The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-04-07 00:00:00

T4E• STATESMAN

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Overton CtnctoT.--OLOIICESTEII,• APRIL 4.—A gum-
Linn has arisen amongst the barristers of this circuit,
which has excited no inconsiderable degree of hustle.—
It appears that Mr. Curwood, who for upwards of 20
years had gone the Home Circuit, having come into pos-
session of a considerable estate in the giveter, which has of course given him an extet connec-
tion in that anti 'the adjoining counties, resolved upon
charging his route ; and acting upon that resolution, at
the last Worcester Assizes lie made his appearance, and
held several briefs. Thit gave umbrage this brethren
of the long robe; and after a conference among them-
selves, the majority agreed .upon " seriling him to Co-
ventry", which was accordingly done •, and on the follow-
ing morning, when Mr. Curwood made his appearance in
Court, he was surprised to find that the barristers present
refuted to speak to or associate with him. Mr. Curwood
however, nsisted uon his right/ to change his circuit
once, and proceed acpcordingly. This was controverted
by the members of the bar; and the matter remains to be
settled by the higker .ewers in the metropolis ; and
should their decision be against Mr.Curwood, and,be still
persevere, it Is understood that the bar have resolved not
S 2 hold a brief with him.
A Itasorc—The Grand Jnry of the County of Tip-
perary received a Circular Letter, in a printed form, fiosn
a certain Committee in llahlin, styling itself the Pro-
testant Committee, calling upon them to come furl; ard
and petition Parliament alai oat Catholic Emancipation,
and to adopt a form of Petition which was enclosed
tire
to
them in the printed letter. I i was addressed to
osition waa i
11 unman of the Grand Jury. The propn-
s intly aeontml, and would not be entertained for
vim moment by that respectable body.—(Clunnal Ad-
vertiser.)
In our fish market, this week,.fine trout have been
sold at six-pence each, and new salmon at 34. per pound.
It is by na means merely traditionary, that the latter ar-
ticle, now become-a dainty, was &innerly so plentiful,
that masters were bound by indenture not to oblige their
apprentices to eat salmon more than twice a week. This
city is yet in the recollection of many inhabitants of this
city ; and we happen to know of one indentnre which
contains such a stipulation.—(Exeter Goureue.)

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MaatapeaorawaTazas --S. Sheppard, a native of
',lead, was on Saturday brought before Mr. Dyer, the
Sitting Magistrate, upon 'charge of bigamy, having in-
termarried with Mary Rumble, while his first wife Mary
Ayre was still living. Mary Rumble appeared as the
prosecutric Before the case came on, the prisoner fre-
quently disturbed the proceedings of the Otfice, by bis
loud and vehement entreaties that she woald not appear
against him. His eloquence was all in vain. She handed
to the Magistrate a large race' of letters, some from the
prisoner, and some from the first wife. She (lien gave
her evidence as to the celebration of the marriage cere-
mony between herself and the prisoner, at Mary-le-bonne
Church.
The prisoner said, that he was the most ill-used man
on earth. The facts of the case were these, and he was
certain all who heard them would coriamiserate his- si-
tuation. In the year 1812, he married Miry Ayre, and
took her with him to Portugal, where be accompanied
his regiment (the 2d Wards) upon service. She soon
became tired of campaigning as a soldier's wife, and
went to live with a Lieutenant of the collie. On their
return to Ragland she gave him a written discharge
from all engagements, and a license to marry whom he
pleased. He got acquainted with Mary Rumble, who
lived as housemaid at Batt's Hotel, in Dover-streer, and
after a short courtship, married her. She was fully ac-
quainted with all the circumstances attending his first
marriage. They set up a lodging-house, and in a short
time the second Mrs. Sheppard followed the example of
the first, and went to live with a Mr. Carr, a lodger in
the house, and thus deserted by both uives, he thought
he bad a right to marry again.
" What! (said the Magistrate) have you married a
third wife ?"—" Sure, your Worship, I thought 1 'had a
right, as the other two discharged me."
• Is it possible (said Mr. Dyer) that you have arrived
at your time of life, and suppose that any person has the
power to give you liberty to marry three wives, or to
annul by any licence of that sort your first marriage ?"
The prisoner Said he did not think be was doing
wrong, and if he had done so he was sorry for it.
Mr. Dyer said he feared. his sorrow came too late. He
should remand im till a future day, to have proof pro.
&iced of the first marriage. It did not appear who the
third wife was.
Another case of bigamy came on against a woman
about 50 years of age. Both the husbands, who it ap-
peared had been acquainted from their infancy, attended,
and seemed on very friendly terms. This case was ul.o
adiourned for want of sufficient evidence.
I VUTUFUL ADVETWURERB.—Two youths of propos-
sessessing anti. fashionable appearance, who gave their
manes Hale and Connell, were brought to this office from
1 St. Giles's watch-house, charged under the following
singular circumstances:—
The prisoner Hale', it appears, is the son of a respect-
able linen-draper carrying on business in an extensive
way in Dublin: lie is about fifteen years of age, not
long from school, and was employed in the rountiox-
house ; but unfortunately of late he linked himself with
with some foolish and bad companions, who caused him
to neglect the pursuit of the desk for the more alluring
rounds of dissipation; and frequently bring deficient in
his supply of cash, lie hit upon a ready mode to obtain
it by plundering his father. About sic months ago le
received, in his capacity at his father's house, a remit-
tance for the firm, from a distant part of the country,
of 1141. which was rendered up to his father, who depo-
sited it in a drawer in one of the apartments, and when
all the family had retired to rest, the prisoner, having a
knowledge of where the money was left, arose in the
course of the night, dressed himself, and soon made
himself master of the property. lie then contrived to
escape from the house without his friends knowing it,
and early the following morning be met with another
youth, to whom he stewed the money, and after consult-
ing ii ith each other, they were at a loss how to proceed
to lay out the money, and at length hit upon the expedi-
ent of taking a trip to London, to see a little life. But
they were obliged to act cautiously, the rotatory being
soon discovered, and notice given to, the Dublin police,
who were speedily on the look out after the prisoner;
but all pursuit was evaded, and the fugitives, in a short
time, having paid for their passage, eoecealed themselves
in the cabin of a vessel, set ssil from the Pigeon (louse,
and in less than two days they ivere landed safely at Li-
verpool, where they instantly took coach, and soon ar-
rived in the metropolis, where they nightly exhibited at
a few theatrical houses, and occasionalry'sported some of
the 1141. to "fret and strut their hour" at private
theatres. They had not been long indulging in this
way, before Hale was unexpectedly met in the Strand by
a friend of his father's, who, suspecting all was nut right,
immediately wrote to Mr. Hale, intimating his suspicions.
An answer was sent back, explaining the whole of the
affair, and requesting him, if possible, to restore his
child.
Mr. M. made every inquiry after the prisoners, and at
leigth ascertained they lived in a court in Great Queen-
street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. He procured the assistance
of Bartlett, an active officer of St. Giles's, who accompa-
nied him to the house, and having waited more than nine
hours, the prisoners came home, when they were in-
stantly secured and their apartments searched, in which
, were faund play books and stationery of all kinds, with
the most fashionable clothes, and the selection of articles
so various, that an enumeration would appear tedious.
A fee sovereigns, and UN. in silver, were also found.—
On their being questioned as to their intended
prospects,
they replied, " That they were about to open a Theatri-
cal book shop on a very extended plan." They were
lodged in the watch house, and 'the morning atter weie
carried before the Magistrates.
These facts being
.stated to the Magistrate, Mr. M.
(the person who obtained information reapectiog thew)
said, lie was unwilling to proceed harshly with the pri-
soners, but desired that they might be rcpriniauded and
sent home to their friends.
The prisoner Hale expressed his contrition, and im-
plored forgiveness.
Connell, iu a broad Irish accent and in an energetic
tone, declared he has living in splendour in his brother's
house, in Dublin, where the prisoner made his appetites
ante, and, showing hlm the money, invited Mn to accom-
pany him to London, assuming him that his father would
only experience a tetupotary.inconvenience by the loss of
the money. Having a desire to see this place, he em-
braced the opportunity, and came with him ; and this,
lie said, was " the head and front of his offending."
The Magistrate reprimanded them severely, and gave
them into the charge of their friends, to be forwarded to
their own country.
At Marlborough-street, on Saturday, Daniel APCoy,
a poor labourer, residing. in George-street, St. Giles's,
preferred a complaint against a Mr. Sewell, the proprie-
tor of the Flax-tuills at Hounslow, for violently beating
his son, a lad about 13 years of age.
The Father stated, that his son had been in the poor-
house
of St..Oiles's in the Fields, from whence he was
removed by the parish officers, tothe mild in question. A
few days since, however, he returned home in consequence
of a person in M r.'Seivell's employ having, torsome
trivial
offence, beaten him in a most unmerciful manner with a
'thick strap. Here the poor boy was stripped; his hack,
Ilfrom the nape of the neck to the seat, presented the ap• •
pearance of excessive severity having been used towards
him. The foreman of Mr. Sewell attended, and stated
that hie master regretted very much the treatment the
poor boy had eaperienced. No undue severity was
used at any time by Mr. Sewell upon any of the
boys employed in the mills, and kt was against the
express desire -of Mr. Sewell that any of the cbil-

tires in his employ should be punished' by those under
'Whose direction they were Immediately placed. Tbas
on which this took place, Mr. S. chaneed to be oearthe
mills, and hearihir thd cries of the boy, seat for witneta
atoceitain the cause. The boy was sent for, and the
:person who had inflicted the punishment upon bins was
'severely reprimanded fur his conduct, and. threatened,
'With in immediate discharge from the mills, if he ever
'presented to strike any of the boys in future.
• Daniel °Wier, a servant to Mr. S. stated, that the boy
was verrindolent, and would not do the work allotted to
him He had punished him for his idleness, but was ex-
tremely sorry lie bad allowed his passion to get the bett-r
of ilim. .111 r. Sewell had threatened to discharge him;
bdt on his peoMisenot to act se in future, he was retained
in his situation.
The Magistrate severely admonished him for his
conduct; but, having on enquiry learnt, thet the chil-
dren employed at the otitis we're treated by the owner
with humanity and kindness, he advised the father to
send his boy back again. To this, however, the father
Would not consent, and the parties left the other.
Wusitte-svaszT.—Saturday, William Waeket, the
graer-diggers underwent another examination, when the
It-surrection Man, Murphy, was produced, hut lie de-
nied all knowledge of any transaction with the grave-
and there being no other evidence against him,
Mr. Bllr, NETT, the Magistrate ordered him to bp dis-
charged.
At the Burial Ground the crowd still pressed round
the entrance, and the desire of relations to open the
graves of their deceased frients continued with unabated
anxiety; fortunately for the feelings of many-of them,
most pf the coffins which were opened still contained the
remains so dear to them.
Mr. BENETT observed, thst he had acceded to the de.
sire of relatives to satisfy their miuds about their de-
ceased friend', and lie hoped that sufficient time bad uow
been afforded to allay their anxiety, and therefore he di-
rected Mr. Garton, the Chief Constable, to permit the
opning' of the graves until fur o'cck, at which time
tie would see that the ground weslo cleared, the gates
locked, and due notice given t 3 the multitude that ne
person would again be admitted for the purpose of open-
ing any more graves.
A notice was accordingly posted on the gates :—" No
persons to lie admitted into this ground after four o'clock
this afternoon. By or ter of time Magistrates. Public
Office, Worship-street, sth April, 13"3."
The Chapel, called Hollywell Mount Chapel, near the
burying ground, had posted before it—" This Chapel
has no connection whatever with the burying ground ;"
which notice seemed very prudently given to prevent
the effects of popular indignation.
Yesterday morning the relations of deceased persons
buried in the ground appeared before the gates, with
wen and .hovels, for the purpose of going on with the
opening of graves, and it was with some difficulty that
the police officers prevented their determication to enter
the ground. They were informed the ground could not
be opened on a Sunday, but they might apply to the Ma-
gistrstee for an order at eleven o'clock in the morning.
'ln coneeqttence of this intimation, though very reluct-
antly, they went away. A crowd continued the whole
day in the street, but they conducted themselves with
ggeat order, cor was there the least disposition to be
riotous.
Same of the multitude, as ever will he the ease, at-
tempted a joke on the occasion. The form of a gallows
was chalked on the door of the gateway ; and where the
words were originally " Burials taken in here," the "
was crossed out, and " out" was chalked over it.
CAUTION TO LICENSZD VICTUALLERS.— WORSIIIP.
ant
STREET.—On Saturday Mr. Jame Pearce, landlord o
the Bose i tea pu blic-hoase,s corner of Coleman-
street, appeared to a summons before the
Sitting Magistrates, Mr. Belau. and Mr. Beaseer, "for,
knowingly and designedly harbouring and suffering per-
sons of bad character and evil fame to resort to his house."
Mr. Burgess attended as his Solicitor.
Armstrong, jam. the officer, having been sworn, stated,
that, in consequence of information he received. Mr.
Garton, the chief constable, himself, and two or thew
officers, proceeded to the house of the defendant, which
they well knew to be a rendezvous for thieves of the worst
description.. It was about 11 o'clock in the forenoon of
the 241 inst. when they entered the house ; they found
six mn in the tap-room drinking, five of whom he well
knew e
to be reputed thieves. All of them on seeing him
made their escape backwards. Witness and his brother
officers then left the house, but went back again in about
half an boor, and then found that the company had re:
turned and had resumed their carousal.
Mr. Mutt —Bail you ever given the defendant notice
not to harbour such characters?
Officer-1 have, your Worship, snore than once Or
twice.
Mr. Bunoess, Mr. P.'s solicitor, asked the Magistrates
if they considered the case clearly made out against hie
client'?
Mr. Belittle—You hear the officer has sworn, five out
of the six persons were reputed thieves. IVhat can be
clearer than that.
Mr. Bonuses said, any publican would be liable to
have such persons in his house, and yet not be acquainted
with their character.
Mr. Bevtul said, the defendant had no right to bar-
bon r them.
Garton, the chief officer, said, the defendant's house
was a noted resort for thieves; he bad seen from twenty
to thirty in his house at one time.
Mr. BURGESS hoped the Magistrate would hear nothing
antecedent to the 2d April, tbeday on which this offence
was said to he committed.
Mr. Bertarr—Certainly not. Officer (Garton), did
you see any thieves in the house on the day in question ?
Garton2-1 did, your Worship ; five.
Mr. lisiereaT—llow do you know they were thieves;
do you know them to have ever been punished ?
Garton—Two of them 1 know to have been trans-
ported.
Mr. BIVILL—Now, Mr. Burgess, what will you say to
that? All the defence that will avail you, will be to show
they are not reputed thieves.
tearton said, that when he entered the house, all the
men ran backwards, and escaped over the wall, and
through a house at the back into Banner-street.
Mr. BURGESS said he was prepared to prove to the
contrary, as there was no facility of escape backwards
at all.
Magistrate.—So much the worse for your client; be•
cause he must harboured them in his house if they did
not escape.
Mr. BURGESS said, be was sorry that such an Act ever
passed, because he was thoroughly convinced there would
not be so many theieves prowling about the metropolis,
pu
if blicans were aowed to hem, because the
officers would thenll know wherearbour to findth them when they
were warted.
Mr. Bevitt—That's the eld fashion, but that won't
do now.
Sir. Bunoess—Not one tittle of evidence has been ad-
duced to how my client was aware that they were reputed
thieves.
Mr. &vitt —The former cautions given to the defend-
ant is eullicient to show a guilty knowledge.
MT. BeitGESS—Suppwe any thieves should enter a
public hoeee, must not the landlord serve them ?
Mr. Bevitt—Certainly not. lee must not harbour or
entertain them. e might call a coestable and
turn them out, awl n lio
one knows that better than you.
The defendant said he hail all torte of the labouring
classes sounitimes !repent his Louse, and it would be
impossible for him to distinguish who was of evil fame.
Dlr. BE.aratET—The only &fence you can make to serve

A dreadful accident occurred on Satnrtley last, ahont
noon, to Mr. Thos. Pettus." who had been for the last
25 years employed as foreman of the carpenters in the
Cathedral of Canterbury. For some time past a scuffuld-
ing has been erected for the purpose of repairing the in.
tenor part of the edifice; the work, however, being nearly
completed within reach of the scaffold, it was nut deemed
necessary that the workmen, extepting those employed
in the gilding department,should remain on it; but, Hann
a complaint being made of a strong current of air rush-
ing through a broken window, and impeding the work
of the gliders, the individual above named went np for
the purpose of placing a hoist against the &maze I part,
and n.king one for the purose, it is suievase I, must have
placed his foot on what is ternted a ledger, and the
weight of the plank lie held overlsalaneing him, he was
preci, ita'el front a height of from 50 to 130 r et, and
d .shed on the pavement le ker. Ile vets picked iip,hy
crie of his fellow workmen,lint never spoke after the ac.
cident, and died in about a quarter of 4u hour; these was
a stied contusion on his livid, and lee en Isis tlsigh,bla
hack was also injures]. Ttessecessesl was an industrious
steady m In, and limb respected by his employer; lie ha:
left a wife ansi five children. A Coroner's Inquest sat on
, the body the same evening in the Vestry-ruom of the Ca-
thedral, and a verdict of Accidental Deatls was returned.
—(Kent Herald.)
CORONZICS INQURSTS.—AII IMMO way held on Sa-
tnritty, at the San, Drury-lane, before Thom is Stirlina,
Esq., Coroner, on the body of Abraham Jollitfe, aged
fifty-six.
Oeorge Wright stated, that lie 1 ,t the Sun pub-
lic house; deceased also lo.iged there; he hail been in
the habit of frequently seeing deceased. who appeared in
a most wretched state, on account of busses h e had 8:13-
taineil by his late wife's misconduct, frequently saving,
he should have been worth 301 Y. per year, had not his
wife sqsiandered it away; !seta/ten five and six o'clock
on Friday tnorniqg, his sun came crylog to the wherein
room, saying. " Fur lion's sake, come to Inv father
lie instantly went; and found Isim wave:A.4 by a ma
ill
I coed, in the middle of the room, to a stepleie the ceiling;
lie instantly cut him down, but lie oar ,hate dead: a See-
-1 geon was directly sent for, but he preuontoceil that he
IA been dead some boa's.
The deceased's son also spoke to his father's state of

mind.
The Jury then returned a verdict—insanity.
An inquisition was held on Saturday inoratur, at the
Neptune, Itotberlsitlie, before C. Jeinosett, Esq., Coroner,
on the body of Mrs. Anne Slarywn, who was found
drowned near Millpond ilibile, Bermondsey.
Richard Oldridge, hos'ler of the Qneen Charlotte pnb-
lie-honse, Bermondsey, deposed to ;hiding 'lie body in
the pond, on IVeilliestliy last. There was a wound
under the right ea-. 'file de -eased lied neither bonnet.
shawl, mgr cap un, hut was otherwise perfectly *lensed.
George Monck deposed, that abJat six d'el.sek on We t-
nesday mornine, as It:, was walking tiling the Mill-hank,
liespiekeil tip, war to where t,:c &sawn was feud, a
small knife, which lay on the grotto,'; it appeared to be
a surgeon's instrument, aliont three-gutters of .m Inch uf•
the blade was covered with blood.
Mr. Richard Wright, rergeon, of Rothertithe' de.
posed, that the wound on the new appeared to havebna
inflicted by come sharp idstrument 7 it was about thr e-
fourths of au inch deep. The deceased ba.l no ear-rinze
in her cars, but there did nut Appear any 10 irk of violence
in removing them. There were two rings on the fini. es
of her left hand; and the right hand seemed; from the
position of the thumb, which was '.larked with blood.
and two of the forefinKers, as if it had recently held some
instru vent. It was his opinion that drowrang was the
immediate cause of the de,tit of' the deceased;. but the
wound would have also occasioned it, the jugular vein
being wounded.
Mrs. Mary Edmonds, sister-in-law to the deceased, de-
posed, that, on Tuesday evening, the Ist instant, the de-
ceased had taken tea with her, at her house in Tower-
street, her spirits seemed at that time remarkably low.
She left witness's house Ault eight o'clock, fur the pur-
pose of proceeding home ; and on departing looked ra-
ther wild and confused.
Diana Elderton, servant to the deceased, deposed. that
lately her mistress appeared in her behaviour to be rather
will and unsettled. On Tuesday, about four o'clock. the
deceased left the house in company-with another lady.
and was not heard of, until r(ntry; in the pond.
Verdict—That ilia deceased destroyed nerself in a 6t
of mental derangement.
Recollect! HAZARD and Co.'s great success! The!
sold Four Prizes of .f.. 20,000 in the last, and last Year's
Lotteries.—l Artery begins NEXT WEDNESDAY, On which
thy 53 Capital Priv s must be drawn, viz. the
drawn Prise Prime .00,000! and 52 others of -C2,000, £l,OOO,
.Cioo, &c. &c.—Scheme contains 3 of £20,000; 2 of
£5,000; 2 of £2,000; 6 of £l,lOO, &c. ix. &'. all.
Money. Tickets and Shares are selling by HAsten
and Co. Stock Broken, at their old Establishisi and For-
taaate Offices, 93, Royal Exchange ; 26, Cornbill, and
324, Oxford-street, end of Went-street ; and by their
Agents in all the princiral Country Tufwas.

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WEEKLY REGISTER OF TUB WEATHER.--Thin week
began with all the genial qualities of the season of
Spring ; but, after Tuesday, a sudden, and a sad change
took place, and the wet. and chilly weather, returned.
In molter part of our paper, we have given a review of
the weather, dorirg the last three months. conspared
with that of the corresponding quarters, of last year.
The quantity of rain, that has fallen herniate Satur-
day last, is 6-tenths of an inch.
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MARRIED.—On the sth inst.at Bloomsbury
Willisin Theobald, of Slinner-street, Snow-hi,
Cooke, of Holborn-bars.
On Saterday, the sth instant, at St. Margaret'
Rood-lane, Mr. Henry Steel, of Grove-lane, Cs
to Anne, only daughter of Mr. Richard Richards,

lane.
On the 6th inst. at St. Pancras New Church.
tus Davis, to Augusta, youngest daughter of the
Lewis Kohn, Esq., of Oid London-street.
DIED.--011 the !Id inst. Anne, wife of Charles
Esq. of Waddon, Surrey.
On Wed
rknesday, the id inst., at the seat of her
wood-pa, Surrey, Mary, wife of James C
TiVickenham, Middlesex, and third daughter I
Frederick, Bart.
On the let inst., at her house in Pereeval.st
ampton-squire. iu the 6.5 th year of her nge, Mrs.
tali, widow of the late Joseph Nattall, Esq.
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