The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-04 00:00:00

TtrE STATESMAN.

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they remained but a very short time • for finding that jetty's service for twenty years, and having been
this town also was to be delivered up to the gip woanded, was discharged with a pension. Ile had
fish, he further prevailed with her to remove to since been a voyage to India, and was again enterei
village in the neigbonrhood. It was between this on board the Cu, fitels lndiaman, now lying at the
period and the year 1796, when the command of the.i Nore. He came to town ou Thursday last to get his
Army of Italy was conferred upon Bonaparte, that imprest money, and intending to go to Greenwich
the different members of his family were frequently :yesterday Blueceve his pension, he had engaged a
occasional residents at Marseilles. bed at the Pump publouse, where he was in
[ [ode Cortioued.l company with a female as stated by Harding. Soon
after he entered the tap-room, Harding asked him to
toss for some liquor, but he declined doing zo.—
Harding then accused him of being concerned in the
murder of Williamson, upon which he observed—
" If you think so you had better detain me," but
he never acknowledged having been concerned in that
diabolical act, as Harding had stated.
Several persons who were present in the tap-room
at the time, bore testimony to the truth of this state-
ment, and the Magistrate immediately ordered the
Prisoner to be discharged, observing, that there were
no grounds at all for the charge which had been pre-
ferred against him.

POLICE.

MANSION HOUSE.
C unn-STEALING.—Harriet Magner was brought
before the Loan Maxon yesterday, charged with
stealing Thomas Dellow, the infant son of Mrs.
Dellow, of Martin's-lane, Cannon-street, •who had
been stolen on the 18th of November last, as parti-
cularly stated in former Papers.
Thomas Barber attended at the Bar with the Pri-
soner in his custody, and stated, that he was the
keeper of the House of Correction at Gosport ; that
seeing a hand-hill, adiertisiug the loss of a chil, he
made every inquiry about that town, and was in-
formed, that a child of the description mentioned in
the advertisement was seen with Mrs. Magnes (the
Prisoner), of that town. Ile commuoicated this in-
telligenee to the Magistrate, who desired him to
bring the woman and child before him; he accord-
ingly went to the house of the Prisoner, and asked
her, had she got e'er a child in the house ? She said
sjte lied. Be asked her -if it washer oivn ? She at
first faintly replied that it %YRS; but when he pressed
her, she admitted that it was not, but that she had
found it in the street, in London.. He asked to see
the chid, to which she readily consented, saying she
would show him what good care she had taken of it :
the cotiild Alas at that time in bed, but shortly after
she brought it to him : it appeared in good health,
was exceedingly well dressed, and seemed to have
every care and attention bestowed upon It. She had
bought a quantity of clothes for it, and appeared
much attached to it. in answer to a question from
the LORD MAYOR, he said the house where the Pri-
soner lived was a neat, clean, comfortable house,
fit for any, respectable tradesman whatever to live in.
The witness afterwards brought the Prisoner and
child before the Magistrate, who directed him to
convey them to London, and bring them before the
Lord .Mayor.
Mrs. bellow, who attended with the child, then
identified him as the child who had been lost.
The LORD MAYOR asked the Prisoner whether she
wished to say any thing for herself • but she was so
much affected, she. could not immediately give an an-
swer. Barber, on her behalf, replied, that shn was
willing to answer any questions his Lordship wished 1
to put to her. When she recovered a little, she said, I
she had taken the child from a little girl in the street,
and carried it to Gosport. She was proceeding to
say something more, but her convulsive sobs would I
not permit her words utterance; however, we under-
stood her to say, that Mary Russell (who had been
formerly examined on suspicion of having committed
the offence) nad nothing whateverto say to the trans-
action, nor any connexion with it.
She was then remanded for further examination un-
til Monday next.
The Prisoner is rather below the middle stature,
and appears hetween 30 and 40 years of age ;
bdt
her face was so concealed by her handkerchief,
which she kept constantly to her eyes, we were not I
able to delineate her features. She was dressed in a
large dark green cloth mantle, trimmed with fur,
wore a straw poke bonnet, with plaid ribbons, and
her appearance altogether was that of a respectable
tradesman's wife. During the whole of the examine-
tion, she appeared most poignantly affected, sobbing
and crying all the time. She was attended by se-
veral respectable locking persons, her friends; and,
on leaving the Bar, the Lord Mayor most humanely
directed that she thould be taken care of and treated
well.
A vast concourse of people surrounded the Man-
sien-house do ring the examination, and numbers fol-
lowed her from thence to the Poultry Compter,
where she was lodged by the Officers.
MARLBOROUtiII,STREET.
Captain R—, the Commander of a man of war,
was held to bail for an assault on a young lady, the
daughter of a tradesman in the neighbourhood of
Suffolk-street, at whose house the Captain lodged.
It appeared in evidence, that the Captain had
taken his grog on board, and on returning to his
apartments, he rung the bell ; but the servant being
from home, the.daughter answered it. The Captain
desired that his fire might be stirred, apoligising at
the same time for being under the necessity of trou-
bling the young lady ; but whilst in the act of doing
it, he seized her in an amorous fit--*—swore he could
ne longer conceal his attachment to her; and behaved
in a manner that induced the lady to call out aloud,
which brought her father to ber assistance. The fa-
ther attacked the Captain in a pugilistic form, and
after giving him a black eye, charged him in custody
of a watchman.

HIGH TREJISON.

A special commission of Oyer and Terminer, np.
der the statue 35 llen. 8, for the trial of treasons
committed out of the realm, has issued, under the
Great Seal, for the trial of several persons in cus-
tody, charged with hating entered into the French
service at the Isle of France, and with being fouud
in arms at the capture of .that Island. The first
meeting of the Court will be on Monday, the 20th
inst. at Horsemonger-lane, in the Borough. The
following is a list of the Judges and Commissioners
named in the Commission :
The Earl of Onslow, Lord lieutenant of the County.
Sir Archibald Macdonald, Lord Chief Baron.
Sir Simon Le Blanc, Judge of the King's Bench.
Sir Alan Chambre, Judge of the Common Pleas.
Samuel Shepherd and W. D. Best, King's Serjeants at Law.
Charles Runnington and Arthur Onslow, Serjeants at Law.
John Silvester and Jerome W. Knapp, Esgrs.
Thomas G. Knapp, Henry Hughes, and John Stafford, Gen-
denten.
After the Bills are found, the Court will adjourn,
1 as copies of the indictments, and lists of the Jury-
! men and witnesses, must be delivered to the Prisoners
ten days before the trials can commence.

The idea of introducing an Elephant on the Lon-
don stage has not the merit of novelty. In the year
1707, the Manager of the Theatre in Dorset-garden,
actually bargained for an actor of this description,
which he intended to bring upon the stage; but, on
consulting his bricklayer respectng the aperture re-
quisite to admit so bulky a performer, it, was feared
the building might be endangered by making so large
a breach io the walls.
Sir Henry Blunt, who travelled into the Levant
in the year 1634, gives the following account of
coffee, then totally unknown in England :-44:They
(i. e. the Turks) have another drink, not good at
meat, called cauphe, made of a berry as big as a.
small bean, dried in a furnace and beat to powder, of
a sooty colour, in taste a little bitterish, that t; e'
seethe and drink, hot as may be endured ; it is good
at all hours of the day, but especially morning and
evening, when to that purpose they entertain them-
selves two or three hours in cauphe houses, which in
Turkey abound more than inns and alehouses with
us. It is thought to be the.old black broth used so
much by the Lacedemonians. It drieth ill-huvoottrs
at the stomach, comforted' the brain, never causeth
drunkenness, nor any other surfeit, and is a harm-
less entertainment of good fellowship; for there,
upon scaffolds half a-yard high, and covered with
mats, they sit cross-legged, after the Turkish man-
ner, many times '2OO or 300 " together, and likely
with some poor music passing up and dOwn."
The Dublin Correspondent newspaper congratu-
lates the citizens thereof upon the comparative state
of quiet and security, which is enjoyed in their own
Capital, and which it attributes in a great degree to
its more effective Police, and the good disposition of
its inhabitants.
The following anecdote appeared in a late Ameri-
can paper :—During the revolutionary war, two bro-
thers from one of the eastern ports were commanders
of privateers—they- cruised together, and were even-
tually successful, doing great damage to the enemy,
and making much money for themselves. One even-
ing, being in the latitude of the shoals of Nantucket,
but many miles to the eastward of them, they spied a
large British vessel, having the appearance of a nun...!
chantman, and made towards her, but, to their asto-
nishment, found her a frigate disguised.—A very light
breeze prevailing, they hauled off iu different direc-
tions—one only would be pursued, and the frigate
gained rapidly upon him. Finding he could not ran
away, the commanding officer had ruourse to strata-
gem—on a sudden he hauled down every sail, and
had all hands on deck, employed-with setting-poles,
as If shoving the vessel off a bank.
thl—The- ueople ow
board the frigate were amazed at e supposed danger
they had run, and to save themselves from being
grounded, immediately clawed off, and left the more
knowing Yankee " to e.ake himself scarce," as soon
as the night rendered it prudent for him to hoist sail
in. a sea two hundred fathoms deep.
SCOTCH Slid OM
htniva's Wharf. derived. Sails.
Eliza (Marshall), ditto 44 I, 5, 10, A. M.
Perthshire (Henderson), Dun- 1
dee
Fifeshire (Miller), Leith
Defiance (Watson), Dundee
Doss-Nes wharf.
Hope (Hutton), Leith
HIGH WATER AT LON
Morning, M minutes after 5.

France.
In the beginning of 1793, the Convention resolved
on sending an expedition from Corsica to attack
Sardinia, and Bonaparte's battalion of. Militia was
one of the corps ordered upon the service. He had
'not, however, any command of responsibility con-
ferred upon him, nor was any opportunity affordod
of displaying his military talents. The whole scheme,
like many of the expeditions of another country, was
ill-planned, and entirely failed of success.
General Paoli having returned to Corsica on the!
prospect-of its being emancipated, together with all i
France, from the despotism which had for so min)
centuries prevailed over the country, was received
by the nation with the warmest enthuiiasm. The
Corsicans had not forgotton his former exertions in
their behalf, and at their request he was appointed,
by the National Constituent Assembly, Commander
in Chief of all the Forces in the Island. It was about
the time when the above-mentioned expedition re-
turned from its unsuccessful attack upon Sardinia,
that the hostile disposition of England towards
France became apparent, by the French Ambassa-1
dor's being ordered to quit London, and the English
Ambassador being recalled from Paris. General
Paoli became, in consequence, an object of suspi-1
cion to the Convention, since his attachment to Eng-
land was no secret to any one. Ile was, therefore, de.l
prived of the chief command in Corsica, and sum-
moned to Paris to appear at the bar of the Conven-
tion, and give an account of his conduct. This mea-
sure was very ill received by the Corsicans, whose
love and veneration for their ancient Chief were un-
bounded ; and addresses were immediately dispatched
from all the Municipalities and Districts, praying,ll
that the Decree might be reversed, and their respect-
ed General restored to them. The address from the
town of Ajaccio was written by Napoleon, and with
an energy and conciseness which showed him no less
able to wield the pen than the sword. But the sus.l
pieion of the French Rulers were too much awakened
to permit of their listening to the voice of reason;
and the Corsicans finding no attention paid to their
remonstrances, but that the proceedings of the Con-
vention became every day more and mere violent, in
the warmth of their indignation, took the resolution
of abandoning the French cause entirely, and throw-
ing themselves into the arms of England; This mea-
sure General Paoli's attachment to England led him
strongly to encourage. It was not, however, Car-
ticti into execution till several months after.
It has been asserted by some writers, that Napo-
leon, after the surrender of Corsica to its new mas-
ters, offered his services to Sir Gilbert Elliot, now
Lord Millie, who commanded the troops sent to
take possession of the Island, if he would give him
a commission in the British Army, but that his ser-
vices were refused. This statement is perfectly pr.
toneous—Bonaparte did not stay to witness the sur-
render of the Island. Before this event took place
he had became extremely dissatisfied with. the con-
duct of the British Ministry, and saw no reason to
expect much advantage to his country from a con-
nection with persons who had shown themselves so
entirely inimical to the newly-acquired liberty of
France.
When, therefore, he found that a project was in
agitation to invite the English to take possession of
the Island, he persuaded his mother, with her whole
family, eight in number, to retire to Toulon. Here

CIIAI,I,I:.NGE. .
EiSitS. CUR ill F. and Co. Surgeons, late lu
11.VIhis M-lita N.'s Not% ity, challenge the tt hole toroth' ...
wove n single in.t.ttice wea, re their ‘ledirioe nod
ctice Aletli.
mato.ol of
Cure Wive tailed of the desitt,d ell:ct. Tive pra of
years in this p.plicular bran,. h of their prote,kiiiin his out giv.n
ri,e to oil. toi.ovre- NI coin. rite,/ continue to (lire, t thi.o.
stii i'e, to the try:tintAnt and eiie -of VENEREAL (list.,
PI.AINrti, :out at :t ,ter;lnleiwnt a Vie woera. whic't i.. t•ir
ras'quilice ut the tieNirioo, and cra4eful t &rt.: of a habit long
aa.l trots unhaitpay putmett by theAmithb of built ,exe'• I"
the Mir it hall ;.t. (mud t,t ;le Ihe tlilrtilt:ig ..101111:e Of Bane...ll'r..
the otter have 114 r v-ige. fal4llV developell to theoi h,, a .1: -
tri•si.inT, state of deli:lily, which, it nat ti.itely rt inedie I, ierao
les hi II ~,, potence. These are it• remote and Uhl •11:ite elle:I- ;
sV;ltle Vomit tip•i.o.,• Las*, of mu.lll tr power. :old varitio. I,—
Volti compl.tiol., ttAtally Charon teri‘e the e•itliebi sflgt•A .1: t.,,,
soliistry tire : of pri•soi:s lingua:hang, Ander tliaortter, inciite.s; .
such a h:thit. tileii tre:ttinent is iirtiit. , an:! has never, ptovei Ili-
6ticcesskil is the course of a long, laborious, and mac', eaten', J
practice. In the most obstinate and complicated- cases of V,-
ueroal infection,. such as ohttructis in the urethra, spongy ex-
crescences, hsrd tumours, callous ulcer., ' eruption., serniu,il
weaken*, 41cels, as also
'UNION HALL. STRICTURES,
Thomas White a man dressed as a sailor was -
1
yesterday charged on so 9
spicion of being one of the in.& - whitber recent or long duration, and which have bafil..rl thA
skill of other practiaiters, are, by their present improved litaa
of treatment, elrec,ually and perranneldly cured, wi t hoot t""
persons concerned in the late atrocious murders in patient vuovrieg the excruciating pain and ;tanning beton. ralge
• which frequentiv follows the appitcati • of the lunar caa-th••
Ratcliffe-higway. His accuser was a we-porter
named Harding, who stated that on Thersdayeren: Eliza. (111n4arells),Vvdtrito. Id the cour,c of I wentv years estenj \,e prac.ice parrthis mei: ol
ing be went into the Blue Pump public-twinge, is the ; Pertiseire (Henderson), DUD. rail" 0111111erffili cases of stricittits have been and tlsil n:••
der their care the tot:il eratliclttion of which is 'lieut.-0 I), •
Borough, where he saw the Prisoner sitting In the 1 pitieeme•otimer) Leith 26 5 Jan. SA. ,14. 1 tale, certain, al nd expeditiott: mode of practice, tniperia to:toy
- SO i other yet adopted. The weaknss, retaliation, mid delilitv
tap-room. There was something singular in Ms ap- I peewee (Watoan_)' Dundee SO
, _ 11, -- 11, A. M.
1,, i ..,, i proceedina from this complaint, is speedily removed, :in I i :..
pearance, which excited the curiosity of the witness i ~ --
', P. M. patient restored to sound and vigorttui he .10. But %hoe tw.
1 I 6 Jan. _7, A. M. debility has for years exi.ted, a prop, r per.everaiire in,their •,'
and be endeavoured to enter into conversation-with
him, by asking if be was a sailor ; the Prisoner Ire• nabs
teuseclies, after tlie stricture lai l•evo destroyd, i, t,..
1 dispeasablv requisite to reyiv• the slumbering spat ks of lirc•
JN BRIDGE THIS DAY. '
,and to re•iniinate the Constitution.
plied in the uegative, saying, be bad over been *be- . 1 Evening, 44 minutes after 3. -,
i several Noblemen and tic.4l:•nien of the fir.t respect••hilli:
pan the ilivtol:feja thereheariwaing
thsewiriozinesans;,7l cor ?
oil -------r---7.---------7--- , have hero under the care of Mt.”-rs. Currie anti Co. for lac It
MAltßto_, . . i et.,val of Contpinints of the welt ti, stricture., Ate . ; and hayty:
quit- 'do lei. I. at Donors Lodge, Yorktidre, Marini Tborold rd :a
' radical and pea Mt.”-
cure, request that refer.. ori
lion, addressed him in very abu. sive Isagesse, &skits we
sec is Ike enemy of Lincoln tojace - i may he vett to them, ts s •ti.faci-cv evidence. of the deci.o •
•
him what boeinese k was of big,. observing, that .ile li !KW Jess c. Bert. of Syston Park.
wanted to make money of themes ;After this am- 1 fit , on.y ,
supertamiy of rtleirm4. Currie and C.).'s phto of treatment.—
llsdastoyirigledit Ba.
Ate, de
stearzbeery, R0t,.3, jr.rtipiEnna; Hwy of these t;elitlenien hove load stsictures r,,.in tea to tar Iv
versetion White appeared-very uneasy and NW. .*: sf yews. and Itad been motet- tne rare of Messrs. Home, lir.% i',l."*
• and other Surgeon, .I equal corneoce, who Ve...ttled 1 1 t
1. one
. • • ' b the a tiCII Clod of the loilitr e ova ie.* ill t -urreo.
which increased the suspicions a. the "Atom • sad i Os 141*&41‘2101111#1_11.- W. 1.1014 j. EAC of Owner to I YPPci, • •
beat last observed to him, he beri a strong viyieti„,=AB,lo" " at J. 2116°8!' Fig' a ILI 1 .._
. •
blame to the. min dilstribed rrte told Co. may be romulted by either Sex, oi,:0.
. tw greatest delicacy, entree), and honour, at their lbws-, •
by , Titiei, es iselngi• ----,----*---J---F------------------1 107, llattionlarden. •
been ssee,by bin on the niEbt of Willittniine's man- I eismi ''' ' ?lUD, I nation its, the country are requested to state the piertirol e
• 1., of their case, age, and gencrat habit of living, &c. &c. isit.lll,.
der ; .this the Prisocter dw, not toi kike • ' Ye. "gbali" wife a Sa°ll" 11"11. i a remittance- for ndviee and medicines. whets the b.Vite Sill II:
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tencci.: eloeisem iii‘;',l"7,Y, roue!, rufeL heerik.iikulii:/:,lnt'seTplosi etan::::rclkli;e4:
this adssowlesipereti teowitosse leek, eseeidered - 4 PI, 4•••- ' .' •••• • • —-- -.7- • ' sin Madded to tlie account for iseniciaea.
as his meets giveoteitafitieja tatbai -- - sassisliartls4V 71,- wig:, the "'
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was es follows p—lle bad been a "was ibi .64 dm we,
December, Mn. Mary Eerie,* aged it. . - . -
a ma. liskagewe, Ireland, Hagk Blaney, in ate 100 d: yaw et 1 LONDON: .Pnated nod Pnblithed by D. Lorece, di tl'
1 STVILIMAIII 01/191CS, 87, Fleet-atrost.
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