The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-08-24 00:00:00

the CARet,. having 1. ty of the crimes alleged against him, adjudged Mm to be Ca.A erell and to forfeittntis Majesty the sum of 1001. sterling`, ind to make good, at his own expeuce and colts, the loss abd damago sustained ,by his Majesty, amorating to 401. 13s. (as nearly as the Court could ascertain), in consequence of his, the said James Williamson, having embezzled and misapplied fresh and salted provisions from his Majesty's stores at Sydney, entrusted in his charge at Acting Commissary of Stores and Provisions; 'whit!' Sentence his Majesty has been pleased to anpreto and confirm, and commanded that the charges preferred against Deputy Commissary Williamson, together with the punishment awarded dike, shall be read at the head of eery Regiment. ' lif A IDSDOYE, AVG. 22. I. • • The Rev. Adam John Walker, Curate of Ley. - bourne, in this county, was instituted on the 12th instatoli by a Commission from the Lord Bishop of iler+fotd, td the Rectory of Bishopstone, and Itsb VlOtrage of Gator In his Lordship's Diocese, en the Lpthientation of Uveciale Price, Esq. of Fitalkys" • Cl l n *SU ante tried at Maidstone, the Earl of Andincy against Foyle, there afterwards dined with the Steward at the Mitre Tavern, fourteen Irittlesses, who had all kno'wn each other from ' their youths, and *hose united ages amounted to • Go the 16th inst. was committed to the County Gaol, Maidstone, by James Jones, Clerk, Samuel Laws, charged with feloniously entering, on Sun. - day night, the dwelling-house of Mary Ann Wil bins, in the parish of Minster, in the Isle of Shcppy, and stealing sundry articles of plate and wearing apparel, the property of Mary Ann and Wilfultai Wilkins. ..‘„,......a..A.....N.-.-.....0---;_.............i......__.....-......_.....„.......b. • . t • -, ` l er • Wi, . v \ . ~ 1 • ~ - . xp codanar 4 . 1 - - ..., -4-.7. •.,-, •.,. • iv ..-• - ~ •. - -, e - ' • • ; -•-- _ ..L... • 4 bitattl Court. . 4 : • • savrAild at Sydney; New South " 1 ,' - •Wift'it . , F Eli: Delitity Comet • , '‘, . .... tip Acting •initeery of Stores mentioned Cktime,"! . ''. '': ~ . '.i.• . :9 . . e.-7 ' Ist, For having eat . 4i t i f luid so:tit.:•, *bids .he had AY P . • ' . ' .: " •. ' 3al Syttivegt • 11. rocbasitpx ire Itailittlog It: • • . .. r, Mr. James Wilisblre, to make Gistositrios of tbeweigh • wt . beef slough- Wei la h is blaiestes'issloos Sit Sydney. 34. For lassos .111i1414 made' far rattles of weights or beef slaagbieredjw bis likiesty's stores at Sydney. Fur whiCh the Cquut v ituviut (treed him Guilty SiripIDLING. a ! -1• A gentleman has Pot into our hands a pamphlet, published a few days ago at Bolton, which details iiratagem b a y whiih a person of that town had preyed upon the inhabitants of that place. K—, a native of the vicinity of Bolton, and of indigent parents, by trade a wev'er, and of dissolute Manner', while sitting in company at a 'Outilic-hitse, - VA into coq, eraatlon with two '''trangers, *to told him, that a Certain gentle- Nillian a supposed native of Bolton, had lntely _ l llllo6 ' in their neighbourhood, to whose estate no , Illeircould be found, and which, if not claimed its six months, would devolve to an old servant, at.- tlitsidittg to the will of the deceas'etl. " Perhaps," rlllOl K " it is my old uncle Mather " Right," replied the two gentlemen, 64 By G—d you are the heir to all ;" The specious appear. anee of the strangers gained full credit to the tete; and Anthers of the inhabitants, thinking it Signed 'peculation, contributed tforatds the equipment of She indubitable heir,'Tthdecent clothes, and • sufficient sum of money,' in order that he might undertake a journey to GlOucester, near which city the patrimony was said to lie. Accordingly he wsutthe journey, and soon af ter returned, giving, 41 splendid account of the hall and furniture, its vast hop-yards, and also the sam esf 110,0001. lodged in the Bank at Glouces ter. The news spreall; K. was dubbed Esquire, his children were sent to a boardiug school, and *umbers who would Tikee - disdained to have no= deed an honest weaver, went to worship the newly • . *reefed gulden calf; in short, Ale. K. was invited ' to dinners, and he also, in return, bad his feasts l and his friends. After K. had thus rioted on the credulity of his townsmen, they became impati ant for them day. The 15th of last May was the time at which be was to enter upon his estate, and he commenced his journey for that purpose. Af. tcr long and anxious expectation of his return, it was suspected that he had taken &final farewell of Bolton. The conjecture proved true; for two gentlemen going in quest of the new Squire, totted I him ;slew days ago, at :work iw e cod seine.— The two imposters with whom the plot was con. ceeted'have nut beets discovered. The sums slain died from varionk persons are supposed to amount to 00001-1 n millinery alone, in one- year, 6001. was contracted.---()fanchester Paper.) Yesterday morning, Mr. Thomas Thompson, a boatman of Deal, went off, apparently in good. health, with his two sons, to cateh whitings ; soon. after he was taken ill, brought home, and. died about ten o'clock. On Tuesday so'nnight, the notCil James Mallo n; anal, Maguire, alias Wilson, alias .Disrus, who had been admitted a Pensioner of Greenwich Ilea. pital, was executed at Armagh, in front of the prison there for cow-atealing, pursuant to his sentence. This unfortunate man became, at the last extremity, penitent, and, sheaved a sense of religion becoming a more improved mind: he ac knowledged his guilt, and that he had been con cerned in almost every robbery and bad crime that hail been committed, for several years past, in the counties of Armagh and Antrim (murder ea cepted): he lamented mac *sit it was the incon. stancy of his wife that flotterodoced is isim this abandonment. FOOT.RACING.—A v • ied match, !or 1000 gni weas, will take place ot‘.:Mundav next, on F.Psoin Downs, between Jonesvahe celebrated Lancashire man, and Jonathan Pollard, the .known runner. The parties are backed tby.,two Gentlemen ama. teurs, and the distance is 20 miles, which the winner is backed to do in two hours and tea mi nutes. 40 - a,. . * etc: 4 ) or 'P. ti' Orr TOE STATIASMAN, SENEGAL Is an Island of Africa, in the river to called, about ono mile and a quarter in length, from north to moth, and almost half a mile in breadth, from easkao west. It is composed of a bed of loose sand, productive of nothing but what is forced hy art, and the richest manure ; not with standing which, it contains 3000 inhabitants, whose principal food is fish and anise; this sort of corn growing in great plenty almost all over the whole country. It may seem surprising, that a part of the world so very unhealthy us this should yet be so populous, but the wonder will tease, when we come to understand, that the greatest pride among the men consists in the num. ber of their wives; 'so that every one takes as many as he is able to maintain, same sit, others eight, and others twelve at a time. The river which surrounds it, rises in the interior country, and runs into the Athletic. Some Geographers arc of opinion that it rises out of the great Lake Mabeira, and passes through a course of .1,500 miles, before it discharges itself into the ocean ; while others, no less obstinately assert it to be a continuation of the Niger, though neither opi. nion can be otherwise supported than by conjec. turc. The river Senegal is doubtless one of the ' largest rivers of Africa.; fur, without ascending higher than the Lake Benin (the farthest that F.u.• ropeans have peetetrated, at least upon unques. tionable authority), it is 800 leagues to the Island of Senegal, near the mouth of the river. So cruel, so savage, and so barbarous are the inha. bitanfs, that few people's curiosity is sufficient to.earry them through the dangers and fatigues which would necessarily attend such a pursuit. Within two leagues of the sea, the river in its course takes a sudden turn to the South, and, for the remainder of its passage, is divided from the sea by only a natural ridge of land, sometimes not 100 toises over. By this curve it prolongs its course for 25 leagues farther, from North to South, till at length it discharges itself into the ocean, in 15 degrees, 50 minutes, north latitude. This great river separates the country of the Ne , groes from the Moors of Sahara, or the Desert, stretching, by a number of windings, to a pro. digious length, from east to west. The eitreme rapidity of this river is attributed to the space passed through by so large a body of water, con fined within so narrow a channel, the mouth of it being no more than half a league over, and that chdaked up with sand, called a bar, which ren ders the passage exceedingly difficult and danger ous. This bar is doubly dangerous, on account not only of the shallowness of the water at all times, but the shifting of the bar, and the change I of its situation, after floods and heavy rains, by. which the channels are lost, and new soundings I requisite .to discover them. Indeed the Senegal would be quite shut up, for_but one channel of 200 Wises in breadth, and two fathoms depth, which has long kept its situation, immoveable j amidst the floods and overflowing/ of the river. This bar prevents ships of 5 or 600 tons from en. teeing the river, and mooring under the fort--an inconvenience that obliged the French Company to keep a vessel constantly at anchor in the then.' eel, for no other purpose than to keep an account of the soundings. The most commodious time of the year for' crossing the bar Is from the month of January till August, the winds being less variable, the river smooth, and . the bar flied, until the ensuing rainy season, when the prodigious swell of the rivet, 'and the south-west winds opposed to its rapid course, raise waves to so great a height at the bars that their dashing resembles the shuck of moun. l Itains, and so furious as to dash in pieces the , `stoutest ship. After crossing the bar, it becomes a beautiful, smooth, and gently-gliding neer ) , at four fathoms depth. In advancing* league higher, the country, on the south side, is clothed with beautiful verdure, the trees in perpetual bloom; than which nothing can form a more agreeable contrast to the dry, sandy, and barren points of land, that first present themselves to shipping. All around lie a great number of islands, plea. witty stocked with trees, fruits, herbage, and birds; but appropriated to no use, incept the island of Senegal. The mouth of the river is laid Idown in latitude 15. 50. north. The Freedom of the City of Cork has been voted to Captain AUGUSTUS BALRWIN, of the Royal Navy, far his heroic conduct in the late action with the Russian fleet in the Baltic. The Freedom of the City of Cork has been onaohnotasly voted in Council, to Capt. nonenz HALL, of the Lucifer bomb, as an acknowledg ment of regard and gratitude from his fellow. citizens, for the services he had rendered his country during his command of that ship is the Mediterranean. The Hoe, sear Plymouth, le, perhaps, without an exception, the most delightful promenade in the kingdom, the prospects it commaudsare very beau. tiful and picturesque. The Corporetion of Ply. mouth ham employed labourers to level it, and seats lire to be built for the Seeommodation of the public. CASIDZIPS gives the following ac. count of it—" Between the town and theses is an hill, called the Ifaw, on the top of which' is a deli cate level or plain, which affords a very pleasant prospect oa all sides, and a curious compass far the use of mariners. From this hill it is fabled that the Cornish giant Corium's, wrestling with the giant Gogmagog, threw him headlong into the sea." A fine Newfoundland dog, the property of Mit. Scott, of Waltham Ablrey, was killed last week in a field by a *easel, which attached itself to his throat, whilst the dog was in pursuit of it in a ditch. The poor animal being unable to disen tangle himself from his troublesome 'smiles', straggled for a considerable time, until at length exhausted with the loss of blood, he fell down and expired. The dog was valued at 30 guineas. Yesterday, a gentleman passing along the Stroud had his pocket picked by a gang of fellows, wbel, atom being discovered, made off; ono of them was closely primed, and taken opposite St. Clement's Church. Us was immediately conveyed to Bow street. THE liffEADAVOrelif. • The following account of the affair in whielethe boats of the Dreadnought were engaged in Basque Roads differing from the former statements which appeared, we have thought it right to give it pub. licity : " While the fleet lay in Basque Roads, it had been constantly the habit to make one ship send boats at night to row guard towards the mouth of the Charente, the entrance of which Was pro. tected by a small island (isle d'Aix) very well fortified. " The enemy sent one of their brigs of war. down to remain tinder the protection of the Isle . of Aix during the day, and at night she generally went at some distance up the river, to catch any of our boats who might be bold enough to go _too close to the shore in chase of the coastieg vessels from Rochelle towards Ruchefurt, which were annoyed by our men of. war. On the night of the 25th and 26th, Lietiteu t auts Forman and Owen were ordered to raw gitersl in two boats, under the orders of Lieutenant Furman. It was at first thought that the brig had not gone up the river that night ; fortunately,. however, Lieute nant Furman thought it best to reconnoitre her before they made an attack, otherwise none of them could have escaped as the. tide was. • -4 4 At about half past two, hevingisavaited so long for the turn of tide, the, boats epproacliesll the brig, when, from her situation, Lieutenant Forman despaired of macron, and proposed re tiring ; but Lieutenant Owen was so fully eunli dent of success, that he wiihed to make the attack alone—and on this the attack .was made. Lieut. Forman pulled down alongside the brig to get on board. The enemy, in addition to the usual mode of defence, which is a very strong net-work stretched tight along, considerably higher than the bulwark of the vessel, through which they wore obliged to cut, had strong sharp pikes, standing out boriaoqtally from her sides about six or seven feet, rather lower than the upper edge of a boat. On the end of one of these Lieut. Owen ran his boa, and there he stuck, a mark for the French. men, who popped at them like so many fowls tied to a stake. Lieut. Forman's boat had been the first alongside, and had avoided the pikes ; and while he was occupied in trying to cut through the net, he heard Lieut. Owen cry for quarter. The people of Lieur. Furman's boat seeing tht i state they were in, and many of them being wounded, one tnortally.,,pitahed off, and had not the Lieutenant himself bgeu able to swim, he must have remained in the brig a prisoner ; however, he swam to his boat, and reteifell a wound just as he was going to get into her. He brought on board the Dreadnought seven, besides himself, wounded, one since dead ; and left behind Lieut. Owen, with his boat and people, nhoin s it was impossible to bring ofE. One of them, *it has since been heard, was killed, and four wounded. The enemy had one killed, and two or three wounded, by their owu account." 4 CITRAORDINdItYC.WSE OF DEATH. • Peter Peuterean, a painter, dt Mind Ham, wherit he was born in the year 1650, *as reqnested to paint as emblematie pieturE of Mortality, repre. sestina human skulls and bohcs, etirruiduled tritii rich gems, and mesital instruments; to express the vanity of this world's pleisures, amusements, of possissions ; and, that he might imitate nature nigh the greater exactness, he went into an anatomical room, where several ikeletohs hung by wire, from the ceiling , and bones 'and skulls lay scattered about, an d immediately prepared to make his de. signs. While we was thus empl.iyed. either owing to fatigue, or tp intense study, lie insensibly fell asleep • but was suddenly ronsed by the shock of an eart hquake, which happened at that instant, on the 18th of September, The moment he awoke, he observed the skeletons move about, as they were shaken, in different directions, and the skulls roll from one side of the room to the other; and, being totally Ignorant of the cause, he was struck with such horror, that he threw himself down stairs, and fell into the street half dead. His friends took all possible means to efface the impres. sion made on his mind by this unlucky event, and acquainted him with the real cause of the agitatiun of the skeletons ; but in vain ; for this transaction affected his spirits in su violent a manner, that it brought on a disorder, which in a short time end. ed his days. • _ • Surcret.—Al event of an awful nature oe. curred during the 'last week at Southall, Middle. sez. An attorney, who had some causes at the Exeter Assizes, was returning from thence, after having called at Oxford, by the stage-coach.— Having alighted, he desired the coachman to wait OLw'mhantee for Mm ' • be, hotiever, did not re 'taro, but went to a farm-house, and requested the favour of pen, ink, and paper and was re. ferred to a neighbouring public-house, where he wrote a letter (which afterwards turned out to be 'his will), and addressed it to his family. lie af terwards left the public house, and in the dusk of the evening he was found in the canal, with his head nearly severed from his body, and stabbed from head to foot in a moat shocking manner.— An inquest sat on the body, and returned a 'cr. diet of—Lunacy. At Gloucester, John Johns, dies King, charged with assaulting autkrobbing Mr. Richard Aldridge ' on the highway, near Bristol, pleaded guilty. Upon being .asked why sentence of death should not be passed upon him, said, "he was sell_ Bible he had committed. a crime against society. by which his life .was . forfeited, to tho I.ins of his country , but. .that 'be bad been led to. the r!eed by fixe. di.trets of his family for bread." Judge Batt.t.r,, psssipg sautence upon him, was so affected ~that he was ()Wised, to turn gis face from thispesaplo h , and whilst re peatins the usual words, t‘, to ! be taken to the place frau whedce )ou were. bropght—and—you know what I should say, and what I mean," and, wept. Tlip ether part of the sentence . was scarcely articeialee He was rccuinmended to mercy b; the prosecutor. .446 R fee LIVRE 4 --~~ lire have received three accounts of the pre. sent state of the growing wheat; one from the Wiltshire Downs, one from the lower part of Somerset, and the other from Dorset and Dc. vonshire ; they all concur in stating the prospect ora plentiful harvest, and • that corn in general never bole a more healthy appointees, or a filler env. A correspondent, oho lately made the tour of several English co pities, informs us, that the crops in . general appear good, and the ears well Idled. In tome few pltices; blight and mildew I wo made their appearance"; bet the wheat was soefar advanced to maturity before they emote on, that the produce %s ill he little deteriorated by them. Dry weather, however, is now much wanted, in orikr to harvest the different kinds of grain. A full average crop is expected, and ra. tht.v more in many places. The turnips arc very nnegnal ; the fly bas been tell busy in certain districts. . COUNTRY FAIRS. -sm. At Wilford fair ► near Salisbury ► on Saturday, 35,000 shed► and lambs were penned ► and but rev remained unsold. The prices 'were full -34. twr bead daarer than list year ; ewes fetched from 441. to 353. welters 35•. to 465. lambs 154. to 23a The preference was in favour of South-down, stork. At I.lnsdown Mr, on Thursday, a large quan.: lily of cheese wig pitched ; prices from 665. t 635. many loads were carried off unsold. Very few good horses, and oven inferior ones said high. Ono gentleman. missed his pocket-book, which contained nearly 9001. At Worcester Lammas fair there was a very large supply of cattle and Oleo!) ; the few, were rather upon the decline in price ; the 141Ser maintained the same price as at the last fair, and _many of both were driven away for ward of pur. *hailers. Good horses were scarce, 5 , ,1 sold It very high prices. Seventy pimtkets of kept wen weighed ; current prices 41. 10s. to M. its. per swt. &TOUT LiMPrON, cos. 20b The Bill at the Long-roonsa l on Tuesday night, was attended by the most brilliant display of cum. patty we ever remember to have seen, at so early a period of the season. All the beauty, rank and fashion of the country, were present. The Mar. gravineof Anspach es tered the ball-room at eleven o'clock ; but although she remained till a late hour bl i the morning, her ierette Highness did not dance. The ball was opened by Miss Ashton and Captain Thineombe, of the Guards, Aid.de.Camp to the Earl or Above five-and-thirty couple fol. lowed in the mazy 'lessee., The attentions of Mr. Lynne, the Master of the Cercmonies, and of Mr. who c,nducted the evening's entertain rirnt, gave universal satisfaction. r. Pope, orCovent.gartlen, made his first ap. pearance, lust night, in oho character of Othello. Tile Theatre was t:rooviled in every part.—Hc was ;creived with unbounded applause. In Mr. Max. fiel.ll logo, there was notlling•to dente. Mr. Kelly, in Cussio, appt.m.,ll to Ns nil entirely 4o codeprehenii the vigour of that character. Miss carppi o i t orrom theTiteatre-Royal, Glasgow, made her, debut oft these boardh, and gave to Derdemo na 'all the ictittisite tenderness and passion.—ller person Is gracefiil, and her voice extremely ener getic. The Marquis of Lansilown arrived at the Castle, on Thurs.l4y night, from Ns seat at Bowlwood, in Wiltshire, and set off the next . moruiftg for Lon don.—ller Ladyship and the fluidly, we regret to 104, will nut hotionr.this place with theirOreleace, till towards the end of Autumn. 4t•'"► POLICE. -.........-,. Maxsrov Tuesiday d *saws of the town charged a Gautleases with pusisiwg bee downsupon the pavement, wince'' , she was much bruised about the head and shoal.: .rs. The Gen tleman in his defence stated, that he had been &juicing wine, and returning heats •thisegh Al. alersgate-strect, the Prosecutrix meek bolsi of his arm, and absolutely prevented him from passing.. Ile should not hare used any violence, but from the circumstance or another woman baring for. merly accosted him in a similar foamier, and rub. bed him of a broach worth nine giddies. • The Loam MAYOR was hippy to istseeere Ato p notwithstanding the unfortunate siteatiems of the Woinan, shn had been candid, and dad Pot differ from the Gentleman in her story; sod recom mended to the parties to settle the eitter. The Gentleman imonedieWly gave tise woman 59. lin consideration of her misfortenes, mid the charge was dismissed. • . '.!t • I ATTu N -G OEN- —Topeniay Mary M 4 REGIS and Mary 6'r - filth were charged with seducing the fidelity of a servant girl in the employ of. Miss Abraham, dress-maker and muslin warehouse. • keeper, in lloltiorn. APBean kept apartments in the Strand, had frequent access to the girl, and persuaded her to pilfer articles out of the shop. shc gale her ss. for an article worth W'. and a great quantity of goods were fawn, on Wilean, and brought to the Office, as well as a watch and 401,1 seals. They were committal for re-esami station. A master chimney-sweeper, of the name of Laz ier:, was held to ball for an assault on a yuwng woman, with intent to commit a rape. We RSIIIP • ST R . --Iresterclity;, 'thrill!! Leslie was fully committed to Nesigate,fiir trial, charged iiith gulag into the shop of Mr. Saunders, in Old.. ,street, under pretence of making a purchase, but stealing two shin's. A smart young wan named Edwards, alias Tap he, was committed fur trial, charged with rob bind the premises of Mr. Page, in Norton-Falgate, of a large quantity of linen, blankets„, and other articles._ LONDON t hinted sett Published by n. Lae cat.. bt the STNUNMA N rritE, Si, k leet4treet. . , ••• • W 0... - ft 1