The Statesman. — London, England, 1821-12-25 00:00:00

IfsRATHER. (ream TOE PROVINCIAL PAPERS.) A Phan nth Paper says—" On Thursday night last we were visited by a tremendous hurricane from the W. N. IV.; which has occasioned considerable damage in the town and neighbourhood, and at one time was so violent as to cause many of the inhabitants in the higher parts of the town to leave their beds, and seek - sheltea the lower spar ments of their houses. The stack of chimnies on the new Town-hall, in tier-street, yielded to the violence of the gale, and falling with a dreadful crash on the roof, carried every thing before it; and we are much concerned to state that the paintings and in genious machinery of the Theatre of Arts, belonging to :tl.Thiodon (w4o has been exhibiting here for some time past), were entirely destroyed; unfortunately, thus, • at one fell swoop,' reducing the labour of years to a heap of rubbish. At Stonehouse, the chimney of an old house on the quay, fell through the roof, and forced the floor of the room, in uhi.:h a poor man, named It. Davis, was lying in bed, into the cellar underneath, where he was crushed to death by the rubbish. The Cy retie, Captain Tozer, drove from her moorings in the Sound but was brought up when very near the rocks on Staddon Point. The Watchful tender went on shore at the Dock-yard, and the Louisa tender, in Stonehouse Pool, but were got off without injury. We are appre hensive of hearing of great damage on the coast." ltetsrot, Due. 22.—This city, on Thursday night, was visited by one of the most violent hurricanes within the recollection of the eldest citizen. The vessels in the float were driven from their moorings, houses at Clifton and in the city entirely unroofed, and tiles and chimneys flying in all directions. The inhabitants of a house in Bath-street were dangerously wounded by the falling of the roof whilst they were in bed. A number of accidents Las come to our knowledge and very serious damage has been done. A poor woman of lde, near this city, was found drowned in a mill-pond, in that village, yesterday morn b,;, into which it is supposed she was blown by the high wind, on passing to her home, on the preceeding even. ing .—(Rxeter Gazette.) CARLISLE, DEC. 22.—The weather last Tuesday was a phenomenon at this season of the year. Early in the morning the mutterings of distant thunder was heard —at noon a violent storm of hail fiercely pattered against the windows—about two in the afternoon a deep and thick darkness suddenly came on " making the day hidcons"—shortly afterwards Jove's terrible artillery rolled in the sky, accompanied with vivid and fearful flashes of ligtning. EDINBURGH, Dsc. 21.—8 y a sudden squall on Tuesday ;Horning the canvass was blown from the tops of the diKerent umanegeries and show booths on the Mound; a cart of hay was by the same gale overturned at the foot of the Mound. In the South of Scotland, for two months past, the weather has been remarkably wet and stormy, with hn taid atmosphere. Vegetation has made astonishing pro gress—trees and shrubs are shooting forth their buds ; —in some of the gardens at Annan beans are in full blos som; at Hitchell, near that place, on opening a pit of potatoes a few days ago, the produce of the present year steals, had shot from these esculents upwards of a foot long with new potatoes attached, an inch and a half in circumference. In most of the flower-gardens a bored may be selected as beautiful as could be procured in May or June;—and, I. addition to the above facts may be added, the Bat made its appearanceat Annan on Sun day last, skimming through the air with as mach vigour as in the month of July. Conn, Dec. 19.—This city and neighbourhood were visited this morning, between four and five, with &stones, in which all the elements seemed to have combined to render its fury appalling. The night, and, indeed, the entire of last evening bad been exceedingly wet and squally, but about the hour above mentioned, such a tor rent of rain descended as has bees seldom witnessed, ac companied by a strong gale from the S.W. quickly re peated, and very vivid flashes of lightning, and loud peals of thunder. We have not heard that any other damage has been done in the town than parti ally nn roofing a few houses; but the injury inflicted on the cavalry must be immense, as the flood which has come down the river has brought various proofs of its desolat iog career. This, in. addition to the severity of the wea ther for several weeks past, must completely put a stop for the present to field work ; the consequences of which, to the still unhoused potatoe crop, will be most seriously felt.—(SoKikern Reporter.) CLort mat., Dec. 19.—Since our last many old houses and walls have suffered from the effects of the high winds ; and the swells of the flood have not bees lees busy in carrying before its rapid course every thing almost that came in its way; but we have not braid of any material damage being done to any , of the boats, nor have the stores suffered so muds by the late stor ms as that of Thursday night last, the river not having swelled to so great a height.—(llereld.)._ WATICRIOR D. Dec. I9.—WINTER From about half af.er five until nearly seven o'clock, yesterday morning, we were visited by one of the, laudest thunder storms that we ever witnessed. The wind raged high. Several houses were uncovered, .particularly in John-street. Indeed, fee some time the weather has been generally tempesteous. About nine o'clock, on Monday evening, a stack of chimales .fell upon the rear part of the roof of the &owe of .Wca. Hobbs, Esq., Adelphi Terrace, broke down that ,side of the roof, and bore through, with the entire of the rear lofts, to the cellar under ground.- Most fortu nately, the few' persons who were i■ the belie, chanced toll* in the front kitchen, and eicaped with& fright.— In the morning the view of the rains was truly awful. Mr. and. Mrs Hobbs, were from home. The adjoining house of Mrs. Warren was somewhat injured in the roof. We bear that a few heard of cattle were killed near Mescoia t ia-the!otounty of Kilkenny. . The Passage Day-Note of yeiterday mentions, that during the great storm of Monday night and yes terday morning. several houses were much damaged, ,tad many vessels driven on shore from their anchors. Oiiie vessel was laylog under the North Poistof Wooer bill in a very dangerous state.—(Warerfisrd Afirmr.) CsaLow. Duce 2!).—Tbe weather continues alarm o Joey wet sod tempestuous ; ice - have great appreltes: liontfroes. the Geode lag to igteatkeiglip Is tiallsersir sad Barrio. Os idowbdsy ;Wit k wits very vivid lightaisg. Masi "?. •• • • - a Larricaae. !wage has been sustained, by the stripping of bowies : and sows have beta blown down. Many trees have been torn up by the roots.—(Carlow Morning Post.) The Vandeleur cruiser wu driven on the coast of Cunnamaro v. and wa4eearly in the breakers, when the Commander, Lieutenant Napier, R.N., had the mast cut by the board, which providentially saved the byes of the officers and crew, arid prevented the total loss of the vessel. Great apprehensions were entertained for the safety of the Rite Revenue cruiser. WEXFORD, DEc. 17.—A melancholy accident oc curred in our harbour on Saturday e►ening. As Capt. William Hogg, of the Mary Ann, of South Shields. bound from Wick, in Scotland, to Cork, with a cargo' of herrings, was, with his cabin-boy, returning from the town to his vessel, which bas been laying at Ros lare Fort, wind-bound, since the 25th ult., a squall upset the boat; the Surveyor of the Port, perceiving the circumstance, immediately sent off a boat with three men to their assistance, bnt unfortunately with out effect, as both Captain and boy had disappeared.— The body of the former has been found. H. Townshend, G. Bailey, and R. King, inhabitants of Lewes, are in custody on the serious charge of having severely beaten and ill treated the constable and head borough of Southover, on Sunday last, while in the ex. ecution of their duty. Mr. Baker, the constable, has not been sensible since ; and it is feared that he will not survive the injuries he has received. The examination of the prisoners has, io consequence, been postponed. Intoxication led them into this dangerous situation, They began by offering insults to persons who bad just left their chapel ; and, being opposed in their unlawful acts by the civil power, they were urged by the inflamed state of their minas, to the commission of a deed which, perhaps, mayconspromise their lives. On Saturday evening, a man gave information to the constable of Chichester. that there was at a public-house in that city, a notorious house-breaker, of the name of Smith, who had been ordered to be committed to Lewes House of Correction, by the Brighton Bench ; but who, on his way to prison, had contrived to slip off his hand cuffs, and, by jumping from the coach, had effected his escape. In consequence, no lime was lost in apprehend ing and lodging him in the city Gaol, where be awaits evidence to ensure his second committal. When he was taken into custody, he asked who it was that had in formed against him F. On being told, he exclaimed, " then my name is Death." We understand that he has confessed to the Jailor, Mr. J. Ilumphrey, to his having been concerned in several robberies. HOUSIC-BREAKIIRIS APPREIIENDED.—The dwelling house of Sands Chapman, Esq., of Horsham, was broken open in the night of Friday se'nnigbt by three desperate characters : being alarmed by a cart passing by the house at the moment they were making their entry (having forced open the kitchen window-shutter and broken a pane otglass) the rohbers thought proper to make a hasty retreat. In their confusion, however, they' took a direction whereby they met the person who was driving the cart, and be knowing the persons of two of them, they were next morning apprehended, and the third has since been discovered. The whole of them were on Thursday last s fully committed for trial at the ensuing Assizes. One of the three was transported from Horsham, about five years ago for house-breaking, and has returned befote the expiration of his sentence. APPREHENSION OF A DARING SMUGGLER:4f has beets ascertained that there were sixty lti the gang of smugglers, who were concerned in resisting the Officers engaged in the Prevettive Service, in the desperate affray which took place on the 2d of September last, near Marsh Bay ; fifteen of them carried fire-arms.— Eleven are in custody; two of them have turned King's evidence ; and it is expected that a third will. A man of the name of Daniel Fagg was supposed to be one o the gang; be was snspeeted some time since of having committed a robbery, and when some constables were in pursuit of him on that charge, he escaped from them by swimming across a river at Canterbury. Bond, ad active .constable belonging to the Public Office, Bow street, undertook to go in pursuit of him. Yesterday se'nnight, in the evening, he received private informa tion that Fagg was in a house in St. Mildred's, Canter bury, and repaired thither, taking with him five power ful men, one of whom he stationed at the front door, and the others at the back. Bond contrived to gain ad mittance into the house, and under the cellar stairs he found Fagg clearing Slay the bricks to escape into the adjoining house ; he made a desperate resistance, but Bond at length succeeded in securing him by handcuffs and conveying him to Margate, where be underwent an examination before the acting Magistrates. The final examination of the prisoner was postponed to &future day; in the mean time he is to be confined on board his Majesty's ship Severn, under the command of Captain APCulloche, in the Preventive Service. . • Last week an inquest was taken before John Pil grim, Gent. Coroner, at Potter. lieighaur, in Norfolk, on vied of theliody of a new . -born illegitimate child. From the evidence it appeared that a piing woman, shout twenty, was a few days before secretly deliver ed of a child, 'Which lived several hours. Mr. Jeffery, a very respectable surgeon, at Martham, and other witnesses were examined, but asit could not be proved that there were any marks of violence on the deceased, although the circumstances were "very suspicious. the Jury; who were highly respectable, and selected out of different parishes, returned a verdict—died by the visitation of God. There were circumstances came out in tlie course of the examination which were dis graceful to a parent, but of which the Coroner could not take cognizance. We 'are, however, informed. that in consequence of erideiceleollected by some %dila duals in the Pariskitmay hoW•bee'tboutht advisable 'that proceeriinge lb the 'Ecclesiastical Court should be instituted against some of the parties cdiceried in the ibove mysterious alleir„` hod the . . issuer will then be subject to farther Invettitatiou. • Os Wedueiday last another inquest bestehen eforiihie'sittne Coroner, at Langley Staithe, or view of the boditif Wm: Walpole, a ( 1 4114'14*0t four years 'orig., 'who died the priced lot day liVereneeqoinewe'dfirevinglieeWeeretelybuint. the'ilbiher ; had Witte child *nil, iw bet 'tillage with iiiefirefidtark tlitri'llarteigls bones %hew Tbelirr,'llleetinikibt tf piditerfutiiitga? tied, istithied feediceef • rAY. GUILDHALL. - 1U the course of a cause (Shiells and Co. v. Russell) which came on for bearing in the Court of Common Pleas at Guildhall on Saturday, be fore Chief Justice Dallas, the report of which was in serted in our paper of yesterday, two witnesses, named John Painter and John Nightingale, examined on the part of the plaintiff, were directed by the Judge to be prosecuted fur perjury, and in consequence taken im mediately into custody. The mere direction of the Judge that these wit nesses should be prosecuted would not, it seems, ne cessarily have implied that they should have been taken into custody ; the commitment, therefore, if any commitment was ordered, would have been for Contempt of Court, in which cast they should have been taken into custody by the officer of the Court, viz, the Warden of the Fleet. By some mistake Drink water, one of the city officers in attendance, took charge of them, lodged them in Giltspur-street Compter, and in this way they were brought up yes terday for examination, among the rest of the prisoners, beforp the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman BIRCH. Mr. illessenasys, who attended as Solicitor for the prisoners, inquired upon what charge, and upon what ae:hority they were in custody, when it appeared that no formal commitment of any kind bad been made out. The only warrant Mr. Teague, the Keeper of the Compter, produce for holding them being the certificates signed by Mr. Cox, the associate, that the Chief Justice had directed that they should be prosecuted for perjury, and assigned Joseph Green Walford, Esq., as Counsel for Mr. Russell, the defend ant in the cause, who, by his attorney, had undertaken to carry on the prosecution against them. Under these circumstances, their Solicitor contended they were in custody illegally, and upon no proper autho rity; and intimated that they might have their action for false imprisonment. The Solicitor fur the prosecution intimated that a charge of felony might be preferred against them; but the parties were toot p►esent, nor did he know that they would be willing to prosecute. On the other band, the prisoners' solicitor was wil- ling that they should give hail for their appearance to plead to, and answer any indictment that might be preferred against them ; but their bail was not in at tendance, and if they had been, the Solicitor for the prosecution would not consent to accept them, without time allowed for inquiry into their responsibility. The city Solicitor was called in, hut no (tiller alter native presented itself. except that the prisoners should consent to remain in custody till bail was procured and accepted; and accordingly they were at their own re quest remanded until Thursday next. Bow•sTaanT.—Yestenlay, a young twat, calling himself Mary Peeke, was charged under the 52 Geo. 111., cap. 153. with "unlawfully, maliciously, and contemptuously" disturbing the congregation at the Great Queen-street Chapel, during the time of divine service on Sunday evening. Elizabeth Dyer, a pew-opener at the Chapel, stated that the defendant and several otheryoung men bad for a long time past been in the babitorcoming on a Sunday evening, for 'mother purpose than to " ogle the girls," and laugh and talk during the time the service was going on. Se►eral of the other sex, too, she was sorry to say, behaved with equal indecorum, and the Chapel was made rather a place fur flirtation and love-making, than for divine worship. On Sunday evening last she saw the defendant and another man" ogling" as usual, and when they were applied to upon the subject, one of them burst into a " burst laugh." Mr. Elworth, a respectable inhabitant of the parish, serving the office of constable, stated that he had re peatedly seen the defendant conducting himself in the omit indecorous manner in the chapel, and he bad hint in custody for that offence in January, IS2O, when he was suffered to go at large, upon a representation that be was just going to a situation in the country. Ott Sunday evening he resisted being taken into custody. and made so much noise that a crowd of at least 100 persons collected about the doors ; the congregation were much alarmed, and the Minister was stopped in his discourse. The defendant had nothing to say. Sir R. Blame said, that perhaps the defendant was not aware of the provisions of the Act of Parliament, upon which he was brought here, although he must be conscious that he was behaving extremely wrong, and be would therefore read one of the clauses for the in formation of him and others of the same chm. The Worthy Magistrate then read the clause, which sets forth that any person •• unlawfully, &c. disturbing a religious congregation, shall be required to give two sureties of 501. each for his appearance at the Sessions, and there, upon conviction, be fined in the sum of 40/." He (Sir K. B.) therefore called upon the defendant to gi►e these sureties. The defendant was not prepared, and was commit ted until he found hail to that amount. HACKNEY-COACH HlNlNG.—Scarcely a day passes in which the time of the Magistrates is Dot occupied from one to two hours in deciding hackney-coach squabbles, and at least three out of every seven of these squabbles arise out of what the coach hirers call " special ogreeseessts." and the coach drivers " special spoonif..o The public generally do not seem to be sufficiently aware, that a backuey-coacbman is not Gourd ie low by any previous agreement he may make with his fare, as to the price be will perform any stipulated job ; for should be afterwards find that be made an impro vident bargain. be may charge all that the law allows him, and the Magistrate has no alternative but to en force the payment of it. A case exactly itt point came on yestetday, in which a gentleman, wishing to fetch his son from school at Terabit's-green, hired the hackney coach No. 336. for din purpose ; the driver " specially agreeing" that be would on the day stipulated to take the gentleman 'No Turnhase-green, stay thereat long as the gentleman found convenient, and afterwards bring him and his son back to ,tows for fifteen s.illings. Now it so happened that the gentleman " found it convenient" to remain. at Turnbani-green much longer than the coacisisan expected. though not a bit longer than he himself intended. Nevertheless coaches trendiest lack to town without complaining, and having set the gentleman down. he boldly demanded tweely-areen shillings instead of di/leen gentlemen refused to pay the demand, and ipbrilided hint with his breech of faith ; 'but Jervis knew 'what he was'abeet. and hitlitieeltii fire itieettight lemaittesti him before the Magistrate. The gentleman Came before his worship is tsJ confidence; and. ceachee having deposed to the noe, her of hours he was detained, be pleaded his " SpeZ cial agreement," nothing doubting but come/tee noo k be floored, bet, to his utter utooishmeet, th e M ies, trate told him that the special agreement of a hula", coachman was " a thing of nought," end he was rected to pay twenty-seven shillings for the fare, th roe shillings for the summonses, two shillings ( et t h e coachman's time in attending to support it, aid mu shilling for the fees of the office; so that he got Out his of the affair for one purnd tAirt t e n (ba tt in g tro üble.) Another hackney-coach mite followed this; Wh ets Jarvis was the defendant. A lady and gentleman who had rode in his coath, imagined they had paid him 6d. too nisch, and t h ee. fore they summoned him ; but it tuned wat,etea upon their own showing, that they had paid L: ■ : sixpence too little; and of course the expenses and the l anzh were both against them. The lady, in her anger, said the coachman bad been very abusive when n h e 'disputed his demand, but upon inquiry it was foiled that the " sibraiveisese" amounted to this-4 41 ,4 having received the fare he demanded, mew e d his box, and was about to drive off, when the lady in. tinted he should alight, and give her his number in writing. Jarvis told her his number was ea the deer s of his coach, and be could not afford to waste en v sore time by alighting.—" You are as insolent fel. low !" replied the lady—" Why as to that Mena," retorted Jarvis," I believes its merely a matter otopi nion whether I am insolent or yon are troiebteso ni e. The Magistrate held thatthis could not lie construed into " abuse," within the meaning of the Act; and there the matter ended. QTEIN..SQUA very decent looking man. who geemed to have seen better flays, was brought up in the custody of the street-Icreper of St. lilarraref., Westminster, charged with hawking tape, cotton, silk, thread, &c. without a license. 11111, the constable, proved having seen the prisoner standing selling the articles or merchandise in the street, which he carried about in a box; but he serer saw hits Lr 0 to any house to offer to sell. 'l'l►e prisoner was in the greatest mental anguish, He said that he bad a wife and several children to support; he met with an accident some few months ago, whirl. prevented him gaining a livelihood for them by his profession, and he had taken to the present mode of business I. support them. A gentleman came forward and spoke to the re spectable character of the accused, and corroborated his statement. The Magistrates, in referring to the Act of Patna. went, were of opinion that before the ()Renee was completed ; it was necessary to prove that the ac. eased " had gone from house to house offering to sell." The prisoner, on promising to dicontinue the prat. rice, was discharged. A man, about thirty years of age, and dressed bet. ter than working men in general are, was charged with begging in Tothill•fiehls. The constable who had him in cnstody swore he watched him into several houses, where he begged fur alms, and, unless he got something to please him, he abused the people. On being searched, 12s. 941. WAS foiled upon him. When . taken, he d—d the officers, saying, although he was now a beggar, be was far more respectable than them, or their masters. In his defence, he declared the money found upon him was his week's wages; but it being insufficient to pay arrears of rent due to his landlord, he thought it could be no harm to beg for the deficiency. A gentleman stepped forward and gave the prisoner a character. Mr. Raiwaroan said that they (the Magistrates) would not do their duty if they *hewed any le sieney to such a man, who, besides good clothing, and good health, bad so much money in his pocket, at a time when be was committing such impositions upon the public. Therefore be was committed to prisom for oLe month. Yesterday morning the body of a corpulent man was found at Doke's Shore, himehouse, which ap peared to have been a considerable time in the water. The body was taken to the bone-house for a Coroner's I nquest. Yesterday evening an inquisition was taken at the 0111 Rose, ltatcliff Highway, before J. W. Unw•in, F.sq. Coroner, on the body of Jane Parkins. The de ceased was an elderly woman, and kept house for Air. Thomas Young, in Moreton's•court, Itatcliff Highway. 0e Sunday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, she came home in a state of intoxication, and all in treaties used to prevail on her to go to bed, were fruit less ; •n the family retiring to rest, she was left in her room on the ground floor by herself, and nothing seen •f her until yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, when she was found lying on her face, quite dead, with her clothes on. Iler right cheek was eaten off by the rats, as also the flesh of her right arm, and two of her lingers were gnawed by the same ver min.—Verdict—Died from excessive drinking. MARRIED. At Brighton. on Saturday last. Thomas Deudney, Esq. of Ditchling, Sussex, to Moss S. Davies, fifth slaughter of the late 11. Peeks, Esq. of Chepstow. Monmouthshire. At St. Luke's. Chelsea, T. Yates, M.D. of Brighton, to Olive. widow of the late F. C. Street, Esq. and daughter of 3. Nailer, Esq. At Brighton. ea the 22.1 inst. the Rev. Dr. Styles, to Sophia, second daughter of the late J. L. Colvill, Esq. of Parliament-street, Westminster. Yeste►day sennight, at Lyndhurst, the Rev. C. W. Weds house. to Lady Jane Hay. On F►iday last, at Tunbridge.Warburton Davies. Esq. to Sophia Ann. daughter of Sir James Wand Lamb, Bart. Oa Saturday but. Mr. Philip Johnson Ilurlock, of St. Paul's Church-yard. to Miss Sibyl Middleton, of liavel heath. bear Crawley, hussex. DIED. On Monday night. the 17th init. sn.ldenlv, at the Hotel du Nord. Rue de Richelieu. Paris. the Right lion. Lucy.Coao tess of Lisburne. wife of the present Earl. and lifth daughter of the late Lord Viscount Courtney. aged 51 pears. On Saturday morning. suddenly, at Brighton, of gout in the stomach. R. F. %V) tenon', Esq. FA*, eemaight. at Satpenhitl, Derhyilkire. J. Peel. Esq. breast Se Sir R. Peel. Bart. and uncle to the Right 1101. R. Pig. Y.P. for the University of Oxford. At Meaner. on Monday. the 17th instant. Joveph.Bras dbit. gati.. 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