The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-08-12 00:00:00

mimed his mosey. ills trarelliwg sue bad hue
' blokes opus on a Mood by the side of Meer
Away, and its contents, gnu; but in ennsequesce
some nattered paps" the 6 oder was led to the ins.
I diacovered the owner of the ease. It sou proved
t three strange looking men had railed at the lan
the evening to look fee b►dt, and it was supposed
one of them had uttered the trircHers' room, and
teamed off the ease in tpmetiett. -__ •
The Came Gamow thorned the Jury that. Seder
• circonsstances stated, there was ne ilouhrVf the
defendants' liability; eat the 3ery, under his lane&
sip's direction, limed their verdict for the Plaintiffs
-rDamages, W. being the amount of the bank notes
lest, the Plaintiffs waiving any claim io respect of the
Beaker's cheques. which had also been stolen.
*Na KINK e. INUIPRIN AND OTRIIR2
:is was an isformatlon filed by the A:roaster-
;RAl arainst Jemmy Crippee, Iflniarts Crippee,
John Wilson, for a riot at Caotetbary on the 26th
'petit last.
Ir. Sergeant Onsaser, Mr. MANKTATT, Mr. Gun-
and Mr. KNOX soadeceed the prosecution. and
A DOLPHUS the defame%
appeared in evidemee that at the last Anises,
is. the wife of John Eldridge, a shoemaker, of Can-
'bury. was webpeneed u a witness against one of
;Wanner' who were thee triad fee an uolawfol as
tbty on the coast of Kent, for the purpose of effect-
landing of snuggled spirits. After the trial
over, when the whale of the offeoders were capi-
convicted, she retired with her husband to Gan-
try, end found a mob assembled in the town, by
I both were assailed sad stigmatised as inform-
She was thee advanced in pregnancy, and after
had bees confined for about a fortnight, namely
the evening of the nth April, a sob collected in
of her husband's house. The defendant, James
ippon, who lived opposite. brought oat two elligies
a man and woman, which were designated as Eld-
ridge% the informer% aid set lire to them. This col-
-tad s large mob, who threw stones and brick-bats
doer of the prosecutor's dwelling. As soon as
effigies were beret the mob threw burning em-
into the windows, sod afterwards forced open the
to the great terror of **prosecutor and his wife.
of the snob entered, bat th►y did not appear to
committed any farther violence. It appeared,
the defendant, James Crippen, was the most cc-
person in the ►iot. As to the other defendants the
evidence was, that William Crippen appeared very
delighted at what took place, sad that Wilson
seen amongst the crowd by the prosecutor when
door was forced open.
Gr. Anornes admitted, that he bad no defence fur
client, James Crippen. but insisted that there wes
evidence whetever upon which the other defendants
nld reasonably be smoirieted.
The LORD CHIIII Rancix summed op the ease for
r Jury with minuteness and impartiality.
The Jere retired for abut ten minutes, and found
two Crippene Guilty, but found Wilson—Not
ty.
son Custom prosecution were. disposed of, but nei-
tf cases were of public interest.
CROWN GIRL
ilii !PK Colegate and William Meehan, were in-
fo► a conspiracy with other persons to affright
ilarm John Steaebam and Joseph Sampson,
Overseers of the Poor of the Paris► of Stone, in the
• of ONney, fa this suety, on the 10th of April
Ind in pursuance of such conspiracy shooting off
I eons into the beds of the prosecutors.
. Cut:wools cemotneted the prosecution, and Mr.
stews and Mr. Miasmas; the defence.
'he ease was this:—The prisoners were paupers in
parish of Stone. sad being dissatisfied with the
`• allowance, expressed their determination of at-
tg the overseers, as was stated by a mu named
set, an accomplice, and of firing at them when
ton suited. The prosecutors were respectively
ico sling and outgoing overseers of the parish last
•r. It was proved that on the night mentioned
inlictment the helmet eat► of the prosecutors
mackeri, sad a gun fired into each whilst they
in their respective beds; but no fatal manse-
tams ensued, though the shots, which were large,
ted within a foot or two of their heads. From
ridenee of the accomplice, it appeared that both
term had repeatedly expressed the most violent
is against the prosecutors, and that they would
• thew. hut inasmuch as it did not appear that
sad any joint common purpose annexed is the
tore of both,
{ems ANDRIWS and MANSHAM submitted that the
•ment IS for a conspiracy most fail.
Justice PARK acquiesced in the objection, and
!anti), told the Jury they must acquit the psi-
, however unlawful their in•lividual conduct, from
rideete, appeared to have been.
tc Jnry, therefore. found the prisoners Not Guilty.
to Assizes are not expected to hoists before the
le of next week.
mix.--Jaha Wraith was indicted for maliciously
unlawfolly setting fire to the dweliing-house,
and outhouses of W. Minter, at !claim, on the
of June list.
..is case excited considerable interest. There were
Colmar' for the prosecution. The prisoner was de.
led by Mr. Hnu.sao and Mr. ADot.rut•s.
appeared in (mistime that the prisoner was the
eta respectable and wealthy mercer at Canterbury.
e prosecutor was the prisoner's first cousin, and oc-
pied a large farm at labia, about fire miles from
"terbury. 'rho prisoner was On very rood terms
1 the prosecutor, and and frequently to visit biol.
be afternoon of the 26th of June, the prisoner was
:ted in the very set of setting fire to the prosrcu-
ri.•ks. The flames speedily communicated with
!welling and outhouses, and Is a abort time the
le of the premises were minuend. The prisoner
left Canterbury for the purpose of taking a walk,
bad gore to his cousin's house when the offence
plained of was perpetrated. It was admitted, on
part of the prisoner, that be had been guilty of
rash act complained of; but his Counsel proposed
thew, t►st the prisoner was at the tints, and for
tonsiderable period before, as nadophted maniac.
Nine witnesses, amongst whom was th.. prisoner's
Sher, were then called to prove, that for six months
we the period in question, this prisoner was flighty
inconsistent in his conduct. His uncle bad died
A, sod his cousin bed died in Bethke% It did not
'ppm that the prissier bad ever had any medical ad.
• and nu medical man was examined. All the wit-

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heist% helmet. sesegreed b stetbi a Witter, de NIP
es 4 viretwestamess, *heft isilestiog thee the Oman
was set MVO, made.
Th. whole .f the miaow was esstuted up by the
Lessem! Jodi% whet, is to dawns@ sharp. left it to
the Jury to say whether the Friesen. at the the. the
sirsipee was soeswittek tose capable of Algoma se eiglti
fres wren. Their verlistutest be yerersea by that
Issee.

The Joey toutd tbs pitmen Not Guilty, eternity
on the erased of insanity t and ho was added to re-
main in custody slot* bts Illajosry's plosion.

TO THE SEMI OP THE STATESMAN.
THE RXRISITION IN HYDE PARK.

Ste,—Wien we esstdder these "panic morals,"for
which the people e? Ragland, pnetally speaking (and
not to east) hare really IMPS a pattern to the world ;
more particularly, seasidesileg t►e MAIOXIIII I. which
they have ewe!. pit when called epos to do it, the
public stamp of their spittle* apes the merits of each
men and Map the chsrattin of which have bees to
be jatipd of ►y eseeeedieg gesetatioos ; while the
words " peers. mere/ears yet made smelt while the
sense. is which Englishmen hotelmen seed to accept
words is their lodginge that are applied to things
of public importaem least 90 easels churl ita some
other things want chases,. I think it would be a
scandal, to any thief we aver stuck up to remind us
of a great MOO or of -a areas aetioo, to rail this thing
II STATOR !—" Not a Sterise*, they will say, " what is
"it then"! Why. it Is the model of a man is a meet
indecent state of meaty, stuck op le, perhaps; the most
public spot of all anglbad, at Hyde-perk corner. What
this Naked moo het to de at that plasm is a question
that needs no time spent in Alseralles to tome to the
bottoms of it; as to the person or persons Intended to
be honoured by kis appearance. the greed feat, of
the heroes I or the mighty mesas of isspiretion that it
may become to fata►e seieretione of wintery and pa-
t►iotic " youth". there is sot use spectator of the sight,
I will vesture to say, whose brains ere tiarth gestalt-
ing, that has sot heard of and leaped at eaoegh of
humbug to be able to cooed.' the purpose of the thing
fail es well as did the one whose mind could be
sufficiently vitiated and weak as first to produce the
" Statue" in imagination.

But, leaving aloe', for the present, all other mat-
ters Made, to this sew lastitutioa. (for I importer it
is to be on list of the" INSTITIITIoNs Or 71111 Cowl
Tile) there la one. In particular, most deserving o
the entice of every Englishman, but which, I am sorry
pereelve, although his see of the ;mate s insults
that ever has been offered to us by any kiwd acne-
my. and, for ell we have. in the country, hundreds and
hundreds of the Guardians of " National floaenr,"
and " Public .Vorals." has bees taken any more
notice of, by them, than if the "guardians" had been
ignorant of its existence ; a great part of our news-
paper "guardian:', to be sore. have hers the very
medium through which the Insult has bees repented
to es, bat. it is singular. consider's'', the enmity that
some of these " gausediame" must entertain for their
rivals is the scramble, that there should not have been
eat mere amongst them manly 'sough to remonstrate
against the isfainous charge brought against the Le-
nin or BN•LAND.I—We are told bg tbose whowriSit foe
the ,tickers-np of the " dotes". that it is aperient
from the " Ladies of England:'; ae alarm Image
is; they say, TVs FISSINT RION TIM Lathes or
ENGLAND.' to reward the late and surely* heroes of
their country. and. particalarly, is honour of one
living hero, seder whose very cos' the thins; :s
erected, sod to etinalate, say the " guardians," to
urge on deeds of greatness the youth of future
ages:" Is tide, then, the high, the dignybd mode, in
which the Ladies of England present a laming mark
of their approval of the '• feats of heroes?" Is an ob.
scene image, as image of a *eked min, at least eight
or sine. and, I think I t: ay say. tea times as big ae
any grenadier is the service, is this to be represented
to us as the imagination of a " Lady," an " Brighten
LADY," to be presented in face of the country, and.
in fact. to the country itself, as the symbol, above all
ethers, by which her mind, the mind of an English
woman , would express it, approval of the past "Asts
of heroes," and would " emulate to !stare deeds of
glory," the "British youth" of coming generations !
1 have said that it ought not to be called a STATUS,
nor should it, any more than it should be called decent.
as long as we use our words in the sense that we have
always been need to understand them. Our " guar-
dians" will tell us, that it naval be called a " stelae,"
because there is no whet- name particularly attached
to such a thing, and, I saws., that we are indebted
to Rona for the model of the thing as well as for
its name, anal, to go farther, perhaps, that Rome got
them both from the Deril ; agreed. as to the origin
of the thing or of the iodic or of both, but we have
not beets used to accept, as the lichee of the word
"Ssavue, an 'Whiting; of what would be, in the
consistency of our laspage, in i decency ; were
we in ROW), indeed. were we ITALI•Ns ioetead of
English people, it social be natutal enough to call
it a "Statue", just as it would be fripsatieral for as,
'win; a bat we have as yet been, to propose a public
edifice, under that title, that should be a violation of
our sense of the word °sepses. 7he word dec. ;ley
claims a particular sense is the English language,
and is consistent with the word Slate., as that nor, is
applied in such a sense as that which Englithmen feel
in looking at the representations of the figures of 3ln.
PITT, Or Lord Nrhsum, or any other figure to the like
purpose that we final in England : but, the word de
emey. in Praha, (if they have such a wort) eta hard-
ly be allowed to y the same notion by any one
that has ever heard the least description of the Tem-
ples, the Grottos, the Gardens, the handreJs et most ob-
scene represeotationa. one of which is the " S mutt" of
PstArUs, that every one goes to look at there with nut
a million part the nominees that any Englishman
mast feel, on beholding the gigantic specimen in the
park as a sight given birth to by the imaginations of
" Me English Ladies"!

As to the grotto par:kith'''s in the exl.ibition, they
shall be, for the p , subject for those " :Har-
die/sr" of furs, who, whether from the want of sense,
or a disregard of ol r , know not which, have
thought proper to confine their observations ap.m it to
pans, juke, and other kinds of witticisms, living as
little honour to themselves as the unseemly " statue
will do to any bedy else. The thing, however, is so As

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'Medway, and
of sem. stela
1 and diacoveres
that three stet
in the evening
'slat oee of tlt
i trarried off the
The Cuter
1 the circentstai
. defendants' 111
I
ship's direetie
-ae Damps, 1
lest, the Plait
• ' Basher's eheg
l'i tel
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'This was i
.i Onsnat an
A • and Ants Wit
i.,,! of April last.
Jl''i Ilr. Sergea
11 1
teas, and Mr.
kf . Mr. ADOLPHI:
i • It appeared
Ann. thyself.
, . . terluary. wee'
19 prisoners '
netnbly on du
.. 1 ing • landing
was over, whe
) I telly conictet
terbory, and I
II whom both et .
1 ' ers. She was
f she had bees 1
in the evenini
, front of her hi
Crippeo, who
•i of a mat and
.
ridges, the inf
. 11/ • leeted • large
at the doer of
the effigies w
hers into the I
door to the ge
•
11 1 Some of the to
have eommitt
that the defen,
I: tire person in
• only evidence)
i 1
. 1 '
! '
i,
mnch drlighte
was seen amol
M his door WS' f
i 1 Mr. Anorn
1.11" client, Jan
no evidence se
cc nid reasons)
The Leen I
the Jury with
( The Jnry ri
, -
thc two Crip
1 Guilty.
'l, Two Custor
t• er of the ea
4
11 Ifa !ni Ca
: ' flirted fora co
and alarm J
Oreviner• of I
Isle of °Kitty
' last, and in pa
, ' I
loaded gone in
11 •
Mr. Cunwo.
ANPRENTS ak
ii The ease se
1.41 the parish of
j,'
pariah allowat
tacking the o,;
i • Honeyset, en
occasion seise
the inco 'tins
• ' Pester. It w,
• in the indictin
was attacked,
.
were in thei
(peaces event.
I.,dged within
; . the evidence o
•
t 1 • prisorers had
~4. /\ ~ threats again.
do fur them, I
40 . they had any j
0 i:lfv.r presence of h.
Nlesers AN
• i indictment as
Mr. Justice
I
Wu, tantly tol
' V sooer, howeve
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'; t the evideme, I
The Jnrv, t
d The Assize
' . ••• middle of nee
• i 1 •
1 AnsoN.—J
;:4. i. 1 1
11( a•••d unlawful
bark, and out
25•11 of June
? This case 1.3
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br• ; C l
Mr. fo
f
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t
,
l ' It appears..
, Son of a nape,
The prosecata
copied a lug
Canterbury.
-
i :: with the pros
i ln the ahem°
detected in th
, ..
, 1
toe's ri..ks.
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.
, the dwelling
• whole of the
had left Cant,
and had gnus
I ) complained a
1 !lifl , ‘i.
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• '' i the part of I
I the rash act t
,
to 'Mew, the
1 , ' a considerahl
‘ .. Nine with
father, were
.I't • Were the pe
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and ineonsist
mad, cud his
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