The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-08-01 00:00:00

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.

WAttiViCK. JOLT 30.
Berme Xt. Barn. now and a Special Jail.
*avatars e. TEE ATMEttlit GENERAL.
This was an Woe directed by the Court of Chaweery,
ta try *Wits. Illisidfith Oldham and Charlotte Smith
fire the ta-liefiesites of bk.:Saks!! Oldham, Who died
In the Bast Wiwi snarly rats dace, Passaged oran
iat-
111eNae fintanir. biro MINA, *llea a him was spree
-
ors! ra a wetter in Usiisw,rp, bat being dissatisfied with,
hi till OM Irani ids master. and went to lesissfi
doll. ifs *we stab 11 slight. Wu:Avast wf soineloya
sal (lass, and other articles, which lie deertniaß on

610, end among a pea lumber if Moir *ruins erliii
,dented themselves as retitle* Were the two plidides,
deicribed• themselves, es doightere RI a frit elk**
pbsee deceased. Thp clink% !ifs iliiiillteris but ,in lite
of the,prierdinge in the COO .kf chasceil li
Sat irate as to the legiOnsack Of one Of the .spriethora
yowler whom they claimed. as well as to the.idmitity of
the family connection; and ,for the 444414.4 cm ,of the
Court of Chancery on those beads, this inns was directed
to be tried in Warwickshire, where plaietiffs *titled the
family of Samuelformerly lived. The common ancestor,
then whom the plaihttffs traced their pedigree, wit
ohn While, who married Elizabeth Stoney
-
burst, •. in October. 1714. - Jilin Intl Ellisbett
Wad foul. children, *named John, Thoth**, nichsed;
td William ; the two latter died with jbatie.-7
/the registers produced, it append that Jobb Aka
rn in October, l] its, 0 year after his father'i =Magill
of tiretinte of Thomas's birth, no register was produced'
by the plaintiffs ; but it was said .to be after that of
John's. John left behind him an only son, who was Sa-'
ousel, the penal who died io India withont issue. Tho-
mas had a son, Thomas, whose only children were • the
plaintiffs to this suit. Tbis was the pedigree of the fatui-1
ly, and the registers of births, marriages, and buriele,
produced in Court, were attracted from the pariah books
of Coleshill7 Packingtoo, and Allesley. On the dispat-
ed point of identity, severel old men were examined, who
knew Samuel when he. was a boy, and took their leave
if him when he was going out to India. One of them,
who had lived in the same village with him, and knew I
Nil his family sod connections, assisted bins in purchasing
bis little stuck which he took out with him, and after;
Verdi saw several letters which he wrote to his relative!,
fa Warwickshire, after his fortune had become *over-
fills. • Hefreqiiently sentto Various branches of the fami-
ly, money and presenti, and kept up a communication
With them, till shortly before his death. The, mother of
the plaintiffs hid received gifts from him and had always
dmlerstood that her husband's nephew, Samuel, was *
Celetitta in the East Indies.
The defence on the part of the Crown against the Pre-
sent claimants title was, that Thomas, who was said to
be the second son of the common ancestor, and he
through whom the plaintiffs traced their relationship to
the intestate Samuel, was an illigitithate child of John
the common ancestor, by Elisabeth his wife, before their
surriage, and that be was, in fact, born before. Job ii, who
was called his elder brother. In support of this position
the Crown dwelt much upon the plaintiffs producing no
register of Thomas's birth, although that was the only
.defective instance of the Chid in the whole family, and
it produced a copy of a register of his birth, Which had
been defaced and passed over, by which ittippeared that
Thomas was born in September, 1714, his mother
and father not having been in irriel till the following
"smith. It was on this defect of proving.legitimacy that
the Crown was principally moved to contest the plain-
tiffs' claims. •
This objection was answered by the defendants 'urging
that as the marriage leers 'then in existence *ere very
different from those framed of late years, it was possible
that some irregularity or mystery might hang about the
marriage, which, at this remote distance, it was impos-
sible to remove, but which still might have been satis-
Actorily done, so as to remove any improper impression
on the Jury, or imputation on the conduct of the woman,
if the parties then present could be tidied before the
Court to enter into air explanation. With respect to the
register it was observed, that it was every one's experi-
ence to know how Imperfectly registers were kept one
hundred years ago, and as direct illigliimacy was not
proved, it was thought the Jury would not presume guilt
to the ruin and disgrace of the Plaintiffs, who were
persons of a respectable but humble condition in life.
Mr. Baron &suitor, having summed up the evidence
it great length
The Juiy gave a verdict for the plaintifs, by which
they are decided to be the co-heiresses of property
to the amount of between fifty and sixty thousand pounds.
Mr. Denman and Mr. film were the plaintiffs' coon-
at!. and Mr. Sergeant Vaughan, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Reader,
and Mr. Ecupson, represented the Attorneptiener.il fur
the Crown.

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a charged witliTaylng used threats,
,ptovoke buntg fight o.due) .
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. attended lay Ili r. Am,itt-taiiis eOtntrela
Mr. Dela' mere 'hated, that he bad been followed in the
streets by the defendant ciliett a coward by hire. and
thrsliteoesd to be phateile all
.paite Of the them ; in ad-
flitlOti wifiell insulting. treatment, lie ii4d lb iotalileia
Of tb ' violence of the defeedint to another tiny. Hi
(Mr. firiere), toot Islitig applied to his Lordship coil
the **lions day; on the Subject of the prOiochilon to
fight, went to the house of the litly who aeMiabitehlial
hits, arid Just Ai he ttii iiiteithe, Elie definda'nt dp•
preached, desired hien not foto ti; a'ott biked hitli b
adiamiglti,
the collar front the paste to the Art,* TIO aII .
lion did not, however, prevent ilia *Oda ' f
his objeet of eaterlie the home.
Mr. Jeikins admitted that he hid iiidenessited trot
vent the toroptairiant from entering the lidri
The lady was the wife of a naval olfieer„tehO wet surd it ad,
lid by whom she had severat children, and alto wa' his
most, intimate friend. The complainant hal Koine! .at-
case to the lady's house, in his profesisiouil cbarecfer,
*as now constantly there, and slept there three times a
week, although be Was a married man, and had a Wife
And four children, whom lie left in distreis.
Mr. ALLer desired it should be understood that the
complainant, who slept in the lady's house, Wail quite a
stranger to her husband.
Mr. Delantese did not at all address himself to that
part of the retaliatory accusation which charged him
with the crime of seduction, but said' be was ready to
answer for his cooduct whenever he *at lege!!y called
upon to answer.
After some further conversation,
The Lotto hlavoit said, that however immoral the con-
nection thight be hrtwren the lady and the complainant,
and whatever his (the Lord dlayor's)opiuion might be of
the case, the defendant conld not be allowed to commit
a breach of the peace. littler all the circumstances of
the ease, hoerever, Mr. Jectki nes own recognizance would
104mtleint.
The defendant accordingly entered into a recognizance
tor 1001. to keep the peace.
. MaaLnortoven•Sreeer.— Yesterday. J. Tolley was
brought up, charged on suspicion of being one of a par-
ty that had committed a burglar.' the night previ..ne.
It appeared from the evidence of watchinao, that as
he WAS going round his beat, in Piccadilly, to cry the
hour of twelve, he obierved two individuals walk arm in
arm out from Mr. Gkiesop's house, tallow-chandler, cor-
ner of Duke-etteet. Shortly after they were, gone, he
perceived they had left the street-door standing a little
open. tie immediately procured another Watch's' in, and
they two entered the house, when they found in the pipi-
sage, a dark lantelm, an iron crow-bar, and lone large
bags, one within the other. It *as ascertained that the
thieves had entered the next house, which is not occu-
pies!, and forced their way into Mr. Gloesop's premiere,
throngh the cock-loft. It is supposed they were dis•
turtled by the watchinn trying the hour, for no proper-
ty.lind been taken or disturbed. lYitness had seen the
prisoner loitering about; and thought it proper to take
Win into charge.
Mr. Glossop said, no one resided in his house, and the
warehouse was closed at nine o'clock. .

The prisoner said, he ha 1 come from Twickenham ;
but giving an unsatisfactory account as to wh re he was
going,
Mr. Roe, the Magistrate, ordered him to be remanded.
TOWN-used.. SOUTOWARt.—.I decent looking fern dp,
Sarah baud,* was brought up yesterday far final ex.
atuinmion before Mr. Alderman WOOD, on a charge of
shopliftia g.
The prisoner, whose person was well known at the
shop of Mr. Jones, linen-draper, 137, High-street, Do-
rough, from her having been frequently there of late
making trifling purchases, came to the shop again on
Wednesday morning last, and desired to be shown some
lace. Thomas Woolcot, the shopman who attended her,
caw her secrete one piece of lace of about six yards, but
continued 'hewing her other pieces as she desired, with-
out mentioning the theft, intending to atop her before
she went out of the shop. Another of the shopwen,
named Henry, who had also been watching her at a lit-
tle distance, had observed her take a piece of lace, and
without interrupting her dealing with Woolcot, sent out
for Reeve, the alarshalman, who took her into custody,
and upos searching her the two pieces of lace were found
in her possession. A female, whom J. Kinsey, the officer,
tutored for the purpose, was turned into the lock-up room
to her in the character of a fellow prisoner, who in less
than an hour learnt her whole history. and communicat-
ed to the officers, that she was the wife of a labouring man
in the employment of Mr. Len is, a farmer, on Dulivich
common, and that the whale family lived in a sort of gyp-
sey tent in Rye-lane, Peckham. Kinsey, Reeve, and
one of the sitoptnen set off immediately to Peckham, and af-
ter a longsearch found the tent in Clay-lane, between Peck-
ham and Norwood. It wasa tolerably large one, erected on
slope atone end of a corn-held, and its eotrance guarded
by two strong dogs, who were chained to stakes driven
into the ground, one on each side. Two donkeys chain-
ed by the leg were grazing on the spot. On sight of
the party, the dogs showed great violence, backed fit-
riously, and seemed prepared to defend the entrance. It
was, therefore, deemed most prudent to attack in the
rear. The stakes to which the tent was fastened were
quickly drawn, the tarpaulin removed, and the Whole
residence expo:led, and the dogs thus set at liberty, were
quickly pot to Hight. in the tent were the prisoner's
three children (girls), the eldest about ten years old ;
box, and the donkeys' panniers, which, on searching,
were found to contain 31 pieces of lace, all of which were
identified by the shopman as 'the property a Mr. Jones,
and had his private shop-Merk upon them. The family
stock of cash, amounting to nearly eight pseuds, was
also found in one of the pennieri.
The property found Was prodiused yesterday before the
Magistrate by the two officers.
The prisoner's defence was, that site had purchased
the lace, and she appealed to the shopmen whether she
had not laid oat mach money at different times?
Mr. Jones replied, that the utmost she had ever laid
out at one time was 18s. ' • but that her parehasee generally
were very trilling, end added, thit the property found
had his private mark upon it, athl the
_Serer steered
any to go out of the shop so marked.
Mr. Marra:hit Wools considered a sufficient case had
been made ant to warrant him in 'committing the pri•
saner, and she was resostnded till to-morrow (this day),
that all the parties might attended, ami be bound over
to prosecute.

An Act lately passed for debiting the conveyance of '
punengers between omit 13iisain and trtitand, directs
%at the number of passenger* in conitiatie stridlig tee;
eels shall not exceed 10 for We am, or Al
for vessels under NO; and in vessels Oceanid Pir carry.
tag pasinngert, the neither ii limbed to ltv6 Watt per-
uke (inelniting the etiar) for eoiry &OF idol. Steens-
limits and King', ships are mien:Tied ftbi Ash rtigula-
thin
tilittiaa, JUit te.—An ;Asada &Nitta !minuet/us
teleseoPel hiring tattia 61i, 0,46 ttie otihr duly
-ey the Velebotila, tar tliohgtity irerrife,ll fat% iiteep in
tir cabin and the pietiet tnagettifei trips dews
iiier before he awake; iihicli ttakkettied i tip It elf
egrlikchrlig tfte place from Web bi set
out.—(Dundee 4filtertiOr.li • •

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Corer or ROVES. itglitailalD IN New Sousa
Watts.--On the 2d of ArOgitift, Mr. linoaker re•dis-
teMPOC4- is.Geibioithl ikbleditai cdeadt.4 Ilthitlie, frblbb..
diab excited .89 Itonat splice. end from whiblt It Opgetees:
Ow else revolted*, of this *oust i* 1.204 41k11)9 PlK*l'.
ittaati &WO: 4 Illsoomst ems observed is 11Sfs, 1725,.
18%, 159.1 t, *ail tslB i gad by a comparison *foil, Oros*
!men
olmerratiodsitie !sedated two jell of eleiuseats, !Mils
t:eßerreiVieiltltio,
..ry.ationt *ipso taliusitiut4.ot a 4-
free. In ese e ti, ,t revilieticies for lift tiii
1203,452 days, An: 120-I,' and half the iri:4`ter aid
, 0;3412191 anti 0044titt. Ith thele ail.; M. &telt.
total/R&M Ofibiltietidei bf the noliet fOr 18122. Re i'n.
pounced that be ffhglktitl hatient bf its Whig Vibe to Si.
reel; ii inn as Were Jahe it Modkt be extrethdly fate 4
aad atlayi heir Ale botlion, seed let the month* Julie h
would set at the same time with the sun. He addelli
hot Sever, '• that in south tititede.34 degrees, the comet;
in the beginning of June, would be elevated ti degrees
abort the *orison at annset, and. would then teas britht
as a gar a the fourth magnitude." Our readers menace
fail') retusric the singularity of the eirrninstauce, that
Mr. Rtuniter, who accompanied Sir T. Brisbane to ilovt
South Wslet.atwald hares 4o:is-fir:A this comet on the
2d of Juite, MI. at- tatatmiti; to 33 degrees 41 miuutes
45 sec. of south latitude.

Cetwavee's Isteerter.—Wednesday everAng an inqui!
sitiort weit bekl at. Mlddletett Hospital, before TRollalt
Stirling, HST on the batty of Mr. Ullbert D'ortion, aged
laste forinxtn to Mrs. Hood, baker, James-street,
Coviatittftlea.
John -0 tki fOdged at No. 3, Jamesatreet ; deeei!.
id and a man pawed White slept is the same room.
About twelve o'clock on Saturday- night -the deceased
teas
.brought home by White; be Wes well in health;
but tipsy, and went up stairs without assistance. Wit-
ness and the othte man in a Sew tuinntes afterwards took
a light and went lAthe rtiOin ; on entering deeessed was
at the din IoW, reel sick; White un leeised
bias to (sea ; they then fell asleep, and wire shortly after
alarmed by their landlady, Mrs. HOod, coming up ;
on awaking, they found the Matisse open, and
deceased missing. IVituesi and %Visite instantly repaired
to the yard, and there saw the deceased lying on Isis
back ; be was alive. groaned very mud, but never spot:
A surgeon. was sent foe, who lanced deeesset's left arm,
but no blood issued; there was no external injury except
on the right elbote ; he was conveyed to Middlesex
Hospital, where he expired in about two hones. The
deceased bad fallen a height of 40 feet.
Mr. Stephen Clark, house surge.:n of int Hos-
pital, examined deceased, and discovered tile. right arm
&allured externally: band since opened the head and
chest, and found the liver rupturetl, al .o an effusion of
blood in the abdomen occasioned by the rupture. Ve
tlict---3, et 'dental Death.

Bllrrit.—Ou the 30th ult., at Thornton-ltestu, 'war en)) -
doa, the %vireo( J. Ittid, Esq., Of • sot.

MARRlED.—Yesterday, it St. George's, Rloontshurv,
Frederick 19n4d, Esq. of Cardiff. to Mary, citagli ter of W.
Crisrshey, Esq.. f Stoke Newingtoi.
Yesterday, at ht. Margaret's, Westminster. iftnry Yotior„
Esq of Essez-street, to Maria, eldest daughter of the late
F. Flailgate, Esq.
Oa the Slat ult.. Henry Birkbeck, Eiq., bicker. of Lynn.
Norfolk, to Elizabeth Lucy, youngest daughter of the late
R. Barclay, Esq., of Clapham-common, Surrey.

RADY re-pcctfulls calls_ the atiention of those
afflicted, to his peculiar aml effectn method of
tare, and although he wilt not presume to pledge infallibility
in rrery description of case, yet as for as human aid. assisp-
ad by medical and surgical experience can he app.ied. he
promises a speedy and pernianaut restoration.—Dr. E. is
consolted daily at Na. 3, Dean-street, Soho. by patients of
both sexes. Country lett.irs omit respectable lineation by
return of second post.

Y his Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.—LßAKE'S
_RI Paula Saintatia. One smell Pill is a Dose; and
the taking of one box, in a recent case, will soon convince
the Patient of the certainty of his speedy recovery. No-
thing can be better contrived, more sate, or more convenient
than this remedy, for such as are obliged to go jouroties or
to sea, as it needs no confinement or restraint of Diet : and
00 years experience (in an extensive practice) has proved
that it will effect a Cure, when all other methods avail no-
thing. For the Scurvy and other chronical disorders, this
Medicine has not its parallel. Upwards of 40,900 persons.
of both sexes, have been helically cured within the last eight
years. Prepared and sold by the sole Proprietors,T. TAY-
LOR and SoN, Sargeornt,* at their house. N 0.9, New B
ddge-
street, in boxes of only 2s. 9J. each, duty included. They
ire alto sold by their appointment, with copious directions.
at Mr. Hepburn's Toy Shop, 103, Oxford-street; Mr. Dis-
borough's, 7, Fish-street-hill, nearly opposite the Monu-
ment ; at Mr. Baxter's, Edinburgh; Mr. Newb'rry's, Dub-
lin ; and by one person in every considerable Town in Great
Britain and Ireland. Advice gratis to persons taking the
above, or other of the Proprietor's medicines.
• See the published list, by the Royal College of London.

Doentss el ?forests ozor.--tioa.

Thy house, and (In the cup of life,
That honey-drop thy pleasing wife.
SOCRATES, by hie Discourse on Marriage, so 6;-
riptured his auditors with the subject, that the
married men flew to their wires, end the bachelors hastened
to be wedded; and "The Spectator" has atirmed, that the
word " wife" lathe most agreeable and delightful name in
nature.

The sacred Institution, then, of marriage, compasses the
desideratum of our enjoyment ; teeming not only with hap-
piness on earth, but disposing the soul itself to harmonize
with bliss hereafter.

Previous, however, to entering into this hallowed obli-
gation, it becomes an imperative duty, not only to regulate
the passions, hut to cleanse the grosser nature from those
impurities which the freedom of unrestricted pleasure may
here entailed upon It. To the neglect of such attention are
attributable, many of those hapless instances, which. while
they excite the commiseration of the beholder, should also
impress blue with the tear of self-reproach.
Luxurious habits will effeminize the body—a residenee in
the tropics will relax the elastic fibre—but more especially
does the premature infatuation of youth too frequently com-
promise the natural dignity into a state of inanition. from
whence the agonized sufferer more than doubts the Chance
Of relief. To all such, then, we address ourselves, arming
hope—ettergy—museuler strength—fehelty : nor will oar
advances appeir questionable, sanctioned as they are by the
multiplied proofs of twenty years successful experience.
The easy cares of married life are sometimes disterind
by the suspendcfn of those blessings which concentrate the
nuptial wreath--for the female habit is often constituc.maily
weak—yet it can be strengthened, aad deficient energy im-
proved into functional power.
in every case of syphilitic intreslon, as well rn in every
relaxation of the generative economy, we pledge our ability
to cure speedily, and With effect. Earnestly solicitous to
eipel the thireeling caplet trout the position so presatisptu-
musty take* up, we deviate from general principles with
tess.hefritation; and confident in oar own honourable inte-
grity as flambee, of the College of Surgmons, we refer the
sabring community of either Sex (sopeciallr those enteri
leg late Matrimonial life) at once to our houses, where daily.
attendance is given for personal eonseltatiou ; and lettere
from the coentry ere InSmediately answered; these must
contain a remittatice for AdviCe and Medicine, which can be
forwarded to soy pert of the Wield, hoireeer distant.
GOSE dud Co. lit *.V. t3drgedns.
No. Fleet-itriet, London.
Private Both reined the Omer.
Jest phhtlidted (1111ateallt 111(110•0). I. Tux Mao er
Lire, a Mahler Contiesintars on the above Diseases.-9d.
-Heestent; addressed einietively to the Female Sex.—May
be had at St Palerneetre-row ; NO, Pall Mill; 16, .Prinees-
street. Soho; 174, Mgelt-street; Porter, 72, raftoi:st reet.
Debits; donee, 417. Trealsite, biasiow ; and of elf taok.
galas, jiriee ad.

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