The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-01-18 00:00:00

SURREY SESSIOA'S.--Jax . 17 .

The following case excited considerable interest in
consequence of the act-titled having been for a low; time
a preacher, and having had a chapel of his own in
Luck's-fields. at which he bad preached until the last
twelve months.
Mr. T& meows stated the case for the prosecution, and
Mr. GAIVI.CI conducted the defence.
The prisoner. letet Tapper. was indicted for having
received ten books and a table-cloth. knowing them to
be stolen. The articles in question were the properly ot
Mrs. M. Schroder, of Capliani-rise.
The eireurustances of the case were shortly these. On
the 14th of October last, the house of Mvs. ltl. ;Schroder,
a Berman lady, residing at Clapham, was robbed of con-
siderable property. antonest which were ten volumes of
a Gasman work, Martin Luther's Commentary on the
Bible, and some tat:;?-!'lien. One colonic of the work
in question was left behind by the thieves. On the 401
December, the stolen work was offered for sale he the
prisoner, in company with a woman with whom he co-
habited, to Mr. Nolte. a bookseller, in York-street. Co-
vent-garden. The satin demanded by the prisoner for
the work was 7/. Ile said he hall has it in his family
for fifty years; but the account which lie gave of the
possession being disbelieved, he was takon into custody.
and also the woman who went with him. The books
offered for sale lay the prisoner, were sworn to by the
sou and daughter of the proseentris as her property.—
The prisoner when he was taken into custody, EMI' a
false acconut of himself. and refused at first to disclose
his residence. An °diver searched the residence of the
prisoner in Temple-street, am) roomd there a table-cloth
and harp-cover, the property of the prosecuiris.
The Jury found the prisoner goilty.l
The Court sentenced the prisoner tube imprisoned fur
twenty-four calendar ths.
A girl, apparently not more than fifteen years of age,
was indicted for stealing from the person of Pierre
Louise Tarrese, 35/. in bank note:.
The prosecutor is a French egg-merchant, and lie
stated that, on the 27th December, he was intratlnced to
tile prisoner at a house of ill fame, near St. lieorge's
Fields, He had, when lie went in the house, bank notes
in his pocket to it considerable iiiii too. The prisoner,
during his stay at the house. contrived to steal from his
person three bundles of notes. to the amount of
with which sbe made off. The prosecutor said the
prisoner put her band into his pocket, took ant the
notes, snatched up the catullestick. m:el ran away like a
snake." She was soon after apprelieuded, but nothing
was found upon her.
An officer corroborated the statement of the prosecutor.
The Jury found the prisoner Lliiity, and the Court
sentenced {ter to be transported for life.

The frequency and atrocity of *beet robberies, and
the scandalous apathy of the police in that respect, I
seems at length to have roused Ore public to a, sense
of their danger and disc raec. The Grand Jrtry of the
City of London, much to their honour. presented the
frequency and daring violence of this crime, at the
close of their labours last sessions.
IVedneaday an inquest wraJteld in Exeter, on the
body of Sarah Hales, a .errant girl, whose death was
occasioned by taking a large quantity of oil of vitriol
on the preceding day. The surgeons who examined
the body, say, that they never witnessed such a horrid
mass as the stomach exhibited, being entirely derons-
posed by the burning powers of the arid. It appears
that the Unfortunate girl, who was about 20 years of
age. was the victim of an arful villian, ulna, under
pretence of affection, succeeded in effecting her ruin,
and then left her to lament her misfortune and his
inconstancy. Insupportable remorse soon preyed upon
her spirits, and the miserable object of seduction be-
ing four months advanced in pregnancy, and worn
down by shame and sorrow, ended her life, in a mo-
ment olinsanity, by the dreadful means we have de-
scribed. The bottle from ulieh the fatal draught
was poured was marked "leardeanie•,."and it is sup-
posed she bad before swallowed a quantity oi that
opiate, without the intended effect. Tim July of
several flours deliberation, retn;nliti a MINA* Of

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BOW-STRZRT.--Joeeph 11ites17, a young ma* late
the service of Mr. Chitty, the barrister, was brought
fore Sir Roam Batas, yesterday, neer tie M-
eting circumstances 1,--
By the evidence of Mr. Chitty, sad several of his
servants, it appered that the prisoner catered the ser-
vice of that geutleman in the latter end of last No-
vember ; and on the evening of the lith December fol-
lowing, during the temporary absence of the batter,
be absconded with a large quantity of silver plate.
It was also stated by the battler that be had found
two skeleton keys in a drawer, which the prisoner
used for his own purposes.

Mr. Marsh, potire olSeer of Gloucester, deposed to
his having apprehended the prisoner en Friday last,
at a public house in that city, in consequence of bar-
bur seen an aerount of the robbery and a description
of his person is the Hue and Cry, or Police Duette.
This officer also produced a variety of articles of livery
dress, which he had found upon the prisoner, sad
which were proved to be the property of Mr. Chitty.
No part of the plate has been discovered.
The prisoner, when asked if he had any thing to
say, told the following story :--“Oo the evening of
the 6th of December, soon after the butler went out.
somebody knocked at the dour. I went to open it, and
found there a young woman, named Mary Smith, with
whom 1 had a slight acqnaintance, having met with
her three or fonr times in the street. I asked her to
walk down stairs, and I left her in the pantry whilst
I went out to get a pot of porter, she having expressed
a wish for the same. When I came hack, I found the
door ajar; and, on proceeding to the pantry, 1 also
fhand that the young woman was gone, and that the
plate was missing. I instantly set out in pursuit of
her, and client more than two hours in the search ; but
not being able to find her, 1 was afraid to return to my
master's house. I then went to the Bull and Mouth
Inn, slept with the guard of the Worcester coach, and
the next morning, at six o'clock, I Pet out with him
for Worcester ; and this is all I have to say,ientle-
men, I know nothing of the plate, nor have 1 seen the
young woman since."
He was committed for future examination.

./u/sa G: hr was charged with rutting the straps of
a trunk behind the Earl of Harrowhy's carriage, on
Monday eveuitt.e, with intent to steal the said trunk.
Lord flarrowhy's valet wat the only witness. He
stated, that as the carriage was passing along Berke-
lev-street, between seven and eight o'clock, he A-
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served the prisoner on the footpath, Nina ing it, and
presently he saw him cross over close behind the car-
riage. Thinkitig he had some bad design, he instant-
ly jumped out, and seized him as be was going to run
otf. Both straps were rat throngh, but the trunk
had not been removed. No knife was found upon the
prisoner.
The prisoner denied the charge altogether, and
said, he was running across the street when the wit-1
ems seized him ; at the same time suffering a lad to
escape nho had been riding behind the carriage.
He was committed for the misdemeanour; and, in
the evening, two of the most respectable fruiterers in
Covent-garties market tame forward, and after Flying
him an excellent character, lAcause bail for his appear-
s-Ice at the Sessions.

MARLBOROVGII-STRUT.—A CM.' of inilitidual int •
portance came on yesterday at this office, touching
how far the military bad a right to interfere with pub-
licaas where soldiers are quartered. A publican of
St. Ann's parish, was complained against, that he had
told a serjrant, whose ditty it was to see that a s.lldier
was in his quarters, that he was in bed when he was
not there, and that he reftised the serjeant a candle to
go into the rooms. The publican's defence was, that
he believed the soldier was in his quarters ; that he
was not holm, to allow any person to go sip stairs in
In, st of a soldier s quartered upon him, as a prison
might pretend to be a non-coutinissioned officer,
when in realitt• he was not so, and thus subject the
house to nocturnal visits for the purposes of depreda.
don.

The two Serjeants present voted that they had in-
ltructions from their officers to art tip to the duty
which they hail performed, and not finilinc the *ol-
die's in bed, as had been stated by the landlord to he
the case, they hail taken the present step at the desire
of the commanding officers.
'I he 31acts rrtarc expressed his opinion that it was
the deity of every publican, for the preservation of
good order, to allow every facility to non-commissioned
offerers to ascertain if the privates were in quarters;
hut. on looking at the Artirles of War, he could not
find a section which authorised s‘arching- a house, ex-
cepting fur a des •rter or a felon, and be must there-
fore dismiss the case with the observation, that the
house of an individual was different from barracks ;
but b.• recommended that publicans should give every
faciiity for ensuring the subor,!ination and good dis-
cipline of Ilse subtler, and the good order of his own
house. case was dismissed.

Friday morning, Aunt three o'clock, the family of 1
Mr. Vanua, cliee-ieniunger, 129, Nigh-street, Shad-
well. were awoke out of their sleep and thrown intu
the utmost alarm, at hearing a crackling noise; sup-
posing it to be occasioned by rubbers endeavouring to
gain arlilosis4.os, they got up, and after making the
nececes.ary preparatioty, in cam, of an attack, Mr.
Farmer, out being at home ; a person went out cau-
tiously, and gave the alartu at the two adjoining
houses. occupied by Mr. Rochester, a tea-dealer, and
Mr. Spring, patent navy paint and ship bottoming
warehouse, who also got up to oppose the entrance of
the supposed robbers. A greater degree of terror,
however, was immediately excited amongst the occu-
piers, the whole of the roofs of the three hours falling
in at the same time with a tremendous crash, beating
low,' the whole of the third floor of each house, and
materially damaging the secwid. Two children, who
were at the time asleep in a room on the second Boor,
in Mr. Farmer's house, miraculously escaped being
killed, one of the rafters in its fall having got right
;through the foot of the bed in which they slept; had
loot these families been roused through the above cir-
'co Law ance, several lives not,: have been lost, as the
Igreater part of the fatu.::ics iu each Louse slept on the
thin I 11l Jr.

NAUTICAL Virgthldatiep.
r
iftesytts, *filets arrived at Paste ea tile lStli
paced oa the ttls is Wig. bet. 49. N. doe I sec
fatigable, of lawadoa. totally dismalltedi add wittiest
say parses ma heart
The Prawideatii. lierseap, from Crokic to flumt e.
was wrecked sear Usage.*** o. Monday sigt.Cgs.
saved.

The Margaret. Ts*, from Leith to Newcastle, ht
entering Shields on the 13th inst. ram on the STAN
bat it was expected would be got off with little di.
wage.
I:►tcvr*a, JITLY 4.—The Hibernia (reentry Wry
is totally lost off Cape Ramses, awl genial of the crew
drowsed.

HAIM ICH, .1•N. 16.—The Princess Charlotte packet.
which arrived this day from Heligoland, reports tta
the Elbe is full of ice ; bat that, with a wegterly triad,
ships may reach Cuxhaven. The buoys in the river
are all gone. 1 here is a brig aid galliot at Relics.
lands waiting to proceed for liambergis.
HICI.IOOLIIID. Dec. 31.-1 lie Weser light vessel
passed here 27th inst. for Norway, aid the Hassimi
light vessel arrived here the (lay after, being oblipd
en leave their stations on account of the ice and she%
easterly wind.
P, rsiuvTi JAN. 15.—The Lord Welliagtsa, NM,
is arrived here (rum Madras. She sailed on the isth
August from Cndtlalore on the 27th fullosing, and
from the Cape 17th November. The Petseverance
and Ocean had sailed from the Cape for Englaad
some days before the 17th, and the Johanna, for Ala.
stet(iaos, on the

CaLecrra, Ace. 24, IS2o.—The ship Essex, Ma-
hon. for London, via Cape and Madras; ship John
Bill, Corlett, for Liverpool; and ship hippolita, Hol-
ton, for Hall, via Cape, are expected to sail in three
or four days.
lhastoNnHAltninClt, AI:41. 18.—Lady Nugent and
Eilutonstotte on their way to tuws—.►ag. '22. Char.
lotte and Cambrian sailed for China ; Lord landed!.
passed down on the 2lst ins:. for South Aisterlea ;
Elzabeth and Maitland, outward bound, remained ea
the 21st Ins•.

EIWK An;. 11.—Peruwerance outward boned,
remains.—Aug. 19. Jun•,, (American) pasted down.
—Aug. 22. Sincapur., brig, rnd Slaria, schooner,
*twird bound, remain, aid 0 •ne • iv, brig, ins etl sr.

:V kw A NCUOR AGR, Arc. 1 1.-31arci Prefori;a
.sited for China.—Aug. 22. H. C ships Marquis of
Huntley and Dttnirt
Sacoon, Axis', 111nrer. and Ile.
len, gone to sea.—Avg. 22. Juno, ontwari bumf,
remain.

Vagart.n SPOKEN Wyru.--The Comet, from Liven
pool for Calvntta, on the Ist. of Sept. lat. 7. 54. N.
lon. $2. 50. E. Hope, Flint, from London for Mader.,
nest day, same tat. and bin. Lady Kennazay, from
London to Madras on the !nth of Sept. lat. 4. 19. lea.
$4. The Medway, from England, on the 20th Der.
lat. 12. 49. long. 26. 12. ; by the Lord Wellington,
arrived at Plymunth.

IMPORTANT TO reasons ts Tits CoI•NTRT.—As
the sates for the present Lottery sire so great, we
straitly recomusead our Coast% Fries* who in-
tend to adventure-, to apply immediately 'WA, newest
agent, otherwise they may be disappointed; as all
the unsold will very likely be required back soon for
the London trade. The Drawing begins Next Tues-
day, on which day at least 3 of the Nine 21,0001.
Prizes mnst be drawn.

Dorms a *emu lair.
Thy house. sod (in the rip of life.
That honey-drops thy pleasing wife.
S°CRATES. he his discourse on marriage, so ee-
raptured his insditors with the subject, that the asserted •
men flew to their wives, and the bachelors hastened to be
wedded : and " The Spectator" has allirtned. that the word
•• ulfe- is the most agreeable and delightful name in nature.
The sacred institution. titer. of marriage, compasses the
desideratum of oar enjoyment ; teeming not only with hap-
piness on earth, but disposing Ike soul itself to harmonize
with bliss hereafter.
Previous. however. to entering into this hallowed obliga-
tion., it becomes an itoperative duty, not oaly to regulutethe
passions, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those
purities. which the freedom of unrestricted pleasure may
base entailed upon it. To the neglect of such attention Pre
attributable many of those hapless itistaitres. which. a kiln
they excite the commiseration of the beholder, should also
impress him with the fear of self-reproach.
lastirious habits will eteminize the budy—a residence in
the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially
does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently com-
promise the natural dirtily into a state of inanition, from
whence the agonized sufferer more fleet doubts the chance of
relief. To all suck. then, we address ourselves, oierin't
hope--energy--muscular strength —lWicity : nor will r-r
advances appear questionable. sanctioned as they "web) that
multiplied proofs of twenty years successful experience.
The easy cares of stirried life. are sometimes disturbed
by the suspension of tlitt..e blessings which concentrate the
nuptial wreath —for the female habit is oftenronstinotionaily
weak—yet it can be strengthened, and deficient energy in-
proved into functional potter.
In every case of sypltiliti,c intrusion, as well as in every
relaxation of the generative economy. we pledge our abliity
to cure speedily, and with effect. Kantestly solicitous to
expel the unfeeling empy rir from the position so prestompts-
ously taken-up, we deviate from general prificiples with le-s
hesitation ; and confident its our own honourable integrity as
Members of the College of Surgeons. we refer the starrier
community of either sex (especially those petering into s:,a-
trinomial lib) at OneP to our house. where daily atterafllloo#
is given' for personal consultation ; and letters from the
reentry are immediately answered . these must month a
rentitAnce fur .Ads ice and Ntedieitte, which ca., lie fomented
to any part of the world, however disinnt.
GOSS and CI,. M. It. C. Surgeons. 11.
Ilotiverie-street, fleet-street, L radon.
•,• Prirste door round the r•trner.
Just published (I.llteetith
The EMS of I. 114:, a familiar coinntentr.ry es the eltnv•
Diseases. fly GOSS and Co. APressed to the liouthsed
Maturity of both Sexes. May he had at sal, l'aternester-rew:
SW ; 10. Princes-street, Soho ; 174, Fleet-street ;
j and of all Itooksellers. Price 3.t.

Ilea.

MAHRIF:II.
On Toeslay la4t. at Intterworth. 11. Wright. El.
Mattchroer. to Maria, only daughter of Iturston Buzzard.
Esq. of the former pimp.

--DIED.
In Lower Seymour-street, ou Tues,l:ts. tic 10th inst. lb.
infant danehter of Edward
On tile leth inst. after a lung illness, Mr. Thomas Chat-
tech". formerly of Cornhill.
At lattina, on the IN. June, IWO. r.srkias Starr,
Esq. Assistant Stiticatin 04$ the Illaikas

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" Tossiirs.virss so" s.d " Two Irova rrrt ?tom ' (Soak/
Pastier) Nr I4i. *triad. opposite tii.tlesosiot'aCooreo.
by ft. WARI)Ii.'I.L. JUR.. TA.. Et.: to pito., ell CO'S
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