The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-02-10 00:00:00

POLICE.

.160 W-STREET.
• On Vriday night Oeorge Darien was brought to
the Qffice by Humphreys, and charged by him with
pilng one of the four prisoners who escaped from the
House of Correction the preceeding night, and Joseph '
Beckett, one of the servants belonging to the prison,
identified the Prisoner as one of those who had escap-
ed. He was committed.
• Chas. Reeves, a well known character, was charg-
ed by Humphreys, with aiding and abetting the Pri-
soner's esca pertom the House of 'Correction. Beckett,
belonging to the prison, identified him as a constant
associate with notorious thieves. The Prisoner was
committed for further examination.
Richard Waddle was brought to the Office in the
custody of Lavender and Vickery, and charged with
siding and abetting the escape of a number of French
prisoners, particularly in conjunction with a man of
the name of Webb, already in custody.
Lavender and Vickery have been after the Pri-
soner for some time. Last Tuesday, as the Officers
' went in at one door of a public-house in Hithe, the
Prisoner went out at another.
' They then left the town, as if they had given up the
pursuit, and remained away for some time. On their
return they had the assistance of some light-horse-
men, and searched the Prisoner's house in Hake • not
hding gam .there, they proceeded to the public-
house where he had escaped from them, and found
him'in bed. The Prisoner was committed fur further
1 examination.
On Saturday Henry Gamier was brought to the
Office from New Prison, and underwent a long pri-
vate examination before Mr. ,LEAD. Mr. Marter, the
iOtivitos to Greeurvich Hospital, attended the inves-
tigatiow of the charges preferred against him. The
Prisoner was committed for further examination.
The son eta respectable Tradesman was brought
to this Office, charged with assaulting and beating his
father and motherosnd was, Ai their request, seat on
board the tender:
PUBLIC.OFPICE, HATTON-GARDEN.

MURAT lately visited the ruins of Pompeia, and
was shewn a street which hid hien discovered, paved
with stones from Irestivltti. 'lre also examined many
tombs which had been found there. , During his stay
they dug up in his presence two silver spoons, a
gold ring, a cornelian in which was encrusted a sca-
rab, a piece of consular money, a funnel, and a
ROBBERY Or THE BRIGHTON COACEN—On Wed-
great quantity of bronze vases of different dimen-
-1 nesday the Brighton coach was robbed of reissu-
sions, and of a very elegant form. I able Brighton Union Bank Notes, to the amount of
ROBBERY.—On Wednesday night, or early
,_on
Thursday morning, the mansion-house fO. Jonn- i upwards of 30001. in the following manner :—Mossrs.
!Weston, Pinharn, and Co. bankers, in the Borough,
son, Esq. at Welling, in' Kent, was broke open, sup- :are agents to the Union Brighton Bank, and send
a I
posed by forcing open the coal cellar, and letting a parcel every week, by the coach which goes from
boy or slender person down by ropes. The butler :the
was awoke by their noise, between three and four l lossom's Inn, and for security they engage the
-
was the female servants who inside of one of the seats, which is locked in Lou-
o'clock ; he thought it
don, and no person has a key besides the bankers at
had got up to wash, but not being able to satisfy
himself, he got up, and took a loaded blunderbuss with Brighton. On Wednesday they sent notes to the
, above amount, in a tin box, with a patent leek to it,
him, when he got to the passage leading to the sit-
-1 which was put into an iron chest, which was locked,
sing-parlour, on hearing some persons there, he sup.
; and put into the seat, which was also locked. Oa
posed they were. the female servants, he exclaimed
the arrival of the coach at Brighton, it was discover-
in a joke, he would blow their brains out : upon ed that the tin box bad been forced open, and all the
which three persons rushed upon him and seized the
blunderbuss, and in the struggle it went off. The notes taken out. The coachman is clot suspected,
and there is no doubt but that the whole of the inside
robbers then attacked the butler very riolently, no of the coach was taken by a gang of thieves, for the
doubt for the purpose of murdering him. They purpose of stealing the notes. Two of the passen-
' made a blow at his head with an iron crow, but he gees, calling themselves by the name of Burley, amen
being a tall, powerful man, it only struck him ou and woman, got into the coach at the Blossom's
his neck, under his chin. They got him down, knelt
on his stomach, &c. However, he struggled hard Inn, at seven o'clock on Wednesday morning, mid
a man, of the name of Cole. When they got•to the
for his life, and got his hand to the bell rope, and : Elephant and Castle, .another man, of the name of
pulled it with great force, and called "Murder !"—lCole got in. Two passengers, for whom plates had
this alarmed the family, awoke a footman, who came ! been taken, were to be taken up at the Plough Inn,
instantly to the. butler's assistance, and on his appear- lat Clapham, where the 'coachman waited upwards of
ante the robbers ran out and made their escape. ltwenty minutes, and• no •passengers ' appearing, be
They had found the keys, with labels on them,• of proceeded on his journey. When the coach got to
the locks they opened, but only carried off between 1 Mitcham; the man tilling himself Burley told the
fifty and sixty guineas. The jewels, and other va- coachman the lady - was so extremely unwell she
luables, were packed up in a green cloth: The but. could not proceed any further, and left the coach.,
ler thinks one 'of the robbers was a great girl, who The coachman proceeded on to Ryegate, where the,
held the dark lanthorn, as, when lie was down, he two men, calling themselves. Cole, also left the coach,
observed two strings behind the waist, which induced telling the coachman they had some business to trans-
' him' to think it was a pelisse, and not a great coat:— act there and 'should not go on to Brighton till the
He has been confined to his bed ever since, expecto- Bowing day. It has since been ascertained that
rates blood, and is very bad. . grey did not go to Brighton at all, but went from the
The following account of a .most sanguinary duel, ; lien in Ryegate where the coach left them, to another
which took place in America, was given in. a letter,' inn in the same town, took a post-chaise, weut to
dated Norfolk, December 2:—" Young:Mercer (an , Croydon, and from there to Blackfriars'-road, where
Officer in the United States Navy, and nephew to i they dined. The man and woman are supposed to
General Mercer), received an insult from M the. ate ; have returned from Mitcham to Loqdon in a chaise-
of some merchantman—a challenge followed, and ; cart, which was waiting for them.
yesterday evening, about sun down, they M
met within. Mr. Grant, Overseer on Priammee Bay Estate, in
a mile of the town ; their distance of fighting was
only sufficient for them not to touch the bodywitifi runaway Negroes,
was murdered, some months since, by six
Negroes, who entered his dwelling at night,
each other's pistols—the word was given—both fired, lend finding him sick in bed, they, after a severe strug-
and both fell dead. The whole town is in an up- i gle, strangled him. • They then lighted a candle, put
roar. The seconds hare taken safety by Right, lea,. a clean dress on him, and sent, as from him, for some
ing their dead comrades without a soul user them. friends, who, on arriving, found him dead ; his pre-
Their bodies were brought to-town last evening, and , vious illness occasioned less surprise, and he was he-
will this day be interred." • tied without
,any inquest being held_ on the body.
Mr. William Chapman, brewer, of Brighton, Five of the negroes are in custody.
was robbed on Tttesday last, on the 'highway near The Sixteenth Report of the Commissioners of
Cuckfield, of a guinea. The surrender of aim gui- L Military Inquiry relates to the Ordnance, bat cow•
nee by Mr. Chapman, -has been since made, the sub., tains nothing remarkable. It is divided into several
ject of much jocularity ; as he seemed to take a : rifts, under the heads of Contracts, or mode of pro-
pride in exhibiting it, iu company, as a very great curing Stores, and performing services, Royal,Lsabo:.
curiosity. ' • ratory, inspector of Artillery, &c. and Royal Carriage
A taw evenings since the following daring attempt Department. It is principally grounded upon the
at robbery was made at the Rev. Mr. °Warshaw's, examination of Mr. Maumee', who appears to have
at Starston, near Ilarleston :—As that Gentleman's 'had most extensive contracts for tents, &c. and of
nephew, Mrs Douglas, was reading in the library, . Messrs. WILLAN and Small,. who have had similar
the door of which opens into the garden, and was+ contracts for horses. In July, 1810, Mr. Was.atzt
not fastened, a man, masked, entered the room; and' furnished about 700 herses,7for the service:of the
presenting a pistol to Mr. D. demanded the money in I Engineer Department ; of 'these
.1142 were employed
a bureau which stood in the room ; Mr. Douglasiat Dover, and although allowed two pounds of hay
replied that there was none in it, and that he. had but per day extra, to be paid by Government, they were
very tittle in his pocket. The villain immediately not able to do one half cf the work of country horses,
seized Mr. D.'s, gold watch, which was accidentally and it was found necessary to hire the teams of the
lying on the table, when Mr. Douglas coolly-ob- country for all great burthena. It also appears, that
served, that, if he took the family seals, it might lead in January, 1801, the Boarder Ordnance purchased
to a discovery; .but the
,robber persisting, and still all the horses supplied by Mr. Wt Lr..tx under his 1
con-
holding the pistol in a menacing manner, Mr. Dou. tract of JBO3, for• thepurpose of transferring them '
glas instantaneously seizA• the, poker, and made a to the Royal Artillery Drivers. These amounted in.
desperate • blow- at the villain, whose pistol missed number to 3,500, and were purchased nominally 44,
fire, and Mr. 11 repeated ids efforts, which the fel. ?5 guineas each, but, in fact, they cost the public,
low avoided, and drawing a largo knife from his side, thirty-six pounds each, the allowance granted to Mr. 1
plunged it at Mr. D.'s body, who luckily drew back- WILLAN to induce him to relinquish his contract
far enough to prevent the atrocious intention, but amounting to the .difference, in the aggregate, abotit
ripped open his waistcoat and shirt. The termite thirty.five thousand pounds.
, and Mr.Oldershaw being now alarmed, the man red, Saturday, Benjamin Ilitchcock, the letter carrier,
i but was so closely perked as to drop Mr. Doeglas's underwent a final examination before Alderman At.
watch'in the garden. kins, when he was fully committed.

Saturday IRst Mais Dobson, charged with going to
the shop of Mr. Harper, in Saffron-hill, and stealif

Je shop - lug
a.quantity of brustles) &c. was* hilly committed t
Newgate for trial.

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The Editor of Journal de Physique, published at
Genoa, states that, by causing a very strong Gal-
vanic battery •to act on a mass of charcoal, a sub-
stance has been produced which appears to have the
greatest resemblance to diamonds: he adds, that he
has in his possession a diamond on which there are
several black points similar to charcoal.
The French Institute have reported to BosueaßTE
that no work on Galvanism has appeared this year
which appeared to them to merit the founder's
medal.

Mr. WELLEarzw P•LE, jun. it is now come out,
is not yet married to Miss 'f ILNE It LONG, and how
much longer his conjugal hopes and expectations may
be disappointed, remains with the chapter of acel:
dents to disclose. The preparation of izritingt is ass
signed by some as the cause of delay; while others
declare, that there are too many Meta tcripla ale
ready executed, of a. past-matrimonial kind, which
require to be strictly examined, and therefore stand
principally in the way,of this consummation, so de.
voutly wished been of the parties at least !
M. Humboldt has announced his intention of short-
ly quitting Paris, on his travels through Asia. ild
purposes malting some stay in Thibet.
M. Garnerin has obtained a compensation.from the
French Government for explaining Captain Manbri
philosophical method of tiring artillery without light.
ed matches.
It is said that the grave-digger of Brighton is one
of the most strenuous, as well as altinfereslad ads°-
cates of small-pox inoculation in that place. Ile will
probably resign his place if vaccinationishould become
general. ~
1 Yesterday morning a meeting took place in the
neighbourhood of Hampstead, betweeh the Hon. Mr.
and Mr. W—, of the 10th Regiment, but
after an exchange of shots, through.the judicious in-
. terference of the seconds, the difference was accent.
modated in assanner equally honourable and satis-
factory to all.parties. •
The Governors in New South Wales hate the
power of granting, either conditionally.c,r absolutely)
the pardon of any convict transported to that island.
We think there ought to be some vs' rictions on Oat
head) as we hear that the frandill..at bankrupt, Bel-
I lock, who was transported for life, about three years
lago, is now on his passage to this country, having
1 obtained a free pardon ftem the Governor.•
I On Sunday last, ajourseyman shoenialuir was taken to Lewes,
I attended by two constables, fro:a Hallstatt); by virtue of a star-
! rant, charged with having stolen sixty guineas, from the pee-
-1 'Mos of nit master, a shoe nab jade- welter.; pain of SUSICT.
1 This unworthy disciple of Crispin, on his visit to liaihlta e. on
i Friday, arrived at Lewes, in a poet-chaise and (our, and .luring
I his hours of refreshment, assumed the consoqueuee of a gentle-
I man, having lately come to the pacessio• of a large forage,
and to give a semblance of truth to his assertion, he Was very
liberal en the exchange of guineas for Bank paper, after the rate
of their legal currency.
A man belonging to the Snake sloop of war, and a wooria, fell
into Leith harbour—both were unfortuaately drowned.
EXETER, Fes. 5.—A most extraordinery circumstance cc-
! curved in this city on Monday night last, which has 'excited the
grentesl wonder, admiration, and interest of the inhabitants.
1 About nine o'clock, as the carriage ofJ. %Mil li =II, ''q. banker
of this city, was going from Galleon, ,Crescent to the Theatre,
just as it passed the Friars, in the middle of the public road,
the off-horse sunk into the earth, and almost in an instant disap-
peared; the alarm the coachman was iu
.we cannot describe,
who, tr,.mbling for what was to follow, leaped Pots the eoith-
box ' - called for assistance, and immediately cut the traces, when
several persons assembled, and discovered that the animal hail
fallen into a large alit tremendous old well, of about 10 feet
deep, vs bleb some years since had been arched over in a most
careless manner, with only a single brick, thinle -covered over
with earth, and totally neglected, siuceit became a pabli7 nod.
The late wet weatherheue so penetrated the brick work e.s to
cause it, wish the shaking of the carriage, to give .. ay in a me-
meet. Having obtained a light, it was perceived the Yore had
stuck about iio feet down, and with great dilbcv'ty was !emit
up alive to the mouth of the well, when unfetun.,tel. ty rope
broke, teed the poor creature was with dreadfol eloe.'y oteled
down to the bottom, to rise uo more alive, as it was p t.e dap
dead four hours after. 'the instant before Mr. %%Weans 1 aorta
met the accident, Colonel Burn's rerriage ;.'rove over t te semis
place, with the met il '. on on the horse, both n hieh mud have ioe-
vitublv perished, bad the ground !lien gave in ; the escape is
considered a signal and previa 1.;a1 cur. ;'.stance.
The innkeepers and publicans of Suetex; we areierstand, aro
almost to petition Parliament, for an a legni,ntation of allowaares
for the subsistence of soldiers, on thew march, wish*, under the
present regulation, presses very hard upoe Ism. Their loss, osi
halting days, taken on a fair cab :dation, is estimated at one
shilling per man, Which, at houses of inferior note, is equal to all
1 the profit at their taps.
Friday se'anight, a dreadful ne•rdcr was perpetrated in tha
neirthqurhood of Wellington, Saldp. The body of William
Euiley, a farmer, was fouied at a distance from his own boor,
with his sknU fractured end his taroat cut. Vie how Ohl rate-
sacked, all the drawers, tke. oneoed and Sty. ry thing of valve
takes. and the 'eels were plated in his poste;. There was no
blood foun4 sear the body; teat in a hone: at a considerable
distance, lately erected, an not finishet, teer • was a „eoed deal
discovered, wincheon u. 'Laminae ion, preyed to h eve been hennas.
John Griffiths, of Red Lake, was, on alouclay last, committed to
Shrewsbury gaol, charged with ihe above i.arrder.
Oa Saterdav se might, .1 r.aes Pain • and Martha Car- Weft
placed upon the pillory, in the Market-place, at Warwick, pur-
suant to their sentences. The former, who had been convicted
at the Summer assize for the county of %S ant ick, in 1810, of aa
assault on two children at Meriden, and sentenced to he ivy'''.
toned for two years, and to stand on the pillory . twice during
that time, had been before exposed In the sale situation. The
I latter, Martha Cave,wasconveled at the last Warwick &serious,
of an assault upon a girl, at Stretford-upon-Avon, and sentenced
to one enoeth's imprisomentand metaled on the pillory for en hour-
-1 This woman was charge) with having committed nosy inhuman
land wanton acts of cruelty upon a poor defenceless child, her
parish apprentice. By the advice of bet. Counsel, she, most pea-
-1 dently pleaded Guilty. It was understood . that she Mal foquest-
le beat the unfortunate objects of her vengeance to a unlit uo-
I merciful and cruel manner; that she had stripped them, and il-
-1 ing heavy weigh's together by a cord, bad hung them over their
bare shoulders until their flesh was cut and tortured is a shock-
.
13qt isanvaa. The Counsel she odrioessed the Correia As WNW
!of the pvisoner, acknowledged' that her crime sot only deserved
the severest edlicure, hut also the most exemplary punish/acne-
-1 It was not for her, therefore, that he presunaed to crate the de-
-1 meney of the Cnutt cowards the Prisoner, but fur the sake alter
1 elildren, who must; if she seaventenced to a long impel :earnest,
innocently suflr itt conseqwe of the delinquency of tacit
i mother. The: Quirt, aftertonmadyeraptig, with great indignatioo,
p
on the barbarity of the Pris Oner, upon her the, above sen-
teeee. The Prisoners were much pelted with mud sod filth by
' the Popqltioe-
Saturday sennight, a gallant General, in the neighbourhood
of Chester, united to a most amiable woman of one of he first
' families of that caseate, eloped with Miss' 11 --, a vouo4
lady of very re specoehle Fennections, and took the GreatNotth
Road; We are told the fugitives hate been traced to Myer-.
' stone; bat what may be their ultimate object, we an at sobs es
conjecture. s • o • . ! 1„ • ~,.....ilik_
scortiritAtvrKs.
. MILIAN'S Wharf,' • • 4 triter!. Sails.
P i
Sprightly' (Sutherland), Leith Janal IS rd. —e. - • •
Leith Packet f MarSliali), do. ' ' le, —4, P. 91
Eclipse (Taylor), do. • , . I 9e, Sr A. M.
HIGH WATER I , . #irIDGE THIS DAY.
LOAA''
Mooting, 1 unmet, 11 Firming. 16 minutes after Pit

MARRIED.,
Thursday last, C. I). Brooghton, ksq. son of the Rev. Sir T.
Broughton-, Bart. to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of J.
sea, Lsq, of Bank, near fdaneiestel%

i i' DIVIIV.I •
On the 6141,0... Win. Ceoilly,4lll4: of Old Bracknell. Berk.*
is the 6ith 3•par of his age. -
On the 31st ult. nt li Jabot, tient G. E.. LaY •UM of the Al
Regiment- •
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