The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-08-19 00:00:00

-Nut Guilty.

ELLINGTON V. RENTON.
An action was brought against.the Deroodant, for
rescuing his sow, who, with certain of tiic pi4s, had
committed a trespass on the Di'readmit's close.—Do.,
manoesl One Guinea.

There is an order from the Home Secretary of
! State, for the permanent Non-commissioned officers
. and drummers of the Local Militia, to raise vAun.
'.teers for the regular Militia of respective cow',
ties. They tire to give ten guineas bounty, and two
guineas are allowed ftir expences.
WONDERFUL PRESERVATION.--SOME days ago se-
-1 veral men were supposed to be lost in a mine by the
falling in of a large quantity of earth. The follow-
ing letter we received yesterday an ' their al-
most miraculous preservation :-
1 " Wolverhampton, Ate. 17.
tt The miners, &c. continued their exertion to re-
lieve the suffers, with increased activity, mid yesfer-
day (Monday) morning at four o'clock, having near-
: ly driven through to the stall in which they were, one
•of them was heard to call out,' work more to the
left," and astonishing to relate, by one o'clock at
noon, eight.of the men, and the boy, were rotted
! alive !—John Keeling, whose body has not yet been
i found, was the, only one missing ; and it is supposed
the sand, &c. fell upon and instantly baried him.—
When the circumstance became generally knoin
that the men were living, many hundreds of per'oas
assembled from the country in the vicinity of the
work, and at half-pest four in the afternoon, the
first man was brought up by the shaft of the pit,
supported in the skip by Mr. S. Fereday and another
I person ; and when three of the others were brought
up, they were conveyed iii a coach, actompahied by
two medical men, to their respective homes ; the
lothers were also afterwards brought out and con-
veyed home in a similar mennes, except Hill, who
Was carried home in a chair ; and thus, lifter :a
idreadful confinement of nearly seven days, in con-
templation of which The mind shrinks with horror—
withliut light, without the smallest morsel of food—
: shot op .in the bowels of the earth, with• only the
! droppings of water _which fell from the roofings .01
[the cavity in which they way corifined, and which
! they alright in an iron pet, accidentally left in the
pit, were these tune , hatean beings rovidentialiy
preserved from a premature gmvel -7-Tob. mach .piaise
I cannot be gleett to the neighbouring medical aris
t other Gentlemen, ilia promptly assisted od this ocr
i
Cation. They arelikety to de well." •
The produce of a single- potatne, planted whole,
was taken up. in the gaidein of Mr. R. Richardson,
iat Everton Breck.,•oll, the .10th instant, amounting
I to one hundred and ninety, exclusive of some very
small ones not counted ! Above one hundred were
lof full size for the table. This . fahliible • oOidtite
(early Lymii red) has been in culture foe 'ten land,
I without any appearance of curl, and, may he vieeineit
,'a distinct species, as it sends out many stems-I'mM
one eye; this single root produced forty.
ski .!'
Yesterday, Richard Bulk a carter to it, 1
monger in St. Giles's,• was . tii-oelfiV to Irciti-eireet
s
. .-
charged with a most outrageous assault Roo a Gear
t lemon in Blackfriars-road'. The Minter's bone,
; it appeared, nearly ran over the Prosecutor, who
' struck the animal with a small stick. teCpteirent it ;
upon which the Prisoner, in the most brutal manner,
Cut the Prosecutor four or five times. with his whip,
with the same severity and violence as if he was cut-
tiug a horse. He et is ordered to find bail.
1 Near four years since the house of Mr. Smith, of
Bridgewater-square was broke opee, and a quantity
of precious stones, consisting of rubies, chrysolites,
cornelians, and emeralds, worth upwards of 1,5001.
were taken away. The strictest search was made at
the time for the depredators, bet without success ;
and none of the property was .recovered. A few
1 days since, however, some men-hating been employ-
! ed to clear out a ditch in the Kent-road, near where
the house of Mr. Relies formerly stood, some chil-
dren who were looking on perceiving *hat.thev sup-
posed to be pieces of glass tircongst the mud thrown
out, picked them up. They were found, however,
to be pieces of chrysolite; this discovery produced '
'.a closer search, when a number of rubies, emeralds,
corals, cornehians, and other -valuable stones woo
found amongst the mud. Golf and Harris' officers
belonging to Union-hall, having beard of the cir-
cumstance, repaired to the spot, and on seeing the
stones,-it occurred to them that they were part of
Mr. Smith's prorierty ; and on some of theta being
shown to that Gentleman, he was able to swear to
their being a part of what he had loit. It is pro-
bable the thieves, after they had taken them, being
fearful of offering them for sale, lest they should
lead to detection, threw them into:the ditch, where
they have remained ever since. Some of the
stones thus fortunately recovered are of considerable
tale. . ~ •