The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-06-25 00:00:00

:Ilion in this matter, as
ter the Coronation, to ,
.igerforneAng enviers, w!
Ilie Nett for theirrquisii
'hi"l"t services in order'- after-
wards.
The Can't was then adjourned by the Deputy Serjeent
et Amos in dee funs, itml antil farther iotiee.—The
JCeureenet at ate, sod adjoareed at three o'clock.
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' :Nllreetesiester Hall, the tieing, of the galleries, both
cloth and matting, are complete, and the
lithe Apholstecers are new devoted to fitting up
Royal box on the right of his Majesty's throne, and
Lord ("rest Chamberlain's box tusnmediately shove
. These are to be lined and covered with mallet cloth,
and will also be hang with luxuriant festoons of the
same material. The decorations of the bones for the re-
ception-of the Foreign Ambassadors and their suites on
the opposite side will be of the like character. Work-
toes are also engaged is finishing the throne; for which
purpose, a richly carved and gilt cornice is already on
the spot; the drapery, which will be of the most costly
velvet, is in ap advanced state of preparation. The seats
upon which the pests who are to dine in the Hall are to
I sit, are completed. These are 1:ili in aansber, each ca-
*le of accommodating two persons. The bOtisess an
raped and stared with hair, and the backs are of • Us.
.tine form, the whole being covered with crime°, sleek
which reaches to the goer. The frame-work of the
.Trhunphal Arch is finished, and ready to receive the
rations, which have bees painted on papered ma-
gas. and will be put up in a few days. The fronts of the
.iieco
galleries have been papered with Uothic panels of a dark
colour, as nearly as possible resembling the appearance
of the roof. It Is anticipated that the whole of the in-
terior of the !Jell, with the exception of covering the
tables and furnishing the butteries. will be completed
by the last day of the present mouth.
. The platform extending from the great Kate of West-
minster Hall to St. llargaret's-street, is also 'teddy
completed. The centre of the platform, on which the
procession is to move, is elevated on an average three
feet from the ground, and this is inclosed with a low
railing of about three feet in height : outside of this
there is a descent of about twelves inches to a second
platform, which is raised on each side, and on which
lines of the Guards, in full dress uniform, will be formed
from Westnsinster Hall to the great western door of the
Abbey, during the passage of the procession. The
height of the base of the canopy of the platform front the
ground is just fourteen fret ; so that nothing will im-
pede the view of the brilliant pageant.
The same activity prevails in the erection of the
section of the platform reaching from St. Margaret-street
throng!. Little Bridge-street, to the Abbey door; a small
space only for the ingress and egress of carriages is left
in front of New Palace-yard.
In Westminster Abbey, the works are in an equally
advanced state; the linings, with the exception of the
sacrarium, are complete, and the latter is prepared to re-
ceive its last splendid decorations. The pulpit, from
which the Archbishop of Canterbury is to preach the Co.
ronation Sermon, is under the painters' hands: it is to
assume the appearance of ancient oak.

Robert Clark, the clammiest,. was brought up,*
plead to an indictment, preferred against 4im by the
Society for the Sappression of Vice, for publishing an
' indecent, immoral, and ititithilons poem. He pleideii
not guilty to the indietment.
The defendant then applied to the Court for a list of
the ludivklualli wire formed this Society. alleging that
he oagbt in justice to be furnished with such a list, to
enable hits to prevent any of the body who constituted
his prosecutors, forming port of the jury who were
to try him. 'He cited the' eibm of Dolby as an antis°.
rity for this appiteatiekorlho had made a similar one
against the Society caging itself the Constitutional
Association.
Mr. Justice HOLROTD reminded the defendant that
the Court could nut receive his application, except
it was supported by an affidavit.
The defendant said he had not at present any affida-
vit, but would provide himself with one, and then re-
new his application.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JvNs 43.

HOUSING C. ISIPST AND OTHERS.
This action was brought by the plaintiff against the
defendants, who are commissioners of bankrupts, to
recover damages for a false commitment to Newgate.
It appeared that a commission of bankruptcy having
been issued against the plaintiff, it became the duty of
the commissioners to take an examination. They ac-
cordingly put the following questions:--
Q. •• Did you purchase of Edwuads a silver tea-pot
on the 11th of January, 1S21?"
A. " 1 cannot speak to the date. 1 believe I pur-
chased a tea-pot for 351."
Q. " Where is that tea-pot ?"
A..• I cannot say ; I cannot exactly say where
it is."

The above answer, whirl& the bankrupt would not
retract, was deemed unsatisfactory by the wmroissiou•
era, and they cJaimitted him to Newgate •atil be gave
a tnnre satisfactory answer.
The jury, nettle: the above fact., hail to decide
whether the bankrupt was not hound to give a dif-
ferent answer ; and, under all the circumstances of
the case, they found a verdict for the defendants.
The !caned Judge observed that this was the first
action of this description tried in the Comm in Pleas
since the time of Lord Chief Justice de tirey.

POLICE.

Bow-avatar.—On Saturday Thome and Martha
Wellman were brought to this office, and underwent
an examination before 0. Ms NXIIULL. Esq., the sitting
magistrate, charged with feloniously stealing Bank
notes to the amount of 1451., the propertj of Mr. W.
Ray, of Charles-olace, Islington. coal-merchant. It
appeared that the prisoners are brother and sister.
Martha lived servant in the House where the prosecu-
tor resides, and where the prisoner Thomas was in the
habit of calling to visit her. On the 6th instant, the
nsult-notes stolen were safe in the prosecutor's bureau
in a canvass bag, the lock of which bad bees picked
and Bank notes to the amount of 1451. stolen, leav-
ing fur 11. Bank-notes in the bag. A few days ago
a 131. Bank-note, part of the stolen notes, was traced
to Mr. J. Harvey, of tj, High-street, St. Giles's, a
clothes salesman, whose shopman, Henry Dalleson,
took it of the ptisoner Thomas, in the sale of a coat
and a pair of trotrsers. The prisoners were in conse-
quence taken into custody.
The prosecutor produced the 15/. Bank-note at the
examination, and the prisoner, Tbotnas, expressed a
crong desire several times to get the note into his
possession, under a pretence of examining it; but it
being strongly suspected that his object was to destroy
it or swallow it, his wish was not complied with. The
prisoners were committed for further examination.
It is incalculable the number of persons who are
daily and nightly robbed by depraved females in the
streets. oho are aided in their depredations by others,
who keep houses of ill fame, particularly in Swan-
yard, Bedford-court, and other places in that neigh-
bourhood, and who generally escape being brought
to condign punishment by the parties rubbed de-1
dining to prosecute, front fear of exposure. A case
of this description came on to be heard on Saturday
evening, in which Catheriae fraud and Frartees
Wood were charged with rubbing a gentleman
whom they had seduced into a house in Bedford-
court, kept by a woman of the name of Amelia
Neale. As soon as be entered the house, he was
so struck with ho,ror t'..at he wished to leave it
at the instant, but they prevented him by fastening
the doors, and detained him all they had obtained from
him, under various pretences, 255.
Tkij Are all committed for farther examination.

FLAGRANT CHAKGCS —On Tuesday, John Hale, a
labouring man, with a family, (his wife far advanced
in pregnancy). was fully committed, by the Lewes
Magistrates, to Horsham gaol, for trial on the charge
of having, on Saturday last, violated the person of
Lucy Parsons, a married woman about 40 years of
age, in a lane near Kingstone.—An individual,
charged with the horrible crime of attempting to
commit a rape on an infant under five years of age,.
was also fully committed at the same time.
ATTIMPTED SCICIDE.—A respectable Clergyman,
who fur some years has resided on his small living in
the eastern part of Kent, from unfortunate circum-
stances has lately got involved in debt through a law
suit, and was in consequence, on Thursday last, sent
to the county prison, Maidstone, and placed on the
debtors' side. His wife and daughter visited him on
Saturday week; the interview was highly affecting;
their anguish at parting, and the idea of his being in-
carcerated in a prison, appear to have bad such an ef-
fect• on his feelings, that he on Mund.sy morning en-
:_deavonred to deprive himself of existence. It appears
be obtained a razor front a dressing-box of a fellow
debtor, with which he made an incision on his wrist,
bat tit:s appearing hot to have had the desired effect,
'e afLeiwarils made a dreadful gash in the bend of his
arm, wl.ieli nearly severed it, and be was found wel-
tering. in his blood, and almost lifeless. Medical
asolaranes was promptly procured, and the bleeding
sobjt, but there are but faint hopis entertained of
eri. Op Frid..y afternoon, William Ceurle. died in cane/r-
-iot !:( • of his ttounis, at the Westminster Infirmary.

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