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

THE STATEMIAN

Ilsolibene, Liverpool, wire-drawevs-Oetober 11,J,Webpleis,Nrpg-
cbester, painter-October 1 S. Oswego, Viddleford, Dorsetshtre,
jobber la bollocks-.oetobei 0, 13":" Elfstrand and S. Valley,
Xlngston-upon-Hull, merchants:-Septenber 23, C. Marlton.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant-keptetober 'V, J. Wthberley,
Manchester, dr.li iv-October ;1, W. E. Royston. West Leigh,
lauwashire, cotton-splutter-September SO, A. Mildrum,
iver-
on, draper... October 27., .1. Chapman, Newmarket, grocer.
GEB.TI El CAT k-S-Sarr. 29.
J. Seiton, Stanneore, Middlest:x, baker-J. Mayor, joa. Lea-
deatvalhotreet, • imaranee-broker-LW. Head, Adelphi, army
clothier-J. P. (iraddon, Russell-street, Covent-garden, tailor
T. Ward, ?Manchester, merchant-G. Taylor. -Howard greet,
Tynemontb, l'sorthombeilmal, • ship owner-41. Lines, Ey-
don, Northamptonshire. grocer-4 Stelfax. Rudtwath, Cheshire,
maltster-4. B. Cabanyes, Chissycll-street, Finsbury-square,
merchant-J. Ives, Cawston, Norfolk, grocer-W. Lonsdale,
Liverpool, merchant--T. Dixon, Holme, Lancashire, builder-
.l. Bartlett, Chit hater, cabinet-maker-P. Leonard,
Fleet-
street, haberdasher. •
• PA ItTN ERSII IPS DISSOLVED.
J. Rowe sad J. Meagher, Dartmoor, common-brewer-U.
61hly, T. M. Benaett, and C. W. Satlcll, New Bridge-street,
solar tincture venders-J. Clark, J. Gs les, and J. Ferram,
hborediteh, oilmen-a Thomas and W. grnith, Bristol, oil and
colourmen-.1. Starkey, J. Mallison, a Mallison, nod G. Meg-
son, Huddersfield. merehan s-W. Welch and I'. Hall. Adder-
bury, Oxfordshire-J. Houghton. 6. Whittingham, and It. Har-
rison, Liverpool-a Medley' and R. Trimmer, Camberwell,
lime and coal-nwrelmats -J. Adlard and O. Jones, Ave Mari 4-
lane, booksellerg-E. How and W. hlarsham, Shorter's-court,
Thrognsorton.street, stot k-hrokers-.1. Fidlin nod .1. G. Broster,
Liverpool, plambers, glaziers, and pain ter -R. Prince and W.
Docker, Manchester, linen-drapers and habertlashen.

MSOLFEN7' DEBTORS.

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At an adjournment of the General Quarter Ses-
sions of the County of Surrey, yesterday, held at the
Sessions !louse, 'Horsemonger-tane, a great number
of Debtori were diaCharged from the King's Bench
Prison, pwrstialt to the last Insolvent Act, without
opposition.
Mr. Jaws Greenwood, of Greenwich, linen-dra-
per, was opposed by Mr. Lams, for fraud, in not
returning in his schedule a debt of 3,0001. due to him
from a Mrs.• Bean, a bankrupt, and other debts, he
being charged with having lately property to the
amount of 1.1,0001. •
Two ) oung and very interesting daughters of the
Prisoner were examined against his liberation, and.
to discover his effects. They artlessly gave their
evidence of all they knew; and after their.cross-
eatimitiation, and a pathetic address from Mr. No-
wt on behalf of the Prisoner and his unprotected
daughters, he obtained liberty to amend his schedule
in Court, it appearing that Mrs. Bean was for years
a fugitive bankrupt, and her estate wholly unpro-
ductive of any dividend ; by. minis of which, with
other losses, chiefly incurred by naval and military
officers *going abroad, several of whom died in fo-
reign ports, the Prisoner end family we • wholly
ruined, slid no fraud intended against the creditors.
He was discharged..
Charles' Harnett was refused the benefit of the Act,
on account of having been seen out of the 'lilt) of
the prison at Kennington Common, to see a fight,
on the 11th of August last.

• POLICE.
i • caltuntALL
Yesterday Mr. Charlei•Shuttleworth, charged by
the Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of St. Bar-
tholomew the Gres:, with being a rogue and a vaga-
bond, within-the meaning of the Act of the 17th
George IL chap. 5, he having run away and left his
wife, whereby she had become chargeable on that
parish, and ,who. had been .remanded to this day, to
give an opportunity to the township, of Wakefield, on
which ultimately the burden of the Prisoner's wife,
if she be 'finally deserted, must in all probability
fall, to come forward if so inclined, was again brought
up to have his case enquiredinte.
Mr. Elliott,.Churchwarden of the parish of St.
Bartholomew, entered at some length into the cir-
cumstanpes of the case, and into the meaning and in-
tendment of *the. Act of Parliament,. under the enact-
ments of which, he presumed to think, his parish was
called on to afford relief to the wife of the Prisoner,
and the• Prisoner came fully under the description of
a rogue and a vagabond, the Act declaring, that any
person running away, and leaving his wife and fa-
mily, whereby they become chargerble on any parish
or place, shall be accounted ,a rogue and vagaoond.—
, fins Act too, had reference to a former Act on the
same subject, passed in the 7th year of James 1. by
which it was provided, " That all persons so run-
ning away and deserting their families, shall be taken
and deemed incorrigible rogues, and endure the pain
of incorrigible rogues ; and if either such man or
woman, being able .to work, shall threaten to run
away and leave their families, &c. the persons so
threatening shall, by the said Justices, be sent to the
[house of Correction, &c. there to be dealt with and
detained as a sturdy and wandering rogue, and to be
delivered at the said Assembly or Meeting, or at the
Quarter Sessions, and not otherwise." Now, in the
present instance, it could be shown that the Prisoner
had threatened to leave London in three days, and
the kingdom in a fortnight, and also that he would
entirely desert his wife.
The Sitting Alderman (Sir RICHARD CARR GLYN)
said, the point on which .he wished to be convinced
was this, that the wife of the Prisoner had become
chargeable to the parish of St. Bartholomew, so as
to be entitled to relief from them.

The Church-warden then repeated the story that
had been-told to him, as to the Prisouer having mar-
ried his wife at Wakefield: and deserted her, after
living with her three days : that the wife had fol-
lowed her husband to London, and had taken up her
abode in the house of a Mr. Senior, in the parish of
St. Bartholomew, whence she had been enabled to
trace her husband, by means of a trunk directed for
him from 1% nketield, and where she had, as a casual
p;super, applied to him (the Church-warden) for re-
lief, which he, understanding that she could not
otherwise procure a night's !edging, had afforded
her.

Mr. ADOLPHUS, who appeared as Counsel for the
Prisoner, begged to know what was the amount of
relief afforded.

The Cliurch-warden answered—eighteen pence.
Mr. Apologies said, these Knight Errand Church-
wardons must learn, that the liberty of the subject
was not .hus to be sported with, according as their
caprice dictated. They had chosen to assist a lady
ho had no occasion for it, and who, besidos,
had no title to their assistance—the assistance so
afforded by then was only to the extent of eighteen
pence; but this had been m tile the pretence for im-
prisoning this young man, the Prisoner at the bar,
who had been seduced into a marriage while ender
age—for several days. The Parish Officers might
rest assured they should answer for such conduct in
another manner, and in another place.
The Churchwarden begged it to be understood,
that it was not through his means that Mr. Shuttle-
worth had been taken into custody.
The Worthy Alderman said, the point referred to
by Mr. Adolphus, would, if th• parties chose it, be
subject of enquiry elsewhere. At present, it was
unnecessary to call in Mr. Adolphus to say any
thing in behalf of his Client. No case had been made
out against him, so as to call on him for a defence.
It was necessary for the Parish Officers to shew that
the wife required their aid, which, to his (Sir R. C.
Gr.YN's) mind, they had failed to do. The Poor's
Rates of the parish were placed in tljeir hands, to be
prudently and discreetly laid out in the relief of the
poor of their own parish, and of such casual poor as
might require their aid ; they were not, however,
..to be squandered unnecessarily upon persons nei-
ther legally entitled to, nor requiting astir assist-
, mice.

lie accordingly ordered that Mr. Shuttleworth be
discharged, which he immediately was.

UNION HALL.

Dr. L a respectable Clergyman, who keeps art
Academy in Surrey, applied to the Magistrates for
advice ander the following circumstances:—
A young man, named Kempsin, some time since
applied to bim to be engaged as an assistant, and
having agreed as to terms, &c. he said he could have
a character from a respectable Clergyman at Dablin,
whose name was not unknown to Dr. L. and with
whose recommendation, he said, he should be per-
fectly satisfied. Kempsin was taken into the family.'
and a few days after Dr. L. received a letter, pur-
porting to be a letter from the Clergyman alluded to,
strongly recommending him. This satisfied Dr. L.
and some days had passed when he was surprised at
receiving a second letter, signed with the Clergyman's
name, stating circumstances in a very different man-
ner to what the first letter had done. This letter
was written in a different hand, and he immediately
showed- it to Kempsitt, who, on returning it, at-
, knowledged the first, was not written by the Clergy-
man, but by his brother, wbn was in the army.—
Dr. L. upon receiving this information, immediately
wrote to that Gentleman for an explanation, who
answered. his letter, and acknowledged that he had
' given the character in his brother's name at Kemp-
sin's request, who, he believed' to be a very deserv-
.ing young man. Sion afterwards a li.o.asiats gentle-
man came .to board with. Di. L. for the cenveniencei
of learning the English language. A few dabs after'
he had been there, whilst the family was sitting at-
diviner, Kempsin quitted the table as if sinwell,
itnd it .was discovered that he had quitted- the pre-
-1 riser..
wag dap . found that-a-dad. into the, • avatar''
C.l.stftotnatt's apartment had been forced open) soatJ

a pocket-book, containing a brilliant broach w.ll
one hundred guineas and a one-pound moo,
taken away, as were a silver watch and a pair of
pistols ; nothing belonging to Any other persoil it&
the family was missing ; and the It issiati boiim
formed that the thief, if taken, would probably he
hanged, would not suffer him to be pursued. This
occurred on the 4th of August last, and Or. L. had
since written to the person who gave Kernpsin a cha.,
racier, and received an answer from him, in which
he expressed his regret that he should have behaved
in so improper and disgraceful a Firmer, and also
stated, that he had been informed he was seen at Li,
verpool since he quitted Dr. L's house, and he was
persuaded had7 before this time, taken his departure
for America. Under these circumstances 11r. 1,1
said, he wished to know of the Magistrates if ud
step could be taken whereby he might recover hit
property or the value of it.

The 'Magistrates informed him that he might, if he
chose, summon the person who had given Kempsiii
character before them, and they would coiwict him
in tae penalty for having given a false character; tis
might also, if he thought proper, commence an action
against him for the value of the articles stolen. Dr.
L. said would take a day or two to consider which
coarse lie would adopt.
MARGBaROCIGN-STRIECT.—No swindler, sire the days
Ilanitbld, has committed more deovilations on toe town thistl
./c4, kson, ll,rrper, alias Cop ain Jarkott, W
committed for trial from this office on Mondav, ou a soon.,
..!!::rge of forgery, in signing a elicitoe nu the haaking-house
Pia-scott and CO. for :n 1 a. in the name of Stephen ,
and thereby defrauding Mr. Christian, a lin li-draper. The
multiplicity of minor ottencescommitte I by the Prisoner, was
on no occasion exceeded. Ile was attached too g4llg 1%110 were
in the daily practice of committing acts of frail& by various
arts and •tratageins. in addition to that which has already ap.,
heart d, Mr. harry stated a ca.e on the port of a Mr. Collingr
as f4llows: -The Prisoner took the greater part of a farnmieii
boost. is Store-street, for a month, and a day or to o previous it
the time having elapsed, he decamped with the greater part of
the portable foroiture, amounting to 1501. This ehar4'., ant
another of fraud, together with the forgery, were entered lino,
and the Prisoner was committed upon the whole.

AGGRAVATED FELON T.—Benjamins, a Jew, re.
siding in Warwick-street, Charing-cross, was charged
with robbing Mr. Flay, a gentleman of fortune, be.
longing to the Secretary of State's Office, of a Bank.
note of 401. The circumstances are briefly as fol.
low :—The Prosecutor occupied furnished apart-
ments in the Prisoner's house, and he missed the
note in question, which had been stolen from his
desk. He knew the number, and it was traced front
the Bank, by the vigilance of John Foy, to the Pri-
stiller, who had paid it to Mr. Moses, a respectable
Jew, who paid it away to Barnet, a Jew butcher,
in Itunge—rford-market. This transaction took place
a day or two after the note was missing, and, on its
being so missing and the number known, the Pri.
sower sent for the mite back, and erased a signature
on the back of it. /I.;'enuid give no satisfactory ac-
cou at how he came by it, and he was fully (wawa.
ted for trial.

A Correspondent writes from the Isle of Wight,
that there is now growing at the Parsonage-house of
,;ttaitklin, a to% rt le, of the bread-leaved kind, whose
ev raw (Unary dimension:: afford a strong evilence of
the mildness of the climate. Its foliar covers the
whole front of the house, which is lofty ►ntl spa-ions.
some of the larger branches were lopped ea' oNtt twig'
ago, on account of their too exuberant growt,), and
the timber was applied to many useful purposes : tt
was fouoli-to bear. considerable 'resemblance to me:
hogany.
II unoutseret.e, SEPT. 3.—Nothing very material
has transpired here this last week. A detachment of
hussars, who have been out in the country to-!L.~
have seized several stand of arms, and brought in
one prisoner, and it is reported that several more
prisoners will be brought in here this evening.—We
are quite full of soldiers, under the command of
General Ackland.

Since our last were committed to York Castle,
William kip:rater' of Kippax, charged upon the oath
of John Lock, of the same place, with having, on
Tuesday last, maliciously and feloniously, at Kip-
pax, endeavoured to murder the said John Lock, by
stabbing Itim in the cheek; and John Schofield, jun.
late of Nether- Thong, in the West-Riding, cloth-
dresser, charged upon oath with having, ahont half-
past twelve o'clock, on the night of Wednesday, the
21d July last,- feloniously, maliciously, and unlaw-
fully shot at, or counselled, aided, and abetted
some person at present unknown, to shoot at, with
Intent to murder John Hincbliffe, of Upper-Thou3,
near Huddersfield. _ _ _

On Monday se'nnight, ten debtors in York Castle,
were liberated under the late Insolvent Act, by the
Magistrates of the East Hiding; and on Tuesday,
‘.2:.1 debtors were liberated by the Magistrates of the
North Hiding.
A number of nocturnal depredations were last
week committed in the parish of Halifax. In the
night between Saturday and Sunday se'nnight, a
party of arms-stealers entered the house of Mr.
Haigh, of Skircoats, and took from him three stand
of arms. On Monday night three of the peaceable
inhabitants of Thornhill, near Brig-house, were
each plundered of a gun. The same night a blun-
derbuss w as tired into the house of Mr. Waddington,
of Brig-itouse, corn-Miller, and. seven bullets lodged
in the ceiling of his bed-room : a musket was also
fired into the parlour window and a large-discharge
of duck-shot lodged in the room.—And last ran S-
day night a mill at Southowram, where woollen
cloth isdressed by machinery, was attacked by a num-
ber of men amounting it is supposed to about 100,
who, after securing the watchman, broke 17 pairs of
shears. At half past one o'clock in the morning the
p~cquet past.the mill, who] all was safe ; but the de-
predation was committed with ao much address and
celetity, that ',on' their return at two o'clock, the
mischief was effectet the offenders completely
dispersed. • *lnt vier taken :up and detained me
sesviciote.

Al A It WALD
At Carrhhrooke, In the Isle of Vt iglu, Captain Thmse, of the
Royal Atli:Lowy, to Eliznheth, youngest danAhter of Co, lain
George Yuqug, tif the Army Depot.
C DIED.
Oa t4h 49itt of Attest, in the 7lst 'year of his age, Williaoi
F4g-oppothecdry, of Cooduit.street. tianover-somtre.
A shoft Ohre 'Awe, ut Chester, within a few em of each
colter, Mr.:arid Mrs. Royer, 'the former aged RI, and the lattsr
87. They had berg married and lived together upwards of 63
yens Ole cohnie of which (Intr. eicept to a solitary instance,
of nue amts they bad oever slept but tinder the none roof.

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