The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-25 00:00:00

able him to purchase goods for the AnteriL
greater convenience. If a min really warn
!weld he have passed the respectable bat
;Roscoe snit Co., Leyland and Ce. and of
in his a ay, before he could arrive at the di
laths% be, according to the old adage,'
feather flocked together," went to deal wi man .
his owl. heart? In conclusion, he should only remind the
Jury, that here they had not to consider, whether the de-
fendant knew the note to have been stolen or not ; all they
had to bear in mind was, that lie did not prove he had given,
an adequate valuable consideration for it; that he hail
psrti'cipated in the profits with the wrong possessor of
the note, and had thereby rendered himself liable in the
eye of the law.
The Learned Judge then charged the Jury.
The clerk of the defendant's was again called to as
coun tfor the entry of two bills of the same amount
the same number, and the same acceptor, in the bill,
book. He said that by the mistake of a boy, who first,
entered it, be entered it himself over again, and made a me-
morandum of it at the time. He made it the same day the
no.e was discounted.
Mr. Sc. Kl. Err addressed the Jury again upon this point.
He said that in the course of the 3:?. years experience he had,
he never knew a proceeding of this kind after his Lordship
had charged the Jury. His Learned Friend bad not thought
fit to explain this point till he had found the force of his
(Mr.. Scarletes) observation upon it and now he recalled
the clerk to attempt to explain it, away, but he had no
doubt that this was a mere fabrication to account for the
two bills, which only added more to the shame of Mr.
Threlfall.
His LORDSHIP made, some further observations to the
Jury on this point ; after which they retired, and hum,.
diaiely found a verdict for die plaintiffs--Damages 1,0001.
Costs 40s.

lAN.

A the society, 1 ascertained Mt these particulars.
has occurred to me once to hoe the pleasete of as•
in the restoration of a drowned person and sub-
ly, in those very baths, the scene of my accuse-
_ have.laboured effectually upon another body more
.i two beide. These points all bear upon the case, as
.tustrative of my ;mown habits, and thus immediately con-
nect themselves 'with the Subject of the reports so nuCharit-
ablycirculated. •
At the commencement of May last, the evident ill
health of a lad, whom I had frequently noticed almost from
a child, together with the application of a young man on
his own account, led to those examinations upon which so
accusation is founded, but which I considered as merely
surgical. The depositions of the parties sworn before a
Magistrate, being also of this description, are for this rea-
son alone not published ; hut copie4 of them are deposited
with Win. Stott, Esq. solicitor, No. 2fi, Bucklershury ; Mr.
George Wm. Cockerel', No. 59, Blackman Street, South-
wark ; and Mr. R. Sorrell Young, Union Row, Peckham;
for the satisfaction of any who may eish to consult them.
The originals will remain in my own possession, when
thee will be equ•dly accessible, ■t 5, Brunswick Place,
Deptford. I will therefore only affirm, that whatever was
then done, might have been done before any spectators as
with the object of the investigation; that half an
hour afterwards, in'returning from my walk, I was inform•
ed by one of the parties examined, that some of the work-
men had expressed injurious surmises relative to what one.
or two of them professed to have seen (for I intended no-
thing to be secret), and that 1 immediately called them to-
gether, explained the business, and demanded if they were
satisfied? adding, that I would rather die than lice under
such an imputation uncontradicted for half an hour. They
professed themselves perfectly s ttisfied ; and to my surprise,
three months afterwards I find this accusation propagated.,
dewing my absence from London, and giving rise to all tbe
horrible rumours under which i am now suffering.

" Subsequently another report obtained—relative to a
warm bath, which, it was said, I had taken with some
other person—respecting which also improprieties were
affirmed, but of what kind I have hekrd nothing definite.
I recollect taking a warm bath a Year ago, under circum-
stances of indisposition, in the presence of a medical gen-
tleman, who had recommended it, and who attended me on
the occasion, for the purpose of regulating its temperature,
and of observing :ts effects; bat I am utterly unable to
conjecture what evil constractions can be put upon a prac-
tice of daily occurrence, more especially, as in my own
person, on a.fortiter occasion, the absence of medical assist-
ance, ender sitnilar circumstances, was productive of results
of an alarming description.
" The circumstances which have arisen have but too
sorely shown me the impenitence of the things which I have
thus stated, and which I lament did not earlier occur to me :
their criminali:y has been created by misapprehension,
malignity, and misrepresentation; and let any man ask
himself, whether he has not been occasionally in a situation
to which surmise and malice might give a criminal colour-
ing? Unconscious of crime, either in act or intention, I
am nevertheless exposed, by concurrent circumstances, to
criminal constructions.
" Such are the facts: my friends who know me well, and
have known me for years, will not think me guilty. A public
life of more than 20 years, always open to scrutiny, and de-
voted with no common ardour to public duty, upon which no
stain has been affixed, nor moral slander breathed, until the
present wine. t, ought to have some weight in the balance,
when a piaia statement of facts (the only resource left me in
my peculiar eircumstances)on my part, is to he weighed against
the vague reports of persons unknown, untried, liable to mis-
takes from ignorance (to say the least), and possibly influenced
by improper motives, who, upon their own showing, have
suffered a matter of so much moment (supposing them to be-
lieve what they have directly or in•arectly circulated) to rest
for months undisclosed. I Dave reason to hope, that a consi-
deration tpf so much importance will not be overlooked by the
candid part of the community, in reference to accust'ions so
easily made, and so difficult to be refuted. On this ground,
principally, I consider the mere imputation the greatest cals.
nsity which has ever befallen me ; I should deem it far less if
I were a private Individual : I know that Caesar's wife ought
not to be suspected.' and that such a suspicion awakened re-
lative to a minister, is likely to 'Produce results equally fatal to
his usefulness antlitis character. lam in this alarming condi-
tion ; I have eat shrunk from scrutiny ; I ha•e not shunned the
public ; conscious of innocence. I could not submit to appear
guilty. I will not attempt to conceal the agony which this
fearful imputation has occasioned me; although I am sensible
that the greatest, the best, and the purest of characters have'
sometimes incurred it. I can only speak the truth, I have no
power over the issue, I had hoped to have finished my course
without stain, if noteffith jojr—at all events, I trust I shall not
go down finally into my grave with dishonour
" August 22, !VI " W. H. COLLTER."

In addition to the above letter, which Dr. Collyer has
thought it proper to publish, we have only to state that
he yesterday performed Divine Service, in pursuance of his
advertisement, in Hanover Chapel, both in the morning
and in the evening. The crowd which attended was im-
mense, and highly respectable. The great majority of the
congregation consisted of females. Upon Dr. Cullyer's
Entering the pulpit, he seemed in a trifling degree affected;
hut still his demeanour was, as usual, placid and dignified.
The tendency of the pryers and observations were calcu-
lated to afford consolation to one suffering under worldly
wrongs, and impress on the wounded spirit the necessity
of resting its hope on " the Lord, who sitteth upon the
flood; yea, the Lord who sided' King for ever and ever."
This, if it could be considered an allusion to the re-
ports in circulation, was the only one which was made
throngliout the service-, and the circumstance is equally
creditable to the delicacy and judgment of the Reverend
Doctor.—As if in anticipation of the possibility of some
disturbance, two of the principal officers of Union•hall were
in attendance.

PARTS, Atm. 2-I.—Yesterday's number of the Prapeast
Blanc was seised, on the ground that it contains an article
tending to defame the Astthorities of the Department of
the Gard, and to bring into contempt the King's Govern-
ment—(Frout the Etuile.)
A letter, containing a statement of cruel treatment to
wards the female child of a chimney 'weeper of this town,
was last week given to one of the parish officers of St.
Marv's, in order that he might ascertain the correctness of
the facts therein mentioned. On inquiry it appeared that
Joseph Cooper, formerly of Jail-yard, St. Ann's-street, bat
wow living at Barak's*, in Staffordshire, used frequently,
when living in Nottingham. to put Isis daughter Kevina
into boys' clothes, and employ her in climbing and sweep•
ing cliiinnies. He afterwards took her to Lane-end, where
he hired her for two years to a sweep, by whom she was
employed in the same manner, and in other respects ill
treated. From this place she ran away, and is now ram-
bling about the country in a • tate of vagrancy. It may
not be proper to add, that in the course of the mcniry, the
wife of a sweep in this town, informed the officer, that
when a girl, she frequently, under the directions of her
father, wore boys' clothes, and was trained to sweep chim-
neys. On tlid officer expressing in pointed terms his disap•
probation of arch npractice, he was Interrupted by another
female of the same fraternity, who exclaimed—" Aye, in-
deed, what's a girl's flesh better than a boy's, as she msyn't
climb chimneys?" and on inquiry, if the practice were com-
mon, she replied, Why no, but you see sweeps don't
like to lose their customers no more nor other folks ; if
they've girls, they tarn 'em to climb, so if they're at any
time short of a boy, they send a girl in his place."—The
air of perfect indifference with which this was uttered,
gives reason to fear, that the employment of girls in the
black practice of sweeping chimneys, is by no means of
rare occurrence and we deeply regret, that no efficient
means are adopted, if not to suppress, at least to check,
such unbecoming and improper practices.—(Nottingham
Rebiew.)

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