The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-04-08 00:00:00

PSRPECTLT MATCiaIt3S!

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The ologie
skims and the sums they represent are limb more intoned's; thip.the pare from the Trim-
iise th e venue ; and these which we here persist are true. The piddle will remember, that there.
011 wile ire thing of windows, at the acquittal of iser late lamented Majesty. Sides,* eases of this kind
"'ma if, so, Toy. in the parishes below stated. Tise public will see, that 'Crewe 'actions were brought,
Inc be oats Stoney, and defended chiefly by eoe other attorney. That same public will see, that the total
nts/ the damages was 871. •s. 3d. 1 and that the COSTS amounted to .tbe enormous saw of
Ili. 0.24.! t! Ann, if that same public do nut see. that this THINS wants to.be rsforneed; that same'
1141_, c is aioi; Ibly fitted for the heaviest and most degrading If OFCC that ever was fastened rolled the seek of
I"' We is le only to add, diet this Chinon, so often mentioned below, was almost the only man that ela•
'igitsed or Al
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Smiler, and ereiest r.tfuras, at the late Epsom meeting.
#l_,, as Al ID COSTS IN ELEVEN ACTIONS AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF BRIXTONb,
140•• UNDER THE RIOT ACTS,
I TBILD AT 1111(611TON•UP0/1-THAMIS. MAIICU. lail.
Plairdffs. Defendants. Damages. muse Costs. Defdte Costs.Dafdts'Attaraes.
*AP. lB 1 6 78 8 6 29 IS V Unity.
Ow,' t bolls. Bart. Colllagbowra & sun 814 0 70 6 0 94 17 0 Wily.
lOC Lady Leashes Colliagbeera It NIL 8S 0 69 7 0 99 13 4 Cletton & Carter,
VOL I Brewster, (Qoaker)Roffey sad asarthar. 20 6 86 19 6 29 It 4 Osumi & Carter.
Pot. , M'lntyre. Itorey mod another. 64 0 88 8 0 80 18 4 Chalon & Carter. '
:rail; Costes, (Quaker) Racy sad another. 662701610 29 13 4 Clinton & Carter.
4
• ' Recker. RAW sad aindrer. 913 10 68 16 9 29 II 4 Clomp 4 Carter.
will.
: llardlog. Rollqaelasellsor. 10 8 0 76 14 0 99 111 4 Mum It Casimir.
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-t, • Crf on.
mett. Raley am& usurer. 19
lb 9 72 4 3 113 0 6 Clettaa *carted.
Sao, as 4 saslber. 116 2 72 13 3 29 IS 4 Chums & Carter.
VOL ! Yelps.
Brallwr. 946ryseimaimir. 9706930 99 13 4 Mato' I Cast*.
Relay salmadiar. - ----
licit • 119 7 6 782 19 6 US 17 4
twat time. Plaintiffs' Come 799 12, 6
Total Costs £llOll 9 10

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The above all la Clapham.
roLkit ACTIONS AGAINST THE INHABITANTS OF BRIXTON AND SOUTHWARK,
TRI AD AT CROYDON, •17QUIST, 1821.
Fair and Hamill. 2I I 0 76 9 0 Si 8 6 Clones & Garter.
Pair and Hewitt. 016 0 7* 19 0 IC 17 6 Hewitt.
Droadloyik another. 16 8 91 3 4 44 10 Hewitt.
Fakes* another. 210 9.... 10 19 I 44 14 6 Gaitskill.
Total Damages,

7 6 6.... Nit 3 7.... 104 2 6

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• TO ME
,#D.ITOR OP THE ST.4TBSIMN.

Sta,--it hal been aandutseed. that the Lord Mayor
has fixed the 10th isstant.' to 1511 uP the 0111.• °fße-
order. vacant by the death of Sir John Si!wester. -
Bart., by the Court, of Alddrawa. • • The -eppoistniaist
ludispntably belonge• to the Costes( Corpuses Coen- 4,
cll. as. the representatives of the chivies, to whom it
was originally gives, sad coefironed by many char-
ters.. I pledge my professional reputation to the fact,
without fear of contradictioo.—Annexed; I have sent
a copy of the Resolutions.,made by the Court of Com-
mon Council, that will remove •asy doubt that the
Lord,Mayor may have ea the•subject. •
At r Court of Comma. Council holden 12th Octo-
ber. 1770—Resolved, That James Eyre, Esq. the present
-iteeerder be no more advismk.with, rettined, or em-
ployed is any affairs of this Corporation. he being deemed
by this Conn unworthy their future ;11114 ur confidence.
"That in 101 cases relative to the affairs of this city.
where it may be necessary to have advice andstesistance
of Coonsel,../ohn (Ryan, Esq., Serjeast at Law, shall
for the future. on all such occasions, be advised with.
'stabled and employed.
" I am your obedient Servant,
Lorion-street. Fencharch- B. OSBALDESTON.
street, April 5, 1822.
NORITICII INSURRRS AND MODAL DIFFI-
CC hTI ES. -
' The above celebrated performers very "natsrally
tempt to divert the anemias of their, followers. durisig
the time of conveying them from the ruined and broken
4 op Nwrioiek Union Soekty to the New Norwich Joint
afoot Company t but will the members stiffer their at-.
Noise to be drawn off their proper interest by vulgar
personalities. groundless assertions, and false geotations,
directed against sootber office? To such persons as
have before them the attack on the County Fire Ujice,
under the signature of Cocain, sod the reply of a
PLAIN DiALAR, it will be unnecessary to nonce the
flippant qoibbling article, beaded " AILITMNITICAL
DIVVICULTINI."
Fur the satisfaction of others, however, and in sup-
po:t of the assertion made last summer. that the
COUNTY Flag Orrice bad iacreased beyond any otker
Wee he the kingdom, 1 quote the Stamp Office Barra*
for the year 1920 (the year preceding that statement),
and for the ear 1817, as they regard the COUNTY Vtas
Orrice and the late Pioawics Union, the only office
which it is pretended has vied with the COUNTY Flan
Orrice in respect to increase of business upon an aver•
age of years.
Amounts t Duty paid by the Coum Fins
Orrice for 1817 Z92.111111 0 4
_ Ditto ditto • ditto for lino aim 9lt

Increase .01,471 19 11

Amount of Doty paid by Se Nommen
U/410:4 for 1817 . UAW 10 6
Ditto ditto ditto for 1920 41,851 11 9

Decrease .• Z11,606 19 9

It is now s.serted by the Norwich Insurers that they
made as inemease addition to the duty lest year, vie. for
1521; but bow does this controvert the County Fire
Office statement made in the middle of that year, and
I declared to be in reference to preceding years ?
If a large increase of business were procured by the
Norwich Insurers in 1921, it is not wonderful, consider-
ing Me vast espame iacurred to procure it—their cap-
tieatiaglati of wealth mid profit, their ;tedium
butina tiVpava Okla,— hills. in& lidWlfteiNnte.'tud
above all, their wimulas tmAgehts to slat themselves,
by giving them ten per cent. out of the premium, which
is double the usual commission allowed by the Counvir
and other principal offices. What was the effect of all
this? Before the rear was ended the cowers woe
reined and fluidly dweeleedi I
Here the "MORAL DIFFICULTIES" of the Nortriei
appear insurmountable.' They. had told ads
lightfial tale of prosperity ; but, upon thew heist charged
with fraud in the Court of Chancery. they told an oppo-
site story; they then pleaded "great distress;" loam
mid diftrences had determined them to refuse emotion-
ing the policies. This plea allowed. and the storm
blows over for g while, they revive the delightful tale
of prosperity. and bespatter every one who retain*
them of their hoeing preciously sworn the direct reverse.
But, as the plea of distress was given upon oath, subject
to the penalties of perjury. and the song of prosperity
is only subject to the troable of writing, and the ex-
pense of printing. which the Norwich usurers do not
seem much to regard, it is excusable of the two to prefer
their statement given upon oath, and to believe in their
distress.
The only question after all for the public to consider
in effecting insurances, is tot which Fire Ojlce gets
most business, but which does it butt Dr. Solomon,
no doubt, procured more patinas than Drs. Bailey.
Halford, &c. all put together. Bat it is not quite cu.
taro that the patients of the first doctor were is the
*Vest hands. Using similar means to the learned De.
Solomon, the Norwich insurers procured a great in-
crease of insurances last year ; but, before the year was
out, the Society was estinguished, and the members hi
Chancery.
The petty vexation expressed at the uninterrupted
harmony which has always prevailed at the numerously
attended Courtssif Directors, and the U 1 Meetings
of the Couxvv YIRI OFFICE. is natural enough from
persons who are notorious for inceseant disputes and law
suits with each other and with every body.
The assertion. that " the County Fire Office actually
made a canvass, house by house, through the metropo
,lis," is audacioualy repeated. It is wholly false. That
disreputable expedient was used by the Norwich insurers
some years bach, and until Mar concern was driven
from the metropolis.
Their corps of canvassers then tendered their services
to the Cociavv Flag OFFICE. but were refused employ-
ment.
The three important questions put to Mr. Iltoreout,
on the dissolution of the Norwich Union Society, it is
said, " he could very easily answer, but be will not;"—
" but he sannot," might have been said t and, if I have
occasion to resume my pen, I may perhaps state why.
A PLAIN DEALER.

On Friday aPernoon, Viscount Uhateatibriaot, the
newly Appointed Frauds Ambassador, arrived at the
Mansion in Portland-place, lately takes for his re-
ception.
Tun Plcartisit.—The wind having shifted to the
north os Saturday last, and being cold as we/I as builder-
o.is, there fell on Sunday, what was scarcely seen dur-
ing the late winter, a slight shower of sleet or snow.-
11 The weather continued bleak and Italy the remainder of
the week, till this day, when sonshine at least re-
turned. The quantity a rain fallen this week is only
handredths of on inch.—Xtrand, April 6.

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O'clock. i o'clock. at night.! •
kfarck
Si. ••••• -39 43 39 36,44 !Sleet
"Tr 11. N. 40 441 ! 42 ,38 ; Fair
T..• • 41i 414 4U ,8* ' Fair
3, W • ~.. 41 32 45 ,37 Cloudy
4. 'Eli ••. 40 SJ 48 •9•3 Cloudy
S. P.... I AI 53 46 .63 • Cloudy
O. iii• •••i 46 i n _ sio,so., , r.ar

114NCHUTIOR OC
LAI4CASTBS ASSIZ Aram 4.
Dories the lemaieder of Ills ao, twisty witi.teows4
for the plaintiff were ettandeed, sod abate snow
'o'clock, the Learuerl Judge salted tbit C.Usel he the
plaintiff if they could gas thrones their case to-eight.
Mr. Blaekbarne replied, that he bad still es eery wit-
Dosses to ',tuning that he fared it would he impost.
hie to conclude to-night. The eon-t thee, after coo.
seitatfon with the on both 'Wee. **lionised
the proceedings till to•mnrrnw. It being Good • Fri-
day. Mr. Juitiee liolroyd Paid. that the Court would
riot sit till after the Church service.

• . APRIL 5,
The Court (trued a little after ode o'clock, and 13
fresh witnesses were examioeil in hetia:f of the prose-
piton. Among these, both os thie and the preceding day,
were some of the Reporters for the London and nue-
ry newspapers.
. ZONFINCE.
At Silt o'clock la the event ,r, Mr. Serjeant Hot?
each rose to 'tate the defendants' ease. He gala that
11/1M At tonnes to appear before then! in this eases)
as tosesel for the defei&nts, aid be reepe:ted the pa-
tient and iirdahreni 'attendee of the Jury white-be ad-
dressed them, because hawse satiefied that, under thie
realise impressioos netted in their triads, he should
require ail their *Wrenn. 'He was free to confess
his regret that this duty had devolved epee him; be
certainly lamented that the great taleo e and abilities,
Obis Learned 'amid Oh. Scariest), to whom Ai*
ease bid bees originally conided, bad not beta
brt4ght into actin us this orasioa ; but be should bi
guilty of the gro ffeetation. if he Amid say that
he lamented it because the ease posses a d soy penalise
Affinity. for be thought, when stripped of raper-
aeons matter, it possessed none whatever. He la.
tented It, however, because his Learned Friend would
have had the opportunity of vindicating the Yeostan-
ry from the imputatioas sod misrepresentations which
I had been levelled at them since the 16th of Asps,.
and of reacting, not only their character and ?epistle%
from that mass of calumny which bad been heaped
upea.thens, but alto diet of the Msgistrecy of elui
titoinity in which they resided. The first observed**,
be should make to them was, that they were met its
April. 1822, to try, is a civil action, the right of the
plelatiff, who was a man earl inferior rank in life, to
obtain reparation is damages for an injury be mese
tained in the Month of Aug. is 1819. He whited oat
to be misunderstood: he agreed with his learned
Mead, that is this coatory the poor and the wieb were
equally entitled to the same redress, sad he was We
they always received the same *motion from their
fellow-coustryareo, whets they had a legitimate ground
of complaint. He would not, botiever, complain of
the length of time which bad elapsed before this at-
tion was brought; on the contrary, be would conies.
Wive his clients, that the day was at length weird,
when they would be enabled to repel the calnassies
which bad been es long directed against them. Hie
tweed Mead. at the outset of hie case, bad forld
wamethiag so simpler is bevitsg t• Amami dolma
at this ilea for a joarsolima erenvot• ss M ilssisolSe
ed him, and a jerneyntan batter as ho afterwards
said, (for really it appeared that ha scarcely kie% what
or what his client was), that he thought requisite to
Irked the poverty of the plaintiff; and yet, poor as he
'se, he bad brought down an Attorney from Tooke'lr
smart, Chancery-lave, London. not being able, he
'opposed. to find one in Lancashire to Hahn,
his cause. sod a host of Reporters and other wit-
seises from London, Leeds, and Liverpool.—
Had the plaintiff received any sudden accession to his
' forme that enabled him thus suddenly to emerge
frem the poverty in which be bad been immersed? or
was be merely the puppet moved by certain perseto
behind the curtails, whose purees. though late. had at
last been opened, not for the purpose of redressieg
his wrongs, bat of reviving in that Court and else-
where, the memory of a transaction which bad now
'ady expired. His Learned Friend bad told them
mach of the poverty of his client; he (Mr. Serjeant
Bullock) would add, that the poverty was still in vi-
gour. and that he had no more ability to pay the el-
penses of this action. than bad any pauper who died
in Lancaster workhouse. His Learned Friend had
then alluded to the proceedings at Oldham, and dot
scribed them as having been abortive. What wp
meant by that allusion be could not tell, as it was to•
tally irrelevant. if the plaintiff was dissatisfied with
these proceedings, he might have attempted others. as
is that case he must hare been reimbursed his sera.
ma by the county. Bet be should like to knew who
Mr. Redford was. It had dropped, almost is it were
by accideut, from one of the witnesses, that he was a
primulas batter at Middleton and that was ail the
informatioo about him which his Lordship would find
epos his motes. His Leaned Friend had stated, with
much gravity, that Redford, the pleintiff, was a poor
man, who had received a wound which had kept him;
three months from his work. and from which he bad
not even yet recovered. Bat had this wound bees
proved by any medical Man ? sad any surgeon been
Galled who bad ever dressed it ? The evideacs of
Prestwick, who was a Surgeon at White CMS. MAD*
chester, stated, that he bad never dressed this man's
wound, sad yet there was no lack of medical assist-
ance oat such occasions. There was even a female
called, who said she had dressed a dosed wended
men; but it did not appear that she bad poured either
ohm or oil into the wounds of this individual. [wail
previous cares of alleged personl injury, for which k
compensation is damages was Jemmied, it was also
uniform. course of proceeding for the individual, either
through a friend ur ao attorney, to apply fur compen-
sation to the party mho bad cwomitteo the injury....
Why waa not the astir course pursued here in the caw
of a man who said he had been. by the injury be re-
ceived while peaceably attending a public analog.
deprived, for a luog period, of earning his bred?—
Nothing of this kind bad bees done. but an aetima
was brought in October last to obtain redress. .111 s
Leased Friend had told them that whoa this affair tee.
marrr4l, great distress prevailed tilloubout 'be cointgy.
If such were then the state of the people, so much toe
greater blame rested on those demagogues who esthete
make use of that poverty to inflame I base people to sets
et violence. His Learned Friend I- 4 also said, that
where grist uisenteat prevailed, great in ogov r met t
lemon exist. The ductriue Might b . Att, ha- Le ci
not see its application here. lure tuev t.. he .; • bat
tae dtitilass at Valle Mesa were oreasioassi solely by.