The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-09 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

No. IV.
Oa come and Charge on the Consolidated Fund in the-Quarteraended sth January, 1523 and 1824.

Moue and Unarge ou ...s. --..--•.--___ _
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Quarters ended bah Quarters ended sth
.
January. January.
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' INCOME. ,
CITA
i BOE. --
1823. 1824.
, 1623. 1824.
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.1" 2 i 2 S
Customs.: ...................... ... 9,169,948. 2,686,317 Exchequer Annuities 27,914 3,831
EA eise ..... ....• ••• •• •.6,847,248 6,142,0;6! South Sea Company .. 35,440 0,708
Stamps .. .........• • .... . . ...... . • ... 1,430,13971 1,1168,510 Bank on their Capital. 89,125 59.10
Post (Mike 324,000 301,000 Dividends
Tones 2,613.231 1,916,084 . National Debt 3,159,090 1,211,700
Miscellaneous 144.312 800,664 Trustees for the Payment of Naval and
.........--• ---.l Military Pensions . . •
11,301,764 13,131,970 I Civil List I 211.600 212,600
Tuntire Money 11.40 11.406 Pensions I 92,160 91,062
q` c Cash brought from theCivllList,bel Imperial Annuities.. . •
the Surplus of the Third Class 1,1190 7,191 Other Charges 147,616 165,199
I n Cash brought to this Account, to r ' --
;lace the like Sum issued out of t I 12,517.340112.380,000
Cli owing Produce of the Consolidated' Surplus . 92,8321 3,104,773
Fund .n Ireland for Public Services.) 293,89.4 334,134
-- -- 12,609,972113.484.773
112,509,972,13,486,773 ---__— --
Exchequer Bills issued for the Consoli-
dated Fund, at 10th October. 1523, and
paid off out co! the Growing Produce of
that Fund In the Quarter ending athJa•
nuary, 1894 .. 1,712,310
Surplus as above stated 3,104,773
Deduct Monies issued in further part of
18,700,000, estimated as the Surplus
of the Consoldatol Fund for the Year!
9,937,146
1823
Total, at 6th January, 1824, to be pro. ---- 107,027
tided for by Exchequer Bills, charged
on the Growing Produce of the Conso-
lidated Fund in the Quarter ending 6th
April, 1824 . 1.661,683

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COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDHALL, JAN.B.

Adolphus. He certainly did not think therelwas evidence
against either Evans or Sargeant ; bat he had no doubt
the depositions were sufficient to warrant the committal of
Burn, and he should certainly commit him accordingly.
Mr. ADOLPHUS said. that he hal of late beard several
complaints from the Court, of some committals by magi-
strates, and it was not unlikely but this might be another
subject for the same remarks, when neither the prosecutor
nor his witness came forward to 'abject themselves to a

WILLIAMS P. MULLING..
This action was brought to recover the sum of 12,0001.,
alleged to be lent by. the Hope Insnrance Company, of
which the plaintiff is the chairman, to a gentleman COD-
cert.eil in the East India trade.
It appeared, that while the defendant was absent from this
country, the sum in question was raised by Mrs. Mulling'
and others to whom he had given a power of attorney,
on the fait'', of a mortgage, which he ultimately refused to
execute.
r The LORD Cities JUSTICII held that a power of at.
torn'v did not authorise an agent to borrow money; hut
tt.e plaintiff relied on letters of the defendant to show that
me had recognised the loan, and applied the proceeds to his
own nse.
. The defence, besides the denial of the recognition, was
fuueded on the circumstance of the defendant having pan-
tile*, who ought to have been joined in the action. It was, '
however, contended, that this loan was an indivitluil Iran•
section, at:d also that the del rnce was precinded by am order
a Mr. Justice Holroyll, made on the amendment of the
• pleadings. Payments, reducing the claim to 3,0091, were
at% proved.
The jury, under thedireetion of the Loan Cuter JUSTICB,
found a verdict for the plaintiff for SOW., snhject to the
opinion of the Court on points of law relied on by the
to'ounsel for the defendant.

eroae-examination.
Mr. CONANT replied, that as to any observations from
the Court, he hoped they would never have the effect of
interfering with what a magistrate considered to be his
duty as to sending a prisoner for:trial or not. With re.
spect to the non appearance df the prosecutor or his
witness be (Mr. Conant) held in his hand an anonymous
letter,which fully accounted for their absence—that letter
distinctly stated, that both the prosecutor and the witness
had received a considerable sum of money for keeping
away, and asked the prisoner Burn, if he knew a man
named Austin, a horse dealer? Burn replied that he
and had seen him since he had been in prison.
Mr. ADOLPRES now represented, that as the prosecutor did
not come forward, and as there really appeared no proof that
the prosecutor had such a sum of money at all in his posses-
sion as he said he lied lost, and as Burn's wife was in a very
Ilungerous state• of health in consequence of this charge against
her husband, he hoped the magistrate would admit Born to
I bail, and as there were persons, now present, of the first re-
spectabiaty, a ho were ready to bail him to any amount.
Mr. Long, thellotel keeper of Bond-street, and Mr. Wil-
liams. a respectable wine merchant, among many others, step-
ped forward and offered themselves for that purpose.
Mr. CoNAST said, that although he had no doubt the psi.
deuce was quite strong enough to warrant him in committing
Burn, yet as such respectable ball was offered, and the pro-
secutor not coming forward, he would accept of bail for his

POLICE.

Blltr-STREET.—JuAn Williams, 3 man of short stature,
in a traitor's drew!, teas yesterday brought before Sir It.
Starks. charged with defrauding several persons of small
items of money, in rather a singular and ingenious manner.
It appeaord that early yeeterday morning the prisoner
twat
to the shop of Mr. ;Jones. a tailor, in James street,
veer the Coburg l'heatre, and informed him that he had
pet arrived in London, from Portsmouth, for the purpose
cif ieceiving the sum of '2791., due to him at the Navy, Pay
Utter, foe service in a voyage of discovery, from which he
had lately returned, after ao absence of six years ; lie was
not merely employed as a seaman, but occasionally assisted
in drawing maps, charts, &c , or his demand would not
have amounts.] to so much. He intended, he said, to place
$OOl. in the flank, and to expend the 791. in clothes
ii Ml otoer necessaries ; and his object in calling upon Mr.
Jones, was to request him to accompany bim to Somerset
• House, as he was fo irful of being robbed or cheated if
be. went atone. There was one part of his statement
wbick sounded very pleasingly to the ear of Mr. Jones,
and be ionoediately consented to go with him, at the same
time Mating that lie should be happy to serve hini with
any little thing that he might happen to want " in his
line," • " Certainly,- said the supponel seaman, " that is
what 1 intended ; and I may as well give you the order
new, for I want to make myself a little smartish, and I
should like, if melt a thing were possible, to have a coat
awde by to night." " Say no more, Sir, (moth the worthy
• tailor," itsloati be done." The prisoner then gave orders
forcoats, waistcoats, and trowser. in abundance ; and when
the altitude and circumference of lois proper person bad
• been duly Measured, Mr. Jones said, "Perhaps, my tine fel.
low, you have nut breakfasted; come,yon may as well take a
• tit with me." No objection ir:tA made, and after making a
comfortable repast they proceeded to Somerset House. At
the 'lcor of the Navy Other, the prisoner said lie must go
in alone, and desired Mr. Jones to wait a few minutes. Ile
returned very shortly, and said he wanted some money to
pay for stamps, for they would nut pay him without, and
requested Mr. Jones to lend him fifteen shillings. The
letter hail only eleven shillings in his pocket, and prisoner
said he would prevail upon them to take that sum. In a
few tomato* one of the porters came to the door, holding
tbe prisoner by the cellar, and asked Mr. Jones if he had
_liken him money ? He replied in the affirmative ; and
was then informed that the prisoner had no claim for
' Money, and that be was a common cheat and impostor,
whom they had long- been endeavouring to catch. Mr.
Jones looked exceeding black at this piece of information,
. out be was sufficiently collected to get back his I ls. The
porter.who seized the prisoner produced a list of the names
of persons who bait been tricked In a similar manner, and
miid that the practice of the prisoner was to slip oat at as
opposite door front that which be entered at and sneak off.
• While his sloop stood gaping at some object or other in the
square. The second charge was preferred by Michael
Slattery, a simple, good-humoured young Irishman. who
sell. fink in St. Wks's. The prisoner went to Michael's
landlady on Saturday. and with the same story prevailed
upon the poor woinsn to hosed and lodge him until be
could receive leis money. On Sunday evening he said to
Michael, " Mich. I shall want you to go with me to mor-
row to take my money, and I will give you ss. for your
day's work." Poor Michael, glad of the job, went with
him and nas " diddled,! .after the old fashion, of 55.,a1l
the money be had about him.•
The prisoner made no defence, and was frilly committed
on both eliargw.
51ausnoti000a Steeirt..e•On Thursday last Benjamin
'Barn, the pugilist; Alereeth Brans, who stated himself to
have loran first a priva,e soldier, and afterwards in the
einards, and afterwardsbau ensign in the fileriosethshire
and Sergeant, a jeweller, !to had been in
tostody upon the • °barge of having robb-d a man named
-111•)exter of -eight-selvereigne ;in the Tap Room of Bangs
Lease, the Rising Sun, in Windmill Street. were brongbt
up for Anal examinetlei. • Mr. Adolphsw,• the barrister,
wended on the part of thl•abilee prisoners, but neither
she prosecater ereeelals:iltilaties; whose depositions were
c lakes ekalos.etteliefwet iseei.aaistited, made their appearesee
and after waiting a cooskier,,ble eloset lit. • Vegan/ tthe
•'-idagi;teate, -ta bilmeided to 310,
sitimetiedleektwhlob,,tioat Otisliiiews:cesstawl4d
s Owe. there ewes wed soridaewww II lollies to eiamnatt mik •of,
the
petits for-tai.d..serts a.,Javt -Cie
Mr. Coaster said. Mast Le differed very much from hfr.

appearance.
fir. Long and Mr. Williams then entered into bail, 1n the
tom of 1001. each. and Stwn himself In !Nal/. and be was dia.
charged. Evans was ordered to enter into his own recog-
nizance' for 1001., and Sergeant was discharged without any

bei'.
James Welsh. a young man dressed in the first style 0
fashion, was brought from St. James's watchhouse, charged
with an attempt to rob the mail coach, just as it was on the
point of starting from the Gloucester Coffee House, In Picea•
dilly, the night before.
Mr. Flowers, the principal clerk at the booking office in Pic-
cadilly, stated that the prisoner came on the Herter Auxiliary
Mail, from the Bell and Crown, in Holborn, where it starts to
the office at the Glocester Coffee house. This coach does not
become a regular mail until It arrives at Salisbury ; and all
the mall packages conveyed by it are deposited in the hoot
under the coachman's seat. Just before the coachman got upon
his box, he observed the prisoner, who sat there, wrap himself
[ up in the coachman's box coat, and at the same time stooping
I and assisting a rnanwho stood on the offside to pull one of the
mail bags out of the boat. The coachman immediately seised
the prisoner, hut the other man made his escape, and they can•
not as yet tell at the office whether any bag was taken out or
not, until the coach arrives at Salisbury, where it becomes a
regular mail, and the parcels are examined.
The cm:nehmen, being obliged to go with the mail, conic! not
attend at present, but would be up lu town in a few days.
Mr. Cosrssr asked time prisoner if he wished to say any
thing at present to this charge. lie said that he took his
seat on the coach at tie Bell anti Clown, for the purpose
of going as far as Hounslow ; bat as to the els.age against
biw he knew nothing of it, nor did he know the man who
stood ou the other side of the coach. Here Mr. Flutters
said, that when the prisoner ea. taken he acknowleded
knowing the other man, but not where belived ; indeed he
could not deny this, for be %as seen spcakin,l to him.
Prisoner denied having made any such acknon irdgment.
He said he is a shoe talker residing in Northampton, and
goes about the country for orders. Mr. Conant here asked
him if he had not once been at this office before, and what
it was fur? Prisoner said he should decline answering any
questions until he had the advice of a solicitor.
Mr. CostasT inquired if any of the officers knew the
prisoner ?
Wales, an active officer, on whom the prisoner had kept
1
his eye steadily fixed from the moment he entered the office,
stepped forward, and said that he had the prisoner in mato-
i dy under the hammie of Wells souse time ego, on a charge
lof passing forged notes on time Bank of England. He had
reason to recollect him; fur when he apprehended him
1
with two others in Oxford Street, the prisoner made a
desperate resistance, and he (the officer) was compelled
i to knock bins down with his staff before he could handcuff

him.
The prisoner exclaimed violently 'against this subject
beingintroduced, as be said it had nothing to- do with
the present business, and there was no foundatiou for the
charge alluded to. Sereral persons beloogin4 to the office
in Piccadilly recognised the prisoner as a person who had
been frequently seen lurking about the mails in the evening.
The prisoner, on being asked, refused to tell his address in
town, and was remanded until the coachman of the Salis-
bury and Exeter Mail can attend.
ILNIONIH•ta..—A young woman, named Ann Hogan,
was brought before L. B. ALLEN. Esq., charged with
having robbed a child, tinder the follow tug circumstances :
Mr. Nonkelew, the falter of the child, who resides in
Berinondeey New•road, stated, that on Tnesday morning,
b. tween 9 and 1 o'clock, his little daughter Elisabeth, who
is only three years of age, left home for the purpose of
etesiding a day school to that neighbourhood. Between
12 apd 1 o'clock the same day, the child was brtraght
home by a boy, str'pped of her shawl and gold ear-rings.
The boy said a young woman met hies io Bermondsey
,Street, and gave hint a penny for taking the child house
to Ater parents. The account the child gave of herself no*,
that in a. few minutes after she left her father's house, I
young women came up to her, gave her on apple, and
taking her by the hand led her up an alley out of Ber-
eiontlatrstreet, where. ithe took she err-ring n from her
eats, and the shawl Iron? filer back, and then went away.
The prisoner teal ippreltended soon after the robberg,
lolfl.lesitifled by- bbirth "both she hat given unit
child io ginage, And also by the little girl herself,

The prisoner in her defence, dewed it in the most
posl.ive manner. baring robbed the child, but admit d
te
that she had seen her wandering about the road,' when site
paid a boy for taking her home, and this boy, she s.id,
inugt have been the robber.
prisoner was ordered to be searched, and the
officer uho performed that duty, discover,d the chil's
gold ear-rings concealed under her garters. She wdas
fully committed.