The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-12-11 00:00:00

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TO THE . - , • retain. their nominal amount ; and ore •
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"lIANGELLOR or rns EXCHEQUER, pensioners et all expellees to continue at their pre: . ..-.0..- ..:
, serst Fele? If you begin, Sir, you cannot stop.- I *
i You ;test go An straight forward, or all will inevi. j 10,0001. He had, in order to obtain paytnerht of his '
ale. flOnNe roolv,eAsZl:L• scat jsgiciliZl. il.. Basely might • do ; he had ittsti.oied a suit, wish a view ti' a-muter
• I tably tumble t.. pieces. „Von have now get hold of . debt; done that which he had an untbotasitel right- to
be permitted to tretlse affidavit iii ie. as to that filed U. Div Lordship developed a variety, of comp'ic tits!
REDUCTION OF PROPERTY TAX. • a thing Ihat you do noCknow how to handle. As
s er
by Mr. Broo I His a A
es,-That "
thinssomethi must he done," Ii
a long as there was: nothing to do but to make apd gatoo. ..is ..mreshill:would kecollect, procre-dings during the course. of ills li!i-vion We . .
. that Mr. Basel had not et relined to any of the gist Lae ley. • tits iseelthite je d''artihi'llt; the ern"
ins, on which we are greed. But, in my last issue papet, the cnecerit throve eaceedingly.-----o
Charges etertinit)hiel : It sr)
der I ventured to assure you that no little ppd. Croakers talked about the ruinous dealt ; but,-eko
had Ple of vise:tile; but the b••siness had taken as (tot then though,: afril,si
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7 :eft. 5i
sse g oi
ft
• Nal.tChhtilhi:.larDrll IS: ri suit,
WilaS•t;i"ltZedy hunteditbY
hcaormes.
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1 that his Coo'n'sel c n
sg measure, such as the taking off the tenant's Pro. farmers and laudlords found they
~ einhsuch aulafirinohtt
be
• in Chins ; lie stated that they heisted that Peet anintel
Ay Tax, or his Assessed Tales, or both, would an- money,. and they left the debt for pesterity forpay, shape,
w any purpose. What was ate surprise, then, as they thought. They never fait Pled that oteet-. doing their duty, if 4.0 ner e( at they "•`• i .
Ito rebut in waggons ; but though the 01,4• M Wili long, they
inn„ I saw ;that Courier of yesterday, a paragraph tempt st meld be
'mad
to make them pay it, Or these charges, if? he s„„Tid did fit:;"t advise him 1
i prose his i„smeenee generally came up with him at last. Ila cioscloslml
mewling, the assessments of- the Property any 'part of it. They never imagiverl, that, while wet impossible; but he might be)aisle show some. Iby a illation, the oiled of e. Seat was to v sry.the last
A for the present year are to he reduced, as a re- (he taxes were 70 millions a year, their wheat would thine,
that
would
make.to .
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his offence appear of a less i ofd, k made by the Lord Chemeelier.
,s• is the farmer4l.• But, if you have no objection, I sell at 6s: abuShel. . . : criminal nature in hit Lorttsbi i's el es. I
,Sir S. Bostmay nisaersed, that -he suposed the;
I;i', before I proceed any further, insert this pare- ; This reduction of the Property-Tax, supposing it . . The Lunn Ltiaxclusott.-'l‘
lie may, or nifty not, , only object the Noble Lord had its view by the up:
'in my Letter. It runs thus :-" The Lords
Pii." • to extend to. all lands, is nothing. It will not !awe make the alfidsait, just' as he pleJees; I awl not I sent motion was to have •t y •I •
•an opportunity of ranking-el ,
mmissioners of the Treasury have directed printed one single farmer ' one single day front gaol. It has prevent him. 1 beliere'y•ou were not in Court the fah. • Ilaail'at full availed himself of th• op:
41ruc:iosis to be issued from the principal office for beers stated in all the reports of evidence, taken be- other day, token I mentioned; that on reading the porianits, he (Sir Samuel) trnated that tie waists
e affairs of taxes, to the district Commissioners for fore the Houses of Parliament, that the I:rrner, with affidavit of Broughton I found a sestet trember of of the Noble Lord would .b li •ed. • f •
egeneral purposes of the Properly Tas Act, au-. the present (sacs, - • wita costs
Miss
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to Lnwley, who had been put to
mising them, under certain conditions, to reduce SOs. a quarter, ,barley than 40e. oats than 305.-,-: mining it minutely, I foundr
that they had not COM- ' the eepence of appearing to his ' . .
l. . oppose moiion.-
assessments• ender schedules A. and B. in pro- i Wheat is now at 555. bailey at 281. oats at 214. A initiedo contempt, p as all their acts were before the Ti e lam•ned C -
amise sass', it was exsremely difficult ...
ohm to the reductions bong fide made in the rents quarter of each put together at the former price 2lth of Aug. when the WM'felled, I for. I. . . iii to remember what ho had said five or siw
Iles current year, in consequence of the deprecia- make 1501. and at the present price, 107 s. Now, Wade then only became a I wasl
I • and
NIII4I woo. of Los Court. But, moss: I, : ago. The Noble (nod had spoken of bit -
II in the value of agricultural produce. Special suppose a farmer to grow a hundred quarters of on looking WO their conduct, I found it so infamous, ('+;r Samuel's) eloquence upon • ad
the occamou ; be h
slings of the said Commissioners will be generally each, he sells for 2151.• less than a living wise._ 'that I suggested it might be necessary. to send the very little eloquence to throw teeny ; and certainty;
Id in their respective districts, for the. purpose.of What,' thee, signifies your taking 10 Ar 151. 011 in case to the Attorney-Genet:ll. I then, also men_ if he hid possessed ever sn much, he should hot
rry is g this measure into effect, and due notice will the article of Property-Tax ?- .It is like throwing tinned, that they
might
be acquainted with the sub •11 I ' I I it-upon ..
- elate aril IP(
even on the church doors of the days and places out a bundle of
a hammocks to lighten a sitikiag ship. ject roamer of the affidavit, and that they alight au- motion of Court; the eloquence ' •'" '
was not Isla-lie ~
such mortisms, as is usual respecting appeals in steer it if they could." • • j disclaimed it. 'Else Noble Lord tippets red offetided at ~
In the country,' it is thought pretty generally, that • •
e affisirs of taxes." • ss -
. the taxer will be paid this year ; bar, that this year ,' Mr. llottem-m I knelt nothing of the Parties." 'llse Application of the weld " agreeable" to Miss' ,•,,,.
•fl,is appears to me• to he a very extraordinsry pa. will Ise the last - This
a wr„.., „„ti„,‘ Th e , The Lotto Cutstev.taseSsi.-.-46 ihssay molts, ILa a ley. His recollection served him suffiriently to t
mob. fes the first place, lam puzzled to know • • • • . 4is " • Mr. 11011,11:.-.4 The•
. •taxes, will fad. by degrees. Pretty Chest, I allow : object of my applieetion ih. co:mince him that he had tent used fuck a word.--S s
ir the Lords of the Treasury came by the authority but„ alt branches will fall off in nearly the Wile de. that your Lordship at wild fix a more distant day (.Whatever he might have thought of the Lady, hO
reduce the amount of lie man's taxes. Ihave • '• • than Hest Monday, to •••• Basely
gree, except the pedlar's tax • for that still increase, hive an opportunity of . never could hero been so injudicious as., when spook: .1.
sea ;um the Act of Parliament, and I can find no • • ' • to' tiling affidavits : there as it. arises from licences, whsch enable people
me that gives them any such power. If they can crime from the criuntry." • * ,-. •• 'mill themselves of the privilege of sleeping under eMe." The Learned Counsel then noticed a• parts of •,.
fare one mass's taxes, they can, I should thick, hedges. The tradespeople (eel the effect of the w:ant • •1•:•t, LORD CII,O4cELLog.-44.11.,111 not allow the de statement 'relative to the iecovery of the dia.
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I•rs i • f-- I . I .1
roe() auother mates taxes; and if. they can reduce, ".
Court to be trifled wish,: If. ie is attempted to, put „month of the •taucaess r,f ..seenuersatio, if .to 111 lair ... '
of moi.ey even morn than the farmers. The inn. ,
le should they not augment ?If they can do all this, off the further consid.eration of the subject from time Ithe R • h 1 oei him. Ho 1.
keg ors feel it in a r st • •\%' here way. NN here 20
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ili• should the Parliament meet at ell ? For, if to time."
fsirnpiera used to dine at masker at the essence of then addtessed himself to the merit's of the case, rend * •
Joe can be levied, or taken off, by the Lords of •. . s ' • .• Mr floasts.-1-at. t Would not lend •
ten or Town ssellings a head, fire do not now MOP, 'myself to such concluded by calling upon his Lordship to reject time
haressury, the Houses really appear to meet for and they 1 a thing." • :motion of the Noble Lord, with costs:
net at more than eight shilling a head.-. - • ,
ry little purpose. However, this is, now.a.days,The LORD Cnaacer.t.on.--s.s. Insteod of next Mon- - The Lone Cm iateet.Loa said, tie would
Wiese was their drink ; they cracked their bottles!
she considered of little cousequence, when corn-let it he postposed to erlondeyetentsight, and the of this matter on Monday morning.
while they beteg' " Gud sate the King," and cursed i day,
,red with the sort of reduction that this paragraph r..order for the'attesida vice of Mailanie
sMas ie .and her
the Jacobins. Now they rise no bibl than
•
`;';`, us is about to take place.of stougoed.llthshand be enlarged." '. • •
of grog, and that mettle, perhapie - •
The assessments are made for this year. We have Air. Li scut.-" They mist biotertake Its give oil
brandy. The market day was, in all parts of the '
t
I had notice of what we have to pay, or, rather, of copies of the affidavits by Fs Wiry." •• '
country, a day of gaiety and bustle in the towns.- I ,
amount of what will he demanded ;for, as to pay.. The shopsfilled • h Thevillages I werewith customers. Mr. Ilonet.-" I cannot object to that." • . .
g, that, in many cases, is wholly out of thegees- SA RL Or CARIIAMPTON O..LAWLEY.
and farm.houses sent in their money. Now,
,they
a. The charge being made, and the bills sent is., have AI 1 money to sent in. All is poverty. No. The judicial proceedissgs of this day exhibited the
e expected either to pay in full, or, to pay pound.: novel and interesting spectacle of a Peer of the realm
body Call either make purchases, or pay delis., 1
e, like other batik rupts. But, now, it seem/co some I
have not eat present, to lengthen this ~
us are to have our bills shortened, "in nse. I
In
.my nextl I s II enclose
e you the Pontius:, spoken'
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nice of the depreciation in the value of agricultural i Bart
.wis courteously informed by the Lord Chan.
of. iii my ast, from Gripum and others. Their case
reduce." I say some of us ; for, it seems, that it cellar that he had a right to sit near him on thibeucli.
is really distressing; they urge their claims with great • •
only some of us, who are to be thus favoured ; '
force;hi I The Noble Fart declining the honour, immediately
but I am convinced, 'hat you will
d that, too, that part of us, who have the least rea."l be able addressed himself to his Lordship. Be said it must •
to save them, though the goodness of your intentions i a,,p,,,,,.at
receive that favour. For, it is only.in eases presumption in him to come to this'
cannot be doubted. They have all set their cavalry '
here rents have been reduced this jeer, that the Court lor he perpose of stating his own case. lie
horses to plough and cart ; they would, if. t hey could,
aes are to be reduced. Cats any thing be more tins •was aware that if such a mode of application for jus.s
downßut,practised, the dress arid pretensions of their wives and
sec•
tion ? -• *- - of the Court would be much interfered with ' 1-..
daughters that is the difficult matter; that is the •
Let us suppose 'Velure : Farmer Gripum has a ff 9.
which
theof , and his Lordship much annoYed. Ile was a Week-
c Ist, touter
'aloud, whose kindness exceeds his•understanding, too of the hacktsied observation, that lie who',
pretty nearly as much unpitied by their neigh. i
id who reduces Gripum's rent from 2001. a-year to and I pleaded his own cause had a fool for his client, sink i
boors, as the prosecuted Jacobins were 'leo
11. a-year. Farmer Polecat's landlord sees flue• byitied ?,assured his Lordship • that,• if by legal artifice's 'he;
after in a different light, and though his farm is , them. t had been made to suffer in a legal point of vi. w, •
f precisely the .sarne taken as that of Gripum, and 1 The observation', made by me, in my last Letter Ihe should patiently have borne' the evil ; for, aim,
!le rent is exactly the saute, he has had to pay the full' but one, as to the justice and necessity of reducing the beaver left behind him that which bunters co-_s;
uOl. in rent. Now, pray, Sir, orsm what prin. the pay of the Royal Family,
Soldiers, Judges, veted, so he, imitating that sagacious animal, would
OP of equity is it, that Cripum's ea is to be re- •
Sailor!, Placemen, Police • Justices, &c. &c. have, gladly bare left behiiid him what his adversaries i'
teed one half, and that poor Polecat is to (we- I assure you, Sir, made a great impresses's. People, wanted, and would hare felt himself fortunate in thus .
iesee no reduction Itt all ? If she tax were to be .
who used to call me a Jassaiiii, say that that props- escaping from their fangs. But when his charac. i
educed in cases' it here Ilse rent has tint been dind, siti" is perfectly fair. You will hear of it,
1
-think, ter was attacked, lie was not so patiesit as to suffer
Plash, there would appear to be some ground for through other channels, before it he long. This will that to Le torn to pieces ; and as his property could
LP distinctiott ; but, as the intentions is represented be a bustling winter with you ; mid I give you joy ref i not•be got at but by assailing his character, it was,
[IOUs paragraphs, it is absurd as well as unjust. it, with all my heart. But, o !tether the landlords stir, therefores he appeared here to defend himself. He .
But, is here is this thing, if once attempted ; if or not, I shall be equally amused. I shall observe their had to complain that a Learssed I Counsel, Sir S. Ito-
me entered on ; if ',see begun ; where is it to mid ? mosements with a watchful. eye. . i think I shall be I mills, had imposed on the Court, though unconscious!
law many cases of appeal and consplitint must be temp'ed to go up once more and look at their faces, I that lie was doin-
g so, a fictitious leery. Ile could I
ode! Hew various are the races ! What a tu• moil to see what are empty stare they will give each other ; not avoid reminding his Lordship, that King James
ihrougheut the cauntey ! What confusion ! 'fake how aniazed they will seem to he that their estates of England was his Own Chancellor, and the keeper
tire, Sir: you are stow touching the very spinal leave slipped through their fingers ; how insipid the of his own conscience; he never would hear but one l
tee MTateiluo story will seem to their ears; how dull of
pee, if it be really true, that such instructions side of a question, beimuse hearing the other always]
sty heels issued. Suppose a farmer to hold a farm appreheesion they will be on the subject of the Wa. puzzled !din • and noise s& his courtiers or favourites, I
pose en old and low lease; hut that the 'rasters have terloo column; how little they will seem •to care not eTell his "Minister But•kingham, even dared to tell I
ale bins pay the same as if his faitse was of late about the stripping of the Louvre and the Museums. him that one story was good till another was feel.-
I think I see them now, turning their ears from all
amend high, and have made him pay the handhold's The Royal precedent happily had not been followed I
!to 1,11)011 this mlstitioisal value. if being impossible theae topics, as a cat, which has been whipped for by succeedir a. Chancellors ; but it sometimes happened
O ore sn 0 make r landlord pay for ; than the real rent ? pigeon killing, turns tier head from a dead Pigeon, in this Court, even when eloquence on one side was '
VIII you not seduce this fanners lax ? You canitot flung down before her. I will certainly ride up to opposed by equal eloquence on the other, and words
molding to t; e rule laid ('.own is; the above para_
see them. were substituted for truth, that a sort of mist or fog I
raph ; hut, would not tii:s ha m••nstrously unjust ? 'ln the meanwhile, hoping that you will hold them was raised, through which it was difficott to tlictio- 1
lien again, in case of the also who occupies his to their former professions of readiness to spend their guish right from wrong; but whet an istdiveloal took.
ass lased. His rent cannot have been reduced, he- " last shilling" in the cause, I remain, Sim.your most the step to which he had resorted, he was obliged to
ause he has no rent to pay ; but has not the value of obedient, awl moat humble servant, speak the truth-the undisguised truth-for otherwise
'is produce stink as well as that of the produce of Betsey, Dec. 6, bite. WM. eo it !TETT. his Lordship would soon filed him out, and treat him
he sewers ? And will you compel him to pay plumb as he deserved; but, said the Noble Pleader, snagnat
.p to the old mask, thaugh the ground of the re- art
Court of Co mon Council will be holden on est rererre, and be hoped be should be •able to add
suction applies to him as well as to any other mats ? . m
... precylebit. Conscious of his integrity, and with truth-.
Thursday next, ill consequence of a requisition re- and justice on his side, Ise should venture to confront
Diereses are of infinite variety ; and, who is to t!e- ceived by the Right Hon. the •Lotto Maatoa to lake j sir samoal itomill who if justite was on his side,
isle upon them What a scene is now approaching y, ,
s! Desions necessaril at discretion, with all the into considerathei the sanguinary persecution of the I would by his superior intellect creek him to atoms.-
esejudicriy
and all the passions of men mixing theme in the South of France, and to adopt : The Noble Loud proceeded to state that the attack to
es .
such 1110111111 PS, either by, voting all address to his
,whith his introdutory observations referred, had beets
elves, mid necessarily • mixing themselves, in every
!loyal Highness the nutlet Reeesur, or •by other . made upon him through the medium of a law report
imassion arid deliberation !
be • udoed expedient, to meant', which may J s.
Secure of the 15th of July
contained in a Suede), Newspaper
Besides, if the reduction is to be confined to the
the religious liberty of the inhabitants, according to last, o.
i the occasion of a motion having been made
Mx on lauds, the rents of which have been reduced.
their Constitutional Charter. 'by his COLHISP4 Mr. Leach. The statement lead been
aliat is to be &roe in the case of lands where the
Si. JANES., PAKIC.--Yesterclay the Canal its St• into all this country papers, and he had by such
Itnants base 'mill no rents, and have been unable to copied
James's Park was exceedingly crowded with skailen' •; publications been held up as a man otiose concluell
II any ?-A re these tenants, who are no longer in
their farms, And Issue no 11101IPP to pay the landlord, and, although several' accidents happened, some 0 had been odiousand unjustifiable. Ile at first thought j
%Isiah, we are sorry to state, were nuclides! with fatal of treating the statement as a libel, but that mode oft
OPe the ta% its full; or is the landlord, who hes
consequences, oo Pm to the ice not being su Y
flicientl '
obtaining redress he did not like.. He had been atiml
from want of means in the Weald, to pay the full
wised no rent, or whose berm has been quitted
strong to support the pressure, stilt the obstinacy of . vised by some person to answer it. in the Newspapers;
the unwary persisted. About nine "clock in the be still less approved of that course_ though of late it
,at tenants the whole or the half the year, and, of m
Ist for both? Asrain, man farms have been with-
orning one man was drowned ; His Lordship stowoone,
muse, there has been no reduction of rent. Is the o . 'clock its the afternoon, the ice broke in sear
about three hail been very much the fashion.
ear the proceeded to state the-report of which im complained.
!medium], who has since beets in possession, to pap, Pagoda-bridges when rrope 12 persons fell in ; all of It was a statement relative to the{ . rty of ahe late
.
them were happily gist out safe except one boy, whose Duchess of Cumberland, in which it was represented ,• •
in these case;, the tax in full, according to the last
hour last ni ht : several • body was nut found at a late g brat s I beets the object of the
Miss La wley had
bounty
assessment ? Is he, because lee has been able to es,- .
others got a good ducking in consequence of their ,
Duchess of Comberltoore testamentary uty ; but
,/in no tenant, to ay the full amount of the tax,
p
benefited by the bequest,
imprudence. : that instead of having beers
*lila' those who hauled tenants at a reduced rent
1:r an el-
ate In pay only a part of the Sal? Verily, if this On Sunday gen/light, a serious accident occurred ' she had been deprived of ell the
, fruits. of it
NI
with Lord tarhampton. the .o-
-!1- true, the end is, in good earnest fast approach- at Acklarels, near Donclitter. As Lord Athestry • pensive Wig:tricot .
' thetecorrectneses of the
itia, Was Watkintein the plantation near the house, he Me Lord then enlarged upoi ,
Bat/ ell unfortunately foot upwire of a spring, y reduce the Property Tax on the land set his on the
statement, 'indent's/ea veryistto long Wooly of the
a ..
orthe !site butchess
f" !a, ? Since the. assissnitoos were made for this goo which lied been placed there the preceding Ma. circumstances in which the agam
:tar, hare not the people in m n Is
trade sullered ? Are leg, mid respired several shot in knee end .' otime of her decease on altolegs f Cunsherland stood at the,
disposing of ken per.
il•sy act to be considered ? And deists and mons We are happy to stare, that though severely wounded, Continent. She had left a will,
Pscs, are they not to be reduced 3 Are they to his Lordship is In a fair way of recovery. boost property; to persons who were strangers to her

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LETTER V.

dispose'

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OLD BAILEY.
SATURII,IIII, Mit. 9.
'Thomas Haley stood irdicted fhr- burglationsly entering the
dwelling-house of Patrick Gibbons, of Petticoat lane, on the
70th of Nuveniber last, and stealing from thence one coal, valise
We. his peotteety. The Prosecutor deposed. that he kept the
Red .Lion Ta . On the morning of the day stated In theta.
diennent• he was roused from his bed by a lodger' in tbelionse.
named Lewis, who exclaimed t -a• there was a ladrooe, a emir
ing a thief, in the house. This person was a Portegiteap.... Wit-
ness rind Lewis ;ben got a candle, and went tomtit/I:we. when-
diet found the pannel of a door which led to t. e seed listkoa *-
open, by which means the holt had- beets forced bait, *mar. .
door opened. A pane of class was broken- in the triadgt of
the bar, and at a little distance they observed lb*'Pstlllltlt • ''•
standierg with the coat la question at his get. The coat WWl.' '
positive he had der 'sited in the bat the eight before. • . f •
'John Lewisdeposed, that be ads a lodger in the bole of tati
Prosecutor. tan the morainic of The 15th of November, while "
coming downstairs, about Iliess'elark, he beard a *Oise like
the breaking of glows, and aeon after observed a man its theati
of taking some clothes fruit; the ground, Fie Immediately pier •
an alarm, a light was bratiglo, and they! Jficoiered the Pei.
sower.
• Edward GiLbons, son of the Prosecutor. corroborated tsar •
, testimony of the two former witnesses. •
The Prisoner, in his.deferice. said,. that he had hang dekkillif
'in the house the night be ore with some girli, and ;bit hinikkg • -
fallen asleep in the tap-room, be remained there all' night: INV •
thought it impossible 'or any person to eater the home hr
ns there was a large masttE dog that would tear a time
pieces.
• Edward Gibbons being again called, denied tbst the Mammy
had been in the house the precedinguight, he basing shot up the
house. Tire else spoken 6f by the.J'ilitister would certainly op.' ' • .
pose the entrance of a stranger: but from the situation la whiolis-. . •
the intuit was found in the osoraing, it-was esculent somethiug
had been given to stepify it. • •• •.
Mr. Justice tee BL sec having recapitulated the esiJence, tlltF '
Jury foetid the Prisoner Guilty—Death.
John Smith, James Rider, amid Julio Durham. were ladieted •
for burglariouily breaking, and entering the 'dwelling:home al
Jobe Little,' in the parish of St. Mary; Witkekliapei' in the i •
day lime, and stealing from thence six pair •of shoes, his pro-
periy.
Thomas Jordan deposed, that he it apprentice to the Prose-
entor. On the mormeig of the Yllth or November he dept in ..
the Shop, and about day-break he heard a noise like the hreok-
in; of glass, :Ad gut out of bed. On looking round, he per-
ceived a shutter had been removed, and a pane of glass bad
keen broken. The hand of John Smith was inside, and had,
bold of a pair of shoes. The two other Prisoners were standing
close by him ; he could distinguish their faces and dresses dls-
I linen. •
; bad seen them often t gethe, previously, walking up
dowo the street ; could out say what Smith did with the
shoes be took ont, but supposed he banded them to the other
Prisoners; it was not quite light at the time, and might he a
a little after sic o'clock ; it was sufficiently light, boweves.. to .
des. ingitish their faces.; he, weut, as soon as possible to alarm
his master, and the latter having come 'down stairs, with a •
lighted candle, they examined the shop, and found slz pair of
shoes had been stolen away. • - •
John Little, the Plusecutor, cannoned the eeidepee of the
last winless, who alarmed hiss Rhein bat! pale The -
statement even to him by the boy corespsaded wish the a, .
pe:entoce of the Prisunen. Witness bad often seen the reigantall
together. •
Francis Freeman, an officer; stated,' frail ti.eiatieviewee •:
the description given by the boy, he went Hs Ilse Princess of
Wales public-house, better known hy the name of Black Hell.
in SPlialfititls, about 11 o'clock in Wie foreifootr, fin the darter •
she robhery The Prisoners were at cards phew be Wit them
into'custody.
The Jury having retired for a short 4F, !e... onset! a. ',edict,
Boding the Pi Li-ners Guilty of the Lie y only..
Henry Itotrilmce aged 16, and Santo Birds-aged IV, were
capitally indicted for stealing from desk m of Stesen. Taylor
and Davies, of Osford--street, a piece of ratted Cotton, Wee
404. on the Ist of Not esebt.ir last, heir property.
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Gollate.of stealing, 4-fir:re-in Iler tltstllirrg•ftrele. _ _
John *Moore was nidined for hurglariouslylsreitking and flaw
tering the dwelling-house of Edward Irwin, in the ipseish de-91. •
Leonar 1, Stoweditcli; on the Yeth of Nov.
from thence two silver table-spoons, four tesesponne, 17 yards
of linen cloth, , waistcoat, and other articling( wearies
apparel, in theafaliirilme.
Margaret Irwin deposed, that about 12 o'clock on the day
stated in tilt indictment, she lel the house on business, bolting
• Anp locking all the door-. She remained from home until two
o'clock, and upon her return, and entering the kitchea, disco-
' veered a drawer had been broken open, and the property al.
, ready enumerated stolen from thence. Witness looked round
and examined the house, to see if any 'tenon remained there, .
hut found net one. At letigth prosecuting lice Search, she dis-
covered the Prisoner in a pigeon-loft, where he afeeted to he
;Weep. lu asuman:a. however, he jumped tip and threw him-
self into a coalebole, where he lay some lime. Witness said tv - •
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him, " Jack, you are a had boy," when he replied, "
know it, hut if you.forgiee me ibis time, I will go so
sees acid
• you will not see me more," She, however, gave Men to cu..
,only set- an Officer. Rib weal set the articles which he had removed
fruits the drawer for the porlitt,e of Carrying away.
No proof being adduced of the breaking and entering, the
Prisoner was found (Sulky of melding only.
An unfortunate accident happened on Sstordeyt
at llritton Causeway, A lad, about 17 years
who was removing-good' in a cart to town, on get.
ting up to drivu Mt; the horse set off; the Mint
'got eittaitletl shout his legs, pulled him down, *opt
the wheel. going over hit body caused bit lust sue*. r
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