The Statesman. — London, England, 1809-09-08 00:00:00

'l.'x'9 %'- POLICE. G umoum./..—A Cyprian Damsel, named Anne South:tell, was yesterefiy charged by a tar, named Hogg, with plunderingtim of Bank notes to a considerable amount. It appeared from Hogg's statement, that he had been enjoying the fun of the carnival of St. Bartholomew, and had gut a little groggy. In that state he accompanied the Prisoner to one of the temporary ball rooms in the fair, where he stood up to dance with his part ner, who contrived during their gambols to gain possession of his tobacco-box, in which was stowed his Bank notes; those she was seen to take out, and on being searched, the empty box was found in her pocket. Several persons who saw the transaction sub. stantiated the fact. The Prisoner was remanded for a further exami nation. Several persons apprehended in Bartholomew Fair, by the Alarshal.men, on suspicion of pick ing pockets, were likewise brought up, only one of whom, a lad named Green, was detained.— Two pocket handkerchiefs and a pawnbroker's duplicate for a gold seal, were found in his posses sion. Of the manner of his obtaining these, he gave a very lame azcount. The seal, he said, he bought from a boy, who had found it, fur four shillings ; and the handkerchiefs he bought from some man in the street, whose name and person he was unacquainted with. Be was remanded for a further examination. John Leary, a lamp-lighter, charged with wounding a child, named Margaret Dillon, in the head, with the scissars used by him in trim ming his lamps, was brought up for re-examina hon. The Girl stated, passing with two of her com panions, they in passing under the prisoner's lad. der, spit on his foot to procure them good luck. The Prisoner threw the scissars, which he held in his hand, at the Prosecittrix : they penetrated her boonet and entered the back of her head, wounded her severely, and caused a considerable effusion of blood, though not to such an extent as to prevent her from walking to the surgeon's, where her wound was drecsed. The Prisoner declared that he had no intention whatever of injuring the child. She and her corn pan.ons had been vexing him while he was in the act of cuttiog the burner with his scissars, and he bad simply called out to them, " You little toads, go along," demonstrating his wish, at the same time, by an inclination of the hand, when the seissars drOpt from it, Without any intention on his part. lie had five children of his own, and it would be the last of his actions willingly to injure the child of another. • The Surgeon having given it as his opinion, that the wound conld not be opened till to.morrow, the Prisoner was remanded till Saturday. MAILLSOTtOUGH-STREET.—Yesterday the over. seers of the poor of the respective parishes of St. Luke's, Chelsea, and St. Mary.le.bone, brought before the Magistrate a female pauper, named Jose', on a charge of having illegally obtained pecuniary relief from each of these parishes, en. der pretence of having gained a settlement in both. It appeared on reference to the parish entries of St. Luke's, Chelsea, that fur the last three years, the prisoner had been receiving weekly the sum of is. 6d. whilst since March last she had been paid a weekly allowance of 3s. by the over. seers of St. Mary-le-bone• and a further allow ance for the support of a thild, of which she re. presented herself to be the mother, but which upon further inquiry, was found to have no ex istence. The Prisoner did not deny the charge, but pleaded her excessive poverty as her inducenicut to the imposition. ___ The uverseers of both these parishes having been of late great sufferers by similar frauds, and conceiving it their duty, as strict guardians of their trust, to make a severe example of the Pri soner, she was fully committed to take her trial at the next Sessions. The driver of the hackney-coach, No. 177, was brought before the Magistrate by a watchman of the parish of St. Mary-le-bone, under the fol. lowing suspicions circumstances watchman stated, that between two and three o'clock yes terday morning he was going his rounds on his beat, which is ilk Wardour.street, Soho, when he saw a hackney-coach - driving furiously down the street towards him.. lie did not make any parti cular observation until be beard the crash of the carriage aesitist a post at the comet of Husband street, against which it was drives which pre vented its proceeding further. A parish lamp. lighter, who was then on duty, went aloud with witness to extricate the coach from its, aukward position, aud whilst they were 41 the act of push. lug it ulf the post, one of the St. Ann's watch. men came up, an d cried out, " That's the rascal who hai been lurking about in Berwick-street ! Stop him!" alluding to the Prisoner, who was just then gone round to the. other aide of his coach, in order more effectually to remove it ; but when he heard the other watchman give the alardi, he immediately ran off. IVitness, however, pursued, but was unable to overtake him. The coach was then driven by the Watchman to the watch-house, where, upon opening it, eight reams of large demy paper were found packed up on the seats, sup posed to have been stolen from the neighbourhood of Berwick-street. The St. Ann's watchman stated. that about two o'clock yesterday morning bis attention was called to a hackney-coach-stopping at the corner of Ty ,ler's-court, Berwick.street, and shortly after wards- bating heard the coachman say siudibly, g' Is all in ? mike haste," he was induced to ex amine the coach morn minutely, but just as he bad ascertained the two last figures of the num oti furiously. Ili, suspi. , be ran after it as fast as p with it at the moment his was assisting the Pris Oner to the post. He knew the Pri. !reticently seen him before, 'wear be was the driver of - ^•-• 4 ! • . i• It further appeared, that the Prisoner, after he made his escape from the watchmen in War- 1 dour-street, went home to his master's house, in Drury-lane, and related to his employer's wife that he had lust his coach at ten o'clock the pre ceding evening, and had searched every Green yard in London, but was unable to find it. Not finding it, he had come home, expecting to hear that it had been restored to his master. Upon learning, however, that it had not been restored, he pretended to go and make further search. Chance (as it should seem) directed him to inquire at Mary-le-bone Watch-house, where, Upon shcw ing hii face, he was immediately recognized and taken into custody. The Prisoner again related the story to the Niagistrate,of his having been drinking at a pub lie-house at ten o'clock the preceding evening; when he left his coach at the door. In the mean time some person mounted the box, and drove away with the coach. Ile had searched in vain for it in every Green-yard in London. With re spect to the paper, he protested his entire igno rance of it, and said he never saw such paper in his life before. Under all, the eircnmstances of the case, the Prisoner was remanded fur further examination, and the Magistrate directed every inquiry to be made in order to find out the owner. A charge of a most brutal assault was made by a decent young man, named Alexander Campbell, against a ruffianly lamp-lighter named Thomas Glorer. The circumstances of the case were shortly these : The Complainant was walking with some of his friends along Oxford street, about ten o'clock on Sunday night, when the Defendant, who was lighting the street lamps, came towards the Complainant, and without giving him time to get out of the way, pushed his burner against his small-clothes, and daubed him so much with the oil and filth therein contained, as completely to de stroy that part of his dress. The Defendant im mediately rata on, laughing at the joke. Mr. Campbell, however, not enjoying the sport quite so much as he did, followed him fur the purpose of remonstrating on the impropriety of his con duct. Scarcely, however, had he opened his month with this intent, when the lamplighter, with a tremendous oath, again pushed the burning torch into his eyes, with such violence as to knock him down. Blinded, burnt, and bruised with this rude assault, the Complainant got up, and in at tempting to seize the Prisoner, the ladder which the latter carried got between them, and they fell together on the ground ; a scuffle ensued, when the Prisoner recovered his feet, and made three successive attempts to knock the Complainant down, but in each he failed, and was himself laid in the deist ; finding his match, he gave in, and de clined any more fighting. 'f he Prisoner made a very lame defence, and denied the whole charge. A livery-stable keeper, in Orford-road, his servant, and another man, de clared their readiness to swear that the charge was completely false, and that there never was a more injured man 14. the world than the Prisoner. Mr. BRODIE, however, declared, that in the CORM of his experience he never heard of a more brutal outrage, and, in order to prevent the Prisoner's escaping the hands of justice, he should not admit him to hail. The prisoner was there fore coma:tilted to Tuthill-fields prison, to take his trial. At the above Office, on Wednesday, t :To dust. men, of the names of Jones and Leman, were convicted antler the Parish Act in the penalty of ten shillings each, for carrying away ashes from Holborn, they nut being employed or authorised by the contractor. Nut being able to pay the fine, they were committed. Bow-nnert.—Wednesday Richard Hemming was examined before J. Natter, Esq. the Sitting Magistrate, on a charge of bigamy. The prisoner, from his age and personal appearance, does not seem at all calculated to engage female affection ; notwithstanding which, it seems he has contrived to ensnare three women at once into the chains of matrimony. Two of them came forward yester day, and it is supposed there is a prior marriage to either of these, of which the wife is alive. The prosecutrix, in the present cue, is a very decent good-looking young woman, who stated, that she was married to the prisoner, by banns, at the pa rish church of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on the Ist of August 1808. The other marriage was proved to have taken place at St. Andrew's, Hol born, in the year 1791. The wife in this case, complained of the prisoner's plundering her pf .every thing, and leaving her much distressed, with several children. The prisoner was fully commit ted for trial. A young man, employed as a letter-carrier, at the Twn.penny Post-ufficc, Paddington, was charged with secreting a letter, containing two Bank-notes of M. each. The must distressing circumstance in this case was, a sister of the pri soner being obliged to be a witness against him, he having employed her to . negotiate one of the notes taken out of the letter. He was committed for farther examination, and bail taken fur the appearance of the sister to give evidence. The experiments towards ascertaining the ex istence or nott.ezistence of coal within the limits of the county. of Ilerefonl, are intended to be undertaken within a fortnight, and we happy to state, that the prospect of success was never greater. The inhabitants of other plsces will nut give credit to the melancholy fact, that the poor of this city and the vicinity, cannot purchase coal at a less price than the rate of two guineas per ton, although productive coal pits are within 2U miles of the place, and have the advantage of two turnpike-roads, and a navigable river, to convey it to us. About fifteen years ago, the price was seventeen shillings per ton : some advance since that time may reasonably he expected, but the present rates seem to defy all calculation. The best coal (and probably at a lower rate to those who purchase large quantities) is now to be had at the pits, at Nine Shillings per Ton : the charge for conveyance and profit exceeds thirty shillings I. How is this reconcilable with the former price of Seventeen Shillings ? ( Hereford Journal.) THE STATESMAN. ~~ ~-t.... LA'N'CASTER ASSIZES. • MANSLAUGHTER. Rarrqii was indicted for killing and slaying William Wilson. The Prisoner is a serjeant in the Prescirt Lq. cal MilitM, and he went after the sou of the de.. ceased, to endeavour to persuade him to join his corps. John Chadwick said, lie was at the E.igle and Child public-house, on the 22d of May, where he saw the deceased. The Prisoner came into the house, and addressed his conversation to the de ceased, about his son's joining his regiment ; he replied " Yon shall have no connection with me nor my son, if I can help it." The Prisoner an swered, he would force his son the next day to St. Helen's, where the corps would be mustered ; upon which the deceased got up in a passion, and said he would take the Prisoner's neck olt, and challenged him to go upon the green and fight. The Prisoner did not accept the challenge. This was repeated so often, that at last the Prisoner accepted it, and, at length, they went out. to fight. The witness got *pun the green, when they began to strip. The Prisoner had not got off his shirt, but as soon as the deceased had got off his, he gave the Prisoner a violent blow. A num. her of blows on both sides passed,• and at length the deceased fell ; he did not speak, and a as con. 'eyed into a house. It had been insinuated that the Prisoner had given foul bluas, and followed the practice %hid) disgraces many parts of this county, kicking in the 11(4 1 .'1; but the witness fully contradicted it, and said nothing but fair *lows were given. John Walker, the surgeon who attended the deceased, said, he found him afflicted oith bili.►us smiting and continual irritation ; great swelling at the lower part of the belly ; violent pain and swelling on the right kidney ; and great marks of violence to be perceived; and he had no doubt of external violence being the cause of his death. The deceased only lived seven ur eight hours after wards. The body was in a great state putrid, it being very hot weather ; he did not open it. The Prisoner was found Guilty. James hunt was charged with killing and slay. ing T. Caldwell, a child about three years of age, in Kenyon, on the l2llt Jule. It appeared that the Prisoner was the driver of a cart with two horses, and was going through Kenyon on the above day, n hen he was very im properly riding on it without reins, with his back to the horses ; the deceased was playing in the road, and When be was found to be run over, and that the cart was just gone on before, a boy went after him, and told him that his cart had killed a child, he replied he Ahought not. but observed that his cart had neither luck nor fortune. Blood and brains gushed from the nose of the infant. Thera being no proof that the cart went' over the child, or that It died of the wounds received, the Jury acquitted the Prisoner. • Robert Pilkington was indicted for killing and slaying John Freeman, a child about two years of age, by incautiously and carelessly driving his cart on the 22d of July. It appeared that the Prisoner was driving his cart through Horton-Green, and the deceased was playing upon the off side of the road, on the causeway ; the off wheel went over the head and body of the child ; the Prisoner was, at tire time, en the cart, sittiug at the bottom, although he had two horses ; a great alarm was given by the neighbours, and the Prisoner got out of the cart ; a great quantity of blood came out of the child's mouth, and it died in a few minutes. Henry Elston, a surgeon, said he opened the body of the child ; found a contusion, depression and fracture ; a deal of blood came out of the nose and cars; and there were tiontusions on the hips and lower part of the belly. He had no doubt but the death was oceasioued by external violence on the head.--Guilly. Robert Leather was indicted for - killing and slaying Betty Gaskill, while carelessly driving his cart, with two horses, on the 17th of June; hut. Nary Holland, who saw time circumstance, refus ing to appear, although she hail been regular!) sabpenad, the Prisoner was acquitted. Susannah Bradley was indicted, on the prose cution of the Mint, for uttering counterfeit sil ver, knowing it to be so, and fur havi.tg other counterfeit money in her possession at the same time. The prosecution was conducted by Mr: Rains. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Scales, a tea-dealer of Manchester, that the Prisoner went to his shop for two Ounces of tea, and gave 'half. a.guinea, and received the change ; she said Jihe wished to have a half-crown piece, and returned two shillings and sixpence. Mr. Scales discovered one of the shillings to be bad, and observed that he did not give her that ; she acknowledged that he did not. lie then charged her ss ith being an titterer of bad money, and said she had more about her ; and on searching her, she hl,l three more of the same make in her hand, and a half. crown piece in her pocket, so that she could not have wanted; and whilst a constable was sent for, an old handkerchief was found within about two yards of where she was standing, with . 27 coun lerfeit shillings of the same make as the others.— Guilty. . On Sattorday List Thomas Charles Fitzhugh Sandlot. and William Ilitchin, .11te celebrated swindlers, who were convicted at the last assizes at 16aroick, of a conspiracy, were, in pursuance of their sentence, placed in the pillory, iu the market. place, at Warwick, for one hour. Last Saturday the Invorness.shire militia march ed from Musselburgh fur Leith, where they em barked on board•transports for England. The solid part of the Bell Rock Light-house, forming not quite one-third of the height of the building, has beCn completed this season. It con. tains 1389 tons, 3 feet of solid masonry, while the whole Eddystone Light-house contains only 839 tons ; 8 feet, of materials. :r ; - --, . . .....miniii...... 111.• ME L. 4 NCHO Ll' CA FAS TR OPHE. J. 1.. a young man of the city of London. Jerry, paid his addresses to a young woman o f the 11.1111 C of S. a Clerk! s tan's dauot er . Thi s unfortunate young woman had bad a child by him ten months before, and kept it unknown in an obscure part of the city. Ile promised fre quently to marry her, hut deferred it on pre. tome that his circumstances would improve in a little time. Some person, however, wrote a pri. Tate letter to his father, informing him of the business, which his fat;tt•r, it is presumed, spoke W him of. After this he treated her with *the greatest cruelty, and accused her Of having wrote this letter, which she: denied ; but be, glad of the opportunity of bt•iny off, paid his addresses to a Miss S. and was to be married to her in four or fire days. To amuse this new lady, ho proposed giving a party of !demure, the morning previous to which, the di - surfed young woman contrived to put a gliatitity of corrosive sublimate into each of the hoe. Is of milk provided before breakfast, not thinking that it nould do more than prevent Ocir e , et►rt►g'a amusement. The young man's brother and sister began to sip, but did not fetish all their milk, he then came Ws in a heat, and drank up his and what they kft also. His brother and sister in a little time after began to vomit, and continued unwell all that day. Ile returned from the quay, where he had been, about 12 o'clock, 'and mentioned that he was ex_ tremely unwell, And went to bed ; his brother and sister gut quite well and revived by ; best be Monday evening he was taken ts or and died on Thursday morning. Miss S. (who lived nest door) u soon as she ascertained his fate, ins_ mediately drank an infusion of es-seine; his friends, who were by this time aware of the means by %hie!' he case to his death, sent for a Bailiff to take her lido custody. The Bailiff went in, and found her ou her bed in much agony; he told her she must accompany him, in which she acquiesLi d, and proceeded with him to the gaol, where she expired un advancing Otto the Hall. She left all his letters behind, and a long letter to him, is hid) she %rote some drys before she took the ars..nie. She denied having nritteir the letter to his fattier. One part of her letter stated, that he made an at tempt to destroy the child, by an infusion. of opium; she stated a;• a, that she herself went wiih an intention to puisun the child, but could nut tititl courage to do ;t. THE TWENTY-THIRD DRAGOOYS. MAJOR POSUNBY.: Major Ponsonby is the second son of the Earl of Sesborough, :IA one of the acpresentatires its Parliament for the 'County of KillEpprry—he is Major of the 23il Dragoon s. - He has dequired.tha highest praises foi his gallantry in the late bloody victory at Talavera. We have seen letters *Paton the neat day after the action, beating ample testi. mony of the bravery of the regiment, and to his distinguished conduct in that dreadful battle. It may be said to be natural fur a descendant wflhe great Duke of Marlborough• teAtisplity tailitary talenti and spirit ;---and his friends and. family may look forward with a - coo Went hope to life line day, when they shall see this estimable young rush in possession of a character iu the army, equal, at least, to that which was so honourahl enjoyed by his eminent relative, Gen. Punsouby, who so gloriously fell at Fontenoy. One letter has the following passage : " On the 28th Juiy, at 12, General Anson's brigade were ordered to attack theeesolidsquares; we charged to the point of the bayonet, under a tremendous are. The French stood firm. We (the 23d Dragnons)' were chiefly enciged ; we lost in the attack, reckoning the kill 4 wounded, and missing—in officers, privates, and horses, 'pearly half the regiment. We, however, preseni_ their deploying, which, I understand, was their inteutiou. The whole army WAS a witness to the charge. The small remnant of oar regiment, with the (sermans, who had riot 6uftered su much, were moved over the 'hill to support General Sher brooke's division, which was advancing. We hail to stand half an hour finder a very hot fire of shells ; . we had scarcely been of our horses fur 36 hours." Another letter says—" Though the charge proved so fatal to the 43,1 Dragoons, yet its eflrct wan such, as emir, ly to stop the advance of the intended attack, and to relieve us in a short time from the fear of any advance upon our left." Lord VALENTI k makes the following report on the value of the Cape of Good hope, as a colony to this country A finer country fur the 'ln duction of grain does not exist, and a very small proportion only is yet in cultivation. Every ►p+ - cies of grape, that has been triad, has succeeded ; and the only cause of the inferiority of the tape %hie to that of Madeira, is the ignorance and in.g:i gence of the Dutch in making it. Their vineyards ar., ill managed, the grapes being permitted to touch the ground; and they cut off the whole branch with the fruit, which they throw into the press, com municating by such means an unpleasant 114vone to the wine. %Vert , the usual precautions taken, I have nu doubt that come kinds of wine now made in France, Portugal, and Germany, might be produced in this colony, and add greatly to , our independence of those parts of the worl.l, which hare been permitted by Providence to under the iron sceptre of our implacable enemy " In the present state of Europe this consideration is of great importance, and ought to excite the at (Cation of Government. LON D(IN : I'6lmA l'athli4ect hv I). 1.011'13.1., :al !illll SI 11•31 01 , EkCi, tli, Flecl-street • eh drove awskemal l i' t` - 4 lre".• , came oi i• vl4° . * 11 A t off tj • ' . d ' f * tl i v ag ely fre si •,, -1, , . 4. ~. i 4 . _. _ _ _ MAMMA). 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