The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-10-14 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN.

decease was transferred to the Irish Bettered Pest-office.
When the applicant was about three years of age, his
mother deserted her lam►, and was married to a roan
named Backe, with whom else came to England to tire.,
He was apprenticed at the age of 14 to a silversmith is
Dublin, hit he failed is business more than two years
ago, and event six months afterwards his (applicant's)
father died in the serviceofSir E.Lees.tlis fattier left about
400 f.. but a brother-in-law, taking advantage of his youth
and inexperience, got possession of this money, and he
was turned destitute open the world. In his visits to
the Pottnace, he became acquaintel with a man named
Judd, a messenger, to whom he related among other
things th► elopement of his soother with the man thirke,
and expressed a nub that lie could find her ont. Judd one
day r3tlle to him, and said Ise haJ fonnst out that his mo-1
'her was living at No. 27, Cnmherland•street, N'ew•road.
London, and that she was in affluence, and advised him
to ►tart without delay for England, and claim protection
at her }mods. He made the discovery known m Sir Ed-
ward Leee, alio gave him money, an order fora free pas-
sage to Liverpool, and a letter to a Mr. Banner of that
place. At Liverpool he received l(ts. from Mr. Dinner
and walked to London. Ile went to 2.7. Comlierland-
street, but mass told Mrs. Burke lived at No. 21. He
went there, requested to see her, making the servant
crainted with his near affinity to her mistress. Theme-
want soon returned, saving he was an impostor, sad has/
better go about his business. He renewed bis visit se.
veral times, tir:ing his claims in the most respectful
manner. Mss. Burke, however, still refesed to see hint,
and at length desired her servant tote!' him, that if he
came again lie would be taken into custody. He then
applied at. Bow-street for assistance.
Mr. Minimum, directed an officer to go with bins to
Mrs. Burke, sag request an explanation from her of ibis
sin/oiler effete. ' • •••:'

Mn. Burite,:atleseled by a Gentleman, berme
the Magistrates in the everting, and the Dempsey
aesmed
was also present. Mrs Rorke positively Piled any
knowledge of the boy.
Mr. MI MINIM. *AM Mrs. Rorke several questions;
in answer to which she said, she bad sever seen the boy
until that day, that she never knew any person of the
name of Dempsey, and that she never had a son. She
was never the wife of a hatler. The boy when lie came
to her did not conduct himself insolently, but she felt
herself alarmed at the visits of a persoe of his appear-
ance, and she thought it proper tar put a stop to them by
threetenieg to have him takes up. .
He was theicapked at number of treaties' by Sir R.
Bettina. all of which be answered:quite nohesitatiagfy,
and without deriathig ' from hie-list story, • • '
Sir R. Blanc olorrvekihat frees the manner in wbibili•
hls Petition was drawn ON anti t-is *hide demesnor, 'Lei
applicant was evidentiy a boy of considerable pecanaiseo
and it would he a great pity to send him to prison. Sir
Richard thee rave him Money for hisjinmediate cries-
skim and a note to air. Kenn goon.the Master of the Web.'
Free School in St. Giles's. He desired bias to ge imme-
diately to Mr. Finnigan, ned/o.acqualut the Magirtrates.
with the relish of his applicoliog...
The poor boy seemed eitermally alieetafel, and the fel
lowing day be called ;vile ek the
la
amilinforeeed
Sir R. Rirnie that the Irish'rollety la ' malertaken to
provide for him. . . • .- . •
Tag A DOPTZW CIIILI:1-2111"1441rtlylisli.-wf respects:
, ble appearance, dressed is deep avaleatetwg, sad aeroin—
pataled by an interesting leokieg little girl. alma in
mounting, applied to Mr. Halle fir his advice. under the
following circumstances: —She stated, that about nine
years back lien Viol/inn had been attracted by the.
pleasing and arAmeeppearreer Lef the little girl, whom
• she now preseetedio bra Worship. Sim weetire daughter.
of .as Irish ;roam? of the aren'tt rent ~mud observing
'rrom the society in which she tem,datittett to mingle,
‘thet her babitiand nitunieeders'ilWory to be depraved,"
• ham) felt aim ineereet in ter tito s'ilatl; theatiternm eh%
et her oww. proposed se clips hectametoeSeed bee aIL
Ames atiramages ;of personal. eqte.tort anti education.
, legag which she oust be,eleharreCif She were to conti-
meg with her Parent. The mother -gladly consented,.
said the child Ives removed-1,40i Wear %time.. where it
vreelvesi evert kindness and iteesitime whirls email have,
• heem derived from the foetlestapareet.,- •Tee applicant.
further stated. that she bed taken eyiry paiqs to incial-
_rate upon the mod of the child the stniteet sense of her
moral and reltglooe dative, and saa ilea spared no ex.',
pence in gitieg her •as -ezeillent• telecation. She way;
now between dilemma end foe/teem :ears of age. Stale
felt for bee the tetelest attaabnieeta eel/ she belietett Om ,
feelings were reciprocal ; bit *be was threatened to, ki
deprived of the solace which site derivel• from her Ma'
tier'', amidst tither beery alllictiOns; by the noother.teleiat
' DOW, after an 'shames of several Tears, during wide".
• she had altegitber neglected bee duty, ..eatue,and, slee*.
• Sewed, from intereted motives, demanded the repesegk
sion of her daughter. In this state of things. and ipa
prebensive if the girl Were removed trout her protec-
tion, that she migist low all the advantages site bad ;
gained, and lecexpesed se examples and pravatiees cal-
culated
to produce the worst conexpences. *be was
anxious for adrift. She added, that she lived in theparish
of St. Gooege's in the East.
Mr. HA LUI recommended that she should apply so the
Magistrates of Lamheth-street, and gave a suggestion
for their guideere, which, if adopted. might teed to es-
tate her bearrohint view. The lady sad her little charge
thee quitted the office.
' Quoit-SQUA RC—Peter Pi/Weense, a shoemaker. lira
ing in Erase's-buildinge, Chelsea, was ibarged with a
most desperate assault upon a man mimed James Hesbey..
It appeared that Heskey. who lodged *Rh the prim
Boner, went home about ,slue o'clock cos Friday eight,
and being much into/demo! threw 'himself intmedimely
en the bed. Shortly afterwards a young wannam railed
and inquired for hint, and was tell by the prisoner's ,
wife that he was in bed asleep. 'Tim prisoner' a few mi-
, notes afterwards. went out ; for some beer. mud
in his absence his wife told lieskey that he kept conipany
with a w—, and she did not like it; to which he with
some warmth replied—" you are a .weess than she
is." Os the prisoner's return. hip wife told him whet
Heskey had said. end he immediately seized a short
thick billet of oak, or seine other heavy bard wood.
which load a sharp edge, with which he proceeded to
beat Heskey is the most vieleet manner sheet the head
and shoulders, anti) a lodger above stairs, hearing the
noise, ran down and disarmed him. Mr. Champion. a
constable, was afterwards sent for, sad found Heskey Is
bed, weltering in blood from head to foots and lieleg
enable to procure a coach, as It was soar twelve o'clock,
be conveyed the eafortenate man to St. George's hospi-
tal is a cart of his own. There were seven or eight
dreadful cuts on the bead, which was terribly swollen,
and the surgeon sent a certificate to the office, that the
man was in a very bad state, sod wholly unable I. quit
his bed.

The prisoner was committed for the assanit, until the
fate of the grounded unto shall be ascertained.

LAxaaTa S Ssturday, Benjamin Paris was
examined befor.• Sir Dames. WILLIAMS, the Sitting Ma-
gistrate, charged with being concerned in robbing Cook,
Bow•street patrol, of a cutlass and pistol, the property
of government.
James Uibbs, condocher of a party of the patrol, ot
whom Cook is one, stated, that Cook, while on duty,
fell in with some loose charmless, at the Rose and
Crown. !hanky, and having became intoxicated there,
was disarmed. The cutlass was afterwards found he:
hied thermos's door in the public-house, het tire pistol
was carried of, sad the case of it was hood la the pri-
1101WeS pocket.
The Magistrate ordered the prieeser p belemas4o,

and remarked. that Cook 111.1 oo longer fit to be al of.
fic*r.

l; avow Hail..—Onlatttrrlay, Fronk Wheeler, who
has bee. so many years on the towo, 16'114 brogglit befure
L. R. ALLAN, Esq., for a final examination. 'nectarg e
against him was, as nor readers may rerollra, that
of
haring robbed a Elmetemare of his pocket-book, comic.
ing a 20/. and a 5/. 'mt., together with several Mee.
meets of a prtvate nature, on the niiht of the Itous of
September. at the great fire in Ilrennonilley.
Since the first examination several attempts weremade
to induce the Magistrates to aecept of hail, and perm t
Ilflieeter to be at large, hot they have tioiformlr refilled
to take securities, whatever the unmet offered; or hoe.
ever respectable the person. might Ise. Upon one errs
sista. Mr. Chambers, upon bearing that the robbery had
hal been compromised, anti that Mr. Wickens, the pr..
sectitor. was determined to keep mot of the say, soli
that rather tbaa let the prisoner out arm the public,
remand for the space of one year should be eriered and
infix interval, the law should be at work to compel the
attendance of the refrartory loser.
Mr. A tenitelti attemie4l for the poisoner, an,' slid this
unexceptionable bail was in attendance.
Mr. Wickens, who loan, it seems, been in the roam?,
on unavoidable hosioess, put his signature to the
non of hie „ideaea read over to hint by the Chill
tiled', and which was detailed in a forgoer nualpr at
this paper.
Mr. A XDRILWS proeeedel to examine the witness Rob..
Johnson, who diot not vary in his account of the re-
bery. In answer to questions from the Magistrate, the
witness said that he was cons lent he saw a dark„:
loured pocket-book in the hand of Wheeler, who upon
being seised by the witness, imenedoatelr passel it to
one of his associates, railing out “ Nap?' tut „rot
tilenncon, the officers, then received Whew:et into their
rostotly, but the persists who `• napped" the pod:el-book
from him, mingteil with the crowd, and escaped,
Mr. Wickens said, the robbery was ingeniously per.
formed, that he was not at all conscious ef a hat had sc•
curtest moil the last witness asked him whether he had
nut beeo robbed, and pointed out the prisoner, who
made considerable resistance when taken into rested,
by the officers. Mr. Wickens added, that he could net
say the prisoner was the thief.
The Magistrate observed, that the case had received
additional strength against the prisoner from the testi-
mony of the prosecutor.
Wall, the officer, Lore stated tbat Ifr. It had
since the apprehension of Wheeler received, the iuospv
that had been stolen frsom Mut, aIW asked the prawcorur
whether that was not the veer ?"

• Air. Wickens replied Ikai behall'llenid reports to that
' effect, bet ke declared that— .• ,•. :•
Here Mr. ANDREWS interposed, aid informed Mr.
Wickens that the officer bed no right whatever to put
'the (region, and itit had been thonight proper by Mr.
Wickens to complused the felony, there was no obliga-
Jinn upon kiwi 4 make as sirknowledentem to that
elect, oinks' the bilmistrate insistiol op** al &AWN'.
lign said the felony had been compoondol. and that
Me. Wicket', w'ouM not now he visible if his employer
had not threateird Mitilitickevge him is the event of his
neglect of this peblic mid. paramount Atty. Hall dui
iestaaced the case of se; old woman who had ion
robbed of Sill. by Wheeler. The thief upon Witte, .
pretended returned the' alottey, end escort prosecutioe.
--Hy each a mode 'of pbuteeding the ;nit reword et
Wtteelee had been pompomed fregeettly„ end he had
beep indefatigable/a ceneespeout of Isis nemeroes es-
capes. It Was non: 1p be hoped that tie diverste noticed
by the peddle pnporo would be removed triton t 4. pollee;
the tfis-graktof -peemiltelne se old and accomplished a
plekpockutla re, iiir fen la rtiii• *tilt impunity.
lieekevateliseemeitooneogoinal eh* primmer, said,tint
641 410,1011. Wbotilln for alll/4 Ida epprarante being
eo respeet ahle ' nits 4ohnoirsit acllatud list eat; rd
wraiiinteromit tiv Inetolli Open Wheeler a persita
iiiiliiie Mai want berovaittot. will' Alit gendrmaa, nig
Itt whilislafblinewhish owe& him drop his hold.
.Thelllsgiatraie said thoneamt should go heforeadery.
and accordingly committed Wheeler fur trial
Vr. Wickens said he Wu/business in the tottery. sad
It Would be ettrbeneljt Inconvenient tolim to prosecute
:Hawas iiiimedisitatty asieired, that if he did net appear
hie tecognisioseb 'book bi 'sweated,
le the night of the 2341 of September last, an extensive
rrObbery ells eomusittrd on the premises of Mr. John
:Amnion, of Eltabolton, in Huntingdonshire, cloth factor.
Mr. Peones's worrisome' is situate over the market.pl Ice
IP Alai town.. and the entry was effected by means of the
robbers getting on the shambles, and biteable; thr°llol
the toot of the warehouse. Application was made at
BOti-streefaliee, and Taunton, ore of the principal offt-
o era, wis sent down to discover the offender, and abet a
deal of trouble and exertioe, traced out circumvents
which ted to the suspicion of gypsies, who hail encamp-
ed in the environs of the town, being the perpetrators of
the robbery; they bad however decamped the morntot
after it took Voce bet wove 'et' length toned astir
Tension, in Hedadokire, where they bad raised tine
camps, and is the night, atter ihry had retired he rest,
.he, with assistance, secured the whole of them, aid the
next morning took them before •—• Geary, Esq. amid
lie ilagistemee for the county, when some of them were
admitted as King's evidence. and two of thee, of the
awes of Imveridoe and lleniausio Smith, wet* hilly
mrassaitted for trial for the robbery.

DIAAY FOR THIS tittlUNT WEEK. •
IMO TIN{ alt atom WATSA AT LONOIO-11111119011.

Oat. 11. 11.-1911. arr. Tam. Tea. IC. Edw. Coat:
113. 31 m. aft. II; *ma. m. aft. It.
111, 1/.--eels. aft. O. •'' .
• Ilighwalor--mera. 180. after ft Is /18as. after 1.
Is, T.—New Moon as 2 Molts.
Hlch water—seer. 2 o'clock; amm. 21 0. alter Y.
le, W.-9no eats 19 oda. after S.
31121 s water.-eners.lllm. aft. 2; Ma. 55 m. aft' 2.
17. Th.—Eihddred
High water—son. 10 m. after f ; men. 23 w. after 3
18, P.-Bv. Lean.
High water—morn. 39 m. after 3; even.s3 ta. aft. I.
19, B.—Mars sets 32 tn. after 8 eves.
fllgh water—morn. 13 m. aft. 4; even. 22 to. aft. 4.
Witaewas.—lesonsequence of the atmosphere havinz
ham overcharged. as we stated, pith ehetric matter.
the latter end of last week, storms of thunder, lightning.
hail. and rain took place, in Kent and Esser. as well as
in Yrawee, sod the wind has here bean very boisterous the
early part of the week, and some heavy showers hare
fallen. After the showers, however, the atmosphere has
been remarkably clear, and, while the eon Moose. the
weather has been warn,. The quantity of rain fallen
since Saturday last, is p►ecisely one loci.
Satarday.oo. 12.
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