The Statesman.
London, England, 1809-09-08 00:00:00

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POLICE.

G umoum./..—A Cyprian Damsel, named Anne
South:tell, was yesterefiy charged by a tar, named
Hogg, with plunderingtim of Bank notes to a
considerable amount. It appeared from Hogg's
statement, that he had been enjoying the fun of
the carnival of St. Bartholomew, and had gut a
little groggy. In that state he accompanied the
Prisoner to one of the temporary ball rooms in
the fair, where he stood up to dance with his part-
ner, who contrived during their gambols to gain
possession of his tobacco-box, in which was
stowed his Bank notes; those she was seen to
take out, and on being searched, the empty box
was found in her pocket.
Several persons who saw the transaction sub.
stantiated the fact.

The Prisoner was remanded for a further exami-
nation.

Several persons apprehended in Bartholomew
Fair, by the Alarshal.men, on suspicion of pick-
ing pockets, were likewise brought up, only one
of whom, a lad named Green, was detained.—
Two pocket handkerchiefs and a pawnbroker's
duplicate for a gold seal, were found in his posses-
sion. Of the manner of his obtaining these, he
gave a very lame azcount. The seal, he said, he
bought from a boy, who had found it, fur four
shillings ; and the handkerchiefs he bought from
some man in the street, whose name and person
he was unacquainted with. Be was remanded for
a further examination.

John Leary, a lamp-lighter, charged with
wounding a child, named Margaret Dillon, in
the head, with the scissars used by him in trim-
ming his lamps, was brought up for re-examina-
hon.

The Girl stated, passing with two of her com-
panions, they in passing under the prisoner's lad.
der, spit on his foot to procure them good luck.
The Prisoner threw the scissars, which he held in
his hand, at the Prosecittrix : they penetrated her
boonet and entered the back of her head, wounded
her severely, and caused a considerable effusion of
blood, though not to such an extent as to prevent
her from walking to the surgeon's, where her
wound was drecsed.

The Prisoner declared that he had no intention
whatever of injuring the child. She and her corn-
pan.ons had been vexing him while he was in the
act of cuttiog the burner with his scissars, and he
bad simply called out to them, " You little toads,
go along," demonstrating his wish, at the same
time, by an inclination of the hand, when the
seissars drOpt from it, Without any intention on
his part. lie had five children of his own, and it
would be the last of his actions willingly to injure
the child of another. •

The Surgeon having given it as his opinion, that
the wound conld not be opened till to.morrow,
the Prisoner was remanded till Saturday.
MAILLSOTtOUGH-STREET.—Yesterday the over.
seers of the poor of the respective parishes of St.
Luke's, Chelsea, and St. Mary.le.bone, brought
before the Magistrate a female pauper, named
Jose', on a charge of having illegally obtained
pecuniary relief from each of these parishes, en.
der pretence of having gained a settlement in
both.

It appeared on reference to the parish entries
of St. Luke's, Chelsea, that fur the last three
years, the prisoner had been receiving weekly the
sum of is. 6d. whilst since March last she had
been paid a weekly allowance of 3s. by the over.
seers of St. Mary-le-bone• and a further allow-
ance for the support of a thild, of which she re.
presented herself to be the mother, but which
upon further inquiry, was found to have no ex-
istence.

The Prisoner did not deny the charge, but
pleaded her excessive poverty as her inducenicut to
the imposition.
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The uverseers of both these parishes having
been of late great sufferers by similar frauds, and
conceiving it their duty, as strict guardians of
their trust, to make a severe example of the Pri-
soner, she was fully committed to take her trial at
the next Sessions.
The driver of the hackney-coach, No. 177,
was brought before the Magistrate by a watchman
of the parish of St. Mary-le-bone, under the fol.
lowing suspicions circumstances watchman
stated, that between two and three o'clock yes-
terday morning he was going his rounds on his
beat, which is ilk Wardour.street, Soho, when he
saw a hackney-coach-driving furiously down the
street towards him.. lie did not make any parti-
cular observation until be beard the crash of the
carriage aesitist a post at the comet of Husband-
street, against which it was drives which pre-
vented its proceeding further. A parish lamp.
lighter, who was then on duty, went aloud with
witness to extricate the coach from its, aukward
position, aud whilst they were 41 the act of push.
lug it ulf the post, one of the St. Ann's watch.
men came up, and cried out, " That's the rascal
who hai been lurking about in Berwick-street !
Stop him!" alluding to the Prisoner, who was just
then gone round to the. other aide of his coach,
in order more effectually to remove it ; but when
he heard the other watchman give the alardi, he
immediately ran off. IVitness, however, pursued,
but was unable to overtake him. The coach was
then driven by the Watchman to the watch-house,
where, upon opening it, eight reams of large demy
paper were found packed up on the seats, sup-
posed to have been stolen from the neighbourhood
of Berwick-street.

The St. Ann's watchman stated. that about two
o'clock yesterday morning bis attention was called
to a hackney-coach-stopping at the corner of Ty-
,ler's-court, Berwick.street, and shortly after-
wards- bating heard the coachman say siudibly,
g' Is all in ? mike haste," he was induced to ex-
amine the coach morn minutely, but just as he
bad ascertained the two last figures of the num-
oti furiously. Ili, suspi.
, be ran after it as fast as
p with it at the moment his
was assisting the Pris Oner to
the post. He knew the Pri.
!reticently seen him before,
'wear be was the driver of

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It further appeared, that the Prisoner, after
he made his escape from the watchmen in War-1
dour-street, went home to his master's house, in
Drury-lane, and related to his employer's wife
that he had lust his coach at ten o'clock the pre-
ceding evening, and had searched every Green-
yard in London, but was unable to find it. Not
finding it, he had come home, expecting to hear
that it had been restored to his master. Upon
learning, however, that it had not been restored, he
pretended to go and make further search. Chance
(as it should seem) directed him to inquire at
Mary-le-bone Watch-house, where, Upon shcw-
ing hii face, he was immediately recognized and
taken into custody.
The Prisoner again related the story to the
Niagistrate,of his having been drinking at a pub-
lie-house at ten o'clock the preceding evening;
when he left his coach at the door. In the mean
time some person mounted the box, and drove
away with the coach. Ile had searched in vain
for it in every Green-yard in London. With re-
spect to the paper, he protested his entire igno-
rance of it, and said he never saw such paper in
his life before.

Under all, the eircnmstances of the case, the
Prisoner was remanded fur further examination,
and the Magistrate directed every inquiry to be
made in order to find out the owner.

A charge of a most brutal assault was made by
a decent young man, named Alexander Campbell,
against a ruffianly lamp-lighter named Thomas
Glorer. The circumstances of the case were
shortly these : The Complainant was walking with
some of his friends along Oxford street, about ten
o'clock on Sunday night, when the Defendant,
who was lighting the street lamps, came towards
the Complainant, and without giving him time to
get out of the way, pushed his burner against his
small-clothes, and daubed him so much with the
oil and filth therein contained, as completely to de-
stroy that part of his dress. The Defendant im-
mediately rata on, laughing at the joke. Mr.
Campbell, however, not enjoying the sport quite
so much as he did, followed him fur the purpose
of remonstrating on the impropriety of his con-
duct. Scarcely, however, had he opened his
month with this intent, when the lamplighter,
with a tremendous oath, again pushed the burning
torch into his eyes, with such violence as to knock
him down. Blinded, burnt, and bruised with this

rude assault, the Complainant got up, and in at-
tempting to seize the Prisoner, the ladder which
the latter carried got between them, and they fell
together on the ground ; a scuffle ensued, when
the Prisoner recovered his feet, and made three
successive attempts to knock the Complainant
down, but in each he failed, and was himself laid
in the deist ; finding his match, he gave in, and de-
clined any more fighting.
'f he Prisoner made a very lame defence, and
denied the whole charge. A livery-stable keeper,
in Orford-road, his servant, and another man, de-
clared their readiness to swear that the charge was
completely false, and that there never was a
more injured man 14. the world than the Prisoner.
Mr. BRODIE, however, declared, that in the
CORM of his experience he never heard of a
more brutal outrage, and, in order to prevent the
Prisoner's escaping the hands of justice, he should
not admit him to hail. The prisoner was there-
fore coma:tilted to Tuthill-fields prison, to take his
trial.

At the above Office, on Wednesday, t :To dust.
men, of the names of Jones and Leman, were
convicted antler the Parish Act in the penalty of
ten shillings each, for carrying away ashes from
Holborn, they nut being employed or authorised
by the contractor. Nut being able to pay the fine,
they were committed.
Bow-nnert.—Wednesday Richard Hemming
was examined before J. Natter, Esq. the Sitting
Magistrate, on a charge of bigamy. The prisoner,
from his age and personal appearance, does not
seem at all calculated to engage female affection ;
notwithstanding which, it seems he has contrived
to ensnare three women at once into the chains of
matrimony. Two of them came forward yester-
day, and it is supposed there is a prior marriage to
either of these, of which the wife is alive. The
prosecutrix, in the present cue, is a very decent
good-looking young woman, who stated, that she
was married to the prisoner, by banns, at the pa-
rish church of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on
the Ist of August 1808. The other marriage was
proved to have taken place at St. Andrew's, Hol-
born, in the year 1791. The wife in this case,
complained of the prisoner's plundering her pf
.every thing, and leaving her much distressed, with
several children. The prisoner was fully commit-
ted for trial.

A young man, employed as a letter-carrier, at
the Twn.penny Post-ufficc, Paddington, was
charged with secreting a letter, containing two
Bank-notes of M. each. The must distressing
circumstance in this case was, a sister of the pri-
soner being obliged to be a witness against him,
he having employed her to. negotiate one of the
notes taken out of the letter. He was committed
for farther examination, and bail taken fur the
appearance of the sister to give evidence.

The experiments towards ascertaining the ex-
istence or nott.ezistence of coal within the limits
of the county. of Ilerefonl, are intended to be
undertaken within a fortnight, and we happy to
state, that the prospect of success was never
greater. The inhabitants of other plsces will nut
give credit to the melancholy fact, that the poor
of this city and the vicinity, cannot purchase coal
at a less price than the rate of two guineas per
ton, although productive coal pits are within 2U
miles of the place, and have the advantage of two
turnpike-roads, and a navigable river, to convey
it to us. About fifteen years ago, the price was
seventeen shillings per ton : some advance since
that time may reasonably he expected, but the
present rates seem to defy all calculation. The
best coal (and probably at a lower rate to those
who purchase large quantities) is now to be had at
the pits, at Nine Shillings per Ton : the charge
for conveyance and profit exceeds thirty shillings I.
How is this reconcilable with the former price of
Seventeen Shillings ? (Hereford Journal.)

THE STATESMAN.

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LA'N'CASTER ASSIZES.

• MANSLAUGHTER.

Rarrqii was indicted for killing and
slaying William Wilson.
The Prisoner is a serjeant in the Prescirt Lq.
cal MilitM, and he went after the sou of the de..
ceased, to endeavour to persuade him to join his
corps.

John Chadwick said, lie was at the E.igle and
Child public-house, on the 22d of May, where
he saw the deceased. The Prisoner came into the
house, and addressed his conversation to the de-
ceased, about his son's joining his regiment ; he
replied " Yon shall have no connection with me
nor my son, if I can help it." The Prisoner an-
swered, he would force his son the next day to
St. Helen's, where the corps would be mustered ;
upon which the deceased got up in a passion, and
said he would take the Prisoner's neck olt, and
challenged him to go upon the green and fight.
The Prisoner did not accept the challenge. This
was repeated so often, that at last the Prisoner
accepted it, and, at length, they went out. to
fight. The witness got *pun the green, when
they began to strip. The Prisoner had not got off
his shirt, but as soon as the deceased had got off
his, he gave the Prisoner a violent blow. A num.
her of blows on both sides passed,• and at length
the deceased fell ; he did not speak, and a as con.
'eyed into a house. It had been insinuated that
the Prisoner had given foul bluas, and followed
the practice %hid) disgraces many parts of this
county, kicking in the 11(41.'1; but the witness
fully contradicted it, and said nothing but fair
*lows were given.
John Walker, the surgeon who attended the
deceased, said, he found him afflicted oith bili.►us
smiting and continual irritation ; great swelling
at the lower part of the belly ; violent pain and
swelling on the right kidney ; and great marks
of violence to be perceived; and he had no doubt
of external violence being the cause of his death.
The deceased only lived seven ur eight hours after-
wards. The body was in a great state putrid, it
being very hot weather ; he did not open it.
The Prisoner was found Guilty.

James hunt was charged with killing and slay.
ing T. Caldwell, a child about three years of age,
in Kenyon, on the l2llt Jule.
It appeared that the Prisoner was the driver of
a cart with two horses, and was going through
Kenyon on the above day, n hen he was very im-
properly riding on it without reins, with his back
to the horses ; the deceased was playing in the
road, and When be was found to be run over, and
that the cart was just gone on before, a boy went
after him, and told him that his cart had killed a
child, he replied he Ahought not. but observed
that his cart had neither luck nor fortune. Blood
and brains gushed from the nose of the infant.
Thera being no proof that the cart went' over
the child, or that It died of the wounds received,
the Jury acquitted the Prisoner. •
Robert Pilkington was indicted for killing and
slaying John Freeman, a child about two years
of age, by incautiously and carelessly driving his
cart on the 22d of July.
It appeared that the Prisoner was driving his
cart through Horton-Green, and the deceased was
playing upon the off side of the road, on the
causeway ; the off wheel went over the head and
body of the child ; the Prisoner was, at tire time,
en the cart, sittiug at the bottom, although he
had two horses ; a great alarm was given by the
neighbours, and the Prisoner got out of the cart ;
a great quantity of blood came out of the child's
mouth, and it died in a few minutes.
Henry Elston, a surgeon, said he opened the
body of the child ; found a contusion, depression
and fracture ; a deal of blood came out of the
nose and cars; and there were tiontusions on the
hips and lower part of the belly. He had no
doubt but the death was oceasioued by external
violence on the head.--Guilly.
Robert Leather was indicted for- killing and
slaying Betty Gaskill, while carelessly driving his
cart, with two horses, on the 17th of June; hut.
Nary Holland, who saw time circumstance, refus-
ing to appear, although she hail been regular!)
sabpenad, the Prisoner was acquitted.
Susannah Bradley was indicted, on the prose-
cution of the Mint, for uttering counterfeit sil-
ver, knowing it to be so, and fur havi.tg other
counterfeit money in her possession at the same
time.

The prosecution was conducted by Mr: Rains.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Scales, a
tea-dealer of Manchester, that the Prisoner went
to his shop for two Ounces of tea, and gave 'half.
a.guinea, and received the change ; she said Jihe
wished to have a half-crown piece, and returned
two shillings and sixpence. Mr. Scales discovered
one of the shillings to be bad, and observed that
he did not give her that ; she acknowledged that
he did not. lie then charged her ss ith being an
titterer of bad money, and said she had more
about her ; and on searching her, she hl,l three
more of the same make in her hand, and a half.
crown piece in her pocket, so that she could not
have wanted; and whilst a constable was sent for,
an old handkerchief was found within about two
yards of where she was standing, with .27 coun-
lerfeit shillings of the same make as the others.—
Guilty.

. On Sattorday List Thomas Charles Fitzhugh
Sandlot. and William Ilitchin, .11te celebrated
swindlers, who were convicted at the last assizes at
16aroick, of a conspiracy, were, in pursuance of
their sentence, placed in the pillory, iu the market.
place, at Warwick, for one hour.
Last Saturday the Invorness.shire militia march-
ed from Musselburgh fur Leith, where they em-
barked on board•transports for England.
The solid part of the Bell Rock Light-house,
forming not quite one-third of the height of the
building, has beCn completed this season. It con.
tains 1389 tons, 3 feet of solid masonry, while
the whole Eddystone Light-house contains only
839 tons; 8 feet, of materials.

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ME L. 4 NCHO Ll' CA FAS TR OPHE.

J. 1.. a young man of the city of London.
Jerry, paid his addresses to a young woman of
the 11.1111 C of S. a Clerk! s tan's dauoter. This
unfortunate young woman had bad a child by
him ten months before, and kept it unknown in
an obscure part of the city. Ile promised fre-
quently to marry her, hut deferred it on pre.
tome that his circumstances would improve in a
little time. Some person, however, wrote a pri.
Tate letter to his father, informing him of the
business, which his fat;tt•r, it is presumed, spoke W
him of. After this he treated her with *the
greatest cruelty, and accused her Of having
wrote this letter, which she: denied ; but be,
glad of the opportunity of bt•iny off, paid his
addresses to a Miss S. and was to be married to
her in four or fire days. To amuse this new lady,
ho proposed giving a party of !demure, the
morning previous to which, the di-surfed young
woman contrived to put a gliatitity of corrosive
sublimate into each of the hoe. Is of milk provided
before breakfast, not thinking that it nould do
more than prevent Ocir e,et►rt►g'a amusement.
The young man's brother and sister began to sip,
but did not fetish all their milk, he then came Ws
in a heat, and drank up his and what they kft
also. His brother and sister in a little time after
began to vomit, and continued unwell all that day.
Ile returned from the quay, where he had been,
about 12 o'clock, 'and mentioned that he was ex_
tremely unwell, And went to bed ; his brother and
sister gut quite well and revived by ; best
be Monday evening he was taken ts or and died
on Thursday morning. Miss S. (who lived nest
door) u soon as she ascertained his fate, ins_
mediately drank an infusion of es-seine; his friends,
who were by this time aware of the means by-
%hie!' he case to his death, sent for a Bailiff to
take her lido custody. The Bailiff went in, and
found her ou her bed in much agony; he told her
she must accompany him, in which she acquiesLi d,
and proceeded with him to the gaol, where she
expired un advancing Otto the Hall. She left all
his letters behind, and a long letter to him, is hid)
she %rote some drys before she took the ars..nie.
She denied having nritteir the letter to his fattier.
One part of her letter stated, that he made an at-
tempt to destroy the child, by an infusion. of
opium; she stated a;• a, that she herself went wiih
an intention to puisun the child, but could nut tititl
courage to do ;t.

THE TWENTY-THIRD DRAGOOYS.

MAJOR POSUNBY.:

Major Ponsonby is the second son of the Earl
of Sesborough, :IA one of the acpresentatires its
Parliament for the 'County of KillEpprry—he is
Major of the 23il Dragoon s.- He has dequired.tha
highest praises foi his gallantry in the late bloody
victory at Talavera. We have seen letters *Paton
the neat day after the action, beating ample testi.
mony of the bravery of the regiment, and to his
distinguished conduct in that dreadful battle. It
may be said to be natural fur a descendant wflhe
great Duke of Marlborough• teAtisplity tailitary
talenti and spirit ;---and his friends and. family
may look forward with a -coo Went hope to life-
line day, when they shall see this estimable young
rush in possession of a character iu the army,
equal, at least, to that which was so honourahl
enjoyed by his eminent relative, Gen. Punsouby,
who so gloriously fell at Fontenoy.
One letter has the following passage :
" On the 28th Juiy, at 12, General Anson's
brigade were ordered to attack theeesolidsquares;
we charged to the point of the bayonet, under a
tremendous are. The French stood firm. We
(the 23d Dragnons)' were chiefly enciged ; we
lost in the attack, reckoning the kill 4 wounded,
and missing—in officers, privates, and horses,
'pearly half the regiment. We, however, preseni_
their deploying, which, I understand, was their
inteutiou. The whole army WAS a witness to the
charge. The small remnant of oar regiment, with
the (sermans, who had riot 6uftered su much, were
moved over the 'hill to support General Sher-
brooke's division, which was advancing. We hail
to stand half an hour finder a very hot fire of
shells ; . we had scarcely been of our horses fur 36
hours."

Another letter says—" Though the charge
proved so fatal to the 43,1 Dragoons, yet its eflrct
wan such, as emir, ly to stop the advance of the
intended attack, and to relieve us in a short time
from the fear of any advance upon our left."

Lord VALENTI k makes the following report on
the value of the Cape of Good hope, as a colony
to this country A finer country fur the 'ln-
duction of grain does not exist, and a very small
proportion only is yet in cultivation. Every ►p+ -
cies of grape, that has been triad, has succeeded ;
and the only cause of the inferiority of the tape
%hie to that of Madeira, is the ignorance and in.g:i-
gence of the Dutch in making it. Their vineyards ar.,
ill managed, the grapes being permitted to touch the
ground; and they cut off the whole branch with
the fruit, which they throw into the press, com-
municating by such means an unpleasant 114vone
to the wine. %Vert, the usual precautions taken,
I have nu doubt that come kinds of wine now
made in France, Portugal, and Germany, might
be produced in this colony, and add greatly to,
our independence of those parts of the worl.l,
which hare been permitted by Providence to
under the iron sceptre of our implacable enemy "
In the present state of Europe this consideration
is of great importance, and ought to excite the at-
(Cation of Government.

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