Star. — 1815-12-14 (London, England)

OLD 111.11.17. V. Yesterday, Susannah llodsis was indicted for stealing a silver table spoon, v:tlue 12s. and some other articles, the property of J. Mitchell, M.D. on the 15th of October. The prosecutor stated the circum• stances of the case, which were also confirmed by the evidence of Sarah Sketchley, who found the duple; Cate of the spoon that had been pledged lying in her apartment, in the corner of a handkerchief ; arid of Joseph llai t. late servant to the prosecutor, and also by !he h:►u tbioki•r.—Guaty. was capitally indicted for assaulting Thom,,, West, and taking from his person AM in bank notes.---The parties were shipmates on hoard the Scalesby Castle, lately returned from the. East 'tidies, and had been drinking together in the neighbourhood of Tower-hill, till the prosecutor became intoxicated, when the prisoner took an opportunity of purloining the above property. The violence necessary to be used to constitute a hi ithway robbery not being proved, the prisoner was found guilty of stealing only. Charles Sharratt and J. Wainwright stood indicted, the fornier for stealing, and the latter for receiving, knowing to be stolen, 54 glass bottles, the proi-erty of E. H. Jones and H. W. Atkinson, wine merchants, in Mark-lane. Some suspicion having been excited in the minds of the prosecutors, that the prisoner Sharratt, who was their servant, was robbing them, and being desirous of detecting him, they consulted a Mr. Parker as to the best mode of so doing, and he recommended that the prisoner should be ordered to leave a letter at Mr. Parker's house, who was to have an officer in readiness, and Parker and he were to follow and watch his conduct ; they did so ; and after delivering a certain quantity of wine, the prisoner put into his cart a hamper of bottles, which they saw him afterwards deliver at the house of tide prisoner, Wainwright, a dealer in bottles, whose wile took them in, and paid the prisoner. The officer and Parker then entered and quesioned Wainwright as to what they had seen. lie denied any knowledge of the circumstance. The bottles were lying exposes in the shop, on the spot where Sharratt had deposited them. Four of these were proved to belong to the prosecutor. It was proved, on the part of Wainwright, that he was employed, during the trans iction with the wile, in removing a wardrobe—that when the officer had' him in custody at his own house, while Parker went fur a search warrant, he offered to the officer to search it before it came. A great number tit respectable witnesses gave boil) the prisoners good characters, particularly \V. wright, who had been admitted to bail, and suarendered to take his trial. The Jury found the prisoner Sharratt—Guilty, and acquitted Wainwright. The following were also convicted of felony, viz.— B. Biadhury, for stealing several pieces of silver, the property of Messrs: Jackson ; J. \Vest, for stealing a veil, the property of NI srtha Webb ; J. L. Kiiigsworth, for stealing £l6 in !link notes, the property of T. West ; Michael Collett, for stealing several articles of wearing apparel, the property of T. Draper; Ella. West aiid Susannah Ginumer, for stealing a tea caddy, tiso face shawls, &c. the preperty of C. Cook ; and T. Roach, for stealing several shirts, &c.  The man who made the attempt to murder Messrs. BILIG9 Clerk, at Btistol, on Wednesday se'finight. having applied to the Bristol infirmary to have his arm set in a soldier's dress, he was detected, and intntediao-ty secured. HIGOWAY ItOPUEOV...The system of robbing hackney coachmen is becoming very prevalent ;—fin Nlonday evening, about nine techck, t a o persons, apparently naval ()dicers, took a coach off the stand at Stones.end, and ordered the coachman to drive to Clapham, and go lomat by South Lambeth ; when a little way beyond Lark-ita-lane, they stopped the, coach, and, jumping out, one of tranti held a pistol to' the coachman's head, whilst the other rifled his, pockets of upwards of £2 ; they also took the coach.. glasses, and, having cut the hat ness in several places, they made off, threatening the co.cli,nan with severe vengeance if he attempted to follow them. Hari ox Gamtoes,—Yesterday Mr. Thomas Field, of the Cross Keys Inn, St. John's-street, Smithfield, attended, by vu toe of a summons, being charged by Cuthbert Scarborough, Esq. of the Kent road, for detaining a parcel directed to him, which came by the Kettering coach on the sth inst. and not delivered till the 7th inst. the case being proved, the defendant was convicted in the penalty of