The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-18 00:00:00

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Hum farina ent;itiAn Rider were' inflicted for tie'.
war rieldry. taldeir from' the person of Wm. Thorne,
13'. ed.. es the evening of the 19th inst.
Wm. Thorne stared, that he was, a tabourer, and on,tbe
'veldt* of the 13th inst. he was walking in the Etigeware
Reed. , a short distance frail the Hop-poles publiclhosie,
Hemet the two. "Armors. They passel bite, retu reeds
an& pasted him again. The prisoner Elder then turned.
short and knocked bins down. Barden then put his knees
the stomach of witness, and bell his bands on Isis
mouth to prevent him from coiling out. Barden then
meshed hls.pocket, anal took away les. ed. Rider then
'reposed to take witness to the Cot and throw bins to. The
ether skid "No, we have gilt enough of him." They then.
left him, and be went away. The next morning witness
returned. to the apot.hoploE to be able to meet the prison-
er*. He saw %Inn drinking in the Kings Arms public-
bouse4 and with the assistance of the watchman they were
taboo into custody.
crostexamineil—Wittiees did not tell the watchman on
**night of the robbery whet bed happened. Witness is
a labourer in a gentleman's' stables, and lived in Wood's-
Miwe He bail lately worked for Mr. Johnson. glazier
aid plumber, end earned es. el. a day. Witness was en-
abled to see. the faces of the prisoners by the light of a
lamp near hint.
John Barton, a watchman, was on his post on tbe night
of.** resiskery. His post is near the Hop-poles public-
bonse. He beard nothing of the robbery till next morn-
ing. when the proseentor came to complain of haying been
robbed. His fare and clothes were at the time covered
with bleed. There wu another watchman stationed near
the Hop-poles public-house, but witness beard no alarm
given. Witness went with the prosecutor to the King's
Agnes publie-liouse, where be pointed out tbe prisoners.—
At ay wahhouse the prisoners protested that the charge
was false.
Cross-examined.— Witness thought no straggle could
have taken place .between the parties, as the watchman
near the spot must have beard it if it occurred.
The prisoners, in their defence, stated their entire igno.
ranee of the matter, and called thel following witnesses to
prove an alibi.
Thomas Whittaker stated, thet be saw the two prisoners
et the Devonshire Arms, at Lisson Drove, from the hour of
ten to twelve o'clock on the night of the robbery.
This statement was confirmed by two other witnesses,
ielto were also at the Devonshire Ares.
Several witnesses gave the prisoners an excellent cha-

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16perty amountiag.:as diperseds...of 1004 and closed
the door after them. As Mr. Bane; or his family did sot
reside} 1. the. house. ;it was suspected. that sum .persons
awaii.athatAiircianstance„ was concerried in the rubbery,
rbtitaii yet. as )ppitic.ilar individual bas..been fixed upon or
apprakeadedi --D4r. Barnet particularly-compinioed to Mr.
Kcie.of 'the., viaduct of. the watchmen on abet bitat. *An
used very abusive and issulting loop:age to bite, because
, he observed that had the watchinsu beep sufficiently amnia
tive to his ditty, it-wee impossible that robbery, which
must have occupied so rands time, could have taken place
without his knowledge. Upon making this observation;
the watchman said that be believed Mr. Barn-t had robbed
himself. Mr: Roe said, that this was very improper lan-
guage for the watchman to use, but he might have sup-
posed that Mr. Barnet meant to accuse him of bring con.
rased in the robbery, and felt irritated. as. there was nii
reams at present to suspect him. The watchman said
ithat•Mr. Barnet did accuse him. In coorapience of suusq
circumstances that transpired, the further investigation as

adjourned.
51•111T-LA.SONNI ONFlCS.—Yesterday a very elegantly
dressed young man, giving his name Joseph Aldred
Faolkaer, was brongbt up for final examiaatien .on a charge
of stealing gasket gontatnieg ladies' jewellery to the value
of 5W., the property of two young ladies of 'the name of
Brown, residing in Princes Street.
From the evidence of several witnesses, It appeared the
prisoner, who, it seems. had moved in the highest sphere
of society, had lately become acquainted with one of the
Mies Browns,/ and had obtained permission to call at her
lodgings, where she resided with her bother. A fortnight
since he came io the middle of the day; and feigning ex-
cessiv• fatigue, was permitted to stretch on the sofa. where, t
to all appearance, he soon fell asleep, and was left alone; ‘.
however, on some of the family entering the room in about
an Lour after, they found he had taken his departure, and
Miss Brown missed her jewels, which were left in the
casket on a table. The prisoner then discontinued his
visit*. When apreliended, he represented himself as a
gentleman, also as en Officer of Marines, last returned
from the West ladies. The officer found, alter searching
him, duplicates for some of the jewellery concealed in his
boot, and also a gold eye-gbe.s that watt in the casket;
and, after some perseverance, the whole of the stolen pro.
perty was recovered, with the exception of one or two
trifling articles. It was ascertained that his story respect-
ing his having lately returned from India was altogether
false, and alt his effects were mortgaged at the pawn-
broker's.
The Magistrate (tlr. Griffith), finding the evidence con-
clusive, fully committad him to Newgate for trial.
LAMZETRI-STREKT.--01,1TY Or CIIILDtt ES TO simmer
TIMM PARlNTlL—Yegterday an Information was preferred as
this office, by the Parish of Aldgate, Middlesex.- under
434 of Elizabeth, c. 2,5. 37, against JOtill Her. for reliwitw,
agreeably to the Act, to maintain his father, Its being charge-
able to the Parish.
Mr. WYATT. after referring to the Acts of Parliament, ob-
served. that the question was, whether thy father was impotent.
awl the son of sufficient ability to support him t and wished
evidence to that effect to be adduced ; when
Mr. Themes Staples, one of the Churchwardens of Aidgatei
came forward, and stated that the defendant, elms was a single
young man. held a situation in the Trinity-house a lout Ist r
annum, exclusive of his perquisites, which he believed stoore,r
ed to nearly half that suet. The poor father was an inmate of
Aldgate workhouse for the last two years. He had been a free
watermau, bore an irreproachable character, and had brorezht •
up a large family very respectably. He had been on many
oec talons snitch indisposed, sinew his admission into the work-
h. are, but his son never once earns to see him, nor aff erred
him the least assistance, either in a pecuniary way or oth,r-
wise, and the Parish now sought of the defentiaot, under the
Act of Parliament. such a sum towards the maintenance of h,s
father ais the Bench might think proper to award. lie was now
upwards of 70 years of age, and totally incapable of gettia;
his own living.
Tne defendant expressed his incapability of allowirg a.r
thing towards the maintenance of the old man ; he was in deft
Stll. anti he tit...tight it a eery hard case that be should be Oil.
ed to support his father.
Mr. WYATT—I think not, but very just. You ought to be
asinned, on such ample means as you have, to allow your fa-
ther to live in a workhouse.
Defendant—lll allow my father ls. a week.
Mr. WVATT—That woo't do at all ; we'll make you give
him more.
The Magistrates ordered him to pay 4s. ed. per week to-
wards the support of his father until Christmas, and after that
to pay Ss. a week as long as the old man lived, and he had
ability to do so.
QUINN SQUAAII....-ROSBERY ire • ST. JAMB'S PARK
Yesterday morning a Gentleman, who said his name was
Adams, came to this ofhce to give information of his lo,sg
robbed in the Mall, St. James's Park, about half an ho le
before. He was looking at ill^ workmen employ, din '
clearing the canal, wheu a well dressed man entered mai
conversation with him on the subject of the canal. Horse
Guards, War Office, Treasury, and other buildings iu that
quarter, comparing them, with pertinent remarks, to the
public buildings iu Paris, where lie said he had been eith
the British army. His name nas Burke, and he describe d
himself as a relation to the late General Burke, belonging
to the Irish Legion in Prance, and that be came to Lon-
don to sell out some stork, and join the Patriots in Spain.
Mr. Attains having been' with time British army in Fowl..
found much .pleasure in his conversation, and they walked
together up the Mall ; arrived at the Breen P.irk, air..
Attains pulled out a silver snuff box, an old family posse..
sion, and offered it to his companion ; he took it, admirer,
its antique workmanship, and suddenly snatched Mr.
Adams's watch, with a steel chain and four gold Peal., and
bolted in a twinkling; no person was near, but Mr. Adams
called out " stop thief," and pursued him up the stable
yard, but be lust sight of him anti the fellow escaped. •
An inquest was held on Thursday se'nnight before Mr.
Prall, Coroner for Rochester, on the body, of Th.ime
Barr, a soldier of the 9th regiment of foot, who met hi
death at Fort Pitt Hospital, under the following eleven%
stances :—The deceased had come into the barrette the
preceding evening in aitateef intoxicetion, and precede
ito bis quarters, where another soldier, named Rainey, she
ly after entered ; Barr immediately commenced a quern
with Rainey, for not making his bed, which the later
lu
refused doing ; when Carr directly aimed a blow at hi:
with his list, Rainey defended the attack, and in eta scan
both fell, and the deceased received a violent blew on tv
back of his head, having fallen undermost ; they both am-
wards went to bed. Early in the morning, the decal*
complained of illness ; he was thereupon removed to tv
Hospital, and sarsived but a few hours. The Jury *6.
into a minute enquiry of the facts, and it appealing ff
the testimony of the medical officers who attended the de'
ceased, that his death was caused by a concu.sion of ti•
brain, occasioned by the fall, the Jury returned a r'
accordingly.

11111,TH.—On the 12th instant, at /donut Melville, fifeabire, the WIC&
Uterine White Melville, of a danght,r.
MARRIED.-011 Tuesday the 16th invtant, at Warolvwerth. ReeOr'
ir.
DaftIIZITI, EN. of Lambeth, to Charlotte,
daughter of the late Jobs
chard, Esq. of Euthill.
At the Abbey Church, St. Albans, on Thursday. the 11th liotantielt
second son of John Smart, Esq. of Trevaltt Howe, 'Dorm
Mary Ann, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Thanes lired.r.li
Dols.
On Wednesday, the 17th Instant, at St. Moryde-hoar Chaff dfiel
Taylor. Esq., Rowel Nagy, eldest son of Joseph Taylor. Esq. late If tr
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In the comity at Norfolk, to Itarrint, daughter of Dm late Lievit,Cd.
Duncan. of the Vint (or Royal) Regiment of Foot.
On Wednesdny„the 17th Instant. at Meehan', Dern, 111r.Sanriel .7-.'""i'
Rasingholl•otree4, *elicitor, to Min Helena Knight, the deashier td C
Knight, It of Bleim ToP
shury-square. SO
Yesterday, at Hoehn. Church, Edgar Taylor, Esq of the Ism/
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pie, to Aim, wenddaughter ofi. Cbridle,EsqWlck.nouteilladon ~
Ou Toeoday last, at St. Martini Church, ttiratiuglista. b/ Ibt,..7.igit
Kennedy, M. A. Mr. john Walson,of Itolboru.hill, to tiarob, thusdat•-•
late al r. 111.5. Read, of the former place.
egUstee teP
Os the 11th Intent, . Hampden (Revision's, Esq. of IlLegPto
. inhetb, outy daughter of tbe late Robert Coninginun. SI.
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DIEM—At hdewitib, on Tuesday. the 16th instant Cherie 1)0
[ Req. formerly of Lovirleys, near Welwyn, Herm, iu theme

'tinted and VlllOlO.lOll * e M Nu. Ix
• by R. WARDELL, LLD. Proprittut.