The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-08-07 00:00:00

POLICE.

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GuILDILITA..—On Saturday Mr. Whittincr,...,,,
farmer, at Stevenage, in Hertfordshire, ehs, . ,
man of the name of Devine or Devaynr,,
stealing from him a black gelding, value upwards
of 451.
The Prosecutor was induced, out of compassion
to the Prisoner's situation, who had called spoil
him in the greatest distress, to give hun enstibiy.
mcnt from Wednesday the '26th, to the beecied.
ing Saturday inclusive. On the following Wed.
nesday, early in the morning, the g tiling in gees.
lion was missing. Suspicion fell on the prisoner,
and it was discovered that he had not left his lodg.
lags in Stevenage fill that morning before day.
break. A band.bill describing the horse and the
person mimicked of having sfolen him, was baffle.
Aiately issued, in -consequence of which, and of
other prompt measures adopted by the Prosecutor,
the prisoner was taken into custody at the Ram
Inn, Smithfield, with the horse in his pusseasiun.
lie was fully committed for trial.
hi asto x.ilousc.—On Saturday, s soldier in
the London Minna was charged by ttio mother .1
a girl between 12 and 13 years of age, who had
been cngapd to nurse the prisoner's child, with
committing an assault upon the Wan.. The
child, in her evidence, stated the eireamstance to
have firearml five or six times. The Ploy'. eios
unblushing eltruitery, confessed that it lifit
place as many scores of times, allegiag, car' the
Sault: lime, that the girl was herself I ► blame.
The. Loa. MAYOR, not witl.standing the re.
petted applications of tlte Prisoner to beam he..
fore a dill Mims?, ordered him to be reported
to his Commanding Officer, where he world
Mee that punishment which the infamous stature
of his alfende so justly merited.

In the Committee of the Hour of Common, on
Mr. WI toot's rejected Gas 1411 t Bill, an emi-
nent Chemist delivered a Report, from n Ilk', it
appears, that amity tons of human bon ss fir.. ,n.
loudly sent by sea from the nietr.yoli4 to Clc
North, where they are groom!, or rather brultrl
small in mills contrived fur the purpose, and thin
used as a inannre.

At the late York Agsizes, a youth of the name
of Ilainsu orth, ho had been deprived of his left
hand through the carelessness of the dr.ver of a
cart in Leeds, obtained a verdict for 5001. damages
against Air. Morkill, jun. of Balton, the **am
of the raft, for the injury ho had sustained.
A person from Bolton was indicted at the Matt.
chester Sessions, for having slaughtered a cow at
the point of death of a toilkifever, and selling the
slime fur human food, contrary to the statute.
The Court tined the offender 54j1. and ordered him
into confinement until the sum was paid.
Last week a recruiting party of dragoons sta-
tioned at Ludlow, having received information of
a deserter from their regiment being at Aymstree,
in ll..refordsliire, went in pursuit of him, di,-
guised in smock frocks, where they found liMs
with workmen upon the top of a hayrick ; the
deserter soon recognised hi. pursue,., and was by
them requested to descend, which be did, but no
sooner Lad done so than he resist( d and ilefeuthal
himself with a pitch-fork. On finding it likely Ito
should be overpowered, he ran oil, whet, lie was
smiled to by then to stop and surrender, and refus-
ing to do so, they fired after him with a pistol, tit,
ball of it !Rich eetered his beck near the groin, lie
fell, and was taken into custody, and conveyed to
Ludlow upon a horse, which the party bad brotteit
with throb and left at a small distance from the
spot. The ball has since been extracted, but tho

With lies daugerously ill. •
A duel took place on Wednesday morning at
Stilton, between Lieut. N— and Mr. It—,
Collegiate, after three isselfectual previous meet-
ings to adjust a difference which subsisted brtwren
them relative to a debt of honour. The latter
Gentlen.ao had been held in sureties to keep the
peace., and in this tueetin,,,, _ he was slightly wounded
in the side by the second lire of his antagonist,
whon the seconds iuterfered, and a recouciliatiou
took 111. tee.