The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-05 00:00:00

POLICE.
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QV' EEN•SQU ARE. Yesterday Edmund Daman! ap.
Treated at this Clifice on nu information etitiihateit
against him, having advertise:l for and roceived lte.-
cruits for the Army without having authority so to
do from the Adjutant-General, an offence punish,.
We with the penalty of 2td. 'term-ding to the 94th
clause of the Mutiny Act, 54 Geo. 111.

A man named Bryson went to Himont's Militia
Office, No. 9, Oxford.street, in consequence of an
advertisement, and he and another man became
substitutes for one who wanted to leave the tboi
Hussars.

• Dameht could produce no regular authority for
this, and said General Gwynne had told in ?hitt
the regulation was dispensed with, and that if corn.
manders would receive the recruits, there was no
help for it. _ _

Mr. FIELDING said, howe►er much good Ihmant
might have done in obtaining recruits, and he had
procured an immense number, this cte was most
obstinately against him ; and whatever erroneous
notion might have got abroad respecting the ',fol.
sions of the Act being, neglected, it would be found,
wherever complaints were exhibited, that such was
not the fact.

Damant then said that he had received authoritt
to engage two men, but that he had lost such authc4
rity, and his Solicitor begged that Judgment might be
postponed to enable him to enquire into such state.
ment, which request was acquiesced in.
BOXING EXTRAORDINARY.

Cribb, the celebrated miller, brought a charge of
assault against George Ikailal an element dasher
(waterman).
The parties, it appeared, had been sacrif►cing libe.
rally at the shrine of the jolly god, a few words
arose, and a mill ensued, in which both were plunged
into the water.

The Magistrate discharged the warrant, and the
parties left the Office, threatening each other with
actions in a higher Court.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY.

MAxSto'N-aousa.—Yesterday James Poole was
charged with robbing a man of the name of Webb, is
Whitechapel, on Wednesday night.
The Prosecutor deposed, that he was returning
home about 11 o'clock on the night mentioned,
when he was met by the Prisoner, who suddenly
laid hold of him, struck him a violent blow, which
nearly deprived him of his senses, and putting his
hand to his waistcoat pocket, rifled it of ell the
silver he had got shoot him ; he then ran off, but
was pursued and soon overtaken. In his flight he
had thrown away the silver, but a number of suspi-
cious duplicates were found upon him.
He was remanded for another examination.

Wm. Hopkins was charged with robbing Mr.
Grubb, the Proprietor of the Bank Coffee-house,
on Wednesday afternoon, of a quantity of window
and bed-curtains, and other articles.
The Prisoner, it oppeared, had got into the house
clandestinely, and one of the servants having occa-
sion to go up stlirs, met him coming down, with a
bundle a ppareutly under his coat. Being Wm.°.
gated as to his business, he said it was but a .nktake,
as he had been looking for the chambers of a gentle.
man. This answer did not give satisfaction, and
upon being more closely pressed, he dropped the pro-
perty, which, however, he said he had picked up on
the stairs.

He was remanded for another examination.

GCILDIIALL. YeMPlllay John Raniall was
charged with robbing Mr. Joseph Neale, a country
gentleman, in Jewin-streot, Alderagate-street, on
Wednesday night.

The Prosecutor had been until about le o'clock,
on the night mentioned, at tire Castle and Falcon
Tavern, and was returning to his lodgings in J
wia-
crescent, when he was met by the Prisoner, who,
seeing him a little intoxicated, stopped. him, sad
took his pocket-book, containing 141. in notes, and
several papers of value; with which he escaped.—
Shortly after the Prisoner was met by Page, the
patrole, who stopped him as a suspicious character.
The former, however, fearing.the approach of Mr.
Neale, commenced a desperate fight, but was at
length knocked down by Page, who observed the
pocket-book drop from him at the same moment.—
Upon the recovery of the Prisoner, he again attack-
ed the patrole, in order to effect his escape, but
after a hard struggle, he was again threw's, and at
length secured. At this moment the Prosecutor
came up, and the thief, as well as the property,
was recognised.
The Magistrate complimented the officer upon his
vigilance and exertion, and the Prisoner was re-
manded for a final examination.