The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-03-20 00:00:00

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MaNstost-douse.---A middle-sged man of low stature
and rather decent 'preliterate; named John Woods, wee
brought before Sir CHATHAM FLOWIR, who sat for the
Lord Mayor, charged with having practised a sew and
ingenious mode of scheming.
Mr. Mayhew, twine merchant in the city, stated that
the prisoner' came to his brother's house and stated-that
as be was on his way from Ingatestutte to London, a
gentleman directed him to call upon Mr. Mayhew, and
mention that a parcel, addressed to Mr. Mayhew, wine
merchant; bad been luand ripen the road, and um lying •
at the King Harry's Head publics-house, where the owner
mead get it tapas application. 'f he prisoner was quite
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unsasharrasied in his tit:toner, and requested a shilliag to
sink for his troxb'e. He was successful and went swat.
Me. Mayhew went to the coach-office to inquire about Hie
Iparcel, but was assured that the prisoner bad sold the it.
formation at a dear rate, as there' was not a word of truth
In it, and a fellow was going about town making a live.
liboad by the imposition. The fellow was soon after- •
wards taken into custody in Fenchurch-street, just as he
was shoot to disperse of intelligence of the same kind,
and be was recognised by the porter at the inn as a per-
son who had often-been guilty of 'bollix practices.
The prisoner ackoowledged tbat be bad adopted the
itmtagein to support himself, but said his life was far
from being a life of idleness, as he had to walk many
miles a day and to make many inquiries.
Mansaottonen•STßEET.--Joke Might and Thomas Gough
were yesterday brought free' St. James's watch-house,
charged with violently assaulting Wales, one of the officers
of.this establishment, wider the' following curious circum-
%lancer'
Wale* stated that about ten o'clock the night before, he
was palming through Blenheim-street. and saw some persons
standing opposite the dear of Mi. Brooks, the aoat omist,
who told him that two men hot gne lute
o Mr. Brooks
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for the purpose, as they said, selling themselves for di
section; Wales liitened at the street-door, which they had
closed on gaining admittance, and heard them in converse-
den with Mrs.'Brocks; she told them
shit Mr. Brooks was
from home, bet if they had any prtular busin she
would inform him of it on his . Tie sold theirsbuseess was %deed very particular, sad of a nature that very
personally interested them—id short, they came to sell Mr.
Brooks two as good subjects as ever lived or died, sal the
'Ojeda they intended to dispose of then stood before her :.
they then asked her wharsne thought they were worth;—
Mrs. Brooks remonstrated on thb impropriety of their con-
duct, and their incivi.ity in not taking off their hats, and de-
sired they should leave the house. Tney replied, that as
they were for sale, they thought they looked best with their
hats on, but at all events they di.l Rot think there was much .
respect due to the wife of a " cutter up." Wales having-
beard toes retch, thought it timcoin terfere, and
erehld time
accord-
lagly knocked at the door, . a consid
they prevented Mrs. Brooks from opening. lie at length
raised admiaanee, and desired they would depart; upon
wch the knocked bile down, and both assaulted Lim with
great violey nce, but with the assistance of the watchmen he
took them Into custody.
Mr. and Mrs. Brooks attended at the office, and Mrs.
Brooks fully corroborated the statement of the officer.
The prisoners said in their defence, that they wen
of t
htoealt Mr.
Brooks for surgical advice, being id a bed state h,
end while waiting for him to come, they mentioned to Mrs.
Brooks that they had a subject to sell, which they would de-
scribe to Mr. :kooks when he returned. 'Coat Mrs. B
us rooks
said she was as good a judge of a subject as her hband,
and while they were describieg it to her, Wales knockdd at
the door.
Mrs. Brooks totally denied this account; and
The MAGISTRATE said, it was very un.ikely men would go
at such an hour of the night for advice.
The prisoners were both ordered to find bail for the as;
sault upon the officer.
UNIOn-llALL.—Yesterday, Robt. Cane and Matilda,
his wife, were brought before L.B. A LLEN, EN. for moth,
ation, charged with obtaining sums of money under false
pretences from Mr. Acocks.
The prosecutor stated the case, the particulars of wh'el.
appeared in our Police Report of Wednesday last.
Lord 111elbooroe's porter attended, and prove) that -no
person named Adams (as described by the prisoner) tare
resided at or was known in his Lordship's house,
John Major. a schoolmaster, in Duke-street, Westmin-
ster-road, atkoosiedged the letters nos produced, and
signed J. Mamma, to be in his hand-writing. In the
month of Dec. last the female pris iner came to his house,
represented her name to be Macann, and asked to have
same letters written; for which she promised to remune-
rate him. The witness agreed, and wrote the letters ac-
cording to her dictation. He did not recollect the pur-
port of any of the letters so written: neither had be any
conversation with Mrs. Cane relative to hergfeirs.
Mr. ALLEN observed, there was nothing 70 implicate
Mr. Major as having been concerned in the prisoners'
fraudulent transactions.
Mr. Macaw), surgeon, of Parliament-street, stated that
he never anthorised the prisoners to give drafts upon him ;
and he also proved that the letters alluded to were not in
his hand-writing.
The prisoners were fully committed.
THAMES POLICIL—Mr. Edmund Gilbert, the Landlord
of the London Hospital 'favern, Whitechapel-road, was
yesterday charged by Evans, the officer, wait suffeat unring
concerts to be held in his house. It appeared, th
the 12th inst. Evans was passing the defendant's house;
and saw placarded iu the window a paper announcing a
Benefit tioncert for that evening ; he entered the house,
and proceeded on to the door of the Concert-room, when
the door-keeper demanded his ticket; Evans answered lie
ha•l none, and was told the admission was Is. 6J. w aids
he objected to payibutby the authority of his oils' eh i-en-
tered the room, at the upper end of which he saw a per-
son playing a piano-forte among an assemblage of about
fort genteel persons; he again returned to the door,
when the door-keeper said the Concert was for the bene-
fit of a deserving young man who had been a clerk, but
was then experiencing the most deplorable reverse of
fontme. .
A number of the most re:ton-table iebalaaats ofti.at
neighbourhood crowded the Office to speak to the d.fat.•
dant's unexceptionable characterised the cha.i.y of the
act.--The defendant pleaded tilnittv.•
Mr. Rallantine said the 'cluraitior might tare some
weight. in mitigation of the off•nce, lied I,e convicted him
in the penalty of 21. telling bins the next offence would
' 1101., and the third would inevitably ruin him.,
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Mr. John Armstrong, of Hole douse. In the county ,r
Northumberland, had a.ewe sheep blown up in the snag.
on the night of the 12th of January list, stul atter maw;
a fruitless search was given up as lost; butt on the 26
fro:ti:,
ult. the partial thaw had relieved the poor te
her conbneineot; Wad she came home nearly stripped u.l
her fleece, having, during her incarceration, rate:. T..- .
ly all the wool otf her back. Sh: If now eery fue,l,
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doing welt

DIED.—On Ftlday last, the 14th Inst. at Tarsille-part.
near Ilettleymon-Thames, in his 86th year, the celebrated
Ben. Dumouriez.
On the ISth lest. after a few days' illness, in his 70th year,
Mr. 11. Gunnell, of the House of COl9lOOllll, Mid of
haw, Middlesex.
Oa the 13th instant, a the house of ber brother, at Mil-
ford, South Wales, Mary
ssbelln, second dsughter of the
late J. F: Rigaud, Esc!. A.A.
Wednesdty, Mrs. Cungrese, wife of Mr. H. Congrece. of
Ilerraltags-place, Islington.

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