The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-09 00:00:00

POLICE. •

Mesisiorc-nonet.s.—Mr. Mawby, one of the Overseer.
of the parish of St. Mary at Hill, Billingsgate, attended
to take the directions or advice f the Lord Mayor, as to
the manner in which the'parisli shonld act with respect
to some soldiers belonging to the. East India Company:
The Overseer was attended by a soldier, who' with dith-
calty crawled into the justice room, the victim of beta
labour and a bad climate. The facts stated Mere to the
following effect :—Thewretehed object had bkeq recently
_landed from the Phrenkx East Indiaman, in which he had
been brought home from India, having served for eight
years as a private in the Bombay European regicpent.-1
His constitution was broken by the severities Ire under-
went, having been obliged to sleep under the guns at
night, and having contracted a rheumatic affection,' which
threatened a long series of miseries. He was in eonse-
lquence of his illness, discharged and sent borne. By tire
rule of the service, those soldiers only who had served 14'
years, or had been wounded, were allowed a pension ; and
the poor soldier, having no claim of the kind, was pre-
sented with a few shillings, which were soon spent. Hav-
ing landed in the parish of St. 'Mary at Hill, he now
claimed relief there. His settlement was in the country,
and he had no legal claim in town, but had not the Over-
seers given him relief, lie must have inevitably perished.
The parish were now anxious to know in what manner
he was to be sent home, for he did not come within any
known provisions. This case was by no means a singular
one, for soldiers who had served in the Indies, and lost
their constitutions in the Company's service, and who
were, of course, of no further use, constantly landed at
Billingsgate from the ,Gravesend boats, some wiki con-
trard knees, others with febrile complaints; many were
carried to the shore in the arms of the sailors, and all
were labouring under some of the disorders incidental to
the climate, or the severity of the service. Those who si;ere
enlisted in London, and sere not entitled by wonnds,
or 14 years service to a pension, received only 3s 6.1.
upon I sing discharged—stliose who were enlisted in the
country received but about 17s. to convey them how,
whilst the Irish soldiers were allowed but 245. to convey
them to Iceland, and that sum was given to them at
Holyl cad, without any provision being made to convey
them thither to London. Of coarse such wretched pit-
tances to sick men on their landiog, after a long voyage,
were immediately consumed, and the miserable objects
came for relief to this parish. The overseers coed not
let them die in the streets, and though there was no
legel ob.igation to give relief, had felt themselves bound,
from motives of common humanity, to infringe the •rek,
for the violation of which -they were responsible. Frew,
the °cm' er who were landed, and .the heavy mine of
their deices. the !squish was.burdened moss seveseig, cu d
the overseers DO longer considered themselvesinee4lo/

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tostiondeg the tenet. 'They, tberefores whiled to know
.bow the poor objecia, who tales lads to- wait long ffis
deezh, should he disposed of?
The LORD MAYOR expressed his 'apprise at the Stile.
Meat, and' upon a consultation, it appeared, that by all
Act lately passed, he was deprived of the power of pass-
ing such objects to their parishes regularly. M. advised
Mawby to make a statement of the case at the India
House, and directed one of the Marshalmen to attend
from himself, and ascertain whether any thing could be
done on.the subject by the Company.
Mr. M4wby, accompanied by Breed. the Marshallese;
conveyed the Invalid to the Lodi' Hot it., where the rase
Was stated. The answer he-received sea we nedersten I.
that certain, rules were adopted with reglard to discharge',
It.bliers, which bad been strictly compiled with in tht
pewee instance. It was the rule to give the marching
allowance of the Ring's service (three-pence a mile) to
convey those discharged to the place where they had en-
listed. This allowance had been gives to the applicant
is the present case, and no further aid could be given.
Under these circumstances Mr. Maltby took the invalid
hack again to the workhouse. The course which the
parish will take towards these objet • hu not yet been
determined upon.
Maahnonotent-exneet.—Denjainie Wails, a coach-
man in the service of Mr. De Kong, the son of 1.4.t.1
Henry Fitzgerald. was yesterday brought from St.
George's watchbouse, charged with a desperate assault
upon Plank, the chief officer of this establishment and
thr-c others of bit assistant °thaws',
Plank stated that he and his party were on duty the
night before at the house of the Duke of Wellington, in
Picadilly. when there wee a grand •route ; and from tbe'
vast number of equipages that attended. they found the
utmost difficulty to regulating and keel LI them im pro-
per order ;in which, however, they .had partly succeeded,
when this coachman bade defiance to all their endeavours,
and attempted to force his way' in at ti a wrong entrance
gate ; and on the officers interfering to prevent him, he
cat at them in a most •desperate manner mitk his whip,
and endeavoured to excite other.coachmen to-follow his
• etrample ; bat not content with tit's, he actually made sm
vent attempts to drive his carriage our the officers ; and
Plaek said that, at one time, the prisoner seeing him in
a moat perilous situation, he backed his carriage and did
all he possibly could to crush him between it and stonier,
and he only escaped destruction by instantly stooping un-
der the bode of the other carriage. The prisoner also at-
tempted to drive over one of the Bow-street patrol, whom
be knocked down, and the wheel of the carnage passed
within co inch of his bead. Mier cutting and lashing
the officers in this manner for a considerable time, he
drove elf at full 'speed, and endeavoured to make his es-
cape, bet Plank dispatched some of his party jo pursuit,
who succeeded in co.niog up with him in May-fair, and
conveyed him to the watchhouse, after which they lodg-
ed the carriage and horses in the green-yard, the former
having one of the springs broken by the furious driving.
Tbe other officers and the Bow-street patrole fully cor-
roborated Plank's statement.

The prisoner, in his defence, seemed•to consider him-
self perfectly justified in the conduct he pursued, and
nisi ordered to procure good bail upon four different as-
saults, and to give the officers twenty-four, hours' notice
of the bail. ft was stated that Mr. De nous had impress-
ed his entire satisfaction, st the conduct of the caws.
Quails-soy &Ml.—Yesterday, Mary Lake, the ontortruete
young woman, who we' found by Culdinan, in St, James's
Park, on Sunday 'night, Wat swain brought up. Ref tattle,
the publican, who liwes to Whitechitpel. *Wooded; but posi.
Lively refused to take her again, 'flexing as a reason, that
while she resided with hies. she con.lucted herself very im-
properly, and was frequeatly4etectet is taking stoney out
of the till.
The NI tGISTIILTS ordered her to Ike taken core of WI a■
opportunity offered of placing her fn the Refuge for the
Destitute.

I.IIIOETR•STRIcBT.—Iit Will be recollected that a short
time since an affray took place, la which several Lascars
were severely injured, and taken to the London Hospital.
Monday night,- between eight and.nine o'clock, a repetition
of the disturbance took place, and the neighbourhood of
Cornwall-sfreet, Whitechapel, was thrown into the utmost
stets of alarm, a number of these seamen, divided info two
beidies, having engaged in a terrific coolict,-armed• with the
most de4dly weapons, 26 of theta were secured at the great
hazard of the lives of the peace-officers mud inhabitants,
and lodged in Wkiteohapel'watob-house ; they werefiester.
day moruing brought, molly of them womaded, before the.
Sitting Magistrate oT this office, Matthew Wyatt and John
Hardwicke, l sgrs., and Major Hetherington. •
Mr. Hole, master of the barracks, in which a greet part
of these seams ere kept till their return to their own eoan-
try, slated to the Magistrates, that these feuds arose from
the thefts practised on each other. Four chests had been
Tecovered, stated to have been taken from the men in 'the
barracks by the others. In one chest, afterwards brought
in, riblinderbuss, two bottles of powder, and a quantity of
shot were discovered. Monday night the attack web rota-
Dimmed by the men drill,/ out of the barracks, whose gleans
of obtaining and conc, sling arms were greater the; .the
rest. The parties were separated with great difficulty ; he,
yesterday morning, went to the indii House on the subject,
and learned that the Honourable Company had taken op the
ship Buckinghamshire, to convey these men back to China,
with orders to be in the Downs on the 14th instant.

The. weapons, which were of the mos: murderous de-
scription, were produced. They consisted of knives two
feet long, with sockets at the end, in which were inserted
ash-poles eight feet or more In length ; swords similar to the
Jibe swords; the handles so conStrneted ea to admit of
their being joined or dovetailed so as to be wielded two at
once; and large pieces of iron with holes for the hand.
Six of the ringleaders, one with his nose severed, another
with his face completely scarified, and the rest more or
less wounded, were ordered to procure bail, and locked up
in default ; the rest were liberated with the intention of con-
veying them on bopra Immediately.

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Yesterday morning, u the Mitcham coach, was wait-
in v
g for passengers in Charing-cross, the four hoe. tank
fright, and set off at full gallop through Whitehall ;
their progteu was suddenly arrested opposite the Hors..
guards, by coming in codtact with the back of a cart-
load of hay, which the splinter-bar run against, after the
leaders had cleared it. Fortunately no accident happen-
ed (except upsetting a horse and
.gig, but without doing
them any injury,) which is a miracle, considering the
great traffic every day in Charing-cross. There were no
passengers, either inside or out, nor.was the coachman
on the box.

On Monday night, the 30th ult. two inhuman mur-
ders were committed by Robert Scott, gamekeeper to
Mr. Millie, of Mellesiain, on two persons, named John
Aitchison and Robert Sim, as they were on their return
,from Earlston Fair. Scott, .who,it reruns had remedy
quarrelled with one of them, on meeting them took u
stake from the road side, and with one blow fractured
Sim's scull; Aitchison immediately ran to his assistance,
when Scott struck hint also on .the head with the same
implement, and so dreadfully bruised them with reputed
blow., that they both died the same night. Scott has
since been committed to OreenlauGaol.(Neweasllechrous.
DI! rIJ RBANCA AT PROME..—We regret exceedingly to
hear that a miaunderstaoding has taken place between the
clothitrs of Frome and the weevers, or rather that the latter
have struck for an advance of wages. The Magistrates, the
Rev. Mr. -al .slury and Captain Edeell, have acted with
great forbearance; and it was not until every persuasion bad
proved ineffectual, that they determined to compel those
weavers who had work out to finish it; to enforce which
they had recourse to the assistance of four .or five troops. of
the North Somerset Yeomanry, ender the command of
Colonel Homer, aed swore in nearly two hundred special
constables. A great many of the deluded men base been
brought before the Magietratell, and•ighteen, who refused
to go to, work, hnve been otornerilted to liebeeter and Shop-
top-Mallet Gaols; bitharte,howavar, the. IMO have voodoos
id themselves la the me* •resseeehle est tieduly• maim;
and altheeth they *iambi* An great Blibfrit Pattlthved
the town, wet4ye ItOt. yst heard of say Walla of the peace

Colorest's iwuossis —An Inquest was !Acton Mot►
.lay evening, before T. SEWN',
_Er+ at the FOX and
Fiericb Horn, Clerkenwelf-green, on the body of MI,
Joshes Cook, a respectable master tailor. From the evi-
dence it appeared, that on Friday last deceased went into
theiVhite Horse, in• St. Jobt.'..•sireer, having previously
bees at the Kings Arms, in Spa-fields. He had beezt
hot a sbott•time in the White Horse, when he fell off his
seat, an& soon afterwards was taken home in a senseless
state. Mr. Titterton, a medical gentleman, was sent for,
and• his opinion at first was, that some person bad at:-
ministered something to hint in the beer, but afterwards
übsi rving a more serious change, lie concluded it was
apoplexy. Oa the following morning (Saturday) tbe.
decease! dicd. Monday Mr. Tittcrton opened the bode,
and on examining the stomach Le found a substance,
which be produced, floating on the fluid in the stoma ,
and which he had no doubt was opium, and was the occa-
sion of his death; but a great quantity mast have been
dissolved to have produced the effect. Tire person who
bad drauk with the deceased at the White Horse, said
he partook of the same porter as deceased, and it did not
in the least affect him.
The landlord of the King's Arms, Spa-fields, said, he
did not recollect the demased coming there on Fridaylast..
The deceased's assistant proved that deceased AU a
very reserved man, and of" late had laboured under souse
degree of melancholy, but he had not observed the de-
ceased take any medicine. Verdict-4 That the death of
the deceased was caused by a quantity of opium fount
an the stomach, but they have received no evidence to
prows bow it came there. '
Asether Inquest was aftdwards held at the above
hese', before the same Coroner and Jury, on the Eody of
. Amelia Copeland, a child aged 5 years.
From the evidence, which was of a most heart-rending
description, it appeared that the outlier of the deceas. it
bed died, leaving her and two sisters depending tappets
father for support; he resided in Frying-pan-alley,
Clerkenwell, • most wretched place of abode; there lie
became acquainted with a woman with whom he coha-
bited, •be promising to take care of his children, instead
of which she beat them in a most barbarous nianner,and
kept them without food ; this brutality was more parti-
cularly exercised towards the deceased, until death put
an esti to her sufferings.
The evidence not being strong enough to warrant a
verdict of Murder, the Jury returned the following :
" That the child died a natural death, but which was to
all appearance accelerated by the gross neglect and inat-
tention of the father, aed inhuman treatment of the wt.-
man with whom be cohabited.

The Coroner directed a prosecution to be commence I
against the woman for a misdemeanour.

BIRTHS.—On Monday last, in lieroard•strcet,
square, the Lady of Frederic Thesixer, Eq. of a daughter.
Oa Sunday algid, at his house in Great George-street,
Westminster, the Lady of the Hon. Edward lust, M.P., of
a daughter.

MAR R I AG ES.—On Thursday, at Looghope, Gleueester-
sMrs, Lieut. Thos. Probyn, of the Hon. East India Com-
pany's Service, third son of the Rev. Archdeacon Probyn,
to Margaret,•seeond daughter of the late 'Dr, Roberts, of
Uloucestrr.
Thursday, at Iltn!ey, Mr. John Palmer. of Worcester,
to Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Walker, of Blaekrnore
Frederick Bradley, E.I. of Brighton. Sussex, to
Praeees Gertrude, daughter of the Right IlohOurahls Lady
Hawke.

Ow the 11th ult. at St. Peter's Chapel, Edinburgh, I! at
Rev. Thomas Henry Yorke, M. 4., Vicar of Bishop
Middlr-
ham,Oarhem, to Maria, diughttr of the late Major-General
the Hon. Mark Napier,
00 the 224 ult. at Old Piinshaw, Joiin RicliarAson. of
Ells, near New Lambton, pitman, to El,zabrth Pieheride,
being Mt bridegroom's second visit to t,,e hymeneal atar in
two mouths. He was married on the 27th of April last. to
Ann Coats, who died in child-bed on the 10th of May. The
child. was buriej on the Nit of June, and the banns pub.`
livitett fey the present wedding the same day.
Yesterday, .at Wandsworth Church, Archibald Leslie,
Esq. eldest son of the Rev. Win. Leslie, of Bpinaitaith,
Morayshire, N. B. toEleanor, eldest dauehter of John Fal.
toner Atte', Esq.. of West•hill House, Wandsworth.

DIED.—On the .sth Inst. 10 Devonshire-strut, Marla
i►ifeof Henry Nassau, Esq. of Oporto.
On Friday se'nnight, in her 10this year, Mrs. Jane Smyth
Julius, many years a rosident in Bristol, and relict of this
late William Julius, Esq., of the Mansion E,tate, St.
Christopher's.
On b'riday, the 14th instant, in 418 70th year of :CH aj,,
Thomas Sunderland, Etq. of Littleoruft, urar ertton,
Lancashire.

COURSE OF EXCIIANGE. —Tonnes.
Amsterdam - e. f.. 12 10 Gibraltar an' 0 .
Ditto at Sigbt 12 8 Leghorn 0
Rotterdam. . . •12 11 Genoa 441.4 0
Antwerp. •12 10 Venice Italian Liv 93 1e
Hamburgh. ..........39 3 Malta ~..- 43 to
Altona 3B 4 Naples. .e 39 0
Paris, 3 days' sight...2s 5../ Paiernio.
_voz 117 0
Ditto 26 10 Lisbon ail 0
Bordeauz i ..• 25 10 Oportor 511 0
Frankfort on the Main 130 i Rio Jannlre 47 11
Petersburg 3us p rble 8' Bahia 46 0
Berlin ...Cur Dolls 7d 1 lgr. Dublin 9l 0
Vienna, Ef.9 in....f0 10 341 Cork . .
Trieste ditt0.......... 10 30 • n u 'Axon. per dz.
Madrid- 36 0 Portugal goldiaeoin.o/.09.03
Cadiz . 33 0 Foreign gold in bars:U.l7l6d
Bilboit .35 0 New Doubloone....o 0 0
Barcelona —34 0 New Dollars 0 4 9
Stville 361 0 tillverlebars,standardo 4 II

• WILL-WMI-THE-WISP
OR, DONALD AND THR DE'IL.

To the revived and popelar Tune of the Highlandman.
When London, DONALD went to see,
With philibeg abooit his knee,
The English lasses blithely ran,
To view our handsome Hig!llandman ;
Sing hey, our gallant It iOle•idman,
Our bold aspiring ilig..landinan,
There's not a lad of English clan, •
To match with our young Highladdman.
Now DONALD doff'd his tartan suits,
And sported next a pair nf Boots,
To brilliance rais'd on WAotoem's plan, '
That shew'd dui tasteful tlighlsndmtu.
Sing hey, our Dandy llighlandman, &c. ,
And when again his home he made,
The Jet reflected every shade.
.Like Mom that woold. our wits trepan, •
Rais'd by our conyrine Ilichlandman.
Sing bey, our conj'ring Ilighlandman, Be.
Then rumour ran, from London town
That witchcraft DONALD had brought down
And kept young dells the folks to ban,
lo Boots this wizzard Hiqhlandman.
Sing hey, our wizzard ilighlandmsn, &c.
One night the igaiiijainus-came,
And lighted on his Boots in flame, •
Then Rumour swore the De'il has ran
Away with our lost liightendman,
Sing hey, our flaming Ilighlandman,
Rht yet the De'il still brings him' hack,
For WARREN'S JET can never lack
The tiny shades its worth to scan,.
Now pried by Wry Ilighlandrnao ;
Sing hey, each noble II
And W Jet with eery clan,
FOP every where its fame has ran
Wtth Lowlanler and Highlandmen.
This Easy•Shlaing and Brilrent Blacking. Peepared by
ROBERT WARREN. 30, STRAND, London; anal Sold
in every Town is the Kingdom.
Liquid. in Bottles, Al 10d. 1241. and 181. each.
Also Paste Blacking; is Pots, lid. Incl, end Bid. each.
A Is. Pot of Piste is eqetkl to Fgar Is. B stiles of 1..qui14
*1,4: W 'Ask for AR gews vtiteking.

Loudon : Printed and; Published at thertNitilis' _ No. 10.
Strand, by D. WARDZLI.,, LL. D. Proprietor.

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