The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-12 00:00:00

PO LICE.

Wood one
charged with steeling a hank from behind the chariot
of Captain -Doherty, la Ilyde•perk. A Gentleman
who .was tiding in the Park at the rime, saw the
osiisective, end immediately gas. information to
Captain Doherty.: The post.hoy stoppett, took one
of the horses from the chariot,. parried and overiouli
std. Prisoner lath the trunk in his possession, at
Grosvendr-gste: The Prisoner was fully comtnitt.•d.
Saisedar might, between seven anti eight o'clock,
EIi:4MM Foie, was brought In this a.m., from St.
Giles's. e.liatjed etas idiom's! disordely
ft appeared fro, the statements of Vatican Camp-
bell, Faq., of Alfred.place, Tottetsham•eutrt•rued,
and Richard Coby, m patrol, that between nine end
ten o'clock ow Friday night, the Prisoner wasilfice-;
stied 'Whig at the deer of a Geollemait'shease, in
Alfred-place, apparently dying. he misted the
rattle in he► tlarisat,'aed made tither certain noises,
snch as the wind would occasion on an einply
mach. Mr. Campbell raised her up, tut she pie.
tended net to be in stand, bet in a faint woke
called fur wider. Some was instantly proctored,
which she teemed to swallow with.grret evitlity, and
Mr. Campbell being imposed °pan by her opperenily
artless manne►, offered Ito pay her coach.hite to S.
Giles's workhouse, hut she declined !lief. and loudly
called for bread. Mr. Campbell gate her 2d. an♦
reneestlid Coby, the patrol, to conduct her to the
watch.honse; meanwhile he would apprise the parish
doctor of her deogeross state, and procure for her
sorb necessaries as bee situation demanded. After
Mr. Campbell had departed, thopatiel ands watch.
man lifted her gently, sad accompanied her to-
wards the watch.hoose, bet when balf.way she seemed
to revive, and dediaed the assistance of their arm',
slid et the corner of Lawrence-lane requested per.
missionto tie up her shoe, let in pretending to stoop
for this pupas she suddenly turned dawn the lane,
sad ran with as much agility as a girl of sixteen. The
petrol and watchman followed, and ',cored her, but
it was not without some resistance that she was lodged
in the watch-house.

The MAGISTRATE expressed his determination t•
commit the Prisoner, bet • dife•lly mimed about
Rho should take her to prison. Upraise refused to
do it, sod Mr. Campbell held that no one het a Co..
stable could do it, and that W the patrol or watch-
man were to do it, the Prisoner would be justified is
making her escape from them, even by ithe most ale.
lent means. Aftvr mach argument, the truth of Mr.
Campbell's objection Nee •tkn•wled*ed, and Mr.
I CONANT innnedietely snore in the petrol as • coasts.
ble, to performs this particular duly ! The Prisoner
use committed foe 14 de's.

QUEEN MU Ali E..- Ye.ferslay William C.r sus
morainal before Mr. Fsecarinc, the sitting Magi-
strate, on a c►arge of 'ribbing the premises of Messrs.
Colville and fron, nerserymee, in the King'ikrosd,
Chelsea, o■ the preceding morning.
William tfhillingsby stated, that he is in the employ
of Messrs. Colville; he slept In a mom adjoining
the curpeete►'s shops and abort three o'clock yes-
Imlay morning he was roofed eel of his sleep by
leering a noise on Me premise.; he got op and sent
into the carpenter's shop. where he saw the Pri-
senor, and called net to Vas. that If be did not err-
reader be scold shawl his with tlveblessdethand he
held in his hand. HI then seised the P►isoner, sod
• Keille amused, in J!PI the P►isetter get the bless-
derberis owl of his hand. end springing backward,
he pointed it towards him and pelted the trigger,
but fortenately it did not go off, and be den; it over ,
the paling and run off. Witness ;mussed him, run-
ning about 34.:0 yards before he again come op to
him, when they grappled again, slot the Prisoner a
second time oserpnta•red and got him down; he then
it tempted to chok.' I.'m (of this vinienee witness had
minks ii;mn his throat), but the watchmen coming
op and Gooding him in this precarious vitoation, be
secured Alm Pthomer, end with the assistance s.f
others cottaged him to the natch-hoese.—Re-
i mended.

I.:•lom.natt..—The Borough of Suothwark has .
been infested br a riJring gang of villains recently,
whose airnellies are of the most our raeeous descrip-
tion. Uit Srturday night, silt of those desperate
eharaclets rescind into a poblic.houre in Kent.streer,
where 0 respectable man was sitting smoking his
pipe, and taking some porter, they knocked him
down. and two of them held hint while th• others
rifled his pockets of tome Miser, and • silk hand-
kerchief, and made their escape. Yesterdsy one of
th• robber!, wisese name is GrorgeSculley, was sp.
prehended, and broo.tht before the klagistrato,
Itaccu ALLLYME, Flog (Who took his seat, for the
fint lime, in the place of Mr. Serjesnt Sellon,) and
elamined. Mr. John Posey, of No. 3, Paragon.'
row, Lock's.fields, stated, that the Prisoner was one
of the men who assaulted and robbed him in thej
Green Man pablir.hoose, in Keat•street, on Saint.
dry nignt ; the silk handkerchief produced by fie.
ron, the eight-constable of St. Georges, was his pro-
perty, and it was taken from him, with other proper.
ty, by the Prisoner.—The Prisoner was fully com-
mitted for trial.
William Barney, • lad only Kt years of age, Gr-
imly a sweep by trade, but now • professed thief,
who has been nine times committed from this office,
and was whipped last Surrey Sessions, arid imprisoned
1
for a petty theft, was yesterday charged with entering
the shop of Mr. Robert Ewrings, of lAmbeth, snd
rarrylog off a quaroits of sugar, his prorrty. The
l'risoner was apprehended with the property in his

pe sssss inn.
The Prisoner. with ell the harden►d impatience of
an old practitioner, denied the chute. mill declared
that the witnesses were all perjured. Ile was cow.
mitred.

llaTrow-c; tnur4.-I'oi.tart!‘ y Francis Berry and
John Pritchard c.le ►xamined 'Of passing forged
net's, popo,ting In ha a the lint of
when Beaty was committed for trill, and Pritchard
was rtssandetl.
• Wourtite-eriturr.—A rontorins. character. mood
John Thowel Urnerrriur, as! brought to this office,
charged with uttering fnrc•d litttic of Engt Ind MOM.
Itultart A'.:e•', che-%rtustottcar. of Church-street,
fethnal•areen, !tiled that on the .list of Daernber
last, she Bsi.o,nar came into It shop and putt-haled a
null cloudily of hiller and chee.e, and tendered a
11., note in plynitto, which pored to be a forgery

teepee information, and a description tit i ar Frio:wee
Fort .nn, at Worship.airi es-nfriro.
rt. Psis% nor, it tiesp•ared, had ni•ly he•sl diw
charged lam da)s holose he couswitted 'hot paws
epnn a (haw of the vain, swot..
Glen!, the easier, NatNl th.i he and Csrisin, ans.
thee 015,-et, appteh.nded toe l'ii4ollrl 111 11'
tau, Gusuell.s, reel ; uprose 111/ being taken into cos..
sotly, he said, that 1.• 'spectra logos, hp should
song s kuttgaroo hurainz (uso•aniug lieu , tr.ll,
bet stow he us. isear of si. He was toll) ct easeittee.