The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-22 00:00:00

POLICE.

GUMMI Beykam, was on Monday examined, on a
charge of being connected with the persons who, in the month of
int, last, boarded and robbed the Si:tcrs boy, of silk and ostrich
feathers of a very considerable value.
Mr. Brant, of Angel court, Throgmorton-street, the proprie-
tor of the articles stolen, stated, that having got it:for:nation
from a Mr. Ross that the Prisoner had ofierea for sale souse raw
silk, which he bad reason to believe %%:11 hie ptoperty, he bad
him apprehended. Mr. U. Ross deposed, that be was a si:k
dealer ; that some short time back the Prisoner offered to hint
for sale a small quantity of Valenciasilk. S :s,,ectiog, from the
appearance of the article, that it was part of that which had
been stolen from on hoard the Shirrs; he questioned the Prisoner
closely, and asked him whether be had any more for sale. The
Prisoner said, he had none of his own ; hut he knew those ss ho
bad a large bag and a trunk fullof it, and promised to intrude cc
him to a man who had got it to sell. Witness kept the sample,
and made an appointment to meet the Prisoner the following
Sunday. bi the interim he went to Mr. Grout, and they con-
certed a plan for the purpose of endeavouring to learn where
the great hulk of the silk was concealed. It was agreed that
Ross should sutler himself to be apprehended with the Prisoner,
and in tlw mutual confidence naturally arrising from such asitu-
ation, to eudeavour to extract from him the whole of the secret.
Ross accordingly met the Prisoner on the follow big Tuesday, and
after endeavooring to leneftirom him where the large quantity of
silk to which he alluded had been deposited in vain; he gave a
signal, an Officer entered, and they were both conveyed to the
Poultry Compter. They had not long been there, however, when
Ross's plan was, in some measure, defeatet by a boy who told
them not to write any letter to be sent out • for if they did,
it would be opened and examined. The Pelvis:re, thin put on
his guard, did not although be bad intended it,w rite to his friends
out of doors. W Reese endeavoured, in the course vf the day, to
induce him to confess who were the persons concerned with
him, but be evaded his solicitation. In the course of the morn-
ing some person caine into the yard below their windows, with
whom the prisoner had some conversation ; witqess did not
hear what was said, but on the prisoner ceasing to speak
with this person, he turned round aid said, all was moved
off; he did not care. Ile also said that Edward Ilackett,
who lived at So. 2, Lad-lane, had assisted in moving it atvay
the night beforr. Hackett, who was a servant to a silk-
dealer in Lad-lanes was apprehended. He denied all know-
ledge of the business. but confessed that be had known the pri-
soner for some time. Upon enquiry, however, it turned out that
he had been absent from his master's house for nearly two hours on
Tuesday night. In accounting for his absence, he said he had
been to his shoemaker's, in Spitalfieldst to speak about his
shoes ; the shoemaker, however, denied most positively that he
had been to his house that night. The prisoner Bevhato, in ac-
counting for the manner in which the silk he offered for sale had
come into his possession, said, he met a man, some time hack,
at the corner of Shoe-lane, who seemed to be a pedlar, and who
asked him to purchase it, and after some bargaining, he bought
itfori.
Eight of the persons eh:texed with being concerned in the rob-
bery of the ves-el are in Custody, and a reward of idol. has
been &erred for the apprehension of four others, whose
descrip-
tions have been learnt. The quantity of raw silk fouad in the
prisoner Be ham's possession only amounted to 41b. (ma. Ile
first asked 41. a pound for it, but afterwards agreed to take :As.
the pound, which was the real value.
Us:toe-Ham. —The Proprietor of ore of the Woolwich
coaches was tined 101. and costs, for carrying more than the
number of passengers allowed by Act of Parliament.
Jolla Seat wa.fittedas. and costs, for riding ou the shafts of :
his w noon.
William Laws was fined 2(b. aid costs, having been convected,
of gathering turnips in a field belung,ing to Mr. Smith, near the
'.13112 Cow, :o the Kent-road.

SINGULAR WAY OYIHOPL.RAIRAKING.—Betwixt the-
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evening of Thursday the 3c1„• and the morning of
Friday the 4th inst. the Old Victualling society Of-
fice, in kutherglen, was entered into by descending'
the chimney; the house being onlys one story high,
and a considerable quantity of sitter taken from the
till ; but, whether being scared or otherwise disturb-.
1 ed, some silver was left behind ; the depredator made
his escape by removing the catband and bolts, and
afterwards forcing the locks of the street-door..' On
Friday forenoon, a search warrant was obtained,
when.a boy of the name of Mos 's Kinnon, in As,
neighbourhood, was .apprehended, not from any
iirroof that was brought .against him, he having
1 strongly denied the fact, bat from the uncommon
smell of soot on his person and clothes, which was I
perfectly felt tat several yards distance, mid when
brought before a • Magistrate, he acktuowledged hie
314;114 and part of the money, 81. 15a. wns Seto.'
voted. he hi4ieg hid it in an old thatched house in.
,Vediately adjoining the premises. The hoy is an old/
ielfender and was lately liberated from Liaidowell he
is a native of GLsgnw, and came to liititerglen
Jew weeks ago to reside with a friend; there' was In
,wateh-doit in the shop *hen broke. into, but what
firthod Vras usettognieattlin is nut yet known. The
boyientill 'ln *ration , a ord belts, net yet-confessed,
"'haring had any accomplices. • a : .

•We hear it is in contemplation of the alto tt • r
Exchequer in Scotiaud to revive and enforce the 1.• A
respecting the Royal Boroughs' Account, ‘‘. Li-s-
-muts Good. By One laus evoFy Scotch !toy,* VI.
rough is obliged, en a certain Amy, annually to pee.
sent their accounts of charge and discharre fen. 21,c
year preceding in•the Couit of livchoquer; anti the
inhabitants are, (Moon days presious thereto, s. in.
mooed by proclamation, to appear and object to tt,e
same. The books and accounts de;•ing these ti. roen
days lie there, open (or the itiv,vi..l use
parties concerned. It is much to be regretted .:,1
laws so salutary shout.' have been/Monett to ill WO
disuse, as many borough evils would.have heel pr...
vented had they been kept in force. A. toe
of the Court of Session, u 'hog upon this selot.t4
says, " The unhappy consequences of 1..30111 st,,
gistrates without any check or contront, aro !,..
sible to be disguised. The revenues of a r. ,al bd.
rough are seldom laid out for titi• good of the tow%
but in making friends to the party who are in i,st.
session of the Magistracy, and 411 rioti-g and clru..k.
enness, for which every pretext is laid hold .
" Another consequence no lest fatal, of kavlng
Magistrates to act without controal, is a ;trots.; de.
sire, in every licentious horge.s, of stepping icth
the Magistracy, for Isis own sake and that of i.is
friends. Henco the factions and animosities that
prevail in almost nil the royal boroughs, wisich .re
violently and indecently pursued, Is ithout the least
regard to the good of the communi•y."
If a curious fact, which we suppose is unknown
to most of our Readers, and it 'appears from the re.
cords of Exchequer, as we are informed by the same
respectable author, thnt the tess'yr of Edlubufga
I.l“ing first of all the other borongkx_fail4(l .to give
in their accounts, Captain Thomas. Hamilton, mer.
aloof there, by an action in Exchequer, compelled
the Magistrates to produce, upon oath, their Tree.
serer's' acconnts; which were accordingly a adite(l.
The borough accounts are now so long in arrest.,
that much labour will be occasioned in ..taminiag
them ; but that consideration ought not to dater from
the work, as every year's delay is only making the
matter worse.

The new cornet, which was discovered, at Mar.
seil les, by M. Pens,and afterwards atParis by M. Boil.
yard, did, according to the calculations of thesell9.
tronomers, pass its perihelion on the l .ith September,
when its distance from the sun, taking that of the
earth at unity, was 0,77835. Its inclination to Cia
• ecliptic is 74 dog. 20 min. In a ver,• clear night, and
in the absence of the moon, it is just visible to the
naked eye.
Sunday afternoon a fracas happened in the Com-
mercial Road, W hithechapel, which iiad nearly ended
in .a fatal manner. &Marine Seijeant on the Recruit.
in Service, endeavoured to some a man he had en.
listed, who attempted to goi away, being seconded by
the mob ; the Serjeant, to oppose the great odds, was
induced to draw his sword, which was wrested front
him, and•himeelf taken to the watch-none. The af.
fair- fortunately ended without bloodshed. •
It is with much satisfaction we porceive that the
army at bore have resolved to render their assistauce
to their gallant comrades in arms abroad, by sub-
scribing to the Patriotic Fund for the Widows and
Orphans of such as may be killed, and for those who
may be disabled inaction with the enemy. This no-
ble example has been set by the 7th regiment, or
I,),ueen's own Hussars ; and we have no doubt well
be followed by the 'Brigade of !tossers, and by.every
regiment, hOth regular and militia, throughout the
United Kingdom.
A short time since, Mr. Brand,' F. R. S. observed, .
that the greater part of the wines drank in England
are almost as hurtful as spiritous liquors, front the
• quantity If alcohol or spirits of wine which they con-
tain : but a French chemist has remarked, that ac-
. cording to MrAmnd's own experiments, old Boor-
deaux wine contains only 12 or 15 parts of alcohol
out of 100, and good Rhenish wine only 9 or 10,
while brandy contains 53 1:.3 ; whence it evidently
appears that it is better to drink GI tvottles of gOod.•
Rhenish wine than one bottle. of brandy.
FATAL Frrecvs-oe Potiox—On the evening of
Monday, the 7th inst., hlargaret Hamilton the wife
of W. H. servant to a farmer in Cawford-John, le-
ceived a visit from her husband, who brought her a
small quantity of oatmeal for her family, and having
• remained till part of it was put into the meal-basra,
returned to his master's house. Next morning (Tues-
day), the poor woman made porridge from the
contents of the basin, and began to sup it with milk,
but being struck with a peculiarity in the lltivour, she
called in her neighbour, Allie Watson, the wife of a
. miner at Waillockhead, and prevailed on her to taste
it.--These two women were soon after both
seized with such alarming pains, that Messrs. Meikie
and Rankine, surgeons in Douglas were called in to
their aid. All the resources of the healing art, how-
ever, could not save the life of Margaret Hamilton,
who •died in great agony at fhe end of three hours,
leaving behind her a helple;s infant born only three
weeks ago. It is even said tkat Ai lie Watson, and a
child about a year old, who took a single spoonful
bf the porridge, are not expected to survive. Some
of the porridge heist', given to a dog, the animal died
;
i'snd wasthe nfloeaulnbdeitnogeoaintataliiznead
Tabyrgethem
d proper.
gentlemen,
Lion of arsenic. As it is likely the cause of this horrid
catastrophe will be investigated by a Coed of Jag-
, tice, we forbear stating reports relative to the iadivi-
dual, to when; suspicion points as the murderer. A
warrant has been issued for the apprehension of the
husband of the deceased. Allie Watson and the chil,4
ere now believed to be out of dauger.—(Duetft
Courier.)

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