The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-08-17 00:00:00

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CANTERIJIJRT, 401.14.
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-Ile lately. mentioned that a eonilderable degree of
sensation was experienced in Maidstone on Sunda,
evening last, owing to a man acknowledging himself
to be the murderer of the young woman found in the
river Medway, at Barming, in Match last. The
name of this youpg woman was Mary Noakes Sands;
she came from Strood to this town by Burch's coach,
and was proceeding on her journey to Ticehursl,
where her friends resi:led, and she had a bundle con-
taining articles of wealing apparel. When found,
ahe was supposed to have been in the water a fort-
night, and exhibited a most shocking spectacle, hav-
ing a severe wound on the right temple, apparently
inflicted with a hammer, and also several other con-
tusions on different parts of her body : the Coroner's
Inquest returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against
sorneperson or persons unknown. Nothing has since
transpired to discover the perpetrator of this horrid
deed, till Sunday last, when, as a soldier of the,9sth
regiment was passing by the Kingsley's Head public.
house, he was called in by the min above alluded to,
whom he knew, having enlisted him on the pre-
ceding Friday to serve the Marines; they asked
for a pot of porter, and while drinking it, the
soldier observed, that the man looked very de-
jected, and asked him what was the matter?
if he repented being enlisted ? if so, he might
easily get out of it ; to which he replied,
You don't know Dick—l deserve hanging more
than Hussey." Upon his saying this, the soldier
was much astonished, and said, " Good God, what
have you done ?" He answered, " I knew Hussey,
and I ought to be confined in the same dungeon that
he was in—as it must come out some lime or other,
may as well tell you--I am the murderer of the young
woman found in the River Medway." The soldier
then asked him, if he would voluntarily give himself
into the hands of justice? Ile said, " leg, and let
me be confined where Hussey was, for I violated her
person, and then murdered her —I must die far it, slid
should be glad if it was to-morrow." The Borsholder
was then sent for, who took him into custody, and
conveyed him to the Mayor's prison ; on• his way
thither, he made use of the same expressions ; he ap-
peared to be in liquor, and had been drinking the
best part of the day. He was, on Monday morning,
taken to the Town Clerk's office, and underwent a
short examination, which was postponed till Wednes-
day, in order that the witnesses, who live at a diS.
Lance, might be able to attend. He now declares his
Innocence of the crime, and says, that owing to his
having drank so much on Sunday, he knew not what
he said. Such is the information we have been able
to collect of this mysterious case, which at present
creates much interest. We abstain from giving the
name of the supposed murderer, till further evidence
has been produced of his guilt.—(Kentish Gazette.)

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OLDHAM NESTING.

The following Address was agreed to by the Weaver's, Waive-
bled, 5.1 she number of several thiusauds, at Oldham, an the
10th •f August, 1818; fur the purpwe of devi,ing some Mode,
If pOssible, of raiiiing the price oftheir labour. •
TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND.
" CoUNTATtaik,-;-1t is not with any presumptuous
feeling that we no* tome forward to address you.
No; it is for the, purpose of drawing
.your attention
to, sod sympathy for, those heavy grievances, which
have for so long a time so sensibly afflicted us. Our
sufferings, as a body have, for a great number of
years, been such as no other class of workmen
have been forced to endure; hut for the last two,
years, and upwards, they have been almost insuppott.
able. Many are the victims, who, within that period,
have fallen sacrifices to the dreadful starvation which
their low wages have forced them to endure; while
those who have not actually died for want, are so in-
volved in debt, that they merely hold their household
and working goods in trust for their landlords, fiom
whose claim it would require years of industry, even
with good wages, to redeem them ! Such, oh, Conti_
trymen! is the wretched condition to which that emi-
nently useful, numerous, and industrious class of ar-
t...an., the cotton weavers, are reduced ; such is the
wretched condition from which they wish to be re•

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lieved !
" We will now, Countrymen, endeavour to de-
monstrate to you the fearful cause, as we con•
ceive, of those many grievances, of which We so
justly complain. To do this, we find ourselves toi•
der the necessity of going into the political proceed.
ings of our Government, for a considerable number
of years past. In tile, we hope not to offend the
feelings of any political party whatever, assuring them
we only take a view of their proceedings, for the
putpostenf corning to a correct conclusion from a
fair statement of feels,
"6 We take the liberty, Countrymen, of Wet ring
you back to the conclusion of the first Attletleati
oar, in the year 1783; that period, is a point iif
reference, being, in our opinion, extremely waver
on many accounts ; but more especially because, like
the present time, it was the termination of a war,
which one of the greatest Statesmen of the age had
declared to be '6 long, bloody, and expensive." At
'bat period, the rents for houses were about ene hilt
of their present rate; while provisions were selling
(flour beilig per lb. meal ld per lb. beef and
mutton 41. per lb. butter 7d. per lb. cheese 4141. per
lb. patatoes per lb. and every other article of food
in the same proportion) at about one half of their
present rate. At that time an industrious weaver
would have earned, on an average, the sum of 15s.
per week, which, with economy, would not only ',Ave
enabled him to live respectably, but would also have
given him the means of laying up a competency for
the w inter of life.
'6 This happy state of things continued, with little
imerruption, until we were plunged into the war
with France, in 1793, when we immediately began to
experience the natural effects of war, in an over-
stocked market, producing a depreciation of wages,
and in an increase in the price of provisions; during
all this time a gradual improvement in machinery,
affording the greatest facility for the quick produc-
tion of labour, had taken place. This, instead of
being a benefit to the artificers, as might fait ly have
been expected ; instead of increasing his means of
living ; instead of shortening his hours of labour ;
was taken advantage of by the Government end
Aristocracy of the Country, to petit'', the extra-
vagance of one, and the avarice of the other ; who,
by means of certain legislative enactments, which
their influence in the Senate procured to be passed, in
order to enable farmers to give them high rents fur
their lands, kept away from our shores, or admitted
but in a very limited quantity, and that under heavy,
imposts, grain, and other of the most valuable pro-
ducts of other States, thereby raising the value of the,
produce of laud, and depreciating, by lessening the
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demand for our manufactured goods, the prices i
thereof. From that time, until the year of peacc,
1814, the ezpences of Government, to carry on the
war, kept increasing, as well es the value of land ;
while, as a necessary consequence, our means of living
comfortably kept decreasing ; nay, every new im-
provement of machinery, instead of being a blessing,
operated as a curse; for, while it lessened not our
pecuniary difficulties, it added to nor hours of labour.l
Ott the retorts of peace, however, we fondly ex-
pected have enjoyed the blessings of peace ; we
expected our long ill-rewarded labour, to be hence-
forth properly appreciated and rewarded. Alas!,
bow miserably have our expectations been disap.
pointed ! liuw wretchedly have our reasonable antici-
pations been deceived ! Fur the very Session of
Parliament after the conclusion of the peace, that
law, which is the most deadly blow that has ever yet
been aimed at our happiness, the late Corn Law, was
passed. In the beginning of the year 1816, the full
operation of that law (passed evidently for the put.-
pose of protecting the landed interest from its fair share of the
burdens which a ruinous and protracted war had left behind it)
began to he felt; which, operating along with other causes, the
most prominent of which was the extreme poverty of lime
States of Europe that had b, en the principal consumers of ..tir
goods, has brought us to a state of misery and degradation,
uever before experienced by any portion of the inhabitants
any part of the habitable globe. Now long, oh. countrymed
are we to bear ibis caress of misery ? Already base we felt if
Ito all its dreadful horrors, more than two years! Much longer
we Cannot bear it; human nature is out capable of maintalialli,
the conflict much longer! We are ate well aware that nothing
else than increasing the demand, or lessening the supply,' or
both, can operate effeetually in our favour; and we aire fully
aware that Legislative interference is necessary to the one, or
the other. A removal of the Corn Law, and such other laws as
restrict our commerce, and increase the Pricy of
would be the most permanent remedy. We. therefore, pray
you Countrymen, to join us in endeavouring to prevail no the
Legislature, to grant the repeal of these truly mischievous laws:
We call, in he most solemn manner, on the landed interest, to
to forego !iu claim to the benefit of these laws; we entreat the
great landed proprietors to reflect, that a hen burthens are im-
posed oa a State, all ranks and conditious of society ought
elawally to share those burdens; we. I eg them to reflect, that
daring the war, the manufacturing interest bore all the
burden, as the value of land increased with the increase
of
taxes, if not in a greater proportion; and we new, at the con•
clusiou of a war of wretchedness, of misery. the privations of
which we have borne with enexampleti fortitude, dud the price
of our labour reduced one half, a hie the value of land, and,
consequently, the pr.,duce of land. is more than doubted. We
ask, is this fair, is it just, is it politic ? 011 Oust answer, no;
its injustice is manifest to the very meanest undersumding ; and
its iuspolicy is equally evident, in •its driving from our ;Aveiro
the most ingenious and iodustrioes of our artisan', who, in fo-
reign climes, particularly in the heaps state of America. are
seeking that reward for their ingenuity and industry, which the
present state of things fleprisses them of bere.
‘• JOHN MILLS,
" Oldham, Aeg.lo,lBlB. Chairman to the CoMmittee."

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MURDER Al .EPSOM.
FINA 01111iTINF, Nt OF • THOVA •OSII fa.
Shivrday sir Jaires A Sinatier, Barr.. :bilk '
s Tibtil Jotil
Wn itinore,Joseph Cirinittend,lienr .e Crippi; 'Ul'lllll. and
Robert Ilmdsoo, Esquires., Magistrates, assembled at flke,Coirelf-
house, Eu;iiin. when 'Thomas Osborne abriisiktii it:Age them.
in resod:, of May and Hall. tlieolliceri of Uhind-hAll, to ,
go a dahi examination. upon the chats's* nftwinft fonciford in
the murder of ly Cox,thegasue,ketseter.of Mr. Tes.ier.
Some i.f the former 'witnesses *ere again exv.tv ned. .
Mr. Mayde•'surgesia. of Epsom, deveritird .he mangled state •
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in which he fantid the body of Cor upon, his bring called in;
and biased his belief th..t the murder was effected by
tion. lie searched the pockets of the deceased 1 there way uo
money in them ; a handkerchief tens ilea, round his neck,. with
the knot behiad, and in the knot was
,iinrodneed a thick stick,
with a hook at the end. as if for the parpoie of taistisig it wi.N
extraordinary sightitrial: •
timrles Tanners, a labnnrer. staled, that as
,he easslauding
ith another matt near. (.7./itekenhanslorns7„ ou the:Sunday of
Out murder. tit ntwiht five in the Morning, he Ischia iattse person
exclaim in a mournfal ovan.terJ "Oh Lord ! its Lord-11:' hod im-
mediately said to toe othersnaa, "'There is,oine persists ram by
a spring gun." They !linked about the park and up ..nu .1,1%%
h,:id odiecnirerfrnin whom thr exclinnao)n proceeded. but
could vee no person. The place vs bete he stood, %shad be braid
the voice is very near c•iockenis.atn-corner.
Joieph tromplan. versant td Mr. ladbrnok, of loom;
stated that he ibsisted in removing the body of Ely Cltto the
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sets, tril the pl..

holite of. Me. .Teviler„aud afterwards tettien, _ to the pt
14 :Jere the tanker was committed, to snake his observations
ThE bushes and trees weretourh brake, as if a violent Stru;_fi
had taken and there were various marks on the von,ct
which denoted the seine
_circumstance. At one Waco it sti
peered as f die toe Ma mass's shoe had caught in the gron.,
and close b• he found au imidc Frnek of n shoe, made out or
old bat, and rot to a utun-s size. [The stick was Item p
to the Magitirates. nt:11 tilted to the shoe of toe l'risuaer ; it p.
peered to correspoild :Alai the -ize of his shile.l
M ty, tae Olieer, said, that when he appreiteeded the
Omer the woad time, ho made him off his • hoes, and e.
then discovered tw- bocki simihir to the one p• °duce., ,
law --loins, of the tame inatertahi, mid tut in the seine Ilii1•11..1
one of ahem app ared to him as eh mor• worn than the °the- .
The Magi rate, carefully v.., ..'red 1,,r so. ks f and
in tee shoes .iflhe Prisatn.r. ;ti„! IF one ion dby Cron.i.
The latter appeared ahoy,' three qharters of an Inch longer
th. otheit, bit( in other re 10-cts to eh res mhled h. at.
May further stated, that tiitylni., been Wog-tined that a I '•
apron Hid 1);:t;n seen at OW. hoes: of he Pei.mter, sub ecj• ri.
the murder, he searched and risotto ...trticie of that cieser
eons th re were several soma wf hl• •14 the cen re 51 15.
Duro; (he continemen of ti.e e Jail, he Wee •;.t.41
what eloths• he bed n Ole fu.c of th, .. sides% and deli t
Alter hangs, a pail of grey irons rs trey mach fa,
111111 torn •
11:111.the Officer. tated Oa! oii the 4oli aI he tem, u
the e stag- of tee Prisoner, fin to eisme....t . f hinv
warrant, and Osboi• r ttefog at hat time. b„t at. •
he unsdut very ark, In hisseareq. Ow tht Ilia inst. he •
searche nd hen disco,/ red. bet we n his bed met e sari
a Lair of grey frostier., much laded toenxand ••• .ined ss •
blond ;he also Grin 1 k Weistctat. op .5. it hien a. it: verni
of blood; a torsi shit t watt fonud m e tam- non., and h•
rked that the shill a,sl daisteuit tte e b.. to -pa al 4 place
under the arm, as If rent by the same mod nor est r on at Lute
same time. A bat was also discovered wish ollark.com she front
bearing the appearance of bladed. He had carefully . ramint
the pluet where the mord r was committed, and it Wylie:tie' ,t'i
the mark of blood mina some gate., and pertienhily *p.m t.
free by a breach in the fence opposite ilia @lritaasY ihnit"•• thi.t
the murderer had made his retreat from Crockeshaat eopief. •0
a direct line w kit (Abilene'. house, over ihe fence it. front of
it. He had been informed that.eshorao usually Mart shoo
boots, but there was a permit wlke would tare that on •he dr .
of the murder he sail him in shdei.
James Coombs, a labourer, ellltottorated the latter par of
Hall's statement. .41 1•* .41:1....0 •
James Saunders, head.gardener to Mr; Noitbey, wed called
to identify the clasp-knife 'mind ardr the body of Cos as be-
longing to the Prisoner; bat aishongh hr ;mil frequently teen of
similar knife in his possessioa, he cum(' ass say that the bloody
knife produced oat the same. s • •
The Prisoner protested hie innocl'iice lb tie mat's solemn mint-
ner,4ml said, that however appearance. Ws re against aim, he
should he able to explain every thing. lie wasosetcnciedsby Mr.'
Alley and Mr. Harmer. and was recommended iu keep sitencti
in the present stage of lii Isatinest.
Tit* C4l/111t114M. after Consultation with.-the other Meg's-
trates, addressed the Prfauner, and ...id, that under afl the ear-
cemstancet'uf the case he felt It his ditty to commit him fur
trial.
The extunination was attended by a vast itemiser of the Gentry
of the surrounding country. The Prisoner is a young min. op-.
patiently about 47 years of age. fair complexion, and hair;
he has been several years in the Navy, and served wider Capt..
(non Commodore) Hotte.
T:le Overseers of Epsom Were hound over to prosectite. and
the witnesses to attend and give their evideoei at the next As.;
sizes.

A TRIBUTE TO MR: It. TURNEI4
ON MS INCOM VARA BLE LIQUID BLACKING:
Accept, great Man, a humble Bord's essay,
Um cheerful inhale of applause U. pay I
For, ic appi,use he wels•e•mied roe • l.'s doe,
Tao' '.pH oat court it, it shall tIY to you.
'When all the world coming* to prai-e name,
Wis cup fog Inas so VetHVC shy Wreath fame?
In d sys of lore, when scarce one art was {mown,'
A:A science mark 'd hut few in call her own,
Booulo some great moo iscreroise then pfoduce
Aught fo. his counts.% • !scot fir sco.,
Was grateful rout; that witietifiti mind was hairdi
And gen'ral hen cur no hill name essidil'd.

- And. dors not To %tint r'et elteristed atone
Deo rye an equal ineed of Isistirsd ftutse
11.. es not that name above his compeer* rile, .
And clrion ileapplaure tel beneath the s.k les ?
—Ye,! Who like him prepdrec that wrind'rosis !mei
'limit plants sus h gloss no every &sot and Shoe?
Whose Black like his can with the mirror vie.
And give such polish'd shade of ratite die?
None !—Tv R N RS, here rhea dolt uritiiiall'd stands
And, louse *I I *miles Moog the lend,
She shall be those t —her chaplet InnA call bloom,
/said oh tits genito, bresthe its dt,ld perftaiii4!
Truth shall he proud great Tu art's nurse fo Pialsei
Aud save his memory from Obliftsia's mazes

19, Cliarles.st reel, M antliefiter•Squaiei
(Copy.) Landau. July 1818:
do,.—Considering thrt the following Stultiment
might prove intere,tiirg to amity, 1 send it in cafe you should
think proper to publish the same. being corroborated by Mr.
and Mrs. Femora., and fined), of the Jacub's Well public.
haute, where I lodge:- -
Noticing theetiraordinary cure of Mr. Williams, In the Ob-
server, about four 'maths ;Wee, indaied me to send for gbottle
your Anti •Consuraptiv e lllsirof Bark and Camphor. thniteh
it was out expected I could live till the return of the meratenger,
Mavipg ilingui.ned 6 mouths wider *most painful sallernmetino of
the breavt, affectiag the vital organ,. extruding quite through its
y back, and threatening speedy mortification; 'wended also
with maintain' fever nod violent palpitation of the heart : in
!hors, a more hopeless case can scarcely be ilinogiere ; ear, not •
withstanding re pealed blisters, hfeedinp, cuppirri.s. &c. under
the attentive care of the Mary-le-biome Dope:nary, r con.
trimalty heiinne'svene, and wholly deprived of tdreagth, test,
and A;11 petite, l declined daily. The tirsupotion of your facel-
leot Medicine, however, gave speedy relief, iuspired hope. mid
by repeating it agreeable In your directions sad diet merlons.
ass atm, of Ilse age of fifty, as well as ever f was in my
Irfe. 1 rbsill ninny, he happy to acknowledge the FAisszsca
OF Bias ASO Caw isnot' as the means of city preservation s
and may God prosper so valuable a reisedy, is coasedeeratiou
of humans sullerruss.
Tr Dr. Th.mpson, 8, Francis place, W. W EsT.
(opprislie the A-ylum), Westminster-road; Lontiou.
••• Dr. Thompson has recently removed from Templo•pl,ice,
Blot khan's. Fur a further account of this ertrauediretry me•
diciue, see the Advertisement lit our first paha.
At the Nisi' Prises Bar, et Hereford, lb- t. were
thirty-four causes for trial. In two Special Jur?
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oiusei, the King v. Rees, and .ip King o. Watkins,
for libels on Nle,srs. Woods, of Cardiff, ariuiug out
of the late Election for that towo, verdicts were given
for the Defendants.
A survey has recently been made of the road be-
tween London and Portsmouth, for the purt'q'e of
rwtablishing • communication between the Adel ally
and the latter place, by means of telegraphs on the
seutophotic principles.

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