The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-29 00:00:00

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llio 14eddello. *ls eseeldeg, sisttiid to Gtr. Osettlay.
that be was ready t• hat bbe in see, to elbeeelleaßP"
of the Duke's CosinesL •
Mr. tiounzar add Ilia he diderstoed doe was eke%
edltia till Mosby neat t hat es he bad pit some gale;
liens *do Atteruty Weaeral, to which %shad sot It
Nestled se asewer.l* hoPed his Lordel4 Ippp4
_ldielf
to stand over till. Wednesday nat. 141111110 up.
seated.
THR FRIIALR SAILOR.
csattwt,sa s: stalta. •
Mt. Beni *44 that when this was satstiesed by Me
on Saturday. his Lordship threw out woe losthts with
respect to the verealty of the stateesents *ado is sapped
of the nods. for as lejaeodea. Iler therefore, was
now prepared' with alidavW‘ verifying those bets, which
he begged to hand op. .
The LORD CleAlleiLLoll really Waded tohave seen
the Learned Judge of the Adedshatir Gantt' (Lord.
Stowell), with respect to the preasemliog which took
place there ; but bawl mg 'Neglected lodise% the ease Pt
stand over fora short dens loom.
Mr. HAAT begged to sagest. *el If his lima
meant to commit:ate with that Learned Judge,
ing that communication, all further preeeediags
be stayed. •
The Lou. CZAWCILLOR—Yes, and be Weald Molls&
your to get a cote from hi. by to.nsorrow,
As his Lordship was going out °Moen, be isincrititad
been informed, that it wan Intensial hls Sittings
should close on the 9th of August um be could have
no objeetioa to sorb arroageseat I bat he begged'
distinctly to beosodersaeod, when be stated. that he
would, not, many oonsideration. pro_ long hie Sittings
beyonl the 16th of that month, sad 'Wawa he begged
his efforts for the dispatch' of *misses sight tat be
paralysed by the abases of Counsel, when cassaWere
cal!ed on.

POLICE
Bow Sunerr.—The man who abeennflod with Gene-
ral Smith's horse and gig from the gates of the Admi-
ralty, at half-past two o'clock last Wednesday aftersou,
was apprehended at Witsey, in Oxfordshire, 'at fire
o'clock on the Mowing morning. Wltnry is at least
sixty-four miles from London, and the vagabond had'
drives the animal, a valuable bleodisoree, the whole die-
. taus without haideg. .
Informatios et Isis capture wu seat to Sir .11101aitts
litaats hassedissely; sad. la eonsequeue the General
went down; in es.psny with Taunton. the officer. and
• bad the satisfactlom d retuning his property; bulb*
horse is materially lajared. The poor animal had east a
shoe; and, by thy injury the hoof bad sustained, it mist
have travelled a great distance in that state.
The following are the circumstances which led to his
apprehension :-.-
A cottagergeleg Whim daily labour, at the early hour
above stated, saw a tank-looking fellow leading a gig
and horse slew the road—the horse eporently quits
knocked up. Surprised toilee so beggarty I person alone
with such an equipage, in such a state, at such an hour,
be determined to watch his motions; and presently he
saw him epee a gate and lead the horse and gig into a
field where he deliberately took the horse from theshafts,
. unharnessed. him' and turned him loose. The cottager,
. still mere surprised than before, went into the field and
asked the fellow what he was about. I'o which he replied,
." Oh! nothing—the poor devil's tired, and I only want
to leave him bus a Int, while I step into Witney.' —fie ,
then' took a pair of the General's boots from the gig and
walked off. with them ; and, as ..on as be was out of
shell, the cottager pat the bone Into the shafts again,
. and drove to his master's at nosey Park. His master,
;spun bearing his story, and seeing a valuable, though
. •orer-driven horse, :with a handsome gig, furnished with
. a large military cloak. be., had little doubt bat the owner
of it had been 'murdered. The whole neighbourhood
was instantly in alarm. and in half an hour, the thief
nu apprehended in a little village, about a mile beyond
Witeey, coming out of.a pawnbroker's shop, from pledg-
ing the Cfeural's boots! A box cost, which was in the
' gig, when lie stole it, be bad paned with on the road, to
enable him to pay turnpikes, as he said.
He was immediately carried before the Rev. Mr. Hyde,
of Witnry ; and on the arrival of Taunton and the
General, be was committed to Oxford county gaol for
trial. Taunton would have brought him back to town,
but there were so many witnesses concerned In his appre-
hension, chose presence would have been necessary in
town also; that to save trouble ana expence, it was
thought best to commit him, at once:
• ; Quaas-sQ.--Cnaarsa or Illuanut.—Yesterday, W. B.
:Doom was brought to this office on suspicion of having
murdered Elsa Anthony, a youne woman with whonifie
• cohabited, by throwing her into the Thule' near West-
miOster-bridge, early on Saturday morning last, where-
by she was drowned. The body has not yet been
found.
- Mary Johnson, housekeeper ta.Mr. Boyce Combat, of
Boswell-court, Carey-street, deposed, that the unfortu-
nate young woman, Eliza Anthony, 'was her daughter
• by a former husband; she was between Nand 19 years
of age, and lived several years with Mr. Joseph Wood,
a respectable licensed victualler, as bar-maid, and the
prisoner lived at the same place as wetter, and unfortu-
• nate!), her daughter formed a violent attachment for
Lim, and repeatedly asked her consent to marry him,
which she refused, as he was not In a situation to provido
fir her. She called upon Mr. Wood some time ago,
and was informed by him that the prisoner and bee
daughter bad left his service some time, and that he
' believed they were living together as man and wife, but
mold not say where. On Friday night last a woman
named Elizabeth Bell called upon her, and said that her
daughter was in great distress, and very ill,* and that if
she liked she would accompany her to this 'place where
her daughter was living, as she Wished much to see
her; she told her that she wild not y spate tithe
hasozz
to go that evening, as Mr. Comb* • party. but that
' if she called again in the morning, she weight go with
her. when Mrs. Bell west away, and came again about
five the next morning, and informed her that her daugh-
ter was no more—that she had just put a period to her
existence by drowning herself. Witlesss pat on her
clothes. and went out with Mrs. Belt; wben they got
into Carey-street, Mrs. Bell asked her if she wished to
see the prisoner; if she did she would fetch him to'her.
'She replied she had no wish to see each a rascal; when
°they proceeded on together towards Westminster.bridge,
where they arrived at about balf-past five.- and seeing a
watchman there, Mrs. Bell inquired if he had seen the
body of'a young woman any where in the water ; when
Is . told her he had seen nothing of the kind. Mrs. Bell
told him that I young woman had drowsed herself at
,one o'clock that morning; he told her she had better
e4.ne again at n o'clock when the tide would be dews.
aid she would then-have a gulch better oppertuaity if
finding what she was in search of. Mrs. Bell thou am.
commanded her to a house In Jerilyn-street. where she
found the prisoner; from thence she weal to Queen.
square. The last time she saw bet daughter, was in astn-i
pauy with the prisoner at the Plough public-house, is Va.
rey-street, shoat two mesas age. • 1
George Salim+, wideness, Garden Walk. Vauxball.l
deposed, that on Friday night. about II o'clock, he left:
his wherry fastened to one of the piers of Westminster
Bridge, and oil Saturday wieraing, about seven O'clock,
1 tdiscumed that his boat had bon
.removed to the
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dritasse of about 100 yards, and fastened tri imetber
placer on exambdag the beat, he timid fietreader &s-
-aide, as if some renew bad • bees stragaliso there
was alio- la a very dirty. Mate ; o. Whims reader! the
sit*"
_booed. he discovered a troman'a straw beeseir
lilksbed with pink ahead. The boaset • was bore
peridecid.
,The primmer, litho appeared shout SG years of age,
pri followiag sooosst :be stated that Ire had oohs-
tad with the sofortunate woman, E. Antiwar, sheet
our mouths, sad that the lived together it Sberrard-
street ; but being reduced to the greatest distress, is ear
sequence of being out of a Dimities. and tatbile to
support them, they had became very low sad lei
and they wen obliged to esittiseir !origins, in cones-
quire of not being able to pay the rent. Os Friday
last he went out, is march of a situation, but beisg:uo-
esccessful, he retuned house to Jermyn-street, where he
was then lirisg with Bliss Antbosy, sad told her be
bad been unable to proestre sk.sitnation. After this sloe
became very low and dieted is Wad; sad is order
to raise her spirits. be going to the Haymarket
Theatre, which the 44 to, and they west Mess to•
intim; after the play was over, . they walked towards
Westminster Bridge, sad after pacing shoat there for
some time, is a eery meleacboly Mead, tbeybeesuded
thesteps
eadisg •to the water side, sad pereebred a
wherry made fast to ono of the pier* isle which they
both got, sad contlased is - conversation. there. seam
time, both greatly detected ;sad while hems' Medley(
with one foot spinet the side of the heat, lie feead him-
self suddenly houreesed in the mansard the Worts:rate
Young woman with him, whodleappearid elegies immedi-
ately; shortly afterwards be obeerved bee head Om:in
down the .stream; W them int into the 'boas and en-
deavoared to row after her.lnt he mold sot move the
boat, and he saw se more of her; be tires west to his
lodgings is Jam,' Street, to dry his wet elsthes;
be protested hie immeence.
He was reminded for further szantisatiess. mr
miaation lasted $ll4 O'clock, and excited a meet lamer-
fel interest. - • •

Ustialr HALL.-Yesterday, in the course of the appli-
'estioa of Mee dreams for the sanction of the magistrates
to their iseind ape a house in which they bad extin-
guished a Ike, a heavy complaint was made against the
water eempseies. It was stood, that the &imp were
obliged to* buckets of water wherever they could le
the neigtiboarlarood. as no water could for a ImeMs of
time be procured through the proper way, of commeal-
eation.
Hall, the chief constable, and Olennon. the officer,
,stated that the complaints spinet the water-compoles
were innumerable. and, straege.as It might appear, dm
dfloulty of obtaining water so than of carport,
rather increased than diminished every:day.. Whoa the Are
took place in Kent Street, the dames actually raged Is,
an bout and a half before a drop of wateepald be pee:
eared, and the house In which it broke oqt is beret le
the ground. In fact, there bad not bees &chi:A
lingth of lime to which the efforts of the
be properly applied in consequence of the
servants of the companies, or the• still write. *labial
carelessness of the managers,
Mr.; ALLEN regretted that there existed este* fee snob
complaints, and expressed surprise as well as isslipia-
tion at the conduct of those who, by do absadonmest it
their duty, subjected tbe public to extimelve'end inspect.
ble losses.
The lives of the drone°, as well as of others, are
greatly endangered in consequence of the neglect so
strongly reprobated by Mr. Allen; for it has been remark-I
ed, that it was on occasions when those adventurous
fellows raid not obtain a proper supply of water that
desperate accidents befel them.

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AN HONEST WATIMNAN.-oeOrrt Rex, waterline,
of Portsmouth, found a considerable star of money in
his boat, lost by accident from the pocket of Mr. D. A.
Talboys, of Oaford, which, greatly to his credit, he
restored the moment be coald ascertain the owner, and
?weird a sovereign for his honesty.
MILANCHOLT ACCIDENT.-00 Tuesday morning last,
about two o'clock, as the schooner Bee, of Marypert,
Joseph Russell, master, was on her passage from Ire-
land, the Captain'e son was carried overboard by the
main boom. In this sad emergency his father threw him
a ladder, fastenedly a rope to the vessel, whisk the
young man laid hold of, and supported himself by it,
struggling against the waves. No further assistance,
however, could be rendered to the unhappy youth, as his'
father bad not any person on board except himself ; the
ladder. therefore, continued to be dragged after the ves-
sel, often under water, until at length, when nothing
but despair and death appeared to the distracted view of
the father and son, they- bid each other a heart rending
farewell, and the young man was unfortunately drowned,
still clinging to the ladder, from which his body was
with difficulty separated, when shalt noon the same day
it was towed into Maryport harbour. He was a person
of good character, and much respected by his acquaint-
SOM.

The Manchester Guardian gives the following parti-
culars in reference to Taylor, one of the murderers of
Mr. Wood, who killed himself after his apprehension
We understand that Taylor, before he committed std.
cide, made a full confession of the circumstances attend-
ing the robbery and murder. He stated that himself and
two others were on their way to Chapel-tn-le-Prith
wakes, when they met with Mr. Wood on the road, quite
accidentally, and without any previous knowledge that
he would be there. They walked Bloat the road with
him for some distance. At length one of the three,
whose name is Platt, struck him a violent blow, and
knocked him down. Platt then took a large stone from
the wall, and threw it upon his head, which killed him
on the spot. Taylor denied that be at all participated is
the murder; but as three stones were found, whALvi-
dently had all been used to effect the horrid
there is some reason to doubt the truth of hisetatement.
What renders the transaction most shocking,is the youth
of the parties by whom this warder was perpetrated.—
Taylor. who has hung himself, was only seventeen years
old, and Platt, the-eldest of the three, is not twenty. Up
to last night no intelligence had been received of the two
who are still at largo. We understand that II eery culpable
negligence has been displayed on the oceastoa by the
constables of the township where the 'Harder was com-
mitted. They have not offered any reward for the appre-
hension of the murderers, nor (es we are informed) taken
any steps to find them out. All that has been hitherto
done for this purpose, has, we believe, been at the ex-
pense of O.W. Newton, Esq., a neighbouring Magistrate,
And of the constables of Manchester."
Oa Saturday an inquest was taken at Brighton, before
our Coroner,O. Owyune. Esq., on view of the body of Wm.
Hare, a private in the 7th regiment of Royal Fusileers, sta-
tioned at the Infantry Barracks. Evidence was adduced
fore the the Inquest, that the deceased and James M'Dowell,
another private in the same regiment, on Thursday last were
engaged in a personal conflict, and that several blows bad
been gives and received by each adieus : that the deceased
bed in the struggle fallen down three dews, but that be had
received no severe blows, and that the falls were not vio-
lent: but that after he fell the third time, he died almost in-
stantly. The .body and head were both internally examined,
and the mesa of death was discovered to arise from the
reptant of the blood weasels of the head, and which exhi-
bited only those appearances that weekkhave shown thaw'
selves, had the deceased died in a flt ef apoplexy ; and as
no external narks o'f violence appeared ea the bead; and
the evidence disproved any violent fallitlmiiag taken place
the Jell Velerned a verdict of—" Diellyi#ll Fit of Ara-

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• THB SHASON.
The Harhervest is so retards] .by the cantata*i wet
weather, that the cropisrbea.pt up, it Is to be *Ted.
will be of little or to velvet good` by, sonsinineady,
mast be high in priee;-(Sermea Ade.) . •
The wet weather fa repertedoa,aome meek. tp hem
iejmed the wheat, aid kestertaisly throws, $k hictinit
at knit a fortnight biter thic it Otherarise would bevel
'bees. In Norfolk and Suffolk. red net is loweb fogs*
plaked of inpagst the new wheat, reltielt. in Noterleti
laseSabuday, was in consequeuce several shillings deicer.
In Kent and Ewan, the wet weather is also considerid to
be tupelo& to the whiat crop. Sprier cora, ontitere-
teary, particularly barley. continues to look uncomm ray
welt, sad promise an ahnedant produce. Venial' eve
dose good to peast bat beans lays suffered considerably.
-(Southomproa Chtergek)
The traps 'continue to Wei-easels talk, bat have Made
very little mimes for sometime is shooting mat Smear.
'lt oust*** be a late lianest. Fkw years ban heels
known where it was so far babied is the middle of Jaty.
Hamm was general last year ia• the catty fates "of the
Ups,' Ward la a month after this: This year few fields
wiS he meek more than at fall {eolith by thertime.-
ems d• not. yet cover the blade with the ear, and
that it requires the warmest df seasons to tipea the asp
is six weeks.--(Ohs gow Journal.) •
The weather leaebeen changeable fer someday*, sad'
a great deal of rale has fallen. 'I the whole of
Widaeaday the rain continned without interedesion.-
Yesterday We had several passing showers, and the air le
chilly for theseesta of the yoar.:--(Ediaburgh Sear.),
The troy *fall kind, in the neighboarhoOd oflaißgar
*leeks most excellently, bat about three weeks kin tbeh,
last year.-(l6id.)
• A correspendeat writes as as follows .-" The weather
has become alarming, it baring raise& more is
every day for nearly a month. Thousands of ames oat
hay are down throughout the-country, and much of ill
greatly damaged. The state of the weather has beets
remarkably impala!, owing to the cold nights, and the
effect is particAttly visible on those meadows which the
scythe passed over ease weeks since, where there is lit-
tle appearance of a second crop. Coro harvest will also.
be retarded.. and the sample of new corn he all probabi- ,
lity affected. Indent a speedy visage takes place. There
iv an *id saying, pet into' rhyme by the common- peo-
ple, that this year will be put to the test
s"1311 St; Janes Is past and gone, • ,
Them may be hornet, them may be notte.(--(lbicf),
We have great pleasure ist stating, upon the authority
of an intelsgent gentleman conversant with agriculture,
who has just rerned frpna a tear through Warwick.
shire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, sod, Hereford-
shire, that there is every prospect of awabwadaor harvest
in those cenatrlea, earl that the,orchards-wear allot less
promising appearance than the cora 5111(1h-4/ibis/of
Mercury-)
Since the me:hatable year 11}16‘ whewthe meth for se-
veral months was drenched with rain, and the crops
nearly destroyed by a superabundance of moisture. we.
have not had • morr gloomp and Unfavourable leases
than the preseat. Thrweatiter„ which at the date of
our last was wet and oupiessast. has received little we
no improvement since I much rain bee fallen ddring the
week, and the cold temperature of the air remain* una-
bated. Hay in many places. particularly in low damp
meadows, has been greatly injured, if nob entirely spoiled.
-and in general has changed its fine green colour for a
dusky Inc, rendering it less nutritious, and of course km
valuable. The pain stops are likewise beginning to-
suffer from the frequent and: heavy showers. and the
want of sunsbioe s and we.regret to stets that ice this
-district a great deal of strong wheat bas already been
beaten down by the weighty rains. Before the middle
of July last year much cora bad been stacked in the
southern counties, and in the first week of August
shearing had commenced in many parts of Cumbi ol tad
but from present appearances, and by accounts frames-
rions quarters of the kingdom, the ensuing harvest will
be at feast 5 weeks later than that of 182 t -(Cactiete
Journal.)
Reports have been i o circulation, that the cider apples
throughout this conutry have been generally destroyed
by frost. These reports we can contradict on utdeni•
able authority. Some orchards in the county of Water-
ford have partially suffered, but the orchards in general
have escaped injury.- (Waterford Chronicle.)

MARKETS AND FAIRS.
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Lawns Wool Fair, on Saturday, was welt attended
esgrowers and staplers, and for the first time since its
tablishment, presented an air of business, and if we are
cosrectly informed, much was transacted at advanced
Prices, We sales being brisk at from 425. to 48e. per toil,
in proportion to its quility. Mr. Sling°, of Olynde,
who was in the chair, sold at 48s.
At the annual Fair,„no the Broad Oak Dicker, in Chid-
dingly, on Wednesday last, the number of sheep penned
was 2,100; and of lambs, 7,279. Withers fetched (son,.
161. to 24e. Lambs, from 7s. 6d. to 13e. per head. In
the forepart of the-day, the demand was extremely dull
mad heavy ; but late in the afternoon sales were effected
to the amount of full half the number of sheep and lambs
penned. The plain exhibited about 530 Welch and
country beasts, but they did not appear to be wanted.
A correspondent says, it was remgked at the above
foir,perhaps as much from the peculiar coldness of the
day, (the Season considered) as from the frequent in-
termitting showers, that great coats were abundantly
conspicuous, and no doubt, he adds, in a degree auspi-
cious as the favourite produce of the South Down
Fleece.
1 At Staining Beast Market, on Monday, the business
was brisk, there being a good supply of the different
deseriptions of stock, and nearly all sold.—Beef, 3s. 10d.
to 44.—Mutton" 31.6 d. to 4a. 4tl.—Lamb' 4s. so 4s. 6d.
per stone.
Portsdown Fide womanised on' Saturday, but so us-
favourable was the weather, neither business nor plea-
sure drew many attendants. The supply of cheese was,
small, it prices ranging from 40s. to SOC per cwt.—The
show of horses was very indiffeseat, and no buyers what-
ever',
The lamb fair at Detwiler& oa Thursday, was well
attended; 2150 lambs were sold; but the price's obtained
did not equal what the sellers anticipated.--At the cattle
fair, at the same place, on Friday, the supply was also
abundant; and many sales were effected, but at a de-
cline of price. -
The fair at St. Stephen's. by St. Austell, was well -
attended, aid cattle of ail descriptions sold well.

The supply of cattle at Helido° fair, on Monday, was
abundant, and the demand was brisk:
SALMBURY, JULY n.—Oar market yesterday under.
went an alteration. Breed his, however, by some &ca.
debt or other, been raised. Id. ! This extraordinary oc.
curreoce has been attributed to the eclipse of the Moon,
which took place in the morning.—(Deorzes Gazette.)

We noticed briefly in oar' last, says the Waterford
arenick, the assanimotion of Mr. Nowlan, near Bally-
rsimen—the shooting of simian by one of the Police in
diltanme neighbourhood, and the burning of a house in
.114 county of Limerick, as mentioned In the CloameL
avertiser of Saturdayugs. The following extracts containg
further partialan th, and .itatlipte o.ootWi
outrages.

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