The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-01-13 00:00:00

two countries. Yon find Americau mops
may be tried too far.
Unthinking men, who condemn in the mask
and calumniate wherever they condemn, do eat
distinguish betwecn your constituents and their
instrument. They attach an odium to your name,
which the more discerning know you do not de.
serve. When Mr. Jefferson retired, it was said
the main obstacle to an accommodation was re.
moved. But they who conceived such hopes, did
not know Mr. Canning. Doubtless you were
ordered to hold the front you did. Those rbeto.
ricel flourishes and polished invectives, with which
your letters abound, are perfect imitations of Mr.
Canning's school, which has substituted such
balderdash fur the stately and respectable garb,
in which, till his day, diplomacy, however hos.
tile, was invariably clothed. When, besides the
utter success of their enemies, the unfortunate
people of England, in a short lapse of disaster,
were deprived of Pitt, Fox, Nelsen, Cornwallis,
and Thurlow, fate seemed to have declaredagainst
them—and almost ever since, distraction, igno.
ranee, and malversation, have possessed a cabi.
net, theretofore filled with talents, integrity, mid
public spirit. One of the last struggles of the
last of these administrations was to dispatch you
to this country, with instructions, which, it cannot
bequestioned, you hare rigidly conformed to. The
result is what must have been desired, though it
perhaps was scarcely expected by the King, your
master, and his late Ministers. And you are too
high.spirited a man to blame the Americans, if,
by every thimg short of insult to your person,
they shew their detestation of such insidious and
dastardly measures.

Your predecessor, Mr. Merry, an atrabilious
and maladroit old man, to whom it was said Mr.
Jefferson had been ungracious (at leastMrs.Merry
said so), was received ht Philadelphia with a hospi.
tality, intended to compensate fur the rudeness he
complained of at Washington. Mr. Liston was a
great favourite; and Mr. Erskine was always wel-
comed with a kiudiress much more than merely
polite. You are the first British Minister from
whom 414 hospitalities of Philadelphia have been
withheld, and you are personally the best entitled
to them. You must, therefore, ascribe the corn.
parative isolation from society, in which you are
suffered to live in this metropolis, notwithstanding
the elegance of your retinue and manners, to tha:
feeling of unanimous indignation against your cm.
players, which the disclosure of your correspon.
deuce has aroused.
Tkough you came fortified with letters of intro-
duction, and all the, attractions calculated to make
your company fitsirahle, yet you cannot but ap-
plaud this repulsive nationatity, however disagree-
able you may find its effects. We know how to
separate Mr. Jackson from his instructions ; bet
his representative has cast so. deep a shade over his
private character, that Americans of 10 parties,
not caring to draw the distinction, are reluctant to
dispense those civilities, which, but for the part it
has been his cue to act, they would have bean proud
and forward to shew.

After lingering here a little longer, in a sites-
lion unworthy your rank and accomplishments,
you will return to England with the sorry satis-
faction of haling performed an odious service in
the letter of your command. Unless you go to
Algiers, Ispahan, or Tin:maim, there is now no
friendly Power left in whose capitals conspicuous
residence may snatch you from comparative insig.
nificance in the environs of London. But at all
events, you will have the satisfaction to 'find Mr.
Canning, who with no stronger claims than a pretty
genies,and the consistency of faction, attempted to
hold the reins which Pitt could hardly manage ;
you will find him once more in his proper place,
not at the Privy Council Board, but at the desk of
7'he Anti-Jacobin, writing perhaps an additional
canto to The Loves of the Triangles. Yon may
assure him that his mission is fulfilled : and that
though his artillery failed of its effect OIL his ens.
mks, it answered, under your direction, at least
the purpose of driving off his few remaining friends.
While Mr. Smith's share of the transaction was
managed with calmness and perspicuity, you, in
the full spirit of your instructions, were superb,
c mtemptuous, confuse:l, insulting, and belligerent.
The blunder you committed with respect to the
oral communications, and the petulance you gave
in to, when you complained of the newspapers,
and demanded your passports, were, to be sure,
departures from the lefty line of your orders.—
But they may be pardoned in consideration of
your excellence upon the whole. Yon certainly
effected your rejection in a• shorter time than al-
most any other diplomat could have attained that
primary object. But you meat tell that sopho-
more in politics, to whom you owe the honours of
your embassy, that dictation, however it may be-
come his haughty pen, is not adapted to conciliate
a free and intelligent people, who had the hardi.
hood to send you home in disgrace for faithfully
executing your commission.
GA NGANELLI.
(Philadelphia Gazelle, Dec. 9.)

OLD BAILEY.

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THURSDAY, JAN.
liannah Watkins, and another werearied, and
acquitted, on a charge of felony.
henry Charles Large, alias Lawrence, was
convicted of rubbing John Long of a variety of
articles of wearing apparel to the amount of 3t
Elizabeth Falbrook, otherwise Ellett Price,
stood charged with stealing from Amelia Stratton,
a great number of articles of wearing apparel, to
the amount of upwards of 501.
Mrs. Stratton stated, that she was the wife of a
Gentleman of that name now serving in his Ma.
jesty's ship the Monarch, but that she hid parted
from him these two years • that she had taken
lodgings in the house of a IVles. Price, No. 19,
Norfolk.strect, St. Mary.le.bone ; that on the
evening of the '2Bth of November she went out
at eight o'clock, and returned about twelve the
same night. On the morning Colton lug she was in-
formed by the owner of the house that she had.l
been rubbed of a.quantity of cluaths which she
had given to her to wash, and upon searching her

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drawers she missed a vast deal • inure. That she
saw nu more of the articles for the space of five
weeks,- till they were shewn to her at the Police.
Office, where the Prisoner was in custody.
Aiwa Maria Price, the sister of the unfortunate
Prisoner, depoied that several articles named in the
indictment were left out by the prusecutrix, Mrs.
Priestly (that being the name-in which she took
the lodgings), with her mother, to wash, on the
28th of November. That about nine o'clock
that night, her sister, the Prisoner, decamped,
and the several articles were missed. In five
weeks after, she returned to the house unexpect-
edly, and was taken into custody, when she con.
hissed what she did with the property.
Mary Brent stated,. that on the night of the
28th of November the Prisoner came to her in the
Piazza, Covent Garden, having a bundle in her
apron, and employed her to.procure a lodging for
her, which she did for that night with herself, in
the purlieus of Drury.lane; and in the morning
pawned the* whole contents of the bundle with
different Pawnbrokers, and afterwards sold the du-
plicates to a Mrs. Beaumont for 13s.
Mrs. Beaumont corroborated this; and added,
that she went and took the articles out of pawn,
sold some, and gave up the rest, when the Officer,
and a mart of the name of Lumley, came from the
Magistrates for them.
Lunacy was called, and said he is a clerk in the
employ of a person of the name of Scatchard, an
Attorney. lie produced the articles delivered, to
him, and Mrs. Stratton identified them. Among
them was a lace cloak which cost her 181. utilise.
veral pairs of new silk stockings, of the finest
description.
When called upon for her defence, she acknow-
ledged the offence, but charged the Prosecutrix,
with being the cause of it, by intoxicating her
frequently, and enticing her to wear fine clothes,
as she meant to introduce her to Gentlemen of
her acquaintance.
. On her behalf another sister, Martha Price,
,wai called as to her character, who deposed that
she was an innocent girl till the Prosecutrix came
to her mother's house, and first corrupted her, by
promising to introduce her to the Duke of
tioeensberry, who would give her five guineas
~every visit, out of which the Prosecutrix was to
have two.
The Jury, after a most excellent charge from
Mr. Justice Le BLAND, found the Prisoner
guilty, but recommended her to the merciful con
sideratiou of the Court.

FRIDAY, JAN. 12. .
Sugannah Geraine, an old woman, aged 78,
was capitally indicted for feloniously uttering as
true, knowing them to have been forged, several
notes for 11. purporting to be notes of the Bank
of England.
. The Prisoner, who is the wife of a watchman,
in the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell, resided in
the house, No. 2, New.court, Cow-cross. On
the 2d of December last she purchased some arti-
cles at the shop of Mrs. Mary Clarke, in St.Juhu.
street, and gave a 11. Banknote in payment.
The shopman had some scruples at first about
taking it ; but the Prisoner gave her own address,
and said she would bring him another, •r the. .
ney for it if he did not like it. On the Thursday
following she came to take up the note again, and
put down Ns. promising to call the next day with
the 21. but the shopmsu kept the money, protuis-
ing to give her thu note when she brought the re.
minder. As she did not come according to pro-
mise, he was induced to inquire at the Bank whe-
ther the note was genuine; but it was there pro.
pounced to be a forgery. He was advised by the
Bank Officers to act rantiously, and to inquire of
the woman from whom she obtained it, its order to
discover whether it led to any train of accomplice.
ship. Ile went accordingly and asked her ; and
she answered, that it was given her by a man
whose name or residence she did not then know,
but promised to find out both, and inform him
next day. She failed in the performance of this
promise also. Information respecting the circum.
stance being given at Marlborough-etreet Office,
some of the Police-Officers were sent to her lodg-
ings in the morning of the 16th of • December,
where they found the old woman and her husbaml
in bed. They interrogated her how she came bl
the note; and she said then that she bad found this
note and several others. The husband then came
forward, and told the Officers his wife was an old
fool, and telling them lies, for it was he who
found the notes, in a tin case, when going the
rounds upon his beat in St. James's Church-yard.
The Officer now took them both in custody, and
seached the apartment, where they found elevate
one pound and four two pound notes, wrapt in an
oil cloth, and concealed up the chimney; all of,
them, upon examination, proved to be forged.
The Prisoner had nothing more to urge in her
defence than that her husband found the notes.—
• Death.
he usbanli, ;=-=-Gerretne; was immediately.;
afterwards tried upon an indictment for having in
his posseision the aforesaid Bank-notes, and fou,nd I
Guilty.
THEFT, DELUSION, AND CREDULITY.
Margaret Conner: and Richard Gunner: were
Charged with a capital felony, in stealing in the,
dwelling.house of Joseph [redid!, iu King.street,
Soho.square, three gowns, two pair of sheets,
and a variety of articles, to the value of more than
40s. the property of Mary Anderson.
The Prosecutrix, a simple-looking young
man, stated that she kept a mangle; in the month
of May last the female Prisoner, who was then
'married, came to lodge with her, and continuedi
with her for some time. • She afterwards assistedl
her to remove to a different house in the same
street, where the Prisoner again came to live with
the Prosecutrix. Shortly after she came to live
with her the second time, the Prisoner told her
that she‘wished to try some experiments. She ac.
cordivly began by laying the poker and shovel
tinder the bed curing the night ;. then, cut wit rings
of cloth, which she elaced in sand with sothera.
wow!, and figures cut out in paper, which she
placed on the chimney-piece. After this she made
a cake, prepared in • a particular manner, and
broth, into which she put certain powders) and