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London, England, 1822-01-04 00:00:00

POLICE

THE PROGRESS OF PHILANTHROPY.

BY J. RIDLEY,

Written for the Eighth ASniversarp of the Hozhsun Subscrip-
tion School, NoveMliff 5, 1921.

In early days, 'mid Superstition's sway,
Ere infant Reason had dlffus'd her light
Athwart the gloom in which the nations lay,
Or beam'd on Britain her effulgence bright
(Those days of darkness, mark 'd with mystic rite,
Replete with hideous crimes and orgies dire;)
Youth, hid in ignorance and mental night,
Ts deeds of cruelty were taught t' aspire;
Who most ferocious was, he honour'd'inost his sire!
But mark the change! what happy days succeed!
At Bret with tardy steps they faintly gleam;
'Till from the light see Ignorance recede,
Beneath th' influence of Truth's dazzling beam;
Then rous'd at length as from a torpid dream,
Our sires perceiv'd the dawn of mentaf day,
As nurs'd by Liberty, the genial stream
Which still pours on the land its graceful ray;
And still its light shall spread, nor ought obstruct its way !
Hall I land of lib'ral, philanthropic souls !
Whom nought can from their destin'd goal detain :
Alike, when from his throne the tyrant scowls,
And when encourag'd by a milder reign,
See II /ATOM rise, his country's cause maintain,
'Galant claims repugnant to the public good! •
See STONer firmly by his tights remain!
When Ressaxx nobly by his comrades stood;
Though doom'd, alas! to shed their patriotic blood!
The name of HOWAILD ne'er shall be forgot!
His was a zeal, that burnt- with purest flame;
With godlike feelings all his plans were fraught,
His life was mercy, and his end the same.
Yet these pursue an equal path to fame,
Who to the rising race assistance lend;
With pride we boast of I.Aec sssss ' s great name;
And Bam.'s shall to posterity descend,
Grac'd with the title of the helpless Orphan's friepd!
Their work divine, shall future ages trace,
The seed now sown, shall yield a hundred fold;
Tb' instruction pour'd upon the intuit race,
By them is made a blessing to the old :
To these the Sciences are now unroll'd,
Which earlier days, alas! bad ne'er reveal's';
And many a truth by lisping tongues is told,
Which from its parents eyes had lain conceard ;
But to their progeny its richest gifts 'twill yield!
These, as they rise, shall readily embrace
The themes which now their infant minds engage;
Shall hear surpriz'd the tales of ancient days,
And view with rapture the historic page;
And when they read indignant of the rage
Of those who altu'd at truth the deadly blow,
Shall turn with pleasure to the present age,
And bless those generous minds, whose heav'nly glow
Has taught us knowledge, whence serenest pleasures flow !
Ye careful guardians of our early days! •
Ye kind promoters of the public weal!
To you the voice of gratitude we raise,
But vain th' attempt t' express what now we feel :
Oh ! may that HIGHER Pow la to you reveal
His smile, in approbation of your deed :
To lira in suppliant mood we humbly kneel,
Front whom all " good and perfect gifts" proceed,
And pray, that where you walk, his band may ever lead!
Ilexham, Nov.ll, Int.

In consequence of Lord GLENOROHY'S recent man
riage with Miss Bat Luz of Jerriswood, about seven
hundred of the tenantry on the Earl of BREADAL‘
BANE'S e•fate assembled on Friday, the 14th of De-
cember, at Kenmore, equipped in the Highland cos-
wine ; and, after partaking of an ample supply of
cheese, bi cad, and whi•key, marched off in military
array, to the sound of the great Highland bagpipe,
or Taymouth Castle, under the ground officers of
their respective districts. The tenantry were drawn
up in front of the Castle about twilight. The coun-
try round was blazing with bonfires; and the whole
way from Kenmore to Tavmcu:h was illuminated
with lamps. The front of Castle was likewise
brilliantly illuminated ; and, in large letters, fumed
of variegated lamps, wele the words, 64 Welcome,
fair ELIZA !'' About five o'clock, Lord GLENONCHY
aid his Lady arrived at the Castle from their seat at
at Achmore, and were greeted with cheers by the
whole multitude, while a salute of twenty-one guns
was fired from the fort, the report of which was re-
echoed by the neighbouring mountains. After par-
taking of ample refreshments at Taymouth Castle,
the company commenced dancing in the great hail,
and were joined by Lord GLENORCHY and some of
his Noble associates. The whole festivities were on
a scale of unexampled magnificence; and the kind-
ness and hospitality of tee Noble hosts were grate-
fully felt by the cheerful and happy guests.
A beautiful trumpet, composed of the following
flowers, was sent to some Ladies resident in Hereford,
by a friend iu the immediate neighbourhood, on
Christmas Day :—Dark and light-coloured roses, vio-
lets, sweet-peas, mignionette, India* pink, scabious
pink, valerian, stock, heart's ease, polyanthus (two'
kinds), sweet scented colt's foot, colutea, single sun
flower, lainistinus, arbutus, candy tuft, African mari-
gold, American groundsel, grape hyacinth, and ever-
lasting. The flowers retained their summer fragrance.
The rewards of money, clothing, books, &c. given
annually by Sir JOHN and Lady SHELLY, to the most
deserving among the poor of the parish of Mares-
field, who for the last twelvemonth have not received
parochial chalky, were distributed at Maresfield-
park, as usual, on N'ew Year's Day ; and it is gratify-
ing to learn that this benevolent and generous prac-
tice continues to be attended with the happiest effe:ts.
None of the individuals who were rewarded last year
have condescended to apply for relief from the pa-
rish, although wages have been considerably lower,
and some of them have had a child added to their
families. After the distribution, a plentiful dinner
of beef and plum-pudding was givery to about one
hundred and fifty children belonging to the National
and Sunday Schools, and after dinner rewards were
bestowed open such of them as had been most exem-
plary for their conduct as teachers, and their dili-
gence as scholars.
Chequers, the seat of the REVETTS and Russaus,
rich in classic recollections, is undergoing a complete
repair, by order of the present proprietor, It. G. RUIP
SELL, Esq. M.P. Whether CROMWELL ever resided
titre, is, perhaps, a matter of doubt, but he was a
frequent visitor ; and the long gallery, which is now
the library, was the council-chamber of the HAM?.
DENS and the other patriots in the neighbourhood
the scene, no doubt, of many a midnight consultation.
It came into the Russell family by the marriage of
Colonel CHARLES RUSSELL with MART REVETT. CO.
IMIel CHARLES RUSSELL was grandson of Sir JOHN
RUSSELL, Bart. by Famgoas, youngest daughter of
OLIVER CROMWELL. It is situatd near that fairy
spot, Velvet Lawn.

Mattarosottiovn.--Yesterday, Jobe Hendemoo,
who was some days ago examined upon the charge
of having altered the number of a Lottery ticket, for
the purpose of obtaining a share of a £2OOO prize,
was discharged, no person having appeared to give
evidence against him. The LORD MAYOR assured
the prisoner that he had had a very narrow escape,
and advised him to separate himself altogether from
the abandoned associates who had led him to commit
such an offence, as it was evident he had committed.
John Crocker, a mulatto lad, "a native of Batavia,
and one of those unfortunate creatures who were last
winter, during the extremity of the season, placed in
the London Workhouse, and fed and apprenticed,
was yesterday brought before the LQRD MAYOR,
charged with having robbed his master, Mr. Solo-
mons, of Castle-street, Houndsdi tch, furrier, of a great
quantity of valuable skins, and some articles of dress.
Mr. Solomon stated, that he had taken the prisoner
out of the London Workhouse as an apprentice about
nine months ago, upon the recommendation of those
who have the controul of that Institution, and placed
implicit reliance in him. Hundreds of skins were,
from time to time, missing. and Mr. Solomon dis-
charged 18 or 20 servants from his employment, un-
der the impression that they were the thieves. When
he complained of the robberies that were daily com-
mitted in his premises, the prisoner would point out
someone or other of workmen, and say to his
master—a You may depend upon it that the man
who stole such and such skins, was no other than
that workman." The prisoner escrped all suspicion ;
but although such sweeping dismissals were made,
the skins were every day disappearing, and at last 11
dozen of half-dressed skins of considerable value, and
a quantity of men's and women's clothes, disappeared.
The prisoner disappeared with them. The witness
and his wife were out at the time, but upon their re•
turn they learned front their errand-boy that the pri-
sonerthad, compelled him to go out for tobacco, and
in his absence made off with the property. The wit-
ness's wife went with all possible speed to the Lon-
don Workhouse, where she was lucky enough to
catch the prisoner; but having received very little
assistance, she lost her grasp, and he escaped. In the
Workhouse the witness s clothes were found. Soon
afterwards the prisoner was apprehended by an offi•
cer, and he did not hesitate to say, that he had stolen
the skins, and sold them for £3. Is. to a Jew. Money
to that amount was found about him ; and what was
considered very strange, a loud knock was about this
time given at the witness's door, and when the door
was opened, a large bag, containing the eleven dozen
of skins, was thrown into the hall. From this cir-
cumstance it was supposed that the purcha,er of the
stolen goods had been for a long time benefited by
Iris dealings with the prisoner ; that he was extensive
in business; and that in the fear of detection he was
content to be a loser of the above-named skins. The
prisoner was remanded.
BOW-STREET.— PARISI, OF ST. CLEMENT CLE-
MENT'SINN.—The question as to the liability of persons
residing in the Inns of Court to pay certain parochial
rates, was discussed before the sitting Magistrates
(Siri RICHARD BIRNIE and Mr. BECKETT) yesterday.
dr. Dowt.tNo, on behalf of the parish officers of St.
Clement Danes, applied to the Magistrates to issue a
distress warrant against the goods and chattels of Mr.
Vaughan, who keeps a shoemaker's shop in Clement's
Inn, he having refused to pay certain arrears of the
watch-rate, due to the parish, and which had been
claimei in the regu7ar way. The Learned Counsel
said, that the Acts of the 4 Geo. 111. cap. 55, 14 Geo.
111. cap. 90, and the 49 Geo. 111. cap. 113, all em-
powered the pariah officers to collect and enforce the
payment of what was called the watch•rate, and the
only question here was whether tradesmen were to
be exempt from the rate, merely because they hap-
pened to carry on their business within the precincts
of an Inn of Court ? The Magistrates should be in-
formed that Mr. Vaughan had uniformly paid the
poor-rate, but he resisted the payment of the watch-
rate upon these grounds : first, that the inhabitants of
the Inn had the gates closed at an early hour in the
evening, and employed their own private watchmen,
and therefore wanted no others; and, secondly, that
the Act upon which this claim was attempted to be
enforced, ought to be considered obsolete, inasmuch
as it had been passed more than sixty years, and this
was the first time it had ever been acted upon. It
the first ground of resistance could avail, all persons
who chose to employ private watchmen might claim
exemption on the same plea; and with respect to the
Act of Parliament not having been acted upon, al-
though it was passed so many years ago, he begged to
say that was a fallacious reason fur the non-payment:
the Act was a public and general, not a pi ivate or
local one, and it remained in full force until it should
be repealed. The Magistrates at another l'olice 01-
flee were applied to upon this matter some time ago,
and they refused to grant the warrant ; upon which
an application was made to the Court of King's
Bench tor a Mandamus to compel the Magistrates to
issue their warrant, but this was also refused by the
Judges, on the ground that they might be compel-
ling the Magistrates to do that which, if it should af-
terwards prove to be wrong, would subject them to
an action for damages.— Mr. ADOLPHUS, on the part
of Mr. Vaughan, contended, that the inhabitants of
an Inn were like a private family, and they were not
liable, individually, to claims of this sort. If the
was any liability, the whole body of the inhabitants
collectively were liable. Mr. Vaughan's having paid
the poor-rate, had nothing to do with the question at
issue. Servants living with the inhabitants of an Inn
of Court gained settlements, and might become
chargeable to the parish, and the inhabitants of course
contributed to a rate upon which their servants might
hereafter have a claim. The Magistrates, after hear-
ing Counsel at great length, declared their opinion
that Mr. Vaughan was clearly liable, and they should
have no hesitation in granting the warrant. The dis-
tress was accordingly granted, and Mr. ADOLPHUI
said, the question would be brought ultimately before
another Tribunal.

Henry .Brown, Thomas Stokes, alias Williams, Mary
Anne Late:, Henry Brookes, and Moses Lyons, the
persons charged with being concerned in the bur-
glary and extensive robbery at Mr. Frost's, of Arun-
del-greet, were finally examined and fully commit-
ted for trial.

Mr. W. Ca*lnd!, a respectable upholsterer, was
brought up on au assault warrant, to answer the cow-

plaint of Mr. Hompbry Phillips, a joatoortaibriok-
loyer.—Mr. Humpbry Phillips, who wore his eyes
under a large green shade—at rather, wbo'wore a
large green shade over his eyes, as soon as the case
was called on to be heard, made his bow before the
Bench, and said, " May it please your Worships, Mr.
Cauldwell, here, gave me this thump which you see,"
and so saying, he lifted up the green shade before
spoken of. '!be Magistrates looked under the shade,
and then observed that they could not see the thump,
but they could see something like the fled of a thump.
" That," said Mr.ilumphry Phillips," is the thing Igo upon,"
and when he had so said, he drew the shade over his eyes again,
thrust his kends into his breeches pockets, and looked round
,with the air of a Counsel who thinks he has made out his case
completely.—" Well, Sir, go on I" said the Magistrate, "we
must have something more particular than this : why did he give
you the Anew, as you call it r
Mr. Humphry Philips replied—" We had some words—a
few words."
Magistrate-0 Really one would suppose so, for you appear
to be a man of few words indeed. What were these words
about?"
Mr. Phillips—Pretty well upon politics, your Worship r'
His Worship now began to manifest symptoms of
impatience, and having made a remark, en passant,
about pot-house politics, Sec. asked Mr. Phillips whe-
ther he had any wttness who could give a be ter ac-
count of the affair than himself?

Several persons who Inid witnessed the affray now
stood forward, and, from their united testimony, it
appeared that Mr. Humphry Phillips, journeyman
bricklayer-, &c. Ilcc. went into a public pal lour, where
Mr. Cauldwell was sitting, with some other company,
and Mr. Phillips having "some other Welshmen" with
him, was desirous of :hewing of before them, as they
were but newly come to town. With this view he
called for a glass of negus, and another, and another,
and this not producing shea, enough, he boldly called
for a bottle of wine! The waiter brought it in the
green bottle, and this afforded Mr. Phillips an oppor
utility of spewing off still further: he rang the bell
furiously, and ordered the waiter to take the green
bottle away and decant it off, 66 fit for a gentleman to
drink !" This was done, but still he was not satisfied ;
and after drinking a glass or two of the wine, he told
the other Welshmen, loud enough for all the corn.
pang to hear, that he had never been used to sit down
with " fellows in leather breeches so greasy as to be
fit only for razor strops." This remark was pointed
at a very respectable Gentleman, who was quietly
' smoking his pipe on the other side of the room.
Here the Gentleman alluded to produced the of-
' fending breeches in queaion ; and the Magistrate corn-
plimented him and the breeches tool—him for his
economy in sweating them so long as he appeared to
have done, by their shining ! and the breeches for
enduring so much wear !
The witnesses continued, that the Gentleman in
the leather breeche felt a good deal annoyed by the
remark about transforming his galligaskias into razor
strops, and ventured an observation of two col the
poverty of We:sh bricklayers. Mr. Humphry Phil-
lips was extremely annoyed at this, and told his coun-
trymen not to mind what blackguards said. This was
not noticed ; and he then observed, that he used to
hare the rule of that room—to be the oracle of it, in-
deed; but there was no good to be done in these
/erelli»g times, when nasty greasy Scotch brokers
were allowed to sit down in the company of irendemen!"
By Scotch brokers," he meant Mr. Cauldwell, and
by "gentlemen," himself and the other IVelshmen.
Ile then went on to descant upon knelling and radi-
calism, and the obnoxious effects such things were
producing in the world, interlarding his discourse
with frequent allusions to Scotch brokers and greasy
leather breeches, till at length Mr. Cauldwel took it
up seriously, and proposed that he should be turned
out of the room. Alt. Humphry Phillips, by way of
strewing off still further, immediately made a blow
at Mr. Cauldwell, but missed ; and Mr. Cauldwell
instantly knocked him down ; and this they declared
was the whole, full, true, and particular account of
the whole affair.

The Magistrate discharged the warrant ; at the
same time telling Mr. Phillips ( Llumphry Phillips)
he was perfectly at libel ty• to indict the defendant at
the Sessions, if he was anxious to " shew off" in a
more public manner.
. HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday Thomas Cole, ap-
parently about 20 years of age, was brought up by
Childs, a patrol, of Red Lion-square, charged with
plundering numerous watchmen's boxes, of bread.and
cheese, candles, Bibles, &c. &c. For many months
past the watchmen in the neighbourhood of Gray's
Inn•lane have (during their absence in going their
rounds) had their boxes nightly plundered ; some of
bread and cheese, others of their com/ort; one unfor-
tunately left a pint of porter on his seat whilst he
just went out, and on his return, to his disappoint-
ment, he found some friend had made free to drink
it ; another left a crown paper of halfpence on his
seat, and that was stolen on his return ; another, who
was a very religious character, would keep himself
awake by reading the Bible—one night he had gone
round his beat and put the Bible aside, and when he
came back, some person hag decamped with it; ano-
ther lost a nice supper, which had just before been
brought him by his spouse ; another lost his tobacco-
box ; one poor fellow happened to have a spun Welch
wig, which be kept hanging up, and on going to
take it down, he found it had been taken down be-
fore. In consequence of the many depredations that
had been committed in the above manner, the guar-
dians of the night held a council in Eagle-street
watch house, when it was ascertained that a man
was constantly in the habit of lurking about a: night,
and if a good opportunity presented itself, he would
commence his plunder ; but if the watchman was
sitting in his box, the man would ask him the hour.
The watchmen, therefore, kept a strict watch. The
prisoner yesterday morning came up to Child's box,
and inquired what was o'clock, when he apprehended
him on suspicion of committing the robberies. He
took him to the watch-house, where he was searched
by George Toplin, a watchman; a large quantity of
bread and cheese and cold meat were found upon
him : but the provisions could not be identified; also
a Bible, with the name of Francis Claridge written
on the fly leaf, a tin candle case, and a gin bottle.—
Claridge, a watchman, in North-street, Gray's Inn-
lane, proved the Bible to be his property, and that it
had been stolen out of his box. Crane, another watch-
man, in Princes-street, identified the candle case and
the gin bottle to be his propeity, which had been
stolen in like manner. The bottle, when stolen, con-
tained a ‘uarturn of gin. The prisoner was called

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