The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-02-01 00:00:00

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It append from' the statement of Mr. Thos. Boosts
a beadborough, that great disorder sod drietarbaute
bad been occasioned by the defendant Williatosta wiers at
length assaulted but In the executiop of bia thirs far
which lie was taken into custody, when Dir. Mathew
made a violist attempt to rescue him. Tits took place
the day before. and the defendants were brought that
night before Rosser Rama.; Esq., who directed {that
they might give bail at the wetchbouse, or be detained
to armor the complaint in the morning.
Being called onsfor their defence, Mr. Williams spoil*
very loud, saying—" My name is Robert Williams, I
lii. at Walker ball. and 1 am a magistrate for the
cottony of Redford." IN observed, though he was net
a magistrate of Worship etrest,-be knew the law as well
as the magietrates •there. •
Mr. Twyroto directed that both of thear should hod .1.
bail tor their appearance at the Sessions; aid sous
afterwards, though with much loud talltiog and noise,:. • •
on the powt-ot It,. Williams, they found bail and de— , •
parted.

EDtNBUROU Wflieeiuw Sense,.- 9e
fhb &very able scientific eisty ing,ilifereot anodes
of applying the power of theologist' *wet* tower& im-
pelling vessels through the water, was read attic meet-
lag of die Wernerian Society. The advantages, t!ie
different construction. and the application of tbaliaddle
or wheel, to this purpose, were detailed at canaideraltie
length : and were followed by statements of several
other ingenious contrivances; such as a spiral worase
working in a cylinder, which receives the water at
bow, and expels it at the stern : a series of horizontal:
pumps, ice, tis nqt possible to coovey au wiequ stir ,
idea of the author's theories in the 'short space which is...

allowed so much lett to state his calcnlations and aro
manta. We can only say, that it struck us as being
a memoir that would not long remain anpahrishe.d;
and in the hope of its soon appearing, we forbear re-
fretting that we monot give a fuller account of it. Pro-
fessor Jamieson reel an article on the natural ferocity of

beasts of prey; combatting the notion that the wee
species of animal. was satorally more swage in one ;flirt
of the world than in another • and attributing the appa-
rent differeoett to the knowledgel which the animals may
lave obtained by 'aperients of the power of man. He
re several lameness in corroboration of the position ;
stating that the *ashore who have affirmed this contrary.
have drawn their facts from the habits of those animals

which have existed in the aeighboorhood of civilized
Inman beings ; and have thee apparently assumed the
effect of locality as an original difference of dieposition.
The horn of a rhinoceros found in Scotland was then

produced: it was rather wore than two feet in length ;
slightly carved ; of very great weight; and of large
iirceneferenee et the base. It was a ver interesting
sultjert fur reflection. as well as an object of ad-
es'ratien. A staffed spetitnen and also a skeleton
of the Unroof, was then produced to the Society.
'This animal is of the whale tribe, inhibiting the seas
shoat Java. It wants the blow•hole of the wita!e.

The anterior part of the skeleton has much resemblance
to that of ustadrupeds. The head exhibited many peel-
! liatiries ; ataestret which th•-sestir were the 'salt • se-
eltsitLitisitSis latiapsex 464 etiolates. there Isaias
ran". airollitirsui She erlittor ef *bet
itiFiriet be ca fed canine, were tbet net too Asnieross to
make that designation correct; there were three of them
on each side of jaw ; they are supposed to discharge the
first functions of the molares, that is, of dividing pre-
Timis to grin•ling. The molares were round and Ilst—
the distinctive characteristics of animal.. not carnivo-
rung. The staffed specimen might be about three ctrl
a half feet long. This animal has large mamma in the
anterior part of the body. It frequently raises itse,f
out of the water; and Its round face, together with the
ma at, hare given rise to the fable of the mertnail
A living ichneumon was let loose upon the society,
which caused no small disturbance, by running abolt
amongst the legs of those present.—(Ediebergh VG-
server.)
LTYN.—At the Sessions for this Borough, which com-
menced on Monday the 20th, Wm. England, a man -10
years of age, cooa iwiteted for an assault committed
upon Jane Bickerton, a child only nine years of age, with
intent to commit a rape. After the clearest testimony,
delivered by the child and corroborated by the mother,
be was found guilty, and sentenced to 2 years' confine-
ment in the gaol, and daring that time to betkept to hard
labour.
TUE BITER. BIT.—At the late Quarter Sessions ftr
Glocester, Thomas Bosh, a common informer, who
lately resided at the Phwnix Inn, at Cirencester, pleaded
guilty to ran indictment fur extorting-stoney from a re-
spectable farmer at Edpitortle' to compound an offence
alleged to have been committed by the latter, under the
general Highway Act, in suffering his canto be dra..v:i
by more than the mina' number of horses. The Crart
sentenced Bosh to be committed to Horseley Bridewell
for one month, and by his conviction he is for ever ,Es-

aided from bring plaintiff or informer in any suit or in-
formation, upon any statute, popular or penal.—(lfite-
ecsfer Journal.)
,orrox CRIMGTV.—An investigation of a case of
the most wanton cruelty took place at an Inquest which
was terminated, after three adjournments, at Bridgwater
last Week.. The subject of it was a poor boy, Willi un
Bartlett, about 19 years of age, who was apprenticed to
a fellow named Hunt, a sweep, in that town. It ap-
peared that Bartlett had been presented follouing his
business for A fortnight by an illness brought on by the
neglect and inatlcqiion of his master and mistress ; on
one occasion he was tied for h whole day and aight to
a post, without the least food whatever, daring this
illness ; at another, in one of the coldest days of the
winter, Ise tear beaten from his bed.oriont entirely naked,
into an adjoining yard, where he tilts furced into a trough
of cold water, in the open sit, and was compelled to re-
main there for half an hour ! This treatment was re-
peated at two different times. As a climax to such
inhuman depravity, this brute took him by the feet
and dashed hitu against a brick floor : after whielt, lan
heat him from one part of the house to the other, the
poor boy then bring in a dangerous state of health. fly
these and similar acts of barbarity was this unfortun tte
lad persecuted, till human nature could no longer sop.
port life, and on the 20th inst. he expired in inexpressi-
ble pain. Mr. Haviland, an experienced surgeon of '11:a
town, opened the body, which was a shocking spectacle,
and after a thorough exantiticion, rave it asilis decided
opinion, that though 'inflammation existed, yet that
death vas very much accelerated by ill usage dud want
of proper austenance.—The Jury returned a verdict ac-
cordingly. The above circtitnstances were related by a
fellow apprentice with the deceased ; bat such was his
fear of punishment from his tuaster, thr'
mined his release before he could Ire b
the tii.elosnres. In consequience of the
Jury. Hunt ia detained in custody until t
itetertnine as to the name of the offer
(eerier.)

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induced to make
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the ItleVstrates
race.—( auntois
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