The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-13 00:00:00


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was' pfefeiseirto be gen ti. him as a gratuity, and
that he was distinctly informed it would not he given
to him as a right. The whole claim then was au im-
position from beginniug.to end. The Commissioners,
by succeeding to the Dicke of Leeds, were clothed
rallb the-same rights which he poasessed, and there-
fore the tenants were bound to go oat upon receiving
regular uoticst from the new landlords, '
• Mr. Serjeant Oistoweentended, that though the
Plaintiff bad no 105504 be watt entitled to claim rustler
the claim of the Act, which directed compensation
for "any such interest or damage whatever." It
had beep said, that when the Piaintiff took the boogie
in St. James's.ararket, he was aware that it would
be avanted.by the Commissioners. Such he believed;
could not be-the fact ; for if his Client then ktiew
that the new street would take that line, he had
more foresight than a.iy idan in London. The Plain-
tiff had to claim compensation for two interests, the
shop and the house. With regard to the shop, his
•Learned Friend had said, that the Plaintiff was only
a weekly tenant; but whitever his interest teathi,ll
war *ear. . standing for trial. Weeld his . fours
Friend-thee ask the Court to determine, on affulawit,
an interest 'which tees to' be tried by • Igrr:•ALet
Term ? With regard to the house, the Plaintiff was,
according to the affidavit of the other side, a tenant
i from year to year ; but whatever interest he had,
whether weekly,.quarlerly, or yearly, he was en-
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titled to compensation under the Act. ~
Mr: Scarthmr, who followed oil the same side,
after dwelling on• the hardship of the clause of the
Act of Parliament which makes it lawful for the
Commissioners to enter upon lands or premises in.i
such manner as they may think proper, withopt being'
deemed trespassers, proceeded to argue, that the no.
tice they had given proved that they considered the
Plaintiff vs holding an interest.
Covey—They did not give .the notice at Commis-
sioners, but as landlords, having purchased the in-
terest and right of the Duke of Leeds.,
Mr. SCARLETT conceived that they-could have no,
'power escept under the Act. They could only pur-
chase as Commissioners, and it would be very neje.'
if they were, in that character, to purchase the
rights of the landlord with a view of doing what the
landlord never Wended to &Nand never would have
dime. The Duke of Leeds never. meant to eject his
temente. To do so was getting possession of one in-
terest by the Act, and loins that interest to destroy

another. • ,
Mr. Justice A eaoT.—Would, any man give 6001.
(the compensation claimed) fora shop out of which
he might be turned oti• a week's notice?
Mr. SCA eLETT did not know what sum might be given,
as the value depended on the probability of the °eta-
patent being turned nut; very large sums were given
for good-will; but whatever the value might be,what
he meant to contend was, that the:to, mmissioneo
had no right to treat with the Duke, of Leeds firit,
and then to torn the power they- had thereby acquired'
against the Irma in the way they had done.
Lord Eu.vreonouun.--Could it be said that there
were any words iu the Act which prevented the Doke
lof Leeds from diiposing of his property in the `same'
'manner as Ire_inight have done before it passed ? In
purchasing his property, the Commissioners made a
compensation tor every interest. They purchased the
major right, which' includeu ever): other.
Mr. SCAR LEI T might be wrong to the view he had
taken, but according to his sense.ajustice, Parlia-
ment conid net have intended the Act to operate in
a way so hostile to the interests of the tenant. Ile
was convinced that, if the Duke of Leeds had fore-
seen that such consequences were to be drawn from
his bargain with the Commissioners, he would not
have made it. •• . .
Lord ELLEatioaoucit.—A. hargaiii has been con-
clude'', and our hosiitess is only r'• its legal elirct,
which is this :—The Uonnissior, • ruing purchased
certain aheps anal booties, slam: •cosely in the•sitaa.-
. lion of the former landlord. It was to be regretted
that a fuller display. of the Act of Parliament had not
been made when on the application for the rule,
which,-int that case, perhaps, would not have been
granted; for..t ire Court was often under the neces-
sity, in ,:Aniline a rule, to rely on the statement of
the.applicant. • In cases of this nature, the Public
frequently suffered by the claims which were ad-
vanced. Ile• had observed, that under all Compen-
sation Acts, there were Missy a number of parties
anxious to acquire an interest.—They went to the
nuisance, instead of the nuisance comiwg to them.—
Utile discharged.

Wednesday morning, the stables of Mr. Darnell,
in Mary-le-bourse-lane, were broke.' into and plan.
dered of various articles of wearing apparer—The
shop of Mr. %Veils, 17, Portland-otreet, Soho, was
entered on Wednesday night, whilst the family were
at tea, and a pair of jockey-boots stoles., value
21. 10s. Mr. Pepp"r, the constable of St. James's,
met the thief cumin,: out of the house,oind recog-
nized him as Et ancis Kecfe (twice tried for his life),
a noted bouse.breaker. Ile took him into custody.—
Yesterday morning the hnose of Mr. Jones, of Abel.
place, Paddington, was broke into, and robbed:of
pvoperty in notes, &c. to the amount of 4-191.—Two
:10u,..es it. Shoul‘ham.sts eet, had their larders pl uuder•
ed ; 'and serval others in the parish were fobbed in
a similar manner, supposed by a gang of boys .that
infest Nlary.le.bonne and Paddington, who *real:tout
'2OO in number.
Tuesday morning, at
.four o'clock, there Wall an
alarming lire at the back of the Duke of Beaufort's
mansion, in Grosvenor-square. The watchman dis-
cortred the Water-trough at the. stable door in a
blaze, and the woud•work was burnt to a cinder.—
Thera wale eight valuable horses in the stable. It
must !Ave been the act of en incendiary.
CauEr. Runamte.—iresterdey morping, abobt e
quarter past 411o:clock, &e.t.a- aged, men named-'
SDycon, *no has for ineoy yearibeeii employed .to•
carry newspape,ra.fo different patisilthe metropolis,-
was proceeding •thiougb'St. Bride4-)ani on bia-wey
orer•lllucli:friars
.Bridge, be was met by two ruffianly.
looking •him Well,
ol.),cbep, sy,lsist new.;?' made_ no reply,' mid
.019, lorrying no, heo.one %nein seized him by
the throe, #nd held WI. actaiust the. Wall, Oils the
pt.4vt picked. pOcber of 4 9d. is. copperoill the
money he had: . Tha•tello4 .kil !Mire
seized then took from him hi; bundle of, oetapepers,
end they both ran orr. ThAt hue not tigoa, been
heard of.

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• DREPrOFtfI,NII/LOIRRIS
THANES POlLlCe...Orefttithlebtr. Bdtneinson; of
Wepping; and his nephew, btfebded 'at this' Office,
and gave the following information
He stated, that about eight eclock on Sunday
morning last, as they were wailing for a boat is. order
to cross the water from the Elephant-stairs, near
Deptford, a man of middling etiture, dressed in a
light green coat, light fustian small clothes, light hair,,
~
and 'whiskers,and who had but twinfingera on one baud,
end had the appearance of a bricklayer, came and
asked the wsternian when he was going to cross • the,
•waterman answered- directly; the men replied .it.
might as well be in a fortnight, end went . away in
great haste ; he appeared to be either drunk, may
or very much confused; he had his hands in his
pocket at the time; but on honing round to go away
he took them out,, when witness observed that they
,wereall over blood, and likewise, the pocket-holes
'fit ble,onat and clothes had several other spots, of
blood on them ;, the blood was dry, and appgored as
if it had been on him some hours; the "Merman
tired the same clicomstance; but not hearing of the.
murders of Mr. Bird and his housekeeper, they per-
mitted him to proceed, othererise they Would have
stopped him. On his return home to his uneWs, at :
Wapping, he mentioned the circumstance to him, but,
after hearing of the dreadful murders at Greenwich
he was induced to lay the present information, and
he has no doubt on his mind,from the 'time and cir-
•
cumstances of the ease, but that . lan was one of tbe.
murderers, and he could positively swear to him.-;-4,
By his manlier of acting witnesa.imagined that he had
somebody waiting for him; he returned the same,
way that he came. One of the clerks took down. a
felt.description of this man's dress and person, and
likewise the name and address of-Mr- Edmiinsod, &c.
in case they might be wanted at a future time ; and
the Officers received orders to tied their vigilance
for the purpose of apprehending the persons sospected.
UNION•IIALt.—There have 'been sect). numeroes
and daring robberies committed in the counties 'of.
Kent and Surrey, that the Officers of Union-hall,
with assistants, have been sent down to watch in the.
woods (where it was supposed the thirvesretreated), .
and its the roads where it.wae 4ikely for the robbers
to pass. In the course of a fortnight there were
near forty robberks. cornmitted in 'both counties in.
the night time, and the Officers at last secured. a
notorious bad character named Mitchell (now In
Horsemonger.lane jail). Ile was connected with a
gang consisting of the two Brays, -George-rods.
James, a man named flood, himself,- and another
man. Mitchell informed the officers where they
might be found. lie stated, that they lived like
Gitsies in a tent, in the neighbourhood of a wood,
some distance from their mother, Mrs. Bray, of Wid-
' more; that they pretended to live by charcoal burning,
.and were up at night to watch the prucess of the burn-
*St bot instead of minding the elm renal, they were go.
itigabout the country committing robberies. On the
arrival of the officers, tiu'y learned that a sister of
these desperate chpracters hid lived servant with
Mr. Bird, and it was supposed that therpersons who
committed the murders must base had a knowledge of
the habits of the family.- On Wednesday night part!
of the Police-officers returned to town, with the
young woman, Sarah Bray, who lived with Mr. I
Bird, in their custody ; and yesterday morning, Mrs.
Bray, her mother, was brought to town on-a charge
of robbery. • She and her daughter were examined
before NV. WELLS, Magictiate for • Kent, and
•
inost tS EvANCE, Eq., at Union-hall Police.ollice,
yesterday afternoon. They w ere ermined separately.
I:he following is the substance of.their evideece
Sarah Bray, daughter of Mary Way, of Witimore,'
near Bromley, in Kent, aged i fr. years, servant to
Mr. Levels, said, that when she was of •the age of
. 13 years she west to live :orient to. Me. Bird, of
London-street, Greenwich, who has been • lately
murdered, together with iris housekeeper; Mary Sim-
mons. She continued there nine .mantis, 'during:
which lime Mss. Bird died, and Mary Simmonsoeho;
had been ti ere abeut.eietttgreersore • a;ned as house-
keel er during the remainder •of the tune she lived in
Mr. Bird's house. A Mr. Downing ridireriu-ntlyi
to call tied see Mr. Bird, and-a man sobietimes came
to see Mrs. Simmons ; 'fille•questioned Mrs. Simmons'
about him, and she :said he -was her brother ; this
was in the summer of 1815. Ilec,mother.came (q'
see her at Mr. 14irti's (Indite the .time-ahe lived there;
first by herself, ^and then with We: stater,' 'Ann Cra.'
ker. Iter brother, George Bray.. .came to see her,
and no other relative or aegosiataace. She had four
other brothers, three of %thorn aVe ordee thin George
and one younger ; they ro-v.er came to SPP her during
the time she lived with Nit. Bird.• A houttliree months
after Mos. Bird died, Mr. Bird paid her wages., hav-
ing no further occasion for her services, and she went
home. Her eldest .ktother is named Edward, he is.
about 30 years of ago'; jail, the nest, is about /6,
and James is about 21 years of step:Samuel, the
youngest, is about 12 years of age; they have all
beert brought up as farming labOurers. On Monday
night she first heard of the murder of INr. Biitl and,
Mg,. Simmons. She saw • fwd brother 'JirkineWtai her
mother's shout three weeks ago; She lait"obirrge
these last Sunday afternoon' ; she had (rat' seett
for two years, and it is ftearir five`'Ysiitla ilnieshe
saw Edward. She calleil on kir lOW herth ..Saturgoy,
everting last shoot dusk;'and'artiv IrlrbriitheiGeiste•;
he was dressed in a dark round trod.. At"-ittan framed
William 'Hood was a compatiield of beib;bther'il, and
,frequently visited berniotkiii = • .
- Mary Bray, widow, mother fir We Oeti.'wlt. ness9
,deposed on girth, that • her daughter, Sarah, • lived
with Mr. Bird; at GreenwicliAwho has been mot-
dered), for nine *distils ; • about 18 •montb4tgo, de-
.lreeent's son f wield to see Sarah during her
''residence with Mr: ak 6, hot rieitheebtlee other ions
;serer went to her kuVWll4fge.• After Sarah Ilrafleft
,Mr. laird, she went.'in. with Mr. Abrrhama,
sligeremith, at .40. en wish.* -Witneva•went to e e ker
mire at Abrahams'srtlie -last time she was accome,
ponied by a man Rimed •Hood.• who was a milot,l
Metrielirrafter we via went for a soidier. lir after wet de
worked with Mr. Mosier.* (tamer, at St. Mary's Gay.
Deponent's ion George-4ns at ber houseat Widmure,
un Saturday night.-and on Sunday ntornimg; he did
mkt go out of Ibe bow, except to draw water from a
well close by till between nine and Kw o'clock ; did
not see her thug' tes) SAIOII Bray, cu Saturday ; saw



M A att.BOttou cu-sTuen. About week .lince,
!uo•biboutiag met: applied to Me. Mister, siligsbeh,
ir► Charlotte.street, Itathhone-place, to be.
come .the purchaser of a "mines matteri" witich
they had to sell.. Mr. W. was-desirous of ktubelog
more particularly the nature of the article, but they
.declined being more eapliat. veleta he would proadso
so bey, Wise same time assuring him he should loni-
a bargain. Ili* curiosity. being awakened by this
affected mystery, be told them he would deal with
:them, and ..they went• away tw..fetclis the " curious
matter." In tt few hours they. returned with a urge
sack, from which they drew. forth a marble bust of
Pope, the fall size of.life, and of the most 'wash.
sborkmanship. On enquiring the price, they •told
him they thought it' worth Os. ! and for that sa• he
might'have'it if he chose. :Feeling confident, bow.
eyer, that it was stolen, be told them lie should detain
• it, and they quietly left it itrhiypossession.. Mr, %V.
applied to the Magistrates at this Office on "%Veda's.
day for their advice, and stated, ►bet it was of rely
considerable value. An ariist• who :h.Aoetin Weald,
he would willingly gise• 30. geinea*...for it, het kr.
W. had no doubt it was worth it feast 100 colossi,
. The MAGlsTitiera edrised him to apply; et the cif.
fetent Museums,. and to edrertise it if! the Netiva.
pets.

GIRCUITN.

LENT ASSIZES-OXFORD CIRCUIT. 1818.
JotlsT4- Mr. .IRstiCr PARK, and Mr. Justice Iltiattouno.
Bei 1.-hire-Monday, the 2d of March. at Reading. at nine
o'clock in the morning.
Oxfordshire-Wednesday, the 4th of March. at Oxford.
Worcestershirr-Saturday. the 7th of Maich. at arrester.
City of Worcester-The soineday,, at the City of %%greener.
Staffordshire -Torday, the 12th of March, at Stafford.
llereford-hire-Tuesday. March u 4, at Hereford.
Momistrudishires-hloaday. March.3o.
Gloace.tershire-Wednesday. April 1, nt Gioncester.
City of farineester -The samerliiy, at the City Of Gloucester.
WESTIKIIN- CIRCUIT-10. NT• ASBIZES.
'Judges-Mr. Justice ABBOT and Mr. Josticd 110LROVD.
Winclie-ter-Monday, March 2.
Sidishory-Saturdav, March 7.
Dorearesiar-Thatsday. March IL. .
Exescr--..MAidaN,. March 16:
Launceston •-*-Tultlfay..-March
Taunton-Sans:day. March 2S.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
Judge%-The Came Sarum and Mr. Justice Balsas..
York-March 7.
Lana-ter-March 21.

her too Sunday afternoon ; has not seen her three
eldest sons, John, James, and Edward, fur the lag
three tionths. She was certain tint she had,not peen
her 'eon James for more than three months.
• The Prisoners were ordered to be kept in cusinlv.
no officers are still In pursuit of the Brays.
H ATTON-C AItDEN.-.-A young man of caterer, r‘reed
Louis Vincent, who has lately arrived. in this cowl.
by from St. Domingo, applied to the Office to be
buy
with some means of fiudiug the only per,,
see whom be knew is England : this person ant
Captain Robert Clark, Master of the brig Robert,
in which Vincent had come to Liverpool. Clark bat
receieed.from Vincent 1551. in the presence alb.
Allen, of Water-street,- Liverpool: he afterward-.
brought Vincent to London, to a house it is sup.
.posed in the weighboerbood of Charing-crose! tika
latter welt! out to take a long walk throegh the Nrks
with a stranger, and could not fled his way back
nor has be by any enquiries at Lloyd's Coffeeikoeso
been able to find 'Captain.. Clark. The Magistrate
seemed to fear that Captain Clark was the 'seemed
name of some impostor,. but Vincent week' not.theet
to .this ; he•was.quite clear that Clack was.C4tain
of a ship. The Magistrate then •oodertook to write
to Alley, of. Liverµo4l.
CLASSICAL.THIIIVF.S.

1)IED.
On the 111 h inst. Henrgetban OdMr.Birch, Brenswietiplaatc
City-road. , .
()is the (Hh inst. is his 76th year, Mr. Joseph Greatxl,
Fly . llothorn.
AM tbe 10th test. in his 291 h year, Peter Henry, eldest we'd
Peter 1/Ater..Eel. tirseeemirch .it-ei.
Uq'thr lath inst. in the 7 year of his age, Charles diedest
of Maryland Point, war Stanford, Evert, and of Carriers'
11011. LOPtitin,
411,. 10 h init. in Nor on street, Mary.feiboabe, Wide
Eisliiiitd Ward, of the Hisinbny Establishment.
AM the 9th inst. Mn. Kassel!, wife of Mr. James Russell, it
Croydon.

. None.a vivere fed vide* viM.—M AatIAL.
" Lite is only Life, when 'blest with fiealta."
fIE •finest System of Ethics .is to confine 'titbit'
Adoor hounds, and Mug to regulate the Possmis • sores
Itiounettinad insubordimite they impetuously dinner fasr.bar•
tiers which Religion and Morality have mode sacred ; to nits
but Slot andihilute them appears the !cotton of prudence. best
chlrodated to limit 'heir effervexeare.
•Efffy diosrgoni vision of the human frame retinues treat ar•
dical 'knowledge to remedy, and the public welfare is prodiuled
when professional men (disregarding the suggestions of the cli•
v ions and interested) devoce their -studies to the treatment of
anise complaints geher.oled by imprudence, and the chsllitici
[.or the passions at en unguarded moment. t• Tne strength of s
iris ion consists in the health of the People ;" but. it is melan-
choly to-refiect on the due) sacrifice to the ignorance of sereA'
lug ruspyrlcisio. and in rounitors.ct. as far as possible, its bottler
eavagen, we offer to sulleriog hoimm 4
tiv. the result . oar owo
eaperience in She, various diseases of Debility. The efainte!'
vii tim of solitary vice (early acquired at school, before remg•
has asserted her right over the mm.l), trill, in c..ntetrodatallg
his powerless state, become suni•eptible of enlivening 4f:4.16001
in knowing that the must complicated state of eshati•tiati
he routed iota suably enei-gy.- Intense study—immatterate anit•
joy—long residence intr.cpleol Climes, and assu.Y tither taterko
will frequently deckle the Nervous ; in such cases se
can hold out An Assurance of re-animation. by reute • t.s w lin t
have long tuirwered the sanguine hopes of Patients of limb Sete,
o That tolilon• to bortuall hopwilieso EVES YEN blf EN, con loop
be treated Tearlessly, the ifolti3liPll staoat of Medical Seime
having diyesled it; antidote of itiordlikni•essine praperties tile
•so long rendered its ealnhition Uncertain old horseshoe Ws
,best explain our method by Moues slag to P....e01fs laboutux ties
--lire the tool oily. tied ate* dasi outy are required far the Jr
inovul of rally symptom that the Moist inveterate ease Still
yield to our ei mettles within a medic. aid that in a peca! oho
•
nolto Suspects himself injired. she disease may he pr: rented Id
together from appearing.; —a oomilar reihntk applies IS earn
-other deratigements of the geoerative s%stem. its Witikuitcs, i .
ceratious, &c. especially strictures, iihstioute cute .if 'MAO
daily retool/el without the use of contlic or siiinula.ds. Sop*
peculiarities int ideate, in the softer. *s have 0.11 viewed oar
UlttnflOa ; in which milduess, combined with etitrary. bar l'4l.
pesseded the moon usik.lly adopted. In tine, our s)slrlitf
unique, 'pet alitiriv energetic, and eminently sorectsaftil.
Educated in this our native city ; khhooted in oar profecsiouil
altaiamegl by its spleudid Medical c.:liaineters; and qnvil4oo"
able. perstthall v. to compose with admiration the Windt SW,
atoll practice with she Lontioental, our pretension. to solicit-
miry (In a branch we ttotoe selected) are toniuridbyespetinK to
which is e. noted by.llie doily applications we receive, tree Kim
distant coutorier.
fioAil nat. Co. M. R. C. Sergrimil'
)s4,flouveriesstmet, Heel-street. Los
•* • Inc the general openitsivood ni rf we do not limit wt;
trivet; to soiled- perifteta of 'Miff ice, but in iv lie'comotted nt all
fellis.Otailie-b0t1r.44-•-CAUOUV PRitietitt sue requested fn detttibf
attoittelly their vrettplootrti, *tkr. when Medicines. with
will be itaineiliately forwarded to any port of toe Kihr.,(ll"-
,A bank-cote is etpecte.l to aceompon; the ease.

I. lN1)(111, i Prinled 'and Ptiiilisb4 hi- D. Lovgt.t, 01 "8
Cyrics, 'lna 4, Ihtlisbars-toort. rlets-wsei.