The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-01-02 00:00:00

'4 1 _it • • ;;: • • ,• MARIO' ASMAKM.--(II3TIMPAIr.)• --•■1111 1,0 "7*. • • '•••Triffore Mr..Jitstsee MEL) ,4ohn.SWaptetd . 'was put to the bat, on itainitintment ithsiii?iitle Vitt iseitV baiting feloniously and eetiltre ttrthli.irtfasi of Mary Bonsai, in the Pansh of St (twee's. Southwark. 311..hiiitsiiitifted the ease. • • Mariannetsvender iiworn.--Lines, in Tiverton Street; hoes/Mary RonsoLashe Was a widow : she is dead ; she reeisliorentir is/illicit; she died on' the 13th of October. k Coffin' sworn:--Alts." ildesbl was witness's aunt; stir !Wet is London Road; she is dead. lisints'Ree'ree deposed that he is clerkto thelifsgistrate, OlnimberS -'took dawn correctly tile depositions made he Riad . ;•tbey were read over before Mrs. Bonsol andlale priioner. Those handed to him are the same seliitdi We took down. (Treks-examined by Mr. ANDREWS.—She was several stein • examined at Union 11411 —believ•s it was Mr. &ba4tbers who took all the examinations on the case. The bookieln Conn, and can decide it. Mr. Chambers took be eitaroinations on the 151 h of September. On the 30th MK-Allen was the presiding Magistrate, and took a snintee of a statement made by her. viz. that her house was • barred, an4l had not been insured; under the flute of the Ws of October, there appears a marginal note, importing ttsot•tthe ;sorties were hound over to prosecute at the Aisizes.• The depositions of :llrs. Ronsol, now resul in Canrt, were made np of declarations which bad been made by her at several times, and in several portions. Sow Mrs. [tenant affixing her signature or mark to the deposition. The original statements of Mrs. lionsol were taken down by witness in the office-book. The present eersrisition is a transcript of these several statements. : [The reading of the deposition was deferred.] Henry Cuthasli sworn. Lives at No. 11, Loudon Road. is a cheesemonger, within four doors of Swatbeld's house. Rimiembers the 13th of September. Was in his own hoose afroat 12 o'clock, went out some time after ; saw liweffield's shop open, returned to his hoose, beard a cry pi . -fire, went out. Swatheld's house was on fire. Wi:sess • leafier open-the shop door ;• found fire in the back part of 'the eitap, remote from the gas-lights. Assisted in breaking crop _the. private door. Saw the prisoner the Monday followieg, atoms o'clock near witness's house. Mr. Aisveffiedd Altai katl wits ese for his assistesice in suppressing the fire a'. his house host night, and for imputing the tire :to him (the prisonel;- witness denied that he bail said Ilset.he was the nut in Woking open the door, and that 'the firs was in the hack part of the shop. Swaflield seplistd.no. that the lire corostseticed shove stairs, and that Ile knew the house eau on fire twenty minutes before he (prisoner) left it that night ; witness said " would you take _goer with of it "r" , There was pole sly present when Swalield first came and spoke to him. There was a crowd efts/wards. Prisoner was. (rite- indignant at dhe. idea of • hie being suspected of setting pis Louse on fire. . S.reissisitnined-71 1 15 words were as neatly as witness • rreollects. " it must be the upper part of the house which .117-0 took fire." . . ' (lento Walussly,• a pawnbroker, lives next door to the • Orfroner s house; saw the fire; S3O/ the prisoner the following * Men 'ay in the London Road with embus!, he ,rd him ply the hoose was on fire twenty minutes before • he left tlivisonse,seal that the fire eoinmenced above ateirs; duel not recollect whether .Mr. Cstbash made ails. (oter •v•slion•ots that ; there was a instilled' of persons present ; "be. tenet t say whether prisoner's words were the fire • west have barn above stairs, and it mist hasebeen twenty initiates Wore he left the 'moats." Mr. Swathe'd said be knew that tbe honsemes on firesirenty minutes before he I' sent air +y: • . . Cotlntsit reossamined.—Witness• was opposite to Mr, Swelfield's boos, at. 12 o'cfork that night ; the shop was ones, and lightest like the other shops for the purpose of business; went away; beard the cry of fire souot 20 , Minutes after. Henry Garrott is a watchman at the London Roa•l, 'heard a cry of file on Saturday night ; it was Mr. Swat . - _field's; Moose that was on fire; saw persons breaking oper Mc *lslip door ; sou' some butter fists in the back part of 'the shop on fire; the roam inside the shop was on fire ; the lists were near the partition, which divides the shop , from the room'; remained very near the lotto. until three , o'clqk in the morning; did not see the prisoner come , ti• at the house all that time. • latish Raker tires at No. 22. London Road ; his house ja sitnated within five doors of Swaffiald's; was present .at , • the fire; the shop door was shat; as sisted in breaking it , open; there was smoke in the shop, but no fire ; assisted , lo b ~aking the door of The hack parlour, saw fire ell . 01.0110 the hack parlouto; the flames were breaking or had•broken intii the hack ST the shop from the inside ' prisn': assisted in lifting al boy op to the window of the firs: floor; Vie boy broke the windows, and got through . jhem into the house; the flames afterwards wade their . way through the ceiling of the slop to the upper part of :4 the house; *rent with constables into the Ilona. s • -days after e— fire; a constable found • candlestick in the 4 fornis,'in the back part of the house; this 'occurred not .Ibore than ten slays after the night of the fire; that part of, the ruins where the candlestick was found by the eon .' stable;the firemen bad not been digging lei remained at *._the fire until four o'clock in the mornin g; did not are • the pritoner there at all that night; the premises are deep and narrow. •-- James llarridge sworn.—Keeps an eating house in the London Raid; lives next dour to Swaffield's house.; there •• was no gas light for some time past in the back part of • the house; the gas light in the shop is six fret distant from Abe partition, measuring toward the shop door. • Cross examined —ls not i n terested in this prosecution ; does not defray the expenses; never. said that his testimony a :you'd convict the prisoner, and abut he would bet two . t'. vine's the prisoner would be convicted; dues nut mum. . saber:to liaveSsiiti so to a .person named Plant ; might.have .'s 1011116; dla AOt to his knowledge; does rot know that hr • sinpressett ,an opinion, or oiler to make a wager oa the i:d tineviption. • 41 •• Josia h Shergold swornols a night constable of the aSititey SSE Road ; was present at the fire for ah nut four • stt bronverneerea we_ atm -prisoner there; took him into •..susleisskiendity falowing, in the pres , nee of a snob, whip were topisting."4 reproaching him . with having wilfully ~.1; np4 Isis baiter on hie.; in. the watch house prisoner said the' ..tairetasounneneed above stairs. Witness warned him sot to iopy• nil thing . that would criminate • biro, as he (witness) . yousidered 'this duty to report it to the .11agistrates. Pri: saner then staid. he knew time house had been on foe 20 ,minutes before be' left it that night. The prisoner in the upurse of, conversation, told him be intended to 'Ake* house ~jas Wmliog Street: it was lucky for blot he had heeo•is ,.. Awed at mcloas trilliog sum fur three years at time same . gatfiCe ; Hai he- feast a considerable quantity • of goods to , inconsistent , with; does not think the prisoner's words weres• fire uses' hare been 20 minutes above stairs before gawked belov ;" his impression was then. and no w, i,s„that ttse prisoner said he knew the boase was on fire hstore he left it. .; . • _William Johns.everns-ls centiliter ; Rini** tbe etanstez l , i tileliliosaatlsi in ronduotingthe prisoner to the Watelshouse eso, s:oti•lisy; while in the wetehhOuse, prisoner asked her metopes presence, what was the charge against ;often Shereold answered, tbat the molt charged bins " r wials,setting.isis house on tire ; he said he knee , t i lse fire had • ceseinieneeld above stairs 20 minutes before _it reached the 1 9 wer part, bisergold advised him, (sotto say shy thing to crinuneie Idluself: Prisoner *4 kid been. insured, ;;Loeitily * for jails. There was a 504 ; tidy of arinitables s asetorii the house keep oft the mph to preservi the,pro .mirtty; asiti-Isat.ta penpreetor from endeae.otilng sewn' ts it.goods , not sort t ibe.,'Rcjeone, t s tere • •tkight.• , '•ite tisinki that vii prisoner's ezpieasidis ere 'ma that the fire aka Asia, kit tlait the phloem keen the sTATEsmAN fire had commenced 20 minutes. before he left the 'horse. Witness remarked the plirase.at the Cline, and is pearly* the words ased by the prisoner rreie, I.lkitsw-the tonna Vim On fire. _ _• Thomas Aldis, shoemaker, of London Read, was present at the tire,'end proved that it proceeded from the lower part of the house. Cross examined.--'l'he smoke was so great that I could not see exactly where the fire was. The Game was to great that it rolled along the ceiling like a person drawing down a sari blind. I don't remember saying that it proceeded front gas. It had a peculiar appearance ; it circled all round die shop. •By the COURT.-1 took out of the shop three Cheshire cheeses and a half, two Dutch cheeses, a bladder of lard, a halffirkin of butter, about twelve pounds in it. I was reaching after the other half firkin, but could not get at it for the smoke. 1 saw two sides of bacon hinging at the door. Saw nothing particular in the atrangements of the shop. James Edwards, shop boy to Swaffield in September last, had been with him nearly three montha.—l slept in the parlour : it was parted off by a slight partition, with glaz ed windows. I could see into the shop when sitting down. There was a fire place in the room ; fur the last three weeks I slept there; before that, at home. In the last three weeks my master slept at Watling street ; be had a shop there. I bad never slept at Watling street. We usually shut up, on Saturday nights, between eleven and twelve. There were six gas lights fixed ; we only used three ; one near the little parlour, within eight feet of it ; and two in the shop windows. We had no fire in the grate that evening ; there was afire in the morning. I think we had no other lights that night besides the gas. I used to light myself to bed with a candle. There was a large fiat bottomed candlestick for my use. We used to open on Sunday mornings. There was a dog; IC used to be tied up in the shop at night; but the night of the Ere it was in the little room. Master toll me to remind him to take the dog to Watling Street. I put out two of the gas lights that night. My candlestick had a candle in it: it stood in the usual place. l put up the shutters. filar ter was serving in the shop. We cent out together. I could see into the shop while shutting it up. We took some meat and coppers in a basket. I did oat remark the candlestick daat night. I went into •thi back room to make Inv bed. I was to collie back and sleep.. I did not want a light to ace while the shop was open : tile gas was enough. The money w..s the contents of the till, It was not locked. I might have taken it. My mother asked for a holyday for .rue on Sunday. 1 was to sleep in the bark parlour. Master locked the shop. and gave me the key. He did not say any thing about a fire up stairs. 1 cent with him to carry the basket of meat to Wading Street. It i* about a mile and a half distance. Master had only an umbrella in his hand. In going along we observed a tire ; we were got, to the coach stand. inure than a varier of a and on our way. The shop in Wading. Street is nearer St. Paul's. opposite South. wart; Bridge. We heard the cry of fire, and the ringing of the bell. We did not say any thing About it. We slid not think that it was our house. We could tell partly from what quarter it came; it seemed to come from the direction of the Obelisk. We were certain it could not be one house, We had left it all secure. We said welted left our house . quite safe, and I thought it was towards Prospect Place. The dog seas forgotten; I t o ld master so, and that be would go without food on Sunday, as there was none at the shop. He said that I might feed him on Sunday evening. 1 went very near home to Wets ling itmet. .Ma s ter. took the basket s and told me to make 'haste home and go to bed. 1 went home to the .London Road.. 1 could not get near the fire. 1 saw it was near master's house. 1 went hick to Watling Street. lie Ras, nut in bed. It was nearly two o'clock. When I left the tire, there was not a beans left ;it was all down. 1 told him so. He asked me if I was sure it was our house, and said he would go over and look after it. 1 asked him it shield go with him? lie told me to go to bed, having called up his wife and sister. I got into his sister's bed, and she went into his wife's bed. When 1 got to Watling Street, he had Isis coat off. He said that he would go over and sec if any thing could be saved. I went to bed. I don't know then be returned. I felt him in bed about four o'clock in the morning. The shop at Watling Street was only opened on that Saturday morning. 1 had taken over cheese and other goods on the truck. There was furniture left in London Road; sofa, chairs, two tables, fire irons, chest of drawers, and boxes. I was employed two or three days in removing things to Watling Street. 1 took an old chair and a bedstead. We used to get the meat for the dog from St. tleorge's market. It is nut open on Sut:day, and 1 seas to hare brought meat fur bins from my mother's. Cross.examined.—When my master talked of going over, I told hint it was of no use, every beam was burst down. lie had alarmed his wife and sister, and was greatly agitated. He asked if I was sure that it was his house. In the morning he told the to go over, and see if any body was hurt, and if any thing could be saved. Witness added, that the stock nits kept up at London Road; that no One had ever tampered with him to keep him out of the way; that he had always been ready to attend ; that be had lost his clothes, and his master said he was very sorry, but lie would make it up to him. 1 have seen eight In family ; there were utensils enough for them all. . Rrezamined.—Master n id any thing about leaving the house in London Road. I understood him that he was going tp keep a young man there to sell on commission. The premises were 40 feet long. 1 have not been tampered or talked with by my master. 1 save the plan at the Bine of the last Croydon Assizes, when My master bad an action with Mrs. Bonsai. It did not come on. - I Was flat at' Croydon. 1 hare not seen my master since 'this charge was made. I tow the model at Mr. Benton's'office. I went there to measure the ground, aid 'to' show the 'different places where I heard the cry aid saw the fire. By the Coutrr.—l thisk this was the first Saturday night that 'nester went imam to sleep in Watliug ert. We used to open of a Sunday .morning at t 3 o'clock. I don't know what kept him up till 2 o'clock. I was greatly agitated, and did not observe any thing, either books or drink; did not observe if he bed on bests. or slippers. 'flie dug was buri.t. I saw his skeleton. He was not tied up. I must have shut the door on making my bed. We ha I heals stock in (hieing that week. I brought in 10 or '2O lumps of fresh butter on Saturday. 1 don't know which. There was half of it left at night. We bath went ugt together. lam sure all the gas lights were out. There was a light left for me to come in—a candle at the back of the shop, at the little counter ; about eight feet from the partition. By the Jury.—We have had the gas escape and smell powerfully. We bad separate pipes to the lights—no main pipe. Two of the gas pipes were out of repair. Cross-examlneti.—The two pipes were stopped with cork. Two or three mornings before one of the corks fell oat. 1 hare seen Evans at the Hall. I think that he shoved me the same cemll:stick which h left lighted in the bask part part of the shop. The dog might have got up and tstrown it down.. He was • soischiefous dog —a French dog, and he would do any thing you bit him—full of .tricks. '[A auodel of the premises, with the dircctioa of the „ices pipes,:end other circumstances of the evidence laid down la it and the witness shows the situation of the coaster: upon' which he put the candlestick] On that Saturday night the gas went nearly out. toed wbea.we went oat to 1014 Watling Street, we saw the gas lash up ,again is thp'street,lamps; the rush might have driven the cork, out 0ga41,, . • • • bi skerioe Liked tbe.ltisoner what ha hadl to. . Asir . . 1 . ' • . • aho prisoner 4ePteil tb4 abstßeOtod all,tlio=expoomdpito aktrihured to him as to the breaking not of tiostAreat Itativoltivatid a very good bosisaasia Loodou Bead. by • • 7 'r. , P..! '7- **' t' .- - industry and bard labour, which he never could be mad moss* to destroy. Whneemussithen.cslied evidence for the defence. aullkel.Fearite, of the Piormix Fire Office, pro.' o policy, dated in lti2l, for 4001., for the tixtorest astd atock to trade. It was renewed in July List. The othee do pot prosecute in this case. l was the only person from our office who attended the examination at Union 11.41. Ur. Harmer attended for us t 3 watch the case, but. we do not prosecute. Sarah Swaffield, sister to' the prisoner, sat up for him on the night of the fire. lie came home between twelve and one o'clock. He generally sits up an hour or so and smokes a pipe. I went to bed, and was callt.il up before I got to sleep. 1 heard what passed between my brother and the boy. Ile did in fact go oat. He had smoked his pipe. Ile returned about four o'clock. Mrs. Swaffield left him in. l was in bed with Mrs. Swaffield. The buy was gone into miue. He generally slept at Watling Street. fhe Saturday night before he slept in the London Road. Win. Saunders lived from May, 1821. to December, 1822; as shopman to the prisoner. The second year the trade I was larger than the first. The gross returns were more than 5001. I saw the shop from time to time after that. I was there the Saturday before the fire. The stock was much as I had always seen .t. The returns were about 401.. a week. I don't know what is meant by gross returns. Mr:Swatfield was always accounted a very honest man, and paid every one very regularly. Samuel Wheatley is foreman to Messrs. Nilwall and Co., cheese factors. We always sepplie t him with whatever be might choose to purchase. We sold him 20P1 a year fur the last two years. He was always an honest man, and used, to pay really money. He had not caked for two months before the tire. J. Surridge, butter and cheese commission agent, had sold goods to the prisoner about 501. or 1001. wortb within the last 18 months. He used to pay money. I sold him SI. worth of batter in the week of the fire. Joseph Porch, innkeeper and carrier, in Leadenhall Street, had delivered batter and cheese from Wincanten, to the prisoner. His bill for earalage, in the last two years, was 351. Should suppose the goods delivered in that time world be worth 4001. He was always considered as a very honestmas. Witness drew up the agreement for him fur the house is Watling Street. Henry Toggrell sells cheese for one Apothecary, in Wiltshire"; had delivered 6001 b. of cheese to the prisoner in the last six Swaths., Seventy-two cheeses were on their way to him When witness heard of the fire, and .but for 1 hat, Would have bees delivered on Monday morning. His character was that of an honest man. Charles Barfield, builder, in the London Road s bad knows the prisoner Li years; was with him on the evening of the fire ; knew him to be an honest man. The witness had smelt the Of, and knew that one of the pipes was imperfect, and that it was stopped with cork. Had tried with lighted paper to hod ottt this teak 'in the pipe nearest the partition ; had warned Swaffield of the danger of fire from it, who said that the pipes Were not his, or he should cut them away.— Swaffield, however, did not use that pipe again. . Jblan Stapp', Of 85, Snowfall); wholesale cheesemooger, had sold Swaffield goods to the amount of between 5001. and 6001. in the year before the 13th of September. Con• sidered him as a perfectly honest man. Nineteen pounds worth of goods were delivered to Mum on the Friday be- fore the fire. Jilsepli Water; in partnership with Leedham, supplied Swaffield chiefly with bacon. lle paid ready money ; used to pay from 151. to 201. a month. Upon inquiry 1. found his character 'very good. Mr.. Pearson, attorney, of Staple lne --Swat field ap. plied to me about purchasing the lease of the house in the London Road. L inquired into the title, and found the party had noue. 1 a tvised him to keep his money in his pocket. A mortgagee had IDOL on it, and the treaty was for that interest. He was most anxious to purchase, but 1 prevented him. T. Rotten, Ksq., had a mortgace on thelonse in London Road: • Mr. Pearson applied to him about eight months age f o r tire purchase of his interest. Several other witnesses were called, who merely corrobo• rated the previous testimony. Win. Rinks, plumber, went to search the premises by direction rrf the Albion Insurance Company ; found near 4cwt. of. lead. 1 found a piece of the broken candlewick at the back of the premises—that which had been pro laced was very like it. This was the second &starter the fire. 1 threw it back again among the rubbinKThere were large lumps of cheese, which we threw out to the * Ralph Stephenson, another plumber , co rated the evidence of thelast witness. Numerous witnesses were called to the character of the prisoner, who testified most strongly in his favour. At sic o'clock the Judge proceeded to charge the Jury, ' which ditty took up an hour and a half. The Jury consulted for 15 minutes, and returned a ver. diet of Not Guilty. POLICE. Mammal Ilottsz.—Nesterday the Lotto HATOR received a communication from the owners of the ship which -was wrecked on an island in North Am.rice, and in which three sealnen. who the day before yesterday applied to his Lord ship, had nearly perished, 'file o wners stated, that although the cargo had been lost, the claims of the seamen should be in due time completely answered; that they should be paid out of the profits arising from the sole of the wreck the moment the ac• counts were settled, and that in the mean time employment should be procured fur them on hoard ship. The LORD 11 A TOR Observed, that the conduct of the owners was praiseworthy in the highest degree. He did not know that it was by any means obligatory upon them in a legal point of view to pay the applicants under all the circuits trances ; but whether it was so or not, the prompt manner in ,which they offered to serve the unfortunate seamen WAS highly honourable to them. The seamen were not quite so willing as the Lord Mawr WAS to -cousineml this• readiness to serve them as exhibited upon the part of the owners. They were very grateful to his Lordship for the decisive. steps be bad taken to -do them justice, and were not backward to ecknowledge that, had not the chief magistrate taken public notice of the hardships under ' which they laboured, their ease might be postponed from day to day, as bad been the course pursued by the owners, until staraation should be the consequence. The seamen. then left the Justice room, hoping that, if they were to sail, proper security would be given for the pay ment of their wages, and expressing their conviction, that men who hazarded their lives were entitled to their par, whether they succeeded or not in bringing a ship out of danger. Mr. Martin, the Member for Galway, applied to the Lord Mayor for assistance in carrying into more complete effect his bill for securing merciful treatment to animals. His Lordship could; he said, further the cause of benevolenee, by allowing him to place a person over the officers fur the daily businesi for the purpose of superintendiogAhem in putting-his bill into e ff ect. Although a numberof.examplee had been made, the evil the bill was intended' - t0 remedy' . 5611 existed to as great extent,- partieudatlf •111.. the , neighbourhood 'of Smithfield, and the exertions of • the superintendent Should be more particularly directed ; to_ that quarter. -..,: • • ' The Loan Manna said' he could not consent to . liferlere , l -with a system • of polio. *bielv fiat long - laieftadiCe op- *probation of all who= weri-itaiaalasest . aritli, • Ir. , ' tl'e 'officers wee. .catresnely aestive6 saftli .1 iitiopi, : .as • ell ;fre as.spieleed.. aid: wherever 411004 . 11,14; ... isitnn fat , g jlt :performance of theirantyV Ili ' vat - tisintSeitt p perform is, .• • ..,....• ~.,• •f• -;: n.• ~:...;;.. .. • v Al • w i t h o b ta i n i ng goo d s miller f a l s e is p a r e c t i e e Mr.Joim tion4ard W/5 cha rge , ac rk ts io Mr. Dicks:, ittl LOYALLY Yesterila) . Edward Margwell deetteeti—t son, Warelitifigestian, No.G , Lad I,she.• a u ra o„,tara to the warehouse in February last, ants • _pia tos wi l t" look at home goods, He then palm him a Mi. SiMeim, of 25, ".Edirsond Pace, Aldealt there end saw Mr. Simeon, who told him that —ai r. and had some dealint,e with him, and that he hats Mr. (Molten! for 501., and he would do to again. W ei out the faith of this, gate credit to the e prisonev,ar,,l le; •t. t Ike the goods away. Some tiros after Mr. Good od again, and ordered some goods, and desired the., to scot to No. 2,Grange Court, Carey Steer!. 'flue heir I ; „ the panel, hot no person answering the description w 4, be found there, or even known. Edward Thompson is an apprentice ;to Mr. D:el sae tonic the above mentioned parcel to the address met ti he inquired for Mr. Goodsell, but the woman told him no person of that name lived there. He was r-tnieni,z from Orange Court, and met the prisoner, who asked I ,'„, if the parcel woe for him ; he asked the prisoner if ra n ame was Goodard ? Prisoner said " Yea," asd with t.t— -„ ok the parcel out of his hand, and • said it was for Ibim , Mr. Oondard said, that he got credit" foam the horse Dickinson, and gave bills at one month's date, which remain unpaid ; hut as to any frandident intention he sea perfectly innocent. The only charge against him Prat i-' 3 not paying the bills.—The prisoner was remanded 1 • •• • • Saturday swat. Bow syncer.oo•—sOn Wednesday evening d coantra gentleman, who stated his none to he Brown, came to tut'. : office, and stated that he had just been robbed in a ; n i l nnacconntahle manner of property to the amount of 1,62'4. He was in town from Leicestershire on business, and havit o dined in the city, he thought he would manse himself fi t an honr or two at the Olympic Theatre. (rids. Tbettre has been entirely closed for some nigh's past.) He trtird in Wych Street at about half-past six o'clock, and he Psis surprised to find the doors closed. Concluding that t' , i4 mum be owing to some neglect on the part of the Lid e dings of the establishment, lie toinatenced knocking the door pretty !tinily, but no one Appeared to answer I demand for admission. %While he was stooling Orr-, sr pet aims came about him, hut he observed nothing re es able in their conduct. lie at length tamed welkin tow! the city, anti feeling inclined for some refreshinrst. instinctively placed his hand upon his roatmce.: when, to his utter consternation, he discovered that had been robbed of his pocket batik, containing & notes and sovereigns to the. amount of 1,624!. tie manicated 11;3 loss to some persons, and they advised to come here. The Magistrateimmediatelycalled f T Smith, and of experienced officers, and gave them direction, to 'tie best exertions to detect the robbers. The officers procee to all the flash houses. and made a general sear( ii, bat in making any discovery. WC:4O4MP STREET. —THR SILK Tit Iter It: soon as Mr. Bennett and Mr. Twyford hail taken their! this Office became crowded to excess with men and interested in the Silk Trade, from the parishes of Bet Breen and Spitallieids, b-gging their Worsli;?a' ad and interference, under circitinstances of such an appal , eatare, as in their operations are likely to involve (sands of a hitherto industrious class of the y bruin and panerisin. Two respectable looking journey weavers stepped into the witnesses' box, and on the lo the Trade sated their case, tt hieh was briefly this : raid they wereat present, or at least latterly, in them went of a Mr. lea berry, No. rid, London Wall, of usl as en employer, they would wisti to speak with that di of respect and gratitude his conduct at all titn-s des' and was entitled to receive, from them.—But two houses in the sante trade, a Mr. Griffith and a Mr. ants, of Fort street, Old Artillery Ground, had ref iliecovered an omission in the last regul aloft!, made • 13 years ago, for the cities of !amnion, Wesininetei county of Middlesex, by which the district where the (Well court Square.) was by SOOlO means or other negl to be included by the Nieeletrates at Oeneral Qoartei sions assembled ; and alth tngli this iegleet rein dead, or at least inoperative for 13 years, they have i these few days discovered it, and have ref need theii neymen's wages from 20 to 30 tier rent. The e.otiot t of which is natural. Mr. Newherib who has to meet in the same inviter, cannot eateitanto competition them, and is therefore from nerensity, and not from it tion, obliged to discharge his workmen. Mr. Hs KTT—!'his is certainly a novel case, the (lettere! Quarter Sestions still he held on the L am satisfied the Magistrates will rectify any error have been unintentionally made. Weavers.—lilt what ate our children to do till the besides, it will cost at least 6(11. to MI. to bring thi oess forward so as to include tho district, wlti. first neglected; o tether on the part of the Comm! conducting, or on the part of the Magistrates for not log. they could not tell. Mr. listasart.—The parishes are bound to you. Weavers.—lt will be difficult fair them to get war] to. holli us all. Mr. LUNN you not work at the pri' *or by Mr. Griffith and Mr. Williams? Weavers.—li we do, we become liable to the penalty of fine and confinement, for violating of Parliament; beside, are yon of opinion that finish the stork we have now on hanus at the -agreement ? Welters, the officer, who had been formerly eng , the silk trade, here stepped forward, and exelt regulations; after tt hicb the 514aistrates desired to stand over • until to-morrow (this day); and, mean time, Mr. Newberry should bc. waited on to his attendance. TOWN !!seal.—Joha Murphy, a soldier in the East Regiment of Militia, was charged situ stabbi ng Damsel with a bayonet. The prosecutor being so severely wounded es to be aity's Hospital in a dangerous state, the hearing of was deferred till his fate could he ascertained. and he attended in a state of great debiiity to give his eridte trricley evening last between nine and ten o'ricck, I the tap room calla Two Sawyers public hints., Crol Silver street. accompanied by ills wife. Tee prisli and ul proceeded ed.Ptr blows; a ho were riot g i n e s o ai f liorvorailed ~ the watch was called in and the house cleared; the m was' not many ya,rds from, the door on his way horn's, prisoner CMG behind him and w.O ti ed Is ifs 11/d ha , bud. He was cePtain it was the act or the prisoner. ;might was so dark that he did not see with Wo. wt *jury was inflicted. He was picked up by the Witch, taken to Guy's Hospital. • Tee prosecutor's wife corroborated this Velem' swore positively to the prisoner; and that a err ,Jerry Neale had been wounded 40 the side by a 1 , 14°' A rusty bayonet was here produced to thv eitnoss the spot by the watch ; but site could not swear to the weapon with which her husband was wounded. The prisoner in his defence denied striltior this prow's?' the street, but cohlfssed he had given hint a blow wito for interfering in the tap room. , . Tie.prisoner being again positively sworn to, Wei Moths Sessions, in default of sureties, and the doui -aveyend beck to the 11 .spiral. - oaeasae • geItRISD.-04 tem Both- alt. at the new iTtif.tnn , Osorp Christmas. gay. of Gower street. WA* oldest dace Landscer of Upper Conway stmt. env ust to,tlall.Ntsf-t Oh the 't fit Lost. at St. tteorge's;l I swkvet equlre, Mr. Atltttiroon, of ••slifly. to Anus, third daaglitor of, Mr., Igiontoi. it Nutt) piss*. - ei Wednesday '. J.. Mithaei, EN. solltUor qt Sod I..nt Spare, eldest duChter of I.r..inon Hart. E.-q. Fttithurett stoiret• . DtSl).-410 Wastortlay last, Itoserober 111..-at Isflttioilksee 14.8' ' 1 ' stow. Thomas Coo:Lousy Kanter Esq. Unmoor of St. Bartliviao ' Hospital.. • , "Ilsosistrty sliotfitg; altos' LO . eliV/041 Fetaliata . Emma• rte ORice, by R. WARDELL, LL,D. Proprietor. rtt if n:r.v e sts altre a Olio. 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