The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-05-08 00:00:00

THr. STATF.SNIAN:

The Cnier Jostler said, that in that can they
should be compelled to pass judgment un Monday.
which, as it was the last day in the Term, would be
very inconvenient.
After some further conversation, it was agreed that
the defendants should en.leavour to procure their ae-
davit by Saturday, and if it was found that this was
impossible, the Court wonld then consider whether It
would be deferred until Monday.
Mr. HINT expressed his hopes, that by Saturday
they might be ready.
The defendants 'hell bowel and left the Court.

BRIGHTON, .114). 7.

This place continues dull; the absence of his :1111
Jesty was never more sensibly felt than at present;
multi seems to pervade our thinned fashbonable circles:,
and the shopkeepers generally complain of hating but;
little to db. The Libraries, morning and evening,:
duriflg the last week, were fashionably, and, at timely!
numerously visited, but where a want of atuu,ements.
seemed to be the common complaint. Tu obviate this.
the approved diversions of music and 100, to he rototi-
nued as last year, are to be commenced at Dottaldson's
this evening, and which, as formerly, are expected to
be powerfully attractive. Tnppeti has not quite con,-
pleted his arrangements for the evening dire, the ',woo,
but will shortly, when, doubtlessly, he will put in a
claim for hart toe notice and favolur. Concerts for
Wright's are talked of, bat upon what particular plan;
has not yet transpired. The promenades at the
Castle Rooms are to be renewed this season t
there is also a talk of trinket auctions being
introduced, to diversify the amusements there,
and give a new feature of interest to the place.l
The subscribers at Clonat's have been much increased
slice this day se'nnight—the saute r•utark will also
apply to the other Libraries—this shows, considera-
ble as the late departures have been, that our arrivals
are once mere happily on the increase. The c
bi-
sation of talest, exhibiting the best works of many of
the most celebrates' artists, and which have recently
received a valuable increase, displayed at onr elegant
Lounge, called the Picture Gallery, are gaining grnothal
in public estimation from becoming more generally
km.wii, and where the polished connoisseurs and ama-
teurs find ample and agreeable exercise fur their jade-
mews and predilections. The Theatre, we find, will
be re-opened in July. Brunton resumes the manage-
ment—a qualified rurps drainutillir, and elegant, nu-
merous, and approving audiences, therefo:e, are confi-
dently to be looked fur. Our highly gifted favoorite,
Miss Brun on, of Covent-garden Theatre, we have
much pleasure in stating, will be included am .ng the
former. _ _

The inhabitants of the lower end of North-street I
were thrown into some degree of confusion and alarm'
in the night of Sunday last, or rather as early as half-
past one o'clock in the morning of this day selotsigitts
owing to the screams of a female from the chamber
14 illtiOM of a 1 e there, which home she had under-
taken the care of' in the absence of the family. The
whole neighbourhood rang with the shrieks as above
statetit and notwithstanding that many persons hur-
ried Sopin their beds to their windows, which pert near
enough to enable them to speak to the frantic woman,
and inOrst-*e cause of her distress, screams and cries
of maple were the only answers they received. A
crowd, is the end, gathered almat the house; the whole
posse of night constables were there, and a military
forte, with tired bayonets, were procured from the
tiusrd-housr, though it was scarcely known why et.
wherefore. During acie formidable preparations,
the skrieke of the woman were unremitting, our could
any inducement prevail on her to descend and open
the street door. Two of the patrol', at last, by means
els ladder. got into the house by a chamber shalom-,
presently taßenell the doer, and
. Sn Flab-4A Mtn IW-tiff roomy

the .01,ne
followed, but the only enrnn• encountered was an enor-
mous rat, which instantly became the victim of the
assailants. The noise which this animal 'occasioned,
it appeared, had aroused the woman before noticed,
who suspecting therefrom that thieves ur assassins, or
both, had let themselves into the premise•. the sudden
fear of being instantly murdered, bad irresistibly ex-
cited her to the conduct described. The affair, as may
be supposed, took a ludicrous turn in the ene.----the noi-
litary moved off, leaving the body of the slain to be
interred or otherwise disposed of by the constables,
and tratninillity was once more restored.

Tea Di:enrols or Yoax.—Sattirday, Sir Henry
Halford attend the Duchess of York, at flatlands, and,
we are happy to say, made a favourable report ; her
Royal Highness being a great deal better, and her
symptoms favourable. Yesterday oils the Duchess's
birth-day, when a number of the nubility and persons
of distinetion called a► York-house to leave their names.
Saturday the Di chess of Clarence dined with the
Duchess of Kent, at the King's-palace. at Kensington.
Yesterday the king attended Divine Service at the
Chapel Royal, St. James's, with his Royal Highness
the Doke of York, and their Royal Highnesses the
Dar and Duchess of t larenre.
'she Duke of York, the Duchess of tilouceFter, and
Prince Leopold, visited the King yesterday.
Yesterday Prince Leopold, accompanied by the
Princess Victoria, the eldest daughter of the Duchess
of Kent, attended at the Herman Chapel, St. JanWs's.
Yesterday the Lord Chancellor and Cant Monster
had audiences of the King, at his Palace, in Pall-mall.
A tut-ions discovery has been made since it was de-
tenuined to 1%-model the Crown. Several of the large
get.. in have not learnt how many, tnrn out to be
passe. it is snppesed that this fraud was committed
as ILI badirma the time of Charles 11. That there are
few teal gems iu the sceptres was known some years
sins e.
'I be weight of the Sovereigns is so exactly adjusted
to their newest and most pe:tect state, that they have
been found occasionally deficient when first issued.
Out of a payment of Sovereigns made lately into the
Bash, not exceeding a few thousands, and which were
perfilty new from the Mint, forty were returned fur
defieincy in weight. The wear caused by circulation