The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-08-22 00:00:00

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And what debts I contracted were paid, 111 children were healthy and thrived, And I drove on a snug little trade; Ant trade and employment are gone, _Anil poverty stares in my face, rvery hope of prosperity'; flown, And I'm destined to certain disgrace. I've five little girls end a boy. Which by labour I formerly fed, Pitt now I am out of employ. And my children are cr)ing for bread; My wife at the scene beeves a sigh. And the tars from her eyes 'gin to start, At length she exclaims I shall die, Our distress will sure break my poor heart And will yon continue to draw, The last farthing from penury's store, tut WI us, alas! that by law. You're untitled to sriao front the poor; t , o be it, if from us our bed. You by law are deterk•inesi to have, the can torture no Mere when we're , r . Nor oppress us when laid in thWgrave. P. flaillebila. PO LIC R. • • .••• MA xstem-Ilouse.—A young man, named noddle, ap peared yeaterhay before t h e LORD Mews. and made the folio% ing complaint, requesting his Lordship to be 1 , 0 reed as to inform him how he could obtain redrew tar a serious grievance. lle said that he had ongagW and paid his passage on board a brig to the Carta trend ; that the engagement was Lida withAtt, Commander, in consequence of an advertisement apples ing in a Morning Paper, announcing that the ship wooN sail at the latter end of June, &rut subsequently to esil; positively on the lOsla July. The passage-money (2314 he paid to the ship-brokers. The vessel did not lots* the London Decks till the July, and oa that day sailed for Orovesend, where it had remained at bucker ever since, with no more appearance of its going on its voyage that when in Docks. The Captain of the vessel had been airetlia aid , thrown into the King's Bench, and would tio4 mast the vessel to proceed. though many of the passengers were in the greatest distress, harlot consumed a considerable vrion of the prori•ion, which they had laid in for the voyage. The case of one family was extremely distress ink ; • poor woman, named - Rigby, Isavidg ire childrep, took a passage for them. and paid the .snoney so the brokers, after the CaptiWiltus in coetfinematth and wan not informed of the fart. be has a hasband at the Cape. and was going out to him. She parted with nearly ell leer property to pay the passage; and sire, with a num ber of Other passengers, hare now nothing but the orkbouse to look to. The Loan Ms TOR expressed his sorrow at the suffer ings of passengers, and lamented that be could not at. fed them redress, as the case did not come within his jurisdiction. It wu a breach of contract, and a civil action wu the only remedy. A woman of decent appearance was charged by the firm of Williams and Co. bankers, Birchin-lane, with :MMus hrhinionr. threatening the Hees of persons in their employ, brrAirarr the Alias, &e. This cam was at Vie inetance of the proprietors. r • • It appeared, however, that Mr. James Alen, Oft of the clerks, keel had three illegitimate children by tee woman, one of whom be had apprenticed to a drew miler i■ Scotland. It was on the pretext of oialtifig to see her child she went. T'neßo Wm:oft heard the evidence, and said be ronlil not interfere, unless Mr. Allen would swear bis life wvs in danger. lie was accordingly sent for, and did so. The subbing of the woman caused a great deal of commisseralon: but the Loan MaTon said, from the oitli of Mr. Allen, be must bind her over to keep the peace. rat"' Ft nu—James 11; otos Corr(, the swindler, who set ap the firm of Fitzwilliarn and Co. it Argel•reart. Throgmorton.street, some time ago, end had been concerned in other establishments In stituted for the more effectually robbing the pub lic. v:l3 yesterday brought np fur another examina tion. Several persons appeared against the prisoner, who stood at the bar, and assured them all that they were te'st...lien in supposing him to have set out upon the Fsan of swiedlinz. He intended to pay all his debts when he was able, and really was ashamed that Mr. Fi•z,riiliam should have been so unprincipled as to entertain no thoughts of paying his debts. All were ready to swear that the prisoner was the 31r. ritswilliam, no other person harlf,g ap• peared at the couoting•house, and no other haring i.sued the different orders which were executed. The Lour) Mayne, who apprehended from the par• ticulars he bad heard, that the prisoner had contrived to veer clear of trial by Jury, was very anxious to ],now whether there was any one io the room who .d been injured by the fellow without owing that injury to the folly of allowing him to get into th , ir debt? A wire-merchant stated that Mr. Court ordered a ren of wino, in the choice of which he was very p tr:lcular, and two gallons of spirits, and said he wad pay for the articles upon delivery at his lodg ings in Ilenrietta.street. The porter who brought the goods returned without the mores, saying that Mr. Court would call and settle in a moment. Accordingly Mr. Court did cat, and sail he would go into the city, and return with the money. The witness nefortnnately consented to wait for his return, and thus made a richt of the mat ter. Mr. Court, before three o'clock. packed Up the wine in his portmanteau, having taken three bricks r•ut of it for that purpose, which bricks he bad pared there to pass for clothes and other property As he was passing through the hall, he was storied by the landlady, who said be should not go without paying her for the lodgings; but he shoved her, and dashed into the street; and when the wipe-merchant called at the house to look after Mr. Court, it appear ed that the wine had been sent without being paid for because the laodlikly was respectable, and of coarse likely to have none but respectable lodgers. The poor woman from whonair.Court had taken the counting-house. in Angel -court, succeeded in getting possession of the apartments in rather a singular man tier. Use of the pour men whom Mr. Court contrived to strip of the value of some pounds, determined to— '• pitch the law (as be said) to the Devil," in such a rate ; and suspecting that part of his property was in the counting-house, actually took the crow-bar with him and broke open the door. for which he was re warded with more than half of his goods, Mr. Court not hiving had an opportunity of clearing the place The landlady of course holds? too. bat has re ceived no rent. A gentleman who stood amongst the complainants, here stated that there were a great many things of the kind against Mr. Court. Mr. Court instantly add d him, saying, " you have se right to say any thing. Whatever ! may have owed you, I owe you clothlog saw." The Gentleman replied,•.-" you have certainty got over your swindling transaction with me by the Insolvent Act, but you may be caught in that; Court again. The LORD MAJOR looped that for the sake of tits, public Mr. Court would get into the hands of drill Commissioners of the Insolvent Act, who would wee doubt visit such a delinquent with exemplary punish-I meat. His Lordship greatly regretted that no ease hid been made out against so bo!cl and ingenious a schemer, and told him that be might leave the bar.' but advised him not to jots in any other firm. His Lordship added, that he was surprised how soy man who looked in the face of Mr. Court could think of giving him credit. Mr. Court, who is about 24 years of age, and squints most abominably, bowed very low to his Lordship. and left the Jastice-room in great spirits. Ott LDllAL4.—Yesterday Mr. Coles of the Rainbow public house. opposite Chancery -lane, and Mr. 111110. of the Horse Shoo and Magpie, wear Fetter-lase, Fleet-street, appeared before Alderman Lucas and Mr. Sherif f Venable., to answer the complaint • Mr. Over. residing in Castle-street, Fleet-market. Tho complainant described himself as Foreman of the In. qua of the Parishes of St. Sepulchre and St. Bride, sad that on his going his round, as was his ditty en Stodgy the 11th instant, about one o'clock in the wends'. he (culd at Mr. Coles a parlour fall of most respectable gentlemen smoking and drinking. at shot asioasoasble hour. which he considered to be a pee &sedan of the Sabbath day ; be had noble; arm to sledge. Mr. Savage, a gentleman residing is Fetter-lase addressed the Magistrates. sad objected altogether to the form made use of by Mr. Over as Foreman of the Inquest, in as much as he could on bet roserised in that sitaation hot before a Goon Of Alderson'. Is consequence of some doubts arias,: the minds of the Magistrates, as to wittiest k was a profanation of the Sabbath, or only antweint tipliag and drinking in their houses, the City Soligi. tor was soot for, who decided that it came within aw Act recently passed, sad was no more thao tiipling. The Magistrates, therefore quashed the information. Mr. Mr. Savage immediately add rested Mr. Aid. Luca.., and described the houses of hi r. Colts and Mr. Ellis as truly respeetible ; he confessed it certainly was true that kir. Ellis had been before a Magistrate in that Court on a similar occassioo, when he stated that Ws reason for keeping his boase open to so late a period, was t. accommodate some printers in the neighbourhood with tea and coffee. The then sitting magistrate discharged that complaint also. BowHITRIBT.-.-BlOANT.—Yesterday J. Perch a labouring man was brought to this office.in custody , one of the Union Hall o ffi cers, on a charge of ha h; married throe wives, two of whom ware present. visa the first and third. The third wife (Mary Tigers's) said she was ate widoieof a gunner. who died about two years since in his Majesty'. service, and that she hat - obtfined slime his deer ass the sum of 251. per annum as a pension. That ten weeks ago last Sunday she unfortunately met with the prisoner on Black friars-bridge, when thinking him a ai:e sort of a man fell into conversation with him, she was at that time with a asice of her's. Ho walked as far as her home, and obtained her consent to meet again ; the result was, that about a fortnight after he offered himself as her bridegroom, and at the cud of th r ee weeks they were married by banes, at St. Clement's Church. io the Strand, and that ever since that time she had lived in perfect harmony with him until last Saturday, when, to her utmost surprise and astooish• meat, the first and second wife appeared at her lodg ings. The prisoner upon being called upon fur his de fence said, his first wife's ill treatment of him was the only cause of what he had done. He was remanded for farther examination. MARLBORODGO-11TRIBT.--J. Pritchard, shopman to Mr. Taylor, linen-draper, of Piccadilly, was charged with robbing his master. The prisoner, it appeared, had been six months in Mr. Taylor's service, during which period many articles of 'prorrty were missed. At length the prisoner was suspected, and some marked silver was paid to him for some articles. Wales and Craig, the officers, searched the prisoner's pockets, when they found part of the marked silver in his pockets, and the remainder In the till ; various other property was found in his apartment belonging to the prosecutor, and 120 sovereigns were deposited in a dressing box. He was fully committed for trial. NICEIT or TUE Law.—A licensed victuallrr was, on Tuesday, called upon to prosecute a fellow at Marlborough-strset office for having broken his win dow. The publiean gave evideace to prove that the an was wilful on the part of the defendant, and brougbe forward one witness to prove his case, oo which the Magistrate coavicted the defendant in the value of the injury sustained by the licensed victualler, who natur ally anticipated that the amount of the conviction would fall to his lot ; but, on the contrary, he was in informed that the Act of Parliament was imperative; he had only brought forward one witness besides him self to prove the fact, in that case the penalty did not go to the prosecutor but to the King; if he had brought forward two witnesses to prove it, then the pro- secutor would he entitled to the penalty to the amouot of the injury done. Tire poor publican thought this Act of Parliament as curious as it was bard, and re gretted he had taken the trouble to prove his case coder such circumstances. Yesterday morning, a wretch of the name of Thom• son, of rather shabby dress and appearance, and' bout 50 years-of age, was brought up from St. James's watch-bouse, before Mr. Conant, thy Sitting Magis trate, charged by a watchman and by other wit nesses,. with hariog bees detected between 11 and 12 the preceding sight. in the commission of an abstain able offence behind the Haymarket, where Suffolk street sto.A. On their being discovered, the soldier, by knocking down the watchman, effected his escape; l at as he left his cap behind him, there Is some pr,:s foci of his being .-et detected. Thomson. on being taken to the watch-house, was found to have his cheeks rouged ; and upon examioation a box of rouge was found in his pocket. When called ma for his defence by the Magistrate, he said that the charge ha•l been brought arainst him by the watchman, bee else he hail previously refused to give him money. The de scription he gave of himself was, that he ,vase whole rale dealer in pins. fie was remanded for further ex amination. He bad his head bandaged at the Office, in consequence of the treatment which he received from the indignant populace. CAUTION TO (NMI'S OF CART! OR WAGOONS.-.- Some persons, among ether'', M . Cooper and Barnet, of the Old White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, ap peared at the Office, is consequence of information lodged aealost them by two common informer% who have been recently very active in this vocation—for not having their names and sirnatnes at full length, in large and legible letters affixed to their carts. They pleaded utter ignorance of the law, thinking that their initials were sufficient, The Magistrate said, that the Act of Parliament was imperative; and he regretted that this point did not appear to be sufficiently known to the public. They were fined in the mitigated pe nalty of 20s. besides 4s. C.d. costs. A QUlRN•sQVaan.—.Hark Clare, a bargeman, from Henley on Thames. was brought up on the charge of a corporal of the Grenadier Guards, who stated, that as be was coming over Westminster-bridge, with his wife sad child, about tea o'clock on Tuesday night, the prisoner, with three or four other ill looking fel lows, his companions, assailed him with cries of " Soldier, here's a Bishop. do yo -avast to earn a few sovereigns?" He seized the prfioner, but instantly released him, upon the interposition of a respectable person of the name of Scott, who was passing. and advised him to take no farther notice of the black guards. sinless they molested him again. He had not proceeded many paces forward, when the same gang again raised the offensive outcry after him; where upon with the assistance of the person before named, be secured the prisoner. and gave him into the custody of the Bridge-keeper. Being asked what he had to say for himself, the pri soner answered, " Why, I thiilks as how I am a teerry innereent young man," The Magistrate (Mr. Mirkland) said, this effusive species of outra ea towards the soldiers was carried to such as intolerable pitch that it must be put a stop to, aid as far as it lay in his power it should be stopped. —lt tended immediately to a breach of the peace, and he therefore required the pris.mer to give bail to keep the peace, or he should be committed to the Sessions. MaNlt.auoiTßß.---lt has been stated that a few days ago, an - Inquisition was taken at the Middlesex Hos pital, upon the body' of a woman who met her death in consequence of injuries she received by being ran over by a Geatleman's gig in the New-road, and the Jury 'found a verdict of Manslanghter against the driver, and levied a deodand of 51. upon the horse and gig. Yesterday Mr. Sterling, the Coroner, attended at this office, and got his warrant signed by the Ma gistrates, to whom he produced the depositions, when James Newham, Esq. merchant, residing at Keasing fon Gravel Pits, the driver of the gig, accompanied by two friends, also attended, and after some conver sation, Mr. Banks, the officer, formally served the warrant open him, and then be• was bound over in 2001. himself, and his two sureties in 100/. each, for his • appearance to the charge at the castling Sessions. PaIGIIING a CASTOR.- -Jo/is Harris, a ballad singer. who said he bad be-n a soldier from eight years of age to the close of the last war, and lived at No. 1, Witite's-yard, Rosemary-lane, and Thomas Cole, who said be lived at No. 2, in the same place, but worked at the soap shop in Grub-street. although the filthiness of his person and attire evinced his perfect contempt or abhorrence of the use of that commodity, were brought up on a charge of robbery. The prosecutor, Edward Brown, a gardener, of Falharn-fields, but better known to " the Fancy" and in the milliag circles by the cognomen of " The Sprig of Myrtle." sated that as be was returing home from Parson's grew bale with his wife, about one o'clock in the morning, he stopped at the Wheat Sheaf, in Walham-green, to get some drink ; be was standing at the Bar with his piut of half and half in his hand. when in came the two prisoners, and Cole struck him. A scuffle ensued, and the prisoner's left the house.— Having lost "in the row" his hat, with a silk handkerchief in it, the prosecutor ran out to look for them, and meeting a party of police officers, is formed them of the transaction, when they accom panied him at a quick pace about a mile along the road in pursuit; but not overtaking their chute. they turned back, and had not retraced many steps when they met the two prisoners, Cole having oa the lost beaver, which he threw down un their approach. and both together made off, but Brown and the officers pursued and took them, while Mrs. Brown picked up the bat. The prisoners were searched, and Cole's hat was found thrust into his bosom, bat no traces of' the missing silk handkeichief could be found, They were both committed for trial at the Old Bai ley Sessions. HATTON-GARDRN.—ITI pursuance of directions given by one of the Worthy Magistrates of this office. to the principal officers of the establishment, a host of street walkers were brought up yesterday morning In cus tody. Some were very genteely, others indifferently dressed ; the whole were collected it. Chancery-lane, Serle-street, Carey-street, and other places in the im mediate vicinity of the Inns of Court. It was singu l iar to hear the different descriptions they gave of them selves, The Worthy Magistrate, at whose instigation they were brought up, having observed that it was a scan dolous thing that a respectable person could not pan the neighbourhood without being insulted by these hardened women, sentenced them according to the nature of their respective , some to seven days others to fourteen days, and some to a month's impri sonment in the County House of Correction. Town-II•Lt,SOUTUWAttIi —A d -lookingyoung woman, apparently in a very exhausted suite, was brought up y, sterday, upon a warrant, to answer the complaint of (horde Tyler, a tailor, with whom she had lined as wife for nearly four years. The prisoner ►ad lately taken it into her head to suspect Tyler, and in Me of Jealousy took to drinking, aid conducted bet self towards him with a rage avid violence &ramming to frenzy. lie went out early on Sund►y morning; on his return home with some meat, she told him to take it where ha had had his breakfaet. Perceiving. her getting halo one of her emus, passions, be thought it prudent to leave the house. Accordingly, he pro. seeded to his son's: she followed him, and overtook him in the street, tore the meet ont of his hands, and attacked him. This collected a great crowd, s e hi6 she endeavoured to incense against him by complaints that he wanted to starve her, and it was with difit e l ty that he escaped from her : she followed, sad created great disturbance in the house wherein be took re. faire. He did not think it safe to return lonia that night, aud in the morning applied at this olke asd obtained a summons against her. Hoping that the service of the summons might have the effect of icri. midating her, he ventured to go house that antrum, Instead of finding her violence at all abated, 1 .,, ttileitened Lim that some blood should be spathat night, and fearful of the consequences, he was mi. yelled again to seek another lodging. She did tot appear to the summons on Tuesday morning, a warrant was is consequence granted for her apprehension. Wee & t h e officers went to the beaus they found her in h o y, Upon learning their errand. obi Immediately leaped out, and violently attacked the foremost of them eitk a knife which she had towelled is the bed. Fists/ all her efforts frestrated, she disengaged herself frog them, and plunged the knife into her own side. Oa searching the room two letters were found, the sae addressed to her mother, and the other to the coat. plainant (Tyler), in which she stated her inteatios to destroy herself. She was taken to the Conspter, where, upon examination, the wound was famed sotto be dangerous, the knife bavieg struck upon one Oi ber ribs. She was sufficiently well to be broueit up ye.: terday. Tyler did net 'bah to press any proomelinis against her, but declared his fall determination netts take her home again. He could not lire with her, as his life would not be safe. The Magistrate observed upon the cruelty of thus leaving the woman destitute, and suggested the prc. priety of Making some allowance for bet rusiatesams to prevent her being driven to desperation. (yier pleaded his inability. The Aldermaa directed tit woman to be taken care of in the Compter, and in foraol the complainant he should require his attendance na a future day, when he would consider the case, and determine In what manner the 'prisoner shoa:il bit& posed of. There are 1 counterfeit sovereigns in circulatins, and well executed. They are copper, gilt, and sic weigh two penny. weights 12 grains each, but the gen- ine sovereign weighs five penny-weight.„ two gni,. The sharp Impression of the die on the Mist coin is quite perceivable, but the surface of the counterfeit rough, being gilt. There is also this important diffa. once, that the St. George on the counterfeits is r, vend, as will be instantly perceived when compared with the Mint coin. The best means of avoiding imposition LS 11 weigh them. Yesterday afternoon, at live o'clock, a coal porter of the name of Stringer, in the employ of Mr. Nis Sun-whirf, Upper Thames4treet, while on the craft in the act of dipping water, accidently fell from the barge into the river. and was picked up not mare that ten minutes afterwards. All attempts to restore animation were resorted to, but were found unavail ing. Yesterday, a young woman of respectable appor• atter, was observed by some persons to be wands:gm the bank of the Serpentine River in a very Sf;titti state of mind ; she was accordingly watched, Oita in a short time (thinking she was unobserved) the made a plunge in. Immediately two respectable esti hastened to her relief, and suoceedeil, after ►eing some time immersed in the water, its saving her. She ass conveyed in so insensible state to St. Georges's Irak house, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square. On recover ing, she was asked the cause of attempting the rule act. She said she had been a long time in a irate of the most abject po►erty, and that she was quite ti7el of her existence. On Sunday last was drowsed, about sine o'clock in the morning, owing to having gone beyond hie deer. Jos. Pickard, a young man just twenty-one years of age. He was a ribband weaver by trade, living with his friends in great respectability in the vicinity cf Chsapside. The drags were immediately pat is re quisition, but in vain. A labouring man passin7 perceived the sun shine en something in the watt-, which, on his approaching, proved to be the body 01 the unfortunate young mac It was immediste:y con• veyed to the Red House, Battersea, about two how, after the fatal accident. Oa Tuesday. Mr, demean the Coroner for Surrey, and a Jury, sat on the FA!, and, after an weeded investigation of the re , young men who, it appeared, had been in the dented • company, the Jury returned a verdict of " At• l'an'e ally drowned." This Is the second child that the unfortunate parents of tbr deceased have been de prived of in a similar ntaneer. Immediately after the decision of the Jury, the body was removed in a hearse to the house of his parents. CORONER'S 'NW:EST.—As inquest was held ns Tuesday evening, at the Duke's Head, Queen -street , Elgeware•road, before Thorns' Stirling, Esq., Cols - Der for the county of Middlesex. on the body of fine young woman, named Mary Wall. The deceit , ' had joined with a few friends is a dance, at the home of her parent., in Catastrect, on Sunday evening, 1 - 141 feeling herself suddenly overcome by the beat. sat down in a chair and fainted. Her anxious fries*. in the midst of their agitation, instead of rensovia; her into the air, placed her sitting in a chair. is small parlour. where the cotopany eagerly pressed clan about her, she esprit need a succession of violent on for the space cf about twenty minutes, when or expired. Vordict—" Died by the visitation of (led.' M ARRI On Wednesday. at St. G torte's, Ilanover-square, Csr, John Russell, of the Royal Navy, son to Lord %%tali° Russell, to Miss Coussmaker„ niece to Lord de Clifford. On Wednesday, at sr. George's, Manover-square, Po. derick Golly Flood, Eoq. only son of the lateßichard Sulk. Esq. of Tork-place. Portman-square, and grandson of Frederick Flood. Bart. of the counts of Wes:Arra. Irel 30 ; to Mary, only daughter of the Rev. Thomas Willitunsm a, Valley-house, Cambridgeshire. DIED. [ohm hat, oa her passage from Jamaica to England.° the eith year of her are. Catherine. the Lady of t'apttia Wis e wa man, Bart., of his 0.1•11,4 frigate Tele . Her Ladyship s the third daughter of the a Bon. SirJ Mackintosh, Bart. AI.P. Zanies : Edited, Printed, and Published at the met "The STATESMAN" and Tu E: COST Wt. " (Seeds.s Paper, No. 07. Strand, b) It. WARDELL, LLB.. u' • wise. all cometan!cativu., Orders, Ike. are raqllege4l? sddrased!