The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-29 00:00:00

POLICE.

OUILDHALL..—On the morning of Sunday the 18th
last. while the family were absent attending Divine
Service, the house of Mr. Miller, boot and shoemaker,
Upper Thames-street, was entered and robbed of pro-
perty is money, plate, and wearing apparel, to the
amount of nearly 501. Circumstances having caused
respicirin to fall open Mary Eagle, the servant at
Mr. Jarvis's, who resides directly opposite, and Joha
Day, eland of her's, they were both examirsed
yesterday; the evidence was very centre-
dictory, and threw hut little light upon the trans-
action. They were remanded for farther examination
to Friday next.

Thomas Noyes, a respectable looking young man,
in the employ of Messrs. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones,
Pat eeeee ter-row, was committed for trial on a charg%
of robbing his master's till.
Bow-mum—On Tuuday, after a warrant had
been made out and signed by the Magistrate for the
apprehension of Captain Webb, of the schooner Ate,
fur outrage alleged to have been committed by him
epos John Gillespie and others of his crew upon the
coast of Africa (a stated in oar paper of yesterday),
it occurred to Mr. HALLS, that as the vessel was lying
ie the London•docks, in the vicinity of the Thames
Police-office, the matter came more immediately soder
lb* jurisdiction of the Magistrates there. He there.
fore ordered his warrant to be cancelled, and directed
the applicants to go as quickly as possible to the sit-
slag Magistrate at Wapping, and relate their vary.
We learn upon luquiry yesterday at the Thames
Police-office, that the men made application to the sit-
tiag Magistrate, Mr. Mrmur, on Tuesday afternoon,
for a warrant against their Captain, but it was refused
no the ground that a Magistrate bad no power to issue
a warrant far the apprehension of a person charged
with the commission of as offence on the high sea.
Their only remedy, they were told, was to wait until
the nest Admiralty Sessions, and then prefer a bill of
indictment before the grand jury. If a true bill was
returned, a warrant would then be issued as a matter
of coarse by the Judge, and the Captain might be
taken wherever he could be fund.

With thle answer the poor fellows very reluctantly
left the office.

QUERN-SQUARE.—Yesterday sixteen more men and
wows@ were brought to this Office, charged with
lying about on the benches in St. James's Park. at
the unseasonable hoar of two o'clock in the morning.
The Feist:mere gave various accounts of themselves,
and pleaded generally want of employment. which
rendered them iscapable of procuring nightly lodg.
logs.
The Worthy Magistrate (Mr. MARICLANJO said. that
in consequence of the repetition of such evils, he was
determased as mush as lay is his power to pat a stop
to remnant's of such nuisances; that it appeared to
him,_ from all that he had heard and seen. that it was
quite impossible fur a modest woman to pus through
such places after an early bone in the meting, without
having her oars offended by the imputed language,
and not 'lnfrequently eves personally insulted; but
'hat on the present occasion, if any of those sow be-
fore him could satisfactorily prove to him that they
could get employment, be would sot detain them from
it, bet unless they did so, be certainly should commit
them. Accordingly eleven, giving a tolerable account
of themselves. were (on a promise that they should not
again be found in a sholiu situation) discharged, the
remaining five were committed to the lime of Cor-
rection for one month.

L•111511114TIIIIT.—Mary Blake sad Ana Tyrrel,
bar mother, who were uneeded. charged oa suspicion
of beriag stoles a boy, aged about two years, were
apia put to the bar.
Mr. Jobe Scott, one of the overture of Clerkeis
well parish, &Headed, as also the young womao, Sarah ,

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Rayill, and her brother. who claimed the child, as be
fore lusted.
The isdeoneri, who have given to many prevaricat-
leg immune of the child, finding that the Magistrates
were determined to ceraeel the, cue. have at length
developed the matter. They sow admitted that the
child was the brother of the pretest applicants, and
that they bad It to nurse from the parish of Clerken-
will. and referred to Mr. Scott for the truth of this
assertion,
Mi. Scott stated that a ;sin sawed lttyal (the fa-
ther of the applicanti), wbd had been for some time
a pauper is Clerkeuvrell workhouse, just before his
death, which occurred about eighteen months ago,
represented t►e prisoners, who wore parishioners, as fit
and proper persons to. take the care of ►is children.
The parish consequestly had so hesitation io allowing
them a maintenance fur four of the children, which
they ransiied for.* ossosidorablo time; and wore. up to
this time, recaltiag 4s. a week for nursing the young-
est, who was a boy.
The young woman, in answer to the latter part of
Mr. Scott's statement, said that she and two brothers
had never soy assistance from the parish through the
hands of the prisoners ; the child in question was the
only ono the prisoners ever had. She denied ever
knowitsg that the prisoners were acquaintances of her
father, mid said she had never seen the child but once
since his,drath, sod could neves satisfactorily learn
what had become of it.
Mr. Scott said he could not tell whether the child
pretest was or was not the same given by the parish
to the prisoners.

The Magistrate remarked that, coder each circum•
stances, there was no possibility of knowing. whether
the chili bad not been murdered, and the present sub-
stituted in its stead. His Wurship said there ap-
peared to be a great relaxation of duty and feeling in
dm acting, and that there Arndt' be an accurate
scriptios taken of the children sent oat to nurse, or
some mark put in them whereby they would be af-
terwards easily known. He wished to )(now what had
become of Kayal's fourth child, as there were three
now present.
Mr Scott said he did not know, as the father had