The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-22 00:00:00

STA►tESMAN *"*._

CITY BUSth ESS.

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Yesterday a Common Heti was held
for the election of a Bridgeinaster for the remainder
of the year, in the room of Mr. Richard Yeoward,
lately deceased, in consequence of a Requisition re.
!mired by the Lord Mayor, requesting ao early day
to he appointed for the purpose, which was respect-
ably attended.
The Hall baying been opened in due form, the
Town Clerk, in the absence of the Recorder, es.
plained to the Livery the nature of the Business for
which they wereaummoned.
The lord Mayor and Aldermen then retired, and
the Sheriff proceeded to the election. The friends
of several 'of the Candidates addressed the Hall, as
did.soese of the Candidates, after which the follow-
ing parties were severally pot in nomination:—
'Thomas Swish, citizen and habertober;
Oro ar King, vintner;
Samoa faildry, graces;
'J•nws Nort,)n. gold and silver a ire-drawer;
Joseph Snec4s needle-maker;
George Miumariuke Metcalfe, elock-makfr
' Jiffies T..tinett„ glower
sntrithltre show *than& being takeva,,:there appear-
ing a considerable majority in favour. sithir. Thodey,
Mr. King, who had the twat best showy came for-
ward' and handsomely declined demanding a poll
upon this occasion. The Sheriffs then retired to the
Council Chamber, where they (sported the same,
and the Lord Mayor; Aldermen, Jitcohaving upturn-
ed on the Hosting,. the Town Clerk declared the
election of Mr. Thodey to the Livery/ and the Hall
was thereupon dissolved.
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Wears told it was a ini.take to ny that Mr. Ewe
•ecoaapauies Lord CASTLIMICAGII to Aia-la-Chapelle.
The fact Is, Ita goes to the Cave or Good Hope, as
Set rend le LordChAa SODIER4 ET._

ANTWERP, Aurs.,l6.—oThe day before yesterday
400 soldiers in the service rif•the Netherlands, bat by
birth Prussian subjocts, rilerilasseett4ed, who are go-
ing to return to their ,own 'reentry. Prussia sends
back all the Netherlatideth, ind a column is already
on its march home.

• FKAsettowt', Atm: 13.HPreparationt are already
making fir' ,Dreshii to celebrate the fde of the 50th
anniversary. of the King's accession. tieverel impost
Personages are expected 'to shit Drq-den at that
time, and it is hoped that consequences will ensue
very advantageous to the Simons, and even to all
Germans.
The domestics or BONAPARTE and Cent BER-
TRAND, who arrived 4 few days ago in the River ft inn
St. Helene, have left On their way to Hamburgh.
T.o women abjured the Protestant faitts In be.,
come Roman Cstholics, in one of the churches of
Paris, on the 9th of this month. The one was Miss
Starre, a native of Philsdelphia, the other Madame
Got/vs:Asa, an Englishwoman, wife of the valet-de.
chambre of the Duchess D'ANuouLENR.
From the Dublin Papers, it appears, that further
seizures have been made in that city, audits Clonmel,
of poisonous tea. The Board of Excise has very pro.
prrly sent Officers through the country, for the pus.
pose of hunting out the &tiers in this nefarious trade.
The parishes of Dublin are beginning to assemble,
for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the re-
peal of the Window l'as ; a desire now become the
more reasonable, from the great improvement going
on In the state of the Revenue. The parishioners of
St Michela% held a meeting on Thursday se'nnight.
A new Silver Coinage is preparing at the Mint,
'designed by Pleraucci.—The half-crown has the
George and Dragon on the Reverse. A Corre-
spondent informs us that there is a novelty in the ap.
pearance of the coin, it being 'steeled with consider.
able taste.
Mr. Justice PARK, on claming a female witness
who came to give her companion (a servant girl,
tried and convicted of privately stealing in her mis.
tress's dwelling-house) a gond character; and who
appeared in the witness's box dressed in a white
beaver hat and white muslin gown; silted as his
opinion, that the increase of crime amongst females
'arose from their indulging in a passion for dress be-
yond their circumstances and sbitions in life. A de.
sire to gratify this propensity frequently led them to
the commission of theft, and sometimes even to pro.
stitution and other vice !—and his Lordship called
upon 'nesters and mistresses of families to discourage
and prevent a practice as subversive to the well-be.
ins of society, as it was ridiculous and absurd.—(So.
merset%,lssizes.)
PincLor BuLtdost.—The only price quoted yes-
terday was that of New Doubloons at 41.
Additionil means have been employed in several
Departments in France, for the destruction of wolves,
the number of which hel been for some years in.
creasing.

A woman, silty years of tie, was on the 12th alt.
at Laval, in the department of Gard, in Fiance, deli-
vered of a fine male child.
At ttie commencement of the herring fishing, in
Caithness, this season, twelve barrels were sent
from Thurso to Leith, from whence they were ex-
ported to ifamborgh, where'they were sold for One
Hundred and Forty-four Guineas. A single her-
ring sold at the extraordinary price of 2s. Bd.
The herring fishing at Wick,which, in its early stage
promised such unfavourable resultsl assumed • fa-
vourable torn on Tuesday se'nnight, when the boats,
brought in eight crane on an average. On the Wed.
nesday they averaged fourteen crane, and on the
Thursday about twenty crane per boat, being one of
the largest fishing, that has been made for these seve-

ral years.
The King's Arms stables at Lancaster were on
Tuesday night burnt to the ground. Five horses
perished in the flames. Two other horses are much
injured. They belonged to Gentlemen attending the
Assizes.
Wednesday night, or early on Thursday morning,
the stables •f George Brown,- Esq. of Newingteu.
green, were broke into and robbed of three sets of
valuable harness. _

Friday, as W. Johnson-, of Walworth, was com-
ing ashore with some oysters,
,at Biltingsgate, his
foot slipped, and he fell into thOock, by which he
broke one of his legs. .• t...,
Yesterday sinnight the Mitil=ettath, when driving
pretty smartly into Peterhead, in torniog an abrupt
corner, was °renamed ; by which accident, a Gen.
demo on the top of the coach had,his Jeg,broken,
another his knee bruised, and severei otherrelregers
wore tariesoly injured.

GRAND ANNUAL REGATTA.
Yesterday Asiley's 30th Anntial Priii Wherry
was rowed for by six pair of scullers _w.ho never be-
fore won a prite; in common working wherries.—
On Monday lest about twenty Candidates met it the
Mitre, in' Stangate, where they drew loti, each :pro.
during their indentures. Three were to be from
above, and three from below bridge, and none to tex•
vied 40 years of age ; when the lots fell to the fel.
lowing six candidates :
Nantes. Itreldeece. •
1 .14010 Erre Battle-bridge .•
2 Thomas Hill Temple ,•T Blne.
v
3 John kirh.ods.. - „Ilrreo.
4 Thomas White......Suntad-1ane.......
k,Junieg W I liengerfard. ....:.....Brawn.
6 W RI. Dim wic C berry-Orden. Purple.
In case of any of the aboie failing to attend, there
were two extra men chosen from obese, and two from
below bridge, to supply their placei. The two Shove
bridge men were, John Penton, Whitehall; and
Charles Smitlr„ Arundel-Stairs; the below bridge ex-
tra men were, Thorns' Dowry, Wapping, end Machias
Morris, Rot herttithe.staira.
At 35 minutes past rode o'clock yesterday, the iii
first.tremed candidates stetted front Westminster.
bridge, rowed with the tide along the Middlesex
shore, parsed through the third arch on the Serrey
side of Vaushall.bridee, and Worried along the same
shore • rowed round the beacon off Hengerfoidi and
returned through the centre arch of Westminster-
bridge, where the three first only that passed were
',titled Ao row for the grand or decisive heat.
The day being extremely fine, the face of the• River
was crowded with every description of boats with
parties of pleasure, bands of music, and dogs flying.
The bridge and banks were also crowded with
spectators. White, of Strand-lane, came in first ;
Richards, of Deptford, second; awl Dunwich, of
Cherry-gardens, third, on the first heat. Wood
lost his chance by going round the crafX•off Hunger-
ford, instead of going round the beacon. At a
quarter before six these three boats started for the
*inning hear, end came in in the same manner as the
first. viz.—yelloo, green, and purple. The first
was presented with the *berry on the, stage of the
Royal Amphitheatre; the second *ith"two ; end the
third with one guinea. %Vold Was the favourite at
starting. No accident that se heard of happened.

HUSSEY'S CONFESSION.

Con.iderahle doubts are entertained Its to the cor-
rectness of Hussey's confession. Mr. Smith, the
Magistrate of Greenwich, and other Gentlemen, are
still persevering in endeavouring to ascertain the most
correct iotormation upon the subject. On Wednes-
day they employed some men in clearing out the pond
near Vansittart's-place, Greenwich, of which so
much has been said, in search of the mallet which
Hussey said he threw into] the pond with the ham-
mer, both of which instruments he procured, and
gave to his companions, who entered. Mr. Bird's
house according to his plan. The whole of the mud
and dirt was taken out of the pond, in the presence
of several Police-officers, &e. hut no mallet, or any
appearance of one was, found, although Hussey in his
confession declares, that a mallet was used with the
hanstner, and that he threw them both into that pond.
Another suspicion with the Police.officers and others,
who were present at the examination of the murdered
and mangled bodies of Mi. Bird and his housekeeker,
was, on their being washed from the stains of blood,
&c. there was every reason to believi Ride-ill the
wound' on both of the bodies had bean inlrcted by
the same instrument, and the impreaslotriif "the
wounds resembled that which woad be prodneed
a
.••
from the hammer. •
The contesssion stales, that 'while one of Hussey's
companions was engaged with the hot sekeeper at
the street-door, the other man forced or 'broke Ibis
way into the side.dnnr; whereas, on Aakins and
lavender, the Bow-street Officera, arriving( there in
a very short time after the first alarm, ti were of
opinion that there had
.been neither a break lig in itor
breaking out of the house, there being no appearance
of violence used to the house, but those Obis had
entered it on the Sunday, to ascerlile the 'cause of
the dwelling not being opened.
It is said that Ilussey assigned as a ration 'to the
R,ev Mr. Rudge, for his not making a full Confession
sooner, that he and his companions, in their mor.
derous crimes, had sworn such solemn and horrible
oaths not to impeach each other, or to divulge the
transaction, which were of such a dreadful nature,
that he was frightened at' repeating the oaths; and
he asked the Rev. Mr. Budge if he thought he should
bP forgiven hereafter if he broke the oath hehad taken
not to divulge sny thing respecting the transaction.
It is still suspected that the villains gained ad-
mittance into Mr. Bird's house to the housekeeper,
about nine o'clock , as it was the practice not to open the
door without having the chain up; that at six o'clock
on the evening of the murders, it has been'aliefiWtain.
ed that a man knocked at the door at that early
hoar, and the housekeeper put up the chain before
she anaemic! him.
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Boxitea.—All the first rate men of hosing talent
are now at Bristol. Neale returned home last week,
and Carter, Gregor, end Cooper, 'cached there at
the beginning of the week from Cheltenham, where
they have been giving specimens of the hosing art.
A Correspondent informs us, that Neale's party are
much displeased at the arrival there of these formid-
able men, and as Carter is open to all the world,
Neate will, it is thought, accept him for a customer.
Thursday evening, as the daughter of Mr. Samuel,
of Whitechapel, and a neighbour's child, both about,
seven years of age, were playing ow the tout pave-
meat, two Gentlemen rode up at a furious rate
One of them having dropped the bristle, his two ran
upon the foot pavement, and trampled -oPon .Miss:
Siam!. She was taken •p in a senseless state, and
carried to the London Hospital, where she now lips
In a dangerous state.—TlieGeiStletuan gave bis name
and address. •ei
Yesterday morning one of .Messrs. Barclay, Per-
kins, and Co.'s drays, passing at a brisk-rate vrimod
Star-calmer, Bermondsey, came in ennead.
wllh
chaise, in which a Gentleman was riding; the. dray
struck against one of the wheels of the chaise and
overset it; and the Gentleman was dashed to the
ground with great violence, and the dray passing
over him, both his legs were broken. &Vass car-
ried to St.-Thomas's Hospital.

•• PFICAMIM UP G-17.611.,
The tolloliiniearioU's Iccouiti-d the 'esti:reit iletei
of one of the Pyriimilli tit Gitieh is given in t Pr..ncli
Paper, vouched by the most respectable name of M.
Niebishr; the Preisimri Minister at Roble, and foil
the illustrious •
•,
. VISIT TO THE INTERIOR OF FT.RAtitiO.,, •
We have received. froat M. It Niehuhr, the Proavi;to.All.ni•.
iter at Itoipeittud one of the ego** di•tittgoisheo,liietaryiliorac-
len the ditilteatic Seciaratiai old. 4
Roman Archltest. rehitive to ,his hails* effeifett *tritice
We the iiarerioy of aliyriortitl, 4l it' Is histt.his hero
attem_pletk by many celebrated.traittlien reit cett.orifs,,
On ' last. - tclioar

A be.alt. !a
.waves pant.
". .. die 18th 'fel-sit-Wry . -., ii. iti _i; i‘t hi 9 pis; ill-
pence; began his isroject of op Oink i :lines * seeend. Py;
fomid of 13ixello called that cif Ihnfresd.
~ the Int isliiiy,,, be
caused an excavation to lie made tote the iiiiniserii final.
by &dowsing a perpendicafai Hue front Its eisinitk., ,441;i0g
discovered ttlOt ;byre. was no opeakag,ip this place, be e*as.
menced further reseirchei about thirty feet Cast 4r, S.C.leitles
and on the 21 of March, he fodod the resit entrance. whis~b is
a gallery Of granite that led.no a twinging, ststOt also of &Ake.
Heil's* caused it to be, raised,. he found himself In SO ligri-
initial gallery, from whence lie descended Perpeedieultirli lisle
a second, and thence by a itaireaseenio a third. which tapioca:.
ed him into an apartment, where, be found A isfettPli tbh fp;
tabling humap
.botirt embalmed. „Proceeding by a sue., ag
Radtke,. bearrnied -in another NOrillontil One; *sing ale..g
which he perceived about b 4,11 easy apassage,thiti lett .1 Nerds
)he south, ituo a second apirtmeat. At t .1' esttemtly of di hod:
• zeittst plane. M. Beltoni saW sinihts, eat fur the par se of
fixings granite door that lay near, ,Froat ibis place he
ed by A.steep.prissage ;Moat the height of 4i &mien !In* wolf
fly wdieh it was clowd. At this spit he perceived stones cut
and laid in arch a manner as to close the eatMece Of stave; tillwAge
Dear doe base of the Pyramid."
From this account of M. Si-Isnot, it is proved tast'tie tsyni,,.
Aids *ere the tench'.' the Royal Pausity. It elkOkoear tat he;
-de hiebobr that she Pyrosed of cheeses is apt nifssaisiginal
nate. The froreophaxus must have been 4plunderso ft moo
period or other; and she doors of stone *hien have brt. found;
were displaced as rise time of this beirtieriorhoi. 'We may
nresome abut it was the Persians, modes. CastitsYsis. 40,0
and 3.illag,ed it. The Egyptians, (luring the intervaLoCtiscitirr.
dependente might hair` closed the entrinie, 'sluff bidlbi sshii to
repair the devastations coinissltate-by the eimema...ss
Upon ibis account, audits* eib*eri itineisitsjofitiml.
to it,- we cannot help obieriing.. that the notion of '
charging the Persian* at thit.visilatarrat of this iiit im.
rviitorytA. " the mighty dead"' (for sects :site Pik.
mid, ' afar. lAD w cicada., fly proird, to .bi) id si-,
a 1 emely fincifult it supposes the Persian otortivolf
.11 the many suCcessfol 4tivadertiof .egypt; so alit
Inners acquainted with the secret ,passages Africk. teed
to the Interior of the structure- Ors what• futinitall
grown, this exclusive know ledge is to be dwilbredkt
to them, ad know not. - Whet .strikes id ile`eiost
remarkable in this attoent is Wee.circentstatree dab-
man bones being. found in the sertopheges, or Sarni
as lierodotus calls It, wlikh has been fount within
the Pyramid. In thiGteet Pyramid; the interioebt
which has beers accessible for misty peers; sin bootee
or other mortal •iemaitts were thicniefedjagnithifig
but the empty soros. Oa Altif last cireurestatice eat
learned and ingetsiuustiravelter, Dr. Clarke, tett
strongly relied for the support of his intsreatink hya
()ethnic; that the Great Pyramid *as the rep•t4}lo)y,
of the remains of Joseph, and that the Chlldiette elf
Israel, when they went fatly. out of Egypt, notated
the sepulchre and carried Isis bones with these. "'lrbil
notion Dr. Clarke support• ,cry itringly'Sy Our itth
thence of a number of fact, collected froin Ibis artly
Scrlpteres—from Ilerodotus—end from tbeeretleitrei
rites of the Eg) Wig cs, as well as from the ettelordlt;
nary fact of the stone coffin of (Oros being, found
empty. But we know not .hew to minaret this wits
the discovery tuna made, that the Latest Pyrsusid,
although the only one from whirls the tesawiaw'nf
whoever was interred in it have been tern eted tleitneti
very distant period, is not the only one nf these eta-
pendoes piles which had been entered for the perilous'
of spoliation. It is tree, there is nothing in It wh7th
contradicts Dr. Clarke's opinion. But we•wisi that
Atre circumstances whicis induced the Italian arclrihaCt
,441 ,believe that the Pyramid which he entered :..1
keen previously opened, were more distinctly stated.
There is something iu the interest which is envied hey
every, thing .selative to the P, tangs's, stud the otbee
itupendrius monuments of human power in iJiipoe
Eqpt, that amounts to the awful. They sena to
steed beyond the date of all hornets chronology,
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.4ifECIIA 4,4IIISV'HOPHEi .
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• . A most melanchnitsatustrophe necerred In this
terns on Monday last. Between two dtkl three
o'clock in the morning, ,e.hver nes IlliCooersd lira
:sailer on board a sessellying in the Dry'D ck, in
the upper pad of the premises of Cowan' il•ett, se.
joining the Old Company's Packet-What/Nova geniis.
At this awful conjuncture the Inimity were atlepp.A.
An ala Min was soutided. In a few vnimites Mn,e
Brett threw up the window of her chamber/40d Witt
piercing and heart-rending shrieks, implored asks.
*nee from the spectators collected on the spot. A
ladder was instiolly Procured ; but uo(ortonatoly;lt
was found to be too short to rescue her floes her po.
riloos situation. Another ladder was speedily pre.
Cured; and being fastened to the first, wes'resred
against the house. But the assistance cause 'too bat.
The unhappy worms was enveloped by the lames,
and disappeared from the flew of the spectators.
Mean While the servant-maid appeaiedst a lofty
side WllidoW which fronts the Craving Mick, id..
ploring the aid of the by•stan.lers ; hut befo.e any
Could' he afforded her, she precipitated herself into
the sheet- She was,-as might have been expectedi
seriously injured by the fall. She was imtreedistely
conveyed to the Infirmary, and Sanguine biped are,
we eiidertdand, entertained of her recovery. •,'
The fire continued to rage with great fury, beghing
every effort to subdue it. It was not estltignishetl
till it had destroyed the interior of the premises.-a-
-• Halipily the flames did not enmmonieate to •tho ad.
joining houses. The body of Mrs: Brett wee foond
shoot half.past five o'clock burned to a cinder --
Captain -Brett sailed in one of the packets oo Seedily
morning fir Dublin. This awful domestic calamity
will poteerfUlly escite the pohlic enquiry towards the
•discoinry of seine apparatus for resetting persons from
hooses • sitreit'swi ire. We were 1114.1 y litourod web
'a view of .infingeniees contrll*hce ton this
inventeff 4 scientific gentlemen of this town. II is
denomina ed a fire eseepe;'it ii ore very simple con-
struction, end would, we haveliitledouht, if gene-
rally employedty the fire•otiCos and individuals, be
the means of preserving many valuable limes as well is
property.--(Liverpool Courier.)
11,7 s
Fridayrosold,
iuld : evenicg. shout tie o'clock, a child, three
fell out of a window on the third hoer of
. severely
biruOislded,Bothsaretelitt-cwouarst,en'int7.lvir:d and
Io
a sa
Max
Igeon's in the neighbourhoods with bit little hopes o
its tetovory. --.! ..; ••••• 4 '-'' ..
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