The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-03 00:00:00

THE STATCSNIAN.

their patron's wishes, they *veld willingly declare it;
if they voted in opposition to his will, their silence
wonld hardly serve the purpose of their excnlpatissn in
the oyes of their toaster. But this is not the whole
of the argument. It is no very extravagant assump-
tion, that a hundred or five hundred men might, in
reality, feel little compunction at voting' implicitly
as their patron directed: Isere then, is a powerful po•
Ural engine, by means of which a fl.w master menu-
fanners might turn the balance upon a country elec-
tion. The hare suggestion of rotimg 6.e GoUfa sup-
poses the existence of en evil, inherent in the scheme
of trairessal suffrage, viz. the dependant condition
of the poor. The evil is pOsitiv• and undeniable; the
remedy proposed is inadequate and uncertain.
I offer these observations in the spirit of c:snclia-
tion : the snbject deserves a serious and impartial at-
tontion.—l am, Ice. &c.

SKETCHES OF SIMITERLAND AND THE
RHINE.
['nom goLs AND NOWTHNOVSE'S 1,0111.0 N MAIDASINII.)

deep precipices, and darkened by gloomy pities # now
overhung with trellis *ork, loaded with litxuriant
clusters of grapes, and arrived towards the close of
day at Citta d'lltosta.

L.dfr INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMOI FLEAS, MAT I.

aSTeRN AND OTHERS r. SLADE AND °THUS.
Mr. Serirain BLOSSKT moved fur a rule to show
cause why there should not be a ne* ttisl in this case.
It was en action on a policy of insurance brought by
the plaintiffs as the owners of the large sugar refining
house at Whitechapel, against the defendants as the
represents ices of the Imperial Insurance Company.
The policy in question was effected by the parties at
an increased premium, on account of the great danger
supposed to be attendant on the business of a sugar
refiner. The premises were destroyed by fire some
time since, and on the plaintiffs demanding p«.yincoot
of the sum for which he had been insured, the ilefentl-
ants resisted it on three grontools—first, that the pre-
mises were not well described in the policy according
to the printed proposals of the Company; secondly,
that the fir.. took place from a new process introduced
without the defendants' permission, which they con-
tended, thirdly, had considerable increased the risk.
The second and last points were those mostly relied
un by the Learned Serjeant, s..ho contended, that by
nut co 1111 l every risk to the insurer, the po-
licy was made void, observing at the same time, that
this case was precisely similar to, and governed by the
.ulc with respect to policies of insurance un ships, and
that the situation of a considerable part of these pre•
mites might be compared to that of a ship between
two hostile batteries when liable to he ',rued upon by
either. lie molded, that the evidence and oopinhons of
different gentlemen as to the effect of some experiments
tried to ascertain the fact of increased risk, were at
the trial very contradictory to each other, owing to
the r. rent discovery of the process alluded to ; and if
a new trial should he granted, he had no doubt but
that the evidence tv.vtl I be more definite and certain,
and the result e satisfartory to all parties.
The Corer, after mime tielibmttiun, granted a rule
to show cause.

Saturday evening last Captain W--oe was assaulted
in Covent-garden Theatre in the most unprovoked
manner by Mr. ; W--ee insisted
upon h. ttttt arable satii.faciinn, which was accorded by
Mr. E—n, requesting at the same tone Mr.
.—n to act its his friend upon the occasion, who
professed himself responsible fur the presence of Mr.
K—n at the place of rendezvous. But Mr.
E—n failing to (vim, forward, or even to be
visible, notwithstanding the moat active exertion of
Mr..l--.-11. a Hireling took place yesterday morning at
Wormwood Scrubs between Captain W—ce and
Mr. A-- Ili the latter ltenticittan being compelled to
represent the person of Mr. K—n, who neglected
to appear himself. Captain 14 —re, of emirs', tired. in
the air, when Mr. A—n very properly declined tiring.
The seconds were Mr. B—y and Captain
. .

iat %It CI ICC If XT.% NC/11.—The following curios.
affair is the 4Ubjert of general conversation, at the pre-
sent moment, in the neighbourhood of the Duke of
Bedford's ect4te at Woburn

There are two ponds in the neighhonrhocul of the Abbey.
ce:lod Upper end Lower Droyese, and some boys who went
there to loathe lately, observed some Asinine attbstanees. re-
sembling pieces of gold coin. :wintered at the bottom of the
water, for a considerable distance along the shore, end ex-
tending two or three )ards from the bank. Some of these
pieces they picke.l up, aml they proved to he guineas mid
hall-guineas. The circumstance was soon merle public. and
numbers of people doeked to the place. with all the roger.. I
ness such an occurrence was calculeted to excite. Consider-
able 1111111 M• in guineas. half-guineas. and seven-shilling pieees. I
were picked up by ntanv persons; and it was said that the
borders of both the ponds above•m•entioned were thickly
strewed with vome rec. a coins. The crowd increased by
people coming frntn a distance ; the shrubberies were tram-
pled down. anti all the ordinary occupations of the neigh-
boerhoosi seemed to be suspended. This Coutinteed for two
days : but on the third, Mr. Salmon, his (trace's steward,
iprohibited nil further aettrrh, and succeeded in repelling the
ntruders, and placing a guard over the ponds, till the plea-
sure of the De • r shall be known; but he did not effect this '
without great difficult). Since then foer men have kept eon-
tiniest watch day and night over the plate, and it is supposed
that musty to the amount of some hundred pounds has been
taken away ; but nothing has tr.inspired to shear how, or by
whom it had been so singularly deposited, except the follow-
lag eiretinistenes.:—About three weeks ago. there died at
Crawley (a village in the neighbourhood of Woburn), an el-
derly lad) named Sims. This person had long lived a very
retired life, but was supposed to here ronaidereble sums of
ready moues in bee house. In her lag !fines. she refused to
base any of her relatives about her. and would suffer no per-
son tie attend upon her butyl old women, who resided in a
cottage near her house. Pt her death, her relations took
possession of her premises and effeeta• but not an iota of the
expected heard of cash could he found. The old woman
'those-mentioned was /inspected of hay leg convesed it away,
and she was in ennsequettee carried before a illegistrate;
but she stoutly deeded all knowledge of it, and after a serious
admonition from the Magistrate, abe was discharged. Since
the discovery of the money in the ponds, however, several
persons recollect haying seen her by the side of these ponds,
who, frost her motions, supposed her to he in the set of feed-
ing the swans: and it weary-collected, also, that upon Date ee
tiegref *ewe tweesiens, vb.% she perceived she was observed.
she endeavoured to secrete herself among the bushes on the
banks.—There has also been fount', In the grounds of the
Abbey, an old pocket-book. believed to belong to the de-
iteaseil Mrs. Sims, end containing a number of Rank notes.
The old woman. however. still persists In protesting her ig-
norance of the matter, and thus this mysterious affair rests
at present.
About a for night ago, a party went on an excursion
rof pleasure from Donaghadw• to the Cope Islands,
where the keeper of the lights pointed out to them a
number of larks lying dead on the ground, round the
light-house. Of these one thousand were immediately
counted into baskets, and there still remained a con-
siderable number on the ground. These birds had
rbeen attracted by the light, and struck against the
glass in their passage from Scotland to Ireland. Med-
lar occurrences often take platy.
PROVIDENTIAL BACAPS.--.-011the 14th inst. AS JUIEOII
IShaw, a youth about 17, was putting some tire into a
weighing machine nearly Dudley, he incautiously
plated it close to a cask containing sfilbs. of gun-
powder, with which it communicated and instantly
icanged to explode, levelling the banding to the ground,
sod scattering the fragments to a considerable di,-
tones. The young man was forced by the explosion
upwards of thirty feet into the air, and fell into an
' adjuinin7 field, with his clothes completely tors off.
and his tbsh dreadfully scorched, but moat happily
I without a bone broken or displaced. and be ii mar is
a fair way of re:overy.