The Statesman.
London, England, 1813-08-20 00:00:00

Wight dSSIZEg.

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it' appeared, that the PlaWitt. wal
ateeoening Officer rot-the- Borough of
v.* the. lest General' Electlett for that 6.
, Ihss Me - Defendant. was a candidate there,
rettte,n4 without opposition- to Parliament.
Plaintifs claim was for one moiety of the m.
pence of holdings, and of the returA ; the Defeild.
ant objeeted that by law he could not be Called 04
for more than oneLthied of the expellee of the hits,.
f inns, there being three candidates ; and that, es t,
the retorts the Plaintiff was 'bound to make itorit4.
out any remuneration from the Defendant.
On the former point it did not appear, In tic{
that there were three candidates, or that the ex:
erekting the hustings exceeded those n!
ma* feemerelection, always paid for bt the Candi.
eaten. •

To the latter objection, a letter from the Defend:
ant to the Plaintiff was read, in which the Dafeadan,
stated, that "he should be very ready to .pav
share of the charge of the return, in the same manzor
-as was'wmat in other boroughs in that part of 'le
;minty." The Plaintiff then proved, that the d..
mend made by him was comsiderably less than the
usual charge of a return for other boroughs.
The. Court remarked, that, after the latter, it
4* sot a handsome defence to the action, and
matt' the Jury to find for the Plaintiff, %With they

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• POLICE.

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UNION•SALG—Ann Smith, a woman upwards
of 70 years of age, was charged by Mr. Barber, a
' pawnbroker, in the Borough, with stealing six
gowns and several other articles, his property. Mr.
Barber stated, that be had frequently of late missed
articles out of• his shop which he could not accoout
for : the Prisoner was a customer, and oftent cone
to the shop, but lie had not the least suspicion that
she was the thief till Weduesday morning last,_ obeli
she came as usual to pledge some trifling article, and
immeditittly after she had quitted the shop he missed
a gown which he had just before ehung op near the
door. On the Friday after, she came again'; and
soon after she quitted the
,shop, he missed another
gown ; he followed the Prisoner, who, on perceiv-
ing him, dropped the gown, which she had concealed
under her clothes. Mr. Barber detained her, and
sent for Goff, who came and took her into custoflv.
On searching her, he found a number of duplicates
for articles pledged at other pawnbrokers, many of
which agreed in description with those missed by
himself; and those pledged at Mr. Barber's proved
to be articles stolen from other pawnbrokers: It
appeared that the system pursued by the Prisoner for
some time past had been to contrive, whilst pledgto;
an article at one shop,• to pilfer something which she
afterwards p!edged at another. She was fully ;cont.
mitted for trial at the uext Assizes.

Itl.l3oßoucit-sTttErr.—The Performers of the
Pantheon Theatre, appeared at this office yesterday
to answer to the charge preferred against them of
acting without a licence, lnit in consequence of the
absence of their Counsel on the Circuit, the chnsi-
duration of the case wasadjourned by agreement.

Couoarm's Isoursco-4Ast week, as Mr. Salter,
a young man, about 481 years of age, sets of the Pro-
prietor of Chad's Welisp at ,Battle-bridge, was pass-
ing through the turnpike on his way to Kentish
Town, he was suddenly seized with a fit of coughing,
i.by which he burst a blood vessel, and immediately
afterwards expired. He was instantly conveyed home
to his mother's residence at Chad's Wells, where an
Inquest was accordingly held the next day, before
G. flonosoN, Esq. Coroner for Middlesex, and a
respectable Jury, when, after a short deliberation,
a verdict was returned—Died by the Visitation of
Got/.--ft is very remarkable, that his wife died a
ew days ago, in the 28th year of her age. There
are three orphan children left to deplore their loss.
INFAMOUS HOAX.—A short time since, Mr. Wright,
a Magistrate for the county df Essex, who resides
near Chelmsford, and who is a considerable land-
holder, with a large farm in his own possession, had
eleven Merino sheep stolen. Mr. Wright, in order
to detect and bring to punishment the depredators,
advertised a reward of 2001. to be given upon con-
viction of the offenders. Early on Tuesday morning
Mr. Wright received a letter by the post, purporting
to be written by Mr. Norris, the post and coach-
master of Woolwich, stating, that if Mr. Wright
would come to him as soon as possible, he could tell
him where six of his sheep were, and also the two men
who pid beep seen driving them Repose the country.
In consequence of this, Mr.:%Yriglit set of with all
-possible speed, imetook the precaution of first going
•to Bow-street, where he engaged Vickery to accom-
pany him. They proceeded to Woolwich, and on
getting an interview with Mr. Norris, Vickery
knowing him personally, began talking with him ft.
mitiarly on the subject of the stolen sheep and the rcb-
bers, at which Mr. Norris appeared all amazement ;
and on his being told the cause of their calling o I
him, he requested to have a sight of the letter. On
perusing it, he declared that the whole vase gross for-
gery, and of course a trick upon Mr. Wright..-Mr.
Norris stated the letter to be in the same hood-writ-
' ins as a similar letter which bad been sent t.) a Gen-
tleman in a distant part of the country, uho had
been robbed of two-horses, aid 'to which his name
.was also forged. By this infamous trick, besides the-
loss Mr. Wright sustains in the robbery of his sheep,
.he was, of course, put to an additional expellee of
several pounds. The letters are suspc4led to tsave.
been manufactured by some of the convicts. They
were put into the Post-ollice at WoolWich.
Mr. Aries, rt pedestrian SE* note, ran Ilia miles on
Wednesday on .11ounslow Heath, in twelifilstrtes•un:
der .halt' au hour, for a wager of 5G gait'-as put

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