The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-07-27 00:00:00

• • POLICE.
GutaisAti.—Two of the light-fingered • gentry,
Thorieoiftright and Wittiam.Farthhzg, were 'yes-
terday ehargedloritiisflaiNg into the pocket- of Mr.
'Benjamin Parke,. Ate Saturday evening, and stealing
a silk pocket hantikerailet.
Mr., Parks stated,, that as hewed passing up the
Strandflietireeh St. Clement's and the New Church,
he 'saw the Ptisotterti lietnediately behind him ; he felt
their' touch his pocket, and suspected their intention
was to.rob him ; inconsequence, he was very can-
' Roos, and used every diligence to frustrate their in-
Illation. 'He hid not goisetar, however, beforethey
eentrived to pick' his -pocket of his handkerchief.
He, soon missed it, and the Prisoners too, and imme-
(Middy went in search of them. In his course he filet
two Officers, to whom. he mentioned his loss, and
!after some search, he found the Prisoners, and had
them taken into custody, when his handkerchief, to.
Other with . five others) were found in their pos-
-1 session. •
The offenceleving been committed without the pre-
cincts of .the City,. the Prisoners were ordered to be
taken to Bowietstet ; from whence, after an mini-
'nation' they were committed for trial. .
Cherke Jordan was charged by Mr. Hughes, of
INVatworth, oa se ipielon.ef having received eight pigs
PerhiCh had .beep stolen on Sunday night from Mr.
I.4laghes'a yard. H. stated,- that in the coarse of
linaday niehtaeme• person or persons got into 'his
,yasih Vote sesierat locks,- and stole eight pigs; he
traced. the.pigs (104 lacks
Beai and Ragged Staff, iA
Whitecross-street, wheys be found them, and on ask.
j ;rig the woman who had left them there, she said the
Prisoner had said they were his.
A young man in the Office said, he had seen two
lads driving the pigs into Whitecross-street in the
morning; the Prisoner was not then with them.
I The Prisoner, in his, defence, said, he had lost
some pip,, and that heWent to the Bar and Ragged
• Staff to look at those which belonged to Mr.
Hughes; but he denied that he said they were his.
There being no direct proof of the Prisoner's
he was discharged. • •
r damsel, of Amazonian height and limbs, was
ehargedby the Clerk of Newgate-market, with hav-
ing assaulted and abused him, in the most outrageous
I way, on. Satunlarevening last, while in the meta-
tion of his duty. This lady, it appeared, had long
been the terror of the Mallet, and had kept in awe
all the gelds of inferior strength. On Saturday she
had taken rather more than a quantum sulficit of the
cordialessence of juniper, and, in the-height of her
paresysm,. she attacked Plaintiff, seized him by the
probocius, and vowed that she'd pull off his calves
head ; she also threatened to pull out his pluck, and
make garter's of his intestines; and to these eloquent
effusions she added otbers of a. more shocking de-
scription. Her confinement in the Compter, how-
, ever, for two nights, had completely cooled the ef-
fervescence of her fury, and she yesterday expressed
I deep contrition for her errors, attributing them
solely to the libations of:gin which she had impru-
i dently drank during the slay.
The Complainant having no desire to prosecute,
the offender, after a proper admonition, was dis-
charged from " durance vile."
Bow-sTacE'r.--rVesterilay Joseph Mason was
brought to the Office;from St. Clement's Watch-
house, charged with violently assaulting and attemp-
t ing to rob Samuel Jones. •
The Prosecutor itated, thine was returning home
on Sunday night, wbed he was- attacked by Three
men in Pickett-street, just before he got to his own
house, who knocked him down, and began cutting
, open his pantaloons close to his pocket, which he had
no doubt was for the purpose of robbing him ; he
called for assistance, and a watchman came up, and
two of the men ran off.

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Michael Honan, a watchman, said, he went to the
assistance of the Prosecutor, in consequence of his
Calling out, and found him on his back, near the en-
trance to St. Clement's Inn, and saw three men
Upon him. On his approaching, two of them made
Of, but he succeeded in securing the Prisoner, who
pas one of them.
The Prosecutor not having lost any thing, and
nothing having been demanded, the offence was only
deemed a violent assault,_ and the Prisoner was or-
dered to find bail to answer to it.

M AILLBOROUGH•STICEST.--7A blind woman, who
bad separated herself from her husband, was charged
by him with exciting a Hot at his dwelling; and she,
in return, demanded of him a maintenance. It turned
out that the man was of industrious habits, whose
earyings did not exceed 30s. a-week. The woman
confessed that she begged about the streets, and that
ber daily income was from 10 to 125.1!
. Carier,..w ha wecesavoiaect at this Orme last week,
charged with robbing coffee-houses of plate, &c. and
against whom many other charges are forthcoming,
cut his throat on Friday in the New Prison, Clerk-
en welt, but not effectually. lie will be' re-examined
next Saturday.
QUEEN-seusat.—Saturday u baker, who lives in
the neighbourhood of Pimlico, appeared here pur-
suant to a summons, to answer a complaint exhibited
against him for selling his bread Considerably under-
weight ; he was convicted in the mitigated penalty of
3s. per ounce. The batch was deficient 150 ounces,
the whole of which was given to the poor.

An unfortunate woolen,: who went by the name of
Matilda Stewart, and who had been endeavouring to
get employment as a miniature-painter in Swansea
and ether towns in that part• 01 the country,•hnt
without success, destroyed herself last-week in Car-
marthen; by swallowing a quantity of laudanum.
when in a state of Intoxication.

tr.orsiterr.—The daughter of a Naval Officer,
residing at Greenwich, eloped from her father's
house on Friday lag with' a common'sailnr, and hai
not since beta heard of,, A reward of twenty guineas
has been Offered- for the discovery of the fair fn.
4itive. •
wig" of James Duffy, a travelling bookseller
ift Liverpool, was delivered of a fine boy on Satur-
day, the 17th instant, and was well enough on Sun-
day do the basin's' of the house, as usual. On
I.upaity. night she was taken ill again ; and on Mon-
itory—wet delivered of a still
ciner ,child tbaq. the
,teiniii; The Inother and the two children are 11144
to do well.