The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-26 00:00:00

Try ?STATESMAN

SrAnnisn.—The veteran Scroggins had a benefit yea
tertlav at the Fives'-court, and
nee amateurs nonstered
Wong. The sets-to gaye the gretet satiefaction.
HICKMAN AND Suet.Tos.—'f his was the first hoot of
consequence, and it was an admirable exemplification of
lei
and manhood. Shelton attempted to hit counters
with his adversary, and lie placed one of them upon
Hickman's month, which produced claret between the
feel'. Gas made mime encellent parries. hit with his
left and, and shrived some necesear
be y reeniite science.
Abonbt the middle of the set-to hebegan toi
let the as
inner, and he staggered Shelton away from him by a
heavy right-banded bit, which wade him drop his head.
In the silbseqitent tonna.' Ca* bail ihe hest of it,m
buhad
t it
vas a manly exhihltion, and the tapping syste
nothing to tin with it.
MN BURN AND Pst.es.—This wee also an eecellent
eet-to, and fine science was displayed. The parrying
ST:11 a Master-Ow of the art, and although each had
diffeailty in placing a hit, when it was
done it came
heavy. It was jintee who had the best of it
with each acennit&slied tactic;ane.
Manstrat roe Youvern Gat,. M tert blicLen.—
elng
seems to have
set-to. Gas has all the atti-
Tbis wae a real refli.
tulle and action of Iliclonae, %shoot lie
copied. Ile depend. chiefly u; ~n his right hand, and
be bit so bard aitli it half mind. that lie
a flit
deluged
his ad-
versary in nearly every round, and ewuged lei;
heal in elar• t. Miller wae hit worse than he would
have been with a r,tntnlanCt in helf an hour's fight.
Jousene, TOE HI.ACIC, AND A LE NC TIIY (.01:NTRT-
XAN.—The 141.1ek had every thing an he liked, and
poked his adversary's head by counters at least twenty
times.
Brno,: AND HARDT HARMER !let to.--Scroggins. who
i< nit of condition, with a bandage on his head,
was not
in order to set-to, but made an energetic speech in re-
turning thanks.
On the 111th instant, as sated in our last, tile offs
of the law proceeded, under the protection of a
%iron!! military force, to eject the teliantry of Strath-
brews, which they effected without opposition.; the
people having taken the alarm on the approach of
the military, carried out their furniture, and fled to
the neighbouring, hilla, whence they surveyed theh de-
molition of their houses. Mr. J. blacbean,
Seriff
Ulcer, had been sent from this place with criin the
minal
letters, against those who had been most active
deforeement of the civil officers upon the former oc-
casion ; but though partiee of men and women were
seen inuring about amour( the bills, and were re-
peatedly pursued by the soldiers, only two men and a
woman were apprehended, who were brought to town
in the mail, by the officer, and lodged in gaol, to stand
trial on the 2nth instant, for the alleged assault and
rioting. Lieutenant Ash, a very active young officer,
while with three soldiers pursuing one of the flying
parties, came by an accident in crossing a deep stream,
which was, however, attended with no other serious
voasequence than a severe ducking. Ileaps of
. here found concealed with turf, which, it is supposed,
Is ad been collected, to give a warm reception to the
•eilrateea, if they had not .hers suprrted by such
taverwlohning force. Decreed summonses of removal
were afterwards issned against the tenantry of Grub
in-
's,
wile bad also fled from their homes the military,
.• doling the reinforcement which.•jeintel them last
Ifeelk,nleoett 101 l strong, are to be statiuned in Suther-
land. until the people of Gruids are ejected at Whit-
' sunalay.—(beerncsa /Jularat.) •

Thomas Elliott was indicted for intermarrying
with Jane Taylor, his former wife. Ilonora Elliot.
being alive. The prisoner was dressed in black, and
was of respectable appearance.
Thomas Vann, a police officer of Worship -street,
apprehetithal the prisoner about 4 ur 5 weelta ago.
Witness told him that he took hint for bigamy, and
the prironer laughed at it.
John Brady, a batter by trade. He knew the pri-
soner and was aequainted wills him in Ireland. Ile
proved the marriage of the prisoner
Ile in Ireland, 1 d
1
years last May, to Honore Smith. also proye
that she was now alive, acd bail seen her about half
an hour ago.
Cross-exaniined.—The parties were married by
t's
a
Mr. Riley, a Catholic Priest, at his (tI e
pries)
house ; Lot it was not a private house. Ile (whiitn txoes.)
did not steal into the hotl', but got in by s
feet. Being asked how torch
money he got fur ap-
pearing this clay as a iiitness, he said he got notnhing,
" not even the two guineas which you (addressig lb..
counsel) obtain." lie came from Ireland to push his
fortune the same as another.
Other witnesses e ere subsequently examined,
who
proved the facts of the case, and the prisoner was ul-
timately found g
Lev) STEAissn.—Thoutitt S nith, aged 22, was in-
dicted for stealing[ I Ulhs. weight of lead, the pro-
perty of •lhemas Crotnwell, of Hammersmith. Mr.
Hone conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Adolphus
the defence. The proaecutor, who is a brewer,
stated,
that no the 10th of March last the lead was all safe
affixed to a barn near his house, and on the 12th ult.
it was gone.—Timmas Close stated, that on the &gilt
of the 12th of March he was proceeding with his
horse and cart to Windsor, and stopped at the Horse
and Chaise, Hammersmith, to refresh when he was ac-
costed by the prisoner, Smith, who when
hi if he
had any objection to earn five shillings? and that, if
he would, be was to be really with his cart to carry
some lead to London. Witness assented, and a bed
was provided for him. About four o'clock in the
morning lie was awoke by the prisoner, and proc
uan-
eed-
ed with him down a bye lane, where lie saw a
q
tity of lead under a dung-hill. Ile. returned for the
horse and cart, into which the lead was put, and thee
drove on to mond in, but he ad t got farther than
Kensington, when he was stohppedno by the racers and
taken into custody.
Cross-examined by Mr. AnoLettes.—Witneas sold
oranges and tiali about the country. BP not know it
w a dishonest tratmoction. lie never saw the pri-
soasner before he saw him at Hammerstuith on the night
of the 12th.
John Drinkwater, landlord of the public-bonse at
Hammersmith, deposed to having seen the prisoner
and the last witness together at his house ; Close came
in tint, and about five minutes afterwards the prisoner
came in, and they shook hands like old friends and
drank together. The witness then stated, that having
Hs the lead was stolen, he gave information.
His house was open all night for coaches and carts to
stop at. • s
The Officers who apprehended the prisoner and the
witness Close next gave their evidence, but it was not
material—Tlse lead was next produced in Court and
identified.
The RECORDER sumtned up the evidence, and the
Jury returned a verdict of Geiity.
The Learned JCDOE then enquired of the officers
whether the prisoner was known? By their answer
it appeared that he had formerly been in custotly and
tried in this Court.
Close, the witness, was then called np, and , admo-
nished on his way of life. The Recorder liuntatiely
cautioned him to circumspect his conduct, for Ulm ap-
peared in that Court again, be would be remembered.
James Brookes, aged 34, was indicted for stealing
21. 7s. the property of John Wilcox, from his person.
Guilty.
Woo. Gullcn, aged 30, welt indicted for stealing four
casks, value 255. the property of Phillip Betts Wake,
and James Matin.—quilly.
John Carle was indicted for stealiny, 131bs. weight
of flour, the property of Thomas Young, a farmer at
Enfield.—Nut Guilt;.

THE COAL TRADE.
Yesterday the Court sat again, potilliet to an ad-
journment, to determine upon the reemeosl of Mr. T.
I Bradfield, praying that F. Biggs, Esq.• the Princip
dial
Coal Meter for the county of Surrey, should be s-
missed from his office, on the ground of ntalversation
et duty.
Mr. NOLAN spoke chiefly to the evidence, which,
be contended, had utterly failed to support the memo
There were many witnesses, be observed, had
not been called, whose testimony would have been
against Mr. Biggs. had the sweeping charges which
had been brought against him been founded in truth.
There were many coal-sellers on the different stations
who might bare been called to prove inattention on
the part of Mr. Biggs, had any such ezisted,
but of
these not more than two or three had come forward,
and their testimony was such as had in some instasees
negatived the complaints. If any injury had bees
sustained, as was charged to have been. through the
not
neglect or malversation of Mr. Biggs, why had
some of the injured purchasers been brought forward?
Not one had appeared to urge the least complaint
and it was in evidence, that when complaints had bees
made to Mr. Biggs, he instituted immediate inquiry,'
and that whenever lie found there was any reason to
complain against the meters, be immediately and
fearlessly dismissed them from his service.
bad
e
witness Winchester had proved, that Mr. Biggs
been accustomed to send bim about the wharfs with a
book, to receive any complaints that might be made
against them.
Mr. NOLAN having gone through the whole oftbe
case, the Court adjourned for an hour, duriol which
the Bench retired to a privste room to consult.
time
On their return
The Caatastax, addressing Mr. Biggs. said that
the Court had weighed every material circumstance
that hail transpired during the time that they
and had
been o.Tupierl, very properly, upon this lung, to
the public, important investigation. The great duty
of the principal meter was to stand between the public
and the coal-dealers, and to protect them from the lat-
ter by preventing fraud both in the measure and the
quality of the coal. The memorial had charged !the
im
with 'having connived at, and participated in,
frauds of coal-dealers, but fortunately for him no such
charge had been proved,or even attempted to be proved,
as the only sentence of the Court on such an occa-
sion, must I^ final dismission from his office. Tbe
Court, however, were clearly of opinion that the
charge of having failed to ,provide a sufficient number
of labouring meters to do the duty of the office, bad
been substantiated; and the Court directed that for
the future he should provide a greater number. Th
were several other charges upon which the evidence
W 3% but slight, and some upon which no ev
w ould idenc e at
all had been adduced. These the
Court pass
over. The next charge which presented itself was
that of having allowed Fisher to remain upon the
Franey station, in contradiction to the spirit of the
Act, which directed that the meters should be changed
monthly. This charge had been very properly ad-
',fitted by the Learned ('soused, and it was proved by
Fisher, who.retlainly appeared to be as stupid, though
as honest a witness as ever appeared in a Court of Jus-
tice. It was a suspicious circumstance that Mn.
r.
Biggs should employ him, knowing his situatio
The connection which Fisher had with Mr. Pheturn
the Court could not but say bore a very bad com-
plexion. The Court hoped, however, that this would
be rectifier!, and that the father and son would be no
longer allowed to act together on the same station, re-
latively like two buckets in a well. The Court had
found that the negligence of Mr. Biggs, inC not pro-
viding. a sufficient namher of men to do the duty of
the station, had led to the leaving of tickets at the
public-bourses of the stations for the dealers, which did
array with the security intended by the Act. They
were of opinion, that for the future he should be
much more Nero the alert in this particular. and that
lie should have the tickets materially altered,
and the
precise address of the Office given upon them. The
Office itself was not such an office as the Act contem-
plated, and also reqnirerl reformation. The Court
then gave Mr. 11;igzs to understand, that a
bnY
fa Ware
to
complaint that should be proved, would e tal
him.

POLICE.

11Ististots-Hovse.--Yesterslay Clayton, and another
rd
notorious character were brought before the Lo
Mayor, by Forrssts r and Ilesketh, who stated that
they saw the prisoners, about dusk in the evening,
one following the other in a manner, which, from the
character of the parties, excited the suspicions of the
officers, who, in consequence, watt-Ilea them into St.
Peter's-adee, opposite the Globe Fire Office, where
they seized them and brought them to the Woolpack
public-house ; and, on searching them, there was
tunnel on Cl.seton a crow-bar, such as housebreaker's
use , thee picklocks, and twenty-four skeleton kcys
on the other prisoner they found nothing but a
screw-driver.
A Solicitor attrnded on the part of the prisoner on
whom the screw-driver was found ;
Who submitted to
the Lord Mayor that there was nothing to connect
him with Clayton, as the officers admitted that
they had not seen them in conversatiat the time they
on, and that
they were at least a yard asunder
were seized.
The Lotus MAYOR, on considering all the circum-
stances of the case, committed Clayton, to Ile brought
up at the sessions, to be dealt with under the Po-
lice Act, and discharged the other prisoner.
Thomas C'aelscr was charged by Mr. Sleet, a con-
fectioner, in Cheapside, with having come into his
shop, and requested change for a Sovereign, which Mr.
Sleet accordingly gave. The prisoner. appeared to
count the shillings, in which Mr. Sleet had given the
change, without taking them off the counter, on which
Mr. Sleet had laid them, and immediately said that
the change was live shillings short. Mr. Sleet was
astonished, and, on looking attentively at the prisoner,
recognised him to be a person who bad, about a month
berate, come into his shop and requested change for
a sovereign in the same manner, and insisted so posi-
tively that he had been given but sixteen shillings,
that Mr. Sleet, on that occasion, gave him four more.
Mr. Sleet, on this recognition, sent for an officer,
which, when the prisoner saw, be .shook %heave shil-
lings out of his sleeve, into which he had', bv a des-
te.uus slight of baud, conveyed them, while be ap-