The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-24 00:00:00

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oompaniell the complainant, and corroborate_ _
went as far as the transfer of the stock. He said, the Bank
being no sufferer by the fraud, Would not prosecute the
broker, but were very desirous of giving the poor wo-
Man every assistance in the recovery of her emelt. In
answer to ad enquiry from the Alderman, he said the
broker, who had committed the fraud, was re-
gularly licensed.. The Alderman on this later-
anetion, evressed his opinion, that the most saw
tail means fdr the complainant to recover ber property
wield be to prefer a complaint against the broker to the
art of Aldermen, by whom lie was licensed, who, If
Illto loss were not immediately made good, would direct
proceedings against his sureties, and he advised her to
apply to• the Bank Solicitor for his assistance.
With this advice the pour sufferer, who evidently felt
a great deal for the loss of her property, which she said
was ber all, left the Justice-room in good spirits, on the
pro s ct of its recovery.
kiAATTON-GARDEN.--Yesterday, two information
against the proprietors of private stills not legally li-
censed, came on to be heard at this office. Mr.
Brafutnell attended on behalf of the Excise. The first
• was against !Henry Kean.
James Drab, an Excise-officer, went on thelst d
September last; to the bone, Cromer 2•street,
I *se s Ina•hine ; they found in the back kitchen a
*tipper still at work, With all the various utensi's ne-
coital; for carrying on the business, besides three or
feet gallons of raw spirits, and about fifty gallons of
wash. In the front kitchen, occupied by the defend-
ant, they found a large bottle of raw spirits, and in a
vault in the front area, a pan full of yeast used for fer-
mentation.
James Smith, a clerk at the Excise•office, proved
that the defendant was not licensed to carry on the
business of a distiller. From thiPoverty of the de-
fendant, Mr. Brummell did• trot press for the full
penalty, to which the Magistrates agreed, and con-
victed him in 501., one-fourth of the full penalty.
The next information was against James Jones. I
Francis Gibbs, an Excise-officer, deposed, that from in-
formation he received, he and another went on the 20th
of September last to the house of the defendant, 3, Ed-
mond-street, Battle-bridge; in the back kitchen they
found a still, worm, flake-stand, and every necessary
utensil ; also three backs, containing 120 gallons of
wash, likewise two gallons of low wine, and two gallons
of spirits. The defendant was convicted in the miti-
gated penalty of forty pounds anti costs.
111111.110ROUOIR-STREET.—Yirsterday Hannah Petheek,
Maria Angel and Mary Haggerty, were brought from
the House of Correction, and underwent a second exa-
mination before G. B. Mainwaring, Esq., the sitting
Magistrate.
A man named John Burrell, who cohabited with
Angel, was also charged with the other prisoners with
being concerned in throwing Thayers the bricklayer out
of the window of a Imam of ill-fame in Charles-street,
Drury-lane, in September last. Thayers was supported
Into the office, and presented a melancholy appearance.
He bad a large cut Ishii forehead, and he described his
Wooly as being covered with dreadful contusions and
bruises. He was allowed to sit during the examination.
fie stated that he was proceeding through Holborn,
where he was accosted by Pethick, who succeded in per-
suading Lim to accompany her to her lodgings in
Charles-street ; he did so, and on going into her room,
baring bad no dinner, he sent her for some beef-steaks,
which she brought, but refused to return him his change;
this incensed him, and, after some abusive language, he
recovered the money, another woman having persuaded
her to return it. He was about to quit the room, when
a man presented himself, resembling the prisoner Bar-
tell, and abruptly asked what be was making a row
*bout; he made no reply, and was proceeding out of the
room, when the man struck him, and at the same time
Tie received a blow from what he thought a candlestick,
Which felled him to the ground senseless. He recollected
no more of the circumstance till he found himself in the
Hospital. The unfortunate witness here looked round
at the prisoners, and said he only knew Pethick.
Airs. Price, who resided in Charles-street, in a house
opposite the one in which the attack was made, stated,
that she was alarmed by cries of "Murder!" and on
ng out of the window, she perceived Petbick's room
snddenly filled with persons, and saw a woman resem-
bling Pethick throw a man out of the window. Burrell
lived iu the.bouse, and she could not swear to any other
persons in the mom.•
Perlman and Clarice, constables, deposed, that hear-
ing of the outrage, they went to the spot, and found
Thilyers 'lying en his (tarn the kennel. As they were
proceeding up stairs, thinking the perpetrators of the
offence were there, they saw a man sitting on a table is
the parlour. On entering Pethick's room, they found it in
the greatest disorder; it bore all the appearance of a
desperate conflict having ensued there. The door was
torn from the binges, the bannisters and stairs were
broke,n, and the walls besprinkled with blood. There
was no person in the room ; and on coming down stairs,
the man who bad bean sitting on the table had made off.
• Scott, another officer, soon ,afterwards apprehended
the prisoner at Chelsea.
The prisoners, on being called on to give an accesati
Of the transaction, all declared that the man bad fallen
oltt Ot the window, and that he had conducted himself
w ith considerable• violence. Pethick said, that while
.she was gode to call the/catch the man bad fallen out
of the window.
Mr. MAINWAIIING unmarked that the case was involved
in considerable mystery. at present, and he remamled dm'
prisoders for a week.
'Mayers, it is saidPwill never recover the nse of his
Jimhs; he speaks with considerable difficulty en account
of his falling on his cheat. :. • -
UNfoN liat.L.—R.Pefch, the driver of the Brixton
stvge'voaelt, was convicted in the pensity of 5/. for furi-
ously driving his with, whilst ract4 with another Stage
coach on the 16th Umlaut. •
0a Tuesday senaight, West, of pedestrian ce
k brity. undertook for a wage( to run ten miles is the
pltr,which be accomplished it Ash, emit &Ladakh.
without es periencing any list .ass,. he liftreeved, W-
aimea and a half. • •-• •J: • • ‘-st •.• •

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GUILDFORD, Nov. 20.—Iktract of a Istler le 'A
bridge across the Junction Navigation of the NSW::
the Wey, 'mkt. the Compasses, between this Min
Horsham, was washed away yesterday by the fie* el
heavy rains (although ear the summit level), and a
man, who had bees with cattle from Diseltwala all
Horsham, returning over the 'said *lige, was u
nately drowsed. At Kingston, the Thais has ow
flowed the ternpike road between that place and Di
The storm of Friday eight last appears to have been
general thrneghout the western part of England, end le
some placfi considerable damage has been done. 41
commenced in thii neighbourhood at about belt-past'
ten, with one of the most tremendous showers of hail
we ever witnessed, accompanied with thunder and ;Wa-
ning; the wind at the same time blowing a gale. Se-
veral houses were completely flooded. It visited Bath
an hour or two earlier. The shower of ice at Dart-
mouth included ragged pieces of two to three inches
long; one actually measured four inches and a half.
Among its effects in that neighbourhood were from
2500 to 3000 panes of glass broken.—(Devisee Paper)
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMILTANCI.—TbO COMA* and
the gravel walk, at the East-end of the &month*
Riier, exhibited a curious appearance on Sunday nom
log last. The dykes bad given way next Kensington, sad
the torrent of water became es impetuous that tie beiles
overflowed, carrying with it multitudes of fishes. Boys
were seen catching carp of six pounds weight on the
gravel walk and sloping lawn.

MELANCHOLY tintewascx.---On the 29th nit. the
ship Lark, of South Shields, James Armstrong, mate
ter, from St. John's. Newfoundland, bound for Leith,
with a cargo of timber, sprung a leak in. 57 degrees
north latitude; the crew, thirteen in number, with
five passengers, remained up the rigging eight days,
during which four men died. They at length, la ems-
sequence of the vessel making no way, had recourse
to the long boat, and were only able to secure a few
potatoes, with a young pointer dog; they ressalued
six days at sea, during which two men died ; the crew
and passengers survived three days on the dog. Their
provisions being at length about expended, they kept
one of the corpses in the boat, when providentially the
sloop Sea Gull of Lerwick. picked them up about 3O
miles west of Saubnre% Head, Shetland, (being also
of a crew and three passengers survivors.) and brought
them safe to Tohermory, Isle of Mull. It is much
feared that some of them will require to have their
limbs amputated, they being swollen and discoloured
in a shocking manner. When the crew and passen-
gers left the ship, she was quits entire, and, in all pro-
bability, she will come ashore on the west side of the
coast of Ireland.
MIRACULOUS nutamtvaTtect.—An account has Sep-
peered in the different papers of the loss of a brig. ap-
posed to be the Hoffnung, of Altona, which went down
us the tioodwin Sands on Friday afternoon last, with
the crew and two of a boat's people belonging to Deaf%
viz. John Orrick and William Dawes, the tint%
& wife and nine children, and every perm/Owes
to have perished. But the all-merciful hand of row
deuce was most particularly extended in the proem-
don of Dawes ; for when the ship broke away from the
flamingo, the foremast carried away, and the ship was
fast slog, as en bused took ts,
mainmast ; one dreadfal sea, however, xed e brig,
the mainmast went brwtotboard, Led every soul was
plunged into the deep of the ocean. Dawes, after
buffeting with the waves on that dreadful day for some
time, succeeded in getting hold of part of the wreck, to
which he clung, and to wbicb, at length, he secured
himself. Here another and worse fate appeared to await
him, that of perishing through told and hunger : in this
sate, without the least sustenance, and with every sea
beating over him, be remained until Tuesday afternoon.
when be was most miraculously discovered (in a state of
the greatest exhaustion and almost at the last gasp)
floating off the Galloper, by a foreign brig passing
down Channel, who kindly.took him on board, and ren-
dered him every assistance in their power. Having met
a brig coming up Channel, she was hailed, but not un•
derstanding the language of each other, poor Dawes
was exhibited, and by signs informed them of his case;
be was in consequence taken on board of the brig,
which was homeward-bound, and ultimately landed at
Dungeness, from whence he was sent to the New Inn,
Romney, where such necessaries as the nature of his
case required were administered ; and he was so far
recovered as to be able to proceed home. What the
feelings of his wife sad relations, at beholding one,
who had, as it were, arisen from the grave, may be more
easily felt than described.—(Kent Herald.)
ASTONISHING maims OF MlND.—About five
weeks ago. Matthew Cutts, of No. 3, Deep Pit Col-
liery, near this town, having laid a train of gunpowder
for the purpose of explosion in the bed below, lighted
the match, and was ascending in the corf, when sud-
denly the horse above stopped, lay down, and was not
to be moved for some time, so that the pour man re-
mained suspended, about eleven yards from the bottom
and a hundred and fifty from the top. In this perilous
instant, knowiag that if be remained a .fpw Woods
longer he must be shattered to atoms by the blast, and
if he cast himself out of the corf he must as inevitably
be killed in the fall—with admirable presence of mind,
he pulled off his jacket, and threw it down so oppor-
tunely, that it extinguished the match before it could
ignite the train ; and thus happily he was delivered
from imminent destruction. But, in the mysterious
dispensations of Providence, he was only reserved for
another dreadful though less sudden end. A fortnight
afterwards he fell from a stage, about nine yards high.l
in the same pit. By this accident be was severely
bruised in many parts, but particularly injured is the
spine. Being taken to the Infirmary, all skill and at-
tention failed to restore him. He died in a few days,
and was followed to the grave by many hundreds of his
fellow-labourers and neighbours,. who deeply lamented
his unfortunate dissolution. He was a good man, and
it is hoped well prepared for death in any form.
(Sheffield Iris.)
Wednesday night the Princess af Wales Tavern, near
the Obelisk, Westminster-road, was robbed of sove-
reigns, Bank notes and silver, amounting to near lOW.
besides other property. The house is kept by a widow,
who was with the Exciseman in the cellar during the time
the robbery was effected. Theproperty was in thelandla-
dy's bed room, in a chest of drawers, on the first floor.l
.Some suspicious persons were seen in the pailottr, anti
one or two strangers in the kitchen. The robbers, by
means of false keys, opened the door at the liiittam of the
sham and also the chamber doui, and uric: nsway with
tue plunder unobserved. • - • •

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