The Statesman. — London, England, 1818-08-03 00:00:00

N : " • ' . . 1 _.. ... K ~~ ;:,; -. '-~ ••• • . Z 'Y c E ~.~ ~_ :~ The folleetlitit I. the sobsteorce of Miss Dalton's 1kidewa1t....4 . 11 41 11 poses of age. My father we a amirchant, tied vetided et Birmingham; hot from the imbue reseed state of his circumstances, found it ne. Oessary some time ego to leave the country. My Oster* and I, to whmit hotted given'. good education, cemailied Whose. Early in September I went into the family of Mr. Shipman, as gowning to his three daughters t *AC eldest of wheal is nearly 14, the se. tend 40, and the third 7. On . Friday the 19th of December, I was violently 111 With a pain in the chest, sod a heaviness, and I' retired to my loom about Seven o'clock. 'Between eleven end twelve the ter. mit, Clete Johnson, came to ask how I was. Has. leg received oin abatement of pain, 1 told her I was exceedingly ill, and begged this she would ask whe. ther I should bathe my feet in warm water. On her mere the girl told me that her mistress had sent to dies master, end he would be op directly. Before I bad time ticeopress my disapprobation of so eon*. oplinary en intention on the part of Mr. Sranmens he; entered the room. Haviog covered way .heaol with the bed-clothes, and made no reply to bis enquiry how I was,. be pulled down the clothes, took - 434.1h nay bawls, and placed me by force on my bath, mete look at hiin full in the face. he asked in. what was the matter with me? I said I bade violent pain in my chest. lie asked me "here my. ettelt was; and I said he must know ; hid that lie was ending with me. He then desired Giera.'us fine' 11.. MP hfillldp. qtr. went 110*0 for it. Tho children were ill the room, but they were asleep; ettleos.go was in bed with me. When Clara igitilicjoiet be put his hand over the upper part of Poielosoln't +add me the pain •was not in my chest, but in ens so.mach. My endeavour to remove his ,kriod was quite 4ruirless,•for I was extremely weak, and my breath was so violently affected as to ',tinder me wholly incapable of remonstrating with blot. The first words I addressed to him when he entered the room were; that I had not sent for him, but for Mrs. Shipinsu. When the girl returned with the brawl), he. removed his hand from my bosom. and obliged me to take some brandy, after which I entreated bins to leave the room, which •he at first geln'..l, hut afterwards consented to do, declaring bowaver, that Clara should go, and that no one shield stay with nub, whether I was well or ill. Veda went away together. • Absot five o'clock in the morning I awoke in great pain, and was gait. hysterical; my cries awoke Mr. Shipman's -eldest daughter, who jumped out of bed and ran to her parents' room. Mr. Shipman came in a 4ew moments after his daughter had left the room, 'but said nothing, and went away immediately. Clare ttbmt came, and said her master had ordered her tedreits and take me down. 1 refused to go, saying to the girl that the bed was better for me, as I was ill. Ile celled repeatedly to know whether I was coming , tiown.; and 1, finding objections, useless, mold the girl she might dress se and -take me down. He was at Ma bottom oldie stairs, with s candle io his band; he had on a night-cap and waistcoat, but no coat, 'and he assisted the girl in • bringing me Into the room, where before a large fire, there west sofa, on which be placed me. I complained of the excessive heat, tea *Mehl* asst Class for the lea..things,:ind tad the &elite mot hotter thaw I could bear it. My breath grew worse, sod 1 Celt dimsdfully ill. MAIM seemeet the girl entered with coal and tea•tbisgs. Ale insisted on my taking tea, and raised me op ter the purpose of doing so. Upon ceropeisiow I leek two cups, sod he said 1 should hate a third. These is s cupboard in the room, where different kis& et dregs ere ikept, amongst which is laudanum. Mew j hi brought the third. cap be went to that cupid and filled it there. I refused to take it. He stew I , ahould v erpivaised me op, and presented the cup N my mouth.. I perceived the smell was nauseous, sod again refuted. lie tlechired that I should, or be would drench me with it: at theisame time he took bold of me by the_ nose, forced it down soy threat most violeotly, and threw me down on the sota. lie sat on the sofa. One of my teeth was b►oken, bat whether it was at that time or not I don't know. Clara came it; while he was drenching m with the tea, and be desired her to take the bone out of my stays. I was in iiolent agoiy, Ined her - It to do it is i. • -* 4or _.AOItDINARY (USE. for the family: He sofa n o t Ititepen. As well as LElCEilirrt ItSsizES, Johit 31. to ColgtqFio bid; but Ife chid It Michael Shipetpt, a thssenter,U man of property, sh°°l4l " l llO9*. n dk e '"l n i tesideot in Ili 4 ekten within thirteen miles d.l Lei. ciriti"volowot.awrlllo pre",' . 'tenor ? was collidloaftstor die Complaint of a beae. ,O ,P) lan writ to d° her hoi T tiful girt, tutodul Enottlii MIND. He took Ms seat at 4,01""" nd romped ihellbertk ~.. the table opposite the *Fitness's boa, and had frequent m oment Clan colneibtAhlWe canoikuiticrflpni with his &Inciter during the trial,• which lasted warn hours. The indictment charged with hating moaned Miss Dalton, mild admi .• . •nisteriog laudanum, or some other exciting drug, for " • - •-••••itmrllll7poll6'Cif producing - uncriosicorisnets, insensi bility, or excitement in shut yoeng Lady, with the elheendering her subservient to his passions.— ..I 4 Tdierw . were other counts in the it;dictmenty one of , tshicit charged him with a common assault. - Mr. CLAansa opened the case, whith, heseid r was Cite most aggravated one he had ever heard; He made no other continent upon 'it than that the evidence would he found incontrovertible; that it would dis close a system of villainy the most depraved ; and -that the honour of the sea and common humanity de. ' en attention from the Jury incapable of being . prejudiced by •an address •to their•feelings, uasep• ported by powerful Jestimuny. He railed the Pro. /*tonsils. Upon getting into the box, she trembled, esceedingly. . It wouki be difficult tn•doscrlbe,the effoot produced by her appearance. In her town, termite., which wore the marks of thought and sor row, could She th& evidenco4 of former hap. •pineas. The spectators turned with horror to her libeler, whit presented a hideous contrast. His lead was covered with Wok red 'hair. He now end then 1 , grinned horribly, ghastly sieile," . cape. chilly when his Counsel Was proceoding.to draw in. ierewees from this evidence which led him to enter tain a vain hope. ....- the last sop a tee, cups. 1 hate siiitb Swett laudanum in tee, and it is ivy Arm beliettiret tandems was mixed in the third cop. My Moms locreastd, Stud Clara, by his order,' itor-me to bed, where! grew worm. Mrs. Shipman came in on hearing me scream, and Mr. Shipman mad. me take castor oil. What occurred treat that time Sin fear its the afternoon, I was wholly un- Innscinus of. - On Seuday I' felt better, and con. trued 7 10 sit to dinner, after which Airs. Ship- Man proposed to her husband to ge to chapel. went up to my own room, Mrs. Shipman went to chapel, and Mr. Shipman came to me while was lying en tlinbird, and insisted on my going down.--- I 'told hint I *avid cry minder if he persisted in re. moving me, for I was dreadfully ill: fie used all the persuasive arguments he could to induce me to go down; said he had not gone to chapel ou my re count, and all tine refit were oat. I said he 'was had mss, and supplicated him to have me. Finding that I was bent upon not going down, be brought up a large goblet full of brandy 'and water. I said it was not brandy, ,turd refused to take ans. U. threatened to drench me with it, and stood over ate till I drank it every drop. I was then in hysterics, had dreadful fits of c►ying, and lost all reeollection of , what occurred. 'On the following morning I was awoke by Mr. Shipman's kisses. Ile told me how mach his wife and children loved me, and that he laved me more.ten times, / * complained of the insult he had offered me, awl saki I shook! Worth Mrs. Skir -•-• LVI 1116 , I pew of bis rile cendeol. Uniformed Mrs. Shipman of it. My illness continued with ewabated violence; and though I espressed a with to see Mr. Payer, the ser vos, and anntlinr.esedisal nran, I yes denied by Mr.and Mrs. Shipman.' At length I saw Mr. Power on Tuesday': told him- they Met given me dif ferent kinds of medicine; that I hail requested love him, hut had been termed; that I was very unhappy, bad been used . very ill, Ink had neither time nor power to tell him more. 1 eentinued delirious for a fortnight; the last thing a roseitiberpd was Mr. Power's coming. . From Mr. Shipman's I was re moved to the vicarage in a sedan, entil I got better.J In my bed-room there was no .bell. There was, I r believe, a key in the door, but Mrs. Shipman begged I would never lock the deli'', through fear of fire or the illness of the children. I stayed a week at the vicarage, hum whence I -*reit to -toy sent's lodgings at Birmingham. Before the Friday ihe had taken salts and calomel, and other drugs, for a cold, by desire of the Prisoner. lit her cross.nantinatinn by Mr. Denman, she merely repeated her former statement. The object of .tte Learned Coonsel was to obtain some admissioes which might leave an impression that the l'risoner's conduct was dictated by a feel ing of compassion, which was nilisken fasolove.— The witness again stated, that all misname* was int. possible; her breath es well as strength having been affected, and an unnatural sensation having, in cite sequence oft he dregs, pervaded her. . • . Clara Johnson deposed, that she Hired es tervent to Mr. Shipman, and gave an account of the con. duct of her master perfectly confirmatory, as far as it went, of the given by Miss Dairen. She describ ed the state of health of the young Lady as most de- Worship, and remembered that when she 101(1 her master how ill she was, he said that was jest what he wanted. She added, find when her mistress went to chapel on Sunday, her master came to her and sent her out with the child before she had time to clean herself; and that when Mr. Power came to see Mies Dalton, Mr. Shipman hang down his bat is a great rage, and said be was sodium. Its her erots-easmination, she bet increased the evidence against the Prisoner. She heard Miss Dat um say in her delirium, that her master bad broken her tooth ; and while she was deprived of her seuses, Mr. Shipman put his hand upon her person. Martha [ley, the nurse, who ethreded Miss Dal ton on Weduesdsy night, deposed, that she was quite delirious, and that Shipman had acted while she was so in ihe manner described. Apia he came, and asked whether Mist Dalton had asked for him ? to which witness replied, 6 6 that she bad in her deli- Hum." Ah, poor girl," said be, ' 4 she always *aka for me." Mr. Power, surgeon, of Hinckley, said he visited Miss Dalton on Tuesday, the s3d of December, when he found her very faint. She had a small and frequent pulse, and complained of a pain in the head, and coldness in the feet, and looked races sively ill. Ehe made the communication to him which she bad stated to the Court. Oil Wednesday morn nig she was much worse : she bad spent a delirious night, her poise had increased in action, and,tha witness recommended another opinion to he taken. She was very delirious, but her complaint was at. tended with lucid intent.. Witelhas was' not pre pared to say that laidanum would produce libidi nousness—a small dose would produce excitement— a laige one stupor. Mr. WYMAN, for the define', attempted to show that Miss Dalton must base construed the wish to render medical assistance into nothing else than love, and the application of the necessary medicines for the correction of a natural disorder into the administer. ing of philters and the force of mighty magic. He showed how dangerous it was to allow the child to be separated at so perilous an age from her natural pro,. teeters, and attributed the madness of the girl •to the impetuous current of her passions. • The ledge summed ep the evidence, and quickly laid before the Jury the enteral iniquities of which there had been stool. abundant proof. Ile particular. ly dwelt upon the example to a wife and children in the complicated baseness of Shipman's conduct to an helpless end unprotected female. . not ru _ while he Was . went oni. I thought I watt espitlng. Tho Jury retorned a ',milt :tot—Guilty. ring the bone retired, lle caws a n d The Judge immediately passel sentence to the do. •fthesob,atdtare hand lIMPPO en. light of the Court. , Mr. ghlposen was adjudged to ties then w oe . upon my p erson . To o pay a fine of 1001. and to be imprisoottd for It talent. and boreniosed his hands, with one 01 dar months. held both sine. In answer to his This WIS die esti latticed% come daring the At. said the bad come to preps," d i row Dian. _"r-~ 1 • THE STATESMAN. _ LONDON* : MONDAY, AUGUST Si ISM The operations of America spied the Spaniels' possession of Florida continues so excite Muth weal. Lidos. These operations are certainty of the stalest consequence. Spain and Europe cannot be indif ferent to them. But whet a silly figure itOn petticoat King of the two worlds new rut ! And, what can his friends the Legitimates now do to help him not of this fresh scrape, and keep down the Re poeticises. Will they give him the 66 military strength sufficient to perfo'rm his Tqaties," the wise treaties, by which he undertook to s;erp the Siminole savages in order, and insure to America a ,quiet neighbnorkomt on her &anthem frontier? Alasi' poor FERDINAND ! thy title to a sceptre, whether , Indian or European, is indeed of a very feeble kind. The reasons assigned by America for this appropria tion are estrernely plausible. The Seminole Indians have, for more than two )ears past, marched through the Spanish province to attack the American fron tier, anti in their passage they eetnpelled the Spaniards to glee them ammunition. If this be true it justifies the meanie of present occupation; and that It is so we can scarcely doubt, since the Spanish Authorities are elated to have admitted it. It is upon the use *hid% shall be ultimately made of the occupation—upon the performance •r non- performance of . General JACKSON% promise to restore the territory, when the King of SPAIN (a tong look)' shall be able to defend it, that the *ace of the transaction most depend. if Ame rica i; disposed to *dry tbis invasion by pre. cedent, she will be •t no loss to (pate @samples of this worthy principle, from the records of our Copeuhagen end Indian espfolts. We could only desire to see the Government of she United States find some equally cogent and indispotable motives for giving assistance to and liberating the Provinces where the aim of tyranny and superstition is endeavour ing to rivet its fetters in blood and to perpetuate the slavery of millions. ' We find by the American buratto, that the Gover nor of St. 'hepatitis, in East Florida, had been making preparation, for an expected attack by the trope under JACIEsOn ; but it does hot appear that the latter had any intention of visiting that quarter.l The policy of America appears equal to her strength. Like Russia, she has only to look on, and take advantage of the folly and weakness of other Powers. Of this strength the Americans are fully • conscious. We have received the Mobile Gazette Extra, bringing down the detail of events at Baran. cas, the principal defence of West Florida, to the 30th May, upon which another American Paper makes the following pithy remarks " Private let ters from Pensacola, stste l that the Ex-Governor MA sot was highly exasperated, and threatened what terrible things he would do when he should tattles at the Ilavannah. It is impossible to say what steps the Captain-General will take when his courage is screwed to the sticking point. We should not be surprised to hear that he has embargoed Ame rican vessels, and sequestered American pro• po t ty within his reach. We hardly believe that he will have the temerity to order hi's cruizers to intercept American vessels at sea. lie knows that' such a measure on his part would produce an a wful l retaliation—he knows that it would be immediately followed by the blockade of every harbour in his island, and it is not in the prudence of a Spanish °Seer unnecessarily to involve himself in difficolties. lie will await the orders of his masters; who, finding himself deprived of his Stakes, will probably be more willing to receive an amicable acquittal for all the demands of the United-States than to " try dee woo., profitable contest of which can do the other the most harm•" Letters of the 28th of June, from the Havannah, assert, that the Governor had declared lie intention not to interfere in any way with the inloccoosee be. tweet, that 'mutated the United States, until he should receive instructions on the subject of the Spanish Government. - An important question arises on this topic of Areericam aggrandisement. What part will England e•ke ? Will she, as her interest dictator, nay, as the impoverished situation of her trier-burdened People requires, remain neuter; or is she, with her present Debt, to commence another war against America, merely to please the Royal petticoat embroiderer, or perhaps in obedience to the orders of the " Holy Al- Hance." The fact that twelve sill of the line are or rdered to be :equipped, speaks ominously on this subject. But (we speak it with humiliation) great as our naval power mjy be, when properly directed, it is now beyond the power of England to restrain America. However desirable it may Appear to some to depress the power of the United Stases, foitenately for liberty and Roman happiness, it is now impossible' , _ to their. • e R.A,...:.~.~ V „ ~ s: .4? c lei. '1 1.011. destrectiu.„ their b eg '9 Iwo. midoply i . l *bet I -44 of theme gtntie. gliir Brno. become too greet t e t te .- mighty to be sebdesd,were the whole world to eegep h the mad design; and we rejoice at ihe fact. Ameir ee l ) testy a land of liberty ; she stands in the proud s i tu laden which England once occepied, stretchin g " her arm to receive and embrace the' perseeeted ssl Oppressed of all coentriet. We cannot forget g it the People of the United Steles are the desteadl ek of Britons, that they seem destined to make the w 'eon! British character, and the English lav er, known to the end of time—and theiefore rte 4 1 4 their prosperity as becomes Bfitottl, the friends e t liberty, and defenders of human rights. Sp e i eaty attempt resistance, but that resistance will not cult be sails ;to her-it will be worse ; k will be the he :of alt her American possessions. By ad vices front the Spanish Main, k toppers a d there had been no reneontre of any impo.tantss e , tweets the Patriots and Rosstists since she ai m it Various, oe the 20th or 214 of Met in sthiru te e letter claimed the victory. Montt.t.o was .til t' Valencia, not having entirely recoueved from, e t wounds. Ile had pet to death three Patriot alicen, one of them named MORALES, wher-had been ends prisoners. Seers New England fishing vessels te te captered let Jene east in the Bay of Fendy, by tie Syren sloop of near, one of which effected her 'saps ` latter they were citified into Digby Isarbonts • , - The war in India may he consideredis completely terminated. Letters have been received from na Cape of Good Hope • of the 9th May, st a ti ng , t h at I vessel had arrived there from Calcutta • which phi, she left on the 20th of February, with intelligence that the Marquis of HASTINGS bad signed a defini. tire Treaty of Peace with HOLKAR and Scums, and that the troops were inconsequence ordered into cantonments.—The same letters further state, that a new 74-gun ship, built of teak, and called the Hastings, was to sail from Calcutta for Madras, it the 6th Mirth, to take troops on board for England. _We have received the French Papers to the ht inst. General CANULL'S CM of calumny was to • come on again on Saturday lest. The General Ins summoned the Prefect of the Rhone, thrt Ea-Prevost of Lyons, and some other persons ee witnesses io his favour. • The King proceeded os Thersday lest from Remboeillet to St, Cloud, thereto preside at a Caren al of his Ministers. Those Popets give a tosymet rather laughable account elf the bunting myrtles* Hansbonillet, on Tuesday last, for which considerable preparations had been made. The King, in a hunt ing drest followed tke chats is alkalse. The Atka az Beans appears to to have been Intent on a goblet game—namely, hunting deserters. Ho and his at. tendants having caught two poor ragged fellows iff the forest; the King, subsequently pawed a patio, From Frankfort it is stiffed, that by the decision the Diet, it has been arranged that the ermy of the Germanic Confederation is toconsist of leversl corps, the composition of which is to be regulated by the Diet upon steographkel mind political bases. Austria, Prussia and Bavaria, will each form a separate corp., the Cpmmanders of which ;se to be appointed by those Powers respectively. The contingents of the other Powers of Germany are to be formed into corps, but respecting the detail of this pert of the arrange meut the Diet have net yet decided. It is stated, that it has been proposed to the Military Committee. of the Diet of Frankfort to erect without delay tare new fortresses upon the Upper German Rhine, it order to complete the line of defence epee that flier, ' but the decision of the question had been delayed chiefly upon the point of the eapence. It is also said, that (Moberg, threw- leagues from Kehl, is to he made a fortress of the first class, and that the tor• tifications of Old lirisac a►e to be restored. The King of PitUSSIA Well to snake • public enter into St. Petersburg'', on the sth tolt.—The disputer* tram Vient.a of the Empettafir‘siti empress of Aurrat.t is fixed to take place in she proment month ey w ill not return till the middle et October* Flanders Mails and German Papers hese arrived since our last, bat their contents are of mi . import. au ce. The Manchester Papers received ta.slay, do not enable us to state, that matters hale been simmer,. dated between the Workmen and their Employers; but the deportment of the Spinners continue to he peaceable and nrdor ly. •To suppose, for a moment. that politic:ass connected with the turning-out of workmen, for an increase of wages, is perhaps tit. , ceeded only by the brazen' engine plot; yet The Courier talks of m.•re disturbances, of 64 MOdeta philanthropists, called Reformers, having poisoned their minds," and of dragooning the 6 ' laser.. gent Spinners" into their low-priced employmeat These statements would but excite our ridicule et; contempt„did we not seriously believe, that Mod: who make them know they wilt have their due Wet* in a certain quarter, and that they are intended to place the neighbourhood once more under mar. tial law ! stare of th;ngs at Manchester is much to be deplored, boldt`in a local and a na tional view. Locally, because the operations of in. dewy are suspended, and the public tranquillity endangered—and nationally, because, these feeds between the masters and their wcrkmen, may serve *one out or tn) sad I motioned :. 411* room. He a ' airs on removi Olt et the foot o 1 I - j s . restrained liberti servaottarneino which ire had 1 1 imqeiry s de sekl t' •\.. ~ 1 If • • .blomi cod trest!reedtier:cl:::4geore"threceh, I:ll:ebets:ettoltnnyallb4l4.pasit • ,•• , • , • - ... • „.• ;:- - • • ' •.) . I.r .-174 7- 5714 • , • • • \ . . 4 0F ' • , • .0 : 4 STAIrESMAN: • • : • • le desired her to remove me en tine •tO . MORROW • :LOTTERY OKA for CO4Mli4ri e j• hisel4gto vo d MI. AS wets Si 1 weld itele Iste MO* TOO 4 * ' 62 • 1 " IX ° l e r °. 81G.P43* tot ; 011 14 *Qs • twitineis ti ottemptil I. but ife said k was useless for 1 . CLARErcrOlito MADEIRA •O ODbbt . Q bLY 84:43° it would OW bete kelferwreeshree - liito the to 1l kii 4 TICK . 4 4; It., • s and deu r' While the' Eitepeolis Ration Niel,' t tit asearibo pre ; and pit tbersiattes o d• her business, and be sate be- i 9 , etttet: , (7 . STOCKS /1119 DAY Ai 0111 A O'CLOCA 4 per Cent. 97 disement, Ilse {tiled Slates bate been ens' ed the iiherties I alluded to, At that 9 """' per iT ot - fi e & nit. 5 per Mei. Ma•y 105 ff relts.,..tbore uses a omissions taste in 3 iwr Cent:Consult 770 L a ndi fr a mma timld . fai r 91,r 16 and d ir ez re te so n e d r in cee g as ont ill either of the other Per Ceat.. VS 1.1., • • Lomeli; for Ace. Eicarquer Bids 16 p f‘ - • .~ ' I I f A • I I