The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-17 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

.you,?-1 pawned„ for your support and that df my hrothus:
mytolover, my mattress, my sheets. and rit'y 'Wank eta.
lay for 5 months oo any shop board without any covering
bet a rigged petticoat. The world know this. I call Gov
; to witness whether any person-could do snore fur his mother
oend.hrothers. - - . -"
The mother—Why did you sleep on the ground? Who
forced you to do so ? • Wlsv•did you not come to sleep with
Torre-brothers Pierre and Adolphe? I pressed von coati
mistily to do so. You preferred sleeping in. a cold shop ins
the midst of winter. Is that my fault? .Ytta kpow I went
every• eveninz to close it un the outside, and pot op the
shelters. If you had neither mattress nor shoat, it, ma pot
int fault.
*The son, sighing—lt was for your sake.l lived in wretch:-
edness.
The Mother in broken accents, cried •nt—" How the
wretch endeavours to convict me. If he should Me guillo•
tined. it will he for Isis lies. My child, what have I &mato
you ?" (Here she covered her eyes with her hands, arid the
son fainted away.)
One of the keepers of the Conciergerie said, the prisoner
leeenuffe seemed to hint to he weak in intellert,but not quite
an ideot. Ile was not, he said, subject to epileptic shack•.
hot seemed very ill whenever inesstion was made of Isis
mother or wife., When the latter visited hirit he embraced
her. and appeared eery tranquil. . •
'flae Jury, after deliberating till one in the morning,
found.rhe son Guilty on all the counts. The mother•was
' declared (toile! of concealing the stolen property, and of
being an necessary alter the fact in the murder. 'flsey were
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b sill sentenced to suffer death.

i!Cne .etatesStnatt.

who ate' sepiring to. Its .seats. A toui with Irani atul
' politics was, therefore, toast conveisicat for the pro.
fessinn ; anti the Committee are. • left to . collect
contributions Tor „the Tribute." without • convoitting
either themselves or the subscribers to any principal at, all.
if the monument proposed for the noemert:torti"
Erskine be inten.led to be kept as much in reserve as the
-chewier of his f‘irdslii, was en the cueing of their maw
143 e ConunitteWill doiiistless have it erected in the Hall
*here they thensassesubled. lf, on the contrary, they wish
their uninorial to be &rioted, ae'the original was, to the
service of the puleticctieerviill place it in a conspicuous
statibn, In the centre of the square. The space now Occu-
pied by ip obelisk, presents a belie as appropriate u any
that rit(i be found.

According!. adeirei (nous Carareas of the 7th of Octo-
ber, ',tots hail been r.eeivad in that cis,' fruits the illustri•
oos lloliear, written after •the sulking:dm,' of Vast°, and
• edistrly hvfore his departure for Peru. lu these the
President !takes leave' of his friends in a feeling and pa•
thetie manner, and announces that he was setting off Or
Peru, at tise head of Iti,ooo soldiers, with the determine'
lion of.not returning to Colombia until peaces was restotel'
' in the sister republic, anal the tranquillity and happinecs
of L a own country thereby for ever ensured. Thirmastr
piece of his milityyjrinry Bolivar trusted to h4ifffe"th
achisvi before a year ba• elapsed, and hail adopted, thy.'
re•alutine, as soon as it was acroutglt•hrd, of•retiting from
active life, and terminating his days quietly in the• city
which gave him birth. . .
11y recent letters from the Island of Sumatra intelligence.
bas been received. that the Natives hal been very trooble
some in the interior of the Pcirlsng Settlement' anal
destroyed. nosey of the district troops in several engage-
ilients. Reintircements, however, had arrived from Bata,
Ida, anti it was expected that the Dutch AncliorirkS-would
e.oun tie in a condition to acton the defensive. TIM choler•,'
',wove had been prevalent at l'adang, and had carried oil
many of the inhabitants.
Act:omits from Messina, of Nov. 19, give the following
mei melody intrlligetue•—
" In the night of the lith Of this month, a terrible storm
of thonder and lightning, arid very heavy rain, burst over
this city. 'l•he water, which pastured in torrents from the
surrounding hills, entered the ocerthrowing anal
• laying waste whativever opposed its progress, destroying
church, mills, magazine•, cottages, and flocks, and rover-
Ng. the lit Ms mid tardens with sterile clay and stones
Many of the inhabitants were surprised and fell victims to
this slid/iris eclainity. Time waters did• not spare the limy
itttv,l; but did sere eousillerahle injury; the damage is es-
! tinicied at two millions ofnnnces, and the 'comber of dead
bodies hitherto found is 139.

Leger% were yesterday received from Constantinople to
the II th ult., and from Smyrna to the 2•2 d of (Woler. At
the former place intelligence had been received of the
death of the Paeha of Soluniea, from a chronic complaint.
On the 31st of Oct. there were at Smyrna big Majesty's
ships Medina, Rose, and Hind ; the former was about to
sail oft the following day fur
Yrsterday was the Annie PP PP y of Prince leopnlil's
birth day, when Isis Royal fligbres• completed his 33t1
year. His Royal Highness's tradespeople illuminated their
houses in the evening.
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Mr. Secretary Canning, though still suffering from gout,
is al.le to attend to hnsinets....it iron Vagel and M. ralek,
ow;onsßuikaLby Mr. Wynn, had a lung conference with the,
West lion. Gentleman on Monday.
The Earl of Liverpool and Lord Ortnville called on Mr.
Canning, at Uloucester Ledge. yesterday.
Sunday morning :shout eight .o'cloek, the It die of-Vottic
• - ••• ;Hour

1111IPP1iii3 IN141i.1:11; ENC E.

De at, Deeentber .B.W. to W.--Arrived aod
wallet; for the Riier the British Union, Coath, front Cadiz;
Deiron4liire• Tanner, front Rio Janeiro ; Europe, Swiss, fro.
New York ; nod the Brynsrd,.---.. from the South
tame down from tile River and remain the Huardiaa, Sather.
land, for Retnain.
Poirrertortert. DeettietteP 16-Wind ILlr"—Arritettfrimi
the Do ens the Hamel, Shepherd, and Mary Ann, Craigte, for
Do.nhey ; William, And4rson, fur the Mediterranean ; Mars
Ann, Hall, for the Medlterraftean" Lady Holland, Powell.
and Relipie. Hearn, for Jamaica; sod Importer, Deeper, for
ltio Janeiro. •
Fa Lit 0 VIII. beCPMber 111.—Wied Calia.—Arrived the Pallet,
-, from PcnjailCti fOK

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tAnrel, December 14.-Srillei tbe. Alacrity. Findlay, from
the Isle of Franee,lis telt weeks, all melt, for orders, add
Louis Laurie. from Lundy,* for Gibraltar.
1.111.31rJ4.1,. December 15.--Arrived the New Venus,
from Liahnn ; Jnh^, Major, from St. John's, New Grimly/ice:
Westmorland, Warren, and Friends. Wilson, from Buenos
A yes ; Ann, Ware, from Rio Janeiro; Lima, fr„,,
Pernambuco; John Wills. and Mary Lord. --, from
New York ; ToPeko, fron Chatlaton ; Crookshma
Castle, and ‘Vitlinas Fell. from New Branswir.k ; Propos',
Holt, from Miratnichi ; and Mary, 13a!e„ from Trieste.
. The Wined Ite4ent, Stanton, from Liverpool, to St. John's,
New Urcilswick, near Nlachias, crew sated.

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BOW ISTIt iiivr,—,(Turs. Dais.)
.s.Rs9l,mtits sIIOM . WAIL. r
Trippp sits- this day isrottight:. up. in custody by *lli P

was this _ up in custody by
his hail. he havi..sg abscondridamsl fallen to appear at the Ns
Middlesex Session% to answer to • erarge of assault.
• The persdn who dptiled him stated that he met the prisoner
this mornMg, end took him into custody. lie at first mad,
his escape tor a time. but was subsequently secured sad
lodged in St. Atorlin's.wat'efilionse.. 'rile hail it 4sr wished to
know how lie was 'o net with him, as he was misfile to lodes
him by itimgellr, and haring become Lemon fur 44. he had 114
other resource than to Seel:ft him, end thus save his reeogel-
zeners. • -
he Worthy MAGISTR STr directed him to apply at the SA-
sinus Muse. where he would obtoirs the necessary laurea-
tion ; add the prisoner woe ordered to be detained.

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Fe AVM:Li/MT REMOTA L OF Goes: —Mr. William Adkins. of
was charged with assaulting JOhn Richards, a She-
riff's older,. in the exerution of hissiuty,
it appeared that a tradesman in Westminster, WIN made
bankrupt, and the complainant was put in charge of the prs•
perty ivy the Assignees. hut by some means the friend. of the
bankrupt contrived to carry off and conceal, a portion of Me
goods.
Therompiniment at last discovered that some of this pre-
pert y was-concealed upon the defendant's premises, and he pro•
cored a search warrant, which he went to execute. lie a. tint
met only clam the defendant's. wife, and told Iti.n the purport
of kis visit. She seemed reluctant to let hint search, but Its
found pert of the property which he was In quest of. H...r
Intstmed, who had beets absent front Lome, then returned,
uneeremeniously seized the complainant, cud bundled bits o•rt
end heels into the street, before he could pr.eince nis authority.
Richard Rowland, n teen who accompanied the compleMare,
confirmed his evidtmce in every part/cuter.
'rite defendant said he emisidered they had trespassed epos
his premises, and denied heard a word about authority
until they were both in the street. Hit Mother was called to
sopped the evidence, an I added toes the complainant hat
geossly abased the defendant** wife, and accused him of beteg
the reed Ter of stolen goofs, dtc.witich pro►oked the defender.•.
Mr Rogers, the ancrney, altroderl for the assigeres. Ile
wished the complainant to prove morn fully late finning of tM
bankrupt's goods upon the delattcleat's preetirea; but the Me-
gistrete said that was a subject fur another Court, and the oily
olise before hint was tke assault upon the talker. Ordered is
Mid beiL

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