The Statesman.
London, England, 1824-01-14 00:00:00

EXTRAO2DINARY CASE OF SWINDLING.

At the Cambridge Sessions, on Monday last, Mr. Jas. Such,
a Student of the Inner Temple, sod lately a member of Tel.
nit), Cotlege. alts tried on charges of swindling. --- In one
indietmeet he was charged with sending a fabricated le ter, In
the name of William Henry Ord, to William Newby, of Caw
bridge,for four volumes oftleine'sVirgil; sod in another with 11
baying seat a fabricated letter, in the name of flionsas, Lord 1
Haigh, to William Warreker, of Cambridge, for a dozen ple
of black silk stockings, a quantity of shirts, silk
gloves, &e.--The trial lasted ten hours, and the.
Court and passages were crowded to excess all the lime.
After evidence had been adduced for the prosecution, the
defendant addressed the Court at considerable length in
his deettre I and witnesses having been heard is pis be•
half, the Recorder summed up the evideuce. The Jury
then retired, and in two hours returned a verdict (46164.
The defendant seemed to be quite overcome at hearing has
doom l lie hid his face belt% een his heeds and sobbed.
The Item:trier then addressed him, and said the, evidence
had been such as to leave no doubt of his guilt in the minds
of any who beard it. The sentence of the, Court was then
passed upon the defend at—lmprisonment for two years.—
The defendant does nut appear to be snore .than 18 or 19
years of age.

An alteration has taken place in the India .Board, the
Honourable Conste'ssioners having "'emitted their late
Secretary, Thomas Whitwer, Esq. to retire on his fall an•
Goal iacom•. after baying been to the *Ries upwards et fiify,
years. Ho is succeeded by the neat gentleman in rotation,'
Wiiiiam Leach, Esq.

STATESMAN

BRISTOL Pitl LOS.0:1114 IrtrtkirTlTEßM
SOC I WIT.

Thb first Evening Meeting of the Bristol Philosophical
and Literary Society, which was held on Monday. in the
Theatfe of the Institution,. Park Street, was very numer
Jnsly attended by the members and their friends. Several
Lathes were present. John Scandret liarford, Esq. who
was in the Chair, opened the business of the evening with
a short addreari, stating, tit 4tikei had ;always felt the liveliest
interest in every thing connected with the welfare and the
honour of Brist-1 ; anti that, while he lamented that an
Abler chairman hail not been selected, he could not but ex
pvierice impressions of the highest gratification, that
he should he called to preside at the first Evening
Aireting of this Society, established foe the cultivation an"
extension of science and literature. That-when he consi-
dered the solid and extended Laois of tilent formed by the
Society, in its many and valuable honorary MeMbers and
Associates,fthd its numerous scientific and literary members,
he could not but augur the most favourable and creditable
results; and that he doubted not that the future Evenint
Nieetings of this Sod ty, so admirably calculated for elicit-
ing genuis. and talent, would afford. to the Members and
their Mends many rich and delightful opportunities of
indulging in the highest intellectual enjoyments.

That ?row the concentration of die- mental energies
already so happily Wean and so likely to be folly effected
by titis Society, he firmly • believed, there would emanate
rays al such genial inflamed as would pervade the
heart and mind of every inhabitant of Bristol„ rouse the
latent powers, bring in.o lively action the dorthant facul-
ties, and stimulate to deep research, and to the attainment
of individual excellence in every dcpartaaditt of useful and
ornamental knowledge.
That he could with conscious satisfaction reflect, that
Bristol had ever proudly and justly ranked the highest
amongst those cities in the British dominions distingutsh.
ea for their extensive and numerous benevolent instill-
now, be was most happy to say, that, to the
future glory of Bristol, subsetrient historians would have
to record the establishment of the present Society, as the
Boost efficient engine ever employed, to roll away from our
ancient city the unmerited, though long-endured, reproach
of •
backwardness to foster, to eueoorage; and to promote
the sciences, literature, and the line arts.
, That, earnest as he then felt, and ever should feel for
! the honour and prosperity of this Society; and tLe city in
which it was formed, be could not but indulge in the
animated prospective Views that arose in his mind on the
present occasion; he cbuld not but contemplate the future
soils of Bristol upholding with unshaken firmness the
benevolent strut tares raised by treir virtuous forefathers,
and, at the saute time, honourably exercising their
lectual powers in the fruitftil dad boundless field of scien-
tific and literary purenits.
Numerous answers from the honorary members elected
at a previotis meeting were then read; they were uniformly
of •the moat gratifyilig
.description: among them we par-
ticularly noticed those of Messrs. Southey; 11'014, and
Roscoe, Capts. Parry and Kater, and Pinks/ors SeJgewick
and Henslow.

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After the preliminary hvisiness of the meeting had heen
diapatcheil, the Rev. %V. D.Ctinybeare read a contiiination
of his former paper " On the Oii;ain and Progoebs of •
Scientific and Literary Associations."
The author pointed out in what manner the vast genius
of Bacon (that illostriuus interpreter of nature) hail, two
centuries ago, clearly defined the path to be its future pur.
sued in scientific research. That the r AIM progress and
accumulated *nal, of scientific discovery, which dis•
tinguished the petiod separating the age of Bactin from
our own. did not, by any means, render unnecessary tile
employment of (roils instruments of investigation. That
so exhaustless ii nature, that. the world itself would grow
old 'in parenismg the knowledge elf bet Unfathomable
mysteries. That there reutaitmed flat indeed the discovery
of a new world to transmit to futurity the name of a
Coluutblis ; nor another nni , which by the detection
of its laws eaald isimortaliza the memory of another New-
ton;.-..yet therm remained, and lung would renstin to
but no less profitable inheri-
tpleh city.ce.o enmpleib. leetiangdatzaatrg' applying in detail the gigantic
labours of those masters in science. That to accomplish
twat and must desirable object, the aid derived front
scientific associations like that we are now forrnit.g, comes
into operation with the most decided efficacy. That
without enter aiutng exaggerated prospect., and even
shook' the original discoveries emanating from it be few,
still important advantage must accrtte from at, institution
calculated to diffa.e a knowledge of the general progress
of science. in a istighbOurbood so eitensive, and which
had proved (as appeared from time lists of honorary
members jaw read) nut nsfertile in high• and various
ti!ent—tic added, that had this institution arisen a few
wears earlier, the splendid discoveries of Sir Ilumphrev
*Davy woull4 utast probably, bare been made within these
walls.

The author then took a• survey of the progressive ad•
vanc•weut of Natural History, •lieology, Chemistry, Me•
teorol••gy, As•rono:►ly, Electricity, introdacing.so.ne
new and very ingenious observations on the apparent
cAnzidence between the Planeary motions and the awe
tions übserrable in Electra Ilagnetisni. After taking a
luminous view of the probability that, in all the plienotne•
na of n stare, fru•tr the vast to the minute, there prevailed
but tlieoperation ut one and the same simple principle, the
author concluded by directing the attention of his audi-
tors to the golden chain of connecting causes, which, de•
scending from Vie Throne of the De3y, binds all nature in i
indissoluble dependence and union ; adding, that it is ooly
from partial views of nature that sceptical opinions arise ;
instam ing the doubts which some 'triter, had endeavoured
to throw on the Gtoriation sehroor, from confining their I
views to tJ►e mightier operations of Divine Puller in the',
arrangement of tl►e starry universe, and thence inferring
that the inhabitant of * speck in that universe could not
have attracted so great a portion of Divine regard. To
these doubts, he obs•rveil, the consideration of the richness
of Divine wis !out, profusely lavished in the structure of
the meanest insect, afforded the must satisfactory reply,
indicating an universal sitperictendance, which no multi•
plicity of obj•eta could distract--wt.iel► no division could
alioninish.—fle concluded by repeating the assertion of
tiecou—Naturalein Ptiilosophiam tsnq•tam fillissiinam et
acceptisslmain ancillain rrligiuni attribui—cum al:er vo.
lantalean Doi. alters potestu•etn manifestat.
Tolls paperreeriv.•d the unqualified approbation of the
meeting ; and a vole was pasted. that as one of the luau•
gore! papers, it be given at length in the Journals of
the Society's transaciions. The ltev. Gridiron an closed
the proceedings of the evening by his going through a series
of interesting experiments in liser:ro tdoeisistry.

The working cotton spinners in ftenfrewshire have again
given their employers serious cause of complaint. Their
wages, for a considerable time, have run from 2,51. to upwards
of 305. a week but not satisfied *lth these wages, they have
endeavoured to dictate to their employers, and control them
io the choice of their servants, so that none may be employed
about the worita except such es are approvers of tlie combina-
tion. Determined to enforce their extravagant designs, the
association have hired and paid incendiarms and ins,
who have attempted to burn the works, and murder such sc
were obnoxiour to the combination. Finding themselves so
longer 1151 e either in their persons or properties, the waste.;
cotton spinners have come forwird In a bod, in aid of th,
police of• the country—resolved to adopt emcleut measures'
for the utter suppression of a system of crime, which is at once
William' to the Interests of trade, dangerous fur the public
peace, and deArading to the Character of workmer. Some
time since the Rasters istimated that warning was no longer,
necessary fee 010505,party, mud the cotton mills in Renfrew-
shire are sow shut tip, and the proprietors are determined that
they shall remain so till the existing combination salon.
the Operative Cotten spinners be suppressed,--(Glasgow
Cknaticte.)

-SPARRIICO:

WITII rocs 0711/La BUSINESS IN THE BILLING VICE.

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The Fives Court yesterday. was an overflow, and the area •
teurs seemird tti congratulate each, other in a foil meeting for
the benefit rif Richmond, a respedred individual, who has been
tried and approved as a good mtn itt the prise rine, and a welt
informed civil man in private; and Slthouktrbcirderiug on sixty
next gram, he is an able tutnr,

Resides the t•rceller-e of the sets-to, there was pletttY of
rhetoric between the heroes, who all seemed too daring for the
dye of their patrons.

Jemmy Lennox and one (41'14 pupils commenced OPettlOons•
end had a merry bout of it ; after which. the magy dew ehour
in abundance, and no offence to the dignity of the professors
was blended er received.

The sets-to whic's gave most satisfaction were fir.t between
Carter and an athletic Life Guardsman. Mitring away wal
the order, and Carter's science *as often put du the offside,
hut it grave him best at last.

Jam Ward and AS. Belaseo.—Tidy was an adraie6ble speei-
men of science; it displayed tictles in all its beauteous va-
rieties. with 'come stiong hitting to. Each. was trying for a
muzzler, but science said rekea ! no go. The parties wet+ too
dextrous for a Gash hit to he placed., End after mutt aiansement
the professors left the stage, covered with glory and Clidira•
tion by loud cheers.
Gipsey Cooper and Ned Teener; :made a very Bee ined a
brave set to, u eld alto the younger Ghpsey Cooper awl 11
Warwick. .
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Rerne_y Aaron.. a brave little Jew, after sheniag a slice of
tileot, repeated hit challenge to the .alike hr. ye pot el. the
reflex -Mirk Curtis, who on the preeetliog.day would, not fight
fdr O. but he wet ready for 10:.)6Overeigns.--7---baroey.wu
ready to make the teatch for the said IVA and places were
Appointed .to tette stakes gbiod for .143. wide In the
evening. . . .

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Joalitia ITticison •next mounted the stare. kr., elyaltenged to
fled Spring cr any body else, for t.:03 sors.,an.l ttkisprodiced
much oratory.

Spring won innunted the Stage with au irM id .1114. and
a slight htaek eve. His demeanor -was `very 'modest; end he
was received with thunders of applause. lid Said he ha I .in•
tended to -leave off fighting liefoie he entree?' the rims with
; but tint coinb4t was pressed•upla him.-- lie then
again declared off fiatiting, but he was so teonted,
and abused, that he was bound to fight Latgan. after which
he was determined to leave off. Ile asked a 3001. stake aipirt
that occasion. lie did not wish to fight again, but if soy one
Would fight hi n, it must be upon his own terms, 500/. aside,
and he was remit/ to put down 1001. then, to make it good,
land to NIA within three months.--(Genersi and reiterated
applause.)
Josh. again mounted the stage, and said, The Championship .
list! bow given to Spningi—lie(JoshOhed fovightinto fame,
beginning at five pounds, and then teni ah I twenties, till he
Rnt to a hundred: Ile did net understand ahmit being backed
for use hundred ; he knew lie caul.' raise two hundred, not fol.
Spring is particular; but for any Wan in the world to try how
they wou:d like him.—(llissea.)

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Spring. In reply to the observation of the Championthip
having been given him, said, Ile had been the next of kin to
it fur some time, an I until tis futherlike friend reaianed•
he never aspired to it ; and if he lived ?►NI years, he never
would have challeogen 'Com Cribh until he left the title to be
tudaht for. lie ached to les ve off fientin4 if the peapi•.
would la him. The Otainttionsiii? was merely nominal, and
of 1180 ark antage to Ili a ; hilt having fairly obtained it. he con•
fessed he was draiiotis of retaining it.—(:►Mersa! cheergomi
cries of •, Bravo! Bravo !")

Richmond and 117eile headed Bob cloied the day's plity in a
good at to. _ _

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Stave. oe via CourvertaSs-The public will he pleaied
to perceive that there is little; it any, news from the intr.
riot.. The t.;endtry rertaialy more tranquil than we re•
member fur a !mg time. We know ast whether lye ought
to congratulre the Government 'on the fact, that the. Mite
tie Factions arengain beginning to appear and deride their
disputes at Faits. it serione one had nearly ha'ppended'its
the 141,1 r ty of Clare the other day abnut a freest—one of the
most luilicratia causes of war certainly that e'er occurred ;
and another had commenced in the county df Limer clt,
from some cause of equal magnitud-, but wail stopped by
the police. Verily, the Irish du love fizliting for ihe
honor and glory of the fray ; or, as Frederick the Great
used to say, 1 r fun. This bailing,. Ito serer. is a prdof,
that the cUmhinations among them i• on the decline.
CLaat--+-Exmis, JAN. tt. —Ott S.soday haat the Town 'nf
Aliltown 31alfsay presented an apoearance of tia •re t
ordinary hustle and dismder. The detachment of the
2:itls regiment from Enniaty , a Strong pirty of horse
and foot police., and the Iltitdwri Waterguards were arras-
rd in the streets, and were gale 1 npun with eurptise and
sullen diapleasnre by Modulate of the euuntry.people, who
sore after returning from attending Divi:se Srrvier at the
cis ape) in that town. It seal understoo I that an appoint%
meat hai been en I,le bet t een two powerful factitins t i Jr
c:de a q•tttrel %%hie!, originated hetsve-n samewarecrearct
each party, respecting a wren. to a'St. Step!senaday 3 "ad
were it soot fur the precautitinary measure adopted.: the
cueseviences would have been dreadful. The Mist es-
tensive preparrions had. been matte. on
.both sides fur Ale
couthat ; scythe bristles and hatchets were lif&sed to poles.
and every other deadly weapon that tottld be hid Wait pro-
cored, to insure a victory. Happily, however. the preseAce
of the pace and military, tinder the gnidatrcenf 11114 31a-
giatrates and Gentlemen of the neighbourhood, had the
effect of restraining hostilities fob the present ; and ate n'p-
tler,tan,l that the principal lea lets have since come to an
utsderatandi of, and have 'wont to preserve a strict amnesty
towards each otitt r for the future.

On Mond ty evening last. ahont hill 'past sin o'clock, as
Major Powell, Inspertor of Polie. ; Capt. Headman, sip
of the Police, and Mr. Tobin, of Usher. s IslandePaSlio,
wore travellinz in a chaise froduliondslk to Dosg:;4t•
they were at'ath-11 on the top of Tutlyeirear, ilik!byt a
gang of roblie:s, about six in- number, tabu saopprit tlte
chaise, snapped several. pistol.* into it, • which fertu•
nately iniinte.l Ste. SEijii Powell then Ared at poe. of :40e
fellows, who had got on thq., fur!. 'arrive, but' .wilbout
effect. The Urhtlemen were, then tikes out of Ore elssist .
separ4o.l front 0.401 ci.her, and tolib.d. of their. pistqls
WiteiVP, uto 111 and loggers: iYhile 1110 11111/C
were robhing sjor Powell, (who •oluir arwtt resistatiqr,
and comple•ely socreg.ied in rtragg'pg
,the ramrods fermi
three of the rubber's pistol.), Mr. Tutiin *Warted ltiosmoort
irons Drogheda and having Called vpnu Ahi. Santli,lllp-
ghtr4te for the County of Lontb, a Tarty of the Sist
;dissent were, at his regnestprotoptly tuned out by Major
Nichol,' and accompanied Mr. John Armstrong, 'Curti
Constable, and Mr. Tobin, in search of Major Powell.and
Henderson, who were left in the rubbers' hands, 'and
for whose safety great apprebensioni were entertained. Da
writing Where the robbery was committed, a loaded
pistol, annnunition, pistol and case of Mr. 'Girls', some
payees, &c., were found by Mr. Armstrong and his pirty.
but they were pot able to obtain any information of the
lendertieu missing. It appears that they 'also
.escspeld
without material injnri, and crossed • the et:molly to
Listoke House, the residence of oar Recorder, iron'
whetice they were escorted into Drogheda by Mr. Van
Homrigh sad one of his sons. The night was 1141 k, athi
it does not appear that these Gentlemen could identify any
of the sobbtss.—(Drogireda Jour:tad.)

CoRPI EICILINOR, J. 14.—We had 1600 qrs. of Whesf,
45110 of Ilarier,47oo of &sglyvh, with 650 quarter,' of Hilt
U tts, and 3200 backs of Plone. • end still oar 31aritet nO4
p•lri in a stain'ted matey irt tie Faetors are driiiiidtthe
higher rifles on arc out of the frost, ersit 11•011,4
submitted to by the perot►aserat bat we way tfletrtttfit
priers of every article nominally as on Vlontla)•

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