The Statesman.
London, England, 1820-07-25 00:00:00

THE S'l

ship claimed the Championship as Lord of the Manor of
Tamwortb, part of the ip irony of blarmion.

POLICE,
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Proofs weie exhibited spell the part of the Warden of • 11 a unit 6 est n-ayn E T.—John Nipper, a genteel
the Fleet, who claimed to attend with the key of %Vest-
dressed
minster Hall, and to open the gate for the Kine„ to bear char young man, was put to the bar handcuffed,
a place at the Coronation, and to receive the fees hither() charred with stealing plate and other articles, under ed
paid for the service, circumstances truly audacious, (ram the Half-Moon
Proofs were exhibited upon the part of the Duke of in Clipstune-street, on Sunday evening.
Athol. who claimed to present a falcon to the King, and Mrs. Wells, the landlady, stated that the prisoner,
•o have a place at the Corouation, together with the fees who was a stranger, called for a glass of cyder a little
appertaining. before seven in the evening. He was some time alone
Strangers were then excluded, and the Court deli-
in the parlour, and on witness going in, lie asked for
berated for some time. The doors were soon after or-
dered to be thrown open, anti upon the admission of the a particular newspaper; on being informed it was not
public, the Clerk read from a paper the decision of the taken in there, he said he must go where lie could see
Court npon the following claim. it. In the course of the evening, Mrs. Ilrells missed
The Court refused the claim of Lord John Townsend, the keys of a cupboard in the parlour which she kept
his Lordship having failed in establishing his title to the plate in, and on getting the lock picked, 13 silver table
Championship.
The Court refused the claim of the Duke of Argyle, spoons, six smaller and other light articles were gone.
upon the ground of inability to establish his title. in the latter part of the evening, just before bed-time,
The Court refused the claim of the Warden of the the servant maid gave an alarm that a thief had come
Fleet, upon the ground of his inability to establish his out of the bed-room with a bundle, and as he could
title. not get out at the front of the house, he concealed
The Court adjourned the consideration of the petition himself in the privy, down which he threw the articles
of the Rev. Mr. Dymoke to perform the Championship stolen from the bed-room, and the hunch of keys.
by deputy to the 31st instant, to which day they ad-
jottrned. The prisoner was secured by the parlour customers,
and delivered over to Coates, a cJostahle, when it
turned out, that after having stolen the plate from the
parlour cupboard, he took it home to his lodgings, at
No, 4, Miller-street, Camden-town, and was daring
enough to return to increase his booty. Coates found
the plate and other stolen articles at these lodgings,
with a brace of loaded pistols. The prisoner Wei re-
manded for another examination.

HIGH TREASON.

SPECIAL COMMISSION, COMMISSION, Ot.Asonw, JULY 21.

Wilson's trial bast:occupied the attentiou of the Conrt
two days, and it afforded atuple opportunity for She abi-
lities oh the Counsel.
The prisoner was one of an armed party of fourteen or
fifteen uho left his house at sitrathaven, sixteen miles
east of tflasgow, on the morning of the 6th of April.—
Thir party came half way to tilasgow, where the pr.
Boner left them. A party of armed people had, the
night before, gone into several 'noises in Strathayen and
the neifltisourhood, and forced f the inmates arms,
ammunition, and flints. The prisoner, when he left
Strathaven with the party, carried a sword, and lie lip-
pcord to be very dejected.

On Tuesday last, au attempt was made by a man
named Justaer Murray, to assassinate his Grace the
Duke of ATFIOLL. Murray, under pretence of import-
ant business, had procured an audience of his Grace, at
one of the lodges leading to Outdold House, where he
handed his Grace a letter, containing some unreasonable
demands, and which farther stated, that, unless his
Grace complied with them its a few minutes, he would
shoot I rids a pistol. The Duke, with singular for-
titude, and great presence of mind, seised the pistol as
Murray drew it from his pocket, and, calling on some
of his attendants, Murray was immediately secured and
brought to the jail of • Perth.—(Edenbwrgh Evening
Coltrane.)
One hundred and silty male convicts hare been
shipped at Portsmouth, to go on board the Neb., at
Spithead, for New South Wales.
There is this season a must abundant slsew of fil-
berts and battle nuts, but the walnuts have in general
failed.

The proof on the part of the Crown was dolled at ten
o'clock at night, of the 20th ; and Mr. J. A. Murray oc-
cupied tn•n hours in delivering his defence. At midnight
the Court adjourned, and the Jury were conducted in
roaches to the Black Bull Inu, where they werndetained
all night.
At ten o'clock, on the morning of the 21st, the Court
resumed the case of Wilson. Exculpatory witnesses were
brought forward, to prove that the prisoner had been
forced to go along with the party on the till. of April.
The Jury will take some time to r to a derision.

Mr. John Ratcliffe, well known on the Stafford and
turfs of the neighbouring counties, who is now in the
ith year of his age, had challenged all England to
run one hundred yards fur one hundred guineas with
an►• man ten years younger than himself.

SI•PPOSEDMtn AT KENTI4H To vx.—A Co-
roner's Inquest was held last night at tile sign of the
Bull and (late Publie-h.)nse, Ken fish Town, before J.
Silawic Esq. Coroner, over the body of a loan, un-
known.

This rl►aflenge has bee u accepted by an inhabitant
of Liemile, in Staffordshire, now in the 8/tk year of
his age, who served under the command of Reorge 11.
in the tierniAn war, mid with Rodney, in the Ameri-,
can w.ir, and afterwards :as a srrjeant in the Stafford-
shire militia.

Mr. George Bolton, Surgeon, who had exam-
ine I the body, stated the marks on the (ice to be of a
trivial nature, and not such as were likely to have
been mortal. There was no fracture of the skull;
and from various appearances he concluded that
the deceased had died from suffocation or drowning.
Two other Mrdical Gentlemen. -110. Heritage/ sad
Mr. Hardie*, dem forward is "omittadiet a statfttaem
which bad been mask in Tili'OSsereer, Sunday news-
paper, died espied from it into the papers of-yeikerday,
in white they were represented as having given an
opisiea frit the deceased had died in consequmme of
wooed. %flirted by als maker's fork, They had
films no ilia opinion, . re extremely ledir
sant that any one *honkd Live presumed to make
such use of their causes in sack an accouat.

FIRST OW Till lIARTIST.—We learn that OR Thurs-
day last, two fields of fine Oats belungiug to Richard
31.Grath of Duggan's% Polt bi hitulust October,
were cut down; sold that leipr ar next, tvrobide uT
Bartel, of elloolir Age fib*, sotto he hint earl/ la
Maack last, will he also rest down. Rich of these W-
oomera we believe to he, in its Mod, the earliest ledieg.

titan of the couunenctuseut of the leanest in this coon*
-(lraterjbril Mirror.)
The Waterford Assizes commenced on Monday. The
lion. Baron Uraium, who was expected to preside ix
the County Court. became so unwell at Wexford,. libt
lad Assizes town. that be was under the necessity of
going to Dublin. He is replaced by the Hon. Ser-
jean( Btrarrott. The Hon. Baron 51•CLattax as bed to
open the County es well as the City Court on Monk,.
and to swear the Orsini Juries.
At Preston Sessions, on the 15th inst. Was. Pouts, dot
younger, was found guilty of conspiring with tenvr
twelve others, and committing an unprovoked violeet
assault on the Messrs. FREDCRICII Li ta.r and Jostou
Batows, two washers of the 51anchester and Salford
Yeomanry Cavalry. during the corps being on perma-
nent duty, in June last. After a painful investigation
of sic boors, the jury retired for a quarter of an lioor,
and returned a verdict of guilty against the defends*.
And, when the worthy Chairman, Sic Tuomas U •
RTMVLE Hesarrn, was aboet to proudusce jnd
Mr. Muir rose, and addressed the Coalltlits a very
some manner. moving. le the mein astablele
Major Brains. the Akers. stri and privates of the Manehesterd="
Cavalry, that thmsgb the delbsdant had bees lewd
guilty, it was sot the disposition of that corps which he
had the honour In be e member of, to punish with seve-
rity, yet, they should noversuffer themselves to be pro-
siesta( with impunity ; he, therefore, requested this the
slightest possihie posiskossatie hollictea. The Chair-
man, on woks, sentsoce. advotts4* the enormity of
the crime, and sorry was he to woe of respecta-
ble connexions like Pucae, arraireid before him for so
heinous an offence: and that it mid have been his plin-
thil duty to have passed the severest panishment nest
Iran 'tattoo epee him, bet for the manly fwd
oithweatighlrreepseesilesorpe. the
er and Ilaltiod Yottitastry Cavalry. in w
Id elf Mr. 11.1‘44 had out handsomely moved--" tar
sentence is six mouths imprisonment I. biz to
) • le at Lancaster, and at the ezpirktion of that
enter into tone own recognisance of 1001., sod '
socatrities Of 501. each. for your good behaviosr, ad
the peace for three years to oeme.
Abstract of the Returns to the Order of. the Use..
~130th April and 30th December 1819, and 14th May
13111119. requiring an account of the amount of the
tessey assessed and levied IN every parish, Ike. la
fladiaagsad Wales, maintain* its own poor for the
years man, 25th Maisb, 18111-1817-1818--4101
1819 t dieingsishisg the mous' paid out of sash
assessments for any other pupae then die relief of
the Poor."
The amount " ezpeelledeolialp
_as the Pow." is the
years named. for Boglataitlo/b•Mdoovaladds than :
Is Ms
ls 1817 14 '
Is HOW
bo 11/19
le themes years. the following sea were
sawed sod levied"
181.
fn 1817
In 1914 ere • 11!'
'f"
1.1815
The dHkreaso 111k4/411s these Norden sotaailit
were u expeadid At Whit porpokos. and grads dills.
In 110/11 • .l . 111.
la MT ....• .• mai I* 414 ••• • • LM1101640
In 18111 11,?-• • L%3834 -
la 1815

The Jury also reprobated the practice of giving
publicity to each statements, so incautiously.
The Jury, alter some discussion as to whether they
should retail' a verdict of found drowned or acridental
death, returned the latter. Verdict—Accidental Death.
SUOCRING Acctosse.—A melancholy affair oc-
curred in St. James's watchhonse early on Sunday
morning. Mr. Crookshanks, a master tailor in Bond
Street, was bran* ht in mach inebriated, with another
person, for lighting Is the street. (look, the night
constable, seeing that he was respectable:allowed him
to sit its the room with him rather than lock him be-
low ; and when the constable win taking another
charge, he flew out of the room and precipitated him-
self over a latch door down ten stone steps. He fell
upon the back of his head, and appeared at first dead.
Dr. Copelsad attended on being sent for at Spur
o'clock, sod Mr. Alkock, the parish surgeon, who
was also sent he at the time, attended beibre eight. It
is supposed that Mr. C. took the door for the street
door, and wanted to get out. Ile lies In a hopeless
state. • e"
SUICIDI.—On Saturday morning,
Wm. Page, who resided with his family at 5, Phillip's-
gardens, Tatteabsen-plare. Tottenham-court-road,
haring some quarrel with his wife, went up stairs and
shut himself ap in his bed-room, but remaining rather
long, the servant west up to call him down, bat re-
ieiviag so answer, and finding the door was festered;
in the Wide. she gave the alarm. The door was
leveed apes, sad the aulersoaste man teas found told,
Vaspeoded by a tope from the tester of the bed. ki
'determined was lea oa accomplishing the dreatifoll
deed, that ha had previously tied both his Isaterks* the
bedotoek, awilh after patting his bead through the
Neese, be tine* Haiself backwards, itt whirls situation
wai foam! dead. •
MILEADIVI• Aestasse.--Aboat sin o'clock on Soo-
s‘y asersiog. as tho ladies and a child were &iris(
Mem the New-road In a angle-berm chaise, from the
pod of Tettinsam-couit-ruad towards Battle-hridge,
tibit horse, which was a very spirited animal, taking
fright at oonitthige. set of at fall speed, &lAA' lady
who had the iosalgement of the -bridle, tm se alarm-
ed, that she domed the reins I 'primal persons at-
tempted to stop. the hams, !which only calmed hies to
retheable his speed. sok 'eery spectator stood trembling.
expecting every pima* to no them dashed to plows
the her at the side of the tatiplim-gata, hawses ihe
NM of Tu(Stslatas-coart-road, and Upper Hoorge4llll44
Wag skit, the horse fall ageism* is with sods feria
that it napped is two, awl the horse termed is at the
lasi* Iron 1" hue the retd• le frost of Mews, r
brows sad Tosag'sMarhkaod -amphop Illaeotaetery.
when the bermes is attensptiog to leap ever the IMO
pallieades to kite of the hoildief. alighted on imp of
the Ina 'pikes. which. penetrated several inches Um
,his chest t the Irefillees hammed to the assietaare etc
idie ladies ism' hid Ai/ *sad the.shihlest, with-
4111t Nan* the emeneot Wary, except Aim they