The Statesman.
London, England, 1810-05-02 00:00:00

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CIILSISTINING.-011 TtieSday last, WAS ini-
tiated ai a Christian, in the Parish Church of Stil-
lington, by the Ref. William Oddie, Ruth North
or that place, aged eighty years. The sponsors
were her sun, aged sixty, and her two daughters,
also well advanced in years.

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lifteldlEit tilP 'LIEUTENANT JOHNSTON.
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us ots-HALL. —.lt will be recollected, thin
some time p;st, Lieutenant Johnston was found
murdered •in this Kent-road, near the Five Bells,
andthat sevarat 'persons were apprehended on sus-
picion, but nothing appeared to justify their de-
tention. Collingbourn, the Officer, yesterday
received information, that a woman, named Bate.
man, who resides its a court near Warren-lane,
Woolwich, . and who, with her husband, occa-
sionally get their living by carting coals and
bricks, has been heard to say to her husband—
" You villain you know you made me drive the
cart on, while you and Smith (who is a prisoner
fur felony in Maidstone Gaol) got out and mur-
dered poor Lieutenant Johnston." On receiving
this information, Collingbourn, Goff, and IVort.
ley apprehended them, and brought them before
the Magistrates at the above office, who have de.
tained them till further inquiry. Can be made.
• Bow.STREET.4.--Munday Thomas llardwicke,
who is in custody on suspicion of being one of
the robbers who broke open the shop of Mr.
Gustard, in Bedford-street, Covent-garden, was
brought to the Office for further examination.
"rhe only fact that came out was, that the Pri.
soncr was at a public.house near Mr. Gustard's,
on the morning of the robbery. He was again
committed for further examination. • i
ilionwAyma N.—On Saturday evening, About
eight o'l:luck, as one of the horse
.patrole, be-
longing to Bets-greet Office, was riding user
Blackheath, upon his duty, he Met a man who
informed him, that a pustchaise had just been
robbed by a highwayman. The patrol* followed
the chaise, and ou coming up with It, found ageu.
tleman, two lathes, and a little girl, who had been
stopped and robbed by a highwayman • they in.
formed him the way the highwayman ad taken;
the patrole pursued him, and came up with a
man on horseback, whom he stopped, and took
into custody. On searching him, and not finding
any thing particular, the patrole was persuaded he
had thrown something away ; but it being then
dark, lie left his stick on the spot to mark the
place, and conveyed-the highwayman to London.
Early on the followl4 morning, he went to the
place again, where he left his stick, and found near
it a pistol, which was loaded, primed, and cocked.
On Monday evening, the highwayman underwent
-an examination before Mr. Read, at the Public
"Office, Bow-street, when the driver of the chaise
attended, and said, he was driving the gentleman
and two ladies to Dartford ; he was confident the
Prisoner was the man who stopped the chaise, and
robbed the passengers. The prisoner said his
name was Charles Brown. He was committed for
fgeber examination.
A remarkable phenomenon is mentioned in the
French Papers to have occurred on the 17th of
January, on the mountains in the department of
Plaisance, where some red meow fell at the mo.
tent .when thunder was' heard. The snow that af.
terwards fell was white and red intermixed. • A
French chemist his applied this phenomenon to
the explanation of the ancient stories of a rain of
blood, which be supposes-to have been red sni.iw.
Yesterday ask group of chimney-sweepers boys
woo playing their gambols in Lower Thistles-
street, a dray horse ran against one of them, and
broke his leg.—The poor' boy was immediately
*taken to the hospital.
On Friday, an inquest was taken st'Wincan.
ton, on the body of Hannah Bowden, a remark.
ably handsome genteel young woman, who
(having been -some time ill) was on her
.return-,
from London to Tiverton, and actually destillyed
•herself on the roof of the stage-coach, in the
presence of the coachman,• guard, two gentlemen,
and another woman, -by thrusting a handkerchief
'down her throat, which produced suffocation !
So effectually and determinedly did this young,
creature accomplish her purpose, that it was ne.
cessary to use surgical instruments to draw the
handkerchief back. Verdict—Lunacy.
Sunday evening last a desperate affray took
place at North.eorner, between a party of Eng.
lish and a number of Spanish seamen. The Dues,
it seems, had escorted several Ladies to their boat,
with an intention of taking them on board the
Iphigenia frigate. The British Jacks, howevee,,
conceiving this to be an innovation on their rights
and privileges, laid an embargo on the Air cargo ;
.tbis so exasperated the Spaniards, that a battle.
royal immediately took. place, which terminated in'
favour of our_ seamen, who tarried off the Ladies
in triumph. Nu lives were lost, but swot were
severely cut by the knives d lb. Sivaelerda:—
(Plymouth Telegraph).

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