The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-10 00:00:00

'IRISH STRAW PLAIT.

Ile ward Stanley has prese*d ilia an,
Bacieiy the following report—from the Committee
poinred to adjudge the premiums offered by this Society on
thollidtb.of Jely last, kr the best imitation of Leghorn
Klgant•p/ait, made up, under form of hat or .bonnet, and •
tuanotactured solely of Irish materials
To bliss Mary Collins, of Plattin, near Drogheda, a gold.
undid, value 10/.—Ming the first premium ; for-the fitegt•
and erenest plait, made from avena jhwescoses, or yellow
oat grass, and exhibited ander form of a small tansy
bat. -
:Tp, Miss Susanna, Gormley, of Kiltimon, near Newton
14ftilt Kennedy, the silver medal and fol.. being the second
premium, for Plait • made from cynosurus eristat.is, or
strrafed,dog's tail, vulgo trawnyeen, and exhibited. in the •
, form of a bonnet. •
To Mias Christianna Campbell, of Loodoodeivy, the
'Geer medal—being the third premium, for Plait made ,of
,agrostle vulgaris, or common bent grass, acid exhibited
under the form of every tasteful bonnet.
The Committee beg leave to state, that one of the per-
sons. whom they had called to their a.sistance, informed
them that be had seen in Paris. a Leghorn straw liar,
plaited purposely for the Duchess of Berri, the value of
which was estimated at 1000 fr•yles; and that, in hit
opinion, the straw bat, to Which The committee pave ad-
judged the Ant premiom, was of a texture equally fine and
curious; and it was the general opinion, that the person
who made this bat was capable of executing plait in per-
fection, of any of the more ordinary description.

On Wednesday night wee*, as Mr. John Dough,.
fleshy in Aenan, was returning from Dumfries fair to
the former place, riding abreast with the leading hones of
the Portpatrick mail-coacb, the firths of the saddle broke,
by width accident he was preciptta•ed betwixt the leading .
and wheel hones, the latter of which rather slightly
trampled upon him, and the coach paced over him ; yet
Strallee as it may appear, he escaped with very little •
injury, being able next day to follow bis usual employ
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Letters from Orkney state, that even on' the best culti-
vated farms there the crops were not off the ground at
theist of November. The circumstance reminds us of •
story we heard some time ago. A Scottith clergyman in
a tnuirland Parish received a visit from an English friend
in, December. From an unkindly season operating on
an angenial soil, it so happened that the little harvest of
the glebe was only then under the sickle—nit
rather under the scythe—of honest John Fairweather, the
minister's man. In spite of sundry small articles to torn
the Englishman's attention another way, to prevent him
spying the nakedness of the land, he one day stu nblei
u on John busy in his operations; and upon expressing
his surprise at what be saw, John, whose zeal for ties
honour of his country was quite equal to his master's,
assured him that this was the second crop within the yeast.
The Englishman shortlf after went away home, grudging
Scotland her more fortunate climate. When John was
reproved by his master for practising a deception, he said.
" Sir; irR.OB true as the Uospel, for ye ken versel the la.:
crap wane' aff the grund till Jaonary this blessed
_year," ,
—r,dinburgh Journal.
EXTRAORDINARY Cass.—A letter from Copenhagen, of .
Nov. lb, says—" Doctor and Professor Iderboidt has lately
made known a most extraordinary pathological case, the
certainty of which is established by the testimony of 34
Physicians, and which happened to a young Jewess of a
delicate constitution, but who, up to the age of 14, had
always enjoyed good health. In the space of 18 mouths,
after terrible pains, there were extracted from her holy, at
intervals of several days, weeks,and months, 273 needles.
A little time after, a hundred snore issued from a swelling
which she bad on her shoulder, which took place not
without violent pain and accidents which seemed to
threaten her with 'arapitoaching death. They were for the
most part sewing needles, but broken, without heads or
points, almost all black or rusted. There were found
among them three pins, with the copper jet bright, and a
hair sin. In his statement, the doctor describes exactly
thejil ices whence Alikpins were extracted, hut he gins no
conjecture as to the,manner in which they could have
entered into the body of this young person."—(Jogrital des
Debate.)
Last Friday a bird much resembling a goose, on the
wing, was shot by Alr.tWm. Ellis, in the pond of the tide
mill at Bislsopstone, for which the oldest and most ex-
perienced gunners of Newhaven could find no name, never
havingseen its like amongst all the various wild fowl that
h .d fallen under their view, which is not to be wondered at,
as we belirve it to bea very rare bird. In Ilewick it is
called the Lesser babes, and described as follows:
" Bill blast's and horn colour, tinged with blue, three
inches long, pointed and slender : nostrils very near the
base : tongue pointed : crown of the head and back of the
neck. mouse colour; irides brown : scapulars black %rump, •
tail, and wings black, edged with grey : quill bathers
black: tail very short and rounded. The whole ender
side of the body from the throat to the tail, silvery white,
inept a brown bar, which crosses the vent: inner corers.,
of the wings, white: legs remark sbly flat. and placed close
to the tail,-they are black and grey, with a blue tinge: the
feet are very large, webs entire and flesh colour.—Length
two feet two inches : weight three pounds eight ounces.
The Bird, we understand had, within the Last three or

four months ban frequently seen and sl:ot at, while ha•-
verieg about the sea shore, and over the harbour of New-
haven.

George Strickland, Esq. of Ripon, wbo furnished P..

wick with the specimen for his drawing. said it was tits •
only one he had ever seem—Sasses Advertiser.
MAD DOGS.—LINCOLN, is surptisiog to ob.

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serve the dread which the people here have of mad dogs
Scarcely a week passes in which a notice Is not issued
cautioning the inhabitants to keep their doge fasteneel
within doors, or else they will be destroyed. The streets
are searched three limes a week by persons authorised to
shoot any dogs they find abroad. I was this naming
surprised at bearing a musket fired close under my u indow ;
on looking out I found that an unfortunate dog which had
strayed from his home had been shot by one of the
street-keepers. Another dog was shot in another part of
the town in the course of the day. I understand that a
mad dog entered a village a few miles from Lincoln, the
week before last, and bit two children, three pigs, and
three sheep. A woman milking a cow sae elso bit byes
sad dog a few days since. I bare not heard what were the
consequences in either case.
Sutctue.—On Sunday evening, about eight o'clock, the
body of a young man of the name of Timi'thv ht.enti was
found hanging is a privy, at the hack of the house im-
mediately opposite the Two Brentra poblic house, flatboat
Green. It was stated to our informant, that the decemiel
was a weaver, about 31) years of age, the- son of respect-
able parents residing in 'fbree Colt Lane, and bad fur the
last 15 months paid honourable addresses to a female, the
daughter of a patted maker, about 17 years 01d... The .
father sad family of the voting woman considering the
great disparity of years between them, eosoursgsd this
pretensions of another : this seemed to hays preyed on
the mind of the deceased; he visited a friend on Sunda,
two or three times, and about half past 6ve o'clede is
called and drank tea ; his conversation was itseeherest,
and his conduct extravagant. Heoften burst into team.-

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About befell o'clock he foquestrd his friend to bring him
rem were ploughing In a . ..
t.upennyworth of tobacco, which not being complied
Chichester, they peroeiv-
whit, be went himself, and in place of going for tubeeco,
I substsocca little below
g removed and inspected,
he went to a shop where he bought a twopenny beti•cord,
Wag a large quantity of wit,. which be ccimmitted the rub act. Tile perish Ames
Ipp, and Postuma4 ; the conveyed the body lo a shell to Spitaidelds chWrch, where
• it lies to 'legit the decision of the Comer's loped,

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OLD BAILEY.--Tusso" -Dec O.

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LIDDLIIIID V. •119111111.
This Wei an action by Messrs?. Liddisrd and Cot Ittase.
MVsenste: lb frittsysistreetod recover ageism the Web-
*per of the coach ollee at the Gros., Keys. Wood Street,-
Ibis *slue of ps'otel hooked to go- by the mail to Lisette*.
Wit bittisehich was seat by soot bor 'roach called the De&
sit*. .
%It sppeited that on the'iltboftlt ehecile2l, Mr. Davis,
of Cheltenham. went to Mesers.loiddiard's warehouse. sad
IdiSked oat goods to the vales eflW. 125., which he directed
slibulJ be sent to Cheltenham. lly a each from the 'Bull'
aid Mouthl• When,however, the porter cams to that let,
hi illind•lbat the coach had tot out, and he aceordlOgly•
took the Knell to the Cross Keys, and there booked It. t 6 •
bf dispilefed•4l the mail that evening. The parcel was
niter *Oviired at' Cheltenham ; end, on subsequent isgoiry.
&Whit itdeliked that it was seat, not by the mail, but by the
Ik fleece.
11r. ScAptiol,r, lot the defendant, sold he could prove
IYat the neglitenee Occurred at Cheitenhaus, after the ter
sniestion of the jolinsey s aed also that there was a nodes
exhibited at the office, that the proprietors would be as.
Inferable for no panel above the value of U. sales. entered
• atul'paid totter proportion to the risk.
The LORD ClittlP aveTna held, that neither of these
ground. of Venice were applicable to' the case of a book.
knicier Who engaged to send a package by one coach and
sent it by another; if they could 'weed, in web a can.
the public would be deprived of all Option as to the
conveyance to which goods ought to be intrusted.
•The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Dosages
499. MK •
•COUST OP COMMON PLEAS, Warratturtan, Dec. 9.
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This tree an action brought be tin plaintiff. Messrs,
Taylor and Waters, the porter brewers, agaionthe defend.
ant Single, to recover of him a compensation, is damages
, for the injury, which he bad done to their reversionary
intrust in et-vain:premises is the Mile End Road,. called
the.Weavers' Arms, whilst he was acting under the &mho
sit, of Mr; Barber. Beaumont. Thu real question. how-
ever. which this notion was brought to determine was,
whether ,a slip of ground, six feet in breadth, adjoining
. the Weaves.' Arms, belonged to the plaintiffs or to Mr.
Barber Beaumont. A van• ty of witnesses were examined
upon. this point, whose tn. isoony would excite no interest
euept with the parties themselves. It was proved that Mr.
Huber Beaostiont, to assert his right in this property. bad
• ordered Single to pull down certain buildings which were
greeted upon it, and that the cost of re erecting them would
amount to lOU The Jury, alter heariag the whole of. the
-.- 4/Mance, which was very voluminous, returned a verdict
. for the plaintiff—Datnages. 10.64

Before Mr. Baron Hottoei, aid it Middlesex Joey.
• )(An Weeks was indicted foemelicloosly administering
and emoting to he administered to, and-tikekby, Elisabeth
'l'orrer, certain droop, with intent to cause abortion, the
said Elie. Turner being then pregnant. •
• • Mr: atvarativs having stated the case to the Jury,
' Elisabeth Turner was called, and unfolded the same die-
•• ' fruiting %aloof depravity of which we related the substance,
• : so far-es draper would permit, in oily report of the tring•
nation of the rase•as Marlborough Street police office.—
▪ There being no evidence to shOw that the dregs alleged to
bate bees procured by the prisoner were of a noxious
" •onalits, the witnesteven swearing that she suffered aa harm
from them.
The Learned Baron stopped the trial, and directed the
- Jar,' to acquit the prisoner. l'hey aacqrdingly returbed a
• Verdict of Not linilty.
. . Before Mr. Justine !solemn.
C • • jllergrarN Stanton, the wife of Ilitth.**anton, was put
...." •to thetasr, charged with the capital offence of wilfully aid
, • malicionsly, on the I,2th of. October, Nis parish of St.
'•• Jews. Clerkenwell, coning and inahuntrthesaid It. Stan-
-7.: ion with, intent to kill and murder Itiop„ There was a
• s. wood cowed in the indictment charging: her with having
clone this with intent to disable him for life • and a third,
infect to do him some grievous bodily harm. .
' The prisoner was a young woman, about 24 years of age,
of, a genteel figure.above the middle height, aid agreeable
• inures. She was dressed io a black silk gown, and seemed
euremely seat in her prison. She was allowed a chair, and
• • ventai6ederyiog and sobbing, with her head resting upon
• her hands on the bar before her daring the whole time of
• the trial..
There was no Counsel for the prosecution; bfr.Artotasnas
speared on behalf of the prisoner.
e• • I,lavidCorstorphine was the first witness called. He said,
I .know Richard Stanton and his wife ; they lodged for
s' *months in the same house in which I live. On the 13th of
• i .A.ktober last, I was awoke at 2 o'clock in the morning, by
•-iny wife. 1 went down to the room below, and saw Mr.
witii;Mrs, Stanton there, both out of bed. He was in a
• -fainting state; andl went immediately for Mr. Whitmore,
the surgeon. Before I did so, however, I called up my
• wife; and directed her to remain in the room until I re-
• • turned, I was absent for about a quarter of an hoar. When
I came back, the surgeon looked at the wound, and I left
.• • the roam. After I retnrned to the room, I beard Mr. S. say
• She is tourdering.herself." .1 looked around for her,
•and perceiving her foot, 1 pulled her from under Cie bed.
she had a razor in her band I procured a coach, and had
• him conveyed to the hospital..
••• iMrs, Corstophine, wife to the last witness, was next
toile I, stud saki —I gave the aloha to my husband. While
• soy husband was gone for the surgeon, I heard Mr. Stanton
day to his wile, " I hare been a villain to you these two
• year and a half." Mrs. Stantoo said, " Did not you
jittrod to sell the goods off hole morning, and bring the
gift anti lit me ate her ? He answered," Yes, Margaret,
". t. dttl;it is true I love another better than you." She went
a,o histerical • crying; he said it did him good to see
—. I otecry.. I don't know any thing else, 1 saw that Ise was
• *Onnited ; and heard each ask forgiveness of the other.—
' • Dlbthing pasked to let me know Why ahe asked forgiveness
' ,of hith„ nor by 'whose hand he had received the wound.
• Henry Whitmore said.'l •oroa surgeon. I was fetched
by (Dyad Corstophios op the morning of the 13th of:Oct.
1 ound man Wog upon his on a bed, with his
feet upoti the floor. I desired him to remove his band,
*,t a•iti then I saw bow he had heed Wounded (describing it.)
• Tt:e prisoner was in her chemise,.• lAtsked her. whir did it,
or what it was done with ?
.One, dr both of them, said, ". a
• vizor " I asked Ike Whets the razor wan.? She at first liesi-
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toted, bnt at length said it was under the bed, I was then
stilindlog to.the bleeding man, then:Line no other person
' in the room ; I therefore desired her to. get. it. She got
• under the het,' and remained. there some minutes ; until
••hir, Stsotrwl'lried out that she would.. cut her throat. I
ratted fog ;smite re I Mr. Corstophine camein, and pulled
big*** tioder the bed, with the razor io her hand. She
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• wolerboOds state to answer acv(petitions pertinently. I t
oriamed understood shine ( rho witness wee interrupted
sit tiViateif tlaigeidence. as being Diego!). ~She askfd toe if
• INhougot. she went{ be hanged Z. Sturealced me that
• Astrid . times, She said Alit•.Tier .husband had
...satiated hEr very „contemptuously.,
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aredict It, The mutilation wee .4",apteta.. His
Ke. was getter in ,looser.
.1 told hor ao OM herself, as
• she most go into cuatodi.. She did tilt; .upon that,
.any
Mitt she was, net the porson by whom. ,it itch been done.
4 *Wand did carry thing. she coal' .ae• mitigate 4i.
.utri Helga, both bodily and meroally ahe!sasistel .me 4n
. airy wpy she could ; she begged WS Jotarivepase„mad he
said he did forgive fief ; "she • Wed raid, " dims me ;"
aid they kissed each other heartily; he then went to the
hospital, gad she was conveyed to the watch•honse.

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Mr. Corstaphies mdaSsi..Noliismimilotitemsd watt*
'tete iniebieb Mr.'Stasiot esyliffilltoilludlom is my
pulling Mrs. Stanton froutiaMbi4,llllfiid
D'Aroy.Bolton examined.. autXliptigtion. .1 did 'sot
see the prisoner; I only'sair ittpt wbee he wai brouitkt
to the hospital. 'I fonpd hint, to the state In which
Whitmore.descrjhod him. .13.preltended no danger tft pill
life. With common meta oes4Otoce the cam was not likoky
to prove /44 • ,
Mrs. Corstophine re-called by Mc Asotrous.=-1 bow
this young woman sad lierhasbasd for more thas3 walled`l
lacing all which time she Conducted herself towards lies
rZs an affectionate wife. • She was doadegly fond of him:
1 never knew her for • singlif Moment deficient its that
affectionate feeling. She was, 14, .01 her condost, a most
exemplary young moisan.SheArsipta mild,compassionate,
gentle temper,
By Mr. Justice Bait.xx.—The boviband was far from
being as attentive tole, as be oegkt to have been. They
had no children ;•1 oily heard it said that night, in his
bearing, that he had another female associate.
By Mr. ADOLIPKUL— She was the whole of that night
dreadfully agitated, and did not seem to know what
she said or did. 1 never knew the husband, ose peraonal
violence to her bet once; whether he had dons sa ea this
occasion or not, I don't know, as I was awoke oat. of my
sleep.
rite Learned Jupcs directed the husband to be ;ailed on
his retognizances. He was so called accordingly, but did
not appear.
The prisoner was then asked if she had any thing to say
in her defence, and she answered " No."
A host of respectable witnesses, most of them females,
appeared on her behalf,. each of whom gave her a character
for humanity. gentleness; amiability. and dutifulness,
and affection towards her husband, which could not be

surpassed.
After a very minute bat beings, charge from the learned

Judge,
At half past three o'clock the Jury respotated permission to
retire, which was accorded to by Mr. Justice Bayley.
Shortly after ten o'clock an intimation was gives by the
Jury to the Bench soliciting that they should he relieved wider
the circumstances, that eleven of the Jurors had low since
determined as to their verdict ; bet otse• of the Jurors
was still resolved to ratans a verdict coattary 10 the general
feeling.
The RPCORDSR, In reply to the seemeager# said that he
could receive oo verdict but that in which het eeenimoasly
agreed.
la a few minutes after the Recorder's maws was convoyed
to the Jery they returned into Court.
The prisoner, wbo bad been allowed to retire its the
mean time, was thee introduced and replaced et • the
bar. After the names of the Jurors were called or,r,
the Clerk of the Arraigns asked thetas it the prioners at
the bar was Gent, or not ?

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Foreman.—Notluilty.
The anooancemebt of this ►erdict was reeeived with Narks
of approbation by the aaditoes. The prisoner apen bearing
it seemed powerfully affected. She was ordered by the Re-
commit, who had stopped to receive the ve►dict, to be dia.
charged forth With, and given into the cargo( her sant, who
was waiting for her.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-

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Yesterday Robert Clappiagton was esiwriebei of bavlag
stoles ',live game cock. In his dermal* add Ire merely
took it for a game cock fight in lb* adjaiaingtard.and not
with the intention of keeping. it. Tim ilstry- foiled him
(Nifty, and the Court sectenced #lignin one marthl/4im-
prisonment, and to.be whipped, , 4
The man named Leveret, who had • been eianvietedrink
Saturday of an altenlipt"to viola* Vie rile. of &Obi
Bakbin, his step-daughter. lia4d,Only nine years of ago,.,
was brought tip so reeAve jedgmeet, •
- The llilitißmAntekl4lfitit b• keelhauls convicted of a mist
horrid crime. He was lidsband tolte motherof the chibit
that mother had died only•alew hours before be attempted
to perpetrate his crime, and was then lyieg a• corpse in the
room ; he repeated his violence several Vans aftesl On
the day when he Will convicted; it was iMpossibleo Oar the
Court to pubs sentence on the prisoner, en seebotirWP die
heir hit° which the feelings of all who beard thb trill Were
at that time excited. The sentence now was. that the
prisoner shonU be confined to hard labour for IS months
in the House of Correction

WINTER HOAR untarlT.

CHILMSPORD, Dec. 8.--This Judges arrived here this
day, at two o'clock, and having opened the Cquitnimion,
their Lordships proceeded to Church, accompanied. by
John Jolliffe Tufnell, Esq. the High Sheriff, where a
sermon was preached lot the Rev. R. Q. Baltart Rafter of
Springfield, the Sheriff; Chaplain. . _ . . •
Mr. Justice Houtor D deliTtfed ble charge to RN braad
Jury.
TURID.T.IFOUR O'CLlCK.—Edward Bur4sess was indicted
for stealing, at Southweald, on the 2dth July, a gold
watch. gold seals, and other articles, to the value of more
than 401. the property. of Dr. Richardsou.ia bis dwelling

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home.
It appeared in evidence Out in July UAL, a fire hav-
ing happened in the house of -Dr. Richardson, at Brent
wood, a plumber was. employed to repair the roof. The '
prisoner was one of the plumber's journeymen, and was
employed in heating the irons. This gave him un oppor-
tunity of having access to the different apartments in the
house. On the 26th of July the prisoner left off work at
an unusually early hour, and soon after be was tromp the
property above mentioned was missing. Snspicion falling
on him, he was pursued to (Watford, where it wart found
that be had pawned the greatest part of the 'property
missing, for less than one third its vain*. The .prisoner
was-moon -fter wards apprehended and the vomeinder
of the articles found on his. person. .
The prisoner said nothing in his defence. He was found
Guilty, and sentence. of Death recorded.

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Bow STnEET.--,Yestertiay Francie Sterling: ahi of 14,
was brought before TuoteAl -list.t.s, Esq..; elkirged with
putting out one of the eyes of Charles Rosa, i child of nine
years of age, with an arrow, which it istaritileged be shot
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maliciously at him.
Alexander Rosa, a poor man, seensinelyin an advanced
stage of consumption, stated that he lived in-:Milford' Lane,,
Strand, and when his health would permitlefin he 'worked
at his trade as a shoemaker, at a stall Ara. he hired in
Denten% Court. The prisoner was a remarkably mischiev-
ous boy, and a complete tyrant among' 'the children in
the nrighhourlionl. He At Al contionelly beating his
(witness's) and other children, and annoying them in every
possible way. A short time ago he indicted a serious
injury upon aeeliild of his, sod be failed in getting any
recompence. Yesterday trforning he was called frOarltir
sick bed by Is person who informed him that his beg
Charles had just had one of his eyes put Our by theprisOnet.
Upon Inquiery he learned this the prisoner had taken 'OM
at him with a low and arrow, and the arrow Caked his
eye, thealght of which was roinFletely deecre444,4,l.l;be
,poor chili was taken to a surgeon's iu ..F'ley• lind
from thence *to .11artholutnew,'s 1,1e41tiii...-. lie,iring the
prjsonef in ciiargp ,to Nesbict, the tr,f.,4 " kkfer..-irliii hat
often witnessed the wicitsmfopilimittitithstiko. :a.:l a. i• '
i The piisoder said netting in detmel o lite Akar'', but
cried bitterly, an I prayed that he might be suffered to go
home with his mother, and not sent to 'miaow

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