The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-01-22 00:00:00

BREAD•STREET MIK&

A Merlin Wes yesterday convened of the lithe- I
idioms of &cad•street Ward, at Cordwainer's-hall,
Distaff-lane, before Mr. Alderrnaa Agate, in par-
asitises of a Rectal-sitlnn, for the purpose of taking
into consideration the proteedirtga of a Meeting
held at Gerrard's-ball oa the 14th ult., at which a
Petition was drawn op to the Prince Regent, re-
questing his Royal Highness to stay the eseeetion of
Cashman, Weller, and Driscoll, the three wen who
were emoted for forgery.
Mi. Alderman AMERY haring opened the business
of the day by reading the ktegehdtatke calling the
Meeting,
Mr. MOORE rose to wore certain Resoletlons cen.
wiring the conduct of those ladlsidnali at whose in-
stigation the hleeting we, douvettett on the 141 k alt.

IA • Gotord'o.holl. Ho obeervodo tlia. alto°. be
felt considerable dilcolty au refulgence to iii..ve a
vote Of 'censure upon any Ins ,'duel, w!•-•e'ver his
cuediscl might hit • bee jet he it.. it hi )
Ilte present occasion to the Ward of Bread-
street from the &puce. M. then w.nt into a
4itteil of circernstasces regarding the *;gni,)4 of the
Petition; he said Ann Four, the eiitstea;
Whore ea Milli lICCUSSIIIU'IS ttad he^e 17114 C,
woman of quite a different description f:em that
Which bed been represented, thmigh •l.e had hreta
employed and paid by the flank ; and ref - 4
strongly on the conduct of 'Mr: Nicholson. Ifs
concluded with moving a series of re.oleint
luring the conduct of those' indiridualc ~••ofe
III•ligat1011 the Sleeting in question lam'

rene‘l.
M►. Caokatt seconded the He had b•el
induced to sign the Petition r. ely from th• repre-
sentation of hs m •set and seconder. end he confo‘s-
ed tbat ho attended the Meeting under the erroneous
idea that from motives of humanity alone it sag con-

Mr. Wawa'''. w►o seconded the motion made at
t►e Meetibg of the 14'h alt.. wi.h onurh warmth de-
nied the charge laid against Mr. Niv!mis.m, lust he
win inebriated at the Interview with Mr. Brown.—
lie himself accompanied that Gelalemen to the host*
of the Keeper of Noweate, *lid he most gesfelfor
declared, that Mr. Nicholas's was as sober as say
Gentleman now present. lie ►ad most cordially ass
seated to, and approved of, every thing which had
been done upon this subject; and he should ',way,
acknowledge it as the proerleat act of ►is life, that
he had done his utmost to /UP the Hies of the indi.
!ideals who bad been ezecuted.—(/lest!)—Thel
ecceiatioe against his friend Mr. Nicholson, he *avid
roma, was e direct falsehood, sod a ball and infs.

■ous calumny.
Mr. Moons replied, tint thersi were tiers or throe
persons trresent when Mr. Brown made the •tier►
lieu.—((tries of Name deer !)—He did sot wool•

Wet their names.
Mr. Boma said, that altheegh wholly onseqessiot.
ed with the Wield's!' who had broeght this matter
forward, he bad sot only glissaded the Meeting lo
question, bat was present at the conference
wits
Lord Sidmoeth. Alihoegh what he 11111 about 114
say might meet the disapprobation of some persons,
yet he coeld mot help &misting that the condom of
his Lordship upon that occasion was highly bosom.
able to himself; his condescension was tech as that
it could only have been trimmed trr be believed.
Mr. Nicnoz.son, who *es the mover of the Peti-
tion at the former Meeting, then rose Is vindicatima
of his own conduct. After observing upon the em.
berressing situation la which be was placed, be said
that it had suited the teenage of the Meeting that
he bad taken upon himself the conduct of a matter
of sorb impatience. With respect to the accesatioa
which had been meet desteroasly broeght spinet
his, it was as false as it was calamities. There oat
scarcely a man living who bad ever seen him in this
condition stated; bet eves admitting, for the s•koot
argument, that he was in a state of inebriation en the
Friday eight, if the proceedings at the Meeting on
Saturday were sober and discreet, world any man re.
fuse to sanction those proceed*, which had for their
sole object the what of the lives of three aofortamstm
men ? The mover of these Resolutions of consent
and himself were et issue upon facts only, end be
was prepared to prove ail the facts he had stated at
the former Meeting. Re int adverted to the virtuosi
person Fear, as she bad bees termed, a hose chancier
he wield prove to be the most depraved of wnmas
kiad. Ile bad collected the folios tog facts :—Threm
pars ago she had Hood at Wandsworth, and was welt
'Lamm for all the acts of Infamy she was guilty of
she was e common prostitute, cud a noted receiver
of stolen goods. From Wandsworth she removed is
the night-time to Keattington.lane. Bete she kept a
brothel, a house for receiving stole. goods, and a
sort of lodging-home for yoga; thieves : she took.
them at the age of 14 and 15, and regularly broke
them in. The neighbours set op a great opposition,
avid she was fairly dreamed out of the place. Since
that time the Lady bad made herself more compicooes.
This was only the commencement of her depravity,
and the thieves she tonight up were oily of • petty
kid. She bad a lad, who had since become welt
hewn, named Charley Brown, sod who was tried at
the Oid Bailey for horse.stealing. Oa this trial AO
have the led a good character, sod by her evidence
the Jury were induced to actialt the Prisoner. Whets
celled into the box, she was most elegantly dressed,
sad in the middle of her evideace, to g re effect, she
palled a whit* pocket-handkerchief fray her side,
sad let a parse toll of money fall upon the floor.--.
When she had delivered her testimony, shit sari.
" Did I not do the old fellow excellently ?"
(reaming the Recorder, Sir John Sflyester) Her
establishment having balm broken up at Ren.
&won, she removed, also is the night-time, to
Berdett • 'street, opposite the Asylum, and man
there known as the utterer of forged tinter. She
passed more forged notes than probably any other
parson in the trade. She was accustomed to paint,
west *{p, and change her dress, almost every day.
At length her husband was taken up for forrey, anti
pet ow-beard theiholks. Simla that time Ibis virtuous,
lady had turned detector of mums of forged notes,
and she had declared that she would hang all the
Jews in London by her evidence, until she got back.
her husband. He then proceeded to explain that the
Meeting had been assembled without the cotent of
the Aldermen, from no disrespect, belt lons e want
if time. So far from oisbl:ig to offend the Worthy
Alderman, be had reason to feel grateful to him is
the highest degree. Eleven yams ago be had appear-
ed before Aldermal Ansley, upon a summons from
the Bank, in committees of his refusal to return a
forged note to an Inspector. Mr. Kaye, the Soli.
eiter, then attended at the blension.house, and
_pressed the Aldermen in the most urgent manner to
Irommit him (Mr Nicholson) for having a forged
afti in his p o ion. The Alderman refused to des
what It had been since proved he was fully jus-
tified in refosing, and be (Mr. Nicholson) was
this enabled to return to ht. family without
mu-
dergoing tie odium of a trial at the Old flails/
for a capital offence.—(Loud applause.) -ll* did
not know whether the Alderman Ferment e'er the.,
bet he shoold himseit never forget it. Mr. Nichelso4
'oast obrarrod, that a PabHc Prior, the .t 6 g lie at
the roes end of Taoism!, had strutted t :at !IVIel •

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THE STATESMAN.

LONDON:

PiIDAY, JANUARY 22, 18119.

orb. secesat of Lord COCIRRAWZ basin jollied
Bailie is discredited, u the ship Ross, in *MA he I
smiled, boo bus Waned to Valparaiso.
&lost of a tutor frost Nevis, dated December
15, 1818, received this morning:— •I The Piratical
brig, seispd at St. Bartliolosiovi's, has since boon
'sodomised, midis advertised for solo; after she ems
takes pompanos of, be vessels that she bad takes,
cameo tau The islands, soil sou apia coptored by
two of disteir's "padres, eaoa lifter which they loft
that station is resort's's/5o of befog told that the
doodisli Gournmeat had suit for as Erin"
moo of war to ems dime. They have two at
usher is so oct bay, at St. WMo'6.
/448114 as hi /spaded spa as to *het the

easels ere, or frees whew* they ease, bet
k is attain that two of these had beer wren as
board to the setooet of 750. 'lke otiose bed wise,
teethe', dry goods, cotton, coffee, siggar, glee, el..
pleats' teeth, bides, horns, tallow. cud et►er articles.
tie produce of Brasil. The setall-pot broke rot
amongst the twines, and nosed dreedfat devsststioe.
It is evrteln that Lord COCIIIIIIAMI hes joined BRION
with a 60 pa skip, called the Veneseela ; sae of 32
gees, called the Pero ; sod owe of 3 gens, alled
the &lecke. %too kes glees op the chief notessud
to him offer declaring ell the ports on the Maio
possiessd by Ike Speoiards, le a slate of blockade."

The betimes et tits Parliament ees opened yester-
day by e Speech, 'Almond te the two 1101111414 by the

is the woos of Alp Pstscs

Reason ; and both Dowses afterwards limed Ad-
dresses to the These, in responsive stralek. The
Speech, indeed, sad of opens the Addressee, were
couched in nations, rowel, mid iimeipid terms, and
will be fogad mere ressaskable, perhaps, for the
omission of all topics of vital Interest to the station,
than for any pertirelar @Bailees or /repetitious which
they contain. The great calamity which the coon-
try has austabsed is that eaten' remit, the death
of the Quite, was, of goers., the ealdeet most
feelingly expatiated epos, ie order to /siege the
sympathies of But Parliament and of the reentry :
sod se flourishing is the situation of the British Pets.
pie repremated to be, so highly improved is the stage
ef.the Pablie Bevan*, though it cannot be denied
it yet falls many millions short of the eipeoditore,
and thousands of isetsest and industrious peruses are
Merging, that it STEM 10 be ceuceived, the Public
leave not one distressing circumstance to deplose, ea.
apt diesels, of her late most gracious M *story.
bibs Hesse of Lords the Address was moved by
the earl of WARWICK, god seconded by Lord
SALT 01311. Occasion was taken by the Mover to extol
the character of her late MAJESTY, for having guard.
eel with ennead consisteety, is her statues es Queen,
the more/ purify of the Court, and as having afforded
the whole Platien an example of domestic virus*, its
the discharge el oil her other relative duties.
The Marquis of LAMIIIOIII4, though he concurred
in penal with the Address. complained with much
justice and propriety, that the Speech was silent on
many of the most important subjects connected with
the domestic and ferelgn.relatious of the errantry.—
To several of Aerm he riterved, and dwelt partico.
lady on the .missies of dist imports at tepk, to 'bleb
ilivicied the enemies et mar Readers yaillb),
oessely— stets of the comae? of the count tad
the measure which, in opposition to all the empty
brows respecting public prosperity had bees secretly
resolved, and artfolly concealed, the Minister bees
forced te ackeowledge as espedieut still—the cersdpe.
mat of the Bask Reetriction Act. Among !Weibel.
predsced by this notable Statute, there was eve
which Lord Ltesesoot. was compelled to admit as
peculiar, and ea operation far beyond the noires.
pieties of the framer of the Act, an operation
that soma deteresieed to coatings of its own pre.
per motion in &Same of all Legislative thert.
reel, even those' tbe Bank should change their
Notes for cash to the whets *steal of their collets,
and with all their concurrence, as they have
lid, professed they are ready to afford. "It would
be diffsollt to pet a step to this system since it sow
is basso." His Lordship deprecating, Owens, all
dimmed's; that was likely to prevent the vtissimity
se desirable ea this solemn pension, declined, of
course, esterieg particularly into this and the ether
topics alluded to ; bet intimated, that if the Bask
should not resume cash payments in July nest, at bed
been determined in the last edition of the Condos..
doe Ad, at some sore eonrenient season it tight
'lllO called epee, and any other time, as ea yas
.
tie Ilene should dark it possible for Cash Pay-
meats to be safely made, might be proposed, accord.
ing to the asp of former occasions for the repeal of
the Restriction Act. Is the mean time, to relieve
dm homage Wimp from being perpetually harrowed
ap by rose et the many evil conseqseeces of thereon.
Unseen of a paper turnery, his Lordship had the
satisfied*, et asseencing that the Commissium sp.
*Med by the
.Crown had recommended *Apr*.
jest, which, in spite of what was jedicialli es.
sorted the other day as to the imitative power
of man, there was meson to believe would
reader the Forgery of Bank-notes mere dillirult.
—The Earl of LA V lIIIRDALZ, in the course of
his remarks, kept op this important subject to the
ressideratiem of the House, *boning, @moil, ether
thiep, that it wee impossible Cash Paymeam could
be ',soloed till enquiry was made into the state*, the
circulating medium, e ad the Mint Regelations were re-
vised ; and intimated that be should renew, in the pre-
sent Session of Psrliament, the motion be had made
'in the last, respecting the slate of the Paper Car.
rency. le the Bosse of Commons the Addrses was
moved by Mr. BILOWNLOW, and weeded by Mr.
W. Push, brother to the late Secretary for Ireland.

Mr. IKAGDOSSLIN last night, took occasion to
letroduce the subject of Ilse fate of the unfortunate
see elm wore @seated at the Old Bailey for otter•
tog Forged Notes, and for ohms so mach esoriion
wee beemusely made to obtain a respite. Mr. 111.
j.Miy orrapell the coodoot of Lord 3101100TH iS
net delaying tiro esecution of the sentence, end his
Lordship was deforded by Mr. CASSINO, with his
anal extraordinary rhetoric, Mg remarkable, of