The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-06 00:00:00

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-7'o THE INDFTENDENT FREER() LDSlair • 4. OLD BAILEY, Nor. 5.
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AN Asimovr ro estesiessee oe ewe inseop At ens:me: Twee Men of the names of Marriott and Lee were
. peters *it Me, capitally indicted for having broken
Gcseressicer,—The opinions which I am knotsis to
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entertain, have elrently called forth the atteittien of ,and ' essterett the house of Mr. Richard George
...Word, a botcher, in Chapel-street, Soho, on the
the Church, and are deemed powerful enough to re-
them '. Ifith October !ast; carrying and stealing and
there-
quire the pressure of limn *eves to keep
:from an account book, a poker, and the handle to a
down. The Sermon preached this day by the Bishop
drawer.
of Exeter, is too marked in its application to be 1
It appeared from the es ;deuce of the Prosecutor,
Misunderstood. 1 hose declared my desire to pro- '
m:' comic. that on Sunday, the 15th October, he went out at
1 mote Oct/ and Religions Liberty, and
half-past nine in the morning, leaving his man in the
I tints that the exercise,' of •ererN Religion should be "
in ; house. While at church, he received information
free and equal. Great pains have been taken.
• • that his shop had been broken open, and 9n hastening
1 this Sermon, to thew, that an equality of conditions ;home,
i he found the Prisoner Marriott in custody of
is not desirable, even if it be possible to procure it ;
i a Coustable and his man. The other Prisoner, Lee,
and in this unnecessary discourse, against a princi.
who had been concerned in the robbery, had made
I ple which I have not yet advanced, you will find
1 idi estur. . Ile found tlue. the poker had been taken
I much to comment on.
i out of the parlour, and had been employed to force
Ary astonishment was indeed great, when I went
i the till ; his account book had been removed from his
I to a place of the established worship, to find it also
and the handle of the drawer had been pulled
an establislud place of political disquisition. And if 1 desk; -
my opinions have created alarm, I must of course
I off end laid upon the block.
Rdward Blades, the servant of the last witness,
i feel-great surprise to find, promulgated by Preteey ;
i deposed, that while he .es-as down in the kitchen, he
itself. a doctrine much more daring than any I have
heard the door of the shop leading into the street
breached.--1 shall. without further preliminary, ;
comment on this curious Sermon. i tn'ed—imaginitg that it was only his master and mis-
tress who had returned from church, he did not go
i After stating that the Poor are the mast liable to.!
‘: it is ine. iep stairs until he heard an unusual noise in the shop.
be discontented. it is gravely essence!,
as ; On reaching the shop he saw the two Prisoners, both
possible that there should be any such thing
equalitydiately strike me. A rational equality among men."—This impossibility does not !of whom immediately ran away at full speed ;he
so immediately
is ; pursued them and took Marriott, but Lee escaped
very feasible, and would be proper ; it could be in- I him! They had taken nothing out di' the shop, but
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intioes to none, and can only be displeasing from in- .had They
the poker, and the account book,
vkflous motives. The Spiritual Lord contieues, " in i and torn off the brindle of the drawer, and broken
i a part of the till, in which, however, there was no
all ages of the world there has been this inequality."
' But is its past duration any sound reason why it t flunkey!
' should continue, unless at the same time its good ef- 1 A. Whitesmith swore that he saw Lee run np a ,
tests are Math, apparent. This inequality has at all !court in the neighbourhood after the robbery. Ile
times been, it has been found iu the different degrees was certain it was the same man.
of " Princes, Nobles, Labourers, and even Slaves," 4 Marriott called a witness to his character, and Lee
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but can these slaves be convinced that this inequality denied having been at all concerned.
should continue, because they have already smarted 1 The Reconnert left it to the Jury to determine
whether the Prisoner had not only broken and en- i
from it ? 44 There is thesea Just presumption, that I
what has always been must be in the course of nn- I tered the house, but burglas:ously taken away the I
Prosecutor's property. If they had 'not, under the i
ture."--I cannot find this just presumption. Is it to !
present indictment, they must be acquitted. The 1
be inferred from the clad capacity that men in all
ranks partake of? Is it to be inferred. from the desire Jury found a verdict of—Nut Guille—but Marriott
• that all men have to-partake equally of enjoyments ? was detained tb answer for the misdetheanour.
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ilsitto be inferred from Revelation ?" I say no. Ann Patten, wire to the Valet of the Hight lion.
thing of the great benefit of this inequality."—Very • Wm. Fitzgerald, was -acquitted on an indictment
right, my Lord, for nothing can be said of it. . charging her with stealing el. les. 6d. and a sheet, I
It is very well to appease mankind, labouring un- ' from a woman in whose louse she lodged. The only 1
. der inequality, by telling them that happiness and i evidence against her, wns, that she lived is the Pro- 1
'. conditions are to be equalized only in the neat secutor's house, and that the money end same dupli.
world, that.there equal rewards await equal good cates were found in her child's shoes' that was laving
conduct, and that " they must remember it never in her room. • . ' - •,'
ssas intended that men should he placed, its this John Robinson was ronvieted of bailee burg- lad-
i world, in a state of equality." This is very good, ously entered a house in Camden Towle, and stolen
for the latter part is contradietory to the former. If from thence a copper sauce pan aid some table linen.
in a more perfect state equality is to exist, I should Esther Todd was found Guilty of stealing a gold
think it most consonant to reason to believe that
I watch, the property of J.. Dempster,: be...taking it
• equality is very proper in this world also. I believe ; out of his lodgings, while he went to the undertakers
that more credit is due to the consistent intentions for a coffin for his mother. . - . •
of Providence, than to a Bishop's explanation of
William Sheriff a poor man apparently blind,
them. Surely it never could be " intended that men v
was placed at the bar, charged with stealing from
; should be placed in a state of equality," and the John Simes, in Drury-lane, some sheets and three
: Church affords sufficient proof of it, in the difference I tea-cops and saucers. It appeared that the Prisoner
of condition between dignified Prelates and the in-
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had gone into the house in question, and having taken
• ferias., but snore useful Parish Priests and Curates. .
some porter, stripped the bed of its sheets, which he
i We must now, its order to follow this very cu-, wound round his body, and put the tee-cups and
1 riots: discourse, go upon another tack.—You are 1
! saucers into his pocket. The Prisoner insisted that
' no longer total .that equality .cannot exist in this
1 world but great pains are taken to convince you it' he was stone blind, and had served in Fesept, hut it
1 ; I was proved that he could see perfectly Well with one
does. 44 The poor are free from evils," " they pos. 1 i-ye.
lie was found Guilty.
sess joys the rich have not."—" Their slumber is
street. The rich foil about in splendid carriages, Patrick St. , Leger was found Guilty of stealing
with no more comfort than the poor have in cot. forty-three yards of canvass belonging to Mr. Neale,
Cages."—'r None enjoy life so little as those who and Billions Brice, of receiving the same, knoWing
have nothing to do."—The worthy Bishop declares it to be stolen. The latter is an old offender.
that those who have no employment to 44 fill up
their time," are driven to vicious pursuits, which
! brine on sickness, infiemity, and premature old age.
And° to convince you more forcibly, his Lordship
stamps his argument by telling you, " this is a plain
I confession."—,Many men have beyond doubt felt the
1 truth of this observation, some have confessed it,
and to all front whom such a " plaits confession"
may have come, the world must be indebted for a
maxim of sound morality.
• But you are not long indulged with a prospect of
this dangerous equality, and that it does not exist is
again brought home to you, when his Lordship
points out how easily a rich man maintains his fa-
mily, and allows that with a young family the poor
man is indeed " hard pressed."
If you can find from such a Sermon that a rational
equality should not exist, you have more discernment
than I have.—All that I can find in it,' absolutely
clear, is, that it came from a Bishop, deriving incon-
testibte evidence from his dignified situation, that
his Lordship h::s not starved upon " a dog-eared
Pentateuch."

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An Inquest was held .on Wednesday evening, at
the Marquis of Granby public-house, Villiers-street,
in the Strand, on the body of Greenwood, a
tailor, residing in Carnaby-street, Carnaby-market.
It appeared that the deceased had left his home, and
been absent for two days, and, on the evening of
Tuesday- last, he came to the above public-house,
where be fell into company with Corporal Jenkins,
a recruiting officer of the East India Company's ser-
vice,
by whom he was at the same time enlisted ; I
others joining in company, they drank very freely,
when the decea-sed became much intoxicated, and was !
put to bed in a garret, the door of which was locked
upon him. In the course of the ni4ht he got out of
the window, and scrambled along the roof, as a per-
son in another house heard him, and several loose
bricks falling, in consequence of his holding by them.
I Whether he fell from the roof, or contrived to slide
down by means of leaden pipes communicating, or
by what process he descended, is uncertain. The I
next morning, between three and four o'clock, a cry
! of murder was heard in the Griffin Coffee-house, 'in
the passage of which the deceased was found lying.
'When asked how he came there ? lie said it was the
watchman who broue'it him. He complained of I
feeling extremely ill, earl was laid by the fire-side
till eight o'clock, when he was carried back to the
Marquis of Granby, and put to bed. Ile expired
; about ten, but no external mark (although several
bruises appeared) could justify the supposition that
he had fallen from top of the house. Verdict—Died
from the effects of intoxication.
Another Inquest was held on Wednesday last, at
Ilomerton, on the body of Sarah Leonard. The
deceased was the wife of a gardener; and, it ap-
peared, had been subject to fits of mental derange-
; ment. She left her home on the morning of the :Id
inst. and wandering into the marshes, the, next dafr
she was found drowned iu the. river Lea.—Verdict,
Found drowned.
Ou Monday se'nnight, during t 'Meet gale, a
fishing boat, belonging to Easter Rossi with seven
men on board, was driven against the Malcina, of
Aberdeen, whilst crossing the Flrth, opposite to.
Burglead, and stove in pieces. "We regret to add,
that six of them were unfortunately drowned, al.
though every exertion was made to save their lives by
the crew of, the vessel.
• SHOCRING ACCIDENT.—A child, about three years
of age, son of Mr., Graces, of Smart's-rents, rod-
land-street, set fire to his clothes on Wednesday
evening, during the time the mother had gone below
to fill a kettle, and was so dreadfully burnt that he
is not expected to survive: •

I do not wish to attack any tenet, but I run called',
upon to reply to sophistry from the pulpit, when it
is evidently called forth in opposition to the senti-
ments I have professed. And yet lam not certaia it
is to oppose a state of equality, for the arguments
were so ingeniously balanced, that tlwy prove nothing
at all, and this very Sermon may have been intended
to advocate equality by the 511.0ligal of all proofs,
that of sheering the absurdity of the cimtrasy.
I have not yet advocated equality, but I certainly
wrore it, it is the only rational system—l do not
mean loenciarage a mad effort to seize on all pro-
perty and equally partition it, such an equalitl could
itottkit onuday ; industry in. some and idieneis in
others would immediately destroy It.—lt couid only
coinmence' in robbery, and could only proceed in
blood. Ido not mean such an equality—bet I mean
,-an'eqnklity or rights—an equal distribution of thi
wealtii:oP,this Church—an equal distribution of jar-
Tice, n 0,4 or rewards tIo deserving men, independent
,04 Ihirougt interest, 'Parliamentary ivlucnce, or
lersomsl conneclions,.-.4 mean an equal right to re-
ligious worship—and to those not benefited by it--
tln equal emancipation from" the grievance .of sup-
porting any religious establishment but their own—l
mean aqnquality in the distribution of military and
tiviteiffiei to min of, latent-6-and an equal enjoy-
ment Of the electOqranchise.—This is the equality
I appr6/4'no liberal mind, can condemn At, and at
no djstant Reno ,t equality must be granted.
• • Ol'iotre it* tuaour to rentnin, Gentlemen,
r, scrv.ri,
put. 1t5.1812. s. C ratAvr.s.
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