The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-25 00:00:00

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THE DUKE. ar-i TIM,.

In the ease of heed Merrily, who it was stated
yesterday was tried at the Circuit Court of Justiciary
at. Perth, fur writing threatening letters to the Duke
ni Athol, the indictment set forth that in the month
of July, I S2O, the prisoner had written to his Grace,
°tiering to make kuown, in a private convetsation, a
conspiracy, in which the Duke, as Lord Lieutenant of
the County, was materially interested. His Grace
accordingly met him in the porter's lodge, at Dun-
keld, when the prisoner presented him with a letter,
in which he stated, that he had claims upon theestate of
Soilzary, now the property of the Duke, and that,
unless his Grace would instantly give him the sum
of 5,0101., or a checque upon his banker to that
amount, his life should pay the • forfeit. In this
). tter be stated that he would allow five minutes for
consideration, and that if the Duke did not within
ti::+t space comply with his demand, the prisoner
-Lad two pistols in his possession, with one he would
11. ow his Grace's brains out, and with the other his
GtrA, being determined not to survive the want of
• ills property. By the manly and decisive conduct
of his Brace, it appeared, the prisoner's attempt
was frustrated, and his person secured. The prisoner,
a tall elderly-looking man, pleaded, as we stated—
; URQUHART, Counsel for the passel, urged, in
alleviation of the crime, the obvious defect of in-
tellect which it implied, and endeavoured to show,
that there was no serious intention on the part of
the prisoner to commit murder, who never doubted
to accomplish his object by threats alone.
Lord SuccoTit, in awarding the punishment of 7
years transportation beyond seas, represented the
heinous nature of the offence in the eye of tie
law, and its pernicious consequences, eves where
the threatened violence is not accomplished—the
alarm and disquiet it occasions to individual's, to
families, and to society--considered the murderous
intention of the pannel too evident, and that the
steadiness and courage of his Grace alone saved his
life.

OLD DAILEY.—TersDAT.

John Hart and Janus Inert were indicted for stea
lug 4 coach glasses, and Leddington, for
feloniously receiving the same.
It appeared that the prisoner Hart, whose parents
resided in a mews near the premises of the prosecutor,
was seen on the day named in the indictment, leaving
the mews with a parcel in his arms; by a person going'
to the stables, and knowing that he had left his pa-
rents, and connected himself with a bad set of boys,
enquired of him what lie bad been taking away; he
immediately confessed that he had been taking some
coach-glasses from the premises of Mr. Jones.—
Nothing appearing to criminate the oilier prisoners,
they were acquitted.
Juanita Tutavas.—George Crowley and Thomas
Need, two boys, were indicted for stealing a pelisse,
value 21., the property of Charlotte Thomas, widow,
from the person of Anne Blunt, and Elizabeth H'ard,
alias Bray, for receiving the same, knowing it to be
stolen.
Anne Blunt, a little girl, aged 13, deposed, that on
the evening of the 22d of Feb. last, she was sent by
her nil,' rest to take home a pelisse to Mrs. Thomas, at
Islington; and while on the road leading to Sadler's
Wells, she saw the ,r4.7oners Crowley and Head,
aatcbing her; she hurried on, and lost sight of them,
but the►, it appeared, went round a shorter Way, and
met her just by the New River head, and snatching
the pelisse from her hand, ran away with it.
A Police officer stated, that hearing of the robbery,
and having had a description of the offenders, he ap-
prehended the two male prisoners, at the house of the
prisoner Ward, in Frying-pan-alley, Islington ; the
pelisse was in the room. The two boys were sitting by
the fire, with their coats off, singing a flask song.—
The woman, on being questioned about the pelisse,
declared that the boys bad just brought it in.
Crowley and Head were found Guilty, and Ward
was acquitted.
'the COMMON SZRJRANT asked if the boys were
known ?
The Police officess said they were well known,
Head, (who is only fourteen years of age), having been
six months in confinement under sentence of Death,
and Crowley having been several times tried in this
Court.
The Comtism &WWII' said, that they must both
leave the country for life. They conducted themselves
with the most hardened indifference.

We have received the copy of a Ukase, published
at St. Petersburgb, confirtuing the official notice Ism
the Minister of Finance, for the augmentation of duties
on imports. It Is as follows :
•` VICAIIR TO TOR DIRECTING IIEXATE.

** Desirous of affording further encouragement to
the industry of oar faithful subjects engaged in the
in inufacture of cotton and silk goods, and also of en-
estarabing the cultivation cf vineyards in the southern
ininvlaces of the empire, and the preparatioti. of various
netts of liquors from grapes and various sons of fruits.
we have thought proper to augment the interior or
coosamption duty on foreign articles of these ilescrip•
tions. We add to the above, a moderate increase of
the consumption duty on coffee and sugar, and order
that the interior or consumption duty on the said ar-
ticles be levied at the customary houses, according to
the accompanying register, duly confirmed by us.
(Signed) " A Lai A Den.
**Laylpach, Feb. 10, 1921."
Another Document in regard to Poland is as fol-
lows :

"IMPERIAL WWII.

" ALZILANDER.

1, For the encouragement of trade at the fain at
Warsaw, it was enacted by our Ukase. dated 3d of
October, 1020, a deduction of 10 per Cent. *odd be
made, rom the duties paid at the Custom-6tM at
Wafeaw on all foreign articles transported from the
pinve.fairs into the empire of Russia.
• " Hiving, by our Ukase of this day, raised the ;Me.
ujur or consumption duty on several foreign articles
sponlied in the accompanying Schedule, we order.
that, instead of 10 per Cent. a deduction of 20 per
trit. 4ball be niude from those articles at the Custom-
house at Warsaw. when transported from the above
fairs into the' empire of Russia.
(Signed)
Laybuh. Feb. 10, 1621."