The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-09-03 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

she was herself the beginning of the 'whale Vow ; and ander
these circumstances the complaint was dismissed, with an
intimation, that if Mrs. Savage was not satittled; she Might
go to the Sessions.
Mr. Connor had all his tenants, male and Maisie, *to give
evidence in his behalf.

Harrow Gratoks.—David Barkley, a respectable and ex-
tensive hatcher in Clerkenwell, appeared to answer a tom-
plaint of assault, preferred against him by Mr. Scott.
Mr. Scott stated, that the inhabitants of Clerkenwell halving
resolved on enforcing the strict observance et the Bibbed%
day, by compelling ail shop-keepers to abstain from serving
in their shops on any part of that day ; he, as churchwarden,
in company with other parish officers, had last Sunday gone
round to the differ ant shops to see whether they were closed.
On coming to the shop of Mr. Barkley, he found it open, and
several persons inside ; he therefore entered and observed to
Mr. Barkley that he was rather surprised to seehis shop open,
as he was one of the number who about a twelvemonth ago,
bad concurred in petitioning the directors of the parish to com-
pel the shopkeepers to close their shops. He had scarcely
anishedgiefore Mr. Barkley came up, and without ceremony
violently pushed him out of the shop.
Mr. Barkley, in his defence, said that Mr. Scott had en-
tered his shop in a very ungentlemanly manner, and he had
therefore desired him to walk out, but which he not doing.
he gently pushed him out, as be contended he bad a right
to do to any man that refused to quit his shop when he or-
dered him.
The sitting Magistrate, A. S. Lune, Esq. observed, that
the assault being admitted, he must call on him to enter into
r his own recognisance.
Mr. Barkley—Sir, if a man comes into my shop and in-
sults mg, what am I to do Y Am I to stand by and look at
I him?
Mr. LAING—I am not sitting in final judgmentupon the ease,
bat only to determine whether ao assault appears to have been
committed • but why open yolr shop at all 1 You at least
cannot plead poverty.
Mr. Barkley—Because, Sir, had I not, all the meat must
have been spoilt ; besides I was at work for you.
Mr. LAING—For met bow?
Mr. Barkley—Yes. Sir, for you. I say you, as it was for
the House of Correction that I was chopping meat at the time,
and of which you are one of the visiting Magistrates, and it
is by their orders that the meat is not sent in till Sunday
morning.
Mr. LAING observed, that as this was a charge of assault
they had nothing to do with that now, and that he should re-
quire him to enter into his own recognizance to keep the peace
which he accordingly did.

MARY-La-BONNE Oretez.—Yesterday an information
which from the novel circumstances attending it, excitej
• great deal of surprise and curiosity in this office, was
heard before Mr. GRIFFITHS. the Sitting Magistrate.
It was an information under the Licensing Act, for a
penalty aeainst Mr. George Cribb, landlord of the Horse
and Sacks, Harrow-road, tiled by Mrs. Elizabeth Abbott,
the wife of a respectable builder residing in Shouldham-
street.
Mrs. Abbott lame tted the necessity of laying the infor-
mation,but said she was obliged to do so in order to check
the meeting at defendant's house of men, who ought to be
more profitably employed. On Sunday last, during the
hours of church InornEng service, between twelve and one
o'clock, hearing her hu band was in the defendant's public-
house, she went there, and saw two men come out of the
house with beer, and soon after the boy belonging to the
house came, and tapping at the window was admitted by
Mr. Cribb's ann, when she succeeded in getting into the
house. On making her way into the parlour she found her
husband and three other men drinking, with a pot of
porter before them.
The defendant, in reply to the charge, said he bad not
drawn any porter doting the Divine Service of that day.—
The gentlemen seen by witness were men of property, anti
had met there to transact business and pay each other
money. He denied having sent any beer out, and said
that be thought the evidence ought not to be believed.
Mr. Oitiverriss said this was a very clear case, and it
could not be denied that persons were in the house, which
was against the statute, and consequently lie convicted the
defendant in the penalty of Ms. and costs.
The defendant immediately gave notice of appeal against
the conviction.

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Qum.: SQUARE.—Coleman, the patrol, called at this
office yesterday morning to inform the Magistrate that an
unfortunate m4n lie found lying in the Park on the preced-
ing morning, expired at seven o'clock yesterday morning,in
the workhouse, to which he had conveyed him. In answer
to a question from the worthy Magistrate, the officer stated
that he had ascertained his name, and found his wife and
family. His name was lierard, and he resided at Prince's
place. He was a carpenter and bad passed the day with
some friends at Richmond. He left that place to return to
town about II o'clock, and, as it seemed to his friends with
whom he had dined, he left the house in perfect sobriety.
It was half-past two o'clock when Coleman found him,
and from that moment until his death, lie never uttered a
syllable. He had nine shillings in his possession and a
gold brooch when he left Richmond, but the industry of
some of those active characters who nightly frequent the
park hail not been idle, and even his boots were stripped
from his feet by their diligent exertions. He has left a
wife and several children. An inquest will be taken on the
body this evening.
Yesterday Rob:. Smart, a common informer, was brought
before Mr. MARKLAND, the sitting Magistrate, on a
bench warrant, arising out of the following circum-
stances :

It appears that the prisoner is one of those gentlemen
who, a short time ago, was treated so unceremoniously
in the neighliourhood of Kingston, to which place they
' had gone to act professionally, but were found oat not to
he gentlemen. It further appears, that on the 2 Ith of June
last, a vender of black lead pencils, named Samuel Moss
Solomons, in the ray of trade, was hawking about his arti-
cles, which were of his own manufacture, along the King's
Road, Chelsea, when the prisoner, in company with two
other informers, came up to Solomons, and ()Meted him
to deliver up his property, which he refused to do, not
knowing them; and on finding, by their own assertions,
that they were informers,,lte assured them that the articles
were of his own make, and a license therefore was unne-
cessary. Notwithstanding, they dragged him to a pnblic
1
house in the King's Road with the utmost violence, where
Mr. Clarke, the landlord, knew Solomons, and confirmed
his account that he was the maker of his own pencils. He
was, however, dragged before a Magistrate, and not only
assaulted, but detained by them a considerable time; in
consequence of which he preferred his indictment at the
Sessions, and a true Bill was found ; but they never ninths
their appearance, and had kipt out of the way ever sista.
The above warrant was placed in the hands of Hand-
ley, the officer, to exrcbte. Yesterday morning he was
passing.throilirh.Kniithtsbeitlge. and beheld the prisoner
'pursuing his old avocation.
Yesterday morning Solomons attended,and identified the
prisoner, who was ordered to procure the necessary recogni-
zance to spew at the Sessions.
WoRSHIP STRSET.—Yesterday, Sarah Welshford
was brought np far re-examination before Roseatv
Beni!. and JOHN MiLwaan, Esquires, on a charge
Idf wilfully setting fire to the house of Mr. Adding•
ton. to Mpttal-square.
Mr. Addington, who, on the news reaching him in
the country, bid hastened to London, appeared at the
Office.
Smile additional evidenet was adduced against the
prisoner. It 'was stated by Mr. Berry that a piece of loon,
made for a polls On the top of a door, but which might
be used at a craw, was found by, hint in the Surgery on the
*iniut of the fire, behind the door. Mr. Addington
Itsseti 41iii piece O. iron, and the last time he saw it
%le box In the prisoner's room, amongst some 'old
1111r.11014. Ir l 9 lose spared no paths to investigate this
alyentrions affair, We if opinion there were so snanyjir-
eniestances of suspfctin against the prisoner, as

doobt of the duty, holed to perform, and accordingly be
committed the prisoner for trial.
TN lOUS POLICE,. —ExTonTioN HT PAWNEIROSKIRS.—
Yertetiay the Office was't hronged by Pawnbroker,' to hear
the determination of the Magistrates on the following
ease :
Mr. John Dichr, of 3, Three Colt street, pawnbroker,
was summoned before J. BALLA STINE, Esq. at the instance
of Susanna-Davis, for taking illegal interest. Mr. Harmer
attended for the defendant. On the 4th August. 1822, the
complainant pledged at the defendant's shop a blanket and
shawl for 3s. On the 18th, in the present year, she went to
redeem it, io consequence athe 17th falling on a Sunday.—
Tie detention: demanded Is. 2d. interest, which she was
obliged to pay.
Mr. HARMER contended the present case could not be
taken algid:ince of by the Magistrate. as the ticket he-
coming due on a Sentlay, ought to have been prorated,
and the property redeemed,or interest paid on the Saturday.
Independent of that, the sum being under ten *billings, the
broker was not liable to acconnt.
The Magistrate viewed the statute in a diffbrent light,
and observed the section which applied to property being
pledged under 10s. referred to the mode of sale, not to the
pledge itself. The Magistrate convicted the defendant in
the penalty of 40s. and the parties instantly entered Into
recognisance' to appeal.

MURDER OF MIL SMITH, AT LEWISHAM.
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Yesterday Mr. Constable anti Colonil Foreman, Magis•
trates foe this division, sat at the Mitre-tavern, tireenwich.
At an early hour the Justice-room was filled to excess, and
the greatest anxiety prevailed. in conseqnetice of a man
named Thomas Timothy, being disco►ered to be an accom-
plice with Coleman, in the murder of the unfortunate Mr.
Smith, at Lewisham. in December last.
Previous to Coleman's condemnation, he made a con-
fession to Colonel Foreman, in the presence of Mr. Bicknell,
the clerk, wherein he stated, that when he left Mrs.Conlay's,
at Deptford, where he lodged, be proceeded towards the
house of Mr. Smith, where he met his associates, who
were six in number, viz. James and Hobert Smith (brothers,
the latter fired the fatal shot) James Webster. a shipwright,
John Woodcock, a &helm in of Lambeth, and two other
fishermen whose surnames be did not know—hut Thomas
was the Christian name of the one, and John of the
other, and that they lived in Lambeth and frequented
the same public house there as Woodcock—that Thomas
had lived at the back of the Nelson, in Deptford, with
a girl called Black Hannah; and that it was Thomas that
assisted bim in boring the hole in the parlour shutter of
Mr. Smith's house at the moment that gentleman was shot,
and that the stick that was found in the forecourt of Mr.
Smith's house belonged to Thomas.
After “oleman's execution, it was found that the sur-
names of Thomas was Timothy, and warrants were forth-
with granted and placed in the hands of Farmer, an active
constable. Farmer was unceasing in his endeavours to
arrest him, but could not gain the slightest trace of him.
The prisoner, who is a dashing young fellow, apparently
about twenty-seven years of age, of very short Stature, was,
however, brought before Mr. Constable, on Saturday, on a
warrant, at the instance of a female, fur an assault, and
then appeared under an assumed name. In the course of
the examination upon the complaint of the young woman,
he was recognized to be the very Thomas Timothy named
by Coleman in his confession, and when challenged by
the Magistrate as to whether or not his name was Timothy,
he reluctantly admitted that was his name. He was there-
upon remanded, and was taken to the cage under a strong
escort. Yesterday lie was again placed at the bar, and he
appeared very dejected and alarmed at the appearance of
things. Mr. Humphries attended as his solicitor. Mrs.
Coleman, the mother of the unfortunate man who suffered
the sentence of the law, attended, anti underwent an exa-
mination in private. Mr. Bicknell, solicitor to the Hos-
pital, and clerk to the Magistrates, took her depositions
at considerable length, which were afterwards cosniunni-
eate.l to the prisoner, who loudly asserted his innocence.
He was again remanded.

DUBLIN Potica.—Two smart lads, named John Kelly
and Edward Hart, were charged yesterday at Marlborough-
street police-office, by a Mr. Daniel' Reddy, with running
away with a wheel-barrow.
At an early hour on Wednesday morning last, a man
having the appearance of a countryman, called at the
hottse of a respectable citizen, and asked permission to
leave a hamper in the yard until he should return; he said
he would call for it at ten o'clock the same morning. Per-
mission was given, and the man, alter leaving the hamper
in the yard, went away. In a short time afterwards two
Revenue Officers, armed with pistols, came to the same
house, saying that they were in search of illicit spirits.
The proprietor assured them that there was no such article
in his concerns; one of them asked him if he hid not got
a hamper in the yard ; the gentleman then recollected that
a countryman had left a hamper in the yard, and related
the circumstance. They desired to see it, and having been
brought to where it had been left, they examined it, and
took from its keg which was found to contain abaitt two
gsllons•of poteen whiskey. The Revenue Officers then
told the gentleman that be should hear more of it before
that day six months. He replied that lie would not wait
so long. He has in consequence anticipated the Revenue
Officers, by memorialing the Commissioners of Revenue,
stating the circumstance, and requesting an immediate in-
vestigation into the facts of the case.

On Saturday, a fire, which subsisted for some time in
the house of Mr. Jarvis Boot, leee-improver, St. Mary's
Churchside, Nottingham, excited no small degree of alarm.
We have made some inquiry into the particulars, and have
collected the following statement of the affair:—About
eleven o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Boot went into the
cellar, accompanied by a young man, to fetch up some
spirits of wine, which is used in improving lace. The
young man was pouring it out of a bottle into a jug, and
Mrs. B. stood with a candle about half a, yard distant,
when, by some means, the spirits in the jog took tire,
confumnicated with the bottle, and it 'blew up with the
explosion of a cannon! The man, with some difficulty,
got Op stairs, his clothes being on tire, and Mrs. Boot ran
into the coal cellar, where she promptly unfastened the
iron grate, and on calling for assistance; was drawn out
through the cellar-light, without being much hart. The
alarm was of course given at the moment, and Mr. Francis
Bout burriedinto the cellar with the first bucket of water,
forcing his way through the flames which then ascended
with great fury, threatening destruction to the whole pre-
mises; the neighbours came forward with
n
great prompti-
tude, and the dam were nearly subdued in five minutes,
at which time, the engines had arrived, and began to play
into the cellar, so that the fire was soon completely extin-
guished. On going below, the danger to which the pre-
mises and the lives of the inhabitants had been exposed
became more apparent. Not only had the. woodwork
caught fire, but the package of a carboy of spirits of wine,
one of five which stood together, containing about four-
teen gallons each, was nearly burnt off °name side, and it
is highly probable, that in one minute more, these bottles
would have exploded and blown up the whole house, with
all the persons contained in it! We are happy to hear,
that Ott this occasion the 'fire-engines were brought to the
spot, with unexampled promptitude, and the neighbours
and passenger gave very efficient assistance.—Nottingham
&eft.
Oi Saturday se'nnight, as the Hero Birmingham and
Bristol coach, when distant about a mile from Cheltenham,
"waii.passing a load of hay, the hinder seat came in contact
with a projecting truss or the binding rope, and instantly
separated the seat, Whetrion were sitting a lady and gentle-
ar*.
from the coach; The sufferers were conveyed in a
toithe Plough Hotel, where they lie in a tery den-
state.

Domes rt plaie6 cror.—Hos.
Thy Muse, and (iii the cup of life,.
That honey-drop) thy pleasing wife.
SOCRATES, by his Discourse on Marriage, so es.
raptured his auditors with the subject, that the
married men flew to their wives, and the hsehelors hasteneif
to be wedded ; and "The Spectator" has affirmed, that the
wcrd •• wife" is the most agreeable and delightful name is
nature.

The sacred institutinn, then, of msrriage, compasses the
desideratum of our enjoyment ; teetnitig not only w.th hap.
piness on earth, but disposing the soul itself to harmouida
with bliss hereafter.

Previous, however, to entering into this hallosied obti.
cation, it becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate
the passions, but to cleanse the grosser nature from those
impurities which the freedom of unrestricted pleasure may
have entailed upon it. To the 'leg ett of such attention are
attributable, many-of those hapless instances, which, while
they excite the commiseration of the be! 'alder, should also
impress him with the fear of self-reproach.
Luxurious habits will effeneinize the body—ft residence is
the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—hut more especially
does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently com-
promise the natural dignity into a state of inanition, foes
whence the lig mized stiffeeer more than doubts the chanm
of relief. To all such, then, we address ourselves, offering
hope—energy—muscular strength—felicity: nor will our
advances appear questionable, sanctioned as they are by the
multiplied proofs of twenty years saccessful exiwrienee.
The easy cares of married li:e are sometimes disturlitel
by the suspension of those blessing, wnich concentmatethe
nuptial wreath—for the femnle habit is often constliutiunal:y
weak-3 et it can be strengthened, and deficient energy im-
proved into functional power.
Its every case of syphilitic intrusion, as well as in every
relaxation of the generative economy, we pledge our *bill
to cure speedily, cad with effect. Earnestly sblicitous to
expel the unfeeling empiric from the position so premiums-
ously taken up, we deviate from general principles with
less hesitation; and confident in our own honourable inte-
grity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we refer
suffering community of either Sex (espe. billy those enter-
ing into matrimonial life) at once to our houses. where daiiy
attendance Is given for personal consultation ; and letters
from the country are immediately answered; these facet
contain a remittance for Make and Medicine, which can be
forwarded to any part of the world, however d,stant.

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HR. EADY respectfully calls the attention of those
afflicted, to pis peculiar and effectual method of
cure, and although he will not presume to pledge infallibility
in every description of case; yet as far as human aid, assist
ed by medical and surgical experience can be appiied, be
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