The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-09-09 00:00:00

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Corrov.--The East India sale 18th inlet, is now
declemi for 32,000 bags, which is still expected to

MIDDL

lie increased. The Cotton market is rather heave;
the total sales do not exceed' 600 packages. The
particularS are:-160 Poriminhaen 2.. 2.d.; a few
,my roes I7d. ; 50 Grenarla.2ll4l. to '2l /d.; 60 tar-
riacou 21d. to 23/d.; stained at 18/il. to ; a
les-114rttabfrats 20d. ; • 1111f1 •in the Quite, 210 Ben;
gals 10d. ; ind a few 4ittr#,olB.d.
SUGAR.-The demand for Muscovatles during last
seek was very limited, yet there wrote few selleri et
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!eduction ; one or two parcels of inferior browns
.stove golds abode lower, but there sea no general
dePietntiOn ; the market might, however, be stated,
saceedingly heavy. Yesterday morning thece was
little or no business doing in Mnscovades, and
.though general)), the ostensive holders will submit
to no depression to facilitate sales, yet purchases
gaiytoAlly ri pjunde As. per cot. lower. There. was
a coosiderable request last, week. for Refined goods,
particolerly Loaves, whicils are getting scarce.-
jionir tSiere also taken off freely for crushing; the
:,,,karli,et since as been ,ragter heavy, and prices a
•shode loner hate been submitted to. Molasses have
Vseen. in Ktiod demand at as atfesi)ce. There were
"(co enquiries after. Foreign ,Suisrs last week ; the
prices efliogatinah mod. Brazil descriptions could
not boifetri at Bey atteration. TO whole went off
freely, brown 41s. t. 0435. ; ordinary yellow, 455.
to 465.; fine veltos,4le. to 4tts.
COFFEE.--thor: so:. been Ole ...variation in the
• pikes of Coffee last weak- Ver.y considerable public
sales were brought forward, and a great proportion
.was taken in, but no fluctuation in the prices took
place; the market, .however, closed exceedingly
heavy. Monday the intelligence of the Continental
markets was not so (avowable es had been antici-
pated; the prices in Hamhurgh were little varied.-
From the Netherlands the currency was reported
•bower,; there was in consequence no business effected
priests contract. Yesterday a public sale was
brought forward; it consisted of 128 casks 74 pigs
7:jemmies Coffee • .the greater proportion was ,mien in
- a reduction Of ts. to 3s. per cwt. from the prices
obtained last week ; the first lots, good to fine ordi-
-iaarv, taken in at 148 s. 6d.; good ordinary, eaten-
.%lvely, at 1465. and 1465. 6d.; ordinary 1439. to
3455. ; a parcel of middling Coffee went it a greater
reduction than we have mentioned, being taken in,
•so offers at 1551. end 1565. The market may be
stated exceedingly heavy, at the reduction of 2s. to
41. per cetb; there is no business doing by private
conttuct.
Imo Pncierstorrs, &e.-The demand for good
parcels of Beef and Pork for shipping continues,
particularly for prime of the latter.--Bacon is in
steady request.-Butters are very heavy, but no de.
pre!,sion can at present be stated.
Cotter.--There was a large supply of New Wheat
on Monday from Esser, Kent, and Suffolk, which
met a heavy sale at a decline of 2s. per quarter on the
best samples, and still more on the inferior descrip-
tiens. There was little business done in the Foreign
Wheat, and no alteration can be stated. New Rye
for Seed realized high prices, and there was a request
for goad Foreign at the advance of 45. per quarter.
There was a few snmples of New Eeglish Batley at
sr mat ket, which met a ready sale at a further advance of
Ss. the Foreign was 3s. higher, but not so much
dein in the latter as at the close of last week. Oats
*were comparatively in small eepiiiy, they sold
lit.to 2s. higher, but there was no briskness-at the im-
provement. 'there was a large supply of 0.4 Beans,
shich hung heavily oil hand,though offered at the de-
cline of 6s. Grey Peas advanced 21. ; White Boil.
*ea advance& fully 10s. on secnent of a contract with
the Victealling Board for 1000 quarters. Rapeseed
Wes 11. per last.. White Mustard 13. per bushel
Isigher; Brown Mustard met a heavy lisle. Clove:
seed: was entirely nominal. Tares declined 6d. per

bushel., .
Xseseet..—Macament Nutmegs are In improving de-
.wand.—Pepper is very heavy on account of consi-
derable arrivals. Pimento is also a shade lower;
considerable parcels have been brought forward, and
sold chiefly 10f,11. to 10111.; a few lots, 104 d. and
1014.-1-Jamaica White Ginger realized 101. to 13I.;
Basbadoes Ginger 80s. to 82s.
FLAX, AND TALLOW.—There are great
tflucteation in Tallow. Yellow Candle was in great
request towards the close of last week ; the prices
advanced with much rapidity ; 91s. was realized, and
rates Is. to 2s. higher were asked; the demand has
since subsided, and the market is again lower; for
arrival daring the season 77s.—Hemp became also in
great request, and the prices improve. The holders
of Flax look also with some confidence both for an
improvement in the demand and in the prices.
OlL.—The prices of Whale Oil advanced consi-
derably towards the close of last week; the request
'bas since subsided, and the market has given way.—
Sperm is, however, scarce, and the prices are consi-
derably higher, and difficult to be procured at the
advance. Linseed is without variation. Rape Oil
is a shade lower.
RUM, BRANDY, AND HoLLANDs.—The prices of
Ram are in a great measure nominal; purchases can,
however, be made at rather lower rates, .say Id. per
gallon : but there is little, or no business doing at the
decline. BrA•tdy is steady, and more business doing
in the inferior descriptions; the latter .is a shade
higher. There is no alteration in Geneva.

Some pigs belonging to the Members .of Cor-
poration in Coro wall ,ba►iog strayed from the com-
mon on which they were feeding, that respectable
body ware highly inoensed at the indignity offered to
them ; and determinetLto prevent sock a mortification
in foture. Accordrogly, at the neat election of a
-Chief Magistrate fur the Borough, when his Worship
had bean invested with the insignia of °lice, he rose
.and addressed his fellow Bergesses in a set oration.
Having for some time eapatiated on the residence of
. irregularities in the Borough ; he proceeded to de-
mite remedies for the evils of which he complained.
',advise," said his Worship,," that the pigs ke-
longing to us (the Corporators) be parked in future
with a K for Corporation;. and also that the pints
and quarts ased by the publicans, be marked with
II for Ale, and S for Cider, that people may be lure
_they get. proper measureP •It, is unnecessary to ob-
, erre, that proposals so replete with wisdom were
immediately adopted.

Ex SESSIONS.

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-CHASTISING CHILDREN AT SCHOOLS.
'ltlio.tl Deacbitr: it Vehenrmaster, was indicted for
having,'•on the 16th of February last, committed an
assault *upon the. person of Henry Loftus Clarke, a
bey, 13. years of age, who hell. been one of his
scholars.
henry .
L. Clarke being sworni said, belied been
sent to the bf fettraiiei ichoOl by Lady Alia, and'
that be tithed the schbril at tbriftmis last. On this',
day laid ie the indictmiiit, he went to Defendaniii;
house to get his books ; but that instead of the books,
the Defendant gave him ii arliedful whipping; it wasp
so severe that the blood flowed'from him. Imme-
diately after 114 he went to a Mr. Team, in the Tem-
ple, who was a friends( hie, apdcomptained to him,
(tithe manner in Which he had been treated.
Thisboy being cross.examiued by Mr. ALLEY. the
Counsel for the Defendant, said that Lady Affieck
had paid for his schooling : and he confessed that
about a fortnight before the day of his receivieg the
chastisement, he had left Lady Affieck's house for
the purpose of going to school ; but that he had
scarcely entered the school, when he stole out of it,
set off to Kentish.town, and afterwards returned to
Mr. Team, in the Temple-, .wiik "'horn he remained
until the day he was sent for his books. All this
time he knew that Lady Affieck't servants were hunt-
ing about in search of him ; but he never went near
her Ladyship. • - s.
Mr. Team being called and sworn said, that on the
16th of February, the boy came to him from the De-
fendant's house, to which. he had gone for his books,
told him of his having been beaten, and.showed him
the part on which the whipping had been inflicted; it
was very much inflamed; and that inflammation
could only have arisen from a most severe chastise-
ment. The boy was in a very delicate state of health;
and witness considered him as being- ender his care,
and not under that of Lady Affieck. It was on this
account that he (the witness) thought fit to institute
a prosecution against the Defendant, for what he con-
ceived to be wanton and creel treatment. The master
refused to give op the boy's books without a note
from Lady A fffeek. •
Mr. ALLEY addressed the Jory at considerable
length on behalf of the Defendant. He pointed out
the necessity of keeping children in a proper state of
subjection,.to those under whose care and tuition
they were placed ; and dwelt upon the fatal conse-
quences, in a moral and political point of view, which
must arise from that licentious conduct, to which
young persons were (Morally addicted, if such con-
duct were not "(Tressed by rigorous authority.—
While vast numbers of young persons were now en.
gaged in the commission of offences, and chile sedi-
tious meetings were held in various parts of the me-
tropolis, the rising generation were constantly liable
to be seduced into acts of insubordination and out-
rage; the only preventive against which was, the
just severity and coercion, which instructors ought to
be invested with the right of exercising:—and be
asked, how it was possible to expect that this power
could be usefully exercised, if instructors were liable
at any time to be dragged before a Court of Justice,
for inflicting a proper chastisement oft juvenile of.
fenders f After detailing the various facto in sup-
port of the detente, he called
Lady Affieck.—She stated, that the boy who bad
appeared before the Court, as a complainant, was the
son of parents who bad been servants in her family,
and who were new no more. While those parents,
Iwere living, she promised them that she would take
, cure of the child; and in consequence of that pro-
mise, and in order to fulfil the solemn trust she had
undertaken, she sent the boy to the school of •the
Defendant, respecting whom she had had the highest.
character. About Christmas last, she heard that the
boy was. a great truant ; he used to go away from het
house without leave; keep sway from school,; and
give her the greatest possible trouble in endeavouring
to find •him out. This conduct on the part of the
boy, obliged her to write to the ,school-master, the
present Defendant, and to request, that when the
boy came to his school again, he would give him
such correction as should teach. him that he was not
to commit such faults with impunity, and prevent
him from showing such a want.of truth and gratitude.
She afterwards heard of his being flogged by the De-
feudal'', and of Mr. 'foam's having instituted this
prosecution, at which she expressed great regret in a
letter written by her to the Defendant.
Lady Affieck was cross-examined by Mr. AGAR,
the Counsel for the prosecution.
She acknowledged, that she had written a letter to
Mr. Team, telling him she thought the boy would
i be better under his care than that of her own, and
that she 'maid not take him back. But on being re-ea.
emitted bf Mr. ALLEY, her Ladyship declared, that
note ithstanding her having written that letter, she
did take the boy back, and- still continued her
kindness and protection to him. She still considered
the boy under her care and protection, which she
had never relinquished. The boy, when of age,
would be entitled to a property of three hundred
pounds, and while his mother was living she used to
pay for his schooling out of the interest of that mo-
ney. But since her Ladyship had taken him under
her protection, she paid for his schooling herself, and
was determined to do so, in order to keep his little
property entire for him.
Tha footman of Lady Affieck proved that the boy
had acted like a truant, and behaved very impro.
perly.

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lulls Hite:, a: fellow wbo appal* 10 belong to
the lowest' `'dotal of society, •aniVwlit's rittitled in the
neighbdhrhlint VelSt. Giles's, was indicted for
'Sarah
lenity 6158004 and endangering the lifo Of'
Jobbins. The circumstances of the ease *ere briefly
these:—The Defendant had been for many years se
parated from his wife; on the separation taking
place, he had agreed to allow her about .3s. or 4s.
a week ; for smile time, however, this allowitnee was
withheld ; and at last, the Defendant refused to make
any allowance whatsoever. The PrOsecutrix, Sarah
Jobbins, was requested by the unfortunate wife, who
was her niece, to call. on the Defendant, to remon-
strate with hiM on kis coniliact, and to demand pay-
ment of the arrear due folbe wife. She was accom-
panied by her son, a lad about 15; she was desired
to go into the room Of the Defendant, who shortly
after followed her; he thee took up a pokor, and
aimed a blow at her head ; the blow was misstated by
her son, who held up his umbrella, which vies broken
'by its violence ; he aimed another blow, and struck
the Prosecutrix on the-heed'„ wrlunded her in a dread-
ful manner, and laid her senseless on the floor. She
was immediately taken to Mt. Jones, a Surgeonl. re-
siding in Peter-street, Illoomsbery. Mr. Jones de-
clared, that when he saw the women, and examined
her wound, he thought her skull bad been- fractured,
and for some time was fearful that she should not re-
cover. The charge for Ids attendawse awl medicine
amounted in four pounds. In a conversetion which
Mr. Jetiesitad with the Defendant, he astvised him to
wake a compensation to the poor wombat for the in-
jury he had done her, and prevent the prosecution
which would otherwise take place. Ilis teply was,.
that he would do any thing in his power to help her,
but be would give her no money.
The Jury, without a moment's hesitation found the
Defendant Guilty: end as the .Chairman was pro-
ceeding to pass sentence on him, he begged to he per-
mitted to say a few words in exculpation; the Cuittt-
SAN' told him, he might advance any thing he chose i
~in mitigation of punishment, but observed, that as.
he had entrusted his defence to an able COUnsel, it
might be better for him to be silent. The Defendant,.
however, persisted in telling his story, which amount-
ed to nothing more than a declaration, that, when the
Prosecutrix coifed on him, she was drunk. ~
Mr. Jones, 14e surgeon, on this rose and declared
to the Court, that the poor woman was brought to
him immediately after the assault was committed.;
and that there was not the slightest appearance of in-
tozicatiou about het.
The Csittlttfa•N then told the Defendant that be had
only aggrovated guilt bp the defence he attempted
to make ;It was, he said, fortunate for hire that the
apprehensipns entertained for the poor women's life
had not been realized, for if she died in consequence
of the outrage, he most have been tried for his life
in another place. The sentence of the Court was,
that he should pay a fine of '251. and be kept in pri-
son until the fine was paid.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Tuesday. an Inquest was taken at the New Globe, Mile-end, 1
before Jona WRIGRT Hama, lisq. when the following evi-
dence was adduced :
It appeared that on Sunday week, between eleven and tn rive
o'clock at night, the deceased was alarmed by the violent bark-
ing of a Newfoundland dog, which induced iiim to go into the
garden.auspecting that some persons were in the act of robbery,
as various depredations had before been committed there. In
order to walk with the greatest silence, he quitted the gravel
walk and Proceeded close to the garden-wall, where most un-
happily. through forgetfulness, he trod on the wire of a spring-
gun. which instantly went nit and lodged several bullets in his
thigh; feeling himself wounded, though then unconscious of
paiis, he called out " Help, help ;" his man-servaut immediate-
ly came to his assistance, and a ith his support reached the par-
lour. Mr. Grant laid himself upon a atria, and directed that
Mr. Harkness. his surgeon, should be sent far.
John I lark ness, fags sworn.—" On receiving the melancholy
intelligence, • I attended with all. possible expedition. On view-
ing the wowed, I thought it expedient to send for Sir Williarn
Blizatd. Before Sir William came, I inspected the wound,
which was oithe external part of the right thigh, itumedialely
under the hip; two of the bullets. were perceptible on the inside
of the thigh. immediately under the surface. Within an hour
Sir William Blizard arrived. Oa examining the wound. we
immediately proceeded to extract the two balls which lay su-
rfer the surf of the interior part of the thig,h. On passing
director down. we discovered another wound still deeper, from
which also another bullet was extracted. On further examina-
tion, we found a fourth bullet yet deeper, which Was ails° ex-
tracted." The Medical Gentlemen then left the deceased tran-
quil and' free from fever. The appearances seemed to have been
favourable ut first, hut on Sunday ft was discovered that morti-
fication had taken place. and bet nee!, twelve and one o'clock
on Monday mooning the deceased breathed his Inst. •
The CORONER here 'observed, th it the mode of defending pro-
perty by sprioF guns bad been ronsidered by perstnat eminent
to the law as highly exceptianabl- and Illegal. In the present
instance, however, any obsersatinirs of this miaow were refl•
dered the less uecessary. as the deceased hadfalien ihq victim of
his coon unhappy precaution, and had been the cooly-sufferer an
the occasion. It was quite impoatible to view the transaction
ill any other light than that of an accident; The Jury imme-
immediately found a verdict of—Accidental Heath.
An Inquisition was taken on Tuesday. at St: t hwtrats's Ons-
pital, on the body of Mr. J. Bowden. of Lewisham, who lost
his life by standing in a'4invel pit. smiler a mass, ta;hich had
been undermined. Verdict—Accidentally kjled by a mass of
gravel falling upon him.
On Tuesday. ten Inquest was held PR the body of Joseph
Adams, the child of Mr. Adams, of Shoe-lane, Mrs. Colley,
of Brewhotose-y Shire-lane, deposed, that hrillmiday morn.
ing, about ten minutes before Wine o'clock. else was standing at
her door, fond taw a waggon belonging to .Me srs. Sheer, rind
Sons. copper.swiths, Fleet-street. coming down Biewhouse-
yard ;* the hot*. had passed thrting,h the retch any landing grim
the card, when she saw the deceased peeping at the entrance at
the horses; the hind wheel of the waggon struck against his
head and befell down between the fore and the hind wheel on
the near side; the hind wheel went over his head and 'shattered
the Atoll to pieces. No blame was attatbed to else driver.
Verdict—Accidental Death.
An Inquestvins held on Monday at the Rochester-Chs 11,, ut
Stoke Newington. on the body of .1. Workman. von •of. the
Beadle of Newington. The evidence !Ito st ed , that the deceased
was going across the fields with his fathei, to bathe in the New
River, ween they slopped ter lank at a party of Gentlemen
shunting pigeons. By some accident the fowling-trim:se of one
of the tlentlemept went nif, nod wounded the decease(' "pile
thigh. It was purely accidental. and the Gentleman 'eipresse'd
r die greatest regret at the unfortunate tircumstanee.' roftre de.
massed died in consequence of u locked jaw, brought trey the
monad. Verdict—Accidental Death. 1.-!%0 •:
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On Mondsy night, as Mr. John Bodge, of
Dart(drd, was passiug by St. George's Church, 80.
rough, he was accosted by a female, who invited
him to go home with her ;„eeti on his refusing to do
so, he was immediately Attaiiked by three men, oho
robbed him of his watch.
On Ssturghsy night list a-goarrel arose between o#ll
elderly man, named James Collins, and his son.in•
law, who reside near Limbeth Church; from high
words they proceeded to blows, and duriug *the
affray the gort.in.Jew, Joseph Wood,. bit g Eiece of
flesh out et:lthe theek of his father-in.fiw, 411101
dreadfully digured his face, and 'put him to the
most horrible pain. Yesterdapa„Wartant wits issued
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to apprehend the offender.