The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-28 00:00:00

F.11:1i, RIOT AT GLASGOW.

[MOM Tag GLASGOW CHRONICLE.)

COW, APRIL 24.—Yesterday the King's birth-
, celebrated with the customary4dentanstrations
Ilty. The military and volunteers, in the pre-
' an immense crowd, mancenvred and fired in
Green; and in the evening his Majesty's health
1 at the Cross, amid great applause, by the
:rates. The juvenile loyalists amused them-
daring the day by letting off pistol', squibs,
.raekers. The populace came into play as the
advanced. A flaming tar-barrel was paraded
the principal streets, and then used to light
bonfire in front if the prison. Baillie Clelland's
• are the materials usually seised upon for ex-
loyalty. Five month' ago the mob con-
them to conflagration for the escape of the
, and last night a similar Ilfe was made of
. in honour of his Majesty. The bonfire had
lasted Imp!, before the police offtrers ratite for-
int' endeavoured to prevent further depreda-
att they were fiercely assailed by the mob and
to retire.
small party of Dragoon' then came to the spot.
officer commanding them, in the most humane
finer, tried to persuade the populace to desist, but
towered his mild deportment by hisses and a
of sticks. The officer still contented himself
keeping off the crowd from the fire. By and
Magistrates appeared, with a company df in-
The crowd, persisting in their attack, were
..Itlwiately driven back ; but they 'renewed the con-
with sticks and swam and severely wounded se-.
of the soldiers. The patient forbearance of
Dragoons deserves the greatest praise; every man
ails small party was cut or bruised : a serjeant
private were unhorsed. The Lord Provost and
Head Jailer were cut on the head. Several gen-
emen 'near them were also wounded more or less.
of the 41st was knocked out of the ranks. After
delay, the Dragoons, having been reinforced,
deanced, and the crowd made off in all directions.
Jg one of the evolutions of the Dragoons, sevetal
fired men, women and children were tumbled over
other. The confusion and cries of terror, as
. as the loud lamentations for the loss of hats and
bises, were striking. They who endeavoured to get
by the wooden bridge, soon blocked up the
Jge, and the first arch, twenty-five feet in width,
broke down with the pressure. It was a terrific
slt ; the cries which arose from the sufferers were
piercing, and were re-echoed by others little
fearful from the spectators. A mingled mass of
, women, and boys, were precipitated into the bed
he river. The water was not at the deepest more
ten inches; but much injury was sustained from
fall and pressure. The police officers assisted
bystanders in carrying out the wounded, but the
tiers were by this time too much itritated to offer
aid. The unfortunate persons were conducted to
Town's Hospital, the Jail, and the infirmary.
Five of the sufferers were carried into the gaol, four
them had broken legs, and one hail a broken arm.
the Royal Infirmary there are seven men and boys
ith fractured arms and legs. In the Town's Hos-
tat there are eleven men, girl., and boys; among the
juries are a fractured thigh hone, a compound frac-
,re of the leg, a dislocated shoulder joint, a girl with
fractured jaw-bone, and remainder are bruises. A
rnber were taken to the South Bank. A surgeon
flutchesontown has three cases of fracture, and 21
severe cuss or bruises. A number more were hurt,
•ho went home. We lament to say that these acci-
nits are not the worst. One unfortunate man of the
:Inc of George Andrew, a shoemaker in the (lorbals,
was helped (front the bed of the river) into an adja-
cent braise, and set down in a bed ; when be had got a
!rink of water, he fell hack and instantly expired.
Ie has left a wife and four children to lament his
tenth. There are rumours of several more deaths :
;tit they have not been authenticated by our inquiries.
'lbe practice of firing pistols at the heads of pas.
one-rs. is one that merits exemplary chastisement.
Yesterday, a boy, passing Calton Mouth, received a
pistol shot in the head. His skull was broken, and a
potion of the wadding was taken out of the substance
of the brain. This morning be was still alive, and
even sensible. A girl received a shot in her eve,
which is likely to deprive it of sigh:.

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• ST. PAUL'S CRUSS.—There was formerly what was
called " Paul's Cross," fruntinir the Cathedral ; but,
perhaps, no modern attempt at reparation has surpassed
what occurred at St. Paul's on Thursday, when the
wurktncn employed there succeeded in slinging ropes
from the stone gallery to the railed gallery, and thyme
round the pinnacle of the cross, in order to repair it.
Stveral hours, we believe from eleven till four, were
consumed in this undertaking. Two of the workmen
then ascended by these rope-ladders, and nut only
get upon the very top of the cross, but wrote their
tevertive names upon it, to the eastward, with chalk.
Yestertlay. as on Thursday, it was amusing to witness
the pe 'tuns, with telescopes, who were eyeing the
chief workman while sitting quite astride on the cross
just above the ball, and who, when discovered, was
no larger in appearance than a crow. Repairs, it is
understood, are wanted both with regard to the cross
and cupola. It appears that the notion of an internal
access from the one to the other was entirely wrong.
SBOCSit4O Acctoestv.--Yerterday, a small boat
with two ladies upset.. near the Flood Hatches, opposite
Redcliffe House, the residence of Lady Smith, and one
of the ladies, with the boatman, were drowned ; the
other a Mrs. Griffiths, was saved, owing to the intre-
pidity of one of the servants belonging to Lady Smith,
wt.°. though he could nut swim, succeeded in drag-
ging the body in a senseless state to the shore, and
comeyed her to the house. where she experienced the
greatest attention ; and every means were resorted to,
t,o restore animation, wbich ultimately proved success-
ful. The body of the rasher lady, a Mrs. Bourne,
has
_since inn found ; bat • the boatman has not yet
beef pieta' ap. accident was occasioned by the
lanat'keeping too. near the hatches ; when, to save her
fmgp suing salaam the maabove oat the grappling on
*is !con side, which brought her up with a jerk,
OttnMplately bermer. Lady Smith directed
erng tattspaion should ba.pei4l t• the surviving lady,
aloclainefieaat her bearitablampaasies is a very weak
it ati0"4.1444 alliabb Aril 2e.)

before . _
the question was raised were these :—A commission ,
bankrupt was issued against the plaintiff on the 29th
of September, ISIS, and opened on the 3d of Octo-
ber, when he submitted, and surrendered to be exa-
mined by the defendants, to whom the commission was
directed. No satisfactory elucidation of his affairs could
be elicited from him to the interrogatories put on that
occasion. This examination was therefore adjourned
to a given day, and then further postponed from
time to time until time sth of January, 1019, when
he was directed to prepare a balance sheet. On
that day the requisition was not complied with,
and several further adjournments took place, and
the 10th of August was peremptorily given him to
produce his balance sheet, which he promised to
do. Failing to do so, he was on that day com-
mitted to Newgate, under the defendant's warrant.
which recited time previous proceedings--the plain.
tiff's undertaking to produce a balance sheet, and
his neglect to do so. After remaining for several
weeks in custody, be was brought up by Habeas
Corpus before Mr. Justice Best, and discharged ;
the Learned Judge being of opinion, that the conm-
Raiment was not warranted by the sth Geo. 2,
c. 30. & 16. An action was afterwards brought
by the plaintiff against the defendants, and the re-
sult was as above stated. Against the rule
obtained in Michaelmas Term fur setting aside the
verdict,
Mr. ADOLPHUS and Mr. F. Pol.t.oct; now %hewed
cause, and contended, that the commitment of time
plaintiff was illegal, and could not be justified by
the Bankrupt Laws ; fur that the C.mooissioners
had no power to commit for not proilucing a ba-
lance sheet of his affairs. In all events, they in-
sisted, that the warrant of commitment was clearly
bad for generality, and did not pursue• the words
of the Section, which gave the Comnmissioners power
to commit.
Mr. MAnsvarr. Mr. IiAsELEE„ Mr. Mos.'. GrE,
and Mr. WILD[, contra, argued in support of the
Rule, that this was not merely a committnent fur
not producing a balance sheet, but fur not giving
satisfactory answers, tomching the Bankrupt's estate
and effects, a pritceeding which was fully authorised
by the Bankrupt Laws.
The further argument and the judgment were
stponed.

As the Bill now before the House of Lords, to em-
power the Bank to exchange such of its Notes as it
may think fit for the coin of the realm, will not pass
through all its stages by the Ist of May, the operations
of that Bill must necessarily be retarded beyond that
period.
Much injury has been done in Kent by the severe
storm of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain, expe-
rienced there on Good Friday ; the blossoms of the
fruit trees have been cut by the hailstones, which were
of large dimensions ; many windows were broken, and
several large trees shivered to pieces by the electric
fluid.
Last week, as one of the sons of John Kerr, farmer, in
Bush of Hoddam, was at work with his plough in a fal-
low field, his progress was arrested by the instrument
coming in contact with a stone of considerable size, whirls
it was found necessary to take out. On removing it,
it was found to be one of the covers of a regular built
sepu'etre, of about four fret long, by two in breadth.
and about eighteen inches deep. In the centre was a small
urn, six inches deep, of earth or clay, covered by a that
stone, and at one end lay a small portion of hones, in a
calcined state. The urn was env re, but empty, its con-
tents having probably evaporated.
DARINU HIGHWAY RORDIERY.-011 Thursday afternoon
about four o'clock, as Mr. Matthewson, of Marshal street,
St. James's, was travelling in his gig from Cobham, on
the forest to Chertsey, on his way to London, he was
stopped in a lane, about three miles from the litter place,
by three fellows undisguised, two of whom presented pis-
tols and demanded his money, whilst the third stood at
his horses head. Ile gave then seven pounds in notes
and some silver, all he had about him, when they took
his watch and his brooch. The villains next cut the har-
ness and turned the horse loose, and they compelled Mr.
M. to go to the farther end of a large field, threatening
his life it' he did not comply. The three escaped with-
out its being known which way they went.
A young gentleman, the son of Mr. S—, a retired
tradesman in Oxford-street, attempted to drown himself
early yesterday morning in the Serpentine River, but he
was rescued front his impending fate by some men going
to work.
Towx-n ALL, SOCTIIIVARIL—Yestertiar, Sarah Barris,
Ledirma Rose, and Rebecca Archer, three young wo-
men, apparently from the ages of 16 to 20, were brought
up in the custody of George Welfare, and examined be-
fore Alderman J. J. Smith, charged with decoying a
girl about 15, named Ann Lemon, from her friends, and'
robbing her of various articles of apparel. It t.ppear-
ed that the prisoners inveigled the girl first to Tuthill-
fields-fair, and afterwards to a house in Dover-street,
from which, however, she was rescued before the diabo-
lical purpose of the prisoners could be accomplished.
They had compelled her to part with some of the appa-
rel she wore, for the purpose of pledging it. Mr. Ald.
Smith was of opinion, that the charge of robbery was
not established, but be committed the prisoners for the
misdemeanour.
Thursday morning, a Gentleman bathing 11. the
Serpentine River, in Ilyde-park, was unfortunately
seised with the cramp, and immediately sunk. Some
persons near the spot made as intent alarm, and after
several endeavours, they succeeded is getting him out
of the water. Medical assistance was procured hot
be was quite dead. The body was carried to the
Bricklayer's Arms in Mount-street, Berkeley-square,
for the Coroner's Inquest.

/Wets, UL
tether ; leekitonse,
a at the lock said they bad uo business there at tint
time of night, anti to mind the stones at the What
the bridge.. While the luck-keeper was speaking to b 1
the deceased said "Jump into the lock!" and with tint
he immediately jumped in. The lock-keeper was
sent It the time, and saw it. Witness climbed down br
the water-gate, and, with the assistance of the !edit-
keeper, he got the deceased out in about three minutes.,
.He appeared dead when taken out of the water; they
carried him to the house, and witness went for a doctor,
anti Mr. Roberts came and tried every possible means
fur his recovery, without succcess. After witness and
the deceased left the White Horse, witness perceived he
was intoxicated; but he talked in a reasonable manner,
bet did not mention any thing that distressed his mind.
—Witness cannot in any way account for his jumping
into the water, otherwise than that he did it in a state of
intoxication.
James Moor, keeper of the lock near this house, de-
posed he heard the testimony of the last witness ; anti
that part of it respecting his jumping into the lock, at
which witness was present, is ilaite correct ; the deceas-
ed was four or five yards distant front the lock when he
said be wutil.l jump in; amt from his being intoxicated,
witness said he imagined lie would jump in ay of
joke, but 'lid not intend to do so; it was yen, dark at
the ;he was taken ont of the water in about four

minutes.
Robert Roberts, of Camden town. surgeon, e:iotted
he was called to thedeceased *hoot one o'clock on Tor—
day mornieg : lie had him rubbed for about an hour; he
attemred to bleed him in the neck and arm; he bled
freely from the jugular vein, but never showed the least
appearance of life. There were no marks of violence on
the hotly, and witness has no doubt but lie died from
suffocation in the water.
Here the evidence closed : and the jury after some
time, returned a verdict—That the deceased was drown-
ed in a state of extreme intoxication.
CottuNun's INQUEST.—Yestertlav afternoon, at four
o'clock, an inquest was held at the Robin Hood, Hol-
born, before Thomas Stirling, Es 1. Coroner, on the
body of Francis Clarke Foreman, Esq. aged 24, a stu-
dent at law (son of -- Foreman, Esq. of Harlow, in
Essex).—Ann Walker, of the George and Blue Boar,
Holborn, deposed that she only knew the deceased from
his coming backwards as,sl forwards to town ; he came
to the George and Blue. Boar about five o'clock on Wed-
nesday evening last ; after remaining till about a quar-
ter after eleven o'clock, he went to bell. At a quarter
before eleven the following morning, the chambermaid
made an alarm, and witness immediately proceeded to
the tlereasetEs room. On entering the chamber, and
drawittg the bed curtains aside, she discovered the de-
ceased, and a pistol was lying un the be 1. Dr. Read was
instantly sent for, and witness then understood the de-
ceased !lasi shot himself under his heart. Witness no-
tic: 41 when the aka-eased was going to bed, that he looked
very ill and dejected. He on former occasions was very
pleasant in his manners, and witness thought it rather
strange that he slid not speak or answer when she spoke
to him. He dined alone prior to his going to bed, and
was sobsT ; witness on returning to the room saw a lau-
danum bottle lying on the table, it was empty.—Mr.
Richard Read, of N 0.51, Lamb's Conduit-street, sur-
geon, deposed that he was called upon about !even
o'clock, to attend the deceased, found him in the bed-
room, No. 2, at the George and Blue Boar Tavern, Hol-
1-orn. The extremities were quite cold ; on taking shown
the bed-clothes. witness discovered a wound on the left
side, between the fifth and sixth ribs, it was a pistol
shot wound, and witness could pass his finger into the
aperture. The body was warns, but be was quite dead.
He had no doubt that the wound occasioned deceased's
death. The pistol was on the outside of the bed-clothes,
and from the situation it laid in, witness bail no doubt
that it was fired off witla the right hand.—Mr. Richard
Brinsley Peaks, of Clifford's-inn, deposed, that he had
known deceased some tears; he was in the law, and
about 24 years of age ; the letter produced was the hand-
writing of the deceased; independent of that letter, wit-
ness never observed any marks of insanity in him. Saw
bins on Tuesday last ; he was then exceedingly deject-
ed, and looked very ill.—The letter above alluded to was
directed to Mr. Peake. It mentioned that the deceased
was much hurt at having received a note from last wit-
ness, in which be was stated to have lost Mr. Peake't'
confidence. The letter was written in a wild manner,
and concluded by repeating, " I am mad, mad, mad,
mad !"—lt was signed " the Pig and Tinder-box."—
Another letter was alluded to, which it appeared that
the deceased had sent to a young lady, containing some
trinkets. Some of the Jury expressed a desire to be ac-
quainted with the contents of the letter, but the Foreman
urged that it should be kept private, from motile, of
delicacy.—Verdict—That the deceased committed teeact
when in a state of derangement.

NAUTICibaiiiLIGENCE.

The Fortuna, Stralsund, sunk on the Long Sand on
Sunday morning. The crew and part of the materlais
saved by a Barking smack. •
The Eclair, D'Auvers. from Batavia to Antwerp, ran
on shore in Table Bay, sth Feb. and was totally lost.
The masteermd two men drowned.
The Peseasia, Palm, from Frederieshall to Calais, was
stranded at Tereekelling 11th last.
The Three tlebroedors, Kluin, from !Wrangel titres

at Orteisnede:
Lts43ol,4th, front Liverpool to Ssrl lit. s.
23. lono,V. 30. ; 11th, Dey, Lisbon to .:Al4-04. 37.
long. 144 toe 19th, Frances, Southseamen, lett 43.15.
'Wag. 9. by the Amelia, arrived at Penzance.
Waterloo, Hare, Jamaica to London, Itith alt. through
the Caicos Passage, by the Workington, arrived in the
River.
Clifton, London for Jamaica, 6th tilt. long. 61. by the
Pandora, arrived at Liverpool, which .sailed from Barba.
does the 4th.
Waterloo, of Ilaliras, Barbadois to Oporto, 24th nir,
lat. 26. long. 54. by the Endeavour, arrived at Liver-
pool.
Jupiter, London to Bengal, lal. 3. N. by the Star,
l Arrived at Portsmouth.
t Ceres, Munro, Jatnoiea to London, off Cape Nicola
Mole, by the Adventure, W trace, at-rised in the River.
Spring, Grove, of k.ontlott, 21st Jan. in the Peek
with 11011 harrels of ..ii.
Dart, 4th instant, Dartmouth to Newforndhal, ht.
45. 20. long. 20. 51. by the Francis Freelioustio,
strived at Polymath.
Mayflower, lat. 4*l. 19. N. long. 20. from Livetrel,
out 17 days, all well, by the George, Sayers, arrived la
the River.
Coriolanus, London for New South Shetland, lat.*.
S. 10th 1 • ..
Jessie, Williams, Dumfries to St. John's N. [l.2odi
Feb. lat. 46. 30. long. 20. 10. by the Clara, Parker,
Arrived at Bremen from Baltimore.
Telemachus, of Poole, for St. John's, 1at.44. long. V
17. by the tilatton, Henry, arrived in the River.
Valenia, Kinsman. Shields to Iletnerara, 7th Marti,
lAt. 22. 45. long. 32. 49. John, Lothrington, Shieldsts
N.. Brunswick, lat. 40. 10. long. `22.45. by the Wilditg.
Boyle, arrived in the River.
Amason from Falmouth ; and Orean,sl'Neilage, from
London ; both for Jamaica, 19th ult. lat. 18. 29.10ng.
57. by the Paragon arrived in the Clyde.
Middlesex, Thomson, Clyde to Jamaica, 30th nit. Ist.
39. long. 11. 25. by the Aurora, arrived from Lisbon.
I tiherty, of Poole, Whitt, bound to quelyee,Hut last.
lat. 43. 30. long. 10. by the Catherine, Ilolmos, wird
in the River from Cadiz.

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