The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-10 00:00:00

POL ICS.
Stec siON-110111111.--Yestetilay a fellow, wbo ;shames
' the name of Bob Smith, was brought before the
Lord Mayor en a charge of having committed a violent
and outrageous assault on a lad named Campbell.
On Monday, several street-robbers who infest the
neighbOurhood of Bishopsgate, were lblly committed
for trial, on charges of highway robbery, and amongst
other persons, the complainant Campbell, who lives in
Angel-alley, pre evidence against them, for which his
hfe has been constantly threatened, nor can he venture
from his door without being maltreated. He stated
that be has been several times beaten with great seve-
rity, and he charged the prisoner with having set upon
MITI at night and beaten him most unmercifully. The
complainant's mother bad also been constantly assailed
on the same account.

The LORD MAYOR strongly animadverted on the
case, and said, that these who presumed in any way to
annoy the persons who did their duty by giving evi-
dence, would meet with punishment so severe from the
city Magistrates as would convince them of the folly
of setting themselves against the law. His Lordship
ordered the prisoner to find ball, to answer for the
outrage at the Sessions, and in default he was com-
mitted to prison.

His Lordship ordered the city Solicitor to prosecute,
and bound over the complainant to give evidence.

GCILDRALL.-•—.YOUTHIPUL DIEPRITTITY.—The unni-
her of young lads brought up daily to the different
public (Aces, on charke of various crimes, is ex-
tremely lamentable. No less than five youths of this
description andenvent am examination at this Justice-
room yesterday, before the sitting Magistrate, Mr.
Alderman Cox.

The ease that excited the greatest interest was that
of Benjamin Beeler, an apprentice, who was brought
up by his master, Mr. Light, a wholesale hardware-
man, No. 71, Fleet-street, with the view of getting his
indentures discharged, under the provisions of the sta-
tutes 20 He 0.11., cap. 19, and 32d Geo. 11., cap. 37,
for regulatiag parish apprentices. His master did not
actually charge him with theft, beeause, as he said, he
could not bring proof of the fact, although he consi-
dered that numerous articles that were missing could
not have been taken away without his knowledge and
connivance; bat his general conduct and behaviour,
as described by Mr. Light, exhibited a most extrairdi-
nary instance of incorrigible obstinacy and perverse-
ness of disposition. The lad, who is now rightism.
and has been with Mr. Light four years, was left an
orphan at an early age, and brought up by a poor
couple, his foster parents, residing at Bromley, in Kent,
who described him as of a most wretched temper, eve.
from a child. The schoolmaster where be received the
little education be had, stated in a letter to Mr. Light,
that he bad scarcely ever witnessed a child of so ex-
ceedingly bad a disposition, and that he occasioned

him mote trouble and uneasiness than all his other

scholars put together. Mr. Batt, the parish clerk of
• St. Mary Wookharei, by which parish the lad had
been apprenticed, bore testimony to his extraordinary
perversity. Mr. Light said he had used every possible
endeavour to correct the obstinacy of the boy's temper,
and the habitual sodium of his manner, but without
the slightest effect. He had parted with tuo or three
fusels servants throng% the violence of his condoct,
each declaring it was impossible to lire in the house
with him. Neither kindness nor threats are of any
avail with him; be will do as he likes, and does not
hesitate to say so. Indeed, he allows, to use his own
eepression, that be thinks the very devil is in him. He
knows his business very well, and is now of an age
to be exceedingly meadl to his muter. But Mr. Light
stated that no consideration could induce him to take
him again into his house, and had no hesitation in
saying that he thought his own life and that of his fa-
mily in danger, from the violence of the lad's dispo-
• olden. The obstinacy of the boy's disposition was ap-
parent in his etwatemanee, which exhibited no trait
of feeling or kindness; his very voice when he spoke'
was a sort of harsh surly roar, and the few tears that
be shed on finding that he was no longer to be 'neon-
irealed were evidently those of anger rather than
Ur row.

Ur. Alderman Blum who had attended on this very
case, the presence of two magistrates being required,
thought it would be rather too precipitate to discharge
the indentures, as there appeared no prospect for the
lad, without friends and with such a character, to
procure another employment, and suggested the pro-
ptiety of first trying the elect of severity upon him, in
which opinion Mr. Alderman Cox coincided, and as
as experiment the boy was committed to the House of
Correction, to be kept to hard labour for one month.
flow-stassv.—Ma. BIXJAMIN BLOONTIELD.—Yes-
terday was the day appointed by Sir Richard Birnie
for the To-examination of Benjamin Bloorafield, the
person charged with defrauding Mr. Shearley, of
Rockingham-row, Kent-road. of 20'01.. under the pre-
tence of procuring him s situation in the Customs, as
a searcher ; and before eleven o'clock, the hour at
wjlich the business usually commences, the office and
dm avenues to it were crowded. Among the crowd
vitas collected a great number of persons, who stated
that they had suffered by gr. Bloomfield's talent at de-
ception. in a similar manner to Mr. Sheerly. To judge
from their allegations, the aggregate of his frauds
must bare amounted to a very large sum. The usual
business occupied the Magistrate until past one o'clock.
and at that time the pressure was so great, both in
and outside of the Justice-room, that Sir R. Birnie
was more than once on the point of giving an order
that it should be'cleared.
The defendant was brought from the House of Coe-
realm in Cold-bath-fields; as eleven o'clock ; and an-
til his examination, he was allowed, as a Matter of :oe ,
oommodatioa, to remain at s 1 neighbouring tavern.-6-:
Mr. Anot.ritus, his consul, had an interview with him
before he was brought into the Mfice ; and the Learn-
ed College!, when he returned, made a communicatioa
to the worthy Magistrate, which could not be bean'
by the by-slanders.
At half-past one o'clock, the defendant was placed at
the table In front of the bar. He Is a tall young man
of very gentlemanly appearance and imposing manners.
Sir R. Blame, in an coder tone, asked him how he
bad bees treated in tbeprison daring his confinement?
The defendant said, Trite as well as the saws of
the place would admit of.
Sir R. Mr N.---41e there

Sir R. lisauts.--44 t►ere any pension present
ba• a charge to prefer against this yes qg man?
No answer try aide. At this gate the Wilco
(crowded in !eery corner.