The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-07-21 00:00:00

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Mir' lErmer 'winfiftillesfh taereant. She he,
been 'liven weeks with the before his death. lie
died between five sod six. The wiitlrad beensignerl'
about one, for she had been instructed tWhatri sohta
refreshment prepared at 011 P, as he'snightle weak
after the effort of signing. Jepson teal there, arid
Blackburn. Elam was quite sound in his Mind.
George Addison, William Gott, Martha-Kotherby,
and Dr. Hay, who attended bins, bore testimony to
his comiletency.
Mr. ScaaLarr, for the Defendant', contended that
the codicil was manufactured "by Blacktierrii,• frig* the
benefit of Samuel Ojai; ittecilily one interested who
had been present. Blicliburn.had been executed for
transferring stamps from the deeds to which they bad
been originally attaelsradi aod'W"pplying them to other
deeds. This man might, be stippled to make this
tpdicil, and have a' mote henetcsil end priiitlent re.
wird thin ii his awn' mania 'Opened a legatee.—
l'he cafe so clear as his Learned
Friend 4tdd relliklatinted.,:atherwise. he hail not been
brought feeds London to conduct it. ile did injus-
tice to,his own valve and talents if be soPoosed that
, helisid been sent for ?Ob miles to candid a eery
simple and easy case. The heir-at-law requiied met
:other testimony In set aside the codicil of his grand
'uncle but the testimony of Atkinson. the LoifilFd.
Genthimin 'diets entered into a most ingenious aid
elsnorate•examination of the evidence brought for.
Called filit'flost 4erdict of the Jory.
*:l4ir: Baron Wel'oliiitt od op, and the Jury found
l'er-'ihe Plaintiffs.
SVOUIN V. waLsaa.
This was a case of military assault,. which was
disposed of by a seldict fur the Plaiediffoud oia-
silage. Is. " •
L'114.011.1C V. CIIAVTOR.
At four o'clock, slier some cousuitation as to ad-
journing, it was agreed that the right of property in
a pew should be settled before Sund4y. The pew,'
whelk-it 'listed, stood in the Bellaby Chapel, parish
of Spennathorts, and all the predecessors of the two
claimants appeared to have occupied it time out of
mind.. The D,feaulaut had lately demolished it to
mike may for • vault. One of the proofs appealed
to Well the request of a dying Lady to hive her body
laid, while the service was rvedinit, in the pee in
*high' had ellen rested that hotlys vihen it con-
tained
a soul. Auto are ancient proprietor of the
seat used to blot kade the f.;hopel doer on a Sunday
IlitOrtlifig with his own hi.dy its older to keep out the
Parson and the people.
The name of Fesell not being at (Info understood
by 841111 4, Wood, Mr.Tupping sepeatv4tt twice, and
added, 66 a mime of great note in she city of Luo.
don." All the senile fnemnry in was tasked
no this 'ocCasion, and the chsractess and istrideut, of
ancient times amused she Court to a very late hour.

WRSTERA CIRCUIT.

WINCHESTKR. JULY 18.

Me. Justice Bvitaouan, having gone through the
Calendar, proceeded to p..... the awful .eittence wf
death upon the following persona convicted during
the Assizes, for hoes...breaking, caitle•steNlotg,
sheep and horse.stealing :—Wittrom Cooper, John
Collier, Ales. Fabian, James Carter, John Ili.idte.
comb. James Pink. James Hrri,lavray, Thomas Ayres,
George Gower, Stephen Frampton, John Smith,
Samuel Robinson, Samuel Hid/loch, William Raw-
line, neon. Res na i il, Nathaniel Carter, James
Williams, Vifillions Bent.am, Harry Sherwood, Job
Stanley, and George Carter, all of whom were re-
prieved. elidtpvilloSbn'Biddliecomh, N.th. Carter, and
James Williams. The formerhas. fora series of years,
lived in il rave in the New Forell, was the Captain
of a gang who kept the whole vicinage in terroron ;
and many farmers have often pot up with the depreda-
tions committed upon them, rather than expose them.
selves to personal danger, by an attempt to bring this
desperado to justice. Some time since, it • was
strongly suspected that he had committed a high:
way robbery under very aggravated circumstances,
and the Officers of Justice were dispatched to
apprehend him ; lie eluded their vigilance, how-
ever, and, as it afterwards turned out, took refuge
in a wood near Salisbury, where, in a very remote
spot, he erected a place to sleep in, and continued
there for no less a period than five months! lie was
tried and convicted upon en indictment for a bur-
glary committed in the month of September, 1817,
in the house of Mr. John Bolton, at Highclere, and
stealing therein several Batik-notes, guineas, half-
guinea!, a gold ring, fitc. Upon entering the house
in question. the first person with *whom he came it,
contact was the Prosecutor, an aged man, of whom he
demanded to know where his money was, but on be-
ing told he possessed none, the ruffian procured a
large hay knife, and throwing the Prosecutor down,
put it to his throat, and with horrid imprecations,
swore he would sever his head from his burly if he did
not afford him the information he required. Under this
threat, the Prosecutor was compelled to yield to his
mandate.— The Learned Judge, in passing sentence
upon him, adverted to these circumstances in a
very impressive manner, and conjured him, if
he regarded an eternity hereafter, to devote that
spaie of life he had remaining to penitence and
strayer, in order, if possible, to obtain forgive.
nest from that just God. whom he had so much
offended.—The unhappy delinquent appeared hard.
ened and unconcerned, and on going into the jail,
said to one of his female acquaintance', who was
crying, 64 Why do'st not cry hearty, as my neck will
be stretched this day fortnight."
Carter and Williams: were convicted of stealing
five sheep, and Mr. Justice BURROUGH observed,
that the offence had become so general, tint only in
' this, but in other counties, that it was the determi-
nation of those to *hose let the administration of
the laws fell, to make public etsmplea of offenders
' of this description. His loirdship entreated them to
endeavour to obtain forgiveness by contrition and
prayer, as he should most CV/ Iltiffly leave them for
execution, in order that they should. he an example,
isod to deter others from the commission of similar
Afeni:es.
On the Nisi Prins side there was but one Special
Jury cause tried this day, which terminated the As-
sizes for this county : it was a quettion of private in-'
tetest only. Two'Special Jury causes were ordered
ol 'lo stand over until nett Assizes, in cottoeqtrelice •
tbete not being a aveicient 'timber oriatiitoPtian't

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OXFORDSHIRE Ag6tt3EBl An.r 18.
WU MUM' V WOW.
In this cate,which was en action for seduction (for
the particulars of which see theSinteseran of yester-
day), Mr. PEASE„ to whom the matter was referred,
hearing the witnesses on both sides, sled ed
d that a
verdict be entered for the Piaintiff.—Damages, 101.:
costs, 40s. The investigation, it is said, disclosed
some miens facts.
JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.
•
In "the school established in NetegtqltiAlfilli
were some time ago sixty or seveuly..ol)ilio Who
hod been convicted of various crigootosfuta of
whom . were then osoler sentence.. fif , deutk•rr-
There were but few of them who could eititgrtreed or
writeotud not more than two or three who..had been
brgeght up in parochial schools, in connexion with
t.he, National Society. A Clergyman who intertets
hite,elf in the present proceedings for the refoicas•
Jinn of forty depravity, was desirous to ascertain the
ulitijacter of their respective parent. ; and was se.
cordingly induced to c4ll upon them, which he did
in. different{ .parts of the Metropolis. So far Imp,
meeting with any thing like ill usage, Which he hut
in some measure anticipated, those with whom he
conversed, on the contrary, treated him with respect;
and whet, he mentioned the pains that were taken
;with their childreo in prisno, they seemed to he kW.
pressed with t strong feeling of gratitude. Most 4
the parents talked without soy reserve on their past
and present made of living; and acknowledged that,
almost without any exception, they Plaited by de.
predation and plunder, and were persons .who, hay-
ing no value. for religion themselves, were content
that theil children should live witliotit uny in the
world ; int! Who even, in some' instances, trained up
and educ34ol their Offspring in the siime.schemes of
wickedness and deed% of infamy which they were
daily prattling on the Public !

inS4E4GEFUL SCENE.

Th 6 following disgraceful scene was exhibited a'
Peozance on Monday last : A man belonging to the
place names, George, a son of Crispin, being suspici•
nos !het a neighbour of his, named Carman, was
more intimate with his wife than mere neighboerly
kiudnesa warranted, set himself to watch theirs
proceedings; end a length detected them in a
tecion by no means equivocal. On this die-
ccsery, he proceeded to apply the stirrup to thai
shoulders of Lis frail rib; who being unwilling tio•
aubtrtit to the discipline, tied to a Magistrate, and
claimed the protection of the law against the un-
reasonable severity of her enraged lord and master.
Fintlioe his hands tied by a binding over to keep the
peace, Crispin resolved to get rid of all temptation
n illegal proceedings, on his part, by divining of
his right, title, amid interest in his faithless spouse ;
who, ss nothing loath" to change masters, aysff-red
herself to be haltered and led to the market place,
where the husband immediately put her up to suc-
tion. A surrey of so no*pl a kind, speedily drew
together the cur loos and the idle ; nn scarcity of
whom by the way, is to be esperienced at Province,
But as the bidding got on slowly, the Mayor was
informed that a v:.le 440 s being held by an uuc-
tietieer who had net taken our a licence, nor
entered the commodity lie was about to dispose
of, sa the law req.,ires ; so that it ass probable the
Revenue would be defrauded of a portion of the
duties granted to Our Lord the Klett, by his
faithful Commons —His Worship accordingly scut
a coustable to stop the sole.—The parties, how•
ever, were resolved not to be disappointed in
an object so desirable, and immediately proceed-
ed to a public-house, attended by the mob.—
There the billstisto were resettled, and the article
was knocked down to a man for half-a-geinee ; who
almost immediately disposed of kit: purchase at a
profit of half.a.crown, to a second person, with
whom Mr. Carmen, the original sestucer, shortly
struck a bargain for a pound note, sod cattiest nth
Isis prize in triumph, amidst the shouts a the spec-
tators. What renders the circumstance the mote
disgraceful is, Carman has a wile and funnily.

UNFORTUNATE ACClDENT.—Yesterdly morning,
as the coach 1148 was passing the Asylum, Lambeth,
the driver fell from his seat, his clothes bees me en.
tangled in one of the wheels, which passed over his
arm and part of his body, and he was dragged some
yards, In the presence of a number of peranne, who
could render tin assistance, but who expected every
moment to see his head crushed by the vehicle: A
person stopped the horses at the moment his situation
became most terrific, and when in all probability his
existence must have have been terminated, had !kite
wheels revolved Once more.--Mr. Stroclwick, tit.
auctioneer, snatched up an arm chair which was Pt.
posed for sale at bis door, and tinstened Co sent the
coachman in it, who, wren first raised from the
ground, was nearly insensihle. His arm was broken,
but otherwise, Ihoogh considerably bruised, he did
not appear to have sestniried any very grirsvooe in-
jury. Ile was immerlialidy lifted into his coach,
which was empty at the time, in order to be conveyed
to St. Thomas's Hospital.
Yesterday afternoon ours of the labourers employ.
ed in building the towers, which had been some time
ego damaged, in consequence of the fire at North.
umberiand.house, Charing-cross, having fixed a
stone of considereb!ts weight to a pully, he remained
underneath Resin upon some other ot,ject, tiil IKP
stone was pulled
op nearly to the top, when-, shock.
leg to relate, it fell,right noon the moor fellow, and
by the weight forced the ribs thrnegh the skin. Ile
died befote lie could be taken to the hospital.
On Saturday evening as a female servant at the
Queen Charlotte Public-house, Bermondsey, was
Crossing the road, near 11d1-pond Bridge, two men
in a one-horse chaise drose furiously against her, and
knocked her down. One of the wheels passed over
her, arid she was taken up in a rlangeroue state. The
men in the vehicle saw her situatieaa but contiuued
their futiouc race.

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