The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-12-27 00:00:00

hWTLAND.

A cations occurrence happened the other evening at
Coestorphiee. to two gentlemen who had dial to the
westward, mid were return's' en foot to Edinburgh.
It seems that the rood fulls in the village were apes
the witch for a fan and a short mar, who were said to,
have been the recent disturbers of the deal, and the
moment they saw our friends (0.. e of whom was melt
shove the ordina►y height, and the other under it), dry
laid violent hands on them. A scuffle ensued, and the
good p►ople were still more confirmed in th► idea that
the pedestrians had 'mine from the chnrch•yard, wbea
th►y heard one of them call hastily, " Guist, • ! (}nip.
01.1' epos one of them getting oat of the clutches of
the rustics. The reatlersen were kept is durance unfit
a messenger was seat to the house where they bad dined:
when the whole business ended in the resurrection of
their fallen spirits.—(EdialuregA Okerrerj

On Friday evening last, a servant of ooe of the 00--
pew carriers fell from his cart in the row boom
Leith mid Edinburgh. The cart passed eve: his anno....e
be wee conveyed to the police-erste, when lie elitaisedt.
proper asslstaace, and was able tef rotors to his employ.
ment,the injury be had received not bei ag of a my severe'
character. li sa reniaritable of ibis man, that for she 6,t
twelve months, daring which time he hoe Wee in the
service of the same carrier, he has not bovesece in he.
having been is the habit of sleeping siAier ea a fees.,
while the cart was receiving its losdiae, or on the car,
while going on its joarney through the eight. —(MAI-
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One 'main! lately, a 111211 west into a home in Cha-
pel-street, Aberdeen, pretrediag he wanted to pirehme
bread, whom being directed to a shop in she eetwittems-
hood hi a wombs who happened to be with the km&
lady, be west sway. A short time after, however, the
fellow having so uunht watched the deportee* of this
casual visite', misused to the honor, where the mother
of the tastily wits alone, who had jest time to observe
hies near her, mad that he was folios ed by swo associmes
when the willies rallied aeon her, and seising the poet
'remain, in an unsuccessful attempt to throw heron the
Ann, pretipitatod her with great violeves so the hearth~
tiormteeing her with immediate destnictioa if she did
sat deliver up the key of her linahaod's repositories.
and that whims' wiring say alarm. The accomplish-
meet of the base and arfaritus purpose, seemingly es
moth in his power, was however soddenly defeased by
she fidelity of a favourite domestic, a hi,eb, who, oft
sesiow thealartniew sheathss of her 'mistress', nada a
bidets attack %pen the assailent, and after a hang strug-
gle compelled him to fly, leaving trimly vestiges of the
severity lathe modest. Nor did the isdoriated animal
quit the aggressor until she Betio invited him in the
street, Wowing him to the grouted; and treaties hint
very roughly; his worthless mem:late', who had de-
clined sharing is thispart of the business, havlag pre-
rioasly disappmared. it is painful to add, Alit the shock
occasioned by this Imistal outrage brought no premature
laboor on the wousae. who was delivered two dor after
of • child, which died is three days. This darine and
itofeeHeg ream is described •as a well dressed man,
beset the tallest of the middle ti se. sad of tither genteel
iappearsece.—(EdlabetykCeerist. Dee. f 3.)
i ' Os Wedoesday last. two young wen. one of whom Is
*old offender. were broeght to Abeedeete, accused a ith
having broke, into a house at !ordinals*, is the parish
of Ellen. lobabited by an old man and his wife, whom
they robbed of the amity in their periieudow. tollectei
for paving their rout; wises, not satisfied with haeieg
stripped thew of Mgr little all, they hoot the poor ri-
fle's SY wen rieuh. wearier,. Al intoNJOS
tither* litreefool ' itreetatY going bit '
sainted ate lodged in prison. So great b;11,
. gligsgitialatkitmt by tide depredattoo. that the Who
of Oise% ham teetheir protection. estahllibed
ouldbe Wistelistsbrirlostolase mg tall the hoes
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•ON eill:W01147 Pflatws &Wets:
tat Pilate did not stay for an anserte:•
Edwin—Permit ma thrush ilia limits of your it-
rateable paper. to oiler a tow peelissthary retearts on the
'usefulness arising to society frogs itleortislag the cure of
certain maladies, b,y • partfealar description of neediest
litielitinitith.Vlto ate frequently stignittised with the epi-
thet " disinterested impostors." There is a line of d'stirte-
tioa to be observed, which appears evident to me, nod I
ilefth ovoid db so to others. Attested of prejudice. that la.
were the advertising practitioner • eusisleatioas maa, tea-
quilled by avarice. always busies _teeth for his motto. snl
oho wan use of an advertiseurat es a vehicle to hriog
regal the objects, of indiscretion, that piste in misery. and
blush at the thought of their case beteg bootee to their Is-
'roily practitioner; aced those unhappy objects ere brought
forth, aid restored to health, when dtey might ,jITO been
sacrificed, or left to wander their days la wretthedsess.—
An fasteners ofeteleir I beg lute to Neel to a letter ad-
dressed to Dr. Body ,16, Draw-street, besidos.
"Sia—When I have relerted upon your klatheess. tee
=inky, and liberality, tat me, to my distressed. alien:thud
forlorn situation when after suffering for six mont:m scene
I elating tortures cannot describe. end which bad baSed sll
the medical asslstutoe l had applied to for tenet, and when
I was hopeless from the inedicary of medicinetaken h vela.
to assuage infamasationdillinveasing, winch was setae&
ed by garegrene weerttfleatioe. sad at last death starlit: ma
la the Oise. At this period et my disorder. I unripened at
no greet distance my dissolutloo as inevitable, with all the
attendant horrors which death presents to the buman
embittered by the lacerating refection, " Blaine thy foolish
self'-1 say, when I reflect on such exertion, tiour:esy. and
liberatity, when I had no hand to assist, no frieed to coande,
no means of sapport against sack a teallthuint disorder as
that which I laboured under, sail remember that to year
personal exertion, u tar as human aid is oseeerued, I as at
this moment indebted for the life I now solo', and for the
health I its so fully in possession of, I cannot but feel I am
acting ungrateful to you to not publishing my case to the
world, or speaking In a more public way of your beast°•
lence to me than I have.
" Ah, Sir, conscience makes cowards of us all. Sat
still
I bare thought a plan might be dee feed, in which this object,
to me so desirable, might be accomplished, and the beseit.
not only others bet to yourself be felt es exteusively as I
wish it ; and therefore if you think proper Is they way to
mention my case, so tar as to save me all the pain refection
must produce on each a satire, I shall only feel 1 am doing
port of a duly I owe yoe(and a small pert indeed I *cinder-
ledge it is) for were Ito live ages, and experience store
thau I haveever done of the contending circumstances of this
life, I am assured that nothing could efface from my ntsmory•
or cheer my spirits more, than the remembrance of • Ause
ve.lch can CUD' to be deer to me only with my life.
1 am, Sir, your's sincerely,

To Doctor FAdt . 3S.
Dean-ht. Soh• •

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