The Statesman.
London, England, 1812-01-18 00:00:00

• THE STATESMAN.

ed the Right Bon. Secretary, if Le had made one single in-
quiry into the state of the Police, and if be had not neglected
his duty? If the Right Hun. Gentleman had beard the
speech of his Right Hun. Friend, he would have known that
be had made inquiries into the state of the Police, and that
be had not neglected his duly. The speech of the Right
Hon. Gentlenian would be spread all over the country, and
fro►n the existing disposition to mistrusst men in office, the
accusation would be attended to where the refutation could
not fin.i its way. He would not bay the statements made by
the Right lion. Gentleman were untrue, because it was not
parliamentary. It would be to prefer a charge of too solemn
a nature, to say they were false; but he could not admit them
to be quite correct. He repeatedly declared be bad no idea
of the motive which could have induced the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman to make such assertions.
MR SH [ALDAN, in explanation said, the Hon. Gentleman
was certainly entitled to his thanks for nut declaring that
which he bed advanced to be untrue, because that was nut
parliamentary.--(.I MAO JHe (the lust Speaker) bad to de-
clare what he (Mr. S.) had advanced was false; this would
have too much of solemnity in it; for his part, be must say
that such a dcelaration from that Hon. Gent. would have bad
in it a degree of vivacity which lie had never expected from
hint. He load no private pique against the Right Hon. Secre-
tary, on the contrary, he had a great personal respect for him.
The Hon Gentleman bad, however, no idea of the motive by
which he (Mr. S.) was actuat.d, in making thew: statements
which he bad thought proper to offer. This be had repeated
' six times. He would tell the Hun. Gentleman what motive
lie had. His motive was to discharge a public duty, and if
the Hon. Gent. as a Member of Parliament, knew nothing of
such u motive, he was very sorry for it.—(A Inapt.)
The question was then put and ried, and the following
Mesulieris we re named to form the C.. 'menet:—

came out, that had Willianii not chosen in prefer-
ence to hang himself with his handkerchief, he was pro.
h:ded with another instrument of self-destruction.—
This was a piece of iron hoop. Did he get it in the
gaol ?—No. He had torn it from the strong room
before he was taken to the gaol, and it was foundin
his pocket when be was hanging! the man had not
even been searched from the moment of his appre-
hension until that of his death ! Was this not gross
neglect ? Did this justify the Right Hon. Gentleman
in getting up, and saying, that he acceded to the
amendment, but not on the ground of supposed
impropriety of conduct on the part of any Police
Magistrate? The first thing that the Parish of
Shadwell did after the late horrible occurrences,
was to discharge all their 'watchmen ! Did no blame
attach to those by whom such incompetent protec-
tors were appointed? Nay, had not an occurrence,
which had come out in consequence of the vigilance
and activity of Mr. Graham, shown that the shad-
% ell Magistrates never thought even of searching the
room in which Williams slept? Six weeks or two
months after the murder, were not a bloody new jack-
et
and a bloody knife found there? Was not that
evidence of gross neglect ? He had felt himself bound
to throw out these observations, and he recommended
to those who wished to acquire some knowledge on
the subject of the police, to peruse a work, published
fifty years ago, by Mr. Henry Fielding (who, was
equally eminent as an author and a magistrate), cal-
led, '• A. Treatise cm the late alarming Increase of
Robberies, Burglaries, and Murders
_in the Metro-
polis." In adopting the •Amendment, the house
would impose a most laborious task on the Members
of whom the Committee might be constituted; but
he trusted that they would discharge their duty with
alacrity, conscious of the importance of the subject
to the public tranquillity.
Mr. sTENI EN thought the Magistrates of the
Police Otlice, Shadwell, had been too harshly at-
tacked .by tne Right lion. Gentleman opposite. He
had no personal knowledge of any one of them, but
he could not help feeling that they had been placed
in a very unpleasant situation, in a situation in which
they
,had a most arduous duty to perform, and in a
situation of such a nature, that it entitled them to
compassion. What must their feelings have been
when the state of that district was such, that the
wuole of those residing in it, were afraid of retiring
to their beds ; every man, after the two horrible mas-
sacres which had taken place, being naturally led to
fear that the fate of those who had been so barba-
rously murdered, might next be his own when the
people could only look up to the Magistrates for
safety and protection. and when every man was
coming forward with more or less reason, to prefer
charges against this or that persou? What, under
such circuinstaaces, would the Right Honourable
Gentleman have had the Magistrates to have done?
—Wovid he have wished them to pass over slight
grounds of suspicion, and to disregard every thing
that might he offered in evidence against persons sus-
pected, which fell short of producing conviction ?
Had they pursued such a ;hie of conduct, rite mon-
ster who had been accused o; the crime would have
escaped. From all the information he had obtain-
ed on the sunjcet, he could net hut believe the
wretch who had destroyed himself in continclumit to
be the mooster who had peipetrated the bloody
deeds of which he had been accused; and much as
he deplored his premature death, he sincerely re-
joiced that he had net escaped with impunity.—
One star-meat made by the Rig:it lion. lientleman, if well -
founded, was of too-se-noes a nature nut to call forth the strong-
rt of the Magistrates. If they had been so cruel
and nitjast as to stake themselves panders to national prejudice; .z 4.
if, in ma 'lig lest degree, they had treated po ntos mcustody
ye ith grater rigour, bmanse they acre Irishmen, than woted
others ise have b en deemed expedient, hod forbid that he
should stand up as their apillagidt ! it ought, however. to be re-
nsenilwred, that if several Irish persons had been taken up on
saspicion, many of our own countrymen had also beeri charged There is every reason to doubt the accuracy of the
warn the same crime, and he hoped no distinction of the nature .
ort, which rests u
alluded to, had in any instance been made. Hp e admitted that Ire private letters merely, that
fie Ita.istr.ves laignt justly be charged a ith some osersight, i" 1 Peace was concluded between the Russians and the
wet net lig to appoint :lime one to watch NS iliiants, when Ite etas • •
; ridon, to prevent conunitting suicide ; bet he denied that Turks on the 26th of November last. We have re-
they weer in possessioti of all the information when they runt- I .
rained Williams to Cald Batlt-tields, which they subdequently I cetved Petersburgh Gazettes of the 2Uth De-
acted upon aver hi. death. Many circuinstaures, after he bad cember, upwards of three weeks later in date than
destroyed himself, and before he wad buried, a ete brought
forward, aide!' more strongly impressed OR his mind the guilt • the day on which the Preliminaries are said to have
of Williams, than any thing which had previously transpired. htse" signed and they make no mention of this oc-
Ilelievin:, a:he did, that Williams was a murderer, he thought ',
it was right to make a public exhibition of his body, as• eurrence—a circumstance which renders its having
ladependent of other cousiderations, it might be everted
et • .
some degree to tranquillize the agitated pithily mind, , taken place in the end of November, highly impro-
by making it generally felt that the murderer was tat 646,44.
By the Court Gazette, however, of the 20th
wore, of whose tardier deeds the iuliallitanis of that neigh-
bourliotel has so long been in such a state of dreadful it;'- December, we tied that the account of the Russians
preheneon. The Magistrates had been placed in a very trying
situation, hi which they had, unquestionably, displayed much pastor, gained a signal victory over the Turks, is
activity and goad energy, and those he thought might in some confirmed, which may likely lead to an accommoda-
ou-ascir excuse one e.ersight. lle could nut help feeling that the
Right Honourable Gentleman had been rather hard on the Sc- lion. The following are the particulars :
cretary of State tar the Home Department, when he charac-
-I.•rismt the 114;iit Honourable Gentleman s acceding to the ROD Tilt PLTEUSBURGH GAZETTE OY (DEC. 9) O. s.)
a•nendmeat whi.•ll had been moved, as being in some sort like I DEC. 20. s •
consenting to a whale loaf being added, to his Huta piece of
I'd u,t. It appeared tea rather eitraonlin iry that such Obser- ! orrlci 11. REPORT.
oloni should he after his consenting to an impiiry, The General in 04E4 of the MOlJavian army, Count Gobi
which the Bight Hon. Gentleman seemed ta expect would is. aroma, Kinnisow, reports, that the army of the GRAND VI-
RJ.);:tI fo OILER to his dideredis. Had the Right lion. Secretary ma, having crossed to the left hank of the Danube on the 26th
emistioas of this, sturdy welling could have been more of Hoye—o. her, was surrounded, and the troops compelled to lay
new tr,an far him to have opposed tht• tiltAloll. Ile had no lie.,
doss!) their antis before the. Russian army. The whole of the
siiminti jai saving, that if the Right Hon. Gentleman had done
ss, lie Mr. S.) would Iris e given a his support. aud even now Turkish army, including all their Officers and she Commaader-
he see •!•I •tnte that lie should not concur aWI rue ameudmcut ir. Chief, Cu tuts Ore Low, s Bastian. of Three Tails, sur-
if be did not even take the &Ilse of CHe .House on the subject.-- rendered prisoners of war, and with the magazines and the
it.. sti ,s u, opinion that tio Lird..Ule's could be segitested that
• prevent inassacres-as haul. taken place iii CiViri of artillery. comlsliolt of fi113.-siti nieces of cannon, arc now in
511r.,3tid the William-ton, if a few ruffians like Willian.s the possession of the victorious Rsisians. This army has, In
w: to itteit on to diabolical an act. hut it was tbe object of his various actions lost, in killed and wounded, aboat 10,000 men.
ta ilimittish the nulatier of burglaries which daily and Previously to crossing the Daaube, the Turkish army consisted
• . tiask place, and widen had of late been observed to in-•
crea-e in the aletroptitis end its vicinity. With a view to of 2.4020 men, ewers troops, amongst whom were all the Ja-
these he thought so: iethiug of good might surely be effected, nissaries recently forwarded from Constantino- le, tai reinforce
by iaquiriog stri,lh• boo the state of the nightly watch, the army of the Gaasru VIZIER "
nand atilt theindulgetice of the house he would state to them i
um instance, in a nich a precious salutary regulation might
have prevented a robbery. A few weeks ago, the house of Isis
nett door neighhottr, in (treat Onuond-street, was broke open,
sad a quantity of plate stolen thence to the amount of seven or
• eight htmdred.trounds. This robbery, it appeared, had been
comotit•ed with the greatest deliberation; a hackney coach
bad brought to the door to carry of the property, and
when all this hid lire's done, it was found that the street
h•al been that night &tenni by the watch. Py an arrange-
:neat made ip the parishes of St. Andrew anti St George the
Martyr, it appeared that every week there were what were
called two dead nights. These dead eights were nights on which
any of the notch:nen might absent themselves With impunity.—
Thevinlght chose any two nights to be absent, asd no notice
o.c1;1 be taken of their failing is theirdety, bat if they took
more than two,—if they were three successive nights absent,
their contact was to be reported. Now it se lappeued, that on
the night is question, aft the watchmen had Climes to takes dead
night. This, be tboaght. was a case which wool ,d .1a some miss
sure, joidify the motion of kis Right HIM Friend. Thaw 64.;
been of late a great increme of crimes of this description.
vetting to what had been said on the elects at the Lottery, hs'
stated it to be his opinimit that the evil did sot. originate. usue,
as was supposed. 'nicest! briefly -telt androresplained of as
arising from Lotteries, bed; be then, Wee briegreut inessute
. don away withisthee last bee er three yew. lity the arrow.
ment m.wk by I& sr et. the Eschtsoge. .
Mr. M. MONTAGU replied to ems of ibe rewrite of the
lit. H du. Glut. opposite (Ala SUERIU/04.) He bad sill-

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Mr. Ryder _ - ' Mr. Tierney
Sir C. Price Lord Lowther
Sir James Shaw Mr. leyeester
Sir Wittiest& Curtis Mr. Sheridan
Mr. Alderinnu Combs Mr. Abercrombie
t•Mr. Byng Cos. Wood
Mr. Mellish Mr Sturges Bourne
Sir F. Burdett Mr. Peele
Lord Cochrane Mr. Robinson
Sir T. Turtun Mr. Frankling
Mr. H. Thornton
Mr. LUSHINGTON brought up the Report of the Com
mittee of the whole House un the Distillation from Grain,
the Rem)lotions of which were agreed to, and a Bill ordered
accordingly.
The Sugar Export Bill was read a third time and passed.
Adjourned.

rvilE Creditors of Mr. WILMER. MACKET
WII.I.ETT, late of Pickett-street, Temple-bar, Pro-
prietor, Printer, and Publisher of The ilifred Newspaper,
and now a Pri-oner in the Iti:Lns of the FLEET, residing at Nn.
47, Ludgate-hill, are requested to attend a Meeting, at the
Clobe Tavern, Fleet-street, on Tuesday, the 21st lust. at Twelve
o'Clock; to determine upon what measures are proper to he
taken, in order to investigate the slinks of the said W. M.
NVatt.Err.
It may he required of those who attend the Meeting to enter
into a Subscription, to defray the expence of Law proceedings,
in consequence of. the Property at the ALFRED OVVICI6. in
Pickett-street, being sold under an EXTENT from the Crown, to
the exclusion of the Creditors at large.

LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTI-
A N !TY AMONGST THE JEWS.
ON SUNDAY next, the 19th inst. a SERMON
a in be Prerte:tell for the Benefit of the above Society, be-
fore the It Wit Honourable the t,nrd Mayor, Aldermen, Hod
Slictin%, at St. 11.1gato. the Alart‘ea Church,London Britke,
she Re,. GEOR:iE CI.A(•K, A. M. Chaplain to the Ro)al
:said to hit, Ro3al Ilighaeis the Duke of
Cambril,;e. _ _

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11 Id E STATESMAN.

LONDON:
SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1812.

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effectual remedy, thaithe nightly match only should
lundergo investigation ! !!• Of what, use, we demand,
is the night watch, even supposing it ten times more
numerous than it is, when the men who are bred
under the Polite System, more than equal them in
cunniiir, in dexterity, and freqeently in numbers ?
TILE EVIL MUST SE STRUCK AT THE ROOT, OR IT
NEP= WILL BE CURED. Seemingly, we hope sincere-
ly, convinced that this was necessary, Ministers
were at last led to agree to the appointment of a
Committee, not ouly for the purpose of inquiring
into the state of the night watch, but of the Police
alsb. We agree with several Members, who spoke
upon the subject, that it would have been more con-
sistent with the duty of Mr. RirDES, had he come
forward with a proposal for remedying the public
abuses, than with a. Motion of inquiry respecting
them. But what are we to expect from a Go-
vernment, whose every step is marked with hesi-
tation, whose tardy measures are become pro-
verbial, any who, instead of exercising the powers
I belonged to the public situations which they fill, do
not even think of moving one step in the business.
till the cry of murder is reiterated again and again
in their ears, and even not then till the danger ap-
proaches their own dwellings ? Our limits do not
permit our enlarging upon this topic, which we the
less regret, as we have given, in our preceding co-
lumns, an ample detail of the discussion which took
place on this most importaht business, and which,
we have no doubt, will be read with avidity by all,
because it comes home to all the members of the
community.

A paragraph having appeared in the Morning
C77ronicle of this day, which states, that at a " se-
tret examination before Mr. CRAIIIm, last night,
Mrs. VERMILLOE, of the Pear-Tree public-house,
Ratcliffe-highwty, turned King's evidence, acknow-
ledging herself to be participator in tho crimes com-
mitted both at MARR's and WILLIAMSON's, and gave
testimony against Hart and Alblass, Rs 1 e:petrating
the murder of Mrs. Niana and the apprentice, while
Williams was dispatching the husband. Both Hart
and Alblass are in custody, strongly ironed, and
constantly watched," we were led to inquire at Bow-
, street to ascertain the truth, when we were informed
that the whole paragraph is a complete libel, except as
to Hart and Alblass, who are certainly in custody,
and constantly watched ; but, in respect to Mrs.
VERMILLOE, therm is not the least suspicion what-
ever ; they believe her perfectly innocent ; hod had
it not been through her information, the murders by
Williams could not have been brought home to him
in the manner they have been. Mrs. VEIIMILLOE
was not at Bow-street yesterday ; consequently no
confession whatever was made, as falsely stated in the
Chronicle. The only person examined, was a man
of the name of Harris.