The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-12-30 00:00:00

'ellE STATESMAN

C,pinia L. A. fl Noe, from the Pith Font, to be Iltateartaie
a! the Ann), Depot in the lble of Wight.
HOSPITAL STAFF.
Staff Surgeon F. Brim n to he Deputy-Inspector of Hospitals.
MENIOR AN I)Uftl.
Lieutenant Morgan, of the 13th loot, and Entlien 11:1171iltMl,
of the .ith Royal Veteran Battalion, are superseded, being ab-
sent without leave.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County ef
F i ft..

lifeshire Militia.
John Arthur, Cent. to be F.usign, vice Satcheller, resigned.
Dated Sej•tember 15, 1812.
Charles' ir.,ham, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Menzies,. promoted.
Dated September It., int.!.
J. P. Doualasou to be Lieutenant, vice Menzies, appointed to
the 911 Foot. Dated November 24, kil2.
Vans Craigic Baird, Gent. to be Ensigh, vice Donaldson.
Dated as above.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Derby.
Derby Old Militia.
John Wragg, Gcnt. to be Lieutenant. Dated September 7,
1812.
Gavin Miller, Gent, to heditto. Dated December 14, 1812.
John C3:l Gent. to be ditto. Dated December 18, 1814.
Charles Kelly Cooper, Gent. to be ditto. Dated as above.
Derbyshire Yeomanry Cavalry:
William Evans, fleet. to he Cornet. Dated December 16, 1812.
Commissions signed by
orfolk thek'NLord Lieutenant of the County of
2d or East Norfolk Regiment of 'Militia.
Lieutenant Joseph Storr to be Captain, vice Orr, resigned.
Dated December 6, 1812.
Ensign George Edward Beckwith to be Lieutenant, vice Store,
promoted. Dated as above. `-
Ist Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Local Militia.
James Chase, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant. Dated Novem-
ber 17, 1512. •
24 Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Local Militia,
George Morse, Eat. to be Major, vice Cole, resigned. Dated
November 17, 1812.
Swaffham Cavalry.
Samnel Tyree, Gent. to he Cornet. Dated September 6, 1812.
Claeltelose Gayety?.
John Lister, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Smart, resigned. Dated
October 11, 1812.
Norwich RlAmen.
Se^ond Lieutenant William Freeman to be First Lieutenant,
vice Corfield, resigned. Dated December 6, 1812.
Thomas Starkey Cold well, Gent. to he Second Lieutenant,
vice Freeman, promoted. Dated as above.
Sharp Shooters attacked to the 3d, or East Norfolk Regiment
of Yeomanry Cavalry. s
William Coleman, Gent. to be First Lieutenant. Dated De-
cember 6, 1812.
• BANKRUPTS.
D. Griffiths, Canterhery, linen-draper, to surrender Jan. 9,
9, Feb. 9. at Guildhall, London. Anomie% Mr, James Earl-
street. Blackfriars ; and Mr. Harvey, Stapleburst, Kent.
.1. Cox. Ilmiuster, Soinersetshire, shopkeeper, Jan. if 20,
Feb. 9, at the White Lion Inn, Bristol. Attorities, Mr. Clarice, •
Bristol; and Messrs. Jenkins, James, and Abbott, New ion. .
E. Brown, Holborn, milliner, Jan. 2,9, Feb. 9, at Guildhall.
. Attorney, Mr. Dimes, Friday-street, Cheapside.
• G. Surenne, Dean-street, Westminster, goldsmith, Jam. 2, 12,
Feb. 9, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr.Blackloir, Frith-street,
Soho.
R. Mason, Norfolk-street, Middlesex Hospital; carver, Jan.
5,9, Feb. 9, at tiuildhall. Attornies, Messrs. Williamson and
R immer, Clifurd's Inn.
T. Crez..sser, Garrahy New Inn, Yorkshire, innkeeper' Jan.
11, 12, l'eh. 9, at Ilse Blacksmiths' Arms, Sw inmate, York-
shit/a.. Attornies, Messrs. Wanton and Cowling, York; and
Mr. Evre, Gray's Inn-square. •
It. 'furore' llinnlogliam, builder, Jan. 11, 12, Feb. 9, at the I
Swan Hotel, Birmingham. Attornies, Mr. Egertoo, Gray's
lun-square; and Messrs. Spurrier and lngleby, Birmingham.
T. Napier,' Liverpool, mereb.ant, Jan. 19. 20, Feb. 9, at the
Globe 'Tavern, Liverpool. 'Attornies, Sir. Davis, Liverpool
and Mr. Aletidowerott, Gray's Ina.
'l. Cox, Chipping Sodhure, Glourestenhire, innholdev, .lan.
7,9, Feb. 9, at the Rummer Tavern, Bristol. Anoraks, Messrs.
Whitcombe and King, Serjeant's Ins fleet-street; aid Mr.
Frankis, Bristol. •
DIVIDENDS.

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March 13, J. Minot. Finsbury-square, merebant—Jan. 26, J.
Pyernft,j,ln. St. Mat y Axe, underwriter—Jan. 19, W. Gaddeo,
Crambourne-street, linen-draper---lao. 26, W• Sicge, Ave-
ley. Essex, dealer—Jan. 19, .1. Worhall and J. Thuntua, Ca-
tharine-street. Strand, upholsterer,—Jan. 444 A. Durham, jun.
Bermingham, grocer-=Jan. 20, E. Toiler, Godinanchester,Hun-
tingdomiiire, corn-buyer—Jan. 91, R. Curgenven, jun. Ply-
mouth, line-i-draper—Jan. 21, T. Crane, Preston, tronmouger
—Jan. 19, J. hlorhatl. Castle-street, harlwareman—Jan. 23, P.
Matthews, 04)01Rn-court, merchant—Jan 2, H. Wylie, Mi-
tre-court. Aldgate, nierelsant—Jan. 19, J. Montieth and J. Se-
GracecnureMstreet, druggists—Jan. 2, W. Berry, Al-
phirsgton, Devonshire, tanner—Jan. 20, W. Worrell and R.
Williamson, Liverpool, merchants—Jan. 22. W. Kirk and W.
Broughton, merchants-4an. 27, T. F. Carlisle, Pudsey,
Yorkshire, drralter—Jan. 20, J. Ridley. Lancaster, merchant
—Jan. 20, S. Summers, Birmingham, dealer.

CERTI F IC AT E.—JAm. S.
J. Miaet, Finsbury-square, merchant.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Wria/esworth and J. Pant, Lincoln, seed.merehants—O.
and J. Millward, and A. Packwood, Coventry, druggists—J.
and T. Ainsworth, and and B. Heaton, A oderton, Lancashire,
farmers--M. Hughrs. Mhoebrster, and R. Bradbury, Lon sight,
music-sellers—J. Hurst and T. Brookman, Kidwelly, Cannar-
ssienshire, farmers—J. Smith and I'. Taylor, Chowitent-within.
Atherton, Larrashire, iron-founders-li. Bird and B. Mason,
Bradford, Wiltshire, sboat-builders—S. Waldegrare and A.
Day, Bishomate-street—B. Baker and J. Ryle Newcastle.
upon-Tyne; fruiterers—R. Hughes. C. and I'. ,Dibdia. W.
Reeve. R. C. A ndrews. T. llarfoot, and W. Yaroold, Sadlers'
Wells, so far as regards the said R. C. Andrews and W. Yar-
nald—J. West and G. Hart, Southwark. eern.merchants—P.
Hewitt and J. Knight, Manchester, manufacturers—R. Rainey
and A. Churchyard, Whiteernss-street, druggisu—J. Cox and
T. Pouatney, Worcester bare, coal-dealers—J.
Wibon, J. Whitmore, and W. Sykes, Mk-street, silk-maim-
fattnrers.

SMOCKING ACCIDINT.—Mrs. West, wife of a ser-
jettit in the Guards, was found burnt to death in her
kitchen, at Westminster, on Saturday night. She had
been left in her apartment up stairs in the- evening,
and it is supposed she had fallen asleep by. the,Aitehen
fire, and thus met the melancholy catastropins. She
was quite dead when found, and the body presented a
shocking spectacle.—On the same evening a female
dropped down in a fit, at a wine vaults in Poland.
street, and died, after remaining senseless several
hours.
A Coroner's Jury sat on Monday, on the body •f
Mrs. West, and a verdict of Accidental Death was
delivered. It was given in evidence that the de=
ceased was addicted to oinking, and it was con-
cluded she was in that Atte when the melancholly
catastrophe occurred.

EXTRAORDINARY POWER OF IMAGINATION.--•
" During our stay at the Dardanelles we lived in
the house of the Neapolitan Cpnsul. This respect.
able old man put in force a stratagem which may :
serve to show the extraordinary power of imagine- -
! tion over the diseases of the body. Being troubled
: with an intermitting feier, brought on during our
excursion in Trois, I had been observed by him to go
frequently 'to a cloak in the anti-chamber of our
apartment, watching for the hour when the paroxysm
began. This used to "Occur exactly at noon. One
morning he put back the cloak a full hour. At It,
I therefore, I had no fear of rnj fever, for the index.
pointed to eleven, lint .s 4, .0e) although the hour
seemed to be present,. tlr.paroxyam did not take,
place. ILinfortonateirlopleaxed -by ' the ' success. of.
1 Lis experimetit, he told tae what had happened, and,,.
after the usual intereil, the 'fever again returned.—.
By the same triv;euer;4l the: Charms used among the.
lower orders of peeitlei in-the country operate to thee
cure of agues. . The With ot.Protesilausl as' retched
Iby Philostratus, wiii*Oetlij resetted. te islieilipg
a quartets ferer."—(Liarke's Trailels.)•

JOHN HORNE TOOKE.

In a new periodical work, which has been cons-
menced iu Edinburgh, under the title of " The Scot.'
144 Review," it gives 'us much pleasure to meet with
the.following warm and eloquent testimony to the '
merit of this distinguished individuatin public life.
44 Imperfect as is the review which the materials
before us have enabled us to tale of Mr. Tooke's
public conduct, it exhibits a character in which every
lover of his country and literatdre will tied many
admirable features. Perhaps in. no ago or country I
has any individual raised himself,. by the mere force
of intellect and'personal talents, without adventitioui
circumstances, to such very eminent distinction. His
course was not chalked out by any former political
character ; he followed the undeviating path of pa-
triotism, and trusted to the light of his own under-
standing for guidance and direction. Ile stood erect ,
.in a declining age ; and, amid much corruption in the
Government, and much thirst of innovation among
the people, he adhered to a system of opposition to
Administration,withoJt foregoing his integrity, or re-
signing himself to popular delusion. Ilis efforts in
behalf of that branch of the liberty of the press, by
which the public opinion was brought fully to bear
on the deliberations of the national councils, alone
entitle him to rank high among the patriots of mo-
dern times. The two Houses of Parliament, if they
properly reflected os the advantages they have de- j
rived from this influence, the blunders and disgraces
which it has prevented, and the comparative recti- ;
tilde of proceeding into which it has guided them,—
should
erect a monument to his memory. But Fame
has taken the debt of giatitude out of their hands ;
and while the select of the nation are shedding cro-
codile tears over departed venality, and decreeing
sculptured bonours to the despoilers of provinces,
the nation itself has accepted into the treasure of its
best affections the memory of a patriot, to whom it
is indebted for its firmest stronghold against the in-
roads of corruption and oppression.
46 We have not forgotten that that notable cry of
moderation, which certain lukewarm advocates of
popular right are always ready to• employ as an ex-
cuse for indolence or neglect, was raised with some
vehemence against the individual whose character is
now before us. But we are confident that no impar-
tial man will consider the fame of Mr. Tooke as
blighted by the pertinacity of his conduct in any one
of the public measures in which he was engaged, if
he keep in mind the importance of a spirited expres-
sion of opinion on all occasions, and take into view
the particular inducements and hopes which ani-
mated the breast of Mr. Tooke. .Nothing, we are
verily persuaded, can be more injurious to the in-
terests of truth and of mankind, than the timidity
which dissuades from the avowal of opinion on
subjects which concern the general welfare. It
is because few have the hardihood to oppose where
the sentiments of the higher orders, the views
of Government, or the voice of the multitude, are
against them, that we witness so much haughtiness
and tyranny in the great, such a spirit of encroach-
ment
in those who rule, and so ungovernable a frenzy
I in the people, when uncurbed,by virtue, undirected
by reason, and restrained by no considerations of pru-
dence. Mr. Tooke was one of those power-braving
few; and when we hear a man of such characteristic
temperance and uprightness of principle accused of
wanton severity in his opposition, our conclusion is,
—not that his censures were unjust,—but that the
deeds and persons he censured were of so depraved
a character, and the chance of amendment so despe-
i rate, that his reprobation partook more of the vin-
dictiveness of as honest indignation, than of the
persuasive calmness which arises from a hope of re-
`formation."

On Saturday se'nuight, the machinery in Mr.
Walker's mill. at Mirfield, Yorkshire, was entirely
destroyed, by fire.
Monday evening a gentleman, who was sending
his son off by the Norwich mail, at the Swan with
Two Necks, Lad-lane, was hustled by a gang of
robbers, near the gate of the inn yard, and robbed
of his pocket book, containing bank notes to the
amount of 301. with which the robbers got clear off.
Sunday night, three foreigners, seafaring men, in
company together at the City Arms public-house,
situate near the Poplar Canal, having, by mistake,
gone out at the back door instead of the front. were
all three suddenly Plunged into the water. One of
them keeping himself afloat by holding by the keel of
a barge, continued to call out, when, assistance be-
ing procured, two of them were got out, but with
scarce any sympti..ms of life remaining. A servant
girl was dispatched for a surgeon, but who, from the
girl unfortunately not stating that they were drown-
ed, arrived without the necessary apparatus. One
only was restored to life. The body of the third
has not yet been found.
Isubclla Aitwood, a strolling preacher, has been
committed to Wakefield House of Correction for
one year, as a lewd and disorderly woman, having
been delivered of a bastard child.

Catmint, Dec. 26.—Ronezeics.--Saturday
night, about eight o'clock, as Mr. Hudson Scott, of '
Caldbeck, was returning from Carlisle market, he
was stopped and robbed by three footpads, on
Hawksdale Pasture.—,As Mr. Irwin, of Newhouses,
Salport, in company with Mr. Tioniswood, were re-
turning home from Brampton market, on Tuesday'
evening last, between six and seven o'clock, they.
were attacked by four footpads, between Brampton
_and I rthing-bridge, who robbed the former of Bank.;
notes to the amount of 181. with which the villains
made their escape.—Monday night, about six
o'clock, as Mr. Raper, of Bothwell, was returning 1
from Wigton, be was stopped near Red Dial, by
four villains, who robbed him of eight guinea notes,
and a parcel, of osloth.—.Tuesday morning, a poor
man was robbed of 101. on the road betwixt Penrith
and• Appleby, by two withtins, who inflicted such
wounds upon his person, Vitt in consequence he is
since dead.—Wednesday night last, the weaving
shop of John Robinson, of Cu mwhinton, was broken
•ppd two webs cut In the looms, which were
thketiilWay itlabg with the cloth-beams.
.04 Sitprday seboolght, one of the prisoners in
the depot at Perth, slopped down dead, without
bun% itrsonsly made any complaint, This is the
seeeod iastlteliii of' i death equally sudden, since the
period of their arrival.

I'OLIG!.. -

llarouselitclut ofo r and TINTON-Ilstr.---Scrah Shelton was Yesterr!,,
charged with robbing Jas. Doom.fly, a blind initor'.
ofap apparel.
sewiateiht aanpdpernaroetz,theattidiaheq
a earito,
wife had come up from Manchester, wlitle it.: re,
aides, to receive his pension, and on their amt:,; in
town on Sunday evening, they were mpt by ti c ;,1;,
loner in Kent-street, ilotough, who asked, if
wanted a lodging, offering, if they did, to con
them to a comfortable one, in the house where
,herself Hied. They thankfully • 'incepted her off, t,
and were conducted to the house in question wki;
they were put to possession of the parlour, she her.
self occupying the garret. When snugly lodged in
his hammock, the old seaman gave the Prisoner. tf!res
shillings for the trouble she had taken, and with his
wife prepared himself for repose. The landlord of
the house coming in some lime afterwards, and ti„,!,
ing that his parlour was occupied for the night,
(lid,
as was his practice with strangers, to prevent Ihcir
quitting at ton early an hoer, namely, locked them
in, and took the key to his own apartment. Shortly
after the Prisoner came down from hr.r garret, and
asked for the key of the l'rosecutor's room, on
pretence that she wns going to take the old people
some gin, to cheer them. The key was accordingly
given to her, and she went into the loom where the
Prosecutor and his wife were reposing, and, leaning
over the• Prosecutor, drew the small-clothes ft,"
under his head. His wife gave the alarm, when the'
Prisoner seized a bundle, which contained Mrs. !tot.
nelly's wardrobe, and from which, in her haste. ,he
dropt a shoe, and escaped into the street.
however, she was met by Goff, who was pill;
rounds, and who insisted on examining her handl,:
and as she gave but a lame account of the manner is
which she came by the• things, he took her to the
watch-house ; and soon after learning that Donnelly
had been robbed, he next morning took her hefora
the Sitting Magistrates. The Pzisoner was committed
for trial at the Assizes.

sso,OtbieTurffrs:aniset.isticid.:l-,1:1
siiii,t:r"ZisaiYmNaaTnE,"! 'tnaEmst'S'el; 9lbNrooGrn brought SbenEa.fmu;e of.l if;
Magistrate, by the Overseers of 1!:,t
of St. Bartholomew the Great, for the puipose of tt.,vik;
passed from the parish.
Mr. Job, the father of the distressed family, addressed the
Worthy Alderman iu must affecting terms. lie sated that !le
was a Is caver, with six children, and that his wife wa: is
state to produce the seventh, His family, consisting of e'en
persons, had been cooped up during some weeks ia a miser*,
garret, where he toned it a painful, if not an inspracticatao
'ask, to p-ucure bread fur their existence. Having been in-
formed That the charitable donations of deceased persons eaahled
the parish-officers toallord relief at Christmas to those S./kW' i.e.
tuition was truly necessitous (without the qualilcation of bs-
loaing to the parish poor), Ids wife went and begged a Ind
for her almost starving children. Seine time after her return Ite
was visited by a person, who, as he thee conceived, &Ira, sx
towards him with the greatest hamanity. The visitor find!! g
eniptiry that his case was really distressing, gave him 41. end
promised that some permanent aid should he afforded. He at-
tributed the interfcreree of the stranger to benevolence, lon tie
snonmfter discovered that he had been considered by the Pgrith
Officers as a pauper. The loaf of bread and the 4s. was is their
estimation parochial relief, and by receiving the same be had,
according to their representation, made himself, his Windt.
1 nate wife, and his children, liable to be paw,' with all the pa-
rish forms as paupers to their place of settlement. He then
served, that he mad long been of independent mind; he had
rung supported his family by his labi.ar, and having new re-
ceived the least assistance from any parish, he coald not support
*be idea of being removed as n pauper. the fact was; he Dryer
had applied as a pauper fist' parish relief; he hod taken the loaf
as a gift springing from the bequest of some charitable person,
and when the 4s. was given he did nut know that he was taking
it from a Churchwarden. Under all the circumstance', he cos-
t :Weed the relief he bad received as a trick to remove him, nr-
der the idea that hemight hereafter become kidded to relief in
the prirish.
I" Heaven forbid, yoor Worship r' said one of the dWtrl,t).
tors of alms for thepansh of St. Bartholomew the Great, " t+ t
we should have been guilty of stick au unrighteous deed. lye
iotimated to the man, and to the woman, that we writ Parish
I Overseers when we entered their house."
; The poor weaver, who was exceedingly amictel at having
his wants published through the parish, looked at this per•lo
and said, .• What you say, is false."
The Magistrate, commiserating the sititatioa of Job, deslp,i
that the matter should be referred to the Lord Mayor.
Mrs. Clements, spouse to the landlord of the Swan with two
Neck* public-house, appeared before the Magistrate, puraimit
to a summons which she had received, to answer to-day com-
plaints of assault preferred against her by her husband.
The Worthy Magistrate empiired how Mrs, Cleft:wets cline
1 to assault the sacred person of her hus'aand, a man, according
1 to his own account, of the utmost sweetness and tractability of
disposition.
Airs e irl Cdiemcerniptstiown whose eohuenrtenhuasbnancedbyhanliomeiveanos,,crorresher
dpooival
withthe6
don, said that her hiriband treated her with much severity ;
she confirmed the statement made on Monday, with regard
; to his inclination for Mrs. Philips; and also stated that .t had
held a surgeon several weeks to cure her of the effects of his
faithlessness to the marriage vow 4*
The Magistrate desired her to bring proof of that circumstance,
on Thursday next, and be would certainly bind over bet hu,
band to better behaviour.
Bow-stßEET.—lleara Iluare,..a porter, belonging to the
Golden-cross lain, Charing-crow was on Tuesday charged ea
the complaint of a gentleman who had a basket of game sea
him by a friend from the neighbourhood of Cambridge, hy dtr
Bury coach, which was marked carriage paid, but for ;dark
one sbilliug and a penny for the carriage, and eightpenee por-
terage was dernauded by the Defendant. It was satisfactorily
proved that one shilling and sixpence had been paid in the eta..
try for the carriage.
'rhe Defendant was convicted in the penalty of twenty ssit•
basstansl owls. • .
Intim-minim, was lately sent to the Office from the
house,l'lwFtant-
rito o:orftche ph of :teh: charging ir,A:dge several
somriart
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Pearkes were, in cottNey nence, dispatched in pursuit f thee,.
They traced a man of dm name of !ucub Dean, to ItamN..! i.e.
Hastings, and Brighton where they took him into custody.—
lie has since been eaamined on a charge of felony, for goon; as
st
swilluptahe.krbeirarakrig;dooyin:igtaheeenute,vt4tatue,riatf,crfo. rnkzt,retut.hwerceii:a:tedhuatt'rhKitn,bti.toiowaliths.,neilhinsti,riselli...cor.",:mrt.ilie4;4:
proved, he was committed for trial at the next Assizes!
County of Sussex.
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EXPERIMENT TO AIMEE A NECIIO MIN Win Tr—
. attenfpt to wash Negroes white has bon hereto.
fore considered as a proverbial absurdity ; yet the
thing is not utterly impracticable. Their dark c
lour proceeds from a black pigment in the rete mi-
-1 canon. Oxymuriatic acid deprives it of its colour.—
A Negro submersed his feet for some time in watt,
imprejnated with that acid, which' rendered them
ne!trly'aliite. The experiment wag tiv. t e.w:
IDr. BAdoes successfully on the finger of s
i —This would, if practicable on a large icnie.
valuable secret to a refugee Negro of Aweitca el
Jamaica. -.

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