The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-12 00:00:00

COURTS MA RTIA L.

On the 2d inst. a Court- Martial was held no Joseph
Gibson, Seaman of his Majesty's ship Loire, for
stabbing with a knife, Lieut. H.ichard Croker, Officer
of the Watch on the morning of the 23d of Sept. on
the passagefrom St. Helena to England.—lt appeared
on the evidence, that Lieut. Croker had reported the
conduct of thsoPrisoner to Captain Brown, for mak-
ing use of a vile egression towards the Signal Mid-
shipman on'the evening of the 22i1 of September ;
that on the next morning, between the ',ours of eight
anti ten o'clock, he (Lieutenant Croker), being
Orcer of the Watch, was returning from giving
orders to the Boatswain on the forecastle, when he
heard his name called ; en turning mond lie saw the
Prisoner standing as if wishing to speak to him ; on
Lieut. Croker approaching him, the Prisoner said in a
loud voice, " Yon have reported me to the Cap-
tain;"—Lieut. C. replied, " I have," and was
about to add more, when the Prisoner pulled out a
knife and stabbed at him with all his force, wishing
to hit him in the breast or neck ; Dent. C. sprang
from him, by which he only received a wound in the
shoulder; Lieut. C. then endeavoured to seize the
Prisoner, but finding he could not make use of his
arm, in consegence of the wound, he succeeded in
retreating to the quarter-deck ' • the Prisoner at the
same time brandishing his knife and pursuing him as
• if to make a second attempt, exclaiming, " be
hung for you."—lie was then secured. !La was
found Guilty, and adjudged to suffer death.
On the same day a Court-Martial was also held,
and continued by adjournment until the following city,
on Capt. Lynne, of hip Majesty's stip Eclipse, upon
a charge of detaining the Lord Mirsto cartel, em-
; pioyed in the conveyance of the French Garrison at
the Isle of France to European France, upon
pretence of some irregularity in her papers, and a
supposed breach of the navigation laws; thereby
acting in an improper, unotlicer-like, and unjusti-
fiable manner.—The Court agreed the charge hid
not been proved against the said Captain henry
Lynne, and did adjudge him to be acquitted..
On the 4th
~lust, a Court Martial wts held on
Moses George, Master-at-Arms, Mr. W. Bailey
!Brewer, purser, and Mr. John Pigot, Clerk of his
1 Majesty's ship lithimenio, the first-named for inducing
, three of the Northb Cork Regiment to desert and
enter themselves on board that ship, and the two
latter for aiding and abetting in the transaction.—
The Court agreed that the charges bad been in part
"proved against the said Mr. W. Bailey Brewer, and
i did adjudge him to be severely reprimanded, and that
;the charges had not been proved against the said
1 Moses George and John Pigott, and did adjudge
1 them to be acquitted.

Man. CoActirs.—When the public are paying so
dearly for this accommodation, and while so much
property is dependent on it, the Post-Office ought
to know, that if they imagine it is an uncommon
thing for the guard to !cave his seal and sit with the
coachman, they. are very ignorant cf what is going
on. The guard: frequently do it for whole stages
together ; and they are so occupied with the traffic of
buying and selling game, and talking with poachers
on the road, that the care of the Mall is compare.
tively a very small object. Mr. Farming Is serionsit
called upon to ettqclite into this. •
The following defence has been set up for the con.
tinned imprisonment of Mary Luke, for not naming
the fe rof her Illegitimate child.—" That the un.
w n father of the child supports the a o.nan com-
fortably in the prison, in order probably tb screen
himself from disgrace—that Mary Like keeps the
secrets because she finds it more to her advantage
than to reveal it—that the Magistrates hare no
power to liberate the woman without the consent of
the officers of the parish,--Lend-that the latter refuse
their consent, unless they are relieved from the bur-
den of supporting the child,. The woman has been
brought up every Session since December 1.1109, and
has, it is said, constantly refused to &dire the fa.
ther of the child."
Yesterday, a Gentleman mounted on a grey horse
haring occasion to go into 'Covent Garden Market,'
gave his horse to a man to hold. Tate moment the
Gentleman's back was turned, the man called a boy,
and gave him a penny to hold the bone, telling hies
,p alter takil - it

out. the saddle wanusd some alteration,. null taking it of .
the horse's back, made his escape with it.
loyed I A constant Reader observes, that on Tuesday even. • I.
sett- ing a gang of notorious hustlers, six in number, raft
site• in the, city soon after six o'clock : their route was • ,i I
$, by Fleet street, Lndgate.hill,the soutb-side of St. Pauly f
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