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

POLICE.

UNION HALL, Avavn 7.
NIG %II Te...TItIZ SING N. lILUIABSTIIIt JAWS/.
The Prisoner stool charged upon the infornsa.
ton of D. James; with having intermarried
with him, her former husband, W. Fatty, being
living.

THE auto V. WILIAM( TACIT.
This Defendant also stood charged with having
married Elisabeth Budd, his former wife, the
above.named Elisabeth James, otherwise Elisabeth
Facey, being living. This compound ease of
Bigamy came before the Magistrates on a former
day, under the following circumstances:—
Elizabeth James was bruught up, accused with
baring married with D. James; on which occasion,
Wm. Facey was summoned to appear and give
evidence against her, as being her first husband.
When lo 1 he no sooner presented himself, than
be was himself charged with having married with
Elisabeth Budd, the said Elisabeth Janies, other.
wise Facey, being alive.
The Magistrates, on that occasion, adjourned
Hie hearing of both cases till this day. Abd now
Mr., BARRY attended on behalf of Wm. Facey,
and was heard at some length against the nature of
the evidence adduced in support of the charge
against his Client, which, he contended, did not
amount to legal proof.
Upon this point the Magistrate who'presiled
thought, with the Counsel, that testimony suffici-
ently legal did not appear to warrant his colt.
mittal for trial, but he appointed another day fur
re.esatninatiou.—The Defendant, Win. Facey,
was a military man, and as a soldier ,and officer
bore a gallant character for upwards of 30 years
of steady and arduous duty. Several officers, and
personages of exalted rank, were in attendance, if
necessary, to give him that character which big
services merited. He was ordered to be brought
up again on Wednesday neat, when all the parties,
parish officers and others, concerned in the ptose.
eutiun, will attend.
The second marriage was stated to liaVe been
ielebrated as far back as the year 1795, the Ladies
consequently are not of that tender Age which so
mach enhances this Offence.

The Marquis of Salisbury arrived at Hull list
week to take the command of his Regiment, the
Hertford Militia, stationed in that town.
Yesterday morning a duel was intended to have
been fought in Tuthill-fields, between Mr. H. and
Mr. C. two respectable tradesmen in Westminster;
but it was prevented by the appearance of the
Police. The parties retired to the residence of
one of the seconds, at Milbank, where a recon-
ciliation was effected.
An ti duct unite accident happened last Monday,
at the Gunpowder Mills, lately erected in Casa-
we, Wood, near Penryn. One of the carpenters
was directed to make a small alteration in the ma.
chine that works the sieves, and the man who had
the care of the huu,e was preparing to remove all
the powder under process, but was prevailed on
to let it remain, upon an assurance from the car.
Penler that he should only use a wooden'ttnallet.
Soon after, h,,wever, the neighbourhood was
alarmed by an explosion, and the manager of the
works approaching the spot, found the carpenter
a Id the other wlrkman„ with two women, blown
strata twenty ) a ds frOin the ruin, and dreadfully
wounded. The man and one woman survived
only a few hours ; the other woman languished
till next morning. Another taan and girl, who
were at work in an adjoisiug house, escaped un-
hurt, although they were only a few yams from
the place where the explosion happened. The
other buildings and mills, being all seated in a
valley, about fifty yards from each other, with a
mound of earth between each, received no da-
mage, the force of the es i.losion necessarily venting
itself upwards. Whether the accident was occa-
sioned by the unfortunate carpenter using his axe,
which was found afterwards in a geld of oats at a
small distance, or by a tobacco-pipe concealed in
his pocket, cannot be ascertained ; but from his
confession before he died, it is supposed from the
latter.