The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-11-19 00:00:00

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uis9teloyde:tcrditisire.letentalt
his I, dealings with the p
e metropolis, aud at several public hoists
at' end of the town. The prisoner in all his
vs alitigs With the Witness never dropt the ohms
remote hint as to *here be got the soirercigns, but
once or twice be said to the witness-4" lim afraid
ton will betray me.' The last time he had any deal,
ing with the prisoner Was on the 12th of November.
when he paid some marked money to him: on bit
leaving him he nits taken by Jeffreys, the officer: the
prisoner, by a- counter movement of the officer'', was
taker* in the Haymarket, with the marked money is
his pocket.
Plank, the officer, proved having supplied the ola
ness with money, at various times, to purchase the 10.;
verigns. •
The prisoner declined saying any thing in his de;
fence, and was then fully committed.
Lixtox-Ilat.L.—John Goff, EdtVard Jeremiah Sisk
monde, and Elisabeth Cote were brought before the
Sitting Magistrate, Thos. ft vailee, Esq. on Saterdas
last, upon suspicion of having committed a burglar/.
and extensive robbery in the house of Mr. Catetly,
of Theobald-street, Kent-road.
Goff bad in the course of last Week been committed
with another man to Horsemonger-lane Gaol, is a
rogue and vagabond, having been found by the police
in the neighbourhood of the house, where the robbery
was committed, under suspicions circinus:anees.
Ott Tuesday last, between five and seven o'clock la
the evening, while the family were absent, Mr. Coverly
went to his house, and found that the street door had
been opined by means of picklock keys, and the
drawers, &c. ransacked. A quantity of clothes and
other articles had been taken away, in fact, tenr
thing that could be carried conveniently by thieves
were missing.
Since the committal of Goff to Horsenionger-lane
•,aol, some of the clothes which had been stolen out
of Mr. Coverlv's house were traced to the loiLings of
the pris slier, Elisabeth Cove, who was known to hare
lived with Goff, a number of duplicates were found in
a concealed place in the kitchen. The woman acknow-
ledged to the officers that 6011* had given the clothes
and duplicates to her, but to the Magistrate she said
that a strange man, whom she should nut know again,
lave them to her.
The officers also traced a shirt which hail heen stoles
in M r. Coverlev's house, to Goff, who bad, it was stated,
4-irer. it to his sister to have washed, on the night lei
was apprehended. The shirt and the other property
were identified by Mrs. Coverly.
The officers stated, that the female prisoner had
mentioned to them, that Simmonds was concerned in
the robbery as well as Golf.—The prisoners were rt.
mantled.

A vein of coal, upwards of 12 inches thick, has
been discovered within 100 yar,:s of the new flotwelf-
house, near Clifton, Bristol, sa►►►ples of which are In
time possession of the poar men who are employed
in quarrying and breaking the stones.
Last Saturday a dreadful accident occqrred at ?tomb
field, near Proffitt ro►oe men were pulling dolman old
elm tree, but, instead of its descending in the direction
they expected, it fell across the road ; and shoeidagm
relate, crushed to death an infant about 17 antl►l
old, in the arms of its nurse, who was herself ten.
°wily bruised, as was a lidy who was also passing at the
moment the tree fell.

On Wednesday last, as the Mission:or Priests wen
performing their devotioni in the church of St.
Etienne, in the presence of the Bishop of Paris, a lest
explosion was heard, which tensed a general alarm
in the congregation. Upon examination, it was fused
to have proceeded from a tin box, charged with abost
a ponntl and a half of powder, which had been placed
against the wall of the church.
The family of Mr. Allen, plasterer, of this city, had
a narrow escape from► very actions injury a few days
ago, from the falling in of the ground floor of the
house, at the time when the family were at teL
Though the ►Thole of them were precipitated together
to the depth of nine feet, into the cellar beneath, yet
we are happy to state that no personal injury was re.
cei vett by any of them —(Lincoln Mercury.)
On Wednesday a child of a man named Dagger, K'
siding at No. 1, Waterloo Buildings, contrived, is the
absence of its mother, to swallow some boiling water
from a teakettle, which occasioned its death is the
course of forty-eight boors.

WE MI ER .—The weather this week has been TWIN.
ably mild, considering the sermon. The wind, however,
has bout often boisterous ; and the showers that bars
fallen very heavy. Unring a storm last 'light, the
nine was extremely vivid. The quantity of rain owe
last Saturday noon, amounts to 2 inches and one-teeth.
Strew!, N0v.17.

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8 I I i i 1 BAROWITII.
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o'clock. o'clock. at night..
Nov.
11, N.... 50 60 l5O ..--72--------1--.0.91 . Rain
11.. 50 53 147 ,Al ' Pik
13, ... 46 56 M ,00 ROI
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14, W..... 55 68 61 AT
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Cloway
15, Th .. 60 80 64 ,71
16, F..... 55 80 60 ,4I Fair .7p 1 Stormy
17, 5...... 60 , 64 —______:j______----"-'

DIED. tll
On the 21st of %egos% at Tortola, ranch respected bY
who knew him. henry Clement. Esq. (late of Altos) scant
Collector of Customs at that Island, haring survived be-
loved wife and infant child only oue month. His deaths
netteaiented by a malignant fever, brought on by eseess
of
grief st Ilse severe loss lie had recently sustained.
On Friday, the l6th instant. et his house is Yorkauleto
,Ptsbrtpait-igliare. Puller, Esq. aged 73.
Rl4dby: the 16th instant. aged 70, afters liage"....A
alkisirs Vow* at Kingalend. Thomas I lolah, Eini•
aroerin the Finn of Holub, Johnson, and Co. tea-desks,
of "glehOleb4a he. sf
cad 61on1fay last. Mr. Joseph Bullock. in the Tenna
Wales, keeper of Majesty's Royal Menagerie, Moe
boase.steweed !othelete Right lion. Wan. Pitt. •
Oa the staitt Imitate, in her tillth year, at Chesteer-I
o
in the eduntY bf Durtiitd, Mrs. Weatherley, rlict rlik"
lite Mr.• IE.-Wrathertay. 'of Darden-house, In 0507;
"earanty; and Hater of llie,late James Oswald, EN. L_
Compose!, ts his late, Als,jrsly. and justly ettebrated
siallorot "-Rosati " Tweed Side, an
Oomposjtforoc of lastigg eatlneikee.
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