The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-11-07 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN

•fIIDDLESEX SESSONS-TRURSDAY.

The adjourned Sessio.us met this day in order to dispose
of the remaining business before the Magistrates.
SILK WEAVERS.
At a very early hoar in the morning the avenues to the
Court were crowded by journeymen silk weavers from
Spitalfields, who cause to learn the decision of the Magis-
trates oo a certain petition that had been presentee on a
former occasion for regulating the rate of their wages,
pursuant to a recommendation of the House of Lords
during the last Session of Parliament.
Mr. A I.l.air submitted to the Court the schedule of
prices made out by a Committee appointed fur the purpose,
and told the journeymen that the same had been ac-
ceded to.

A journeyman weaver, named Baker, immediately voci-
ferated, that the schedule was improperly made by persons
who had no authority to do so, and without being sub-
mitted to the journeymen for their approbation.
Mr. Attar said he considered the objection made by
this person as highly injurious to the whole trade ; for if
he and about 20 more cf the journeymen silk weavers,
could get their wishes realized, they would mislead the
whole operative trade, so as to prevent them from meeting
the masters in an amicable manner, by a moderate reduc-
tion in prices of labour, so strongly recommended by the
House of Lords during the last Session of Parliament.
Mr. Brutton, of 55, Old Broad Street, Solicitor to the

journeymen silk weavers, stated that at all the general
meetings held by his clients, according to law, fur consi-
dering the reductions to be made, to order to meet the
master manufacturers halfway, Mr. Baker might have at•
tended and objected to the reductions, article by article ;
but instead of doing so, he went through the operative
iltraile privately, trying to gain individuals to secuud his
opposition to the proceedings of the whole trade.
Mr. ALLEY said that be was now ready to enter upon
the subject contained in the schedule, if Mr. Baker and
his friends were now present. To this he was answered by
a hundred voices from various parts of the crowd, that
Baker and a few of his associates thwarted the best inten-
tions of upwards of 20,000 journeymen weavers, who were
desirous of making up, in a conciliatory manner, the tem-
porary breach existing between them and the master tos-
nufactu rers.
The CHAIRMAN. after consulting with the Bench, Mr.
and the Solicitor for the journeymen weavers, mtg.
gested the propriety of having the reduced prices printed
immediately, for general circulation throughout the whole
trade; and that in the mean time the journeymen should
meet lawfully. and impress upon the whole of their fellow-
workmen the absolute necessity of meeting with candour
the Mader-manufactnrers, in order to avoid the great
anxiety of mind which they must all have suffered during
the last Session of Parliament; for another application to
the Legislature might, to the operative workmen, be of a
more serious and lasting nature than any private arrange.
merit entered into between the journeymen and their em-
ployers.
The CHAIRMAN then returned the schedule, with the
understanding that it should he printed without delay, and
eppointed Thursday, the 27th inst., for receiving the same ;
by which time, he trusted, all the jouryneymen silk wea.
vers would he of one mind as to the prices which the ge-
nerality of them propose.' to reduce.
ARTICLES OP THE PEACE AGAINST MR. CARMICHAEL
SMITH.—Mr. A voLeuns stated, that on the part of Mr.
mith he had to more that his recognizances might be
discharged. Some days ago Mr. Smith bad received
notice from the Clerk of the Peace that the recognizances

would be estreated unless a respite was moved in this
court. This was therefore the immediate consequence of
the present motion, though, at the same time, he had to
request that the rerognizances might altogether be ilia.
charged. The articles of the peace exhibited by Mrs.
Smith were then read. They stated, that on the 21st
August, Mrs. Smith was informed by her husband that he
had a carriage at the door to take her to a madhouse.
This she resisted, and proposed to go to a Magistrate in
Chelsea. to which her husband seemingly assented, and
went with her, but when they got to Sloane Square, be
dragged her into a public-house, and from thence, by
means of a carriage, to Wilk House, a private mad-house
belonging to Dr. Burroughs. There she was kept till the
27th of the same month, when, by a writ of Habeas Corpus.
she was taken before Justice Park and liberated, and that
now she went in bodily fear, he having threatened to aid.
nap and send her to America.—Mr. ADOLPHUS stated,
that as long ago as April, a deed of separation took plate
between Mr. and Mrs. Smith : but Mr. Smith hating fallen
from his horse in Augnat, and lying dangerously ill, his
wife, of her own accord, returned to his house, and behaved
so ill, that every body in the house thought her deranged,
and this opinion being confirmed by a medical adviser, lie
bad her removed to this mad house, and owing to his still
dangerous state was unable to appear before fur. Justibe
PARK. The affidavit went on further to state, that it was
Mrs. Smith's own motion going to America, and that he
had consented to allow her 1501. a year during her absence.
—Mr. Anommus then read a paper of her writing, which
he affirmed folly entitled her to a place in a mad-house, and
likewise read her own letters to Mr. Smith. The following
is a specimen of the poetry :
" I cannot join in the exulting sounds,
My blood is stagnant, and my heaving soul
Is spiritless and dull.
Oh, my husband !
How art thou changed. I would forget them,
But busy Memory will recall those days—
Those blissful days when Bess could chase away
. Each cloud that hovered on her William's brow.
I will obey thee since thou dost desire
My absence ; though fearful thoughts assail me
And warning voices seem to hid me stay,
And guard thee from thy direst enemy—thyself."
The letters stated her perfect satisfaction with the plan for
going to America, but wished to postpone it till the ensuing
spring, and, at the same time, Informed h,-r husband, that
" she should be glad to hear from him personally, or other-
wise, though she would infinitely prefer the former."—Tits
Chairman said, that it was not for him to discharge the suer.
ties, since he already found them taken by the Judge, and
therefore the recognizances must stil stand over to the follow-
ing Sessions. though at the same time he certainly should or-
der that they should not be estreated.—Mr. Smith appeared
himself, and stated that he felt sure that no cognizance would
be taken next Sessions ; but he was extremely desirous to get
rid of the sureties, for It was always a stain on a man of cha-
racter that he should be bound in articles 9f peace, and more
especially at the suit of his own wife.
THE PARISH or HAILIVERSMITR v. THB Ray. EDWARD Boar
GODOOLD.—BASTARDY.—Mr. Phillips moved that an order of
affiliation made against the Rev. Edward Bury Godbold,shonld
be made an order of the Court. The Learned Gentlemen said
he made his motion thus publicly, because, after the order of
affitiation had been made by the Magistrates, the Rev. Gen-
tleman published a letter la the newspapers, impugning their
decision, and declaring his intention of appealing to the Ses-
sions; instead, however, of appealing, be had since come In
and satisfied the order by paying every thing.—Toe order was
made as moved.

POl.-1 It:
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MaNsiox Hoes—A young man named flay, who is
stated to be the illegitintive son of a pun, of rank and great
property in the comity of Devon, underwent a final exami-
nation on a charce of hating utterei several forged 51.1
Bank of England awes.
No less than live cases were ailtlueed in evidence against
the unhappy MAN by persons all of whom knew him well.
He had been indebted to them in various soms, and it was
' stated that he came with I. notes and turd them to take a
small part in payment front the notes, and give.him the
change. This was dune in each case, and ahout 30s.
lavas taken from each note in liquidation of his flaats.
On-.of the Batik Inspectors proved all the notes to be
forgeries.

The prisoner accounted for the possession of part
of the notes, by slying that they were remitted to him
from the cogotry by his father, who occasionally sent
Ilion money. The prisoner was fully committed for
trial.

Soon after the Lord Mayor and Alderman Venable: had
left the Justice Room, a poor Irish sailor, named Dennis
Sweeney crawled in, and presenting himself before the
Marshal and Chief Clark, stated that lie was lahottring
under a grievous disorder, and prayed that a ticket
might be given to him fur his admission to the Hos-
pital.
After some examination as to his claims on the bounty
of the city, the Chief Clerk desired that a ticket for Swee-
ney's admission to St. Bartholomew's Hospital should be
filled up.
"For Bartholomew's Hospital !" exclaimed Sweeney in a
fright, " Oh, for the love of (100, don't send me there, your
I lonour ! for if I die, they'll change me, and Send we amongst
my friends as black as a coal.
The Chief Clerk, who was astonished at such a charge,
asked the Irishman the meaning of the extraordinary trans-
formation from white (or rather yellow) to black, which he
apprehended so seriously. At tit. Bartholomew's Hospital
the skill of the practitioners, and the attention rendered to
the patients, were such as were not exceeded by those of
any other establishment.

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The Irishman had nothing to object against the atten-
tions to the living, but he expressed his fears that the young
doctor; were sometimes too attentive to the• dead. " I'll

ti.ll your Honour," said be, " the cause of it all, I had a
wife, poor soul, and she rot bad, and I put her in
Bartholomew's Hospital, but she didn't ;:et over it, for she
died. Well, I towld 'mu I'll have her home to bury her.

So they were very civil to me, and they sent her bailie to
me, sure enough, tight screw'd up in a shell, which I
thought very kind. Well, I gotaome of my contaryinen
about the coffin for a wake, your Honour, and .dory
Murphy, says she, ' Arrah, then, Dennis, won't you let us
have a look at the dear woman before she goes ? Yes,'
says I, 'to be sure.' fhen th-y an -crews the wood, arid
we were near all fainting with the smell. At last they
rises op the cover, and there she lay as black as soot, with
a long beard !"
The Chief Clerk, who, with others present, notwith-
standing the real sufferings of the poor fellow, could
scarcely command their muscles, told Sweeney there
must have been some deception practised, or mistake
wade.
Sweeney.—" Oh, it wee all a mistake; but they might
make the same mistake with my body, and I'd wish to
go into the other world the same colour I came here
with, and not look like the devil—Ooo bless us !"
The Chief Clerk hoped the error had been corrected.
Sweeney.—" Oh, yes, they said they had sent me a
Illack Jamaica men in place array wife, and I gut her back
at last; but I hail a deal of trouble first."
The Chief Clerk then gave a letter for St. Thomas's
Hospital, to poor Sweeney, who seemeJ quite satisfied
at the prospect of having neither his colour nor his
sex changed by the treatment lie will meet with.
EXTRAORDIN ART CASE OF PERJURY. —A young girl
named Martha Cauhrios was brought before the Lotto
Mavort and Alderman VIINARLES, charged upon her own
confession with the crime of perjury, and also charged by
the Overseers of the Parish of St. Mary liroolnoth, tinder
the 50th of Hen. l 11. cap. 52, with become liable
to certain pains and penalties as a lewd woman, cans
ing her bastard child to become burthensome to the
Parish.
Mr. Smith, one of the Overseers, slid, that in conse-
quence of the great increase of lotrthens to the parish by
the charges for illegitimate children, and the difficulties of
reaching true information es to the real fathers, it had been
found necessary to determine, when any clear ease of per-
jury presented itself, to make the delinquent a public ex-
ample. The prisoner was brought to bed, and swore the
child to a man named Hayfield, who resided at Bursted, in
Essex. Proceedings were immediately instituted against
him, and he was adjudged, upon an order of filiation, to
pay for the support of the child. Satisfactory proof, how-
ever, was brought forward that he was not the father, and
the defendant ran off and left the babe to be nursed by the
parish. She, however, came back to the parish for sup-
port, and confessed that a man named Laver was the bona
fide father, and that he bad bribed her to swear the child to
Hayfield.
The girl then said that Layer was the father of the child,
and that be had given her a pound note to put it upon
Hayfield. The other motive she had for committing tire
perjury was the wish to serve Layer, who had the first
place in her affections, and a right, she thought, to every
thing she could do for him; but who forgot a serious
promise which he had made to her at the commence-
ment of their acquaintance, the moment she had freed
him from the liability, as he thought, of maintaining the
child.
The Magistrates wished to know whether the suborner
of the perjury could be found, as it was particularly desir
able to make an example of him.
Mr. Smith said the parish would soon have had him in
custody had there been sufficient evidence to proceed upon,
but unfortunately there was only that of the girl, who.
having been guilty of perjury, was no louger a witness;
neither was there sufficient evidence beyond her own con-
fession to prosecute her directly for the perjury. Cases of
this nature, lie feared, were conemen,although (110 detection
and exposure were uufrequent.
Alderman Vascsaaas admitted that it was a flagitious
case, which it would be most desirable to mark with
punishment, the perjury being of a nature peculiarly
odious. The virtue of the purest man might be called in
question by such women as the prisoner ; and it was to be
regretted that no adequate punishment could be inflicted.-
As she bad but one child she would not come within the
intention of the Act as a lewd. woman. It Lad been usual
to proceed under the Act against those women only who'
caused several illegitimate children to become burthensome
to the parish.
Mr. Smith submitted that the prisoner's avowed inter-
course with more than one man brought her within the
meaning of the Act. On reference to the Act, however,
it was found that on proof that she rendered one illegi-
timate child burthensome to the parish, she became liable
to be sent to the House of Correction for twelve months.
The prisoner wept bitterly, but offered no defence.
The Loao MAYOR and Alderman VENABLES repeated
that the case was most flagitious, and sentenced the prison-
er to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for three
months, there to undergo hard labour..
Mr. Smith said that such a mother could not be en-
trusted with her child; and requested that his Lordship
would order it to be placed under the care of one of the
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parish nurses.
The. Loan MAYOR said the law would not allow that an
infant should be taken from the mother without her con-
sent; perhaps in the present case that would tort be difficult
to obtain.
Elmore HALL.—lnformatio3 was received at this office
that a duel was about to take place between Col. Tulloli, of
the Royal Artillery, and Captain Magrath, in consequence
of a misunderstanding respecting a lady. The duel was
appointed to be fought yesterday, at a *short distance from
town in this county. Both the parties ere in the rules.of
the King's Bench. On the Magistrates being infdrined of
the circumstance, Rice, the officer, was dispatched to Mr.
Jones, the Marshal, to apprise him of the intended breach
of the peace. That gentleman, who is also a Magistrates
immediately insltuti'd an inquiry into the facts, the usual
of which was, that the Colonel and Iris antagord-t, both of
whom happened to be within the walls of the prism) at the
,time, were bound to enter into their reeoznitances to keep
the peace for two years, in the saw of 2001. each.