At the Guildhall on Saturday, a private in the Third
Regiment of Guards was fined 2s. 6d. for assaulting a constable, and drawing his bayonet on him. At Bow Street, on Saturday, Mr. IVlinshull was engaged for some time investigating the circumstances attending the abduction or flight of a young lady from her parents' residence in Bedford Street, Covent Garden. It appeared that the lady had been in the habit of going oat with a female, named Maria Stapleton, dressed in men's clothes ; and it was alleged that this woman had induced her to elope for the sake of obtaining her clothes ; but the lady herself said that she left her father's house on account of some love or marriage affair; and Staple- ton was discharged, and the lady admonished. She had been lost sight of for several days, and her parents were in great distress. John Spall, Baron Alderson's coachman, was remanded from the Marylebone Office, on Saturday, on a charge of having driven violently against a gentleman's gig, in the New Road, and knocked down an old woman, who was much injured.
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