Star.
London, England, 1819-01-04 00:00:00

POLICE.

THOMAS ToaTow, Esq. Chief Magistrate at the
HattonAlarden Police-Office, has resigned, and Mi.
Serjeant Skt.Low has been appointed to fill his situa-
tion ; and on Friday he took possession of the late
Mr. ',BACH'S apartments in the Office.
An information was on Saturday exhibited before
Mr. HICKS, at Bow-street Office, by Dr. Wollaston, of
Mary-la-Bonne' against Nathaniel Dynes, farmer and
collector of tolls on the Highgate Archway-road, for
oxacting more than the legal toll. The offence was
committed on the 22d November, when Dynes in-;
sisted on being paid Is. for a chaise and pair, the legal
toll being only Bd. A Solicitor, who appeared for
the defendant, contended that the Collector was au-
thorised, by the Highgate Archway Act, to demand'
Gd. for every horse drawing any kind of vehicle : this
sum he had not exceeded, and therefore the informa-
tion trust fall to the ground. In answer to this ob-
jection it was urged, that though the Company
might, under the Act, demand sixpence, they had,
in their lease to D) nes, bound him down to exact
only fourpence fir each horse. Mr. HICKS submit-
ted to the consideration of the Solicitor. whether by
getting off the information he did not subject his
client to the more serious charge of obtaining money
on false pretences. The Solicitor having declined,
in the absence of the defendant, to consent to a con-
viction upon the information, the Magistrate granted
a v....xi rant for the apprehension of Dynes on the other
charge ; and at the same time highly complimented
Dr. Wollaston on the degree of public spirit which he
had evinced upon this occasion..
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Maxsioss-trousr.— hart:- bevy, a well-known duf-
fer, was on SAturti.ty b: ought up, under the follow-
ing navel charge of 'felony :—Mr. Stone, of Skinner-
street, Snow-hill, said, that be kept a ready-made
Clothes Warehouse, and that on the Ioth of December
the prisoner came into his shop, dressed like a sailor.
He asked if he could have a few buttons to put on
his old jacket, which had seen some service? The
prosectitor replied, yes ; when the prisoner turned
some halfpence out of his pocket to pay for them.
With the copper, however, there fell about the coun-
ter, as if by accident, some small pieces of metal re-
sembling gold. The prosecutor took one up, and see-
tag characters cut upon it, asked bins what coin it was?
the weight satisfying him it was gold. The prisoner
answered, that it w.ss a pagoda, and if weight, wits
worth 6s. 6d. He added. that he should have no ar-
ise-4°n to part with all he had, about 10 or 50, for
other money. The prosecutor said he world allow
him h fair price for them if they were gond, and the
prisoner might want some articles in his line. The
latter replied, that he was in want of a great coat, and
chose one for £3. The prosecutor,. not to be imposed
upon, dispatched his man to Cox and Merle, refiners,
in Little Britain, to ascertain whether the pagodas
were good, and what was their value. A person
having cursorily viewed and handled a few, pro-
nciunced them genuine, and said. if full weight, they
should go fOr 6s. 6d. On this she prosecutor agreed
to take them from the prisoner, on his making an
abatement in tl:e nominal value. The prisoner ac-
ceded, and handed ova the pagodas, which. at the
rate they' had agreed upon, ss. 3d etch, amounted to
upwards of £ll. The prisoner was then paid ES in
cash,. with the coat. Ile then, sailor-like, remarked,
that :t was " rather a hard bargain Iv poor Jack !"
and packing up his coat, walked away. Soon after
the rowcutor became anxious about the pagodas,
and again sent them 0 Cox and Merle's to be assayed.
Having been tried by aqua-forth, they proved to be
nothing but brass gilt. They were, in fact, nothing
but what are called " Birmingham pagodas !" In-
formation was given to the Police-otlicers, who watch-
ed for nearly three weeks, wise:), on Friday last, the
prosecutor saw him at the corner of Phil's-buildings,
Iloundsditch, and he was apprehended. There was
no property found upon him. The prisoner, in his
defence, eatlei GOD to witness, " Jet he thought the
pagodas vas gold. He took them in payment for
too watches, being accustomed to go about and sell
ti.sgs honestly if; the street." He was remanded
Ha GARDEss.—On Saturday Daniel Donovan,
a titan who gains his living by selling fowls round
.town, and Miclua Haim both residing in a court.
in S:sffroa-hill, were brought up in the custody of
John Limbrielc, charged by Matthew Donovan with
the following brutal stud savage assault :—The pri-
soner Donovan, it appeared frnit the evidence, in-
vited the corapeitinant into a pu!slic-house on Saffron-
hiN, about eight o'clock on Wednesday night, t 6 par-
take of a pot of porter. Whilst •sitting there, some
dispute arose between Matthew and. Daniel Donovan,
on which the prisoner, Daniel Donovan, 'stood up,
and taklog the complainant, Matthew Donovan, in
his arms, he hugged hint closely, and taking his nose
in his mouth, be bit it quite throush ; the prosecutor
cried out to ;hose present to save hint, as he had his
nose beiween his teeth, and was biting it off. Some
of the persOns in the room made ass attempt to res-
cue the complainant, but the other pi isoner,llayes
prevented any one interfering, until Daniel DPnevan
had bitten his nose quite otr; after which the prisoner
Ilayvs followed the complainant out, and knocked
him down. The nose could not be found on the
closest search ; and Donovan, the prisoner, said—
" Hang him, I have swallowed it." The complainant
went to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he had
the wound dressed. It also appeared on examination,
that the.prisoner Donovan, had on a former occasion,
bitten off a piece of another man's cheek, and the ear
of a third man. The complainant attended, and made
a shockingttppearance.from the loss of his nose. The
Magistrates expressed the greatest abhorrence at the
savage behaviour of the prisoners; and the complain-
ant being a.tvery pour man with a wife and five chil-
dren, they told him to indict. the prisoners, and they
would take care it should cost him nothing. The
prisoner Donovan was then coMmitted to prison, and
ordered to give twenty-four hours notice of bail:
Hayes was ordered to find two good sureties in £‘2o
ea, is, which he sent for, and they being approved of,'
he was 'liberated.

Jqrne.; Long, mariner, of Deal, was on Wednesday
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omncted•bere G. I. P. Lusty, Esq. in the miti-
gated penalty of £lO, For -piloting the brig Sophie,
from the Downs tip the River Thames, he not being
a Cinque Pcirts' pilot, and for default of payment,
was committed to St. Augustine's jail, Camp-bury.