The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-08-23 00:00:00

POLICE. -.....‘. ARGItt IiatPOsTOR. G tit curl ALL. —Yesterday a sal disaal woman •.-' family, calling herself Ilarriet Jagu t was bought up for her second examiastien, upon a eery of being an Incorrigible vagrant and im raideritiming endeavoured, underfelt': pretences,' to inevitable a belief of her being abandoned by a must rcspeetible family, to whom she alleged heceell L. elvsely emesiereed, and that she was thereby drivel' by despair iomttempt bar own de stenetion 11 opium, in order, by such indirest linens, to inkiest the compassion of the ermine lops, and to obtain charitable coetributions.--1 Serka mass of infprrnation was adduced in Qui- , twists of hereberacter in this way, as to Mew Ow site .ha p f tepa rarely, if ever,. paralleled Its the annals pestare. It appeered, pc the statement of Sir. Kirby, It . respectable bookseliee, of leendele „ Betase-eavd e l tholes the night ef Solidity, iha Stir inst. he was inflossed by the heed-beadte of kis parish, wile lava nest door to him, that a lady in distress hi* fade* dowaat the dour of .Me. Ibbetann, 'tractor, Deil.dbeet, Doctors:Commons, and was :churn; debrief theelfeets bi opium, or some other de-, lateriinie dreg, *high she bad seallowed. Thi. thor Sit. Kirby lame/Hatt-1y went, with the Wa di., .mid found the nithappy object in the situa tion d; he bad her m reoval / to -his 01,11 11,..., th t e r.,.. Rouse-yard, in order to pre. enve4wilair some medical assistance ; and he ac cordingly seat-to Mr. liurlock, a respectable sur geowerat apothecary, in St. Paul'4 Church-yard, tram whence en assistant came, and after an at. tendence of nearly six hours, and the administra tion of emetics, a quantity of opium was dis charged from her stomach, which this assistant gagged most have killed her, had she remsined • three boors longer.withont proper nallildias. ! She told Mr. Kirby • plensibie Hairy of her high connections ; said she was Merle sear Aber deen, was a near relation of the 'Gorden family ; that die was the daughter of Col. Sir W.Maawelt; dust abs had throe autos, him.. Dupre sad two Miller, .1110 W at Brightow ; that bee brother, the rierpf COI. Maxwell, bid lost his arm at the boldest Gertillail s and "e, 111111 et Abode's • thee her &oily bed laftalioard bar r Mak )reel • dbisteet bet en ikweitl i i sed forged kir .* Op , 00h atilt she bed liessmitteds $e lad siii 414.1141 i it lelOpeessitied br the housekeeper to VI ke been ateLoed be the io,Prieeepsdeal, sabardiht basl shipt the niels dielare. The - alas way het family had abandoeed her was, that JAiii bed born •edeeeti-47 tbeillatigeis of H tez, 11114 k whoa 'imbed lived some daseatialaek t Od bad elan by kip * whit it sow at the school • 4 thle Sow. Dr. . "at Chiswick; andediat - 911 .811 40 11 4 ash tellers! broken out of a . pad-Itaiiie et . elided, vriNa she bad beers credited by her friends. She useatiemed a long list of names aad high contrections, to whom she stated herself to be related i • and after being some *hat recovered and Wet-shed, she exprevsed a de sire to go eway, which Mr. Kirby permitted her tiedu, in care of the 'beadle, to conduct her to abe protection of her friends; but finding [terse , . vratehed in her retreat down Ludgate-street IP .lie beadle, she told him it was in vein to f 171 • a her. for nothing should prevent he r Irtea putting an and to het ehibtence. A mob was collected, to wean/he wade her appeal, and tree beadle was very uptight . ' hanled, for attempting to conduct hur out of his vita b. 84 its .the emit of the trislurtiance which took Meer, the lady was eon ducted to the watch-house, amid brought neat day befere Alderman Wool,. M , . K i rby pro' n r...t1 Ike attendance of Ld. Fife's and the lion. \l r. Fuedyee's hoese-kerpers from Whittlall, by whom she pretended to be known kid befriended ; but both positively dented any :kno - tile:lge of her. She, however, persisted thee In her story of being the drat ter -of Col. Sir ; Wm. Maxwell, and in the cause she before pee• tended for attempting self-destrortion. Mr. AL dermas WOODi at that time, ordered her to • taken rare of, until proper enquiries should be made of her friends, and to-day she was brought op for further examination. She affected mach siltation aad 'poignant distress ; insisted she was • the daughter of Sir Wm. Maxwell, though not bez born in wedlock ; that his abandonment of her, and the cruelty of her family, wore the causes of her distress of mind ; that are was lu the habit of taking opium as a means of relel, to assuage ; her pain, and quiet her perturbed spirits ; that she bail often taken it, and if she w to to be taken op and committed to prison every time she took relearn, or if thAt KU a crime that deserved pis. atisleme•nt, her wish wag, at once to be tried, and sent to Botany Bay, fur she must still continue to take opium so luag as her pain and anguish of sled continued. Mr. Alderman Woos, who was now present, eross-exandned her with great mildness, touching the truth of her story, iu which she still persisted. Ile asked her if the had nut a brother named Creases, who drove the Salisbury mail coach, or whether that brother had not appeared as an evi. hence against her, some few years since, at the Exeter A abiati, where she was tried as a vagrant and convicted. She denied positively any knew. ledge of Greares, and said she never was at Exeter; that she was not in England five years ago, hav ing been abioad many years, and only re termed within the last two. She said she had two brothers, one of whom died at Cape Coast, in Africa, anti the other was its Scotland. Mr. AL derman Woos, however, had, by proper inquiries, well ascertained the fact of her trial and conviction at F.:sew'', and the appearesee of her brother, Greats*, •the rnail-coarheusa f , as a witness there against her, and stated several ether circumstances of her hiving applied for pecuniary aid to several respectable pers4ne is the vieinity of London, me. d..r false pretences, respecting her family counce. lions, and particularly to Mr. Adams, who keeps a naval academy at Eilmontou, to it horn she stated hcriell to be the near rel.cion of Lady Sladeline —, and daughter of Colonel S4r William e. Guidon, end ailit..l to wend other persons of distinetiew ; but 'that bit. Adams had written to tease reasons, ihu deuie,l auy knowledge %hat e THE ever of such a woman, aud said she must be i rent imposter. ' Mr. Cottrell, one of the Magistrates for the county of Middlesex, also attauded, and stated that the Prisoner was one of tie most coalum meta is alive ; that she had imposed upon the credulity of his own Nally, whose protectiell she enjoyed for several days, and he to“. 0 she had told Ow II thousan d m lies: for being induced to make. NOM Inevairia respecting her, he had written to amoral of the prow before , tneatioasdi • anti alms - to Lady Verawilas t f.- to whom-she Wails. claimed near relationship; bet received letters frum all, totally denying any ' knowledge of her. Be said he had coevialicd 'her hisemilf, at de last Cierknetretalllailinlv of being a rogue, vagrant, and impostor ; but that 1 the hlagistratea, in consideratiowef her being pre viously imprisoned amen th, had =tamed her he to enotr mottles meolletement, ly termi nated about the time she stated hettelf to have broken out of a madame at Gravesend. H repeated also the circumstance of her comvistiow at Exeter; and said, that so far from having bees abroad many years, as she pretended, slieweeer had been out of the country, but had for the last Ere years been, as it were, going circuit through every part of the kingdom, practising Sirilibef im positions, pseteuding to be the trial-trusted and abandoned relative of highly respectable families, and swallowing opium, or affecting attempt, to drown herself, bet always taking care so to time thaw tricks as not to incur any real Jaeger : that she mice affected to swallow two •111•Cel of laudaninn Wore the whole Glosses/lareisite NO meta., when drawn ep on parade at their country quarters ; sod that she had played off similar stra. imam at Clsphans, at Edmonton, in St. Paul's, Covent-Garden, at Bath, at Cheltenham ) at Bris tol, 'funbridge Wells, Salisbury, Southampton, Brighton, Winchester and a number of other places r M different parts of the kingdom; and this trade she had been carryleg rt n BUCCeleivelj 'UMW P O4 . Two courietions,for vagravitcy bad not Yea biti cleat to warn her from continuing her impostures. Mr. Coltereli, therefore, urged that tie Magi. 'strate should now commit her, as as incorrigible vagabond and impostor, so that else might again he tried at aloe nem &union ; and if convicted, either be luiptssentul for tio years, or transported, as the Magistrates in their discretion should deem belt. Alderman Staines , said, that he did not feel himself warranted to take cognisance of any cireueutaeoes of the prisoner's miacooduct pre ceding kyr last conviction, as all these appeared to have been then considered ; sad he could not see there was any evidence now before him of her having obtained any money by false pretences, in the case tinder coasideratiok, which could-warrant him to commit her to prison. Mr. Alderman Wools, however, wA of opinion, that the contumacy with which the Prisoner still persiited in being the daughter elf SW William Maxwell 1 her denying the fact of her trial and conviction at Exeter, and all knowledge of her brother Cie Salisbury mail coachman ; her preten. diu,4 to be a %sutra eradication, thangh she could : ;tot write her name, but always pretended to be I nervous, when required to write; and the 'alga. rity of her language skewing her to be a person of ! low degree, were all proofs of imposture ; and her prekuading to be what she was not, warranted her commitment, at least fur further examination. In this opinion, Alderman Sir Juan ANO inset, who was present, concurred ; and the Prisoner was remanded till neat Tuesday. John Streater,a respecta§le butcher, of Croy don, appeared for re-examination, spots a charge of having fraudulently obtained a bullock. trader false pretences. It appeared that on the 231 of January last.* bullock hail been delivered (as sworn on the foe% WWI examination, by a man of the oasis of Chatag wood, a servant to Mr. Ely, salossnaster, in Smithfield); that on the above day, the prisoner demanded and received a bullock, the psopetty of" a Mr. Boswell, as beingeold to a Mr. Hunter, a butcher, likewise resident it Croydon. The wit ness swore positively to his passe, as having known him before. it shout six weeks eferc, the price's wsr deselected frus fiester l _who denied' any knowledge et the-transaction. Upon thein formation of Charwood, the prisoner HID; applied to merely to pay the amount, bat which he refused % declaring he knew nothing of the matter, *liver having received the. beast. In this manner the matter lay over, until, upon his persisting in Ala refusal, he was threatened with the peseta charge, which was at length made. Upon the former examination, the business Near otdared to stand over for the purpose of procuriug the attendance of Mr. Boswell, the owner of 1 the bullock, who, however, did not this day attend. The Prisoner still persisted in denying having ever received the beast, declaring every word sworn by Charwood to be rank perjury. He was attended by a number of post respectable persons (butchers and others) from Croydon, who were ready to bear the most decided testimony to his honesty and general geed character. One of them (a butcher) odd he did not Mak Charwood was to be believed en his oath, sake hetforinerly lived servant with him, and he had dismissed him for dishonesty. The Magistrate (Mr. Alderman SCHOLZ') elpfeSPOd himself happy at each testi away in favour of the Prisoner, which, so doubt, would have its due weight in the proper pace; but where these was a positive charge upon oath, his duty was imperative to put the matters in a train of investigation, and therefore he melt coal. 1 mit the Prisoner for trial. In considerstion v baer. zzit ever, of his eseelleut character, and the c. lability of those who came forward is his he had not the least objection to tale bail fat appearance to shelves the charge. Bail wog ic. cortlinely immediately entered into, his neighbouits vying ii ito each other a hich of them should be bin. sureties. PARENTAL CRUELTY. . 1 Brew-Sias sr.— An information was yesterday heard heroic the Sittig,. Magistrate against a master-sweep, uanseti Mors Use, residing in 1 the ,parish ist•Mary-lia.itooe, ,for basins in his' hid STATESMA - - *Orrice, uan apprentice, a child trader the age of tight years, contrary to the Act of Parlia ment passed rot. regulating the egos of children to be apprenticed to that business, which perticu. lady specifies the children must be upwards of that age, and not be bound for a longer time than , eight years. 1 , The circumstimes of this case were truly dis , trusiag, and Waited to instance of human de pravity rarely to be equalled. It appeared that ill:other of the child went some distance from on, and left her little son, a finis child., five pan of age, in the care of its father, who is a working plember, named Millet. She remained out of town fur nearly a twelvemonth, and oa her return, flew with anxious hopes to the lodg ing of her husband, where she, of course, ex pected to be gratified with the sight of her son ; but what was her.vairmey and astonishment, whet' she was informed by iser unnatural husband, that during her abitenee he had the cruelty and iiihu- Inanity to place his Infant offspring in the service of a sweep, and thus early to expose iti tender franc to all those melancholy vicissitudes so pre valent, and unhappily so ofteis.experienced by the unfortunate children doomed to that wretched employm , nt. Her sensations may be more easily felt than described. She rushed from the pre sence of the monster, her husbaud, almost frail, tic, nod, after some difficulty, found the den, for it could nut be called a human habitation, where her utsfurtenate infant, then inaugurated in the mysteries et sweepin,4 a cloutiley, was doomed to pass Its ttifistenee l . without the fostering cule of a tender mother, so necessary to a child so young, and subject to all the cruelties an inexorable master might heap upon it. The measure of her woes was yet, however, to be heaped still higher, and shc had yet the horrid tale to hear that the father of this hapless child absolutely swirl tfor three guinea:, without the product ion of 4Mla its equally uteetturat master refused to restore it tii the longing embraces of its distracted mother. The only resource now left her was to apply to a Solicitor for advice, and Mr. Hum phries humanely took the rase in hand, and stew moned the master before the Magistiates, who, withou' a moment's hesitation, ordered the child to be restored to its mother, and imposed a fine of fire pounds on the master. QUKEI4 9 34IQU A IIE. —Jelin Maxwell was brought up, charged with having violently assaulte I a very young woman the night before, in her father's house, at Chelsea, with the intent of vit;t sting her person. Many of the circumstances of the case are too tress to meet the public eye; fortunately, bovreete, for the young woman, by her cites, to gether with the e ff orts and struggles which sh e made, site effectually resisted the attempt of the Prisoner. The Magistrate ordered that he should find bail, himself in 4001. and two sureties in 'lOOl. each, to take his trial at the next Quarter Sessions for Middlesex. Mary Mills, alias Mary hlfultinß, sliac Connor, stood nett charged with uttering notes of a country bank, !importing to be of the horse of Gardiner and Co. of Luton, in Bedfordshire, and made p iy. able at another house in London, whereas there existed at the time of uttering no such banking. houses. Asreat number of persons attended, who 1 bat been defrauded by taking On payment hills of the ewe descriptiou, all of which turned out to be fratidulent. Mr. ['Attar attended 6n the prisoner's beholf, and although *great number of individuals spoke as to their belief of identity, only one young wbilan would ventere positively to swear to her person s which she did, and deposed that about four months ago the Prisoner came to her tnaster'i shop, in Little Newport-strcet, NewpOrt.markiet, and bought about two shilling's worth of pastrpten. daring a Lnton Bank-note, which a butcher of the name of Webb, in tbe neighbourhood, gave sitter for', and which sites?, as change, the gave to the . 4 risoner, who went away with it ; but that the butcher casein a few minutes after, saying it was counterfeit, and demanded his silver back. 'Elie: . prisoner, however, was gone, and from that•timo 'till she saw her in the deck at the Office, she had never met with her. Upon this evidence she was ordered for another examination on Wednesday *e 30th instant. The Magittrate observed, that the number ofpersoletattentling, iik6 staled them. ;helves to be plundered by Oen fraudulent notes, -_. him to conjecture that there was a gang of these 'depredators, and he he hopes ther*euld be di:- covered. post, B y a i d ecou b rits ini r t ecentl r ce accomplished e d his i• a t on his return home; but on his arrival on the we fi nd that the French influence there is .it~ ►r enboianded, and that it is exerted to the ut ►i►o st to prevent all intercourse whatever bet we et► Crreat Britain and Russ ia . A vvry strong p ro of of the extent to which this prohibition is carrnd occurred lately : A Russian Gentleman came to England a few months ago, with a regular pats. t Russian frontiers, ho was stopped, and though 1 he had regular passports, permitting him to re- I (pip% they were not attended to, and he has ac frbointisinLit.ssniiest, tualiy been compelled to return to England. The only reason assigned for nut allowing him to enter the Russian territoryvwas, that he had commercial .inteecourse with thiinountry. On Friday evening last, a most daring robbery was committed by a single footpad, in the vicinity of Bow. An opnlent Essex farmer, named Yates, was returning home to his residence, after dupes. fug of some live stock at Smithfield-market; and shortly after he got on the other side Stratford. bridge, a ruffian seized the bridle of his horse, land demanded his money. Mr. Yates, who is rather dimiuutive in stature, prudently abstained from making any resistance, but avempted to spur his horse son—in which, however, he was prevented by the fulluw's immediately presenting a pistol to his breast, tad roanss vengeance if he did not instantly deliver. By these means, the mean extorted fro. Mr. Yates about 801.. in Bank notes, about 1101. in bills of exchange, with which he *scared. At is a most remarkaMe cammance, that there were not a few eye-wit nesses to this violent outrage, none of whom von. tared to interfere! - - IMES IN SP4IN. The relative strength of the hostile armies in 11 • Peninsula cannot be correctly ascertained ; hi l t the followiug nu believe to be as near the truth a: any account that lus been yet publiihed : BRITISH rOcEs In SPAIN, classed regimentally. CAVA La Y. SI Dragn Guards tM 00 Drains It li I Atto oo , -- lot Kiefs Germs Legloc fib Light Vrageors Ithb DetActineat lab Dim JNIPA ;Tar. 3d Reginwnt, Ist Bait. -- ---- rtil Regiment, 2d 11w. ith ----- 14.--- 9th --spa .......—. imj, —.. 9d-- • alr-------... all ''"'".... . pa'l2ltb sh—t.-- 6 - r ..,....... 97`h di Sd King's German Legion lat . ________... II .--- sth Ditto o i k____...., lit,.:—.. ids Ditto iant it h .---... Id --tit Ditto ld Ist Guards (Coldstream) fothh--.--e Mb— `.:d Ditto The shore t arots adder the con:a-end of itr A. Wellesley, luthac the brigade of Gen. Cr.to - ford, and lye baselines auks Gra. Ligistburn - nap, Artillery unknown. l'ornsoe:t: troops under Gen. Bere•rwl - - 43,090 gonniet trottp. under Cueita and Albuquerve - 4i,UJJ Ditto lese4as - - I 41,9..i4 Legion under Sir Robert Wiiioll, uckr -. wn. Romano. dints. lialle•terns, ditto. FRENCH TROOPS. victor's army - - . - Selunsiani - Jaerdau (*Arid) - Kellerman'', Cavalry 1110,0.0 • 33,030 IW,Oull 11.8X1 • 4WD matt, unknown. Ney. ditto. . . Garri,um. ditto. 1 The French troops in gareisoil malt amount to ! a very cuusiderabk number. The following plasm are or great. strength, and must necessarily re. quire garrisons of some force : —Junquera, Fi , glieraA, Row, Barcelona, Saragoisa; Barbastro. Vittorsn, Perepeluna,ollb?a, St. Sebastian. To the troops la these plates aka to be added the very 'numerous corp stationed in stlltetent towns in the Procinca of Catalonia, Areigon, Biscay, Na_ 1 warm CAstile, and Leon; "old the ar.ny now be_ i aiming Gerona. liquet these cdfisPerations are 1 taken intoacconnt, it is difficult to b.:Heti:that the ryrenob Nice in Spin-does not oven now cons/. Iderably crrecd 10000 nice. I. :illy bc reinc:.a. bered that Na.routow, iis one of his public du cumerits, asserts, that not a 4egle carps tees slat drawn fro nts Spain rasept Ike lesperisd Gallia. Thai corps, which coaipfpfiguds every spccicb of .force—attitlery,.engiuce.ra, snifters, cavalry, twohigeuq, infantry, and rifle corps—amounts t') upwards of 30,QW men ; for although passim antler • tho mama of the . Impale! Guard, trout whil: it might be inferred to tie merely calculated foritic protection of the E nperor, it is like every lother " Corps" of the French Fraud Army—a coosplehtarmy, possessing in itself every species jof force.requisite to act either distinctly or Iri Ca. operation . with other corps. It only differs iii ! being composed wholly of men selected for their ; experience, skill, courage, and capacity, and in i i particular of tliJse who have at any time greatly i dinieguished themsalvet. It is believed, upon the 1 authority of various communications from Spain, I. *at as soon as Sir Jost o Mooat hail marched from 4 11, 'tors* -ois his retreat, NAPOLEON set of for .Pitiis,And the whole of the Imperial Guard in. 1011,111 y commenced their march towards France. The vast Went of the Peninsula will access*. rily require a very great force to hold it iii sub. jectiou, but the intercepted letter of Marshal Soot?, very distinctly ponds out the means by Which it may he held. Ile prineipally complains of the want- of secure points of reircui, and 114r -1 ticulaely for hospitals. WetaWan•frgpm released 1 from the necessity of continuing his erects in Ger i many, it would be more coneessiout to \him to 1 ()barter 150,000 troops in Spain, than in France; 1 mid the distribution of a forte of lhataneeent in I the Peninsula, there cau be little doubt Mould -Ite amply adequate to the security of King Josaria's I Government. • Moe late Mathew Roolton, Esq. F. S. was is 'the 81st year of his age. -"A-Gentleman who arrived from Hilboa on Ss taiilay, and who left it on the 2d of August, ac. quaints us, that the small garrison at that town claimed a victory on the part of their countrymen a$ the batik. of Talavera dc la Rey na. We andentand Ministers have certain amounts That there ire about eight thousand 'troops in the fortress of Bergen-op-Zoom, and 25,01) in fort Lillo and Antwerp. The following unfortunate circumstance hap. ',cued at Chertsey lately :—A mail of the •amt o f William 'ley, under ostler at the Swan Inn, ,ea. married on the Bth inst. a•d is the evening, as he was partaking of some recreation with his friend•, was interrupted by a person in the street, and the following morning, as [ley was proceed ing to his (Intim at the Swan, he was oveitaken by William Vincent, who immediately attacked him, and beat him so unmercifully as to break his ribs, and cause several contusions upon his head. lie was conveyed hone and died un the Sunday following. The Coroner's Inquest sat upon his body, and although •ery nunierons witnesses were examined to prove the particulars of the eiretini. stances, the Jury brought in a verdict of—Died by the visitation of God. The whole neighbowrhood feelia; meth disap pointed at the verdict, as well u the ve►y re spectOble Magistrates in the district not feelint: satisfied therewith, a summons has been issued to call a Special Bench of the Magistrates through out the county to investigate the business, and they are to meet at the Swan, Chertsey, fur that purpose this day. There were five surgeons who attended to open the buds, and their report has been printed and distributed about the country. Whatever may be the result of the investigation, we Cannot sufficiently applaud the laudable and prompt exertions of thaw Magistrates who have undertaken to inquire into this melancholy affair, in ordur to promote the due administration of jiistlee. s Priattsvl amt Pub 1604.4 Aft D. LovELL, at the . STA T Itt • • fr* St. nettling'