The Statesman.
London, England, 1818-02-19 00:00:00

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Tive dimmery of a ,most: nefarious otter's *pro.
core the conviction for robbery of two re'p'utable
boys, at the Quarter Sessions. at Manchester% has
already been stated in this :Paper. The. alrociamis
transaction which, has thus helot developed, liesAtah.
cited a sensation O.:dread and disgust at 'Masichetter
which nothing but o public investigation east remmite.
A prjrate 'lamination has been goincetosAut it.id
feared that it is chiefly for the purpose ne—Mleeettinft
the useful officer **hose character is nvossinvolved its
this dark affair. This officer is said to have appre-
hended and ,broogbt to conviction TOM people. far
capital oll'encea. and is certainly more wealthyohatt
any in his line nut of London. Ile is also stedevsleltd-Itt
have been a principal caterer for Spies, aid the chief
inventor of the Aloscoo-making Plot. Thesetir-
curnstances will, in some degree, account fur the ap-
parent desire to prevent further exposures ,of the!
police part of the practices that have come to light
in Manchester. The Muntitester 06sercer cootairts
the affidavits or,tke destioed victims, Lea and Hill,
who were severLisom the trap of the police rootlet-,
llindley, by the gratuitous exertions of the Solicitor
and Counsel, oho acted epos • the occasion ; and in
adverting to the uecessity.of a farther public enquiry
into the causes of this and similar cases that have
unhappily occurred (three persons having been coo.
victed and seutenced, one to seven years transports-
lion, on this felloo'i evidence, that excelletit Paper I
justly remarks :—"A private investigation would tend
only to give new vigour to rumours every where
afloat; but so long as the characters of the officers of
the Police are rendered dubious, w blotter by their own
conduct, or the reports of others, it is the imperious
duty of those N flu are at the head of the office, to
enquire miootely, into every particolar, and to punish
wherever pertialinseet‘ is -merited. So much of the
happiness avid winery oCtioe lower cderv, awl. some-
times, their,t. (ilvertier ti4jd,Pres (stitoess the crimes of
the stretched 17augliaa awl his accomplices), depend
upon this classpf mess, that eyes their c good name'
is a mutter of cousitieselde importance to the com.
triunity. For too many fatal instances have occurred of
the detestable Will:toter of what is emphatically!
termed blood-money, to leave it necessary to say,
that it would he an act of the greatest humanity
relieve the numerous poor of this neighbourhood,
from the dtreas) of becoming its helpless, hopeless sic.
' lima, powerfully operating on them, through certain
reports, which are connected with the prosecutitssis
of the boys and two convicts, and with the detection
of the nutorioul

711 k SPY SYSTEM IN FRANCE.

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The report of Marshal 51armont,' Duke of Raw
sa, respecting his mission to Lyons, hag jest appear.
ed under the title of " /.punt ix 1817," by Colonel
Faultier. This Officer was the chief of the Morsisal's
Staff' during the mission, and the facts be 411#1,sses
form serious chews against the Ultreritoyetis,C, lißbo
were the principal authorities its.. the' department of
the Rhone and its environs. It is an account of spie
encouraged—al seditious 'which 'those spies lied its.,
atigated—of ignorance which they had basely se.,
ducetl—and of indiscretion, Which, through their
means, had been barbarously punished. The Ma.
gistrates of Lyons and its envirutts appear to have co.
pied pretty faithfully the example of some high per.
sonagos amongst ourselves, and given them " a Rua-
land for their Oliver." We subjoin a few passages:
" A hand of agents traversed the city and the
country introduced themselves into taverns and
private houses—acted the part of malcontents_
hteathed nothing but violent complaints against the
Government—announced changes and revolt; ions—
and if they could draw a sign of approbation from
the unfortunate, pressed by want and by a thou.,
sand vexatious, they hastened to denounce them,
and to reap the reward of their stratagems."--
o' By the aid of these numerous informers, the pri.,
sons were filled with victims, heaped upon each
other with such disorder, that the mere reading the
prison registers proved to what extent the (constitu.
tional) laws and humanity w ere out ragetl."—,‘ There
were seen in the cells of the town prison, bundled,
of watches, the aktims of vain !tutus and WA
coonsels, who waited for whole months, deprivid
of every comfort, the favour of being interrogated,"

AR BITRARYLICiVsIiG SYSTEM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.
Sm.—l sent yesterday to the Crown and Anchor
Tavern to sign the Petition against this nefarious in-
vasion • f the rights and interests of the Public. sail
also to contribute my mite toward carrying the ob•
jest through Parliament. I there found that bet were,
6 and 6,000 persons had signed the Petition—but sot
half a'dozen, with the exception of the Atati•llosso.
poly Committee, had contributed to the subsctiption.
I can account for this in no other manner that, by
supposing, that as the Advertisement of the Committee
states that only a smell subscription will be necessary,
each individual thinks that in so small a subscription
it will nut be worth while fur him in thrust himself
forward. If this mistake is not corrected it may be
fatal. " The Emancipstiots of the. Public," as it is
very properly called, is uow iu the best bawls, and
in the high road of being effected its the best way;
but it canuot be expected that one Gentleman, or a
few Gentlemen,alone will fight the battle of the Pub.
lic at large against the loisg_purces of the Monopolizing
Brewers. To carry the object through indepen.
dently, the expences must be rather large ; but if
only one half of the Publicans in London, who are
the peoplimost interested in the question, will come
forward with ashilling a piece, a sUllicietst sum will
be raised to makeall safe. -.--
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AN ANTI-MONOPOLIST.

By the melancholy death of Sir R. Citorr, the
B4rotteicy descends to his son, Capt. Caorr, who
distinguished himself as an Officer, at the bottle of
Waterloo, and who is said to be the best quadrille
dancer in the kingdom. This melancholy death leaves
a great opening to practitioners in the obstetric bracch.
Dr. SIM, Mr. CLARE, Dr. BATTY, and Dr. GRAN-
VILLE now divide the fashionable world among them.

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• Ye,teidey thetitd'hlayot held *:Court of Cont.
mon Council- for'i he dfittleteh or grisktil huainega.
The tOttti MAYOR laid bi.foie the Cou'it a !town!
respectloglite.Deitiegh CoMpter, Which had. been
submitted to the CmHt of Aldeitisen, and by then'
dirtsi‘ted In be laid before this Court. The Report
stated IthikatiNetithly defective vote of chat Olson,
the danger OrAting to public ifinfkli froth Ihe .prOrnia-
eunui intertourte df &Dins, dehtort, &e, and It ex.
prersed I hope, that erelong, the Court wedlii 'adopt
some elllktitifineasutes for redressieg so great-an ettl.
The itetiiiht •was referred to the Bridge •linuta
Estates Comitiittee.
• ' •LATe. EXlxt/TlO3. • .
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Mr. CROOK. tos te*gitte notice Of hia
Hi 'submit a toteibn to the Court at their nett mettintt;
respecting some ustpleakeet; earl very iiiirefultirtunt-
stetiree which had attended the eXecolioti of theinoi
unhappy delinquents on Tuesday moron*.
,Ite'fittr
himself hroutirllcs de to in' justite to the public- NI.
ing. which Whimsies very Mitch sharked.
rh. Coutt exPressiiig C Aignnal wish tit' kik ilitt
motioo made, •he proceeded'. • ' • „costas,o
The ex4itutiow had been, en Ttiettlay,
protracted; the unhappy indifidbala net being brought
out of prison till half.past eight o'clock. -While that
of itself was a jest groom! Of complaint, he 1444
;seined to say the'sentence of the w had been ear-
ried into execution In a most disgtaceful
He should refrain at pres'ent irons sit) ing guy thing
more uspeciing the conduct of the executioner', ex-
cept that on the fatal occasion he' had heed tetifity
the grossest negligence alid inetteldion. rail:Wee
evident from the state in whir* t 44 twilit!. of I'll.
minals appeared after they were teti•dolert. 110 had'
last night teen three of the brodk#,N and was sorry to
state that from the marks then•eitliarent; the execu-
tioner had by no means douse his duty,• but, ow the
contrary, been guilty of relpable neglect. The (alb I
repo, Juneau( marklag the neck as ticoal, had left
a deep iespressionon the chin of one of the women,
and had also bees plaCed at the hack of her pearl in-
stead of the ear, al thodld he always done in suet
cases.—(ifkor!)--The filiation of the other Wo-
man was equally depinrible, Doll skewed the want of
proper attention out the putt of the Individual who
fulfilled the sentence el the law. The body of Hatch-
man, the unto' Situate man for (1,1'4011, was another
melancholy proof of this, and whit the Coutt were
told, that torture of such a 'mute haul heed inflicted
on three individuals who hid forfeited their lives to
the law, he had no doubt they would feel it their
imperious duty to enquire into what line of conduct
hid that day been followed. It was will, that view
that he moved that the Coutt do enquire into tko
cause of the delay which took place on Tuesday at
the execution of Mary Ann Jarees, Charlotte New.
man, %Mans Ilatchman, and John Attel ; and that
the Court do also particularly enquire kilo the con.
duct of the executinner on that occasion.—[l/tar!
Mr. Aldertnan Wuon considered the heifer way
would be to send for the Sheriffs. and demand front
them nu explanation of the circumstances that at.
*foaled that awful ceremony. 'l's e !Olefins were ap:
pointed to see the sentetice of the law duly executed,
and they were responsible to the Court for their own
conduct and that of the Under Sheriffs. Ile should
have insisted on On Ir being sent fur from attending
the Old Bailey Sessions, but as lie understood, that
another meeting of the Court would take place to-
Merton, be moved that they he positively enjoined
to attend—(/lear; hear !)—That a delay had taken
place with regard to the time of executing the sets.
fella., was unqueationable, end it was for hem to
say how that had happened, and where the cause la).
The public feelnig had been grnsaly outraged by th,
manlier in whirl; the executiuner had discharged his
duty, for so highly improper had that conduct been,
as to have been evert alluded to in the Public Papers
of the day.—(llcor, hear!)—The Court • els. hound
to enquire into siren conduct in justice to the Public,
and to themselves, and he hail lin doubt they weuld
see the propriety of so doing immediately, for it
ought to be recollected, that though these and other
permits were doomed to an ignominious fate, on se-
count of criminality of conduct, they were lot Ott
that account to he treated harshly, but as humait
beings and rational creatures. —(flear, hear !) —lfe,
ther.fore, insisted nu the Sheriffs attending in.mor.•
r(.11, in their plset, to account to the Court fur thus
delay.
After a few words from Mr. WAITIIMAN, on the
same side. the Court, seemingly much imorest with
th s paiscul occurrence, unanimously referred It to thit
Committee on City Lands, to eiv.ire into the delay,
and itito the conduct of the executioner:
CITY 1'R10,19.

Mr. D totes, as Chairman of the Committee of
improvement, rose to make a statement with respect
to the Bill lately brought into Parlisment, for the
purpose sof raising a sum of noney towards eomplet
the improvements of the Prison in ‘Vlsitecross street.
lle had, toJelber with others of the Corhmittet) and
the four City Representativesi been admitted to a
conf.rence with the boils Liverpool and Sidmouth,
the Chancellor of the Eschequer, and others of his
Niajestv's Ministers, a few days ago, upon the Sub-
ject. The result of that conference was, that his
Majesty's Ministers had expressed their determine-
tint, to oppose the Bill alluded to, unless the Cor-
poration consented to the production of its :venoms.
The motion, the Court would recollect, made by tow
Member for Surrey, for the production of the Cite/
Accounts, in the House of Commons, was filed (or
Tuesday next. The second reading of the Bill he
had adverted to was fixed for the following day.—
The Court would, therefore, see that the Committest
bad but little time to deliberate, hut that time we s
employed by then. to the best possible advanteue, ac-
cording to their judgment; and the result of their
labour was this-- they saw that there was this alter-
tatise only left fur the Corporation, namely, either
ill surrender their rights and privileges in the pur-
chase of the aid they sought, or to shandoo their
just claim upon the i.egislature, and withdraw the.
Bill without pressing it to another siege. They had,
therefore, in their judgment, of the two evils chosoo
the least, and that was the recommendation that the
Bill should he withdrawn. lie therefore moved,
" That the Court do agree with the Committee i:.
their Report, and that the Bill in progress tbsowg'i
the lines* of Commons be withdrawn."
The motion was seconded.

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