The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-05-01 00:00:00

ME STATESMAN.

Willldin Tiinnuttin to be Lieutenant, vice Home.
George le Ilichelle, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Tiramann. 1
4th Battalion of the Line, Frederick Freudentball, Gent. to be
• Ensign, vice Tawas, who resigns,
sth Ditto.
To be Lieutenants—Ensign George Wischmann, rice Llewellin,
s iesigns ; Ensign Bernhard Croon, vice Goeben, pro-
mote.t.
To he Ensigns—George C. A. Von Loeseck, Gent. vice Witch-
! mann ; Arnold Mewl., Gent. vice Croon.
71h Ditto, Ensign John Hunt to be Lieutenant, vice Balch.
Henry Charles Soest, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Hunt.
MEMORANDUM.
The appointment of Lieutenant James Chadwick, from half-
pay of the 2d Dragoons,- to be Lieutenant in the same Regi-
ment, as stated in the Gazette of the 15th lust, has not taken
place.

LAPP INTe I, LieENCE.
CO NSISTORY-COU RT. DOCTORS'-COMMONS,
APRTL 28.
CRI M. CON.

CITRISTIE V. CHRISTIE.
This was a Petition to obtain a divorce a mensa et
ihoro, in the case of adultery committed by the Plain-
tiff's wife.

Dr. SWABS' stated the effect of the evidence on
which the suit was established, and prayed the Judg- '
ment of the Court. It appeared from the deposi-
tions, that the Plaintiff, Captain Charles Christie,
now an eminent ship-broker and under- writer,
was some years since Captain of one of the
East India Company's ships. He married a Lady
whose misconduct was the subject of this proceed-
ing, about January, 1809, at kitting Church, and
had three children by her. He took her to a country
residence named Guttningsbury.Lodge. They lived
apparently in affection until the Lady was seduced
by the Defendaut, who is distantly related to her
husband. Captain Christie was obliged by his busi-
ness to remain in town two or three days in the week.
He was in the habit of returning to his family every
Saturday, and he generally remained till Tuesday.—
Mr. J. Christie was among the society at Gunnings.
bury Lodge, and every attention was paid to him as a
relative in the fatnily. About the month of May,
1814, the Plaintiff's footman informed his master of
some familiarity which he had observed between Mrs.
Christie and Mr. J. Christie, in consequence of which
Captain Christie forbade him the house. In July
after that circumstance, Mrs. Christie eloped from her
husband, taking with her their youngest child, a girl
one year and a half old. She proceeded to Devon-
shire-street, Portland-place, where she sent for a
young, female who had formerly lived at Gunning--
bury Lodge as a servant, and again hired her. A
green chariot being ordered to the door, Mrs. Christie
t drove off with her child and attendant. The girl
supposed she was going to Gunniugsbury Lodge, in-
stead of which the coachman was ordered to drive to
Watford, where she stopp4 at the Essex Arms.—
After remaining two nights at the Essex Arms she
proceed to the Salisbury Arms at Hatfield, and from
thence to the Swan. at Stevenage. She slept there,
and the child slept in a room adjoining. The day
after she was joined by a Gentleman. She told the
servant that the Gentleman was her master, and that
Captain Christies was dead. 11.. drove up to the door
in a chaise from Hatfield. _lle asked if Mrs. Christie
was there, and being shown up to the Lady, they went
out walking. She told the people at the Inn,
that the. Gentleman was Mr. J. Christie her
husband. They returned to dinner, and after sitting
a short time, went to bed in No. 16, which Mrs.
Christie had previously engaged.. Her servant was
ordered to sleep with the chamber-maid. The Lady
and her supposed husband were seen in the same
bed. They tired like man and wife together, and
there was no doubt of the adultery.. The child at
the time slept apart from her mother. Having re-•
mained a few days at the Swan, they went to
Cooper's-hill, Epping ; and Mrs. Christie, in the
absence of the Defendant, hired lodgings at a cot-1
tap kept by a Mrs. Jenkins. She said she was a
• married woman, and her name was Christie. Tikey
remained there 13 or 14 days, during which • Mr.
James Christie, who passed for her .husband, gene-
rally
came from town on Saturday, and remained till
Monday, and tbett returned to Landon. After the
elopement, Capt. Christie consulted Mr.'Wybourn,
his Solicitor, who traced the Defendant to his lodg-
ing at Epping. The residencr, of the fugitive being
discovered, Capt. Christie, Mr. Wybourn, and a!
Police Officer, went down to take away her child.--;
On their arrival at the cottage, Mrs J,,itkins asked
the Police Officer what he wanted ?—The man blunt-
ly informed her, that his visit was occasioned by I,
Mr. James Christie's misconduct in running away
with another man's wife. Capt. Christie found his,
, wife in her bed-room. She did not deny her cri-
minality, and when he told her he had come to take
arty the child, she told him not to take it as it was
no child of his. The child was taken away. Ult-
. der the above circumstances an action was brought
against Mr. James Christie,4ho was identified by all
the servants as the adulteret No defence was made,
and the Jury at the Court of the Under-Sheriff of
Middlesex being called to assess damages wider a writ
of eequiry, gave 20001 which the Defendant paid to
the Plaintiff.
Sir W. SCOTT having heard the depositions, said,
there could he no question On the sufficiency of the
evidence iu support of this suit; therefore judgment
would go for the Plaintiff.
i
The divorce of the Plaintiff from his wife,
a menus et Moro, was then promulgated in the
usual form.

POLICE..

Bow-svadev.—A young man,' of the name. of
Joseph Hodson, lately e'rtived in 'London, "from
Gloacestershire, possessed of a large stock of good
Clothes, fortte putpoie Of-getting empky in London,
for which perpose"headtertited in the newspapers.—
His advertiseftent- Was .Itvistered by a cc/melon' thief
of the nalittsofJohre A4charele, ivehe• had several in-1
terviewi'with filet, udders' pretence Of engaging• him
fOr a friend of his at Woolwich., at a good • salary,
and 'his board ant! Indeng. 'At length' every thing',
\being arranged for the' pretended engagement, Mr.
Hodson Was appointed by' Riehards to be at the
Spread Eigle Inn, in Graceetterch.street, and to
bring all his clothes with him, Which he• accordingly'
did. He was met by Richards : from 'the Spread
Eagle•they adjourned to the Cross Keys public-house,.
at thetaggestion of Richards,. who said the Wool-
wich coach Went from that'inn. At the Cross Keys,
Richitids was. joined by s man aimed Jahn Clarke.
Mr. tledson. war sent out by' Itiehtirds with a letter I
direetildide Mr:Jones, at the Bull end Mouth Inn,
but the Whole'lurned'out to. be a fabrication merely
le get'himlont.of the' way, as no Mr. Jones was to
be found at•the Bull'and-Mnoth. Intl; and•on his re-
tarn to the Cross Keys,' he found that Richerds and
Clarke had•decattiped in a hackney-reach with the,
whole of hit property. • Mr. Hodson applied to Mi.
'MANI; at' the office, in great diitress, but he not
knowing any .thing of the villains, advised-him to ap-
ply at the Lambeth Police-office, being the nearest
tit spot where the robbery stastommitted. Dickons,
'a constable, belongingito.tbe office, observed shat he

knew the neighbourhood of Whitechapel very well.,
and offered his services to go in pursuit of the rob-
bet s. When he was in Whitechapel, he saw a wettuu
whom he knew to be suspected of receiving stolen
goods going into a pawnbroker's shop. He followed
her into the shop, listened to her conversation, sod
found she was offering twelve new neckcloths for
sale; from their appearance he suspected them to he
the property of Mr. Hodson, and questioned her how
she came by them; to which she replied from* young
I man, and took Dickons to John Richards, whore
Dickons recognised as a reputed thief. He pretend-
ed to take him into custody for another offence, and
contrived to get into his lodging, where he :tad the
good fortune to find the whole of Mr. flodson's pro.
petty. After the discovery of the property and the
thief, it was not known where to find Mr, Hodson,
his address not being given ; but by the elertioes of
Dickons and Maidment, Mr. Hodson has been traced
out, and also John Clarke, who assistt•d Riehards in
carrying off Mr. liodion's property from the Cross
Keys •public-house. On Saturday he and Richanis
underwent an examination before Mr. Biritie, when
Mr. Hodson attended, and identified all the pro-
property found in the possession of Richards.
The Prisoners were fully committed for trial.
UNION-HALL—Charles Webb, a boy about twelve
years of age, son of a respectable trcdesman in the
Borough, was brooght before Mr:lierjealit SELLON,
charged with assaulting Thomas Plarner, a sov abed
his own age, son to Sir M. Blosaiia's gardener, and
beating him so as to cause his death It appeared
from the evidence brought forward on this melon-
choly occasion, that the Prisoner and the deceased
had had frequent quarrels, and had agreed- to settle
their differences by blows whenever occasion should
offer. On Saturday the deceased was playing in a
brewers' dray standing in Red Lion-street, Sonde.
wark, when the Prisoner unfortunately passed that
way and immediately commenced an attack on him
with mud, stones, and missiles; the deceased then
descended from the dray, and asked the Prisoner to
strike him. The Prisoner, it appeared, did strike
him, and the deceased returned the blow, and they
fought for about four minutes, when the latter, on
receiving a blow on the temple, fell to rise no more,
he was conveyed home to his parents, complaining
much of his head, and at the end of two heart he
expired. , •
The Coroner's Inquest not having sat on the body,
the Magistrate ordered Webb to be kept in custody
till the result of that proceeding shall be known,
and then to be brought up for re-examination.
GUILDHALL.—Saturday a most respectable young
man, styling himself " the Prince of Scotland," was
brought before Mr. -Aldermen ATtass, the Sitting
Najestrate, under a charge of the fullowing nature:
r-Mr. Kay, the ptoprietor.Of the Castle and Falcon,
Aldersgase.street, dewed, that about a fortnight
since the Prisoner came ID his house by the Mancester
coach. lie conducted himself with great propriety
for some days, hut ot length exhibited symptoms of
irregularity! • lie ,Was therefore more closely ob-
served, and within Ahe last few days his conduct be-
came quite irreconcileable. He talked constantly of
birth and royal,pareutage, talked constantly
• of a meeting. he had had with the Prince Regent, the
• Dune of York, the Emesi-Ghseteslisse,
borough, the Speaker of the Howie Comsat*, mule
' numbeerif other eminent characters, and complaining
grossly of the treatment he had received, threatened,
in the presence of one, of the waiters, that he !amid
procure a brace of pistol* and blow out the brains of
some of the Ministers! •
1 Being called upon by the Magistrate to account
for his conduct and pursuits, he stated, that he had
held a situation of much confidence in a mercantile
I house in
,Manchester for eight years, but that in
I consequence of discovering that he was the actual
son of the Prince Regent, and consequentty the male
heir next apparent to the throne, he had left the
house w: ere lie was employed, and came up to town
to claim his ascendancy and rights. After a good
deal of 'remoustrancerand admonition, the Magistrate
I induced the *unhappy individual to accede to the offer
Of being instantly seat down to his friends et Man-
chester, in default of which he should be under the
i painful necessity of committing him to a place of
! safety for the rash threat he held out against certain
After some explanation bet weep Mr.
• Kay, of the Castle and Falcon, the Prisoner and his
friends, the pretended heir to the throne of England,
the Prince of Scotland, Duke of the South, Marquis
of the East, and Earl of the West, &c. (all of which
i titles he assumed) consented to leave town, end took
a respectful leave of the Court.
Morktow-sotise. Wilts/tin Garcia was brenght he-
. fare•the LORD MATuR, charged with robbine gentleman ufhi,
watch, veal,, 8714 other articles, in Ilishopsisate-street, on Wed'
Iseult.), night. The Prosecutor, a merchant iu the city. domed.
t:tat passing along Bishopsoite-street, about 11 o'clock, on the
night in question, he was stopped by the Prisoner and the
others. He was then hustled 1):, *near very much, mid put is
considerable fear. After surrounding him in such a manner at
to prevent him ,Tlving an alarm, they robbed h:m of his watch,
reek, and other articles, with which they- ran off, With skew-
. eislaseat almsme saseitialea, the party area masa pursued in 411,-
' fermi directions, and the Prisoner was at length overtaken and
letured. 'The seals of the Prosecutor were found io his pollee
;-lien.. He was fully committed fir trial.
How,rracirr.-Friday the driver of the hackney-coach. No.
131, Was chargid with a most aggiavated imult to it Jlic Vaarr.
tlf Attlifo.d.place, and another lady. who had been in cotimanY
with lierst Drury-taut, Theatre, on Thursday night. At the
close of the performance, a very heavy rain faltiag.tht7y hired
the' Prig-tire's coach, and told him to drive to Pin.hco; he
liworehe vroald not gsrthere, and went 'to Clrarles-atreet,
veal-garden, where he remained a cousidetable time, and oil-
lected a mob .by his above of the ladies ; a gentles" to
biking their part, was robbed by some of the mob. Prisoner
afterwards drove then to Ike own yard, where he 1130
extremely insolent, telling them th -y might sleep in Maces*,
for Ire should sot drive them any where else. The ladies had
be alternative, but of doing what he proposed. or of geeing
baud wading through ram and dirt. l'hey did not kaaw
where they it ere, but concluded it to be in St. Giles's. They
wandered about, and with difEcnlty found their way home.-
The Magistrate convicted him in the full penalty of :a. Of One
month's imprisciument.
Manisatiottne-arescr.-Friday Mr. Milford, the coffer
spomlein between Lady Pereeval, the Princes of Wales, OS*
the Mrs, was coramtkrd to take his trial for a most violent a'
mutt ou his wife, and for breaking from the custody ul
officers.
A Mr. Vine, appeared to the sansmons of Colonel West. Go:
vesnor of Langford Gaulle, for a vitaleut assault. It appear°
that Lietttenaut-Colauel West, of. the Guards, the, san ot the
'Plaintiff, ordered a number of ahem rakes from Vistcr. who
livev in Bmld-itreet, suet nue pail' of these calves was sent hole,
to. him. lie was iansurnediately ordered fur Braosela.
his regiment, and forgot to lay for them. Mr. Vister re,,e:nat,
edly applied at Colonel West's, acid gave Mm a great
.trouble; mot when be was •teetneltted on Friday to V't
home. he gave the Colonel a violent blow en the foreloc.o
ran away. Ile was ordered to find bail for his appear. ~,,
r at
the Seasioui, tosake his trial, oa refusing to apologise.

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