The Statesman.
London, England, 1815-01-14 00:00:00

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JOANNA .CVVTIICOTT.

.THE SI'ATESMAN:

31IDDLE.SEX'SESIONS, JaN. 13.

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The pamphlet from which the- subjoined extract is
,John Judie • dieted for us • tf• t 111 A iftION4I6I:IIIZ.—YeS
was in. tering counterfeit er ei
made, is written by a sensible surgeon, who had been 3s. •and IS. 6d. 'Bank tokens. were brought before the LORD MaYo•it, charged
terdity, a number of bakessi
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called in to Joanna, bat who appears to hare given Bosatveurr opeued the, case, and , with buying fieer frees the °liners at le a"v" ..
offence to her or her followers by his early convic. -Mr. Serjeant
called Bray and Bell, Police Odlcers, who gave evi. ! 51. per Rack beyond the market price ; and making
lion that she was not with child. We mint confine corresponding returns to his fsordship, at the rateeolr
dance with respect to several negotiations had with
our quotation to his opinion of her sanity, as the ac- him.— . of sixty-five shillings, when the price was but
the Prisoner, for-the purpose of convicting
count of her disorder and dissection is hardly proper . On the 26th, 28th, end 30th of November, large ' the sack.
for general readers. Suffice it to say, that her com- The Lone Mayon said it was impossible to raga.
• quantities of counterfeit tokens were pirchased by 1
plaints appear to have originated in fat and idleness. late the price of bread while such a system prevailed,
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6` Should the minds of the public be at this period- them, in Deer-street, Gray's Inn-lane ; and the mo.
Tim price must ben bonafide one, between the, par.
tavy given in exchange for them, marked by the wit- '
at all curious to learn any thing about Joanna South- , ness, was found upon the person of the Prisoner.
10(.1, according to the lowest standard of the market,
colt and her ailMents, I here with all due respect and Mr. Hotnerton one of the Tellers of the Blink - and not conditional, as tionve dealers traffic.—The
diffidence present them with my opinion of her case,defaulters he would in future punish to the utmost
of England, proved that the produced tokens were •
formed early in the beginning of her disorder, .cOunterfeit. . extent.
strengthened in its progress, and fully confirmed by' fined in the
parties summoned . Were
The Prisoner was found Guilt.y, and sentenced to !
its conclusion. That some of the medical gentlemen The several
one year't imprisonment; and to find sureties for his mitigated penalty of 206. each.
asessestited by her should have mistaken her symps FORGED NOTES.
good behaviour for two years. • William Steamer was
-Asesk.and accounted differently for her complaints, FeaUccs Head was indicted for .the same offence Gyr tnna i.e.—Yesterday,
' oh.ositisi the least surprising. Its practice this, occurs she being connected with the preceding Prisoner,' brought before the Sitting Magistrate (Sir JOHN
-Sim* day, with little imputation upon the skill of and found Guilty, was sentenced to' the same pu. Keene) charged with having in his.possession several
the practitioner. But that :my one medical manforged notes, purporting to be notes of the Kink of
nishment.- Two young children of the- Prisoner to
should be so far mistaken as to perceive in her signs England, and with uttering the same, knowing them
be sent to the parish. It iiipeared that her hushes('
of pregnancy, to believe himself, and endeavour to-1 having beets convicted' of the same offence, is now' to be forged. "
pet suede others to believe, that they did really exist, i suffering sentence of imprisonment likewise. . Mr. Kaye, the Solicitor of the Bank, attended the
is as surprising, as that any one of sound intellect 1 John Midfield, keeper of the Antigarican coffee- . examination*
should be fitted to place implicit confidence house Great Shire-lane near Temple-bar was in-ce in her .Joseph Herbert, of the Plough Tavern, in dress
, 'lt upon John
pretensio dieted ' for a violent assauns, her predictions, and her promisee.— Chalrles Tay-
Smithfield, deposed. that on Friday evening tlre*Pri-
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That some medical men have been so mistaken, so ' for, a bricklayer. it appeared in evidence that the sorer, in company with two other men, came to his
imposed, and so instrumental il4 imposing upon others, ! prosecutor and Defendant had been at law for several
horse, and had a glass of runs and water. The Pd.
we have their own derlarations iu proof; that not sonar tendered a one pound note la payment. Wit.
! years, and that judgment had been obtained against
• may one, but multitudes of persons, who in other
.ness did not like the the appearance of the party,
Defendant. Prosecutor in July last was going down
respects cannot be deemed of unsound minds, have and asked Prisoner to put his name on the note ?
: Shire-lane, in company with hit brother. Defendant
believed from the bottom of their 'souls in Joanna's Ho accordingly took a pen and ink, and wrote upon
wes then coming out of the Antitiallicati, whets he •
fallacies and delusions, is a fact «Well most be al- it Ali„d, it Horse. Witness said, if that was his rut surname,
said, addressing himself to the ProtectStor—
lowed, and will be hereafter with shame recorded.— . he must also 'beg him to add his Christian one to it.
I shall have your judgment set aside." Prosecutor ,
A,:l all this is a thousand times more wonderful, replied. " mind yourself, or 1 will set you aside." Re then wrote John, and witness gave him nineteen
than all .1081111111% wonders of wonders !**eh he marked. The
shillings in change, part of welch
. The Defendant then called the Prosecutor "Rascal
" I hive often been asked, did I consider
Sims.lnanna . note he took from the Prisoner he also marked, and
has thief, and housebreaker," %shit • a variety of still
Soutiscott as insane? Certainly 110 t. Dr.
more scurrifous epithets. Defendant said.to Taylor's -
siren it as his opinion, that she laboured under , played two or three persons, then in. his house, to
brother, '‘ stand out of the way, and see how I will
strong mental delusions ; but if. he 11161111 here in- Lwatch the Prisoner and his companion on their de-
! serve him." He then struck him several blows with
voluntary delusion, I am obliged to differ even from : parture ; in the mean time he went himself and pro.
a bludgeon, which at length Tahir succeeded in
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so respectable authority. If she were mad, and went a *iy ! cured an officer. The Prisoner,and the two other men,
ofthe'e ; wrestchino out of Defendaitt'a liend,
was mere of consistency, regidarity, and ca"niag with it. Upon going to Hatton-harden. Police-office, were closely followed, until they arrived at the Gold
%socking amid the overthrow of her understanding, ;House, Golden-lane. Here they again went in to
to take out a *arra nvagainst Defendant for this as-
than ever before came under my observation : and I '.sault Prosecutor learned that Defendant had ob-
t ask for drink. The Officer arriving at the moment,
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hare known and observed many maniacs of all de-recognizivrg him, two of them con•
rained a warrant against him some' hours on 1 and the Party
scriptione, and in every state of mental delusion,before, •h. I trivet to escape, but the Prisoner, white in the act
the charge of stealing his withwhich
from the imagined king to the ideal beggar. Crowns .I of throwing some of the notes under a table in the
was committed.
of paper, mid sceptres of strew, are the gewgaws of . ern, *IS secured. The notes found were krt-
. This case was dismissed by the Magistrate, as '
the one: uselesepins and snbrtlitess shreds, hoarded mediately marked, and the Solicitor of the Batik
brought against Taylor, the • Ptesedutor ; arid the
with care, are meant to preserve the other from , . proved them to be forgerieS.
, Defttidaut held to bail fur the assault. •-
dreatkd want. , The Prisoner, in his defence, stated, that Ito was
[ It appeared in evidence, that Defendant had been
46 Notoriety, ease, sod. afiluence, appear to have the person who passed the note at the Plough
found guilts; on ail iodictment prior to this, at the 1-e .
been the prelailing passions of Joanna's mind : and • - • n • ern; neither Were the notes found. on the ground
'trounce of the present.' osecutor,. and was now in s
the means which stop adopted to 14151 her desires, e Gold.HOuse in hili possession.
imprisonment. ,
would seem, and have actually been proved, well . be former :fact, however, was folly proved by
The Prisoner was likewise found guilty of this as.
calculated for the end. Early its life, when she and 'patented to one
snult,mouth's imprisonment V !prime ; and the Meer whe took the Pri-
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should have laboured diligently with her hecalle, in . from the expiration of his present confine iftieF.• into custody
•u-as ready to swear to their
turst.
ets upholsterer's employ, at Exeter, she foetid itlug thrown by the latter upon the floor, upon his
J h I ) ' b indicted for the 'Ave
0 n uots, a boy, was entering f.: ~
much easier to talk nonsense -by the hour, thin to dwelling-house of. W. Beckworth, Esq. of Turn-him- !llPPreneil.
work hard by the slat. 'As her notoriety and fol. The Solicitor edsi,ed the Prisoner, if he wished
'green, with intent to steal. The Prisoner, it ap. '
lowers increase, 'liveliest deatelously multiplies the gang of, tt, clear himself, to uaine the men who had fled.—
peered, Was well known as Captain of a
means of (Auditing the objects of her wishes. She
.[This he declined doing at present, but in order to
yowl. thieves and had already been tried lathe Old
sets out, as
.11 were, upent a voyage of discovery, seney Irtrtiiet_tirsius. .. I afford him time to make ,this known, and to allow
and happily finds a terra incognita,—ideal truly, but , farther investigation on the part of the Batik, he was
Sentenced to be imprisoned one year in the House'
to her productive of substantial revenues. If the' i remanded for another etamiention.
of Correction. '
many shares in her milleniuni have really been die- : lIATToN-GAlLDYesterciay, Francis /refers, n
Henry Elliot, landlord of the Swan public-honse,
posed of and paid for, which are said to have been, young Man, was brought uprday,
for examination, on Whitecr o‘s-street , was tried upon two indictments,
sus-
'this kingdoni of her 's' must have proved to her a IPicionof stealing, in company with another not in
for assaulting Payne and Moore, constables of St.
mine of wealth. Certainly the voluntary tribute to ; custody, a pelisse, the property of Mrs. Margaret
Luke's, in the discharge of their duty.
stile Queen of this unknown ,country has abundantly Bevin, Eden-street, liampstead-road, who stated,
It appeared its evidence, that the two Prosecutors '
maintained her in ease, state, and dignity. No.! that she went to the Adam and Eve, Hampstead-
went to Defendant's house, at the hour of twelve; in
believe me, Joanna was more infatuating than in- order to drinkinglate hours, when prevent at
fatuatedtDefendant refused them admission; and chard them and, another young man were drinking ; witness was
" Her predictions were loud and frequent- -full of with coming to rob the house. ge taken sick, and went to the door; Prisoner and his
comfort and happiness to her own subjects—dreadful compnnicin followed, who stripped off her pelisse;
IVallter, a butcher, and several other witnesses,
denunciations of woe to .the rebellious creatures that
proved that the landlord d and' ran away ; ,alarm being given, the Prisoner was
id all he could to prevent
did not acknowledge her sovereignty, and trust to his.custoniers staying longer by refining to serve them 'apprehended, anti the other effected his escape.
Sher isr,acielice. But of their fulfilment I never heard. Prisoner was discharged for want of sufficient eti-
i with more liquor, d that the conduct of the Com-
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Amid her life was ven'differently ordered from those, plainants was extremely irregular in attempting to dense.
who afar. him had tfie name, character, and office of
force their way into the house. John Rawlins was charged.on suspicion of break-
--and
They fasted often—watched incessantly i
file. DADDY', for Defendant, contended, that this log its nt the window of the house of Mr. CollisOn,
—and pen oil continually—they lived
coarsely, and 1 itAs dose with a view to extort money from publi- bricklayer and pigeon-fancier, in Ilrickslane, Spite!.
were Worecollsely clad :—they upon all oCCasIOUS,
, cans for the irregularity so charged. That publicans- fields, and stealing thereont two valuable pigeons,
but when otherwise einumanded by him, "'
hose sett‘ were placed in a very delicate 'situation from fear which, it appeared, Prisoner Offered for sate to Mr.
vents they were, avoided publicity, and studiously
!of losing their customers: All they could do its Johnson, porkman and
.pigeon-fancier, Vine-street-
shunned the busy haunts of men: but Juitsita, o '
on such case was to tofuse drawing more liquor; but .hill, Hatton-wall, when he was- stopped, on suspl-
the ( ontrary, upon all occasions sought publicity ;
to turn their customers out of doors was a thing cion of stealing the same. '
to this end, whets one method failed, another was idipossible. Whilst Defendant was endeavouring ~ Remanded for anether -hearing.
resorted to. I never could learn that she either to prevail onpersons in the tap-ro Vs quit the A tow-chandler in the neighbourhood of" Stoke
watched, fasted, or prayed. , On the contrary, I ,
, she house, Defeedents persisted In joining the company. Newington, was brooght op, by information, to
passed much of her time LI bed—in downy
indolence Publicans paid heavy taxes and daties to Covert'. answer a complaint at the-Instance of the Excise, for
—ate much and often—and prayed—never. She loved • met .- - • havingmade .ceedies upon a 'tick,
it and instead of being subject to such peraecu- moreamounting
to lodge delicately, and feast luxuriously. Latterly, Owls:ought to beprotected Ime any h r such. encroach.
to 36 pounds, than was entered for.
when she would have it that she was with child, she • ' . - •
'meat as tins. The case being made out, the Defendant was con. ;
moat have, like other Ladles in the like condition, I
Pefeudaut wu acquitted on both indictments. aimed in the mitigated penalty of 51. , '
her longings too. Accordingly she took a longing to'Qisse-settaite.s.-Frelay il. Deemer, a lad under IS yaw% 1
asparagus, wheu it was by no means a cheap article wai Satiny ezamiued, charged with stealing &silver table spoon
• - - from a' Atracepao at the beam' of Mr. %faddism), fillanor-Ptace,
lis The following are the present prices of bullion : Aiaes-road, Chelsea, where be had been at work with Croft',
the New doubloons, 41. 4s. 60.; near drillers Ss. 7d.; a running dustman. •
• ' sliver in bars 51. 9d. the (mace. • to thin port of Chelsea there is no regaler dustman I and the
Prisoner, who h alatherfets boy' waseisployed by Crofts. '
tat i The young Lady, with.a fortune of 60,0001. who On the Qd of this mouth they Were taking iway dust flatmate '
PP,' took flight from. Bath a few days ago for Gretna house of the Complainant i a silver spoou being left in a sauek 1
tn. 'Gina,
.is now returned, having 'made her Finch a . :,‘,r,:a.s the taliCt!h'cl; 1/.le Prisoner teak it. dad lit mntl.ter‘ "‘"1
t or vs. to Collive,
_ watch-maker, Paradise-row.
ion Gad one, with a faithful promise 'never to metemor. cii'el:srlso
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' 1 phone him into a Ball Bloch. Croft, the dustman; and Collive, who bought the spoon, at-
tended, as 'well hs . Mrs. Maddisart ; stie expressed n tksire nut I
CAUTION AGAINST PUTTING PINS AND NEEDLES IN to prosecute the Prisoner, on account of Isis youth ; but Use ban-
nit M•I:TII.—Mrs. Its.iiiiiii,; wife of Mr. Rae., glstmte said it was her ditty to proceed.
' biLLr-dresser, hi Middle Mati isj h,
, ottinghitm. s crslitai
ititedity's employer, said tie told him he fetus, d the
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has, during star years, felt to eitreordlitary sensal. He was fully committed.
tioo hi bite of her trios, -*hi* it length, bed the TisMrAft9llll.-STREET. --Friday W. Fenton, 11. Penman, and J..
effect of 'redieing the Subitince of the sibs, and of ' sY . livi al tore et.- s notoriousfo r r x nate h Tn.aictii co re-examination, ' culTarre„bdir ifihttbirpeohkritl„nnStior 1
tontracting.the mueslis' of the• tat Last week; the house of Mr, Jonei, Friar's-mount, Cetbnal-greeu," told ;
the circumstance underkent 'it surgi , intestigatien solute,, Pr"P"
peared :/:to,r,r4b7iorrwie'r?""t* at this OM of the
by Mr. AtrerrsortbaV; when 14 6ittootod a dome, robbery, amid in eonsequence .1. AagrolitiveronliglllMl 61.-ed,crthe oCI.- 1
aewintiteedle fronillie•utr pirt Of the arm; *boat I eeval; nd'i "";11,e t
of
.. to discover the property, and to ap-
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an inch-aid' a half letip• This, it 'lip cvs
asidia; , r....,..., theueell alts • oteirsnyin both
'wine/IT:her% gar
weresnceessafoll.cTrenhenyi
Could Slot find admission into the part (is Mn.i kir... I 01011. 11,h4ch were sworn to by Mr. Jon- a- • basbu,
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!SALL hats tiro knewledge of bet itrtn hailtig 'eireelved ;•1,15i,,,,.--
~:idt"neeitibliPrbeeris; at4oklreld hem might hes3amtlit-1
any external injury) except. by s4sos of Ale I.lis ' I the robbery of'Mr. Jones's house bad heenhinalcigouitte'miiellaslitidonifOirt
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StIGO, JAN. 7.—John Mulhearit • of 'A
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d*.tijoreviosest but at last the 24 of this month was fixed
r. 'I, "Alirfesosrell it by knit logs' window on the groudd floor,
early, withhi three milei bf thisAissve, has it Wall =none treat its, ash opeeed •thestreet.door to Mei:noel-A.-
110 st or cot, of I very siiiipleieusteuctiOn;for the .After. havisig 'Wadi, t!d
.t select with what valuables they
purpose of 'fishing d'd it n0014'144. like. f:/n 44 `,=aftigaPl,""'trwe ;‘," de "(I;tilleatria-sa,rteiraliViatfeelk, Ifillieig
filtiisday -mornitig,' hilt 'Miele Atbsne - 441( committed
4 jobbed that hewer a quarptity of silk, a•loaking-glass, three
tliettiseleVeto Wk. VoiSfiehnli '.ie s ,• n' tii?deiio pair of new shoe., silt banaterebiefs, &e. ; n pair of Me said
sheet wild fbwri att'ssi iheiliii4 UlitiViedie M dent lY shhe"" dr the .1""lert "re ithelVill' rehiel::
y were lakes la a hawse le lim -greet', in a eettai.
heittllieir alliict, %di df Off aticiiiit "red his gust, wXX Areigtrooi catered tibuse. *B,f• -IA a liKhW
Willett' hapOn ee ROI to he cleen ; the shock repelled Caaii6 16111.111641`.""rellreif $1,041,..A.,e "dt hr la
erstar, wine he'tied lialit blrlida 'bins from
'him a little; veiy small force was required to destroy the spot. . • 7•''''""tls•-ew''...
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the equilibrium of the unstable 11°64; tWo'wentle (kg • •;Thelotagidtutebelig salkfled with the evidence'
bottom, the- other escaped with great Meet/. exclusive of the confewion of Fenton', filli •
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esporag os, wrier' it was oy no means a cneap article
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of fool : and so strong was her longing, that she IS ' The followin
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said lc have eat at oue meal 160 heads before she New doubloon
could illan it. ' ' silver in bars 5s
'•lf L have departed somewhat from my original; The young I.
in tenti ou by making these remarks, such as they are, ' took 'flight fron
upon Joanna's impositions, I have been almost im- 'reen, is now
perceptibly led astray; and' Green,
I trust this aberration Gad one, with
will be forgiven me.-1 remain,
46 The public's most obliged and humble servant, CAUTION AG.
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6. P.lllAllithS." Tilt M•I:TII..--
A Mr. DANIEL KINMEHNIAN, a merchant 'of , BALL,.
Koenigsberg, who died lately, in his Ted year, seems ha., duribg sir
to have rivalled, in charitable donations, many of
those characters for which England is so famous. He effect of ledech
was a native of Duntzic, and was the sole maker of 1 totitracting.the
his own fortune. During the Courie of his Ilfe,l the circumstana
Ilinong other acts of liberality, he had I phase him rntb
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given 12,000 : by Mr. Allen
florins to the Church' School of the Old Town of I"winirdeedlefi
Koenigsberg; 12,000 florins to the Reformed Churehl an inch •afid• a
i , School ; and another seat of 12,000 fibrins for the! Could 'not find a
erection of a school on the Ilaberberberg. He also ! dALL hasn't' kn
Bare 4,500 taring to the community of the Old any exterhel inj
Town Church, for the purchase of a burial-ground'. Sue°, JAN.
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By his last will, he increased the capital arm hospital early, within tl
for. with ws, established by his wife; with a tom df float or cot, of
t 15,000 florins ; he left also to the poor Of the Men- Porpon of 'fistii
nonite Community, of which he was a 'Methber., Stiiday morniiii
' . 15,(00 Grins ; and to the city phor cheat IWO tfuOseive'glo ft
florins. llis others legacies were 'a bequest of shoeit wild fbwr . ~. '220,000 flaring to the Old Town Merchant SoCiety., oelltr. flimr
roil)ve
towards a fotidation, out of which might be paid art- taieti'hot nett
i ' nuitiei of 300 florins each to fifteen widews of de- lint a lift ei vei,
tayedmerchants; and annuities of 130 Burins each the equilibrium
to 40 poor men or widows of others classes. • • l bottom, the. oth
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