The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-29 00:00:00

116 NO 471 LEWESJESTY TO ADDRESS HER
MA.

Aso numerous and respectable Meeting of the
4".bieseholders of Lewes was held on Mon-
ell"7-0-0, ape into consideration the propriety of
owing &Queen ; and, further, for the purpose
direttscting the Representatives of the Borough to
mot the cause of her Majesty against any uncon-
Weipol measures that may be taken against her.
Mr. Wm. Figg, one of the High Constables, took
it Chair, supported by Mr. Wm. English, the other
Constable.
The business of the day was introduced in an elo-
rot and energetic speech by Mr. Daniel King, who
roithe Resolutions, and moved the adoption of the
wt. The motion was seconded by Mr. Win. Elphiek ;
04 the other resolutions were supported by Mr.
boo gig, Mr. Joshua Mantle, Mr. John Martin,
Mr. wet. Smart, Mr. Henry Brown ; and the whole
tizeinessly passed. In proposing the 6th Itesolu-
lA. Mr. John Martin, (a most respectable Member
g the Society of Friends) comtnented in an ener-
reeic manger, on the cruel treatment of Queen
croLive. He commended his fellow townsmen for
their memo conduct, in coming forward to express
their sentiments on the occasion, and had no doubt
het the malt at the proceedings against the Queen
woda en 4 %her complete triumph over all her (me-
alier; “toii thew is one reason, my friends," said
lir. marg., *why I feel the greatest confidence in
thr„pisiso, it is this, because there is a tiod above
who booreti the hearts of the just and the unjust,
gd trip not suffer the wicked to triumph but for a
neon, for the wicked will be tiestroyed in the work
of l:is own heads."—(Lord applaNse.) Mr. Martin
hoped the conduct of the burgesses of Lewes would be
• rumple to other towns in the county ; for he
talk addresses should be sent'from every town in
tit kingdom.
RF.BOLVIIONS.
IC. That a dutiful and loyal Address, be presented to her
s 4 gracious Majesty, Queen ('aroline, on her accession to
or Throne of these Realms, and oa her safe suit al in Eng-
Ind. That this meeting feels indignation and disgnst at
br disgraceful proceedings which have been instituted
'ad her Majesty, to Induce her to resign her inalienable
SO led privileges. and compel her Majesty to line In •
ate of hopeless exile in a foreign land,—proceedings which
Pediment has declared to be derogatory from the dignity
tithe 1.401111, and subversive of the best interests of the Em-
!A. That It is the opinion of this meeting, that a bill of
sin. and penalties. including a divorce. founded one charge
`Adam". when the moral conduct of the hnsband is not
snood to be called in noestion.and in which neither the time
Am. worths piece where the crime was committed is spe-
eded; use any witnesses examined on oath to support the
ressatiew, nor any list of witnesses allowed to the accused ;
re proceedings, which, In their nature. are contrary to the
ken sad spirit of the British Constitution, and in direct
no!ation Orrery principle of justice and humanity.
W. That the following Address. founded on the preced-
hgßesehttions, be now rend and adopted.
ADDRESS.
alit floes leer Majesty,—We the High Constables.
Ihipail‘ led other inhabitants of the ancient Borough of
West WS Wee to approach your M.sjesty, with our sin-
ews asilimMy sonssidedations, on your :tiniest) 's aece.-
Asa ispegals liesta of %ego Roam, and on
see mild is ltirgiesd.

It t silk the deepest regret, we are obliged to miner
our eondoleeee obit oer coegratelationn. and to otter to
your Majesty, ear most heart-Mt sympathy. on the irrepa.
nble•lose 'Mee your Majesty and the country hare sae-
eized by the death of oar beloved Sovereign, king George
de Third.

Neither can we and laugusge to eouvey to your Majesty,
act unbounded sorrow, ea dm death of your Majesty's
nest amiable and Weft! eirgllter, oar best hope and your
Majest)'s last eassoleflen; snatched from us, at a moment
be most critical and distres .ieg In our history.
It is with feelings of higli indignation. that we see the
rifled machinations of an enpeincipled faction, formed
against your Majesty's peace and honour: and, In repro-
luting the cruel and impost proceedings, which that faction
las originated, wesolemnly assure year Majesty, of oar firm
determinallua to resist it, by every constitutional means in
eorpoter.

e learn with abhorrence, hut not with surprise, the sys-
tem ofespionage, carried on against your Majesty, for so
beg a period ; and in the report of a secret committee,
founded on papers got up for the occasion, we recognised a
proceeding. which, we firstly believe, would never have
heel adopted 'Oast your Majesty, bad it not already been
hated too successful against the liberties of the country.
Notwithstanding the unconstitutional measures pursuing
Wind your Majesty. and in despite of every obstacle,
throws la the way of justice by your accusers, we are fully
eterieeed that year Majesty will successfully repel the
ess aedvely spread by your persecutors and dearly
establish that inuoceace. and high sense of honour, which
Ile. incommode with the people of Great Britain, hate never
for a aosseat doubted.
We are struck with admiration, at the dignity and inter-
? Wiry of your Majesty's conduct, towards your powerful
sad asoellass eassaloo ; and while we an never forget year
Majesty's mod rejection of every degrading compromise
NW bus boa broiled against your character, we treat the
Sae is sot far extant, when the virtues, which your Minty
qiiksilwatellring die severe and uncalled-for trial, will be

alyeorlllajosty in possession of all the
Beniiies Mervin to that illustrious station, whirls your
'Welty Is se sulastaNy capable of adorning.
Resolved, Addy.—That the Address now agreed upon. be
engrossed, signed by the Constables is behalf of the meeting.
mated with the Bovongb Seal. and presented to her Majesty
by the eit4f Wafers of the Borough ; and that the Rep
%tires of the Borough be respectfully solicited to ammo-
may diem.
hl..—That this meeting, regarding her Majesty es en no-
fartenate and enmity-treated Persooage. and felog the j
/I wettest futilely for her welfare and 'topple's'. and
jest 'ruse of the power and influence of her parse eaters.
bvreby laetrile/ the Representatives of the Borough. to op-
pie every unjust aid unconstitutional proceedieg that may
be hrought spud ber Majest). to the House of Commons.
7th.—That the foregoing resolution be signed by the Con-
Kahle, on behalf of the meeting, surd conveyed to the Mem-
bers of
er—That the gesteral thanks of this meeting are due to
hit aprigbt lad highly respectable Representative or .t:se
tit) of lend". Matthew Wood, Req. and Alderman. for hie
grimes and mask support of our most graciosta goers
carotin,. and also. for the spirited manner in which he bass
ea sit occasions, advocated the rights of the people.
9th.-1101 the Coestsibies are hereby required to send a
eury of the best Itesolution. signed by them on behalf of the
tufting, to hiesubew Wood. Earl. an Alderman.
room ova taws. CellitallPONDS/IT, JULY 2s.
Yea will herewith metre the result of the appil-
mien of the constablre to the representatives of the
Boreegh Atidtess to her Majesty.—Sir Ororge Shit-

THE STA'

ner declined presenting the Address, on the gtolabd,
that it was prejudging the case! He read his retinal'
to the Conitahies, and then put it in his pocket !!.
Sir .1. Shelly forwarded a written communication to
E. Verrall Esti. Town• Clerk, of which the following is
a correct copy :--

Mareslleld Park. July ft
Sir,-1 was in hopes I should ere this, have been able to
have answered your Note, respecting the Resolutions passed
at the meeting of the 241 h, in person, but have been pre-
ventedity indisposition, and as you require an early answer,
will no longer defer It.
I do not consider it consistent with my duty as a Member
of that branch of the Legislature, which may ultimately be
called upon to decide upon the quern's rase, now in a course
of trial before the Upper Rouse, to take any step which may
appear like prejudging the case • I must, therefore, decline
presenting the Address, and I feel less seiner in so doing,
as it is not signed by a majority of my Constituents.
I shall be obliged to you if you will communicate my de-
cision to the Constables.

I remain, Sir, your most obedient and humble servant.
J.

To Edward Verret', Esq. itolieltor.
The lion. Bart. could not hare read the Resolutions,
or could not have understood them, for it was wwani-
►nows/y resolved that the Address should be signed by
the Cowrie?les in 6(.4 elf of the whole Meiling, and
there were upwards of :►UU persons present ; the Ad-
dress must, therefore, be considered as expressing the
seine of the muijority of Sir John's Constituents. The
conditet of these lion. Baronet's, will probably be re-
membered on a future occasion.

ORIGIX.II. POETRY.

A CHESS PLAYER'S REFLECTION.

Too bad, when their impotent plans and their checks,
In safety triumphant peed ;
When the Ow* too was Rune, not a Piere to perplex,
A Stale-.Vate should thus brat me at Last.

THE CRADLE HYMN,
(A PARODY.)

In consequence of the request this Parody obtains. we
present our readers with the following stanzas. as a speei
wen of its spirit.

Hush! GREAT mute! lie still and slumber,
Troops of Lancers guard th)
l'hitarse gimcracks. tt ithout number.
!Cicely dangle o'er tb) head.
a • • • • • •

Start not at the rabble's shouting.
Trust to me and t'svrt.E----tat.
Never mind old ELD—N.. doubting,
Send the saucy jade away.
Never heed BURDETT or lloaaot•cs.
LANIOTON. BENNCT, WOOD. or Coas
1 will Ham the dirty job-horse,
CaNsING please it with a joke.

Troops of soldier• shall attend you
Hurd and lac'd, and gilt so one.
They shall saliantly defend ”tu.
From the two-legg'd rabble swine.
Hold the Pats" In close submission,
Keep the Raairaas la awe ;
Call Rrroutst the worst SID/TlO.ll.
Yet, observe the Foams of Law !
• • • • • • •

EXTRACT FROM AN UNPUBLISHED POEM.

STANZA sm.
And now I think set. sailing is the best

At see, there are no starring towns to hoot one—
That seal Is troublesome, whlchls confect

By groans that deafen. and air-guns that shoot one.
Besides we know, land-carriage la the lenst

Fit for snrh balky goods, and doesn't suit one—
The sea will make his constitution rally.
So let him sail, for he deserves the p 11).

tor.
Another harmless sport is eastle-bnilding,
Not that which is bright Fancy's serial play :
That genies loses to riot in with wild wing,

Lighting the bleak world with delusive ray.
No—no—What I mean 's formed of planks and gilding,
And is—Why any thing you please to say—
• A Chinese-bridge, pagoda. or pavilion,
Which to be last), at least should cost a million.

The more expensive the better, that is axiom

The first ;—the second—money you must get.
As long as people bear it, you can tax 'em ;
But when they will not, why then ran ftt debt,
To manage this well is the grandest maxim
And the best way to learn is--study Pitt—
And if you hare no war, contrive to make one,
For 'tis the only way to save your bacon.

If that be found an insuSclest drain,
Why yen most rep contrive to subsidize
Some acre-Prince to raise some hundred men,
If not as soldiers, they will do as spies.
But speechify. how 'ma it gimes you pain
To speed so sub, bed then you may devise
Sens apogees AP, stocks or Sinking fund.
Which doubtless will clear an, at the war's end.

A CIUTION TO GR.IrE DIGGERS. •
--0.--
(rlOlll • CORRZSPONDIINT.)
Some days ago one of the most disgusting OCllllT-
rences took place in a Church Yard in the City of
London, which none ht a savage could witness with-
out being struck with horror. On opening the ground
for an ihtenuent, Ilse grave digger reached a main
which proved to emsnain a leaden one enclosed within
another of wood. The wood was removed, and the
leaden coffin forced open in the grave; sad show.'
to behold, or even ' relate, '
brought up with
flesh having decayed)
termed the body out
' it with s Wtion
1 Medea esin was
Into the Bone Eloise
Ipert taken oat of
It is asked by
our readers as are
whether or not the '
by *bat nature
cots belongs?
cannot be tbe property,
was present) or the •-•

,N. _

MURDIR .4? WOOLWICH:

KENT ASSIZPA.

MA I IMTON Ng JULT 23.—Asenis Nes6fte was ladioted for
the wilful murder of Thus. Parker, at Woolwich, ms the
3d of 1620. A separate indictment charged blot
with the murder of Saran Brown, at the same time and

place. There were also indictments imputing to the pri-
'otter the crimes of arson and burglary.

The prisoner was first put upon his trial for the mur-
der of &fr. Parker.

The Comstom SICItORIRT and Mr. CHITTY conducted
the prosecution. and Mr. Artnazws appeared for the
prisoner.
At the first sitting of the Court, an application was
made by the prisoner's Counsel to postpone the trial, on
the ground of the absence of a material witness, hut Mr.
Baron Wow) being of opinion that ample time had al-
ready been afforded to the prisoner to prepare for his
defence, refused the application. Mr. CHITTY opened
the pleadings, and the COMNHAI SIROBANT stated the
case to the Jury at great length, and with much per-
spicuity..
The following witnesses were then called in support
of his statement.

Isabella Johnson proved, that on the 3d of March,
between one and two, she saw the deceased Sarah Brown.
the house-keeper of the deceased Mr. Parker. Witness
spoke to bor. Witness saw Mr. Parker between fire and
six on the same day in leis own parlour. If he had gone
to bed on that night witness could hare seen him, but
did not. _ _

Mary thin proved that she lived next door to the de-
ceased; on the 3d of March heard his door go abont se-
ven in the evening; had heard no knocking it the door;
heard it open and shut; heard a noise about eleven, but
did not know where it was. _

David Brooks proved, that on the 4th of March he was
quartered at Woolwich, and passed Mr. Parker's house
at one in the morning. He stew smoke coming out of
the chimney. At half-past one, on an alarm of fire, he
came to the house; he broke open the door, and went in
—it was locked svithinside, on the spring, as in the day-
time; the house and furniture were on lire—the front
parlour was burning, full of smoke; he threw water in-
to the room. When the smoke was dispersed, two bodies
were placed on the table; could distinguish that one
was a woman hot not the man ; there was only one leg
of the man left unhurt ; a IMIIS's shoe was on the foot of
that leg ; there was blood on the floor behind the par-
lour door—no great quantity—it was then wet.
t:n his cross-examination he said, that there was a
crotv.l of twelve persona at the door when he first went
up—did not see any windows open.
William Lyon, at two in the morning of the 4th of
March, came to Mr. Parker's house, on an alarm of fire;
the door was open; he went in and managed the engine-
hose; the fire to the front room up stairs was extinguish-
ed ; the parlour was smoking; when the smoke had sub-
sided saw the skull of a human being on the flour; not
severed from the body—it was touch burnt. I gave an
alarm; there was a woman behind the skull dead ; her
legs and feet were barns, and her clothes very h •
her head and face nut at all burnt; there was blood
about the nose ; there were 'narks of blows on the head ;
one on the back part ; the bodies were laid on the table;
the body of the man, in lifting, broke into pieces.
Stephen Howard proved, that on the 3d of March be I
was alarmed by fire between one and two o'clock in the
morning; went to Mr. P.'s house; the door was open;
1 fOi a ladder, and broke the windows on the ground and
first floors; broke open the shutters of the paelime ,tusl
',I NI-room ; went into the first chamber, saw a chest of 1
'draws, all the draws pulled out ; they seemed to. have
tdn rnsamaged i papers *ere strewn about alsoldisons;
all appeared in confusion ; the curtains and counter-
nee looked as if they. had been burnt ; the fire there
not seens to communicate with that below; a blanket
Hens fastened up to one window which faced the street ;
went into the bed chamber; nothing burnt there, nor
disturbed ; neither of the locols load been slept in that
night; examined the back door; it was fastened; wit-
less forced it open.
(In his cross-examinatioa, could not be sure as to the
state of the beds.
John Hay proved, that on the 4th of March, at two in
the morning be went to Mr. Parker's house; took the
eagine ; went in; right or ten people there went into the
front chamber; there had been fire about the bed, but it
was out. The fire there did not communicate with the
Gee in the parlour. The bedding was not much burnt ;
[the bed tras thrown out of the window before witness ar-
Lived. The drawers in room had been opened (ex-
mar in the parlour), so as to show what they contained,
;Mid the articles dropped on the floor just under the
,drawers ; there had been fire in the room over the chant-
, that was a bed-room too, and more burned than the
er one. The fire here could not have arisen from
ether of the rooms below ; the bed-curtains were nearly
destroyedi. lii the t e
time.e feta tahne'ris h;
e 1
it. cilt°lut shte shy& evrey bmeennc ll's ni rnju "i
or t ji
g n
' This witness described the state of the bodies more
janicularly, bat not materially differing from the former
iskiesses:
William Campion, a countable, proved, that on the
lei floor there was a box containing a considerable
Iruatity afloat*, some of it marked T. P. M. There was
Go plundering on the premises. The rest of his testimony
Wsimilar to that of the other witnesses. •
illiam Heaven proved that he found in the privy
Fite papers and a tin box, which he gave to tbe (!oro-
idw's Jury.
Adam Reid proved, that he well knew Mr. Parker and
housekeeper; saw the bodies; no one lived in the
but those two ; recognised the body of Sarah
wn ; could not distinguish Mr. Parker ; the shoe and
of one leg were nearly entire ; thought it was
rker's foot and shoe ; saw a good deal of jewellery on
Ie floor in the parlour; the deceased had been a fancy
•veller ; witness knew some of the jewellery before as
lodging to the deceased.
William Raven proved, that he made shoes for Mr.
Parker; saw the bodies; recognised Sarah Brown;
taw the shoe on the foot of the other bode; thinks it
was of witness's making ; ha•l once stretchid that shoe,
so as to break it on eolith side of the strap ' • had no doubt
lof the shoe; Parker's foot was particularly high on the
instep; had .o doubt the foot of the body was Parker's.
William Patten, a surgeon, proved, that he saw the
Ibodies ; Parker's scull was fracturecLio-soveral places ;
the blows seemed to be given by a-circular blunt instru-
ment, thought it must have been a hammer; they must
have caused instant death ; the female's head was frac-
_ _
'- bruised ; the fractures

Portsmouth, proved, that
-ath a month before the
prisoner left witness on
owed witness 51.4 boy-
) to London. Prisoner
some goods, and to see
was repaid on the sth of
iog man, who took away the
paid by a W. Dote; saw the pri-
Portsmouth. Wises he lodged
• of James Watson.
valuable goods chiefly
was very peaceable and
living with winless I did

en to mists. the sibiseling We; tweet"...'lin;;;;pl;es7tl;;l;remnt.hb
his pick-axe the corpse (num of tie mist have mused instant death.
iyrd) and actually removed the shoot Thomas Cole, publican. at Ports
out of the leaden coin, sad co he saw the prisoner at. Portsmouth
grave. The • warder;
._ lodged with witness; pri
of earth in the open
tartern of February ; he then os
i drawn out of the grave •and taken sawed IL of witness then to go I
Dust and cut op, and the whole er told be was going there to sell son
f the church yard. his father and frieods. Witness wa
by our Correspondent, of such of Mara at noon. by a labouring mai
are competent to fornt an „was, Omen s trnsk.—it Was paid by •
he law will punish such condss and "we wee aft" this lit
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