The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-11-26 00:00:00

POLICE.

n mcn in
itnhetr• cot:lll.'4i!
the transaction, awl tat:.t the protruded cunfesinn of Itotter~
accts iog hint of being a principal, was a user t slnnuinaM fah,•:
bond. Roberts ,toted (hat late: knife with which Lieu a .
J oilman's throat was cut was concealed ia au old Liu kettle,nndersomc bramble brthei near Shouter', Hill. I'i.h
wry
taken is Shooter's Hill be (basin„ loom aua Glo+unnt, ~ra
' they arrived taw the spat whack h • had meationed, they eotkoke
:of the chaise to walk. Pi-trams to their quitting. the ..M.riae—
i Collingbutirn observed the Prisoner ha tits sttufdisq ahaut il
pockem. lie gave till t ;lemma ; atid, on cheer atter,
, Lion, they perceived he bad got a ktaife in hi, hand. 'flaw. hue'
ever, took no notice of the discovery they had made; and
Is
they arrived at the spot %Mee,. he the kettle Iva, deposit-di,
he pointed out a bramble bush, and on its
htsluesia
I officer saw the kettle; the Prisoner stooped doh n ned
I band under it, and, after a short time produced a knit.... which he
headed to the officers, pretending it was that they came in search
al. The officers, however, immediately knew it to b fis L e smile
1 they had previously seen in his hand,
Roberts had also prudueed a broach, which, he said, had-be.,
long. d to Lieutenant Johnson: the officers,
(.11 that the deceased had never wore mie. The has produced by
the Prisoner, and stated by bins to have been th it which the
'Armen:silt wore when he met his untimely fate, had been shoats
to his family, who all expressed their opinion that, it had mad
beets his hat ; they also declared titer did not believe he hail se
much money abourhim at the time .he was murdered. Prom
these and some other circumstances, nn doubts weer left on the
mind. of the Magistrates, that the pretended esafewinn of the
Prisoner was a most dia'ailical attempt to attach the guilt
murder to too men innocent of the crime, far the parm..aor
ob-
taining his own pardon for other offences i h whit hhe was
charged, and with a view of obtaining the reward ue'reed by
vernment for the tliseovery of the murderers, they therethre or.
dere& %teflon to h.' discharged, hut rally committed ltohertstae
trial, for the burglary with w hhe is ch:lrgecl, todon his arta
confession of having been Concereed in the robbery of Lieute-
sant Johnson.
I. Busr-Tracer.—On the morning of the 40th inst. a Yuman „al
stopped in the Strand, about two o'clock, an!' a tweak, which
on examination proved to contain eight valha lam's' zia,„„.
ae. She was brought to the o:fiee, when nut giving :oh uthur
aceuiint of them than that she had found them, She was tleminstl,
On Wednesday she underwent 'another examiaittion, war it Mr.
Walker, livery stable-keeper, Burleigh-street, attended, ..,74
identified the glasses to he s property, but did not know hue
they had been stolen The Prisoner was comioi tied fut. trial.
M ARLBOROUGH-STREM-Infonnation was given at 'thank,
on Tuesday night, that two French Gentlemen %s ere ahout to
fight a duel at Chalk Fenn, at seven o'clock the next morning,
and Thos. Foy, Jackson, and Craig, were directed to be on the
spot, and take the part-, into custody outtiliti.a.inrarrlral. Foos
(a3fatri
nressae vrerinv,e4
with
liks.tenot
ni vdst
sandale whole of who-s were
ta:.eit into visstody , and colts eyed to this 011ite. The principals
were I eld in sureties to keep the peace, and the ethers were
discharged.
John Wine, alias Men, ;vs charged with obtaining slims of
money by fraudulent pretences. It appeared by the testimony
of Mr. Metcalf and others, that the Primiter went about to dif.
Gavot persons, representing himself to have been shipwrecked,
and re&ced to beggary by that citctunstauce, having lost 110 4,
To carry no the i:npozitiou, the Prisoner had fernished himself
with fictitious documents, in corroboration •of his tale of use,
,s ith false sigaatures of Magistrates, Naval Officers, &c. the
had called on 11r. Metcalf a second time, when it was discs.
vered tnat lie was an impostor, and he was consequently seeuied.
The Prisoner was f.lly committed for trial.
A few evenings shire, as Marsden, an officer of Madison:tech.
charged with
.satereati,ti,taiwasoiraseicincertiinifau-,ntenrtiangol
cti,iregiotatitnneoote.f
.fierietrium,
New Prison to Newgate, the Prisoner suddenly threw a Ivini!•
fed of snuff its the officer's evrs, and attempted to escape.
Marsden, however, grappled him, and fastened on him until A 9
procured assistance, and he succeeded in lodging him to safe
custody.

Sir TuomksTTawnirr entered on his office ye,.
terday as Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.

The Valiant, 74, is arrived at Portsmouth from tht
Meditdrranean, and is put under quarantine.

taken
nett.% he parish raisbhoouftflaasmeap;
tonisLeviyetat,n loltlicititheestbwodays
and three quarters old, whose death was occasioned.
by poison. It appeared that the deceased, with his,
two, sisters (the eldest about eight years old), was at
play in the parlour of their father's house, where se-
veral phials were standing in the window; ons of
them was forced from the winch** by the childreti,
and the eldest sister picking it up, the deceased want-
ed to taste its contents, having before then bees
given some syrup of rhubarb out of one of the bot-
tles then standing in the window ; she (not knowing
the contents, and thinking it to be that which con-
tabled the syrup of rhubarb), pulled the cork out,
and put the bottle to the deceased's mouth, who
pressed it to his mouth, drank some of its•cuntents,
and spilt some upon his face and bands; he instantly
cried out in great agony, and upon immediate exa-
mination of the bottle, its contents were found to
ho oil of vitriol, which had been used in curing the
foot-rot in sheep, and was very carelessly placed
there by the deceased's brother, who had been using
part of it the day before. The deceased lingered.ha
great agony tmtil the next morning, when his infant
sufferings terminated. Verdict—Accidental Death.
SCICIDEC—Thuruby se'imight the bodies of two
of the domestics, a cook and a housemaid, in the
family of the Rev. Mr. Gibbons, at I3restead, is
Kent, were discovered floating in a pond behind the
premises, at eight o'clock on that morning. They
had previously tied themselves together with a piece
of twine, and afterwards threw themselves into the
water. Mr. Gibbons was, at the time this melan-
choly circumstance occurred, performing his pr-
fessional duties farther down the country, and in the
mean time the Rev. Mr. Swabey, of Lambeth, Surrey,
ofliciated.for him in Kent; and resided at Mr. Gib-
bons's house, during his absence. Mr. Sawbey stated,
that in the afternoon previous to 'their committing
, the fatal det.d, they informed him that a quantity' or
silver handled knives and forks belonging to "Mr.
Gibbons, which were entrusted to their care, and
which had been deposit,ed in the oven by them to
keep them from being damaged by rust, had bees
melted by the heat of the oven, and stating them-
selves to be quite incapable to make up the loss.—
Mr. Swabey very humanely made them a lowlsqtre
present towards defrayik = their expences. The Co-
roner for the county of Kent has sine sat on tie
bodies, and a verdict of ',unruly has been returned.

BIRTII.
Yesterday, Mr. Osborne, of Clapham Road. of a datietter.

MARRIED,
TproQ
At Wellingliorongh, by the Rev. Richard Roberti. on
day last, Thrums II udson, Esq. f Goe county
in the
of Worcester, to Ana, eldest daughter of the Rev. Julio Tote
Redick,
On Thuday last, Robert Southby, Eco. of tippleio 1, Relic
to Catharirsne, eldest daughter of Mr. H. W. Dinisdale, of Broad.

DIED.
Yesterday, at his Imam at Hampstead, Mr. Jamas Dell 4if
Coventry-stma, aged I. '
A sheet time ago M. :William Creswick, an eminent chaste
Yingerfor near 50 ;ears; at St. Peters Gothie Spire Chi
street, awl
idad, Yiondamt keisirely,eixapairedet
agetispped7odyeeanwa. suddenly in BO'

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