The Statesman. — London, England, 1820-09-26 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. OLD B.IILFI SP:SNI().VS. Vneit4 and Ted,6B, two young men, were capitally irotivted fur ass:tulting William Storks in the hiag's highway, and violently taking from his person a watch. The robbery took place in the night of the 49th .ialy last, in It' irk-lane, netlinal-green The prose cutor observed a nnmher of suspicious characters had sited together in a knot, and being warned by the watchman hr crossed uv. r the war. lle was however followed. and Smith snatched his watch fmm his 54. The evidence against the other prisoner, Tubbs, was so slight, that the Court did not think proper to call upon him for his defence. The Jury found the pri soner Smith " Utility of stealing from the person, not 'violently," and acquitted the other prisoner. The sentence of transportatior for life was immetli at,ly passed upon Smith by the (7onsioN Senaasnr, who was at the same time informed, that the rest of the gang might, if apprehended, receive a mare severe punishment. During the trial a gond deal of laughter was ex cited by the examination of a Berman witness, who soemeil to have very little regard fur the decorum or decency to be preserved in a court of justice. While titular examination by the Court, and while proceed ing in a long harangue, he was interrupted by 31r. Amotews, Counsel for the prisoner. The witness, who spoke broken English, immediately cried out in a loud tone, and assuming a threatening gesture, •• I did not speak to you, Sir." After some difficulty the Court obliged the witness to proceed, anal he several times asked. •• Who am Ito speak to?" When the trial was concluded, and the awful sentence was pro nouneed, the dead silence which usuall♦ ensues was in:errupted by the Merman callNaß out. mad holding up the prosecutor's watch, •• Who is to have the witch, nay Lord lie •diately received a severe reprimand from the l'ourt, and was told in Inture nut to he quite so officions. _ Mary Roland was charged with stealing a silk handkerchief, value Is. and also • pound note. the property of James Robertson, from his person, on the lilth of August. The prosecutor, a seafaring man, said, hr had been that day to a cricket-match, where he acted as waiter, and was on his return home, through Drury-lane, when he was met by the prisoner. Witness then swore that she stole his silk hantli,erchief and the money. The womaw in her defence, said, the prosecutor had give■ her those things.—Guilty. &NM* was indicted for stealing 3s. 6d. from the person of Henry Knowlys, on the lath of August Knowles said he lived in Thornhaugh Mews, and was at the Orange Tree public-house on the night of the 13th Angest. He sat in a box in whirl' there was no one hut the prisoner and himself. When he went in. whiten had 3•. GIL in change in his pocket ; the ptisont•r sat next to him. In a little time he missed the Motley, and 'inspecting the prisoner, hr sent 1.. e a constable, who upon making a search, found the shillings with the prisoner. The prosecutor idew tified these shillings as his property, from some pri. tate marks which he had on them. The constable confirmed this statement. The prisoner was found Gui ly of Steu!ing. POLICE. Ocit.Duatt..—Singoilar act of Insanity in St. Se polders's Chards on &twiny Inst.—This Justice Room was crowded at an early hour yesterday, by numerous individuals of both sexes, to witness the examination of the person who bad created great alarm and confu• siun in St. Sepulchre's Church, on Sunday evening, by firing off a pistol in the middle aisle during Divine Service. 1 he prisoner, whose name* is Daniel Kranling, is a fine looking young man, about 2.4 years old ; he was 'try respectably dressed in black, and conducted himself with every appearance of mildness and pro p:iety. Previously to hearing the evidence, a young gentle. man of the name of Rhenius, clerk in the I e of Messrs. Pasehe and Co., foreign merchants, No 10, Crosby-square, a friend and school-fellow of the pri %Jeer, was sworn to interpret, braiding being a Ger man, and unacquainted with English. The history of the transaction was narrated by a person of the name of Cumber, a smith in Fleet -street, who stated that he was standing in the aisle near the pulpit. about a quarter before seven o'clock, when he observed the prisoner come from the rear of the pulpit. pot on his hat, and pulling from beneath his coat a pi-tol, walk down the aisle and discharge it towards the .rgan. This evidence being communicated to the prisoner by his friend. be mildly said it was cor rect, but desired it might be added." after first dis persing about some of the printed papers," a copy of •hich we subjoin : THE ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION Spokes of by Daniel the Prophet, that he shall stand in the Holy Place, is THE ORGAN. It is the Image of tie Kingdom of Antichsist. THE MUSIC. The B A BY L 0 N Beast. I • II • 111 IV • V • VI • VII VIII b ('umber, immediately on the firing, secured the pri &Kir, in which he was assisted by Pike one of the b ...dies, and be was taken into the Vestry-room, from whence, after being searched, he was conveyed to the C-supser. Diligent search was subsequently made by Mr. Haskins, the churchwarden, and the beadles, bat to mark or trace could be discovered to shrew that the pistol had born loaded with ball. ib. prisoner, when asked what object he had .in tl ia rash act, replied, that he might succeed, as be had succeeded; that his plan might be known to the . *urld;,the papers he had (MIAOW contained it in putt t they were far too small to explain It ; be fitwever, explain it more fully to any person wk;) understood the principles of music. The plan.l • wan4lhat music is the Atitichrlet, which is against Meil f itssa is to be punished, and destroyed by lire. story of the wanderibge wf this unfortunate • s y• WI man was told with muck feeliitg by his friend. Me. itlainius, mho stated that he was the sot of t re spectable merchant at Konigsberg, in Pruesis; and had base as dicer is the Prussian army. and always borne an excellent exemplary moral character . He (Mr. ithenius) was his school-fellow, and they corresponded since he (%tr. It.) had been in thin coun try. Ile nnderstood that Mr. Kr.tsling hail bee I in town, althe Angel Inn, St. Clement's, about six weeks ; hut it n•.ts 110 i till a we• k aq.,, that he received a note from him, saying-, that he (the prisoner) had great events to communicate, which would make him happy in believing. lir called upon him subsequently at tl•e Angel Inn—found him very much agitated ; he then communicated to him, in an incoherent manner, that he had found out all the secrets of the Freema sons, that he had written to the Duke of Sussex four letters on the subject, and had also had an interview with his Royal Highness; and he expected, from the manner in which he had been received by hint, that all the organs and musical instruments would be de stroyed by the Freemasons, they knowing the secret revealed to him, that musi: is Antichrist, and must he destroyed. lie said h could never regain his peace of mind till he had made known this secret to the world, and when that w is (Lo-, he was ready to abide all conseq • and undergo the penalties of the law of the country. Other proofs of the prisoner's disordered state of mind were adduced : it was stated, that while at Ito- Lague, he burnt near 1000 sheets of music, and re fused an athantageous situation of itinsic-mastrr, which had been offered to hint, with a salary of VOt,o fra ICS a year. Since his arrival in this country, he had been for days and nights together without eating, drinking, or sleeping, and s'J strongly was Isis mind impressed with the act he had determined to do, for the purpose of calling public attenti.sn to .':is grand secret, that he did not go to hed tinting the Saturday night previous. When searched at the Vestry Bosun, which he re sisted with much indignation fur some time, his pnrse was found to contain lb or 241 ducats in gold, and some silver; two one-pound Bank of England notes we.e also fouutl in his room at the Angel Inn, hang ing up carelessly over the chimney Blass. 'f he fact of his insanity being thus established, and certified also by 31r. Boy. the Surgeon of the Comptt r, it was determined, with the eonseut of his f hods, that he should be removed to a pl. n •r of proper re straint under their care, until he could sate ly be re stored to his parents. This being communicated to the unfortunate young inn, he espr. stied himself m nm •h obliged to the Ma gistrate, 31r. Alderman Seholey, and. bowing respect fully, retired very quietly with his friend, Mr. Rite aims, and come other gentlemen. _ _ The confusion this occurrence created in the church is scarcely desvibahle its the hurry and crowd to get out. Numbers were iii n down and trampled upon; several children were 11.:rt, and slue was taken to the Hospital with its collar-bone dislocated ; hut nu lives, we hear. were lust. 51s s•ion-llocse.—A shirt time since, the silk warehonse of 3lr. Green, of Wuod-street, Ulteapside, was broke open and robbed of silk goods, &c. to the value of upwards of HMO/. It appeared upon exami nation of the premises, that the robbery must have been well arranged. and enn.lucted upon the most in denious principle of depredation, as the doors were eprived of their fastenings without alarm to the neighbourhood. and the goods were collected front se veral parts of the premises, and must have been re moved at the same moment, through, it has been sup posed, the medium of a cart. The morning after the rolthet y bills were firm lated, describing the nature of the property that had been stolen, and offering a reward of lOU/. for the apprehension of the robbers. The police have been ever since frequently employed in the endeavour to make discoveries, but nothing ap peared in the course of their inquiries or search that led to a probability of detection of those concerned, until a day or two ago. when Leadbeater. the Marshal man, by the merest accident, got into his hands a piece of ribband, which, upon calling to Isis recollection the descrip.ion of what had been stolen from Mr. fireen,he believed to be part of the plunder. The manlier in which the ribband canoe into his possession was rather singular. He had dealt with a re-pro:Me tradesman in the city for many years, and Mrs. Leadheter having. while giving orders for some necessary articles at the shop, been asked whether she wanted any ribbaud which could be sold cheap, a sample of it was pro duced. A bad debt was assigned as the cause of the cheapness of the article; the tradesman bad no snore suspicion that it formed part of Mr. Green's plundered stock titan Mrs. Leadheater entertained, ',who shelved it to her husband as a piece of goods that was worth what had been demanded. Ihe tuarshalman, upon seeing the ribband, innnediately went to Mr. Breen, who instantly identified the ribhand as part of the property stolen out of his warehouse ; upon which the saarshalutau proceeded to his tradesman and learned fins big, the name and address of the person who bad expressed a wish to sell a quantity of the article. The consequence was, that a female of rather rt. epectahle appearance, named Woodman, was taken into easterly, and brought Lefore Mr. Alderman Hers a sTr, who sat yesterday for the Lord Mayor. A witness then stated that the prisoner, who resid ed near her honse, applied to her about a week or a fortnight before Bartholomew Fair, to purchase some ribband. which she said could be had at a very cheap rate. The prisoeter sold two yards of the ribband to a lodger isv the house for fourteen-pence, and two yards to her for a shilling. Some days afterwards the priseaer called stain, and was anxious to dispose of more ribband. Witness did not herself want any, but she told the prisoner that if she would leave some with her, she would try to dispose of it. The prisoner did do so, and witness took the silk to the shop of Mr. Leadbeater's tradesman. Mr. HARMS* attended for the prisoner, and asked Mr. times whether the rubbery could have been sons milted by a wonign Mr. (Freon said he had every reason to suppose that men most have been the perpetrators. Mr. Alderman HATRATC said, be should pestpooe the exatuingtior until Mooday next. Sir John kill. of Hawkstone. who is now In the Aghtieth vise of hi, h oc ., is Otlit one of the keenest allretasen in Shen/1414re. illiitt;tre the hinds with all ' t h e sp i r it of path, is mashy - itrst in Ilse kid. sal tear times out of in at the death. DI 1G0.V0.11 ETRIC.I b 3URrE Y. We learn from a northern correspondent, that Dr. M'Culloch of Blackheath, has been in the Shetland Isles all this summer, by order of the Board of Ord nance, bring associated with the tritrottometrical sur vey.untler the lute lleneral Mudge, and continued by Captain Colby. 'I he leading obj at of the survey is to ascertain the specific gravity and density of the earth at the stations, and in the circuits where the Zenith Sector was placed, for determining the ex treme northern point of the meridional are begun by the hoe lieneral Roy. and now continued fr .uo Dun non to Balta. These corrections are required to determine any eventual errors arising front a devia tion of th plumb line. and also the local influences capable of affecting the pentlithnu, as used by Dr. Uregury and 31. Biot, and more lately by Captain Mater. The whole is connected with similar observa tions, carried on for some years past, on the nieridoval are in question as it pas-es through England and Seotland. This etlert on astran ~,,, ical instruments was first noticed by the French and Spanish astronomers in South America, and applied by (Jr. Maskelyne to the prohlem of determining the earth's density It is treat eil of at full length in Baron De Zarli's work, and the necesity of attending to it was strongly urged by the late lamented Ur. Pis astir. The conduct Lathe Board of Ordnance, in selecting Or. Al'Culloeli, f o r an investi gation of such importance to seitst.e, dest rvcs the highest praise, and is an earnest of the attention they have paid to the due and art ur.:te execution of this important work. Dr. M'Unllolt is farther, we are in formed, extending his uhrarratinta so far as to fur geological map 44 the Shetland Isles, which will lie added t • the general geologi.-al and mineral nap iit Scotland, in whirp he bat. made All great projess, and we understand, it ill be shortly published by the Moan! of I leduanea, in a form corresponding with that of the mys now pithlithing under their inspection. Themlav, about a Titterer past twelve at noon. during a violent sioren of thunder and lightning, accompanied with a treinenolcous shower of hall and rain, the electric fluid entered the lioc.se of .1I r. firmer of the Harpsichord liatlemc, St. Clements, ftitford. It de 'wended the chimney- into tine parhisir where tfardi ner, his wife. and seven children were sitting, and drove one of his daughters. Abu at live years of are, air oico the room, a space of six or -even fret, %%filch much scorched both her legs and lII.e Fide of her up to the bras!. Mr. Um:liner was thrown down, and striven with great rio lenre against a table. The eleetrie fluid mend; a cradle, in which was a child, and tiara the cradle down, but the child escaped unhurt ; it passed in an horizontal di reetion from the pin, on whirls the cradle swum:, to a brad in the sash frame of the window, thence to an iron bar, and the hinge of the door, the case of which it carried away, and escaped lortween the hinge and the door. Another ball enter -4 the house by the window into an upper room, and carried away a landscape, hang ing near the window, to a considerable distance, and es caped by the window. after driving the sash fr a me and cornice swat'. Two trer. 1.1 the front of the !maim were struck, the fork of whido oas rue i torn from the bo dies. The little girl is its a fair way of recover'. Tattoo, Sarr. `l?..—lletween three and font o'clock on Tuesday morning, a fire broke out in the spinning nianu factory of Mears. Plummer, in Mill-lane, in this town, and though the engines were promptly brought to the spot, it was found that every effort to save the building in which the fire originatid, must to unavailing; as from the nature of the machinery and the quantity of oil used in the working, the flames spread with ralololity, anti raged with fury. Fortunately the night was per fectly calm, and a pipe of oil was, by great exertions, got out of the premises before the fire readied where it I - ay, or the consequences would probably have been fatal to a number of old houses, which are situated between the factory and the churelt. The exertions of the per sons present hanpily confined the flames to the premises in whit+ they commenced, which were entirely con sumed with the whole of the insehisery, and a splantity of wool.—lt appears that the tire originated in the for lowing mantle, :—The late drought having compelled the persons belonging to the factory to work, when the accumulation of water in the reservoir was sufficient to set the machinery in motion, some persons were engaged in spinning at a late honr i a the night. The foreman left the pmelisesahont midnight, when all was safe; but a woman and two girls continued at work, until two o'doek, when It appears they fell asleep, leaving a candle burning, which set on tire ir k part of the machinery, and speedily the whole roans was in Raines. Those whose careless ness had orcusionsed the disaster, as err only rendered conscious of tliek dreadful situation by the heat, which had become inentrable, just in time to acre thearselves from destruction, part ot their clothing being scorched. —We understand the premises, &r. were insured nearly to the full amount of the loss sustained. On Thursday morning an alarm of fire pervaded Chichester, in consequence of a vast column of smoke issuing from the roof of the Rev. Mr. Hunt's Chapel, denominated "the Independent Chapel," in Chapel street. Assistance from all parts immediately arca annlatesi and the various engines, both pnhlic and private, bring in excellent order, (which reflects great credit on Mr. Km. Mitchell, superintendent) were applied s.i"Pmisiptly and effeetaally as, in 40 minutes, to subdue all apprehension of danger. This place of worship 14 slltialM etilligunns to several large snap and eamile inaoisfacturies. malt-boems, the guile spirit store, and the extensive premises of Messrs. White and Son, cabinet-makers in Crane-lane, all containing ankles of a combustible nature ; the latter of whirls was within 211 yards of the fire In the direct course of the wind, and was its such a precarious situation as to excite the greatest anxiety. Ent soca° Si,?. 24.—A new plan has Keen pro posed, and we understand is about to be tried, in the pavement 'of out streets, many of which are at this mu rent in very great disrepair. The ramie bow 'lug gestesi is, to lay a rail-way, If it ran be so called, of stone, inserted in the causeway, the stones to be abort twelve inches broad, and cub four feet in len'lrth, with a thickness smihrient for their strength. Of these, two roads smut be laid in each street, for the eonve- Elem., of passing ; and the dimenition of friction is so great, that horses of their own accord Will soon learn to use them. Persons who have ever traversed the streets of Milan, Winch are all furnished With these rail-roadi are spite aware of the comforfikey• afford, to tisiose whd travel la carriages, which less a long the sheet without noise, without shakldg, asd with the'greateet rapidity. If bd Ibdifi •to answer here, mach 4.lpense may be aid he . eg the °thee parts of the Stroet, willoh wIW in ro the more expensive work mans hi p as i s neo ft fit! ir bestowed 's& many of them. - NAVtICAL INTPLLIGENCE. The Salus, Johnson, of Shull., bound to Rt. P e t er ,. burgh, tau foul of the Industrie. I;ullet. from St. Peer* burgh to Rouen, on the night of the 9th inst, near the Scutt., a hen the latter sunk. Crew, except one ■an saved. HILL, SCPT. 22.—8 y the Royal George, arr i ve d here, the following has been received:—The Truelo ve , f ul l ; Helm, 19 libfi, 260 tons; Henry, II fish, 170 tons; E ar l Faucooberg (of (lrimsby), 14 fish, 200 tons. Poursaincru, Suer. 24.—1 t has blown a heavy gale from the South nearly the whole Jay.—Stu p. 31. 1 / is now more moderate. l'Essims SPOKEN wrtn.—Aurora, from Glasgow, ha. 44. lone. 39.; and the Prince Regent, from Liverl. lat. 49. long. 19. both for the Bay of Fundy, by th e W a, Meade, arrived off Falmouth. Corhonear, Stephens, from Liverpool for Corbanear, on the 2:ith tilt, in lat. 47. 14. N. long. 47. xi. oat 37 days, all well, by the Mary Ann, Stephens, arriveil at Neu foumlland. About three o'clock on Saturday morning ; Mt. W. Lynes, resident at a house adjoining the Punch Bowl Public-house, Coventry, kept by Mr. Buhhrtt, a..s alarmed by the barking of his flog, and on groin . up to the window, which looks into Mr. B.'s yard, .an man with a lighted candle in his hand mining out of Mr. B.'s kitchen, and enter the cellar, and soon after hand something to his companions. Mr. Lynes im mediately went down stairs in his shirt, armed himself with a mop stail, and iurtrad of going doe u the yard directly upon them, went round to the bridge, in order to render his coming in contact With the thieves more certain. On his arrival near them, one of the villains exclaimed—" D—n your eyes, what do you want-." To which Lynes answered—"thie of nu, am! one I'll have before I go." On this he a.l - amid a shower of stones and bi irk bits, which erre thrown at him by the villains, and proceeded fearlessly to the wall which separates Mr. ll.'s yard from the brook, in order to secure the person he SAW enter the cellar. '1 he robber, Who was armed with a carving knife, rut Mr. Lynes dreadfully across the arm, who retaliated by knocking him into the brook with his staff, and then jumped in after him : here a dreadful contest ensued, which etas rendered still more minuet by the approach of another of the thieve -4 I who instantly jumped upon Mr. L's back. The con• 54* t uriice was the un.ortunate matt was dreadfully cut and heat, but he couragt misty stuck to his MAU, and with the assistance of Mr. J. Byres, (who fortunately came up, and who had been previously engaged with ow' of the party, but who afterwards escaped) brou.l.t the villain (rions, name is Bradshaw) in custody to his house. We are tr u ly sorry to say, that Mr. L. Ikea b.eu severely wounded in the face; and he re : c dved s dreadful cut on the arm, which it is feared will deprive hie' of its use ; his fingers are cut; and from the appealanee of his shirt three distinct 'stabs were made at his body, but fortunately the murderous intention was defeated. Mr. Eyres received a severe cut across the chin, and which, had it been aimed a quarter ofan inch lowrr, would probably hare deprived him of his life. Ihe villains had the same night pre viously stolen eleven fowls from the premises of Mrs. Hamer, at the Malt Slsovt4 public-bouse, which were &firmer& futtod in a bag in an adjoiuing field. ',bey took frotii Mr. Bobbett's premises about 30s. in half pett...e, three pair of shoes, and a decanter of wire. The till. containing apart of the money, has been since found, and we are informed that another person be lon4ing to the gang has been apprehended. On Wednesday, the 13. b instant, an inquisition Was held at Bed:Harley Heath, Warwickshire, on the body of John Butler, elm the preeding day was taken out of a draw well, wherein he was suffocated by foul air. It appeared in evidence, that on the Monday the de ceased was down in the well cleansing it fur several hours, that on his being drawn up be set fire to a bolting of straw and let it drop down the well. on which there was a report sutficient to shake the win dows in the house adjoining. Hr attempted to descend in a few hours aft. rwards, but found the smoke over p ewer him, and left the work till the next morning, when on his descending to the bolt of the well, le said, " her: is not so much smoke here as above." in a few seconds a 'ma. was heard, James Brookes L was let down, and found the deceased leaning against the side of the well in a state of insensibility! becoming himself overpowered, he called out to Le wound up ; he descended a second time, but bef ore i.e could place a rope round the deceased, he was oppressto and obliged to be drawn up again, and remained ft r some time wholly insensible. Butler was not got nut for half an hour and was tiro quite dead. Vertlic Accitiental Death. A burglary was committed at the house of E. N . F,sq. in the Harrow road, early on Sunday mow ing. Souse thieves entered the house, which i. a short distance from the main road, by forcing ti e shutters of the back window. They were, however. fortunately disappointed by a twastilf dog Owing as alarm from the stable. Two men servants wino %Iry in the honge gut up, and the robbers, four in uutrilwr, were imperfectly seen waking their escape when ti ey were tired upon. They effected a retreat with a fen silver spoons and a watels. NIARRIiD. T.ately. et Rt. George's, itoo.uslairy, by t: • Rot. D rt i litt. 1 r..J.Thompane, Isis of Seadrldge, Kest. t , . Slarib ttophia, dasghter of Jahn POSISOO, Esq., Hatt.. - antral. Landon. Yesterday, at St. Pool's Chpreb, CORULtborl• by the re " John Pesch) Presets, Hatiomlfaq. tits you4ig-.• to L'hartotte , shims of tbs Deane , Rsq., of Pad dook-hosor. Ir Name. Men. Lately, et the Psrsaaase. ItrititM, Mrs. Sehaearean. retie. of the lets Captain delmaassaa, Kiigg's German Legied. toll at Waterloo. On ?Ma , the Iled Inst.. a+ C. 'atill-Rad, Mettles. EA' truly iMeetibetaor wile of Ir. J. P. Hillary. .f 11**.Pitor. Oa Friday. sl"b last., after a lees and MOW* axed 06. Mr. ftliord 1`) try a Of.ord. Viddliars. 4 ./ 1 last.. Mrs. Attu Illeldadealdsr, vire of Mt. Untritis deltutilealder. *Odin. Strand. At WeLsl4 Punk. Meciegoo r e )s olee, after II of needy rigid irt‘elta, I. 1J: iweetv-seyeath year. Wilily. Moody. Clerk. '4164 Ist of IMP Nev. N. Moody, et lido aandaretionae, id ea amity of it ill& orN imis. Las 4•• : Edited. 1 3 0 .4.4, I peolatawt at Me Olt- 0 •,;pose r Naassot.‘," sad i Coirrittilas." liaadaa., ).. *ea*. lifrOta, ) !IL r, Maw tAparci br S. WAJUISLL. Auk. L. B.: se tier/* at owilabeat, (Milan. *s. ate Marti to be addivemei i 1 \ I " ,