The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-09-21 00:00:00

POIJCP:.

• -
rNIONMALL.-Yesterilay George Are cr. under-q
went a second examination before T. liss:ecur Seapi
the Sitting Magistrate, charged with the comnsiasion
of fraud and forgery.
The lirst charge was preferred by 31r. Juba Mine,
farmer ai.d grazier, residing at Glastonbury. in So.!
tuer etstrire, who stated, that en Saturday the 9th of,
September, he was attending the cattle fair at liar-
lowbush. with 21) taco. Is the con. PC of the day the
prisoner rause up to where he was stationed, and ask-
ed the price of tie !vast; witness ausu-rred ISI. per
head, teltitit the prisOtter seems' to think dear, and
olfer..l less. Witness refused that money. and then
the prisoner inspected the boasts aurw, and expressed
his willingnmis to give the price regoired. provided
deponent allowed him bs, a brad " Inckmorey," to
which he agreed. and the bargain wzs struck. Pri-
soner and witness adjourned to a neigh!, :tiring house
of entertainment, where the former pulled out a red
porket•hook, from which be took a bill drawn by
himself. and purporting to he accepted Li. I,:rd v -
count Montagne. lot ffso odd pounds. This be ten-
tiered in past payment, assuring witness that it was !

_ . . . .
I hope your Lordships will yet adjudge this ac las good as money, anti cosslil he cads. il at any
mill:stirs. s Write to he no evidence : I am sure beakers ; he also added, that he had received the /till
it ill not punish a man in the severest manner. tr his Lo:ilship for coin whirls lie bad supplied him
you have hail some reason given .in, why you shoe j with, and he littered a cheque payable its the 'Wrong+
' punish him at all. You will not first Isehete a nan ; fur the remainder 4 the 295/.: but s.l the :suggestion
a eriminal without proof, and then admit a criminal sof witness he drew it on the batikiiigsloiuse of lessrs.
ronstructioss to her furred upon es err innorent anion, I-Ma:art:min and l'o. in I. stslon (that heir g more ,on.
only tis %nitric, quell belief. you "ill not :41. Ice a I ventent to the latter). promising to pay its the money
man gitilly of the ll:ghost crime against the law. I before the presentment of the bill. He then took
when his progenitors them WI V.••: is I! n they eatinot un.Le ; away the cattle, and witness saw no more of him till
g 0,1,1 All, tin,• lit-Inch of their charge orrosili Iff in leer. I the Weans's:l4Y following, w'so'n he liwt him at Mal-
--My real as an Englishman for tar rood of my ; dun fair, in Essex ; he then mentioned the hill to bins.
country, tibli•f:ss me to set my fare a pli :1.1 oppression in . and he assnrell hint that it ss :is as good as Bank sloes,
every iiiii!re; and wherever I think I meet with it, : and evens hail the temerity to sue unit hilts t•• the Mal-
(it matters not st !tether one twat or live hundred hr • don Bank to get it ilihrottuted : tint 04s. Clerks derlin-
Ote oppressors), 1 %k J! be sure to oppose it trills all i eel advancing any money on it billings, the authudty
thy tide ht. For vain will hr the boast of the creel- of their employers : awl at a :ultsequent interview
limey it our constitution. in rain sit tl! we talk of our milli the principals, unties.' was iT1011,41 to suspect
liberty awl fin/terry secured G. its I.y lasts. if a pre- the prisoner, amid arcur,:isigly caused him to lie ap-
redetit shall be established to strip n• i.f teull, it here ['relic:bled.
both law asol evidence are rortf.,-eilly st :voting. MI ! .1 he Fri-otter was taken before the Mayor of Mal-
ian-as, il itl.:l Ilse sr hole niat:er, I tahe this I. to -be don, who sent loins to hail noisier the care of a consta-
derogatory tie thr dizt:;ty of the I'm-Natation, in gene. lily, lint on their arrival at Holborn, lie persitailt•rl the
ral, to the e.,,iiity of this House in Is:std.-11W: I tale latter to take Min to Ow West end of the town. The
the pains :II:11 111411 I i !el in it much greater or ninvli . constable most intrudes:oy did so. an-i even allowed
less than ti,. Bishop ,!eserses, 1 take es rry individual hint to visit a plane lull ut hursr chawiters. Musk lisps.
branch of air charge against him to he unsupported i and tether had characters. '1 he prisoner, t'ius son
by any es Wetter whatsoeser. I think there are no, rounded by his friends, asked the silo; le lit itryesiats
grounds for any pris ate opining, of the Bishop's guilt ' lit a rein witurietial manner, by it hat .tt:hoilty he held
but what arise from priVates ptejtolice only, I think , hits, in custody. and if he had a is arrant ': 'I he sonata-
private pnindice has iitlittiir to do ts an judicial hleallusi in that he haJ not, a ..1 the pri oner then
proceedinrs I am, therefore. for throwing out this Bill. • swore an oath that he wonld not go sink him ass int.!'
The Motion for reading it :he third time being car- further I in fact, he finally got away altogether. In-
ried, 10 Lords made the follon tog protest : : formation of his escape was then sent to this othre,
" We are of opinion that 1.0 jaw ought to he passed and on Saturday blunting Hall me; him its Suffolk-
on purpose to enact that shy isog he giiilty in la , street, !brood'', and hi-might Isiat :se this Ace its ens-
and punished as sorb, hat where web au e telly. By the activity of this udicer a great part of the
nary proceeding is reilletrfl‘i ntt:siarp fur the tre.; cattle has also hero rect.:tend.
terectir.m of tbr State. I Mr. David Davis, of l'yswlch, in the pads!. of

6, We clearly take it to be very strong objection to Liaufair, Cardiganshire, deposed, that on Wednesday,
this manner of proceeding, that roles of law made fur the 13th of Se/o'loler, the prisoner came to hint at
the secnrity of the subject, are of no use to him in it, Malawi Fair, to inquire the price of eighteen heifers,
and that the conclusion from teener is very :strong, Ishii+ he bad there for sale. lie informed him that
that, therefore, it ought not to he taken up beet where I they were fit is. Gil. a-bead, and no cheaper, 'flee
clearly necessary as before affirmed. And we Jo de- prisoner then told him to turn the cattle out, whi,.ll he
sire to explain ourselves so far, upon the cases of tie- I did, and prisoner. after viewing them, toll him to wait
cessity excepted, as to say we do not intend to include aboeit till his return. which was not till the afternoon.
a necessity arising purely from an impossibility of ,He then produced a bill for Il V. the acceptance of
convicting any other way. And we are, upon the ' which was " Viscount 31ontaguc,- and the prisoner
whole, of opinion, that the proof and probability of declared that it was quite a safe bill, stud equal in any
the Lord Bishop of Rochester's innocence in the m .t- part of the country to ready money. Witness agreed
ters be stood charged with, were much stronger than to take it, and the prisoner gave his own note for the
those of leis guilt. extra sum, and also wrote down his address; but on
The Duke of Wharton protested ; because this ex- inquiry being made it was foamd to be fictitious.
traordinary method of profs-edits!: by Kills of this as- i Samuel CLarson, a clerk in the private department
tare against per,ons who do not withdraw from jos- of the Batik of England, proved that Lora Munia4ue
tire, but are trilling to wad. rya legal trial, ought in never bad any effects there. .
my opinion to be supported by clear and rolltinting It was intimated that many other charges wotslel he
evidence; and I apprehend there has been nothing !Drought against the prisoner on his next examination.
offered to support the allegations set forth in the pre- I Several gentlemen had been discovered whom lie had
amble of the Bill, but what depends on derypliered defrauded of cattle to the value of near 10001. each,
letters, Arced roessirertiorrit, and improbable inuendoes. who were at present unable to rinse up to town.
One would think the noble statesman was reason- The prisoner sesi I nothiug in Isis defence. He was
lag on the Queen's case, after having heard the eel- remanded till next Wednesday.
donee of Majocel, Sarchi, Demont and Company. MaeLnottueou-evaray.—lesterday .iledrrer Spit.
Notwithstandlag these convincing arguments, the lard, a very old man, was brought up for examination
Bill passed, and the Bishop was deprived of all his dig- Mate the sittioag Magistrate, J. E. CYN ANT, Es+, on
nities, banishes the realm, and (what is very remark- the charge of intermarrying with Mary Barges, his
able) Isla return into England was not only declared first wife being alive.
a capital folony, bat he was to he incapable of weir.- Ann Spillanl, a respectable looking female, stated
lag any pardon from his Majesty, hie heirs or sea that she was the first mite of tbe prisoner ; bee maiden
resters. mime was illoreadon : she was married to The prisoner

These Bills of Pains and Penalties were the prelimi-
nary mra••.nres adopted by a corrupt administration,
to render inglorious the house of Brunswick imme-
diately upon its secession to the Throne, and sultjAct
to an indelible obloquy, the Act for septennial Par-
liaments, ,just then commencing its operations, which
in the following Session a a o attempted to be repealed,
►ut without rifeet, there being 21; Nlenthert in the
House of Commons against the rep al. and Itsl for
it, hut in the forma number, more lOU lens-
hers held the highest employment under Or Govern-
ment''

in the year I 7f45 ; she produced the certificate of the
marriage, signed by the Bev. Mr. Leo is, Minis:et. of
Bedminster, Souiersetshire: he left her three years
A ell), and l'Allir several times within the last live months,
abusin;; her, and wanting to live with her again ; she
always desired him not t.• trouhle her ; he one time
told her he was married to another wo.i.an, who hail
money in the funds.
Mr. John Palmer, of Oxford-street. stated that the
prisoner lodged at Iris house a short time, when.
through the medium c.f a female lodger, a ....mall was
made between the prig iiiii .1. and Mary Borges, and
his danehter officiated as bride's-maid ; they were
married at St. Dunstan's Church ; hr afteroards saw
the first wife of the prisoner, who informed him of
the prisoner's conduct ; he then thought it his duty to
become prosecutor in this case.
Mr. Oliver, the Solicitor for the prosecution, said
that he had not the certificate of the second marriage
of the prisoner, and in answer to a question from the
Magistrate, relative to the witnesses who were present
at the first marriage. Mr. Oliver said that in a short
time he could procure sufficient evidelice.
Mr. CONANT said, to give him time hr would remand
the prisoner until Monday, fur further examination.
i Mr. Oliver pledged himself to procure further evi-
denee, and the old man was remanded accordingty.
Qracm-ogrAfts.--Tuesday evening, Remits Mor-
gue), a man of shabby appearance, 35 years of age,
late a surgeon of the 35th regiment of foot, but mow
on half pay, was brought up lsy Pople, the Allser,;
charged with breaking the windows of Ole Deft"
York's uffice, at ths Horse (limas;
It appeared in *Adm.*, that oti Tuesday, about tleis
'dock. the prisoner caste up to one of the sentihileifil

I leave these observations for the 4eriont contcsupla-
don of roar reAtlers, anti ant, &e. CAsst
Doctors' Contemns, Sept. 19, IlitO.

lifirL‘sriint., A cctrutsr. —On Sunday evening, a
number of boys were lounging themselves by damming
np the entl of a trough, which formerly conveyed water
110 tile waver-wheel oldie corm will in Sutton, in order,
l,vas they said, to snake a splusA, when the clods were re-
mover. Owing to a weight of water the trough gave
way, bringing along with it a considerable quantity of
stones of large dimensions. and precipitated sit of the
1 b.ivs into the cavity below ; two were killed on the spot,
two others were severely bruised, and are since dead, a
lIIIIIIh Ors in.& most dangerous state, nail the sixth was
iwinred.—A Coroners inquest was held so the
on f uemiay, and a verdict of acciiteutal death re-
! turrteil.—(Moecksjidd Cormier.)
On lionday last, a little boy about four years old.
I had gone to a shaft near a mine In St. Just parish, to
take away his *other and other children, who were
...

topluying near die sionft, hi went their felling in t anti
Imeieter w base. 1e reeurieetile tbr shaft, with a view.
lig MAP 1, asoleittg the ti.tuger diet thoOtikireek bag
O. n it sainnauteiy kappesqll.l4*,lol.loft
isirizz alai he WI tutu tits eltait.-‘ (Train,- Asper.)