The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-09-27 00:00:00

• ORIGI.V.4L POETRY. row, like a monarch in the sky, Th. sun his throne of glory seeks. As if beneath a lover's eye The blushing deep his welcome speaks. The flowerets know his anti° beam That slumbered 'ninth the sloe of night, And wake, like infants. from a dream, Smiling to keel a parent's sight. An g el or li g ht I thou art a King, But nbt like those who reign on earth ► In every wild bush blossoming Ty very glances waken mirth ; And molt on mornings, Each u this. When spring 'alaide so lovingly, Preparing in the wilderness A Paradice to glad thine eye. AMERICAN PAPERS. - • FREDONIA, (N. Y.) Atm 14.--SomeTomo Or TEE I;NFORTCNATIL - 4 - On Sunday, the 29th ult., the wife of Mr. John Underhill, of the town of Gerry, went about a mile from home, for the purpose of picking birries. She was obligedlo follow a scarcely per ceptible path through the woods until she reached an old clearing. It was nearly night before she attempt. ed to return, and by some accident she lost her way ; it grew dark ; her husband and children were waiting in great anxiety fur her return; supposing however, that she had got to one of the neighbours, her hus band did not think it prudent to leave his children to search for her that night. Early the next morning, Mr. Underhill went to his neighbours, and finding she bad not.got in, went out to search for her, but not finding her as soon as be expected, came in at noon, when several of the neighbours turned out, but after sconringthe woods all the afternoon, returned with out her. Tuesday morning the neighbours turned out in greater numbers, and searched the woods in every direction until about the middle of the afternoon, when she was discovered standing in a hollow tree, having subsisted nearly three days en the berries she had picked, and sleeping at nights in a hollow log.— She gave no other account of herself than that in en deavouring to return home she got out of the path and was unable to regain it. Mrs Underhill heard the signal of one man who was searching for her, Monday afternoon, and answered it by a loud scream ; but this redoubtful knight, with the courage of a Sancho, imagining it to he a panther, took to his heels and fled with the greitest precipitation, thereby leaving the woman to remain another day and night in the woods. SINGULAR ADVENTURE'S OP AN Ox.—An Ox be longing to Mr. Oliver Spafford, of the town of Port land, whilst feeding in a pasture adjacent to lake Erie, on the 4th inst. being near the brink, the ground on which he stood gave way, and he fell 10 feet per pendicularly, then continuing on down a steep de scent of 80 feet, in real somerset style, until he reach ed a ledge of rocks, from which he was precipitated down another perpendicular descent of 26 feet, mak ing in all 116 feet, when be alighted upon a bed of rock., covered with about one foot of water. Bat now (to use the words of our informant) comes the alma- lons : the ox is not only alive, but has received no ap parent injury, except a slight bruise on one leg, sup pied to be occasioned by being entangled in some roots at his first departure from the summit. The above distances were measured by competent men, who are ready to attest to the correctness of this state ment. BON-MOT or TUN DUNK or MARLBONOUGUWe copy the following bon-plot of the Doke of Marlbo rough from the memoirs of an Officer who was in the army of his (Irate at the time it was uttered the end of the year 1708, before he laid seige to Ghent (called by the French Gaud, a word which signifies glove's), he was left by the King of Poland, who was returning to Saxony. At their parting. his Grace wished the King a good journey, and his Majesty answered the compliment by wishing his Grace a good voyage to England. The Duke quickly replied, in French, " Le tems fait si froid que je ne veux pas passer lamer eans band." This season, a family of young sparrows, four in ,number, quite white, were observed, scarcely fledged , 'in Bothwell parish, and Immediately given chase to. In the eagerness of pursuit three of this unfortunate family were killed, the remaining one was caught and sent to a gentleman at Glasgow, where it died on Tues day se'nnight, but unfortunately in an unfit state for preservation. Thus has the beauty of this family been tL• cause of its ruin. A short time since a young lad of the name of George tiilhy, who had been bathing in the Stour, was lying on the grass, when a boy wantonly put a cherry stone into his ear, which afterwards split and took root, and was taken out by a medical gentleman of this city a few days since. —(Kentish Chronicle.) Pecs ENCE or 311 m D.—An Irish labourer near Rich mond (Va.) who was blowing rocks at 400 feet be low the surface of the ) earth, had prepared his musk for a bl.►st, and was ascending in the bucket to get clear of the explosion, when the Ter broke, and he fell 50 feet to his old place of . bilimur. He immediately clopped his hands on the Attrning match and eel its gels/ted it :—.What an elan' moment !—(American r'Per.) Yesterday morning two labourers, who are employ ' ed, amongst others, in pulling down souse old houses iy Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, were at work on Ike groudd door of one of the houses, when sudden ly a hugeheam at the top gave way, which, together with an immense quantity of bricks and mortar, fell "with an alarming crash, and the two men, named button sad Davies, were buried underneath. The re mainder the workmen, with great alacrity, begaa to remove :4o rubbish; and eventually the poor fel s were extrieated from their perilous situation, in n state of. greatexhanstion. They were, without de lay, conveyed on shatters to the Middlesex hospital, where they were examined by the surgeon, who de clared they bad not received the slightest injury; upon which the men, after thankiag the surgeons, went to work, previously taking a glass of whiskey. On the woroiag of Saturday se'nnight, Ensiga Burrows, of the Veterans. having arrived at Chathans, went on the parade to shake hands with an IN friend,' which be bad no sooner done than he fell down in a it of apoplexy, and expired immediately; The deceased was about 45 years of age, and has left a widow and vii children to deplore their loss. OLD DAILEY. Yesterday Joseph irinee, a person most respectably connected, was pat to the bar, charged with haring stolen on the sth of the present month, an iron stove, value 5/. the property of John M'Nally. The princi pal witness in this case was William Kelly, a boy about 14, who swore that be saw the prisoner take the stove and run up a Court with it. Witness followed him and demanded the property. Prisoner threw it down, and returned with witness to his master's shop, where he was taken into custody. This testimony was at tempted to be corroborated by the wife of the prose cutor, Mrs. M'Nally. Mr. ANDRZWII, on behalf of the prisoner, cross-ex amined these witnesses, and in so doing elicited from them the most unequivocal proofs of their not being a shadow of pretence for the prosecution. They grossly prevaricated in every part of the evidence now given, with that which they stated before the Magis trate. Several persons of the greatest respectability gave the prisoner a most irreproachable character, and the Jury instantly acquitted him. The learned Judge (Muting) ordered the boy, Kelly, to be placed in the box, and after commentinz i at much length on the enormity of the offence ire had committed, ordered him into custody; at the same time assuring him that he would be prosecuted at the expense of the county for wilful and corrupt perjury. Mrs. M'Nally, the wife of the prosecutor, was then ' ordered to stand up ; the Cour► told her she was less excuseable than the boy, but she had made the discovery in time to prevent her committal for perjury; but the shuffling manner in which she bad given her evidence could not be overlooked ; the Court would, therefore, commit her for contempt. She was in stantly taken into custody, and conveyed to Newgate by the Officer of the Court. The learned Judge said it was the most disgraceful exhibition he had ever witnessed. Catherine Sullivan was indicted for stealing llt. in silver, from the person of John Nash, on the Vith of August, in the parish of St. Hiles. It appeared from the evidence that on the day mentioned in the indict ment, the prosecuter, who was a waiter, was return ing from Peckham fair about 3 o'clock in the mor►►- ing, when he met the prisoner and another woman in Drury-lane. The prosecutor sod his friend accompa nied the woman to a houie iu Church-street, where the robbery was committed. The Jury found the pri soner guilty. After the verdict was pronounced, the prosecutor applied to the Court to have his expenses defrayed. The Common SEIJEANT refused to allow him a' farthing, and said that he had never met with a more foolish, idle, profligate fellow. Ile regretted that he could not send him to the House of Correction as well as time prisoner. whom, in order to show persons of her character that the individuals who were prompted to seek their society by their abandoned inclinations. were not to be plundered with impunity, he would sentence to six months imprisonment in the House of Correction. George Harrison, a boy of about 14 years of age, was indicted far stealing a watch, chain, and seals, the property of WilHaus Hastings, on the 234 orJely. 'lt appeared from the evidence that the presecttor lodged in the house of the prisoner's mother. On the day mentioned in the indictment he went out and left the key of his room in the care of his mother, as was his custom. On his return home he found that a watch, which was lying on the mantle-piece when he went out, was gone. Knowing the prisoner to be of very bad character, lie suspected him to have stolen the watch, and tbereforecaused him to be apprehended. When in cestody the prisoner confessed that he had taken it, and stated that he hail sold it at a rag shop for 13 shillings. The watch was not found. The prisoner was found guilty. The business of the Sessions being gone through, the RECORDER proceeded to pass sentence of death on the following prisoners : Ann Smith, Matthew Carr, and William Brown, for uttering forged notes ; John Cabelia, for a highway rob bery ; Thomas Fitzgerald, for a like offence; Thomas Wilson, for stealing in a dwelling-house ; Ann Davis, Josiah Cadman, George Ellis, and Thomas Topic}, for uttering forged notes ; Joshua Rowbottom, James Flan nery, and Thos. Washer, for housebreaking ; Benjamin Morgan, for a burglary; John Dogberty, for stealing in a dwelling-house; tieorge Smut, for a highway rob bery; William Harding, for sheep stealing; Thomas Rule, for cutting and maiming; William Oarton, for stealing in a dwelling-house; William Haines and IVas. Harrison, for a burglary (convicted in January last). Twenty-five were ordered to be transported for Life, viz.:—Josh. Aarons, Rachael Aarons, James Dacey, James Biggs, Wm. Martin, John Frampton, Charles Ray, John Young, Charles Bull, David Smith, Benja min Frost, George Suckling, William Whitehead, a lias Seger Smart, Thomas Campbell, Benjamin Perring, James Jones, John Myers, John Berry, Catherine Sul livan, Catherine Bryan, Win. Bryant, Fluebe Benjamin, William Al'Coy, James Palmer. One for Fourteen Years, viz.:—Jeremy Garfield. Sixty for seven Tears: --James Clifford, Hannah Reading, William Knight, John Dawson, John Taggen, Jame...:olley. John Bunberry, Charles Martin, William Figg. William Hennan, William Davison, Francis Clark, John Avery, John Scriven, William Sutherin, itiehard Holland. John Bennet, Thomas Moore, John Hagen, Mary Holder, .Thomas Hopkins, William Dut ton, Thomas Narroway, Elizabeth Amos, George Ste phens, John Ramsay, Joseph Nettlefold, John Bridg man, James Mob's, Robert Tosley, James Frazer, Ellen I .ll , Carthy, William Brown, William Johnson, Melrher Hedges. George Farnfield, John Davis ' William Wil liams, George Nash, Andrew Johnson, John Wicicins. James Robinson, T homas Morand, James Blarmiey t T. Johnson, Henry Johnson, John Isaacs, John EforwOod, John finest, Matilda Dowd, Jane Britley, Ed. Brown, Jeremiah Sullivan, Elizabeth Stinton, Samuel Medglev. George Harrison, Caroline Goodwin, Thomas Bell, G. Aiken:, and Joseph Bull. Seven were ordered to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for London, and sixty for imprisonment in the House of Correction for Middlesex, several of whom were to be palirlicly and privately whipped ; several were fin d la. each, twojudamnots were respited, and 29 were ly prodsmatism. The on Manuosch Goldstein and J. Hudson was . - . 114.4eos'adjournil4o Wednesday, Nth (Maw ant Oils& 111114 4 sman time since ran againit the IpswlCh London to Ipswich, and beat it. ran within an boar at lialdon fair. The tint two miles be accomplished in nine minutest the seined two in nine minutes and a balf ditto. the third two le ten.ditto 1 vtd.the whole in flfty-seven mutates and a half. STATESMAN. POLICE. Gut Lima Reynolds, of Cripplegate Ward Within, whose dismissal from his office of con stable, was noticed in our paper of Tuesday, appeared yesterday on summons before Mr. Alderman Wood, to answer the complaint of Mr. Webb, of Fore-street, the person at whose house the robbery was attempted to be committed, and who had given evidence upon the examination of Reynolds before the Alderman on Mon day last. • Mr. Webb stated, that scarcely had he entered his house on his return from this Justice-room on Monday, when Reynolds came up to hit door, shook his fist at him in a threatening attitude, and said, " You villiin, I'll do for yon." From this threat, and the manner iv which It was conveyed, he apprehended some mis chief was intended him ; he had, in consequence, com municated his fears to Mr. Woutner, the City Marshal, who recommended him to apply to the Alderman on the subject. Reynolds, he said, had called upon him that morning (i. e. since be bad received the summons), and expressed himself sorry for what he had done. Reynolds. In his defence, did not deny the expres sion attributed to him. but said, Mr. Webb told him be was as great a scoundrel as the rest of them. Nobody be said, could prove he had received any money, and the whole was a foul conspiracy against him. The ALDEI{3IAN observed to Mr. Webb, that proba bly since Reynold's apology, his apprehension of per sonal danger had subsided. ' Mr. Webb said, he certainly did not, feel himself safe ; he did not wish, h )wever, to press any thing particularly hard against the man, hut hoped he would be bound over to keep the peace towards him. Reynolds accordingly, by the direction of the Alder man, entered into his own recognizance for that pur pose. Endeavours are making under the direction of the Magistrates to clear the City of the hordes of females that nightly infest the streets ; and yesterday no less than 17 of them were brought up at this Justice room. The group consisted of females of all ages, from 15 to 50. The cases of the major part of them were alto ;tether hopeless, they being wholly destitute of money,' friends, and character, and without the sligbest pros pect of _being able to maintain themselves out of their miserable line of life. The Alderman inquired minute. ly into their respective cases, and where it appeared any of them had relatives or friends who could by the remotest possibility do any thing for then:, they were remanded that application might be made for that pur pose. One or two who gave promise, and stated proba ble prospects of getting an honest livelihood for the future, were discharged; and five of the most aban doned and hopeless were committed to l3ridewell for one month, the shortest period allowed by the new Act of last Sessions. Two cases only out of the who'e list presented any exception to the general depravity. The first was that of a young girl scarcely 20, with a very fine boy, two or three years old, in her arms, whose history was detailed by a respectable man, a cabinet maker, residing in New-court, Fleet-market. lie had taken the girl (an orphan) from her grandmother, and she bad lived in his family as a serrant for ler above two years. where she conducted herself With the greatest propriety, and was an excellent good girl. She was seduced from his house by a clerk in a respectable brewery, which he named, who married her, and by whom she had the child them with her. It subsequently came out that this clerk was previously.* married man, and on the discovery be withdrew his support, and the poor girl was thrown upon the streets to maintain herself and child. Sbe was, be knew, heartily tired of her unhappy situation, and desirous of again getting into service, which be promised to exert himself to procure for her, and to inquire out her grandmother, who had removed, to take charge of the child. Upon this engagement the girl was delivered up to him. The second case was that of a woman of very respectable appearance, about two or three-and-thirty, who it came out, by the evi dence of a decent married female, one of her neigh bours, was the wife of a journeyman mechanic, rent ing a small house in the east part of the city : while the husband was employed in the labours of his trade at a country job, the wife is found, at near two o'clock In the morning, among the disorderly girls in Fleet street: she seemed heartily ashamed of her situation. and it is to be hoped, of her conduct also, which she endeavoured to explain by saying that sbe had met one of the girls then at the bar with her, whom she had known before she had sunk into that disgraceful situ ation, and was using her endeavours to persuade her to return to her father. The girl alluded to partly confirmed this explanation, as she had known this virtuous married lady while in service. The whole excuse, however, was quickly exposed by the testimony of the officers, who declared they took her in the midst of six or eight other disorderly women, as obstreperous in her mirth as any of them. The fact of her situ ation, however being proved to the satisfaction of the Alderman, be allowed her to go home with her friend and neighbour. MARTLEBONE-OlonCE.—Yesterday considerable in terest was excited in the hearing of an information noder the pawnbrokers' act, exhibited against Messrs. Stonestreet and Boyle, pawnbrokers, residing at No. 163, Oxford-street, wherein they were charged with demanding and taking more than the legal interest allowed them by the statute on articles pledged at their shop. The witness on the part of the informant was a woman, named Elisabeth Lumsden, wife of Charles Lumsden, a journeyman butcher, residing at No. 2, Wilton-street, Grosvenor-place, and previous to her giving her evidence underwent a rigorous cross-ex amination as to her being a competent and disinterest► ed witness, in the course of which she admitted she especial to be rewarded by the informer for the trou ble she bad been at if a conviction took place ; but if it did not, she did not expect one farthing. The witness then deposed, that on the 2d of Jan. I she pledged two napkins or breakfast cloths at the shop of the defendant is Oxford-street for 3s. On the 22d of August last she went to redeem the articles, int of fared a sovereign in payment. The shornn refused to give her eissige, and she then tendered him 3s. U., being 3s. for the principal, and 51d. for the interest, after the rate of 4s. in the pound for 12 months, which they are allowed to take, and no more. The shopmaa demanded 3s. 81., which was an overcharge of !Id. — She told him she considered it an illegal charge, and refused to deliver the pledge till he received that sum, which she paid him. Witness made invades at th- • office, which led tothis information. The Magistrate considered the evidence fully satin factory, and convicted the defendants in the mitign e d penalty of 51. and costs. The defendants, through the medium of their soli d . tor, entered into recognisance: to appeal against the conviction at the Sessions. The office was crowded with persons connected with the pawnbrokers' business. fel.tainosouou-straarr.—Yesterday, a most re s . pectable Gentleman, residing at the West end of the town, applied at this office, and complained to the site ting Magistrate of the very great annoyance, whi c h , he, as well as others, experienced from the continua blowing of horns by young boys, employed by proptio tors of coaches, each seeming to vie with the Ale who would excel in bringing forth the loudest muf most horrid sounds, and thds most disagreeably ant* ing the entire neighbourhood. He wished to itse l f from the Magistrate, if this offence came under the la Act. The Magistrate informal him that It did $ .4 and said, that probably, if he applied to the employers of these persons, they might put a stop to it, or that if he pleased, he Might indict them for a nuisance. DREATIVUL SCICIng.—A journeyman baker, in the neighbourhood of the City-road, having embesals4 some of ble employer's money, and been detected, was bent on self destruction. He left his watch at the turnpike in the Lower-road, Islington, proceeded to the New River, took off part of his clothes, then cot his throat with a razor, and fell into the water. A fire, which was likely' to be attended with most serious consequences, happened on Saturday ee'unight, in the paper mill of Mr. Thomas,at Basted, nearWrothatn. Kent. It wasoccasioned by the bursting of a bottle of oil of vitriol, used in bleaching, which was placed in a room under which there was a considerable quantity of rep, these were shortly on fire, but they fortunately being in bags, they were with considefible difficulty, rolled out and thrown in the water. The men engaged in the mill are deserving of the highest praise, for their great exertions in removing the rags, and arresting the progress of the flamt's,'which they accomplished with great risk of their lives, most suffocated with the smoke, and having clothes nearly burnt off from them. A tremendous storm of thnnder and lightning, ac cowpanied by the bursting of a water-spout, occurred at Holywell, Flintshire, on Friday last. The water came down in torrents from Pen-y-Ball, bringing with it immense quantities of stone and gravel, and carried away a house and store-house, at Greenfield, filling up the pool with stones. The pavement was forced up, and holes made in the new road four feet deep. The picking room belonging to a cotton factory, and a shop, were entirely destroyed. The water broke the windows of the Old Mill, carried away the wall at the bottom of the garden, and floated the beer and liquors out of the cellar of a public-house. Bales of cotter, household furniture, &c. were seen floating about, and a hav-stack was carried away some distance. The roof of a rolling-mill belonging to the copper-works, was also carried away ; and the stnelting-house case's fire, in consequence of the water breaking into the furnace ; great part of the yard was carried away, and nineteen tons of copper lost. The garden of A Pennant, Esq., son of the celebrated tourist, was ntarli destroyed. A very serious accident occu►red on Satarday is Norwich ; a gentleman drivinst a phaeton, is which were Mr. Crawcour, a lady, and another gentleman; over the Castle Meadows, the horses took fright tad ran away, when M r. C. and the other gentleman jumped out, and both of them had the misfortune to break their legs; Mr. Crawcour in so shocking a manner, that be was obliged to undergo immediate amputatio. The driver and the lady kept their seats, and received no injury ; the hor . ses were stopped near St. Mgt's tine's-gates. EZTRAORDIN ART FOOTPAD.—About dusk on Tank evening, Miss Ann Walker, a young lady residing at Pimlico, and Captain Willis, were taking the air ioSt. James's park, they sat for some time on one of the benchee, and observed a furious looking fellow past them several times. The young lady observed he had the look of an assassin, and she thought he was looking out for prey. The Captain only laughed at her timi dity. She however urged him to quit that spot; and they walked into the Green-park. When they arrived about half way they saw the same fellow approach them from the pond, and when he came up to them he pulled otf his hat to beg for charity. The Lady threw a shilling to him, upon which he pulled out a large knife, declaring with dreadful imprecations, he would murder them both, if they did not deliver up their watches and money. The Captain happened to carry a dirk, and pulled it from under his coat. The Lady screamed, which attracted the notice of some gentle men in the Mall. who ran up ; but whether that or the appearance of the dirk terrified the robber, be took to his heels, and reached Piccadilly, and escaped. A pro per description of him is given to the Police. MARRIED. Yesterday. Charles Lean, Esq. of Fenchurch-street, wee. chant. to Emma Cleghorn Proctor, of Walthanistow, eldest daughter of Thomas Proctor, Esq. At Aberdeen, on Monday. the 17th instant, WI lli Knight, LLD. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the It stitution of Belfast, to Jean, eldest daughter of the Rd. Dr. Glennie, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic b the Marischal College. and one of the Anniston of Aber deen. On Tuesday last. at Kidderminster, Charles March Mar* Esq. of Coventry, to Catherine Mary, youngest daighw of Jacob Turner. of Park-hall, Esq.. DIED. Os Tuesday last, in Chandos-street, Cavendish-Elurer aged 61 Charles Monro, Esq. At Oldmeldnun, on Monday, the 10th Instant, in the 7001 year of his age, Bernie George Cooper, Parochial School master of bleldrent, for the long period of 41 years. On Thursday av'anight, at Denver, Norfolk, Mr. Willis. Smith. who was for nearly 30 rears gardener to J. T. Defier , ; his death was occasioned by a wound from a spring gun, which in consequence of recent depredations commit ted In the gardens at Crow-hall, he had placed that/ for the protection of the fait. On Saturday last, at his house, No. 0, Alsop's-plaes. as' year gent's Park, Robert Beth, M. D. in the seventy-Mirth of his age. _ • UfOßt MATILR AT LONDON•BRIDGE TO-MORROW: . Dior lag. 4 oda.. 3.—Evening 18 sin . dor & , . . London : Edited, Printed, and Published at the °Sorel "Mtn TATIONAS" and "Tits Com/I/vilely" ( 11 "" Paper), No. 19414 Strand, opposite St., aeries moor Ch 41 0.. n'- by B.WARDELL, LL. : to whom al( al widest, prders, i i. api repested to be addition!' s ~~ ...P,