The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-06-12 00:00:00

. . • . . LAW mvsLLIOEXCE. --.0.,...._ coma OP 11XCITEQUER. - Tft ATTOMNIIII-GINIMAL V. WTATTB. Titls was an information filed by the Attorney tlenrral against the Defendants in this case, who are extensive ale-brewers in Portpool-lane, to recover pe nalties under the 59th Geo. 111. e. 53, see. 10, fur having concealed 1250 bushels of malt with a ►iew to Made the additional duty imposed on that article is 1119 'lt was calculated, that the quantity of malt, which hod escaped being charged with duty, amounted to 11110 bushels. For this fraud the penalties recover able was forty shillings per bushel, amounting toge ther to 25001. The Defendants consented that a verdict should be gives against them for 1,100/. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. •£Rt 11MP. Yesterday, Charlotte Thorn, aged 19, was put to the bar, on an indictment, charging her with feloni ously uttering two forged notes for H. each. This pri mmest. gave her address in the one instance to 17, Great Wild -street, there being two numbers the same, bat the artful trick completely failed, as the respective housekeepers and others clearly proved that she bad never lived at either house. Gouty—Death. John Lew was indicted for having in his possession no less than 61 forged notes. The prisoner, in his defence, (a written one) said, that the parcel of notes had been left at his lodgings by a person who he was in the habit of meeting at a pobffe-house, and at the time he was taken into cos tad*, be was going to inquire whether the notes were good once.--Guilty. Elisabeth IFehseer was also put to the bar charged with uttering a forged note for 11. oo the 24th of Fe bruary last, at Brumley. There were several other Sootiness of uttering sworn to by the witnesses against the ptheoer, who had net only made her escape from the Watch-house, but had been got away by some con federates from a gentleman named Bou!ter, to whom she bad also tendered aLrged note. The prisoner was subsequently taken into custody in the City-road, and her person being recognised committed to prison. Crib?—Desth. The prisoner here begged for some articles which the officer had in his possession. The Learned JuJge informed her she had no pro perty, as by her conviction it became the property of the Crown. His Lordship observed be could make no order, as they must be given to the Sheriff. ?hi officer was about to give the articles to Mr. It Waldman, when that gentleman humanely or defied them to be returned to the prisoner. On inquiry it was discovered that the prisoner was supposed wife of Thomas Clare, who bad been convicted of a similar offence, and Mr. Justice Bay ley acquainted the Jnry of the circumstance ; who, considering her to be acting under his influence, re conimended the prisoner to mercy. . iftilert Holding, aged 11, and Charles Mai, aged IS, stood indicted for breaking and entering the dwell irg-ltouse of Benjamin Croydon, of Blackmoor-street, Drury-lane, on the 26th of May last, and stealing up irards of ninety pairs of shoes and hoots. There was another indictment against them for a burglary in the house of Thomas Gregory, of Sobo, and stealing 351. and ether property; and on searching the lodgings of the prisoners, in consequence of the latter robbery, two pair of shoes were found in a chair, acid a quantity of picklock keys and a crow bar up the chimney. Several persons were called in behalf of the pri soners, one of whom, a publican, snore positively to seeing them buy shoes of a person at his house. The others gave Holding a good character for honesty.— Not Guilty. The prisoners were remanded till to-morrow to be tied on the other indictment. In the Court of King's Bench, Dublin, on Thursday, an action . was brought by an upholsterer of that city against the late Lord Mayor, to recover 166/. the al leged value of an election chair, prepared fur Mr. Ellice, when elected in July last, and destroyed by the then Mayor, to prevent the ceremony of chairing, un der the apprehension of riots taking place. The Jury, after remaining in their room for some hours, returned Into Court, and declared they could nut agree, and a Juror was withdrawn. fir. BELSONI.—A Medal has been strnek by the pity of Padua, in honour of the traveller Belzoni, who is a native of that place. I t appears that on his return to Europe, he took the opportunity of his first visit to Italy, to present to this (his native) city, two lion headed statues of granite, part of the fruits of his en aerprising and successful researches ; they have been placed in the great saloon of the Palezza dells Jos tisk. The inhabitants of Padua, proud of the distinc tion which their fellow citizen has so justly obtained, have'commemorated the gift as well as the discoveries of the traveller. STRIINGC APt)LOOT.-Mr. Frey, the quondam Jew, ti!id `ern preaching at Baltimore, and, it appears a person bad interrupted the worship by standing up in church; and declaring that 1w knew Mr. Frey in Lon don, and thitt be was an " inspostur.'"rhe person, bowevet, apologised as follows "Jacob Mois, of Philadelphi. is sorry that his intemperate reit fix the religion in which he was brought up Induced Lim to interrnpt the Rev. Mr. Frey, on the evening of Friday last, at the first Preabyterian church. Ile hopes the Bahl weans will accept of this apology.—Jacob Mou has the bacoor to Inform his friends of Baltimore, that he has *r etold from Philadelphia with a large quantity of fancy arti cisi, stiCh are at Mr. Barnum's ; they will be sold on the most retinnable terms ! !" The fulldwing carious advertisement, not inapplica bly at present to some' persons in this country, has aippeaVed in a Concord (New (Hampshire, America) PapOr t.-61. • , "Verifwa I, Daniel Clay, throngh misrepresentation. mei` uced • Mt plat my wife. Mod% in the Papers: now 14(10ave to Inform the peMic that I bare again taken her to wit...after settling all oar domestic broils in an amicable allisser ; so that every thing, as usual. goes va like clock vorlt, o -..; Dlvore'd like *lasers rent is twain, • .. ICadt moors'd the rivet oat; ... 'Rev whet and riveted again, refit make the old abaft set. ilk ier) • allegit lair .. --The follogriog sapient Nicer ...ap4grored in T/ie Adrift of last week :--- at Whitattnthle, a sewn and his ei:k, with ; -the man its a Riatargfintee, and the -auto.—Apply, ese.*! F"-& _.-a~ POWS. W-N0V1111L4.—..111 TN A Wit Pf111111111. 4 - 0 -A fisherman was brought before the Lord Mayor, ou a charge of working with an unlawful Pot, by Mr. Nelson, the Water Bailiff. The fact was proved by Rough, the Deputy Water Bailiff, who seised the net from the prisoner. The fisherman, in his defence, complained, that the water in the Manses had been rendered so onwhole- MA! some by the continual discharge of the poisonous gross matter into it, that but few fish could live in it; and the fishing bad seen so unprofitable, for wise time put, as to compel the fishermen t 6 hAve tileo.llllll to unlawful nets, to avoid utter starvation. The fish in the rivet had been gradually decreasing for some time ; but now,. the increased discharge of gas water in the river promises to 'hive the Gish oat of it entirely. The Loan MATO* expressed his astonishment at this statement, au the Gas Company bad been indicted at the &Woos, and the nuisance had been promised to be abated ; but be &slued whether the poilonoas water discharged from the gasometer mid contaminate the whole river. Mr. Nelson assured his Lordship that the milli was as intolerable sad more extensive baa ever, that the water was in an Increased degree unwhole some. The banditl effects of the peisottene water were felt as far as Brantford op the river, and hero** Ito therhithe down it; but the extent of the mil was in- calculable; as the fish that entered the contaminated water were destroyed often by whole shoals. It was well known, for instance, that there was a long bank of mad, which extended for a considerable distance, before the Temple, on which the red worm was bred in great quantities, and to this bask the smaller flat fish had, before the introduction of gas reservoirs, re sorted in abundance, but now that the gas water was discharged immediately upon it, the nu.neross4toods of fish that fed there, and helped to support the fisher men, were destroyed or driven away. The Water Bailiff mentioned the recent circumstance of a horse haring drank at the water-side by Westininslyr, and died immediately after, when, on its being op hod, it was declared that its death was caused by thei poi son° is quality of the water whirl' it had drattk, and whics was saturated with the residue from th gaso meter. 4 . The fisherman declared to the Lord Mayor, that in consequence of the injury that had been done to tie river by the contaminated water tFat had been dis charged into it, he dil not now earn four pontiffs where he bad formerly been in the habit of earsilig forty, and that this was the case with all his hreth The docks had done them su ffi cient injury before, * these bodies •Cartagnant waters were saturated wi b copper, and other ingredients, to such a degree, that if a man sunk Hi It, death was as certain, and all at tempts to restore animation as ineffectual as if he had fallen into a brewer's vat. The water of this descrip tion which was emptied into the river from the dock., bail driven tufty many species of fish that formerly visited the rifle periodically. 7he salmon w.is some time time eight in abundance, but scarcely any now cam° sip dm river, and dnring the last year only one salmon had been caught. The shad and smelt, which were but a short time sinee the source of great profit, had almost entirely departed, and many fisherown, who formerly supported themselves and families o n the river, were driven away to seek their livelihood elsewhere, or to enter into other occupations. But it the (las Company were suffered to go on as they bad done for some time back, the fishing would be en tirely destroyed. The fisherman prayed that his Lord ehip wonld take these circumstances in mitigation of his offence. The LORD MAYOR expressed his regret at the dis tress to which fishermen were reduced, and that there was no available remedy. Ile thought, however, that the use of such nets as that found nponalie prisoner would only tend to increase the evil. The Act nas imperative upon him, and he had no alternative. His Lordship condemned the net, but ordered its appen dages to be restored, and mitigated the penalty. It has been given in evidence before the House of Commons, that the widening of the water-way at Lon don-bridge, by its removal or otherwise, will cause an increased body of water to flow higher up the river, and will tend materially to correct the . evil com plained of. Oriumist.i.,—Mr. %tilt, a respectable gentleman, who formerly carried on an extensive business, as a wharfinger and lighterman, at St. Catherines, appeared on summons before Mr. Alderman A Nimes, to answer the complaint of the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Lighterman's Company, for refusing to pay the quarterage due from him as a member, by virtue of a by-law of the Company. Mr. "Inuit, in his defence, admitted that he was a free man of the C'ompanv, and so long as he carried on the business of a lighterman, be had regularly paid his quarterage: hut having long since retired from busi ness, and now deriving no advantage from the Com pany, he conceived he was no lonFer liable to contribute to its funds. The Clerk of the Company, in reply, ob served, that until Mr. Houk was disfranchised he was to all intents a legal Member of the Company, and bound by his oath to conform to its by-laws. Mr. Alderman Aximee was of opinion, that the object now sought before him as a Magistrate was not the re covery of the quarterage, but the penalty for refusing to pay it, which if pressed, he (the Magistrate) must cer tainly award it against hint. Mr. Hoult, perceiving that the opinion of the Magis trate was against him and that he was satisfied of the right of adjudging t he penalty, preferred submitting to the claims of the Company, and consented to pay the sum demanded. The information was accordingly with drawn. Bow-STRZF.T.—The informations received at this office of robberies and other offences committed during the races at Epsom, some of which were very daring and atrocious, are particularly numerous. Yesterday, an unfortunate girl, apparently about IS years of age, and of an interesting and handsome person, but whose attire indicated extreme poverty and distress, applied to the Sitting Magistrate, Richard llirnie, Esq. under the following circumstances:— It appeared from her statement that she had for the last three weeks been living at a house of ill-fame in Exeter-street, Strand, kept by a man named James Lock, who had exacted the sum of three guineas per week for her board and lodging, and in consequence of her not being able to pay for the last week, he threatened to strip her of her clothes, and turn her naked Into the street. This threat he defe r red tie eating unti l yesterday morning (having in the 64an time kept her lotted . np in a dark riannwithOnt any I covering whatever) when in lieu of her clothes lie fife hell ilk veneered and leathbome garatenb ;like the* . ap plaited J8411611' whkh were barely eallciatet to presevine cameos dummy, sad then btatally tamed her into the street. . . Daring the detail of the foregoing .particulars she seemed overwhelmed with shame and reasores, hid at times sobbed so violently u to render her voice inarti culate. Mr. litmus ordered Hamphteys, one of the Conduc tors of the patrol., to fetch Lock to the office. On his being brought there the necessary . proceedings were pot into for the purpose of Indicting the house as a common brothel. We afterwards learnt that this unhappy girl is of the most respectable patents, and fee the last six years had been residing with her sant in London.— About three mouths ago some difference having arisen between them, she absconded, taking with her only a few shillings, and the clothes which she then wore.— Tbe first sight of her remaining from home she went to Drury-lase Theatre, keel was there picked up by a genteel woman, who having learnt bee situation, enticed her to a house in [fart-street, (Invent Garde% where the rain of the poor gift war liisally effected. The Worthy Magistrate eneimrd - thitt proper care should be tikes of the mach was readily under take* os the part of the parish. The prisoner set up a defence, in which he said that a Firmed of the girl's *wed him 141. and that he detained her clothes for it; %nt he was stopped by Mr. Birnie. He at fint treated the matter very lightly, but on perceiving the determination on the part of the parish to proceed in the business he offered to give up the things; this however he was not allowed to do. MARLIMILOU4:II-STREET.A soldier of the list Regi ment of Foot Guards presented himself yesterday be- fore Mr. Mainwairing, the Magistrate, and made the following statement:—Having found it necessary lately to change his lodgings, he and his family, con sisting of a wife and three children, took up their quarters in Ilopkins-street, llolden•sgnare, in apart ments adjoining the Chapel, in which Widderhurn the Black Preacher, used to) officiate. In the course of Ilse last week they had been frequently alarmed by the hideous yells of souse animal, and the shouts of an assemblage of permit's. On impsiting iglu the cause of this ann,syance, he ascertained that a Brar Bait, was held in the Chapel twice a week, which being sepa rated from his apartment by a very thin partition, he and Isis family were in a constant state of alarm, fear ing that the bear might in an unlucky moment, take it into his head t•, pay them a visit. It appeared that ' his apprehensions were not altogether groundless ; for, on Sunday night last, when his family were re tiri .y to rest, his wife had occasion to go to the cup board, ►►here to her great alarm and astonishment, she beheld Bruin on all fours throngh the partition re galing himself with the contents of her buffet. She and her children were an terrified, that they all ran into the street, and did not return until their ancour- Icons visitor was escorted to his own apartment. The poor soldier wi+hed to be informed how he should pro ceed in order to provost a repetition of the iialits.4la ,Mag►istrate erderesl the apprehension of Drilla and his mAster, as well as all persons found attending the sport of bear-beating. The transport William, bound to Halifax, with troops, put into Falmouth on Wednesday, in conse• gitence of having sprung a leak. The troops amount ing to 850 men bare been landed, and are now at Pendennis Castle, and the town of Falmouth ; they consist of detachments of the 60th, 62d, and 74th regiments, with a few of the Royal Artillery. St Paul's Cathedral has for some time past pre sented a very extraordinary appearance, owing to the scaffolding erected around the top of it, and which is now neatly completed; it is of a singular construc tion, and extends from the iron gallery upwards to the height of ten feet above the Cross. The intention is to take the Ball and Cross down, which are to be en tirely new. It is an undertaking of great magni tude, and we trust will be completed as easily as is anticipated. AN Ism Purr.—A woollen-draper of Dublin, in an advertisement in the Irish papers, thus inadvertently exposes the nakedness of the land," while he strives to urge the national pride of the nobility and gentry for the purpose of bringing custom to his shop : " I t is now stated, almost to a certainty that the Ring will visit Ireland this summer, and must assuredly in his Majesty's excursions through the Island, he will call at the Castles and Family Mansions of ninny of our No bility and nentry, who are, no doubt, potting them in !rood order for his reception, and surely the poor Peasants o ill not be forgot by their Landlords, who will put them in such condition, by coating the men and cloaking the women, that they need not bide themselves: and the eye of - Roy:l4y will be gratified to behold the Irish Peasants in their native strength and comeli ness come forth to give him welcome." A gentleman who has been in Ireland for a number of years past returned to Scotland about three months ago, and is now residing at Oatesiele, in the vicinity of Ncilston. Two months after his arrival, a favorite dog, which he bad left at Belfast with his son, made his appea:ance, so/us, at (Jateside. This appeared the more surprising, as the animal had never before been in Scotland. In a few days, however, informa ti.m was received that the dog had been pnt on board the Rapid, steam boat, under the charge of some per son. But it is supposed that, after coming on shore at the Bromielaw, he had got the scent of his master's foot, who had been there the day hefore, and had suc ceeded in tracing him to his residence, a distance of eight miles.—( Edinharg/t Star.) A rat was killed at Annan on Sunday last, which exhibits to the eye of the naturalist one of the most striking circumstances we recollect ever to have heard of. This rat seems formerly to have had one of its hind feet snapped off by a trap, just below the knee joint, and the wound has, through time, healed up : at this part, there is actually formed a new foot, with the claws, &c. precisely the same as any of the others; and the bone, which had been cut through farther down than the flesh, still remains. —(Mid.) Mr. Hugh Edmondson, of Caltbwaite, in Cumber land, about seven weeks since, had a sow which li tered 13 pigs ; and about the same time a bitch whelped two pups. The sow smothered one pig, and leaving only 13 paps, one pig was pat to the bitch, which she suckled for five weeks. About a fortnight ago the pig Was taken from its foster-mother, who is still - SCo'itesiched as to exhibit to it the almost fond s. SS while she drives the-other pigs from hes. NAUTICAL LovrimadasNce. —km— . . The Rag India Ciespany's ship Prince &gilt • rived of the Wight on the 10th inseam, frees • —She left Mica() the 17th of Jaime*, in ' with the Castle 11lady, already arrived : part e d the Castle Mindy of Algoa Bey. to g* imp ti lt to repair her ihiSoll-111114 I arrived there ea O A-. March. and sailed spin ow the 111 of t "iu mvi Cil l at St. Helena on the lith of Aptil, dui on the 18th of Alvin. r !. l il t • The Tea Pianist, Paitial, fleasltdassi ima r m e* foundered ifkb May, hp, lat. 43. 15. long me n . crew andpassengers were taken np y thi ty ; ~,,,,„, IStb, In 1nt. 43. . long. 411. Which Its arti •it Us ti ; pool. BOMRAY, Jas. 7.—The Thalia to sail 1541 isle. iltd :, only free traders at present In the harboat .& " are the kb: I nab, Sir Stephen Lnehlagton, and. itogbasi; dos e d ? latter are engaged by Goternme country ships, as trantports foe . • i! ling out for the Arabian csial£ . Nike te3 l llllgtgii • !, 2 howeverts net wanssd, nee imi until the 0414,4 tee comes isle the atarbet i , there oataally hung b og us in the place for shipment at pre se nt. CAPE or GOOD HOPE, MAIRCH 30.—The 11. Cat BA* Hornblow, got on shore at the Little Bowes,. b id put into Point de Halle; she intended p s I . Bombay to be doeied. Ihe Lady Ba n k s hod ' leak, and put into Point de Chile, with stir am a, her held. to repair. The Partridge bad pso2 i nk/ on her arrival at Bombay, that they w ere *I to rim her on shore, and she is since beembe II tiolcondo parted from the ship Nicosia, Oaatalsettate London, yesterday ; on the 47th in s t. saw a Igo Walsh ship, standing Westward. The Gauges, Falifaar ro e s I spoken with off the Cape, all well, by a magge g ski ; and had no intention of touchin g bete. The &bum I went to pieces in the night between the 22d awl* , inst.; the most valuable part of her cargo is saved. 11, Lady Borringdon parted from three anisettes theta l inst. in a south-east gale, ran foul of the Lady Flees, and was supplied by her with an an c h or , after doing Lee some little damage, which has canned her detention. Ltveneom., June 9.—Extract of a knee from Ha. vannah, dated April 30. The British ship Hall, of Li verpool, from Jamaica for London, in a gale of wind, vesterthty, was thrown oh the racks at the outman of the harbianr, and will be lost; cargo saw. rank sail roffee. Aleut. I fear this will be the Hall, from Jamaica for Liverpool. l'nwr Louts, (leLa or FRANCE.) MARCO I.—The AI. hion, West, and the liclipse, Stewart, received considers able damage in their hulls, masts, &e. in a hearysalacm the 4th Jan. off the tape. The brig Dragon Wa ft er, from Calcutta for Port Jack s on, was , a littl e before al. light, on the morning of the 30th Jan. run on board et by a Dutch brig, bound to Batavia, in lat. SI. S. leo both masts, ant received material damage in the hell. PonTrotot;Tn, Jwsa Io.—The Johanna von leg laden smith brandy and wine, was towed into Spithasi t this evening, a wreck, by the Dolphin cutter; she le. in caught fire, had been scuttled and abandoned byte I crew, when the Dolphin fell in with her; the men, iti ;. supposed, escaped in a galliot which was in company. SLATS TRADE IT THE PORTUQUESICe—BahiII, Much 15.—Arrived on the 6th instant, the Portugama brig the Been Carniuho, from Quilemttnes, with 2(,4 slaves on board ; 116 died on the passage; and the next day thp Portuguese brig Dorado arrived from Mourn- VIP with 313 slaves f one hundred and eighty died nn the voyage!! As alarming accident occurred at Valenciennes on the 4th inst. at an early hour in the morning:—Some imprudent person entering with a light a part of the garrison (the Gate of Lille) where a great deal of pow der was kept, a terrible explosion took place, leaded guns, bombs, &c. went off, and in a short time the faar towers of the building fell to the ground. Only ow man, however, was killed. The loss is immense; and such was the intensity of the lire, that the lead, ins, and copper of the armoury were melted, and formed a tremendous lava. There new remains of this edifice, which dates its origin from the 16th century, and which has defied various sieges, only the bare walls. num.—About five o'clock on Sunday evening, a fire broke oat at the Prussian-blue manufactory, be longing to Mr. Bullevincle, Maiden lane, Battle bridge, which burned with great fury ; the Munn communicated to the feather-bed manufactory beloac ing to Mr. Ward, which adjoins. Several engines having arrived, and there being a plentiful supply of water, the fire was prevented from spreading farther, and it was got under. Mr. Bullevincle's warehouses were destroyed, and the feather-bed manufactory was much damaged. On Monday the 29th ult., No. 14,041 was drawn a Prize of X 21,000 Consols, and sold by BISII, in Shares, viz. One Quarter at CARMARTHEN One Quarter in LONDON One Eighth in LONDON One Sixteenth at Baru One Sixteenth at EDINBURGH One Sixteenth in LoNuns One Sixteenth at hisinsToNa One Sixteenth at blAaLnuarnan One Sixteenth at MARGATE Bisll also sold the following Prises, all drawn the same Day : 11.331 .I'l,ooo 7,969... Pon 1,610 ..• ItiO 161,494 RV 3'317•••••••••••• 1140 11,476 .......... 11u 11,367............. 230 KU I ...... Ilu 16,673 420 &c. &e. Mimi also sold in the Lottery drawn in March, Three Prizes of 21,11001., and several smaller Capitals, Every Ticket or Share Ch.ince bought on or before the 28th May, was finally derided on the 29th May. Ticket and Share Chances are on Sale at !fish's Of fices, 4, Cornhill, and 9, Charing-Cross, London ; and by his Agents in the Country. All the 3,1102 Prises, including the £40,2 00 Prises, must be drawn the 14th of This Mottb. (Jane.) MARRIED. On the 17th May. at Plunistesil. Kent, Mr. Joseph Ri chardson. jets. of Or , enwirh, to Miss Elisabeth Bossfirld Bios. late of Blackheath. Yesterday. at tit. Mary the Virgin. Aidersesnbory, Ro bert Jacerab. Esq., of John-street, to Catherine eldest daeghter of George Elwell, Esq. of Alderatanbur!. DIED. Os Friday, the Bth inst., aged 27. Frances, the wife of Mr. J. M. Binekee, of Stretford, Essex. Os Friday, the 9th inst., at his sons 's house, at Islingtoe , Mr. J. Edenboroegh. sen., aged 71. Os Sunday. the 10th instant, Mrs. An Clarke, Battersea- Web, Surrey. relict of the IsteJames Clarke. Esq. Loudest : Edited. Pasted, and Isebrlshad et the Oiler of "Tee IDTATINM 4 t74" sad "Tae Consmooton "roalisf, Paper) N. 104, Strand. opposite Sa.Clotoost's by R. WARM.", Jan.. LL.B.* to whom ell Coo• Isostoothsoo, Orders, Ike. are requested le be eddtaged. - ws I - I F 1 I