The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-08-27 00:00:00

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arafogit alinglll were dleeonered. the admission
of Nicholas Symons as an atteruey, aid. Ms ndsnisolon /
as a 'elicitor; an account between him and his
mother daring hie minority, and other perm
which ultimately led to as inquiry, which termi-
nated in the belief of the identity 'of Nicholas Sy-
mons and Nathaniel Sherwood ; sad is 1819 the
present ejectment was brought against the defend-
ants, who bad been in possession of the property
ever since the month of May, 1802. wises William
Symons died. Nathaniel Sherwood, having beets
drowned two mouths subsequently.
To connect Nicholas Symons, who disappeared in
1782, with Nathaniel Sherwood, who died in 1802,
was apparently no very easy task ; bet Mr. Sashielgb
and others, who bad known Nichols. Symons is Corn.
wall, described him as a gentlemanly young man. five
feet live inches high, dark complexion, light hair,
with dark thick eye brows, which gave him a remark-
able appearance : they also spoke to his habit of biting
his nails. Several witnesses were then called. who
knew Nathaniel Sherwood at Liverpool. ac
the same description of him. Hat the most
piece of evidence was the hand-writing ; ,
witnesses *posing that tse papers produced
verpool, as the writing of Sherwood, was ir
writing of Symons, and the Liverpool a'
elating the letter before given, and other
in the band-writing of Sherwood. One
nesses also spoke to the fondues ofSyntone
Mr. Serjesnt Pieta. for it* defendants, cell
nesses, bnt rested his case upon the improhai
urea of so delicate a tarn of mind as Sy mons. •

himself as to become a hackney-epachai**,
himself to that mode of life. He also or

probability of the papers in the chest having so tong
remained untouched, when they kad been examined
in 1805, and contended that it was a conspiracy on
the part of Sherwood's family, animadverting very
strongly upon the evidence of Boors.. the second hull-
band of Sherwood's wife, who lia.l successively been
midshipman in the Navy, at the head of a press-gang.
an upholsterer at Liverpool, a publican at nanny, in
Suffolk, a fishmonger in Lung-lane, Smithfield. again
a publican in Queen•street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. and
now residing at Hyde, in the Isle ()Might, under the
name of Short. This latter circumstance BOOM ae-
eJunted for by saying that he had become security for
the appearance of his son-iu-law, who was indicted
with others for a conspiracy to effect a fraudulent husk%
rarity, and that he was afraid of the consequences.
Mr. Justice BEST summed up very strongly in fa-
your of the claims of the plaintiff, in whose favour Us!
Jury, after a careful exiyuittation .of the several
writings, returned a verdiyy.
The property thus recovered is of the value of twelve
hundred pounds a year.

CROYDON. RURRnY, Ate. RA.
The snatner Assizes fur this connty commented here
on Friday morning, before the Hon. Mr. Baron Weed.
in the Alai Price court; sad before the Hon. hlr. Jas.
tire ltnrrongh, in the Crown court. The bottiottes of
these Assizes is unusually light; 2; entries in the timer
paper, and but 70 prisoners in the rale °Jar.
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111111NWOOO V. COOS. 13,
This was en action to recover the sum 0f3341. being
the amount of the plaintiff's bill for erecting a house for
the defendant. The defendant pleaded a art-off to the
amount of two hundred and forty-four pennds as an
apothecary, for medicines supplied to the plaintiff,
from the year ISI I to l'ls. The principal part of the
set-off was for tsclirines supplied to the plaintiff's wife
and daughter, both of whom died, and for medicines to

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him .lat the • phi, be had ote knowledge 'chatterer of
thellorimaner. •
The mite not being to he round, and there being-
no •evideace that it was actually a forged one, the
prisoner must have cusped on this charge, bet the
circumstance having made some seise In the
boorhood, another tradesman in Peter-lase, Mrile .
n-
berlv, who had received a forged bt. woe in payment, at-
temied at the examination of the primmer, and identified
him as the person front whom he had received it.
The note in this case being prodeced and sworn
to be forged, and Mr. Timbeely being positive as to
the identity of the prisoner, be woe committed*
take his trial.
"'ATTAIN-0 R DEN.••••C 111 LD STIt A LING. •••••Sillttirally,
Martha Dowd, a young woman about twenty-two
yeses of age, was finally examined, charged a ith steal-
ing Louisa, the daughter of Mr. James Smith, 2,
Queen street, Clerkenwell, a child five years of age.
About half-put seven o'clock on the preceding St.nday
evening the prisoner was seen by a young woman to
beckon the child to her from where she was sitting at
ber father's door ecru., the street; the child went to
from where she - sittii at her father's door

own name was Louisa :h, and
Queen-street, which was a contrary direction to Awry
the prisoner was going. tin 'the prisoner WOK
searcned they foamd several pawahrt,kers finplicates fik I
frorks, &C. supposed to he stolen from other child/Om.
The prisoner was committed for trial.
JILT 11 'tuts" EXIT.
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C 0111024 ER'S IxQuarcr.—A barbarous worrier ina
perpetrated on the morning of Friday last at Mirk.
gate. The victim was an old man, to! 'ears of age,
named Edward Sell, who hail been mail years a pri-
vate watchman to 'thrones Hale, Emil. a eentlemaa
ee-
siding in flornsey-lane, lii,rhgate. lie was *mod
about six o'clork on Friday morning, king with bit
face on the ground, in the tool-hoose in Mr. Hole's
yard, the place in which he sat to watch during the
night. Hit bead was beaten with a blunt and also a
sharp rutting Instrument. There were right mortal
woos& nu his head. neck, and face, and every one of
his ribs had been broken. (hie of his ears was cut to
shreds. His jawbone was broken.
The premises of Mr. Hale err robbed on the night
of the murder, and it also appears that the deceased-',
was robbed of a watch, some silver, aid a few article*
of inconsiderable value. Information was given of
the murder at the Marylebone Puiire-otlice, and the
°tretes have gone la various directions to endeavour to
trace the eelpinstia.
". Witte Asithis I nr-hlll4O. 11.11•141 ay. J
description of the property stolen may serve as a clue
to the diseovery of time murderers:—
" A reward of twenty guineas is hereby offered for
the apprehension of the perpetrator or perpetrators of
the above murder and robbery, to be paid, on consist.
tiou, by Mr. Hale.
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" The watch is an old-fashioned silver vraieh, the outer

Wua&a Ftansay.-.•.Tbe John,
Mw Greenland, loft the I. the
sight spoke the tollowiag ships,
Loader, 8 kb, 75 teas t Eagle,
gain Henrietta of Aberdeen,
*arable of Hull, 10 6sh, 100 taus.
July um—Rachel sad Aloft
dean; Walker, 1 ash t Morons
40 teas; Juno, of 14* 11.1.
of Kirklady, 2 fish 1 *wpm,
Moaner, of Putsiba4

IMARRILa.,
At Ow*. oo the lath MM. I. the
Majesty's Consul, Alesosi* Carsoo.
to Ma Wright. lots of S ell. Berm

DIED.
On the 411th ult. at his mother's
Gloucestershire, of a plimonary
of life. Mr. Dads Roberts. of the Inner
of the Kociely of Friends.
On Friday last. at one o'clock is '
year of his age. William Wilsot,
county of Oxfurdlillsq. •
ritHE ANTI4MPETIGINI
1 DROPS. Ire found efficerions
belle ernpdons. serofukuss tumsnrs
toms of a scorbutic habit. By pi:6l)
storing the healthy action of the blood
system to throw of noxious 1w
ceases that induce debility sad diiiew
Johnson, OR. rornbill; Mr. Monger, '
don; Mrs. Asa Bowen. Norwich,
is bottleset I Is. sod Us. each.
••• Advice in individual eases may .
(by letter) to Gilead Ilona., Liverpool,
of One Pound is expeeted.

By Ma Majesty's Royal let
Midge fialutaria. justly famed
Stages. a Certain Disease. Oae
the taking of cue box. lb a reveal
the Patient of the certainty of hi
thing can be better contrived, more
rhea this remedy. for such as are
to sea. as it needs no confinement
flit pert experience (in an exteusi,
that it will effect a Cure. when r.'r
other methods avail nothing. FI
chronical disorders, this Medicine
wards of 40,000 persons. of both
cured of the shove cruel Disoritent.
years. Prepared and sold by the '
an, and Soap. Surgeons.• at their
Street, in boxes of only is. IM. each.
Two hack doors and lights in the ,
are also sold by their appointment.
at Mr. Ilepburn's Toy•shop, 101.
borough's. 7, Fish Street Hill, neat
sent ; at Mr. Raster's. I.ldlnbwrl'
lin; and by one rrson In every
Kritaiu and Ireland. Advice grail
above, or other of the Proprietor'
oraviaal weaknesses cured, and le
e• Seethe list. published by the

IMPRESSED with a just
a the calamitous resisitit firkin),
runt or a certain malady, coatracted
knows to require a comment. and
happy %knee a series of distressing ►
bin allictions. Dr. EA DY respectful!,
those interested in his peculiar and
cure. unlike the advertising *tapir
criminal conduct of those " who
the ear and break it to oar hope.
sums to pledge infallibility in every
as far u human aid, assisted by meth
tea be applied, he premises e certain,
sent restoration ; having bade
affection, and ils various train of
of his professional studies, and being
erndant soecess which has aecompanied
ment during the course of a long at
is enabled to offer. with the fullest
at once the most hopeful and eneouragil
stances can be adduced illutrative of , 4 seperioritye,
Lady's system, which had been fund to prevaß. ewe
There eminent talent, retained by public institution, lei
- those slur

lei they gave her from where she was sitting at her father's door
Ist important across the street ; the child went to her and s
alifTa Irani fer
eed trom tlidifi• , 'c
the ish o. poru ...
e oak the ,up t
in feet the "told " diking v fast towirie tali
witnesses de. Wit ''
tit", anti desired her to pat ' , 1
tither, to be ' , a, as " ailed to go home ; the prisoner
of the wits her sad told her to hold her tongue; the road Wei
as foe horses. full of passengers at the time, P.M* Of whom notiOnel
Clilii so Wit- the behaviour of the prisoner to the child, from WOO
ohability of a they esepetted she was not her own. and she was lade-
.sodegrading dosed ; she said ihe chill was in her care, and !fiat
a, and to suit she was taking it home ; but the child, on heist
rued the int- Mod, said she did nut know the prisoner, that het
vine. so lone owls name was Lonisa Smith, and that she lived at 2,

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MOINVIENIMINE
ha, arrived is the elyd
N Bth lastest ; the avid
ships, via :-.4)seilse,
;le. of Hall, 19 RE. 1%
9 fish, 100 mil V •
teas. Is the ia14418
1, 4 small; De
rant of Lando~,"
sh, 40 tap ; hs
r, of Alostrose. 4 14' •
D.
the keine of his Whoosh
trim). Eaq. of Mares
11, Surrey.
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s reddedde. in
isikimdtios. is thspeliii
Inner Tedfle, •
is the._seeritiog. ht the*
it, O W
f orton-hease,ia •
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NHS.- or SOlArat
kohl in the removal gawp
ars and sores, and the,.
puril) lag the blood, aid Ng,
Mood vessels. It eedias
humours. and in reed
disease. It is sold by
rer. 136, Oxford-street,lote
h, and all median Taoism, 44
may he had by aP
•erpool, whet thorerZ,
Patent.—LlTll -
styled for Vertex. is et
se small Pill Is a Dose; sig
.at case. will soon combo
his speedy recovery,
lore safe. or more ems**
.e obliged to go jambs.,
.at or restraint of Oldt sag
rusice practice) ins pool 4
repented soli wioa ad ail
For the newsy sad sett
on 1124 not its pirsilei. Up-
h ioces. have nom radically
wens. within Coe list eight
he sole Proprietors, T. TAV-
.4 house, No. V. New Bridge j.
each. duty isseicird. N. B.
ac passages at sight. They
sent. with t•opioes direction.
103. Oxfordstreat; Mt. Dl*
nearly opposite the Miss.
trgis Mr. Nes hery's. Deb-
y considerable town in Gnat
gratis to pees, as 'skies Iks
rtor'n medicines. (Meets mal
I letters, post paid. answeisk
he Royaitolleie of Leak&
ist ant humane sew
igirseted i
frumil tr a manner
iniliiei"
s
ti
and often entwi..,.„: ea e
,sing and almost in te-
pectfully calls the at set
and most effectual
ride of the day. Or the
o hold the word of promise
se.” Dr. Hedy wit' set me
'very description of ease. lid
sy medical and surgical ill
certain, speedy, and
a every species of Sypisers
(diseases. the n*lgary•Yoi
being Ihittersdbw Wee%
lhe
igiscoiestrilavedrancold gielannichookiad.rienottiel:ripproweimetwebiesriactieet,ftsi
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tive of the separioritief Dr.