The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-01 00:00:00

the Act of Pirlianient minim that you shall pt ove a fel`a-..
nions intent, when the pry first becomes possessed of the
casks? Now, you cad make ont no felonious intent here,
when this woman first got them ; for the brewer delivered
them to bet, anti allowed her to keep t!.etn for seVeral
months. This Act of the 21 Geo. Ili., states that the
evidence of stealing them it the immediate act of dispo-
sing of them.
Mr. BACK considered that the act of erssiog the owner's
name from two diffe tent pliers, was sufficient proof of the
intent to stral.

Mr. Cnassuges and Mr. Sweatt, however, were both
of opinion that, iri the strongest way of putting it, it
could only be treated as onlawfully disposing of the tasks
and that the Act of Parliament did not reach Mrs. Smith
at all, who contented that she brought them not knelt it:
them to have been stolen—that abe gave quite as much
for them as she considered they were worth to her, and that
she immediately afterwards exposed them to sale at bei
shop door.
1 he Magistrates then ordered the publican's wifeto pay
305., the value of the casks, and • penalty of 1:0s., which.
was the lowest line tie Act would admit of. And they
admonished Mrs. Smith to take care that she WU not
brought up on some future time f. r buyittz 4ilen goods,
They thought common justice required that she should
assist the woman who bad been finch to pay her penalty.
Mrs. Smith would willingly have done so, but she lad
four or five little children to provide for; and therefore
was totally unable to 110 sn.

On Mondity, J. Heaven, servant to Dr. Sherlock Willis.
was taken up on a charge of purloining a qoPntity of wine
and other property, belonging to Lis master, and committed,
previous to examination, to the usoal Once of confinement
in this town. Ronnor being engaged on Tuesday morning.
his wife went at eight o'clock with some breakfast to the
ptisoo, when, on opening this unfortunate man's cell, sits
was shocked on beholding him suspended by bis necker-
chief from a bar of the window, certainly less than five feet
from the floor. The position of the body, which can scarcely
be described, was the most powerful indication of deter-
mined self-destruction that perhaps has ever yet been wit.
nessed. His left hand was so firmly fixed against the bar,
and the arm so set, that it was evident he had strangled him-
self by thus forcing his neck away from the window. With
the slightest effort he might have saved himself, either by
grasping the bar of the window, or at tting on a seat against
which his body almost rested. In his struggle lie had di—
located the ancle of his left leg, and his chin was, grazed by"
rubbing against the stone of the prison winlaw. An
quest was held before J. Cooke, Esq. Coroaer.—Verdict,
" Hung himself in a fit of insanity, lironght on by tieer s.
sion of spirits and loss of character."—(Cheltenhani (Aro-
hide.)

BIRTHS.—On Thursday. at Barham Court, the Lady of the night liso
Lord Earhainoof a son.
At Connaught-plaee, Lady Migrant, of a son.
AUTaverham, au Friday oe'nnight, Lad) Charlotte Mickisthitayt, at a Ins.
Ou Saturday last, at Harghato Hall, the Lady of Sir Thustas lives or,
flirt. of a non and heir.
R111111).—On Saturday. the 30th ult. at St. George's, Middloret, F.
Wyman, fun., of Queen-street, Chrapside, to Sarah illachrtt, only daugLke
oft)lark Stanlev, Esq. of Cannoti.strert road East.
DIED.—On the 4th instant, at Gating, near Rich/wend, Yorkshire, the
Rev. itichard Motriey Atkinson, 31. A , one of Las ojestv's Justices of ti.o
Peace for the North hiding of that county, and Vicar of Wiiiitton cur* As.
locton, Nottinghamshire. Mr. Atkisson was excessively corpulent,
wore than 30 stone. -
Un Wednesday morning, H. Yolcher, Esq. formerly Colleetor of the Cus-
toms, at Plymouth.
On Saturday morning, the 30th alt, Mr. Thomas Dartrue„ of Holborn.
aged 69.

Dumas et place*, es.reer.-1 LUR .

Thy house, and (in the cup of life,
That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife.
SOCRATES, by his Discourse on Marrissre, so es-
raptured his auditors with the subject, gist the
married men flew to their wives, and the bachelors hastened
tube wedded; and "The Spectator" has affirmed, that the
%eyed " wife" Is the most agreeable and delightful name ;a
nature.

The sacred institetion, then, of marriage, compasses the
desideratum of our enjoyment; teeming not only with Imp-
piness on earth, but disposing the soul itself to harmonize
with bliss hereafter.

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Previous, however, to entering into this hallowed obli-
gation, it becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate
the passions, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those
impurities which the freedom of unrestricted plessure may
have entailed upon it. To the neglect of such attention are
attributable, many of those hapless instances, which. while
they excite the commiseration of the beholder, shoull Rise
impress him with the fear of self-reproach.
Luxurioue, _habits will effeminize the body—a residewm in
the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially
does the premature infatuation of youth lon frequently enm-
promise the natural dignity into A state of inanition, front
whence the agonized sufferer more than doubts the chance
of relief. To all such, then, we address ourselves, offering
'hope—energy—Muscular strength—felicity: nor will oar
advancevappeat questionable, sanctioned as they are by the
multiplied proofs of twenty years successful experience.
The easy cares of married life are sometimes distnrhed
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by the suspension of those blessings which concentrate t
nuptial wreath—for the female habit is often constitutieu.
weak—yet Wean b... strengthened, and deficient energy i
proved into functional power.
lu every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as in every
relaxation of the generative eoonomy, we pledge our ability
to cure speedily, and with effect. Earnestly solicitous to
expel the unfeeling empirio from the position so presumptn-
ously taken up, we deviate from general principles with
less hesitation; and confident in our own honourable inte-
grity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we refer the
suffering community of either Sex (especially those enter-
ing into matrimonial life) at once to our houses, where daily
attendance is given for personal consultation ' • and letters
from the country are immediately answered; these neeit
contain a remittance for Advice and Medicine, which can be
forwarded to any part of the world, however distant.
GOSS and Co. M.R.C. Surgeons.
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