The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-21 00:00:00

PO LICE.

Onw.entrr.—Wednesday afternoon, between one gull two
&Hoek, as an undertaker was patting a collio into the hind,i;
of a house in Church-lane, tit. (dies's, lie was attache I h wh;
rob era, who, stole his watch. lie fortunately det vied hi,
lain with his watch in'his Inus.l. lie was brought, the 011,./.;
and he proved to be a well-known character, of the name of
,foksi Ira h, aka IV.hal. lie was fully committed to Newpte
ter trial.
A porter in the employ of Mr. Ibberson, of the 1
arr. oei
lillue Boar Inn, in I lol!vam. was convicted for not #l,liverie,....
hare in doe time, to • LUIJCS Miller, E. of tlondand ,Irett, tit.
tenliam-court-road.
linomo: Raymond, a licensed pmt-toaster, of Llingion. %I-4
convicted in the penally of 101. and two gnineats costs, to if.,;,
sin_g false accounts in his Stain,-office account.
U NION.IIALL.—Charts lieflun, W,O Watl, end fu.ephino,.,
were brought before Mr. Evveca, by Cullinvhoura and Glee!
non, under the following cirentintancca :---nrown was es.r..;:.i
manure to his master's farm, at Undue..,
to 3lessrs. tioulditelo, coal-merelants, ltankside, nal was in 111
kept a puld:c-hoits:•iat i til.*.e',,,
iilddni'mm.' Mesas. lloulditch having reeensl in.
ihnnall;:iiikitee,roflad
formation that Brown was in the habit of S:1411; ill; InZliblr ~a
fathertoj carrying
la e i
lilak,.'s dunghill. instead of carrying it tome farm, ie.:limed
an enquiry, and found it was In. :Ind that the flukes were in the; habit of girin,r, him ss. Ater load for orinore, which on the are-
rage was worth 15i. the M igistrate being of opinion the
Makes had been guilty of a ausdetneariour, held form to hail to
answer at die Scutari*.

TuE Russurr Boy !—A mareellons bay, of ten
years of age, bath created much astonishment among
the fregnenters of the Stock Exchange, by his won.
derful adroitness at calculation :—llu is a sort of ad.
I 'nimble Crichton, in his way. A bet was laid tea
considerable amount a few days since, by a merchant,
with a gentleman who is reputed to be the first ac.
comptant in that celebrated coffee-house, upon the
point of figures and calculation, as abstruse, Oat it
' took him one hour to prepare the question, which the
boy immediately answered in one minute: an ohjoeti„a
was taken as to the accuracy of the child's answer,but,
I after a very serious investigation, it was admitted
that the boy's answer was correct. A great lottery
contractor, who was present, instantly gave the boy
a guinea that was coined in the reign of William the
Hid. and demanded to know how many years,
months, and days had elapsed since the period of its
coinage ; all which he answered, promptly, to the
admiration of the whole circle, who subscribed fiftv
pounds as a present to this calculating phenomenon.
It seems that he is a native of Russia, who bath been
one voyage to the Cinited States of America, from
whence be came, at the commencennint of the pre.
sent regretted troub'es, recommended to a Mercantile
Gentleman of this City; and it is farther added, but
with what degree of troth we cannot answer, that he
can neither read nor write. •

la consequence of the numerous robberies lately.
committed at Liverpool, a plan was laid by the ph
lire for the detection of the offenders. On Friday
se'nnight, about nine o'clock, a party of the police of-
ficers and special constables proceeded, in a hackney.
coace, along the road leading from Everton towards
LoW-hill ; when they were attacked by five men,
armed with a blunderbuss and pistols, who, eith.
dreadful imprecations, broke the coach-windows,,
opened both the doors, and demanded their money.
Upon finding that the party in the inside were armed,
the robbers fired the blunderbuss and pistols into the
couch ; and one of the constables having suffered
himself to be robbed (agreeably to the directions he
bad received), a desperate affray took place ; three
of the constables were disabled very early, one by a.
slug through his arm, another by several cuts upost
the head, and a third by a very severe cut over the
eye : fortunately' two of the footpads were se..„
cured.

C.untoN.—The ill effects of suppressing the com-
mon effort of nature was proved in a melanch9!y
stance, which occurred on Sunday last. Mr. Tat-
met, of Kennington, being at church, Was, &iris;
the sermon, suddenly seized with an inclination to"
sneeze—not wishing tb disturb the congregation, he
suddenly suppressed the effort, and the revulsion of
his nerves was in such that a blood vessel was burst
his lungs. He was instantly seized with a dizziness,
and fell to the ground. On being taken up, a con-
siderable quantity of blood came from his mouth. Ile
was conducted to his own house, and, in defiance of
the best surgical assistance, died on Tuesday
' evening.
A boy, three years old, son of Mr. Shaw, of
Charles-street, Westminster, was on Thursday run
over by a hackney-coach, in George-street. He had
strayed from the dwelling of his parents, and was at.
tempting to cross the street unseen by the coachman.
Both his thighs were broken, and his skull was consi.
Iderably injured.
ACClDENT.—Yesterday, whilst six bricklayers were
at work on a scaffolding erected before a house under
repair, at Newington, it gave way, and the whole of
them were precipitated to the ground; providen-
thlly five of them escaped without much apparent
injury. The sixth, we are sorry to say, had a lc;
and an arm broken. Immediate assistance was pro-
cured to remove the rubbish and timbers which suf.
rounded him, and to remove him to the Hospital,
whither he was taken, without any hopes of reco-
very.
A young man of the name of Fowler, undertook
yesterday morning to go on foot from London to 'fel-
lingend, on the Oxford road, and r?turii, the whole
being 36 miles from the place of starting, in six
hours, for a wager of 120 guineas. The pedestrian
performed 12 miles within the- first two hours, and
increased his speed the next hour, but he was beat at
the end of the sth hours having more than eight miles
to,perform. He must have won the match but Or di*
badness of the roads.

SCOTCH
hiturit's Wharf. ' Jrrieret. Snits.
Trusty (Ballangall), Leith fIS 144, —9. P. M.

HIGH WATER AT 1.014,1X)N BRIMS THIS DAY
Morning, 52 minutes after S. I Eveaing.:llalastea after I.

MARRIED:
On the 16th inst. at Bridlington, James Ramsay, Esq. of Olt
Broad-street, to Miss Nlatster, youngest daughter of the I.tte A.
Meister, Esq. of Hull.
On Tuesday. last, at St. Michael's Church. Oxford, It. W.
()rowdy, Solicitor, of Farringdon, Beth, to Mariautic, eldest
dasitger of J. Duniford, Esq. of Oxford.

DIED.•
On Sunday, the Rth inst. Margaret, wife of Captain G.
Lawson, of Kensington Gore, aad daughter of the late Wa.
Lawson, Isq. of Cairnnter, Tweeddl-witire ; and on Mondafit
the Idtb Inst. Morino Elizabeth Lawson, their eldest daughter. ,
On the Yd of Oct. at Paris, J. Green, Esq. aged T.,.

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