The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-06-07 00:00:00

TI LE STATESMAN

TM 'Ain V. THE SAME.

The question in this case was siwitar to that in the
last, the Plaintiffs seeking to recover the amount of
the freight earned by the Gram which had been as-
signed over to the Defendant. It was now contend-
ed, that the freight had been assigned over to the
Defendant long prior to the Plaintiff's bankruptcy,
ass satisfaction to the Defendant for supplies furnished
to the ship at Trinidad.

The Jury, however, found, as in the last ease, for
the Plaintiffs, sobjeat to a metres point of law lo
both cases.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

TUT ATTORNIET•Gtie xitAt. V. lIIIMLAW.

This was an information against the iMentlant, •
tea.dealtr at Iledden6•ld, for having in his passes.
s 4846. of coloured I in imitation of tea,
whereby be had forfeited 1 til fur each pound se footed
in his po iota. Mr. Walker, the Collector of the
Lack. Duties at Le►ds, received information that a
ge•ntitty of the article had been retuned by the De-
fendant from the .anefart.•ry, kept by Mr. Lamb,
at Fiskerton. Ile in consequence went to Hodder'.
Geld, in cnimpany with anotuer officer, and, on malt-
ing search, found the tea in question concealed under
the bed.

A verdict was found for slew Crows for 4801

7111: ATTURPIFT-OCNIRALIV ►RCRTICE.

A sert:ict 1.., U.• witi(.tal penalty of 1001. was
found agsinft this 1)• readout f.•r a similar sitcom.

TIIE ATTORNEY GENERAL P. 1111Nall.

This was a case of a like amuse, a verdict was
taken for 2001.

141. Y. VI WIGHT.— NIEMPART, JUNE 4 —oer An.
neat Fair commenced nog Merida, lest, and cnncled-
;
led the follo• tog Wednesday, snil gess each day ne-
rnerously and respectehly attended by an assemblage
of bnth series; but we regret to mete, that various
individuals base been plundered of sundry valuable
eriirles, by • gang of pickpockets infesting the
streets and avenues, several •1 whom have been since
taken into custody, and committed ; when one, in
confession of his gaits, observed that he had put his
hand into thirty !rockets, but found the whole empty.
Monday 1.11. •t two n'rinck in ;fie afternoon,
(utroige Nilson, the celebrated Blackheath pedestrian,
aged 52, fur • general settsreiplinu on lit. ground,
I commenced • sulk of 100 mitre in 26 hoots, in a
field belonging go Mr. Richard Stephens, at she
I Castle and Boomer, and finished the following cloy at
I.three minutes Mites and a half seconds after fuer
in the afternoon; having, through mistake in the
admeasurement of the ground, walked half • mile
heyouri thespecific disienceoshich being reduced, rein.
den the accomplishment of she task within about five
minutes of the given lime. And, on Wednesday, his
son, John Wilson. sited 15 years, for • like soh.
scripting), and in tie same field, commenced an on.
demising to walk 50 ;riles a day for loge successive
days, hot noon the 'icon of five in the morning and
nine in the evening, end completed she first day et a
quarter after seven, the second at half past eight,
! sod is perforasiog the tes.iglue with apparent ease.—
The steerage peke a %Vilest at our market, this
week, was 151. 171. id. per load.
SALtsouttY, Jrsz 5. By a Gentleman of the
neje: tersurliontl of Cricklade, whn well knew the
untortonato Rodney snit his atrocious murderer (R.
Watkins, of Wottun Bassett), we learn, that nn
viailiog Ilse latter a few days since in Devizes Bride.
well, he found hint in s moat tinkled state,sincerety
Ilamenting the crime he had committed; to which he
was led by two motives—first, the hopes of plunder,
knowing that Rockily bad a large gem in his posses-
' sion—and, secondly, try revenge; Rod way (who kept
a pablic.honsgs at the time) having often been obliged'
to penish him for audacious conduct, and then fore'.
bly turn him ism) the street. Fearing the seperior
poisess of his victim, his first care was to deprive:
him of life, which he did by fiats, his pistol the instant
he met hiss. it appears that Vickery, the Butv.strert
Officer, wet sent purposely down by Mr. Pitt, M.
for Cricklarle, to trace the murderer. the moment he
heard of it: and that the. Officers who happened to l
be then in the country in search of some wool stealers, •
were net in the least instrumental to the discovery.—
( Hampshire Chronicle.)
Oa Tuesday, at ?singlet) fair, near Torbay, a .
piner.peddirig, of an eztraorilinery size, was pre.!
pared sod placed on a car. fancifully decked with
'Sheath, laurel, Ice. and draan Ihroogh the town!
by eight earn; it was then vet up, and distri-
buted among the populace, conformably to an an.
cient custom, neglected many years, bet thus plea.
sanity revived. An immense roe from the
neighbooring parishes assembled to witness the CM.
mony, sad rejny the amusements of the fair. The;
ingredients w Inch composed this missy pudding were!
40011). of doer, 170Ih. of beef soft, 1401 b. of raisins, I
and 20 dozen of eges ; it bad been kept constantly !
br''ing, in a brewer's furnace, from Saturday morn.:
ing until Tuesday morning; tits pipits were, passed
through it to convey the heat, so that the middle and
every part should bit thoroughly dreesed.—(forts.
mouth Piller)
Twenty convicts, transported for life from Exeter,
and 13 sentenced for different periods, from Jaen.
ceston and Borlaths jails, have this week been put on
board the convict hulks in this harbour. These re.
ceptaelev, we regret to say, nnt • ithstanding the many
hundreds recently shipped for New SnuthWales, con-
tain not fewer disci 1200 felons. Yeeterdsy one of
them, named Wilkinson, formrtly io the army, cut
his throat, in a fit of despondency, but 5101 r 'rectos!.
le, and hopes are ente•tvined of his recctery.—
(Poi lantorth Parer.)

ROirghl or GOVICRNMENT AeCOU NT-
BOOKS.

Properly, eenalsting of a great qesntity of ac
count.books, ledgers, and papers containiug is
of the espeeditsie of the whole army, for several
yeses past, on a new construction--correspoodence
frost various dominions of an Important nature—
correspondence with the Treasury, and accounts ot
the public expenditere in general. were left in the
immediate care of Mr. White, by a person of dis-
tinction, on leaving this country. Be
ingly appropriated the premises adjoining to his
'loose in Berlfordaireet, Bedford-moire. fur their
safe possession. After they were deposited there,
boot person or persona contrived to work an aper-
ture in this wall, and en, ma was afterwards ascer-
tain, robbed the place of the cheats, containing the
abote-mentintiedproperty. No clue whatever could
be traced for the discovery 'of the perpetrator, until
it arose nut of the following circumstance:— Pot:
Drennan, • man who had formerly lived in the ca.
picky of sellout with the Gentleman who committed
the property to the care of Mr. White, was brought
up
to Marlboreagh-street Office, charged with having
stole. some harness from the stable adjoining Mr.
White's house, and a *arrant was grouted to 'earth
's how. In conseqeence of papers found
there, :lank, the officer, under the aotherity of a
warrant, repaired to the house of a Mr. Milbourne,
steamier, of Gnion.streot, Somers' Town, where he
heard some of the property was concealed On his
arrival, be fund a quantity of the articles, which
were coutained in ihe chests. in the shop, and
gathered nearly a cart load of the properly which
was stolen on the premises, that which was most
.elusble was gone, viz. the leaves which contained
the difrAteut accounts of the expenditure of money
which had been gutted out of the covers; bat the
other books (plain) were some of them correct. A
great put of them were sold and bad been sent to
✓arious parts of the country. Plank ordered that
whole lathe property should be brought to the office,
and Mr. Miltioartie was charged eta Friday on ass-
piriori of having received them, knowing them to be
stolen. The property was brought in a raft, and a
Mr. White, wbu often(*) privately, stated the par-
ticulars et the tate. Several of the books, covers,
and correspondence were produced. The covers had
on them "General Statement and Recapitolation of
Store Accounts ;" and the books all contained im.
peril paper. Mr. Millicorne said. he parched the
property of the Prisoner 13,e•itE•o, with wham he
formerly had been acquainted, as waste paper. lie
did not know its value. lie proirii.r.l to restore as
much as he could of it, on whit% :te was liberated.—
The officers are busily employd, and are likely in a
few das to make further disco's/ie., restore the
rest. Plank left the office in cortivisiy with Mr.
White, for the porpoati we ainderstend, of truing
different persons to whom the property was
Brenn on is in szfe custody.

On Friday night, as Mr. Barnett, of Clobe.rosd,
Mile.ettil, was returning home, be was m►t by fccr
mess, dressed as sailors : ono ..Idreesed I•im, •i..l
then knocked him down end heat him aeveiely. Mr.
B. rally' for assi•tsnce, bet no one heard him. The
robbers then tided his pockets of some silver, his
gold watch, &e. with which that esc.p•rl.
On Friday night the hoes, of Mr. Prier,of the firm
of Messrs. lianbery end Ca. breams, was entered by
and several hat-coats, settouts, &c. stolen.
—The house of Mr. Giles, at Mite.eltd, was broken
into the same night and robbed of apparel and Bank.
note. to the amount .1301.

Saturday aft►rnoon some boys were smusirl them.
selves near Caper's-bridge, Limbed), mitts running
no some•Qoating timber on the Thuiries, when one of
them soddenly hauling round, was precipitated into
the water and drowned ; his name is his father
is • ',tinter, living near the Surrey Theatre.
A young man, near the entrance of the Aclelphl,
in the Strand, having got on a timber carrioce, in
order to see the procession of the Mill Coaches on
Friday, his foot slipped, owing to the rain, which
was falling very fast, and pitching backwards un the
Rich, he fractured his bead dreadfully.

!fednesday week a muirlar wasrnmeni•ted near
Corpfin, in the county of Ennis. if. Jordan had
some time since parted frown his wire, and made se-
sere' attempts to murder her without .IT,ct ; bat, on
the day stated, be induced bee to accompany him In
the fair of Cornfin, promising her clothes for herself
end two children. When they @niersl at the fair be
gave her breakfast, and then brought her to a lonely
place, a mile from the town, where he heat nut her
brains, and threw her body into a lime-kiln. On the
Monday following an Inquest was held on the body,
when the .I.lry returned • Verdict of Wilful hlurdcr
0:01011 A. Jordan, who has not yet been appre-
hended.

FEMALE COU&AGE.—A few days ago some sasi.i.
cious persons were observed larking @brat the house
of Mrs. Ann Higgins, a lady residing in Fins,tory-
square, and the same night, after the family had me-
tired to rest, the servant maid, who slept in the lower
part of the hoes., was alarmed by • noise in the
rear of the premises; snit got op and locked oat at
the window, when she observed the same (Woos in
the set of breaking into the hogs.. She irarr-,eialely
took down a musket which hong nvor the f. e•place,
and levelling it, fired it off. The roh!o•rs irstonfly
retreated over the garden well, the .line way they
bad entered, sad escaped. Nest slay a qusniily
blood was found on the wall, and a track of it was
traced to some distanre.

An *sample of peculiar atrocity occurred in the
State Prison, at Charleston, nest long men, which hey
not often hems paralleled in rrgaril to fcrori:y of
temper. The Warden had or.'...red one of She most
ingenious workmen among the prisoner, to nyl:o •
blede for • penknife, in which he ass eepert, ei.t! fit
it in a handle, which he held in his hind. 'fie
convict gas. him an impudent look, 1-41 him if Lc
would let him hare a quart of runs, he P•T•
form the work. This being rel•Yeil, key to
fhb it for a Ida of spirits—but the keeper tr :,1 Mm In
begin immediately. Ha then perentrtetil) Wused.
swearing he woeld net filmy him. " Yru w
said the keeper, "then VII awl mains ton: l;a sn.• do
it." The criminal at once I :Iced his left hand upon
the woo k-bench, took op e hatchet. etstl cleuppre
the cells if hit/facers with looked in ti e Wertien's
face, sod called evr,"tkete 'tow yuu C3r."l etc:-

OLD BAILEY.
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Tbis prowling's, vow on. of the nebtri•lTO peortiem tact
ore asorb fieqoont mart ire la our l'••girt- or I. so. of •
in prisms as boil few low °dog. atm nee. it' /mime nr f.l 1, no, o
•• male of WA. j" that is •at, a worth deqftwe ..!
proper, v. awl oho hav been .esm-d 1111111 of strrat
fart of their being known in former ii.'., t • alit ion and don us•
Wrstaii•Wee-ball wit,. a wan in 11.4 so order to atio...,se
:heir railing lbe (/efendaut Is the r.sce was enge1..,...1
to Josh(' ball In an ariiiia far a Imre, women,, and swore
gel? to tie powegged of property, balk freehold and per-stn.', a
atore ihaa Iwle,, the sum tants to be ree-tve ed. Upon the
Plniatir recovering. believer, neither the hall Mot it,.. 1)4,...d.
ant was go beton/id s and Min the PlaltalE was depmed of to,
fruit. of his werd4m. I•r lhi. patjory the Ilefeadant sea, ia.
dieted, and wa. found ligiby.
The COSIXON %survey. im po•simg the series& rf I!r law,
commented ono* the dreadtill and too prevailin elm- of
alibi lb- I)efetntool had bean *a prep rl, cno.ift..d and .si.
reeled that be sbooki anal for owe beer is the pillory. and bt
tramgrogted for seven years.