The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-09 00:00:00

ATESITA

IMAYABROKERS.—tsvras lu

TO THE EDITOR OF THE STATESMAN.

Your condescension in allowing use a corner of your
patriotic Paper, not only obliges me, but the nefirtn-
nate objects who suffer by the nefarious practices of
Pawn-brokers. I would have It understood that I do
not mean to sink the whole body in the horrid charges
already stated, as there are a few, though very few excep-
tions to the geoeral rule. By this time, I presume,
you are inundated with answers to my former letters,
but this I will insist on, there is not one of the cases
already inserted that cannot be proved upon oath. By
a review of Tee STATESMAN of last Saturday, I per-
ceive a letter, signed PETER PLEDGE, which has anti-
cipated many things I should have inserted in this. I
am well acquainted with the Shepherd's-bush In-
former and his mode of raising the wind, as well as
his science in bolstering up a little accident in. the
way of basiness, and of bushing up some plundering
errors against poverty and wretchedness; and I know
many of his customers who would stand in need of his
daily assistance did not poverty, and a shame of ex-
posing that poverty, prevent the perpetrators of mani•
fold crimes from being brought to justices. Among
the escapes there is another villainous case. An arti-
cle of value was pledged and not called for till the
day before it was out ; the dapper little P. B. stated to
the lady who pledged it, that he was moving, but
would look it out for her. I was apprized of the
infamy, and took the ticket in a day or two after,
knowing him not only to he dishonest in another
case, but well known to be such from the commu-
nication of many of his neighbours. I waited on
Mr. P. 8., who could not find the goods, but
supposed it was sold. I should have stated, when the
lady called for the goods, he wrote, out, on the back of
the ticker, which would have been a cover to the delin-
quency. Finding his shopman noticed the writing on
the back of the ticket, I insisted on the goods. ;
bad I behaved civil, perhaps he might have looked for
them ; but, as I did not, he'd give himself no further
trouble about it. I summoned him before a Inez's-
trate, where he had been pretty well known, but I
could not possibly persuade the lady to come forward,
and the impostor escaped, and Crowed over his own
profligacy. My first letter stated some of the most
egregious miscreants about the King's Bench and
Fleet prisons, where they commit their depredations to an
enormous degree, upon the unfortunate inmates ; and
I shall bring such cases forward as will make these
contaminated vermin feel the weight of their infamous
extortions. I some time since had the ticket of two
aressee, which, the party I had them of, told me, were
rich silk dresses. I went to the Pawn-broker, shewed
the ticket, and offered to pay the interest, and for a
new ticket; they'd take the interest and price of the
ticket, but would not shew me the goods. Having
promised to release them, I paid two pounds and in-
terest, when two old muslin dresses were brought down,
in room of the silk. I saw the cheat; I had no remedy ;
I offered to re-pledge the goods for 20s ; they told
me it would not suit them ; they would not
take in muslin goods of any sort. The reader will
please to observe the owner of the mnslins was owner
of the silk goods > and tit *eke •trt‘-eite, ette-war'
attached to the other, the muslin ticket being out, so
that Mr. P. B. changed the tickets, and had
the silk dresses to himself, by the dexterity of the
change. In fact, impositions in this way are s.) nu-
merous, that it requires the strong hand of the. Legis-
lature, to put an end to such deplorable acts as take
place daily on the miserable victims of bad trade,
heavy taxes, and casual mifortune, more particularly
he incarcerated inmates of mistaken policy.
S.M. SPOUT.

The Literary and Philosophical Society of Neweas-
tle-npon-Tyne, has received from Thomas Costs. Esq.
of llaytion-btidge, lately returned overland from India,
the valuable present of a very fine Egyptian mummy,
in perfect preservation, and of great beauty, which
Mr. Coats himself saw raised out of the royal tombs at
Gaurnon, near the ancient Thebes, in Upper Egypt
and at great expense purchased and brought with him
to Europe.
HEIGHT OP MOUNTAINS..-Mr. J. G. Jackson. who
has published descriptive works of Soothers and
Western Baehary, and who has more than once crossed
the chain of Mount Atlas, has published an observa-
tion which calls fur an accurate investigation. From
observations made by Mr. Colebrook, in India, on the
heights of Mount Himala, his calculation is that, from
some of the crests of that enormous range being vi-
tilde at the distance of two hundred and eleven Eng-
lish miles, their elevation should be twentreight
thousand feet above the sea. Mr. Jackson has applied
this sole to measure the height of certain elevated
points of Atlas, on the eastern side of Morocco,
which are visible at sea twenty miles from the rout,
westerly, and i■ the direction of Mogadore. Hence
it would follow that the elevation of these heights
would be mom than twenty-nine thousand English
feet above the level of the Atlantic. and, of course,
the highest on the globe, as to any known measure•
meat.

Lord Ellenborough once derided that stage-coach
proprietors were responsible for the safe delivery of
goods of any value, notwithstanding they had made a
bye-law that they would not be answerable for any
thing worth more then 51., unless it was paid for ac-
cordingly. Since that time another Judge has decided
that stage-eoaebes are not liable for goods above 5/.
unless booked as such. The latter, we suppose, is the
law now In fashion ; but bow long will it be so ?
(Tyne 'throaty.)
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Major Rndd, of Marton Lodge, near Stockton-on-
Tees, has lately sold to Martin Stapylton. Esq , of
Myton Halt, Yorksirire, two cows, the grand-daughters
of Countess, for the sum of four hundred pounds, and
one cow, the grand-daughter of Peeress, for one hun-
dred pounds. These cows are of the genuine Sefton
breed.

To say at airy game, six love. or nine lore. means
six Se none, or nine to none. Why? The following
has bee. given as the solution The expressioo
may have come either from Scotland or Holland.—
brif in old Scotch is the hand : so that six lef will
Weill six is hood, or more than the adversary, when
he bas sothlogwo his score. Loaf in Dutch, Ovum
r we bawl out word lee/. and to loof. is the weather•
gage t sad is tibia case. six leo/ will imply six upon
the weather 'spier to &aesthete, as really it is, when
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the antagonist Is nothing.

,SPORTING INTRUJGENCE.-

BE'rTISG AT'TATTERftALL'S.

Waal.. 1922.—1 e to I agile Ld Fbley's e. by Partizan,
out of I.:geom.-14 to loot IA Dar Enema's c., by }llapha- •
sant. out of tru,!scapt —l4 to lazy 01. n. Grocvenor'i Mar-
eellus-100 to 0 cgs% Ld I..l4remont's r. tsy k`rolic, out of
d.-200 to 11 ogst• IA Gros,umur's o. out of
Plover.
10 to I on V•e field for the Oahu.
6 to 4. on Augushraist Ibli fo? the nintch.

The Boxing Match for 50 guineas, between Gran-
ger, the tinman, and Franklin, the Notingltemehire
smith, *ill take place this Morning, near Hartley•row,
Hants. Granger id the favourite. •
We hear that bill• of indictment are preparieg to
be preferred at the quarter sessions, under Mr. Michael
Angelo Taylor's act, against certain manufactures in
this Borough for the nuisance created by their Steam
Engine Furnaces.—(Grerfs Mereery.) .••
NEWHATRN, OCT. 7.--•-TWO officers from the port a f
London arrived at East Bourne on Frithy last, and
proceeded immediately to search the dwelling-houses
of two persons, where they found a considerable
gttan-
tity of French silks, &c. which they seimi and cow-
veved away, to he deposited in his Majesty's stores.
The Independence, Holden, from Dieppe, arrived this
morning, with passengers and merchandise. •
The Jane, Fell, of Workington, from Quebec, kpoke
the following vessels :—Sept. 1, the Isaac, Todd, of
London, hound to Quebec, lat. 45. 47. long. 49. 56:
—Sept. 4, the Eliza Ann, of Maryport from Quebec,
out 21 days, lat.-16. 3. long. 43. 50.—Sept. 5, the
Royalist, of Maryport, out 13 days, from Kirkcedbright,
lat. 46. IS. long. 42. 4S.—Sept. 6, the Richard and
Ann, of Hell, front do. ont 19• lays, lat. 47. long 40.1'.
About six weeks a!ro, the colliers in the neighboui-
hood of Glasgow struck work for higher wages, and
the consequence Las been, coals have risen in value
from 10s. to Isis. per waggon, and a further rise may
he anticipated, as the supply is completely exhausted
to a great distance round that city. In consequence
of a proprietor of coal-works in the immediate neigh-
' bourbood having employed some new hands, an attack
was meditated against them on Wednesday by the
former operatives.—The Civil Power was, however,
aware of their intention, and took the necessary mea-
sures to prevent it. Accordingly a party of dragoons.
on Thursday morning, brought in some prisoners from
the work in question.
A MELANIAIOLY CATASTROPIIK—Late in ICE after:.
noon of Satitrilay se'nnight, the wife of a labouring
man, named !lenge, while picking hops in a planta-
tion within view of her residence,• nigh to Mill Coy-
tier, in the parish of Northiam, was greatty alarmed
on observing a column of smoke issuing from her
house, wherein she had left an aged mother and her
infant child. Half frnerated from apprehension, she
hastened home, and on her arrival, found the pre:ni••••1
on fire. She, nevertheless, entered them, and unmind-
ful ofdanger, rushed into the room where her mother
and infant child were in bed together, and, protected
by Providence, rescued the latter, and placed it in
safety ; but ere she could return to render any assist-
once to her helpless mother, which she was most anxi-
ous to do, the roof fell in, and enveloped her in flames :
and thus, unhappily, perished the poor old woman,
inihe ItOth year urherage.• On tieing taken frena the
ruins, she presented a shocking spectacle, the fire
having neariy consumed both arms, a portion of the
head, and other parts of the body.—Verdict—Acci-
dental Death.—No account can be given how the tire
happened.
Restos-at. or CONTlCTS.—Yesterday morning at six
o'clock, about twenty-five male convicts were removed
in a caravan from Newgate, for transportation, pur-
suant to their sentences. They were met in Black-
friars-road by a detachment of Dragoons, who are to
escort them to their destination. As usual, a great
number of persona were collected to witness their do-
parthre ; among whom Were several of their old com-
panions, equally deserving of a seat in the caravan.
There were two or three MU/woods also present, who
ichinspered a parting farewell : but the caravan was
scarely out of sight. when excessire grief drove thetii
into a drain-shop, where a quantity of gin afforded
them immediate comfort ; and they separated, exclaim-
ing against the severity of the laws, and the cruelty of
the big trigs !
On 'Need ay last, a gentleman of Falkirk, in a hay-
field, about a varier of a utile west of the town, acci-
dentally turned over a loose piece of earth, when to his
astonishment, he discovered a parcel containing Pi
new sovereigns, all of which, however, be soon per-
ceived to be counterfeits. They seemed to be very well
executed, and their resemblance to the genuine coin ii.
so great as to render it on the closest inspection difh-. •
salt to detect them. They are of course considerably
lighter than the real coin, and resemble in sound a
base shilling. When found there were pieces of silk •
paper so disposed as to prevent them from rubbing
against each other.--(EdiabergA Star.)
An awful occurrence took place on Friday morning
last in Worcester Cothedral,- during one of the per-
formances of the music meetings Feld in that city.—
At the time Mr. Vaughan was singing " gentle airs," •
sccontpanied on the violencello by Mr. Lindley. Mr.
John Griffiths, one of the vocal performers, fell bank
in his seat in an apopletic fit. At the conclusion of
Mr. Lindley's cadence, he was carried out, and seve-
ral medical gentlemen who formed part of the congre-
gation hastened to attend him : they proceeded to bleed
him, and he was conveyed to his residence, where be
continued in a senseless state till Saturday afternoon
between four and five o'clock, when he expired. He
had been a member of the Worcester choir upwards
of thirty years. He possessed one of the most power
ful bass voices ever beard, and some years since was
engaged as the principal bass singer at the Covent-
garden Oratorios. He was engaged at the great coin-
tuemoration of Handel in Westminster.abbey.
CAUTION •GAINST DRINKING TO Excess.—Sep-
tamber 23, a young man named Haygarth, of Denver,
in Norfolk, drank eighteen glasses of gin in its niat
state, at the White Hart intak Downlism; the conse-
quence was, that he immediately became insensible,
and continued alarmingly 'ill till the following Thurs.
day, when death ended his saSerings: • •
A short time since,•a woman belongiurg to the pa-
rish of Stoke, near Wareham, Dorset, in a sm. of ID.
tozicaden, in attempting to .get- nia behind a _post
chaise, sat on Ae spikes; bee criessalarmid the driver,
who, with assistance, removed ter teem • tier pardons
situations bat in a most deplorableness*. tiff wonadt • •
soon began to mortify:audits tbsciontse *Ai *ii days
the nnfortinato woman izpirsii.--(omaJostriiilej. •

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POUCH.
Mawelow-nouse.—Yesterday three young men,
• awed lantseg, Bartlett, and Hall, underwent a fidal
• damination, on a charge of having robbed a respect-
: ble female, named Finch, of her reticule.
Mrs. Finch stated, that at about eight o'clock on
Friday evening, she was passing down Sun-street,
Bishopsgate-ittrect, when a fellow behind her seised
der reticule, which she held fast, but the robber got it
from her by a continued pall until the string broke.
He immediately darted down one of the adjacent
alleys. The reticule fortunately contained nothing
. but a pound of perfumed soap, which the prosecntrix
bad just purchased.
The three prisoners were identified, and were fully
committed to take their trial.
Bartlett was detained upon another charge, of hav-
ing, in conjunction with three others, named Waldron,
Chester, and Jackson, robbed a person, named Rey-
nolds, of his watch and appendages.
J. Reynolds stated, that, on the. 14th of last month,
he fetched some beer for his supper, and was standing
as his door, No. 10, Angel-alley, with the pot in his
band, and had just knocked at the door, when a fellow
deliberately walked tip to the door and took his watch
out of his pocket, and handed it to a man who was
waiting close by, and both ran off together.
They were all identified as being couceroed in the
robbery, and were fully committed for trial.
A person applied to the LORD MAYOR for advice
under the following circumstances wealthy neigh-
bour, be said, was possessed of a high-blooded ball-
dog, for which it was his great amusement to beat up
for game; and with this view he had besieged the
house of the complainant constantly. in the hope of
getting his cat for the bull-dog to worry. All remon-
strance was of as little avail as if it bad been made to
the dog himself, of which the complainant's family
were in great terror, as well as the whole neighbour-
hood, in which several favourite cats had been de-
voured. The dog and the man were upon the watch
morning and night, about the door, making the most
okstinate disturbances, to the prejudice of the com-
plainant's wife, who was sick. The owner of the dog
challenged every one to go to law with him who pre-
sumed to interfere in his pleasures; and between the
fear of the money, of the man, and the teeth of the
dog, several cats had fallen a sacrifice, without any one
daring to resist.
The LORD MAYOR said, that the complainant would
be fatly justified in using the kitchen poker upon the
dog if he caught it upon the cat. If the person com-
plained of should repeat his conduct, his Lordship de-
sired that the complainant should give him in custody
to an officer for a breach of the peace.
01111.DUALL.—Peter Jonas, an apparently decent
and intelligent man, was brought up before the Sitting
Magistrate, Mr. Alderman Cox, upon the charge of the
churchwardens and overseers of the parish of Christ-
church, Newgate-street. The prisoner, who had for-
merly held a reputable situation in several commercial
louses as a traveller, but who has long since given up
all thoughts of maintaining himself by his industry,
has for some length of time been a continual annoy-
ance to the parish officers of Christ-church. The relief
afforded him, whether in clothes, food, or money,
being almost instantly got rid of, and his applications
immediately renewed. During the last week he ap-
plied to be furnished with some articles of wearing
apparel, which the parish officers, recollecting how
quickly the last articles he received had been made
away with, refused to give him. Jonas suffered a day
or two to elapse, and on Saturday called upon Mr.
Claridge, the overseer, and presented him with a letter,
reporting to be from the churchwarden, to the fol-
lowing effect:—
" RelPs'Heed-court, Saturday, Oct. 6, 1621.
"Stu—The resent' why 1 refused Jonas, is to skew
bits the value of money. With your approbation,
eanseat to let him have the articles on the other side of
this paper.
• "Mr. Claridge, Overseer. "A. SEWARD."
The articles enumerated were a shirt, shoes, stock-
legs, and neck-handkerchief:
Mr. Claridge, not doubting but that this was a ge-
nuine letter, gave him separate orders for the several
articles, upon the different tradesmen, to which he
added, on his own discretion, an order for a bat, with
the view of making him once more decent in his ap-
parel, in order that be might obtain such a situation
as his abilities qualified him for. If the prisoner could
have been satisfied with the success of his fabrication
(for the whole letter was a forgery,) he might have
received the property, and have decamped with it; but,
by trying a step further, he was detected, and will now
be put out of the power for some time of committing
similar depredations. The orders, which he received
from Mr. Claridge were Only for one article of a sort,
but the prisoner altered each order by prefixing a 2,
and in that way had obtained from Mr. Randolph
Notts, a hosier, in Newgate-street, instead of a pair of
stockings, it•pair of stirekiageykaviqg altered the pre-
faced "a" into a figure of " 2." The remainder of
the orders were found upon him, altered as already de-
scribed, with the exception of the one for the hat, the
prisoner having received that article and made away
with it. These Amu being proved by the evidence of
Mr. Claridgm Ur. Seward. aid Mr. Nott, the prisoner
was called upon for his defence, when he treated, the
haulms, with perfect indifference, said he wails actual
want of the articles, and the parish officers bad re-
fused to give him them. What he bad dqae therefore
was a matter of necessity.
• Alderman Cox said this was a case of so much atro-
city, that it was absolutely necessary to make an ex-
• ample of the prisoner as a warning to others. it was
characters such as this fellow that caused parish
*us to be sometimes over suspicious, and brought
. opoa them the charge of being bard-hearted. Theo&
ficers, he trusted, would feel it their duty to prose-
. cute is this case.
, The parish officers signified their determination so
~-ta do, and the prisoner was committed to take - his
. trial for the misdemeanor of obtaining goods under

4e pretences.
Asw-seasr.-Yesterday a poor old woman, a satire
of *ales. was brought up, charged by a watchman of
. St. with being riotous And disorderly at au
ungessoaabis hour of the night.
-T • vratchtpas stated, that be was caned to,the door
k en kis beat, to take .up the defendant, Who
stab lip **Alb 'to* there. Ho bid bet gb'
• iitsbyibitt tatiffblied,itsdisbe was °Vied 'to take bar to
llifstbelfibkoule, • • • • • .
Tibb pit eikwesalladaid, sheiind4peon very shame-,
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