The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-05-01 00:00:00

LA IF INTILLIGINCR.

COV/IT OF CIIANCUT. Levi M.
The Loan CliaNCEl.l.ou Weeded the Court yest•P
bat in consequence of the absence of Cosine
lbw *as unable to proceed with the busibess of fhb
4, art.
COURT OF ONO'S WENCH. Aram 11.
Sittings before lamer Term. •
JACISON V. pasta.
This was an action for words of slander, imilleting
*hit the plaintiff had wilfully set fire to his house.—
'llPte words declared spun were—" Youset your house'
There wan sefiver—you ire a bad Character."
*Mae*. either that the plaintiffs house was situated
id a assrs, or that he bad Insured his house against
Ste, es as 'to make the words actionable. At the
sittings after lest Trinity Term the plaintiff had a ver-
vikt fat 101., with liberty to the defendant to move
rule
to
ester $ nansuit, accoldingly, upon motion, a
nisi was granted in last Mishaelmas Term.
Mr- RAMAT? and Mr. Alikaapalg now sheared
easensgainst the rale, and a-Weeded, that taking the
*bola declaration together, the words were well de.
glared *Too ; sad that the Court woold in all events
intend that every thing was right, by the finding of
thiJary.
OCSNZT and Mr. DMIKIWALL contra. well

stop by
The Cods, wfa WM dearly of opinion that the
4plarstion was ill, for want of an averuseat, pointing
words to an actionable ground.
Rale absolute, for entrAng a noasait.
essonweac
ABBADEAN, Aran 19.
The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened Dere
t).is day by the Right lion. Lords HgRMAND and Svc-

Cell.
William Grant, Aberdeen, and George Morass,
simian, from Dundee, *ceased of house-breaking,
upd of being habit and repute thieves. The public
peteeentor basing departed from the charge of house-
'Staking, as to Morals, he pled Guilty. William
Vast haring pled Not Guilty, was found Guilty, but
iisaulessualy and earnestly recommended to mercy, on
aseosst of bibu The prisoner, after a most im-
plosive speecfrom his Lordship, was sentenced to
lie 'tented here, en Friday, the first day of June
est, between the boors of two and four o'clock
*noon. He He is a good looking young man, and we
msderstand has set attained Isis lfith year.
,Mani Ross, gasdener from Handy, was accused of
isinseebesakiag and theft. The prisoner pled Not
OMIT It appeared from the evidence in this ease
that on the night before the theft was committed, (he-
re in the beginning of the month of November last,)
reti
miser bad gone to the house of Blelstk, ozets-
rby George Oordos, Esq. to whom be had formerly
a gardener. That the housekeeper bad left the
hey in the outer door, in expectation of her master's
&solo( home that sight, sad bal gone to bed.—
'Psis appeared to bare been a . practice of her's.
not knowing when bet; Motor woeld return, she
ally went to bed sad left the key In the door. so
Ise might ester wbes he came ; the kiteben,
mere she slept, being separated from the mansion- 1
kens. Cafortusately, Mr. tiordon not baring come
loose that night, and the prisoner finding the key in
tte door nest morning, entered, and being well ae-
qtrainted with the house, west to Mr. Gordon's par-
ker, where, bating forced open a press, he stole from
'if a portable writing desk, containing 11?!. or thereby.
gh was a few days afterwards apprehended by George
Yyle, messeager, at his own house in Huntley, and the
bank-notes were found coocealed la the house On
these being found, the prisoser confessed to the saes-
-sroger how be bad tome by them. The public pro-
Scatter departed from the boase-breaking. The Jury
Irriitg retired for some time, roamed to the Court
'With a verdict of Guilty, but unanimously reeom-
.
mended the prisoner to mercy. The Judges were of
anion, that the last punishment of the law followed
V: this case: but, willing to give the prisoner every
benefit of the question, they certified the case to be
tried by the Court of Justiciary. on the 14th of May
kelt.
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Milk
Beil-SeetntroP-tierrie-Soose...—The ',agleam.,
o *is &WAMimes* bare at length owns to a aster-
i▪ vation to whole, as much as in them lies, the coo•
tisoully incresslug nuisances occasioned by these sinks
of riot, plunder, and all sort: of iniquity, an
wn by
the name of Colts Shops ; and accordingly, on Satur-
day night, warrants were issued, authorising the of-
'Seen so *prefaced and detain, `nas rogues and yaws-
listrin," all ponces found regalig e
themselves in th
*ld Coffee Shops after 12 o'clock that night, width' ,
1,1, parishes of St. Clement Danes, St. Mary-leatraod,
IL hal Covent Garden, and St. Martin-irthe•Flelds. ,
Atubsoop:iroo'cliplo:sodeak on SobyupdaeryrymanordniHngano, a streromagprosestipartylaof ,
tio this service ; and betereea that time and hoe
o'clock titer bad taken ninety-six persons into war*
and lodged them safely in the different wetelPholleau
It should be mentioned, that the Coffee Shops in whieb
these persons were taken were situated in the parishes
of St. Clement bases and St. Mary-le-Strand ; not a
stogie capture taking place either in Covent Gerdes
or St. Martin's parishes, though the search bad hew
there equally strict.
Yesterday morning the whole of the prisoners were
broaght before RICIARD SWIM Esq at the Public
Dike, where they were severally examined. The fol-
lowing is their exact classificatioo :—lne eeateriert.
one Custom-house clerk, one commercial clerk, eae
yews-boy, three printers, three plumbers, five shoe-
makers, seven carpenters, fifteen bakers, westing
common prostitutes, and forty-two tailors!
The comedian, a diminutive young man, with only
one eye, and "marvellously out of suits with Fortosi,'
described himself as William Adolphus Davey, &swell-
ing plAyer, belonging to Mr. Scott's cowpony, sod
lately returned from travelling the country *et
ver, Sandwich, &c."
The Magistrate observed, that according to his own
showin, he came expressly under the Vagrant
and be therefore ordered him to be put by for further
examination.
All the others gar, a tolerable account of them-
selves, under the peculiar circumstances in which they
were placed; and after a severe admonishment not to
frequent such places of evil resort in future, they were
ordered to pay the fees of the office, one shilling each,
and be discharged : the strolling player, too, was set at
liberty in the course of the afternoon.
In the course of the examination the Magistrates
had frequent occasion to observe that the C.gee Shops.
or rather the proprietors of them, were more to blame
than many of the persons who frequented them ; and
he gave notice that they would be indicted as disor-
derly nuisances ; and that in the meanwhile they
would be subjected to frequent visitations by search

SMUGGLING AND MURDER.
The fatal affray, between the Smugglers and the
Preventive Service men, in Herne Bay, which we men•
tinned last week, is occupying the attention of the
II Police at the present moment. The following are the
particulars.
Os the morning of Tneslay last,lli between two and
throe o'clock, two Smuggling gaes were observed,,
feel& ass of the Pteviailk Servings statism votatsr
ashore is Herne Bay, near Canterbury. A late
of armed Smugglers, at the same moment were sees
going down to the beach ; and as the ;rallies canoe
ashore they began to unload them. Lieut. Snow, on duty
at the Station, immediately went down with a party of his
men ; but as they were proceeding down the narrow
pass leading to the beach, the Snsugglers, who ap-
peared to have received some secret signal of their
approach, opened so hot a fire upon them, and kept
it up with such vigour, that the party were completely
kept at bay till great part of the goods were rim, as
it is called; and then the gullies put out to sea
again
and the Smugglers on shore dispersed, without say
of them having been taken. Lieut. Snow received
several gun-shot wounds in the affray, and died, in
consequence on Friday morning last. Almost the
whole of big, men were also wounded ; some of them

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dangerously.
Information of this business was immediately for-
warded to the Admiralty ; and James John Smith,
who has lately been appointed one of the principal
officers at Bow-street in the room of Lavender, was
sent down to the scene of action on the morning after
the rencontre, accompanied by Bond, a conductor of
the patrol, and on the next day, Friday last, they re-
toenail° London, with one man in their custody.
This person, it seems, turned approver ; and, in conse-
quence of hi‘ information, be was on Saturday again
sent down in the custody of Salmon, James John Smith.,
Bond, and Will. Smith. He led these officers to a field
at a place called littleburn, about two miles from
Herne Bay, and from this spot lie pointed out the
houses of six different persons whom he alleged to
have been actively engaged in the transaction of the
fatal night. The officers bad previously procured the
assistance of a detachmeat of light dngooeir Wm
Canterbury, and these having surrounded the bowies.
the six intiiiiduals pointed out by the approver Wire
all taken by a mop de main without the slighleat
chance of successful resistance.
The, were brought to town in the night between
Saturday and Sunday, and yesterday afternoon they
underwent a private examination before Richard Bir-1
Die, Esq. and the Solicitors of the Admiralty, at the
' Pnblic Office, Bow-street; and they were eventually
committed for further examination on a future day.
We understand one or two of these men have very
respectable connexions in the city. We withheld
their names at present for obvious Italians.
•I Another affair betereen about 200 smuggle**, the
neijority of whom were armed, and a small 'ysiLtrisof
we officers and seamen employed on the Coast,
iii Service, took place en • the same simminieptuear
ilythe. 'The smugglers, it is eenjecteredi hail:lauded
some parcels of. contraband gnods from Iwo galKes,
II • when, on the alarm being given, they were atteeked
by about a dozen of the Blockade people ; a running
fight was maintained with great Intrepidity by dm
seamen, supported every instant by increased illtal--
ben: but the mufflers got their goods cleat•olf, pot'
jsued, hidever, nearly three toilet lir dieie' gaol% • as-0
•siiiiiiits. We ire sorry to retro that 11,1,101 MM Tur-
ner received **vent Wiretiale in• the effairrietesi• Istiek;•
shot; hut it in' IsOlikted they are 'noVilisillearnall.
'itesilsaa -was • dingetibudt wooled.
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