The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-04-04 00:00:00

SHOP-LI 'TING.

MARLI10101:611-STREET.—E42eileth LIU' and Eliza
Toper, respectable looking young women, were char
by Messrs. Morrison and Cope, It.ii.erdashers of :07,
Oforti-street, with stealing a quantity of ribbon from
their shop, which was their property.
Tt apOaroid to eybiegre, that the prisoners, on Satur-
day last, entered the shop, awl left another female
waiting outside for them. They asked for a sight of
some narrow ribbons, which the shitionan produced in a
drawer, and while they were inspecting them, and his
attention was occupied, they contrived to conceal the
property, which he soon missed, and suspecting the pri•
stiners, be tiOtl them he suspected they had property
which teas not their own, and, after some hesitation, they
gave it up in the shop.
Mary Brown, a young lady, searched them, and found
other property of the same description, belonging to .Mr.
Lemaire, of bond-street, who, on receirin* informa-
tion, attended and identified them as le-ing in his shop
under similar eircninstsnces.

They were fully committed to Like their trials.

The following most extraordinary case is extract-
ed from a Plymouth paper:—

" The neighbourhood of Kingsbridge has been much
agitated of late isv eccentricities of the most singular
Lind in four children, belonging Ina respectable family,
which are unparalleled by any we have read of since
the first establishment of Christianity. and which no-
thing hut the fact of their having been witnessed by
twenty persons at least, all of unimpeachable veracity,
could induce us to credit or lay before our readers.
These eccentricities, for we know not by what better
nasue at present to call them, displayed themselves
'during the influence of epilectir fits, wider which all the
children, the eldest of whom is sixteen, atoll the youngest
seven years of are, have laboured to a greater or less
degree, for more than a twelvemonth past, and still con-
tinue to labour at intervals. Amongst other things,
one of them, a girl eleven years old, run up the side of
a room to the ceiling. impossible as it may seem, where
she remained immovable on oer feet for serer:Ll minutes,
her clothes being unaltered in their usual position, as if,
by soma supernatural law, she had the power of chang-
iag the centre of gravity. This surprising fact an be
borne testimony to an oath by her mother and numerous
other credible witnesses, who can have no possible mo-
tive for relating that, of which they were not actually
eye-witnesses.—At another time, the same girl was
seised with the pangs of apparent labour, in which her
frame underwent all those distortions of which child-
births is productive. At meals, and otl.er times, the
children soddenly whirl round in their chairs, to use
the words of our informants like tops set in rapid mo-
tion, during which it is beyond the ability of the
strongest men, though the attempt has been often made,
to move either them or their chairs. When takes with
the fits in bed, no efforts, however great, are found suf-
ficient to detach the bedclothes, which adhere around
them in all directions, whether removed from the bed,
or permitted to lie there. We could add many other
remarkable circumstances, but forbear, lest cur readers
should deem us the too willing dupes of credulity.
Enough, however, is mentioned to stimulate curiosity,
and we apprehend that the parties are ready to verify the
whole in any manner that they may be required. Super-
stition, as usual, ascribes these marvellous exhibitions
to the satanic arts of an old woman in the vicinity, whose
persecution of one of the children, arising from a very
trivial cause, has been marked and virulent. We feel u
our duty, as the narrators of passing events, to give the i
foreroing relation, which we do on unexceptionable au-
tisority. If trite, and we have no reason whatever, as
far as respectable human testimonr Ppies, to doubt-its
authenticity, it presents an interesting theme far philo-
sophical inquiry in the wondrous history of aaast, and
cannot but induce many to undertake the task of:dia.
restigation, for which rurposr we cad furnish the proper
references."

BIRTHS.
On the lii Instant. the lady of Dr. Dean is", of uplift
ild ford-street, of a dettehler.

On Sunday,James-street, the Lad) of Chrigeptin
Alderson Alderson, Esq. of a daughter.
0;1 Saturday nsuroing. in floaland-street, sirs.W
Gov
i:kiti.qa. of a d ;usuter.
On Friday last. in John-street, nedford-roa.Mrs.Thom
lityao, of a daughter.

(MARRIED.
OA the Ist lastest. at St. James's l'imrch. Mr. hi*
II out, of Moir) lord-piace. Keoningt..n-counua, to )114
Hoolle). of Pit cartill%.

MED.
On Friday even:ng. at his house. in Upper Greseumr.
street, Mr. Crauturd Brum father to Mr. Drace, who user.
ed in the escape of lavatette.
On the let lumen!, at the Itou.e of Wil:iata Wilberforce.
P.sq. M.P. Kensington-fore, the Very Rey. fuse Mil,..
U. U. F. R. S. Demi of Cat lisle. Pres:tieut of Queays.c.,..
lege, Cambridge, and Ltscusian Professor Nlathseeeti,
in that University.
On Thursday list. at his house in Baldock, Rye hivs
Cecil Grave. I.!'q.
On the 4th ult. at Gibraltar. after a long filmic 'k.,
Charles Taller. of the Rue %rtiller,.
On the 1;1 ins'ant, l aroline, out) daughter of the Dem
of Rochester.

Oa the Ist tasting, Thomas Wylie, Esq. of Red 1.:
square.
On the 241 instant, at Kentish Town. in the 73th :ea. , •
her age, Airs. Wilmot, relict of William Wilmot. Esi. •

Non est liven, SSA velem vbs.—Nisei-Rt..
'• Life is only Life. when blest with Health."
THE thabt seteni of Ethics is to confine **Oh
due bounds, and thus to reeulete the re4stoeut; ears.
strained sod bonthorainnte„ the., impetuousit destroy issk
barriers which Iteligiett and Morality lase made sacred; is
curb, but not annihilate them, appears the lesson of pr,.
dent..., best calculated to iii it their etlervescence.
Every disorganisation of the human frame regattas greet
medical knowledge to remedy. and Ibc peblic welfare's pe,-
moted when professional men (disregarding the Suggesting
of the envious and interested) devote their studies Intheir/it.
meut of those complaints generated by imprudelet. sae tle;
ebullition of the passions rat an unguarded moment.
strength of a nation consists in the health of Ike people;" be
it is melanchols to reflect (.41 the dally sacri;tee t., tee tits.
ranee of unfeeling empy racism, and to cett7tl tact. as far rs
possible, its further rat ages, we offer to -.tittering bewitch
lire result of our own experience. in the sariaus disessuM
Debility. The unmet-, t h i in, ot solitary t tee (early acquired
at school, before reason 15,.. n.wried her right over dwelt!.
will, Is contemplating his powerless state. become sateepti.
Me of enlivening sensations. in knowing that the ilea sew
plicaied state of exhaustion way be roused into mealy twerp.
Intense study—intenederate anxiety—long residers-, is u.
picot climes, and many older CelllW%. will fretplently
the nervous system; in such cases we ran hold Waste
surrnce of re-anitna; inn. by remedies which hare isagia.
swerel the sanguine hopes of Patients of both Seas.
That bane to I human happiness. Luis Vomitus. saa two
be treated !,attests ; the improved state of mefed dace
hating dit es:ed its anthlote of those distressing Fragestfi,
that so long rendered its exhibition uncertain and harming.
%Ye best explain our method by observing to Paints Is.
hoerlng under :his malady, that a few dais only are re•
quired for the removal of early symptoms; that the NW ii•
etera:e ens., wilt yield to our remedies within a month, me
that in a person who only suspects himself injured, Me Mb.
ease may he pre% euted altogether from appearing :--a similar
remark applies to many otater derangements of the -
live system. as weakness. uterratb.is. &c. stric-
tures, obstinate cases of which are daily remark.
the use of caustic or stimulants. tome peculiarities (seldom
tal to the softer sex hat.' not escaped our a:feedlots; la Oki
mildness. combined trial efficaoy, have superseded the weans
usually adopted. In Atte, wir system is unique, peculiarly
energetic, and eminently successful.
Educated in this oar native cite, schooled la oar protei-
atonal attainment by its splendid Medical characters, ewe
having been able. personally to compare with admilltill
the British surgical practice with the Continental. our prs
tensions to superiority (in a branch we have asteemilywe
matured by experience, which is evineed by the daily appii•
cations we receive, et enfruno distant countries._

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