The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-09-15 00:00:00

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I k Court-Martial was held in the Downs, on the I 'We have now before us the Act relating to R •
at iDDLEsEX.
The Sessions commenced yesterday at the Sessions
31st ultimio, on the Hon. Henry Blackwood, Corn- gious Worship and Assemblies,
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House, Clerkenweli-green, before WILLIAM MAIN.
mender of his Majesty's ship i omens enti.,
WARING, Esq. and a full Bench of Magistrates.ey,
charge of having caused the death of a master of a 'i
Pro-
Charles Fox was indicted for an assault on Thomas
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schooner, in the Mediterranean, by order. trisoes-
mg several guns to be fired into her. The merchant : 1. That the 13th and 14th Car. TI. C. 1, entitled
Leigh, on the tOth of June last. This prosecution
vessel, it appeared, was going up the Mediterranean, I " An Act for preventing the mischiefs and I
was brought at the instigation of Mr. Lay cock, who
contracts with the parish of Islington for the dust
when Captain Blackwood was coming down with a ' that may arise from certain persons called Quakers,
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convoy, and the usual means were taken to bring her and others refusing to take lawful 3'
and ashes made in the parish at the rate of 7301. for oaths ;" that the
the year. The Defendant is what
is termed a flying
dustman; that is a man who goes about to the ditfe-; to;
and
, course, made more sail. As Capt. B. had to pro- i straining Non-conformists fron: inhabiting hi Corps•
rent houses in the parish and collects what dust he
can, not has ing paid any thing to the parish, and to his convoy against severalprivateer schooners rations,"(usually .teFive-Mile Act;) text
which he knew were near, be considered it im e- ' that the Act of 2
the injury of the regular contractor. The local Act
nous on him to ascertain that this was not one of !to prevent and suppress seditious Conventicle;,"
under which the parish of Islington is enabled to
these vessels, which might intend in the evening to' (usually called the Conventicle Act,) be repealed..
make this contract, also provides that it shall be law-
come down upon the rear of his convoy. He, cense- 2. That all Places of Religious Worship shall he
ful for any one seeing persons thus offending to take 1
quently, cast off a transport he had in tow, went in I registered ; and that if more than 20 persons, be.,
them into custody. On the day mentioned in the
Chace of the schooner, and, with several of the sides the immediate family and servants, assemble in
indictment the Prosecutor, who is in the service of
convoy, which were armed, fired at her, when, Ull. any house for such purpose, without a
the contractor, saw the Defendant come out of a ° certificate of
fortunately, the master was killed. The vessel was, registration, the occupier of the premises shall he
house in King-street, Islington, with .a basket of
then brought to the wind. The Mate of the schooner i liable to a penalty not exceeding 201. and not less than
dust on his shoulder, and empty it into a cart which
:immediately made a representation of the circum- I '2os. for each offence, at the discret'on of the Justices.
was standing at the door. The Prosecutor went up
: stance to the Admiralty, and Capt. B.'s conduct was Certificates to be granted on application at the Quar-
to him and seized him by the collar, when the De-
rdered to be investigated by a Court Martial. On I ter Sessions, and no higher fee to be received for
fendant, using very abusive language to him, said,
;the day mentioned it came on ; but neither the Mate granting them than 2s. 6d.
that not all the men in Islington should take him into
nor any other person belonging to the schooner ap- 3. That any person teaching or preaching in an
custody, and struck the Prosecutor several blows,
aced
and obliged him to let him go • he was, however, peared to substantiate the alleged charge of murder, unregistered house without consent of the occupier,
afterwards taken into custody by' a constable. Thel though proper notice had been given them of the trial. I shall be liable, for each offence, to a penalty
I not es-
Jury feund him Gals ; and its being the fifth time iThe Court (of which Admiral FOLLY sat as Presi- , ceediug 301. and not less than 40i.
of his offending, the Court sentenced him to two dent), upon a recital of the circumstances, not only 1 4. That Preachers in, and persons resorting to re-
months' imprisonment. acquitted Captain B. of any blame whatever, but ad- ligiou;
assemblies certified under this 1 t i c , shall La
James Shelton was indicted for having assaulted judged his conduct to have been strictly correct, exempt from all pains and penalties.
Croker, the Officer of Police, in the Hampstead and that he could not have acted otherwise. 5. That Preachers shall, when required by any
Road, some time ago, when the Traverser was pre- A Court-Martial was held a few days since on
1 one Justice of the Peace in writing, take the Oath
vented from hanging himself at a lamp-post. The board the Cressy,W in the Baltic, on Mr. hitehouse, and Declaration required in the 19th Geo. 111. c. 44,
Traverser, a bargeman by occupation, made an ex-1 Purser of his Majesty's ship Woodlark, for striking
' on pain of pa) ing a penalty not exceeding 101. and
cursion to Hampstead some time ago with an asso. ; his superior Officer; which was proved, and he was not less than Ws.
elate, and after losing by wagers all he possessed, tentenced to be hung. 6. That person shall be required to go more
set up the last stake, his life, upon the cast of a die, On Monday a Court-Martial was held on board than five miles to take such oath.
which his adversary won and claimed by having the :he Gladiator, in Portsmouth harbour, for the trial 7. That on the applicant producing a printed or
Traverser hanged at the first lamp-post on their get- of Mr. W. Hulse, late clerk of his Majesty's written copy of such Oath and Declaration. the Jus-
ting to the road across the fields. The Traverser, schooner Pickle : -Ist, For embezzling and causing tice is required to administer such Oath, and take
with seeming cheerfulness, ascended to the lamp-post, to be sold, from time to time, between the mouthsof such Declaration, and transmit copies thereof to the
and tied a Belcher handkerchief round his neck, January, 1310, and March, 1811, divers slops, part nest General Quarter Sessions.
which he affixed, by the command of the winner, his ,of the slop-stores of the Pickle: and 2d, For 8. That the justice shall give the parties a Certifi-
adversary, firmly to the post. The handkerchief, making, and procuring to be made, in the slop-books cate of having made such Oath, and shall be entitled
however, gave way, and the intended victim 'dropped of the euid schooner, divers false entries of the issues to demancj for the same a fee not exceeding 2s. Gd.
to the ground. , of slops on board the said schooner, thereby charging and the Certificate shall be conclusive evidence that
The adversary insisting on the full performance of to part of the crew various articles of slops, which, the party named has take!. the Oath and made the
the condition of the wager, the Traverser assented, in fact, had never been supplied to them. He was Declaration. .
and again mounted to fix the knots more securely. adjudged to be mulcted, or to forfeit all the pay or 9. That persons having received such Certificate,
While in this act Croker the officer, coming by, in- wages due so him for his services done in the royal and employing themselves solely as Teachers or
terpoSed, and with the cudgel he held in his hand, navy; to be rendered unworthy of serving his Ma- Preachers, and not being engaged in any other trade,
laid upon the Traverser two or three hard blows, and iestro his heirs or successors, in any place of confi. except that of a Schoolmaster, shall be exempt from
brought him to the ground before lie could effect the deuce or trust ; and to be imprisoned in the Mar- serving in the Militia or t:e Local Militia.
second suspension, or die by hanging. The Traver- shalsea prison for the space of twelve calendar 10. That persons produciw; false Cet::ticates, shell
aer requited his preserver, the officer, by blackening months: and the Court farther agreed, that great ir-
forfeit tal.
both his eyes and breaking his nose. regularities appeared in the issuing and entrf of slops 11.. That the Doors of Religious Assemblies shall
For this assault he was now indicted, and after in the slop-books of the schooner Pickle, between net be bolted or barred during the time of Religious
, the case was fully proved against him, he pleaded the months of January, 1810, and March, 1811. Worship.
Lion assault demesere, and cal led w itnessee to prove that - . 12. That persons convicted of disturbing any Re-
!.tlie Prosecutor had first struck him three times be- POLICE. liaious Assembly, or of molesting or misusing any
fore he retaliated,,adding, that the officer had tsot Preacher or Person assembled for the purpose rf
-thewn his staff of office before he struck him; and Religious Worship, shall, on conviction, pay a pe-
insisting, that he had a right to hang himself, as he salty of 401..
13. That nothing contained in this Art shall af-
lost the wager, and it would have been considered
Adair if he had not fully performed the bet. • feet the Ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the United
Church of England and Ireland.
The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty, after the 14. That this Act shall not extend to Quakers,
Clew:mast had most humanely observed upon the except by repealing the oaths is the reign of
folly and obstinacy of the Traverser, in accusing the Charles ft.
officer for an act of imperative duty, in preventing the 15. That offenders against this Act shall be con-
impious act of intended suicide. victed by two or more Justices, and the forfeitures
Here the wife of the Traverser personally address- levied by distress.
ed the Bench, stating, that by the prosecution she 16. That appeals, after conviction, shall be made
was ruined in her little shop business, and her four to the General Quarter Session.
young children deprived of the means of subsist- 17. That penalties shall be sued for, and prose-
ence, the prosecution having cost her no less a sum cuted within six weeks.
than 181.-adding, that except some such irregular 18. That all actions and suits under this Act,
fits or frolics, her husband was laborious and attentive
shall be commenced within three mouths next after
to all his duties.
The Bench became unanimous in the merciful son- the fact committed.
timmit of granting to the female pleader the full 19. That this Act shall be a Public Act.
liberation of her husband, and he was discharged.
LONDON.
Yesterday the General Quarter Sessions for the
City of London, were held at Guildhall, before the
Lord Mayor, Sir John Earner, Sir Wm. Leighton,
Aldermen J. J. Smith, Goodbehere, &c. The cases
which occurred consisted of petty offences.

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Maseettr-Hoesz.—Mooday John Palmer. John Parsons,
and Ann eliee, were charged before the Lotto Mayon, with
robbing the tobacco warehouse of Messrs. Hatfield and Co. near
the Nlinories. A Clerk from the warehouse stated, that being
frequently robbed of tobacco, he was appointed to watch in the
warehouse last Saturday night, when he saw the prisoner Pal-
mer enter the warehouse by a window. The witness immedi-
ately came oat of the warehouse, and went to the window the
Prisoner bad entered, when he saw the prisoner Parsons, who
was their watchman, standing near it. /le desired him net to
move, but from the many attempts he made to get the witnee'
away, as well as to get away himself, the witness was convinced
be was concerned in the burglary, and finding he was suspected
he runaway, but by being closely pursued, he was taken into
custody in Swaa-street. -liinsley, the cons'able, said he had
searched the warehouse, where he found the prisoner Palmer
concealed in a bole, with a bag of tobacco, full 371bs. weight ;
and upon searching his lodgings, another bag, containing bibs.
weight of tobacco. He then took the watchman into custody,
and, upon searching his lodgings, found in his clothes-box seve-
ral tobacco cloths and bags, which had the warehouse mark
upon them. The female prisoner, nine, was likewise disco-
vered trying to conceal two packages of tobacco, which she
would give no account hew she came by them. The Prisenters
were attended by a Solicitor, who desired theta to say nothing,
but told his Lordship the Prosecutor had not proved any defici-
ency of his tobacco. His Lordship replied,
and tha
itt the proof
seemed very clear against Palmeeand Parsons, be comm-
ted them all fir further extuninatiou.
Gntzonau..—Monday. a Gentleman of the name of Good-
mvne, answered to a charge made against him by the Collector
of the Tithes of the parish of St. Gregory, for refusing to pay
the tithes, agreeably to the assessment. The Gentleman pleaded
in his defence, that, having gone to reside in the parish, he
thought it his ditty to entry has family to the Parish ("beech, to
hear Div ine.Service. To his astonishneent, when he went thither,
he found that the Clergyman who officiated was a person alto-
gether unfit for the chirge, not being able to articulate a single
word in such a manner as to be intelligible teeny one. Natural-
ly supposing that this could not always be the case, though, in-
deed, the circumstance of there being only five persons present
in Church on this his first visit, besides the children, atliarded him
little groom! for being 'migraine on the subject. dr. Good wyne
persevered its attending for six or seven weeks, during which
time there never were more than 23 persons present in Church.
and the same inc potency on the part of the Clergyman was
uniformly apparel*. This being the case, and the parishioners
belie, thus deprived of the benefit for which the burden of the
tithesr was imposed, namely. the heaving a Minister to teach and
preach to them the word of God, Mr. G. and many others of the
parishioners, felt themselves not only warranted in refusing, bid
even called on to resist, the payment of tithes. This he esteem-
ed the parishioners were pecaltarly enjoined to do by the Vfillt
Article of religion.
The Worthy"Aldennan (Mr. JOSFIVA JONATIAN Sxffri) here I
interrupted Mr. G. observing, that he did not sit there for the
sake of deciding on any dillerences with respect to the Articles
of Religion, but merely to administer justice on sqch points as
regularly came under his cognizance, according to the establish-1
end law of the land Now, the payment of tithes was a claim
known and recognised by the law, and one which he was bound
to enforce on the application of persons duly entitled to the
same. How far the Cl..rgyman of this parish was or was not a
fit and competent• Minister of the Gospel, it was not for him to
decide. if Mr. Goudwyne Wu) any complaint to make ou
thin
head, he must go to the Bishop of the Diocese, or to the Eccii-
siastical Courts. to whom such matters properly belonged. That
was an Ecclesiast eal matter, and be (the Alderman) was entitled
to view this only as a civil claim, in which light he most order
Mr. 0 to pay the tithe, to the (inmates of which no objection
was made, reserving to him to apply to the proper tribunal on
the subject of his complaints as to the competency of the Clergy-
man, and the attendance of the Congregation. As fair as the
CUM to tithe was cognizable by the Alderman, he was not en-
titled to take the latter circumstance into his consideration. So
long as there was a claim for tithe, it. was equally exigible
whether the Congregation consisted of five or five thausand.—
Mr. Goodwyae said he should pay the tithe, and apply to the
Bishop.

Our Readers Will lament to learn, that two of the
proudest ornaments of modern literature have for
some time been afflicted with total blindness. Wa
allude to Mr. Arthur Young, a philosopher. avti 3
patriot, whose usefulness has never been (Acceded,
and never can he exceeded, hi the annals of Britain ;
and Dr. John Wo!cot (Peter Pinder), the must ori-
ginal poet of the age of George the Third.
SHOCKING ACCIDENT.---Thursday a fine bey, be-
tween 11 and P. 2 years of, age, son of Mr. Weed-
ward; appraiser and broker, met his death in conse-
quence of receiving a wound in his eye at the corner
of a house in Little l'.lariborough-street. lie was
playing with other boys, and whilst climbing up a
post he fell on some spikes, one of which penetrated
through the cavity of his eye into his head. Every
_precaution was taken, but inflammation ensued, and
the poor boy died on Saturday night.
CORN-EXCHANGE, Seer. ri.
This day's arrivaLfif Wheat make a tolerable good supply,
part thereof of the new crop, light in quality, %%bleb is at a re-
dactionof about 3s. and Is. per quarter •; the few samples of duo
old readily obtain the prices quoted. Rye scarcely nt the last
quotation. Barley is. lower in consequence of about 10,00
quarters having arrived lately from the Baltic. Malt keeps it,
price. Beams of each sort aredearer. Oats in short supply, and
also sustain last prices. Flour a ithout variatiuu.
Wheat
Fineditto ........ la 16$ i Do. (Fine Old)
i Rye ..... ....... 6'2 79 :Dots 57 60
Barley . , ..... .. 5t t 2 1 Poland do.
70
67
Malt 9O 97 le Pouliot. at. ......
White Pell (bonen) t 5 82 Rape Seed ~. _ £.ll st 4
Grey du.
'.
Hems . • • 98 100' Seconds
.t • : ......a..--
SMITH FIFILD MA.B.KET.--Starr. 14.
To sink .he Ora}, per stone pf $ll4
Reef ... 9S. '041: to 6s. o‘l.l Head ntenttleilsie dal t
Matfett ..55.• 0.1. to 6s. 2if. Beasts ....: )... 32(46*
Vent .. ..6s. 811. to 75. Bd. I Sheep. ...J.,. I, •• • • 110
`• 17 911
I Pork ....6s. Od. fit 7s. Od. 1 Calves . ...
Lamb ....Os. 6d. to 7s. Gd. 1 Piga • VS
. - , BAY-MARKET..
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Hai. .. ..... 41. 0. pc
.Atl bl.. ss. MI. • .
Clover .... 61. 0,. Od. elf 71. I,ls. Oil.
' • . Straw .... 91. 10,. tad. 'ti. 31. 3,. od.

TNEATRIC AL FRACAS AND Duct..—A fracas,!
which, at its commencement threatened serious con-
sequences to the parties, took place a few days since, I
between the Monarch reig.ting over a certain Thea-
tre, not twenty miles south of the Thames,. and one t
of the dramatic corps under his command, in conse-
quence of a certain Jerry Sneak having inf4?rmed the
mighty Chief, that the individual in question had on
one occasion ticcansped dining the time of rehearsal.
The Chief upon receiving this information, took oc-
casion to expostulate with the supposed defaulter on
this neglect of duty and breach of discipline. The
charge was denied in positive terms. So confident,
however, was the Chief of the correctness of his
informant, that he replied to the deuial by giving the I
supposed defaulter the lie direct, and immediately I
received the retort courteous in the shape of a blow.
The enraged Chief immediately stripped, and put
himself in an attitude to return the compliment—his
opponent, however, entreated he would not tempt
his fate farther, as his strength was by no means
equal to the combat in which he was about to engage.
This taunt, as he conceived it, only raised the ire of
the Theatrical Monarch the higher, and he swore he
would have satisfaction for the injury his honour had
sustained by the blow he had received; only stipu-
lating, that if conquered in the argamentuas
boculi-
num, he should then be entitled to demand the satis-
faction or a Gentleman. This was agreed to, And
they immediately set to a la Crib : the Chief, how-
ever, as his opponent had foreseen, was -obliged .to
submit in a short time to the superior skill of his an-
tagonist in the polite art of boxing, and nothing then
remained but to fulfil the remaining part of the con-
tract. To do this, the parties met next morning on
tinchley Common, each accompanied by a friend ;
the combat of the second day, however, was not so
bloody as that of the first, for after exchanging shots,
the seconds interfered, and a mutual apology having
been made, the Monarch again resumed his authority,
the subject submitted to his allegiance, and they re-
turned to town together in-a perfect state of friend-
ship.

Some time ago, a pond, the property of Matthew
Talbot, Esq. of Castle Talbot, was drained for the
purpose of procuring many re,when upwards of 30,000
brace of touch were caught, all produced by a few
hundreds, placed there some years back.
Two young men at Liskeard, whilst discharging
at old rusty piece of ordnance, in honour of a Gene-
ral whose exploits all delight to ceithrate, had their
arms and faces shockingly lacerated by the bursting
of the piece. Their eyes, bare remained shut ever
since thehtecideet.

MARRIRD.
On Saturday last, Mr. Thomas Hartwell Horne. of Lionbetb
Terrace, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. Millard, of Cor
.wainers'llif._ •

DIED.
On the 12th inst. 4r. Al. Le Mcrae, Lfter a long and palrfal
Hitless. •
lOn the 4th inst. Et Brighton, AID. Begg. widow of the late
Mr. George Begg, formerly of the city of Dublin.

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