The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-09-07 00:00:00

,LAWASTER ASSIZES. ItANSLA 001ITIR. Ann Golbourite s who is just turned of fourteen years of age, was indicted for killing and shying Esther Lout. • Edward Clark, a boy about fifteen years of age, stated, that on the tOth day of last Juuc, the deceased, , hiesself, and several abet children, were at play by the side of the canal at !Haskell, near Red-Lion bridge, when be saw a stone coin. ing from the battlements or the bridge, in a cur. cod direction, which dropped upon the side of the bead of the deceased, which knocked her into the canal. Ellen Shaw said, she resides within about twelve or fourteen yards from the bridge; she knows the deceased and the Prisoner, and was standing at the door when the circumstance hap. petted ; she saw the I'rlsoner coming round the bridge, saw her take up a stone, which she sup posed might be about four or five pounds weight, and then she walked to the top of the bridge, and dropped the stone over it ; she did not see the de ceased at the time, nor could she see whether the Prisoner looked over the bridge at the time she dropped the stone or not. She heard the deceased shriek ; she ran to her assistance, and found the other children getting her out of the anal; she said to the Prisoner, " I am afraid you have killed the child ;" the Prisoner then ran away. 'rite circumstance happened about nine o'clock in the evening, and the child died the next morning at five. Mr. Elston, a surgeon, said, he attended the deceased, and after her death he took ef her scalp, when blood poured out of both her ears, and be had no doubt but her death uas occasioned by external violence. Sir A. CRANIUM, in summing up the evidence, observed, that although it hail been insinuated that the Prisoner had an enmity to the deceased, it was- not in proof ; therefore, the fair. inference was, that it was a childish act in throwing or dropping the static into the water, fur the purpose of splashing the other children ; and although it bad proved fatal, he was afraid it could only be considered as a childish trick, however it was to be lamented. The Jory found her Net Guilty. his Loedthip gavii permission for the Prisoner to be discharged at the ber, and delivered to her father. George - Beaton was indicted for killing and slaying William Tattersall, of Rochdale ; and also charged 'won an inquest of the Coroner.— It appeared that the deceased was a boy between • nine and ten years of age, and he and the son of else Prisoner, about the :same age ) quarrelled *boot a penny ; and the Prisoner, going • to take his soots part, struck the deceased mi . :several ports of Ms body, and for 'which the Coroner's ,inquest charged him with manslaughter, the blows he give him being supposed to have bees the cause of his death. Walter Dunlop, a mirsten, said, he was called in on the l3th of July, to attend the deceased ; be found much fever upon hist; symptoms of in. term! inflammation ; difficult respiration ; the abdomen painful to touch ; violence in the left leg and hip ; s swelling from his left foot to his knee • on the right hip a slight contusion. The decease d lived from 'Thursday night to Saturday noun ; after his death, the witness opeded the body, and found inflammation in the bowels and lungs. The witness not being able to prove the deetasecl died of external violence., the Jury, by the direction of the Learned Judge, found the Prisoner Not Guilig. John 13rn4 cy, alias John Brad , ,, was charged with killing end slaying William Deough, at Li verpool. George Day deposed, that the deceased and himself were breeches-makers, and worked in Liverpool together. On SAteirday night, the 11th et June, after they had done work and had their suppers, it being a very fine night, they agreed to walk till four o'clock, when it would be high.water, sad they would bathe ; as they were passing through Gladstone-street, they heard a noise at a house of ill-fame; they stopped to see what was the cause, when the Prisoner came up to them, apparently a little intoxicated, and said to them, " 1)---n my eyes, give me something to drink," which they refuse d to do ; the Prisoner pushed violently against the door of the house of 111-fame, and (Ailed out " Charlotte!" ; a girl opened the dour, the prisoner went itt, and they followed, out of curiosity ; the Prisoner asked them again to give him something to drink, which they refused ; the Prisoner then jumped up, and said he would give thorn both a d-_.d good hiding, and he immediately struck the deceased a violent blew tin his breast, got hold of him, and dragged him into a back kitchen ; the witness followed to assist the deceased, and saw the Prisoner strike the deceased on his chin, which blow knocked him down, and he fell with his bead apiast the post of the stair.eass, and the Prisoner upon him ; the deceased azelabeed t x:parently In great agony, to the witness, " George, George, I am killed ! bring men Parson, I shell not live a moment."... At the time the dammed was calling old, the Pri. sonar bed got his los open Ms shoulders ; the Pre- wet afterwards ram away met of tile hoes. • the witness got the demand into a parlour, washe d his wounds, And, by the assistance at - a man, carried him how. . Charlotte Aspinall, the girl who bad lived in the hoes., and whom the primmer had called to, said, she would not have opposed the door, but the Prisoner threatened to break it open, saying he was a friend, and his same; she bad been intimate with the Prisoner some years since, but he bad bees to sea, and he was so reach altered, she did not retolleet him. Sham, the Prisoner strike the deceased Without any prevomition, and she let four watchman into the hope la consequence of the slats that was given. Owen Thomas, the surgeon that was sent for to attend the deceased, said, he found his breast_ bone ddprived of muscular moiled, and all sensa tion of feeling in that pert goes ; a severe coots. ion in the back of his neck to the back-bees ; a TM STATZSMAN. partial dislocation, and compression of the spitted marrow. Re attended the deceased till the Wet. !Imlay evening and then he was taken to the in. finnary. Dr. Brandeith, the surgeon belonging to the infirmary, said, he opened the body after death, and discovered besides, broken ribs • and knowing that the deceased had been afflicte d with n palsy, he searched about the neck and back, laid bare the bents, and found the spinal process of the 4th and sth bone of the neck completely fractured, coats of the spinal marrow, and the spinal mar. row itself, much injured ; and he was decidedly of opinion that the latter injury was the cause of his i death. John Smith, the man who carried the deceased to the infirmary, also attended him In his dying moments ; said, the deceased forgave the Prisoner, and said he , did not believe it was his intention to take his life, but that it was the effects of liquor. The deceased reflected very much on his own bad conduct for !ming out at so late an hour, and go. ing into sub a house, and hoped God would for. give him. The Prisoner was found G'ltllly. BURWARI". John Bo!lough, Lambert Parlington, and Gco. ralenline, acre indicted for hurglariuusly break. ing and entering the dwelling.house of John and Mary Anscoagh, of Illackrod, and stealing a variety of goods, to the amount .f upwards of tool. It appeared that the house was broke open on the night of the 13th February last. Early on the following morning, part of the goods - were found in a field adjoining the house by a man called Fighting Billy. The Prisoners were suspected and apprehended. Mr. Grimal►aw, clerk to Mr. Lyon, the Magis. trate at Wigan, produced the written confession of Bulloegh and Partington. Valentino confessed the charge to a friend, and the constable who apprehended WM. • They were all found Gosilty. Mr. SCA R LET said he had several other indict. me►ts against the prisoners, all of a similar na. We t which he presumed were now unnecessary ; but hoped, as the parties were bound neer, his Lordship would allow the espenees upon them ; which the learned Judge assented to. Prom the LONDON GAZETTE, SLIP?. 5. The following arc the Official Letters of Admi. ral ROWLEY and Captahs Custer, detailing the events that led to the surrender of St. Domingo, which, for wait of roam, we were obliged to omit yesterday :-- Adasiralig.Office, Sept. 5. Copy of a Letter from V tee-Adminal !fowley. Commander la Chief of his Alajests't Ships and Vessels at .laasaiest, to the Honourable W. W. Pair, dated at Port Itu)al, July 19, 19119. • SIR-11 have the honour to acquaint you, for the information Of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that his Majesty's sloop Tweed arrives! hero last night, from off St. Domingo, bringing me a dispatch from Captain Cumby, of the Poly obelus's, announcing the surrender, on the 6ih in. giant s of the French troops composing the garrison of that city. Their Lordships will have been made acquiint ed already by my. former letters with a decal of the proceedings of the squadron placed touter Cap. fain Cumby's orders for the imrpose of co-ope. rating with the Spanish troops investing the city, and with those belonging to his Majesty, which sailed from this island on the 7th ultimo, under the command of Major-General Carmichael; and the enclosed copy of the dispatch above-mention. ed will make known to them the proceedings of the squadron down to the 'mind of capitulation, and the terms on which the garrison has surren dered. The exemplary vigilance and unremitted exer ticrns of the officers and men composing the crews of his Majesty's ships and ♦asels named in the margin*, employed daring this short but vigorous blockade, under the immediate orders of Captain Cumby, have contributed most essentially to Reel!. !erste the reduction of this last possession of the enemy on the Jamaica station. The tidiest testi mony is borne by Major-General Carmichael to the cordial support which he received from them after the arrival of the British troops, and I have nodoubt that the conduct of Captain Cumby and that of the officers, seamen, and marines under his orders on the service, will be distinguiihed by their Lordships' approbation, as it has already bema by wine. I have the honour to be, &c. (Sired) B. S. ROWLEY, Vice•Ad:niral Polyphones, of the of St Ihnstin..o. Hh July, 1809. - - - - - - Stu—l have the satisfaction to announce to yon the surrender of the French garrison is the city of St. Domingo, by which event the whole of the for. mer possessions of the Spaniards in this island are happily restored to the Spanish nation. In detail ing the operations which led to this result, subse pent to my letter of the thirtieth ultimo, I have to inform you that on the following day I anchored at Caleta, ■nd in compliance with a regime' from Major-General Carmichael, put eight of this ship's lower deck guns on board the SparrOw sloop, to be landed at Palengni fur the use of the batteries to the westward of this city.— In the mean time the Major-General and troops tinder his command had advanced with all the ar. dour and activity that charaeterise British soldiers in their approaches to the enemy, and taken post .at the church of St. Carlos, nearly within inii.ket shut of the walls, and had cut of the communica. tion between the city and Fort Jerome. The Ge. neval commanding the French garrison having sent of a flag of truce, proposing a cessation of hosti lities for three days, 1 beg leave to transmit you copies of his letter and my reply. On the %I instant I received a communication from Alajor-Gencral Carmichael, that the French ; General had made a formal proposal to treat for the surrender of the garrison, and I accordingly directed Captain Deer, of his Majesty's ship the Aurora, to proceed on shore, and in concert with Commissioners to be deputed by the Major-Gene. ral, and the General commanding the Spanish forces, arrange the terms of capitulation ; the very severe squalls and rainy weather we have since experienced, so much interrupted our com munications with the shore, that the different ar. tides could not he adjusted till the Gth, and this day they have been ratified, a copy of which, I have the honour to enclose 1-. This dispatch will he delivered to you by Capt. Symonds of the Twezd, to whose zealous attention in conducting the sloops, schooners, and guard.. boats, during a close and rigorous blockade of tyro months, I owe considerable obligation ; and al though the services of tho squadron you did me the honour to place under my orders may not have been of a brilliant nature, I trust I shay be per. milted on this occasion to bear testimony to' the unremitting perseverance with which the vessels maintained the stations assigned them, through all the variety of weather Incident to the season, on a steep and dangerous shore, where no anchorage was to be obtained, as well as to the vigilauce and alacrity of those of and men who were en►. ployed in the night guard-bouts, by whose unit►d exertions the enemy's accustomed supply by sci was entirely cut of, and the surrender of the city greatly accelerated. I most also, in justice to Captain Bert, of the Sparrow, beg permission to state the great promptitude, seal, and ability evinced by that Officer in the landing the lower deck guns froM this ship, under circumstances of great difficulty and labour ; two of which he transported from Andre Bay to the east battery, a distance of near 30 miles, acruss•en almost impass able country, prior to the arrival of the troops. Of the conduct of Lieutenant Denman, of this ship, and the detachment of seamen landed from the squadron under his orders, the Major-General is pleased to speak in high terms, and I have no doubt he will make a gratifying representation to you on this subject. The posts of Fort Jerome and Fort de l'Ozsma, *Ed the Gate de Conde, are occupied by the British troops this evening, and I shall lose no time in making the 'accessory arrange. meets fur embarking the garrison, in number about twelve hundred, on board the sqnadron, and dispatch them for Port Royal with all possible expedition. I base the honour to be, &c. (Sired) WM. PRICE cumin - . Captain. BARawleY, Eta. Viet-Admiral or the White, and Cataseader is thief, Re. iltr.aie. • Polyphemus, Aurora, Tweed, Sparrow, Thrush, Gril lo, bark, klose,le. Flear-de-la-Alere, Pike. t See Majer-ticarral Cars idusers Vl•pucb. LONDON : Printed and rubliArit In I). Loy ELL, :at the STATE34IAII Ui I ICL, 1. lect.street. THE ARMY. A General Court-Martial has lately been held It Hull, on Lieutenant P. D. Wheeler et the td battalion of the 15th Regiment of Foot, upon the undermentioned charges : Ist. For behoving in a arousdalcons and infamous maser, *ch as is misbecoming the abararter of ao :Aker and a wa lk:ma, id baying mart grossly iosalted Major King of the bid Regimen tof Toot, at Scarborough, by tent* h im that be bad assemed most Wonsan toes, at the same time having to bis, " 1 emy slick over you," or words to tbat erect. 2d. For baring, in a pohlie relike-mono at the York Tavern, at York, posted, or raseeor to be pinotod, a paper, esonaining words to the fallowing erect : " I hereby post Major kiag, of t h e 82:1 Regiment of Foot, as a base es awe, a liar, ad a coward. as I ?wolly told hien. (Sigurd) P. D. WHELLER.' 94. For having tent a copy of the above to Major King at Scarborough, adding, that the said letter had berm is the Care-room at York. Such candid being LZltelly i sabversive of military discipline, and in breach of tise Arti cles et War. c'r which charges the Court came to the foliating de the primmer, primmer, Lieutenant P. D. Wheeler, was Net Guilty of the first part of the first charge, namely, " behav ing in a scantialims . aad infamous inaniser, such as is satiety's In the character of an officer and a gentleoian," but was Gritty of grossly. insulting Major King. The Coati missile the Prisoner of that part of the said charge, " I shake nu Mich over Yon," the fact not having been proved. With se ta ? the second and third charges. the Court find the Caner of the - vi hole and eirery.part thereof. and adjudge him to be stismiscesl his Majesty's sseeka. Which sentence his Majesty has been pleased to approve and coo lie-in s and ha. coatmanded that the charges preferred against Lirtiseo P. l). N fleeter. of-the lith Regiment of loot. .sitt, the punishment awarded him for the crimes if v. ahe has been found guilty, shall be proinulgated to the army, and altered in the ardeily books of every corps. A Fri %Ls: Drracovroa.—A female, of gen teel appearance, has been too successful in ob. taining access to the parlours and drawing-rooms of several respectable families in different parts of the town. The plan she has adopted is to knock at the door with sonic considerable consequence, and inquire if the master or mistress is at Woe (with whose name and residence she appears very familiar). On being answered in the negative, she affects to be extremely disappointed, and re. quests, as she has had a lung and very fatiguing walk, that the servant would permit her to sit down, and favour her with a glass of table beer. While the servant is gone to the cellar, she is looking for the spoil. Intimate friendship with,ot relation to the family, is always professed, and as she is so much fatigued, and so extremely disappointed by her friend being out, she solicits the servants to indulge ber with scup of tea. If, during all this time, opportunity has not served to Mem the drawer 4 of the sideboard, or visit the Lady's bed-room, which she much wishes to do alone, it has answered her purpose to state that the mistress (her relation) had promised to lend ber some table episode, &c. as she was going to have tompauy ; and the poor unsuspecting servant fearing to dis oblige her mistress's supposed relation, bas abso. lately been prevailed upon to part with her was. ter's plate. This trick has been played off in se. meal families within these few weeks, and the visit has generally been made un the Senility af ternoon, when there is a greater probability of success. A shocking accident happened at the house of Mr. William Coltman. Bracknell, Bucks, on the evening of Saturday, the 241 of September. Mr. Coltman had beim out partridge-shooting, with two other gentlemen, on a sporting visit, and on their return they deposited their guns, two of which were loaded, in a parlour, neat to where they were dining. A boy in the service of Mr. Coltman, and his son, were amusing themselves with the pieces, and the one in Master Coltnianls hand went off, and killed the servant, and wound ed a gentleman of the name of Ayres, who was at dinner, the charge having passed through the win. don , of the room. The melancholy event has thrown the whole village into deep regret, added to which Mr. Ayres lies in a very dangerous state. INSJINITY. On Wednesday last, an inquest was taken, be. fore WILLIAM TRIGG, Gent. Coroner, on v•ew of the body of Henry Baylis, a child about four years of age, who was murdered by his mother, Hannah Baylis, of Bishop's Cleave, Gloucester. shire, in a violent fit of insanity. It appeared in evidence, that this unfortunate woman killed her child by beating out his brains, with such violence, as entirely to remove the upper part of the skull, and afterwards treated the mangled remains in a way too shucking to relate ! She bad previously attempted to destroy two others of her children; one, by cutting its throat, which only failed from the bluntness of the knife; and the other was happily rescued from her grasp, at the moment when she was going to break his back across a window.frame ! It sal during the confusion oc casioned by this awful scene, and before she could he secured, that she murdered the poor innocent first mentioned. This miserable woman had been fur a considerable time in a state of derangement, about ten years since. The Jury, affer a minute itsvemtigation, returned 'a verdict—llunvieick, in consequence of lunacy. She will be indicted fur the cu►un►ission of the fact, at the neat A.•uses. in order that she may be securely cunfiued in future. MI3TEIIIOUS' CASE. On Friday, August 18, there arrived at Mr. lech, a small ton n on the coast of Merioaethshire, a lady of a very remarkab!c figure, being five feet nine inches high, and proportionably stuu ; slight. ly marked by the stnall-pox, and with red hair, a little turned to grey ; probably from 55 to 6') years of age. She represented herself as having been for merly a housekeeper to a family of distinction ; and stated, that curiosity alone hail induc,d her to visit the beauties of the principality. She travelled alone, and post • and proceeded fr o m T aor - y- Bwleli, by Dolgifly, to Harniontli, and thence to Hailed,. At all the preceding places, her deport ment was that of a woman perfectly sane and col_ lected ; and at Dolgelly she can be proved to have had at least '2Ol. in mites and cash, in her ptirse. After retiring early to rest on the Saturday evrosing, at her inn, she. was found dead in her bed on the Sunday teeming, betweea ten and eleven, under iretinistances, w hick it may nut be proper, in thiv stage of the business, to detail pubhcly but wl.ich can leave no reasonable doubt—either that she destroyed herself, or was deilroyed Alunday, the next 'day, before the Cur.iticr's Jury could be assembled, at Octet, o'clock in the forenoon, she was fasteacil down in her coffin ; this was, however, broken open, and a verdict re turned of" Died by the risitation of Cud." Only a loose seven.shillitig.i i.VCC W 33 found either ots her person or in her trunks ; :ch..eh had been pre. viously opened; nor was there any paper or docu ment whatever ) which could lead to a discovery tif who she Was. A pair of her stockings aas ((mud, marked with the letter D. On Tuesday, the 2tl of August, she was buried ; but the first inquiry not beilig deemed satisfactory, she was dug up again on Monday, the '2Bth, and a second inquest held, whets the Jury vturtied, " Died by laudanum ; bat by whom adualaistered they knee: not." It is anxiously to be desired that the relatives or friends of this nisfortunate w 1,1111411 should thus*e apprised of her fate ; as it is only through their a •aiis that any light is likely to be thrown a transaction, which at present appears very dark and mote. rious. Tuesday evening, about eight o'clock, es a Gentleman was passing along Skinner-street, Snow-hill, he was surr,buntled and hustled by a gang of fellows, is he threw him in the mud, and robbed him of his watch and purse, containing bank-notes to the amount of 171. and about 30s. in cash. with Which they made their escape to. wards Cow.lanc. On Tuesday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, the apartments of a new-marrir:l couplo of the name of Forfar, in Panl-street, Finsbury, were robbed of every portabl.: article %bile they were at the fair. A CHALLENGE. MESSRS. CURIII F: and CO. Stirgenns, Pate in his Majesty's .'nice, challenge the whole stork( to prove a iiner isotance where their Medicine and Method of Cure have failed of the desired effect. The practice of many years in this particuku- branch of their prutesinuo, boas nut given rise in one imam-octal Case. They erietimte to direct their studies in the treatment and cure of eisereal Comphdots, and that Dertingronest of the Sy went. which is the ciasequettee of Gm pernicious and waste ful effect• of a habit long and most uakappily par ued by the math of both series. In the one it will bc found to be the unfailing source of barrenness ; the other have its ravages fa tally developed to them by a dist r essing state of debility, which, if tug film! v remedissii, terminates in impotence. These are it: regulate suid 'ultimate elfects. while Caerammptions, Lem or Mmetilar Power, mid viable: Nemo** Consplaints, usuall y charneterize the ea rlier stages of the, solitary vice. Of per . 0 11.4 languishing under the disorders imident to web a Ambit. liicir treatment is simpk, and ha. never proved ensure...4a in the treatmeut 4if a lnz, laborious,and teach exteeded pro-- lice. In the nao:t oh.thatie and complicated cases of V me real infection, such as Oltstructinas in the Urethra, Spongy E xcrescences. Hard Tumours, Callous Ul c er s , E rup tiom, Se mired en.knellt • r'' iii..' S Wh e th er wens of of t„o g duratina, and whirl) have haSted the skill of tither Prac: it jotters, are, by their present improved plan of treatment. eflectisally nod .pernunsesstly cured. with out the patient sit tlering the. %crucial ing ;mineral alarming he morrhage w rich Frrqu.only follow, the application of the le mar 4-medic. ht ilw coarse of twenty years excluyiye practice in this metropolis. mint-rims case. of Strieturim have been owl are daily under their can, the total eradication of which are effected by a mfe, er rtaki. nod c c peditions mode of practice, gapeekr In any war t yet adoptei. Tee lye:apes', Tel:tru ants, and debility proceeding Flom Ili. complaint. ate spee dily removed. mid the patieat restart 4 to sound aid vigorous health. Bat a here the debility has: for years eye-fed, a pro per persevenusee in their resioratiye remedies. after a Stric ture ha. been destroyed, is man-pen-ately requisite to revive vie slandiering spark; of Life, :Lad to re-animate the Culmi nation. 111em:p. Currie atid - Ca. may be can:trited by either •e% with the preate•l klienry , serryt t mid Iwoour, at their Ihnow, %so. It);, Ilation Garde', l'aticnti in the ('imtitri tire rrtinc.teli to itate the particu. lar.l nt their time, np., mid geiviol habit of hying. tic. tic. n remittance tor &Omer anil medicine-, w hen the mine will he given or .4-nt So.tui part of the kiiiritom. To en sure that iecre'y their wide, talking, the pu.t age of It-Umtata) be uillird to the account for medicine. 9th June. INO9-107, Mitten Garden.