The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-09-05 00:00:00

. ~---~. - , . ••IYEYDiOUTH, SEPT. L. • • Yesterday ifteroooo their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Mary and AMU', attended by La. dy G. Murray, soil the three Misses 3alurray, and General Garth, arrival at Gloucester Lodge. Sir Ilarry Borrard Neale was in attendance to receive their Royal Ilighn..sses, who were welcomed by a law concourse of spectators who were asscin. bled opposite to the Royal residence to greet their arrival. . • Thr effusions of joy that took plaeb on Pan. cess Mary's alighting from her carriage were Lion dartiped, on the multitude perceiving the very weak state of health of her Royal sister ; and * silent gloom pervaded till ranks the moment she was assisted from her carriage. Iri the evening her Royal Highness Princess Mary, attended by Sir Harry Beirrard Neale, Lady G. Murray, and the Misses Murray, took one turn on the Esplanade. The concourse of spectators was so great, that it caused her Royal Highness to w ithdraw from the inconvenience of the cr.iwtl, anxious to testify their loyalty and at. tachment. Thu following letter, which appeared in a re spectable Stand sy Paper, is to us so peculiarly ap propriate, that we entertain no doubt of its being acceptable to our Readers : " TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD 11ULGRAVE, LTIWTENANT-GENERAL TY Ills MAJESTY'S Al MY, AND FIRST LORD 07 THE ADMIRALTY. 66 M T Loan—Since your Lordship's accession I to place, power, and emolument, during a period (naught, perhaps, more than any other, that has octurrvil since the Revolution, with alarm ; when the corruptions proved to have existed in the vital principle of our domestic Government, and the 1 im v oliey that has characterized our foreign Di. I ph.maey, have filled the yet unshackled and utibrib. rd Press of Britain with ajldresses to most of your Culleagees; you, my Loill, protected by thegene. May known insignificancy of your character, have beets passed by, as' unworthy of attention. It was well understood that Lord Castlereagh and Mr. Canning, with that degree of caution which ever marks little minds, would admit of no partition of power but with those whom they considered the automatons of their will ;, and the inanity, which (with these superior deities) became your passport to Av, served also, like tlie clouds fabled in Mythology, to screen you from the notice of the multitude. Our means of naval defence were, however, so gigantic, and their superiority to those of our enemies had been so well established, that it was imagined they would,• as it were, by intuition, without any thing likeenergy in the power bywhieh they were directed, afford ample protection to the domialons of his Majesty, and the commerce of his subjects. This belief has unhappily been found erro newts, awl your hortlehi it is a signal proof, that for a elm to be wholly inefficient to every purpose of public utility, is no guarantee that he is not admi. rably qualified to be au instrument of public ruin. While we can trace nu advantage whatever as har ing ocearred to the navy or to the nation' under your auspices, the insult and injury we every day re. ceive, close to our own shores, (rein the ships of an enemy whose marine is uniformly represented to us as annihilated, give us a dreadful foretaste of the result to be anticipated from your Lordship's con tinuance in power. The extent to which this in jeryand insult have arrived is, in truth, scarcely cre-- dilate. With several hundreds of ships of aar at your disposal, the smallest of which would answer the purpose of defence., and an almost incalculable ex penditure, to support this enormons esi)blish. meat, nu less than arrrusx 31zactIANY VESSELS MATE BEEN, IN oNI: DAY, CLOSE TO OVK OWN SHORES, CAPTIVIII.D nir TII L IRENE!? ; and this too whilst a number of fri.i e' nirs are lying uuesnpluycd at Portsmouth. YourLlorilohip will perhaps say your attention has been engrossed fiy the Es pedition, but that when you have leisure, you sill attend to these things. My Lord, those who suffer by your imbecility, no matter what else occupies their attention, must at all times find ; both means and leisure to pay your salary ; and if I the duties of your situation are too numerous fur I soar limited capacity, you should at once resign I your employment to more able hands. Lord 1 . Chesterfield's awkward bean, who, in attempt. ing to 'bow, lets his hat fall, and in recovering his hat, loses his cane, is deservedly an object of derision ; but derision Can only be applied to that imbecility which is harmless ; fur if it be in. jurious to its possessor, it must excite compassion ; —if to others, hatred. You, my Lord, resemble the beau, if while you plan an expedition to the North, you neglect the defence of the Welt, or rice versa. —But in you the effects of equal impotence are less ludicrous than distractive; and if continued, - will heap on you the execrationssof the country. That your military career should h'ave afforded no i inducement, except the rank of Lieut.-General, ! to your continuing a votary of Mars, I can very readily conceive ; but if you found the sword too heavy for your feeble hands, what, my Lord, ' coatd induce you to think yourself capable of wielding the British Trident? But I will not en gage more of your time, or of that of the. Pub. lie.- I take my leave with assuring your Lord. ship, that if a speedy and effectual remedy be i nut applied to the evilvof a hieh I complain, and by which I and innumerable others most severely suf. her, I will lay before the public a detailed state. moot of the depredations committed on our coast, and I will contrast it with another of the heavy Convoy Duties paid by every ship that sails under the British flag, and of the means of protection within your poser to afford; and I pledge my. self further, at the first meeting of the Houle of Commons, to make it a subject of Parliamentary Inquiry. I am, my Lord, &e. AN UNDERWRITER. Llayers,2slb Aug.lllo9. [Folio 72. Nora, dag.27.] A female child, *boat a month old, was found at the door of Mr. Hogg, in Charlatte.mreat, Rathimpee.pliCt, at twelve o'clock en Sunday wg:tt, wrapped In a Illtby rag. The liela inoo eept was sleeping. It was taken in. by . the Lady of Haase, sad *km Cur of• . • - . THE, STATIMON. POLICE. Mussiow-liouit.—Yesterday a private of the 2d Regiment of Guards was charged with steal. ing two pieces of cloth, value 441. 10s. from the warebrouse of Mosars.Summers mid Cu. It appeared, that tin: Prisoner had been sent by a wino-mer chant in the city, to assist in packing empty bot tles, which he had purchased from Summers and Co. ; one of the Clerks was astonished at seeing one of the wart house doors open ; on investigat ing, he found the Prisoner, with two hampers, apparently full of straw, at the door; he searched them, and found the two pier of cloth, which he proved to be the properly o is master. The Prisoner being called on fur his defence, did nut deny the charge, but pleaded poverty, and his large family. Ile was fully committed fur trial. ea... —ln consequence of Bartholo mew Fair cummencing on Saturday last, the City Officers were active in suppressing, as far as they could, the pickpockets, in the exercise of their industry, and took into custody several suspicious characters. Of these, the majority were discharged, in consequence of there" being no specific charge against them, after being ad. monished nut to be found there again during thr continuance of the fair. One fellow, seiz.ll in the act of bustling (with others) a poor woman, and robbing her of her b mud, was permitted to go on board his Majt.tj's Navy. Another, charged with picking a gentleman's pocket of his handkerchief, was remanded till to-morrow, the Prosecutor not attending. John Robinson, a young man, in the employ of Messrs. Merrenter and Gouldin;, litsessoko. pets, in Cheapside, was charged with robbing his masters. having entertained suspicions of his ho. nasty, they employed a person to make a purchase in the shop, fur which he paid the Prisoner 25 shillings, in marked money. Upon examining the till, it was found that he had depysited in it only 4s. 6d. of the amount. Upon being charged with the theft, he acknowledged it, and gave up the difference. Be was permitted to enlist iu the army. _ _ _ MA Rtsonotion.sTrtEET.—Ymterdagohn Our_ ton was charged, by Cornelius Mardian, with rub bing his furnished lodgings. The Prosecutor deposed, that the Prisoner had lodged with him three months; he rented a fur nished room: on last Saturday he owed two weeks rent ; the Prosecutor went to the room to demand it, when he perceived the bed to he nearly empty; un weighing it, he found that nine pounds anti a OW of wool had been taken out of it; and he charged the Prisoner on the watch. The Prisoner, in his defence, said, the bed had not been weighed unto him, and denied having taken any wool out of it. He was committed fur trial. Thomas Gardiner charged Mare' Smith, and twn other women of the town, with robbing him. lle stated he was a Herefordshire waggoner ; he got a little intoxicated on Solid.ie m o rning, and was perstiathil by the Prisoner (Smith) to ge to her lodgings, in Gee-court, St. Giles's, and lie down ; he fell asleep, and, when he awukr, his bundle was gone ; it contained tern silk handker. chiefs, a velvet coat and bretclies, and a red , shag waistcoat. lie asked the Prisoner,. Smith, what had become of the bundle? and she denied having seen it. The other Prisoners he knew nothing of. One of the Police Officers produced the clothes, which he found at a Jew.broker's. The Jew broker deposed, that the other Pri. 'otters had ►old them to him. The Worthy Alagittrate gave him a very just reprimand fur having purchaed them, abd re manded the Prisuneis fur re-examination. Kane, a watchman, charged William Jacban, James Moore, and Arthur Johns, with assaulting him ou Sunday morning, while on his duly. Ile stated, that u he was calling the hour of twelve o'clock, the Prisoner, Jatkson, without any provocation or speaking a word, knocked him down ; and if one of .'ie Patrole had not come up, they would have murdered him. The three were in company. The Patrole stated, that he had followed the Prisoners op Holborn ; he heard Jackson say, " I will :wick the old rascal down." Moore said, 66 Yes, do," and Johns said, "No it r'un't do yet—it is too soon." • Jackson, in his defence, said, he was walking up Holborn alone, when Kane stopped him, and asked who he was ? Before ho could answer, Kane made a . blow of a stick at him, which he missed, and fell. The Prisoner was immediately seized by the Patrole; on Kane's getting up, he made another blow with his stick, and cut the Prisoner's head open ; he had never seen the other Prisoners before he was attacked. Arthur Johns stated, ho was in oh m.la.mode beef shop, when he heard a noise ; the patrole held Jackson by the colla►; he saw Kane, the watchman, lift Ms stick, sad strike the Prisoner Jackson on the head ; he Wed freely ; he followed them to the watcb•house, declaring that he would info►m the Conskable of the night of what he had seen ; on coming to the watch.house, he was refused admittance ; be insisted on getting in, when Kane said, since he was so desirous, he should come in ; he then dragged him in t and charged him as an accomplice with Jackson, although he had never seen him before. Moore's statement was similar to the It Pri soner's, only that he did not go to the'watch house until ten minutes after the other two. Ile declared he was nut acquainted with eitlier,•aud only went to the wasch-house to speak the truth. The wonky Magistrate, Mr. NEVE, gave the watchman and patrols severe and well-deserved reprimands. He cautioned them to be careful in their conduct for the future; that ever since the riot in it. Gileirs,sonae of the watchmen had made it a rule to take up every person, in hopes of ex. tutting mooey ; but if it ever could be brought in proof before him, Im would serve them as he had done one of them some time since, send them to 'Net/gate fur two yews. Ho would advise the .yotd%g men to bring Will= against IJ►eos for false imprisonment, "rlso Prisoners wary of coma, discharged. L4NCISTE A . 4ss ILS. 1111011 At LI VCRIVOIIi. William Carter and Edward Riley were in. dieted, on the prosecution of the Atturuey. General, for riotously and tumults:o.'4y. as sembling with divers other persons in Liverpool, sad demolishing several houses, against the peace. Mr. CLARK, in the absence of the Attorney. General, opened the case. He stated that them? indictments were of the utmost importance, and , the cases before the Court deserved the must se. nuns consideration, especially while the imprt•ss. service wu carrying on in the town of Liverpool. On the evening of the 2tith of- June, the riots had ' got to such an alarming pitch, in i.everal parts of the town at the sane time, that the Police WAS completely overpowered. The impress-service, he contended very forcibly, must be supported ; and particularly at this time, when our very ex istence depended on our naval strength. Ile re lated the particular• of the riot% tube in Bird_ street, Strand.strect, and Cooper's-row, all at the same time, and several hundreds of wain& da. mage were done to the houses they attacked. lie concluded with observing, that the people of Li verpool must be taught that the impros.service must not be insulted. Mr. Aspinall, who was the Mayor of Liver pool at the time described the riots as follows : --That, on the evening of the 20th of June, on receiving information of the riots in different parts of the town, he went to quell them, if possible. lie found several hundred persons as sembled in Bird.slrcct, about half-past eight o'clock, opposite to a rendez/vas-house for the impriss.service. When he first gut into the street, it was completely filled with rioters,. and he, with much difficulty, made his way along. lie was atieutled by two constables, one on each side of him. lie seized two of the rioters, who were in the act of breaking windows, rind he de livered them into the custody of the constables. lie remained alone among the rioters ; and then, basing no assistance with him, he emleat mired to pacify them; but he could nut prevail ititon them to desist from destroying the house. Ur address ed them repeatedly, and told them, that he had the Riot Act in his pocket, and if :hey did not e tire, he should be under the necessity of reading it, and calling in the assistauci. of the in;lit :ty. It was then about half-past ten o'clock ; they did out attend to any thing he said, but the mob appeared to be increasing in numbers, and were more siolent in their conduct. lie left them, and believed they were impressed with the idea that he was gone for the military ; and it had the desired ef fect, as they dispersed. Edward Preston, a police officer of Liverpool, said, that on the above night he saw a great num ber of people assembled in Bird-street, anti,. among them, he observed the prisouer, William Cartes'. lie and his brother ulliccr, Parkinson, went among them, and desired them to disperse, as if they did not, it might be. of serious cause. quenee. to them. lie saw the prisoner, Carter, at that time, and told him to depart, but be took no nutice of the admonition. The witness finding he could do no good among the mob, determined on leaving the spot, and, as he was going away, the prisoner, Carter, kicked him on the thick part of his thigh, upon which the SI itness seized him by the collar, but the Prisoner gave him such a violent blow on the mouth, that it tilled his . mouth with blood, and Parkinson, the other offs. cer, persuaded him to let the Prisoner go, as be thought they could nut do any good, the mob being so numerous. The following morning he met the prisoner, Carter, and took him into etss tody. The part that he particularly observed the Prisoner taking, was shouting, and making a great noise. Timothy Parkinson, a constable of. Liverpool, said, he went into laird-strut, at the time of the riots, in company with the last witness ; he saw both the Prisoners there ; it was about nine o'clock ; when lie went first in among the mob, he saw the prisoner, Carter, very active, and talking with the people about him ; the u itness desired him to withdraw repeatedly, be appeared to have more to say than any of the others; he saw him strike the officer, Preston, ia the mouth, at the time he bad hold ut him by the collar ; the witness and Preston made their escape from the mob by running away ; they, however, went among the mob again, but entered Bird-street at the other end ; he then saw the prisoner, Riley, at the rendezvous.house, kept b►• a mats of the . name of Hyde, and saw Riley open the window shutters, forced one of them off, and threw it into the street, and the other he took off, and drove it against the window-frame; the frame and glass of which had been much broken before. The. Jury found them both Coenelius'Cdusten was indicted for a similar of fence. • William Herring, a police officer, of Liver pool, said, on the night of the '2olli of ,Tone, at the time of the riots, he went to Cooper's-row, about ten o'clock, at which time there aas a very great mob, making a great noise, and throwing stones and brick-bats at a resitiezvous.lionse. lie obsarved the Prisoner among them, and taw him with a stone or hard substance in his hand, which he threw at the, window of the iesiduzvont.house, the window of which was nearly demolished be fore, but he threw the stone against ih4 frames, and he took him into custody immediately after he had thrown the stone. Thu witness said, he understood that the cause of the riots was, flint one of the press-gangs hail impressed a soldier be longing to the 26th regiment of light dragoons.— The stone the prisoner threw, he heard toil in the house. The Jury foand'him Guilty. "Wuxi° Silveredge, a Purtugeese sailor, and Petrick Burn, acre indicted fur a shinier of fence. Am interpreter explained to Silveredge the na ture of the prueeedings, upon oath ; and told the Court the Prisoner declined the privilege of hay ' log half the Jury c..ninessrd u( foreigners, anti %Ica to be triad by all Eaglislasaaa? M r . l i pinel,4,llut 1att5,14479r. of Liverp.ml, stated, tbat there were tyro rentleitrout.hoiis t s Strand;ifiref. Wiiehite wen l f iaEo it, th:•re great crOwds•opflittitt bOtll.hottser ; war 'ibis to misstate bow mhos ItJ W Iwo. he was gulag into the street, polio gout/omen met hi t h e corti..r, who endeavour-0 to persuade him nut to go among the niub, they conceiving it to be Ca... genius. - However, he was determined to go, and ett.laavourtal to prevail on the to go with him. to assist him, but the; dechued. He w.l- a:ten.b.i. by Howe, and &mother cont..itie. As lie approached one of the reudezrous.hou'ses, which was our. rounded by a [nob, they retired to the other rett. dezvons.house. He sew the Prisoner Silvery*, throwing stones at the house, and torard the crAt of their breaking the windows. He in,tautly seized him ; h.. stooped down, soil endeavoured to escape, but he kept him secure, and r.uireyed him into a passage, where hr gave bite in cherg to - Rowe, the constable. The *Woos and fra.;ics of both the rendezvous.houses were drove in anit broke. Rowe, the ennstah!e. said, when he IV . IS its Strand.street, atteniting the Mayor, he siw 4iive,.. eJgc take up a stun° or brick-bat, and throw it at the whitlows. William Abbot, another constable, said, ho was in Strand-street at the lima of the riots, and saw bAli the priioners ; and *lien the M ivor laid hold of Silveredge, he apprenended the Prisoner Burn, who had a large stair or stick in his hand, and ho was in the act of stooping don a to break. it against the pavement. Sir ALAN CHAWBItE, in summing up the etri. deuce, observed, that the Prisoner Burn had nut been proved to be doing :my riotous art ; what he was breaking the stick fur was uneap!aiited ; but he was doing wrung in being in a riotous as.. tenthly. The ,Tnry found him Not Cuilt e y—and edge Gully. Patrick Fit:sietmonv was indicted, on the pro seeutiun of the Attorney-General, for defrauding the Post Office of the plst.eitarge of a letter frxit Ireland, n hkh c lute to one shilling and tive.p..itce, - having directed it as a soldier's letter, and only paying a penny, agreeably to an act passed fur that purpose. The A TTt. II \ EY-GrNrcnAt. addressed his Lon'_ shit, and that there had been an over.iglit in the procee:riv.:;s ; the direction of the letter ought to hare t.tted whether the writer was a non-comni:csioned ()direr, musician, dru loner, tiler, or privet., and countersigned by the coin maading officer ; wherevc, it only plirpcirted Its he a suller's letter, cints..quently did not come within the ineatiing of the Act ; he should, there fore, not trouble his Lordship with Cjilin any witnesses. prisoner wae, of coursc acquitted. ~~ William 'ley, under.hostler at the Swan Inn in Chertsey. was married on the Bth of August last. In the evening of that day some interruption was given to the harmony of the new-married couple and their friends, by two young men, who threat a stone at the duor where Cie wedding was kept. %Valletta Vincent, the son of a butcher in that town, coming by at the time, was *assailed by lley'a party as thesupposed Aggressor. This pro duced a quarrel between li;in and Iley, so much so, that Vincent next day watched !ley, going to his business at the Swan, and beat him so unmer cifully as to break one of his ribs, and censisl se. veral contusions un his head ; he *as conveyed home anddied the next Sunday. A Coroner's Inquest was afterwards held un the body, and numerouswitnesses were examined to state the particulars of the cir. cumstance. The Jury brought in a verdict of— Died Gil the Visitation of God. The whole neigh. bourhood deeming this verdict by no means rot. rect, some disorderly proceedings took place • amongst the lower order of the people in the town, with a threat to 'lull down Vincent's house, Sze. .Upon this the Magistrates in the neighbourhotxf called a special meeting of their brethren, the Ma gistrates of the county of Surrey, on the 234 ult. for the purpose of itivestigating the affair of the death of Iley: Several medical Gentlemen, with many other witnesses, were examined at consider. ele length, as to the cause of ¶he death of rho deceased ; and after the most minute investigation, the Magistrates were fully satisfied that be had died in consequence of the blows he had received from William Vincent. A warrant was accord ingly issued to apprehend him, in order that hit might take his trial for • the murder, and the seseral parties were bound over to prosecute. A reward of 401. was filtered fur apprehending him ; but Vincent, who had retreated to a neighbour. jog village, surrendered himself, and was commit. till to take his trial. This we believe to be nearly the facts relative to the death alley. One of the witnesses examined before the Coroner's Jury, was. Mr. Summers, a respectable young mail, an apolliecary and surgeon of Chertsey. After giv ing his evidence, it was imputed to him that, being the medical man who attended Vincent's family, lie had delivered himself more favourably as to the cause of iley's death than the cireum. would warrant, and that with a view to shelter Vincent. Hand-bills were publishes! its Cliertsey, and even doors and shuttera written; upon, reflecting, in very gross language, mi Mr. Summers ; other murtifying attack s were likewise made upon him by some of his neighbours. At length this gentleman, hying natisrelly of a de:. sponding nervous habit, about seven o'clock on Wednesday morning kit his house, and repaired to the A hhey Rivet, from the side of which, after placing his Slit k in the mud, he threw himself in and was drowned. This awful occurrence pro_ deceit, as soon as it was known in Chertsey, universal sentiment of sorrow regret. A nud dog hit sevcr4l children on Friday in the neighbourhtpni of Carnabv-market, one of *hunt underwent an operation ander Siirgeon Ford. The Jog evinced sy 'optins of ii)drophobia, which Mere divreg3rdvd liis keepers. It is nut known at pvc"..•nt where lie ran to, or how gutty does hu may ,livri• LO,NDON : Prian t .l uwl 194tivlivAed s', I). LW" ILL, at the bTA I 11%11A1 1311111.4 6 Si? 160111.01ftel. • t