The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-11-19 00:00:00

THE STATERMAM

To rest EDITOR or rat STATESMAN.

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Ste,—Whetever cements that portion of the
people of this country, denominated the " tinter.

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looslr," will ever gad a ready insertion is your

liberal sad widely circulating Pape►.
Yoe will admit, Sir, that those persons who are

perplexed by peconisry embarressinents. and mars- I
segoently the objects of law proceeding+, have armor•
thee ortlinery claim to the appellation of " Unfor.
Neste." It le, therefore. with the benevolent view
of softening the fortune of those persons, that
am desirous of giving publicity. through the me-
dium of your columns, to several points of lair, in
which those unfortesstes ere seriously interested.

Wide respect Sir, to the mover, of debts, I do by
a• weans cendrao the cnerse deolapelling a man by

•eery legal means to discharge his jest engagements.
13.1 then, netetthelete, I would e.g. th. nrcestits
which et all times nista, bat more particularly at this
sssss n of animal disttess, that Mose legal wowed-

iris s►ould be. in the fullest setae of the word,
shied, ••
Now, Sir, I shall b:ielly stale here for the reclu-
sive besoll of those onforteoste persons, whose pt.

cuuisry rashattassnsents render them satinets of law
proceedings, %bet, in their car•. is not onfrequesitly '
resulted to, yet theridedly illegal: and, first, an
individual cannot 1m held to butt ter the amount of
his endoreement, ins use where the affidavit whereon
this writ is groonded does not distinctly set faith

that sects individual bad received due and regally
notice of the non.pas went of the bill on which the
action is brought, the day subsequent to its fulling
due; one day later is fatal to its recovery. A can
mons hmfore a Judge, and prodactiou of an attetted
copy of the aibilsvit, will instantly produce the dig.
charge of the de!endant.
Neat, an individual attested fnr env 'pet ilk sem,
and the case coming born's. • .1.41. tr • •° 'dirt is ott-
tainvil for one shilling km than the lffidgfif set forth,
such Wields's' is not mew net bound to pay costs,
bet en indictment fn• reijury wiiiild tie ',Most the
i person slaking the lift !.• it ; and if the (I- f•srieni be
i imprisoned, ne if alremily in prison a detainer Instand
spinet hiss, which is env IVO .P• aim. *hint, for
the amount of sail vivid et. inetuding the costs, •
veal action *mild tie far false (aqui— not tw. At.t.thwr
vise ni *onion severity Is, where • Jefeisdent is seed
as an endorser on a bill c-f es -osn,„.. 'hp accepter of
such hill sued et the same tint, , an I .. r accepter comes

in end pays the boil, together with cost', and the
ptsititiff issues erece.ion 'gains( the 'lidos.... for she
fell mosso of the 'till (iiinegh wavily oat of his
pissess:un), sea his upscale coos Th.•ro is no
case lc herein so action far false imprisonment could
be so ~4arletely •.rpperted as in this last, and I em
quite gothic; rhs• an indictment would also lie for
as attempt to .Ifreed.
A farina' ease which I shall netke h, where a wee-
rant of attorney (en instreetent very justly looked
eons In all cases with greet jealousy by the Judges)
has been emoted, end pest of the am so secured
paid of, anti mashies given for the remainder, or
pert of the remainder ; and that the plaintiff enters
up his judgment, end issues his execution for 'WPM
balance, without previously deducting the amount of
such securities, Of return's' the same to the defend-
eat, is decidedly a case where not .sly an action for
false imprisonment would lie, but also an lediconent
for en attempt to defraud. I must be understood to
mesa in ',stances only where the securities wore given
sob:maid to the warrant of attorney falling due.—
It is almost 'epitomes to add, Incense it is so pee.
rally known, that one shilling of cysts, included is a
warrant of attorney, which hes net been regularly
fated by the lasing-officer, is in itself 'efficient to
i reader it null sud void.
I shell close this fetter, Sir,with as OlMPftlitioll or
two upon the severe hardships to which persons act-
ing is the capacity of *meters are of late subject in
this country. There is nothing more meal within
these lest few years, thin for a number of creditors
to Ile one or more bills in Chancery egsiost an m-
uter for demands, which, after putties the testate'''
properly to considerable Immo, they are wholly
enable to sustain. This is an evil which calls loudly
for redress. The int step of a creditor splint an
mentor should be to prove his debt. Is all the former
eases the Judges, by seesaw before them inCha mbe
can give relief; bet fie the case .f waiters, it is the
Chancellor alone who en remove the grievance.
Sir, I shall make no mese to yen for the length
of ibis Letter; yes have ben advocating the cause
et the unfortunate since the int establishment et
your Paper, and will not new shrink from a task
which you ban performed so long and so success-
fully, end which most, for many reasons, be so
animist le year believe.
October 25,11119.

LEX.

A remarkably well-too.. character in Kilapth, of
the Radical persessirro, being semmened before the
supreme jester of them worthies, mud charged with
the recent crime of driakiog whisky, stably replied,
that " be did remise. the habit of taking a little to
aster his spirits la them dell limn, but al says took
core that it was iminkd !"
The tower of the Itoyal Eseksnee will be rebuilt is
tire grandest style of architecture. The spacious veldts
I lately occupied by the East India Company, es pepper
warehouses, a►e new Wimp to assist brokers, &c.,
for ropesiteries of safety. They will, opera a mode-
rate computed's, hold 4000 pips, of wine, and were
origleally dnigoed by Sir T. Glum .4 at as a ►epesitory
for coals to supply the lohabitents of London sad its
vicinity.

COURT' OF KING'S IIi.NCII. Nov. It
TUE KING V. IMUSRAII.
Mr. Gum: prayed the judgment .f the Curt es
Frankel*: George Se rrrrrr convicted before Chief
Jestite Abbot. at Geildhall, of wilfel god corrept
perjury, in having sworn feud/ to an information
spinal Mr. Junes Laing, merchant, for smuggling.
The Cure Jusuca read the pleat* of the trial,
and the Defendant, when called on to say what be
'had to offer is mitigstie• of panishment, 'saved that
t►e inclement might he postponed, in order to give
time for the eeriest of some allidevile, which be bad
sent for from the *sentry.
The Coyne ordered that it should stied postponed
sod, to-morrow week, that beiocihe latest day is the
present Term w►ieh could be lastly ossed.
TIM KING V. LONCI
Mr. CcensT prayed judgment en the Defendant
In this us, a joeruyntan shoomvlter, who had been
convicted of insulting Joseph Senithers, en Officer
of the Costnms, and abstracting kiss in the Questinn
of his office, in resisting his attempt to search his
person for smuggled goods, which were afterwards
found open him.
The Defendant pet in en affidavit Malin that he
did not at the time know ibe Pros-ester to be an
officer; that he had a wife and foer children de-
pend's( nn his labour for sopped.; sad that ha had
@trendy been in confinement since the 4th of Jos.

last.
was sentenced to one month.' imprisonment in
thy King's it•nrh Prison, and to gire hi, own recng.
aiaandin IDOL for his gond belt It liner for three years.
?NZ 111116 O. NURIIAT AND iA WAYS.
John Murray, a seaman. anti W. Samwayl, a
jnarneyrnin tailor, for making signals by night en
curet of Dogsphhif P. to give yarning toseseggling
vessel+ in the 011i.14, were sentenced to hard labour
in the Muse of Correction at Dorchester; the
former for four monthr, and the 'vier for three
months, sail in miter ition their own recegnisances in
MI. rich, for their gnarl bnhariour for three lean.
The CODDT then proceeded to bear arguments on
men is the Special Paper.

COURT OF N0v.19.
mimeos V. coca on.
kir. Jesus made a motion to set aside two attach-
WWI against the Defendant for coetentpt of Coed,
in not answering interragetorin. The reason as-
titned was, that the interrogatories were not engrossed,
and, of rogue, were ant rainy avail. An attachment
had ther►on bed bees issued against him, and he sow
mo•ed that it be sat sale.
The Cosner' for the Plaintiff greed, that the De-
&edam had not answered the laterrogateries the
'Prowl time, when they were engrossed, and then.
fore the second attachment had been 'need. He
should leave it to the Court to decide.
The Corm, after efinsisitetion, determined that
the Defendant could net be heard, being eider
contempt, end that he most, therefore make his al-
legations into an affidavit.
Mr. Clams rase, 4111 the part of the Attorney-Ce-
weal, to mose for a C►iminal Information giblet the
Sheriffs of Leaden, for meeting a false setters of
the Grand Jury of Middle‘ea-
Chief Raton it icitasos remarked, tat Ibis was a
case of ere+t importance, anti one on which the Coort
must vensett together. H► bed therefore better defer
his soilon till nest Friday, whoa the Attorney-Gr.
•eras 'Geld be present.

KIN. ROUST BIAILICII.—.DUNIRNIILININ Nor. IS.
—Tame was found on the 10th aliment among the
rubbish *foetid the glare of King ROBlllt Boors,
of the re-interment of who,* body on the Friday
proceeding en account was given in last Monday's
Cu tout, a copper.plate, four inches wide, and fire
and 3.Bth inches long, having inscribed on it a croon.
she letters " Robestss Scoot-ass Res." and a .....
embracing within the Bogies four sties, each with
five pellets. This discovery is most important, being
all that was want* to completely dissipate the
desks that still lurked in Ike bonus of many, who
sere sot satisfied with thetsisting historical accounts,
Om the body, shot wbicb so mach has been said,
see that of IMP routed stammer of Scottish inde.
reodeoce.—( Edinburgh Paper.)
ItrINARRABLI DEATII.--AN American Paper says,
" A young man at Berliagton, New Jersey, ate a
piece of booey.comb, in whirl a bee ass lei,
While in the ad of swallowing it be bee stung his'
in the throes. which swelled so as to occasion, withim
balls. hoer, hie death by suffocation."
TM feelings of the people in Dundee ere at relent
midi agitated, on account of the number of deed
bodies carried off from the berying.groends. The
Oases employed in this abominable traffic hare raised,
achrdieg to repots, 18 bodies last week, and pack.
od these I. sia hoses, which were sent to Ediebergh,
by wee of the smocks.
DITIINAL-ORRIIII AUXILIARY Blatt SocitlY.-1
Toads, evening the North Anneal Meeting of this
Institetiesi took place at Gibraltar Chapel, Chinch.
street.--44. Bono, Esq. M. P. was called to the
Chair. The 1t,,. Mr. PLATT, Ilse Treasurer, read j
the Report, by which it appeared, that 862 Bibles'
sod Testaments had bees distributed to the poor in.
habitaets of the perish of St. Matthew, Bethnal.
greets, sad 1381. had been collected by eight Ladies,
forming a Committee, since the last Meeting. Thel
CHAIRMAN 'welled his readiness to go so any part,
of the county to promote the interests of the liri.ish
end Foreign Bible Society. Several other Gentlemee
addressed the Meeting on behalf of the Isestitution
The collection was very consideratle.
(FROM A CORRIRYONDLNT )—The reports now in
circelstios of pikes being found in ditivient Wares.
'hands me of a laughable hoes upon some cledulou
alarmists at Portsmouth, its 1793; these sapient. be.
'triaged to Mr. Reeves Society. A witty Clergymen
I(knewing the Secretary's officioesness to make himseil
of coasequence) hinted that there were pikes and be
pikes io e boon st Portsmoo.h ; the Secretary eagerly
'wicked, where ? The Clergyman seemed sow eit
to boas informer ; this increased the et hes 'a car.ossty.
who insisted epos a disclosure. The wit fed them
through different streets, and at length painted so a
door of a hooey, occupied by a Mr. Pike, his wife,
sad cis children ; the Secretary knocked. and eel
Immo Mrs. Pike, when the joke was discovereJ, end
all the party laughed hastily, wept the diseppoieted
Secretary.