The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-04-21 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BEllCll.—Aram 19. 11ARRINT WILSON e. 5111 B. W. WILSON' This was an action brought by Miss Wilson, against Sir fl. %V. Wil on, to recover the arrears of an annuity of 2CO/..which he had engaged to p a y her, by quarterly sums of LOi. Thedeclaraion stated as the consideration of the promise, that the plaintiff was a governess in the family of Lord Sandwich, and that the defendant en gaged to 17 ake this provision for her in ease she should leave it. It appeared that Sir Henry Wilson had disco vered that the lady was his sister, and thinking it im proper' that she should continue a governess, prevailed on her to leave a situation in. which she was the object of much affectionate solicitude and esteem. The case restbd el% his letters; and on these the Lord Chief Justice thought no legal annuity was matte out, and nonsuitcd the plaintiff, giving Mr:Gurney leave to move to enter a verdict for the amount of the arrears. Mr. Grassy now moved to set aside the nonsult, and o enter so eh verdict. The Coea'r expressed no opinion on the point, but granted a rule to show rause. CONSISTORY COURT.—SATUIDAT. ALLEGED CLERICAL IRREGULARITIES. THE PARISH OF GREAT WALTHAM V. TUE REV. DOCTOR CLARKE. Doctor S*ART addressed the Court in support of ar ticles promoted by the Churchwardens of the parish of ;rest Waltham, • Esecx, on behalf of themselves and parishioners, against the Rev. Dr. Ueorge Somers Parke, Vicar of reaid parish, for divers neglects and irre giolviries in the discharge of his clerical functions ; for refusal and neglect to perform the office of burial; for refusal and neglect to perform the office of baptism; for refusal and neglect to perform the ceremony of mar riage; for refusal and neglect to perform public wor 'hip ; and for divers other neglects and irregularities. — The charges were exhibited in 20 articles; and deposi tions were made in their support by 21 witnesses. The deposition., which were very long, were read by Dr. Luebineton and Dr. Dodson. It was stated that on oc casion of one of the deponents having applied to him to' know when he could conveniently perform the burial ser vice at the funeral of the deponent's son, who was thee dead, Doctor Clarke inquird of him whetherhe hail oot been at the Six Bells public-house; and the deponent having answered that lie bad been there to order soma beer to be given to the b f his son's body when ,be shonliUning it for interment. Dr. Clarke told him, t'et I "as be (the deponent), chose to deil with people that hadinsnlted him (Doctor Clarke), he would not bray his child at, all.". And the deponent was, in conse quenee of Doctor Clarke's. refine!, obliged to have his child buried in another parish. I n another case, it was I deposed, that Dr. Clarke refused to bury a corpse in the' part of the church-yard where the family of the deceased were buried, st”ing, that as his parishioners had indicted the path-way lie had made through the church-yen', be would bury it in no other part of the church-yard titan that path-war. The deposit;ons stated two instances of Doctor t.larke having refused to baptise children, be cause their parents, when they brought them to church for that purpose, had gone into the Six Bells public house, before they went to the church : the pa rents and several witnesses deposed, that they had not drank any thing at the public-house, but merely mot in to rest after a long walk. Several witnesses deposed to the Rev. Dr. Clarke having kept the church *bed on Sundays, and refused to perform divine service, though not pft vented by sickness, nor any other justifiable cause ; and, also, that he refused to allow vestries to be held in the church, saying, they might he held in the Six Bells; and, on one occasion, when the churchwarden gave no tice in rbe church, immediately after divine service, that a ve,try would he held on a day lie named in the next week, the Iter. Doctor Clarke said, in a loud voice, "and ', 1 glee notice that 1 will not do duty in this church again until the windows are mended." And on another occa sion, too persons having come into the church while Dr. Clarke was preaching, be broke off his sermon, and said, " Yoo that are come in to make observation*, may count the broken panes in the wisdom." • The Judge (Sir Cruttsvorees ROBtPISOH) addressed Doctor Clarke, who was in Court during the whole of the proceedings, and said, that as lie defended him self. the Court was desirous of giving him every pos . aible indulgence; and. he might either enter on his defence then, or on the next court day. as be thought fit. Dr. Clarke sail, he would take till the next court day. Sir C. Roar:teen directed the officer of the Court to admonish Dr. Clarke to attend on the next court day afterwhich the Court adjourned. . . . • • • ----:- CIOURN OF COMMON PLEAS.—SATCROAT. 1.100•11ATT OF 71145 BARGAINS IN FOREIGN STOCR., • VA N ROSSUI4 V. TAYLOR. • Mr.-Sergeant Pett moved for a rule to chew cause why • a sett trial should not be granted in this case. This was an *ellen - to recover the loss occasioned by the difference • in *bat is called " time bargains" on the purchase of Colombia* librids. There were several objections, the ' first seeped of Which were, that the contract of • " Wright-notes" of the snack required a ramp, as being agreements for the purchase of certa in sto ck , such stock • .uot being wa r e s, merchandise," /sc. whin the mean • ing of iheStamp Act. The third objection was, that if ' these i•oarriet no!es could not be received as evidence vid, of the purVhase unstamped, then the contract there being no memorandum such as was required by the statute of (rands. The fourth objection arose from the went of authority under which the plaintiff had made good the loss. If he itad‘peld the money, he had paid •rt In hi: own wrong, and could not now recover it. The plaintiff had . represented himself, in the first instance, as ' the broker, and afterwards demanded the loss as the principal; and on this fact the fifth objection was found ed, Ma person being by law (as the Learned Sergeant con teatiiii) allowed to act as principal and agent in the same traniaction in the sale or purchase of stock. The last of etiow was one of the greatest public importance. llothergain- was clearly and indisputably a tune bar gain; era to.te questh.n.with, whether such bargains in fo -reign stta vete not illegal, as coming within the pro . er i roui`Olf• Sir J. Barnard's &cock Jobbing Act, which it 'waft eotitended oh the ether side applied to British funds stock Was not alluded to in the Act. Chief Justice Oaitatt.--This is clearly a stock -jobbing tranaaition, and Si r John li*rnard's Act, which was made to *vent that " infamous practice" of stock- sh a nd biwg.' seem** eqnally to apply to Jobbing in Briti • Foreign securities. Take your rule as •tt is prayed for. Rule grille& . OLD BAILEY.—SreuRDAY. --0.-- - or.: H. eq. a rnds; assa96 rears of age, of genteel I asst . ' fashi..pe,We appeal-sure:stood indicted for woarryins ' Julia Hraliyi his wife Elisabeth Thomson Capon, being themalise, Dori.' Absalom, sworn—Has known the pyisoner at the bar from his clwiaborKi; he lived in tirrat Yar month; in Xorfolk, awl is a tailor by trade: Witness is . parikb clerk ft•Oreut Yarmouth Church; remembers the Rimer being inarried at Yarmouth Church, on the 25.11 • lilo-Elixabeth Thomson Capon; was present t ill it ecekeotypf, "and cannot be mistaken in the person 'of die prisoner.. Witross"liis seen Elisabeth Thomson Cars4olsilitent to the prisoner's marriage with Julia Healer • el the prisoner; who conducted his own defence, pro ieeeded treteartauther the witnestin tile MAtlat pert and flippant style,,alid elarfregeelitly reninied by the Re corder that be was askit'g improper questions. THE STATESMAN• Prisoner—Pray, Sir, were you not guilty of sacrilege in pawning the church plate, while pansh clerk, at Great Yarmouth. Recoenta—The witness is not bound to answer that question, u no man • can be called upon to criminate himself, nor must you make such charges without ample proof. Prisoner resumed—Was not the chinch plate removed from your house about three years ago, in consequence of your misconduct ?—No, it was never Tetuoved, but is still under my care. • Julia Healey, sworo.—Knows the prisoner at the bar ; became acquainted with him about four years ago; in consequence of hie working at the same shop where her uncle lived foreman ; he introduced himself to her as a single man, and after a short courtship they were ID4I , vied at Shoreditch Church, on the 14th November, 1619; her uncle, ;who is since deed, being present at the erte n ony. The prisoner, after living with her about two years, deserted her, lea. :ur her with a young child, and pregnant with a second, without aoy means of subsist ence; the prisoner before he left her having disposed of every thing valuable, and had even took the wedding ring off her finger, and sold it, iu consequence of which she was reduced to the greatest diatressand misery. When witness accused him of having another wife living, be said she was not his wife but only a kept woman. Clifford Elisha sworn.—ls parish clerk of Slsoreditch, and produced a copy of the marriage register b e tween the prisoner and Julia Healey ; it was dated 14th Nov. 1819. IVitness is not able to identify the prisoner, as so many people are married at that Church. The prisoner, in his defence, entered into a long arp• ment to prove that the case was not made out against him. lie maintained that it was impossible for the wit ness Absalom to identify him, after nut having seen him for five years, and that, too, at a time of life when the features of a young wan undergo so touch alteration. He then proceeded to comment on the severity of the pro ceedings against him, and the hardship of his having been so long confined without money or friends, which ' obliged him to advocate his cause in person ; he coo cludeil by leaving himself in the hands of the Jury. The RECORDER aumnied up the evidence to the Jury; in his opinion the case had been fairly established against the prisoner, and there was no doubt of his guilt. It was not necessary to call a host of witnes ses to p rove the first marriage, when one woe quite sufficient for pur- pose; the prisoner did not a ttempt to deny the the second marriage, and therefore no doubt colds' exist. The Jury, after a short consultation, found the pri soner Guilty. The It ecoaDoo then addressed the prisoner, comment- I ing with great severity on the enornii!y of his offence. He observed that a case of more hardened villainy had never come within his notice. He was not an ignorant man, and therefore could nut plead that as an escose. ' His brutal conduct towards .1111ia Healey, whom he had seduced by a false oath, and then deserting her in dis tress, was a crime of no ordinary nature, and was almost unparalleled in the catalogue of human offences, and plainly showed him to be a man, if lie was deserving of that name, destitute of the common feelings of humanity; the Court, therefore, would not fail to visit his sins as they deserved. The seorenee of the Court WO, there fore, that he be transported beyond the seas for 7 years. Wm. Monroe, aged 67, by pro'ession a surgeon, who appeared a once respectable man, was convicted of steal ill two sheets, the property of Thomas Annis, in the dwelling house. The written defence of the Prisoners, couched in res• pectful language, detailed a snort history of his distress• es' situation. The wife of the prosecutor recostonended him to mercy. Pzasiiiirtaitia . .- 10 a pamphlet, " Cottp-d'oeit on the war of Spain, between the years ISOS and 1514," the author, M. Ls licaurnille, chief of battalion in the royal corps of Engineers, thus describes a scene, and relatesa conversation which occurred during his service in the Peninsula, for the purpose of showing the dogged and oncooquerable perseverance of the Spa nish character:—" On my first passage of the Ebro at Miranda, I was lodged with a peasant, who, covered with a black sheepskin, a enontera of undyed wool, his face blackened with smoke, and his body squatted in a corner a of his gloomy cabin, presented no - bad resemblance of hear taught to use segars After several attempts, I, at last succeeded in drawing him into a con versation, and the subject of it naturally seas, the great number of French troops who had passed that point. • With these soldiers,' said Ito hint, it will Dot be dif f icult to sub. due Spain.'—‘ Of that we know nothing as yet.'—' We shall not be prevented this time.' said I, from going to Madrid.—' 1 think rot.'—' We shall penetrate to Valencia..--‘ That is very possible.'—' We shall reach Ca diz.'—' Thal may happen, ausuered he; and yet aftrr all, Spain will not be subdtted:—.. What do you say?'?' * Let me ask you, Senor,' replied he,' have you not om times seen balls fired upon a house?" I es, Senor.'-- ' The I all destroys every thing in its passage, but don not return." And the house,' said I, is overthrown.'l ' But the foundations,' added he, • rem tin. The Moors conquered Spain more rapidly than you can, and yet, by l the assistance a lion, we at last drove them back into' Africa." Yes, at the end of 700 years." What boots, it?' concluded he. • It is more than 700 years since the c a t ofToledo was built.' We must think of postal ty.' I have quoted the dialogue, adds M. la Beaumille,be cause it was the expres , ion of a general feeling. 1 found the idea of the comparison between the invasion of ' the Moors and the French universally diffused, and I never , met with any individual who, in making it, expressed the least fear of seeing the national independ,mce estftotished through a war of seven centuries. Twenty gene rationsrats are not sufficient to exhaust their patience.—` I ays he afterwards, against the iticonveuieuces of a military oc cupation, the inmates of the houses where I lodged, and it never happened to me to take leave of my hosts without an offe r of their fuore seri ices, or a promise to take care of me if I should t return rounded or a prisoner into their town. They could not conceive, eve at the moment ever that the F re nch left their qu arter victorioas, n t hat they could axe es except as captives.' EXTRACT FROM A UNtiRD STATIa' PAPER.—A negro fellow, previous to the revolution, being suspected of having sto!en goods in his poss ession, o as taken before a cer tain Justice of t he Pea ice n the cottnty of Philadephia, and charged with the offence. The uegra acknowledged the fact, and made the followingo, d ec i s ive defence " Massa Justice, we know me got .leut tinge from Tom, dere, and me tink Tom teal dent too; but what den, Massa? Dry be only a piccaninny knife and a piece,' cork,screw : one cost / honestly and tudder a shilling, and me pay Tom for dem , Massa."—" A very pretty story truly," said his Worsirtp, " you knew they were stolen, and yet allege, in excusr., you paid honestly for them : I'll teach you he ter law than that. sirrals ! Don't you know, Pompey, the receiver is as bad as the thief? Yon must. you black rascal, be severely whips." " Very well, Massa, if de black rascal he whipt for buyin tolen goods, ur.: hope de white rascal be whipt too, fur game ring, when ocatch hint, as well as P o nspey."— "To be sure." p liedrep the Justice. " by den," says Pompey, " Here be 'font's Massa ; hold him fast, consta ble; he buy Tom as I buy picaninny.knite, and de piece qiony corkscrew. lie know verry well poor Toth be stolen from him obi fAtltlrr and mudiler : —de knife and de cork-serew had nedder." Such was the justice as well as the severity of Pompey's address, that after • short pause, the Magistrate, with the consent of 'f um' s master, dismissed him, and discharged the action. Snoctoso AcetossT.—A poor woman, 74 years of age, named Eaton, lodging at 13 . King s g ate-street, Hol born, luring left by h e r-elf, her clothes caught tire, aid she was so dreadfully burned before she received any asiist.o.ce, that she expired on Friday morning. (eatntat.L.—Sittordsy, before Sir Ciantottts S. Hex. Telt, Bart. the Sitting Alderman, two men, named Phi lip Discombe and Thomas Francii, ticket porters, plying at warrantn in Bishopsgate-street, wtre brought up on a for an assaultbf an atrocious nature upon Philip Barnett, a Jew old clothesman. The prisoners, together with Thomas Winterbond, also a ticket porter, had, it seems, been to a supper given by a young mars, a comrade of theirs , on Tuesda y evening, and on - tVednesday morning been, as one of them termed it, " vejoicing themselves" with the fragments, and plen tiful draughts of ale, till they were just drunk enough to, be fit For any kind of mischief ; while they were in this state, larking about in Devonshire-street, Bishopsgate,l the poor old Jew. and Isis son-in-law, who is nearly cripple, happened to coins down the street in pursuit of their daily avocations. The son-in-law was first, with the bag on his shoulder, when the three fellows placed themselves across the street, and kept dodging him from side to side to prevent him passing along, laughing at, and insulting hint at the same time. Barnett interfered, but no sooner had he opened his mouth to ask why they insulted the man, than they pushed him from one to the other with great violence, and one of them (Francis), pulling a cord out of his pocket, said, " I'd be Jaek Ketch for once, and hang the Jew," and immediately threw the noose over the Jew's head. His companions pulled the rope tight, mai the poor Jew was dragged along till he fell down. The fellows,however, continu still to pull him along, till too passengers, one of them happening to be a ass Jew, inteeered to protect him, and the re fellows ran ay. This interference, it seems, was but just in time to prevent murder; the poor Jew was quite black in the face, the rope round his neck hiving been pulled so tight, it was (leaned necessary to cut it in mare to remove it. The Jew Gentleman who bad as sisted in releasing poor Barnett, had also managed to keep his eye upon the three fellows, who went Into a neighbouring public-house, as soon as he found Barnett safficientv recovered, be procured the assistance of an officer, but un going to the hens.. Winterbond only was Gino& and he was accordingly brought to this Otis c. and held to bail for his offence. Discombe and Fraatis were taken into cu t ely on Saturday morning. The prisoners di 1 not attempt to deny the violence with which thee. were charged, and bad nothing to offer either in defence or excuse of their conduct, but that they were so drunk es not to know what they did, and they now expressed contrities fur their behaviour. Sir CLAUDIUS HUNTS& reprobated in the strongest terms the wanton barbarity of the prisoners, and said, he should hold them to hail for the offence. In the sequel, however, ihe Magistrate was applied to by a respectable looking person, the uncle of one of the prisoners, to permit the affair to he made up. They were both, he said, men of good character, and now most heartily sorry for their conduct, which intoxication alone bad led them to commit. The prose:utair, too. was will ing to forgive them, if the Jlagistrate would allow the affair to be settled. Sir CLAUDIUS, with much reluctance, assented, upon their promise never to be guilty of a similar offence again, and publicly acknowledging to the prosecutor their sor row at the manner in which they had behaved to him. This they most readily perfoitneil, and the parties were then permitted to with - draw together. On Satnrday a man, haring the appearance of a sea man, was brought up before the sitting Alderman. at this offire, charged by Davis, the day-patrol, with being intoxicat•-ti, arid creating a disturbance iu the Old Itai ley Sessions House-yard, about six o'clock on Friday evening. The prisoner told his story, which excited great inter est, in nearly the following words :-11e was a native of Perth, in Scotland, and iu the year lts2o he entered the Royal African corps as a private soldier. and to join which regiment he, in 1821, sailed from England ; that he was landed at Gambia, and almost immediately volun teered to accompany the Government mission, (appointed for the purpose of exploring the interior of Africa, and finding out the source of the Niger), which was then un der the command of Major dray, of the Royal African corps, and accordingly travelled with the mission, first through the Joliffe, and onwardinto the Fully') countries, until they reached Bullivannah, the capital of the Fullab country, which is a mud-built town, and contains shout 5,000 people. Hero they were forced to remain till the rainy season terminated. It was their intention to have then proceeded in accomplishment of the objects of their search, but they were prevented by the Alin anal), of the King of the Fullahs, who forbade them to proceed in their projected route, and pointed nut another, which, had they rustled, must have exposed them to destruction from the number of robbers and the difficulties of te roads. Finding them r efuse to follow the line he ha n d laid down, he commanded them to return to Senegal, and ordered a strong guard to accompany them. Appre hensive of danger, and still desirous of attaining the ob ject which they had io view, they contrived to wake their escape from their guards, and, after many dangers and sufferings, they reached Itequale, a town on the river Se negal, 1,004) miles further up the river than SenegaL— Here they remained for sixteenth months, under the pro tection of the French, who haul a settlement there, and were building a fort, in the erection of which our traveller and hiscompanions assisted, and received regular rations in return. cause of their detention here so long was the want of ;eater in the river, and as soon as the rains had swollen the river they prepared to embark in steam-vessels, emplyed by the French in conveying merchandize between their settlement asd Senegal. While they remained here, the principal part of their number died from dysentery, brought on by the badness of the water, the excessive hest, and Heine upon nothing but maize and ' koos koos.' a small grain, like millet, pounded and eaten raw. Major Dray de termined to remain here in furtherance of his duty, and kept thirteen men (all blacks but one) to obey his commands; the rest he sent by the steam-boats (Shout fourteen men) down the river to Senegal, where they arrived iu about tea days, soiling at the rate of nearly 100 miles a day, caused in a great measure by the violence of the current. From Senegal they were coaveyed i t h e r echooder to Sieves Leotte, and. after suffering greatly there from siAness, they took ship ping and were conveyed to Liverpool, where our traveller and four more landed, out of 190 who embarked along with him, the rest having either deed, or been scattered throughout Africa. They pursued the same track that had been traversed by Mungo' Park, and became acquainted with malty interesting perticulars concerning him. The tra veller was treated very handsomely by oa„Goaernmeot the ou his return. After having ended his story, explained last night's affair, by saying that bole had been with a friend, who had gives him a cmsider quantity of rum, and that, having sn empty stomach, it had directly affected hum, during which time he was unconscious of what he said or did ; that he was sorry it had happened, end that, if fits Worship would pardon this offencs, he would take care ii should not occur again. The Worthy Alder nen. who appeared satisfied of the truth of this story, gave him a kind warning, and dismissed He was a tall powerful man, with a countenance bespeak ing firmness and sagacity. and a body capable of enduring fatigue, and rppareatly little affected by it. lie spoke French fluently, and was well acquainted with the native languages of the countries in which he stayed so long. Al together, he seemed well fitted for an auxiliary to the expe dition watch he accompanied. Bow-staegT.—Me. Darid Barbet , an artist, was sum moned before Mr. M issue ra., at this office, to answer the gomplaint of Mr. Dyson, a dealer hi pictures. to Dew cause why he detained a painting, which, Mr. Dyson claimed as his lawful property. Mr. Dyson stated that he bail employed the defendant to paint a picture,the subject of which was a Jew pedlar exhibit ing his gaudy wares to two country girls, one of whom was coaxing her sweetheart to make a purchase for her. lie ions to be paid a certain price for it; witasss*supplying the. POLICE csuv•i. as was his custom, and now that the painting was completed. the defendant refused to give it up unless a greater sum than had been agreed upon was paid. Ile al ready owed witness bi., which had been paid to him former ly in 'disuse, and this he refused to have deducted from his denten& Mr. Harbor said the Magistrate then saw before him one of a numerous class of unfortunate fellows In this metropo lis, who, having embraced the profession of a painter with- out adequate means of supperting themselves in respects- busty until (suitposing they had talent) their works brought them into notice and patronage, were obliged in earn • hare subsistence in the miserable drudgery of supplying print shops or dealers in pictures. Ile had been working for ins ' ny months from moriditg till night, and in 1:1 health a great part of the time, for Mr. Dyson, who paid Lim (he was ashamed to say so, but it was the )rutli) less than a guinea n week, and treated him with more indignity than he did hiv own shop-boy. A part of this drudgery was to print ropier of eminent masters, which Mr. Dyson contrived to put fort!t as originals. and the canvas which the latter so:tidied wax always old, in order to assist the deception. The palatine now in question, he had undertaken to execute at a crania price, together with a subject for a Lithographic pr;nt, and his only reason for refusing to deliver teem, was that Mr: Dyson would not pay him his fair and honest demand for his labour.% Mr. Dyson said, he resisted the payment, belatve the de. , f.:4Aant demanded more than the price agreed upon. After some further conversation the parties retired for the purpose of coming to an arraagement. Mantatottoecu-sTeeeT.—ESPItIT DU CORPS.-o'n S. turday three yoang men were placed at the bar, charge l with a riotous conduct in the street on the night before, and assanlting and knorki ng down one of the _u irises of the night. After the watchman had sworn to his , charge, Mr. Cosaarr, the Magistrate, asked the first in line what he was? " I am a coaciiian, your worship," was the reply. In whose seivice are you in ? 0 Sir Mat thew White Ridley's." Wh 41 are sou, said he to the next in order' " A (ow iii in, your 41.01-Ship." Anil pray, said lir. Conant, to the third, what are ion? "I ant a lady's footman, your worship." In whose, service are you ? " Sir Matthew White Itilley's." The Magistrate inquired what they had to say to the charge. They de nied having committed the assault, and said there were tic., gentlemen ie the office uho witnessed the whole transaction, and could prove their innocence. A young man now soepped fur ward, and being asked what h e tray? said "lam a groom, your worship." In whose service are you? ‘• Sir Matthew White Ridley's." (A laugh in the office.) The gronnt stated that he certoiuly saw ' the watchman tumble, hut not by the simony of ant of the gentlemen at tine liar. Tit- fact %els, his fo a slipped on a piece of orange peel which lot on the pavement, aeil upset him. A very grave-looltiox personage oow ad vanced to add the weight of his testimony. Ile said that he was passing accidentally, and saw the entire lupines*, awl in his opinion the watelneten deserved a good dress ' ing for their conduct. " And pray, Sir," s.titl Mr. Co nant, " what may you he ?" " I ant a cook, your wor ship." " And in whose service ere you in?" " Sir M. White Ridley's, your worship." (A loud laugh.) ." lieu bless toe, this is very ola '." said Mr. Conant, " is Sir Matthew in town ?" It was answered that he was. " I wonder," said Mr. Conant, " that he cin dispense with the attendance of so large a portion of his household at one time." The charge lsei ng sufficiently priced against the lady's footman, who, although he was in the most ellemi mate department of the service, appeared to he the most masculine in action, lie was ordered to find bail fur the assault, and the others were discharged. --- Thomas Tavlor.now a prisoner in the County Geol. Tps 'rich, for steal!ng wood from Roger Peitiward, Esq. hes. it *spears, made a c nifession to Joseph Fordhain. a fellow prisoner, and two other prisoners in the smile ;pot, that on the evening of April the Ito, iS Y. hr set fire to the premises of Mr. S. Wallenger, cf the parish of Coombs. It seems that the circumstance of a mare and foal having perished in the flames bar produced remorse of conscience, and impelled him to disclose his guilt. Mttanen ov Mae. ittCusans.—Tien persons, it mil be recollected, were taken up at Wandsworth, in the course of the last week,on suspicion of being concerned in the above murder ; but that suspicion seems only to have been founded on the fact of their haying lived M the neighbourhood, and on the general irregularity of their lives. They at present remain in custody. Staid eon tinnes closely confined, and is not allowed to have inter course with any person whatever. The watch which Mrs. Richards had valued so highly, has been traced to a pawnbroker, wbo states that he received it in pledge from a woman on the morning after the murder seas per petrated. A description of the woman having been ob tained, she was found, and she swears that she received the watch from the prisoner Statfel, and be his direction took it to the pawnbroker. She afterwards delivered the duplicate and the money she received to him. In order to ascertain whether he had any thing to do with the ficti tious parcel found lying near to the head of the de,:eased, addressed to " Mrs. Hell, ' bat' Mrs. Richards's, Clap ham," lie was asked if he could write? H hesitated at first, but at length admitted that he coal& e A pen well some paper were then put into his hand, and he was desired to write Id; name. This he did. lie was then desird to write " Mrs. Hell, at Mrs. Richards's, Clap ham e Common." This he also began to do, and al though his hand shook very mach, there was an obvious similarity betweenhis writing and that on the parcel found in the house; but what was still more conclusive was, that when he came to the word " at" lie spelt it with an " h," precisely as in the original , as if then conaci on' that his crime bad been discovered, lie threw down the pen, and, in a despairi n g tone, exclaimed, "it is no use Thus the matter at present - rests, but it is be lieved that the prisioner was not the person con cerned, at d that he had confederates,w h o have not yet been discovered. RICHARDSON, G OODLI ICIC, & Co. respectfully acquaint the Public that the SOC3IIII Day of Drawing the State Lot tery will he next Wednesday, when Two Prizes of £b,ooo are sure to be Drawn. The Wheel contains Two Prizes of £90,000, o .e 5,000 2 .el,OOO. and 24 other Capitals. The Bolder of a Blank or Small Prise dray/Lon That Day way receive another Undrawn Ticket or Share in exchange, ra tis, for the foist Day of Drawing , the sth of May.—Tielett soil Shares, warranted Undrawn, are on Sale by RICHARD.. SON. GOODLI;CR, & CO. at their Old-Established Office, 1114, Corner of Sauk Suildisgs,Cornhill. - - --- --- DIED . On Saturday evening, at his house in Montagu' square, in the 71st year of his age, Sir C;.arles Warwick llamptide, Bart. of Pottimore, the county of Devon, and Ilardlugton Park, in the colinty of Somerset; he is succeed ed in his title and estates by his son, George Warwick • Bainpfylde, Esq. On Friday. the 11th inst. at his re sidence, Be g brook, nest Bristol. R. Lovell. M. D. On tie 12th inst. at Brixton, Mr. L. Bowring, of Little Tower-street. On the oth of November, ini, at Nusseerahad. in NI 39th year. Capt. Win. Hales, of the toith Regiment of Beast Native Infantry, eldest son of William Hales, Esq. Camber well. On the 19th Inst. Mr. T. White, many years one of the masters of Lloyd's. aged 6.5. Oa the 11th lost. at Clifton, Lady Owen, of Portsno square, London, widow of the former Sir Hugh Owen, of Orielton, in the county of Pembroke. Bart. Thu On rsday ornng last, at hi reidence, No. O Wellclose-square,m Mr. i Richard Rutter, s In s the 414 h ) Cif of his age. O n Saturday. April 12. sincerely regretted. Jonattios Stuart (Horgan, Esq. son of Jonatha n M or g an, Esq., (Attie 'wrens, Bath. London: dant:, Printed, and Published, it the " Can S•riTssa►n," No. 207, Strand, by It. WARM:LI. LLB. to whom all Communications, Orders, dm. are rr quested to be addressed. Al/4 k NUMBER 5652 EAGLE INSURI NOTICE is hereby Kis NERAL MEETING Ten or more Shares, will b Bishopsgate-street, on Titus at one o'elock in the afterno ELECTING, by Ballot, a Charles Johnson, Esq. decea at one. and close at four o'cl4 WILMA 31st ilarc t, 1523 EAGLE ESSUR NTIER is hereby give RA L MEETING of or mnre Shares, • ill he held opagate•street. on THURSDA o'clock la the afternoon precis ING, by Ballot, a DIREC Sielpsoo, F.sq. deceased. 'I and close at four o'clock pre By a Bye-Lase, no p. rsot shall give to the Secretary al welting, peei,ipus to the Gan WILL!/ Condilll, 22d April, 1823. 11' INER.AL BROWN lI veenment, for. Oat-li BROWN PAINT bowleg b twenty years in alrnoit etery lie Works. Bridget; dc. end of the most diatin,tuished 01 1 Service, dc. of its embeeility, recommended to the public es such as wooden, iron, and cal bosses, knees, palings, gate ships' sides and upper works under water or exposed to tl to prevent them imbibing wa and for coating brick wall coated with this Paint wil: be or vermin of any kind inh places coated with it, and it for the dry rot. Being comc, stances, this Paint is iusuluhl moisture in a manner Superb() Price. ready for use. Manufactured and sold by Co.quccessors to M'Adatu Bank►ioe, London. GOVERNMENT BERT! soil Durability of Messrs. IL neral Brown Paint, granted We hereby certify, that the in Great Britain have been, I with Messra:M'Adam and the preaervetion of the west', swered the puose for which (Signed) The above Certificate nutec era for the Affairs of Barrec Jo Plyi TI it Is to certify, thm hy c. desire of Messrs. ki•Adain a iib their preparation of Min tirptentber, 1006. The - ern work made use of in this elll tirely exposed to the wind difficult to bud any coating a I Paint, after bating stood the has formed a eery hard end et Iron work : the wood when iron free from etoery eppearen appearance of the Mineral and inpenetrable state, there it will defend the wood and i iffiatt of weatretr end' the ma we give it as our opinion, I wood and iron work eipot end• consider it to be clicapo procured. Certified by IlExay StyttoNi JOBS PHILLIP , ' • ' ROBERT W•ICEN JAMES Mots, Si Ply I eestarm the above certific A LEXA Lleut.-Gen. Commit keyel.Engineers' (Mc°, P 1 • We hereby certify that Me , rel and Brown Paint has co Department, for all kinds of above certificate of May YO, been used on sentry boxes, tr racks. carts, and other woo< with every probability (Aimee ly eight years additional exp confirming that certificate, as of the Paint In question, for iron work. Royal Engineer? Office Wehereby certify that the and sold by Messrs. M'Adan Ordoance Department at this poses similar to those befo opinion that it has ;ally atm it was applied. Jonat Hamann, G BUCHANAN, Ca JACOB OWEN, 11.' JOHN OWEN, ASSiI Messrs. M'Adam aid Co. Gentlemen—l hsce great s menial to the good qualit;es was timid at this station to pi and barges with good effect, than any covering of the kind , worm on our craft in the Med gentlemen, your most obedie It. D'Aaci Royal Engineers' At the request of Mevarc. that 1 have-used. for a conso hlineral Brown Pain'. and tt cheap preservative for fenetni wood work expo , :ed to the op rats paste, and ail timber liat aWature. ROBERT TZOMPSON, Cartel Dor ROyiti NHlittery CAM W hereby certi:y. Hist Mineral Brown Paint has bye he axed, upon the Works of i that it appears fully to sal which it has been applied. Asisannatt Swazi, Ai • . .• Joni, dory. Qr.-Meet. Superintending the Royal N 'Krell description of Gronr le. upon the awn &dramatist Barr