma-
jesty's subjects. The seditious paper was then pro-
duced to the Magistrate: it was headed " A Pill for
Punch," and contained a farrago of unintelligible
nonsense, in the form of a dialogue, in which certain
illustrious and noble personages were alluded to in
no very respectful terms. Nesbitt was sworn, and
stated that the prisoners were repeating the contents
of this paper in very loud terms, in Blacicmoor-street,
Drury-lane, whei e at least 200 persons were collected
to hear them. A person who happened to be present
volunteered his testimony in proof of the obstruction
of the free passage in Blackmoor-street, and declared
that, with all his strength, he could scarcely forte his
way through. Mr. MINSHULL asked the prisoners
what they had to say ? They stated that they were
poor men out of employment, and that they would
not have carried on their bawling occupation if they
had been aware that it was unlawful. If the street-
keeper had told them to go, they would have gone
instantly. Mr. Mutating-I. said he had a great mind
to commit the prisoners until they found load. The
prisoners begged very hard, and assured his Worship
that if he would let them go they would never offend
again. Upon this promise, earnestly made, the Ma-
gistrate discharged them on their own recognizances.
GUILDHALL.—A decent looking middle-aged wo-
man, who gave her name Jane Kemp, was brought
up on Saturday to this Justice Room, charged.
with felony, under the following circumstances :
The prisoner, it appeared, had been very strongly
recommended as an industrious, bard-working wo-
man, with a family to maintain, to Mary Ann Car-
lile, No. 155, Fleet-street, the sister of Carlile, who is
now suffering the sentence of the law in Dorchester
Jail, and was in consequence employed by her as a
charwoman on Friday last, for the first time. She
came to her work early, and by three o'clock in the
afternoon had scoured her way from the bed-rooms
down to the parlour. While in the act of perform-
ing her ablutions on the latter spot, a female country
cousin, on a visit to the house, came in with a L'2
Bank note in her hand, with which she was about to
go a shopping, in company with a young man. The
note was laid down on the table, and in an instant it
disappeared. As no one had entered or left the room,
suspicion fell upon the charwoman. She, however,
denied all knowledge of the note, and readily con-
sented to go up stairs with the females and be searched.
This was accordingly done; nothing was found in her
pockets but three old numbers of Wooler's Black
Dwarft but on being desired to take off her stocking,
four pieces of riband, and a half silk handkerchief,
were found concealed in it, which had been taken
from one of the rooms that she had just scoured.--
A chemise and a pillow-case, taken out of a box in
another room she had -been cleaning, were subse-
quently found hid under the sink in the kitchen: still,
however, she persisted she knew nothing of the note;
at length, after promises and threats, she confessed
having taken it, and afterwards throwing it into the
fire to prevent detection. Before the Magistrate she
was, however, prepared with a plausible statement
of a different character; she did not deny her confes-
sion, but said, she did not know it was a Bank-note,
and threw it in the fire as a piece of waste paper.
Respecting the other petty thefts she had nothing to
urge in her defence, but pleaded her family, and that
this was her first offence. The Magistrate observed,
that her conduct exhibited too much of the artful-
ness of an old thief to warrant the belief that this
was her first offence in this way. There being no
proof of her stealing the note, except from her own
confession, which it appeared had been drawn from
her by promises and threats, she would escape the
consequences of that part of the charge; but, for the
safety of the Public, he should send her to take her
trial for stealing the other articles.—Comniitted.

TRECArnvePRINCIESS!—Her Royal Highness the
Princess OLlva was removed on Saturday from the
King's Bench Prison, where she had resided some
days, to the Fleet. Her Royal Highness arrived
about four o'clock, iu an old carriage, made in imi-
tation of, and with similar liveries to those of the
Royal Family ; but the whole paraphernalia appeared
much the worse for wear. She was conducted, in due
state, into the prison, to go through the necessary for-
malities. When the clerk asked her in what name he
was to enter her upon his books? she answered, « Her
Royal Highness °sive, Princess of Cumberland,"
which .the clerk wrote down. She then surrendered
to a debt of £284, together with £4 4s. fees, after
which she drove off in her carriage to lodgings,
which had been hired for her at Mr. Longstaff's,
hosier, No. 48, Ludgate-hill, which is within the rules
of the Fleet-prison. She complains bitterly of the
illiberal conduct of several- individuals, who, from
being her guests, and-sharing her hospitality, have
turned out her bitterest enemies, and are daily load-
ing her with the most undeserved reproaches and the
foulest calumnies; and also regrets that her confi-
dence in the liberality and magnanimity of the Bri-
tish public has been disappointeil, for, since het pub-
lic appeal to their sympathy, not the slightest effort
has been made to assist her ! I !

INQUEST.—Saturday, a Coroner's Inquest was nod
upon the bodies of Mrs. Glanville, aged forty, and
Eliza Glanville, her daughter, a child eighteen
months old, who were killed, as stated in our Paper
of Friday, by the falling of an old tenement, at the
corner of Madoz-street, near Hanover4quare, last
Thursday. After the evidence had beep minutely
gone through, the Jury found the following verdict:
gd That the death of the deceased persons was caused
by the falling of a ruinous house; and that great
blame was attached to some person or persons- un-
known to the Jurors, for not preventing the conting-
ence of the nuisance."