The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-14 00:00:00

isulitidtrai imeerenable for the acts of the I -end,
above all, It wesinot tens shown that the deadrined beet
occasiesed by the Langley people. Doubtlane timerelatti
barn h jraiskriot, and massy assaults oomosittedvfor which
the parties were assemble still. But beyond riot and
assaults, nothing clear hid been proved &paint pri-
loners ; aid the Lammed Judge declared that be could
never sleep again, if he thought the ptisonen cook,.
upon mach evidence as had been prodaced, be found
guilty of murder.
The Jury, after a few moments' dettharnion, tetathed
a verdict finding the prisoners—Not Guilty.
Mr. MgROITWitATHER here said that the yroaecutore
were actuated only by a wilds to satisfy public emitice,anst
under the circumetsncee of the case, the prisoners hay:
ing already entlergone a Jong confinement upon the
charge of murder, if they expressed a due sense of theif
past misconduct, and entered into sareties for their genii
behaviour is future, it was not the object of the press'
tutors to press the chargeof riot or assault, either against
the prisoners, who had just bees acquitted, or these
against whom the bills elle-ging them wilt murder bad
been thrown out. All the prisoners expressed ti.eir
!deepest contrition and regret for the riot which bad saes
mem& and offered to enter into any sureties.
Mr. Jetties) Buaaocult said that they, the prisoners,
In his opinion hail all been most culpable, and thoogh
they could not be reached by the force of legal eyideuse;
yet he was satisfied priadt;ly by the depositions takeri
before the Coroner, which he had read (bid he %see nos
satisfie4 legally, f r many of these ilepdsitioas weft raft
legal), that the Langley people had genie to Chippen-
ham, arid the prisoners amongst them, for the purpose
'of revenging thwnselves no the inhabitants of Chippen-
bum for some conceived affront, and that in the course of
the fray the lives of the two tmfortzatate men had been•
lqet. if this previous concert pull have been made out,
there was not-the least doubt but that the prisoners tr..uld
have been convicted. and then they must have lien exe-
cuted. His Lordship observed the prim .era ou. ht to he
grateful for the merciful coirduet of the prosecutors, in
abandoning s further pr. ..secntion, must have.
brought down heavy punishment, and not to consider
the escape as a triumph, fur it was !versus,. the laws sioott
round titan as a bnlwark to protect them from the uonve-
wieners of insufficient evidence, that they hid escaped.
His Lordship ordered the prisoners Haight and Mittiewi
to give sureties of 001 each, awl the other pric t
give gaieties of Wilt each, to he of gaud hehasione t
wards all his alsjesty's subjects, and especially towaids
the inhabitants of Chip's:ohm, fur the let us of tw.s
years.
lit. WILDS, on belialfor Mr. who was a pe sort
in a station in which elm ractrr was - yalusble, and wt..
moved in respectable society, begged that it might hr at
least considerid that he had not had an opportunity of
answering the charge. Mr. Knight deplored the came-
stance, and protested his innocence of having been concert-
ed in it.
, The prisoners entered into sureties, and were then dis-
charged.
There was much rejoicing outside of the Court when
the result was made knout). to a number of the Langley
people, who awaited with much anxiety the fete of it
neighsours.
This case terminated the business of the Assizes, and
the Judges left town, hut before they departed. we ender-
stood they reprieved all the convicts under sentence of
Death.

KING OP OxTen William Williamson.
paper-maker, Miinthrop, claims this title, having caught
in his life-time thirty-six otters, three of which he tatool.
to the great admiration of all who saw torn', bring as
familiar with bim as lap dogs; t!.ey would trrquei.tty
follow him even miles from house, would at all Ours
obey him, and at his command would perform a variety
of entertaining artioes. It is positively known, that
one of those animals slept with hint every night during
a whole winter ; and it would not suffer any person t •
molest bias. He is considered in lais neighbourhood to-
be the greatest aggre•sor to otters over known in this
country, and of course the best friend to sneers; :lei .
titer is he deficient in that science ; be has tem:mewl;
offered, and will now rifer, for a trifling wager, to catoe
Otter or trout a ith any man in Westmorland
The affair brought on at liaoe-str- et on di oteley night„
reminds us of • story a similar constructive att.mu t.—
" Sir", said the assailant,'' though 1 will u..t strike you,
1 beg you to consider yourself carted."—" Sir," said the
defendant, " then I beg you to ccasider Ourself stivt
through the body."
the blurtm.ca.—Duritir the past week, Op
widow of this noted character applied at our poor-1 i tor
a night's lodging and some relief. the resides at Warring-
ton, and though quite hl•nd, had undertaken a journey to
Hull on a visit to her sun there. In returning thence, she
had been inveigled by another female one of the direst road.
stripped of the little moneyshe bad to carry her home.
and was finally nec!ssitated to the application we have
mentioned. hissing received the necessary assistanee, the
poor woman proceeded to her place of residence.—(Charter.
Courant, North ii.)
In the neighbourhood of Scone on Friday lad, white
two ItKotheilla of the name of Mitchel, were at work in
quarry. one of them, in tusking effort to avert the fail
of a ledge of rock, vellich appeared hurling in the di rev-
tion of his brother, happened to throw hismelf in the
wu of his brother% uplifted pick-ski, just at the mo-
ment he was in the act of bringing It do a n with all; hie
force; the former received 'the blow behind the ear, of
which wound he lingered till Sunday' warping, when
death put a period to his sufferings.—(Perth Courier.)
SHOCKING ACClDlNT.—Saturday morning, about seven
o'clock, as a• tad apprenticed to Mr.. Cramp, butcher, of
Whiteehapel High Street, was going from one part of the
slaughter-louse of his master to another, lee bad occasion'
to.go down some steps, and, instead of walking down them,
he Jumped when his course was impeded by a large meat-
hook, which caught his arm, and he remained suspended
by it until his master arrived and lifted him off. The poor
lad was instantly conveyed to the London Hospital, where
the sinews of the arm were found to he so much injured, and
tie flesh so much mangled, Snit iinnediate amputation "ins
resorted to as the only method of preserving life.
Timsdak, late in the evening, as Mr. Fouled, linen-
draper, of St. John-street, was coming to town from
Kingston in a single horse chaise, he was ad tressed on
the road by a person of very gentlemanly appear-41,er.,
who told hash *that 'having been disappointed of a coos .
veyanee to town, and being shmt of .money to primmer
a carriage,and already extremely (aligned from walking.,
though under the alpolote necessity of reaching Lon-
don by ten o'elork, he should take it as a partictaiar fa-
vour If he Would give Mina seat in the chaise. Mr. Fea-
red very good-naturedly complied; but some time after
he had art him down at Smithfield-barn, be din:rimed
that the grateful stranger hid picked his
.pocket of his
watch, and a purse containing ten sovereign and SOW
silver.

MA RIIIETX—On the tath toe.. at &Arid, Vrederidg
Cass,of Wiachmore-bill, E4q, to *forth',
eldest daughter of Jona DAL Eotter, Eut, of Ponlees-aad.
On the 13th in nut,' at Lambeth church, Edward, son at
E. N. Tborttloo,"Esq. of Kennington, to Nary Ana, woad
daughter of J. Bacon, IF,q. of Sidmouth, Devon.

p141?.--ON the Bth inst. in Blandford-place, Regent's;
ps'4,,Mr. J. A. frown.
•06 the 27th 'ult. at Ripley. Surrey, J. Wild, Rag; many •
yeas berseipirient in the Eseise-otliee. •
Oo the 11th inst. My. W. Whiting, of Asks-terrace, •
ra4 ,S. •
Oa Wednesday, the 12th hst. in Sloane-street, the Raton
etet, one of his Majesty's Hanoverian Privy Voupsyllers„.
,ILC.III. and F.B.S. Ate. aged 87.

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