The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-09-03 00:00:00

IT . ._ r PE77IRSBV7IGIL The following lively description of Petenbergls, 'entreating the varied aspects presented by the ent quarters of that capital, is altsacterlfrom a recast French publication 5 " If 1 tad for ono day at my dispese! the ring of a fairy , I would amuse my self in the following • 44 Sousa fine day in spring er suataser, I would take from one of the most civilised countries of so u th. ern Europe, a man of well informed mind, an 4 'pos. Dewitt of the experience which is conferred by tot veiling, and by a knowledge of the world, I would transport him through the air to St. Petersburgh.-- During the sniper, he should hare his eye' blind folded, and in that state I would conduct him to the bank of the Neva, s here the merchant vettelsonload their cargoes in the quarter of the Ohl Exchange.— Before taking the bandage from his eyes, I would say to hire, t can you imagine, Sri where you are.' 4 " I smell,' he would say to me, ' an odour of merchandise ; I smell packages, and the varied scents of oranges, citrons, nuts, hides, and dried raisins ; my ear is struck just now with the noise of putties, and the cries of sailors hoisting merchandise; I smell the pitch and tar of cordage ; I hear vessels refitting ; I hear spoken the English, Danish, Swedish, and German languages, and other tongues which are un known to me, and which sorted very strange; Imest be in a commercial city.' I would then take the bandagefrom my traveller, enchanted with his haw ing rig ttly dieined where he' was. • Its seeing the fo rest of mists, sad the variety of costemee• around bins, he would'find a sunicient competisafien for hav ing been for a Moment deprived of sight. . " Replacing the bandage, my observer and my.:, self would then transport ourselves to the midst of the Summer Garden, We promenade in the grand alley, and breathe a delightful freshness of air, under the shade of majestic trees. This is the rendezvous of the beau monde of the capital. In the eager throng they can with difficulty give place to, or avoid each ether, and the rents in their vestments announce involuntary shocks. All is delightful in this superb alley, luxury and opulence are every where displayed, an atmosphere of delicious per !times precedes and fellows groups of elegant fe males, and Venus recognizes her daughters in the I ambrosial odour which escapes from theirdivine hair. Amongst the men sometimes a erase displays itself at a hutton-hole, sometimes a erarbat may be per. ceived under a modest frock, brilliant !sequel, and negroes; 'Dirks in livery, little marmots clothed a la Chinsise Courant:, bearing awls on their arms, or handkerchiefs, waiting the °rtes.( their mistresses, a long file of equipages ranged near the different ex tremes of the gardens, the variety of this magnificent spectacle, wou'd strike my observer with astonish-! mete. ! ask of him, where he believes himself to be ? It is another world,' says he, tto that we were in first, in this is an opulent city, but not a commercial city. I believe myself lo be in the neigh bourhood et a brilliant court, but I know not in wh•tt city' " In order that my observer might not perceive that his journies were within the same circle, I would, at the commencement of each jaunt, replace the ban. d•ige. From the Summer Garden, I would transport him to the midst of the Isle of Kretow.ky, on all j 'idea are bourgeois and artisans amusing themselves during the interval of labour, some playing at nine pins, : and others promenading with pipes in their 1 mouths, some extended on the grass with their wives and children, take tea round an ample copper boiler, ' others drink beer, or eat cold meat, or take milk, on a napkin spread on the sand. They sing and amuse themselvest--' Sir,' says my aeriel traveller to me, 4 just now 1 must have been in France, but here is a fair at a small town in Germany—l recognize the language, the songs, the accents of joy, I must be at a considorable distance 'front the place where we were just now. " On a sudden, I transport my traveller to Kernel meni-ostreff. I place him on the bridge, the en chanted isle displaying itself liefore as; it seems to' Jima on silver waves, it is bordered by voluptuous groves and trees of a majestic height, whose foliage balances itself in air. In the bosom of this amphi theatre of verdure, are scattered here and there a I number of delicious habitations, yeHow i • white, rose-colour, sky-blue, the most lively colours unite themselves its their facades, the eye cannot divine in what manner they are constructed, 'they seem to be made of porcelain., or of cartridge paper, delicate- le cut according to fancy, and painted in a style of , decoration ; they appear to belong to France, to Italy, to England, to Holland, to China, but their ensemble is of no country. The etiolate is mild, it unites all climates, the atmosphere is serene, the; water is limpid, the agitation is fresh and vigorous. This isle is surrounded bra umber of other isles; I every where there is miter, every whero,there is verdure, every *here there is nothing but fairyism and enchantment.--e • Sir, he would say, 6 I knew I not where I am, I know neither the style orihis t chitecture, nor the climate, nbr'the vegetation?' 1 4 " I would then transport my traveller to the new • promenade near the Admiralty-. 6 Here are Eng.. l lish,' he says, 6 here are Turks, here are Spaulards, here are Americans, these med were born at the foot /, of Mount Caucasus ; I have seen these • nations in : prints, they are here in nature, they are busy i they ' promenade, and 'seem to she* eftetition io each other, is this an illusion, or is it reality? 'They each : speak their own language. it is a rendezvous Of 1 , different nations, but not of merchants. These edi. fives are not those of a commercial city. Here is a, palaee, which must be the habitation of a great Monarch.. What a vast extent, what imposing gran- , deur. I must be in one of the first residences of Eu rope.' , • " The bandage is resumed, and my trifellet is 1 , traasported to the perspective of Newsky. amend you,' I say to him, 6 examine, Sir, these houses, and tell me where you think yisti "rhese depute houses, these hotels with flat top% one meets wW),'•he replies, in rtaljr and France, they are simple, and of an agreeable taste, but have no distinctivi . maik to indirare their country. This street does not ''belong to 'London, foil' Lottdon has no geauite;lts streets besides, are neither so large t nor tits spacious. Neither Amiteldam nor Vetuce Wier •canal of this Magnificence, 'tit/kite net here ~. ' ". • • f•TATERMAN 4- - - •__-.•••••••••••6.0.0000.'-' WZgrorto irg#A nor tieg posy en* dolts oh the htki.c. The lakestgldes are not bor . d ar ed by vast streets lIMI , quays of ,gresite, nor do witostrades of iroh the waterke f the Aro- i stet. This street surpasses. je leesgtis the celebrated streets of &dia l •nor do Tailit' Sr Florence possess any of the, dimension's of this. I do not see here the antique moanments'of goose, but I see columns of marbl . d (marble and granite strike one's attention every where), every where I observe a freshness and an nee which I have seen no where else. Nei ther London nor Vienna have these equipages ; there the movement is grand•-.here it is more brisk and more pracipitite. This city, Sir, is one of the first cities of Europe ; it is the fifth toughthroh which you have carried me,' says my traveller m. " Keeping him still in suspense, I place him sud denly in the middle of a gronpe of inhabitants of the country. Ile sees them in the Hay-market ; he is frightened at their thick beards and bristled chins ; these men in large pelisses or in coarse cloth, and with hairy caps ; their hairy breasts and uncovered necks; their mantles of sackcloth ; their shoes of the bark of trees quite surprise and astonish him.-- 4 What carriages,' he says, ' what harness, in my life I have never seen the like. What is the meaning of those girdles of wood round the necks of the horses' Erery thing is rustic and vigorous— every thing is strange, even to the physiognomy of the quadrupeds. But from what savage country does this man come, who, instead of a carriage, fastens j his horse to two long poles, of which the ends joined trail upon the earth and carry the produce of the country : never have I seen any thing so near the in fancy of society, end its misery. This, Sir t isthe sixth city through which you haVe conducted me f he rays to me, 6 these men and these carriages are foreign to the habitations which surround this mense place—you have made me pass from one et• tremity civilitatiosEto the other; " ' On Friday - last Mrs. Jetiner,, wife of a labouring man at Bircooib, Sussex, was founffin her bed-ream, with her throatcut, which she had effected with a pair of large seissars. The deceased had been . at- - tlicted with temporary derangement for several years, - dnd particularly within the last five weeks. •On the Monday preceding her death, she made an attempt to destroy herself in the privy, by strangulation ;' but her husband discovered hersituation in time to save her life, after which the Parish Officers placed her under the care of a woman, whose. vigilance she evaded, and effected her purpose as above stated. She has left seven young children.—Verdict, Lunacy. On Monday last, a pugilistic contest took place at Redmarley, Gloucestershire, between Ford, of Bristol (who, a short time since, heat King, a can didate for fame in the neigbourhood of the metropo lis), and a Gloucestershire man, of the name of Da s ufs, for a purse of twenty guineas. They set.to at half-past nine, in a rope ring of forty feet, and (might for two hours and ten minutes, during which time they had eighty-two rounds of as hard fighting as wasever witnessed ; when both being horribly beaten, the spectators interfered, and the purse was divided by mutual consent ! Abrahams seconded Ford, and Dick Yarnold seconded Davis. A NEW COVEY OV Swisnr.Eßs.—The tradesmen in the neighbourhood of Francis-street, Bedford-square, have been lately dished to some tune, by a Ilefario:,S (*genie, who knew how to lay her traps with ad dress. She took the upper part of a furnished house, in the name of a Mrs. H—y, and passed as the wife of a Merchant in the City ; but it was soon perceived, by the complexion of her visitors, and the charming carelessness of her sister, Mrs. C--d, ' that the Lady was not very tight laced in her mo rality ; however, as there were supposed to be among these nocturnal worshippers at the shrine of damaged beauty an Irish Earl, who Never gambles, and a po- • litical Barrister, who never drinks, it was presumed by the tradeimen that their debts were not of a very desperate cast, and they suffered this modern Phrync to have credit to a considerable amount. All now went merrily en, the kitchen was amply supplied with viands, and the table with wine, while the catch, and the jest, and the song went round, to the {annoyance of Morpheus and his drowsy Ministry. ' What have we witb day In do ? " Sono of Care %was made for ynt." At length a general suspicion was aroused, as to the honour and character of the Lady, and the Tradesmen became importunate; but an evening was I fixed to liquidate all their accounts, when the Vint ner, the Grocer, the Butcher, the Poulterer, the Baker, &c. all arrived at the same instaet, but the I Birds had flown away, and, locked up the house, and taken the key I By the assistance of a ladder, the Landlady oblained entrance into her own pre mises, where she found duplicates upon the table for; plate and linen, her property , which this dashing Emphroyse had taken the liberty to pawn !--NOw would it net be wise in the Legislature to enact Mae Statute, that might prevent the frequent returrieke of such iniquitous imposition? A fire broke ,oit oboist as e'eleels'yevieraisy-N morning in a house in Union-street, bliddlestit pit.* which destroyed the whole of the interior of i the premises, and damaged a public 'house adjoliiing, at the center. of Clereland.street. Ohe of the east gsAes in the colonnade before Carlton How, in Pall-Mall, fell outwards by sopa unaccountable accident, yesterday .morning, about' ten o'clock. Monday sennight, • twi...nten were and . ranne others severely lyrosontled, battluthat took' place at the fair of Ballyket, - near land. An excellent method for preventing butter from becoming rank :—The day before churning scald the cream in a clean iron kettle, over a clear ire, taking care that it does not boil over. As soon as it begins. to boil, or is fully scalded, strain it, when the par. Bees of milk which tended to sour and chanceothe butter, are • separated and left. behind. Put the vessel into which it was strained into a tub of water, In a cellar, till .next morning,' when it will be ready for churning, and bee no butter in less than a quer. ter of the time requited in the commoinwiliod. It will also becoine hard, with a peculiar additional sweetness, and notehange. The - tabour In this way is leas thane the oust, as the butter r,othes soottericl 4M saves so•much hailer in working out.the i ltetter.! talk 8y bitter ay 049,4116 the hottest weather , tat :snzo2ti , 411 U .1, . v 4. xoups... .„ t, . Yesterday Richard Richey* «is brimmlbt before • the Sitting Magistrate, charged by William Mtge! with stealing tromlis person a gold Mid and key ea the "preceding night is Smithfiedd market. Asset sigted, that as be was observing some waggon loads of Wild beista that were brought into Smithfield pre paratory to , the fair, he felt a twitching at his fob, spa tooling t/own perceived.the Prisoner cutting his watch ribbon, be immediately seised him, upon which 1 the Prisoner threw away the "seal and scissars, in which act he :wad observed by several persons pre ' sent. - He was immediately given into the custody of an o ffi cer, and ,denied all knowledge of the crime I !Ad to his charge. The Officer, however, observed him throw away a sheath, which was picked up, and exactly fitted the scissars with which he cut the watch ribbon. lie was fully committed for trial. MANSION-312USE. Yesterday. a fine-lookihg little boy, about the age of ten, was brought before the Loan Maven. by one of the City Officers. The Officer stated, that he ob. 1 served the child on the preceding day straying about the streets, and enquiring for the Red Lion public house, where he said his parents lodged. There 1 being so many public-houses with that sign, it was thought useless to make further enquiry about it.— : The boy said that he had walked up to town all the • way from Hollywell, in North hales, for the pur pose of finding out his_parents. He had received a peas from theparish officers of Hollywell. His Lord, ship being of (Tinkle that the lose was given by the Officers only with a view of throwing such a burden off the parish, and the child not being willing to go to sea, he gave him a pass back to his parish iu North Wales, anddirected that he should be supplied with any necessary he wanted. A hackney coachman was brought up by Forres ter, the Officer, on suspicion of felony. Forrester Stated, that he observed the hackney-coachman and another person passing hastily through the street on , the preceding day ; the Prisoner carried a bundle in I las hand, and the Officer, suspecting from their manner that it was stolen, pursued them closely, the, otiset Man Made his escape; but the Prisoner, with the bundle, was secured. It contained an elegant ; dressing case, bearing the name and arms of Sir , William Cottrell, who had left town ou Tuesday ! for Bristol. - the Prisoner, in his defence, stated, that the bundle wait left in his Master's coach by some Gen tleman whom he had taken up at a house in Duke street, Si. James's, and,' that when seized by the Officer, he was only conveying it, by the direction of his master, to Some place of safety until it could be returned to the Gentleman. .Ilis Lordship was of opinion that he was seized in proper time ; but, as there was no proof of a felo nious intent, the Prisoner was discharged, and the case directed to lie put into safe hands until such time as it could be returned to the owner. WHITECHAPEL. Yesterday John O'Neal, a sailor, belonging to the Victorious, on leave of absence, was brought up, and underwent examination, charged with tak ing, on Tuesday night last, a young woman home to' his lodgings, in Wentworth-strret, Whitechapel, and with using her in a wry cruel manner, heating her over the head and body, so that she was taken to the Hospital in a very dangerous state. Tht. Pri soner was committed for re-examination, to be brought up again when the fate of the unfortunate fe.:-:le shall be ascertained. T harms Oakley, a hackney-dutchman, was ex amitiet4 being charged with the murder of Elizabeth Mathews, only nine years of age, under the follow ing circumstances :—The Prisoner was driving his coach at a very furious rate near Dog-row, Bethnal green—the deceased, corning from school, was thrown down, and the wheels of the carriage going over her, she was killed on the spot. The Prisoner was com mitted for trial. . • • tut Aim rm. limintn.---Bertjamin Clifford underwent an exa mination yesterday at the above Office, charged with the wilful murder of Patrick Doyle. •It appealed by the evidence of Wood, thelleadborongfi or Colima ble of Poplar, that on the evening of Wednesday, the Rath of August, about a•quarter past ten .'clock; he fell in with Clifford and the deceased fighting each other—when he separated the combatants, and they went each their several ways, and that afterwards. he found them the • same evening again fighting. Ile made up to them *second time, when Clifford effected his escape by running away. On coming up to the spot where they bad been engaged, ho found the de ceased, Doyle, leaning against some palings. Ile *as then in an almost exhausted state with the loss of blood; and soon afterwards expired. Mr. Bell, the surgeon, who was called in to ex- amine. the body, deposed, that the deceased bad one 1 bound in his face, near to the eye, another on his ; 'left side, between' two ribs; and somewhat under the vertebrae of the left breast ; the latter having pene lrateff almitit to the recent.' of the heart, and which 'he hail no doubt was the actual cause by which the deceased had come by his .deatlt, and that it appeared the Wounds were inflicted with an instrument some what.longer than a penknife. ' I On the ibeve evidence, Clifford, the Prisoner, was • fully committed. UNION ft ALL. Thomas Eloggirstosi l cud Thomas Boggision,' jan. a boy about tivelve years of age, and Ann Ashwood servant girl, were brought before Mr. Matsu for re-esstialaatio& charged en suspicion—' . .tha two first of breaking' open the Three Compasses 41firinoudsay; and the girl, who lived lerrant in the fall% , with aldlag and assisting them lin their entreifee;• and 'stetting a metal watch, and Itgi. in suer, as statedelmf*aittler Piper, from a list in the bar. 'ferittirtialf thee; fully committer? • for trial. t, *u BoW-trrit PET. Nosy Jones *au charged with felonlitaSly stealing eaelarge ciaantity of. printed cotton fromPtbe shop of Griffith Foulkes, lineu.draper, of Little tips ' sell-street, Covent' Garde.. ' n• It appeared that the Prilistiar went into the Prose. estor's'shop on Tabsany- afternenn, and purchased I two. stuall'reamants a Kew,. After' he had left the! .shop l isontivrinted cuttoriives missed, and she being • ' '-ougly 'suspected. to have taken it,• she was folio*. 1 r . nol , s 4 ' brought :back! t the - shop, and oh being -.4 . . charged with *touting the Cotton,- tweaty.mie 3 a of priurad cotton dropped from under h,r pthic.ais which Mr. Foulkes identified to be his protk•rty.- P• The Prisoner was committed to Neolgai e f or "jai. mAttLlsilitounit-srumr.. • Right disorderly persons were brought before o r , sitti ng Mdigiatrate, charged with horn% committed depredations in the fiplds of Mr. Harper, Lotwo m Mary-le-bone and kilburn. It appeared ("1 Went, that incalculable injury has been at intervals susta in . ed by the Complainant, in consequence of pe rs ,„ plucking the hay-ricks to furnish bels, &c. and for even worse perposes. The Magistrate expre'sed determination .to make an exomple of SC:ae peme, and he consequently committed o;ie of ti.m, o r name of Golsen, who had been before hi:u ua a far. user occasion, for pretending to have ruptur...l a Mood vessel, and to carry on the imposition effectually, he had a vial of-blood in his possesv,:. Pa/FR PIRATES.--A gentleman named Coffr who resides in Westminster, and who h as a wit::: sailing beat on the Thames for hi; accasiottal amus f . meat, while sailing a Short distance below Chelser. reach, on Monday evening, about nine o'clock, was ; hoarded by three ruffians, who jumped from a fun. loared cutter that ran alongside his boat, and g rnpi k d with his gunwale. They were armed with cutla , 4 , , and demanded his money. Not feeling disposed to resist so formidable a body, having only a bov ca board, he delivered 31. in cash and.notes to them,. with which they immediately leaped into their cutter; and desiring him to alter his eourse, they rirwed with great velocity down the river, and were soon oat . of sjght. • A few days since a labouring man was committed to the gaol of Iladdington, charged with vending forged notes:' lie was detected in the act of givi wg some of them in exchange for a watch he had bought from a private in the Kist York Militia, who, :hew: ing the notes to a serjeant, he at once discovered At fraud, and informed the Commanding, Oilicer, who ordered them .to take him instantly before a instica of the Peace, It is said, he has confessed, and in. formed . against one of the Aberdeenshire Nlilitet, ci whom, be says, he bought the notes. They are very ill executed. A Gentleman of the name of Foolev, underook yesterday to go from Westminster Bridge to Wcod• hatch, near Ryegate, and return, the whole twin? 11 miles, in eight hours. lie did thirteen miles in the first two hours, and this sort of speed heat him. 112 resigned after performing thirty miles in six Itot•r3, sore footed. At the Lancaster Assizes, on Wednesday, the _6th ult. Mr. Martin Lolley was found guilty of bigarnv. The first marriage was proved to have been s o. lemnised in England some years ago; and the secod was contiacted in the beginning of the present venr, the first wife being alive. On the Prisoner's behalf several witnesses were examined, by whom it a.:s • proved, that previous to the second marriage a di vorce had been sued for, and obtained in *eland, by the first wife, on the ground of adultery. Mr. Duncan, a writer to the Signet, and a Solicitor in• the Scotch Ecclesiastical Court, was examined at to the mode of procecilin in such cases; and it sp. • pearel, that previous to a divorce being,obtained,sit is always customary am( necessary to have evidence of :he real grounds upon which the Pursuer s. , eltc far the divorce, and also to hear the De'murrer's re:rsrms why it should not be given. lie said there had Wen numerous instances of divorces being obtaiival in tatc, manner, and. recognized as legal ; but on his be* lasked, n bether he ever knew of an English marriage being dissolved .by the decree of the Scotch Fcclesi. astical Court, he said he could not recollect an in-. stance. The Jury, by direction of his• Lordship,• brought in a verdict of guilty; but reserved thetas" I.for the. consideration of the twelve. Judges. On Wednesday last, six-sheep were killed by the lightning, in a field in the parish of Wrawby, near Brigg. On the same day, was seen at itovhy, a neighbouring village, a ball of electric fire, gliding a little above .the surface. of a pond : from thence it proceeded to an adjoining field, where it came in con tact with a hay-rick, which in a very short time, was reduced to ashes. . A few Alights since some villains cut the pipes from the engine which supplies the reservoirs of the Grand .flotel,, in Covent-garden, with water, with which they got - Wear IA • • ,• Sunday night the dwelling-house of A. Bruce, Esq.'Arnvy „Agent, in Parliament-street, Westmin ster, was entered by a gang of thieves, who got into the premises,. the hack way, by breaking open the stable doors, in Cannon-row, through which there is a communication with the dwelling-house, and pro ceeded up stairs into the dining-room, where they packed up a quantity of. silver plate, and other arti cles, to a treat amount, with which they made their escape unobserved, although there are wa:citmca stationed near the premises. SINGULAR ESCAPE.--The servant of James Smythe, Esq. of. Chart, on -his return from Maidstone, on qteArening of Tuesday last,, was confroated on the. 'Sefton road. by a single footpad, who seized his horse by the bridle, and demanded his money. The set vjtnt swore he would not give a farthing , and .liatcit , liuo out a case bottle, presented it as tire-arms, x claiming furiously % " What ! rob a postman The fellow, struck will. .ismay at seeing, as he thought, an unexpected pistol, leaped suddenly into the ad joining wood, and escaped. Yesterday morning, about Ave o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Savage, Venetiita blind-maker, New . Cut, Black'friars'-road, *wing to the vast quautity.pf ,thin board, and otlia combustible matter uled in the husfuess, raged :with tbe ambit . fury for shunt 2Q Minutes,. when the.roof flrtenatety fell in,: and presentee, ,the flames from cornmenicatinglo a rinse ,Of, old wooden tenements adjoinlng t •otcupked by verx . poßr people. The wiwie of the furniture and _stock its tra4o.,of Mr. SPIV witOdeetriiyed. ..ye s are . happy to :state that no ii`o wire lost. '4 id lief/re/MAC/CS.. hltumealTharf.. . •ji Wired. Ritishire Leith 12%) Aug. 10, Sept 3. P. N. Eclipse aylor). do, f 13, —6, A. M. II WATER. AT LONI)ON BRIDGE TUN 1) in 6 rainotee after 12. I F.vesing, .3.) minutes,after Printed and Pnbyied D. I. 614. •Id 11. A TEPNAN °Fries, Iq, Fleet-at-ca. ~~. 0 1