The Statesman. — London, England, 1812-07-13 00:00:00

I • ' - • —maw — TO THE EDITOR OF TOE STATESMAL - IWW.M.• • - . - LIBELS AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF Sty—lt seems .t a ear. ____ by several character-assassins, for the purpose of ex-' citing the particular resentment of Onvenimeni against the inhabitants of this town, as several of the London papers of this week. ht, e teemed with abuse against them, equally false aid malignant. We are told that a man has been shot at, whe had been ac tive to bringing the " evil-disposed people to jus. tice ;" that " parties of these deluded people are in the habit of assembling in different parts of the tows, tecarry their revengeful designs into execution ; that it Is. dangerous for the military to walk. the streets in the evening; that on the pith ult. Brigade- Major Hemphries, who is on the Stall here, was laid wait for on his return from the Theatre (which seems to bet favourite resort of these lawless ruffians)by a large-party, and without the slightest provocation on his part, was knocked down by a shower of stones, two of which took effect, and one, which struck him en . the forehead, nearly terminated Ills existence"; and that an Officer of the Somerset Militia, who was quietly stalking along the streets, was as laulNel by a considerable party of these despera does,-andisarrowly escaped with his We," Jim. Now, Se, the truth or falsehood of these grate charges will sheer what credit is due to the testimony of these calumniators, who seem to ape 'the conduct of those meths gentry, that some time ago cortespouded with the celebrated John Bowles. n Is tree that a man was shot' at eight miles hence an the 20th ultimo; but the writers in ques tion might, with as much propriety, hare cha i rf ee er n l the Lord Chancellor of England with Wile cessary to the assassination of Mr. Petceval, as to implicate the people of Nottingham with au attempt on the life of a man eight mites hence, for his Lord ship was very likely much nearer the House of Com mons when Bellingham drew the fatal trigger. As to the other charges, brought by these scrib bling Gentlemen they are still of a more infamous complexion; but a short stateme .t of facts will set , the business to rights. The theatre is described as having been the rallying , point fora set of ruffians ; and perhaps this may prove correct ; for it can be proved by many respectable wit- nesses, that few evenings passed over during the late season of performance at that should-be place of so dal amusement, without a row being kicked up by certain military characters, and a few strippling ruf- I fiaus who had honourably enlisted under their war- Jike l batmen. The practice generally was for these worthies to make their sober epeparance at half price, and as soon as the curtain fell, to vociferate " God save the King ;" and those who did not immediaely obey their second imperious mandate, which was " hats off," were instantly assailed with oaths, sticks, swords, ec. Party in politics made no distinction bore; for many persons of great respectability, who are known to be staunch friends to what is called " the high party," met with much abuse, because they chose to act as men ; nay, manrof the fair sex felt the effects of the gentlemanly conduct of some of these defenders of our country, and their worthy co- adiutors. One of them, a conspicuous Officer of the 45th, for abusing a man in the pit, was brought be fore the Magistrates ; and had not the Prosecutor have taken the hush money, he would have appeared in his true colours in a court of justice; a Gentle man of high character both for property and per sonal respectability, was a volunteer evil eace on the occasion, but who has had the tables turned upon him for his services; for this same gallant officer has since Caused him to be bound over to the Sessions, on a charge of having excited an assault upon tie latter, though I do not understmtd that he exhddted say honourable wounds obtained in either his eftnefee or 411,91:ire operations. A Jury will, however, set this business to rights. As to the charge about the Somerset Officer, I will beg leave to inform you that his vetoer had often been displayed against t he hots of the audience in the Theatre, and that he one evening received a severe chastisement by the aid, as I understand, of a horse tchip, for which he has caused a man to be bound over to the Sessions. As to the wound received by Brigadier-Major Humphries, I have no doubt, but every person in the town laments the unfortunate circumstance ; because, since his residence here, he has invariably conducted himself as a gentleman. The truth is, however, that as he was departing from the Theatre, in company with some other etfieers, he was struck en the fore head by a stone, or some other hard substance; but, happy I am to say, so far from his life being endan gered by the blow, that a Gentleman of my ac quaintance met him the next morning going about his business. The principal sufferer, in consequence of these out rages, is Mr. Robertson, one of the Managers of the Theatre; who, as a good husband, a good father, and in other respects, a good member of society, it grieves me to say, was deprived of his benefit,—the Mayor ordering the Theatre to be shut ; but who, I hope, will be remunerated when he makes his ap. pearance here at the Races. The writer of the Inflammatory article in one of the London papers, whose character and station in life, I believe, I am acquainted with, concludes by saying, "It is a lamentable circumstance, that with the powers granted by the Watch sqd Ward Bill, such acts of atrocity should, not be prevented." To this I will reply, that, with the exception of the disturbances occasioned as above described, so peace able is the state of the town, that the Magistrates have not seen it necessary to saddle the inhabitants with the expense and trouble of %Whim and Ward. lug since the 6th of June. So reach for the veracity of these correspondents to the Leaden papers! * • A FRIEND TO TRUTH. - that a dark scheme has been laid %MCKIM , ArCCIDINT.—On Friday last, aline boy bre years old, was passing over Areasingfonzeom mon accompanied by his father and mother, a crieliet.ball struck himou the breast, from the bat of a player, and he died en the spot. The party hatfasade a short pause several yards frdes She *kite. Saterday aftetraeon, -as a child 4eas eresslag.the way in Queen-street, C'helosr, ^ a tazed oast, passim at the time, knocked it dtme, elld a wheel hoot onr its leg and severed Its foot from it. . THE STATESMAN: LAW INTELLIEJENVII, COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, Joix 11. JPOLIGE, MARLRO,ROUGII STREET. Caimans or Itior.—Mr. Bright, a respectable houieholder and currier, in St. Ann's parish, was charged by the constable on duty at St. James's watch-house, with repeatedly knacking at the watch-house door, and with indecorous conduct in the house. Mr. Bright wes not called on for his defence, no offence having been substantiated, but he requested permission to state his case, which proved how unjustly he had been treated. In pas sing through Crown-street, between 11 and 12 o'clock, on Friday, accompanied by Messrs. Knight and Broadhurst, tradesmen of the first respectability, Mr. Bright was thrown down by a heap of gravel and earth impeding the foot-way, the sewer being under repair. There was no lantern to warn or to guide the passenger, nor could the watchman, who owned the beat where the nuisanceezisted, be found. Mr. Bright repaired to the watch-house with his friends to apprise the Officers of the nuisance, but he was informed in an insulting tone through a wicket, there was no admittance, and he asked in vain for the constable of the night, and knocked at the door repeatedly. He was at length let in, and I afterwards charged with ill behaviour in the watch , house, when Lloyd, the constable of the night, or dered him, by virtue of the majesty of office, to be locked below. Mr. Knight, a tradesman of St. James's, who resides on the' spot, pleaded, that his friend had committed no offence, in vain, and he ul dmately offered to bail, or to put 2001. in this said i constable's (Lloyd's) hands, for his friend's appear ' ance, but he refused to listen to any amelioration of his decree, and he was locked below till 12 o'clock the neat day. The case was discharged, and the Magistrate declined taking the shilling fee on the diseharge. Comments are unnecessary, as the case is to become a subject of future litigation. . • , , SMITH AND ANOTHER v. OAKLEY AND OTHERS. This was an issue from the Court of Chancery, to try the question, whether certain sums of money, and Ban .tf Exchange, advanced to the Defendant Oakley, by the Plaintiffs, were so advanced, on his general co - partnership account with the other I Defendants, or upon his own sole and separate ac t count. I The Plaintiffs were, Messrs. Alderman Thomas Smith and Company • and the Defendants, Messrs. i Oakley, Overland, and Oakley. now Bankrupts, but (.formerly extensive Woollen-dealers in this city. 1 The trial of this cause occupied the Court near six bouts, and from the Bankrupts being examined, the , 1 one on the part of the Plaintiffs, and the other. on I the part of the Defendants, a great contrariety of !evidence was adduced, anti a variety of circumstances introduced, irrelevant to the matter in question. .. Mr. John Oakley; one of the Defendants and co partners, Bankrupt, was examined on the part of the Plaintiffs, from whose evidence it appeared, that 1 previous to his co-partnership with the other De fendant Overmul, he was concerned in very exten sive mercantile dealings ; and at the time of entering into co-partnership, the credit balance in hi favour on the face of his books amounted to upward 4 of, 22,0001. while his partner brought no capital into' the joint concern. Ile (Oakley) had the sole ma nagetnent of the books and money transactions, I, while the other partner (Overand) was chiefly en gaged in the country, buying and seling, making re f mittances, &r. That in the course of their extensive dealings, they had occasion for large .advances of money, and were in the habit of exchanging and dis , counting paper (Bills) to a very considerable amount, for which purpose, they had accounts at four or five different banking-houses ; and among others, the witness (Oakley) was in the habit of exchanging pa ' per, awl procuring cash for Bills from the Plaintiffs. —That towards the close of 1810, falling into em. i barrassed circumstances, a separate Commission of Bankruptcy was issued again him (Oakley), and also another Commission issued against the firm of Oakley and Overand, at which time they were indebted to the Plaintiffs in the sum of 20891. 4s. upon an ex- I change of paper. 'this witness positively swore I that these advances were made and appropriated I solely to the joint and co-partnership concern, and I produced his books, from which all the entries ap peared to that effect. Upon the part of the Defendants (the assignees) a guarantee was produced, written and signed only by Oakley, whereby ho engaged to guarantee the pay ment of the Bills for which the exchange of paper ' had been made, in his own individual capacity. It also appeared, that the Plaintiffs had proved their tiebt under the separate cc-omission against Oakley ; and Overand being called and examined, swore that the exchange of paper was made on the sole and se parate account of his partner Oakley, and had no connectiOu with the partnership concern ; but he could not speak with any certainty from the entries on the books, as he never interfered with that branch of their concerns.—The accounts given by Oakley, however, were corroborated by one of his clerks, and a public accountant, who had made the . entries. After a very long investigation, Lord Eta.cato- 'nouns told the Jury, that the only question for them was, whether these advances were made on the joint of separate accounts of these parties, and that they would decide upon the evidence adduced, and as inspection of the books. It mattered not in what manner these advances were originally made, whe ther upon the j appear to them, that they were after- I MORTALI T Y OF J oint or separate credit of the parties, . --;----,- but if it should MALL-sox.—We regret to state, wards appropriated to the general purposes of the that this dreadful disease is at present very prevalent general co-partnership, then. both parties would be i n L on d on , es p ec i a lly i n the suburbs, inhabited by equally liable, as for a joint debt. the poorer classes ; and has of late occasioned nu- The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the a mereus deaths, particularly of children. As more Plaintiffs—Damages 20891. 4s. and costs. than twenty stations are opened in the metropolis, GREEN AND ANOTHER V. OAKLEY AND OTHERS. far affording protection against the ravages of this This was another issue from the Court of Chan- disease, by Vaccination, free of expense, under the cery, to try a similar question between these Plain- auspices of the !Audi:tit Vaccine Institution, and the that Nation ' it • National Establishment, is much to be lamented, tiffs and the assignees of the DA'endants, and direct any. parents should be found so unmindful of ed by the Lord Chancellor to be - tried its the shape the lives of their offspring, as not to embrace the of an action for money lent and advanced. opportunities so benevolently afforded them for their It appeared, upon the part of the Plaintif f s, that security. they had various and extensive dealings in advancing the Asurvey of :..*.alical O ffi cers was held the week sums of money to, and exchanging paper with, (forelast,. on . tseneral Phillot, on board the Eyen Defendants upon the co-partnership account • and at . t prison ship, in the Medway, in consequence of his the time of the bankruptcy, the balance in floe Plain.; hav ing made some representation to the Goternment, t tiff's favour amounted to upwards of 11,0001. " that that he was treated with undue severity and indig but in the present action they only sought to re- I silty, by being placed in company with the common cover 50001. ; soldiers who had the misfortune to be taken prison. Mr. PARK, for the Defendants, declined making 'ors of war : he also stated that his health was in so any defence to this action, and the necessary proofs °. delicate a state, that the confinement to whisk he I being made out, the Jury returned a verdict for the t was subjected endangered. his We. The medical gem.' Plaiutiffs—Damages 50001. and costs. 1 tlemen having made their survey, reported that the .. .. General was in pet feet health, and considering that Comma's I*QUEST.—Aa inquisition was taken the had twice broken his parole of honour, it is their . on Saturday, before G. HODOsON, Esq. Coroner for ' opinion that he is placed in a much better situation Middlesex, on the body of Jane Cooper, one of the ! than he deserves. `children unfortunately poisoned in consequence of 1 Saturday, at the Queen -square Office, David I her mother accidentally milting arsenic with treacle. I Doones, a chevalier stindastric, of genteel appear s The body was opened, and it was proved to have t ance, was committed .to Tothill-fields,' for three bees numb ideated, and a part of the poison was I months, as &cheat and impostor. It appeared that found lodged In the stomach. The Jury perfectly' the Defendant, assuming an undertaker's face, hid . coincided with Mr. Baker, *the Magistrate, of Marl-; obtained money of several Noblemen and Gentle : borough-street Polite-office, that the death of the ; men, on a representation that his wife was laying dead . child'was occasioned by accident, and a verdict was i and himself without the means of burying her. In i returned accordingly . Two other children are in a I consequence of some suspicion that his story was in ; very.bad way, but slight hopes are entertained that correct, an officer was applied to, who made enquiry, one will ultimately recover. and actually produced the wife, supposed to be de- Patnerrelausser.—Yesterday morning, a .y ou ng; funct, In proper health and spirits. This yesurrec. I I man, of the name of Kingsbury, undertook, for a i tion from the dead was considered a damning proof I wager of 51., to go on foot from London Bridge to ,' against - the Profaner of ways And means, and his I Blackheath, and back again, in' one hour and a ! commitment of course followed: quarter, the whets distance being ten miles. Ile' i Monday, Wm. Kerry, landman, of the Devede.; started at ire o'clock, at a moderate rate for abo..t ' lion, was tried at Portsmouth, by a Court-Martial s , • lie sheet .., whets ko upended his pace, and baited- for fighting with his shipmate, aml for disabling him: - itt Idiew Cr...; after which be pursued his - journey, ' setf, 'by ,cutting of two fingers of his left hand toe arrived at Blackheath at 35 minutes after five s evade piniihment. lie was acquittel of the first' stopped lie minutes, then started-afresh. on his re. and though the engirt- held. the second offence in grief tsraiwitk great velocity, and arrived at the starting 4 abhorrence, yet,' in . considevation of his good cho.' :post at slue minutespast iii o'clock, winning'ey ratter, 'end the contrition he had shewn, did *died ; si.s..minutes. At startieg - ,` odds were. against him him to be only severely reprimanded. Was. P 3 font ti three. A great malty bets were depending on dY.tke listsPer,-Ibt beastialitit irag-.-- - Na iltitt. airs 300 lashes. v.J_ .1 IVINCIIE.STEIC ASSIZES. I One of the most extraordinary trials that ever dis- I graced the annals of atrocity, took place on Friday, at Winchester. John James, a youth of nineteen' i years of age, wns indicted for the wilful murder of this mistress, Elizabeth Hill, at Shallieet, near liar mouth, Isle of Wight. It appeared, from the most 1 !clear and satisfactory evidence, .that his master, to 1 whom he was apprentice as a shoemaker, was gone I with his sou to church on the morning of Sunday,the I 21st of June last, leaving his wife and this lad at i home. On their return, in company with a neigh- 1 hour, they discovered Mrs. Pill lying on the kitcheu ; floor, with deep wound's indicted with a hatchet on her head and face, and her throat cut across. Ou interrogating the boy, who was deliberately walking before the house, he very calmly confessed the foul deed, without being able to assign the most latent motite that could induce him to commit it. He stood lat Me bar, during the whole of the trial, with his eyes bent en the ground, in a kind of melancholic apathy. He vie►►ed the dreadful instruments, pro duced in Court, with unaltered aspect ; he heard the awful sentence with indifference, and retired without having uttered a word, beyond a refusal to say any thing. He declares that he entertains no sorrow for the action ; for had any one else come in in his way, he should have done the same thing.— His mistress, he says, was always too good to him. Ile feels no terror at his approaching fate, but ex presses himself truly happy and content to die.— When strongly interrogated as to the probable motive of his conduct, he referred the enquirers, without Icomment, to the 3d chapter of Job. Ile appears an [enthusiast in the Methodist persuasion. The Judge (Sir ALAN Cuisinez) commented with much feeling and perspicuity, on the dangerous effects of vulgar and literal conceptions of scriptural passages. to re; =IMIE= " for the The foliating is an abstract of the Bill preservation of the public peace in certain disturlteil counties :"—Arms collected for purposes dangerous to the public peacotnay be searched for and sei ze d by any constable under the warrant of a Magistrate. in case admission is refused, the constable may enter by force, by day or by night. 'Phe second clause appoints arms, not secure from unlawful seizure, to be lodged in places of security ; receipts for the saute being given to the persons from whom they are taken; such persons hating alsd the liberty of ap. peal to the Special Sessions to be held every three weeks, for the restoration of their arms. The arms are to remain in safe custody till the expiration the Act, or while the district shall continue so ei z .: turbed as to make it expedient, iu the judgment of the Special Sessions, to retain them. Another clause declares uulawfal all assemblages for committing out, . rages, &c. taking of arms, collecting depots of attes t &c. and all assemblies associated or communicati n g by delegates for the purpose of raising money by subscription in aid of the above unlawful purposes; The penalty on such offenders is left blank. Such assemblies may be dispersed by the Magistrates, and the persons present ; and all such as are found cars Tying arms under suspicious circumstances, may be detained and required to give bail, and prosecuted fora . Justices may, on information upon oath, commit any person acting as delegate or secre• tary to the above unlawful assemblies, end take pos. session of the money, books, &c. belonging to such asestattion. Justices may disperse etiy assembly consisting of or more persons meeting at a dis tance from any house, between certain hours, which such Justices may suspect to be assembled for un. lawful purposes. On refusal to disperse, the same shall be counted an unlawful assembly. Justice, 'of detached and adjoining comities to have con. current jurisdiction in such counties. Penalties are.imposed on persons who knowingly permit un. lawful assemblies to be held in their houses - and if , at public • houses, the licences to be forfeite d. The . provisions of the Act to extend to certain counties left blank, and to such other counties as his Majesty . shall, upon the representation of the Lieutenancy / . declare to be so disturbed as to require the enforce ment of the provisions of the Act. The duration of the Act is left blank. Abstract of a Bill to amend the Acts relating to Protestant Dissenters. Two Acts of CHARLES fle " for restraining Non.conformists from inhabiting in Corporations," and " to prevent and suppress se ditious Conventicles," are repealed. All places of religions worship to be registered and certified in the Bishop's Court, and recorded at the Quarter sessions. Preachers in and persons resorting to such registered places to be exempt from the same penalties a.: per. sons taking oaths under the Toleration Act of Wu,. LIAM and MARY: but the oaths and declaration pre. scribed in an Act of the 19th GEORGE 111. " for the further relief of Protestant Dissenting Minster" and Schoolmasters," to be taken by all preachers, ka when thereto required by a Magistrate. Any per son may, under this Act, require a Justice of Pesos to administer the said oaths and declaration, and re ceive his certificate or the same, which shall be con clusive evidence. Preachers having taken the oaths, &c. shall be exempt from offices and from the milli', 1 provided they do not engago iu any other trade or 1 business, profession, occupation, or .employment, except that of a schoolmaster. Penalties to be imposed on persons falsely pretending to be preach. era, and producing false certificates. Doors of re ligious assembles not to be bolted or barred. Penal. ties to be indicted on persons disturbing religious assemblies. A new rope-house is to be erected in Plymouth Doct-yard, with all expedition, to replace that faddy destroyed by fire. The intended building, it is said, will be constructed of stone, and rendered fire-proof in all its parts. On Thursday afternoon , a dreadful fire broke out l at the village of Gamblingay, in Cambridgeshire. It I began at a blacksmith's shop, and for want of an. gines, water, and proper assistance, it consumed twenty-three houses. A baker, of the name at Welk, who was from home attending the getting is l of his hay, has lost his, all. His housekeeper, in en ' deavouring to save some articles in the house, had . 1 nearly been lost in the names. A bricklayer, named Newman, having last week had a violent dispute with his wife, in a fit of rage, threw himself into the river Yare), at Yarmouth, and was drowned. A surgeon, of considerable eminent., in the vie:- idly of Finsbury-square, shot himself on Thursday morning, Mr. Keene, a celebrated shot, killed . 27 pigeons I successively, on liagshot Heath, on Friday last, from I a trap,,at 21 yards distance front the gun. Saturday morning, about two o'clook, a hackney coach came iu contact with the Earl of Egremont's carriage, coming front Vauxhall hardens, near the I Asylum, it being very dark, the pole of the hackney coach so much injured one of the Noble Earl's horses, that it became necessary to kill it, and his Lordship and family walked home. The hackney coachman I was much bruised. icantisit4CK. 11111.t.etes Whar. rrired. Serill. Ecti,.se (Taylor), Leit f h 1 9 July 116 July, p. 6, A. M. II Hilt WATER AT LONDON 11111HOli THIS DAY. Morning, 56 minutes after 4. E.vening, 13 minutes after 5. • MARRIED. On Saturday evening. Lord Viwonnt Ttlottatjoy, to Mrs. Brown, wt,dow of the late Major 11as. Brown. _ DIEO. At Fahnoatb, Jamaica, Mr. W. Donut". aterehAtat. On Thursday evening last, of an apoplexy Abraham Gold. amid, jun.. Esq. 13reat Alin-street, Goodman's:fields. parkas IS the house of A. Goldsraid, Sou, and WEliason, hi the Vid year of his age. I ' At Otasgow, on Tuesday, the 96th ult. John MiKensie. In the 70th year of his age. His country is much indebted to him for the judicious example he gave in early life at Carsoyle, as a cultivator, by introducing modes•of improvenifisla agri culture, which have since been followed np, and are noir brought into general use. He carried on at the same place. as esteasive pr i nt - Held, and was the original inventor of tMit mot useful and important discovery, the join i ng copper Oar prat, which has since proved so iavaluahle to that branch of busioew. He was also the first iudividind alto had , the humanity to coati our the wages of 'work-people, during nonattendance from. 'sickness ; and has left few behind him possessed of a more phi lambs,* mind, or wore brilliaut abilities. LONLX):4: Printe. and - Published by Lovata, at .bs STATESMAN Oman. 87. neetalle-t. 1 , • .! I, r ~M~ ~! F P s~ I► '( 4 !he" ed fedi rie dad fag I jol t ' Sc The ow; Slid iiiro 6-- 'r Ras this ri STJ full est Pri Pri fro! cep