The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-04-03 00:00:00

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. XING.s"rON, APRIL 1. Yoassast.v.—YesterdaySumuel Briltonitrascharged
before the Logo MAYOR, with offering a forged draft
Adam Lee, 'Thomas Lee, and Eleanor Ms wife, ,
wtsre indicted for a highway robbery, by atoning upon the banking-house of DOwn and Co. Bartho-
Elizabeth Collier, on the '2lst of October last, and
,their Solicitor, attended, and produced the forged
lomew-lane. A. Gentleman from the house, with
forcibly taking .
from her her clothes, pockets, moneys ;
&c. i checkfor forty poands, and explained the manner of
The Prisoners "were three gipsies, and the case
the Prisoner's demanding payment for the counter.
excited a consideiable degree of interest, on account
feit draft. The Prisoner, upon being called upon
of the cruel manner in which the Prosecutrix had
; for his defence, told his,Lordship that he had found
been treated. I the draft, and being ignorant of the nature of checks,
Elitabeth Collier, when called, was in a very he had imprudently offered it for payment, not know.
languid and debilitated state, from the ill usage she , lug it was forged. The Loan Maxon told the Pri-
had- received. She stated that she lived, in October sorer he knew very well it was not his, and having
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last, at Horsham, in this county, with Mr. Giles. : given no value for it, he had no right to oiler it for
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On the morning of the 21st of October, she was payment ; if it had been a good one, he ought on the
I contrary to have taken it to the banking-house, and
14IP- I told them he had found it, if that was the case, but
sent to Walton, by her mistress, and on her return
home she saw the three Prisoners. The woman
,at present it certainly appearedmuch against him,
sv asked her if she would have her fortune told t
She replied no, she knew her fortune very well.
1 and he should remand him for further examination.
Immediately the Prisoner, Thomas Lee came up to 4 Lazarus Mordecai, a Jew, was charged with ut-
her, and caught her by putting his arm round her :feting counterfeit money. The footman of a Gentle.
neck. The other came up, and they dragged her man who lives in Copthail-buildings, stated his hay-
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towards the park paling of Sir John Frederick's pirk. ing been sent to buy a shilling's worth of lemons, w
he offered the Prisoner a live shilling token for
While the men were dragging her, the woman kick-
ed her several times. They then loosened a paling I change, which the Prisoner pretended he could not
from the park, and dragged her through the aper- I do, but called to a Jew boy near him who gave
tore into the Old Park. Here they abused her very 'change,
and four shillings and sixpence proved to be
much, by beating her violently. She fainted away, counterfeit money, that on his discovering the bad
money, he returned, and finding the Prisoner there,
and when she recovered she found that they had strip-
ped her of her gown, pockets, petticoat, and left i he had him instantly taken up'; and whim' searched, I
her almost naked. She made a noise, but they were I thirteen shillin all good money were found upon;
not gone, and they returned back again, and told him, which convinced him he had called his compa-,:t
Dion on purpose to give him counterfeits. His Lord-
her if she made any more noise-they would murder
her.
• • ..., - , ship said, there had been so many complaints against'
She then described the dress of the persons of all fruit-sellers about the Exchange for giving bad clo-
the three. She said that Thomas Lee, the tallerl ney, that he must be under the necessity of not suf-
gypsy, had more hair and whiskers. he.. r v
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were feting any of them to stand about that place ; and I
taken the next day, and she recognised them again, he remanded the Prisoner for further examination, '
except that the whiskers of Thomas Lee had been giving orders for the Solicitor of the Mint to attend.
shaved off. MA R LBOR OUGH-WER E ET.
Another witness proved, that she passed the same I A complaint which originated it Astley's Pavilion
place shortly 'before, and she saw the three Prisoners , was heard, where a money-taker charged Mr. De-
near the spot which the Prosecutrix had described as castro, one of the performers, with a riot, and the
the same of the robbery. , `other charged the money-taker with having defraud..
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ASSIZES%

For the Prisoners an alibi was set up, to support
which a treat number of witnesses were called.
The Jurifound all the Prisoners Guilty.

ed him of 2s. by selling one of Decastro's tickets
for 23. after it had once been in the house, and there-
by preventing the said 2s. being received at the door.
Mr. Decasti'o observed, that be had paid SO guineas
to the house for his benefit, and he would prove that
fact by the woman who purchased the two shilling
ticket. A woman of the town stated such to be
the case,. but the money-taker denied it, and the
warrant was discharged, as well as the second com-
plaint.

The four Nottingham rioters, sentenced to four.
teen years transportation at the late assizes, and three
for seven years, were removed with great care and
caution from Nottingham, under the escort of a mi-
litary guard, on Monday morning soon after five
o'clock. They arrived at Newgate on Tuesday,
and yesterday were delivered at the hulks, at Wool-

George Smith and Flannigan, who attempted an
escape from Clerkenwill prison recently, were arm-
ed with loaded pistols, bat they had no chance of re-
sistance.

It is with great satisfaction, we can at length an-
nounce the long expected nuptials of Mr. 'WILLIAM
f!.111IPSON SOAMES WILKINS, 101 d MISS SOAMES SIMP-
SON.—The ceremony took place, on Tuesday, at St.
Giles ;a the Fields. At eight o'clock the procession
approached the church by Hog-lane, in order to
avoid the crowd assembled to view it in Dyot-street,
Bambridge-street, and the neighbourhood. Miss
SoAMEs SIMPSON, now Mrs. WILLIAM SIMPSON
SOAKES WHAM, was handed from the hackney
'coach (Nis. 254) by Mr. SOAMILS, who led her into
the vestry. She was simply dressed in a flowered
gingham, with a belcher handkerchief carelessly tied
over her shoulders, and wore a plain black silk bonnet.
with-a narrow lace edging at 9d. per yard—her gown
cost 12s.—her handkerchief 7s. 6d.—and her bonnet
4s. It was supplied by Mr. BAaara of Cranbouree-
alley. The Bridegroom was dressed in a long drib
great coat, with a black neckcloth and leather
gaiters ;—but a singular circumstance impeded the
rites for a short time,—on Mn. 'Wawa approach-
ing- the altar, it was discovered that he had forgotten
to put on any small-clothes, and a friend was dis-
patched to a neighbouring shop in Monmouth-street,
from which a pair were quickly procured, and the
ceremony proceeded. After it was concluded, the
happy pair left the church on the St. Giles's .side,
where a new taxed cart was waiting to receive them,
into which they stepped, accompanied by Miss
MOLLY SIMMON, the bride's second sister, and set
off for the The... Compasses at Paddington, where
they remain till Saturday, when they proceed to the
Lady's house bre;Tothill-fields. Miss Somes
Sinr-
SON, now MIS.;WILIJAM SIMPSON S .tOAMES WILKINS
has settled 41. 10s.. per annum upon her mother, and
has generously given her two sisters 11. 15s. each
MONTROSE, MARCII I7.—Mondiy week, a poor
woman, considerably advanced in years, travelling
from Fettercairn to• Birse, 'unfortunately lost her
way on the Cairn o' Mount, and stuck amongst the
snow. Notwithstanding the dreadful prospect be-
fore her, she remained, it would appear, for some
time, perfectly collected. After giving her horse his
liberty, she tied a bundle of yarh yr the head of her
andefeeteritii a mark, -hoping that it might
sittract the notice of some person passing that way.
The followieg days late in the afternoon, after har-
ing been 24 hours in the very perilous situation just
mentioned, exposed to Hunger and the freezing
Storm, one of General Burnet's servanis, in his
journey across the Cairn, observed the signal, and
being induced to go off the road to examine it, found,
the poor creature nearly exhausted. Ile humanely
conveyed her to the nearest cottage, when, by kind
treatoieut, she was completely restored. The horse,l
all alone, trudged 'safely to Brechin. .

PienearniaNtsm.--Tuesday morning, for a wager
of five pounds, a young Man, of the name of Wells,
undertook to go on foot, from Westminster Bridge
to Croydon, and back again, in two hours, the dis-'
tance of ground being nineteen miles—he started at
six o'clock, when eddy were against him three to two,
and was attended by a great many persons on horse-
back, stopped twice on the road to refresh, and
reached Croydon six minutes less than an hour. He
appeared not to be able to perform his journey, but
after taking some refreshment he set off on his return,
rather lame, yet persevering, he soon mendid his
pace, till he arrived at the place from whence he start-
ed, two minutes less than the.girsn time, where he
dropped down with fatigue, and was taken home, by
his friends, unable to walk. A great many bets were
depending upon the issue. , . .

The following is the Clause in the new Registry
Bill, with respect to the stigmatising mark on Dis-
senters :—" And, fer the bettering enabling all per-
sons in England, who do or shall practise religious
rites and ceremonies different from those established
by law in the Church of England, to trace their pe-
digrees, and thereby facilitate the proof of their re-
spective claims to real and 'personal estates; and for
the better answering all the other purposes of this
Act : Be it further enacted, tl,at In all cases where
any child or children in England, shall have beep
baptised in any other manner than according to the
practice of the Church of England, the Minister who
shall perform the cert.:nosy of baptism in any such
manner, shall deliver to the Churchwardens of the
parish in which he shall reside, on or-before the first
day of Feb. one thousand eight hundeedand thirteen,
and on or before the same day in every subsequent'
year, a list of all the christenings which shall have
been performed by him, or by any person officiating
for him, in the year preceding, attested on his oath
before one of his Majesty% Judaea of the Paseo, cies..
cording to the best of his knowledge and belief, in,
the same form as is hereunto annexed for thwegistry
of baptisms, which oath any Justice of the Peace.*
hereby authorized to administer ; audio cases where
the parents, or either of them, shall- profess any
religious opinions or tenets whatsoever, whereby the
use of baptism shall be omitted or postponed beyond
the space of three months next after the birth of such
child respectively, it shall and may be lawful for
the father of every such child (or in case of the
absence or inability of the father so to do, it shall
and tray be lawful for the mother of such child)
within the space of three mouths next after the
birth of such child, to deliver, or rause to be de-
livered to the Minister whose place of worship he or
she shall attend, a memorandum iu writhsg signed'
by the father, or in case of the absence or inability
of the father so to do, then by the Another of such
child, containing the following particulars, so far as
the same shall be ascertained (attested on the oath of
the parties), that is to say, the day of the year on
which such child was born, and the place where the
first name by which it is intended to be called, and the
baptismal or other accustomed names of the father
and mother of the child ; from which memoranda*
the Minister of each congregation where the rite of
baptism is omitted, shall make out a list in the form
hereunto annexed, marked (D.) and attest the same
on oath as hereinbefore provided, and she! -
the same to the churchwarcienL of the parishes
which they shall reside, at the times herein -
for the returns to made by, Ministers of
Pitting congregations."

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Lams and Bsawsms -Wharf. Arrived. Sails.
Landau and Berwick (Flem
isle, Berwick - 4 April /*April, —i, A. M.
Berwick Packet (Armstrong), .
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WATER AT in i I BRlDfat THIS DAY.
Horning. 54 minutes after b. I Break*, 40 agitates after 6.

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