The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-04-02 00:00:00

I In 1 i _~ f,I, I ,• 1 _ PUBLIC . **CATION. TO TIIE EDITOR 'Or TILE .STATESMAN. Sto,—lt is an old'Observeilou, and a very true one, that it is much easier to call omits ,thaa, IP • answer an argument. Your Correspondent, Me. ALEZANDIR CLARKE, 'wishing, I presume, to MOO by an easy road, has pursued the former course. Ile has done me the Amur, in•the space of a few lines, to impute to me ignorance, jealousy, selfish Interest, and revenge. lie has not scrupled •to call me a ro mancer, an owl, and in executioner ; and to assert that I have not acted in a manner " congenial to a Gentleman :" and he even wishes to deprive me of the character of a true Englishman. lie has done me the credit, however, to suppose me a Christian, and considering, that the warmth of his •'riendship for the Gentleman, of whom he has declared himself the champion, has led him into these excesses and breach of decorum, in true Christian charity I forgive his slander, it ehall pass by me— " Like a tale told by nn Molt " Full of gtund nod fiery, siguifing nothing." Neither do I disapprove of the spirit which has led ; him to give his name to the Public, though I shall I not follow his example: Ile shall receive all the ad- I vantage to which that spirit entitles him. Whilst my productions appear branded with all the - coarse epi thets which his inventive fancy can bestoW upon them, Ids shall appear in all their native elegance and vi zour, dignified and sanctioned by the name of At Ex- amaze CEastat, who, with a peculiar degree of mo- • deity, first describes himself as a Teacher at Mr.; De GIANT:Iei Academy, and afterwards informs us, that Mr. DE GREN THE spares two expence to pro °ureter his ptipib the best -Vaster* in the different; branches of their education. But, though lam wil-r 1 ling to forgive, I am not quite so willing to admit, I that I deserve the epithets bestowed upon me ; and, in the first place, I beg leave to assure you and the 'Public, that Mr. DE Gas:terns is unknown to me, except by reputation. I never saw him but once, accidentally ; and were Ito meet him in the street, am confident I should net recognise him; nor have t any sort of interest, either in diminishing the suc cess of his Academy, or in the support of any other in opposition to it. I did think, when I last wrote, and still continue of that opinion, that his plan is i by no means calculated for the education of English. I men. I have seen some of his Pupils, and am ready to admit, that their account of the manner of spend ing their time appeared to afford them infinite plea sure in describing, though it gave me pain; because, ' 1 thought that their time might have been much more profitably employed. I objected to the system of military dress, military bands, public breakfasts, public dinners, and the public performance of plays' in a school, and gave my reasons for such objections, 1 as much at length as the limits of a Newspaper would allow. Mr. CLARKE has not condescended to answer any one ef my objections, or to support the propriety of the system by any reasoning whatever; and in- Stead of doing so, has descended to calling me names, and entered upon an elaborate panegyric on the character of Mr. DE Gaverne. It was to Mr. 'Ds GSENT HI'S system, and not to his private chit solder,. that I objected ; and as his champion] Ins offered no refutation of my arguments, it is only necessary for me to call the attention of your fteaders to my letter, published in yotir Journal of the 2Ath of February. I therein referred to the Treatise of Dr. BARROW on Education, which I had pot then seen fur some years ; I have since read it again, and will not weaken thelorce of his arguments by attempting to abridge them ; but beg leave, in corroboration of my sentiments, to eal I the attention of your Readers to the 23d Chapter of the 2d Edition I of that Werk, 44 on DramaticEerformatices at School ;" and also to the sth Chapter of the same Work, in which they will find some strong reasons adduced against the encouragement of foreigners as the con. du tors of Schools in England. Mr. Da G itExret'i champion blames mo for not having called at the fountain head for iufermation. I formed my ideas of Mr. DE GRENTIIII'S plan from Ms own. toter, pub lished by his friend, ' 4 A Csresrawr SUBSCRIJER," in the Ilamp+hire Courier, of the 9th of December; and, therefore, wanted no further information. \lr. CLARKE alludes to a Circular Letter, which I hate Dever seen, and have no knowledge of its contents : the only avowed productions of Mr. DE Gnat:rue, which I ever recollect to have seen, are the letter above alluded Co, and one of his Advertisements recommending his School to the public. There is one point in Mr. CLARKE'S letter to which I shall advert, and I have then done With Mr. DE GEENTHI and his Champion. Mr. CLARICE describes Mr. DE Gass rev, as having entered this country a foreigner, without money, relations, friends, unknown to every one, and that his religle tuts and potitical principles were different from ours ; and it would have been satisfactory, after that de- I claration, if he had gone a little further, an d told us whether Mr. DE GRINTRE had since changed his re-I iigious principles nt least, and if so, wharwere the snotites of the change, and what sort of religious principles are inculcated into the minds of children entrusted to his are; as there are, I should hope, few parents who do not consider the religious insure. lion et. their children of more importance than their being taught the military exercise, or beit,g instruct. pain any of the • other accomplishments which Mr. DE Guestrna bolds forth, as forming so prominent a part of the system of. Education adopted in Ms Academy. I am, Sir your constant Reader, Leaden, rihreb`23. AN LNGLISIINIAN. A young couple were regularly proclaLted iu the parish churcll at Dumbarton, and the marriag e cere mony perfor med in Glasgow, by an established Cler gyman. The, parties returned home, and spent tke evening with their friends; but, before night, the bride went off with another young man to Glasgow, where they were ma 'by two Justices of the Peace, and hare since lived together as husba-d and wife. They nave likewise repaid the disappointed bridegroom all his expences on the occasion, and ob tained his receipt for the amount. It is said to be a specific for rheumatism, to apply a cabbage leaf to the part affected. Chose a porfeet tear, cut off the protuberant stalk at the bark, awl , place It on the part witty a bandage of flannel at going to bed. it will produce a local perspiration ) and .on two er three repetitions effect a cure , b A _w.,.... __ ~....:_. TOE WATESlfiast. licensed Meeting:house. He noticed, that An *evi dence had been adduced for the Defendants, either in denial or extenuation ; that no decent man couki have gene into that place of worship, and remained I with his hat on, as the Defendant Hunt had done, besides his putting out the candles as proved, - and his indecent and generally riotous conduct there ; and that it was impossible to bear the whole of the evi dence gone through without every friend to order being satisfied that the parties bad been guilty of a most atrocious riot. The-Jury then returned a verdict of guilty against the parties, and the Defendants will be brought up for judgment in the Court of King's Beath the ensuing term. ASSIZES. KINGSTON, Msncn SI. .• 'tater(lay afternoon the Loan CIIIF.F BARON and .Mr. Justice Geese arrived in town for the purpose of holding the Aisixes. They Immediately opened their Commissions, and heard Divine Service. This morning they proceeded to the business.of their re spective Courts ; the Lord Chief Baron sat on the Civil Side, and Mr. Justice Grose tried the pri soners; but the business of the day was wholly unin teresting.Thieea se which occupied the greater part of the day was a case of Page v. Layton and another, which was an action of .trespass, to which the Defendants pleaded a right of way over the Plaintiff's ground ; ail(' a great number of old witnesses were examined •to substantiate the right. After lasting four hours, the Jury found for the Plaintiff—Damages One Shilling. CRIMINAL SIDE. Mr. Justice GROSE did not commence so early on the Criminal Side, and this Court to-day afforded no ease of interest or importance. ll'hite was convicted of stealing a 201. I: Bank-note, the property of William Manners, Esq. The prison: 1. White was the servant of Mr. Man -ners, and the Prosecutor having purchased some ma nure of a person of the name of Ladd, at the price ' of 101. was also indebted to 4nothev person for cart- I.ing the skme, tQ the amount of 61 ; the Prisoner told his master, just as he was about to leave home for Some time, that those two persons had called for r payment. • Mr. Manners said, that if they called in i•bir, absence, the Prisoner was to ask Mrs. Mannets ; for the money. The Prisoner accordingly, during I the course of the day, applied to his mistress for the money, pretending that it had been called for. She gave Itim the 201. note, which he took into the town ' (Epsom), where he got it changed, having received fifteen 11. Bank. of England notes, and M. in silver. He then re(arned home, took his limy awl clothes, and several articles of the wearing apparel of his master, together with a pistol, and various other articles belonging to the house, with which he ab sconded. lie was afterwards apprehended at Seven Dials, by a Bow-street Officer, who found fourteen •of the notes, and 31. 15s. in silver, upon him, which fie confessed was part of the change he received for 'the 201. note given him by Mrs. Manners. The Jury, without hesitation, pronounced him Guilty. • ' Ames Gudgeon was indicted for breaking and en tering the dwelling-house of Mr. Squires, no person being therein, in the day time, and stealing various articles therefrom. It appeared that the Prisoner Gudgeon was a lodger in the house of Squires; and while the latter was absent, the Prisoner broke into the rooms occupied 'by the Prosecutor Sjuirei and his other lodgers, who were also absent, and stole every thing he could carry off. The Prosecutor heard nothing of the Prisoner (who had decamped) for a considerable time, the robbery being committed in Dec. 1810, until he was brought into Chelmsford poi, in October last, upon another charge. Squires than peat to Chelmsford, and identified a smock tree ) to which the Prisoner was found, as being his owe, and stolen from his house. Besides this, there was a sliver watch found upon the Prisoner, whisk was identified by one Browning, who also lodged • • with Squires, and who was also robbed at the same time.--The Jury found him Guilty. WORCESTER.-DISTURBING PUBLIC WORSHIP. We regret to find that a spirit of intolerance and persecution has, for some time, strongly prevailed at Pershore, in the county of Worcester, against a small society of Methodists, in the connection of the late Rev. John Wesley, lately instituted in that place, who have, it, the usual manner, met for reli gious worship in a house situate in the Newland there duly certified. This small society, with other well-disposed and peaceable persons, have many times, both before and at divine service, been mo lested and grievously persecuted. The Preachers , have several times been stoned and p e lt e d w ith mild Land dirt, and their lives put is jeopardy ; the house assailed with mud and stones, and the occupier of the house rendered insecure in his person and property. The windows and window shutters have been several times broken, and, in fact, nothing left unattempted by outrageous mobs to, deter the Preachers in this connection from preaching in 'this place, and to annoy the occupier of the house, his family, and the persons who chose to attend the service. And in these proceedings, as is usually the case, it appears that the ill-disposed have been encouraged by persons who ought to have con sidered that, in this free country,. no person proves himself more friendly to the Establishment than he who allows other persons to enjoy their religious worship without molestation. This, indeed, the law and Constitution of the country enjoin. These ob servations originate in consequence of an indictment removed from the Quarter Sessions for the county of Worcester, by certiorari, which came on to be triad at the last Assizes ; in• which Mr. Hunt, whit is a man of property and a tanuer, at Persbtre,, and etkers, were charged with a riot in the said bassi on Sunday, the 13th Jan. 1811, and for breakinkthe win: dons and shatters, throwing stones, and ass:W(4llmnd wounding sone Mary Tomkins. The offenonwas mast circumstantially and clearly proved, and not.tbe least evidence adduced by the Defendants either iaden tal me extenuation of the charges. The Learned- -Judge t in his most perspicuous charge and summing up of the evidence on this occasion, noticed emphatically, that ogreat riot and disturbance of the public peace had taken place, very disgraceful to all concerned in It; and this upon a Sunday evening ! lie commended the wisdom of our ancestors in passing the Toler& tion Act, and declared that these proceedings were against the well-being of the Establishment, as well, as against good order and serious feeling, for that no one proves himself more friendly to the Establisismait thau he ho allows other persons to enjoy their fit:' ligiotta worship without molestation. Uy the MO!, the Judge introduced a short enlogium on the talents 'and learning of the late Rey. John Wesivy; ate. revered founder of this religious society, and no-, Geod. ccinaisely-the chief points of difference between the . Wasleyan Methodists and the fistablehmeot.— lie toolc . nOtice, that the parties assembfedtterp not u private niceUng to bear a mere Eatheaiaat, bat perk tons assembled le hear 8 litaseed- Pavaciiirt, it a , I' . .. . • • • * ' WESTMINSTER SE,VSIONS,' 4PaIL 1. The Sessions of Peace for the City and Liberties of Westminster, commenced this day before WILLIAM MAINWAnt NG, Esq. the Chairman, and a full B enc h of Magistrates. John William Cundj was indicted for assaulting John Basset on the 17th of December. It appeared 1 that the Prosecutor was returning home to his lotlg ings,in St. Martin's-lane;abont one. o'clock in the ' morning, when the Defendant _perceiving him open -1 tag the door with what h. conceived a false key / alarmed the watchman. 'The. Prosecutor by this time bad got into the panne, from whence he re turned, and asked the Dectiolarst if he had lost any i thing ? The l) Pendant replied; by desiring the ' matchman to take him into custody. He was then ! walking off, but the Prosecutor desired Ida address before they parted. Some words ensued, ;end the 1/4endant struck and beat the Prosecutor, bit with i the assistance of the-watohnsan,.he was taken. to the watch-house. - . On the part of the Defendant, his brothek was r.cal led to show that the Prosecuter had struck the first blow. i The Jury found him guilty, and he was sentenced to pay a .fine of 101. Henry Betts was indicted for assaulting and false- I ly imprisoning John Spencer, on the :id of last Aug. under the following circumstances : Mr. BARRY stated the case on the part of the Pro secutor, which sas in substance to the following ef fect : Mr. Spencer had been to dine with his brother in Clerkenwell, whom he left about six o'clock, and walked to Pimlico, in search of lodgings. On his return home to his apartmentsat Pancras, he stopped in the Green Park to rest himself upon one of the seats ; the Defendant came up to him,. seated himself on the same bench, and made a sort of push against him. Mr. Spencer not liking his conduct, got up and walked towards the Park-gate, to go into Piccadilly. The Defendant followed him, and charged him with indecent practices, gave him in custody of a watch man, and he was conveyed to the watch-house. This was on a Saturday night; he was detained till Mon day, when he was taken before the Magistrate at Marlboro Ugh-street Office, and no Prosecutor ap pearing, was discharged. Mr. ALLEY, for the Defendant, made a very able defence, commenting on the conduct of the Prosecu tor as being very suspicious. Ile called Mr. Groves, of the Court of King's Bench, who gave the Defen dant a good character, having lived it the time with his brother in Scotland yard, who is since 'dead. 1 Mr. BARRY replied, in an able speech. The Chair man directed the attention of the Jury to the evi dence, who, after a short consultation found the De fendant Vuiltli. • The court sentenced him to be imprisoned one month. John Christinn Frank was indicted for assaulting an interesting young girl, of the name of Ann Lane, with intent to ravish her, on the 2d June. From the stitemeut of Ann Lane, it_appeared that the Pri soner, who was a master tailor, in Poland-street, hirel her to live with him as servant, a few days before he assaulted her ; that on the day stated in the in dictment (iunday), he sent his son out for a walk, and having directed her to enquire for what the guns were firing, on her return back into the drawing-room, where he was drinking wine, locked the door, put the key in his pocket, and pouring out a tumbler of • wine, ordered her to drink it, she refused, and he then assaulted her, but a knocking as the street.door alarmed him, and she took the opportunity of run ning down stairs into the street, and lime to her. father's. The Jury found him Guilty. The Court, in consideration of his being a fo- . reiguer,•and not, perhaps, aware of the law of .England, only sentenced him to be imprisoned six snerrAs. A Gentleman, named Edwards, was fined twenty 'killings, being convicted of assaulting some watch men in it. James's parish, in the execution of their antht : • .. . , , ~ • • .- On Friday last the following melancholy accident happened at llarinw, Essex :—As some children who had been tctasdng potatoes at a kiln, were stooping to gather them up, the clothes of one of them, a girl if eightyegmxild,,canglet fire, anti notwithstanding lihe hadilmese Immediate assistance, she was so dread fully.burot that. she expired in a few hours. Vistxon . M.trcu.—The shooting match between Messrs. Morton and Payne, at 21 birds from a trap at eighteen y‘rds from the gun, took place yester day in f And's New Ground, between the New Road and Kilburn. Morton won the match very easy at 17 birds,' Of *hick hi bagged 14, having hit hard 'the sth and 14th, without bringing them clown. He made ante miss only, which was at the Pah bird. Payne killed ninebirds only from 17, and several of the othir eight were not hit. Morton did not shoot at his remaining four birds, the match being decided without it. . • A sad acCisient happened on Easter Monday to a • Mr-lliel Sik Kilby, living in James-street, Mary le-bellif. IV: 1611 w wave painter. By the boiling o*. _ ifi r a pdt. of iteirpentine in . the exercise ' of his , profeeitier,'. his:wilt Was so dreadfully burnt that she died ' . lbw morning in the most excruciating ago nee*E 1. - fie; husband, from the same calamitous di r can't , 'cannot long survive her. They' were a cry deserving young couple, With a family of four Mpg children, 'one of which is also seivrely _burnt, 'llmailitY- has seldom found fitter objects than rill for the faergise.of sympathy and beam. . • ^ • ' . • 7 -;• , ' I • , ' _ _. • . • c PO LICA. -am I MANSIO7i-110USE. Yesterday, M ar y Berths, a respectabl e I ill , 1 elderly wornanyservant . to Mr. Brodcrip, piatio4,,rl maker, Cheap4ide, was b roug h t b efore the 6R; MAYOR, charged by a host of ° green-ero cers, 0 endeavouring to pas s b a d money . Ts one she ()C r . ed a bad sixpence, to another a had dollar, and i „, third two bad three-6011n; •tokens, as app,,,, upon their evidence.. But upon furth 4. it appeared, that her master had taken the twoihreN shilling tokens in change from a neighhooring can, had given them to her mistress, who gave t!ip , again to the Prisoner for household purposes. sh t had also received the dollar and sixpence froth h er mistress, both of which proved to be good. cp 4 this Loan M %Yoa thougpt there was no - p.*0, 1(1 rot charging the Prisoner with koooingly passing bad money, and accordingly distuktNi i complaint, to the no small disappointment and !nor. tifictt ion of the green.grocen, who appeared e“., zealous in the cause, and most anxious for a tr: e . cation. . _ _ • nUILIMAIL. . Yesterday 1V,,. Tkylot, alias Smith, alias CO9 iv ley Billy, (for we do love to give eve r y man his he. WV/. ! Pourable and total quota of appellations, thou e l i they might in number distinct a Spaniard); Ka !Nought again before the Sitting Magistrate, Alden. man Deemartm.e, on the charge, which we mentioned ~yeateetley, of having displayed signal alacrity amot%st the pockets tsf,thei parties atte n di ng t h e Lord Mayor's Bail on Monday ettming. I Country Billy alsortal the hlagistrate, that Ward iintiniteted hiseestraint to several honourable ac qu aiikt. &aces, who unfortunately happened for him to b e Icalled out of town, on most important busine4, they might have distinguished hits by - a chancel `worthy of sebtaluing the pace of the Court. llo w . ever, he maintained his own innocent*, even in e t absence of his character; and etuleavouced to eitd;r y the Judge, by informing him be had tree itly oh. Mined bail for an assault, which would only continue • to Monday. The Magistrate informed him, that a charge of felony was paraniount to the assurance of hail ; and it was impossible, under the suspicious circumstances so strongly proved against him, that •he could dis. charge hit»; even on themes! urgent necessity. lie had totally failed in giving a satisfattory account of himself, and-also of maintaining any. appearance of character at all, by bringing wittiesces forward to prove him a person of good habits. He would, therefore, be under the necessity of committing him to Bridewell as a rogue and vagabond. The wemau, of the name of Eiroon, who attend. ed Country Billy as a,companion, on his pilgrimage, i leare the Mansion-house, was discharged by the Magistrate. None of the Officers could recoguize her as an old acquaintance of either good or evil re. pert /leatey Chilton a boy engaged in the service of .Mr. Radford, a cheesemonger, in Jen in-strett, was brought up by his master, and accused of havisig lobbed his till to the value of four shillings. IN parents, who live in Whitechapel, had been order:d , to attend, and answer to his character before tha ! Couit • but they neglected to appear ; and several 1 other little nefarious circumstances having come out against him, he was,ordered on board the tender, at the desire of Isis Prosecutor, Ann Hawkins was charged with having stolen. a pound of bacon from dcheesemonger's shop, which sheendeavoured to conceal .g below her apron aid e make her escape with it. was taken hold of by the lady who conducted the shop, and after a stout denial and then a struggle, the prize was redeemed. The Prosecotris, with the most laudable lenity, droppd the Prosecution and desired that she might be discharged, which was immediately done, with a suitable admossition. The poor old deranged man, meatiened in our Paper of yesterday to have bees broegist,ep at Guild hall, accused of having a silent. • watch In his.posses• sion, for which he could not, or Would•aot account, was discovered to be a well-known lunatic from a neighbouring parish, who had eluded those persons who had him in charge, and strolled *Oat the ,streets of London, where he was immediately oppribpded. fie wair put into the custody of 'one of his, own Po• rish. Officer.% -and seat to a place of proper reception. NA RLI3O RO UG(l' , -STREET. 4 . ot ptts fo .4 , e on itionli erd w as ng o shrub s o c u cUil t of le tedMerly6-lett7BoPneenPalitYrk!'i The Lord bishop of Cx.altsti, we 'are told, de. rained the Lotto MAYOR so long at church on Mon. lay; bra most admiruhle discourse, that several per. fans of the highest distitiction were assembied.pre vious to his and the Leer htaxottros'a arrival ; and before the •LApY Maxciazsa could huddle on her Court Dress, and the LORD MAYOR to sadjost his State Robes, the major part, of the company were istembled, Ltd one half of them had got the :rind" cholic. . . CAUTION TO CRACTI*IOI.-•—ks thl! , ".lrteadinc coach was coming to town . 01,1 Tueidei sieving, .aboit eight o'clocx, the CoadtiMan quitfed the horses to deliver a parcal in St. Martin's.lao# ; when they set off at a quiek rate without any driver. They passed along Chandos.street and crown Bedford-street into the Strand, to the endbf Salisbury.street, where the coach overturned. The passeugets, cousktiag of three iftside and hvo'clut, escaped without much hurt. RRI EH. .At Melkshsta,_ Wiltshire; on the ?Ist March, Ri- hard C , 3. eninbe, Esq. of Taunton, Somersetshire, to tAken, eldest d.kit(Y. ter of John flartnoll Moore, Esq. of the rinse place. On Tsesday, at Northampton, B. M. Wiko.t, Est.•ef Sel• awe-place, to Sophia Ann, daughter of the late IL Vaud r gueht, FAN. of Lower Brook-street.. On Saturday last, Mr. G. Hopkinson, Skinaer's-hk. ll , citor, to Miss Shortehige, Nehon-ware. DIED. On the 19Ih alt. at Doncaster, W. Dancer. Tjo. fortherrb Ist the tkith Grenadiers, and late Lieut.-Col. of the Ilayallt I li tegilautt of Foot. siugate of ljaddingtoa, oa the 19th ult. aged 1 Mr. P. M•lityre, late farwr at losikri...,,aitts. hlc. Wird re juiet.: the Pretender's army in 1743. and was severcht woun d e d -with a I . 3sikvouet Aube battles of . Culloden, on the lfiti AKA. 171 d. Oa the 15th Decedher, at Fiih ill, America, J. lleoller - tto , 11911 yon . He was at the wattles of Culloden mid Niue, r, !MO ht the takiag of Queisee, after which he settled la Anseti,t.. o Printed and Pit Wished Ay p. Loyal% at 14. STATES - NAN OFMCIG, $7, Fleet-strect. • , C. : -- ist •