The Statesman. — London, England, 1815-01-24 00:00:00

TIE STATESMA!' parts of the kingdom; and nothing has been more remarkable than the unanimity which has prevailed at all these meetings. Scarcely any where has there been a voice raised in favour of a renewal of the Tax. I flatter myself, notwithstanding some indications of a difference of opinion haveappeared in this town, I still flatter myself, that we shall witness a like unanimity here. During the continuance of the war, we submitted to this Tax with patience—duty to our coueitry required it—duty to ourselves now requires that.we should come forward to protest against it.— e The town of Liverpool cannot he silent on so im. portant an occasion—and as the City of London has •et an example to the kingdom at large, it will be- Con,e us to set an example to our own county and neighbourhood. The happy influence of these ex amples, I trust,- will extend itself far and wide, till the general sense of the country against this Tax is declared. Then we may be suie it will cease—for when the voice of the people of England has spoken, the Minister must obey. I conclude with seconding the motion. slenien here present, who hue been as actively hos• tile to the came which I have endeavoesed to sup port, as Mr. Gladstone ; and these will testify that, when the battle is.over, I can shake hands with an adversary ; and that I can interchange the courtesies of civility, and the kind offices of friendship, with those who are directly adverse to me in general and borough politics. Nor do I arrogate to myself the least merit for so doing. Fortunately for us all, Sir, this is the habit of our town ; and I should be ashamed of myself as a na tive and a burgess of Liverpool, were I capable of acting upon a ditferent principle. But, Sir, in reference to an inipotation of malig nity, let us look at the transaction itself. With what have I charged Mr. Gladstone ? Hare I charged him with fraud or dishonesty, or with any thing which debases the human charlotte, ? , No; I have merely said that be bad received t'lettir ram my Lord Liverpool. In this.affaic, IL• caw are nothing disreputable to either partyi. It.heoneof the proud. distinctions of this countryi Sir; .tinst Mlniiters of When Mr. Fletcher had concluded, Mr. Suseutfto rose, aud after a brief,explartation with Mr. Mayor upou a point of order, proceeded as follows.:— I understand that a great sensation has been ex cited in this town, by a letter addressed by Mr. John Gladstone to the Editor of the Liverpool• Courier, charging with malignity and falsehood a person unknown, who lind communicated. to the Editor of the Morning Chronicle, information of letter eepposed to hive been received by Mr. Glad. stone from Lord Liverpool, intimating the wish or intention of his Majesty's Ministers to propose a re. tirwal of the Property Fax. Sir, I think I • owe it injustice to the gentlemen with whom I have the ho nour to act, in promoting a petition to prevent such renewal. I think •I owe it in candour to Mr. Gladstone himself, thus publicly to avow, that I am the person in question, and that I made the comm. Ideation of my own mere motion, without the pri. sity or participation of any inditidual whatsoever. And,• Sir, in justice to myself, I must solicit Croat this meeting a patient and candid hearing, whilst I enter upon a vindication of my conduct in this par. Some time ago, sir, I received a printed letter con. taining a copy of the resolutions and petition voted by the Livery of London, against the renewal of the Property Tax. To this was annexed a postscript, stating, that a Committee was sitting at a tavern in the city, by whom any communications respecting the object of that petition would be thankfully re ceived, and duly attended to. Soon after this, a gentleman of ibis town, upon whose veracity and accuracy I could perfectly rely, informed me that he could state upon what he thought the most re spectable authority, that Mr. John Gladstone had received a letter from Lord Liverpool, informing him that so great were the expe►►ces likely to be consequent to the winding up of the American war, that Ministers had it in contemplation to renew the Property Tax for another year, and wishing to know his senti►uents oil the subject, and his opinion whe ther the town of Liverpool would be likely to ac quiesce in this arrangement. My informant further stated,' that he understood that Mr. Gladstone had returned an mower on his own behalf, approving of the renewal, but that whether he had given any opi nion upon the acquiescence of the town, be could not electly say; bet that he was inclined to think that the fact was so. the highest eminence will not venture to propose taxes of magnitude without consulting the feelings of private. individuals, of considerable property high reputa►ion, and extensive influence, of which Ifescrip.r I lion Mr. G. mast on all hands be allowed to be, and I surely, it is no disgrace to Mi.. G. to - receive a letter t from Lord Liverpool. But I hate been charged with falsehood ; and on the appearance of Mr. Gladstone's !eon` in the Len. idon Newspapers, my correspondent was so impressed 1 with its contents, that he wrote me word I had fallen intoagrievous error, that Lord Liverpool had written no lettetlo Ms. Giedstinte about the Property Tat ; and that it behoved rile, if possible, to trace out the source of :ivy mistake. On my arrival in town yes. • terdly, I set about the necessary enquiries, and L have been fortunate enough to receive informatlow which convinoes me, that in my communication tw my friend I have been bubststitially correct. Il'o evince this, I must of necessity enter into a . brief recital of facts, which I shall state . under the •i correction of several gentlemen, now in my eye, wins have Neel the correspondence to which I shaft allude, and under the correction of Mr. Gladstone himself 1 who is possessed of that correspondence, and who will of coarse set me right, if J state any thiug•whicb is erroneous. On the Rtith of last I)..rember, Mr. Gladstone re ceived a letter from Lord Liverpool antiosincing the' happy news of a treaty of pence, between this court. try awl America, having been signed by the Como missioners at Ghent. And here I shall take the; liberty of expressing my opinion, width I am pees suaded is the opinion of this meeting at large, that ie thos making this important communication to a prid.. ;ate individual, my Lord Liverpool was gailty of a gross breach of decorum, of a pointed disrespect to you, Sir, our Chief Magistrate, who now so ably fill that chair, mid' through you to the Inhabitants of the town of Liverpool in general.--[This senti ment ;..us received sails bird cheers of typianse.] To this part of the letter was annexed a commu nication of not inferior importance, via. that as Warlike preparations . mitt necessarily continue for I some time longer, and u some months strut adaM before our troops could be withdrawn from Antedlcrc:' the national expence world ho necessarily so great, that Ministers proposed to renew the Property Tax for one year. IVhether this letter contained any direct application to Mr. Gladstone for his senti. welds on the renewal of the Property Tart, I am not . . Nuw, Sir, I trust that Mr. Gladstone will not be satisfactorily informed. But tikiotthe letter, and offended, for I really mean him no offence, when j . supposing it to terminate as I have recited it, hap. say, that on the receipt of this intelligence, I thought. ; peal to the common sense of this meeting to deter very little about Mr. Gladstone, but a great deal,,mine what could be its object and end. Many of about my Lord Liverpool ; for I looked upon this you are Merchants. You deal largely in sugar, I information as a sure and certain sign that notwith- cotton, and other articles. Now, if any individual standing the remonstrances of the cities of London among you were to receive a letter from the First and Westminster, Ministers still hankered after the Lord of the Treasury, announcing the intention of , Property Tax, and were putting out their feelers into Ministers to lay a Tax on the commodity ,in which the country, in order to ascertain whether the people , he largely dealt, what would be his opinion of the ' at large would submit to it. ' purtport of such a letter, would he net consider it as This fact I deemed of so much importance, that a mode of sounding his sentiments upon the subject , Ir determined to communicate it to the London Com- of the proposed Tax, and as an intimation to him ' mittee, and with that view I wrote to a friend of to feel the pulse of his brother Merchants upon the . Mine who resides in the city, an account of the par- subject. In (hi; light, I view Lord Liverpool's let- Oculars I have just recited, requesting him to corn- ter to Air. Gladstone. In this light it was viewed municate the requisite information to the COM• by Mr. Gladstone himself. For what was Ws con mittee, ander the authority of my • name, if that duct in consequence of it? lie answered it the day werenecessary. In due course of post I received an on which he received it. He is here present to attester from my friend, informing me, that after correct me if lam in error, when I state that hit diligent search, he had not been able to find any such answer conveyed to Lord Liverpool his opinion, body as the London Committee, and that in default that the renewal of the Property Tax might be ac e( such channel of publicity, he had handed the quiesced in by the inhabitants of Liverpool, 'atone information contained in my letter, together with year longer, butstiot to a more distant period----that my name, to Mr. Perry, of the Morning Chronicle. he oat himself ceovinced of the necessity far its And here, 'iir, I beg leave to observe, that I wish- , renewal—that a requisition oaf handing oboist, re. ed my friend simply to communicate to the Com- questing the Mayor tocall a Meeting-to consider of mittee, for which he substituted Mr. Perry, the fact a Petition against its renewal, but that liv-, Mr. G. of my Lord Liverpool's hating intimated the inten- . ! had set oa foot a coenter-requisition for the purpose; tion of Ministers to propose the renewal of the Pro- of preventing such Meeting, iu which he hoped he ! perry Tax. The remainder of the intelligence was should succeed; intended merely for his private information. He 1 Tsia wit produced f rom tog rA,, er o oto r 1 did, however, communicate to Mr. Perry, the whole ! oi l no n e fr o m i tyn c e i i by roue filder , sor t f s A i t ir t of what I hod written on the subject. I hare no been.perinitted to Peruse. doubt but this was occasioned by the want of die- i I therefore confidently assert that it ma itifestlY it: t tinctness in my commUnication. Mistakes of this ' i.. •.• ' • 1. • '• ' udet to it previous curtespondence on the subject of kind will occasionally happen. An instarise of this the Property'Taithat it ripitats the wishes of Mi sort just now occurs to my recollection. (Mr. , rasters for Its renewdl—that it contains a Pledge that Shepherd proceeded to narrate his instance, which i it Oil not be Contineed heyetid the 6th April, 1810 excited some degree of mirth In the audience,- and 14 ' t itbit the ominous eiiieptitlii of the .case of the then thus continued.) In like manner my friend, breaking out of a iitiii war; instead of communicating a part of my informationi ' •• • . . i, 1 Bann given this brief statement Offeeft, I shell communicated the whole. From ' this information conclude, Sir, by expressing my thanks to yourself the paragraph in the Morning Chronkk was framed 1 . I. • • • and this Meeting, for the patience with which t have (I presume by some one of the Editors of the Morn beg that it may be distinctly' Len heard ; and my humble but conadent reunion ingChronicle). For I understood, that I did not compose the paragraph hi t ha t • _• of . , , , persons, qnestion; and that I firmly believe, that as it stands, nay, - i in the eitimittiate all disinter even of Mr. Gladatoue hitisself, .shall stand acquitted both of malignity ca d falsehoott It will no two words of it can be stated to stand together as '. . a , • .. - give me • great pleasure to hear from nir. Gladstone a wine. satisfactetx expbs:patio . n of the disavearel contain . 'ed For this proceding I have been charged with falsehood and malignity. . in Os, letter toy, die F i ditar of /he Lieerpooi C•urior. pit talenti I intimat vtrg illglity—hif pato, dul -1 will first reply to the latter imputation. Sir, 1 • • •• ~ .4 ( - • - ; trust that malignity is a feeling that never found* racier I respect arst ierinily I welsh! mach ranter ' reta rd' 1 1 1116 .) 4 1 , 11 4 flii s Pd than an' soy ***in s t. place in my breast. With Mr. Gladstone I Weser• .., had any personal.altercation or hostility whatevet.— (To be concluded tc4oorrom.) - True it certainly is, that Mr. Gladstone and tnyself have been on contrary sides in. electioneering pi.. titles. This circumstance I have always most sorely lamented; for I have been early aware of the ratty great Weeks of Mr. Gladstone, and of his extensive and growing lallohnce. But there are tesfeitipse: ... On 'Sunday highs, 'Abet ifeven Ocidek; an elderly man leas found died it the iteti st - doote, in Bridge. Westesinster- Bridge. 1k is ittplposed he Ihti ti ricti n tb trent, tee Otte sb4etity 61 ebb wiatlitin lA* Itooveftai I**lll teb &UM ,4 , -LdIVINTRLEIGRIVOS. —ooll= - 1 ..-.-..lllllllMinn Cat itil OF tit hi tWEItt v3ti . 0. :Ma osfairgiro us r...- Toseerdar Rickard- Cli _. , pstee Yiistatidaf being'ilio itit'dei Of fillark Tern+, tie . *es brought . before date r Leakti . M A Ito a, charg e d on Vddilkris‘anfilia at the h ouse o f t h e t o id o u t. Ituapicioti 0(041044 4"pockets:book, containing Bank: ceder, atirl'ili6c4eiled frill Cherice ) in state, -to open at to m ore t h an their ditirent Courts.' Doter and :other property,th , one • hundred' ;pounds, • The Prosecutor, who i s 1 l animism or tavillii Alit 'COlil'Allr V. .ASilrOfrelii-Otri . table ., "'lat._ rY gonttemani -staled, that being at tltsciftiiirroti MID CO. al menage on Saturtlay where there ass it. ' The AiTuarrei:Giviram l : accompidied by' . llo: • siderable, crowd, he observed the Prisoner and Pmilt t came lislii the CoOrt• of Chancery; and veciitid" `another person rather active in their proceedings, p ar .' in this tern* for theludgmadt of the deurt, on' . 4 tiCtilarly about the fire place. lie was induced m ore i r . point- of Ise or prictlee,' which had arlien in this ?particularly to uOtiee the Prisotiee alit his collesgaev. case; upon the • constructiell of his Lordship's late' from the circumstance of one or two Gentles -4:c as a notorious cha rac . , ",p?inting.out the latter perspo. judgmetit l in whiCh lie diiected an action at law to be: tried hefweleo theparties, upon a quettiors'ist °Airy, . ter, who had just escaped conviction upon a capital, whleilledsiited in. a chat& Of half Pet eeni:lnftehticharke at th 4 01d Atiltey. Oacta . efter Gil, the-Prose. 'en large saiti'M money advanced for accoMmoditlawJcitbr, having .oecosiow 'to •nriv int -the' 'crowd, was .olivtify to. Hit Plaintiffs, by the Dilfetidisots. • • }rifled of his pocket-book. The Prisoner being sus. WI • TDefitidhritiviertriout bider antis *6t to set pected, was traced by Harrison to a public-house in u p.th c iit b e attapteh• o f-s e g c r thg j aiiiii 'ar.:the . ivitia - the citY, where Nitwits secured, In* tbe other fellow :of the actioo. . . • - I escaped. f.Uposi. searching the person of Clipston, • A Irerdicl Was fOolidfdi the "Difelidants on a lite . nothing . wit' found ofa nature to establish conviction; trikl siGtilidliili t bapre Mid' Eltenberough, which as opoo enquiry, however, it was 88CertWilied, th a t : the Learbed'Cbuthet totteinsg a i9 WS against law, his loft - trigs had' doebeen visited, the !AIM MAYOS end, of course, was noW the Subjict of an intended ' ordered this step to be takoo.—The Prisoner was: menet' for a neW trial'; but a doubt hid been started, remanded for another examination.- our the point of wectiti, is to whiehrourt the ep: . BoW-writErr...--Sonday..evening,..botween seven pllartosi for g neii trial Ihoeld be Made; whether 'to and eight o'clock, as Upton's party. of the patrole, the Court of lite ledge who tried the direst or' to ; belonging to the Office, were on duty in Tabernacle. lidiCefirt i . froot - whence the action wat.iirected, I walk, Moorfields, they .observed three well-known add a ellitibetion was taken between the . cased of ehxracters, Cook/rains, Murray, and Lawrence, issues arid fictions directed by the Lord Chtsucelfor, I walk past the Tabernacle, and suspecting they w ete ThteWinCoarscer.Lost stated the distinctl'ob wit l about to lam& open a house in that neighbourhood, cleatly settled, namely—That where this Court (11-'lor comet a relibery. .of come description, the patrol* reels anisioit, sod a verdict found thereon is Soltiglt . stopped tbam, whets Murray was observed to throw to be nit aside' the "motion for a new trial is •inlili 4 something fron9sins, On picking it up, it proved to madein thii &ad ; 'but wheie hit Lqrdeltip' soil be a Wacker abeskS-ekeletets or picklock lee" ; the assistabce of a Court of Comnioki..be, NICK. toto.; aud on searching Ms person, two other: skeleton or tido mutt be made in such Court of Crninon Life; • picklOct keys': and an iron crow, used in Louse. whose aid he could not obtain till the' fiord determi. 1 breaking,,were found upon his person. Commies • nation of the action on a neW trial: if there *earl had ,sterol WI: The isatrole in consequence secured good grounds for granting such new trial. I then; ,iiild • brought them to the Office, when they' . Mr: ATTOSigEY-GENEIZAL then stated that he hac k not being able to gi've asatistactory account of them osiloore to say, and proceeded to his own Court (the .. i solve) , the implthents of house-breaking being king's'llench) to make hia application theth; as the r fotind, and an of them being proved to be in con pieper tribiiiial. I parky together , they were convicted as rogues sotr vagabonds. Sunday afternoon; In St. James's Park, a great number of idle and disorderly lads and young men assembled, and pelted the passengers with snow.balls. A gentleman who had been thus pelted struck some of the boys with a stick ; he was then attacked by men and boys most furiously, by knocking his down, kicking, •andill-treating him tilt he was in a senseless state. Perry, and his party of the !parole, whowere'stationed in the Park to keep order, went to the spot and secured one of the ringleaders, bat 'hi way soon rescued by overpowering numbers. The officers, however, perseveted, and carried off one of the principels in the rescue. They were followed by a Mob of See or six hundred, who repeatedly act. sautted theni. When they came to the ruins Of *St. JaMeS's Patace the . mob' attacked them with stones UM •brick-bats, the officers, however, carried offtheie tlrliooer to the - doitd-house, where the mob followed air& surrounded • it.' They refused to disperse tilt a me of•soldiere were obliged to use souse vioteece. Yesterday the felloW . was brought to the Office, cad ordered to tine ball; CO RO . A 7 'ER'S Intriksr. • . . . POLICE.% •COURT OF KING'S BE(CH, tip. 1;014 F...t.t.estaoauvGli and the other iudgss anti*: the Coco, soon after one o'clock. Mr. Campbell presented the usual atalamea( of the situqt ion . of the convicts on boort um Rival / 41pp, and hulks at Woolwich, Chatham, .4ogstoaa llar 7 bout, Portsmouth, &c. The Court were afterwards occupied feme LONI- Jerable time, In hearing the justification of TOE ASSIGNEES OW KENSINGTON AND Gt 4 V. talar 01 5511711,, STEIN, AND CO. 7 1 Thitf was a cause tried before Lord Et.i.ellats.,' summit, at the sittings after hut Term. It was en issue from Chancery, to determine whether certaiu trausactiens between the house of Kensington and Go. of London, end the house of Smith; Stein, apd,, Co. of Edinburgh, were not of an usurious ttaturel and, a verdict had been given for the Plaintillt. • . .1 The Arrotutay.C.Lege AL, on the part of the De fendaats this day moved for a rule fo show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new tri granted, on the ground that the whole of the evi dence'clearl,y proved, that the transec.tions were or• an usariops nature, and contrary to law,. The, Learned Attorney contended, that the verdict _was.; manifestly opposed , to the evidence, and directly contrary to the directions of the Learned Judge be. fore, whom the trial took place. The COURT expressed a doubt, whether the appli. cation was properly made to them. As this was an issue from the Court of Chancery, they were of opi. . mien, that the application should be made, in the drat instance, to that Court. They would, how. ever, kopk into the books, and censult with the Lord Chancellor on the subject; and for the present, they wotklar neither grant, nor absolutely reftme the application. i . liufondoy evenia*lin Tattiest Ives held at the Liao nod Lamfr Lettrer Geosvenor-street; before Amvaolvt Gem ; tisq. Corotiee for Westminster, an the holly of Sarah &Nester, a cook in tail, filially of the lie/. Dr. Robert Hodgson, Rector of St. George s flaeover-eqaare, wbo pat an end to her existerwe by cower herAbroat With a raiser, to a hay-loft over the stable is the rem , of the hew s Lower Grosvenor-street, after Raving delivers' ' hierself of St child, whose body was found lying dead nest her; wititll kerchief tied rotund i s neck, and the body A vii covereineind *lib itaif-hands. 1 t appeared in evidence, that betweeng and 11 o'clock on Thursday morning, the deceased eras mise :frail' her master's house; it was then stipposed shy Was goat wet en Bowie hasinein of her own, but oat returning as the dinner honf,drew near, the butter enquired for her at the houses of several persons where she used to frequent, bat she ' *iu not to be tenni. fletvieee seven and eight o'clock id the teeming the butler and the kiteben-nnid commenced a fresh search, for her, and orter looking over every port of t h is house, they searched the out °Neer; on their going up to the loft over the stable, they found the door shut close wry the butler luineelted: at the door and c lied, but reeeivieg watts over, he pushed it bard, and found it was unlocked, but kept Shut by something being placed agaiat it on' the inside ; lie forced open the door se fur as to admit bighead, and leeklag id I saw the deceased lyingogainst the door with her throat cut, asti the door coVered with blood ; he turned away horror-struek.— ' He nittde• thy clrcoloStatice• known to his master, who scot fee Mr. Dorm*. a stegeon. Dr. Hodgson, Mr. Barrow, and see ascid t or Ste ,dotaestiet proceeded to the hay-loft. The deceased 10s qui dead, With her throat cat fro in ear to ear, and . Re . 4: . r .4. rid tde iy•ing i.ra b n y t he iiiia sh . i d e o , and ,wills .fr i r k w ha iri na tbe htf bad citief y ti 1 its uptick and the body iMpped up in a hay-baud. tr i ton li ttteistrittiett or totormity , on the pert of 'the deceased, were laid tieftrie theJary ; but it appeared that her having the laihd_ l 4 ited-... ' weals, ass:emoted for, ne it was neces sarl fot rfw 14 ve a sheep lastroment fo r . the purpose of deli volitive it wltbout any idea of commit- Ottg i tt/le, "lid - that. her palas Ned the want of proper assist. ance_pt the tilos might firing qa a momentary derw,ement.— On the body of the infant tpereeppeared no particular maukt 6f violence, oil:iodic Jnry vrefe.le.uo +oppose that the cause of the Landketekirf hetog tiedrintrf the child's aerie, warettulte rtos.x. .f....stering imam. 4Fiteci l atonimowi t s long mumas ' . vatioas repdets iii eitletiettliin ; at lento& ' !Inv Sin% ender the direction of tan% Coroner, returned n' eerdiet , l e r nacy s they gave a verdict —s'o n Dead on the bad .r the child. The de e r A.vd at % Tears of a g e sod had livc.l. fee tie etrfseten and eightrars in the family. ' " - . . COURT OF COMMON MAR. JAX. 23. . No. point of any interest was discussed le this COW during the day. While on Friday se'imight, a qigirrytaan, residing agar' Trenewydd, Pombrokeobiriq Was incautioadp Ilan a dark with gunpowder, from a berial coo,. taming nearly 401bs. of die sam e, and his infant chihl,isbost twelve months oh!, being at the mother's knee, Was playing with small stick, one end of which was on fire, a spark weir unfortunately cam., municated to the powder, which Instantly eipleded ' carrying away the roe, of the cottage, arid blowing up the poor wonlan, who fill across one of the beams. She was drettifeily scorched, mad her nose completely crashed ;• the man was Awned through a partition wall, being shockirigly burnt and Mused, and the poor babe,, who was the Unhappy ; bat innocent cause of this cOmptioatedtelarpiay,om.4 hihited such a lac erriable spectacle' of distigtrement as to agonize the feelings of all wife witnessed the afflicting Beene. To the further strWerings of the! father and child, death has put a period, but the poor woman, notwithstanding the injury' she sus. tainted; was alive on Wednesday hat. Tilt SE4tPtSTINE Rtvea.—Yesterday the north bank of the river Was the goal of sensation foe fashionable equipages ; but the unfavourable aspect of the Weather, and the depth of snow, were no great , inducements for the dashing belles to exhibit them telves as bumble pedestrians. The ice was wretch edly bad, owing to the late transitions In the weather (frost and thaw alternately), which melted the snow, only in a partial degree, and left the ice full of ridges. A great proportion of the rarer might be safely venthred upon, bet the shelters confined their evo lotions to the centre. Here we observed a few men' of hellion; but none of titled distinction. Two boys tga a decking from their temerity in venturing on that part of the river width had been lately frocen eves. The welerman began to erect their stalls, yetttrdiy, Meng the south bank; the one in the Mitre exhibited the Union Jack, elevated on a re ' oar ff sit;shaff. ttaterday morning lIOMII villains broke into the ***Mese of Mr, linen-draper, in King ititits tlld trebliii*W klueetky df silk and other • ......ii,..4......,—..........i. pinOVERV o, iteltilEßY.—Alfeitt rag, flan - since, wheri St kohill Vetetill Berialkur were mooned at Madeira, Charles Doughty, one of the privates, mentioned to Thomas Slew iugton s another private, that about th e year f 786, be nod his then mai ler. a man of Biname of Gatlin:ore, sverecouterned in the rob. bery of t.bwititry Chore:sof the plat/, &c. lialiimore worm. petted, Apprehended, but *as discharged, there being no evidi e ' ' 'turd him, the plate being effectually concealed by Asp i box rowtainitig it iota a deep hole in the gardew-A, * On i morning of the ISth imt. the Church-warden of the city of Coventry receive/falcon: date , ; tram the Public Office Bow stree:, requesting to be littlifidie.t if the Chureb had been 'robbed of the communion Skit' ' • slte:loNis•_ear 1985, and if it bad beeit. robbed, one of the robber, , wattrrtlili, Jailing among them. Is con‘equence of the receipt of the leter a Vestry was suMmonett without loss of time, and Mr. GOMM. the High Constableihiall sin, express to London to ruirtire bolo the business. Oa Ilk ar rival at Bow-street Office the toosiness hod not been heard of there through the regothr official channel. Me. Goodall produced the letter reeetved at Coventry, which wns signed by litlward flood, who pro.ed to be it newly-appointed pairci!e belonging to the orbee, On enquiries befog etude of him. it.turned out that he had been in companY With Thomas Skellngtou_, who ball com municated to him the l/K eers/tat his comrade, Charles Doughty" bad eotrusted him with respecting the robbery. Doughty was taken into custody, who did not-deny to Hood, the pafrole, the conversation he had with his comosde Skevington, but on his being brought before t h e iali statement. flewitudt t7 livor gilairli estlins te to be conveye i d to M Covenlefr, u s te lte cu t teti nied G o ba r v i i a ng r. asa ciood de e lt i t i t: ...---....5itti5aii,01 im0 h nina ................. roNbetr NO. Iffiti fi, ft - 7 itti.si, alto STA'resssit Oirtei. V, Fleet.stestin. " i ;1 e 1 , , t . i 1. • •.t . . i 4 : 1 • i 1? , , .. /Yt ... ' 1 k . •. , t ' • . ; , • f ...,- .. • -• , . . . & • / . • ' - 1 . ~ . .. . • i ' . N t. t. I • • • t it • I f r.. gs it 1 a IQ e • li r. I It 1 :! ‘ e s 4 * . it id • le IQ K le 4 IT se ly f; Is Et Lti tr I F. • ft . ~~