The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-11-02 00:00:00

POLICE.

illaystott-liorer.--Yesterday Mr. Stokes. of Lom-
bard-street, attended by his Solicitor, Mr. Kirke, a
member of the Court of Common Council, appeared
before the Lord Mayor, to answer the charge of hat•
ing printed, and ordered to be circulated and platted
against the walls within the City, a certain Placard.,
of which the following is a Copy r-

" A HICNICRAI. kTIONi
sireassers or TOE \LSO OPINION
OF
THE QUEEN'S INNOCENCE,
So telly sod satisfactorily t rahlished at the reeent Close el
nor Wiest, 'a Dikes., is ottrestari to lake Oleo
ON MONDAY, ?OS 6vm
Stokei, Printer, 6, Lombard-street."

The bill-sticker attended also at the .Mansion-
house, and was pat to the bar.
Mr. Alderman SCHOLET was present at, and took a
part in the investigation.
Brown, the officer, said that he had the lay before
gone about the City, by order of the Marshals, to pull
down the Bills that bad been stack up respecting the
'illumination. He pulled down foutees or fifteen,

and upon returning to the Manidon-honse, heard that
the bill-sticker was in a neighbouring public-house.
The officer immediately went to him, and was told by
him that be hail performed the ogee of sticking the
bins, and that be had been authorised to di se by Mr.
Stokes, who, he believed, had been inthltiM to print
them by a gentleman In Aldermanbnry.
The bill-sticker said, he did not like the linslauss.
from the first, and thst he went to consuls Manion,
the Marshalman, the sight before, %poen**
of putting the order into effect. Ilarrisisi
him not to do it until he had consulted Mr Weittnes,
bat he (the bill-sticker) could not see the Illstskal rt
the time, and Mr. Stokes had promised to Indemnity
him for any injury be might sustain ; be therefore
thought staking mischievous could take pine% altdeo-
cordi:lly stuck the bills. i'•-'re
The Loan Matoa.—The responsglfitY of We;
Stokes does not exonerate you. If Mr. :itekes has ,
committed an illegal art In printing this placard, you'
are certainly perticeps
Bill-stieker.—llly Lord. 1 have. stuck lipillifle in
favourer year Lordship a time. •
Mr. &roues then takiMlN that he wag*
of the placard. 1,31 el-11114"
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The Lows Meson—lDl you riot it /lift rNif OW&
mind. or at the suggestion and by theemismand of say
other person ?
Mr. Sroues—l decline answering that question,
but um ready to answer for the *tenet of printing the
hill, if it be any offense.
The Lean It avow-7I feel It to be my ditty to Inter-
pose npun this occasion. There arerin my opinion,
persons who alight take advantage of a public invi-
tation of this sort. The rebide relight he excited to a
disturbance of the peace of the'eltickf eiblisk I ~„
Chief Magistrate, dad I mu boned rb rmvit, AA in
a•VC.: rreace.

Mr. Svoins—May I ask your Lordship in what
light you consider thin bill ? Dow can it tend to a
breach of the public peace ?
The LORD MATOR—The tendency of it no one can
doubt. The House of Lords has not yet thrown out or
assented to the measure. This is anticipating the
judgment of that tribaual. It is anticipating a pos-
sibility for which there may not be the slightest
ground. It is our duty to wait fur the decision of
their Lordships, before we set the town upon illumi-
nation. Now, suppose the converse should take place, •
and that the Bill should pass, how do you supPosi
you could justify yourself from the charge of holding
out a false persuasion to the • peoplr, that the Queen
was innocent? Consider for a moment the mischief
that might ensue. An illumination might partly
take place, and those who would not light up their
houses, because they considered the Bill a presumption
of guilt, would be subject to great injury. In fact
there might be a necessity for calling the soldiers
again iota the City.
Mr. lEscaa—My Lord, this placard is not calcu-
lated to produce any disturbance. It contains an
expression of that which your Lordship is aware
is the public opinion of the Queen's innocence.
The Loao MAYOR—A shall not suffer a public
assertion to be made under each circumstances within
the City.
• Mr. HICKS—Why, we may as well caleelate upon
a disturbance on Lord Mayor's Day, in consequence
atilt. show. 1 should feel obliged if your Lordship
would state under what Act of Parliament this pla-
card is cognisable as an offence?
The Loan blivtin-1 repeat that I will not allow
It, and if may more placards are stuck up the person
shall be taken into custody. It is nec;.ssary, that
ender all cirmonstances, I shonlal preserve the peace
of the city. I shall neither surer bills to be stuck up
against nor for the queen.
Mr. ri Kr—This bill cannel be called for or
against the Queen. It expresses, in common with the
I opinion of my my conviction, which is,
that she is completely t
innocent. The citizens of Lon-
don bare in Common Council, a:iJ in Common Hall,
expressed themselves to this elect, acid the bill is
grounded upon that decided opinion. If 1 think pro-
per I skull illuminate.
Mr. AItICYREIO Si:ROLF:I.—Nut one in ten have ra-
p:4;ocl themselves in that way. I would nut
nate.
Mr. Etcer.—This bill aloes nit call upon von to d .
so. It only says that such a thing ilexp..ettd.
Mr. Alderman SCOOLRY—WeII, w.. 11, if the I ill-
sticker persists, he shall be taken into cucotly and
punished.
Mr. Ktcar—l should be glad to know what charac-
ter yon: Lordship gives the placard. Whether you
call it treasonable or seditious, or what ? I am anxious
ta know this, that 1 may be enabled to advise those
who may hereafter con.,iilt me, and prevent them from
getting into dangers, which may otherwise overwhelm
them. Your Lordship will mushier, that upon this
very snbjert, yon h.ivo called meetings in the dry
yourself, and nobady imputed to you a seditious or
•
treasonable purpose.
The Lunn M tYOR-1 hare given t:sis bill no cha
ratter of the kind you speak of, and I think it 'neces-
sary *ere to state, that a very general nilsapprebets-
-4011 lies gone abroad as to the fact of my havlng'
called oat the soldiers. I hail notch to apprehend'
from the various elrrnmstances that co-operated at the
period 'nettled to. to excite to sett of violence, and I
dial not know what sort of a rabble might hare thrust
themselves into the City with the most flagitious in-
tentions. I had sworn to do env duty, and in adopt 7
ing the measure of applying fur miliesry assistance,
1 performed that duty conscientiously. As to the
placard, I shall take advice before I pronounce upon
Its charberer; bat I certainly am of opinion that it is
caleolated to excite to breaches of the peace. I
shall not detain Mr. Stokes, who I know wiN not re-.
fuse to come if called upon, but I prohibit the pla-
carding.
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Mr. Stokes an.l the bill sticker then left that:wake.
Uttiox HALL.—Yesterday Mary AAA Roberts, si
young woman of rather interesting appearance, about
23 years of age, was brought before the Magistrates
of this offtre, charged with the wilful murder of Mrs.
Inn Elderson, a respectable middle agett woman, re-
siding in I.'nion street, St. tleorges-fields.
It appeared in evidence that the deceased kept it
house in Union-street, which is situate in the iresnoe-.
diate vicinity of Dover-street—a place which is the re,.
sort of vagabonds of every description. The prisoner,
and a Mho who kept her, lodged in the house. It
seems that a grndge of long standing existed between
thee, with respect to this man ; the pre alter con-
ceived that he' paid more than neeessary attention to
the deceased, and on every occasion that presented it-
self she gave loose to her jealousy, and evinced a
nliretsg• disposition to quarrel With the deceased on the
subject. 'About eight o'clock on Toesdry night the
ptisetter'went out, and on her return about the hour
ltd ssitsf; was td in 111 old 'woman, a lodger in the
tiat"3fh. Eiderson had been np to her roefth,
and had 'taken away.the key ; aim flew ediatrly to
the detrisid's room, and taxed her with this act,
Which the latter solemnly denied : but her deal'st only
tended to increase the irritation of the prisoner. A
great deal of angry feeling was expressed on both
sides, ittich at angth ended in the prisoner assaulting
the deceased, who was far advanaed in pregnancy, sod
within a tew days of her acconehentent; the deeentred
retained the Mow, and a setalle took place, in 'the
conr4 of Whirls the prisoner knocked ,the other down
with a pOker. The deceased uttered a groan or two,
and aim* iastantly expire I. During the whole of
this fatal proceeding, a crowd of abandoned wretches
(who, to the disgrace of the civil powet of this dis-
trict are allowed to settle ahoot this spot whist:et woo-
' festation)'assembled ; but so far from attempting to
give antaqiistance, they seemed to feel the gre41111!,
Itelight in the murderous strife, and a few respectial.l
individuals, who came up to ascertain the canit'lllf
quarrel, were knocked down and most ink=
beaten and robbed of whet prtiperty they eh
hate In their possession. At length some Mebane pelt
son, who concluded that the woman' was killed, sent
, for Mfr: Mohan, of the London-road, who is a east
I stable. He ln'llred to a abort time, sod forted hill
catty into therhoese, where is, hutted the drowsed OA
die frost parleys, stretched tin hoe bath and ',Ai ishil

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.iad cold. The prisoner seemed disposed to maim lk*
escape, but the officer took her into custody aad
vented her design. Having lodged her in the *mkt
house, he returned again to the house of Mn. gum
son, and sent for a surgeon. Mr. Ratty, of the 14,„
don-road, soon afterwards arrived, and after a slot
examination of the body, declared her to bo fob
dead; seeing, however, the advanced state of p*,r.
saucy which she appeared to be in, he promptly wt
about opening the body, with a view of extractiagt*
infant from the womb ; bat the' eceased being a
palest woman, and having received great 11l ba,
her fall was so heavy as to hare accelerated the chug
death, so that a hen cat out of the womb its and,
tion was approaching fast, and it ex, fired in a dist
time afterwards. There was about the heart a gta*
quantity of extravasated bloods which, in the 1.44
gentleman's opinion, was caused by the barstiagir
a blood-vessel. The deceased was the mother o/*
veral children, and was much respected by her neigh.
boars.

In her defence the prisoner said, that a
named linrney had infentned her that the dereastelt,„
in the habit of going into her room during her d.
senre, for what parpose she could not divine, 'situ
on the evening when the unfortunate reacquire t.A
place she had been into it, and had brought tie iv„,
down'; she was vexed at such suspicions queen. '
as 4
went to get some explanation of it, when theiset,,,j
attacked her in a most furious manner, clatredhus,„,
tore her gown, and otherwise. ill used her befits 6,e
did any thing to her. She then struck 'n her owa4..
fence, and had thr misfortune unintentionally to kill
her opponent. She was remanded for another et

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