The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-05-08 00:00:00

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mind ; that about twelve at night she ap, atm ._
linen line, pinned her cap over her head, and went out of
the house taking a small chair with her, and left the'
door open; the witness followed her; deceased hail one
end of a rope about her neck ; did not see her tie the
rope about her neck, but confessed tying it on in the
room • the deceased was about to throw the rope over the
arm Of an apple tree, when he overtook her and brought
her in, and took the rope from her. The deceased. :all
Wednesday evaiing, u as very anxious to die, and wished
witness to die nit!' her and on Thursday she expressed
a desire that they should both die together. Th'e te.
ness has known the deceased ever since Mich*
Bury hair; the deceased had been very anxious a
the payment of the half-year's et ; the witnss sai
I would go to his friends and gets it deceased e
slid, " If
you go away. I shall ha afraid that you will not come
bark again;' that it was not for want that they coin-
mined the act ; it has: been in contemplation some time.
The Jury retired somewhat more than half en hone;
and, on their return, delivered their verdict--" Mary
Gooch, bring of sound mind, took laudanum to cause
her death, procured at her request by John Spring, and
that she died—Felo de se."
About midnillit the remains of the wretched woman
were interred iu the etoss-road, at the end of Itisbygate-
street.

Bow-rrairr.—Yesterday. Mr. Wm. Porknell, the keeper
of an oyster shop in tiit. Martin's-lane. was brodght up by
Stowell, nne of the constables of the office, to answer to the
complaint.of Thomas Archer, Esq. of Stafford-place, Pim-
lico, for having been guilty of wanton cruelty to a dog.
per stated, that as he was passing along St. Mar-
't half en hour before, he saw the defendant
water from some lobsters which he had
When he had done this, he took up the yes-
he hot water, and poured its contents upon a
was approaching him at the moment. The
RIM dreadfully on its head and hack, ran
as it was mad, and whined and
iy, to the indignation of the
,ev • on expressed themselves in
io e at to retreat speedily to
as premisese use had not the smallest
done design
Ardinied that it was tione wantonly, and said
he did not see tee dog when he threw out the water. It was
eatireiy accident% ex,' •
• Mr. Mtn mu sa. and Mr. Becarrr. the Sitting Magistrates,
arid, they could entertnig no doubt that the act was one of
wilful and wanton' ruelly,•and it was such a one as deserved
the infliction of the severest penalties awarded by the sta-
tute. Woo perusing, however, the preamble of the Act of
Parlia.ffent. a doubt arose. as to whether cruelty to dogs
came within its enactments; and after. some discussion the
ease was dismissed.
Another application was made fur proceedings against
'the servant of a poulterer of the name of Harwood, is
l'ottenbam-rourt-road, by a gentleman named Gardiner,
raiding at No. 3117, Strund, an Artist, who stated that
he was passing by the shop, ands- vale one of his men'
take a live fowl, anti after sliglelly twisting its neck,
barely sufficient va,, stun it, placed it betweenhis knees,
and began plucki4 the large feathers from the wings.
The excessive pain caused the poor thing to writhe so
violently, that he caul.l with great dilhcnity hold it :
he, however, continued this species of torture until the
bird was nearly divested of all its feathers, when he
threw it forcibly upon the grounl, and it still possessed
so much life as to get upon its legs, and attempted to
to walk. Mr. Gardiner remonstrated with the men, and
begged of him, if :le had any humanity at alt, to kill
the fowl at once. This he refused to do, and behaved in

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a very insolent and abusive manner, telling Mr. (lard'.
ner to mind his own business, or he would pull some of
his feathers out. Mr. Gardiner persisted in seeing the
master, who, on the affair being related to him, coolly
remarked that the man ha I done very properly, as the
genera practice in the trade was to pluck the fowls in
a similar manlier, as they had a much better appearance
for sale than if plucked after they were dead.
The Magistrate, for the same reason as in the preced-
ing case, deal-nod i tterfering.
MARLBORciOH-STKEET.—Yesterday Fro:mei:and Alan
Deneniels, father and son, were bronzlit to this Office by
%Vides and (Amelia, the officers. Wales stated that the,
fellowerl the prisoners through Hyde Park and along
Oxford-street, and saw them repeatedly drop pieces of
paper in the way of several Ladies who were passing._
At length the officers seized them, and secured one of
those papers in the father's hand, which he made evert.
effort to destroy; the contents of these papers were of
the most shameful and indecent nature. On searching
their persons, upwards of thirty letters were found, con
taining petitions for pecuniary relief addressed to var;-
ous Noblemen and Gentlemen, and also a list of siii.-
scriptions, containing the names of the Earl of Aber-
deen, Cord Stanley, LorJ Sattoun, &c. The butlers of
the two former Peers attended, and recognised t e
younger prisoner as having come with letters of this de-
scription, and receiverl money.
When the elder prisoner was asked to give some ac-
count of himself, lie said that his family, which is very
respectable, was weal known to Sir Edmund Antrobus--
that lie had formerly been a cabinet-maker in tlic Strand,
hut failed in business. He had afterwards kept a school,
but for a considerabl • time past he has hero chiefly em-
ployed at most of the private burying-grounds in the
metropolis, to read the burial service over the dead.—
He has buried, in the course of his practice, upwart:: of
two thousand persons, and received for each grown per-
son nin-pence, and for each child sixpence. The
friends of the deceased never knew hut he was a Clergy.
mai, as he always wore a gown ou those occasions.
Mr. the Magistrate, said they were bolt highly
deserving of punishment; but as lie could not sell sepa.
rate their guilt, and as nu doubt the son acted under the
Whence of the father, he would at pros-nt discharge
them both ; brit he'lloperl, when it became known to too
Ecclesiastical Potters that the elder prison rr had pri-
sinned to officiate as a Clergyman of the Church of
En4land, proper ptuteedings would be taken agtintt
him.

The Sessions of the Peaceful. Middlesex begin at the Ses-
sions-house on Clerlenwell-green, on Tuesday next, the
13th instant.

Itasioved. or PRISONERS.—This day the prisoners who
stand committed on charges of felony. will be rem"rad
from the several goals in London and Middlesex, to Ness -
gate. preparatory to taking their trials at Justice Halt, in
the Old Bailey, where the Sessions commence ou Wednes-
day next.
John Gordon, tailor, who died lately at East Tern,
ments of Breclein, in the Nil year of his aze, has left a
daughter affected in a very reinarksble manner with
species of 1 -.lcsii-jaw. The unfortunate snfferer can
take no sustenance whatever but once in 24 hours.—
About eight o'clock in the evening she, can generally, fur
the space of half an hour, open her ).ivs, eat and drink,
and talk se ith freedom, after which interval she fails into
her former state.

Tuesday night,* shopman to Mr. Forbes. linen-draper, in
Tottenham Court-road, put a night-cap on a barber's block,
which he kid in the maid-servant's bed; the maid going to
bad last of the family, and seeing toe appearance of a man's
head in her bed, was so frightened that she ile;pped the can-
dle, which set tire to the sheets, and the blaze cominunimeed
to her gown and apron. She ran down stairs In Haines, and
her cries alarmed the family, who hastened to her assistance
and extingui-hed the fire in her clothes by rolthig her le a
carpet, and throwing a pail full of water over her .; they
then ran up stairs, and found the room nil in flames; with
the assistance of seine pails rull of water they suc.;mded in
putting out the tire, but not before the bed and bedding and
principal part of the furniture were destroyed. The unfor-
tunate girl was much burned in the face and hands.
COUON ert's iNQUIESTS.—An Inquest was held yester-
day afternoon at the Lord Somers' Arms, Grenville•stre,t,
Sotners'-town, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. Coroner, on
the body of Mr. George Carr, many years Prompter of
Drury-lane Theatre. It appeared from the evidence, that
on Saturday, about 12 o'clock, Mr. P.tle don, a neigh-
boor, was sent for to Mr. Carr's house, No. 11, Sydney-
street, Somers'oown, as Mr. C. was very ill. Just as Mr.
Paleston had got to the house, Mr. Carr diet!. Mr. lVat-
ford, a surgeon, was sent for, and he attempted to bleed
Lim ; but it was of no avail. The deceased had been un-
well for some time, hut he hail been out cn Friday. Ver-
dict—Died by the 'Visitation of Lion. The deceased has
left a wife and 14 children.
An Inquisition was also taken yesterday evening before
T. it:tirling, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Thos. Elliott,
Esq. a gentleman of forum?, and a great patron of the
prize ring sports, the turf,&c.
The hilliest was held at the house of the deceased, 39,
Hunter-street, Brunswick-iquare.
Thomas Spencer, footman to the deceased, stated, that
Lis master went to bed between one and two o'clock, on
Tuesday night, and about eight o'clock a person called,
asked if Mr. Elliott was within, and acne cerensonie fol-
lowed him up stairs into the gentleman's bed-room, and
be was soon followed by another. These were a Sheriffs
officer and his aid-de-camp. They soon after retired
below, and Mr. Elliott gave witness directions to proem.*
a pen and ink for them, to give a discharge to a writ of
331. In a short time after, witness heard the report of a
pistol, and he found his master had shot himself on the
left side of the abdomen with a horse pistol, which,
from excPpive charge, had nearly forced the lock off.
John Evans, surgeon, stated, that he was called in
soon after eight o'clock yesterday morning ; he found
the deceased dead, but warm, reclining in a chair, with
his shirt on only. There was *considerable wound and
laceration on the lower part of the stomach, the effect of
a discharge of shot. The charge passed through the
heart and the lungs, end must have caused instantane-
' ous death. 'File pistol hid three or four yards from the
body, and there were a shot belt and powder flask upon
the bed.
Mary IVeston had lived a year and a half in the ser-
vice of the deceased. He was subject to pains in the
head, and did not seem to know what he did or said.—
He used leeches upon his temples, and medicines agree-
able to his own fancy. He had been worse since a
recent shock wising from the death of his mother;
after which lie kept his bed-room, and said every thing
seamed to be going wrong. He hail lately been at
Brighton, but got worse. lla drank freely, and was
irritable. Witness had often put razors and other in-
struments of destruction out of his nay, fearing he would
kill himself. His skull was fractured when a youth.
The executor to the will of the father of the decease!,
proved, that deceit .ed was not of sane mind ; he had been
coerced formerly by a sirait waistcoat when younger, and
had been twice under the care of a keeper.
The Jury expressed themselves satisfied, and returned
a verdict or Insanity.

COAL MARKET, M*v 7.
Ships at Market. Ships Sold. Price.
2t4 NeWeß9.le lB Stu. tad. to 435. a
UI Sunderland Ai Mo. Od. to &Is. Od.
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DIKD.—On Afonday evening last, In Suhnoutb-stress.
%leeklenhurah-square, in the 30th year of her age, Maris,
wi'e of W. Cartwright, Esq. and youngest deugater of dis
late Mr. D. Robinson, of Gray's-inn-place, solicitor.

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