The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-12-13 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

fuse, December IL—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived and remain
the William id`Glilwray,Cousins, from Quebec; Hero of Scar-
borough, and the PI t HIII, Duck, from Quebec.—Came
dews from the River and remain the Mary Ann, Cragle for
Bombay; Lord Castlereagh, Poe, for Havre; Patience, Kind,
fer the Cape of Gosd Hope ; and Louisa, —, for the West
Indies.
PonTswoure, December 19.—Wind N.W.—Arrived from
the Downs the Eerie. Leary: Frlenciv, Anderson, and Surrey,
Garbutt, the latter with loss of anchors and cables, having been
blown out of the Dawns during the late gale.—Also arrived the
Abeona, Concord and Commerce from Waterford.
lifacwouTn, December 11.—Wind W.—arrived from London
the Friends, Cunningham, for Teneriffe; Riseborotigh, Ba•
gots, for Jamaica ; Harriet and the Latona. for St. Michaels ;
Humber, for Pernambuco; anti Robert, Bathgee, for Mont•
serrat.—Sailed the Camden Packet for America, and the
Sappho, Stephenson, for Penzance sad Trieste.

Cowes, December li.--Arrived the Emily, Copeland,
from the Mauritius, with foremast and bowsprit sprung.
LI TIM POOL. December 11.—Arrived the Prince Leopold,
King, from Macao ; Dauglas, Eales, from Demerara, St. Da•
■ingo, Orierson, from St. Domingo; Rolla, Dawning, from
N ; Prince of Wales, --, from Quebec; Europa,
Allen, from New York ; Lady Cremorne, Johnson, from
Ricnebecto.

Geavaaartd, December 12.—Sailed the Cambridge, Barber,
for Bestial.

OLD BAILEY.—Tuis DAT.

Joh» Gropes, aged. IS. was pat to the bar, on an indict-
ment, charging him with stealing four watches, four pair
of eavri gigs. and other jewellery, to a considerable amount,
the property of Daniel Burgess; and Joke Asbury wee
also pat to the bar, charged with receiving the same, well
knowing the property to have been stolen.
In consequence of information. Wayles, Ballard, and
Schofield the officers, went to a house in Buckriiige Street,
where they found droves, and the brother of Asbury. in
the company of some females. They bed the place.
and found a small portion of time property Asbury was
met seine days after, and secured.
droves admitted that he bad committed the robbery;
but denied that Asbury keew any thing of it.
The RICOUDIIII was about to sum up the evidence, but
the Jury expressed themselves satisfied, and found both
prisoners Chile,.
The Raceaciaa immediately sentenced them to be
transported for seven years.

QUEEN SQUARE.—(Tats Dtr.)
EVIL OF PAWNING.

A pawnbroker at Wandsworth appeared before Mr.
MARILLAND, the sitting Magistrate, to shew cause why
he refused to deliver up a watch pledged at his shop. lie
said that the watch had been pawned by a young man,
and that a young woman broit.ght an affidavit, signed by
Magistrate of this °Mei, whose signature be (pawn.
broker) did not know; and fearing tile had no right to
the watch, be refused giving it up till the young man
came himself.
The Magistrate said the affidavit would be sufficient secu•
thy for him, and observed that the poor of this extensive
metropolis pay considerable sums yearly to pawnbrokers.
There are many who pawn their best apparel every Mon-
day morning, and redeem it as regularly every Saturday
night, when they pity one month's interest ; thus paying
at least 52 dines the Interest allowed by Act of Parliament.
They frequently lose the duplicate on the brat dav ; then
pay the pawnbroker fourpence for the form of an affidavit;
sad next come to time Magistrate to swear it and pay an-
other shilling, however small the sum may be that the
article is pawned for. Upon an average, he has no less
than forty affidavits of this sort every day to sign. This
is a serious grievance, which should be made public ; for if
people was sensible of the expense they are put to, they
would not so readily pawn their property.
The pawnbroker was ordered to give up the watch, and
to pay the expenses for hisalleged honesty.
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THAMES POLICE —(tssr Ntearr.)

COMBINATION AMONG SARUM. TO STRIKE von %YAWN.
—Nine athletic men, sawyers by trade, were placed at the
bar, under the following circumstances :—A disposition
had prevailed among the sawyers to "strike for wages." Two
men,however, in the employ of Mr. Young, of Bermondsey,
dissented from the resolution into which otliers had entered,
and continued to work. On the evening of Thursday,
when the two men had left their work, they crossed over
to Cuckold's Point, and were there met by the prisoners
at the bar ; two of whom struck them repeatedly. and
would have carried their violence to • greater extent had
not their cries of " Murder" brought to their assistance
several persons who extricated them. The assailant.; were
given io charge to the patrol. and locked op ; and last
evening placed at the bar, when their former employers
swore to the above facts.
The men who had been assaulted pointed out two who
struck them, and who were consequently ordered ►o find
bail. and to give ,48 hours' notice. The other seven
were bound over in their own recognisance' to keep the
peace.

On Friday evering, between nine and ten o'clock, as
Mr. Stephen Matthews. of Chatham, draper, was re.
turning from Bronapton, be was stopped by a woman
of masculine appearance, named Ann Walker, who
seised him by the collar, and seas ceremenie, rifled his
pocket of a purse containing four sovereigns and a I.alf
in gold, and about thirteen shillings in sane.. with
whiffs she decamped. leaving Mr. Matthews petrified
with aitosishesent. He, however, sp.edily recovered
from his surprise, and followed, .but did not overtake her
till she had reached her hems on the brook; on looking
through the window, bo saw her busily engaged eohnting
'the money into her lap, and immediately demanded admit-
twice, which shi refused. and threw the purse into tbe fire.
Subsequently atoneable arrived, but the clasp of the pulse
and the silver less all that could be found, the gold having
disappekred. She has since been ednimitted for trial at the
approaching Aulses.—(KontisAleltresiele)

MURDER OP M.
The murder of Mr. Momiord appears to hare been per-
petrated at a spot hut too well calculated for so atrocious
a design. Widdington is about six miles froas Satan
Walden, and twelve miles from Great Duonsow, a part of
the county of Beset, which in summer time appears beau•
Wally diversified by bill and dale, but in winter_ promote
a dreary waste, and where, to a stranger, it woalelappetar
that the road had been taken from the topes fieldibet a
few years, a great portion of land still !pat itt that part
aninclosed. There is just at the particular part of the
road alluded to, a distance of nearly a mite either Way, in
which not a cottage or vestige of security presents itself—.
It was in such a dreary spot that the merslorer attacked
the unfortunate victim of his 'malice —a bare mile from
Widdington only, in a narrow road, where Om sides are
thrown up so as to exclude any distant view by open day.
and prevent the voice from being beard by night; at this
spot, and in the darkest part of Monday evening last, whoa
fatigued in his endeavours to ascend a very steep bill, Mr.
Mumford appears to have been attacked, and with such
remorseless fury, that the spot •exhibits but little signs
that any resistance could have been made. The blood
itself cries aloud for retribution; its purple stream is even
now clearly visible, and will long remain, notwith-
standing the traffic over the spot is, and has since been
very great.
Mr. James Mumford, the 'victim, was the son of Mr.
John Mumford, a most respectable farmer, occupying
Prior's Hall, in Widdington. a farm of three hundred
acres, belonging to one of the colleges at Oxford.
Oa the Jury and Coroner proceeding to the house of the
dist d parents, to view the body, it presented so muti-
lated an appearance, as scarcely to be described. The
head was beat in at the bind part, the jaw was crushed to
pieces, and the bludgeon with which it was effected being
Jagged, the face and even under tliechio was so torn, chit
it was first thought that a sharper instrument bid been
used, the blood having run down the road in a streasn.
The deceased could not possibly be recovnised by the
nearest relative, but from other proofs than those of his
former features.
John Pallet, the prisoner in custody, charged with the
horrid offence, is the son of an industrious labourer, who
has been in the employ of Mr. Mumford, for a na.nber of
years ; and the father bears a good character. The son is
about twenty-one years of age; he, also, it appears, worked
for Mr. Mumford, and last with Mr. Robert Wiskeu, of
the Fleur-de-lis public hoes. in Widdington.
Mr. Robert Smith, a publican, at Hirchanger, was the
person who first discovered the body, and be exhibited in
his conduct a courage alospst unprecedented, and at the
same time, the most praiseworthy humanity. His attention
was arrested by his pony, shying, when he observed some-
thing like a person lying in the road ; be instantly dis-
mounted •, spoke, but received no answer. Hs stoopet
down and heard groan.. by which be became convinced
1 that it was a fellow creature, *nose life was not
totally extinct. and who requird immediate aid, and
notwithstanding he was alone, be removed the body to a
place of greater security, and with the wood speed
returned to Widiliogton to obtain assistance. Having
dispatched men with a light, he then went in search for a
cart to convey the body, which he also obtained. The
men who were sent, on coming near to the spot. appear
to have had less courage than Mr. Smith ; they stopped
011 listen ; nothing was beard—they proceeded farther ;
sad about 50 yards soarer to Widdington than Mr. Smith
left the body, they met the prisoner Pallet, bearing the
timegled corpse upon his back; when asked what he had
get there, he said it was " Jam Stamford." whom he bad
flicked up. The mea held the candle to the face of the
then dead man, bat although they had boon well acquainted
with par. Mumford, they could by no means recognise
him; still the prieosser persisted in saying he knew it wa
be, The body was then taken into a cart, and conveyed
"to the Fleur-de-lis public-house, and from thence to Prior's
Hall. The prisoner assisted in lifting the body in and oat
of the cart, and followed it to the public house, where he
sat down to drink. At the instance of a gentleman Damsel
Campbell, Pallet was taken into custody, which . be resisted
most violently, and it was not until seven persons aided
and assisted, that he was properly secured.
Mr. Mumford, it appears, bad been in London about tel
days, where he has two brothers. He came home on the
ill-fated Monday evening, by the Walden Coach, .driven
by Lowe, which left town about two, and arrived at that
part where the road passes Widdington lane about seem
Pallet, it iatsaid, was seen near the coach when Mr. Mum-
ford left it, and was particularly sexless in his ieeptriet.

CONFESSION OF JOHN PALLET.
enaLlitsroltO, FaMAT. •
John Pallet, the prisoner committed under the Coroner's
warrant for the Commission of the above atrouious offence,
arrived in town last night. He was brought from Newport
in a chaise cart, with Kidmao, who was examined as 4
witness before the inquest, and the constable and gaol:r of
Newport. Hir hands were confined with hand cuffs, and bis
person was otherwise secured. Throughout the journey
he exhibited a mixture of hardened villaiay, and a. strong
disposition to avow the deed. At length, as be ipproaebed
Chelmsford, the latter feeling prevailed ; although *ere
was still no manifestation of regret for what he had done.,
He male 1 declarations which betrayed the rear
state of the fact ; and on arriving in front of the Court.
house, which he at once recognised as the place- of his
trial, be expressed a wish to see Mr. Hall, the at-
torney for the prosecution. Mr. Hall was at the Saracen's
Head I no,and immediately came out and went to the side 9f
the earth) which the prisoner sat. The prisoner then addreebt
ed him, and said, " Mr. Hall, there Is no use in denying it;
I murdered Mr. Momford." He then went on to detail the
particulars. He stated his previous hostility to Mr. Momfocti
for having pounded his pigs, and having had him finer, ht. for
being drank. On the night of the warder he was on the
road when the Walden coach arrived, and heard Mr. Melt'
ford's name mentioaed; he then resolved to put hii sanguin-
ary intentions into execution, end went to a place which he
described, and cat the stake which he afterwards used to effect
his diabolical purpose. Mr. Stamford, who was a very small
man, git years of age, and extremely short sighted, prooeeded
down the lane, towards his father's haws, and witlaa Slice
which he had borrowed was feeling his way; when the pri-
soner first saw him, he had advanced some dispinee. bet he
soon overtook him ; he was then about to strike the fatal blot,
but his heart failed him, and he denoted ; Mr. Mainfir hearp
some perion near him, het from the defect In'his v41°11,1141 thit
darkness of the night, he could not see who it wee ; he, holes'''.
asked.ia a tone of alarm, " who's Caere?" the prischer made tie
answer, bat stood still, and withheld his breath; Mr. Maalox/
then again went on; and the prisoner by • short cut Wiroueb a
field got before him, and stood by a gate, ready once pore to
strike; his heart again mi wive him, and be again desisted,;
Mr. Mustard went on to the spot in which his body was felt •
s en by Mr. Smith, sod thither the prisoner followeditim, and
made finally a desperate blow at his bead with the bludgeon.
which knocked off his bat ; with a second blow he felled him elv
thelground, sod then, by repeated stroke., literally smashed
bis skull to atoms. Having thus accomplisieed his dreadfdl
purpose, be retired a short distance from the scene df
slaughter, and resolved to run away; bat overpowered by
the consciousness of his villainy be became as It wee
rivetted to the spot, sod bad not rise power to move one
foot before the ether, his eyes being still directed towards
the body of his victim. In this state, in the retired part of
the road, be 'remains-I till Mr. Smith came up ; litfas•
him approach the body and ride away ; but still be did WC
more. Once more be era led to escape, and to quit else
dreadful spectacle, but be could not resist the impulse * • ,
again approach the body I and, without exactly dot, real -
log on what he should to, he took it epos his shoulder,
throwing the head belshad, and was carrying it in that Ivo
when he was deleard. It does not appear that Mr. Mew.
ford wade the slightest resistaaee ; indeed, Compared sub
the prisooerAte was utterly incapable of coping with such
ea antagonist. On being searched the rimier led but

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