The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-10-17 00:00:00

TT I E STATESMAN.

sams....---.1.--.60-..—i--••••'
exceeds one hundred. And this POLICE.
are ready to prove._Th „. your Petitioner,
~a 'lid
natorPetreent.srerees,
ey intim, that in addition to I
0.0‘4„,'
mwhae,rbierko,noifficers, at
thesechhousndredfirand ninety-seven' Honourable Members gorgipter:y., ittrllevadtfied'—hTle —..."
sitlearldieaiilcli: maannti,ll,3l( the
name of
two more are returned to serve in ' %%rennin:der,
being charged with mtaoktihe
and founterfeithisthe- c-uarairninatian,
Parliaittenst byty;wenty-six places, in none of which
the number of voters exceeds two hundred. And ini the
arra yourl. Petitioners are ready to prove.—They af- cepperisictPirie),::tiorifidetnuhdeewirreg withllal rgeeev entitr;caliiiminftpvcl eanilislci6ti tailtllioillir"*.. 'c* enolit moony
>lt 112
t )17
Mli it(iut ttleianik
that in addition to the two hundred and forty- , and poised the rootneuycedr:dtuherlicitor of the
tittinte:sor elected, twenty more areetrentudrnhetly
lessto serve
thiin i tested,
tnrydeevnbeeen the rill:loner, produced
Istc•ingtaotbliele4t
alft°errciok.:i.e:rttiatlidly.cs.V LT., Ir.--
tameiit for counties in .t4c.defence, ata2 decent
to Ness
eine hundredahri electors each, and ten counties in Scot- ' „y`TV,,lui''''' man, ;vas bran; it up
landte your
less than two hundred and fifty each. And 14' iiriSeCitTl' an
t)fliecc.iaPri:d.esstinennelkonelli)ien.cilealYnn tolliiEouiisei; e'sehl"ir:iedaf.
ling
yther
validityretotioners are ready to prove, even admit- . fengintiol;awlehn,
wsentreie'cdhorlbh;d:raniludetri'S
of fictitious votes.—They affirtnj a
to the 279 selected, 13 districts of ;went
riieraati;citadilit Immediately 11Le3.1 ti.;;l.6wintlsen (:"T. i'ri
'4°l4
thagt in addition
l Prisoner
was, and
committed file class u.iiso bias, wit:corn:C glasses."Ie
'oat'
abluirgthns.nin4lcot
districts
not containing 10U voters each i The
!eh lARLBOROUGII-11TREET.. tr` ': '
W-el*X*.• 1 a
teed n.
15
more
of burghs containing 125 each, re-,
vi.. I,rovelto, swtted. himself t' !••• foremsaat'toofatchuctla-artne of
g Nl-
petittnne honourable members. And this your Hams, 11,
iii
an
usestre ii,.,ii it young man, of the na'inienof-
rsare ready to prove. And in this mannerin
ercilenn4A.Tits naturei on Sunday evening
lutt appeared
accord' to
ithe present state of the representation'
411V.—m..,,0r
_admuringrthe bre4n Oxft4rcdi-statirenetrr, :::; h i
el; a plco acct
9;:tel h a
le': d
not
the
tost
annoy :ow l'it-alleiars!..ii:Aellfret a w followed the Prosecutor to his
r....94ngofelnyragoeur
majority
Members are chosen ; and'
of the entire House of Commons,'
the pv_iisnant agreed to s•le hisimonridteita;:omrld him (Whim, the Coi
ePplii.ielen;sentrvnfil tao;;•;aotsdn Monday
are -enablejetroddyecide all questions in the name of meartin•ienr:llouvtfr on Wei:m.sday
Whole people of England and Scotland. Thethird procured a warrant for the). properly
tl a P.
i complaint of your Petitioners is founded '
on the pie.iveced. jit...t,a n'olihat),:iliarprised the( Alma o time pro nistfi"„tir
present complicated rights of voting. From the ca- „_._ _ . . ac. s"n atteDde4 °n tae Wedt3esdliy. Loin
e.
ii.runec...siesut was ..it,er his time, and they bad left
or app. .feted a mectingoa the nextenninligniehtt7vhhe.en The
the
price with which they have been varied, and the
obscurity in which they have become involved by
nOntrers secured hiin his defence i • • '
corroborated silk the Pruseento; hied - .1 .11---His-iminsistee.ll; 1
time and contradictory decisions, -they are become a ,
that Le :eras w'llanlindg setunattaalksteinewarishiedm ba%lsbintKochai;
! source of infinite confusion, litigation, and expence. ' ravve,haoillthafiarchr*llege,
—Your Petitioners ne. d not. tender any evidence of : einpoN•_..
v‘. 7 stvogitoosamitataft..-1-hr.
nra.rnmeryor,ikaarf, eixivnintenti Lotnilicihti7c,i,.er.thksa,rLgwef,:iran .
circounitaoc'
the inconveniences which arise from this defect in the '
Representation, b'ecause the proof is to be found in . i4sewynagas
tAkeldsenrloihciininrunder the Nilo% iug
: awn
noirsdnept person
of utitlideer Commission of Bank nipt iss'alei.
your Journals, and the minutes of the different Com- i
Your
appointed under the 10th and outagairtst a
mittees who have been e ofmArtt;rd, on whose. crate.
dividend having been di. ..Thant
! 11th of the King. Honourable House is but a out the
to be drawn7viteoarschthe
too well,acquainted with the tedious, intricate and the
tevussigres.to pay to Ate W. had
sine" ; One of these Order fonr"stiglPwleicannvtilsnneigay
sstoieern and though Mr. W. lee datnte blank, had been
' expensive of litigation which have
Lestuttea the Order,
brought before you in attempting to settle the legal yet he brio:ter:" the I'ri-
brought
i tivtevidenatc•etnoafl
the veryitntnhdnedioint3sni
nna condition
which,n
this, the
given
import of those numerous distinctious which perplexile%v : had& several of t . i trace'r
ie `nt` .1 leis
.. i
meet
loefitt that Okrder.
and confound
ofthe present rights of voting.
. Order, it the tiiiie it wasateh had 1
many months your valuable time have beena wasted I tilled up in ther haiany'diratspreitingnowf roearttreinner. missed, II"
i
in listening tot' e wrangling lawyers upon the va : 'prisoner, was argued b ecdnaralgttitotrnliy for the 1
f,,astat
notslol an Order as that now
;fins
many
sof burgagehold, leasehold, and freehold; !
stolen,ooe
Parliament protected by, and did not come withlini;lnsecuino'rid'us
Committeest have been occupied in hives- !: of the -Act of ; neither could it be considered as
scot and lot, pot wallopers, corn- , coning under the general description of goals
tigating thyena nature of
monalty, populacy, resident inhabitants at large ! Theefore, that the Prisoner must be discharved and
chattels.— 1
Mr. WeLn, on the other hand, contended
i that,.
independently 1,
What labour and research have been employed in i of
w the Act of Parliamen;,ersnstenaliinigX or
se der question, which I
endeavouring to ascertain the legal claims of borough :
wissrs
athnerperty of the
The order so stcoleitn wwaass lieVect4
, alderimn, port men, select men, burgesses •
helonvingetiolesenachcrienrsillsoonn law.
men
council-men men ! And what confusion has arisenwhich he would have been
' entitle'd to maintain an aetiaolndor Prover. Ile submitted to the
from complicated operation of clashing charters, I%?rthy Alderman, that the objection staled involving a nice
ii,i.oluntdorficlajawev(rdebllcche would he best determined elsewhere) the
from I
from freemen resident and non-resident and from of the Prisoner's guilt, which
s
the different modes of obtaining the freedomofready to adduce, 'ought to be received be was now
cur- ,
Tpe Alderman (C. Sssern) afte . •
'poratious by birth by servitude, by marriage, by r cons.ultiog
I how, ordered the ease to stand with the City so-
redemption, by election,'
and by purchase. On all
Friday.ries POLICE OFFICE.—I'. (Sweer !,ever t
thew points it is however needless for your Peti- 'onbrought op for further examinationn
before Hsi.'"
tioners to enflarge when your Honourable house re- slot,
le, ti.,
hLeezer.nst7s,
ncharged with robbing thee w i;relio-nase.
of Mr. Net;
collects the following facts ; namely, that since the
22d De ehr, 1790, no leas than twenty-one Corn- ' enwillsvienWin)ed as a laPbourn.;,aallttZairlio(nis times, of where h;:i
12 7414 in number. Bris:esnel.aasiebhalresged
rnittees eheanC employed
rin deciding upon !nit!: : 'with lieT:l4g ctahnevaatasEr.-.
Of these, eight were- of thertitivhetirer.PrlL appeared
in evi-
gated rightse
of voting. el_twicere, th.,!t on the eveniii:-,
;mt. tlitittlnlvsittihmseonsanethui.! vi. hieh he ca.th„iedmiutenicidelrwahs is:Fret:a;
"Pied with the ad;',,lpig't of three boroughs, and '
house, No. 61, East Se.i.htit'i•rdfollowed him to the door of (.rice's
places yet remaining
there are petitions from disputes
four !Mich
bedefeoisriennyotur lionourable House, waiting for a final
st-tv.
secdt,idantisitiehervbale found witha the same house
set- being
n c
inform the electors what their rights realty Clerk, !moven tineatiate.
are. Bute th eomplaint of your Petitioners ouy I Wes' with a g";seter'*culiatunril with
his
ty of the same, to have been nii si
the want of an uniform and equitabl from
(heir
[remises
:the tune of the alleged robbery ; 'the;
also identileTdkthegiods produced at the Office as 51r. Nestle's
the subject ofe
principle in regulating the right of votinpropert funkier tumul-
ar thary manner i„whichg,
extends
aatiaa.Y. rriwae"
were
remanded
for
f
115 well to the • b' some aro :
excluded, as to the intricate quilifications by which
others are admitted to the exercise of that privilege.

A serious accident occurred yesterday afternoon,
near the Asylum, in consequence of one of the
Greenwich coaches heavily laden, overturuiter. The
accident occurred in consequence of one of the fore-
wheels of the coach running off, the carriage went
over with great force, and the outside passengers, of
whom time were several, were precipitated with
great violence to the ground; they were most of
them slightly hurt, bat four of them females—
amongst whom were the Matron of St. Martin's
workhouse, and her daughter, who is just married,
received serious injury: the latter fell under the
carriage, into a large heap of mud, and before she
could be extricated, was nearly suffocated : it was
some time before she discovered any symptoms of
life: her mother received a severe contusion on the
templet and her wrist was dislocated. Mr. West,
surgeon, who resides in Westminster, was forte-.
stately passing at the time, and afforded the unfortu-
nate sufferers all the aid which humanity and skill
could suggest.
At the late. dreadful fire In Camomile-street,
Houndsditch, whereby eleven houses were acstroyed
in a few hours, besides property to a very large
! amount, no water could be obtained- far the engines
for three quarters of an hour, which accounts for the
i rapid and extensive progress of the conflagration.—
' We frequently have heard the same complaint at
"former tires. It is welt known that at high and low
water, no supply can be had from the Thames.—
We wish to suggest the expediency and necessity of
construcqug reservoirs under the pavement in the
principal strws, which would always afford an un-
failing supply of water in case of fire. The expellee
would be billing, the advantage most important,
both to the public and the Fire-offices. At present
there are only two reservoirs of this description in
the whole metropolis, viz. one in Cornhill, the other
in Covent-garden.
• RION:1G Mactumn.—Some time ago the Corn-
-mitts°, of the Dilkeith Farming Club, and a numer-
ous concocrse of spectators, assembled at the farm
of Smeatott, near Dalkeith, to witness the competi-
tion for the premium of 5001. offered by the Club,
• to any • inventor-1 of a reaping machine, capable of
cutting down two acres of corn in the period of five
hours, with one or two horses, and two men. Seve-
ral comVtitors were expected, but only ono appeared,
Mr. Smith, of the Deanstoun Work', near Donne,
Perthshire, who exhibited a machine of great die-
' Banco and simplicity, impelled by one horse moving
behind, while the action of the axle puts in rapid
metino, at the opposite end of the machine, a drum
with a circular cutter affixed to it. By the move-
: pent of the drum, the cut grain is laid in a row, and
'the machine is so constructed that the drum* can, at
! pleasure revolve towards the one or the, other side,
so as both in going and returning alone the ridge to
throw the grain towards the open side of the field.--
The machine possesses great force, cutting a breadth
of four feet at a time. The cutter can at pleasure be
• placed nearer to or farther from the ground, and on
a smoth and level field it can be made to cat at any
degree of closeness to the ground 'thick. my -4se
desired. . . • « tve

—Religious opinions create an incapacity to vote.
All Papists are excluded generally, and, by the ope-
rations of the• Test laws, Protestant Dissenters are
deprived of a voice in the election of Representatives
in about thirty boroughs, where the right of voting
is confined to corporate officers alone ; a deprivation
the moro unjustifiable, because, though considered as
unworthy to vote, they are deemed capable of being
elected, and may be the Representatives of the very
places for which they are disqualified from being the
electors. A man possessed of one thousand pounds
per annum, or any other sum, arising from copyhold,
leasehold for ninety-nine years, trade, property in
the public funds, or even freehold in the city of Lon-
don, and many other cities and towns having peculiar
jurisdictions, is not thereby entitled to vote.
(To be continveti.)

The 55th Regiment of Foot has received orders
to march from Carlisle to Newcastle, there to be em-
barked rot:the coast of Kent.
Wednesday a Ballot was taken at the East India
House on the following Question :—" That this
Court confirm the unanimous Rosolution of the
Court of Directors, of the sth Augil:t last, whereby
the Commander and Nicer,. of the, ship Windham
are fully acquitted of +ill int,mtittion of neglect, or '
misconduct or want of courage in r•-•spe::' to the cap--
tUre of that ship. And whereby al-0 tt e Owners of
that ship are folly acquitted of all imputation of lie,
glect or misconduct in respect to the said c..)tnre
At six o'clock the glasses wire finally .wd de-
livered to the scrutineers. who reported the Question
to have been carried in t'‘e affirmative.
Sunset Sessiomsy=aeorge Mitchell, a whartiu:
ger, and Jan Smart, a man in his employ, were
yesterday indicted. for having received two pecks of
o-.ts and a peck of from Arnold, a carter,
in the cro•, tloy of Messrs. Calvert, the brewers,
knowing the same to be their property. Arnold
had turned evidence. It appeared from the evidence.;
of Mr. Skelton, of Gravel-lane, that on the 4th of
June last, he saw the caravan which Arnold was '
driving stop near his door, in Gravel-lane, and the
Prisoner Smart come up with a sack. Arnold had
two nose-bags, apparently filled with corn, hanging
from the shafts of the caravan; he unbuckled one
of them, and gave" it to Smart, who emptied it into
his sack ; et this period they saw the witness looking
at them, and atrew the sack. into the caravan, and
drove on. The witness followed them at a distance.
They soon after.stopped again, and the contents of
the other nose-bag were emptied into the •sack, and
Smart, taking it on his -back, proceeded with it to
Mitchell's loft. The witness saw him go up theladder,
and soon after come down again with an empty sack,
lle stopped the Prisoner, and went up into the loft,
where, in a tub, lie found a quantity of bruised oats
and clover chaff, corresponding with that which re-
mained hanging about the sack. Did not see Mitchell
during the transaction.—The Jury acquitted Mitchell,
and found Smart.—Guilty who was sentenced to sin
month,' imprisonthent iu the County Gao4,