The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-11-02 00:00:00

I IS ATI() NS EXT'ICAW 11111 Na Mu. l:nrron- I felt somewhat surit i vised at your 1119 t 11.11 i 111 C, in your descriitti..is of,,the IL. t.timtm vrtoNs, several -Is invarencieb, which at. ! vt ry general ttlPtcrvatiois, and of some of wi tt i have taken the liberty to send you a J. t et. 31. N. the front of Mr. P-11-0-I.'ll house displayed a tt.in , ,iat..ney of considerable size. At a distance it teeine‘t to represent Atlas bearing . the world stpon shouAlert. On a nearer view, however, prat whit lb on a transient glance, appeared in tended fur % ,iclineatieti of the globe, 'turned out to be tingling snore than a circulisr shield, di iriticd into coni t tartnnenis ; which , instead of the Ilan es of kingdoms and states, bore the following iliscri : "%Surveyor t,f the lleitingq. and Cletk rtf. the Irving in the Mint."—" Civence.lfir of UN' 13c • -hy of Lanea,ter."—" Chan cellor ol the Lltetirquer."—•• k tr.( Lind of Die Trewur)," Ac. Remit' the shield was inscribed the fulluwi►►g motto:— " 0! that ektates, degree', and offices, Were not derst'd corrupth ! mot that clear honour Were ishreltatp'd b. ifir 'writ of floe wearer ! Ilhat.witery, the*, shruld cover, that taand bare? Ito* many he co.hantoded, teat counuand ?" . The design of this painting was very had, and excited general contempt. The figure hearing the shield seemed totally inadequate to the burden., and absolutely totterlig under it. The whole be iug lighted by castolle.cnds, had a very sombre up. pearanca. The Earl of CII —T--.-14'S residence was nearly covet, dby two paintings. The first (over which i sere written the words parturient agonies) re- presented The Disembarkation al Walthereis.-1 The troops ai,peared in the most spirited attitutleat, as if ardently desirmg to signalize themselves, and ' impatient for the cumplement of 44 the ulterior objee:s" Expedition. In the distance, Sir NV, Curtis's barge eas distinguishable, with an enormous turtle hanging t root the stern. The se cond (which as 4, inscribed, swelter ridiculus mum) exhibited d View of the interior of Iffalcheren, after the Commanuer in Chief had left " his brave companiuns;" and, instead o c l an army berating with ardour to meet the foe, pr: sainted to the eye a gloomy prospect of the dead slid dying..., a perfect Golgotha—EL:re the insitlitius Dysen tery triumphed-2'lmeg the Typhus reared his horrid head—and, in a third quarter, lee .4,ose seised his victims. The scene was terminated by a distant view of South Beveland, on which a num ber of French soldiers were observable... The) seemed waiting till the mortalitst at Walcheren should place that island in their possession, with. out the trotible of fighting !---,lttilerneatli I übserved the followinat lanes from homer's Iliad: " Ye Gods ! whet waders has Vitus' wrought ? 64 Is net fruits Ids r intact aid tea ilia s age !tit I • I Great in the Cowan clarions in tr staid This transparency having rather ..s'aewy appear. lance, when nut strictly ',amino!, attracted many spectators; but they uniformly retired, horrffied at the subject, and disgusted with the manage ment of the piece ! lily a singular coincidence the houses of Lords Grey and Grenville exhibited a similar turnip*. eency---The subject was Cincinnistus cultivating his paternal farm-- with the iuscription--- " When era prevaili, and Impious opus belt sway, 46 The past irfAireour is a pram: station !" The Earl of L.Y.P. L's 110 USO was 'ornamented with the representation of a tirst-rat on whose stern la could distinguish the name "United King dom," contending w ith a furious 'tor* ; - her masts gout: by the board, and exhibiting every symptom of distress. But chat attracted particular notice, was the manner in which the first and second Cap. fain, and stater OtTicen, appeared occupied : stead of infusing spirit into the crew, for the pur. pose of saving the ship, the former appeared bu. ally employed packing up a great quantity of loaves and Alice, which were scattered about the deck ; while the latter, equally raeuless about the Teasel's safety, seemed to labour zealously in set. ting the by th,: ears, by dealing out a double portion of grog to Bonita of them, who came from a favourite country ; while others, who ecially shared the labour, but olio were not n :titres of the envied spot, seemed to he threatened vita the punishment due to mutiny, when they advanced, a suppliant posture, to request a par ticipation in the good thiugs which their shipmates Isere enjoying. The paintiug was thus in sea " Ts I:sere nqt some ertsra etere, " 08 tOnnueinalles tkrentietio the maitre' et Hewed, " Rea wait nuennaneat wrath, isi Olaf the evens W nit owe tkcir greatness to their renntry's rain r CORONER'S INQUEST. Tnesqay night an inquest was belief the Bull a:id Mouth Inn, before T. Sim Loom, Esq. Coro ner, on the body of the Rev. Dr. G. Glasse, late Rector of Harwell, who strae4ted himself in his apartment at the inn, the preceding night. Sarah Horn, the chambermaid, said, that about IN o'clock on Tuesday morning, she went to call The deceased ; when she opened the door of his apartment, a candle was burning, and she saw him lying on the door, with Ins clothes off, near the foot of the bed ; she did not know that be was dead, but felt 'tanned at swim Is* and immedi ately called up Dowker, the book-keeper, who found the deceased hanging to the bed-post. Anne Horn was caMed about nine o'clock on Monday evening to attend the deceased ; slid found him sitting in the egies-room,, 'soar the ire ; he asked fur a bed, and the witness told him he might sleep in a doable-bedded ram, to *hid) he ob. jected, unless ho had the room to ; she then lighted him np stairs to his room, Ind left him. About half an hour after this, a gentleman came and inquired for thedeceased, and was shelves to the room when the deceased slept. He was then in bed; witness saw him stretch out his hand and shake hands with the gentleman, after which she left them together; twenty minutes after, the witness met the gentleman coming down stain from the deceased, with a candle in his hand. It THE STATESMAN.. Samuel Dunker, the buok.keepe•r, said, that about a quarter before five o'clock on Tuesday, he was called by Sarah Horn, the chambermaid, to go into the room where the deceased had been; I put to bed. On entering the room, he found the 1 deceased lying on his belly at the foot of time bed ; a napkin wan tied round his neck, and his heath was bush nd ef I from the be•d- e iust, about half a yard from the flour ; the deceased was cold, and quite dead. The witness was without a knife in hi* poilet, and he cal.ed np one of the helpers belonging to the stable, who cut tile na,►kin ; a mums sent for a surgeon, :mut his assistance was of no avail. The deceased hail mentioned to the witness, belote lie went to b,ll, that he intended tog° by the Liverpool coach ; but he afterwards said he would gu by tile Glasgow coach in the morning. Mr. Star, the Surgeon, found the deceased lying on his belly, quite dead'kje had tied his white cambrick handkerchief to towel, and fastened the sanse with a noose round his neck, fixing the knot under his left ear. He examined the body, and found every appearance. of strangulation, and was satisfied the deceased hid beta strangled ; witness conceived that the deceased, who was a corpulent man, had retnained on hi* knees at the lower nart of the bed, until be had suspended himself front the bed-post, whets he fell, and by ins struggles had accelerated his death. The witness expressed his opiiiiiiii that the decuused was insane. Wm. Loden, P.sq. Solicitor, of Gray's-inn. square, deposed, that he condic:ted the affairs of the deceased; saw him about eleven o'clock out Monday morning, at the house of Dr. Hume, its Lower Grocvenor-street. The deceased was Wks in a state of mental derangement, occasitmod by the embarrassed state of Isis atfairs—he au consi. dered in so dangerous a state, that Dr. Hume and the witness thought it was dangerous to leave hint by himself. In the evening witness called on Dr. G. at the Bull and Mouth, with several letters which he had received. Ile was shewn into the room where he slept, and read the letters to him. Inconsequence of these letters, witness advised Dr. G. not to go to Scotland, and told him he alight remain concealed from the bailiffs in London. stud composed than he hAtl been during the day. The witness bad known Doctor Glasse LG years, during which Doctor Glasse had ruined a line for tune. The. witness bad no doubt of his insanity. He had Intim:ally exclaimed, 'fake me to prison ! I have ruined my family ! 0, my wife and chil dreu! with many other exprLisions, which left no doubt of the deranged state of his intellects. — Dr. Glasse had been appointed Chaplain to the Lord Mayor Elect, and witness understood Dr. Glasse had written a strange letter to a City Oifi. cer, in which he said ho was compelled to become au exile. John Knapp, waiter to Mr. Winans, the ke,•per 01 the Bull and Month, deposed that the deceased appeared much agitated when he came into the Cuffee-ruum His hands shook, and he rustled out, unite lie was taking refresnment, to speak to the Cle.k in th • Coach-Office. The witness thought the decess, ti was mad, and made an observation to that eases, to one of his fellow. servants. The Coroner left it to the Jury to say whether the deceased was of insane mind *ben he destroy. ed himself. The July immediately returned their verdict—lnsanity. If Mr. 'AMISS HOLKAA, sit Fe.sex-street, in the Strand, who assures us that he is an old and taut 'minifying servant of the Coven t-Garden Theatre, will do us the favour to reperuse Tug STATES. MAK of Wednesday last, of which he complains, in the following letter, ho will there discover, that it • is not the case of Andrews the Bill.sticker, but that of a " Yuung Gentleman" who was " seized " and searched, and had his pockets rifled with " brutal ferocity," which we have promised to detail. Of the case of Andrews we know no more than that he was seized, imprisoned, and di :char. geal. With respect to the reason assigned by Mr. Houma, for his Right to interfere, by seizing dndretes, and delivering him over to Mr. Satz. non, another old and wet ungrateful servant of the Theatre, we are not sulficleotly clear-sighted to comprehend how Mr. Ilowses's services to the Theatre can bare conferred on him, either under the piazza, or any where else, a right which is nut possessed by any other of the liegesehjects of our Sovereign Lard the King, namely the right to seize an individual in the street without a warrant, when t.ot actually committing a breach of the Mayes. Of this assumed right of Mr. J. Moors, we anticipate an investigationla ifitettaiaster Hall. TO THE PROPRIETOR.; OF THE STATERMA N. GstemastEm—Soeing in your Paper of last night a promise to lay a statement before the Pub lic, concerning the particulars of the taking up of Andrews, tho bill-sticker, and in that promise you mention it was done with brutal ferocity, I beg leave to state the facts as far as I am concerned : Being that night at the door of the Theatre, I was informed there was a man delivering out Bills, tending to inflame the mite!, of the Audience ; al most immediately he delivered one of them to me, in consequence of which I took him to lite hos door un the Covent-Garden side, and gave him to Mr. James Brandon, who had him taken to Bow street; after that, I was done, and if an improper commitment followed, the Magistrate was to blame not.me. It may he inquired by what right I in. terfered ? my answer is, I have been a servant to that !louse some years, and should consider my. reif a very ungrateful ose, had I not taken the steps I did. As for any ill-treatment, at to vio lence, I taw none whatever. To prevent misre presentation is my only motive in troubling you with trigs tetter. Your's, respectfully, JAMES HOLMES, Essea-street, Strand. Nov. 1, 1809. There is said to bs a strong English party in Copenhagen. A request has been forwarded to all persons residing in Zealand to give up their plate, dr.c. the Government agreeing to giutrantes its 'value. 01.6 IMILHE The Sessions commenced yesterday before the Right Hos. Lord Itt.Lameostoecin, Baron Taws e. son, and Mr. Justice-titwaaxCE. Thomas thatfthries and James Bishop), alias Hem beo, weft indicted fur feloniously and bur. glarionsly entering the house of Mr. John Stock dale, bookseller, Piccadilly, and ideating therein two carpets. It appeared from the lesiimoity of Mr. Stuck_ dale, and °thee persona, that the prisoners were seen opening the door of, and entering a house in Piccadilly, in which Mr. Stockdale had formerly dwelt, but which was then uninhabited. They were lotiowed in • few minutes by Mr. Stockdale, his porter, and others, and were pursued upstairs; but tieing alarmed by the sound of approaching steps, they ensieusiouroll to make their escape from the windows of Ahil floor. The prisoner Bi- I shop was caught as he dropped from the window, and Humphries was fated while hanging from the lamp.iron. On searching their persons there were found in their pockets several skeleton aid pick. lock keys, a n d a bottle of pho.pliorais and matches. On examining the rooms up stairs, it svas discovered that the prisoners had removed two carpets froth tt chair on whit* they had been dc. I posited, apparently for the purpose of carrying them oaf, had they nut been disturbed in the fact. They were bath found gelity of the larceny, but acquitted of the burglary in the dwelling. house, on the ground of Mr. Steekdale not having lived in the dwelling-house broken open, for a considerable time previous to the occurrence. Joseph Thyssen was capitally indicted Tor bur. gliirionaly breaking into a part of the duelling. house if Robert Shediten, Esq. in Gower.strcet, Bedford-square, and stealing therein various aid. dolor wearing apparel, &c. on the night of the 18th of October la t. It was stated in t vidence, that on the day pre ceding the robbLiy, there had been a lir;e wash at. Mr. Shedtkles, and the servants having ed their day's work, left the partly dry and partly wet in the laundry. moreing it was discovered that thieve.; had Lint into the wasti.house, hum whence they had tiken a vast quantity of wet and dry lineo, silk g , ,w0., and other things. Notice of the fart was rainieL:ratcly given at the Public Office, llow-giteet, describing the articles stoleii, iiitrroiation ‘‘as given that a person was apprelienclA d4rinz the night by the patrole, with such (flings in hid pus. session. Another man escaped. I'hece circumstances being satisfactorily proved, the Jury found the prisoner ptiltv.—Dttath. Mar' Barber indicted fur a burglary in the house of Air. Thomas Briggs, tallow-chand. ler, at Acton, on the 21 of October, and steal ing therein four silvt.r tea.ipuons, a silver pep per.buy, a silver table-spoon, and a 21. Bank note. After an investigation of considerable length, the Jury acquitted the prisoner. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Wednesday, November 1. Tho proceedings of the Court this !lily were very uninteresting, the attention of the Jury being oc cupied, for the most part, in the trial of petty assaults and indictments. The (tidy ca c worthy of notice, was that of a miscreant named Mostar Stubbs, who was indicted for an as. milt, with intent to perpetrate an abominable crime on the pencil§ of a fine youth filmed Wil liam Henry Lawrence, the sun of a respectable inhabitant of llommerton. The evidence, as laid before the Jury, exhibit ed another instance of mural turpitude, we lament to say, but too common in the records of this Court. The prisoner is an old man, fast approach. lag to GO, and the father of several married children, by trade a tailor, and residing in Church. street, Hackney. Mr. Lawrence, the Prosecu. tor, stated, that between eight and nine o'clock in the evening of the 2lst of September last, be was returning from his father's house in Hounds. ditch, aeons Hackney-fields, to his father's country residence at Honinserton, when he was assailed is a manner by the Prisoner, and spoke to by him in langssage, which left him no room to doubt his diabolical intentions. - With the in. dignity which became a manly mind, be instantly knucked the abooninabfe wretch due n. and at_ taunted to take him into custody. lie succeeded, however, in gaining his fret, and ran towlrils the high road for Imstion. • Th. Prnseenter followed him, but the ground being icry slippery,. he full, and the Prisoner made -his escape. In pursuing his road homewards, he recollected having seen the Prisoner in the window of a house, in Church. street, Hackney, and on his way he made a point of calling there for the purpose of identifying his person. As the Prisoner was not at home, he waited fur him about' 0 minutes, till his at rival, when he in stantly charged him with the offence imputed to him in the indictment. At first the Prisoner de nied having ever seen the Prosecutor, but after. ward+ said that he was drunk, and that he might have jostled against him. Ile charged the Prose. moor with making the first asssult, and said he could indict him at the Sessions. The Prosecutor then went home and told his father what hid hap. pencil, and the next morning the Prisoner was taken Into custody. Mr. GLECO, with great eloquence, addressed the Jury tin Wulf of the Prisoner; but the Nets of the cam being perfectly cle4r, and the testimony in support of them unimpeachable, the Jury feuusi the Prisoner Guilty; and the Court senteneril bier to two years imprisonment in the Mouse of Coe rection. Yesterday the - Grand Jury fogad a ttrva.• against Sarah and Wi/hum Atarkoraggh, starving and ill-treating the chilli of the lamer, as formerly stated is the examiaatinks at Mir lbo. reegh-street. POLICE. UNION-RALL.—Captain a person des. cribing himself' us an Officer in the Guards, was brought before Sir John finhorn, cl.vged by Mr. Gayer, master of the Surrey flute!, Blackfriars road, on suspicion of having, on the night o f lass, stolen a silver' watch, with gold eltain and seals, and a silver snuff.boe, the pro. perry of Mr. Lay, • Gentleman resitting at Diet bury, in Eger/. It appzare.l that Mr. Lay, as well as the C.tptaio, bad bee* for some days past at the Surrey Hotel ; on Thursday night, or early on Friday morning, several of the lodgers were disturbed by some person walking along the gallery,ond attempting to lift the latehesof several a the doers; one of the Gentlemen, who slept wills his door open, perceived by the glimmer of a ruildight sumo person- ewer hi% room ; he im mediately jumped out of bed, and attempted to seize the intruder, but he as quickly retreated, an d &tined a room at some distance, whirls was unoccupied, where he attempted to conceal himself behind the door ; the Gentleman here adzed him, and demanded who he was, and what he wanted i• hli room; he made some vague an swer, bat did tell his name ; the noise of the pursuit had d several persons together, mid amongst them tanaiter, who, on hearing the pus. bon speak, immediately rreolleeted it to be tie voice of a Gentleman named Edwards, who had been at the hotel for several days. The night walker, on hearing this, immediately adopted the name of Edwards, said he had been taken ill, and getting up, had coterie! the Gentleman's room by mistake ; this explanation sat:sfied all parties, the prisoner was liberated, and they retired to rest. In the morning, however, it was recollected that Mr. Edwards had quitted the hotel the day before. and the watch and snuff-box being missed, frota several circumstances suspicion attached itself to the pet. son of the Captain, who was then absent, but on his return in the evening he was taken into eta tody. Nu person, however, could swear to his person. In his defence the Ciptain stated, that he k a Captain on half pay in lOC first regiment of foot guards, and surd the late Lieut.-Gen. be has a house ill Bryanstune.atreet, where he bag resided for upwards of seven years; he slept on the night mentioned at the Surrey Hold , and did nut awake from the time of going to bed, till the waiter called hitu between eight and nine o'clock on Friday morning. He wag at the Surrey Hotel on account of some law retieeedinr. which he h.:l to attend tu In that part of the town, and hoe.te , i his servant pt lent his naire to a libel, and hail been anivieTed. Tile libel was a hand-bill on his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSOX. The Captain's agent appeared, am! stated, that he hi!il known him for upwards of thirty years; he a•i, as he had stated, an Olker in the Civards, and had retired on half.pay, on account of his sight being impurfe44 besides his half-pay, ha ha,l an income dMIL elem. arising from funded properly; be was * itenrever, at present its ember. rested circumstantiate% bad the furniture of his house in Hryanstone-strelie had lately been disposed of under the authority of a bill of sale. He had al. ways considered hint to be a man of strict huirour. Sir JOHN PINIIORN observed, that when this business came first before him on Saturday last, ho . had taken a very great responsibility upon him— self, in permitting the Captain to be at large upon his word only ; foolll the high character, however, which the Captain had hitherto sustained, he was , still willing to risk that responsibility, upon his pledging his %word of honour to appear again in a fortnight; during that time the wort:iy Magic. trate said 1;e hoped such an explanation would take place as would remove all suspicion from bits character. The Captain readily pledged his honour to a'• pear, and was discharged. Yesterday John Emanuel, a seaman belonging to his hiljesty's ship Kent, preferred a complaint against a man named Joseph Innis,.limns, for robbing him of 5G'. iu Bank notes. It appeared that the parties had been intimate friends from their childhood. Emanuel arrived In town just previous to tho Jubilee day, on leave of absentee, with up wards of sixty pounds in his possession, which he mid received for wages and prize-money ; having a curiosity to see the ghats, which ho understood wuntil be exhilsitell in honour of the Jubilee, he prepared hamself to take a cruise through the principal streets of the metropolis; his friend log. gated to Mel that in the course of his cruise he might chance to fall in with some privateer under false colours, br whom he might be boarded and pluudered ; he ilicrefore advised him to stow his cargo iabAntkeepine, and make his cruise in bal last. At k adopted the aifrier, and d in the care of his false friend, who,as sue 7 1 Jack had quitted him, cot his cables, leaving a wife and four your; children behind him, and hai net since been heard of. Samuel now applied to the M*gistrate to prolong his ticket of ste.eure for a few days, to enable hies to -prosecute his Inquiries attar the offender; this- application was complied with. A feta nights since a ararshoasa its Bridgewater square was broke open, and red of upwards of 5000 articles of cnrnelisiv, ga. nets, crystals, and a quantity of silver plata% ST r.TH. The Lily arr. Davila*, 124. at FreJe.ick-place,HamP dead- road, of a atm. **tea. Yesterday, 111• the Rev. C. linflt Matt. day, Brew, ke Lvielsam. is OP entirety d k;oter.E.4. es • daughter I.fthe latelate Peter Luprintree/ar, F of A am, ntereh • On the 315111 Wt. erah. eldrt d lir.hter of Mr. Few. Tate, a Ca pe•-emart. Raft helemeb; On Mon,lay last. after 4 few hum , ' Mame. the Rev. We Willian Joara, of üblvitn-?1 ire, iii the rummy at Sere,. LOS?)(l',i, Primrd3ohed br 1). Levrt.t., at the Sr•• ‘l6ii OE E, bi l'imFetreet. NIMM