The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-10-20 00:00:00

THE STATkSMASI that scissors was a sufficient excuse for the conviction of the appellant —c person of ill fame and a reputed thief. " Oh, Mr. Swabey, Mr. Swabey ! is this the mild and mer ciful administration of justice, enjoined by the greatest of all authorities? Happily the Legislature have thought that the judgment of some Magistrates might, with propriety, be appealed from, and that a superior Court should have the power of rendering that judgment of no avail. This case is one example of the odious and arbitrary exercise of an authority which never should have been granted." Mr. Thessiger said he thought it needless to say any more upon the subject, than merely that he looked to the Bench in the most confident expectation that they would treat this case with the same ceremonythey bad used towards the other 'convictions by the same Magistrate. The Bench—The conviction is quashed. Tea KING O. ANN COOPI2.—The appellant was convict ed under the Vagrant Act, for having told fortunes, &c. There was nothing remarkable in this conviction, which was quashed in consequence of an informality, the words with intent to deceive," being omitted in the conviction. CHANOINH THE PIACI FOR THB %TINT= •1011311. Mr. Dststams, M. P. for the County, moved, that the Bench should Memorial the Secretary of State, to order that the Winter Aseise, held at Kingston, shall, in•future, be held at Horsemonger-lace. After a short discussion, in which Mr. Trotter objected to the change, the motion was carried by a great m►jority. 'them for the petit treason ; but as it was, he should pray that they might be committed for the - •misdemeanour only. —The prisoners offered nothing in their defence, anti they were fully committed for trial. A dirty looking fellow, named M'Goaran, was fully committed for uttering counterfeit half-crowns. It was proved that this worthy made four distinct uttering. in one night, to the landlord of the King's Head public•house, St. Martin's -court; and that, emboldened by this success, he attempted it again npon the same person on she follow ing night; but the landlord bavingby that time discovered how be had been imposed upon, and recollecting liis person, gave him into the custody of an officer.—The prisoner attempted to set op an alibi, but it failed; and, as we have before stated, be was committed for trial. OVERCHARGE RP PORTERS ON Tilt CARRIAGE OP PARCELS. UN[oN-uALL—(Saturday..)—Mrs. Hine, a lady living in Welcot-place, Lambeth, complained of a ticket.porter fur having made an overcharge on the carriage of a basket of game that was sent to her by the coach from lfirminghatn. Mrs. Hine stated that the porter, instead of bringing the parcel to her house, delivered it at a carrier's booking-office in Gracechureh-street, for which he charged eight-pence, and the carrier, by whom it was delivered, charged eight pence additional for taking it to her house, The porter, ►n his defence, said that when parcels were sent by the coach to persons living beyond the carriage pavement, it was the uniform practice to deliver them at the office cf a carrier who passed in that direction, who of course added his charge to that made by the porter fur leaving them at his office. _ _ _ On reference to the Act of Parliament, the 39th of Geo. it appears that all coach-masters and other carriers by whom parcels are seat to London, are bound to send them to tlie place directed, unless it is more than half a mile beyond the carriage pavement, at rates of porterage stated in the Act. One of the Officers stated that Mrs. Hine's house was not half s mile beyond the carriage pavement. The Magistrate said, as it appeared the practice of sending parcels to carriers' offices was very general; it was proper that the porters and the public should know that it was illegal, and that the porters were bound to deliver all par cels as directed, at the rates prescribed by the Act, within the specified distance, under a penalty, which for the first offence was2os. The porter paid the fine, and promised to conform to the Act of Parliament in future. Friday, Oct. 17.—Mr. 'Jawlike!, against whom a sum mons was yesterday obtained by a young woman named Harriet Clement, applied at this office about 12 o'clock, to inquire for the summons which the newspapers stated to have been obtained against him ; and which, although he had not yet received. he was anxious to appear to. that he might have the opportunity of contradicting so infamous a charge against his character. and that of his family and shopman. Mr. Dewhirst denied the charge altogether, and stated, that so far from the girl being brutally or inhuman ly treated at the time of the fire, she bad every possible assistance rendered her. Mrs. Dewhirat stated that the girl was up stairs at the time of her clothes catching fire; and that she immedi ately ran down stairs and into the street, without the least chance of Mrs. Dewhirst affording her any assistance, otherwise she could have easily extinguished the flames, which wen at first very trifling ; that after the flames were extinguished, the girl refused to come into the house, and persisted in remaining in the street, in the exposed situation in which the flames had left her, for which her mistress remonstrated, with her when she vs& in ; that the girl was under warning to leave,. previous to the fire taking place, i and bad asked !eats to go out in search of soother situa tion on Wednesday evening about seven o'clock; that she returned In about as hour. and told her mistress that she must leave that night; her mistress remonstrated with her on attempting to leave her noprovided with another ser vant, and the girl consentutto.stay the remainder of her month. She went out agaiwfor the purpose of informing her mother, and did not return till ten o'clock, when she stated that she most leave that night. Her mistress told her she bad behaved very ill, and that she would leave at her peril. The girl then left the house. Mr. Rees (not Bast, is stated in the charge) was then called upon by the Magistrate, and completely vindicated himself from the charge of inhumanity. The Magistrate. being satisfied with his statement, apologised to Mr. Rees for harsh; sharged him with such inhumanity, which, be said, had team entirely through the misrepresentation of the girl, and was sorry that he should have said any thing to Wound Mr. Rees'a feelings. Mr. Doglike' then stated, that every word of the charge was proved false, and that be had doubt of its being the remit of an infamous conspiracy. He requested the Ma gistrate to ask the girl some questions respecting a docu ment she had left behind her, and the answers were of that description, which satisfied Mr. Dewhi rat of the quarter from which the whole business had originated. He then paid three' her wages, and her clothes were given up to her. WORIIIIIRSTREET.—Mrs. Simmons, of Arrow-alley, Pet ticoat-lane, a married woman, of the Hebrew rsuasion, with fi ve children. and a little advanced in the fa pe mily way, appeared before Mr. Baum., the sitting Magistrate, upon a charge of having attempted to steal a gown from a pawnbroker. It appeared that the Prisoner went to pawn her gown, which she effected, and got thereon Ye.6d. ; and while the pawnbroker wall busily occupied in attending to other business, she took that opportunity of endeavouring to steal from the counter another gown; and upon being detected and searched, she stated that distress alone drove her to the act, although 65.6 d. besides the 2a. 6d. she bad that moment before received, was found upon her person. She was then ordered from the bar, and after being left in the lock-up room while the depositions against her were preparing—in seine time after the officer was ordered to bring her in, so u to hen• them read ; when he returned immediately and announced that she had strangled herself with her shawl and ribbon, while left alone. The worthy Magistrate, with that humanity for which he is so justly characterised, immediately dispatched some officers for medical assistance, when Mr. Thomas, of Shoreditch, who I notWithstanding great professional harry of business, laud ably came forward, and after nearly three hours of unre mitting application of drugs :nd medicine, and after taking from her a considerable quantity of blood, pronounced her to be in a fair way of recovery.—Mr. Metcalf, Vintner, of Worship-street, very humauely accommodated the unfortu nate woman with a room, bed. and every thing necessary to render her situation comfortable. The Magistrate then dispatched Joshua Armstrong, an officer belonging to the establishuient, to the woman's lodgings, to ascertain whether the statement she gave of her family and her poverty was correct. Armstrong shortly after returned and said her statement, was fully borne out by the facts, for sa wretched a place he had seldom witnessed, as the room she resided In, and that he would not give one shilling for all the articles with which it wu furnished. • The Magistrate desired that every care should be taken of the unfortunate woman, and when recovered so as be" removed, that she should be given up to her family: ammommile • On the morning of Thursday se'nniglet, about half-past one o'clock, a dreadful occideint happened at Bentley, a villegeour utiles west of Farobata. The Pool mail, on its passage ap to town, in endeavouring to pass the &Pathan*. ton coach, came is contact with it, sod upset; The cense quarks were, that the cuachinan, guard, and two butsids passengers. were seriously injured ; a young vedette was throws partly under the cOach, and had her thigh broken itt two places ; and the guard. iir attempting to rise, found his leg Last dreadfully splintered; one inside passenger was cut .by the glasses of the coach. The guard and yoartg woman, with fractured limbs, tiers conveyed to the Lien and Lamb Inn, earnham, where they now are, receiv ing every assistance that medical skill can afford. POLICE. MANSION Room—BASTARD CHILDRAN.—A young woman was brought before the Lord Mayor and Alderman Atkins, charged by the officers of Bishopsgate Parish, under tee Act of-the 7th of James the Ist, cap. 4. with having rendered her self liable to 19 menthe' Imprisonment to hard labour, by bringing three illegitimate children upon the parish.—Mr. Liffard, the Vestry Clerk, stated that the berthas of the parish from the number of Illegitimate children thrown oa them for mopped, had of late so much increased and become so heavy, r bs at e lt was thought absolutely necessary to take some steps to the evil, and with this view it had been resolved that In liessust instances the females should be prosecuted under the mittliesome statute of James the Ist, which rendered women Megan bastards chargeable to the parish liable to be impri nts./ far 12 months and put to hard labour, as lewd women. Thii statute, however, bad been subsequently modified by the Act of Cleo. 3d. The necessity of this prosecution would ap pear. whets it was stated that the prisoner had in three years made the parish liable to the maintenance of three bastard Children ; that in the very court where she resided there were half a dozen instances nearly of the same kind, and that as the perish already bad lOU bastard children to maintain, if the ,practice were not checked by darer° punishment, the increase 'K the yetis!' berthens would be incalculable. .The young woman admitted that she had become the mother of thee children, but she declared they would have been bora lasradiask. if the father could have raised mosey sufficient to bmpaid for the performance of the marriage ceremony.— This. fey three years, be had been unable to do, but bad con- Illiudy supported his children, until recently, when work fell aff, and she was obliged to apply to the parish. She complain ed that the parish officers had never applied to the father, or troubled him, but had had prosecuted her wlthaut seeing whe ther support could be obtained from other quarters.—The Lard Mayor edited whether any proceedings bad been taker against the reputed father 2—The Parish Officers replied, they had taken no steps against him, because they conceived it would have been useless.—The Lord Mayor sad Alderman 'Atkins agreed that proceedings ought to have been taken against the father before the present prosecution was instituted. A con viction could only take place after the children had become burthensoute, and if the parish proceeded against the father, he or his friends might indemnify them. When the parish had proceeded against the father, and failed in obtaining security, the woman would then be punishable under the statute. The charge was then dismissed. A woman named Mary Anne Squires was charged with having purchased laudanum, with the Intent to destroy herself. Mr. Atkinson, an apothecary, residing in Bishopsgate, stated that the prisoner came on the night before, and asked for some opium pills. She was dissatisfied with the quantity given to her, and wanted more, which witness refused to let her have. — She went away, and witness suspecting her intention, followed her, and saw her buy additional quantities of pills at other shops. He no longer doubted her intentions, and had her se cured. She confessed her lineations, said t heta false was had betrayed her, and that her life was miserable. She was or dered to be t aken to her friends. The prudent conduct of Mr. Atkinson was much praised. OUILDIDALL.—Saturday, Hutchinson, a messenger, at the Fleet Prison, was brought before Alderman WooD, charged with having been a party to the offence of attempting to utter a forged check for the sum of 2001. hammered that a few days ago, a porter of Oray's lon, named David Perry, went to the Ban - king-house of Messrs. Williams and Co. of Birchin-lane, and presented a check for two hundred pounds, .signed with the name of ;Fallen Hair, a Gentleman who banked at the house. Upon examination. it was found that a very ingeninous forgery had been made in the check. The name was the writing of Mr. Hale, but the rest of the writing was in a different hued. The marks of writing almost erased were also visible when the check was held up to the light, and it was soon ascertained that the document had been originally part of a letter written by Mr. Huse, the contents of - which had been by. some process almost obliterated, and the sada language adopted in the order upon bankers, substi tuted. The forgery was a masterpiece, and its detection did great credit to the discernment of the clerks. The porter was of course detained, but he appeared to. be quite ignorant of the offence which be had then been made a party in committing. A police officer was sent with him iss quest of the person who had sent him to get the check cashed, and who,the porter said, lived in Upper Conway street, Fitzroy-square. The visit, however, was ineffec tual : the Gentleman who had employed him was not at the house, and has not been heard of since. The name in which the Gentleman had taken the lodgings in. Conway. street, was that of Mr. Smith. lie was very thin and pale, and worn& large pair of mustachios; and he spoke etfrmi. nately. David Perry stated. that he had been acquainted with the prisoner. A few days ago the prisoner came to him, at tiray's.inn, and told him a gentleman who lived in Conway street wished to give him a job. Witness then went, ac companied by the prisoner, to Conway-street, where he saw a gentleman who called himself Mr. Smith. The prisoner first went up stairs to Mr. Smith, and upon coming downjstairs told witness to ga up, which witnessdid by himself, and the prisoner went away. Mr. Smith then put the check into his hand, and desired bum to return to the same place with the money. Upon presenting the check he (witness) was secured by the bankers. Mr. Smith was just such a ti as is above described, and witness had never seen him since. The prisoner declared that he knew nothing about the business, and that lie acted merely as a common messenger. -,-He was remanded. BON-smear. COUNTRY/MIT COIN. Saturday, !Pil lions and .Mary Aash, the two persons apprehended in William street, Spafields, on Saturday se'unight, with a Ilarge quantity of counterfeit half.crowns and shillings in po,session, were this day brought up for final eza• *nation. Mr. Powe Lt.. the Solicitor to the Mint, was in attendance, and he particularly inquired of the Officers, whether they' fipund any quantity-of the chemical preparation, or silver Kash, in the hotlee at the time they apprehended the' prisoners. Avis replied, that when he and his brother officers went into the house, , there was a cup full of what, he supposed to be silver wash, standing on the table amongst the counterfeit money; but this cup the female prisoner purposely upset after she was handcuffed to the:, man. They gathered eip what they sould of its contents, eta brought it away with.them. —This was now produced, but it was a very inconsiderable quantity in a tea-cup ; and the Solicitor said he did not think it would afford sufficient evidence of their having been engaged in actually silvering the base coin. If there had been sufficient 'Os, ; fleece to this fact, he should have felt it his duty to indict , . • nietSWABEY CAI IldoW-lONS QUASHED. • --woo&-- • KINGSTON SESSIONS.—SATURD,IT. The several cases of cenvictiun under the Vagrant Act by • Maturice Sivahey, req. were appealed against before a teach of Magistratse. The greatest interest was excited, mud the result may be considered a very fair comment upon the opinion of the Worthy Magistrate particularly con cerned upon the merits of his own proceedings; neither Mr. Swab'y himself, nor any ore of the wit whom he was called upon by law to bind over to appear against the parties convicted, e as to he seen in the Court or in the neigh bourhood. The first case called, was the King v. hook, which was an appeal against the conviction of Maurice Swabey, Esq. one of the Magistrates of Union Hall Office. The ap pellant is a respectable man, a resident of Walworth, who, on the night of the 10th of August, upon returning from the Cite, and walking along the Borough Road, met one Mrs. Serrit, with whom and with whose husband he was intimately acquainted. He prevailed upon her to go into a public house in the Borough Road and drink something, atter which they walked on together, the appellant being n little affected with the liquor he had taken in the coarse of the evening. having some occasion to be private for a abort time, he desired his companion to walk on a little, and she had separated from him a few yards, when a watchman approached, seized them, and swore they had indecently exposed themselves, and dragged them off to the watch- • house. Next morning they were brought before Maori- zit Swabey, Esq. who rave implicit credence to the watchman, and committed the appellant and Mrs. Merrit to the House of Correction as rogues and vagabonds, there to work with all descriptions of malefactors et the mill. The ap pellaut, however, immediately entered into recognizance* to appeal against the conviction, and accordingly appeared in Court with his Solicitor, Mr. Lag. of Union Street, and supported in his appeal by Mr. Triessiosa, the Barrister. Mr. Lee proved that be had served notice of appeal upon Maurice Swabey, Esq.—The Bench having waited for some timeoliat the. witnesses for the Conviction might make their appearance, asked whether any one appeared to sup rod the contraction?—Mr. THESSIOER: No. There is no pee sty to be shared. There is nothing to be got by coming here.—The Bench. What i are not the witnesses here? —No answer.—Mr. Lex : l fear the Bench will have to decide With Out the presence of the watchman.—Tbe Berich (o Blom: an observation on the merits of the case): The conviction is quashed. THE KING p. Many MICERIT.—This appeal arose out of the foregoing rear. Mr. Lee, proved the service of the notice on Maurice Swabey, Esq. The lisecti: " Is any one present to support this conviction ?"—Mr. THESSIOER: "No; it must follow the other.'! • - - The Basco. " Does not the Act require that the persons whose evidence convicted before a Magistrate should be bound (woe to give evident e in eases of appeal?"—Mr. Lawson (Clerk of the Peace): "The Act is imperative upon The Magistiate who convicts to bind over those on sv hose evidence Ise convicts, to appear at the Sessions when the order is appealed against." The Ileoce : "The conviction is quashed." Tue KING v. Haao.—This is the celebrated Waterloo Road case, upon which Maurice SWabey, Esq., presided, and which closely resembled the above described. Mr. Leo prdeed The service of the notice. The Bench paused for some time, in evident expectation that all the cues would not be yielded up without a struggle. if not upon the spirit, at least upon the letter of the obnoxious Act.— Lawson looked round the Court and said, " Does any cote appear in this case?" . - No answer. The Biome : The conviction is quashed. THE KING V. etaisoo. This was an appeal against a conviction by Maurice Swabey, h:sq. before whom the appellant was charged with being a rogue and vagabond. Mr. Lawson : Who appears to support this conviction ? Nobody answered.—Mr. Hope, the Assistant Clerk of the Peace: Is no person bound over to prosecute? Mr. Theo. sigeri " No doubt the Magistrate being by the terms of the Act responsible, has bound over the proper witnesses.— Two officer', named Clarke and Blackman, said, "'We were ordered by the Magistrates of Union-ball to attend on this case. The Bench again appeared in amazement, and at a loss in what manner to act, and asked, " Is there no Counsel ?" —The Officers: " We were only ordered to attend ; we know nothing further. Mr. Tbessiger. " Those per sons do not come before the Court in such a way as to be capable of giving evidence; no doubt the Magistrate that commits is bonnd by.tbe Act toprosecute the prisoner." The BENCII.--" We will proceed with the case." Mr. Lee then proved the service of the notice upon Maurice Swabey, Esq ,and said the conviction was not maintainable, any more than any of the rest. ,In answer to questions from Mr. Thessiger, Clarke said be, was hound over at the time of the conviction, and Black man said lie was bound over about a fortnight after the con viction. Blackman's evidence stated that lie was conductor of tl•e tow-street patrol; that on the 19th of July be at tended at the laying of the first stone of the Infirmary in Waterloo-read, and while he was standing near the Duke of York, he saw Gibson among a crowd of people, and knowing him to be a reputed thief, apprehended and searched him. In Gihson's pocket he found a pair of scis sors he suspected were intended to be used for the purpose of cutting pockets. Cross-examined by Air. Tonsicaa.—Had not the scis sors now to produce, for they were given up at the Cone of the examination, by the direction of Maurice Swahey, Esq. Did rot know that Gibson was a licensed hawker, but be lieved that lie had been in the duffing business. Gibs. n slid not say at the time of his apprehension, as witness recol le.oesi, that he was an assistant to his mother in disposing cf linen about the country, and that be used the scissors on such occasions. By the fleece.-Witness found nothing else upon th. prisorer of a suspicions nature. Gibson was amongst the ctowd, and nobody sae with him, and be was there like any other person ; slid not see him, and he ivas there like any miler person; did not see him attempt any thing, but Moll him into custody, knowing that he kept company - with re puted thieves. Clarke, the officer, said he had been examined at Union- Hall by Mr. Swabey, at the time of the conviction; and he then Stated that lie knew Gibson from having ; seen him in bail company; but that he had never seen him an custody.— He knew that Gibson had been hawking about goods with his mother. • 'This was the whole of the evidence on which the appel lant was convicted before Maurice Swabey, Mr. Tinessiosa rose. It became p .culiarlY his ditty to allude to this conviction, for those which preceded it were unsupportable, and there fore abandoned as unsupportable. Within a few months an Art had passed the legislature, giving extraordinary powers to the Magistrates, who before the passing of that Act had been possessed of powers of greater magnitude than was• consistent with the liberty of the subject. Mr. Thessiger then proceeded to comment on the evidence, and • said to the Bench. " Now, gentlemen, perhaps it happens Cat Some one of you may have a pair of scissors in his ..porket.. • If the he the case, particularly if the scissors have theatli,l:llhave you take good care that you.are not • 'seen 10. bad company ; for if you are, von certainly will he .taken before Maurice Swabey; EN:Magistrate of Union He Oflice f and as sorely convicted Of being a reputed th of (.► heels on tba Bench). The conduct of Maurice Swa oett,',Esq., was, how , ver, unaccountable, and incomprehen• bible in other respects! He had ordered the scissors, the chief evidence of guilt, with the sheath, to be delivered up t o his prisoner, although lie thought the bare possession of INQUEST: BRIOGE WATER COMPANT.—AiII inquisition was taken on Satorday night, before Mr. Siittirox, at the sign of the Duke of York, Borongh-road, Southwark, on view of the body of William Parker, aged 23. It was de posed by John Boys; of 14, Plough Street, Whitechapeli carpenter, that, en last Friday afternoon, deceased and hiniself were working at a bench on the ground It of a new built house, No. 1, Melton -terrace, Borough -road. About ten minutes before this occurrence, the deceased and witness reversed their places of Tending at the beach, and shortly after they heard a cracking noise ; the walls of the house collapsed, and the roof and flours fell in. They: were both buried beneath the ruins in the cellar; from which witness, though Much bruised, extricated himself; but his companion, when dug out after the lapse of outs hour and a half, was pressed flat and lifeless. Witness believes the house was substantially built, but either from the bursting of the water pipes, or the stops page of a drain, the cellar was overflowed; and the lodgment of • water had sapped the foundation of the house, and occasioned it to fall.--George Cox de posed to finding the deceased jammed between two floorings; suppo his death must have been immediate; bad heard persons say the house was slightly built, but thinks the water having soldened the foundation was the cause of the accident.—Jurors: There is no good founda tion for houses in that part of St. George's; toe quicksands on which the houses are built imbibe and retain water, and cause the foundations rapidly to decay.—Mr. Barker, the proprietor of the premises, said the water had been two feet deep in the lower part of the house. He had given notice to the Water Company to drain it off; " but" said this witness, "if one pipe is stopped, another .bursts immediately." Witness lied examined the building on the morning preceding the accident; and there was no appearance of instability in the building. Tne story posts were ten inches by four, and the whole front measured only 15 feet. He should sustain, by this accident, a lu-s of at least 2001.—TIte Coroner declared he slorild be afraid to lire on the spot. He hoped the last witness would inform the proprietors of the Bridge IVater Works, that further damage was likely to be sustained from the continuance of the water in the lower part of the premises.—Witness: t have given notice to that effect, and all they say is, that they will send the first man they hare disengaged to remedy it. —Coroner : Send them a written notice, and tell them therein, if they do not remedy the complaint, you will hold them liable for any future (Linage sustained, and you will find they will attend to it. I think, in point of law, if they had legal notice of this before the accident, they would be liable fur the injury done to the premises. As for the death, the cause of which we sit to investigate, however lamentable, it must he deemed an accident.—The Jury. without hesitation, returned a verdict of Accidental Death. One Juror wished to add, as part of the verdict, " occasion ed by the neglect of the Water Company ;" but the Core. per, for obvious reasons, .declined adopting the addition, and it was immediately withdrawn. INQUEST ON MRS. MAITI.AND.—II) the account of the inquest on Mrs. Maitland, the following should have been given as the terms of General note:—" I hope the change of air has been beneficial to your mother, and produced permanent stability of strength. I offer any best wishes to her when you write." The above are the very words of the note. 'there is nothing in the note about baring seen her mother the preceding day, as stated it the newspapers, neither was such the fact: the mother being at Bristol, and General Maitland in London—not bavisg been to Bristol these ten years. ht.t ititlMO.--On the 13th inatant. at V annoutti.:Nertolk. Paigrave. Bp. of the least Tamp* to Elizabeth, dale hter of Dawson Turner, Esq. Of Tar. mouth. On Thursday, the 16th listsnt. at bishop Wsarmouth, Laneenes Jopees Marshall, eldest *up of Sarno •1 al arahall ZEsq. of Dalstoo. Middlesex, to Jaw, only daughter of Bernard Ogden. live. ut the former plan. DIED.—Un Monday, after three days illness, at littrewood How% aged Si, the Honourable Frederick Lunches, silth eoe of the Earl and Countess of Durwood. • On the lith inst. at hia house at Croom'a-hlll. Greenwieb. T. Smith, Esq.. of Cooking, in the county of Kent. Ow the Ilth of Auguit, at La Ouayra, in the rtb yew of his site, a fter three d ay i a w e e o . the yellow fewer, W. 1.. Herneassis. Esq. late ofTatuess. in the county of Devon, and purser of the Venezuela frigate, in the service of the Colombian Republic. Nv SPECIFIC was ever brought into use by the Professors of Medicine, to equal PEEDE'S Celebrated and Incomparable Patriot Pu.cs ' for the speedy, safe, and e ff e ctual CURE of a certain disorder, In all its insinuating forms, aid the malignant and gestnictive Ravages it daily makes on the Human Frame; but, happily, these Pills Cure in so short& time, and in so safe and easy a manner, as to warrant him in such full confidence of success, that NO Spark of Disease shall be left in the system. These Pills are sold in Boxes, at 2s. 9d., at 43, Llquorpontl-street, Lon don; but should it be preferred, the Doctor engages to Cure the Disease for a stipulated sum, or return the Money; so that if there be No Cure, there Will be No PAY. X; B. The Itch Cured without washing or anointing, by smelling only. price 2s. 9d. Domes it place*, xxer.—Hun. •• • - Tby house, and (in the cup of life, That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife. SOCRATES, by his Discourse on Marriage, so en raptured his auditors with the subject, that the married men flew to their wives, and the bachelors hastened to be wedded; and "The Spectator" his affirmed, that the word " wife" is the most agreeable and delightful name in nature. The sacred institution, then, of marriage, compasses the desideratum of onr enjoyment ; teeming not only with hap piness on earth, but disposing the soul itself to harmonize with bliss hereafter. Previous, however, to entering into this hollowed obli gation, it becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate the passions, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those impurities which the freedom of unrestricted p 1 may hate entailed upon it. To the neglect of such attention are Attributable, many of those hapless instances, which. while they excite the commiseration of the beholder, should also impress him with the fear of self-reproach. Luxurious habits will effeminize the body—a resideneela the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently coal- . promise the natural dignity into a state of inanition, from whence the agonized sufferer more than doubts the chance of relief. To all such, then, we address ourselves, offering hope—energy—muscular strength—felicity : nor will oar advances appear questionable, sanctioned as they are by the multiplied proofs of twenty years successful experience. The easy cares of .married life are sometimes disturbed by the suspension of those blessing+ which concentrate the nuptial wreath—for the female habit is often constitutionally weak—yet it can be strengthened, and deficient energy itn -Ipr ved into functiotial power. n every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as in every relaxation of the generative economy, we pledge our ability to cure speedily, and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to expel the unfeeling empiric from the position so presumpts ouply token up, we deviate from general principles with tees hesitation; and confident in our own honourable inte grity as Members of the College of Surgeons,. werefer the suffering community of either Sex (especially those Wir ing Into matrishonial life) at once to our houses, where daily attendance is given for personal cousultation • and, letters Evan ' the country are immediately answered;, these-ulat . co twin a reibiztatice for Acivice and' Medicine, which can be fotwavded to any part of the world, however distant.. ' ' GOSS acid Co. M.R.C. Surgeons,. No. I I, Houvarie-street. Fleet-street, Loans. fast Published (Sixteenth Etilion), I. Tnz /Seta or L it, a filmillar Commenufary on the above Lliacases• - -;*- 11 ti alttkNA. aderefsed exchisirely to the Female Se;:---411/ bd had at 21), Peter:totter-row ; ft% Pall Mall ; 16. sPrinces 4st eet,"S oho . ; 17f, reef-street. Leaden : Porter, 79. 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