The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-07-24 00:00:00

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Attest liime•he
bell "r• Itrdiff eke/roe dor day, 'bet Silliatir mole,
pest mowdlie Iheagmywartny
ledilbes.!-LaWdMitekiDeilisli dowel boteilleidetio.`
mbet Lawmild et the ldwie,•mee diebe aelLmoge
Lawisalled out; .4,lElll.lllnreorr, be leas lehee_ama,
mnimo. admitted •leis having • been in gaol'
ewe of asouggileg. Mead wasOM had.beard.M.
egedut him and Law for the same charge, bet be:ANWAß-
thing abodt it.
Re-eisallned.—Witnest was acquitted on the-charge: it
was &bench warrant by the magistrate that committed Ids
for the smelt.
Thirteen other witnesses underwent examination, and,
'malty of them, cross-examination, when at haltpast six
ado& the case for the prosecution being closed, the
prisoners were called upon for their defence.
Mead said be had no ill will to Law, or to any body in
the wort*
Belt said be bore no malice to any humaerbeinge
After some conversation . between counsel and the
bench, Mr. Joreas suggested the examination of one wit.
nen on the part of the prisoners, that be might be sp•
prised of the nature of the intended defence.
This was overruled, and the Court adjourned seato-
morrow morning.

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CIVIJ., SIDE.

CRIMINAL INTORUATION.-Tllt KING AGAINST

AND,'" NOWILL.
This was a criminal information filed by Matthew
Wilson, Esq. a Magistrate of the West Riding, against
Alexander Nowell, Esq., late of Underly Hall, county of
Westmorland, for having written to him certain letters
tending to a breach of the peace, by provoking him to
fight a duel.
The Jury found the defendant Guilty.

.her feats were 'roundlet*.
however, she lift Chlebentsr,.
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woman of her acqttainamee.onteell. vy
pretence of *biting semis. kendeht the tourney riod 4.
has serer since returned. • For Some weeks alsejbeenm
thee. remained notirelyiigneemstof ,the roots. they had,
taken ; hut, a few days ago, Mary Hilbert renamed to
Chichester, and told lierihst berdsughter was in Lon-
don with the Baronet above alluded to, and that be had
taken lodgings for her somewhere in the neighhonrhoed
of Bond-sitter. Upon reetivipg this slender Information
the poor woman we out for London, and she now be-
sought the Magistrate to order his officers to so in
search of her.
Hie Worship told her her's.lras a iamentable, but byi
no means an uncommon case.; and he was sorry to nay„
that lamentable as it Was, he had no power whatever to
assist her. The woman, he added,.veho at the age .of *Win
teen, could abandon a dependent end widowed parents'',
together with all sense of decency, was not likely to,bst
influenced by a mere show of authority. Even if as ell
deer accompanied her In her search, and supposing tbnti
he succeeded in discovering the hiding place of ker.
guilty daughter, the utmost he could do would be to pre-
vent a breach of peace. He would therefore moo-,
mend her to return to het home, and console herself tis
well as she might with her remaining child.
The weeping mother cortesied end withdrew, evWOlll4
much disappointed.
11lAn1.130R0008•STR5ILTA (Vtlelolll3o the same of
Staale Goddard, was yesterday :ought to this Office
from ht. James's watob-house. charged with riot and
assault, under the following circumstances:—

Mrs. Penelope Goddard. who bad been the widow of
the late Mr. Steel, who.established the Nary List known
by that name, stated, that after the death of her hus-
band, Mr. Steel, who left her in possession of a large'
independence amounting to many thousands, aim bad
the misfortune to marry the present defendant, bat abe
had not long taken this step before she hail cause to re-
pent it, as he squandered away the whole of her property
and then deserted her, leaving her totally destitute of all
means of subsistence, wigs three young children to pro.
vide for. After a considerable period bad elapses!, dur-
ing which she maintained herself and children on the
bounty of friends who knew her io better days, she acci-
dentally discovered the residence of Mr. Goddard, and
Made a pathetic appeal to. him to afford some relief to his
distressed family. Repelled in an insulting manner, and
unable longer to procure food for her poor children, she
was under the cruel necessity of placing two of them in
Mary-la-house and one in St.Viles's workhouse, where
they are at this moment supported by those parishes ; the
officers of which have lung been in vain in search of Mr.
Goddard, to compel him to make some provision for their
relief. On Tuesday evening, about six o'clock, as Mrs.
Goddard was passing through Fleet-street she met her
linsbaod, but made no attempt-to address hits. He how-
ever was not so forbearing towards her, fur not content
with calling her by opprobrious epithets, he collected a
large crowd about her, and employed a parcel of but.
client' boys and others, from fleet-market, to purse, her
along Bridge-street, hooting after her. Very fortunately
for Mrs. Goddard, an old Gentleman, of the name of Fitz-
gerald, met her near the Bridge in this distressing situa-
tion, anti determined at once to rescue her from the fury
of the exciteti mob. He accordingly with great prompti-
tude hurried her into a boar, in which he accompanied
ber, and r-wed off with all speed towards Westminster.—
Mr. Goddard, determined to pursue, as promptly manned
another boat, and, accompanied by thread his associates,
followed the course of Mr. Fitsgerald's boat, calling out
the whole way along the river to the different watermen
and others to stop them.

This conduct threw the whole river into commotion,
and the expedition was attended ►with as great a concourse
of boats as if it was a boat race. Mr. Fitzgerald, however,
kept firmly to Lis purpose of insuring Mrs. Goddard's
safety (of whom it appeared be knew nothing, but that
she was a female in distress) and inspiring his waterman
with some of his own ardour and gallantry, kept a head
of the enemy, and landed his charge in safety at White-
hall stairs. Knowing that his pursuers, who were sn&•
cieotly numerous to overpower him, must be soon at his
heels, he took the immediate precaution of depositing
Mrs. Goddard in the sutling house, at the Horse Guards,
under the care of some soldiers, while he himself procured
a constable in sufficient time to take Mr. Goddard, and
lodge liim in St, James's watchbouse, where lie remained
all night.
Mr. Fitzgerald, who is about 70 yeast of age, corrobo-
rated the statement of Mrs. Goddard, as to the duce on
the river. &c.

Mr. 6Y6R, the Magistrate, called on Mr. Goddard to
account for his extraordinary conduct. He launched
out into violent language towards his wife, whom he re-
presented to be a common street walker. The Magis-
trate reproved him fur this line of defence; and said
that as be had no better to offer, he should fled good
bail to answer for his conduct. The defendant said he
should procure no bail, and he was committed to prison.
The parish officers who had sverrants against him were
in the office, and very happy to see him there.
UNION HALt►.—A lad, between 16 and 17 years of
age, clerk to an attorney in the city, was brought before
M. Swaney, Esq. charged with having made as indecent
assault upon a watchman, named Weaver, on Tuesday
niglit. -
The watchman, who is not under the maternal of the
Magistrate, but paid by the inhabitants of the New Gut,
entered into a detail extremely revolting, and produced
another person, in the same condition of life, to confirm
part of his testimony, and the watch house keeper to
prove that the lad wished to be forgiven.

The boy said he had been at the Coburg Theatre, sad
upon leaving it went into a public house with an acme,
and took too much liquor. That after be left his famed
he joined the watchman and a woman, and walked about,
with them, and went into several public houses, whom
be treated the watchman; that the watchman wanted.
him to treat the woman to drink, but he refused ; and.
that soon-afterwards the watchman took hold of him, pa
him into the custody of another watchman, without saw,
mid charged him.
• The witness denied that be had drank at the boy's ex-
penee, but at length admitted that be, the boy, and $ wo-
man, ha. Amen walking aboat the streets,, that he was
eating a piece of beef while the boy was twists lobster;
be also admitted that they bad bees remain &beet for
twenty minutes, and had emmereatiee, bat net aeon sf
a suspicionsoature. He summed up all Ids eesereditm
ties, to his first statement by euchring that tbehsp•
wade two assaults of. the mine deacriptioe apse Iles,
cad that an interval of ten minutes took plus betmeme
the two attacks, whieh.sras owmpiekiserrevemetherre
-Mr. Swasse asked the wet se Whip .he did sed
hum* the border/0
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knock him down.
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